Bill Text: TX HJR158 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment releasing the state's claim of ownership or title to certain land in Lee County.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-02 - Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) [HJR158 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HJR158-Introduced.html
82R19509 NC-D | ||
By: Kleinschmidt | H.J.R. No. 158 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment releasing the state's claim of | ||
ownership or title to certain land in Lee County. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 14, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
adding Section 2 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 2. (a) The State of Texas relinquishes and releases any | ||
claim of sovereign ownership or title to any part of the tract of | ||
land, including mineral interests, described by metes and bounds in | ||
the Warranty Deed dated and filed on November 27, 1944, in Volume | ||
89, page 199, of the Deed Records of Lee County as follows: | ||
Beginning at the southeast corner of the Scott Homestead on | ||
the Old Austin and Brenham Road; Thence N. 19 W. 900 varas to a stake | ||
for corner from which a Post Oak marked X bears N. 84 W. -- varas; | ||
Thence S. 80 W. 1677 varas to a stone for corner from which a Post | ||
Oak bears N. 88 E. 9-1/2 varas; Thence South 30 West 337 varas to a | ||
stone for corner from which a Post Oak marked X. bears south 40 east | ||
12 varas; Thence S. 19 E. 522 varas to the Old Austin and Brenham | ||
road; Thence with said road at about North 80 E. 1380 varas to the | ||
place of beginning, containing about Two Hundred and Fifteen acres | ||
of land, more or less. | ||
(b) Title to the interest in the tract of land and minerals | ||
described by Subsection (a) of this section is confirmed to the | ||
person who, on the effective date of this section, holds the land | ||
under color of title that originated under the deed described by | ||
Subsection (a) of this section. | ||
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 8, 2011. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment releasing the claim of | ||
the State of Texas of sovereign ownership or title to any part of a | ||
certain tract of land in Lee County that has been held under color | ||
of title that originated under a deed filed on November 27, 1944." |