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- ↑ Texas. Legislature. Senate; Day, J.M. (1963). Senate Journal of the Ninth-[tenth] Legislature of the State of Texas. Senate Journal of the Ninth-[tenth] Legislature of the State of Texas. Texas State Library. p. 55. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
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