LAWS-PROVIDING FOR REVISING, DIGESTING AND PUB· LISHING SAME. An Act to provide for revising, digesting and publishing the laws, civil and criminal, of the State of Texas, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That the Governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, if in session, appoint three commissioners, who shall be learned in law, whose duty it shall be to revise and digest the laws, civil and criminal of the State of Texas, in accordance with the requirements of this Act. SEC. 2. Said commissioners shall adopt such of the Revised Statutes, civil and criminal, as have not been repealed or amended, together with their present arrangement of titles, articles, marginal references and chapter head lines, and shall not change the words or punctuation thereof except in cases of evident clerical or typographical errors; provided, the present numbering of the articles is not required to be preserved. SEC. 3. All statutes passed since the adoption of the Revised Statutes, including those passed at the regular and special sessions, if any, of the Thirtieth Legislature and those that may have been passed at the time said Commissioners shall submit their report herein provided for, which statutes by their terms are amendatory of the Revised Statutes or are germane thereto, shall be incorporated in their proper places, in such statutes; and all other of said statutes passed as aforesaid which are general and permanent in their nature, shall be collated and arranged into their appropriate titles, chapters and articles, and with marginal references and chapter head lines similar to those used in the present Revised Statutes; provided, that in revising the statutes referred to in this Section, said Commissioners shall, without making radical changes therein, so revise them as to render them concise, plain and intelligible; provided, further, that the civil statutes, the penal code and the code of criminal procedure shall each be separately indexed, and the index placed at the end of each of such subdivisions. Said commissioners shall embody the result of their labors in two bills, one containing the entire body of the Civil Statutes and the other the entire body of the Statutes relating to criminal law, both properly indexed, which bills said commissioners shall report to the Governor on or before the meeting of the Thirty-first Legislature: and it shall be the duty of the Governor upon the receipt of said bills and report to cause five hundred copies of the same to be printed at the expense of the State, in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations as are prescribed by law for other public printing, which said copies shall be delivered to the Secretary of State for the use of said Legislature. SEC. 5. Said commissioners shall supervise the printing of said bills and report, and they shall receive as compensation the same salary as a district judge for the time they are necessarily engaged, not to exceed one year, in the performance of their work, and the certificate of the Governor shall authorize the Comptroller, at stated times, to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for its payment. SEC. 6. The difficulty in knowing what the law is and where to find it in the great mass of accumulated session acts, and the Constitutional authorization of a decennial revision creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the Constitutional rules requiring bills to be read on three several days, and said rules are hereby suspended, and that this Act shall take effect from and after its passage, and it is so enacted. Approved April 30, 1907. Takes effect ninety days after adjournment. COURTS CREATING THE SIXTY-SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. S. B. No. 286.] CHAPTER CLXXXI. An Act to amend An Act entitled, "An Act to amend Section 1 of an Act entitled 'An Act to amend an Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to redistrict the State into judicial districts and fix the times for holding court therein and to provide for the election of Judges and district attorneys in said districts at the next general election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1884," approved April 9, 1883; approved March 24, 1885; to create the Forty-third Judicial District of the State of Texas, fix the times for holding court therein and to provide for the appointment of a district judge for said district,' approved March 30, 1887; to create the Forty-eighth Judicial District of the State of Texas, fix the times for holding court therein, and to fix the times for holding court in the Seventeenth Judicial District of the State of Texas and to provide for the appointment of a District Judge of the said Forty-eighth Judicial District," passed by the Twenty-second Legislature of the State of Texas, approved February 6, 1891, and being chapter three of the General Laws of Texas of 1891, and to create the Sixty-seventh Judicial District of the State of Texas, fix the times for holding the District Courts in Tarrant County, Texas, and to define the jurisdiction thereof and to provide for the venue of causes in said courts, and provide for the appointment of a district judge for the Sixty-seventh Judicial District of Texas, and to repeal all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith, and declaring an emergency. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: That the Act of the Twenty-second Legislature of the State of Texas. Chapter Three of the General Laws of said session entitled, “An Act to amend Section 1 of an Act entitled 'An Act to amend an Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to redistrict the State into Judicial Districts, and fix the times for holding court therein and to provide for the election of Judges and District Attorneys in said districts at the next general election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1884," approved April 9, 1883, approved March 24, 1885; to create the Forty-third Judicial District of the State of Texas, fix the times for holding court therein and to provide for the appointment of a District Judge for said district,' approved March 30. 1887; to create the Forty-eighth Judicial District of the State of Texas, fix the times for holding court therein, and to fix the times for holding court in the Seventeenth Judicial District of the State of Texas and to provide for the appointment of a District Judge of the said Forty-eighth Judicial District," be, and the same is amended. so that it shall hereafter read as follows, to-wit: "That Tarrant County shall constitute the Seventeenth, Forty-eighth and the Sixtyseventh Judicial Districts of the State of Texas, and the jurisdiction of the said Seventeenth, Forty-eighth and Sixty-seventh Judicial Districts shall be concurrent and shall extend with the limits of said Tarrant County, Texas. SEC. 2. The District Courts of the Seventeenth Judicial District shall be held as follows, on the first Mondays in January, March, May, July, September and November of each year and may continue in session until the business thereof is disposed of. SEC. 3. The District Courts of the Forty-eighth Judicial District shall be held as follows, on the first Mondays in February, April, June, August, October and December of each year, and may continue in session until the business therein is disposed of. SEC. 4. The District Courts