The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-16
PROTECT RICE GROWERS
GLENN OF AUSTIN WILL INTRODUCE
HIS BILL TO-DAY.
Provides that the Department Shall Test
the Water Supply OF the Irri-
cation Companies.

Austin, Texas February Is. Representa-
tive Glenn Of Austin county Will intro
duce the following bill in the house To-
Aporrow, which seeks to protect the vice
.owers OF the state;
MAN act providing for the protection OF
M, rice growers OF Texas the securing OF
W. the protection OF water supplies, am
FoyIuiug a penalty for the THEFT OF water,
Sud prescribing penalty Tor the violations
Be 1t enacted by the legislature Of the
section j That all individuals, who are
snoW Or may hereafter engage IN the tultI,
/ walton of rice in the state OF IeAas' dnd
all companies or corporations whlch may
be now engaged or which may hereafter
engage in the cultivation Of, rice ia tht
state of Texas, shall be formed under anu
I In accordance with the laws oil TINS St9te
governing the organization OF companies
and corporate bodies.
Sec. 2. 1t shall be the duty Of al indi,
/ vlduuls, companies o. corporations ehEaB'a
I ia rice culture or other irrEaD!e farming
/ In accordance with section ] or TINS act.
I to notify the department OF agriculture OF
Z the state Of Texas, giving tue ADDRESS OF
Individual, company or corporation thus eu-
gagged in or preparing 10 engage IN tue
growing Of rice. stating AT what time thelr
/ wells, canals or reservoirs, or Whatever
means the said individual, company or cor
porution NAV have devised for supplying
water for its purpose OF irrgauug rice OF
other crops indicating readiness 70 nave
ftair y1tgiug facilities tested and rated
prenarotory to engaging in the general
culture Of rice or other crops, ana upon
the receipt Of such notice received IN writ,
iug from the individual or under the sea-
Of said company or corporation, II shnll
bo the duty Of such department OF agflcul'
ture 10 cause competent ciYll engineer 20
visit the farms of such Individual company
/ or corporation for the purpose OF testing
such water supply and rating same satu
rating to be posted In some public plac,
IN each field whose water supply has oeeu
, / so tested and so rated, ana the said rating
shall remain conspicuousiY posted from
March TO July each year rice shall bt
t grown on such premises.
! Sec g. No individual. company or cor
: poration, whose water supply and ma
; chlnery for pumping same have been testyt
and rated as provided IN section OF I'M
u art shall be liable for damages for fGIlur
, 10 supply water to any Of their tenant
within the acreages approved by the sal'
' held Inspector; provided, that shosd TN
e said individual company or corporati& con
= tract to furnish water for rice or other II
rigation purposes for a greater acreag
e than that specified by said engineers ratin
d then the said individual, company or cor
. noration shall be liable for damages 70
:. failure to supply the necessary water {
u any or all of the tenants to the extent o
the losses thus sustained.
- Sec. 1. II any one shall BY means o
hoe spade, stick or by other means dig. Gu
l. or puncture an emhankmept or dixie or 1
r INV wnv omen flood gates In such way as I
ID. cause the water to flow from onr indivlt
Uars. companv's or CORPORATIONS rice @
Z irrigated lands N those OF Ahothef on IN
It same or adjoining land interests or canal
- or latcrals belonging to the said individual
u company or corporation. he shall upo
,e conviction thereof for the first oneuse b
ig hned not less than SIS nor more than s.
a. for each fifty acres so affected for the SCI
- opd offense so ppr acre for each acre an
TO ten days in the county iail; for each subs
er auent ofTrnce 500 and twenty days IN III
e. Sec 8. The sum OF $500 or SO muc
q thereof as may he necessary Is hereby n
] NnA ntf Hf - nTln n
~ otherwise appropriated to carry out the pr
= visions OF this act,