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* ''Robbins v. Limestone County'', 268 S.W. 915, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/268_SW_915.pdf#page=6 920] (Tex. 1925) ("Formerly, under 'the laws of the State', these powers were exercised by the county commissioners courts, but, as it was constitutionally authorized to do, the Legislature created another [] the State Highway Commission, and invested it with certain powers and functions, same to be performed and executed in conjunction with other agents and agencies of the State. The powers here bestowed by the Legislature are not different from those formerly vested in Commissioners Courts, which are in no sense a delegation of legislative authority, or a delegation of the power to suspend laws.") | * ''Robbins v. Limestone County'', 268 S.W. 915, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/268_SW_915.pdf#page=6 920] (Tex. 1925) ("Formerly, under 'the laws of the State', these powers were exercised by the county commissioners courts, but, as it was constitutionally authorized to do, the Legislature created another [] the State Highway Commission, and invested it with certain powers and functions, same to be performed and executed in conjunction with other agents and agencies of the State. The powers here bestowed by the Legislature are not different from those formerly vested in Commissioners Courts, which are in no sense a delegation of legislative authority, or a delegation of the power to suspend laws.") | ||
* ''Board of Water Engineers v. McKnight'', 229 S.W. 301, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/ | * ''Board of Water Engineers v. McKnight'', 229 S.W. 301, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/229_SW_301.pdf#page=7 307] (Tex. 1921) ("An inquiry involving such questions and resulting in the binding adjudication of property rights is strictly judicial, and we would not uphold the Constitution as it is plainly written were we to sanction the delegation of the power to conduct and to finally determine such an inquiry to any other tribunal than the courts. . . . The Legislature having attempted by the statutes in question to confer on persons belonging to the executive department powers which properly attach to another department, without express permission of the Constitution, the statutes are void.") | ||
* ''Snyder v. Compton'', 28 S.W. 1061, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/Vol_028_SWR_1061.pdf#page=2 1062-63] (Tex. 1894) ("A legislature may not construe a former law so as to give such construction a retroactive operation. Such is an evasion of the province of the courts. Not so, however, when the act itself contains a provision declaring the mode in which it shall be construed. A notable instance of this is found in our Revised Statutes, which contain a chapter in which rules are laid down for the construction of all civil statutory enactments. These rules have frequently been applied in this court in construing the provisions of the Revised Statutes, and have ever been regarded as binding upon the court.") | * ''Snyder v. Compton'', 28 S.W. 1061, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/Vol_028_SWR_1061.pdf#page=2 1062-63] (Tex. 1894) ("A legislature may not construe a former law so as to give such construction a retroactive operation. Such is an evasion of the province of the courts. Not so, however, when the act itself contains a provision declaring the mode in which it shall be construed. A notable instance of this is found in our Revised Statutes, which contain a chapter in which rules are laid down for the construction of all civil statutory enactments. These rules have frequently been applied in this court in construing the provisions of the Revised Statutes, and have ever been regarded as binding upon the court.") | ||