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: 548
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58TH LEGISLATURE--REGULAR SESSION
COMMISSIONERS COURTS-COUNTY WORKHOUSES AND
COUNTY FARMS-BONDS
CHAPTER 204 42
H. B. No. 991
An Act authorizing the Commissioners Courts of certain counties in this State
to issue bonds and levy taxes for the purpose of acquiring, constructing and
equipping county workhouses and county farms for certain purposes, includ-
ing the acquisition or purchase of sites therefor; authorizing the issuing
of refunding bonds to refund outstanding bonds issued under the provisions
of this Act; containing terms and provisions relating to such bonds and
refunding bonds; validating bonds heretofore authorized at elections and
the election proceedings relating thereto, and providing for the issuance
thereof; providing a severability clause; and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Section 1. The Commissioners Court of any county in this State hav-
ing a population in excess of nine hundred thousand (900,000) inhabitants
according to the last preceding Federal Census is hereby authorized from
time to time to issue the negotiable bonds of said county and levy taxes
in payment thereof for the purpose of acquiring, constructing and equip-
ping county workhouses and county farms to be used for the confinement
of prisoners of the county or for the purpose of utilizing the labor of such
prisoners (either or both), including the acquisition or purchase of sites
therefor. Such taxes shall be from the Constitutional Permanent Im-
provement Fund. Such bonds shall be issued and taxes in payment there-
of shall be levied and collected in accordance with the provisions of Chap-
ter 1, Title 22, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, governing
the issuance of bonds by cities, towns, and/or counties in this State, ex-
cept as may be otherwise provided in this Act. Any and all bonds au-
thorized to be issued by this Act may be submitted at the bond election in
a single proposition. Notice of a bond election shall be given by publica-
tion of a notice containing a substantial copy of the election order on the
same day in each of two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general
circulation in the county, the first of which publications shall be at least
fourteen (14) days prior to the election. No other notice of election shall
be necessary. No bonds authorized by this Act (except refunding bonds)
shall be issued unless more than a majority of the duly qualified resident
electors of said county who own taxable property within said county and
who have duly rendered the same for taxation, voting at the election, have
voted in favor of the issuance of such bonds. Such bonds shall mature
serially or otherwise in not to exceed forty (40) years from their date or
dates, and such bonds may or may not contain option of prior redemption
provisions as may be determined by the Commissioners Courts. Such bonds
shall be executed in the manner as may be provided in the order authoriz-
ing their issuance. All such bonds (including refunding bonds), after the
same have been approved by the Attorney General of the State of Texas
and registered by the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas,
shall be incontestable.
Sec. 2. The Commissioners Court of any such county shall have the
right at all times to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of refunding out-
standing bonds (including the refunding of refunding bonds) issued un-
der the provisions of this Act, subject to the General Laws applicable to
42. Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. art. 2370c.
548Ch. 204
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