The Laws of Texas, 1929-1931 [Volume 27] Page: 650 of 1,943

                                
204                   GENERAL LAWS.
be read on three several days be suspended, and it is hereby
suspended, and this act shall take effect and be in full force
from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
Approved May 13, 1931.
Effective 90 days after adjournment.
[NotE: H. B. No. 332 passed the House by a viva voce vote;
passed the Senate by a vote of 26 yeas, 2 nays.]
COLLECTION BY SECRETARY OF STATE OF FEES FROM
CORPORATIONS.
H. B. No. 355.]         CHAPTER 120.
An Act to amend Article 3914, Chapter 2, Title 61, Revised Civil Statutes
of Texas, 1925, relating to fees collected by the Secretary of State, and
providing for the collection of filing fees from foreign and domestic
corporations and fixing a method of computing the same, and declaring
an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. That Article 3914, Revised Civil Statutes, 1925,
be and the same is amended to read as follows:
"Article 3914. The Secretary of State is authorized and required
to charge for the use of the State the following other
fees:
"Upon filing each charter, amendment, or supplement thereto
of a channel and dock, railroad, magnetic telegraph line, street
railway or express corporation, a filing fee of two hundred
($200.00) dollars, provided that if the authorized capital stock
exceeds one hundred thousand ($100,000) dollars, an additional
filing fee of fifty cents for each one thousand ($1,000) dollars
authorized capital stock or fractional part thereof, after the
first one hundred thousand ($100.000) dollars, shall be paid.
"Upon filing each charter, amendment or supplement thereto
of a corporation for the support of public worship, any benevolent,
charitable, educational, missionary, literary or scientific
undertaking, the maintenance of a library, the promotion of a
public cemetery not for profit and the encouragement of agriculture
and horticulture, to aid its members in producing and
marketing agricultural products, or for acquiring, raising,
breeding, fattening or marketing live stock, a filing fee of ten
($10) dollars, and for filing the semi-annual financial statement
of such agricultural products or live stock corporation
ten ($10) dollars, which shall include the annual license fee.
"Upon filing each charter, amendment or supplement thereto,
of a private corporation created for any other purpose intended
for mutual profit or benefit, a filing fee of fifty ($50) dollars,
provided that if the authorized capital stock of said corporation