HB 8 42-0 (1931)
Author: Pope, Walter Elmer "Uncle Elmer"
Relating to providing that it shall be unlawful for any officer or employee of this State or any other person to build, construct, erect or maintain any building, structure, memorial, monument, or statue within the inclosure around the Capitol ground in the City of Austin, without the authority theretofore given by statute or concurrent resolution by the Legislature of the State of Texas; and prescribing a penalty.
HB 33 42-0 (1931)
Author: McGill, Joseph
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept and award all applications for the re-purchase of public school land situated in Culberson County.
HB 61 42-0 (1931)
Author: Wagstaff, Robert McAlpine
Relating to validating the surveys of all lands heretofore or hereafter made and returned to the General Land Office, vesting the title to lands included within the lines of said surveys as returned to the General Land Office, in the parties for which same were made and their heirs, successors and assigns.
HB 62 42-0 (1931)
Author: Wagstaff, Robert McAlpine
Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to limit the venue of suits instituted by the Attorney General for Public lands or for rents for same or damages thereto to the county of the defendant's residence or the county where the land lies.
HB 72 42-0 (1931)
Author: Harrison, Julian P. | et. al.
Relating to providing for the issuance of patents to the bona fide occupants and claimants of lands which have been found by the Supreme Court of the United States to be in Texas, under the Decree of New Mexico vs. Texas.
HB 81 42-0 (1931)
Author: Bond, Thomas R.
Relating to amending certain statutes providing that any one contracting with the State of Texas or its political subdivisions for the construction of public buildings or the prosecution and completion of any public work, there shall be retained not less than ten per cent (10%) of the funds due and to become due to the contractor until final completion of said contract.
HB 114 42-0 (1931)
Author: Moore, Helen | et. al.
Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas to deed, convey, assign and/or transfer all right, title and interest of whatsoever class, kind or character, belonging to the State of Texas, in and to certain abutting property known as the Texas City or Government Dike, to the City of Texas City in Galveston County, Texas.
HB 121 42-0 (1931)
Author: McGregor, Temple Harris
Relating to providing that the commissioner of the general land office be authorized and directed to search out, locate, describe and plat all tracts, lots, pieces and parcels of land lying and being within the city limits of the city of Austin and belonging to the State of Texas.
HB 124 42-0 (1931)
Author: Wiggs, Wilburn H.
Relating to confirming and validating the sale by the State, acting through the Board of Regents, of the University of Texas, of certain University lands situated in Lamar County, Texas, reserving to the State the minerals in said lands and creating an emergency.
HB 169 42-0 (1931)
Author: McGregor, Temple Harris | et. al.
Relating to authorizing and directing the board of control to acquire by purchase or condemnation certain tracts and parcels of land along the Colorado River within the city of Austin, and to establish thereon and maintain a state park.
HB 188 42-0 (1931)
Author: McGregor, Temple Harris
Relating to providing that the State Board of Control, acting jointly with the State Highway Commission of Texas, be authorized and directed to erect a state office building to be known as the State Highway Building.
HB 266 42-0 (1931)
Author: Carpenter, William C.
Relating to validating the surveys of all lands heretofore and hereafter made and returned to the general land office which surveys are located in whole or in part within the corporate limits of any city, town or village within this State.
HB 270 42-0 (1931)
Author: McGregor, Temple Harris
Relating to authorizing and directing the State Board of Control to acquire either by purchase or condemnation a tract of land immediately east of the Capitol Campus and to erect thereon a building to be known as The State Hall of Records.
HB 358 42-0 (1931)
Author: Wagstaff, Robert McAlpine
Relating to amending certain statutes relating to the sale and lease of oil and gas leases on coastal areas and unsold unsurveyed school land.
HB 376 42-0 (1931)
Author: Burns, I. J.
Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas, to deed, convey, assign and/or transfer all right, title, and interest of whatsoever class, kind, or character directly or indirectly belonging to the State of Texas in and to that tract of land known as the Melvin Park Site situated at the edge of the town of Melvin, in McCulloch County, Texas, to D. J. Malstrom.
HB 463 42-0 (1931)
Author: Johnson, Arthur C.
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept and award all applications for the repurchase of Public School Land in Dallam County.
HB 619 42-0 (1931)
Author: Hubbard, Robert Moss
Relating to providing for and authorizing the exchange between the State of Texas and the Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company of certain lands belonging to them, respectively, situated in Waller County, Texas.
HB 713 42-0 (1931)
Author: Hubbard, Robert Moss
Relating to providing for the transfer of title of certain lands to the State Highway Commission consisting of two separate tracts, one being across Copano Pass in Aransas County, the other across Lavaca Bay in Calhoun County, lying under, along, and adjacent to the Causeways and their approaches now under construction, on State Highway No. 57.
HB 735 42-0 (1931)
Author: McGill, Joseph
Relating to authorizing the State Board of Control to lease public grounds and property of the State for agricultural and/or commercial purposes.