of the Sixty-seventh Judicial District shall be held as follows, one term to begin on the second Monday of each month, and may continue until the business therein is disposed of. SEC. 5. All writs and process heretofore issued, or that may be issued, up to the time this Act takes effect by or from the Seventeenth and Forty-eighth Judicial Districts and made returnable to the terms. of said courts as now fixed by law shall be returnable to the next ensuing terms of said courts as fixed by this Act, and all such writs and process shall be valid and legal. SEC. 6. The Judges of the Seventeenth and the Forty-eighth Judicial Districts as heretofore existing shall be and remain the Judges respectively of the Seventeenth and Forty-eighth Judicial Districts as provided for in this Act until the expiration of their respective terms of office to which they were elected and until their respective successors are elected and qualified. The Judges for the Seventeenth, Forty-eighth, and Sixty-seventh Judicial Districts shall be elected by the qualified voters of Tarrant County, Texas. The judges of said courts may in their discretion transfer any suit or case civil or criminal from one district court to any other of said courts. SEC. 7. The Governor shall appoint a suitable person as Judge of the Sixty-seventh Judicial District as herein constituted, who shall hold such office until the next general election and until his successor shall have been elected and qualified as provided for by the constitution of the State. SEC. S. In case of a vacancy by death, resignation or removal of the Clerk of the District Court of Tarrant County, Texas, his successor shall be appointed by the said three District Judges. SEC. 9. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 10. The crowded condition of the business of the District Courts of Tarrant County as now constituted and its rapid increase as its population increases, creates an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring a bill to be read on three several days be suspended and that this bill be passed upon its passage without being so read, 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 Senate with the following vote, yeas 18, nays 6; and passed the House of Representatives with the following vote, yeas 106, nays 0.] Approved April 30, 1907. Takes effect ninety days after adjournment. RAILROADS-RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION OF RAILWAY An Act providing that unless the Texas & New Orleans Railroad or the purchaser of certain properties there from shall within two years from the passage of this act construct, operate and maintain a railway from a connection with the line of said Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company to the State Penitentiary at Rusk in Cherokee County, that then in that event all the rights, powers, privileges, and franchises conferred by Chapter 19 of the Special Acts of the Twenty-ninth Legislature shall be withdrawn and held for naught; authorizing the Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company or the purchaser of that portion of its line extending from Dallas in Dallas County to Sabine Pass in accordance with the provisions of said act to construct, own and operate such railway or to so amend its charter as to authorize it so to do, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That unless within two years from the passage of this act the Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company or any corporation to which it may have sold that portion of its railway property extending from Dallas in Dallas County to Sabine Pass in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 19 of the Special Acts of the Twenty-ninth Legislature of Texas, entitled as follows: "An Act to authorize the Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company to sell the line of railroad now owned by it extending from the city of Dallas to Sabine Pass with the franchises and other property thereunto appertaining to any railroad company incorporated under the law of this State which does not own or have under its control the parallel or competing line or to any railroad company which may be hereafter incorporated under the laws of this State with power to operate a railroad between the city of Dallas and Sabine Pass, to authorize any such railroad company to purchase, own and operate said line of railway with the franchises and other property thereunto appertaining. And to authorize such purchasers to construct, own, operate and maintain or to amend its charter so as to authorize it to construct, own, operate and maintain a railroad from a connection with the line so purchased to the State Penitentiary at the town of Rusk in Cherokee County, Texas, and granting to the said purchaser the right to use jointly with the State, the railroad belonging to the State connecting the said State Penitentiary with the St. Louis Southwestern Railroad Company of Texas at the town of Rusk," shall have constructed a line of railway from the present railway line of the Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company to the State Penitentiary in the town of Rusk in Cherokee County, Texas, then in that event, all the rights, powers, privileges and franchises conferred by said Act of the Legislature of the State of Texas, shall be and are hereby declared to be cancelled, withdrawn and held for naught, and in that event said act shall be in all things repealed. Otherwise the same shall remain in full force and effect. SEC. 2. Said Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company or any railway corporation purchasing said line of railway from Dallas in Dallas County to Sabine Pass under the provisions of said Act is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, own, operate and maintain and to so amend its charter as to authorize it to construct, own, operate and maintain a line of railway from a connection with that portion of the line of said Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company in said act authorized to be sold to the State Penitentiary at the town of Rusk in Cherokee County and either of said companies is hereby granted the right to use jointly with the State, that part of the railroad belonging to the State connecting the said State Penitentiary with the St. Louis Southwestern Railroad Company of Texas at the town of Rusk. SEC. 3. The importance of this measure creates an emergency within the meaning of the constitution 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. An Act on the subject of private corporations prohibiting insolvent corporations, domestic and foreign, from doing business in this State; providing for quo warranto or other appropriate judicial proceedings to have the charter or permit of such insolvent corporations forfeited or canceled, as the case may be. and also providing for the cancellation of all stocks and bonds issued by any corporation for purposes other than for money paid to, labor done for, or property received by said corporation, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any insolvent corporation, domestic or foreign, to do business in this State, or to exercise or retain any franchise or permit or charter granted from or by the State. SEC. 2. It is hereby made the duty of the Attorney General of this State when convinced that any corporation is insolvent, to institute quo |