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FORTY-FIRST LEGISLATUR--FOURTH CALLED SESSION. 45
converted as a conservation and reclamation district, and the
said bonds, both principal and interest, now remaining unpaid,
shall be paid off and discharged by the said Angleton Drainage
District of Brazoria County, Texas, as here created, it being the
intent hereof to convert said Angleton Drainage District of
Brazoria County, Texas, into a conservation and reclamation
district, without change of name, or impairment to any of its
obligations, and the same shall be conservation and reclamation
district under the provision of Section 59 of Article 16 of
the State Constitution and the said district shall be hereafter
known as Angleton Drainage District of Brazoria County,
Texas, and shall have and may exercise all the powers, authority,
functions and privileges provided in constitutional and statutory
provisions hereinabove mentioned.
SEC. 6. The said Angleton Drainage District of Brazoria
County, Texas, shall own all property and rights in property,
especially including current and delinquent taxes, heretofore
owned by the said Angleton Drainage District of Brazoria
County, Texas, and the title to same is hereby vested in said
district as now created, to be held and used under the provisions
of Section 59 of Article 16 of the State Constitution and
the provisions of the general laws enacted in pursuance thereof.
SEC. 7. The said Angleton Drainage District of Brazoria
County, Texas, shall have and exercise and is hereby vested with
all the rights, powers and privileges, and duties of a drainage
district, organized under the provisions of and conferred by the
General Laws of this State, now in force or to be hereafter
enacted, upon drainage districts created under the authority of
Section 59, of Article 16 of the Constitution. and known as conservation
and reclamation districts, including the right and
power to assess, levy and collect taxes, including collection of
delinquent taxes, and issue bonds of said district, to the extent,
for the purposes, and subject to the provisions, limitations, and
conditions under which said powers may be exercised, or may
thereafter be exercised under the General Laws of this State, by
the Commissioners' Court of drainage commissioners.
SEO. 8. That taxes sufficient to pay the principal of and interest
upon said bonds, as well as for the maintenance and operation,
and other taxes and charges heretofore levied upon the
taxable property in said district, both before and after its conversion
as aforesaid, on the assessed value of said taxable property
determined by the board of equalization of said district, are
hereby in all respects legalized and validated; that the action of
the boards of equalization and the action of the board of commissioners
are hereby ratified, legalized and validated; that the
values placed upon said property for the purposes of taxation by
said district, and the taxes collected thereon, and levied against
the property within said district are hereby found and fixed as
proper amounts and are constituted the basis for such taxation,
and the assessment and levy of such taxes for the year 1929, and
all previous years, is hereby legalized, and said taxes in an
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1929-1931 [Volume 27], book, 1931; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16362/m1/359/: accessed May 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .