Excerpt from Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas, 1900 Attention is also called to Article 2811. The same difficulty is found in the definition of the word departments, and here it is opportune to remark that in construing Articles 2808 and 2811, under the advice of the Attorney General, I have included all State institutions; but I apprehend from the advice given me that much additional safety would have been felt if the statute had mentioned these institutions and other officers, in addition to those that it does name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.