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10
GENERAL LAWS OF TEXAS.
[29Sth Leg.
[NoTE.-The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing act passed the
Senate by a two-thirds vote, yeas 23, nays 0; and passed the House of
Representatives by a two-thirds vote, yeas 109, nays 0.]
Approved February 3, 1903.
Became a law February 3, 1903.
GALVESTON-AID OF BY DONATING TAXES FOR
FIFTEEN YEARS.
IH. B. No. 8.] CHAPTER VIII.
An Act to aid the City of Galveston in elevating and raising said City so as to
protect it from calamitous overflows, by donating and granting to it the State
ad valorem taxes, and a part of the Occupation and Poll taxes, collected on
property and from persons i'n Galveston County for a period of fifteen years,
and to provide a penalty for their misapplication.
WHIEREAS, the City of Galveston was, on the eighth day of September,
A. D. 1900,. devastated by a storm and calamitous overflow, whereby
thousands of lives were lost, and property of the value of many millions
of dollars was destroyed, which caused and constitutes a great public
calamity; and,
WHEREAS, the agricultural, commercial, manufacturing, mining and
stock raising interests of the State of Texas, and of the States and Territories,
a large portion of the commerce of which seeks the high seas
through the port of Galveston, require the speedy protection of said City
and Port, and with a view of the State of Texas aiding in protecting
said City and port, and the inhabitants thereof, from calamitous overflows,
therefore,
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas;
That for a period of Fifteen years, commencing with the fiscal year beginning
September 1st, 1903, there be and hereby are donated and
granted by the State of Texas to the City of Galveston, the net amounts
of money collected from the following taxes:
1st. The State ad valorem taxes collected upon property and from
persons in the County of Galveston, including the rolling stock belonging
to railroad companies, which shall be ascertained and apportioned as
now provided by law.
2nd. Three-fourths of all moneys collected from State Occupation
taxes received from persons, firms, companies or associations.of persons
doing business in the County of Galveston.
3rd. All State Poll taxes collected from persons in the County of
Galveston, except that belonging to the public school fund.
SEC. 2. At the end of each month the collector of taxes for Galveston
County shall, on forms to be furnished by the Comptroller of Public
Accounts, make an itemized report, under oath, to said Comptroller,
showing each and every item of State ad valorem, occupation, and poll
taxes collected by him, as provided for in this Act, upon property and
from persons within the County of Galveston, and accompany the same
with a summarized statement showing full disposition of all such State
taxes collected; said collector shall present such report, together with the
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1903-1905 [Volume 12], book, 1906; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6695/m1/40/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .