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

N~SeACA W nlItCdoC Tic
salaries Of Cameron county commits
sioners to $500 per year has been
introduced in the house Of represen-
tatives by Polk Hornaday, repre-
sentative from this county.
Hornaday also has introduced q
bin which would increase the sal
airy Of county judge to $4,000 pei
year.
The bill relating TO increase ir
commissioners salaries reads:
A bill to be entitled an act fixing
the salary of the county commits
sioners of certain counties by pro-
viding for a salary OF $500 to be
paid the county commissioners OF
counties having an assessed valu-
alton OF s44.502. 4se.0o according tc
the last approved roll filed in the
office Of the state comptroller. re-
spealing laws In conflict Herewith
and declaring an emergency.
Be IL enacted by the legislature OF
The state Of Texas:
Session /. In any county having q
tax valuation OF S44,5 1890 ac-
cording TO the last approved roll IN
the office of the state comptroller,
he annual compensation to be paid
he county commissioners shall be
53.600.0 90.
Section 2. That all laws and parts
u laws In conflict herewith pertain
ing to the compensation OF county
commissioners of the above men
toned valuation. be and the same
are hereby repealed.
Section 3. The fact that the basis
~ the pay OF County Commission
RS is fixed by General Law. and
nat in some counties OF the above
.ntioned tax valuation. the county
nmissioners thereof r not ade-
ately paid, creates IN emergency
q public thereof are not ade-
IN tely paid. creates an emergency
III a public necessity that the con-
-itional rule requiring bills to be
q on three several days, be and
Vie same In hereby suspended. and
this act shall take effect and be IN
force from and after Its passage, and
it 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 70 establish emergency quar-
antines against agricultural and
horticultural pests without first
having hearings.
1914. BY Hornaday and Montgom-
cry: Giving game. fish and oyster
commission right to lease islands
reefs and bars within tidewater
limits OF Texas for bathing and fish
ing purposes.
1875. By Hornaday and Montgom-
cry: Enlarging purposes for which
water Improvement districts may
issue bonds.
1876. BY Graves Of Williamson
and Petsch: For more efficient
posting law.
fs7. BY Hornaday: Authorizing
commissioners Of navigation dis
tricts to expend their funds for de-
velopment OF ports and navigation
in other districts when benefiting
their own district.
1O4. BY Hornaday and Pope:
Providing for conversion OF naviga-
ton districts into districts organized
under reclamation statutes.
EOS. BY Hornaday: Raising SAL
ary Of shorthand reporters in county
composing one judicial district and
Of All judicial districts composed OF
two or more counties.
Senate bills introduced bv Senator
Archer Parr include the following:
40. BY Parr: To inrease the
salaries of county commissioners to
$1,000 a year in counties that had
an assessed valuation OF between
a.. 900. 200 and SIS. 10000 In 1928
and to $500 in counties OF between
sy5. OOO. 900 and s75.000.00 0
12l. BY Parr: To authorize the
game. fish and oyster commissioner
a. lease the reefs. islands and bars
WITHIN the tidewater limits OF Texas
for hunting. fishing and Coating.
f22. BY Parr: TO authorize CON-
missioners' courts TO employ inter-
meters at S. q day.
f23. BY Parr: To enlarge and
extend the purposes for which water
Improvement districts may issue
bonds.
f24. BY Parr: To authorize re-
funding Of McMullen county road
warrants with bonds.
l2b. BY Parr: To fix the maxi-
mtIfn rate of taxes In school dis
tYicts in counties of between $500
and 3e.7oo inhabitants at $3.50 on
the 800 valuation and to limit the
amount of bond tax TO SOC a 500.
f26. BY Parr: To increase sal
aries OF County Judges by an addi-
tional $500 a month and TO auth
orIze the employment Of a stenog-
rapher at $50 a month in counties
that have as much as s6.000.000 road
honds outstanding and 100000 In
flood control bonds.
fa7. BY Parr: To authorize re-
ri ting with bonds Of Nueces county
rta Z warrants.
1z8. BY Parr: To authorize the
commissioners of agriculture to es-
tabllsh and maintain guarantees to
nrotect the agricultural and horti-
cultural interests Of Texas.
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