The Amendments
Only One of the Constitutional Amendments Ran the Gauntlet
State officials finish tallying the November vote on two proposed constitutional amendments—one on school fund investment, the other on residency requirements for suffrage—with only the latter passing.
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The Austin Weekly Statesman · December 24, 1896 · Page 5
1 min readThe secretary of state and the counting board yesterday completed the work of counting up the vote for the constitutional amendments as voted on at the November 3 election. While none of the totals have been footed up as yet, it was learned last evening that the amendment looking to the investing in state farms of the surplus school fund was incontinently snowed under and that the amendment requiring a six months' residence in state and county before the right of suffrage shall be enjoyed was carried by a good big vote.
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