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Laws of the State of Texas.
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CHAPTER LXXVII.-An act to authorize towns and villages heretofore
incorporated by the Congress of the Republic or the Legislature of
the State, to amend their charters.
-Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas,
That towns and villages heretofore incorporated by the Congress of the
Republic or the Legislature of the State may, by a resolution of the board
of aldermen and a two-thirds vote of the voters at an election held therefor,
amend their charters in any particular not in conflict with the constitution
of the State or the Revised Statutes.
Sec. 2. In order to amend the charter of any town or village it shall
be necessary before said amendment shall go into effect, for the board of
aldermen to adopt a resolution setting forth the amendment, and a certified
copy of the same shall be approved by the attorney general and recorded
ia the office of secretary of state before the same shall take effect.
Sec. 3. The early day fixed for adjournment creates an imperative
public necessity for the suspension of the constitutional rule requiring
this bill to be read on three several days be suspended, and it is so suspended.
Approved March 31, A. D., 1881.
Takes effect ninety days after adjournment.
CHAPTER LXXVIII.-An act to make an appropriation for the propagation
and preservation of fish, and to build fish-ways and fish-ladders,
aid to authorize the governor to appoin a fish commissioner, and
to repeal all laws in conflict herewith.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas,
That it shall be the duty of all persons, firms or corporations, who have
erected, or who may hereafter erect, any mill-dam, water-weir, or other
obstructions or weirs, on streams within the waters of this State, within,
six months from the passage of this act, to construct and keep in repairfish-ways
or fish-ladders, at such mill-dam, water-weirs or obstructions, so,
that at all seasons of the year fish may ascend above such dam, weirs or,
obstructions, to deposit their spawn. Any firm, corporation or person,.
owning such mill-dam or obstructions, who shall fail or refuse to con-'
struct or keep in repair such fish-ways or fish-ladders, after having been:.
notified and required by the fish commissioner to do so, shall be deemed.
guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than twenty-five dollars,
for every such neglect or refusal.
Sec. 2. The governor is hereby authorized to appoint a fish commissioner,
by and with the consent of the Senate, who shall be a person well
versed in ichthyology, who shall hold his office for the term of two years,
or until his successor in office shall have qualified, who shall discharge all
the duties appertaining to his office, and therefor receive an annual salary
of fifteen hundred dollars; and in the event of a vacancy in said office
the governor shall appoint a temporary successor.
Sec. 3. That the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, be and the same is hereby annually appropriated, from
any moneys n tihe treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be used by the(175)
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