The Laws of Texas, 1923-1925 [Volume 22] Page: 198 of 1,648
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188 SPECIAL LAWS.
under which such commutation may be granted, which may be
done by increasing the pay or compensation allowed to one dollar
per day.
SEC. 11. The county commissioner may use the convict gangs
in doing permanent road work; that is, in grading and building
roads of a more permanent character than that of the road maintenance
herein provided for under the several patrolmen of the
county and such convict gangs shall have a separate foreman, and
not be under the direction of a regular patrolman employed by
the county under contract for road maintenance, but such convict
gangs, under their foreman may be sent to such portions of the
county for the purpose of improving roads that have been found
difficult to maintain and to such other places as the county commiss:oners
may direct. In case said county shall determine to do
permanent road work either with convicts or otherwise, a reasonable
amount of money may be set aside for such purpose in making
up the budget of the road and bridge funds, such appropriation,
however, shall in no event be such as to destroy or seriously
cripple the system of road maintenance herein provided.
SEC. 12. The commissioners' court may accept donations of
money, land, teams, tools or labor, or any other kind of property
or material, to aid in building or keeping up roads in the county,
and said court or any commissioner by and with the concurrence
of the commissioners' court, may authorize any person to make a
drain along any public road, the same to be done under the direction
of the commissioners' court.
SEC. 13. The term "road" as used in this chapter, includes
roadbed, ditches, drains, bridges, culverts, and every part of such
road, and the terms "work" and "working" includes the opening
and laying out of new roads, widening, constructing, draining, repairing,
and everything else that may be done in and about any
road.
SEC. 14. All able-bodied male persons between the ages of twentyone
and fifty years shall be liable, and it is hereby made their duty
to work upon, repair, and clean out the public roads under the provisions
and regulations of this Act, and shall be subject to the call
of the particular patrolman of the section in which they live as has
been allotted by the commissioners' court, and shall labor at such
time and with such tools as shall be required of them by the patrolman
for the period of five days during each calendar year, provided
that the following persons shall be exempt from road duty: ministers
of the Gospel in the active discharge of their ministerial duties,
public school teachers while actively engaged in the school
room, invalids and all other persons who shall have on or before the
31st day of January of each year paid to the tax collector of the
county in which they live the sum of $5.00.
SEC. 15. No person shall be compelled to work on a road who
has not been residing in the county in which he is summoned to
work for the space of fifteen days immediately preceding such
summons.
SEC. 16. Any person liable to road' duty, and who has been
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1923-1925 [Volume 22], book, 1925; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth15500/m1/198/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .