SEC. 181. Anyone to whom a poll tax receipt or certificate of exemption may be intrusted for safe keeping, who refuses on the demand of the owner to return the same to the owner thereof, before any primary election day or primary convention day and before any general election day shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 182. Any person who shall sell, pledge, loan or deposit his poll tax receipt or certificate of exemption for money or any other thing of value shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and the person who purchases, borrows or obtains possession of the same by way of pledge or loan is guilty of a misdemeanor. Either of the parties to such wrongful act may be compelled to appear and testify in a proceeding against the other, but he shall not thereafter be arrested or punished for his participation in such wrongful act.

SEC. 183. If any person intrusted with the transmission to the precinct election judges of official ballots, poll tax receipts and exemption certificate rolls, sample cards, instruction cards, and all supplies required to conduct an election, or who, being intrusted with the transmission of election returns, or election boxes, willfully fails to deliver within the time required by this act, or willfully does any act to defeat the delivery thereof, or not being a person intrusted therewith, shall do any act to defeat the due delivery of such election returns, election supplies, election boxes, or who being an officer or person with whom may be legally intrusted the ballots cast at an election, shall open or read any ballot, or permit it to be done, except as provided by law in the discharge of his duty, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 184. Any person who fails to keep securely any ballot box containing ballots voted at an election, when committed to his charge by one having authority over the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 185. Any person who willfully fails or refuses to file within ten days after an election, with the county clerk of the county of his residence, any report or itemized statement required by this act, or who knowingly files a false or incomplete statement thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 186. Any county clerk or other officer charged by this act with the duty of prepairing or having printed the official ballot at any general or special election, and any county chairman or a member or members of the county executive committee of any political party hereby charged with the duty of prepairing or having printed the official ballot, to be used at any primary election of such party, who fails or refuses, except in cases permitted by law, to have the name of any candidate or candidates whose nominations have been certified to him placed or printed on such official ballot, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years.

SEC. 187. Any person in the civil or military service of the United States in this State who by threats, bribery, menace or other corrupt means attempts to control or controls the vote of an elector, or annoys, injures or punishes him for the manner in which he exercises his elective franchise in any election, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be arrested and tried at any future time when he may be found in Texas.

SEC. 188. Any corporation or officer thereof who directly or indi

rectly furnishes, loans or gives any money or thing of value to aid those who manage the political campaign of any candidate or candidates, or to any campaign manager or to any particular candidate or person to promote the success of such candidate for public office, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and if a corporation, if the act was done with the approval or connivance of its president, financial agent or treasurer, forfeits its charter. It shall be the duty of the Attorney General to institute proceedings for such forfeiture whenever it is made known to him by the affidavit of a reputable man that in his opinion such offense has been committed. The officers, agents and employes of such corporation, as also the candidate, and all persons connected with his political headquarters, shall be competent witnesses, and may be compelled to attend court and testify, and those shall not be subject to prosecution who reveal facts showing a violation of this section.

SEC. 189. Any judge of an election or an interpreter wno, in assisting a voter to prepare his ballot, shall prepare the same otherwise than the way the voter himself shall direct, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 190. Any officer or employe of the State, or of a political subdivision thereof, who directly or indirectly uses his authority or official influence to compel or induce any officer, clerk or employe of the State, or any political subdivision thereof, to subscribe, pay or promise to pay, any political assessment, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 191. Any person who, while holding a public office, or seeking a nomination or appointment thereof, corruptly uses or promises to use, directly or indirectly, any official authority, or influence possessed or anticipated, in any way to aid any person in securing an office or public employment, or any nomination, confirmation, promotion, appointment or increase of salary, upon consideration that the vote or political influence or action of the person so to be benefited, or any other person, shall be given or used in behalf of any candidate, officer or party, or upon any other corrupt consideration, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 192. Any head of any of the departments of State, or other public officer, who shall demand or receive any money or thing of value from any clerk or other person in his office, for his election expenses, or to reimburse him for money already expended, or who shall remove from any office any competent clerk who declines to make such contribution, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 193. Any person who knowingly and willfully procures from any court, clerk or other officer a certificate of naturalization, which has been allowed, signed or sealed in violation of the laws of the United States or of this State, with intent to enable him or any other person to vote at any election, when he or such person is not entitled by the laws of the United States to become a citizen or to exercise the elective franchise, is guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary not less than five nor more than ten years.

