GENERAL LAWS OF TEXAS.

TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 1905.

APPROPRIATIONS-MILEAGE AND PER DIEM OF MEMBERS OF THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE.

An Act appropriating One Hundred and Twenty Thousand dollars ($120,000.00) to pay mileage and per diem of members, and per diem of officers and employes of the Twenty-ninth Legislature.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:

SECTION 1. That the sum of One Hundred and Twenty Thousand dollars, ($120,000.00) be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated to pay the mileage and per diem of members, and per diem of officers and employes of the Twenty-ninth Legislature.

SECTION 2. There now being no funds to pay the members and officers' of the Twenty-ninth Legislature creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the Constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days, and said rule is so suspended, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

[NOTE. The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing act passed the Senate by a two-thirds vote, yeas 26, nays 0; and was referred to the House of Representatives, where same was amended and passed by a two-thirds vote, yeas 111, nays 0; House of Representatives amendments concurred in by the Senate by a two-thirds vote, yeas 22, nays 0.]

Approved January 13, 1905.

Became a law January 13, 1905.

APPROPRIATIONS-CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE.

An Act appropriating Twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) to pay the contingent expenses of the Twenty Ninth Legislature.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:

SECTION 1. That the sum of Twenty Thousand dollars ($20,000.00) be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State

Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the contingent expenses of the Twenty Ninth Legislature.

SECTION 2. There now being no funds to pay the expenses of the Twenty Ninth Legislature creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the constitutional rule requiring all bills to be read on three several days and said rule is so suspended, and this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

[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 121, nays 0.]

Approved January 13, 1905.

Became a law January 13, 1905.

H. B. No. 38.]

STOCK LAW-AMENDMENT.

CHAPTER 3.

An Act to amend Section 1 of Chapter LXXX, of the acts of the Twenty-eighth Legislature, sent to the Governor for approval on the 31st day of March, 1903, relating to the prevention of hogs, sheep and goats from running at large, amending Article 5001, Title 102, of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, of 1895, relating to the stock law.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: That the Act of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Texas, amending Article 5001, Title 102, of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, of 1903, the same being House Bill No. 339, on page 108, of the Acts of the Regular Session of the Twenty-eighth Legislature, be and the same is hereby amended so as to hereafter read as follows: Article 5001. The county of Aransas is exempted from the provisions of this Chapter.

SEC. 2. The fact that the county of Cooke, where a stock law is absolutely necessary, was embraced in the act of the Twenty-eighth Legislature, exempting certain counties from the operation of Article 5001, and the fact that there is now no law in said county to determine whether sheep, hogs and goats shall be permitted to run at large in said county, or in any sub-division thereof, 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 House of Representatives by a two-thirds vote, yeas 100, nays 0; and was referred to the Senate, where same was amended and passed by a two-thirds vote, yeas 23, nays 0; House of Representatives concurred in Senate amendment by a two-thirds vote, yeas 112, nays 0.]

Approved January 25, 1905.

Became a law January 25, 1905.

APPROPRIATIONS-MILEAGE AND PER DIEM OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS, 1905.

An Act making an appropriation to pay the mileage and per diem of the Presidential Electors of Texas for the year 1905.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: That the sum of Sixteen Hundred and Fifty Dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the mileage and per diem of the Presidential Electors. That the certificate of the Secretary of the College, stating the number of days that the College was in session, shall be sufficient authority to the Comptroller to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer for the amount due each Elector.

SEC. 2. Whereas, the Electoral College has already met and performed its services as required by law, public policy demands that they shall be paid, and an emergency exists and necessarily demands that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended, and that this act take effect 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 106, nays 0; and passed the Senate by a two-thirds vote, yeas 25, nays 0.]

Approved January 25, 1905.

Became a law January 25, 1905.

COURTS-FIXING JURISDICTION OF, IN GRAY COUNTY.

An Act to diminish the civil and criminal jurisdiction of the county court of Gray County, to conform to the jurisdiction of the District court thereof; and to repeal all laws in conflict herewith.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: The county court of Gray County shall have and exercise the general jurisdiction of a probate court, shall probate wills, appoint guardians of minors, idiots, lunatics, persons non compos mentis and common drunkards, grant letters testamentary and of administration, settle the accounts of executors, administrators and guardians, transact all business pertaining to the estates of deceased persons, minors, idiots, lunatics, persons non compos mentis and common drunkards, including the partition, settlement and distribution of estates of deceased persons, and to apprentice minors as provided by law, and to issue all writs necessary for the enforcement of its own jurisdiction; to punish contempt under such provisions as are now or may be provided by general law governing county courts throughout the State, but the said county court of Gray county shall have no other jurisdiction, civil or criminal, whatsoever.