Section 14. Appointment of railroad commissioners

The county judge of any
  county within which is a municipal corporation having or being  entitled
  to  have  railroad commissioners, on October first, eighteen hundred and
  ninety-two, and in which the duties imposed upon such commissioners  are
  not  fully performed, shall continue to appoint and commission, upon the
  application  of  twenty  freeholders  within  such  corporation,   three
  persons,  who  shall  be  freeholders  and  resident  taxpayers therein,
  commissioners for the purpose of performing the  duties  and  completing
  the  business required of them pursuant to this chapter or any law. Such
  commissioners shall hold their office for five years, and  until  others
  are  appointed  by the county judge, unless their duties shall be sooner
  performed, or the office shall be abolished, who  shall  also,  in  like
  manner,  fill  any  vacancies that may exist therein. Such commissioners
  shall each receive the sum  of  three  dollars  per  day  for  each  day
  actually  engaged  in  the  discharge of their duties, and the necessary
  disbursements  to  be  audited  and  paid  by  the  usual  auditing  and
  disbursing  officers  of such municipal corporation.  A majority of such
  commissioners, at a meeting of which all have notice, shall constitute a
  quorum.