SEC. 194. This act is cumulative as to elections and penalties for violating the election laws of this State; except that it shall repeal the election act approved by the Governor April 1, 1903; provided, that this act shall not interfere with or repeal any local option or special laws of this State, except as herein specially provided and set forth.

SEC. 195. The importance of this act to the people of the State, and the great amount of legislative work that will be in the calendar for this session, rendering the passage of important acts doubtful, creates an emergency and imperative public necessity requiring that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended, and the said rule is hereby suspended.

[NOTE. The foregoing act was presented to the Governor of Texas for his approval on the 15th day of May, 1905, but was not signed by him nor returned to the house in which it originated, with his objections thereto, within the time prescribed by the Constitution, and thereupon became a law without his signature.-O. K. SHANNON, Secretary of State.]

Takes effect 90 days after adjournment.

RECIPROCITY TREATY-REQUESTING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO OPEN NEGOTIATIONS WITH

H. C. R. No. 1.]

MEXICO, RELATIVE TO.

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.

Concurrent resolution requesting the President of the United States to open negotiations with the treaty-making power of the Republic of Mexico, with the view of attaining a reciprocity treaty with that Republic looking to the encouragement and exportation of grain, grain products, hogs and hog products, and poultry and poultry products to said Republic.

Whereas, the cattle raisers and farmers of the United States, and more particularly those of the Southern and Western States, produce a large excess of grain and grain products, hogs and hog products, and poultry and poultry products than the home market consumes; and

Whereas, the duty in the Republic of Mexico on such articles of commerce is such as to make their export practically prohibitive; and

Whereas, the farmers and stock-raisers of the State of Texas are directly interested in, and will be to a greater extent benefited by such treaty relations; therefore be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

SEC. 1. That the President of the United States be and he is hereby respectfully requested to enter into negotiations with the treaty-making power of the Republic of Mexico, with the view of obtaining from said Republic a reciprocity treaty looking to the exportation of grain and grain products, hogs and hog products, and poultry and poultry products to said Republic, and we respectfully but earnestly request our United States Senators and the several members of Congress from this State to favor and to use their good offices with the President to open such negotiations and the bringing about such treaty relations between the two countries.

That a copy of this resolution, properly authenticated, be transmitted to the President of the United States, and also a copy to each of our two United States Senators, and a copy to each of the Texas congressmen.

Approved May 11, 1905.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURERELATIVE TO PAYMENT OF.

S. C. R. No. 2.]

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.

Resolved by the Senate, the House concurring, that the Comptroller be and is hereby authorized to draw warrants to pay any of the unpaid contingent expenses of the 29th Legislature created at regular session thereof out of the amount appropriated by the Act appropriating money to pay the contingent expenses first called session of the 29th Legislature.

Approved May 15, 1905.

CERTIFICATE.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

I, O. K. SHANNON, Secretary of State of the State of Texas, do hereby certify that the foregoing laws and resolutions, passed at the First Called Session of the Twenty-ninth Legislature, have been carefully examined and compared by me with the original enrolled bills now on file in this Department, and are true copies of said original enrolled bills.

I do hereby further certify that the First Called Session of the Twentyninth Legislature convened in the City of Austin, on the fifteenth day of April, A. D. 1905, and adjourned on the fourteenth day of May, A. D. 1905.

In testimony whereof, I have hereto signed my name officially and

[SEAL]

caused to be impressed hereon the Seal of State at my office in the City of Austin, Texas, this the twentieth day of June, A. D. 1905.

0. K. SHANNON,

Secretary of State.