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The Texas State Police was formed during the administration of Governor Davis on July 22, 1870, to combat crime during the Reconstruction Era of the United States.Davis also created the Texas Special Police, State Guard of Texas, and the Texas Reserve Militia, which was the forerunner of the Texas National Guard.
Leander H. McNelly was born March 12, 1844, in Follansbee, Virginia (today West Virginia), to P.J. McNelly and his wife Mary Downey.McNelly suffered from consumption as a child, and in 1860 his family moved to Texas in the hope that the climate would improve his health.
Grand Lodge of Texas centrally located in Waco. The Grand Lodge of Texas, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons is the largest of several governing bodies of Freemasonry in the State of Texas, being solely of the Ancients' tradition and descending from the Ancient Grand Lodge of England, founded on 17 June 1751 at the Turk's Head Tavern, Greek Street, Soho, London. [1]
The diocese said it is in communication with police “regarding serious concerns it has regarding the use of marijuana and edibles at the monastery.” Fort Worth Catholic Diocese
The State Highway Patrol was merged with the State Police on June 29, 1937. [7] The Texas State Police was formed during the administration of Texas Governor Edmund J. Davis on July 22, 1870, to combat crime associated with Reconstruction statewide in Texas. It worked primarily against racially based crimes, and included black police officers ...
Governor Edmund J. Davis, in order to combat crime statewide in Texas, formed the Texas Special Police on July 22, 1870 [2] There were 30 Special Police Officers (SPO) assigned as auxiliary officers throughout the state. [2] On April 22, 1873, the law authorizing the state police was repealed by the newly elected Democrat controlled state ...
[27] [28] These were usually purpose-built cells, but in some cases might be free-standing prisons; one of the earliest examples of the latter was built at the Mount Sinai Monastery before the seventh century AD. [29] Some orders, such as the Cistercians and Benedictines, explicitly required that each monastery contain prison cells. [30] [31]
The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.