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HB 779, 54th R.S.
Relating to declaring the State Building Commission created by the Constitution of Texas to be a State agency for the purpose of performing the governmental functions outlined therein; providing for the selection and tenure of a Chairman of the Commission; empowering the Commission to promulgate all necessary rules and regulations for the administration of this Act and authorizing and empowering the Commission to acquire real and personal property, sell, salvage and dispose of any property in Travis County unsuitable for State building purposes owned or acquired by the State, modernize, remodel, build and equip buildings for State purposes of this Act provided that proceeds realized from the disposition of such property shall go into the State Building Fund; providing that the Commission shall keep available sufficient monies to meet current expenditures; making appropriations for the acquisition of sites and construction of the Supreme Court Building and the State Office Building, compensation and other operating expenses of the Commission until August 31, 1955, for the purpose of entering into contracts, for the purpose of erecting suitable memorials to the Heroes of the Texas War for Independence and for the expenses incurred in investigating and planning the monument to be erected in Vicksburg National Military Park; providing a saving clause.

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