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88 GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS.
cess of twenty-five thousand dollars, and not exceeding fifty thousand
dollars, ten per cent on any value in excess of fifty thousand
dollars, and not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, twelve
per cent on any value in excess of one hundred thousand dollars
and not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars; fifteen per
cent on any value in excess of five hundred thousand dollars and
not exceeding one million dollars; and twenty per cent on any
value in excess of one million dollars."
SEC. 3. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act
are hereby repealed.
SEC. 4. The fact that our present laws regarding taxing of
certain inheritances have the effect of thwarting the desires of
the donors, creates an emergency and in imperative public necessity
requiring the suspension of the constitutional rule that
bills be read on three several days in each House and that this
Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage,
and such rule is hereby suspended, and it is so enacted.
Approved February 24, 1927.
Effective February 24, 1927.
JURY SERVICE-EXEMPTIONS.
S. B. No. 66.] CHAPTER 63.
An Act to amend Article 2135 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas by
exempting from jury service agents and patrol men engaged in forestry
protection work employed by the State Department of Forestry, when
engaged in the regular and actual discharge of their duties, and declaring
an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. That Article 2135 of the Revised Civil Statutes
of Texas, be amended to read hereafter as follows: (creating
new Section 10).
SEC. 2. Article 2135. (5118) (3142) (3013) Jury Service:
All competent jurors are liable to jury service, except the following
persons:
1. All persons over sixty years of age.
2. All civil officers of this State and of the United States.
3. All ministers of the gospel engaged in the active discharge
of their ministerial duties.
4. All physicians and attorneys engaged in actual practice.
5. All publishers of newspapers, school masters, druggists,
undertakers, telegraph operators, railroad station agents, ferrymen,
and all millers engaged in grist, flouring and saw mills.
6. All presidents, vice-presidents, conductors, engineers
and firemen of railroad companies when engaged in the regular
and actual discharge of their respective positions.
7. Any person who has acted as a jury commissioner within
the preceding twelve months.
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1927 [Volume 25], book, 1927; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16125/m1/104/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .