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be punished for contempt of court. Where such child has so
failed to appear, any warrant or capias issued in such case may
be executed as in other cases. No child within the juvenile age
shall be incarcerated in any compartment of a jail or lockup in
which persons over the juvenile age are being detained. The
proper authorities of all counties with a population of over fifty
thousand shall provide a suitable place for the detention of such
children separte and apart from any jail or lockup in which older
persons are confined. Any such child shall have the right to
give bond or other security for its appearance at the trial of
such case. The court may appoint counsel to defend such child.
SEC. 2. The fact that in many counties of this State delinquent
children are frequently placed in the same jail, and often
in the same cell with habitual criminals, creates an emergency
and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule
requiring bills to be read on three several days in each House be
suspended, and said rule is hereby suspended, and this Act shall
take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is:
so enacted.
[NOTE.-H. B. No. 63 passed House 102 yeas, 6 nays; passed
Senate by a viva voce vote.]
Approved March 25, 1927.
Effective (90) ninety days after adjournment.
OIL, GAS AND     MINERAL LEASES ON REAL ESTATE
OF MINORS.
H. B. No. 365.]        CHAPTER 164.
An Act to amend Article 4192 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925, providing
for the making of oil and gas and other mineral leases by
guardians of the estates of minors, and other persons, upon the real
estate belonging to the estates of their wards, providing for the time
of making notice, and providing how such notice shall be made, and
declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. Article 4192 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925
is hereby amended so as hereafter to read as follows:
"Guardians of the estate of minors, and other persons, appointed
under the laws of this State, may make oil and gas and
other mineral leases upon the real estate belonging to the estates
of their wards under the following rules:
1. The guardian shall file his sworn application with the
County Clerk of the County where such Guardianship is pending
for authority to make such oil and gas or mineral lease, and
the County Judge either in term time or vacation shall hear such
application and shall require proof as to the necessity or advis-