Sec. 5. Any person driving or operating an automobile or motor vehicle shall at the request, or signal by putting up the hand, or by other visible signal from a person riding or driving a horse or horses or other domestic animal, cause such vehicle or machine to come to a standstill as quickly as possible and to remain stationary long enough to allow such animal to pass. Sec. 6. Every driver or operator of an automobile or motor vehicle shall have attached thereto a suitable bell or other appliance for giving notice of its approach, so that when such attachment is rung or otherwise operated it may be heard a distance of three hundred feet, and shall carry a lighted lamp between one hour after and one hour before sunrise. Sec. 7. Every one who violates any of these six sections shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. Sec. 8. The near approach of the end of the session and the demand for immediate legislation on this subject constitutes an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read in each house of the Legislature on three several days be suspended, and this act take effect from and after its passage, and it is so enacted. Approved April 15, 1907. Takes effect ninety days after adjournment. _TEXAS FIRST TRAFFIC LAW_ PASSED BY 30TH LEGISLATURE, 1907 [Illustration: _A picture of a picture_] _Little did this group of Sunday drivers realize they were making history one day 56 years ago when they stopped to have their picture taken. But today the original photograph, in the form of a glass plate, is kept on display at the Dallas Historical Society Museum as the first automobile to be licensed in Dallas County. Marvin Bradshaw, Right of Way Agent at Dallas in District 18 of the Texas Highway Department, visited the museum and asked permission to take a picture of the picture. Under the supervision of a museum attendant, the glass plate was taken outside in the sunlight, where Bradshaw placed a piece of sensitive paper under the plate to obtain a “sun proof.” A temporary image was then taken to the photo lab where camera copy was made of it. The car was registered under the name of J. M. Oran in 1907._ COURTESY TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY Transcriber’s Notes —Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication. —Silently corrected a few palpable typos. —Transcribed handwritten in-photo captions. —In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of History of Texas Land, by Bill Allcorn