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60 LOCAL AND SPECIAL LAWS.
of Austin County shall, at the time of assessing other taxes, assess
such road tax and shall, at the time of making and extending
his tax rolls, charge each person liable to road duty under
the General Laws of the State of Texas with said road tax of
Ten Dollars ($10.00) and he shall receive as compensation therefor
the same fees as allowed under the General Laws of the
State of Texas for assessing poll tax.
SEC. 7. The Tax Collector of Austin County, Texas, shall receive
and receipt for all money so paid him and shall pay the
same over to the County Treasurer of Austin County, the same
to be placed to the credit of the Road and Bridge Fund of said
County, and a separate account shall be kept for each Commissioners'
precinct from which said moneys are received by the
Tax Collector. The receipts issued by him shall show the number
of the Commissioners' precinct in which the person paying
the tax resides, and all such moneys shall be used and expended
only in the precinct in which the person paying the same resides.
SEC. 8. Every person liable for road duty under the General
Laws of the State of Texas relating to public roads and residing
in Austin County, Texas, who shall fail to pay said road tax, as
hereinbefore provided, to the Tax Collector of said County, on or
before the 31st day of January next after said road tax accrues,
as provided herein, shall be liable to, and it is hereby made his
duty and he shall be required to work upon, repair, clean out,
construct, and to do and perform any work which may be designated
by said Road Supervisor upon the roads, bridges and
culverts in the Commissioners precinct in which he resides and
under the direction and supervision of the Road Supervisor in
such precinct, or other person duly authorized by said Road Supervisor,
for five days in said year, for the road tax accruing
the year prior thereto, and shall report for duty at such time
and place on any public road in said precinct within six miles of
his residence, as said Road Supervisor or other person authorized
may direct when such persons shall have been given the
legal notice now provided for by the General Laws of the State
of Texas, which said notice shall be given by said Road Supervisor
or other person authorized by him in the same manner
as notice is required to bp given under the General Laws of
the State of Texas by road overseers, and any person subject
to road duty who shall fail to work said roads when so notified
after having failed to pay the road tax hereinbefore provided,
or fail to provide an able bodied substitute or pay to such Road
Supervisor the sum of Two ($2.00) Dollars for each day summoned,
shall be subject to the same penalties provided by the
General Laws of the State of Texas for failure to obey notice
served unon him by road overseers.
SEC. 9. No property belonging to Austin County, Texas,
such as teams, tools, tractors, graders, scrapers and other machinery,
shall ever be loaned by any Road Supervisor or other
person to any person, and it shall be unlawful for any such
property owned by the County to be used by any person for any
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1929-1931 [Volume 27], book, 1931; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16362/m1/374/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .