Legislation authored by Washington Mingus Whitesides
Includes legislation with Washington Mingus Whitesides as the primary author for the 47th through 48th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 48th Regular Session | |
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| HB 199 | Caption: Relating to making appropriation of certain sums of money, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of the General Revenue Fund to pay taxes due by the State to a certain independent school district. |
| HB 211 | Caption: Relating to abolishing the death penalty in Texas and providing that no person may be given the death penalty upon conviction of any offense against the laws of this State. |
| HB 270 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas to establish and maintain a Tomato Disease Laboratory and Agricultural Experiment Station at some point within the limits of Cherokee County in the State of Texas for the purpose of making scientific investigations and experiments in the production of tomatoes, cotton, corn, livestock, fruit trees, and other farm crops; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 372 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the transfer of the title to 20-3/10 acres of land, more or less, from the Rusk State Hospital to the Texas State Railroad with full authority to lease or dispose of it as plant sites for industries located on said Railroad by its Board of Managers, or Manager, that said Railroad does not own land on its right of way suitable for plant sites to its great loss in revenue. |
| HB 523 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the conveyance by the State Board of Control of the State of Texas of certain land for the purpose of constructing blast furnaces, iron foundries and any and all other improvements for the purpose of developing the iron ore deposits in the vicinity of Rusk in Cherokee County, Texas. |
| HCR 41 | Caption: Providing for a committee to draft a new State Constitution. |
| HCR 75 | Caption: Relating to the construction of certain plants. |
| HJR 22 | Caption: Proposing an amendment providing that Members of the Legislature shall receive a salary of Ten Dollars ($10) per day, shall be subject to call at any time and shall be entitled to mileage at five cents (5ยข) a mile for each mile traveled coming to and going from the seat of Government. |
| HR 144 | Caption: In memory of William S. Pritchett. |
| 47th Regular Session | |
| HB 110 | Caption: Relating to creating and dedicating a State Park known as Jim Hogg Memorial Park in Cherokee County, two (2) miles Northeast of the Town of Rusk. |
| HB 111 | Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes relative to administrative provisions enacted for the allocation of funds from Gasoline Tax. |
| HB 337 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas to establish and maintain a Tomato Disease Laboratory and Agricultural Experiment Station in Cherokee County for the purpose of making scientific investigations and experiments in the production of certain farm crops; making an appropriation. |
| HB 376 | Caption: Relating to making appropriation of certain sums of money out of the General Revenue Fund to pay taxes due by the State to a certain independent school district. |
| HB 475 | Caption: Relating to providing for additional maintenance and bond tax in certain independent school districts for the purpose of constructing adequate school buildings. |
| HB 497 | Caption: Relating to appropriating a certain amount for creation and improvement of Jim Hogg Memorial Park in Cherokee County. |
| HB 583 | Caption: Relating to providing for the construction, establishment and maintenance of two buildings on State land as part of the Rusk State Hospital for the care, treatment, and support of epileptic and feeble minded negroes; making an appropriation. |
| HB 584 | Caption: Relating to fixing an open season for taking squirrels in certain counties; providing a penalty. |
| HB 585 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to hunt, take, or kill any squirrel except during the months of October, November, and December in Nacogdoches and Cherokee Counties; providing for a penalty. |
| HB 859 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to kill quail in Cherokee County except on certain days of the week during certain dates; providing a penalty. |
| HB 1040 | Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate of tax to be levied for school purposes in certain independent school districts. |
| HB 1057 | Caption: Relating to providing an open season for quail for a certain period of time in Cherokee County. |
| HCR 73 | Caption: Granting Roger Hale and Homer Sessions permission to sue the State of Texas and the State Board of Control. |
| HJR 3 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that unless there shall be attached to each bill appropriating money when presented to the Governor, a certificate under oath executed by the Comptroller of Public Accounts stating that in the opinion of the Comptroller, the cash from the current revenues of the State not otherwise appropriated will be adequate and available to pay the sums appropriated when due, if such bill shall not become a law. |
| HR 298 | Caption: In memory of John C. Box of Cherokee County. |
| 47th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 9 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statutes with reference to administrative provisions enacted for the allocation of funds from Gasoline Tax to provide for the eligibility of defined Road Districts to participate in the distribution of moneys coming into the County and Road District Highway Fund for the payment of bonds voted by such Road District prior to January 2, 1939. |