The Laws of Texas, 1926 [Volume 24] Page: 316 of 1,784
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284 SPECIAL LAWS.
CREATING ROAD DISTRICT NUMBER THREE IN
BRAZORIA COUNTY.
S. B. No. 219.] CHAPTER 95.
An Act to Create Road District Number 3, in Brazoria 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 Brazoria County,
Texas, including within its limits the territory described and
defined in that certain order of the commissioners' court of
Brazoria County, Texas, passed and adopted by said court on
the 15th day of October, 1912, recorded in Book K, page 216 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 Brazoria 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 15th day of October, 1912, 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 16th day of November, 1912, the proposi-
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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/m1/316/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .