General and Special Laws of the State of Texas

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Secretary of State., 1911

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Page 191 - Section 25. The State shall be divided into senatorial districts of contiguous territory according to the number of qualified electors, as nearly as may be, and each district shall be entitled to elect one Senator, and no single county shall be entitled to more than one Senator.
Page 93 - It shall be a part of the terms and conditions of every contract made in pursuance of this Act that the State of Texas shall not be liable to any contractor thereunder for any sum whatever, but all such contractors shall receive compensation solely and exclusively from the proceeds of the sale of
Page 132 - Such bonds shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed six per cent per annum, payable in semi-annual installments, and the principal thereof shall be payable in not more than
Page 78 - an emergency and an imperative public necessity exists that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three separate days in each House shall be suspended, and that this bill be placed upon its third reading and final passage, and take effect from and after its passage, and it is so enacted. Approved
Page 129 - 5. The city of Dallas shall have the right and power to borrow money on the credit of the city for permanent public improvements, and to issue bonds of the city therefor, to bear interest not to exceed six per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, at such places as may be designated;
Page 145 - The Council, or a committee of the Council duly authorized by it, may investigate any department of the city government and the official acts and conduct of any city officer, and for the purpose of ascertaining facts in connection with such
Page 180 - public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring that bills be read on three several days be suspended, and that this Act take effect from and after its passage, and it is so enacted Approved
Page 96 - fined in any sum not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and shall be confined in the county jail for not less than thirty days
Page 96 - guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction he shall be fined not less than fifty dollars and not more than one hundred dollars. SEC.
Page 110 - In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name officially and caused to be impressed hereon the Seal of State, at my office in the city of Austin, Texas,

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