Laws Passed by the ... Legislature of the State of Texas

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Telegraph Office, 1909

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Contents

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Requiring railroad companies to provide shelter for protection of their
99
Conferring civil and criminal jurisdiction upon the county court
115
Changing name of the House of Correction and Reformatory to
120
Placing Frio Haskell Mason Matagorda Wilbarger Freestone
121
Allowing any county of this State to determine by a vote of the people
127
Validating and legalizing sales of real estate situated in the town
133
Making it a criminal offense to send to a person an anonymous letter
138
Defining what shall be a full crew on trains and engines of railroad com
179
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180
Amending Act of 1907 providing for issuance of bonds for the
185
Validating patent to a section of school land in El Paso county
191
Providing for perpetuation of evidence to establish the identity of Con
215
Chap Page
220
Extending time for construction of roads by railroad companies
227
Establishing the West Texas State Normal College
235
RESOLUTIONS
249
Submitting an amendment to the Constitution authorizing cities and towns
255
Per diem of members of First Called Session of the Thirtyfirst Legis
263
Relating to appearances by brief of attorney in Courts of Civil Appeals
270
Providing for the maintenance of an agricultural experiment station
278
Chap Page 14 Relating to appeal bond in civil cases
284
Providing for incorporation organization and regulation of life insur ance companies
285
Regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors
293
Prescribing conditions for transacting business by fire insurance com panies
311
Preventing the keeping of fruit trees when affected by certain pests or diseases
316
Limiting character of risks of insurance companies
322
Creating Texas State Board of Health and providing for its organization
340
Diminishing the civil and criminal jurisdiction of the county courts of I
351
Empowering district judges to act in vacation
352
Authorizing Commissioner of Agriculture to inquire into system of irri gation
353
Relating to the granting of injunctions
354
Prescribing penalties for selling or giving away intoxicating liquors in local option territory
356
Defining and regulating fraternal beneficiary associations
357
Requiring tax assessors to make statements to the Comptroller
371
Amending the law relating to the rendition listing and assessment of property
372
Providing for the appointment and compensation of official shorthand reporters
375
RESOLUTIONS Providing for the printing of the Texas Legislative Manual
380
Requesting President Taft and Secretary of State Knox to give the cotton producing States equal representation in the appointment of diplomatic and ...
381
SECOND CALLED SESSION
383
Per diem of members of the Second Called Session of the Thirtyfirst Leg islature
387
To defray contingent expenses of the Second Called Session of the Thirty first Legislature
388
Reorganizing the Twentyninth Judicial District
390
Making appropriations to cover deficiencies for the years 1905 1906
391
Reorganizing the Fifteenth and Fiftyninth Judicial Districts
394
Authorizing the incorporation of gas gasoline denatured alcohol or naphtha interurban railways
396
Relating to the sale of nonintoxicating malt liquors
397
Permitting redemption of lands or lots sold for taxes
400
Regulating the manner of making payments for public lands
429
Relating to certificates of fraternal beneficiary associations
443
Making appropriations for the support of the State government for
457
Proclamation by the Governor vetoing certain items in the appropriation
526
AppendixMessages of the Governor submitting subjects for legislation
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Page 168 - Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of the package as originally put up shall have been removed, in whole or in part, and other contents shall have been placed in such package...
Page 167 - If it contain any added poisonous or other added deleterious ingredient which may render such article injurious to health...
Page 279 - ... resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment.
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Page 167 - misbranded," as used herein, shall apply to all drugs, or articles of food, or articles which enter into the composition of food, the package or label of which shall bear any statement, design, or device regarding such article, or the ingredients or substances contained therein which shall be false or misleading in any particular...
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Page 167 - In the case of drugs: (1) If, when sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, it differs from the standard of strength, quality, or purity laid down therein. (2) If, when sold under or by a name not recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia...
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