Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07
SAXET
MediCineCO.,
DALLAS, TEXAS.
THE SCALP LAW
Twenty-Second Legislature A
$4,000 Appropriation.

Section l. Be il 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 jackrabbit.
he shall be paid in the county In which he
kills such animal or animals the sum of r
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
iackrabbits, and 30 cents per dozen for
prairie dogs SO killed.
Sec. 2. The commissioners court of each
county in this state shall order TO be paid
to the person or persons having killed any
of said animals in their respective counties,
as fixed in section l 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 were killed, the kind of each, and that
affiant or atlantis and no other killed such
animals, provided, that no money shallV
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 i'll section Of
this act shall consist of a 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
istied of the truth of the matters set forth
In said affidavit, reject any ana 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 filing.
Sec. 4. 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 shd4n
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. ). The sum OF $50, 600. 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 4 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. 6. Chapter 119, entitled an act to
protect stockraisers, providing for the de-
struction of wolves and other wild animals.
approved April 2, 1857, be and the same is
hereby repealed.
Sec. {. Emergency clause which failed of
two-thirds vote, so the act does not have,
effect till July IA, 1891.