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36
GENERAL LAWS OF TEXAS.
presiding judge of the polling place wherein he offers to vote, and the
presiding judge is hereby authorized to administer same. "I do solemnly
swear (or affirm) that I am a qualified voter of ...........county, and
that I am a resident property tax payer of the proposed navigation distridt
voted on at this election and I have not voted before at this
election."
SEC. 9. Immediately after the election the presiding judge at each
polling place shall make return of the result in the same manner as provided
for in election for State and county officers and return the ballot
boxes to the county clerk, who shall keep same in a safe place and
deliver them, together with the returns from the several polling places
to the commissioners court at its next regular session or special session
called for the purpose of canvassing the vote and the county commissioners
shall at such session canvass the vote and if it be found that a
two-thirds majority of those voting at such election shall have been cast
in favor of the navigation district and the issuance of bonds and levy of
tax, then the court shall declare the result of said election to be in favor
of said navigation district, and shall enter same in the minutes of the
court as follows:
"Commissioners Court of...........county, Texas, ..........term
A. D......in the matter of petition of..........and ........others,
praying for the establishment of a navigation district, and issuance of
bonds and levy of taxes in said petition fully described and designated
by the name of.......... Navigation District.......... Be it known
that an election called for that purpose in said district, held on the....
day of..........A. D.....a'two-thirds majority of the resident prop*erty
tax payers voting thereon voted in favor of the creation of said
navigation district, and the issuance of bonds and the levy of a tax. Now,
therefore, it 'is considered and ordered by the court that said navigation
'district be, and the same is hereby established by the name of..........
Navigation District, and that the bonds of said district in the amount of
.......dollars be issued and a tax of.......cents on the hundred dollars
of valuation, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be levied upon
all property within said navigation district whether real, personal, mixed
or otherwise, sufficient in amount to pay the interest on such bonds and
provide a sinking fund sufficient to redeem them at maturity-and that
if said tax shall at any time become insufficient for such purposes same
shall be increased until same is sufficient. The .metes and bounds of
said district, being as follows, to-wit:
SEC. 10. After the establishment of any navigation district as herein
provided, the commissioners court or navigation board as the case may
be, shall appoint three navigation and canal commissioners all of whom
shall be residents of the proposed navigation district, who shall be freehold
property tax payers and legal voters of the county, whose duties
shall be as hereinafter provided, and who shall each receive for their
services such compensation as may be fixed by the commissioners court
and made of record. Said navigation and canal commissioners shall
hold office for the term of two years and until their successors have qualified
unless sooner removed by a majority vote of the county commis
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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/m1/46/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .