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FORTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE--FOURTH CALLED SESSION. 91
Conservation and Reclamation Districts, including the right and
power to levy taxes and issue bonds of said District to the extent,
for the purposes, and subject to the provisions and conditions
under which said powers may be exercised under the General
Laws of this State by Water Control and Improvement Districts
not otherwise provided herein.
SEC. 6. That all bonds heretofore issued by said Donna Irrigation
District, Hidalgo County No. 1, and now outstanding are
hereby validated, confirmed and legalized and the levy and assessment
of taxes in payment thereof are legalized, and said
taxes in an amount sufficient to pay the principal of and interest
on said outstanding bonds shall be levied and assessed annually
by the Board of Directors of said District and the power to levy
such annual general ad valorem taxes is hereby expressly delegated
to said Board of Directors.
SEC. 7. That the order passed by the Board of Directors of
Donna Irrigation District, Hidalgo County No. 1, on the 12th
day of November, 1929, wherein an election was ordered to be
held in said District on the 17th day of December, 1929, for the
purpose of determining whether or not the qualified property
taxpaying voters of said District desire to authorize the issuance
of boards on the faith and credit of said District in the amount of
$1,700,000.00, is hereby validated, approved and legalized, and
the notice of said election, the returns thereof, the order of said
Board of Directors canvassing said returns, and the order passed
by said Board of Directors on the 30th day of January, 1930, authorizing
the issuance of such bonds to be dated the 10th day of
February, 1930, and to become due and payable serially within
forty (40) years from their date, are hereby expressly ratified,
approved and confirmed, and the power to levy annual general
ad valorem taxes sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and
create a sinking fund sufficient to pay the principal thereof as
it becomes due, is hereby expressly delegated to said Board of
Directors.
SEC. 8. That ad valorem 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 Directors of said District both before and after its
conversion, in preparing the tax rolls of the District are hereby
ratified, legalized and validated; that the values placed upon said
property for the purposes of taxation by said district, both before
and after its conversion, 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 are hereby legalized, and
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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/m1/405/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .