The Laws of Texas, 1931-1933 [Volume 28] Page: 162 of 2,111

                                
30             GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS.
compensation for his services One Hundred    Twenty-Five
($125.00) Dollars for each million dollars, or major portion
thereof on the assessed valuation, the annual salary to be computed.
from the last approved tax roll; said annual salary from
county funds shall not exceed Three Thousand Six Hundred
($3,600.00) Dollars. Provided, that in all Counties of not less
than Thirty-Five Thousand, nor over Thirty-Seven Thousand
inhabitants according to the 1920 Federal Census, the salary
shall not be less than Two Thousand Four Hundred (S2,400.00)
Dollars annually, said salary to be paid monthly out of the
general revenue of the County upon an order of the Commissioners'
Court. Provided, further, that in counties having more
than 200,000 population and not more than 300,000 population
according to the last Federal Census where there is a City and
County hospital to care for the city and county patients, and
where a financial record for such hospital must be kept and reports
made to the City and County, the Auditor shall in addition
to the regular duties performed by him as required by Law, keep
such financial record of such hospital, and make such report to
the executive bodies of the City and County, the Mayor and
City Commissioners for the City, and the County Judge and
County Commissioners for the County, and shall receive for
such additional services rendered in compiling the necessary
reports and records, and keeping such financial record, an additional
sum of One Thousand Two Hundred ($1,200.00) Dollars
per annum payable monthly, out of the fund created for said
hospital.
If any section, sentence or any part whatever of this Act
should be held to be unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall
not affect the remaining portion of this Act and it is hereby
declared that the Legislature would have passed that part which
is constitutional and valid."
SECTION 2. The fact that under the present Law there is no
compensation provided for Auditors in such Counties where
there is a City and County hospital for keeping a financial
record for such hospital and making reports to the City and
County, creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity
that the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on
three several days be suspended, and the same is hereby suspended,
and this Act shall take effect and be in force from and
after its passage, and it is so enacted.
Approved September 30, 1931.
Effective 90 days after adjournment.
[NOTE: S. B. No. 16 passed the Senate by a vote of 25 yeas,
3 nays; passed the House by a viva voce vote.]