in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to pay the contingent expenses of the First Called Session of the Thirtieth Legislature, convened April 12th, 1907, by the proclamation of the Governor, and that the approval of the Chairman of the Committee on Contingent Expenses of either House as the case may be, 'shall be sufficient authority to authorize the Comptroller to issue his warrant on the State Treasurer for the payment of any account so drawn against said fund. That the public importance of the object herein contemplated creates an imperative public necessity and emergency fully authorizing the suspension of the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each House and said rule is hereby 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 Senate by the following vote, yeas 21, nays 0; and passed the House of Representatives by the following vote, yeas 94, nays 0.]

Approved April 20, 1907.

Became a law April 20, 1907.

JUDICIAL DISTRICTS-CREATING THE SIXTY-SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.

An Act to amend sections 2, and 4 of an Act passed by the Thirtieth Legislature of the State of Texas, and approved April 30, A. D. 1907, entitled "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 9th, 1883, approved March 24th, 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 30th, 1887, to create the Forty-eighth Judicial District of the State of Texas, fix the time 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 Twentysecond Legislature of the State of Texas, approved February 6th, 1891, and being Chapter 3 of the General Laws of Texas of 1891, and to create the Sixty-seventh Judicial District of the State of Texas, fix the time 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 to 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."

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:

SECTION 1. That Sections 2, 3 and 4, of the above recited Act approved April 30th, A. D. 1907, be so amended as hereafter to read as follows:

"Sec. 2. The District Courts of the Seventeenth Judicial District shall be held as follows: On the first Mondays in January. April.

July and October of each year, and may continue in session until the business is disposed of."

"Sec. 3. The District Court of the Forty-eighth Judicial District shall be held as follows: On the first Mondays in February, May, August and November of each year, and may continue in session until the business is disposed of."

"Sec. 4. The District Courts of the Sixty-seventh Judicial District shall be held as follows: On the first Mondays in March, June, September and December, and may continue in session until the business is disposed of."

SEC. 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. 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 bills to be read on three several days be suspended, and that this Act be put 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 by the following vote, yeas 24. nays 0; and passed the House of Representatives by the following vote, yeas 93, nays 0.]

Approved May 7, 1907.

Became a law May 7, 1907.

GALVESTON-AUTHORIZING SAID CITY TO CONVEY CERTAIN LAND TO THE U. S. GOVERNMENT FOR IMMIGRATION STATION.

An Act to authorize and empower the city of Galveston to convey to the United States of America a certain area or tract of land in Galveston bay for immigration station and for other governmental purposes and to cede to the said United States jurisdiction over the same, and declaring an emergency.

Be it enacted by the. Legislature of the State of Texas:

SECTION 1. The city of Galveston, Texas, is hereby authorized and empowered to convey to the United States of America for an immigration station and for other governmental purposes the following area or tract of land in Galveston Bay:

Commencing at a point on the harbor line of Pelican Island from which Red Beacon (old) bears N. 38° 21′ 22′′ E. 125 feet; Thence with U. S. Harbor line S. 38° 21′ 22′′ West 500 feet. Thence N. 55° 07′ 20′′ W. 297 feet to U. S. dyke; Thence on same bearing 1000 feet to a stake. Thence N. 38° 21′ 22′′ E. 500 feet to a stake on S. W. line of tract proposed to be conveyed to U. S. by the City of Galveston. Thence S. 55° 07′ 20′′ E. on said S. W. line 1000 feet to U. S. dyke. Thence on same bearing 297 feet to place of beginning, containing 14 887-1000 acres. SEC. 2. The Board of Commissioners of the said City of Galveston

is hereby authorized and empowered to execute, through its legally designated officers, such deeds, conveyances, or other proper instruments as may be necessary to effectuate the purpose of this Act and to deliver the same to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor of the United States.

SEC. 3. The State of Texas hereby cedes to the United States of America, jurisdiction over the territory described in Section 1 of this. Act, subject to the provisions of Article 375 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas; provided, the cession of jurisdiction herein made shall not take effect until the said City of Galveston executes a conveyance to the United States as authorized by this act.

SEC. 4. The necessity of providing a suitable building at the port of Galveston to accommodate the large and increasing number of immigrants being landed at that port, for which there are now no suitable accommodations and the fact that Congress has appropriated a large sum of money to establish an immigration station there, conditioned upon the land and dock-room necessary for such a station being donated to the United States, creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and the same is hereby suspended, and 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 the following vote, yeas 98, nays 0; and passed the Senate by the following vote, yeas 25, nays 0.]

Approved May 10, 1907.

Became a law May 10, 1907.

RAILROADS-REGULATING NUMBER OF HOURS CERTAIN EMPLOYEES SHALL WORK.

An Act to amend an act of the Thirtieth Legislature of Texas, Regular Session, approved April 1, 1907, entitled "An Act to prohibit any corporation or receiver operating a line of railway in whole or in part in the State of Texas, or any officer, agent or representative of such corporation or receiver from requiring or knowingly permitting any conductor, engineer, fireman, brakeman, train dispatcher or telegraph operator who has been on duty for fourteen consecutive hours, to perform any work until he has had at least eight hours off duty, except in certain cases, and to prohibit any such corporation or receiver, or any officer, agent or representative thereof from requiring or knowingly permitting any such employe who has been on duty for fourteen consecutive hours, and who has gone off duty to again go on duty, or perform any work for such corporation or receiver until he has had at least eight hours off duty, and providing penalties for violation of this act, and prescribing the venue of suits, and prosecutions thereunder, and repealing Chapter 31 of the Acts of the Twenty-eighth Legislature, and declaring an emergency," by adding thereto a section to be known as Section 4a, and by repealing Section 5 of said act, and declaring an emergency.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:

SECTION 1. That an Act of the Thirtieth Legislature of the State of Texas, Regular Session, approved April 1, 1907, entitled, "An Act to

prohibit any corporation or receiver operating a line of railway in whole. or in part in the State of Texas, or any officer, agent or representative of such corporation or receiver from requiring or knowingly permitting any conductor, engineer, fireman, brakeman, train dispatcher or telegraph operator who has been on duty for fourteen consecutive hours, to perform any work until he has had at least eight hours off duty, except in certain cases, and to prohibit any such corporation or receiver, or any officer, agent or representative thereof from requiring or knowingly permitting any such employe who has been on duty for fourteen consecutive hours, and who has gone off duty to again go on duty or perform any work for such corporation or receiver until he has had at least eight hours off duty, and providing penalties for violation of this act, and prescribing the venue of suits and prosecutions thereunder and repealing Chapter 31 of the Acts of the Twenty-eighth Legislature, and declaring an emergency," be amended by adding thereto Section 4a, which said Section 4a shall read as follows:

Sec. 4a. That this act shall take effect and be in force on and after the 12th day of October, 1907.

SEC. 2. That Section 5 of said act, approved April 1, 1907, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. The near approach of the close of the present session of the Legislature and the crowded condition of the calendar of each House, creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended, and the same is hereby suspended, and that this act take effect from and after its pasage, and it is so enacted.

Approved May 10, 1907.

Takes effect October 12, 1907.

APPROPRIATIONS-MILEAGE AND PER DIEM OF MEMBERS OF THE THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE.

An Act appropriating the sum of nine thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the mileage and per diem of members and per diem pay of officers and employes, and the sum of three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the contingent expenses of the First Called Session of the Thirtieth Legislature, and authorizing the Comptroller to issue warrants on and the Treasurer to pay out of this fund any deficiency in the contingent fund of the Regular Session of the Thirtieth Legislature, and declaring an emergency,

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:

SECTION 1. That the sum of nine thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated to pay the mileage and per diem pay of members and per diem pay of officers and employees of the first called session of the Thirtieth Legislature.

SEC. 1a. That the sum of three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of any money in

the State treasury not otherwise appropriated to pay the contingent expenses of the First Called Session of the Thirtieth Legislature; provided, that the Comptroller is hereby authorized to issue his warrant on and the Treasurer to pay out of this fund any deficiency in the contingent fund of the Regular Session of the Thirtieth Legislature.

SEC. 2. The near approach of the end of the session, and the fact that the appropriation heretofore made is not sufficient to meet the per diem pay of members and employees of the First Called Session of the Thirtieth Legislature, creates an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days and that this act take effect from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.

[NOTE. The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing act passed the Senate by the following vote, yeas 25, nays 0; was referred to the House, amended and passed by the following vote, yeas 104, nays 0; that the Senate concurred in House amendments by the following vote, yeas 24, nays 1.]

Approved May 11, 1907.

Became a law May 11, 1907.

COURTS-TIME FOR FILING STATEMENT OF FACTS AND BILLS OF EXCEPTIONS.

An Act to amend an act to prescribe the time within which statements of facts, bills of exceptions may be filed in causes tried in the district and county courts of Texas; and to authorize judges whose term of office has expired to approve the same, being Chapter 25 of the Acts of 1903, approved February 28, 1903; amending so that judges also have ten days after adjournment of the term of court at which said cause may be tried to file findings of fact and conclusions of law.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:

SECTION 1. That parties to causes tried in the district and county courts of this State may, by having an order to that effect entered on the docket, be granted twenty days after the adjournment of the term at which said cause may be tried to present and have approved and filed a statement of facts, bills of exception, and the judges of such courts shall also have ten days after adjournment of the term at which said causes may be tried, in which to prepare their findings of fact and conclusions of law in cases tried before the court; when demand is made therefor. And judges whose terms of office may expire before the adjournment of the term of said court at which said cause is tried, or during said period of twenty days after the adjournment of the term, may approve such statement of facts, bills of exceptions, and file such findings of facts and conclusions of law, as above provided.

SEC. 2. That all laws in conflict with the provisions of this act be, and are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. The near approach of the end of this session and the fact that trial judges often try cases on the last day of the term of their