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GENERAL LAWS OF TEXAS.
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division terminals. In case of emergency where such companies can not
obtain the employes mentioned in this Act who have the qualifications
prescribed by the provisions thereof, then such companies may employ
temporary firemen, engineers and conductors who have not the qualifications
prescribed by this Act, but no such employment shall continue
longer than such companies can supply their respective places with men
who have the qualifications prescribed by this Act, and provided further,
that hothing herein contained shall relieve any of such companies from
the negligence of any of its employes.
SEC. 4a. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to any railroad
company within this State or the receiver, lessee thereof, whose line of
railway is less than twenty-five miles in length.
SEC. 5. The fact -that there are now no adequate laws in this State
prohibiting the running of locomotives and trains on railroads by inexperienced
engineers and conductors, thus endangering the lives of the
traveling public and employees of said railroads, creates an emergency
and an imperative public necessity vequiring the suspension of the Constitutional
rule, which requires bills to be read on three several days in
each House, and the rule is hereby suspended; and that this Act 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 24, nays 0; and passed the House, the
vote not being given.]
Approved March 11, 1909.
Takes effect ninety days after adjournment.
CLAIMS-REGULATING PRESENTATION AND
COLLECTION OF.
H. B. No. 27.] CHAPTER 47.
An Act to regulate the presentation and collection of claims for personal services
or for labor rendered, or for material furnished, or for overchages in freight
or express, or for any claim for lost or damaged freight, or for stock killed or
injured by any person or corporation, against any person or corporation doing
business in this State, and providing a reasonable amount of attorney's fees
to be recovered, in cases where the amount of such claims shall not exceed
twQ hundred ($200) dollars, and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State. of Texas:
SECTION 1. That hereafter any person in this State, having a valid,
bona fide claim against any person or corporation doing business in th:is
State, for personal services rendered or for labor done, or for material
furnished, or for overcharges on freight or express, or. for any claim for
lost or damaged freight, or for stock killed or injured by such person or
corporation, its agents or employees, may present the same to such person
or corporation or to any duly authorized agent, thereof, in any
county where suit may be instituted for the same; and if, at the expiration
of thirty days after the presentation of such claim, the same has not
been paid or satisfied, he may immediately institute suit thereon in the
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1909-1910 [Volume 14], book, 1910; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth9392/m1/103/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .