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FORTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE--FOURTH CALLED SESSION. 87
cessity that the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read
on three several days in each House be suspended, and said
Rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act take effect and be
in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
Effective 20 days after adjournment.
[NOTE.-H. B. No. 40 passed the House by a vote of 107 yeas,
0 nays; passed the Senate by a vote of 26 yeas, 0 nays. Was
received in the Executive Office Feb. 18, 1930, and in the
Department of State Feb. 18, 1930, without the Governor's
signature.]
CREATING DONNA IRRIGATION DISTRICT, HIDALGO
COUNTY No. 1.
H. B. No. 38.] CHAPTER 26.
An Act to create Donna Irrigation District, Hidalgo County No. 1, in
Hidalgo County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by
the Commissioners' Court of said County in respect to the original
organization of said District as a Water Improvement District under
Section 52 of Article 3 of the Constitution; validating and approving
all orders made by the Board of Directors of said District converting
said District into a Conservation and Reclamation District under Section
59 of Article 16 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, validating
all assessments of taxes, the authorization and issuance of bonds
of said District, and providing for their payment by the annual levy,
assessment and collection of general ad valorem taxes on all taxable
property in said District; approving and validating all orders of the
Commissioners' Court of said County and of the Board of Directors
of said District, bonds and taxes, or certified copies thereof, and constituting
all such orders and their record legal evidence; enacting provisions
incident and necessary to the subject and purpose of this
Act; and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. Donna Irrigation District, Hidalgo County No. 1,
in Hidalgo County, Texas, is hereby created and established as
a Conservation and Reclamation District under authority of
Section 59, of Article 16, of the Constitution of the State of
Texas, for the purpose of the reclamation and irrigation of its
arid, semi-arid, and other lands needing irrigation, reclamation
and drainage of its overflowed lands, and other lands needing
drainage, and all other purposes as contemplated by Section 59,
of Article 16, of the Constitution of this State, and said District
shall be a governmental agency and a body politic with all
powers granted to such Conservation Districts in the Constitution
and in the General Laws of the State of Texas. It is hereby
declared and determined that all property within the boundaries
of said District as herein set forth is benefited by the creation
of said District, and that no property not benefitted is included
within such boundaries, and it is expressly declared that the pro-
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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/m1/401/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .