Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Forty-Fifth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 757

                                
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Johnson of Ellis
Johnson
of Tarrant
Jones of Angelina
Jones of Atascosa
Jones of Falls
Jones of Wise
Keefe
Keith
Kelt
Kenyon
Kern
King
Knetsch
Langdon
Lanning
Leath
Little
Lucas
Mauritz
Mays
McConnell
McDonald
McFarland
McKee
Metcalfe
Moffett
Monkhouse
Morris
Morse
Newton
Nicholson

Patterson
of Travis
Powell
Prescott
Ragsdale
Reed of Bowie
Reed of Dallas
Rhodes
Roark
Ross
Russell
Rutta
Schuenemann
Sewell
Simpson
Smith of Hopkins
Smith
of Matagorda
Stinson
Stocks
Talbert
Tennyson
Thornberry
Thornton
Vale
Waggoner
Walker
Weldon
Westbrook
Wood
Worley

Nays--3
Lankford          Skaggs
Palmer
Absent
Alexander         McKinney
Broadfoot         Oliver
Cathey           Patterson of Mills
Davison of Fisher Pope
Fox               Quinn
Graves            Reader
Hardin           Riddle
Holland           Settle
Hull              Sharpe
Leyendecker       Shell
Loggins          Smith of Tarrant
London            Stevenson
Mann             Tennant
McCracken        Winfree
Absent--Excused
Colquitt          Petsch
James             Tarwater
Leonard
The Speaker then laid the bill be-
fore the House, it was read first
time, and referred to the appropriate
committee, as follows:
By Mr. Metcalfe:
H. B. No. 974, A bill to be entitled
"An Act relating to the jurisdiction

of the County Court of Sterling
County, conferring upon said Court
civil and criminal jurisdiction, and
increasing the criminal and civil juris-
diction of said Court; conforming the
jurisdiction of the District Court of
said County to such change; fixing
the time of holding Court, and to
repeal all laws in conflict with this
Act, and declaring an emergency."
Referred  to  the  Committee on
Judicial Districts.
BILL ORDERED NOT PRINTED
On motion of Mr. Jones of Falls,
House Bill No. 909 was ordered not
printed.
BILLS AND RESOLUTION
SIGNED BY THE SPEAKER
The Speaker signed, in the presence
of the House, after giving due notice
thereof, and their captions had been
read severally, the following enrolled
bills and resolution:
H. B. No. 22, "An Act to amend
Chapter 3 of the Acts of the Regular
Session of the Thirty-ninth Legis-
lature, the same being an Act en-
titled: 'An Act to aid the City of
Galveston in elevating and raising
said City so as to protect it from
calamitous overflows by donating and
granting to it the State ad valorem
taxes and a part of the occupation
and poll taxes collected on property
and  from   persons  in  Galveston
County for a period of ten (10) years,
and to provide a penalty for their
misapplication,' by extending the pro-
vision of said Act for a period of five
(5) years from September 1, 1938, and
declaring an emergency."
H. B. No. 56, "An Act providing for
the amount that may be allowed by
County Boards of Trustees to the
County Superintendents of Public In-
struction for expenditures for office
and traveling expenses in certain coun-
ties according to the last preceding
Federal Census; repealing all laws and
parts of laws, General or Special, in
conflict herewith, and declaring an
emergency."
H. B. No. 123, "An Act .to fix the
maximum rate of tax to be levied for
school purposes in all independent
school districts which include within
their limits a city or town which ac-
cording to the latest Federal Census
had a population of not fewer than
4,600  and  not more than    4,650.

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