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 ==houston==
-In re Mayor of New York, 246 N.Y. 72, 76 (1927) (author: Cardozo, C.J.) ("Home Rule for cities, adopted by the people with much ado and after many years of agitation, will be another Statute of Uses, a form of words and little else, if the courts in applying, the [new constitutional standard regarding the validity of local and special laws] shall ignore the new spirit that dictated their adoption. The municipality is to be protected in its autonomy against the inroads of evasion.")
 Census: 1 Houston 292,352 2 Dallas 260,475 ... ; Acts 1933, 43rd R.S., ch. 94: "Article 6229. In all incorporated cities and towns having a population of two hundred eighty thousand or more according to the preceding Federal census ... constitute a Board of Trustees of the Municipal Employees' Pension Fund ...."