Hunt Co., TX - Newspapers - New Laws in Effect, 1929 *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: "Sarah Swindell" Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************** New Laws in Effect Following is some of our new laws now in effect: Requiring three-day notice of intention to marry and physician's certificate for man. Authorizing self paying dormitories at University of Texas. Create rural credit loans. Place motor truck lines under railroad commission. Theft of cotton or cottonseed a felony. Unlawful to drink in airplane or common carrier. Real estate sold for taxes only on foreclosure suit. School teachers must be American citizens. Minimum school age six years, beginning September 1st. Regulating pharmacists. Felony to steal fowls. Unlawful to contribute to delinquency of a minor. Poll tax receipt may be mailed. Cities may annex territory by majority vote. Create board of nurse examiners. Extend tick eradication work to all parts of the state. Authorize state pellagra and cancer hospital. Unlawful to entice laborers from plantation. Jail terms for wife and child desertion. Highways shall be forty to one hundred feet wide. Bond required for state or public contracts. Prohibit justices and constables from collecting debts. Prohibit blacklisting of workmen. Regulate mutual aid societies. Regulate making of returns in primary elections. School funds may be invested in university pledges. "True measure" law to prohibit fraud in gasoline sales. Pure seed law. Pensions shall be paid monthly and increase pensions of Confederate soldiers amended in special session, restoring quarterly payments and raising widows to same pension as veterans. Physical education compulsory in public schools. Protect fur-bearing animals. (August 13, 1929, The Greenville Messenger)