Burkhart v. Brazos River Harbor Nav. Dist. of Brazoria County

On the 19th day of February, 1925, the Thirty-Ninth Legislature of this state, by virtue of section 59, article 16, of the state Constitution, passed an act authorizing the creation within this state of districts to be known as navigation districts. Such act specially provides for the development and improvement of navigation of the inland and coastal water of the state.

By section 29 of such act (Acts 39th Leg. [1925] c. 5), now article 8263, Revised Statutes of 1925, it is provided as follows: “The navigation board of said district shall provide all necessary additional books for the use of…