State v. Parker

Citations

• 61 Tex. 265
• 1884 Tex. LEXIS 90

Syllabus

<p>1. Patent — Salt lake — Constitution construed. — By an act of date February 11, 1850, the state relinquished all her rights to land described in a designated patent. The patent to that land had issued in 1847 from the state, and embraced a large salt lake, the bottom of which contained pure crystallized salt. At the time both of the issuance of patent and of the act releasing the rights of the state in the land, a statute was in force reserving salt springs, gold and silver mines, copper and lead and other minerals on public land from location. In a suit between the state and one claiming under the patent, held.</p> <p>fl) The validating act was not violative of art. 7, sec. 24, of the constitution of 1845, as embracing an object not designated in its title.</p> <p>(2) None of the provisions of that act of the legislature could be regarded as unconstitutional, since they related to the same subject, had a mutual connection, and were not foreign to the subject .expressed in the title.</p> <p>(3) The effect of the validating act was to confirm to the patentee a legal title to the soil covered by the patent.</p> <p>(4) The effect of art. 7, sec. 39, of the constitution of 1866, was to release to those owning the land all the salt and mineral substances on the land.</p>