Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-18
BILLS PERFECTED.
Act to Create . Sinking Fund fsrsthe
Payment Of Bonds Of the State 81
Texas Held by Individuals
An Act to Authorize . Geological and
Neurological Survey Made Of
the State Of Texas.

Neurological Survey Made Of
the State OF Texas.
The following bills have been passed
oy both houses and signed by the Gov
ernor:
An act to authorize the Commissioner
Of Agriculture, Insurance, Statistics and
History to have geological and mineral.
ogicsl survey made Of the state OF Texas,
and to make an appropriation therefor.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legis,
lature OF the state OF Texas: That 1t shall
be the duty Of the Commissioner of Agri-
culture, Insurance, Statistics and History
to have . geological ana meteorological
survey made Of the stste of Texas, and
for that purpose he shsll employ such q
number of competent persons, skilled in
the science Of geology and mineralogy,
as Shall be necessary to properly and ex-
peditiously execute ssid work. The per-
sons 80 employed shall be under the
supervision and control of the said Com
missioner, and Shall receive such COM
pensstlon IS the Commissioner nay di-
rect, not to exceed $4,000 per year. The
Commissioner shall provide all necessary
Apparatus, books, maps and stationery to
carry cut the provisions of this set, and
may employ such additional clerks as
sh II be requisite to proper execution
of this act, which clerks shall receive
sucl compensation as he may deem prop
tr, not to exceed 5000 each per year.
Pr vided the IN ell c.ses when assays or
analysis are made upon request OF any
person, the party making the request
shall be required by the commission to
make ffitavits that III specimens offered
wss found upon the land of the party
making the IT quest, or that said request
Is made at the instance or with the full
knowledge and conseGt Of the owner Of
the land upon which said specimen was
found.
SEC. 2 The Commissioner shall cause
10 be made assays, analyses or other
,<ciebtific examination Of all beds or de-
Iposits OF ores, Goals, claJs, marls and 9th
Der mineral su distances situated In this state
s4s shall be requisite to correct know
ledge of the extent and value thereof He
Shall sIso, in sll proper cases, upan ap-
EplicsSipn, require like examinations,
'esAe5s or analyses to be made of deposits,
mines and lands situated in this state,
and shall furnish proper certii Gates OF
the result of such examination, essay or
analyses. He shall also, upon request Of
any person, require assays or analyses to
'be made of any specimen of soil or mine 81
deposit In this state, and shall also fur
uish to the party requesting 1t certif-
cate thereof.
SEC. g. The Commissioner shall pre-
lit "a -,
Office, sud the information thereto col-
lecteo and preserved shall be rep rted to
the Governor, as in case of other
matters relsting to his office. He
shall slso report to the Governor
before esch session OF the Legislature, Tor
information of the Governor and Legisla-
ture, such money expended under this act
and how and for waat purpose such
money was expended. He snail also re-
port the amount Of money received from
persona, corporations or syndicstes for
services rendered, specifying the amount
SO received. He shall also preserve spec
linens Of minerals, Goals, stones and
other natural substances useful Ia agrI-
culture, manufacture or mechanical arts,
and shall from time to time, as far as
practicable. sd specimens of organic re-
mains and other objects Of natural history
peculiar to this state.
Sec 4. The Commissioner shall pre-
scribe q schedule of reasonable fees to be
charged and collected from ali persons
having scientific examinations, assays or
chemical analyses made, and for the Ger
tincates furnished under this set, which
fees shall, when collected, be paid into
The state Treasury to the credit Of th61
&c eral revenue fund. ri
Sec. 5 II shall be unlawful for tHe
Commissioner of Insurance, Statis.i6e
and History, or any person employee m
MIN or connected with his office, to puE
chase all or any part OF any mineser min
ersl lands, or be in any manpst Inter
erted in such purchase, du-inE AheS term
of his Office or employment. Any person
violating the provisions of his section,
shall be punished by fine hot less tnan
$1,000. and shall be removed from his Of
hce or employment, as the case may be.
Sec. 6. That the SUN of Sl5. 600, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, be and
the same is hereby appropriated out OF
any moneys IN the State Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, for the purpose
of carrying out the provisions Of this act.
Prov ;oed, that no expense in excess Of the
amount hereby appropriated shall be In
cured under the provisions OF this act.
Sec. Z. The great necessity for gather
ing and collecting useful ana valuable in
formation concerning the mineral and
othsf Natural resources Of the state, and
u present lack Of means to ascertain
lie same, creates an imperative public |
and An emergency exists re-
quiring that the constitutional rule which |
requires bills TO be read on three several |
days in each house be suspended, and |
said rule Is so Suspended, and IL is en- |
acted mat this act lake effect and be in |
Iorce kom and after its passage.
An Ct 10 create sinking fund for the |
payD&t Of bonds Of the state Of Texas,
held 81 individuals, maturing in 1890 and !
1891, nd to provide for lts use as loan |
10 tn available school fund until said |
bonds mature.
Se3fon L. Be It enacted by the Legis-
atudfGf the state of Texas: TnaiEthe |
;umaHf $3.50, 600, or IS much thereof ss
ns1She necessary, be and the same IL
2\tHS set aside, out Of the surplus rev.
lie now in the state Treasury, as
sinking fund for the purpose Of paying OF
'uch portion of the bonded Indebtedness of
he state Of Texas, msturing in 1890 and
Is i, as are held By Individuals. and that
said sinking fund SO created be loaned to
he svkiiable school fund, for the purpose
If supplying any deficiency thst msy
'xist in said fund, without interest, until
he maturity Of said bonds In 1890 and