The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-12-10

paid to the person having killed any of
said animals in their respective counties,
not less than the minimum nor more than
the maximum of the bounty fixed in sec
ton / of this act, upon their exhibiting
the scalps of the animals killed to the
county judge of said county, accompanied
by the written affidavit of such person,
stating in what county said animals were
found dead, and the kinds of each. Such
scalp shall consist of sufficient portion
of the said animals hide Gncluding the
ears thereof as may be necessary to de-
termine whether the same has been
taken from one of the above named ami
mails, and the county commissioners court
may in all cases where it is not satisfied
as to the sufficiency of the evidence before
it, under this act, reject any and all
claims
Sec. 4. The commissioners court of
any county is hereby forbidden to levy in
any one year n tax of more than 10 cents
on the 500 of taxable values in their
respective counties to meet the expenses
accruing under the operations of this act
Sec. 3. 1t is hereby made the duty of
the county judge of each county to re-
celvc the scalps presented OH any day in
the year, excepting Sundays and national
holidays, and to deliver to the person
presenting the scalps his statement to the
commissioners court for the amount of
money due such persons under section
l of this act, and the commissioners
court shall then issue to such person an
order on the county treasurer for the
amount of money due such person.
Sec. Ut shall be the duty of the
county Judge to preserve the scalps re-
celved by him and to return same to the
county commissioners court at it's first
or nj Ga L.
ers, IN support of the statements he
may have made to said court by au-
thority of this act.
Sec. Z. 1t shall be the duty of the COM
mIssloners court. to. destroy by fire, or
other equally effective mode. all scalps
received by the county judge.
Sec. =. ANY person who shall make a
false affidavit as to the place where the
animals were found dead, the scalps of
which are presented to secure the bounty
herein provided, in the county commits
sioners court, shall be deemed guilty of
false swearing, and shall, on conviction,
be punished by confinement in the peni,
tentlary for not less than two or more
than five years.
Sec. y. All laws and parts of laws in
conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
1t Will be seen by the terms of the
above proposed bill that it is made i'm
perative that every county in the state be
required to pay a bounty for the destruc-
ton of the different kinds of wild ami
mails enumerated in the bill of not less
than. the minimum nor more than the
maximum amount. and that each county
pays her own expenses, that the state
incurs no expense by reason this pro-
posed bill Therefore, if county has
few, or no wild animals, the people of
such county will incur little or no ex-
pense under the operation of such law,
but that it will permit counties having
wild animals. and in large numbers, as
a greater portion of the state has to offer
such inducements to their people as will
induce them to accomplish this much
needed relief from damage so long en-
dured. The limit of taxation under this
bill is limited to 10 cents on each $1OO
valuation.
That it may be readily seen what
amount of revenue certain rate of tax
levied on the taxable property of q
county for the purpose of meeting the
expenses occurring under the operations of
such law would be, we here insert a
statement of the taxable valuation of a
few counties for the year 1894: