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GENERAL LAWS OF TEXAS.
COUNTIES-AUTHORIZING BONDS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF
CAUSEWAYS, ETC.
S. B. No. 132.] CHAPTER 16.
An Act authorizing any county in the State of Texas, having a population in
excess of fifty thousand inhabitants by the last preceding United States
Census, to submit to the qualified voters the propriety of a bond issue for
the construction and maintenance of causeways, viaducts, bridges and approaches
across any rivers within the limits of such county, and to provide
for the construction, maintenance and use of such causeways, viaducts, bridges
and approaches, and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. Whenever the county commissioners of any county in
the State of Texas, having a population in excess of fifty thousand inhabitants,
according to the last preceding census taken by the United States,
deem it expedient so to do, they may order an election to ascertain the
will of the qualified voters of such county to determine the propriety of
a bond issue to provide for the construction and maintenance of causeways,
viaducts, bridges, and approaches across any rivers and bottoms
within the limits of such county, irrespective of any municipal boundaries.
SEc. 2. The commissioners court of such county shall, prior to
ordering any such election as referred to in Section 1 thereof, provide
for preliminary surveys and estimates for such work, and shall in the
order for such election prescribe the amount and terms of such bond
issue.
SEC. 3. Whenever the commissioners court of such county deem it
necessary or expedient to order such election, the resolution therefor
shall be recorded in the minutes of the commissioners court and the
resolution shall be submitted to the property owning qualified voters of
said county, at any regular or special election which may be ordered by
said court for that purpose, and if at such election a majority of the votes
cast thereon, shall be for such resolution, the same shall be deemed to be
adopted, but if a majority of the votes cast thereon at such election shall
be against said resolution it shall be deemed to be rejected.
Said election shall be governed in all respects by the law governing
elections in this State and the returns shall be made and canvassed in
. the same manner and the results declared by proclamation of the county
judge of said county, which proclamation shall be posted in at least
three public places is said county, and, at the option of said county
judge, published in some newspaper in said county.
SEC. 4. No person shall be permitted to vote at any election provided
for in the next preceding Section of this Act, unless he is a property
owner and tax payer, and qualified voter of said county. Those desiring
to vote for the resolution shall have written or printed on their tickets the
words, "For the Resolution to Issue Bonds to .........." (here insert
purpose of the proposed bond issue as set forth in said resolution), and
those desiring to vote against the resolution shall have written or printed
on their tickets the words, "Against the Resolution to Issue Bonds to
.........." (here insert such purpose of the proposed bond issue, as
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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/m1/56/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .