Journal of the Senate of Texas being the Third Called Session of the Forty-Second Legislature Page: 46
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46 SENATE JOURNAL.
carefully examined and compared
and find same correctly enrolled.
GREER, Chairman.
Committee Room,
Austin, Texas, Sept. 3, 1932.
Hon. Edgar E. Witt, President of the
Senate.
Sir: We, your Committee on En-
rolled Bills, have had S. C. R. No. 4
carefully examined and compared
and find same correctly enrolled.
GREER, Chairman.
Committee Reports.
Committee Room,
Austin, Texas, Sept. 3, T1932.
Hon. Edgar E. Witt, President of the
Senate.
Sir: We, your Committee on State
Highways and Motor Traffic, to
whom was referred
S. B. No. 4, A bill to be entitled
"An Act declaring a State policy of
payment for the use of roads used
as part of the State Highway Sys-
tem; providing that the State shall
pay in behalf of counties and/or
road districts, certain maturity of
certain bonds; declaring that such
payments shall not be for the ben-
efit of bondholders and that the State
does not assume any bonds; pro-
viding the method of determination
of the amounts expended by counties
and/or road districts and the meth-
od of paying such amounts; provid-
ing certain duties of certain officers;
defining 'bonds'; defining 'construc-
tion'; defining 'roads'; providing
penalty, and declaring an emer-
gency."
Have had the same under consid-
eration and I am instructed to re-
port it back to the Senate with the
recommendation that it do not pass,
but the the attached committee sub-
stitute do pass in lieu thereof.
RAWLINGS, Vice-Chairman.
Committee Room,
Austin, Texas, Sept. 1, 1932.
Hon. Edgar E. Witt, President of the
Senate.
Sir: We, your Committee on Fi-
nancial Affairs, to whom was re-
ferred
S. B. No. 11, A bill to be entitled
"An Act providing relief for the
West Columbia Independent School
District, Brazoria County, Texas, in
order to aid said school district in
rebuilding its property and equip-
ment destroyed by the great hurri-cane which swept over the district
on August 13, 1932; making an ap-
propriation to said district for said
purpose and declaring an emergen-
cy."
Have had the same under consid-
eration and I am instructed to re-
port it back to the Senate with the
recommendation that it do pass, and
be printed in the Journal.
HARDIN, Vice-Chairman.
By Holbrook, Patton. S. B. No. 11.
A BILL
To Be Entitled
An Act providing relief for the West
Columbia Independent School Dis-
trict, Brazoria County, Texas, in
order to aid said school district in
rebuilding its property and equip-
ment destroyed by the great htir-
ricane which swept over the dis-
trict on August 13, 1932; making
an appropriation to said district
for said purpose and declaring an
emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of
the State of Texas:
Section 1. That by reason of the
destruction by the great hurricane
which swept over the West Columbia
Independent School District in Bra-
zoria County, Texas, on August 13,
1932, destroying many lives, crip-
pling and permanently injuring a
great number of its people and wip-
ing out hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of property and the
result of decrease in worth of prop-
erty values, the inability of the tax
payers to pay their taxes and the de-
struction of school property and
equipment by reason of said hurri-
cane; by reason of which great pub-
lic calamity, there is hereby appro-
priated to West Columbia Independ-
ent School District of Brazoria
County, Texas, ,the total sum of
Seventeen Thousand ($17,000.00)
Dollars to be used as follows: For
the purpose of rebuilding and re-
pairing and equipping the public
school building at West Columbia
in Brazoria County, Texas, in said
district.
Sec. 2. Said moneys shall not be
paid except on warrants of Comp-
troller on sworn accounts as needed
as the construction progresses and
the equipment is bought.
Sec. 3. Said appropriation is
made for the purpose of relieving
said West Columbia Independent
School District, and the amounts46
SENATE JOURNAL.
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