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Texas Constitution:Article III, Section 48 (view source)
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However, as construed by the Legislature, the Attorney General and ultimately the Supreme Court, the former section simply limited taxation to public purposes. See, e.g., ''House Journal'', 28th Legislature, R.S., [https://lrl.texas.gov/scanned/Housejournals/28/H_28_0.pdf#page=346 345-46] (1903) (Judiciary Committee No. 1 report: "Legislative construction has followed this line of reasoning, and, without exception, every Legislature since the adoption of the Constitution has made appropriations for institutions and purposes that can, by no construction of language, be included in the specific purposes therein stated."); ''House Journal'', 33rd Legislature, 2nd C.S., [https://lrl.texas.gov/scanned/Housejournals/33/H_33_2.pdf#page=24 22] (1914) (Attorney General opinion: "The Legislature is not limited to appropriating money for those things particularly enumerated in this section . . . ."). | However, as construed by the Legislature, the Attorney General and ultimately the Supreme Court, the former section simply limited taxation to public purposes. See, e.g., ''House Journal'', 28th Legislature, R.S., [https://lrl.texas.gov/scanned/Housejournals/28/H_28_0.pdf#page=346 345-46] (1903) (Judiciary Committee No. 1 report: "Legislative construction has followed this line of reasoning, and, without exception, every Legislature since the adoption of the Constitution has made appropriations for institutions and purposes that can, by no construction of language, be included in the specific purposes therein stated."); ''House Journal'', 33rd Legislature, 2nd C.S., [https://lrl.texas.gov/scanned/Housejournals/33/H_33_2.pdf#page=24 22] (1914) (Attorney General opinion: "The Legislature is not limited to appropriating money for those things particularly enumerated in this section . . . ."). | ||
The former section was never amended. Categorized as "deadwood," it and numerous other sections were repealed | The former section was never amended. Categorized as "deadwood," it and numerous other sections were repealed by the same [https://lrl.texas.gov/scanned/Constitutional_Amendments/amendments61_tlc_1969-08-05.pdf#page=9 ballot proposition]. | ||
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