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1902 GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS.
COMPENSATION OF COUNTY AUDITORS IN CERTAIN
COUNTIES.
H. B. No. 61.] CHAPTER 25.
An Act fixing the compensation of County Auditors in certain counties;
and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. That in every county in this State having a
population of less than thirty-three thousand (33,000), according
to the last preceding Federal Census, and having assessed
property valuation of more than Eighty Million Dollars
($80,000,000), according to the last approved tax rolls, the
compensation of each County Auditor shall not exceed Four
Thousand, Two Hundred Dollars ($4,200); and in every county
in this State having a population of not less than thirty-four
thousand, one hundred and forty-five (34,145), nor more than
thirty-four thousand, one hundred and sixty (34,160), according
to the last preceding Federal Census, the County Auditor
shall not receive more than Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000)
per year; that in every county in this State having a population
of not less than forty-six thousand, one hundred and seventynine
(46,179), nor more than forty-nine thousand, and twenty
(49,020), according to the last preceding Federal Census, the
compensation of each County Auditor shall be Three Thousand
Dollars ($3,000) per annum; and providing that in counties
having a population of not less than forty-eight thousand, six
hundred (48,600), nor more than forty-nine thousand (49,000),
according to the last preceding Federal Census, the compensation
of each County Auditor shall be Three Thousand, Six Hundred
Dollars ($3,600); such salaries to be payable in equal monthly
installments.
SEC. 2. The fact that House Bill No. 25, Acts of the First
Called Session of the Forty-fifth Legislature, inadvertently
changed the compensation of the County Auditors in the counties
above mentioned, and the further fact that the change was
mistakenly made and should now be corrected create an emergency
and an imperative public necessity that the Constitutional
Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each
House, be, 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.
[NoTE.-H. B. No. 61 passed the House, October 19, 1937,
by a vote of 122 yeas, 0 nays; passed the Senate, October 20,
1937, by a vote of 28 yeas, 0 nays.]
Approved October 23, 1937.
Effective October 23, 1937.
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1937-1939 [Volume 31], book, 1939; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth18824/m1/180/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .