days from the first day of January and July of each year the amount of gross premiums received by him for such excess insurance, and shall pay the said Commissioner a tax of five per cent thereon. The agent procuring a license as provided in this Act shall keep a separate record of all transactions herein provided open at all times to the inspection of the Commissioner or his legally appointed representative. In default of the payment of any sums which may be due the State under this Act, the said Commissioner may sue for the same in any court of record in this State. SEC. 2. The fact that no benefit in the way of taxes on premium receipts and fees for authorization and agents of unauthorized companies is received by the State from companies reinsuring business of companies authorized to do business in the State, creates an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage; and it is so enacted. [NOTE. The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing act passed the House of Representatives by a two-thirds vote, yeas 90, nays 0; and passed the Senate by a two-thirds vote, yeas 25, nays 0.] Approved April 13, 1905. Became a law April 13, 1905. COUNTY CLERKS-RELATING TO DUTIES OF. S. B. No. 69.] CHAPTER 81. An Act to amend Article 1148, Title XXIX, Chapter 2, Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, relative to the duties of county clerks. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That Article 1148, Title XXIX, Chapter 2, of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, be amended so as to hereafter read as follows: Article 1148. They shall also keep such other dockets, books and indexes as are, or may be required by law, and all books and records and file papers belonging to the office of county clerks in this State, shall at all reasonable times be open to the inspection and examination of any citizen, who shall have the right to make copies of the same. SECTION 2. The great number of bills now before the Senate for consideration, on account of the great public demand and necessity of the citizens of this State to examine and obtain copies of the records, and the refusal on the part of the county and district clerks to allow such examination and copies to be made, creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended, and that this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted. [NOTE. The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing act passed the Senate by a two-thirds vote, yeas 23, nays 2; and passed the House of Representatives by a two-thirds vote, yeas 89, nays 3.] Approved April 13, 1905. Became a law April 13, 1905. LOVING COUNTY-PROVIDING FOR THE ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION OF TAXES, AND PAYMENT OF An Act to amend Chapter 143, of the General Laws of the State of Texas, passed at the regular session of the 25th Legislature, which was an act to provide for the disorganization of the county of Loving in the State of Texas, and to attach said county to the county of Reeves for judicial and other purposes, and to provide for the assessments and collection of taxes in said county, and for the payment of the outstanding indebtedness of said county. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That Section 5, of Chapter 143, of the Acts of the 25th Legislature of the State of Texas, be and the same is hereby amended so that the same shall hereafter read as follows: Section 5. All moneys collected by the collector of Taxes of Reeves county, and by the Comptroller, as taxes levied to pay interest and provide a sinking fund upon the bonded indebtedness of Loving County shall be reported, accounted for, and paid to the Treasurer of the State of Texas in the same manner required by law upon taxes due the State, and such moneys shall be received and paid out by the State Treasurer upon such bonded indebtedness according to the terms thereof; provided, that the option retained to Loving County to pay said bonds before maturity may be exercised by the commissioners court of Reeves. County, and, with the consent of the holder or holders of any of said bonds, the same may be paid at any time, and provisions made therefor by the levy and collections of the full amount of special taxes authorized by law for such purposes. All of the moneys collected by the collector of Taxes of Reeves County, or the Comptroller, as taxes upon property in Loving County, levied under the provisions of Section (2) of this Act shall be paid over to the county treasurer, and shall be expended by the Commissioners Court of Reeves County in payment of any indebtedness of Loving County other than bonded indebtedness, until all of said indebtedness shall have been paid; provided further, that all moneys now held by the Comptroller to the credit of Loving County, and collected by him since the passage of the original act to which this is an amendment, other than that collected for the payment of bonded indebtedness shall be paid over to the county treasurer of Reeves County, to be held and applied by him to the liquidation of the indebtedness of Loving County, other than bonded indebtedness. After all indebtedness of Loving County, other than bonded indebtedness shall have been paid all taxes collected by the Comptroller on lands in Loving County belonging to non-residents other than the special tax levied to pay said bonded indebtedness shall be paid over to the State Treasurer for the liquidation of said bonded indebtedness, and thereafter shall be disposed of as provided by Article 5152 and 5152a, Revised Statutes, as amended by Chapter 43, Acts of the 25th Legislature. SECTION 2. The great number of bills now before the House for consideration and because of the fact that debts of Loving County which are held by a large number of citizens of the State of Texas, and said debts having been due for several years, and no part of said debt having ever been paid, creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted. [NOTE. The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing act passed the Senate by a two-thirds vote, yeas 22, nays 0; and passed the House of Representatives by a two-thirds vote, yeas 90, nays 1.] Approved April 13, 1905. Became a law April 13, 1905. COURTS, DISTRICT-PROVIDING FOR HOLDING SPECIAL S. B. No. 124.] TERMS. CHAPTER 83. An Act to provide for the holding of special terms of the district courts in the several counties of the State of Texas. