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92 LOCAL AND SPECIAL LAWS.
said taxes in an amount sufficient to pay the principal on and
interest of the outstanding bonds, as well as the bonds authorized
by order of said Board of Directors on the 30th day of January,
1930, shall be annually levied and assessed by the Board
of Directors of said District calculated upon the values of taxable
property in said District as fixed by the Board of Equalization,
and the power to levy such general ad valorem taxes is
hereby expressly delegated to said Board of Directors.
SEC. 9. That the orders of the Commissioners' Court of
Hidalgo County with reference to the creation of said District,
the orders of the Board of Directors of said District above
cited, including the conversion of said District, the authorization,
issuance and sale of said bonds and the levying and assessing
of said taxes as the same appear upon the records of
said Court or said Board, or copies thereof duly certified, are
hereby constituted legal evidence of such orders and shall be the
authority for said Board to annually levy, assess and collect
taxes as hereinabove provided.
SEC. 10. The Legislature hereby exercises the authority upon
it conferred by Section 59, of Article 16, of the Constitution of
Texas, and declares that said Conservation and Reclamation
District as above described is essential to the accomplishment
of the purposes of said Constitutional provisions and same to be
a governmental agency and body politic and corporate with such
powers of government and with the authority to exercise such
rights, privileges and functions as are conferred in this Act,
the General Laws referred to above, and all amendments thereto;
that it is and has been legal and valid from the date it was
created by the Commissioners' Court of Hidalgo County, Texas;
that it has been a legal and valid Water Control and Improvement
District since its conversion on May 10, 1926, and confirms
and ratifies said proceedings of said Court and of said Board
of Directors in respect of the creation of the District and authorizing
the issuance of said bonds, the levy of taxes to pay the
principal thereof and the interest thereon with like effect as
though at the time or times said acts and proceedings were done
and had there existed statutory authority for the doing thereof.
SEC. 11. Proof of publication of the Constitutional notice required
in the enactment of local and special laws has been made
in the manner and form provided by law.
SEC. 12. The fact that the creation of said Donna Irrigation
District, Hidalgo County No. 1 as a Conservation and Reclamation
District will result in material benefits and improvements
to the territory included therein and in the increase of taxable
values of property therein, and that no territory is included
within said District that is not to be benefited and that the
creation of said District will result in material benefit to that
section of the State creates an emergency and an imperative
public necessity requiring the suspension of the Constitutional
Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days, and such
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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/m1/406/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .