The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-21
committee q the whole, Duraut in the

chair.
The committee reported fayorably, and
the bill passed the house.
The house bill creating the office of pub
lie weigher, and regulating the appoint
ment and defining duties and liabilities
thereof, was taken up and
passed, the house, after the
following vpuaIes were exempted
from the provisions of the act, to-wit: Fav.
ette, Guadalupe, Caldwell, Marion, Harri-
son, Cass, Folk, San Jaeiuto Bowie.
! Grimes Bastrop, kaufman, Webb, Zapata,
Starr, Hidalgo, Blanco, Comal, Gillespie,
Brazos, Falls, Hays, Morris, Cameron,
Leon, Madison, Jasper, Tyler, Newton,
Greer and Henderson.
On motion OF Cochran, the senate bill
amending the charter of the city of Dallas
so AS TO include East Dallas within the
boundary line OF the city limits, was taken
up.
| Hin offered an amendment exemptinp
the newly annexed territory from the old
debts of the city proper,
Cochran asserted, with much emphasis,
that il the Ten Commandments were intro
duced into the house, the gentleman from
the pine-woods (HilD would want to engraft
upon them his Ideas.
Hill said he offered the amendment in
accordance with the views Of letters written
to him from okizens of Dallas.
After further discussion by Douglass and
| Tucker tavoring the amendment, vote
was taken and the amendment lost,
The bill passed the house-ayes, IS;
nays, /.
Nash had a motion spread on the journal
to reconsider the vote by which the bill
passed
On motion OF Rosenthal the substitute
bill by the committee was taken up, pro.
viding that trustees shall base their con-
tracts with teachers ON the basis of the
number of pupils within scholastic age
registered in the community, salary to
depend upon the following rules of tutors,
towit: To teachers holding trst-class GER
titicates, $2,5s per month per capita; to
those holding second-class certificates, not
more than 81; to those holding third-olass
certificates, not more than Sl.50 no teacher
holding tirst.class certificate shall receive
over $75 per month; no teacher holding
Second-class over $50 per month, and
no teacher holding third class over $35 pei
month. The bill also provides for the ex-
animation of teachers and increases the
grade OF scholarship necessary to obtain d
certificate in proportion to the compensa
ton provided.
Foster, of Grayson, offered an amend
ment, giving the state board of education
the power to select books, with view tC
uniformity. Adopted.
Jones offered an amendment, providing
that the certificate of u teacher may he can
celled on account of drunkenness. Adopted
ayes, Gl; nays, n.
Mckinney moved to strike out the
amendment offered by Foster Just adopted
Carried, and the bill passed the house with
the requisite vote TO make 1t take effect
from and after its passage. The regular
order was the senate land bill and the
, question was upon tn adoption of Sectioi
s, which provides that persons desiring tC
purchase land shall file application with th,
person authorized 20 sell, designating the
tract he wishes TO purchase, accompanyn,
them with sufficient amount of money L
pay for advertising the bid as may bt
, presented by the board and on the hrs
Monday of the month designated in tn,
advertisement, and after two days notice i
shall be sold to the best and highest bidder
ut the courthouse Of the county in which i
may be situated,
The application shall be considered th,
first, and unless raised before offered a
public outcry, any one desiring may rais
the bid either before or at the public auc
, ton No bid shall be received at les
! sum than the lninimum sum fixed by law
a nor shall any fraction of less than lG0 acre!
/ be left by suol sale, nor shall any fraction
of less than &.N acres be divided, nor shal
!, such section e., divided into other thai
I half and quarter sections. If the part,
paying for advertising does not become thu
purchaser, said money advanced shall b
: returned to him, and collected from th,
purchaser.
Frank offered an amendment striking on
the clause allowing competition, betweei
an, 10 nantN nd "a
pending the discussion of which the housl
adjourned till s y. III.
EVENING SESSION.
, On motion of Browning the pending bus
/ ness was postponed and the house bill ere
ating the several land districts of Wheeler
oldham, Donly and Wilbarger was takei
q up, and under n suspension OF the rule
! passed with an emergency clause.
Matthews, by leave, presented a petition
from the citizens of Grayson county en-
dorsing the bill prescribing uniform syS
q tenn Of weights.
: The bill requiring tax collectors to max
4 quarterly reports 10 the comptroller of a.
t taxes collected passed with an emergenc
: clause.
r The following were appointed free cor
[ ference committee upon the difference b,
tween the two houses on the Sunday LAY
n bill Frymier, Patton and Stringer.
q The regular order being the senate Ian
q bill and the pending question the adoptio
Of Franks amendment, it was rejected
= ayes, 81; nays, 81.
r Frymier offered an amendment providn
that actual settlers occupying the land sha
2 have preference to any other bidder
/ Adopted
Jones offered an amendment providn
. that the bidder shall advance one-thirtiet
r the purchase money.
o Stagner offered an amendment providin
that the applicant shall make affidavit tina
p the purchase is made in good faith
/ and for actual settlement, an
. that no other person, directly O
O indirectly is pecuniarily interested in sucl
purchase. Adopted.
G As amended section was adopted, an,
: section 8, relating to the payment by pur
o chasers for land, was next considered.
Foster, of Grayson, offered the followin
g substitute TO section o. The purchaser
# shall at once pay to the person authorize
a to sell for the state one-thirtieth of tn
amount bid and interest for one year on th
unpaid purchase money, and shal
r at the same time execute his obi
, cation for the remainder of such purchas
. money payable to the state of Texas an
binding such purchaser to pay the whol
q OF such unpaid purchase money thirt
|. years after date thereof, the intere,
thereon, ut the rate OF per cent. per al
q nun, payable annually at the office Of tn
h state treasurer, in the city of Austin, on Q
I. before the lst OF March of each and ever
/. year thereafter, except the interest for tn
g lirst year, which, at the rate aforesaid, ,sha
Is be paid at the time OF the purchase, an
any failure to pay the annually accruin
q interest shall work forfeiture Of the col
e tract and of all sums previously pal
thereon, and such contract shall thereupo
D. be cancelled and the Ian
IS shall Immediately be reverted
the state and bo again subie
.. to sale the same as other public lands.
Nash offered an amendment providir
u that the money shall be forwarded to Il
n state treasury.
;. Moore, of Eastland, offered an amen
mpnt providing that purchasers may
, rr option pay oil the principal at an