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TEXAS ALMANAC -1947-1948
Article III.-(Continued.)
tained, and such other limitations, restric-
tions and regulations as may by the Legisla-
ture be deemed expedient for assistance to,
and for the payment of assistance to
(1) Needy aged persons who are actual
bona fide citizens of Texas and who are over
the age of sixty-five (65) years, provided
that no such assistance shall be paid to any
Inmate of any State supported institution,
while such Inmate, or to any person who
shall not have actually resided in Texas for
at least five (5) years during the nine (9)
years immediately preceding the application
for such assistance and continuously for one
(1) year immediately preceding such apphca-
tion, provided that the maximum payment
per month from State funds shall not be
more than twenty dollars ($20) per month
(2) Needy blind persons who are actual
bona fide citizens of Texas and are over the
age of twenty one (21) years, provided that
no such assistance shall be paid to any in-
mate of any State supported institution, while
such inmate, or to any person who shall not
hate actually resided in Texas at least five
(5) years during the nine (9) years imme-
diately preceding the application for such
assistance and continuously for one 1) year
immediately preceding such application.
(3) Needy children who are actual bona
fide citizens of Texas and are under the age
of sixteen (16) years; provided that no such
assistance shall be paid on account of any
child over one (1) year old who has not con-
tinuously resided in Texas for one (1) year
immediately preceding the application for
such assistance, or on account of any child
under the age of one (1) year whose mother
has not continuously resided in Texas for
one (1) year immediately preceding such
application.
The Legislature shall have the authority to
accept from the Federal Government of the
United States such financial aid for the as-
sistance of the needy aged, needy blind, and
needy children as such government may offer
not inconsistent with restrictions herein set
forth, provided, however, that the amount of
such assistance out of State funds to each
person assisted shall never exceed the amount
so expended out of federal funds; and, pro-
1ided further, that the total amount of money
to be expended out of State funds for such
assistance to the needy aged, needy blind,
and needy children shall never exceed the
sum of thirty-five million dollars ($35,000,000)
per year.
[Note.-The foregoing Sec 51-a of Art III,
an amendment, was submitted by the Forty-Ninth
Legislature and adopted in an election Aug 25,
1945 It supplanted four earlier amendments, as
follows: An original Sec 51-a which provided for
issuance of $20,000,000 in state bonds for relief
(the so-called 'Bread Bonds"), this amendment
having been submitted by the Forty-Third Legis-
lature and adopted Aug. 26, 1933; and also Secs.
51-b, 51-c, and 51-d, which originally provided
for old-age pensions and other welfare measures,
adopted in elections Aug 24, 1935, and Aug 23,
1937. Because of this consolidation, the Consti-
tution now skips from Sec. 51-a to Sec. 51-e I
Sec 51-e Each incorporated city and town
in this State shall have the power and author-
ity to provide a system of retirement and
disability pensions for its appointive officers
and employees who have become disabled as
a direct and proximate result of the perform-
ance of their duties, or have passed their
sixty-fifth birthday, or have been employed
by such city or town for more than twenty-
five (25) years and have passed their sixtieth
birthday, when and if, but only when and
if, sueh system has been approved at an elec-
tion by the qualified voters of such city or
town entitled to vote on the question of issu-
ance of tax-supported bonds, provided, that
no city or town shall contribute more than
the equivalent of seven andi one half (71,%)per centum of salaries and wages of the offi-
cers and employees entitled to participate in
its pension system, and that said officers and
employees shall contribute a like amount,
and this amendment shall not reduce the
authority nor duty of any city or town other-
wise existing
[Note -The foregoing See 51-e of Art. III,
an amendment, was added for the stated purpose
of proxy iding retirement pay for municipal em-
ployees Submitted by Forty-Eighth Legislature
and adopted in an election Nov. 7, 1944.]
Sec 51-f The Legislature of this State
shall have the authority to provide for a
system of retirement and disability pensions
for appointive officers and employees of
cities and towns to operate state-wide or by
districts under such a plan and program as
the Legislature shall direct and shall provide
that participation therein by cities and towns
shall be voluntary, provided, that the Leg-
islature shall never make an appropriation to
pay any of the cost of any system authorized
y this section.
[Note -The foregoing Sec 51-f of Art III, an
amendment, was added to amplify Sec. 51-e and
set stated restrictions Submitted by Forty-Eighth
Legislature and adopted in an election Nov. 7,
1944. ]
Sec 52. Counties, Cities, Etc., Not to Be
Authorized to Grant Money or to Become
Stockholders.-The Legislature shall have no
power to authorize any county, city, town or
other political corporation or subdivision of
the State to lend its credit or to grant public
money or thing of value in aid of, or to any
individual, association or corporation whatso-
ever, or to become a stockholder iM such
corporation, association or company; pro-
vided, however, that under legislative provi-
sion any county, any political subdivision of
a county, any number of adjoining counties
or any political subdivision of the State or
any defined district now or hereafter to be de-
scribed and defined within the State of Texas,
and which may or may not include towns, vil-
lages or municipal corporations, upon a vote
of a two-thirds majority of the resi dent prop-
erty taxpayers voting thereon who ae quali-
fied electors of such district or territory to
be affected thereby, in addition to all other
debts, may issue bonds or otherwise lend its
credit in any amount not to exceed one
fourth of the assessed valuation of the real
property of such district or territory, except
that the total bonded indebtedness of any
city or town shall never exceed the limits
imposed by other provisions of this Consti-
tution, and levy and collect such taxes to pay
the interest thereon and provide a sinking
fund for the redemption thereof, as the Leg-
islature may authorize, and in such manner
as it may authorize the same, for the follow-
ing purposes, to wit:
(a) The improvement of rivers, creeks and
streams to prevent overflows and to permit
of navigation thereof or irrigation thereof,
or in aid of such purposes
(b) The construction and maintenance of
pools, lakes, reservoirs, dams, canals and
waterways for the purpose of irrigation,
drainage or navigation or in aid thereof.
(c) The construction, maintenance and op-
eration of macadamized, graveled or paved
roads and turnpikes or in aid thereof.
[Note-The foregoing Sec 52 of Art. III is an
amended section, the amendment authorizing for-
mation of districts for issuance of bonds for
leveeing, drainage, irrigation, highway construc-
tion and other public improvements. Submitted
by Twenty-Eighth Legislature (1903), adopted in
election, Nov. 8, 1904, and proclaimed Dec. 29,
1904.]
Sec 52-d. Upon the vote of a majority of
the resident qualified electors owning ren-
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