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FORTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE-SECOND CALLED SESSION 1893
"(h) To sue and be sued in its corporate name;
"(i) To adopt, use, and alter a corporate seal;
"(j) To make by-laws for the management and regulation of
its affairs;
"(k) To appoint officers, agents, and employees, to prescribe-.
their duties, and to fix their compensation;
"(1) To make contracts and to execute instruments necessary
or convenient to the exercise of the powers, rights, privileges,
and functions conferred upon it by this Act, or by any other Act
or Law;
"(m) To do any and all other acts or things necessary or
convenient to the exercise of the powers, rights, privileges, or
functions conferred upon it by this Act or by any other Act or
Law."
SEC. 2. Amend Section 6 of House Bill No. 141, Chapter 427,
of the Acts of the Second Called Session of the Forty-fourth
Legislature so that Section 6 shall hereafter read as follows:
"Section 6. A Board of twenty-one (21) Directors of the
Nueces River Conservation and Reclamation District is hereby
declared to be a permanent Board, and shall be divided into the
three (3) classes of seven (7) each, as heretofore determined by
lot. The first term of office of those falling in class one expired
on the 1st day of February, 1937, and the next term of
office of those in said class one shall expire on. February 1,
1943; the term of office of those falling in class two (2) shall
expire February 1, 1939, and the term of office for those falling
in class three (3) shall expire the 1st of February, 1941; and
their successors in each class shall serve for a term of six (6)
years, or until their successors are designated and have qualified.
As authorized by law, the State Board of Water Engineers has
heretofore designated, subject to the approval of the Governor,
the first Board of Directors of said District, and the successors
to class one whose term expired on February 1, 1937, and said
Board of Water Engineers shall hereafter, subject to approval
of the Governor, designate seven (7) persons each biennium to
serve on the Board of Directors for the District. Upon notification
by the State Board of Water Engineers of their designation
as members of the Board of Directors for the Nueces River
Conservation and Reclamation District, and not more than sixty
(60) days thereafter, each of said Directors shall take and subscribe
to an oath of office, similar in character to the oaths
administered to County Commissioners, and shall execute bond
in the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000), payable to the
District, the sufficiency of which bonds shall be determined by
the State Board of Water Engineers, which bonds, after being
recorded in the official bond records of the county in which the
District maintains its office, shall be deposited with a depository
hereby required to be selected and approved for the deposit of
the funds of the District. All vacancies occurring in the Board
of Directors shall be filled by a designation of the State Board
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1937-1939 [Volume 31], book, 1939; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth18824/m1/171/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .