Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTION The subject for debate in the University Interscholastic League for 1922-23 is: "Resolved, that an amendment to the Texas State Constitution should be adopted providing for a three-mitt tax for the support of the State's higher educational institutions; and that supplementary appropriations by the Legislature should be prohibited." By a "mill tax" is meant a tax of three mills on every dollar of assessed property in the state, or thirty cents on every one hundred dollars. By "constitutional tax" is meant an amendment to the state constitution by a vote of the people fixing such a tax, as opposed to a statutory tax which might be adopted by legislative enactment. The term "state institutions of higher education" includes the University of Texas comprising the Main University at Austin, the Medical School at Galveston and the School of Mines at El Paso, the Agricultural and Mechanical College, the College of Industrial Arts, the Grubbs Vocational College, the John B. Tarleton Agricultural College, the seven state normals for white teachers comprising the North Texas State Normal, the Southwest Texas Normal School, the West Texas Normal School, the Sam Houston Normal School, the East Texas Normal College, the Sul Ross Normal College and the Stephen F. Austin Normal School, and the Prairie View Normal for Negroes. Under the present system of support each institution must submit to the State Board of Control, not later than the fifteenth day of September of each year preceding the regular biennial session of the Legislature, an itemized statement of all expenditures for the preceding two years, together with an estimate of the appropriations required for the succeeding biennium, itemized in such form as may be practicable and as said Board of Control may require. The...