PROCLAMATION.

I, S. W. T. LANHAM, Governor of the State of Texas, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby call a Special Session of the Twenty-ninth Legislature to convene in the City of Austin, Texas, beginning at twelve o'clock, Meridian, Monday, March the 26th, A. D. 1906, for the following purpose, to-wit:

To provide for definitely determining the votes which candidates for party nominations for State and District offices shall receive in State and District political Conventions, based upon the results of the primary elections held in the different Counties of the State or of the District, as the case may be.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of State to be affixed at Austin, Texas, this the 26th day of February, A. D. 1906. S. W. T. LANHAM,

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By the Governor :

O. K. SHANNON,

Governor of Texas.

Secretary of State.

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 and attached is a true and correct copy of the proclamation issued by the Governor of the State of Texas, convening the Twenty-ninth Legislature of the State of Texas in special session as is evidenced by the record of said proclamation, to be found on page seven hundred and three of the proclamation records of this Department.

In testimony whereof, I have hereto signed my name officially and caused to be impressed hereon the Seal of State at my office in the City of Austin, this the 5th day of April, A. D. 1906.

[Seal.]

0. K. SHANNON, Secretary of State.

GENERAL LAWS OF TEXAS.

SECOND CALLED SESSION-TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 1906.

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

An Act making an appropriation for the per diem pay and mileage of members, and the per diem pay of officers and employes of the Second Called Session of the Twenty-ninth Legislature of the State of Texas, convened March 26th, 1906, by proclamation of the Governor.

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

SECTION 1. That the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the per diem pay and mileage of the members, and the per diem pay of officers and employes of the Second Called Session of the Twenty-ninth Legislature of the State of Texas, convened March 26th, 1906, by proclamation of the Governor.

SEC. 2. That the certificate of the Secretary of the Senate, approved by the President thereof, or the certificate of the Chief Clerk of the House, approved by the Speaker thereof, shall be sufficient evidence to the Comptroller upon which he shall audit the claims and issue his warrants upon the Treasury for the respective amounts.

SEC. 3. Whereas, the called session of the Twenty-ninth Legislature, for the payment of the members, officers and employes of which this law is enacted, is now in session, and public policy requires their payment, therefore an imperative public necessity exists that the rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended, and it is so 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 92, nays 22; and passed the Senate by a two-thirds vote, yeas 22, nays 1.]

Approved April 3, 1906.

Became a law April 3, 1906.

APPROPRIATIONS TO DEFRAY CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SECOND CALLED SESSION OF THE

H. B. No. 6.1

TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE.

CHAPTER 2.

An Act making an appropriation to defray the contingent expenses of the Second Called Session of the Twenty-ninth Legislature, convened March 26th, 1906, by proclamation of the Governor.

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

SECTION 1. That the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the contingent expenses of the Second Called Session of the Twenty-ninth Legislature, convened March 26th, 1906, by proclamation of the Governor, and that the approval by the chairman of the Committee on Contingent Expenses of either House, countersigned by the President of the Senate or Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, shall be sufficient authority to authorize the Comptroller to issue his warrant on the State. Treasurer for the payment of any account so drawn against said fund. SEC. 2. That the public importance of the objects herein contemplated, creates an imperative public necessity and emergency, fully authorizing the suspension of the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each House, and said rule is hereby 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 House of Representatives by a two-thirds vote, yeas 100, nays 3; and passed the Senate by a two-thirds vote, yeas 23, nays 0.]

Approved April 3, 1906.

Became a law April 3, 1906.

ELECTIONS-MANNER OF DETERMINING VOTE WHICH CANDIDATES SHALL RECEIVE IN STATE AND

S. B. No. 1.]

DISTRICT CONVENTIONS.

CHAPTER 3.

An Act to amend Section 120, of Chapter 11, of the acts of the First Called Session of the 29th Legislature of the State of Texas, entitled an act to regulate elections and to provide penalties for its violation and to repeal the acts of the 28th Legislature of 1903, regulating elections, general, special and primary and political conventions, approved April 1st, 1903.

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

SECTION 1. That Section 120, of Chapter 11, of the Acts of the First Called Session of the 29th Legislature of the State of Texas, be and is hereby amended so as to hereafter read as follows:

Section 120. The candidate for any county office who received either a plurality or majority of all the votes cast in his county, as provided