A. School Lands 428,177.00
B. University Lands 252,230.00
C. A&M Lands 1,579.00
D. Prison Lands 5,889.00
E. State Park Lands 112.00
F. State Hospital and Special Schools Lands 356.00
Total Leased Acreage 688,343.00
ANNUAL ROYALTY
Period Ending August 31, 1956
Oil Gas Total
A. School Lands $11,987,467.00 $2,115,954.00 $14,103,421.00
(Other Royalty) 288,351.00
B. University Lands 13,132,713.00 470,650.00 13,603,363.00
C. A&M Lands 8,664.00 - 0 - 8,664.00
D. Prison Lands 39,957.00 993.00 40,950.00
E. State Park Lands 56.00 - 0 - 56.00
F. State Hospital and 9,790.00 - 0 - 9,790.00
Special Schools Lands
Total Annual Royalty $25,178,647.00 $2,587,597.00 $28,054,595.00
AUTOMOBILES—REGULATING RUNNING OF SAME.
H. B. No. 93.] Chapter XCVI.
An Act to regulate the running of automobiles and motor vehicles, and
the requiring of the owner of such machine to register his name
and the number of his machine with the county clerk of the county
in which he resides, for the violation of which a penalty is
provided.
Section 1. _Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:_ All
owners of automobiles or motor vehicles shall before using such vehicles
or machines upon the public roads, streets or driveways, register with
the county clerk of the county in which he resides, his name, which name
shall be registered by the county clerk in consecutive order in a book
to be kept for that purpose, and shall be numbered in the order of their
registration, and it shall be the duty of such owner or owners to
display in a conspicuous place on said machine the number so registered,
which number shall be in figures not less than six inches in height. The
county clerk shall be paid by such owner or owners a fee of fifty cents
for each machine registered.
Sec. 2. No automobile or motor vehicle shall be driven or operated upon
any public road, street or driveway at a greater rate of speed than
eighteen miles an hour, or upon any public road, street or driveway
within the built up portions of any city, town or village, the limits of
which shall be fixed by the municipal officers thereof, at a greater
rate of speed than eight miles an hour, except where such city or town
may by an ordinance or by-law allow a greater rate of speed, provided
the speed limit shall not apply to race courses or speedways.
Sec. 3. No person in charge of an automobile or motor vehicle on any
public road, street or driveway shall drive the same at any speed
greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the traffic and
use of the public road, street or driveway by others, or so as to
endanger the life or limb of any person thereon.
Sec. 4. All drivers or operators of automobiles or motor vehicles are
prohibited from racing upon any public road, street or driveway.
Sec. 5. Any person driving or operating an automobile or motor vehicle
shall at the request, or signal by putting up the hand, or by other
visible signal from a person riding or driving a horse or horses or
other domestic animal, cause such vehicle or machine to come to a
standstill as quickly as possible and to remain stationary long enough
to allow such animal to pass.
Sec. 6. Every driver or operator of an automobile or motor vehicle shall
have attached thereto a suitable bell or other appliance for giving
notice of its approach, so that when such attachment is rung or
otherwise operated it may be heard a distance of three hundred feet, and
shall carry a lighted lamp between one hour after and one hour before
sunrise.
Sec. 7. Every one who violates any of these six sections shall be
punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than one
hundred dollars.
Sec. 8. The near approach of the end of the session and the demand for
immediate legislation on this subject constitutes an imperative public
necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read in
each house of the Legislature on three several days be suspended, and
this act take effect from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
Approved April 15, 1907.
Takes effect ninety days after adjournment.
_TEXAS FIRST TRAFFIC LAW_
PASSED BY 30TH LEGISLATURE, 1907
[Illustration: _A picture of a picture_]
_Little did this group of Sunday drivers realize they were making
history one day 56 years ago when they stopped to have their picture
taken. But today the original photograph, in the form of a glass plate,
is kept on display at the Dallas Historical Society Museum as the first
automobile to be licensed in Dallas County. Marvin Bradshaw, Right of
Way Agent at Dallas in District 18 of the Texas Highway Department,
visited the museum and asked permission to take a picture of the
picture. Under the supervision of a museum attendant, the glass plate
was taken outside in the sunlight, where Bradshaw placed a piece of
sensitive paper under the plate to obtain a “sun proof.” A temporary
image was then taken to the photo lab where camera copy was made of it.
The car was registered under the name of J. M. Oran in 1907._