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Happy Texas Independence Day
Texas Independence Day is the celebration of the declaration of the Texas independence from Mexico on March 2, 1836. After the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence, settlers in Mexican Texas officially broke from Mexico, creating the Republic of Texas. In the State of Texas, Texas Independence Day is an official holiday.
In 1836, a group of delegates gathered in the town of Washington to make Texans’ separation from Mexico official. The delegates assigned a committee of five members to draft a declaration of independence. George Childress, Edward Conrad, James Gaines, Bailey Hardeman, and Collin McKinney were part of this committee. The declaration was approved with out any debate.
The hand-written document was signed by the members of the convention, declaring the creation of the short-lived Republic of Texas. Nine years later in 1845, Texas became the 28th state of United States. The original document is kept safe in Austin, the state capitol.
The Texas document claimed that the Mexico had “ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people” and even started “arbitrary acts of oppression and tyranny.” The following are the other reasons for separation mentioned in the declaration.
- The 1824 Constitution of Mexico establishing a federal republic had changed into a centralist military dictatorship by Gen.
- The Mexican government had invited settlers to Texas promising them constitutional liberty and republican government. But then reneged on these promises.
- Texas was in union with the Mexican state of Coahuila as Coahuila y Tejas, with the capital in distant Saltillo. The affairs of Texas were decided in the Spanish language at a great distance from the province.
- The denial of the right to keep and bear arms and the right to trial by jury.
- There was no system of public education.
- The denial of freedom of religion to the settlers.
Take a moment today to remember this pioneering frontier people who fought, sacrificed and died to create what would become the State of Texas.
Members of the Bowie Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet at 5:30 p.m. on June 16.
The big item on the agenda is the review of superintendent candidate applications and consider possible interview choice. Superintendent Blake Enlow resigned on May 23 and Assistant Superintendent Lee Ann Farris has been serving as the interim.
That item will be in executive session along with professional educator contracts that need to be considered.
On the regular agenda Farris will update the board on education bills passed by the 89th Texas Legislature and their budget impacts, as well as discipline impacts. A budget workshop will be considered. She also will provide information on state assessment and board goals.
Campus administrators and directors will provide updates, along with the finance director.
In action items the board will review Texas Association of School Board update 124, consider changes to the 12-month and 11 employee dates and consider the purchase of a new band trailer not to exceed $80,000.
Due to the June 19 Juneteenth federal holiday the U.S. Post Office will be closed, which moves then Thursday Bowie News to a delivery date on Friday. It will be available in the stores at its regular time.
As of June 9 details on why an appeal bond was revoked on Casey Hall which prompted her arrest in Sulphur Springs on June 2 remain unclear.
The former 97th District Attorney was convicted of misapplication of fiduciary property and theft by a public servant on May 13 in the 16th District Court in Denton County.
The jury gave her a sentence of one year in state jail for misapplication of fiduciary property and six years probation for theft by a public servant.
The 38-year-old Hall was booked into the Hopkins County Jail on June 2 on a warrant after a Denton County judge revoked the appeal bond that was $10,000.
Hall filed her intent to appeal the conviction and sentence, so after posting a $10,000 bond, she was released on May 14 instead of beginning her sentence.
Denton County Court records indicated on June 2 Judge Sherry Shipman, who presided in the trial, declared Hall’s bond insufficient and a warrant was issued for her arrest.
There were rumors Hall may have opted to drop her appeal, but that information has not been confirmed through the court. As of June 9 Hall remained booked into the Hopkins County Jail.
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