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The Board had attempted to draw Democratic Speaker Pete Laney out of his west Texas district, but this had the ripple effect of reducing the Hispanic population in District 74 along the Texas–Mexico border. The Board agreed to revert this change, allowing the map to pass preclearance. [159]
The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (also Land Acquisition Act, 2013 or LARR Act [1] or RFCTLARR Act [2]) is an Act of Indian Parliament that regulates land acquisition and lays down the procedure and rules for granting compensation, rehabilitation and resettlement to the affected persons in India.
Land in Bolivia was unequally distributed – 92% of the cultivable land was held by large estates – until the Bolivian national revolution in 1952. Then, the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement government abolished forced peasantry labor and established a program of expropriation and distribution of the rural property of the traditional landlords to the indigenous peasants.
The Congress of the Republic of Texas established the General Land Office on 22 December 1836 (making the GLO the oldest existing Texas public agency). [6] The agency's constitutional purpose was to "superintend, execute, and perform all acts touching or respecting the public lands of Texas."
1966 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Beaumont established. [16] 1967 – Beaumont Heritage Society formed. [17] [2] 1983 – McFaddin–Ward House museum established. [17] 1987 – Texas Energy Museum established. [17] 1991 – Southeast Texas Food Bank established. [18] 1998 – City website online (approximate date). [19] [20]
On February 11, 1858, the Seventh Texas Legislature approved O.B. 102, an act to establish the University of Texas, which set aside $100,000 in United States bonds toward construction of the state's first publicly funded university [15] (the $100,000 was an allocation from the $10 million the state received pursuant to the Compromise of 1850 ...
With their investments in cotton cultivation, Texas planters imported enslaved blacks from the earliest years of settlement. During 1860, the population of African American slaves rose to 169,000. [19] They established cotton plantations mostly in the eastern part of the state, where labor was done by enslaved African Americans.
Fannie Bruner Campbell. Thomas Mitchell Campbell (April 22, 1856 – April 1, 1923) was the 24th Governor of Texas, serving two terms from 1907 to 1911.He was an attorney and businessman, working as a manager for the International-Great Northern Railroad before entering politics from Palestine, Texas.