The Laws of Texas, 1926 [Volume 24] Page: 343 of 1,784
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SPECIAL LAWS. 311
CREATING ROAD DISTRICT NUMBER SIXTEEN IN
BRAZORIA COUNTY.
S. B. No. 249.] CHAPTER 104.
An Act to create Road District Number Sixteen (16), 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 16, 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 11th day of January, 1916, recorded in Book M, page 106,
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 16, 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 11th day of January, 1916, 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 19th day of February, 1916, the proposition of
issuing bonds of said road district in the amount of five thousand
dollars ($5,000.00), and the levy of a tax upon the tax-
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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/m1/343/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .