ceipt one of the lists and return it to the Commisioner and retain the other list and thereupon the Commissioner shall deliver the third list retained by him to the Comptroller. The Treasurer shall at once collect all collectible remittances and report to the Commissioner and Comptroller all remittances not collectible in Austin. The items not collected shall be returned to the Commissioner. On the last working day of each month, the Treasurer shall deposit into the Treasury to the credit of the proper fund as indicated by the lists theretofore furnished him by the Commissioner, eighty per cent of all collections which have come into his hands during that month upon such lists, and hold the remaining twenty per cent thereof upon deposit receipts issued therefor by the Comptroller; provided when the Commissioner shall have issued receipts to the remitters for remittances, he shall immediately notify the Comptroller and Treasurer definitely the fund or funds to which the whole of such remittances so receipted for should have been applied, and thereupon the Treasurer shall deposit to the credit of the proper fund or funds the remaining twenty per cent of such remittances so receipted for. The Commissioner shall furnish all available data to the State Board of Education when requested to do so by said board. The Commissioner, Treasurer and Comptroller shall each keep an account with each fund mentioned in this Act according to the lists and notices given and received by them.

SEC. 5. Persons making payments of interest, principal or lease rentals on land shall give the name of the original purchaser or lessee and sufficiently designate the land. All lists and notices provided in this Act to be given by the Commissioner to the Treasurer and Comptroller shall be retained in each of those departments as permanent records thereof.

SEC. 6. When the General Land Office shall be equipped with sufficient fixtures and helpful aids the Commissioner shall adopt the most convenient method for filing papers and preserving the records of said office; provided a list of all papers in each file shall be retained in the file and each employee who files a paper shall place his own name thereon.

SEC. 7. For the purpose of arranging the General Land Office and equipping it with such fixtures, furniture and helpful aids as may be necessary for the protection of the archives, titles, land notes and other records, books and documents therein, and the promotion of efficiency in the public service and the reduction of the ultimate expenditure of public money, there is hereby appropriated the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) or so much thereof as may be necessary out of the general revenue not otherwise appropriated to be paid out on order of the board named in Section 9 of this Act for the purposes herein stated.

SEC. 8. Article 4046, Revised Civil Statutes of 1895, and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect and become in force on the first day of September, 1909, and not before; provided the arrangement and equipment necessary to carry into effect the purpose of this Act may be contracted for by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the Comptroller of Public Accounts and the Secretary of State constituting a board for that purpose under sealed proposals, prior to said date.

SEC. 10. The importance of the legislation proposed and the probable

early adjournment of the present Session rendering it improbable that this bill can be read on three several days in each House, create an emergency and an imperative public necessity exists that the Constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each House be suspended, and the rule is so suspended.

Approved May 12, 1909.

Takes effect September 1, 1909.

AVAILABLE SCHOOL FUND-PROVIDING METHOD OF AP

H. B. No. 52.]

PORTIONING, ETC.

CHAPTER 17.

An Act to provide a method of apportioning, distributing and accounting of the available State school fund, and to repeal Sections 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 23, 32 and 33 of Chapter 124 of the Acts of the Twenty-ninth Legislature, relating to the same subject, and repealing 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. The Comptroller shall keep a separate account of the available State school fund arising from every source, and shall, on or before the meeting of the State Board of Education on or before the first day of August of each year, make an estimate of the amount of available school fund to be received from every source, and to be available for the succeeding scholastic year, and report the same to the State Board of Education.

SEC. 2. The Comptroller shall on the first working day of each month certify to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction the total amount of money collected from every source during the preceding month and on hand to the credit of the available school fund, and shall draw his warrant on the State Treasurer and in favor of the treasurer of the available school fund of each county, city or town, and each school district having control of its public schools, for the amount stated in, and upon receipt of, the certificate therefor issued to him on the first day of each month by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and shall register such warrants and transmit them to the State Treasurer.

SEC. 3. The State Treasurer shall receive and hold as a special deposit all money belonging to the available school fund and keep an account of the same. He shall register every warrant drawn by the Comptroller on such fund in favor of the treasurer of the available school fund of any county, city or town or school district having control of its public schools and transmit such warrants to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. On presentation to him for payment properly endorsed, he shall pay such warrants each in the order in which presented.

SEC. 4. The State Board of Education shall, on or before the first day of August in each year, based on the estimate theretofore furnished said board by the Comptroller, make an apportionment for the succeeding scholastic year, of the available State school fund among the several counties of the State, and the several cities and towns and school districts constituting separate school organizations, according to the scholas

tic population of each; and thereupon the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, as secretary of such board, shall certify to the treasurer of each county, city or town, and of each school district constituting a separate school organization, the total amount of available school fund so apportioned to each such county, city or town or school district, which certificate shall be signed by the Governor, as president of such board, countersigned by the Comptroller, and attested by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, as secretary of such board.

SEC. 5. On the first day of each month the State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall pro rate to the several counties, cities and towns and school districts constituting separate school organizations, according to the scholastic population of each, the available school money collected during the preceding month and then on hand as shown by the certificate. issued that day to him by the Comptroller and shall thereupon certify to the Comptroller the total sum pro rated to each, and such certificate shall be authority for the Comptroller to draw his warrant in favor of the treasurer of each such county, city or town or school district for the amount stated in such certificate. He shall receive from the State Treasurer all warrants drawn by the Comptroller in favor of the treasurer of the available school fund of each county, city or town and each school district having control of its public school and shall transmit such warrants to the respective treasurers in favor of whom they are drawn. SEC. 6. That Sections 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 23, 32 and 33 of Chapter 124 of the Acts of the Regular Session of the Twenty-ninth Legislature, relating to the apportionment, distribution and accounting of the available State school fund, be and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 7. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 8. The importance of the legislation proposed in this bill and the crowded condition of the calendar create an emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring that the Constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each House be suspended, and it is hereby suspended, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.

Approved May 12, 1909.

Takes effect ninety days after adjournment.

COURTS-TRANSFERRING

BEE COUNTY FROM

THE

TWENTY-FOURTH TO THE THIRTY-SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT AND CHANGING TIME OF HOLDING COURT IN SAID DISTRICTS.

An Act to amend Chapter 69 and Chapter 124 of the Acts of the Regular Session of the Thirtieth Legislature of the State of Texas, transferring the county of Bee from the Twenty-fourth Judicial District to the Thirty-sixth Judicial District, and to change the time of holding district court in said 24th and 36th Judicial Districts, and declaring an emergency.

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

SECTION 1. That the Thirty-sixth Judicial District of Texas shall hereafter be composed of the counties of Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Live Oak, McMullen, San Patricio and Wilson; and that the district courts shall be held therein as follows:

In the county of Aransas on the first Monday in September and February, and may continue in session two weeks.

In the county of Bee on the third Monday in September and February, and may continue in session four weeks.

In the county of San Patricio on the sixth Monday after the first Monday in September and February, and may continue in session two weeks.

In the county of Live Oak on the eighth Monday after the first Monday in September and February, and may continue in session one week. In the county of McMullen on the ninth Monday after the first Monday in September and February, and may continue in session one week. In the county of Atascosa on the tenth Monday after the first Monday in September and February, and may continue in session four weeks.

In the county of Wilson on the fourteenth Monday after the first Monday in September and February, and may continue in session until all business is disposed of.

SEC. 2. That the Twenty-fourth Judicial District of Texas shall hereafter be composed of the counties of Goliad, Jackson, Karnes, Refugio, Calhoun, Victoria and DeWitt, and that the district court shall be held therein as follows:

In the county of Goliad on the second Monday in February and the first Monday in September, and may continue in session three weeks.

In the county of Jackson on the third Monday after the second Monday in February and the third Monday after the first Monday in September, and may continue in session three weeks.

In the county of Karnes on the sixth Monday after the second Monday in February and the sixth Monday after the first Monday in September, and may continue in session three weeks.

In the county of Refugio on the ninth Monday after the second Monday in February and the ninth Monday after the first Monday in September, and may continue in session one week.

In the county of Calhoun on the tenth Monday after the second Monday in February and the tenth Monday after the first Monday in September, and may continue in session one week.

In the county of Victoria on the eleventh Monday after the second Monday in February and the eleventh Monday after the first Monday in September, and may continue in session five weeks.

In the county of DeWitt on the first Monday in January, such term to continue for five weeks, and on the sixteenth Monday after the first Monday in September, and may continue in session five weeks.

SEC. 3. All writs and other process heretofore issued out of the district courts of the several counties heretofore constituting the Thirtysixth and Twenty-fourth Judicial Districts of Texas shall be held valid to the first terms of said courts as provided for in this Act; provided, said writs are otherwise valid in law, and the clerks of said courts shall on the taking effect of this Act, make all writs returnable to said courts as they meet under this Act.

SEC. 4. The present judges and district attorneys of the said Thirtysixth and Twenty-fourth Judicial Districts of Texas shall act as judges and district attorneys, respectively, of said districts as herein defined and composed for the terms of office for which they have been elected, and until their successors are duly qualified.

SEC. 5. That the terms of district court of the Twenty-fourth and Thirty-sixth Judicial Districts of Texas as constituted by the provisions of this Act, shall not be held under the terms of this Act until the first day of September, A. D. 1909.

SEC. 6. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 7. The importance of the passage of this Act to the people of the various counties of the said judicial districts, creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity which demand 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.

Approved May 12, 1909.

Takes effect ninety days after adjournment.