The Laws of Texas, 1931-1933 [Volume 28] Page: 169 of 2,111

                                
FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE-SECOND CALLED SESSION. 37
and this Act shall take effect from and after its passage, and it
is so enacted.
Approved September 30, 1931.
Effective 90 days after adjournment.
[NOTE: S. B. No. 37 passed the Senate by a vote of 29 yeas,
0 nays; passed the House by a vote of 72 yeas, 26 nays.]
PROVIDING RELIEF FOR VALENTINE INDEPENDENT
SCHOOL DISTRICT.
S. B. No. 8.]          CHAPTER 20.
An Act providing relief for the Valentine Independent School District, in
order to aid said District in repairing and rehabilitating its school building
which was seriously damaged and rendered untenantable and unsafe
for use for school purposes by the earthquake of Sunday, August
16, 1931, making an appropriation for that purpose, and declaring an
emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. By reason of the serious damage done to the
school building of the Valentine Independent School District, at
Valentine, Jeff Davis County, Texas, by the earthquake which
visited that region on Sunday, August 16, 1931, which rendered
said school building untenantable and unsafe for use; and at
the same time seriously damaged and rendered untenantable
most of the homes of that community made up largely of laboring
people; and which earthquake was preceded by a few months
by an unprecedented hail storm which destroyed the roof of said
school house, along with the roofs of nearly all the houses in
said community, said District being thus required to expend
Fifteen Hundred ($1500.00) Dollars for a new roof for said
school building immediately preceding said earthquake; and the
construction of said school house and of said new roof thereof
having entirely exhausted the tax and bond limit of said District,
there is hereby appropriated for the purpose of repairing and
rehabilitating said school building the sum of Twenty-five Hundred
($2500.00) Dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary
to be paid by the warrants of the Comptroller on sworn accounts
as needed as the work progresses.
SECTION 2. The fact of this calamity, unprecedented in
Texas, this being the first earthquake to damage a school house
in the history of the State; and the inability of the Valentine
Independent School District to restore its school building and
make it safe for use on account of the tax limit imposed upon it
by law; and the near approach of the opening of the School term,
creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity requir-