Journal of the Senate of Texas being the Second Called Session of the Forty-Third Legislature Page: 76
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7
ture, 1933, at the Regular Session
so as to provide that the counties
affected thereby shall be granted re-
imbursement for high school tuition
and transportation, and declaring an
emergency."
Read first time and referred to
the Committee on Education.
By Senator Woodul:
S. B. No. 14, A bill to be entitled
"An act granting to the Houston
Yacht Club, its successors and as-
signs, all right, title and interest of
the State of Texas to certain land
under the waters of Galveston Bay,
described as follows: Beginning at
the Northeast corner of that certain
tract of land in Harris County,
Texas, lying on the waters of Gal-
veston Bay, described in deed from
Shoreacres, Inc. to San Jacinto Bay
Corporation, dated March 23, 1927,
recorded in Volume 697, page 460,
Deed Records of Harris County,
Texas; thence in a Southeasterly di-
rection along the waters of Galves-
ton Bay and following the South-
easterly line of said tract conveyed
to San Jacinto Bay Corporation, a
distance of approximately seven hun-
dred sixty feet, to the Southeast cor-
ner of said tract; thence at right
angles to said Southeast line of said
tract; in a Northeasterly direction a
distance of two thousand feet; thence
at right angles in a Northwesterly
direction a sufficient distance so as
to intersect at right angles a line
drawn from the beginning point and
at right angles to the Southeasterly
line of said tract conveyed to San
Jacinto Bay Corporation; thence at
right angles in a Southwesterly di-
rection along said line a sufficient
distance as to intersect at right
angles the Southeasterly line of said
tract conveyed to San Jacinto Bay
Corporation, at the place of be-
ginning, for harbor purposes and for
the purpose of constructing, main-
taining, using and operating wharves,
docks, slips, piers, breakwaters and
other improvements and harbor fa-
cilities, for a term of fifty years and
so long thereafter as the same may
be used and maintained as a harbor;
and declaring an emergency."
Read first time and referred to
the Committee on State Affairs.
S. C. R. No. 14.
Senator Redditt sent up the follow-
ing Resolution:Whereas, D. P. Jones Construction
Company, a corporation, with its
domicile in Little Rock, Arkansas,
entered into a certain contract with
the State of Texas acting by and
through the Highway Commission of
the State of Texas and the State
Highway Engineer, being for the
construction of certain improve-
ments on Highway No. 3-A, in Bexar
and Guadalupe Counties, Texas, and
known as Federal Aid Project 635-A,
the type and character of work to
be done thereunder being fully
shown by the plans and specifica-
tions of said improvements as on
file in the offices of the Highway
Department of the State of Texas;
and,
Whereas, Said corporation com-
menced work on said construction
under said contract, and did con-
struct, improve and build said im-
provements on said highway and
completed said project; and,
Whereas, Certain differences have
arisen between said corporation and
the State Highway Commission as
to the amount of money due by the
State of Texas and the State High-
way Department of the State of
Texas to the said corporation for
work done under said contract, and
said corporation has filed its claim
with the State Highway Commission
which has been refused; and,
Whereas, Although the Legislature
of the State of Texas does not admit
that D. F. Jones Construction Com-
pany has a valid and just claim
against the State of Texas, the State
Highway Commission or the State
Highway funds, it is the sense of the
Legislature that a citizen who has
contracted with the State and has a
claim against the State arising out
of said contract should not be de-
prived of his opportunity to submit
to the courts his claim, and, if valid,
to establish and enforce it against
the State or any responsible depart-
ment of the State;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RE-
SOLVED, By the Senate of Texas,
the House of Representatives con-
curring therein,
SECTION ONE: That D. F. Jones
Construction Company, Inc., a cor-
poration, is hereby given and granted
consent and permission to file suit
against the State of Texas, the High-
way Commission of the State of
Texas, as such Commission and a76
SENATE JOURNAL.
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