this State, nor shall said aides-de-camp be ineligible from serving as chairman or member of any committee of any political party or organization. SEC. 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. The near approach of the end of the present session of the Legislature, and the crowded condition of the calendar, and the importance of this Act, create an emergency and an imperative public necessity for the suspension of the Constitutional rule which requires all bills to be read on three several days, and said rule is hereby suspended, and this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted. Approved February 24, 1911. Becomes a law ninety days after adjournment. MRS. FOR THE ELIZABETH CROCKETT-PROVIDING An Act to provide for the erection of a monument over the remains of Mrs. Elizabeth Crockett, the wife of David Crockett, in the cemetery at Acton, Hood county, Texas; to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That a monument be erected, in the cemetery at Acton, Hood county, Texas, under the supervision of the Governor and Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, over the remains of Mrs. Elizabeth Crockett, the wife of David Crockett, one of the heroes who sacrificed his life at the Alamo, for the independence of Texas, and that the sum of two thousand ($2,000.00) dollars, be appropriated for that purpose out of any funds in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, and the Comptroller of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to issue warrants for the costs thereof upon accounts therefor, approved by the Governor. Section 1a. There shall be placed upon said monument such inscription as in the judgment of the Governor may be suitable and appropriate. SEC. 2. The fact that many years have elapsed since the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Crockett, and no suitable expression having yet been made to the memory of the wife of one of the heroes of the Alamo, and that the monument provided for should be erected without delay, create an emergency and an imperative public necessity, 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 February 25, 1911. Becomes a law ninety days after adjournment. GAINES COUNTY-VALIDATING AND LEGALIZING SALES An Act to validate and legalize all sales of real estate belonging or that belonged to Gaines county, situated in the town of Seminole, in Gaines county, heretofore made at private sale for and in behalf of said county, by J. W. Miller in his representative capacity as commissioner, under appointment of the commissioners court of said county, by orders entered upon its minutes, to sell and dispose of real estate of said county situated in said town, and also validating all conveyances of said real estate made by said commissioner as such, in consummating such sales, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That all sales of real estate belonging or that belonged to Gaines county, situated in the town of Seminole, in Gaines county, in the State of Texas, heretofore made at private sale and not at public auction, for and in behalf of said county, by J. W. Miller, acting in his representative capacity as commissioner, under appointment of the commissioners court of said county, by orders entered upon the minutes of said court, to sell and dispose of the said real estate of said county, situated in the town of Seminole, in said Gaines county, and all conveyances of said real estate made by said commissioner, appointed as aforesaid to sell and dispose of said real estate, be and the same are hereby validated, and said sales shall be held good and valid to all intents and purposes, as though made by said commissioner at public auction instead at private sale. SEC. 2. For the reasons stated in this Act, title to the lots sold in Gaines county, situated in the town of Seminole, are supposed to be defective, and, by reason of said supposed defects, the owners of said lots who have paid said county full value therefor are unable to sell same until said defects are removed, and the rights of said parties are thereby in danger, creates an emergency, and an imperative public necessity, that the Constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended, and said rule is so suspended, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted. Approved March 1, 1911. Becomes a law ninety days after adjournment. FORCIBLE ENTRY AND DETAINER-ALLOWING SUIT FOR RENT TO BE JOINED WITH SAME. An Act to allow a suit for rent to be joined with an action of forcible entry and detainer wherever the amount of the rent is within the jurisdiction of the justice court, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That Title 49 of the Revised Statutes of Texas of 1895, be amended so as to add to Article 2523, of said Title, another article to be known as Article 2523a, which shall read as follows: Article 2523a. A suit for rent may be joined with an action of forcible entry and detainer, wherever the suit for rent is within the jurisdiction of the justice court. In such case the court, in rendering judgment in the action of forcible entry and detainer, may at the same time render judgment for any rent due the landlord by the renter; provided the amount thereof is within the jurisdiction of the justice court SEC. 2. The inconvenience of being compelled to bring separate actions where demands are rendered, one for the possession and one for the rent, and the near approach of the close of the present session of the Legislature, create an emergency and an imperative public necessity, that the rule requiring bills to be read on three several occasions be suspended, and the same is hereby suspended, and this bill is put upon its third reading and final passage. Approved February 25, 1911. Becomes a law ninety days after adjournment. CORPORATION LAW-AMENDING ARTICLE 642, REVISED STATUTES, BY ADDING SECTIONS 24a AND 24b. An Act to amend Article 642, Title 21, Chapter 2, of the Revised Statutes of the State of Texas, by adding thereto Section 24a, providing that corporations may be created for the purpose of gathering and harvesting cotton, and also by adding thereto Section 24b, providing that corporations may be created for the purpose of doing a general advertising business. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That Article 642, Title 21, Chapter 2, of the Revised Statutes of the State of Texas, shall be amended by adding thereto the following sections: Section 24a. Corporations may be created for the purpose of gathering and harvesting cotton; provided that the authorized capital stock of corporations authorized by this Section shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars. Section 24b. Corporations may be created for the purpose of doing a general advertising business. Approved February 27, 1911. Becomes a law ninety days after adjournment. PANDERING-PROHIBITING AND PROVIDING PUNISHMENT H. B. No. 23.] THEREFOR. CHAPTER 23. An Act creating the offense of pandering, and to define and prohibit the same; to provide for the punishment thereof, for the competency of certain evidence at the trial therefor, and providing what shall not be a defense, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. Any person who shall procure or attempt to procure or be concerned in procuring, with or without her consent, a female inmate for a house of prostitution, or who, by promises, threats, violence or by any device or schemes, shall cause, induce, persuade or encourage a female person to become an inmate of a house of prostitution, or shall procure a place as inmate in a house of prostitution for a female person, or any person who shall, by promises, threats, violence or by any device. or scheme, cause, induce, persuade or encourage an inmate of a house of prostitution to remain therein as such inmate, or son who shall, by fraud or artifice, or by duress of person or goods, or by abuse of any position of confidence or authority, procure any female person to become or remain an inmate of a house of ill fame, or to enter any place in which prostitution is encouraged or allowed in this State, or to come into this State or leave this State for the purpose of prostitution, or who shall procure any female person to become an inmate of a house of ill fame within this State, or to come into this State or to leave this State for the purpose of prostitution, or who shall give or agree to receive or give any money or thing of value for procuring, or attempting to procure, any female person to become an inmate of a house of ill fame within this State, or to come into this State or leave this State for the purpose of prostitution, shall be guilty of pandering, and, upon conviction for an offense under this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary for any term of years, not less than five. SEC. 2. It shall not be a defense to a prosecution for any of the Acts prohibited in the foregoing section, that any part of such act or acts shall have been committed outside this State, and the offense shall in such case be deemed and alleged to have been committed and the offender tried and punished in any county in which the prostitution was intended to be practiced, or in which the offense was consummated, or in which any overt acts in furtherance of the offense shall have been committed. SEC. 3. Any such female person referred to in the foregoing sections shall be a competent witness in any prosecution under this Act to testify for or against the accused as to any transaction or as to any conversation with the accused or by such accused with another person or persons in her presence, notwithstanding her having married the accused before or after the violation of the provisions of this Act, whether called as a witness during the existence of the marriage or after its dissolution; provided, however, that any testimony or statement given by such female during the trial for any such offense above named shall not be used as evidence against her in any criminal prosecution. SEC. 4. Any person who shall keep, or be concerned in keeping or maintaining, any house or station or place of rendezvous or place of resort for females, under the guise of securing, for such female, a place of employment, but with the intent to place such female in a house of prostitution or in the possession of another person, to be used for prostitution, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of years not less than five. Any person keeping such house or station or place of rendezvous or resort for females, who shall employ any other person to procure any female to go to such place of resort, shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for any term of years not less than five. SEC. 5. The act or state of marriage shall not be a defense to any violation of this Act. SEC. 6. The fact that there is no law in this State governing this offense creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the Constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each House be suspended, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted. Approved March 1, 1911. Becomes a law ninety days after adjournment. COUNTY COURT OF KENDALL COUNTY, TEXAS.-DEMINISHING THE CIVIL AND CRIMINAL JURIS H. B. No. 478.] DICTION OF SAME. CHAPTER 24. An Act to diminish the civil and criminal jurisdiction of the County Court of Kendall County; to conform [to] the jurisdiction of the district courts thereto, and to repeal all laws in conflict therewith, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That the County Court of Kendall County shall have and exercise the general jurisdiction of probate courts, shall probate wills, appoint guardians of minors, idiots, lunatics, persons non compos mentis and common drunkards, grant letters testamentary and of administration, settle accounts as [of] executors, administrators, and guardians and transact all business appertaining to estates of deceased persons, minors, idiots, lunatics, persons non compos mentis and common drunkards, including partition, settlement and distribution of estates of deceased persons, and to apprentice minors as provided by law, and to issue all writs necessary for the enforcement of its own jurisdiction, to punish contempt under such provisions as are now or may be provided by the general law governing county courts throughout the State, but the said county court of |