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SENATE JOURNAL.
Attorney General to bring suit for
the collection of the amount found
to be due the State and when in the
judgment of the Attorney General
the State is entitled to a larger
amount than that found by the Land
Commissioner, to sue for such larger
amount, fixing the venue of all suits
for the recovery of bonus and rental
money due the State; providing that
no suit may be maintained by the
State for the collection of any bonus
or rental money except as in this Act
provided, and that suit may not be
maintained for a larger amount than
that found to be due by the Land
Commissioner after one year from
the date of the Land Commissioners'
written statement to the Attorney
General, and that no suit for the col-
lection of such debts may be main-
tained unless instituted within two
years from the date this Act becomes
effective; providing that the terms
and provisions of this Act shall not
apply to any indebtedness due the
State for bonus or rental money un-
der the Relinquishment Act which
has accrued or may accrue subse-
quent to the 24th day of February,
1932; and that nothing in this Act
shall be construed to affect or change
the existing rights and obligations
between the land owners and lessees
as to such accrued indebtedness; the
finding of certain facts by the Leg-
islature; defining the terms used in
this Act; providing that if any por-
tion of this Act ever be held to be
unconstitutional such holding shall
not affect the remaining portions of
this Act; and declaring an emergen-
cy."
Read and referred to Committee
on Public Lands and Land Office.
H. J. R. No. 1.
The Chair laid before the Senate
on its second reading the following
resolution:
H. J. R. No. 1, Ratifying an
amendment to the Constitution of
the United States of America passed
by the Seventy-second Congress of
the United States of America at its
First Session, begun and held at the
city of Washington on Monday, the
7th day of December, 1931, which
amendment, in substance, provides
and fixes the commencement of the
terms of President and Vice-Presi-
dent and members of Congress and
fixes the time of the assembling of
Congress, and that said amendmentshall take effect on the 15th day of
October following its ratification;
and providing further that this ar-
ticle shall be inoperative unless it
shall have been ratified as an amend-
ment to the Constitution within
seven years from the date of submis-
sion to the states by Congress.
The resolution was read second
time and passed to third reading.
On motion of Senator Holbrook
the constitutional rule requiring bills
to be read on three several days was
suspended and H. J. R. No. 1 was
put on its third reading and final
passage, by the following vote:
Yeas-27.Beck.
Berkeley.
Cousins.
Gainer.
Greer.
Hardin.
Holbrook.
Hopkins.
Hornsby.
Martin.
Moore.
Neal.
Oneal.
Parr.Cunningham.
DeBerry.Parrish.
Patton.
Poage.
Pollard.
Purl.
Rawlings
Russek.
Small.
Stevenson.
Thomason.
Williamson.
Woodruff.
Woodul.
Absent.
Loy.
Woodward.Read third time and finally passed
by the following vote:
Yeas-27.Beck.
Berkeley.
DeBerry.
Gainer.
Greer.
Hardin.
Holbrook.
Hopkins.
Hornsby.
Martin.
Moore.
Neal.
Oneal.
Parr.Parrish.
Patton.
Poage.
Pollard.
Purl.
Rawlings.
Russek.
Small.
Stevenson.
Thomason.
Williamson.
Woodruff.
Woodul.Absent.
Cousins. Loy.
Cunningham.
Absent-Excused.
Woodward.58
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