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Laws of the State of Texas.
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will in a few days adjourn sine die, and it being important that this
chapter of the Revised Civil Codes of the State of Texas should be
amended, an imperative public necessity exists for the suspension of the
rule requiring bills to be read on three several days, and it is therefore
enacted that said rule be suspended.
Approved April 29, A. D. 1879.
Takes effect ninety days after adjournment.
CHAPTER CLV.-An act to authorize and allow railroad companies to
surrender their rights to reservations of the public domain.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas,
That any railroad company in whose favor a reservation from the public
domain of the state may heretofore have been created by any law of the
state, general or special, may surrender its exclusive rights to further
locate lands within said reservation; and whenever any such railroad company
shall file in the office of the secretary of state within ninety days
from the passage of this act, an instrument in writing, to be approved as
to form by the attorney general, relinquishing or surrendering its claim
to any such reservation as aforesaid, said relinquishment or surrender
shall, upon the payment of all the costs of suit, if any has been instituted,
be accepted by the state, instead of a judicial forfeiture of such' company's
claim to such reservation; such relinquishment or surrender shall
be deemed and held a satisfaction and settlement of said suit; and it is
hereby specially provided that the lands that may be relinquished under
the provisions of this act shall be subject to location only under the
provisions of the act reserving from location lands forfeited to the state,
approved August 17, 1876; provided, that nothing herein contained shall
be so construed as to prevent any railroad company which may make any
such surrender or relinquishment, as hereinbefore provided for, from
thereafter proceeding with the construction of its road in accordance
with the requirements of its charter; and all the laws of this state regulating
such railroads, and acquiring from the state so much land per mile
of constructed road, as all other railroad companies can or may acquire
for constructing railroads under the general laws then in force, not to
exceed sixteen sections of land per mile; and any action taken by any
railroad company, under the provisions of this act, shall be considered
and held to be a complete acceptance of all the provisions of the constitution
applicable to railroads and of the laws of this state regulating railroads.
Sec. 2. The near approach of the close of the session creates an imperative
public necessity that the rule requiring this act to be read on
three several days be suspended, and it is hereby so suspended.
Approved April 29, A. D. 1879.
Takes effect ninety days after adjournment.
CHAPTER CLVI.-An act granting a land certificate of six hundred
and forty acres to each of the indigent veterans who was engaged in
the struggle for Texas independence prior to and at the battle of San
Jacinto, enrolled under the act approved July 28, 1876.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas,
That the commissioner of the general land office is hereby authorized
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 Volume 8, book, 1898; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6731/m1/1477/?rotate=90: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .