The Laws of Texas, 1913-1914 [Volume 16] Page: 411 of 1,574
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GENERAL LAWS. 401
of said irrigation district is situated shall have jurisdiction to hear and
determine said appeal and said cause shall be tried in said court as provided
for the trial and appeal of any civil action, except that no formal
pleadings shall be required other than the notices of appeal herein provided
for.
SEc. 83. Wherever an irrigation district has been formed under
this Act lying wholly within one county, and it is to the advantage
of such district and of land owners lying in the adjoining county or
counties to have such adjoining lands added to or included in such
established irrigation district, then same may be so included in or
added to the territory already included in such established irrigation
district in the following manner: The owners of the fee shall make
application to the directors of the established district to which they
desire to be annexed, which application shall be in writing, and shall
describe the lands covered by the application by metes and bounds and
same shall be acknowledged in the same manner and form as now required
for the acknowledgment of deeds, and if said land is a homestead
or the separate property of a married woman, it shall be acknowledged
by both husband and wife. The directors of the irrigation district
shall set said petition or application down for hearing on some
certain date and shall give notice of such hearing in the same manner
as provided in Section 1 of this Act and shall consider same in the
same manner as provided for the consideration of petitions by the
county commissioners' court as set out and provided in Sections 2 and
.3 of this Act, and in the event that they shall find and determine that
it is for the advantage of such established district and for the advantage
of the lands sought to be added thereto, to so include said lands
in said district, then they shall so find and enter said finding of record
in the minutes of said directors, and they shall thereupon order an election
to be held in said established district to determine whether or not
said additional territory shall be permitted to be added thereto, which
election shall be held after thirty days' notice, which notice shall be
.given by posting copies of such notice in five public places in said district
for at least twenty days next preceding the day of election, and if
there be a newspaper published in said district, by publishing such
notice for at least once a week for three weeks next preceding the day
of said election. The said notice shall be given by the Irrigation Directors,
which said Directors shall furnish all necessary supplies for
said election and shall appoint two judges and two clerks for all polling
places in said district to conduct said election and make return
thereof, when officers shall take the oath of office prescribed bv the general
election laws of the State, and they shall make returns of said election
to the irrigation directors of the district, but in all other things
said election shall be held in conformity with the general election laws
of the State. At such election there shall be submitted the question.
and none other, "shall the proposed territory be added to the district?"
and there shall follow said sentence the word "yes" and just below the
word 'no."
If two-third majority of the resident property tax payers of said district
vote yes, then the said territory may be added and become a part
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1913-1914 [Volume 16], book, 1914; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth10838/m1/411/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .