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10 GENERAL LAWS.
Article 4591 (4606) (2939) Enumeration-The 1st day of January,
the 19th of January, the 22nd day of February, the 2nd
day of March, the 21st day of April, the 3rd day of June, the
4th day of July, the 1st Monday in September, the 12th day of
October, the 11th day of November, and the 25th day of December,
of each year, and all days appointed by the President of the
United States or by the Governor, as days of fasting and thanksgiving,
and every day on which an election is held throughout
the State, are declared legal holidays, on which all the public
offices of the State may be closed and shall be considered and
treated as Sunday or the Christian Sabbath for all purposes
regarding the presenting for the payment or acceptance and of
protesting for and giving notice of the dishonor of bills of exchange,
bank checks and promissory notes placed by the law
upon the footing of bills of exchange.
SEC. 2. The fact that so many years have elapsed in which
the memory of this distinguished hero has not been honored and
his name remembered among the other illustrious heroes, and
due to the pressure of business, creates an emergency and an imperative
public necessity that the Constitutional Rule requiring
bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that said
rule be suspended and that this Act take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and it is so enacted.
Approved January 30, 1931.
Effective January 30, 1931.
[NOTE: H. B. No. 126 passed the House by a vote of 114 yeas,
2 nays; passed the Senate by a vote of 25 yeas, 0 nays.]
FURTHER DEFINING THE ACT OF BIGAMY.
H. B. No. 41.] CHAPTER 9.
An Act making it an offense for a person to cohabit with a husband or
wife which he has married without the State when such person has
living at such time another husband or wife; providing for a penalty
and things incidental thereto, and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. Sec. 490a. Cohabiting in this State, Bigamy.
When.-Every person, having a husband or wife living, who
shall marry another person, without this State, and shall afterward
live with or cohabit with such other person within this
State, shall be adjudged guilty of bigamy, and punished in the
same manner as provided in Art. 490 of the Penal Code of the
State of Texas.
SEC. 2. The fact that it is not at the present time a violation
of the bigamy statute for a man to have a second wife whom he
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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/m1/456/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .