Table B.
| MINERAL ESTATE | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Acres | |||
| A. Permanent School Fund | |||
| 1. River Beds | 1,000,000.00 | ||
| 2. Unsold surveyed P.F.S.L. | 878,415.00 | ||
| 3. Sold P.F.S.L. with all minerals reserved | 7,281,949.00 | ||
| 4. Free Royalty Lands | 729,339.00 | ||
| 5. Bays and Inlets | 1,536,900.00 | ||
| 6. Area from Coast to 3-League Limit | 2,608,774.00 | ||
| Total | 14,035,377.00 | ||
| B. Permanent University Fund—All Minerals | |||
| 1. Sold | 3,377 | ||
| 2. Unsold | 2,127,700 | 2,131,077.00 | |
| C. A&M Fund | 35,008.00 | ||
| D. East Texas State Teachers’ College Fund | 337.00 | ||
| E. Prison Fund | 73,099.00 | ||
| F. Game & Fish Fund | 69,076.00 | ||
| G. State Parks Board | 30,580.00 | ||
| H. State Hospital and Special Schools | 12,903.00 | ||
| Total acres in Mineral Estate | 16,387,457.00 | ||
| LEASED MINERAL ESTATE | |
|---|---|
| A. School Lands | 4,275,703.00 |
| B. University Lands | 667,496.00 |
| C. A&M Lands | 2,017.00 |
| D. East Texas State Teachers’ College Lands | 337.00 |
| E. Prison Lands | 11,818.00 |
| F. Game & Fish Lands | 2,838.00 |
| G. State Park Lands | 1,531.00 |
| H. State Hospital and Special Schools Lands | 4,634.00 |
| Total Leased Acreage | 4,966,374.00 |
| PRODUCING ACREAGE | |
|---|---|
| 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 Special Schools Lands | 9,790.00 | - 0 - | 9,790.00 | |
| 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
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.
COURTESY TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY