Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-15
SALARIES May
VBE INCREASED
Bill introduced to Raise
Cameron County Commits
sioners' Wages

A bill designed to increase tn.
salaries OF Cameron county commits.
sioners to $500 per year has beer
introduced in the house Of represen.
tatives by Polk Hornaday, repre-.
sentative from this county.
Hornaday also has introduced i,
bill which would increase the sal
airy Of county Judge to $4,000 pc
year.
The biz relating to increase IL
commissioners salaries reads:
A bill to be entitled an act fixinI
the salary Of the county commits
sioners OF certain counties by pro.
viding for a salary of $500 to b.
paid the county commissioners O
counties having an assessed valu'
alton Of s44,502. 1890 according t
the last approved roll filed in thu
office Of the state comptroller. re.
peaiing laws in conflict therewitt
and declaring an emergency.
BE Il enacted by the legislature o.
the state Of Texas:
Session /. In any county having
tax valuation of s44.502. 1890 &C.
cording to the last approved roll II
the office OF the state comptroller
the annual compensation to be paic
the county commissioners shall b
$4,000.
Section 2. That all laws and parts
Of laws In conflict herewith pertain
4 ine 10 the compensation of county
: commissioners OF the above men
toned valuation, be and the same
arS hereby repealed.
Section 8. The fact that the basis
OF the pay OF County Commission.
ers is fixed by General Law. anc
that In some counties Of the above
mentioned tax valuation, the county
commissioners thereof are not ade'
. luately paid. creates an emergenc,
nd a public thereof are not ade'
a 1ately paid, creates an emergency
III nd q public necessity that the con-
a situtional rule requiring bills to b'
.sans on three several days. be anc
anne is hereby suspended. ant
ff.s act shall take effect and be II
force from ard after its passage, ane
40 Is so enacted.
other bills introduced in the
house Of interest TO the Valley are:
1874. BY Hornaday and others
Authorizing commissioner OF Agri-
culture TO establish emergency quar-
I sntines against agricultural and
horticultural pests without frs
having hearings.
1874. BY Hornaday and Montgom'
cry: Giving game. fish and oysrei
commission right to lease islantls
reefs and bars within tidewatei
limits of Texas for bathing and fish
ing purposes.
los. By Hornaday and Montgom-
cry: Enlarging purposes FOR which
water improvement districts may
issue bonds.
Ie6. BY Graves OF Williamson
and Petsch: For. more efficient
posting Law.
fe7. BY Hornsday: Authorizing
commissioners OF navigation dis
tricts to expend their funds for de-
veIopmert OF ports and navigation
An other districts when benefitine
their own district.
2O4. BY Hornaday and Pope
Providing for conversion OF naviga-
ton districts into districts organized
under reclamation statutes.
2O5. BY Hornaday: Raising sal
arv OF shorthand reporters In county
composing one judicial district anc
az all judicial districts composed o.
two or more counties.
Senate bills introduced by Senator
Archer Parr include the following
40. BY Parr: To inrease thu
salaries Of county commissioners Il
$1,000 n year in counties that hac
an assessed valuation Of between
&44.OOO,000 and $55.000.O00 in 1928
and to $500 in counties Of between
esq 600 900 and SIS. 5000.
11f. By Parr: To authorize the
game. fish and oyster commissioner
- lease the reefs. islands and bars
WITHIN the tidewater limits Of Texai
FOR hunting, fishing and coating.
f12. BY Parr: To authorize com
missioners' courts to employ inter.
meters at S. q day.
f23. BY Parr: To enlarge anc
extend the purposes for which water
Improvement districts may issue
bonds.
i24. BY parr: TO authorize -e.
funding OF McMullen county road
-arrants with bonds.
s25. BY Parr: To fix the mari
rurn rats OF taxes in school dis
tricts in counties OF between 36,50l
and $500 inhabitants at s1.50 or
she 400 valuation and to limit ths
amount OF bond tax to soc a 500.
100. BY Parr: To increase sal
aries OF County Judges by an addi-
tjonal $500 q month and 10 auth
nrize the employment of q stenog-
rapher at $50 a month in c1,intie'
fhat have rs much as $6.O0O.OO0 road
bonds outstanding and $l.000.Oo0 II
flnod control bonds
1e7. BY Parr: To authorize re-
funding with bonds OF Nueces county
roe warrants.
Eg. BY Parr: To authorize the
commissioners Of agriculture TO es-
tabiish and maintain guarantees e
rrofect the agricultural and horti-
cultural interests Of Texas.