Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1897-06-16
LAWS PASSED BY THE 10Th LEGISLATURE.


Extending the terms of the district
court in Orange and Jefferson counties.
Providing that the bond of an adj
ministrator or executor may be made
by any corporation organized under
the laws of this state or foreign cor
poration permitted to do business in
this state for the purpose of issuing
surety, guaranty or indemnity bonds.
Validating the incorporation of cities
or towns of 1000 inhabitants or over
incorporated since March 80, 1895,
which have heretofore attempted to be
made under certain conditions.
Comforting upon commissioners
courts authority to carry out and en-
force all legal contracts of defunct nil
nicipal corporations.
Providing that the entering and re-
naming concealed in house by day
or night for the purpose of committing
theft shall constitute burglary.
Providing for system Of drainage
along the public roads Of the state and
to provide for the collection Of assess
ments from adjoining land owners ben
Gifted by such drainage system.
Authorizing the Arkansas Pass harbor
company to purchase from the state,
Harbor island, certain shoal waters
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| fish bay, and to eXcavate free channel
along and through Turtle Cove etc.
Creating a more efficient road sys-
TEN for Montague, Red river and
Wichita counties
Restoring the civil and criminal iur-
isdiction of the county court of Jeffer-
son county.
Fixing the minimum term of impris-
onment for horse theft at two years
and the maximum at ten.
Exempting certain counties from the
sheep inspection law.
Amending article 1850, title 80, chap
ter /, of the resvised civil statutes so
that it shall hereafter read as follows:
mo civil suit shall be commenced, nor
shall any process be issued or secured
on Sunday or on any legal holiday ex-
cept in cases of injunction, attachment
garnishment, sequestration or distress
proceedings"
Authorizing road overseers, when
expedient, to gravel public roads to use
! such gravel, earth or stone or other
necessary material as may be most
convenient therefor, the owner thereof
to be paid fair price therefor out
of the county treasury.
Amending the act fixing the time of
holding court in the Thirty-second jul
dicial district
To set apart for free school purposes
four leagues of land heretofore granted
to Greer county. and to authorize the
attorney general to institute proceed
ings for the recovery of same.
Creating a more efficient road system
for Hopkins county,
Restoring the criminal jurisdiction of
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Authorizing the Gulf Colorado and
Santa Fe railroad to acquire and oper-
ate the Texas, Louisiana and Eastern.
Amending subdivision 10, article %,
of the revised statutes, relative to
the time of holding court in the Fiji
tenth judicial district
Providing for the construction and
maintenance of drains, bitches and
water courses, and for the improve
ment and encouragement of natural
drainage of the several counties within
the state of Texas.
Eliminating the punishment by i'm
prisonment provided in the penal code
in cases of disturbance of public wor-
ship.
Transferring Red River and Fayette
counties from the district to the COM
munity school system.
Restoring the civil and criminal
jurisdiction of the county court of
Leon county.
Providing that supplies for state asy-
lums shall hereafter be contracted for
by the superintendent and managers
of said asylums instead of by the
comptroller.
Amending the Dallas, Lamar and
Medina county road law passed oy the
Twenty-fourth legislature.
Quieting title to lands located and
surveyed by virtue of land certificates
granted under the act granting to per-
sons who have been permanently dis
abled by reason of wounds received in
the service of this state or the con-
federate states land certificate for
1880 acres of land, and to validate pat
ents issued on such locations and sur
veys.
Validating an ordinance of the city
council of Laredo ceding to the federal
government certain streets intersectine
lands to be purchased for the purpose
of providing new site for Fort Nc
Intosh.
! Providing for the alienation within
4 fifteen years of all lands acquired by
corporations organized for the purpose
of constructing and maintaining ditch
es and drains according to the provis-
ions of the drainage act passed at this
session.
Restoring the civil and criminal jur-
isdiction of the county courts of Men
ard and Atascosa counties.
Regulating the terms and fixing the
time of holding the district courts OF
the Eighth judicial district.
Providing for the punishment of per-
sons wilfully turning out or permitting
to run at large within county or sub
division of county in which the stock
law has been adopted any stock pro-
hibited by law from running at large
Prescribing the time of holding court
in the Twenty-eighth. Thirty-sixth a,ud
Forty-ninth judicial districts