Charter of the City of Dallas Page: 6
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vided, that no ordinance shall be enacted inconsistent either with the
laws of the State of Texas, or inconsistent with the provisions of this
act; and provided father, that the specification of particular powers herein
authorized shall never be construed as a limitation upon the general pow-
ers herein granted, it being intended by this act to grant to and bestow
upon the inhabitants of the City of Dallas full power of self-govern-
ment, and it shall have and exercise all powers of municipal government
not prohibited to it by this charter, or by some general law of the State
of Texas, or by the provisions of the Constitution of the State of Texas.
3. All real estate owned in fee simple title, or held by lease, suflerance
easement or otherwise; all public buildings, market houses, school buillings,
school houses, fire engine stations, public squares, parks, streets, alleys and
all property of whatever kind, character and description which has been
granted, donated, purchased, or otherwise acquired by the City of Dallas
through any means or agency, and all causes of action, choses in action,
rights or privileges of every kind and character, and all property of
whatsoever character or description which may have been held, and is
now held, controlled or used by said City of Dallas for public uses or
in trust for the public shall vest in, and remain in and inure to, the
said corporation, the City of Dallas, under this act; and all suits and
pending actions to which the City of Dallas heretofore was, or now is a
party. plaintiff or defendant, shall in no wise be affected or terminated
by the provisions of this act, but shall continue unabated.
SF:c. 2. Rcrenuc. 1. The City of Dallas shall have power, and is
hereby authorized annually to levy and collect taxes not exceeding one
and one-half per centum of the assessed value of all real and personal
property in the city not exempt from taxation by the Constitution and
laws cf the State. Provided, that the city shall have the power to levy
and collect an additional tax of one per cent, or any fraction thereof,
on the assessed value of all taxable property, real and personal. in said
city, not exempt as aforesaid, if a majority of those authorized to vote
on the assumption of debt by Section 3, Article AJ, of the State Con-
stitution. shall have first voted in favor of such levy at an election duly
ordered for such purpose, the whole number of votes to be determined
by the number voting upon such subject at such election.
2. In accordance with Section 10.. Article 1i, of the State Csinstitution
the City of Dallas may levy a special tax for one or more years for the
purchase of ground, erection of buildings,. and the support and mainte-
nance of a seminary, academy, or high school, in connection with the
public schools of the city, and may also levy a special tax in accordance with
the State law, for the purpose of erecting additional public school houses
or repairing those already built, or for the purchase of grounds there-
for. The funds so raised shall be appropriated exclusively for the pur-
pose named, and shall -not be diverted therefrom. The aggregate tax
levied for either or all of said purposes in any one year, shall never
exceed one-fourth of one per cent, ad valorem, on the taxable value of
all property in city. No such tax shall be levied until the question shall
have been submitted to a vote of the taxpayers, at all election, by those
entitled to vote thereon under the Constitution of. the State. Such elec-
tion shall be ordered by resolution of the Board of Commissioners, as
in other elections.
3. The City of Dallas shall have power to levy and annually collect
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Texas. Legislature. Charter of the City of Dallas, legislative document, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth610709/m1/12/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dallas Municipal Archives.