AUTHORIZING THE APPOINTMENT OF A COMMISSIONER OF STATISTICS FOR THE PROMOTION OF IMMIGRATION.
Resolved, That the Legislature may provide for the appointment of a Commissioner of Statistics, to organize a system for the promotion of immigration to the State of Texas, whose duty it shall be to collect information in regard to the mineral resources, productions and populations of the State, and to prepare, and publish such documents as may be calculated to furnish correct information about all the counties of the State, and inviting immigration from other States and countries.
Passed April 2, 1866.