General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature Page: 7
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CAMERON COUNTY
vantage of the District. Any such petition which may be granted so add-
ing lands to the District shall be filed for record and be recorded in the
Willacy County Deed Records.
Sec. 6. The Board of Supervisors shall employ all necessary employees
for the proper handling and operation of the District, and especially may
employ a general manager, attorneys, bookkeeper and an engineer and
such assistants and laborers as may be required, upon such terms and
for such compensation as shall be fixed by said Board of Supervisors.
Sec. 7. It is hereby found and determined that all of the lands and
other property included within the District are, and will be, benefited by
the creation of the District and by the improvements that the District will
purchase, construct, or otherwise acquire, and that the District is created
to serve a public use and benefit. Upon the adoption of this Act, said
District shall be a fully created and established fresh water supply dis-
trict.
Sec. 8. The Legislature hereby exercises the authority conferred
upon it by Section 59 of Article XVI, Constitution of Texas, and declares
that the District created by this Act is essential to the accomplishment
of the purposes of said constitutional provision; finds that all of the
land and other property included therein are, and will be, benefited there-
by and by the improvements that the District will purchase, construct, or
otherwise acquire; and declares the District to be a governmental agency,
a body politic and corporate, and a municipal corporation.
Sec. 9. If any word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, section,
or other part of this Act or the application thereof to any person or cir-
cumstance, shall ever be held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be
invalid or unconstitutional, the remainder of the Act and the application
of such word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or other part
of this Act to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Sec. 10. The fact that the creation of such District will result in
material benefit to the State of Texas and to the land and other property
included in said District and will promote effectively the conservation
of water of the State of Texas creates an emergency and an imperative
public necessity requiring that the Constitutional Rule that bills be read
on three several days in each House be suspended; and said Rule is here-
by suspended, and this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after
its passage, and it is so enacted.
Passed the House, February 5, 1963: Yeas 145, Nays 0; the House
concurred in Senate amendments, February 11, 1963: Yeas 145, Nays
0; passed the Senate, as amended, February 6, 1963: Yeas 29, Nays 0.
Approved Feb. 15, 1963.
Effective Feb. 15, 1963.
CAMERON COUNTY-LAGUNA MADRE-FISHING
CHAPTER 5
H. B. No. 168
An Act amending Section 4a of Chapter 119, Acts of the Fifty-third Legislature,
Regular Session, 1953, as amended, relating to fishing in Laguna Madre in
Cameron County; and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Section 1. Section 4a of Chapter 119, Acts of the Fifty-third Legisla-
ture, Regular Session, 1953, as amended by Chapter 25, Acts of theCh. 5
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Texas. Legislature. General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature, legislative document, 1963; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth221759/m1/343/?q=+date%3A1945-1972: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.