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SPECIAL LAWS. 263
principal of and interest upon said bonds, levied upon the valuation
of taxable property in said road district according to the
value of taxable property therein as determined for State and
county purposes, are hereby found and fixed as the amount to
be raised in said road district and constituted the basis of such
taxation, and the assessment and levy of such taxes is hereby
legalized and said taxes in an amount sufficient to pay the
principal of and interest upon said bonds, now outstanding,
shall be annually levied and assessed by the county commissioners'
court df said county upon the value of taxable property
in said road district as fixed for State and county taxes,
and the power to levy such annual general ad valorem taxes is
hereby expressly delegated to said commissioners' court.
SEC. 6. That said orders, and all other orders adopted by said
county commissioners' court, in respect of said road district
bonds and taxes, as the same appears upon the records of
said court, or copies thereof duly certified, are hereby constituted
legal evidence of such orders, and shall be authority
for said court to annually levy, assess and collect taxes
in an amount sufficient to pay the principal of and interest
upon said bonds as the same mature and become due, such
taxes to be levied and assessed upon the value of taxable property
in said road district as fixed for State and county taxes, and
that any and all acts and proceedings had and taken by said court
in the construction of roads and turnpikes from the proceeds
of said bonds are hereby validated, approved and legalized.
SEC. 7. That the Legislature hereby exercises the authority
upon it conferred by Section 52, of Article 3, of the Texas Constitution,
and declares said defined district as a road district as
above described, to have been legal and valid from the date of
the adoption of said order, defining its boundaries, and confirms
and ratifies said acts and proceedings of said court in
respect of said election authorizing the issuance and sale of
said bonds, the levy of taxes to pay principal thereof and interthereon
and the construction of roads and turnpikes with the
proceeds thereof with like effect as though at the time or times
said acts and proceedings were done or had, there existed statutory
authority for the doing thereof.
SEC. 8. Proof of publication of the constitutional notice required
in the enactment of local and special laws has been made
in the manner and form provided by law.
SEC. 9. The public importance of the purposes herein contemplated
creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity
requiring the suspension of the constitutional rule requiring
bills to be read upon three several days in each House,
ar.d the said rule is hereby 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 the foregoing Act passed the
Senate, 30 yeas, 0 nays; passed the House, 105 yeas, 0 nays.]
Approved October 18, 1926.
Effective October 18, 1926.
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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/m1/295/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .