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FORTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE-FIRST CALLED SESSION. 1799
by the last preceding Federal Census or any future Federal
Census are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to make
a complete audit of any and all monies, property or funds of
whatsoever kind or character received, expended or disposed of
in any manner by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the
County Board of Trustees and/or County Superintendent of
Schools in any such county. A copy of the auditor's report
shall be filed with the Commissioners Court and with the County
or District Attorney at the end of each fiscal year.
SEC. 4. That Article 1645 of the Revised Civil Statutes of
Texas of 1925, as amended by Chapter 15, Acts of the Fortysecond
Legislature, Second Called Session, be and the same is
hereby amended by adding a section thereto to be known as
Article 1645C, which shall read as follows:
"Article 1645C. In all counties in this State having a population
of not less than seventy-seven thousand seven hundred
(77,700) inhabitants nor more than eighty thousand (80,000)
inhabitants, according to the last Federal Census, as same now
exists or may hereafter exist, the County Auditor shall receive
an annual salary from county funds of Forty-two Hundred
Dollars ($4200) to be paid in equal monthly installments out
of the general revenues of the county."
SEC. 5. That Article 1645 of the Revised Civil Statutes of
Texas of 1925, as amended by Chapter 15, Acts of the Fortysecond
Legislature, Second Called Session, be and the same is
hereby amended by adding a section thereto to be known as
Article 1645D, which shall read as follows:
"Article 1645D. In all counties in this State having a population
of not less than forty-five thousand (45,000) inhabitants
nor more than fifty thousand (50,000) inhabitants, according
to the last Federal Census, as same now exists or may hereafter
exist, the County Auditor shall receive an annual salary from
county funds of Four Thousand Dollars ($4000) to be paid in
equal monthly installments out of the general revenues of the
county."
SEC. 6. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith
are hereby specially repealed.
SEC. 7. The fact that the County Auditors of said counties
are required to perform additional duties in carrying out their
work and the further fact that the salary provided by the present
law is inadequate and the further fact that the books and
records of such hospitals are not being properly audited and
checked create an emergency and an imperative public necessity
that the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on
three several days in each House be, and the same is hereby
suspended, and this Act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
[NoTE.-H. B. No. 25 passed the House, June 23, 1937, by a
vote of 107 yeas, 0 nays; passed the Senate, with amendments,
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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/m1/71/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .