The Laws of Texas, 1929-1931 [Volume 27] Page: 765 of 1,943

                                
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knowingly permit any such officer or director to become indebted
to such State bank' or Banking and Trust Company or
liable to it without such consent, shall be confined in the penitentiary
for a term of not less than two years.
SEC. 2. The fact. that the Penal Code of Texas does not prohibit
and neither does it make provision for the punishment
of an officer of a Banking and Trust Company incorporated
under the laws of this State, who shall knowingly become indebted
to such Banking and Trust Company, directly or indirectly,
in any sum whatever, without the consent of the majority
of the Board of Directors, other than the borrower, and the
fact that there are numerous offenses of this character occurring
daily, creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity
requiring the suspension of the Constitutional Rule that bills be
read upon three several days in each House, and said Rule is
hereby suspended, and requires the suspension of the Constitutional
Rule fixing the time when bills shall take effect or be
suspended, and such Rule is hereby suspended and this bill shall
take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it
is so enacted.
Approved May 21, 1931.
Effective May 21, 1931.
[NdTE: S. B. No. 601 passed the Senate by a vote of 27 yeas,
0 nays; passed the House by a vote of 104 yeas, 0 nays.]
LIMITING EXPENSES, RAILROAD COMMISSION
EMPLOYES.
S. B. No. 609.]       CHAPTER 190.
An Act to amend Article 6066 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925; and
declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. That Article 6066 of the Revised Civil Statutes
of 1925, be, and the same is, hereby amended so as to hereafter
read as follows:
"Article 6066. Expenditures limited.-The salary and expenses
of the expert and his assistant and the salaries, wages,
fees, and expenses of every other person employed or appointed
by the Commission under the provisions of this subdivision, and
all other expenses, costs, and charges, including witness fees and
mileage incurred by or under authority of the Commission or
a Commissioner in administering and enforcing the provisions
of this subdivision or in exercising any power or authority
hereunder, shall be paid out of the Gas Utilities Fund provided
for by Article 6066, as amended by H. B. No. 547, Acts of the
Regular Session of the 42nd Legislature, by the State Treasurer