The Laws of Texas, 1927 [Volume 25] Page: 268 of 1,111

                                
252          GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS.
and an imperative public necessity, which requires that the Constitutional
rule requiring bills to be read on three separate days
in each House be suspended, and said rule is hereby suspended;
and fhat this Act shall take effect and be in force from    and
after its passage, and it is so enacted.
[NOTE.-H. B. No. 498 passed the House 106 yeas, 0 nays;
passed the Senate by a viva voce vote.]
Approved March 25, 1927.
Effective (90) ninety days after adjournment.
PROVIDING FOR CONSTRUCTION OF BRIDGES ACROSS
STREAMS FORMING STATE BOUNDARIES.
H. B. No. 379.]          CHAPTER 175.
An Act to authorize and empower the State Highway Department of the
State of Texas to make an allotment of aid form any moneys available
in the State Highway Fund and expend same in acquiring, constructing
and maintaining any bridge spanning or to span any stream which forms
the boundary between this and any other State; to build and construct
a bridge across any such stream; provided that such bridge shall connect
a designated highway of this State with a designated highway of such
other State and such other State shall have enacted a statute containing
provisions similar to this statute providing for the said State to join in
the matter of acquiring, constructing and maintaining of such bridge;
providing that in no event shall the State Highway Department of this
State allot or expend more than one half of the amount necessary to
acquire, construct and maintain any such bridge; expressing the assent
of .this State to the provisions of An Act of the Sixty-Fourth Congress
of the United States, approved July 11, 1916, being "An Act to provide
that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural
post roads, and for other purposes"; memorializing all States adjoining
this State to enact a statute of this nature and the Congress of the
United States of America to pass An Act whereby any bridge now
spanning any boundary between States and connecting designated highways
of such States may be condemned for public use, and maintained
for the public use without charge, and to provide the manner of such
condemnation and make appropriations to aid in the purchase, condemnation,
construction and maintenance of such bridges for public use
without charge to the public; and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. The State Highway Department of the State of
Texas is hereby authorized and empowered to make an allotment
of aid from any moneys available and to expend funds of said
department to acquire, construct and maintain any bridge across
or spanning any stream or portion of any stream constituting a
boundary between the State of Texas and any other State in an
amount not to exceed one half of the amount necessary to acquire,
construct or maintain any such bridge, subject to the provisions
hereof.
SEC. 2. That the provisions of this Act shall not apply in any
instance wherein any such State adjoining the State of Texas