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TEXAS STATE INSTITUTIONS 371
from operations for Navigation Districts contain-
ing a city of over 100,000 population.
HB 285.-Amends Ch. 35, Fifty-third Legisla-
ture first called session relating to Green Belt
Municipal and Industrial Water Authority so as to
provide for the exclusion of member cities and
annexation of territory.
HB 290.-Amends Art. 7987 RCS to increase
compensation of "district supervisors" of levee im-
provement districts to be fixed by the Commis-
sioners Courts.
HB 317.-Amends Art. 8280-119, Sec. 3 (e)
VTCS conferring additional powers to San Antonio
River Authority to take land dedicated for ceme-
tery purposes.
HB 354.-Amending SB 476, Forty-fourth Regu-
lar Session re: advertisements for taking bids for
sale or lease of property owned by Navigation
Districts.
HB 396.-Amending Ch. 370, Fifty-third Regular
Session relating to Orange County Navigation and
Port District.
HE 468.--Creating the White River Municipal
Water District and abolishing the White River
Water Control and Improvement District.
HB 494.--Creating the North Central Texas
Municipal Water Authority.
HB 518.-Permitting drainage districts to enter
into contracts with the Federal Government for
construction of certain improvements.
HB 558.-Authorizing appointment of water mas-
ter in any suit to determine rights to divert or
use waters of a surface stream.Texas State
See Index for state's educational institutions.
also Department of Correction (Prison System).
,Texas State School for the Blind.-Austin;
1856; W. E. Allen, superintendent; 200 students;
value of property, $785,745.
Texas School for the Deaf.-Austin. (This school
is no longer an eleemosynary institution; now
under direction of State Board of Education.)
Texas Blind, Deaf and Orphan School.-Austin;
1887; J. C. McAdams, superintendent; 158 stu-
dents; value of property, 691,706.
Corsicana State Home.-orsicana; 1887; Rob-
ert Boyd Jr., superintendent; 221 children; value
of property, $1,400,000.
Abilene State School.-Abllene; 1904; Emery E.
Ailing, superintendent; 1,500 residents; value of
property $2,766,760. (New buildings under con-
struction in 1957 at cost of $700,000 to increase
capacity to 1,650 residents.)
Austin State School.-Austin; 1917; Raymond
W. Vowell, superintendent; 1,906 students; value
of property, $2,347,246.
State School Farm Colony.-Austin; 1934; C. B.
Edwards, superintendent; 1,109 students; value of
property, $2,697,589.
Mexia State School.-Mexia; 1946; Vernon Jones,
superintendent; 2,100 patients; value of property,
$2,085,857.
Moody State School for Cerebral Palsied Chil-
dren.--Galeston; 1951; Miss Robertine St. James,
suerintendent; 45 children; value of property,
Waco State Home.'Waco; 1922; Herbert C.
Wilson., superintendent; 344 children; value of
property, $1,295,719..
Gatesville State School for Boys.-Gatesville;
1889: Herman Sapier, superintendent; 810 boys:
value of property, $2,500,000.
GaInesville State School for Girls.-Gainesville;
1916; Mrs. Maxine O. Burlingham, superintend-
ent; 222 girls; value of property, $507,669.
."Crockett State School for Girls.-Crockett; 1947;
Mrs. Emma G. Harrell, superintendent; 109 girls;
value of property, $375,000. (Name formerly
Brady State. School for Colored Girls.)
Inks Lake Braiich, Austin State School.-(Dis-
continued; patients -moved- to Mexia State School.)
Albbna-Coushatta Indian Resrvation.-Living-
stun; 1855;" W. Ford King, superintendent; 423
Indians; value of" property, $31,550.
tTexas Confederate Home for Men.-Austin;
1891; R. S. Lloyd, siperintendent; 815 patients;
value of property, $1,299,098.HB 589.-Amends Art. 8224, RCS prescribing
authority of Navigation and Canal Commissioners
in relation to construction, contracts in cases of
public calamity or extreme emergency.
HB 639.-Relates to annexation of lands of
Water Improvement Districts.
HE 899.--Creating a conservation and reclama-
tion district in cities of Mexia and Groesbeck ,to
be known as the Blstone Municipal Water Supply
District.
HB 903.-Authorizing certain cities to issue
bonds in lieu of voted but unissued bonds of cer-
tain water districts annexed and abolished by such
cities.
HB 904.--Creating a Conservation and Reclama-
tion District to be known as the Metropolitan
Sanitary Sewer District of South Jefferson County.
HB 914.-Amends Ch. 243, Fifty-third Regular
Session which created the Canadian River Munici-
pal Water Authority.
HB 922.-Amends Ch. 250, Acts Fifty-fourth
Legislature relating to the York Creek Improve-
ment District in the Counties of Guadalupe, Hays
and Comal.
HE 923. 'To create the Pond Creek Watershed
Authority in Bell, Milam and Falls Counties.
Workmen's Compensation
SB 276.-Amending Art. 8309-c, VCS making
Workmen's Compensation for county employees
available in all counties under certain conditions:
HEB 433.-Revising the employers' liability and
workmen's compensation Insurance laws.Institutions
Texas Confederate Woman's Home. - Austin;
1908; R. S. Lloyd, superintendent; 17 residents;
value of property, $187,827.
Eas^ Texas Tuberculosis Hospital.--Tyler; 1949;
Samuel Topperman, superintendent; 758 patients;
original patients transferred from Kerrvlle State
Sanatorium; hospital accommodates both white
and Negro patients; land and buildings acquired
from Federal Government, former rly a section of
Camp Fannin, valued at $1,529,423. (New build-
ing under construction in 1957 to house 325
patients.)
Kerrville State Home.-Kerrville; 1951 as branch
of San Antonio State Hospital, 1952 as independ-
ent institution; Luther W. Ross. superintendent;
1.204 patients; value of property, $3,000.000.
Austin State Hospital.-Austin; 1861; Sam
Hoerster Jr., superintendent; 2.743 patients; value
of property, $5,014,904.
Big Spring State Hospltal.-Big Spring; 1939;
Roy C. Sloan, acting superintendent; 775 patients;
value of property, $2,317,344.
Harlingen State Tuberculosis Hospital.-Harlin-
gen; 1955; Ellison F. White, superintendent; 550
patients; value of property, $2,819,991.
Legion Branch of the San Antonio State Tuber.
culosis Hospital. -Kerrville; land leased from
American Legion in December, 1952, first patients
moved from Weaver HI. Baker Memorial Tuber-
culosis Sanatorium in July, 1953; M. L. Monroe,
erintendent; 392 patients; value of property,
McKnight State Tuberculosis Hospital.-Sanato-
rium; 1911; Richard F. Allison, -superintendent;
675 patients; value of property, $3,144,615.
Rusk State Hospital.,-Rusk; 1919; Charles W.
Castner, superintendent; 2,100 patients; value of
property. $3,250.000.
San Antonio State Hospital.-San Antonio; 1892;
E. W. Bennett, superintendent; 2,763 patients;
value of property, $3,150,082.
San Antonio State Tuberculosis Hospital.--San
Antonio; 1953; Walter L. Peterson, superintend-
ent 895 patients; value of proerty, $4,887,700.
errell Stae Hoital.-Terrell: 1885; Dr. I C
Roswell, superintendent; 2,508 patients; value of*
property, $6.082,385.
Wichita Falls' State Hospltal.-Wichita Falls;
1922; Ben G. Yeager,. superintendent; 2,804 pa-
tients;:rvalue, of. property, -3,942,871.
Placed in 'eleemoynaryedUcational". budget.
tFormerly devoted-etrel t :care of Confed-
erate ,Army veterans,. this institution has been
converted in recent, years, because of decline in
number of.veterans, to hospitaliation of the aged
senle' men: transferred from state hospitals.
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