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Laws of the State of Texas.
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the necessity to make effective the quarantine proclamation of the governor
requires this bill to take effect from and after its passage, and it
is so enacted.
Approved July 9, A. D. 1879.
Takes effect from and after its passage.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.-An act supplementary to an act entitled "an
act to provide for the organization of the state penitentiariss, and to
regulate the management of the convicts therein," approved March
24, 1879.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas,
That the governor shall appoint by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, when in session, one additional assistant superintendent of
the state penitentiaries, who shall hold his office during the term of the
governor, unless sooner discharged by the governor, who shall perform
such duties and have such powers as are required of and authorized by
the assistant superintendent in the act entitled "An act to provide for the
organiz.ation of the state penitentiaries, and to regulate the management
of the convicts therein, approved March 24, 1879," and said assistant
superintendent shall receive the same salary and emoluments as fixed by
said act for the assistant superintendent.
Sec. 2. The additional assistant superintendent; together with the
present assistant superintendent, shall divide the convict camps or places
where convicts are employed into two divisions, and assign one assistant
superintendent to each of said divisions; and said officers shall visit such
camps or places where convicts are employed at least twice in each month
and examine into and report to the governor all complaints preferred by
convicts or by citizens, which may have been substantiated by satisfactory
evidence, and they may exchange districts with each other in their
discretion.
Sec. 3. Said assistant superintendents shall make reports of the condition
of the convicts, their names and how treated and clothed, etc.,
in their respective divisions, as is now required by law of the assistant
superintendent.
Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the superintendent and assistant superintendent
to have all convicts who may die while in custody, decently
buried, and have each grave marked by a board with a suitable inscription,
giving the name of the convict, what county he resided in, the date
of his death, and his age, if known.
Sec. 5. The importance of the immediate passage of this bill, there
being now only one assistant superintendent, and the welfare of the convicts
and the interests of the state requiring one more such officer, and
the fact that this session of the Legislature is limited to thirty days and
the greater portion of the time having already expired, creates an emergency
and an imperative public necessity for the immediate taking effect
of this act, and for the suspension of the constitutional rule requiring
bills to be read on three several [days]; and it is therefore enacted, that
said rule is suspended, and that this act take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
Approved July 9, A. D. 1879.
Takes effect ninety days after adjournment.
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 Volume 9, book, 1898; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6729/m1/69/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .