Texas Constitution:Article XVI, Section 23: Difference between revisions

* ''Armstrong v. Traylor'', 30 S.W. 440, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/Vol_030_SWR_440.pdf#page=2 441-42] (Tex. 1895) (footnote omitted) ("To the fourth question we reply that section 23 of article 16 of the constitution authorized the legislature to pass a law regulating live stock, making it applicable to the entire state, or it might have exempted any county or counties from the operation of such law. The legislature might also have enacted a law regulating live stock in any given county or . . . . The power to pass a general law upon this subject is given by the first part of the section, but the authority to pass a local law is conferred by the provision of the section which prescribes the condition that it shall not go into effect except upon the vote of the freeholders of that section.")