The Laws of Texas, 1913-1914 [Volume 16] Page: 439 of 1,574
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GENERAL LAWS. 429
ated, for the location, support, and maintenance of said School of Miners
[Mines] and Metallurgy.
SEc. 10. For the development of the vast mineral wealth upon the
school lands of Western Texas and in order to make said lands, which
are now valueless and unproductive, valuable and revenue producing to
the school fund, and the diffusion of mineral knowledge through the
State, and for the presentation [preservation] of the public health and
safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, requiring the constitutional
rule requiring bills to be read on three several days to be suspended,
and it is hereby suspended, and this Act will take effect from
and after its passage.
[NOTE.-S. B. No. 183 passed the Senate by a two-thirds vote, yeas
22, nays 0; and passed the House of Representatives March 26, 1913,
but no vote given.]
Approved April 16, 1913.
Takes effect 90 days after adjournment.
INSURANCE COMPANIES-AUTHORIZING THE ORGANIZAOF
THE "TEXAS EMPLOYERS' INSURANCE
ASSOCIATION."
S. B. No. 11.] CHAPTER 179.
An Act relating to employers' liability and providing for the compensation of
certain employes and their representatives and beneficiaries, ifor personal injuries
sustained in the course of employment, and for deaths resulting from
such injuries, and to provide and determine in what cases compensation shall
be paid, and to make the payment thereof the. more certain and prompt by
the creation of an insurance association to insure and guarantee such payments
and of an industrial accident board for the investigation of claims
and for the adjudication thereof for consenting parties, fixing the membership
and powers of said board and its compensation and duties, and the
method of its appointment, and the'term of office of its members, and fixing
also the powers, duties and liabities [liabilities] of said insurance association
and the extent of control over the same to be exercised bv the Commissioner
of Banking and Insurance, and providing also for the insurance of payments
of compensation to employees by certain other insurance companies and organizations,
and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted b1y the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Part I.
SECTION 1. In an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained
by an employee in the course of his employment, or for death resulting
from personal injury so sustained, it shall not be a defense:
1. That the employee was guilty of contributory negligence; but in
such event the damages shall he diminished in the proportion to the
amount of negligence attributable to such employee, provided that no
such employee who may be injured or killed shall be held to have been
guilty of contributory negligence where the violation by such employer
of any statute enacted for the safety of the employees contributed to the
injury or death of such employee.
2. That the injury was caused by the negligence of a fellow employee.
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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/m1/439/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .