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Do you know what line Tacey J. Coffee is from? And, can you give some dates that will help? Have fun searching!!!
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Surnames: coffee, wright , hess
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Would love to have any information you would like to share. It has been awhile since I have had a computer. Great thing about genealogy you and start and stop.... most of the info isnt going any where. cant wait to hear from you
Constitution of the State of Texas (1876)
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ARTICLE VII.
Education--The Public Free Schools.
SECTION 1. A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the
preservation of the liberties and rights of the people, it shall be the duty of the
Legislature of the State to establish and make suitable provision for the
support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools.
SEC. 2. All funds, lands and other property heretofore set apart and
appropriated for the support of public schools; all the alternate sections of land
reserved by the State out of grants heretofore made or that may hereafter be
made to railroads, or other corporations, or any nature whatsoever; one-half
of the public domain of the State, and all sums of money that may come to the
State from the sale of any portion of the same, shall constitute a perpetual
public school fund.
SEC. 3. There shall be set apart annually not more than one-fourth of
general revenue of the State, and a poll tax of one dollar on all male inhabitants
in this State between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, for the benefit
of the public free schools.
SEC. 4. The lands herein set apart to the public free school fund shall be
sold under such regulations, at such times and on such terms as may be
prescribed by law; and the Legislature shall not have power to grant any relief to
the purchasers thereof. The comptroller shall invest the proceeds of such
sales, and of those heretofore made, as may be directed by the Board of Education
herein provided for, in the bonds of this State, if the same can be
obtained, otherwise in United States bonds; and the United States bonds now belonging
to said fund shall likewise be invested in State bonds, if the same can be
obtained on terms advantageous to the school fund.
SEC. 5. The principal of all bonds and other funds, and the principal
arising from the sale of land herein before set apart to said school fund, shall be
the permanent school fund, and all the interest derivable therefrom and the
taxes herein authorized and levied shall be the available school fund, which
shall be applied annually to the support of the public free schools. And no
law shall ever be enacted appropriating any part of the permanent or available
school fund to any other purpose whatever; nor shall the same or any part
thereof ever be appropriated to or used for the support of any sectarian school;
and the available school fund herein provided shall be distributed to the
several counties according to their scholastic population and applied in manner
as may be provided by law.
SEC. 6. All lands heretofore or hereafter granted to the several counties of
this State for education, or schools, are of right the property of said
counties respectively to which they were granted and title thereto is vested in
said counties, and no adverse possession or limitation shall ever be available
against the title of any county. Each county may sell or dispose of its
lands in whole or in part, in manner to be provided by the Commissioners’ Court
of the county. Actual settlers residing on said lands shall be protected in
the prior right of purchasing the same to the extent of their settlement, not
to exceed one hundred and sixty acres, at the price fixed by said court, which
price shall not include the value of existing improvements made thereon by
such settlers. Said lands and the proceeds thereof, when sold, shall be held
by said counties alone as a trust for the benefit of public schools therein;
said proceeds to be vested in bonds of the State of Texas, or of the United
States, and only the interest thereon to be used and expended annually.
SEC. 7. Separate schools shall be provided for the white and colored
children, and impartial provision shall be made for both.
SEC. 8. The governor, comptroller and secretary of state shall constitute a
Board of Education, who shall distribute said funds to the several counties
and perform such other duties concerning public schools as may be prescribed
by law.
ASYLUMS.
SEC. 9. All lands heretofore granted for the benefit of the Lunatic, Blind,
Deaf and Dumb, and Orphan Asylums, together with such donations as may have
been or may hereafter be made to either of them, respectively, as indicated in
the several grants, are hereby set apart to provide a permanent fund for the
support, maintenance and improvement of said asylums. And the Legislature
may provide for the sale of the lands and the investment of the proceeds in
manner as provided for the sale and investment of school lands in section 4 of
this Article.
UNIVERSITY.
SEC. 10. The Legislature shall, as soon as practicable, establish, organize
and provide for the maintenance, support and direction of a university of the
first class, to be located by a vote of the people of this State, and styled
"The University of Texas," for the promotion of literature, and the arts and
sciences, including an agricultural and mechanical department.
SEC. 11. In order to enable the Legislature to perform the duties set forth
in the foregoing section, it is hereby declared that all lands and other
property heretofore set apart and appropriated for the establishment and
maintenance of "The University of Texas," together with all the proceeds of sales of
the same, heretofore made or hereafter so to be made, and all grants,
donations and appropriations that may hereafter be made by the State of Texas or
from any other source, shall constitute and become a permanent university fund.
And the same as realized and received into the treasury of the State
(together with such sums, belonging to the fund, as may now be in the treasury),
shall be invested in lands of the State of Texas, if the same can be obtained; if
not, then in United States bonds, and the interest accruing thereon shall be
subject to appropriation by the Legislature to accomplish the purpose
declared in the foregoing section, provided, that one-tenth of the alternate
sections of the lands granted to railroads, reserved by the State, which were set
apart and appropriated to the establishment of "The University of Texas," by
an act of the Legislature of February 11, 1868, entitled "An Act to establish ‘
The University of Texas,’" shall not be included in or constitute a part of
the permanent school fund.
SEC. 12. The land herein set apart to the University fund shall be sold
under such regulations, at such times, and on such terms, as may be provided by
law, and the legislature shall provide for the prompt collection, at maturity,
of all debts due on account of University lands, heretofore sold, or that
may hereafter be sold, and shall in neither event have the power to grant
relief to the purchasers.
SEC. 13. The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, established by an
act of the Legislature, passed April 17, 1871, located in the county of
Brazos, is hereby made, and constituted a branch of the University of Texas, for
instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts and the natural sciences
connected therewith. And the Legislature shall, at its next session, make an
appropriation, not to exceed forty thousand dollars, for the construction and
completion of the buildings and improvements, and for providing the furniture
necessary to put said college in immediate and successful operation.
SEC. 14. The Legislature shall also when deemed practicable, establish and
provide for the maintenance of a College or Branch University for the
instruction of the colored youths of the State, to be located by a vote of the
people; provided, that no tax shall be levied, and no money appropriated out of the
general revenue, either for this purpose or for the establishment and
erection of the buildings of the University of Texas.
SEC. 15. In addition to the lands heretofore granted to the University of
Texas, there is hereby set apart, and appropriated, for the endowment,
maintenance and support of said University and its branches, one million acres of the
un appropriated public domain of the State, to be designated and surveyed as
may be provided by law, and said lands shall be sold under the same
regulations, and the proceeds invested in the same manner as is provided for the sale
and investment of the permanent University fund; and the Legislature shall
not have power to grant any relief to the purchasers of said lands.
researching:
My mother's line: ROCK, ROCQUE, CHABOTT, DAVIS, DEMOND, HARRISON
My father's line: COFFEE, STRIBLING, KINCHELO, TALIAFERRO, SLOAN, HODGES,
BROWN, MAJORS, LANE, HALE, GRYMES, DEADMAN, SMITH, STEWART, GREENWOOD,
WILLIAMS, FRITH, CANTERBURY, HENDERSON, WILKENSON, KEELING, REYNOLDS, RAGLAND,
CLEVELAND, STEPP, SAUNDERS, ANDERSON
My husbands father's line: SIMMONS, HARDEMAN, BARMORE, DODSON, WARNOCK,
DOWDLE, MCGRAW, JONES, HARDIN, BLACK, HOGUE, JARRELL, WALKER, HAMBRIGHT,
MITCHELL, LUTTRELL, FRANCIS, TEMOR, COULTER,
My husband's mother's line: MADERA, PERRY, PARKER, DEMENT, REYNOLDS,
HARRIS, THOMAS
Our grandchildren's father's line: SARTORS, LINCOLN, CARTER
Our granddaughter's mom's line: BRAU, BOROWIAK, GRIMM, GRAF, SEYER,
SCHULTZ, PETERS, GEORG, STEFFEK, KRUMPHO
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My husband is a descendent of Charles Grandison Coffee of whom John Roberts Coffee is one of his three sons.
Linda