Journal of the Senate of Texas being the Third Called Session of the Forty-Second Legislature Page: 65
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SENATE JOURNAL. 65~
and collect annually against lands
made irrigable by gravity, whether
actually irrigated or not, special as-
sessments of not to exceed five dol-
lars per acre, for the purpose of sup-
plementing such self-liquidating 'fund
for liquidation of bonds and paying
interest thereon; prescribing pro-
cedure of adopting the provisions of
this Act and the method of assessing
and collecting the special assess-
ments herein authorized; providing
that the district shall have a lien
upon all land assessed to secure pay-
ment of all special assessments
levied hereunder, also a lien on crops
grown thereon, and providing that
the owner of such land shall be per-
sonally liable for all such assess-
ments, and providing for interest at
rate of ten per cent per annum on
such assessments from date due until
paid and for ten per cent additional
as attorneys fees if suit is filed to
collect same; repealing acts and
parts of acts in conflict herewith;
and declaring an emergency.*"
Read second time.
Senator Berkeley sent up the fol-
lowing amendments:
Amend S. B. No. 16 by inserting
immediately after the words "Sec-
tion XI." on page seven of said bill
these words:
"As to such water control and im-
provement districts as are described.
are conditioned, and have the char-
acteristics set forth in Section I here-
of, and none other."
BERKELEY.
Read and adopted.
Amend S. B. No. 16 by adding
immediately after Section XI. a new
section to be numbered Section XIa.
and reading as follows:
"Section XIa. Nothing in this Act
shall apply to, or in any manner af-
fect any water control and improve-
ment district other than such as are
described in Section I. of this Act
and possesses the characteristics set
forth in said section of this Act."
BERKELEY.
Read and adopted.
The bill was passed to engross-
ment.
On motion of Senator Berkeley the
constitutional rule requiring bills
to be read on three several days was
suspended and S. B. No. 16 was put
on its third reading and final pas-
sage, by the following vote:
3-Jour.Berkeley.
Cousins.
Cunningham.
DeBerry.
Gainer.
Greer.
Hardin.
Holbrook.
Hopkins.
Hornsby.
Loy.
Martin.
Moore.
Neal.
Oneal.Beck.
Yeas-29.
Parr.
Parrish.
Patton.
Poage.
Pollard.
Purl.
Rawlings.
Russek.
Small.
Stevenson.
Thomason.
Williamson.
Woodruff.
Woodul.Absent-Excused.
Woodward.Read third time and finally passed
by the following vote:
Yeas-27.Berkeley.
Cousins.
Cunningham.
Gainer.
Greer.
Hardin.
Holbrook.
Hopkins.
Hornsby.
Loy.
Martin.
Moore.
Neal.
Oneal.DeBerry.
Purl.
Beck.Parr.
Parrish.
Patton.
Poage.
Pollard.
Rawlings.
Russek.
Small.
Stevenson.
Thomason.
Williamson.
Woodruff.
Woodul.Nays-1.
Absent.Absent-Excused.
Woodward.Senate Bill No. 18.
The Chair laid before the Senate
by unanimous consent the following
bill:
By Senator Woodruff:
S. B. No. 18, A bill to be entitled
"An Act to facilitate the efforts of
water control and improvement dis-
tricts (having powers under Section
59 of Article xvl of the Constitution
of Texas, controlling works self-
liquidating in character, and being
eligible for relief under the provi-SENATE JOURNAL.
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