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Show TEXAS ELECTION RETURNS CONFUSED AL'STJX. Texas. Dec. 1C. With returns from eighty-two Texas count ics for the const it utionai amendment of Xovember 4 either entirely missing or in such shape that they cannot be included in the official of-ficial count, the attorney general hold late today tha t the statute providing that the state election board canvass re-, turns of elections forty days after they are held is directory and not manda.tnrv, and that the board may adjourn until complete rut urn a are secured. A compilation of the vote, including the defective returns, shows tnat the six amendments and the resolution for calling call-ing a constitutional convention were defeated. de-feated. Accepted belief, based upon incomplete in-complete newspaper return;-;, was that the amendment proiX'S'iif? that Galveston be allowed to issue $.").iH)0.ui)0 for storm proicai .an and the amendment proposing to increase '.lie tax fur Confederate peu-sirms peu-sirms had carried. |