The Laws of Texas, 1913-1914 [Volume 16] Page: 475 of 1,574
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GENERAL LAWS. 465
23, nays 0; and was passed by the HIouse of Representatives with
amendments by the following vote: yeas 84, nays 36.]
Received in the Executive office April 1, 1913, and filed in the Department
of State April 4, 1913,. without the approval of the Governor.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE STATE CONSTITUTION,
AMENDING ARTICLES XI, SECTION 7A, OF THE CONSTITUTION-PROVIDING
FOR AUTHORIZING COUNTIES
BORDERING ON THE GULF OF MEXICO
TO BUILD SEAWALLS.
S. J. R. No. 22.] SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
To amend Section 7 of Article XI of the Constitution of the State of Texas,
authorizing counties bordering on the Gulf of Mexico to build sea-walls by
adding Section 7a, so as to authorize such counties to build sea-walls and
designate seawall reclamation districts for the protection of life and property
from storm overflow, and to build or condemn land for sea-wall and reclamation
districts, the county to have State's title to the roads and bay shore line
to low tide within the district, and the right to issue district bonds for acquiring
and developing the district and building the sea-walls and when district
is developed as townsite to sell such portions of the land as not not reserved
for public use by the county.
Be it resolved by the Legislatare of the State of Texas:
That the following amendment to the Constitution of the State of
Texas he proposed to the voters of the State of Texas for their adoption
in accordance with law, and that the Constitution of the State of
Texas be amended so as to add Section 7a of Article XI, and that Section
7a of Article XI shall read as follows, to-wit:
Section 7a. Where protection against the waters of the Gulf of Mexico
is needed for protection of life, health, property or the sea-wall, any
county, bordering on the Gulf of Mexico may acquire title to the land
for said sea-wall or sea-wall reclamation district as designated by the
county commissioners court by purchase or condemnation of all the land
desired for sea-wall and land for the sea-wall reclamation district from
the sea-wall to bay shore tide line boundary of the property abutting on
the bay, and the State hereby cedes to the county, for such district, for
reclamation and general uses of the district, the title to bay shore lands
in the district between the property tide line boundary and the low tide
line of the bayshore, and any land in the reclamation district that may
have been retained by the Republic of Texas of [or] the State for roads
when the lands adjacent were plated and sold, and the county is given
-the right to dredge in the bay or in the gulf for fill for the district, and
right to sell the land when reclaimed and laid off as townsite or otherwise,
and where condemnation is used to acquire the land the proceed*ings
to be as under the Statutes for condemnation for railroads, provided
that the condemnation shall vest title in fee in the county and
county may issue bonds or other evidence of district indebtedness for
acquiring the property, building the sea-wall, reclamation developments
and all incident thereto as expenses of sea-wall and reclamation district,
with lien on land and such Iterms and conditions as county through its
<commissioners court may deem best, and the county commissioners
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