Legislation authored by Lon Tucker Messer

Includes legislation with Lon Tucker Messer as the primary author for the 49th through 49th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

49th Regular Session
HB 143	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts creating the 94th Judicial District Court for Nueces County.
HB 429	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to provide that any incorporated city or town in the State of Texas shall be authorized and empowered to levy and collect a license fee on motor vehicles for hire, and to regulate the sue of the same in such incorporated city or town.
HB 492	Caption: Relating to granting, selling and conveying to the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, all right, title and interest of the State of Texas to certain land in said City hitherto submerged by the waters of Corpus Christi Bay.
HB 555	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing that the official shorthand reporter of each judicial district in this State, either a Civil or Criminal District Court, or any County Court at Law, either civil or criminal, shall receive a salary of not less than Two Thousand, Four Hundred Dollars ($2,400) nor more than Three Thousand, Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars (3,750) per annum, to be paid monthly by the respective counties, in addition to the transcript fees and traveling and hotel expenses now provided by law.
HB 556	Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles conveying storm, floor, or rain water from place of storage to place of use.
HB 584	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the Nueces River Conservation and Reclamation District, for each of the fiscal years ending August 31, 1945, and August 31, 1946, to aid said District in making the necessary surveys and preparing the necessary plans for its construction program.
HB 651	Caption: Relating to granting to the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, all right, title and interest of the State of Texas to certain land lying and being situated under the water of Corpus Christi Bay, and granting to the said City of Corpus Christi, Texas, the right, power, and authority to locate, construct, own, and maintain certain seawalls, breakwaters or other protective structures on said lands and to fill in the space between the mainland and said seawalls, breakwaters, or other protective structures with sand, dredge spoil, or other material, and granting to the City of Corpus Christi the right to take from Corpus Christi Bay such sand, dredge spoil, or other material as may be necessary or desirable for filling in such space.
HB 652	Caption: Relating to authorizing certain cities to purchase or construct dams, reservoirs, etc., incident to a water supply, complying with provisions of Bond and Warrant Law, 1931, etc.
HB 813	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to the board of Directors of the Nueces River Conservation and Reclamation District.
HB 816	Caption: Relating to authorizing any Independent School District heretofore created by special law to select and designate its own school depository, assessor and collector of taxes, and to have the management of its school affairs subject to certain supervision and appellate jurisdiction.
HCR 86	Caption: Suspending Joint Rule No. 21 to consider H.B. No. 555.
HR 36	Caption: In memory of Walter Elmer Pope.
HR 261	Caption: In memory of Mrs. S. T. Robertson of Waxahachie.