fund of said county. If any owner of any farm shall fail or refuse, after being notified as herein required, to trim his hedge as required by this act, then the road overseer shall cause the same to be trimmed in accordance with the provisions of this act, to be paid for out of the road and bridge fund of the county.

SEC. 14. Each county commissioner when acting as road commissioner and performing the duties imposed upon him by law, or by the commissioners court, shall be entitled to two dollars per day for the services actually performed: Provided, said sum to be paid him shall not exceed ninety dollars per quarter, which amount shall be paid out of the road and bridge fund when the account shall have been approved by the commissioners court; and the court shall not approve said account unless the commissioner presenting it shall sign an oath that the account is just, due and unpaid, and specifying the number of days actually performed by him, and that it was necessary to be done; and no commissioner shall be entitled to pay as road commissioner either for himself or for his deputy while he is performing the duties of county commissioner, nor shall he receive any additional pay than that provided by this section for inspecting or riding over his road or for other road service.

SEC. 15. This act shall be taken notice of by all courts in the same manner as the general law of the State, and it shall be construed to be cumulative of all general laws of the State on the subject of roads and bridges when not in conflict therewith; but in case of conflict, this act shall control as to the counties of Hill, Grimes, Cooke, Hunt, Jackson, Bee and Victoria.

SEC. 16. The fact that there is now no sufficient general road law in force in this State, 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 foregoing act was presented to the Governor of Texas for his approval on the 9th day of March, A. D. 1895, but was not signed by him, nor returned to the house in which it originated with his objections thereto within the time prescribed by the Constitution, and thereupon became a law without his signature.-ALLISON MAYFIELD, Secretary of State.]

PUBLIC EDUCATION-TRANSFERRING CERTAIN COUNTIES FROM DISTRICT TO COMMUNITY SCHOOL SYSTEM.

CHAP. 135.-[H. B. No. 311.] An act to transfer Morris and other counties from the district school system to the community school system, and to authorize and empower said counties to organize and conduct all of their public free schools under the community system as provided by the laws now in force. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: That the following counties are hereby transferred from the district school system to the community school system, and are hereby authorized and empowered to organize and conduct all their free schools under the community school system, as provided by the laws now in force, to-wit:

Morris, Camp, DeWitt, Bowie, Duval, Fayette, Grimes, Victoria, Starr, Webb and Houston counties.

SEC. 2. Whereas, it is likely that a new scholastic year will be reached before ninety days after the adjournment of the Legislature, creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.

Approved April 8, 1895.

RESOLUTIONS.

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.

House Concurrent Resolution No. 11.

Whereas, the drouth which has prevailed for the last three or four years, the shortage in crops, the low prices for cotton and other farm products, and the general financial depression has rendered many of the purchasers and settlers of the public free school, the university and the several asylum lands unable to meet their obligations therefor; and,

Whereas, there are now about 3600 claims and accounts of such purchasers which have been or are about to be forfeited for the non-payment of interest; and,

Whereas, such forfeitures will render homeless and penniless many of such purchasers, and will thereby work a hardship and produce great trouble and distress upon them and their families; therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatatives, the Senate concurring: That the Commissioner of the General Land Office do, and he is hereby instructed to, withhold and suspend the forfeiture of all such lands sold under the acts of 1887 and subsequent acts thereto, until further legislation is had upon such land matters by the Legislature now in session, or until the close of said session, and the State Treasurer is hereby instructed to receive interest and principal payments upon such lands under the rules of law regulating such payments for and during said time.

[NOTE. The foregoing act was presented to the Governor of Texas for his approval on the 6th day of February, A. D. 1895, but was not signed by him nor returned to the house in which it originated with his objections thereto within the time prescribed by the Constitution, and thereupon became a law without his signature.-ALLISON MAYFIELD, Secretary of State.]

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.

House Concurrent Resolution No. 25.

Whereas, Lieutenant Robert J. Lambert, of Company B, Fourth Texas Infantry, Hood's Brigade, fell at Gaines' Mill, Va., June 27, 1862, in Hood's memorable charge against McClellan, and sacrificed his young and noble life upon the altar of his country; as a tribute to his gallant and chivalrous conduct on the field of battle; therefore, be it

Resolved, that his friends be permitted to inter his remains in the State Cemetery.

Approved March 21, 1895.

15-G.L.

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.

[S. C. R. No. 21.] Authorizing and directing the Secretary of State to correct a mistake in enrollment of Substitute House Bill No. 120, passed at a former day of the present session of the Legislature, so as to show the action of the Senate thereon.

SECTION 1. Be it resolved by the Senate, the House concurring: That the Secretary of State be and he is hereby authorized and directed to correct an error on the enrolled bill now on file in his office, passed at the present session of the Legislature, the error to be corrected being the following: "Substitute House bill No. 120 being under consideration in the Senate on March 6th, 1895, was on that day read the third time and duly passed by the following vote: twenty (20) yeas, and one (1) nay." Such action of the Senate was thereupon correctly endorsed on the engrossed bill, and the same was on the 7th day of March reported to the House of Representatives; the bill was then enrolled by the enrolling clerk of the House of Representatives, but in enrolling the same the said clerk inadvertently and by mistake failed to copy the action of the Senate thereon as aforesaid. The bill as enrolled appearing by such act of said clerk to have passed the Senate by the following vote: " twenty (20) ayes, and no (0) nays;" and the Secretary of State is hereby directed to correct said mistake on the said act in his hands, and to file this resolution in his office along with said act, and in publishing the act he shall cause its publication as if said mistake had not occurred, and in accordance with the action of the Senate thereon.

SEC. 2. That the fact of such mistake having occurred creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the constitutional rule that bills be read on three several days be suspended, and that this resolution take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.

Approved March 30, 1895.

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.

[S. C. R. No. 26.] Asking the Secretary of State to return to the Senate S. B. 170, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an act to amend article 1054, chapter 2, title 15, of the Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by an act of the Twenty-first Legislature, approved April 4, 1889." constituting chapter 93, general laws of the State of Texas, 1891, in order that the same may be presentnd to the Speaker of the House of Representatives for his signature.

Whereas, at a previous day of the present session of the Legislature, S. B. 170, being entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an act to amend article 1054, chapter 2, title 15, of the Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by act of the Twenty-first Legislature, approved April 4, 1889, constituting chapter 93, general laws of the State of Texas, 1891," was introduced and has passed both the Senate and House of Representatives, and has received the signature of the President of the Senate and has been presented to the Governor for his signature, and