Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-11
THE SCALP LAW
Enacted BY the Recent Session of the
Twenty-Second Legislature A
$4,000 Appropriation.

Section l. Be it enacted by the legisla-
ture of the state of Texas: That hereafter
| when any person shall kill wolf, either
| coyote or lobo, panther, Mexican lion. tiger
| leopard wildcat. catamount or iackrabbit
| he shall be paid i'll the county in which he
kills such animal or animals the sum of So
for each coyote, and the sum of 81 for each
wildcat or catamount and the sum of s. for
| each panther, lobo, Mexican lion, tiger or
| leopard. and the sum of 81 per dozen for
| jackrabbits, and 50 cents per dozen for
! prairie dogs so killed.
| Sec. , The commissioners court of each
| county in this state shall order to be paid
| TO the person or persons having killed auy
| of said animals in their respective counties,
| as fixed in section | of this act, upon their
| exhibiting the scalp or Scalps of the animal
or animals so killed by them to the commits
| sioners' court OF said county, accompanied
| by the written affidavit of such person or
| persons, stating when and where such ami
mails We're killed, the kind of each and that
| affiant or atlantis and no other killed such
animals, provided, that no money shall be
paid for any scalp which was taken from an
animal that was killed prior to the taking
effect of this act
Sec. g. The scalps named in section of
this act shall consist of sufficient portion
of the hide of the animal killed including
the ears thereof, to enable the court to de-
termine the kind of animal killed, and said
court shall, in all cases where it is not sat
lStied of the truth of the matters set forth
IN said affidavit, reject any and all claims
The said court shall slit each ear of the
scalps as received and destroy the same as
soon as warrant shall have issued for
the payment of said scalps, but shall cause
the affidavit mentioned herein to be filed by
the clerk of said court of said county for in
spection of the public for two years from
date of fling.
Sec. T. 1t shall be the duty of the COM
missioners' court of the several counties of
the state, at each regular session of each
year, to make an itemized statement show
ing the several amounts paid by order of
said court under this provision of this act;
said statement shall be entered upon the
minutes of said court. and certified COPY
of such statement shall be transmitted by
the clerk of said court to the comptroller of
the state. Upon receipt of said certified
copy by the comptroller, it shall be his
duty to draw his warrant upon the state
treasurer for one-half of the aggregate
amount paid out by such county under the
provisions of this act, as shown by certi-
fed copy to statement, payable to the
treasurer of said county, which said amount
when received by said county treasurer,
shall be by him credited, one-half to the
fund of the first class and one-half to the
third class of said county.
Sec. 5. The sum of $500 or so much
thereof as may be necessary, be and the
same is hereby appropriated, upon which
the comptroller shall draw, as required in
section of this act, provided that the ex-
haustion Of the appropriation herein made
shall terminate the liability of the state and
absolve it from any and all persons who
may have claims, real or pretended, under
the provisions OF this act
Sec. 9. Chapter 119, entitled an act to
protect stocsraisers, providing for the de-
struction of wolves and other wild animals.
approved April ., 1887, be and the same is 4
hereby repealed.
Sec. Z. Emergency clause which failed of
two-thirds vote, so the acs does not have
effect till July Il, 1891.