The Laws of Texas, 1931-1933 [Volume 28] Page: 317 of 2,111

                                
FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE-THIRD CALLED SESSION. 89
issued and sold at any time, or from time to time, shall be and
are hereby declared to be the legal, valid and binding obligation
of such districts, and the board of navigation and canal commissioners
thereof are hereby fully authorized and empowered to
pay off and discharge such bonds by any or all of the methods
for retiring the cost of construction of their improvements providod
in this Chanter.
SEc. 89. Candidates for navigation and canal commissioners
must make application to the secretary to have their name
printed on the ballot at least twenty (20) clear days before the
date of such election; provided. that such names may also be
placed thereon bv petition of twenty (29) or more qualified
voters of the district.
SFC. 90. The lTeislature hereby exercises the authority conferred
upon it by Section 59 of Article 16 of the Constitution of
Texs, and declares that all navigation districts created or validatod
hereunder are essential to the accomplishment of said
constitutional provisions and declares them to be governmental
agencies and bodies politic and corporate with such powers of
government and with authority to exercise such rights, privileges
and functions as are conferred in this Act and by said
Constitutional provision.
SEC. 91. This Act is declared to be cumulative of all other
Acts now in force as to Navigation Districts hereinafter to be
organized; and in order to come within the purview of this Act,
the petition for the organizing of such districts hereafter to be
organized, shall state that it is the intention of the petitioners
to organize same under and by virtue of this Act. In the event
it is desired to organize under the provisions of Chapter 5 of the
Acts of the 39th Legislature and Acts amendatory thereof, then
such petition shall so state, and the provisions of this Act shall
not apply to such district.
SEC. 92. If any provision of this Act shall be held to be
invalid, it is hereby declared to be the intention of the Legislature
that all other provisions of this Act shall remain in force
and effect.
SEC. 93. Any navigation district organized under the provisions
of Section 59 of Article 16 or of Section 52 of Article 3,
of the Constitution, and not originally coming within the scope
hereof, may avail itself of the provisions of this Act to become
self-liquidating in character and to be made self-sunporting and
return the construction cost of its improvements within a reasonable
period by means of tolls, rents, fees, assessments, or other
charges other than by taxation, in the manner following:
The Board of Navigation and Canal Commissioners of such
district shall adopt a resolution declaring that in their judgment
it is for the best interests of such district and will be a benefit
to the lands and property included in such district, to avail itself
of the provisions of this Act providing for such districts to become
self-liouidating in character and to make themselves selfsupporting
and return the construction cost within a reasonable
period by means of tolls, rents, fees, assessments, or other
charges other than by taxation, and shall designate in such reso-