| 01/17/1903 |
28th R.S. |
Inviting the House and the Senate to be present at the unveiling of the statues of General Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 01/16/1903 |
28th R.S. |
Regarding the provision of water, light and power to public buildings and grounds within the City of Austin, including the capitol and grounds and the Governor's Mansion; related correspondence
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 01/16/1903 |
28th R.S. |
Transmitting information on the First National Bank of Austin
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 01/16/1903 |
28th R.S. |
Outgoing message
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 09/25/1901 |
27th 2nd C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 27th Legislature, 2nd Called Session, appointment of a committee to investigate into the administration of each and every department of the government and of the public service in all its branches and of every institution that is in whole or in part supported and maintained from the general revenue; resolution by Seabury (HJR 1; SJR 1 on same subject passed)
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 09/21/1901 |
27th 2nd C.S. |
Acknowledging receipt of resolution adopted by the House requesting a report on today from the board appointed by the Legislature to secure the return of the funds belonging to the State and held by the First National Bank of Austin, Texas; including resolution by Terrell of McLennan, September 18, 1901, adopted September 19, 1901, and report from board, September 24, 1901
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 09/05/1901 |
27th 2nd C.S. |
Submitting additional subjects for consideration by the 27th Legislature, 2nd Called Session, respectfully urging that appropriations for the support of the State government and for public service for the fiscal years beginning September 1, 1901, and ending August 31, 1903, do not exceed $5,500,000; addressing the need of all the eleemosynary institutions for increased facilities
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 08/26/1901 |
27th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 27th Legislature, 1st Called Session, remove the temple of the Grand Lodge of the Masons of Texas from Houston to some more central point in the State
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 08/26/1901 |
27th 1st C.S. |
Submitting additional subjects for consideration by the 27th Legislature, 1st Called Session, amend Section 3, Chapter 75, General Laws, 27th Legislature; amend Articles 402 and 406, Chapter 6, Title XI, Penal Code;
validate incorporations of Athens, Henderson county and Moody, McLennan county; authorize Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds to lease that part of the Old Court House Block, formerly occupied by Austin Dam and Suburban Railroad Company; increase amount of bond of the State Treasurer; amend Article 386c, Title XVIII, Chapter 1, Revised Statutes
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 08/23/1901 |
27th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 27th Legislature, 1st Called Session, recovery of the moneys belonging to the State and in the custody of the First National Bank of Austin, Texas, transmitting resolution (HJR 1, 27th 1st C.S.)
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 08/20/1901 |
27th 1st C.S. |
Submitting additional subjects for consideration by the 27th Legislature, 1st Called Session, fees of sheriffs and constables; redemption of lands and city and town lots sold to the State for taxes; settlement of titles to lands held adversely to the State under claims which originate from the Spanish and Mexican governments; Attorney General authority to withdraw from the office of Comptroller of Public Accounts such original vouchers, papers and accounts as may be necessary to enable him to properly present the claims of the State of Texas against the United States government on account of expenses incurred by the State in behalf of Greer county; minerals; amend Chapter 18, approved March 17, 1901, of the General Laws; Austin city charter; Cass county road law; better care, protection and maintenance of the blind children of the State; enable counties, cities and towns as have suffered through destruction of property and depreciation of values because of storms, floods or other great disasters to compromise, refund or pay off their bonded and floating indebtedness; enable counties, cities and towns bordering on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico to levy and collect a tax for the construction of sea-walls and breakwater and for the sanitary purposes, and to create a debt for such works, and to issue bonds therefore; proper care and maintenance of children who are deaf, dumb and blind; taxation upon the output of oil wells; amend Chapter 113, approved April 18, 1901, General Laws; validate incorporation of Childress, Childress county, for school purposes only; preservation of health in unincorporated towns and villages
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 08/14/1901 |
27th 1st C.S. |
Relating to act providing for location and building of a branch asylum for the care and treatment of the epileptic insane, approved February 9, 1899 (HB 22, 26th R.S.)
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 08/06/1901 |
27th 1st C.S. |
Submitting information to the Legislature relating to terms of the special session proclamation, appropriations for support of state government and public service; apportionment of the state for congressional, senatorial, representative and judicial purposes
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 03/26/1901 |
27th R.S. |
Returning SB 16 to the Senate, pursuant to SCR 14
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 03/26/1901 |
27th R.S. |
Returning SB 25 to the Senate, pursuant to SCR 13
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 03/25/1901 |
27th R.S. |
Announcing resignation of the Honorable W.W. Dillard, Representative from Bowie county
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 03/15/1901 |
27th R.S. |
Announcing death of the Attorney General, the Honorable Thomas S. Smith
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 03/07/1901 |
27th R.S. |
Transmitting communication by the committee appointed to secure the erection of a suitable monument to the memory of General Albert Sidney Johnston (Texas Division of Daughters of the Confederacy)
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 03/07/1901 |
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Transmitting communication from British consul at Galveston, relating to resolutions of sympathy on the deeply lamented death of Her Late Majesty, Queen Victoria, and Empress of India
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 03/06/1901 |
27th R.S. |
Transmitting communication from Railroad Commission, requesting Assistant Attorney General to be assigned exclusively to the Railroad Commission for legal assistance
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 03/05/1901 |
27th R.S. |
Relating to estimated amount of general revenue for 1901 and 1902 for the maintenance of state government, complying with resolution by Davidson of DeWitt
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 02/26/1901 |
27th R.S. |
Transmitting communication from the State Purchasing Agent for the eleemosynary institutions and for the Confederate Home
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 02/20/1901 |
27th R.S. |
Returning Substitute HB 102 to the House of Representatives, pursuant to HCR 14
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 02/18/1901 |
27th R.S. |
Transmitting communication from Clara Barton, in response to resolutions adopted in reference to the assistance rendered by the American National Red Cross for the relief of the storm stricken district on the Texas coast (Galveston Hurricane of 1900; HCR 8, 27th R.S.)
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 01/29/1901 |
27th R.S. |
Relating to storm stricken district, showing distribution of disaster relief funds (Galveston Hurricane of 1900), recommending that the Legislature take such action to show appreciation of the deep and sincere sympathy and great generosity (HCR 7, HCR 8, HCR 9, 27th R.S.)
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 01/11/1901 |
27th R.S. |
Relating to report of the State Fish and Oyster Commissioner
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Joseph D. Sayers |
Legislative message
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| 02/21/1900 |
26th 1st C.S. |
Farewell message, reviewing work of special session, relating to taxation and Tax Commission
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 02/16/1900 |
26th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 26th Legislature, 1st Called Session, amendment to Article 418, of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 02/15/1900 |
26th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 26th Legislature, 1st Called Session, communication to Governor from a committee representing the John B. Hood Camp of Confederate Veterans of Austin, Texas
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 02/13/1900 |
26th 1st C.S. |
Submitting additional subjects for consideration by the 26th Legislature, 1st Called Session, amendment to the charter of the city of Dallas; amendments to Articles 5127, 5128 and 5166, of the Revised Statutes of 1895, regarding the publication of blank tax rolls and receipts for the assessment, rendition and collection of taxes
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 02/07/1900 |
26th 1st C.S. |
Submitting additional subjects for consideration by the 26th Legislature, 1st Called Session, amendments to charter of the city of Dallas; fix the tenure of office for the members of the Board of Regents for the State University and of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College; prohibit market gambling in agricultural products, dealing in "cotton futures," and all other gambling contracts, that are sold or purchased, or offered for sale or purchase of said products; appropriations heretofore presented regarding North Texas Insane Asylum, State Treasury Department, Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College, and Confederate Home
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 02/07/1900 |
26th 1st C.S. |
Submitting additional subjects for consideration by the 26th Legislature, 1st Called Session, system known as "double-heading" in the operation of the railways; press privileges and rights, remedies and redress of individuals libeled; independent school districts; creation and building of a branch asylum for the care and treatment of the epileptic insane; protection, sale or lease of the public domain and of the lands belonging to the permanent school fund and to the educational and eleemosynary institutions; sale of the temporary capitol building in the city of Austin, or its donation and the lot upon which it stands to the city of Austin in trust for the purpose of a free public library; amendments to charter of the city of San Antonio
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 01/30/1900 |
26th 1st C.S. |
Relating to the funeral of the late Lieutenant Alfred Wettermark Drew, United States Army, at Houston
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 01/25/1900 |
26th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 26th Legislature, 1st Called Session, a resolution adopted by the Board of Penitentiary Commissioners at its regular meeting requesting permission for said board to use, in the erection and equipment of a twenty-ton ice plant at the House of Correction and Reformatory, near Gatesville, Texas, three thousand dollars of the amount appropriated by the Regular Session of said body for the maintenance of said House of Correction and Reformatory
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 01/24/1900 |
26th 1st C.S. |
Submitting additional subjects for consideration by the 26th Legislature, 1st Called Session, reduction of the ad valorem rate of taxation for general purposes, not including that for the support of the public schools, for the year 1900, from twenty cents to sixteen and two-thirds cents upon the one hundred dollars; submitting items of appropriation to the Legislature for its consideration
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 01/23/1900 |
26th 1st C.S. |
Relating to taxation, Tax Commission, and railroads
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 05/05/1899 |
26th R.S. |
Informing the Legislature of the death of the Honorable George W. Finger, Commissioner of the General Land Office
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 04/26/1899 |
26th R.S. |
Returning HB 444 to the House of Representatives, in compliance with the request of the Legislature
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 03/29/1899 |
26th R.S. |
Acknowledging receipt of the resolution of the House of March 28, 1899, requesting return of HB 441
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 03/20/1899 |
26th R.S. |
Transmitting telegrams from Laredo relating to smallpox riots
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 03/15/1899 |
26th R.S. |
Transmitting communications from Governor and State Health Officer in reference to the city of Laredo, in Webb county, as well as telegram from citizens; urging immediate appropriation of $2,000 (Laredo smallpox)
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 03/06/1899 |
26th R.S. |
Recommending removal of the exemption of cities of ten thousand population and over as allowed under the "Uniform Text-Book Law," and adding to the textbooks others as are usually taught in the high school departments; urging safe and quick investment of the permanent school fund upon the lines suggested in a former message
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 02/16/1899 |
26th R.S. |
Transmitting communications from the Superintendent and Commissioners of Penitentiaries in reference to destruction of certain buildings at the Huntsville penitentiary due to fire
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 02/14/1899 |
26th R.S. |
Transmitting telegram from the Collector of Customs at Galveston, relating to Battleship Texas
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 02/13/1899 |
26th R.S. |
Relating to fire in penitentiary at Huntsville, Texas
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 02/07/1899 |
26th R.S. |
Submitting to the Legislature suggestions in reference to the pending legislation for granting aid to indigent and disabled Confederate soldiers and sailors; submitting to the Legislature the subjects of public lands, and lands belonging to the permanent public free school fund (General Land Office and Attorney General's Office communications)
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 02/06/1899 |
26th R.S. |
Transmitting the eighth annual report of the Regents of the University of Texas (growth and needs of the University of Texas, management of university lands and policy of building up the university, main university receipts and disbursements, Medical Department, exhibits relating to students, admission, courses of instruction, faculty, etc.)
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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| 01/31/1899 |
26th R.S. |
Transmitting communication from the Railroad Commission, relating to the allowance of rebates, the making of cut rates, and other discriminations in freight rates by railway companies in this State
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Joseph D. Sayers |
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