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338 GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS.
Section 1. That Road District Number 4, of Atascosa
County, Texas, including within its limits the territory described
and defined in that certain order of the Commissioners' Court
of Atascosa County, Texas, passed and adopted by said Court
on the 10th day of December, 1917, recorded in Book F, page
315, et seq., Minutes of the Commissioners' Court of said County,
a certified copy of which order is on file in the office of the
State Comptroller of Public Accounts, shall be, and such territory
is hereby created and established as a defined road district
in said County, under authority of Section 52, of Article 3 of the
Constitution of the State of Texas, with like effect as though the
metes and bounds description thereof appeared herein, for the
purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating macadamized,
graveled, or paved roads and turnpikes, or in aid therof,
and such district is hereby made a body corporate and taxing
district under the Constitution and Laws of the State of Texas.
Sec. 2. That the organization and establishment of said Road
District Number 4, of Atascosa County, Texas by the Commissioners'
Court of said County is hereby approved, ratified and
confirmed, and the power and authority of said Commissioners'
Court to create said territory into a separate road district and
taxing district for the purpose of issuing bonds for constructing,
maintaining and operating macadamized, graveled, or paved
roads and turnpikes, or in aid thereof, and to levy and collect
annually a direct general ad valorem tax upon all of the taxable
property therein appearing upon the assessment rolls for State
and County taxes, in payment of such bonds, shall be, and the
same is hereby delegated, ratified, approved, confirmed and validated.
Sec. 3. That the order adopted by the County Commissioners'
Court of said County on the 14th day of January, 1918, submitting
to the resident property taxpayers, who were qualified
electors of said road district, at an election, to be held in said
road district on the 16th day of February, 1918, the proposition
of issuing bonds on the faith and credit of said road district in
the amount of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000.00)
and the levy of a tax upon the taxable property therein
to pay interest on said bonds and provide a sinking fund for the
redemption thereof, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining
and operating macadamized, graveled or paved roads and turnpikes,
or in aid thereof, and the notice published and posted at
said election, the form of ballot used thereat, and the canvass of
the vote cast at said election as recorded in the Minutes of said
County Commissioners' Court revealing that a two-thirds majority
of such resident qualified property taxpayers, who were
qualified electors, voting on the propositions, voted in favor of
the issuance of such bonds and levy of such tax, are hereby legalized,
approved and validated.
SEC. 2. That there shall be added to the said Chapter 65,
Special Laws of the First Called Session of the Thirty-ninth
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1927 [Volume 25], book, 1927; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16125/m1/354/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .