Excerpt from One Texas: Report of the Ceremonies of Laying the Corner Stone of the New State Capitol, Austin, March 2, 1885Captain Walsh brie¿y stated the object in view when he requested this consultation. There was no provision in the contract for building the new capitol for a corner stone, nor was there any appropriation in law for de fraying the expenses of procuring a suitable one, if the capitol board saw proper to have one. What was to...
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