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Relating to creating a State Trunk Highway Department, which shall be a part of the prison system of Texas as that term is defined by law, and providing that the Board of Prison Commissioners shall be ex-officio state highway commissioners; providing for the construction, maintenance and control by the state, of a system of state trunk highways, at the cost of the state, and to be built with convict labor as much as possible. And providing that the places where such convicts are worked shall at all times be under the control of the Prison Commission. That this act shall not repeal any statute of law governing the prison system. Describing and setting out the various routes over which said trunk highway system is to extend.