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FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE-REGULAR SESSION. 19
SEC. 2. The fact that large numbers of members of said departments
are at this time disqualified from participating in
said fund creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity
exists that the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read
on three separate days in each House should be suspended, and
that this bill be placed upon third reading and final passage and
that it shall take effect from and after its passage and it is so
enacted.
Approved March 11, 1931.
Effective March 11, 1931.
[NOTE: H. B. No. 181 passed the House by a vote of 101 yeas;
0 nays; passed the Senate by a vote of 29 yeas, 0 nays.]
AUTHORIZING PURCHASE AND DISTRIBUTION OF FREE
SEED AND FEED.
S. B. No. 237.] CHAPTER 19.
An Act authorizing counties, acting through their Commissioners' Courts,
to purchase seed to be planted on farms in such counties by residents
thereof, who are poor and unable to procure same and to purchase
feed for the work stock of such residents, and prescribing the terms
and conditions, rules and regulations, by which such seed and feed
will be furnished said residents of the counties who are poor and
unable to procure the same; authorizing counties to use their general
funds for this purpose, where they have such funds; authorizing them
to issue warrants against such funds if such counties will have the
same when the taxes for the years 1930 and 1931 are collected; conferring
certain powers and prescribing certain duties, relative to the
administration of this Act, on the Commissioners' Courts and the
County Clerks of the various counties of the State; defining the terms
of the application and the contract by which residents of the counties
acting within the purview of this Act may obtain seed and feed hereunder,
and providing for the payment therefor by such persons; conferring
certain power and authority upon the County Tax Collectors
and County Attorneys relative to the administration of this Act;
defining and creating certain offenses for violations of the terms of
this Act, and providing punishment therefor; stating when operation
may be commenced under this Act and when the distribution of seed
and feed hereunder shall cease; making an appropriation for carrying
out the purposes of this Act; and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. The counties of this State shall have authority
to expend their general funds for the purpose of purchasing seed
to be planted by residents of such counties during the year 1931
and of supplying feed for the work stock of the residents of such
counties who are poor and unable to procure such feed during
the year 1931; provided, however, that not more than sufficient
seed for sixty acres of land shall be furnished to any one person
or one household, and not more feed shall be furnished to, ny,
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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/m1/465/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .