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GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS. 191
HARDIN COUNTY ROAD LAW-REPEALED.
H. B. No. 256.] CHAPTER 122.
An Act repealing Chapter 15 of the Special Laws of the 37th Legislature
entitled "An Act creating a more efficient road system for Hardin
County, Texas; providing that each commissioner of the same shall be
ex-officio road commissioner of his precinct; providing for an inspection
of roads, bridges and culverts by said commissioner; providing for
bonds, compensation and duties, and providing for the work of delinquent
poll tax payers of the public roads and accepting certain compensation
in lieu of road work; providing that commissioners' court shall
have power to build roads, bridges, culverts, etc. by private contract,
providing that the commissioners court may employ a superintendent
who shall be an experienced civil engineer in road building; providing
penalties for the violation of this Act, and this Act shall be cumulative
of all General Laws of this State not in conflict herewith, repealing
Chapter 82, Special Laws, passed by the Thirty-second Legislature," and
declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. That Chapter 15 of the Special Laws of the 37th
Legislature entitled "An Act creating a more efficient road system
for Hardin County, Texas; providing that each commissioner
of the same shall be ex-officio road commissioner of his
precinct; providing for an inspection of roads, bridges and
culverts by said commissioner; providing for bonds, compensation
and duties, and providing for the work of delinquent poll
tax payers of the public roads and accepting certain compensation
in lieu of road work; providing that commissioners' court
shall h,ave power to build roads, bridges, culverts, etc, by private
contract; providing that the commissioners' court may employ
a superintendent who shall be an experienced civil engineer in
road buliding; providing penalties for the violation of this Act,
and this Act shall be cumulative of all General Laws of this
State not in conflict herewith, repealing Chapter 82, Special
Laws, passed by the Thirty-second Legislature, and declaring
an emergency," be and the same is hereby repealed.
SFC. 2. The importance of this legislation, and the present
road conditions in the territory affected by this Act, creates an
emergency and an imperative public necessity demanding that
the constitutional rule requiring all bills to be read on three
several lays be suspended and it is so suspended, and this Act
shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and
it is so enacted.
A nnroved Tarch 15, 1927.
Effective March 15, 1927.
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1927 [Volume 25], book, 1927; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16125/m1/207/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .