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APPROPRIATIONS-TO COVER DEFICIENCIES FOR THE YEARS 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908 AND 1909.

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An Act making appropriations for the deficiencies in the appropriations heretofore made for the support of the State government for the fiscal years ending August 31, 1905, August 31, 1906, August 31, 1907, August 31, 1908, and August 31, 1909, and to pay deficiencies such as may occur and be approved by the Governor during the fiscal years ending August 31, 1909, August 31, 1910, and August 31, 1911, being for claims registered in the Comptroller's office in accordance with law, and for outstanding claims not registered and other deficiencies, and declaring an emergency.

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

SECTION 1. That the following sums or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same are hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for deficiencies in the support of the State government for the period beginning August 31, 1905, and ending August 31, 1911, and contracted under the provisions of Chapter 46, Acts of the Twenty-fifth Legislature, and of Articles 1089 and 1093 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Deficiencies approved by the Governor for the years ending August 31, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908:

To pay court claims of stenographers; provided, that no part of same shall be paid, unless same was legally earned under Chapter 112 of the Regular Session of the Twenty-ninth Legislature, or Chapter 24 of the Thirtieth Legislature, and properly proven under said laws, and no draft shall issue until the account has been approved by the Attorney General of this State and audited by the Comptroller, $3000.00.

State Lunatic Asylum.

For support and maintenance for the fiscal year ending
August 31, 1909...

Repairs

.$33,480 00 2,500 00

Deaf and Dumb Asylum.

Repairs on building and grounds for the fiscal year ending
August 31, 1909...

General Land Office.

Vellum, blue print and drafting instruments for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1909..

Estimated Supplemental.

Appropriation for the year ending August 31, 1909:

Pay fees and costs of sheriffs, clerks and attorneys in felony

cases

$ 35,980 00

$ 1,000 00

.$ 720 00

$ 25,000 00

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To pay special judges.

To refund unused portions of liquor licenses as provided for in Section 7 and Section 16 of Chapter CXXXVIII of the laws of Thirtieth Legislature...

For the payment of deficiencies such as may occur under the provisions of Chapter 46, Acts of the Twenty-fifth Legislature, and of Articles 1089 and 1093 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, such deficiencies to be approved by the Governor

.$ 5,250 00

1,200 00

3,000 00

7,500 00

100,000 00

North Texas Hospital for Insane.

For repairs to be expended during the fiscal year ending
August 31, 1909..

.$ 2,500 00

Per Diem Members, Officers and Employes First Called Session Thirtyfirst Legislature.

To pay the deficiencies in the per diem of members and officers and employes of the First Called Session of the Thirty-first Legislature, or so much thereof as may be necessary

$ 4,000 00

SEC. 2. The fact that no money is available to pay claims herein specified, and that creates an imperative public necessity for the suspension of the Constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days, and said rule is accordingly hereby suspended, and this bill be placed upon its third reading and final passage, and it is so enacted.

[NOTE. The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing Act passed the Senate by the following two-thirds vote, yeas 21, nays 0; was referred to the House, amended and passed by the following vote, yeas 96, nays 0; and that the Senate concurred in House amendments by the following vote, yeas 21, nays 0.]

Approved April 24, 1909.

Became a law April 24, 1909.

COURTS-FIFTEENTH AND FIFTY-NINTH JUDICIAL

S. B. No. 34.]

DISTRICTS.

CHAPTER 6.

An Act to amend Sections 3 and 6 of an Act passed by the Twenty-eighth Legislature, entitled "An Act to reorganize the 15th and 40th Judicial Districts of Texas, and to create the 59th Judicial District of Texas; to name the counties composing each of said districts; to prescribe the time of holding the terms of the district court in each of said districts; to provide for the extension and return of process issued out of said court, empowering the judge of the 15th Judicial District to empanel the grand jury for Grayson county, and giving authority to the judges of either the 15th or 59th Judicial District in Grayson county to transfer cases from their respective courts to the other of said courts; and to validate all writs, process and bonds, civil and criminal, issued or executed up to the time this Act takes effect, by or from the district courts of the several counties named in this Act; and to provide for the appointment of a district judge for the 59th Judicial District of Texas, and declaring an emergency," changing the time of holding court in the 59th Judicial District, empowering the judge of the 59th Judicial District to empanel a grand jury for Grayson county, and providing that the judge of the 15th Judicial District may empanel a grand jury for Grayson county in his discretion, adding Section 8a, validating process, etc., issued in the 15th and 59th Districts, and declaring an emergency.

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

SECTION 1. That Sections 3 and 6 of Chapter 3, Acts of the Twentyeighth Legislature, be so amended as to hereafter read as follows:

Section 3. The Fifty-ninth Judicial District shall be composed of the counties of Collin and Grayson, and the district court shall be held therein as follows:

Beginning in Grayson county on the first Monday in December and continuing until and including the Saturday before the first Monday in February.

Beginning in Collin county on the first Monday in February and continuing until and including the Saturday before the first Monday in April.

Beginning in Grayson county on the first Monday in April and continuing until and including the Saturday before the third Monday in May.

Beginning in Collin county on the third Monday in May and continuing until and including Saturday before the third Monday in July. Beginning in Grayson county on the first Monday in August and continuing until and including Saturday before the third Monday in September.

Beginning in Collin county on the third Monday in September and continuing until and including the Saturday before the first Monday in December.

Section 6. The district court of the Fifteenth Judicial District and the district court of the Fifty-ninth Judicial District, in the county of Grayson, shall have concurrent jurisdiction with each other throughout the limits of Grayson county of all matters, civil and criminal, of which jurisdiction is given to the district courts by the Constitution and laws of the State; provided that the judge of the Fifteenth Judicial District shall never empanel the grand jury in Grayson county, except that,

when in the discretion of said court it is deemed by him proper so to do, he may draw and empanel such grand jury for any terms of his court as provided by law for other district courts for empaneling grand juries. Section 8a. The provisions of Section 8 of said Chapter 3, Acts of the Twenty-eighth Legislature, shall apply to the terms of the Fifteenth and Fifty-ninth Judicial Districts as changed by the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 2. The conflict of jurisdiction between terms of the district. courts in Grayson county and the inconvenient terms fixed for the county of Collin, create an emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring that the Constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three separate 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 pasesd the Senate by the following vote, yeas 21, nays 0; was referred to the House, amended and passed by the following vote, yeas 95, nays 0; and that the Senate concurred in the House amendments by the following vote, yeas 24, nays 0.]

Approved May 1, 1909.

Became a law May 1, 1909.

TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES-RELATING TO.

H. B. No. 17.]

CHAPTER 7.

An Act to amend Sections 122, 123 and 124 of Chapter 124 of the Acts of the Regular Session of the Twenty-ninth Legislature, relating to teachers' certificates, and declaring an emergency.

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

SECTION 1. That Sections 122, 123 and 124 of Chapter 124 of the Acts of the Regular Session of the Twenty-ninth Legislature be amended so as to read hereafter as follows:

Section 122. Teachers' diplomas conferred by the University of Texas upon students who have satisfactorily completed at least four full courses in the department of education in said University, and who have satisfied the requirements for the degree of bachelor of arts, shall have the force and effect of the permanent State certificates. Teachers' certificates granted by the University of Texas to students who have satisfactorily completed four full courses in the college of arts and one full course in the department of education in said University, shall have the force and effect of first grade State certificates, and said certificates shall each be valid for a period of two years.

The State Superintendent of Public Instruction may grant first grade State certificates to students who have satisfactorily completed four full academic courses and one full course in education and pedagogy in any institution ranked as first class by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, upon the recommendation of the State Board of Examiners, and each certificate so issued shall be valid for a period of two years.

Section 123. Any person who holds a diploma conferring on him. the degree of bachelor of arts, or any equivalent bachelor's degree, or any higher academic degree, from any college or university of the first class, and who has completed four full courses in education and pedagogy, may receive from the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. a permanent State certificate, which shall be valid anywhere in this State during good behavior; provided that any person who holds a diploma conferring on him the degree of bachelor of arts, or any equivalent bachelor's degree, or any higher acaderaic degree, from any college or university of the first class, who has not had four full courses in education, but who has taught three years in the State, may receive from the State Superintendent of Public Instruction a permanent State certificate, which shall be valid anywhere in this State during good behavior. The institutions to be recognized as colleges or universities of the first class shall be determined by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction upon the recommendation of the State Board of Examiners.

Section 124. A city or town which has a scholastic population of five hundred or more, and has become an independent school district, and which levies a local tax for educational purposes, or maintains a system of free schools for nine months in each year, and which has employed a superintendent of city schools, may have a city board of examiners. Said board of examiners shall in all cases consist of a city superintendent of the city schools, together with two other persons who shall be appointed by him, and who shall be teachers, and the superintendent shall not be subject to examination. The city board of examiners are hereby authorized to issue certificates valid only in the city in which they are issued. Such certificates shall be of two kinds as follows: temporary certificates, permanent certificates.

Temporary and permanent certificates shall be of three classes for each kind as follows: temporary certificates shall be second grade, first grade and high school. Permanent certificates shall be primary, first grade and high school. A temporary city certificate shall be good for any period not exceeding four years, to be determined by the board of trustees of such city or town. A permanent city certificate shall be good during good behavior, and shall not be issued to any person who has not been engaged successfully in teaching in the schools of Texas for a period of at least three years. The further regulation of the issuance of such certificate shall be provided for by the board of trustees of such cities or towns; provided that no city or town shall make the requirements for its temporary certificates inferior to the requirements prescribed by law for county or State, certificates of the corresponding grades or the requirements for its permanent certificates less than those prescribed by law for permanent county or State certificates of corresponding grades. Nothing in this Chapter shall interfere with the validity of outstanding certificates in such cities or towns, or prevent the extension of such certificates upon such conditions as may be prescribed by the board of trustees regarding professional reading, attendance upon city institutes, and other means of professional growth. Cities and towns authorized by the provisions of this Chapter to have a city board of examiners, may at the discretion of the superintendent of the

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