The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-07
III STATE SWANS DISCOVERIES Aa">I
THE STATE DEPARTMENTS.
A Law With a Hole in It-Other h"''e'
Of Moment Worth Readingto
Find Out About.

The sun shone brightly in the
cloud-Aecked sky, its rays beating
down on the white streets OF Austin
with an increased ardor as the
evening advanced.
The trees beside the walks whis-
pered to each other that it was hot,
and the bud-burIened rose bushes
hanging about the door-ways and
CITE posts dropped upon their sup
ports and sighed.
The sands Clustered in the light, the
.treets and sidewalks shimmered with
neat, and along Congress avenue the
pedestrians sought the shade OF the
awnings; that is, all did but one and
ha walked on, needless of sunshine or
jhade, of heat or discomfort.
He entered the state house yard,
aud as he passed up the broad walk,
the breezes from the south sprang up
and the trees tossed thier limbs about
IA frantic welcome. The flowers lifted
I'D their heads. and removing his hat,
THE STATESMAN reporter mopped his
brow with a red bandanna freckled
With white spots and drew long
breath.
Austin is well down towards the
equator and its climate enjoys all the
balmy, mellow qualities southern
sun can give it sun so ardent that
ia spots less favored, where the breezes
forget to blow, it is oppressive.
Rejecting on all these things and
The fortunate combination OF natural
advantages which have so favored the
City of Hills, the reporter entered the
capitol Building and slid in the apart
ment OF
Public Instruction.
Prof. Pritchett was found with his
scalp-lock Auttering feebly above a
slough of doubt caused by "lapsis
pena" Ga Latin term meaning slip OF
the clerical heel on the banana peel
of carelessness) in the enrolment Of
the bill in regard to the incorporation
of towns and villages for school pur
poses.
An examination of the recent act Of
the legislature known as "house bill
No. III to amend article Sal of the re
vised civil statutes of the state OF
Texas" shows the following incom-
plete condition of the closing para
graph of the bill as enrolled:
"Be it further enacted that all towns
and villages heretofore Incorporated I'M
der the provisions of said article as At
heretofore existed, but which incorpo-
ration is invalid by reason of having
incorporated more territory than RI
dius of two miles from the center OF
said town or village"
And there il closes very abruptly
and very unsatisfactory.
An investigation into the course of
legislation on this matter shows on
page 5S7 of the printed house jour
nal, an amendment offered by Mr..
Williamson was adopted, which reads
the same az the incomplete paragraph
above until the werd ethan" in the
next to the last line is reached, when
it reads as follows:
"Allowed by law, said corporation
is hereby declared valid and lawful; OF
if said incorporation had incorporated
only the territory belonging to the
town or village proper, provided that
said town or village had not incorpor-
ated more territory than a radius of
three miles from the center of said
town or village"
This reads like something with at
least grammatical sense, whether it
was the final action of the legislature
on the matter or not. 1t looks more
like business anyhow.
ID ~ DOubOh 10 bilO vi uhOthOl
scholarly gentleman WHO'S smoothing
down the department. He represents
the school book publishers, Lippin'
colt, of Philadelphia.
Judge B. r. Abernethy of Gonzales
was vis or of the department
and welcome one, too.
The state board of education held a
meeting yesterday, accepted the report
of the faculty and local board of the
Sam Houston Normal School at
Huntsville, reelected the old board
ana ordered the new catalogue printed.
Secretary Of State.
Senate bill No. 1856, to amend the
act of April 4, 1889, authorizing coun-
ties to fund their Indebtedness and to
provide means to pay the same.
Senate bill No. 80, to amend an act
of February 5, 1891, as to the bound
airy lines of the Seventeenth and
, Forty-eighth Judicial districts.
Substitute senate bill No. LAT, sher-