And thereupon said game, birds or fowls shall be transported or shipped by railroad or other common carrier in the name of the person, making said affidavit to the home of said person, and shall mark on the card attached to said game, birds or fowls the words "Affidavit Made." Any person violating the provisions of this Section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, or may be imprisoned in the County jail for not less than five nor more than thirty days, or may be subject to both such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 12. The English or European house sparrows, hawks, crows, buzzards, black birds, rice birds and owls are not included among the birds protected by this Act. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent any person or persons from killing birds that are at the time destroying his growing crop. SEC. 13. Nothing in this Act shall prevent the keeping of any bird in a cage as a domestic pet, provided that such bird shall not be sold or exchanged or offered for sale or exchange, or transported out of the State, provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the sale or shipment of canary birds or parrots. SEC. 14. Whenever in this Act the possession of any bird is prohibited, said prohibition shall apply equally to a bird coming from outside the State as to one taken within the State. SEC. 15. Possession at any time of the year during which the game, birds and wild fowl of the State are protected herein shall be prima facie evidence of the guilt of the person in possession thereof. SEC. 16. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. An Act to amend Section 1, Chapter 132, of the Acts of the Twenty-ninth Legislature, so as to permit the owner of land or lots sold to the State or to any city or town for taxes to redeem the same, with an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That Section 1, Chapter 132, of the Acts of the Regular Session of the Twenty-ninth Legislature be amended so that it shall hereafter read as follows: Section 1. That the owner or any one having an interest in lands or lots heretofore sold to the State, or any city or town under decree of court in any suit or suits brought for the collection of the taxes thereon, or by a collector of taxes or otherwise, shall have the right within two years from the time this act goes into effect to redeem the same upon the payment of the amount of taxes for which sale was made, together with all costs, penalties and interest now required by law, and also the payment of all taxes, interest, penalties and costs on or against said lands or lots at the time of said redemption. And where lands or lots shall hereafter be sold to the State, or to any city or town for taxes under decree of court in any suit or suits brought for collection of taxes thereon, or by a collector of taxes or otherwise, the owner having an interest in such lands or lots shall have the right to redeem the same within two years after such sale, upon payment of the amount of taxes for which sale was made, together with all costs, penalties and interest now required by law; and also the payment of all the taxes, interest, penalties, cost on or against said land or lots at the time of redemption. SEC. 2. The fact that the law now requires double the amount of taxes on redemption, thereby depriving the State of quite a large sum of tax money, creates an emergency and imperative public necessity exists that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended, and the same is hereby suspended, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted. [NOTE. The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing act passed the Senate with the following vote, yeas 25, nays 2, and passed the House of Representatives with the following vote, yeas 90, nays 4.] Approved April 19, 1907. Became a law April 19, 1907. FEES OF OFFICE-AUTHORIZING COMMISSIONER OF LAND OFFICE TO COLLECT CERTAIN FEES. An Act to amend Articles 2437 and 2441 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1895 and Section 10, Chapter 3, of the Acts of the Regular Session of the Legislature of 1905, to authorize the Commissioner of the General Land Office to charge the following fees, with a view of making the land office self-sustaining. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1.— For filing each deed transferring one tract of land.. .50 .25 For copy of any paper, document or record, in the English language, for each 100 words... For filing affidavit of non-settlement and affidavit in rebuttal. .50 .50 1.00 .25 1.00 .50 .20 For copy of any paper, document or record in any other language than the English, for each 100 words... .30 For each translated copy of any paper, document or record, for each 100 words... .35 For copy of any plat er map, fee to be determined with reference to amount of labor required, per hour.. 1.00 For each certificate not otherwise provided for.. .50 5.00 For patent for over 320 acres, up to and including 640.. 6.00 10.00 For Patent for over 1280, up to and including 1476 acres, or one-third league... 12.50 For patent for over 1476 and containing less than 4605 acres, or one league and labor.... 15.00 20.00 20.00 1.00 For patent for one league and labor (4605 acres). Where an examination of the records of the land office is de- .50 1.00 FEES FOR CERTIFIED COPIES. Fee for certified copy of certificate of the class of toby scrip... 2.50 1.00 For application to buy the school land with obligation for deferred payment.. 1.25 .75 For proof of occupancy.. 1.00 For deed of transfer or bond for title, or power of attorney 1.50 1.25 For application for surveyor, Act of February 23, 1900. For blue print copies of maps $3.00 to $8.00, copy of map or part thereof depends upon each order and estimates will be furnished upon receipt at request. SEC. 2. All laws and parts in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. The fact that the Constitution requires that the Land Office shall be self-sustaining, and that there is not a good and sufficient fee bill governing the General Land Office creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity which demands that the Constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted. Approved April 19, 1907. Takes effect ninety days after adjournment. MINERAL BEARING SCHOOL LANDS-PROVIDING FOR S. B. No. 220.] CHAPTER CXLVII. An Act to authorize the Commissioner of the General Land Office of Texas to Appoint a surveyor or surveyors and have such surveying done in the territory between the Pecos River and the Rio Grande river as may be necessary to definitely locate the mineral bearing school land surveys and cooperate with the Director of the United States Geological survey in making a topographic survey and map of the localities as surveyed, and making an appropria tion therefor, and making the disturbance of land marks and topographical marks a misdemeanor, and providing for the survey and resurvey of lands owned or claimed by the State of Texas, or which the Commissioner of the Land office may deem expedient to have surveyed or resurveyed, to determine the boundary lines of said survey and to ascertain whether the same should be claimed or sued for by the State of Texas, when deemed necessary by the Commissioner of the General Land Office to have such surveyed or resurveyed. authorizing the Commissioner to designate and employ such surveyor to be known as special State Surveyor to make such survey or resurvey, and providing for their compensation for the payment of incidental expenses connected with such survey or resurvey, and providing for the making and the return of field notes and plat thereof, for the filing of such field notes and plat in the General Land Office; declaring the effect thereof, making an appropriation to carry out the purpose of this act, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. The Commissioner of the General Land Office of Texas may employ a State surveyor, or surveyors, whose duty it shall be to definitely locate on the ground such school land surveys, or blocks of surveys as the said Commissioner may designate between the Pecos River and the Rio Grande River, commencing at such point in the mineral bearing territory of Brewster county as may appear to be most advantageous to the State. The said surveyor, or surveyors, shall qualify as now provided by statute for State survevors before entering upon his duties, and shall be under the direction of, and subject to the orders of said Commissioner. He shall file in the General Land Office the field notes and maps of his work and when approved by the Com missioner, the lines so established, as evidenced by such field notes and maps shall be the established lines of the surveyors or blocks of surveys represented thereby. All surveys made shall be marked by permanent natural or artificial objects. The said surveyor shall receive for his services, not to exceed One hundred and Sixty Five dollars per month, and to be paid in the same manner as are other employes of the said Land Office. SEC. 2. The Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby authorized to confer with the Director of the United States Geological survey and to accept the cooperation of the United States with this State in the execution of a topographic survey and map of the territory which is hereby authorized to be surveyed. The said Commissioner shall have the power to arrange with said director, or other authorized representative of the United States Geological Survey concerning the details of said work and the method of its execution; provided that the said Director of the United States Geological Survey shall agree to expend on the part of the United States upon said work, a sum equal to that hereby appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary to secure the proper topographic map or maps. In arranging details heretofore referred to, the said Commissioner shall, in addition to such other provisions as he may deem wise, require that the topographer in charge shall give a bond in the sum of Five Thousand Dollars, conditioned and payable the same as that required of the Surveyor provided for above, and that the maps resulting from this survey shall be similar in general design and quality to the Van Horn quadrangle of El Paso county, edition of March, 1906, made by the United States Geological survey, and shall show the outlines of all surveys, and kinds of timber and vegetable growth of commercial value, the location of all natural or artificial water, roads and shall show the contour lines showing the elevation and depression for every one hundred feet in vertical interval of the surface of the county; that the resulting map or maps shall wholly recognize the cooperation of the State of Texas and that as each manuscript quadrangle of the map or maps is completed the Commissioner shall be furnished by the United States Geological survey with photographic copies of the same, and as the engraving on each quadrangle is completed, the Commissioner shall be furnished by said Director with the resulting maps. SEC. 3. Should any person, or persons, owning private lands which alternate with the school land desire to cooperate with the Commissioner of the General Land Office in having the surveying done and in having the topographic map or maps, made as above provided for, such services and cooperation may be accepted upon a fair division of the expense. SEC. 4. For the purpose of carrying out the foregoing provisions of this act the sum of Five Thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury which is not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 5. Should any person in this State destroy or deface any mark or object fixed or established as a line, corner or bearing of any survey, or any permanent mark or any bench mark made or set by the topographical surveyors he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, |