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GENERAL LAWS OF TEXAS.
43
of the 27th Legislature of Texas, approved January 22, 1901, entitled
"An Act to regulate the terms and to fix the times for holding the district
court in the 23rd Judicial District of Texas, and to regulate and
validate the returns of all writs and processes heretofore and hereafter
issued from the District Courts of said Judicial District and to repeal
all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act, and declaring an
emergency," be amended so that the same shall hereafter read as follows:
6. In Matagorda county on the eighteenth Monday after the second
Monday in February and on the nineteenth Monday after the first Monday
in September of each year, and may continue in session three weeks.
SEC. 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
hereby repealed.
SEC. 3. The crowded condition of the docket of the District Court
of Matagorda county, Texas, creates an emergency an an imperative
public necessity that the Constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on
three several days be suspended, and the said rule is hereby suspended and
this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and
it is so enacted.
[NOTE.-The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing act passed the
Senate by a two-thirds vote, yeas 25, nays 0; and passed the House of
Representatives by a two-thirds vote, yeas 90, nays 0.]
Approved IMarch 6, 1903.
Became a law March 6, 1903.
CORPORATIONS-REGULATING. HOURS OF WORK FOR
CERTAIN EMPLOYES.
S. B. No. 134.] CHAPTER XXXI.
An Act to prohibit any corporation or receiver operating a line of railway in
whole or in part in the State of Texas, or any officer, agent or representative of
such corporations or receiver, from requiring or permitting any conductor,
engineer, fireman, brakeman, train dispatcher, telegraph operator, or any trainman
who has worked in his respective capacity for sixteen consecutive hours,
except in case of casualty, to again go on duty or perform any work until he
has had at least eight hours rest, and prescribing a penalty for the violation
of this Act.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any corporation or receiver
operating a line of railroad in whole or in part in the State of Texas,
or any officer, agent or representative of such corporation or receiver to
require or permit any conductor, engineer, fireman, brakeman, train dispatcher,
telegraph operator, or any trainman who has worked in his
respective capacity for sixteen consecutive hours, to again go on duty or
perform any work for such railroad until he has had at least eight hours
rest; provided, this provision shall not apply in case of casualty upon
such railroad; provided this section shall not apply to employes of sleeping
car companies.
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1903-1905 [Volume 12], book, 1906; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6695/m1/73/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .