| 07/01/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: re-appropriation of $55,000 to revolving fund of State Approval Agency, for veterans' education and job training (SB 503, already passed by the Senate)
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 07/01/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: protection of the state in drainage of oil and gas leases and lands (SB 498), reenacting and adding to SB 391
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 06/30/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: carbon black occupation tax, relating to legislative message of May 12, 1949 (HB 938)
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 06/28/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: approval of Gulf States Marine Fisheries Compact, already passed in the Senate (SB 164)
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 06/15/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: creation of a committee to study the entire matter of state and local taxation
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 06/15/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Returning SB 36 to the Senate for further consideration, pursuant to SCR 70
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 05/26/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: creation of a commission to survey and study the state higher education system
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 05/25/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: refunding outstanding bonds of this state
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 05/23/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: stamp affixiation method of collecting certain taxes
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 05/12/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: occupation tax on manufacturing or producing of carbon black (see related message June 30, 1949; HB 938)
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 05/12/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 51st Legislature: adequate voter registration law and interim study of revision of election laws
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 04/20/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: levying and collection of full general fund ad valorem tax for the next two years
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 04/19/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: election of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General for four-year terms, instead of present two-year terms; Four-year terms for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General (observations submitted by Governor Jester in connection with formal message, listing Governor election laws in other states)
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 04/06/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: franchise tax collection, defunct corporations
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 04/04/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: emergency appropriation for state eleemosynary institutions for balance of fiscal year
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 03/30/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: reduction of tax levied for Confederate Pension Fund and authority for Automatic Tax Board to levy tax
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 03/29/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: administration of the one percent motor vehicle sales tax, Article 7047k, V.A.C.S.
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 03/14/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: comprehensive Youth Development Program, emphasizing prevention of juvenile delinquency, scientific diagnosis and treatment, in addition to custodial care; Report and recommendations of the Texas Training School Code Commission
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 03/10/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: emergency appropriation of $3,400 for administration of Rio Grande Compact Commission (HB 264 by Jameson and Isaacks)
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 03/09/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: distribution of electric light and power in rural areas (SB 205 and HB 393)
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 03/07/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting Report of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, dated February 7, 1949, including discussion of Uniform Commercial Code and recommendations for Texas to adopt the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act, Uniform Reciprocal Judgment Act, Uniform Divorce Recognition Act, and Uniform Acknowledgments Act
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 03/01/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Relating to appropriations to the State Library and Historical Commission for library extension services, to serve rural areas and small communities
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 03/01/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Suggesting legislation to encourage industrial safety measures
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 03/01/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 51st Legislature relating to Texas State University for Negroes: authorization for Board of Directors to use student fees to supplement legislative appropriations, issuance of bonds by Board of Directors for dormitories and facilities, and emergency appropriation of $400,000 for operation for the current fiscal year
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 02/22/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Relating to State Recreation Program, tourism, and state parks
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 02/22/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: creation of Texas Commission on the National Capital Sesquicentennial Celebration; report of Commission on Texas' Participation in the National Capital Sesquicentennial Celebration
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 02/21/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Urging study and revision of Texas Constitution of 1876, presenting proposals by Citizens' Committee on the Constitution and House Concurrent Resolution (HCR 31)
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 02/17/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Reporting on financial condition of the state, presenting budget report and recommendations, including table, "Suggestions of expenditures from the General Revenue for State Services for the remainder of the 1947-49 biennium and for the 1949-51 biennium submitted for consideration of the 51st Legislature"
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 02/16/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: appropriation of $156,000 for Texas Highway Patrol due to rise in general operating costs for equipment, materials, and labor
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 02/15/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: anti-lynching legislation (bill introduced by Representative Isaacks, HB 83); formal statement of May 21, 1948 in Report to the People of Texas relating to civil rights and lynching
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 02/15/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: provision of an additional ten million dollars a year to supplement funds available to Texas Highway Department for construction of rural roads
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 02/14/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: establishment of a State Capital Planning Commission
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 02/14/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: appropriation to combat the citrus black fly
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 02/14/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: appropriation of $2,712 for General Education Board to continue grants for school libraries
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 02/09/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 51st Legislature: emergency appropriation to Attorney General of Texas for defeding title to lands beneath navigable waters (tidelands), emergency appropriation to School Land Board for cooperating with other states in opposing federal control of state submerged lands, acts relating to navigable waters, conservation and protection of fish and equatic life in tidal waters, and authorizing issuance of permits for exploration on submerged lands
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 02/07/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: purchase of furniture and library material for Court of Civil Appeals for the Third Supreme Judicial District due to retiring Judges, amount $3,500
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 02/07/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: increase in salaries of state employees for remainder of the current fiscal year
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 02/07/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: ratification of Pecos River Compact
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 01/31/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: emergency appropriation of $70,000 to inaugurate the Records Administration Division in the State Library, for microfilming and preservation of records
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 01/26/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 51st Legislature: recommendations of Gilmer-Aikin committee (HCR 48, public schools)
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 01/25/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 51st Legislature: nine bills in regard to Texas prison system: appropriation of $4,196,075 for capital improvements, emergency appropration bill for operation of prison system for remainder of fiscal year, removing provision that prison designs are approved by State Board of Control, allowing agricultural or manufacturing sales for prisoner employment, repealing industrial revolving fund, providing for disposition of bodies of convicts legally executed, addressing time and expense for prison representatives testifying in trials, providing more overtime for trusties than regular line men, and making escape from pentientiary a felony
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 01/17/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: appropriation of $25,000 from unexpended balance in emergency appropriation by 50th Legislature to Livestock Sanitary Commission to continue quarantines against foot and mouth disease
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 01/17/1949 |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: amendment to the State Equalization Law for 1947-1949 biennium for the purpose of enabling districts to meet their full obligations in financing teachers' salaries
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 06/06/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Returning SB 428 to the Senate for correction, pursuant to HCR 199; and returning HB 250 to the House of Representatives for correction, pursuant to HCR 206
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 06/04/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Relating to veto of SB 374, eleemosynary appropriation bill
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 05/29/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Returning HB 495 to the House of Representatives for correction, pursuant to HCR 146
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 05/29/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: appointment of a commission to study reforms in Code of Criminal Procedure
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 05/23/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Returning SB 148 to the Senate for correction, pursuant to SCR 49
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 05/23/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Returning SB 128 to the Senate for correction, pursuant to SCR 48
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 05/19/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 50th Legislature: establishment of Department of Commerce and Labor to replace the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Industrial Commission, and Post-War Economic Planning Commission; creation of Boxing and Wrestling Commission; recommending legislation on arbitration in labor disputes (HB 403)
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 05/13/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Relating to telephone labor strike at Odessa and creation of Industrial Commission of Texas; submitting emergency matters to the 50th Legislature: labor disputes between management and employees of utilities and required arbitrations
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 05/13/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Returning SB 82 to the Senate for correction of typographical error, pursuant to HCR 113
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 05/13/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: emergency appropriation for State Board of Control, for equipment and supplies and emergency repairs to the third floor of the Capitol in the Senate Chamber
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 05/06/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Returning SB 282 to the Senate for correction, pursuant to SCR 38
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 05/06/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Returning SCR 37 to the Senate, unable to comply with request to return SB 364
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 05/06/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: enlargement of the State Board of Control to handle purchase of surplus property after the close of World War II (HB 832)
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 05/05/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: creation of a State Veterans Commission (HB 18)
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 04/29/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Returning HB 510, 514, 516, 497, and 192 to the House of Representatives, pursuant to HCR 100, 98, 99, 101, and 89
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 04/24/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Returning HB 292 to the House of Representatives, pursuant to HCR 94
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 04/23/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Returning SB 367 to the Senate for correction of typographical error, pursuant to SCR 30
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 04/21/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: redistricting of the state, to provide for equality of representation in the Legislature and equitable distribution of the work load among the district courts
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 04/08/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: reorganizing and reitemizing appropriations and budgets for Attorney General, Secretary of State, and Governor's office
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 04/02/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Returning HB 29 to the House of Representatives for correction, pursuant to HCR 69
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 03/31/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: assistance to municipalities in plans for building airports and participation in the Federal Aid Airport Bill, on recommendation of Texas Aeronautics Commission (SB 193 and HB 334)
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 03/18/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: control or eradication of foxes infected with rabies in East Texas counties
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 03/04/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Returning SB 39 to the House of Representatives for further consideration, pursuant to SCR 14
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 02/12/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: financing the building program of state-supported higher educational institutions, as embraced in SJR 4
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 02/11/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: emergency appropriation of $30,588 for counties in East Texas after forest fires and severe ice storm
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 02/11/1947 |
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Recommending steps to alleviate crowding in higher educational institutions due to influx of World War II veterans under G.I. Bill of Rights, endorsing Constitutional Amendment for university building construction and bond issuance by The University of Texas and Texas A. and M. College (SJR 4)
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 02/03/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: appropriation to Veterans' State Service Office for supplementing appropriations and increasing personnel, due to termination of World War II and numerous disabled veterans
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Beauford H. Jester |
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| 01/30/1947 |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: appropriation to pay salary of the District Attorney of the 28th Judicial District, January 1-August 31, 1947
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Beauford H. Jester |
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