The Laws of Texas, 1934-1935 [Volume 29] Page: 373 of 2,086

                                
FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE-THIRD CALLED SESSION. 119
population less than thirty thousand (30,000) inhabitants, according
to last preceding Federal Census, and which has a tax
valuation exceeding Sixty Million Dollars ($60,000,000.00), according
to the last tax roll approved as required by law, the
District Attorney or Criminal District Attorney may if and when
in his judgment the efficient conduct of his office so requires,
appoint a criminal investigator who shall receive a salary
not to exceed Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) per year.
Such District Attorney or Criminal District Attorney may also,
if in his judgment the efficient conduct of his office so requires,
appoint a stenographer for said office, who shall receive a salary
of not more than Eighteen Hundred Dollars ($1800.00)
per year. The salary of such investigator and stenographer
shall be payable out of the General Fund of the county in which
they are appointed, in twelve (12) equal installments, upon the
certificate of the District Attorney or Criminal District Attorney
of such county."
SEC. 3. The fact that the present compensation allowed to
certain fee officers and certain salaried assistants in counties
having a high taxable valuation and a corresponding amount
of business to be transacted by such officers is wholly insufficient
and inadequate to compensate said officers for the work
and the duties performed creates an emergency and imperative
public necessity that the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to
be read on three several days in each House be suspended, and
the same is hereby suspended, and this Act shall be in full force
and effect from and after the date of its passage, and it is so
enacted.
[NOTE.-H. B. No. 82 passed the House, September 20, 1934,
by a vote of 108 yeas, 2 nays; House concurred in Senate
Amendment, September 25, 1934, by a vote of 120 yeas, 0 nays;
passed the Senate, as amended, September 24, 1934, by a vote
of 24 yeas, 3 nays.]
Approved, September 28, 1934.
Effective September 28, 1934.