San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-02
TEXAS LEGISLATURES.

III Inc senate JOINT resolution was
presented amending sections l, 2, and
Il In article 6 of the constitution.
The amendment adds the three
railroad commissioners to the list of
executive officers, and makes them
all acknowledgements, lieutenant
governor, secretary of state, COMP
troller, treasurer, land commissioner.
attorney and assistant attorney gem
ersl. commissioner of agriculture, and
railway commissioners.
Penal code amended making 1t q
misde meanOr to ride over bridge
faster than walk.
Joint resolution authorizing govern
or to receive and receipt for the $780,
600 due the state from the federal gov
eminent.
Joint resolution for constitutional
amendment was submitted by Town
send cove ring change necessary in
the establishing of an intermediate
court for the relief of the supreme
court.
Senate receives from the house the
resolution investigating International
railroad, and after trying in vain to
amend 1t, passes 1t as it came from
the house.
In the house, bill for the sale of
grazing lands came UP. Several
amendments were defeated and then
al omnibus amendment passed maxi
ing the disputed section, IA, read:
The public lands and all lands be-
longing to the public free schools,
asylums or university fund shall be
leased by the commissioner OF the
general land Office, under the provi-
sions ofthis act. All of such lands
lying west OF the Pecos river, and all
of such lands lying south of the Tex
the counties of Concho, Nc
Culloch, Coke, Sterling, Glass
cock, Midland, Rector, Tom Green
Howard and Martin, and all univer-
sity lands shall be leased for period
not longer than ten years, and all
other such lands lying north of the
Colorado river and north of the Tex
as and Pacific, and the counties here
inbefOre excepted from the ten year
lease, shall. be leased for q period not
longer than five years, aud the les
see shall pay an annual rental of 4
cents per acre for all lands leased;
provided, that the university lands
may be leased at cents per acre per
annum, which rental shall be
paid each year in advance
the first payment to be made
at the time the lease is executed, and
il at the termination OF any lease any
of such lands are not in demand for
actual settlement, they may be again
leased for another five years, and the
leases thereof, whose term of lease
has expired, shall have the refusal of
such land, as he has been leasing, on
the terms at the price they may
be fixed therefor by the commissioner
of the general land office. and all leas-
es shall be executed under the hand
and seal OF the commissioner
of the general land office, and
shall be delivered to the les
see or his duly authorized
agent, and such leases shall not
take effect until the first payment of
annual rent is paid and the lease Is
duly filed for record in the county
where the land lies, or which it may
be attached for judicial purposes, and
1t shall not be necessary for the
lease before the same is placed on re-
cord.
Section Is was amended by provid-
ing that in all cases when an actual
settler may desire to settle on any
grazing lands which may have been
leased under a five year contract of
lease, such actual settler shall first
erect thereon substantial improve
ments of the value of not less than
800 within four months after m" king
his application to purchase. The bill
as amended passed.
House adopts report of conference
committee on sheriff. fee bill.
The general appropriation bills are,
made the regular order until dis,
posed of.
Austin's new charter comes up and
is passed, Connelle expressing the
opinion that the first charter should
have been passed over the governors