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HB 15, 35th 4th C.S.

Relating to prescribing penalty for the use of any disloyal language or any disloyal conduct by any person of or toward the United States of America during the period of the war with Germany.

Author: Barry Miller
Coauthor: William Harrison Bledsoe | Robert Ewing Thomason | William Madden Fly | John Manson Mathis, Sr.

Session Law Chapter:
Acts 1918, 35th 4th C.S.,ch. 8, General Laws of Texas

Gubernatorial documents:

Submitting as an additional topic for consideration by the 35th Legislature, 4th Called Session, considering a law declaring that if any person shall during the time the United States of America is at war use any language...disloyal...or abusive in character and calculated to bring into disrepute the United States of America...shall be a felony, and fixing the punishment for such action to confinement in the State penitentiary for any period of time not less than one year nor more than twenty-five years (HB 15)

Subjects:
Crimes--Miscellaneous
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