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SPECIAL LAWS. 343
to pay the 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 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 dist;ict
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
bends 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, 28 yeas, 0 nays; passed the House, 110 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/m1/375/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .