The Laws of Texas, 1937-1939 [Volume 31] Page: 52 of 1,313

1780 GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS.
APPROPRIATION TO PAY EXPENSES OF LEGISLATIVE
SESSION.
S. B. No. 27.] CHAPTER 19.
An Act making an appropriation of the sum of One Hundred Thousand
($100,000.00) Dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out
of any funds in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to
pay the contingent expenses, and to pay the mileage and per diem
of members and the per diem of officers and employees of the First
Called Session of the Forty-fifth Legislature, and to pay any unpaid
accounts of the Regular Session of the Forty-fifth Legislature, and
declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in
the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of One
Hundred Thousand ($100,000.00) Dollars, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, to pay the contingent expenses and to pay
the mileage and per diem of members and the per diem of
officers and employees of the First Called Session of the Fortyfifth
Legislature, and to pay any unpaid accounts of the Regular
Session of the Forty-fifth Legislature.
SEC. 2. The certificate of the Secretary of the Senate, approved
by the President of the Senate, or the certificate of the
Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives approved by the
Speaker thereof, shall be sufficient evidence to the Comptroller
upon which to audit the claims for mileage and per diem of
members and the salaries and per diem of officers and employees
of the First Called Session of the Forty-fifth Legislature, and
he shall issue the necessary warrants for same upon the Treasury
of the State of Texas.
SEC. 3. The certificate of the Chairman of the Committee on
Contingent Expenses of the Senate, approved by the President
of the Senate, or the certificate of the Chairman of the Committee
on Contingent Expenses of the House of Representatives,
approved by the Speaker of the House, as the case may be, shall
be sufficient authority to the Comptroller to issue warrants upon
the Treasury of the State of Texas for the payment of accounts
for Contingent Expenses of either House.
SEC. 4. Providing, however, that a record of all moneys appropriated
in this bill shall be made available for public inspection
the same as any other public records in this State. The
Senate and House shall each publish an itemized account of expenditures
in its own Journal and state the amount spent by
each member of each House, as the Senate and House may direct.
SEC. 5. The fact that the First Called Session of the Fortyfifth
Legislature is now in session, and public policy requires
that the appropriations made by this Act shall be made immediately
available, creates an emergency and an imperative public
necessity that the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read