The Laws of Texas, 1926 [Volume 24] Page: 345 of 1,784
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SPECIAL LAWS. 313
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 of
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
arnually 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 interest
thereon 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,
and 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, 103 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/m1/345/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .