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HJR 21, 36th R.S.
Proposing an amendment to Section 4 of Article 16 of the Constitution of the State of Texas to provide that any citizen of this State after the adoption of this amendment, who shall participate in any mob that takes the life of any person, or who shall aid, abet or assist such mob, shall be deprived of the right of suffrage and from holding any office of trust or profit under this State; and providing that members of the Legislature and all officers before they enter upon the duties of their office shall in addition to the oath prescribe by Section 1 of this Article take an oath that they have not since the adoption of this provision participated in any mob that takes the life of any person, nor aided, abetted, or in any manner assisted such mob.

Author: William A. Black
Coauthor: Charles Thornton Bass | David W. "Dave" Dickson | Edward Henry Lange | Eugene S. Nordhaus | Wallace Malone | Sid Crumpton | Marvin Ellis Blackburn | Edwin Augustus Atlee, Jr. | Herman J. Miller | John Davis | Charles O. Laney | Samuel Cabell Lackey | Zachariah B. Moon | Herbert Spencer Bonham | Herbert Elmo "Pete" Faubion | Claude Duval Teer | C. Frank Sentell | Thomas S. Johnson | John J. Ford, Sr. | Sam A. Bryant | Albert B. Curtis | James W. Hall | Harry P. Hornby, Sr. | Ben L. Cox | Robert Ross Owen | S. M. Scott | Newton Barber "Newt" Williams | John E. Davis | José Tomás Canales | Mack Taylor | John C. Darroch | Charles W. Barrett | John C. Rogers | Tom J. Beasley | Marvin H. Brown, Sr. | William Henry "Frank" Barnes | Mark E. Rosser | Herman B. Hill | F. S. Estes | W. W. Stewart | R. L. McDowra | Herman August Heideke | George W. Burton | E. H. Childers | Joshua F. A. "Josh" Tharp | Henry Phillip Davis | Dan Scott McMillin | B. H. Smith | C. J. Lee | W. F. Parsley | Augustine L. Beason | Campbell McCleary Beard | Edward J. Weber | James Louis Quicksall, Sr. | Norman G. Kittrell, Jr.

Subjects:
Crimes--Against Persons--General
Crimes--Miscellaneous
OATHS
Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments
State Officers


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