Texas Constitution:Article XI, Section 3: Difference between revisions

* ''City of Cleburne v. Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co.'', 1 S.W. 342, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/001_SW_342.pdf#page=1 342] (Tex. 1886) ("Section 3 of article 11 of the constitution prohibits municipal corporations from making appropriations or donations or loans of its credit to private corporations. The object of this provision was to deprive municipalities of the power possessed by them under the constitution of 1869, in the exercise of which many counties and towns in the state assumed burdens . . . . The increase in population and values expected from railway connection in many instances never came; and the tax, not lightened from these sources, depressed values, prevented immigration, and became a curse to the localities which had invited it as a blessing.")