HB 819 42-0 (1931)
Author: Nicholson, Carl Edmund | et. al.
Relating to granting to the City of Port Arthur, Texas, all rights, title and interest of the State of Texas to certain land lying and being situated in and under the waters of Lake Sabine.
HB 847 42-0 (1931)
Author: Keller, Jack
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept and reward all applications for re-purchase of Public school land situated in Brewster County and Loving County, Texas.
HB 1014 42-0 (1931)
Author: Rountree, Frances Mitchell
Relating to authorizing the Governor on the recommendation of the State Highway Commission to convey title to land acquired by the State for highway purposes where after the acquisition thereof such land is no longer needed for such purposes because of a change in the route of such Highway, or the abandonment thereof.
HB 1025 42-0 (1931)
Author: Stevenson, Coke Robert
Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to convey, by proper instrument, all the right, title and interest of the State of Texas, in and to, four (4) certain described tracts of land, situated in Kerr County, Texas.
SB 3 42-0 (1931)
Author: Hornsby, John William
Relating to providing for the acquisition of land for and the construction of a State Office Building; making an appropriation.
SB 43 42-0 (1931)
Author: Berkeley, Benjamin Franklin
Relating to the repurchase of certain public school land in Culberson County.
SB 55 42-0 (1931)
Author: Small, Sr., Charles Clinton "Clint"
Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to limit the venue of suits instituted by the Attorney General for Public lands or for rents by same or damages thereto to the county of the defendant's residence or the county were the land lies.
SB 70 42-0 (1931)
Author: Holbrook, Thomas Jefferson
Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas, to deed, convey, assign and/or transfer all right, title and interest of whatsoever class, kind or character, directly or indirectly belonging to the State of Texas, except the mineral rights herein, in and to certain abutting property known as the Texas City or Government Dike, to the City of Texas City in Galveston County, Texas.
SB 91 42-0 (1931)
Author: Holbrook, Thomas Jefferson
Relative to authorizing the acquisition by the government of the United States of American of land, water or land and water within the State of Texas, for migratory bird reservations authorized by Act of Congress February 18, 1929.
SB 110 42-0 (1931)
Author: Williamson, W. Albert "Cap"
Relating to authorizing the acquisition by the Government of the United States of America of land, water, or land and water, within the State of Texas, for migratory bird reservations authorized by Act of Congress of Feb 18, 1929.
SB 112 42-0 (1931)
Author: Thomason, William Edgar
Relative to declaring State Game Preserves to be a public use and authorizing the State Game Fish and Oyster Commission to purchase land when needed for use as State Game Preserves.
SB 125 42-0 (1931)
Author: Neal, Mary Elizabeth "Margie" | et. al.
Relating to withdrawing from sale the bed of Caddo Lake and all public and school lands adjacent thereto, preserving the same to public use as a Fish and Game reserve and a public park.
SB 184 42-0 (1931)
Author: Holbrook, Thomas Jefferson
Relating to validating the surveys of lands heretofore and hereafter made and returned to the General Land Office and all valid grants by former governments, which surveys are located in whole or in part within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village withing this State.
SB 194 42-0 (1931)
Author: Holbrook, Thomas Jefferson
Relating to authorizing the Texas Prison System, by and with the consent of the Governor and the Attorney General, to grant and lease to districts, companies, firms, and individuals carrying on, or formed for the purpose of carrying on, an irrigation business, rights-of-way for irrigation canals, laterals, flumes, and ditches, not over 150 feet in width along, across and over lands owned by the State as a part of the Penitentiary System.
SB 196 42-0 (1931)
Author: Hornsby, John William
Relating to making an appropriation for the re-roofing, repairing, and equipping of the old Land Office Building.
SB 205 42-0 (1931)
Author: Patton, Nat | et. al.
Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State to lease Red Fish Reef to C.E. Biggers of San Leon, Galveston County for a period of ten years for the purpose of making said Reef, or Island, suitable as a place for public use and recreation.
SB 213 42-0 (1931)
Author: Hornsby, John William | et. al.
Relating to providing for the sale, development and patenting of mineral deposits, placers, veins, lodes, or any rock carrying metallic or non-metallic substances of value; providing penalties.
SB 279 42-0 (1931)
Author: Moore, Joseph M. "Joe"
Relating to the sale of University Land Oil and Gas by Board of Control.
SB 280 42-0 (1931)
Author: Moore, Joseph M. "Joe" | et. al.
Relating to conferring upon the Board of Regents of the University of Texas authority heretofore vesting in the Board for lease of University lands; making an appropriation.
SB 310 42-0 (1931)
Author: Small, Sr., Charles Clinton "Clint"
Relating to public school and asylum lands; providing that the original sales affecting lands with mineral reservation may be enlarged to include 15/16 of the minerals in the owners of the soil, reserving to the State 1/16 interest in said minerals as royalty.
SB 339 42-0 (1931)
Author: Holbrook, Thomas Jefferson
Relating to amending certain Acts providing for the exemption of property from taxation.
SB 343 42-0 (1931)
Author: Parrish, Pinkney L. "Pink"
Relating to authorizing and requiring the Commissioner of the General Land Office and the Board for Lease of University Lands to employ a geologist for the purpose of investigating the mineral bearing possibilities and potential value of the lands belonging to the public free school fund.
SB 363 42-0 (1931)
Author: Parr, Archer "Archie"
Relating to providing for the sale to the City of Port Isabel of certain submerged land under the waters of Laguna Madre in Cameron County, Texas, adjacent to the City of Port Isabel, prescribing the terms and conditions of such sale.
SB 371 42-0 (1931)
Author: Woodward, Walter Calisto | et. al.
Relating to providing for and directing the taxation of mineral rights in public school lands sold by the State with a mineral reservation against the owner while said lands are under lease by the owner of the soil for himself or as the State's agent, providing the means and manner thereof, and for back assessments and collections.
SB 403 42-0 (1931)
Author: Berkeley, Benjamin Franklin | et. al.
Relating to declaring lands set apart for the endowment of the University of Texas by the Constitution of 1876, and by an Act of the Legislature of 1883, which are now unsold, to be subject to taxation for county purposes in the counties in which they are located.
SB 481 42-0 (1931)
Author: Small, Sr., Charles Clinton "Clint"
Relating to regulating the sale and patenting of lands formerly claimed as a part of Oklahoma but awarded to the State of Texas in the case of the State of Oklahoma vs. the State of Texas, the United States of America, Intervenor, and which are now located in the Counties of Lipscomb, Hemphill, Wheeler, Collingsworth and Childress; providing for the effective date of sales.
SB 485 42-0 (1931)
Author: Neal, Mary Elizabeth "Margie" | et. al.
Relating to authorizing the State Board of Control to acquire land for and establish five major State Parks situated respectively in the areas of Caddo Lake, Palo Pinto County, Palo Duro Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains and Davis Mountains.
SB 494 42-0 (1931)
Author: Moore, Joseph M. "Joe"
Relating to providing for the sale by the Commissioner of the General Land Office at auction of oil and gas leases on unsold Public Free School and Asylum lands.
SB 511 42-0 (1931)
Author: Small, Sr., Charles Clinton "Clint"
Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land office of the State of Texas to deed, convey, assign and/or transfer all right, title, and interest of whatsoever class, kind, or character directly of indirectly belonging to the State of Texas in and to that tract of land known as the "Wayside State Park, Wayside, Texas, 120 acres situated in the Palo Duro Canyon, Armstrong County, in the State of Texas, to H. G. Bowe of Swisher County, Texas.
SB 536 42-0 (1931)
Author: Parrish, Pinkney L. "Pink"
Relating to providing for the extension of the benefits of Senate Bill No. 310, passed by the Regular Session of the 42nd Legislature, to persons who have previously made leases and for the refunding to them the money heretofore paid.
SB 544 42-0 (1931)
Author: Greer, Julian Preston
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept and award all applications for the repurchase of certain public school land located in El Paso County, Texas.
SB 560 42-0 (1931)
Author: Williamson, W. Albert "Cap"
Relating to providing for the curing, obtaining evidences of, investigating of and reporting on titles to State lands; making an appropriation.
SB 577 42-0 (1931)
Author: Beck, John W. E. H.
Relating to appropriating the sum of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars to be used by the Leasing Board of Eleemosynary and State Memorial Park lands to be used for advertising for bids of mineral leases on lands owned and held by the State as State Eleemosynary and State Memorial Park lands for oil and gas leases.
SB 584 42-0 (1931)
Author: Purl, George Clark | et. al.
Relating to regulating the use of the State Capitol and State Buildings by telegraph companies.
SB 585 42-0 (1931)
Author: Parr, Archer "Archie" | et. al.
Relating to creating the Board of Mansion Supervisors.
SB 591 42-0 (1931)
Author: Moore, Joseph M. "Joe"
Relating to authorizing the Governor on the recommendation of the State Highway Commission to convey title to land acquired by the State for highway purposes.
SB 610 42-0 (1931)
Author: Parrish, Pinkney L. "Pink"
Relating to providing that oil, gas and mineral leases heretofore or hereafter granted on the public lands of the State, in which the State retains a royalty of the portion of the gross production of the oil, gas and other minerals or of the value thereof, shall not be subject to income or other taxed levied by the United States.
SB 612 42-0 (1931)
Author: Cousins, Sr., William Roy | et. al.
Relating to providing for the granting of certain easements to the United States Government in a portion of the present and former bed of Sabine Lake in and adjacent to the Port Arthur Canal and the Sabine-Neches Canal.
