Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-08-25
Governors MESSAGE.

night me message follows:
1, L. M. Campbell, governor of the
state OF Texas, by virtue of Authority
vested in me by the constitution, do
hereby call a special session of the
thirty-first legislature to convene in
the city of Austin, Tex, beginning at
$3.50 o'clock a. M, Thursday, Aug. IS,
A. D., 1910, for the following purposes
and for legislation on the following
subjects, to-wit:
Secure Railroad Claims.
!. Legislation amending articles
1913 and 1880 of chapter II, title "a, 8,
the revised statutes of the state of
Texas, and to prescribe the conditions
upon which the purchaser or pur-
chasers and associates, If any of the
property and franchises Of a railroad
company may become owners of its
charter or may organize a new corpo-
ration and governing, regulating and
limiting the stocks and bonds of such
new corporation and the old corpora
ton after the sale of its property and
franchises. and providing for the pro-
lection of holders of claims against
the old corporation.
Penitentiary Reform.
2. Legislation providing for board
of prison commissioners, superinten-
dents of prisons and other officers and
employees, and for the care, manage
ment, discipline and method of en-
ployment of convicts confined in the
state penitentiaries providing for the
working of conyicts on state account.
Bill of Lading Law.
3. The enactment of adequate laws
defining bill of lading' and defining
the word carriers" Providing that
1t shall be the duty of common carriers
and their officers and agents, to issue
negotiable bills of lading and straight
or non-negotiable bills of lading at the
request OF the shipper, between GER
tain places tTRSe prescribed by the
law, and defining Negotiable or order
bills of lading and non-negotlable or
straight bills Of lading and prescribing
the necessary requirements for all bills
of lading; to make all negotiable bills
of lading negotiable by Endorsement
and delivery in the same manner as
bills Of exchange and promissory notes
and prohibiting the placing upon ne
gotiable bills of lading any terms
which would In any manner limit their
negotiabillty.
The Spider" Act.
a. Legislation requiring persons,
firms, corporations and associations of
persons engaged in COMPRISING cot
ton in this State to so bind and tie all
bales of cotton so that no bales of cot. |
ton, baled or rebaled, shall be deliver
ton by them compressed, recompress-
ed to any railroad company or common
carrier unless the same IL free from
spiders" exposed ends of bands or
any exposed or any obtruding part OF
the ties, bands, buckles or spllces used
in tying of ballng such bale of cotton,
and to provide penalties and methods
of enforcement of the laws enacted on
this subject.
Erection of Car Sheds.
8. Legislation requiring the cree
tion and maintenance of buildings for
the protection from rain, wind and in
clement weather, of employees engaged |
in repairing railroad cars and other
railroad equipment, and providing pen
alties for violations, and regulating
suits for such penalties, and such fur
Their legislation upon this subject as
may be appropriate and necessary to
provide proper protection to employees
engaged in such work.
Fire Insurance Law.
G. To enact law repeating the law
enacted by the thirty-first legislature
at its first called session, known as
chapter IS, and entitled IAN act pro-
viding conditions upon which fire in
surance companies shall transact bust
ness in this state, and providing for
the regulation and control of rates OF
premium on fire insurance and to pre-
vent discrimination therein and to ere
ate a fire insurance rating board and
to provide penalties for violations of
this act.
z. To consider and act upon such
other matters as may hereafter be pre-
sented by me, pursuant to section 40,
article 8, of the constitution of the
state Of Texas. In testimony whereof
I have set my hand and caused the
seal of the state of Texas to be affixed
at Austin, Tex, this. the 18th day of
August, A. D. 1910.
r. NJ. CAMPBELL,
Governor of Texas.
BY the governor, w. B. Townsend, sec
rotary of state.