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1903.]
GENERAL LAWS OF TEXAS.
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village for free school purposes only, and a majority of such qualified
voters sign a petition to that effect, any three of such qualified voters
may file with the board of trustees of such incorporated town or village
the said petition, making affidavit of the facts set forth in said petition,
full describing by metes and bounds the territory proposed to be
annexed, provided that said territory proposed to be added must be contiguous
to one line of said corporation, and showing its location with
reference to the existing territory of the town or village already incorporated,
and upon filing of said petition, affidavits and description, with
the president of the board of trustees, it shall be his duty to submit the
same to the board, and if upon investigation by the board it is found
that the proposed addition will not increase the corporate limits so that
the whole, when thus increased, will exceed twenty-five square miles,
then said board of trustees, by resolution duly entered upon its minutes,
may receive such proposed territory as an addition to, and to become a
part of, the corporate limits of such town or village; a copy of which
resolution, containing a description of the added territory, shall be filed
for record in the county clerk's office of the county in which said town
or village is situated, after which the territory so received shall be a
part of said incorporated town or village, and the inhabitants thereof
shall thenceforth be entitled to all the rights and privileges, and subject
to the same liabilities of taxation as other citizens, and all property
within said limits shall thenceforth be subject to such taxation as may
have been or may hereafter be provided by said corporation for free
school purposes only.
SEC. 2. Whereas, by reason of the fact that the school trustees of
towns and villages incorporated for free school purposes only, in case of
an increase in the boundaries of such town or village and of its scholastic
population, are thereby confronted with new conditions with reference
to tax levies, the employment of an adequate corps of teachers, and
making suitable provisions for increased demands for school room, which
is liable to create the necessity for the construction of additional buildings,
and also the importance to all parents to know at an early date
what provisions are to be made for the schooling of their children for
the ensuing scholastic year, and by reason of there being many instances
where the extension of such corporate limits is desired, by which local
interests will be promoted, creates an emergency and an imperative public
necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on
three several days, be suspended; and that this act take effect and be in
force from and after its passage; and it is so enacted.
[NOTE.-The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing act passed the
House of Representatives by a two-thirds vote, yeas 106, nays 0; and
passed the Senate, yeas 19, nays 6.]
Approved March 5, 1903.
Takes effect 90 days after adjournment.
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1903-1905 [Volume 12], book, 1906; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6695/m1/69/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .