SEC. 1a. Nothing in the foregoing section of this Act shall be construed to prohibit the county of Galveston, or the county commissioners' court of said county, from conveying or leasing, and it is hereby expressly empowered to convey or to lease for a period of ninety-nine years or less, to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas on behalf of the State of Texas, any or all of that part of the land acquired for seawall and breakwater purposes which lies to the north and northwestward of the north line of Avenue B, in said city, to be used for hospital purposes in connection with the John Sealy Hospital. SEC. 2. All laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. The fact that the Act which is hereby amended denies the county of Galveston any right to use or grant the right of use of any of the land acquired by it for breakwater purposes, for hospital purposes, the great importance to the public for the use of a part of said land for such purposes, creates an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution and the rule requiring bills to be read on three several days is hereby suspended, and this Act shall be effective from and after its passage. Approved August 31, 1911. Became a law August 31, 1911. FORTY-SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT-REORGANIZING AND FIXING THE TERMS THEREOF. An Act to amend Chapter 74 of the Acts of the Regular Session of the Thirty-second Legislature, which is entitled "An Act to amend Chapter 35 of the Acts of the Regular Session of the Thirty-first Legislature, which chapter is entitled 'An Act to fix the time of holding courts in the Forty-sixth Judicial District,'" so amending said chapter as to declare what counties shall compose the Forty-sixth Judicial District; to fix the time of holding court in the various counties in said district; to make the process issued or served before this Act takes effect, including recognizances and bonds, returnable to the terms of court as herein fixed; to repeal all laws in conflict herewith, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. The Forty-sixth Judicial District of the State of Texas shall be composed of the following counties, to-wit: Wilbarger, Hardeman, Foard, Collingsworth, Childress and Hall, and the terms of court shall be held therein each year as follows: In the county of Wilbarger on the first Mondays in February and September, and may continue in session four weeks. In the county of Hardeman on the fourth Mondays after the first Mondays in February and September, and may continue in session four weeks. In the county of Foard on the eighth Mondays after the first Mondays in February and September, and may continue in session two weeks. In the county of Collingsworth on the tenth Mondays after the first Mondays in February and September, and may continue in session two weeks. In the county of Childress on the twelfth Mondays after the first Mondays in February and September, and may continue in session four weeks. In the county of Hall on the seventeenth Mondays after the first Mondays in February and September, and may continue in session until all the business is disposed of. SEC. 2. That all process issued or served before this Act goes into effect, returnable to the district court in said judicial district, shall be returnable to said court as fixed by the terms of this Act; and said process is hereby legalized and validated, and all grand and petit jurors selected and drawn under existing laws in any of the counties of said judicial district shall be considered legally drawn and selected for the next term of the district court of the respective counties held after this Act takes effect, and all appearance bonds and recognizances taken in and for said court shall bind the parties therein obligated to appear at the next term of such court held under this Act. SEC. 3. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. The fact that an error was made in publishing Chaper 74 in the printed Acts of the regular session of the Thirty-second Legislature, apparently giving Collingsworth county four terms of court each year and providing no term for Hardeman county, causes great confusion and uncertainty as to when the legal terms of court for Collingsworth and Hardeman counties should be held, and the near approach of the end of the present term of the Legislature, create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days. be, and the same is hereby suspended, and that this Act take effect from and after its passage, and it is so enacted. Approved August 31, 1911. Became a law August 31, 1911. DEPOSITORY LAW-AMENDING THE SAME. H. B. No. 40.] CHAPTER 15. An Act to amend Section 6 of Chapter 3 of the General Laws of the State of Texas, passed by the Regular Session of the Thirty-second Legislature, and approved February 2, 1911, relative to a system of a State, county and city depositories for State, county and city funds, and defining the duties of the State Treasurer as to the acceptance of State, county, municipal, independent school district, common school district and road improvement district bonds as collateral security for deposits made in the State depositories, repealing all laws in conflict therewith, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That Section 6, of Chapter 3, General Laws of the State of Texas, passed at the Regular Session of the Thirty-second Legilsature, and approved February 2, 1911, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to hereafter read as follows: SEC. 6. The State Treasurer shall also require the deposit as collateral security for such deposit required, United States, State, county, independent school district, common school district, and road improvement district, or municipal bonds, in an amount equal to the sum deposited with and received by each such bank or banking institution, which depository shall not be required, however, to receive on deposit more than fifty thousand dollars at any one time; but before any State, county, independent school district, common school district, road improvement district, or municipal bonds shall be received as collateral security in such cases, they must be registered with the Comptroller and approved by the Attorney General of the State of Texas, under the same rules and regulations as are now required for bonds in which the permanent school funds of the States are to be invested; provided, that the State Treasurer may accept such State, county, independent school district, common school district, road improvement district, or municipal bonds at their reasonable market value, said market value to be determined by the State Treasurer; and provided further, that the State Treasurer shall not accept any such bonds in which the permanent school fund of the State can not be invested under existing laws. SEC. 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith shall be, and the same are hereby, expressly repealed. SEC. 3. The fact that there is now no provision of law authorizing the State Treasurer to accept county, municipal and independent school district bonds at less than their par value, creates an imperative public necessity which justifies the suspension of the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days. Approved August 31, 1911. Becomes a law ninety days after adjournment. SIXTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT - REORGANIZING AND FIXING THE TERMS THEREOF. An Act to change and prescribe the time for holding district courts in the Sixty-fourth Judicial District of the State of Texas; to conform all writs and process from such courts to such changes, and to repeal all laws in conflict herewith. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. The Sixty-fourth Judicial District shall be composed of the counties of Hale, Floyd, Briscoe, Swisher, Castro, Lamb, and the unorganized county of Bailey, and the terms of the district court shall be held each year therein as follows: In the county of Hale on the second Monday in January and first Monday in August, and may continue in session six weeks. In the county of Floyd on the sixth Monday after the second Monday in January and first Monday in August, and may continue in session four weeks. In the county of Briscoe on the tenth Monday after the second Monday in January and first Monday in August, and may continue in session three weeks. In the county of Swisher on the thirteenth Monday after the second Monday in January and first Monday in August, and may continue in session four weeks. In the county of Castro on the seventeenth Monday after the second Monday in January and first Monday in August, and may continue in session three weeks. In the county of Lamb on the twentieth Monday afted the second Monday in January and first Monday in August, and may continue in session two weeks. SEC. 2. The unorganized county of Bailey is hereby attached to Castro county for judicial and all other purposes. SEC. 3. That all process issued or served before this Act goes into effect, including recognizances and bonds returnable to the district court of any of said counties in said Sixty-fourth Judicial District, shall be considered as returnable to said court in accordance with the terms as prescribed by this Act, and all such process is hereby legalized, and all grand and petit juries drawn and selected under existing laws in any of the counties comprising such judicial district shall be considered as legally drawn and selected for the next term of the district court of the respective counties held after this Act takes effect, and all such process is hereby legalized and validated. SEC. 4. That this Act shall not conflict with any of the fall terms of court now being held under the existing law. It is provided that this Act shall take effect from and after January 1, 1912. SEC. 5. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed, upon the taking effect of this Act. SEC. 6. The fact that there is much difficulty in procuring jurors during the harvesting season, and the fact that the end of this session is nearing a close, create an emergency and an imperative public necessity which requires the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be suspended, and the said rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after January 1, 1912, and it is so enacted. Approved August 31, 1911. Becomes a law January 1, 1912. FISH LAW-AMENDING THE SAME. H. B. No. 75.] CHAPTER 17. An Act to amend Section 4 of Chapter 110 of the General Laws of the State of Texas, passed by the Thirty-second Legislature at its Regular Session, said Chapter 110 entitled "An Act to prohibit the taking, catching, killing or destroying any fish in the fresh water streams, lakes, bayous, ponds or pools within this State, by means of dynamite, giant powder or other explosives, or by means of poisoning, liming, muddying, draining or by the use of traps, nets, seines (except minnow seines for catching bait), or by any other means except the ordinary hook and line and trot line; prescribing penalties for its violation, exempting certain counties from the provisions of Section 3 of this Act, repealing Section 75 of the General Laws of the Regular Session of the Thirtieth Legislature, and Chapter 49 of the General Laws of the Thirty-first Legislature, and all other laws in conflict with the same, and declaring an emergency," by taking Fayette county and Travis county out of the exemption included in said Section 4, and declaring an emergency. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That Section 4, of Chapter 110, of the General Laws of the State of Texas, passed by the Thirty-second Legislature, at its regular session, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to hereafter read as follows: SEC. 4. The following counties are expressly exempted from the provisions of Section 3 of this Act, to-wit: Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Brazos, Burnet, Bowie, Caldwell, Clay, Comanche, Collin, Coryell, Delta, Denton, Tarrant, DeWitt, Eastland, Fannin, Freestone, Galveston, Gillespie, Goliad, Grimes, Hamilton, Hopkins, Hill, Hunt, Jack, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Knox, Lamar, Limestone, Llano, Mason, Mitchell, Montgomery, Morris, Orange, Polk, Rains, Rockwall, Red River, Robertson, Stephens, Shackelford, San Jacinto, Shelby, Throckmorton, Trinity, Titus, Van Zandt, Webb, Walker, Wharton, Wise, Wood, Young and Colorado; provided, that the county of Madison shall be exempt from the provisions of Section 3 of this Act in so far as it applies to the waters of the Trinity and Navasota Rivers and Bedias Creek; provided, that the counties of Harrison, Panola and Rusk shall be exempt from the provisions of this section in so far as it applies to the waters of the Sabine River, but no further, and that Harrison county shall be exempt from the provisions of this section in so far as it applies to Little Cypress, and that it shall not be unlawful for any person or persons to take or catch fish by net or seine in Palo Pinto and Lavaca counties from June 15 to October 1 of each year; provided, that Clay county shall be exempt from the provisions of this section along the waters of Wichita and Red Rivers; provided, that Jack county shall be exempt from the provisions of this section along the waters of the Trinity River; provided, that the county of Liberty shall be exempt from the provisions of Section 3 in so far as it applies to the waters of the Trinity River: provided, that the counties of Austin, Washington, Palo Pinto, Hood, Somervell and Parker shall be exempt from the provisions of this section along the waters of the Brazos River; provided further, that in the county of Falls it shall not be unlawful for any person or persons to take or catch fish by means |