The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-07-22
NEW LAWS FOR TEXAS.
Enacted BY Last Legislature and
Went Into Effect July 10.

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enacted by the last Texas legislature
which went into effect July 10:
Amending the statute relative to
assessment of taxes so as to allow tax
assessors more time to prepare their
rolls.
An act amending the law creating
the state automatic tax law so as to
require preliminary reports of valua-
tions to be filed with the State board
one month earlier, which will be July
Is.
An omnibus act, defining and regu-
lating fraternal beneficiary associa-
tions.
A law making it unlawful to give
away Intoxicating liquors in local OPP
ton territory.
An act amending the statutes re-
lating to injunctions by providing for
appeals from injunctions involving
clouded titles.
A bill authorizing district judges
to act in vacation IN certain proceed
ings which can now be considered
only in term time.
Diminishing the civil and criminal
Jurisdiction of the county courts of
Jurisdiction of the county courts of
Crockett and Edwards.
An act authorizing the State
Health Officer to isolate INDECENT con-
sumptives.
The bill providing that citations in
land sales by executors or admins
traitors shall be as with respect to
other citations, being twenty days
prior to the term of court
An act protecting estates under
$1,000, so as to prevent the same
from being consumed by court costs.
The bill remodeling and changing
the laws relating to the duties of
the Game, Fish and Oyster Commits
sioner
An act providing for the expedit-
ing of the trial of cases in which cita-
ton is had by publication upon the
defendant
The bill appropriating $4,000 to
enforce the laws of the State. being
intended to be used for the recovery
of school lands.
An act amending an act of the
regular session regulating life insur-
ance companies, prohibiting them
from taking other risks etc, so as
to avoid confusion in the regular
law
The Standardization liquor
regulation law superseding the Bas-
kin-McGregor law.
The act creating the fire insurance
rating board.
An act providing for the incorpora-
ton and supervision of the co-opera-
tive life insurance concerns in Texas.
The law making it a felony to sell
intoxicating liquor in local option ter
ritory.
A bill providing that the State, any
county, the Railroad Commission or
head Of any department shall not be
required to give bond on any appeal
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volving some official matter.
! The act making plain that bonds
must be given in appeals in probate
cases.
The act amending the antitrust
laws, fixing the venue of such cases
in Travis or any other county of the
state, fixing the maximum penalties
at $500 a day and the fees of the
District or County Attorney at 10
per cent of the judgment up to $50
GOO and 5 per cent thereafter.
An act providing that briefs of
fifteen written pages may be filed in
the Appellate Courts of Appeal, the
maximum now being eight pages.
The act providing for the establish
ment of central light and water
plant at Austin to supply all State
institutions; appropriating S250,OO0
therefor.
Establishing a tobacco experiment
station in the Seventeenth Represent
ative District