Complex sentence: Senator Floyd authored and successfully passed into law SB 254 in February 1927 which relieved the University of Texas from the payment of and liability for inheritance taxes with respect to the W. J. McDonald Observatory Fund bequeathed by the will of McDonald.
Split into simpler sentences: Senator Floyd authored and successfully passed into law SB 254 in February 1927. This legislation relieved the University of Texas from the payment of and liability for inheritance taxes with respect to the W. J. McDonald Observatory Fund bequeathed by the will of McDonald.