The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-05-31
NEW MADE LAWS.
SNNOPTICAl. 81 MMARN OF ACTS
PASSED ny THE IMMORTAL.
OVERWHELMED
MANY Measures Of Moment and
Lesser Local Laws Fresh From the
Fingers OF the Faithful

NO VI OF the general laws will
contain an act to repeal law on
the same subject passed by the last
legislature, chapter "a, which was
faulty in its caption. Otherwis
the law is not changed. The new
caption reads as follows: An act to
define who are fellow. sci ants and
to prohibit contracts between en-
ployers and employees based upon
the contingency Of the injury or
death of the employee, limiting the
liability of the employer for dam.
ages. Approved May 4.
No. 90, approved May 6, appro.
PIRATES $4,000 for necessary addi-
tioual legislative per diem.
No. SO, approved on the same
day. makes an appropriation of
$4,000 for additional legislative
contingent expenses.
No. "a is an act to authorize the
penitentiary board to borrow not
more than $500, 900 from the per-
manent school fund for the pur-
chase of state farms upon which
state convicts are to be work ed.
This important measure is an act
for the fulfillment of that admin.
istration platform pledge for the
abolition of .he convict lease sys-
stem. OF all the ideal penal re-
forms the self-supporting convict
farm is believed to be the best
and the experience of this state
with them has been very success.
full. They have even now ma e
the state system selfsapporting
where it used to be heavy burden on
the state. The farm produces many
articles for the actual consumr-
ton Of the convicts. 1t affords in
its employment less competition
with 'honest labor than any other
plan, as the price of agricultural
products is so general as not to be
affected by any local influence.
The law as1passed provides that for
the funds loaned certificates of in
debtedness prepared by the attorney
general and countersigned by the
governor shall be issued, bearing
interest at 3 per cent per annum,
payable back into the school fund in
twenty annual installments Of
SIS, 900 each the first due five years
after issuance. The title of the
lands purchased is to be approved
by the attorney general and they
shall be held as trust for the
security of the school fund: The
penitentiary board is required from
time to time to make provision for
the payment of installments and
interest out of the revenues of the
stste penitentiaries and farms.
Approved May a.
No. 95 provides necessary
amendment to the law relating to
the increase Of the capital stock OF
corporations. The law providing
that no corporation should increase
its capital stock to more than double
the original amount has been
construed by several sec
to restrict such issuance cat any one
time" AS many corporations had
more than doubled their original
amount of stock and as there is g
reasonable doubt as to the construc
ton of the law, this act was passed
to remedy the law and to validate
previous acts of corporations under
the uncertain law. This became &
law without the executive approva
April 20.
No. 90 contains the law owe
which there was such a contest il
the legislature, providing that new
counties shall pay their proportion
ate share of the indebtedness o
counties from which they are ere
ated. This was brought about b.
a we'll known suit between Brow
and Mills counties, in order to en-
force the payment by Mills of
share of the debt of Brown, il
which the law was declared to b
inadequate. The Law provide
that suit shall be brought in tn
district court Of either the new o
the parent county, and that the al
sessment rolls of the old county o
counties in the YEAR in whic
the new county was Great
ed shall be conclusive evidenc