Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Fortieth Legislature of the State of Texas Page: 286
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286 HOUSE JOURNAL.
pointed to receive funds or money due
such person from the Federal govern-
ment; providing for fixing the venue
where such appointment may be made;
providing the court must be satisfied
that the applicant is a person for whom
it is necessary to have a guardian ap-
pointed to receive funds or money due
such person from the Federal govern-
ment, and declaring an emergency."
Referred to Judiciary Committee.
By Mr. Holder:
H. B. No. 401, A bill to be entitled
"An Act authorizing cities which now
have, or may hereafter have 5000 or
more inhabitants, in case of condemna-
tion of land for laying out, establish-
ing or enlarging parks, parkways or
pleasure grounds to provide that the cost
of such land should be paid for, wholly
or in part, by the property owners own-
ing property in the vicinity thereof and
benefited thereby, and to fix liens against
said property benefited to the extent
same is specially benefited, and provid-
ing how said benefits may be assessed
and collected, and providing how such
assessments may be made to mature."
Referred to Committee on Municipal
and Private Corporations.
By Mr. Lipscomb:
H. B. No. 402, A bill to be entitled
"An Act authorizing persons, firms and
corporations operating hotels within this
State to establish and maintain recrea-
tion rooms in connection therewith, in
which gymnastics and games can be
practiced and played by the guests of
said hotel and other persons under cer-
tain regulations, excluding certain char-
acters of games and the means of play-
ing the same from the provisions of this
act, and regulating the time, manner
and use of said recreation room, and
declaring an emergency."
Referred* to Committee on State
Affairs.
By Mr. Bass:
H. B. No. 403, A bill to be entitled
"An Act declaring the sweet potato
weevil a public nuisance and menace,
and defining the sweet potato weevil and
sweet potato; authorizing and making it
the duty of the Commissioner of Agri-
culture to prevent the introduction of
the sweet potato weevil into Texas and
to promulgate rules and regulations gov-
erning the production of sweet potato
seed, slips, vines and cuttings, and pro-
viding for the inspection of potato beds,preventing the shipment of infested po-
tato seed, slips, vines and cuttings with-
out inspection; providing for weevil-free
zones and preventing the movement
therein of infested material; providing
for eradication zones and authorizing the
Commissioner of Agriculture to institute
eradication therein when requested so to
do by the commissioners court; fixing
the venue in counties into which contam-
inated slips, vines, cuttings or seed are
shipped; providing penalties for viola-
tion of the provisions of this act, and
declaring an emergency."
Referred to Committee on Agriculture.
By Mr. Holland, Mr. Acker, and Mr.
Morse :
H. B. No. 404, A bill to be entitled
"An Act granting to the Harris County
Ship Channel Navigation District of
Harris County, Texas, or its successors,
and defining such successors, all right,
title and interest of the State of Texas
to certain islands and lands subject to
overflow, and lands lying under the
waters of Peggy's Lake, San Jacinto
Bay, Burnett Bay, Crystal Lake, Scott's
Bay, Mitchell Bay, Black Duck Bay, the
San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou
and tributary waterways, within Harris
County Navigation 'District as far as
the State may own same, for public pur-
poses and for the development of com-
merce only, and granting to the navi-
gation district and its successors the
right, power and authority to authorize,
establish, construct, purchase, own, main-
tain, equip, regulate, operate and lease
wharves, piers, docks, dry docks, marine
ways and other aids to navigation on
said lands, and to dredge out or fill in
space between the mainland and the
islands, and such wharves, piers, docks,
dry docks, marine ways and other aids
to navigation, and to construct or grant
franchise for the construction on such
wharves, piers, docks, or lands so filled
in, of elevators, warehouses, bunkers,
railway terminals, sidetracks or other
aids to navigation or commerce; reserv-
ing to the State of Texas the right at
any time to place the operation of said
facilities under the supervision of the
Railroad Commission of Texas; and to
provide reasonable wharf age and storage
charges thereon; authorizing the naviga-
tion district to remove and abate any
encroachment or structure on said prop-
erty, and to bring such suit, or suits,
as may be necessary to carry out the
provisions of this act; authorizing the
city of Houston to extend city limits286
HOUSE JOURNAL.
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