Writs of Possession orders of sale foreclosing liens on land. Yoakum County-appeals and writs of error. judicial distriot... Young County-appeals and writs of error. 51 109 26 93 51 108 51 108 51 53 73 26 93 51 38 50 26 93 16 10 51 109 51 47 108 26 93 50 60 29 4 20 51 OF THE STATE OF TEXAS PASSED AT THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE NINETEENTH LEGISLATURE CONVENED AT THE CITY OF AUSTIN JANUARY 13, 1885, AND ADJOURNED MARCH 31, 1885. BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS 49-VOL. IX. AUSTIN NOTE. Constitution of the State of Texas, Article III. Sec. 39. No law passed by the Legislature, except the general appropriation act, shall take effect or go into force until ninety days after the adjournment of the session at which it was enacted, unless in case of an emergency, which emergency must be expressed in a preamble or in the body of the act, the Legislature shall, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, otherwise direct; said vote to be taken by yeas and nays, and entered upon the journals. SPECIAL LAWS. H. B. No. 473.] No. 1. An Act to amend sections three (3), four (4), five (5), one hundred and six (106), one hundred and seventeen (117), one hundred and fifty-six (156) and one hundred and fifty-eight (158), of an act to incorporate the city of Galveston, and grant a new charter, approved August 2nd, 1876, amended by an act approved April 5th, 1881, amended by an act approved March 7th, 1883. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: That section three (3) of said act be and the same is hereby amended so that hereafter it shall read as follows, to-wit: Section 3. The municipal government of the city shall consist of a city council composed of the mayor and one alderman from each ward, a majority of the aldermen elected shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, except at called meeting or meetings for the imposition of taxes, when three-fourths of the aldermen elected shall be required, unless herein otherwise specified. The other officers of the incorporation shall be a recorder, a treasurer, an assessor, a collector, a clerk, a chief of police, an engineer (who shall also be superintendent of streets), an attorney, an auditor, a health physician, a harbor master, and such other officers and agents as the city council may direct; all of whom, except the mayor, aldermen, clerk and chief of police, shall be elected by ballot by the Aldermen, at a meeting to be held on the second Monday after each biennial election upon the nomination of the mayor, or in case no person shall then be nominated by him, or if the person so nominated shall not be elected, then as soon thereafter as possible, upon the nomination of the mayor. Provided, that if any nomination of the mayor is not confirmed by a majority of the council, the person so nominated shall hold the office to which he was nominated until the next regular meeting of the city council, when the mayor shall nominate again; and if such person so nominated is not confirmed, it shall be the duty of the mayor to continue to nominate some person for such office at each regular meeting of the city council thereafter until his nomination shall be confirmed by a majority of the city council; and each nominee of the mayor shall hold the office to which he was nominated until after another nomination by the mayor at the next regular meeting of the city council. But the mayor shall not nominate the same person |