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. Where it may become advisable in the opinion of the judge of the district in which any county in the State of Texas may be situated, to hold a special term or terms of the district courts therein, such special term or terms may be held. SECTION 2. The judge of the district in which a county may be situated, in which it is deemed advisable by such judge that a special term of the courts should be held, may convene such special term of the courts at any time which may be fixed by him. The said judge may appoint jury commissioners, who may select and draw grand and petit jurors in accordance with the law; said jurors may be summoned to appear before said courts at such time as may be designated by the judge thereof; provided, that in the discretion of the judge, a grand jury need not be drawn or impaneled. SECTION 3. The grand jury selected as provided for in the preceding section shall be duly impaneled and proceed to the discharge of its duties as at a regular term of the court. SECTION 4. Any person indicted by the grand jury impaneled at a special term of the courts may be placed upon trial at said special term. SECTION 5. Nothing herein contained shall be held to repeal any part of the provisions of Chapter 4, of Title 28, in the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, except so far as the same may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act. SECTION 6. The crowded condition of the docket of the District Courts in many counties on account of the shortness of the time fixed by law create an emergency and an imperative public necessity, that the consti tutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that this bill be passed and take effect immediately after its passage and it is so enacted. [NOTE. The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing act passed the Senate, no vote given; and passed the House of Representatives, no vote given.] Approved April 13, 1905. Takes effect 90 days after adjournment. WEIGHERS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE-PRESCRIBING DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF. An Act to amend Article 4316, Chapter 132, of the Acts of the Twenty-eighth Legislature, relating to the bonds of public weighers, their duties and liabilities and compensation, and making their certificates negotiable, and adding Articles 4316a and 4316b, providing for private weighers, prescribing their duties and salaries, and providing a penalty, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: That Article 4316, Chapter 132, of the Acts of the Twenty-eighth Legislature shall hereafter read as follows: Article 4316. Nothing in this Act shall prevent any person, firm or corporation from weighing his own cotton, wool, sugar, hay, grain or pecans in person, providing that in places where there are no public weighers appointed or elected that any person who shall weigh cotton, wool, sugar, grain, hay or pecans for compensation shall be required before weighing such produce to enter into a bond with at least two good and sufficient sureties in the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2500), approved and payable as in the case of public weighers referred to in this chapter, and conditioned that he will faithfully perform the duties of his office and turn over all property weighed by him on demand of the owner; provided, that this Article shall not apply to merchant flouring mills. Article 4316a. Any weigher who qualifies under Article 4316 of this chapter and shall violate any of the provisions or fail to comply with any of such provisions shall be liable at the suit of any person injured, upon his bond for damages that may have accrued to such person by such violation or failure. Article 4316b. Any person who shall weigh or offer to weigh any cotton, wool, sugar or hides for compensation for the public without comlving with all of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding two hundred dollars. The fact that there is no adequate law controlling the weighing of cotton, wool, sugar and hides creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the constitutional rule which requires bills to be read on three several days in each house, and said rule is hereby suspended and this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted. [NOTE. The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing act passed the Senate, no vote given; and passed the House of Representatives, no vote given.] Approved April 13, 1905. Takes effect 90 days after adjournment. CONFEDERATE HOME-APPROPRIATION PROVIDING FOR S. B. No. 296.] CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS. CHAPTER 85. An Act to make appropriation of $3,700 for necessary improvements at the Confederate Home and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That the following sums of money or so much thereof as may be necessary be and the same are hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the use and benefit of the Confederate Home as follows: For connecting the sewerage at the Hospital of the Confederate Home with the sewerage system of Austin $1,200. For completing the work in the Hospital, furnishing same and building morgue and engineer room $2,500. SECTION 2. The necessity for the immediate construction of the improvements herein provided for, the crowded condition of the calendar and the near approach of the end of the session creates an emergency and imperative public necessity which requires that the constitutional rule which provides that all bills shall be read on three several days be suspended and the same is suspended and that this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and it is so enacted. [NOTE. The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing act passed the Senate by a two-thirds vote, yeas 26, nays 0; and passed the House of Representatives by a two-thirds vote, yeas 97, nays 1.] Approved April 13, 1905. Became a law April 13, 1905. LANDS-RELATING TO REDEMPTION OF, WHEN SOLD FOR TAXES. An Act to more succinctly declare what is sufficient evidence of title to enable owners of land to redeem under sales for taxes. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That in all cases where lands in this State have been, or may be sold for taxes, and the owner of the land at the time of such |