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SPECIAL LAWS. 1711
CREATING ROAD DISTRICT NUMBER THREE IN
WISE COUNTY.
H. B. No. 184.] CHAPTER 603.
An Act to create Road District Number Three (3), in Wise County,
Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners'
court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district;
validating the authorization, issuance, and sale of certain road bonds
thereof and providing for their payment by the annual levy, assessment
and collection of general ad valorem taxes on all taxable property
in said road district; approving and validating all orders of the
commissioners' court of said county in respect of said road district,
bonds and taxes, or certified copies thereof, and constituting such
orders legal evidence; evidencing proof of publication of constitutional
notice required in such acts; and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. That Road District Number 3, of Wise County,
Texas, including within its limits the territory described and
defined in that certain order of the commissioners' court of
Wise County, Texas, passed and adopted by said court on the
13th day of October, 1923, recorded in Book 5, page 327, et
seq., minutes of the commissioners' court of said county, a certified
copy of which order is on file in the office of the State Comptroller
of Public Accounts, is hereby created and established as
a defined road district in said county, under authority of Section
52, of Article 3, of the Constitution of the State of Texas,
with like effect as though the metes and bounds description
thereof appeared herein, for the purpose of constructing maintaining
and operating macadamized, graveled, or paved roads and
turnpikes, or in aid thereof, and such district is hereby made
a body corporate and taxing district under the Constitution
and Laws of the State of Texas.
SEC. 2. That the organization and establishment of said Road
District Number 3, of Wise County, Texas, by the commissioners'
court of said county, is hereby approved, ratified and confirmed
and the power and authority of said commissioners' court
to create said territory into a separate road district and taxing
district for the purpose of issuing bonds for constructing, maintaining
and operating macadamized, graveled, or paved roads
and turnpikes, or in aid thereof, and to levy and collect annually
a direct general ad valorem tax upon all of the taxable property
therein appearing upon the assessment rolls for State and
county taxes, in payment of such bonds, be and the same is hereby
delegated, ratified, approved and confirmed.
SEC. 3. That the order adopted by the county commissioners'
court of said county on the 13th day of October, 1923,
submitting to the resident property taxpayers, who were qualified
electors of said road district, at an election to be held in
said road district on the 17th day of November, 1923, the proposition
of issuing bonds of said road district in the amount of
seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000.00), and the levy of a
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1926 [Volume 24], book, 1926; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16124/m1/1743/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .