OFFICE OF THEATTORNEY GENERALOFTEXAS AUSTIN

Honorable DanFJ.Jaakson Distriot Attorney Houston, Texas Attention: Mr. Conred J. Landrarn Dear Sir:

Your letter opinion of thib depart the County Clerk .ie ,ag trensorlpt 02 gi1a:+%3ip in part aiatollowtir :.'



### don riq:the-@harp thezmw aollhty. ta fo .be'pald to is srieated. hat the alerk oi.the~ oXd oounty tethe newoouuty both a traxisoript 

### or 'ths,ptiaeedings~ in the 018 00&q *together with 'h<he original papers in th& .6aiae.l Under Art. 

### 4294the ~removal is not etisotive nntil the 

### rlllq is ampleted in the new oount and th8 clerk 

### 0r the new oounty 

## riies his 

### oetiirf~ orte ,to that efleot in the old oounty. Art. 

### 4295provides. ’

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that when the-removal is effected the new oauaty shall prooeed lu the ease *as if it had been orlglnally oommeneedin the said oourt; but It shall not be neoessarg tb record any of the papers in the case that have **been**recorded in the oourt from whiah the same &as been removed.’ It is to be noted that the statute requires a seoond filing in the newoountg but not a second recording I the new county.’ This distinction is importantnbeoanae Art. 

### 3930,Chap; 2, Title 61, V. a. s. A. governing .offlolal ,tees Of the County clerk pro**rides** both a riling fee an8 a reaord?ng fee as r0ii0w6: WtFUing .eaeh paper . . . ... . . # 905 Reoordlng of papers required to be recorded by them in relation t.o estates 0r~,deeedents or wards for eaoh 100 words

. . .I0 Filing ea,ohpaper exoept subpoenas. .::;‘:~‘i

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### .05 Iloaketlng~ eaoh ,appllcatlon, eomplalnt, ljetltlon or pro

### oeedlng

to ’be 8harged but .; ~~~~onoe.

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. . . 30 EGE certirieate to any faot or raotseontalned In the reoords or his of.fioe with oertiflcate seals when,,not otherwise provided ~ior; ‘

. : .~. . .. . . . . Reoord&ig ,of,Rapera required .5q
or permitted-.by’ law to be recorded not otherw$se,, rovided for, -~inoludlng aertif saate and seal, 

### ror eaoh IO0 words.

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. aArt. 3930 taken alone will require the aharging been Ad from’ thebtp to the new eouui or a rilln 1&e for ,:eaoheri lnal paper which hasto. Rut It does not require the charging of a reoordiixg fee ior any of the eriglhal papers whleh are~re-~ quired by law to be reoorded beoause these original papers are not requfred to be reoorded a **beaoi&d**time. It Is plain that’ the ~statute did net eonelder, ,the transerlpt asa substitute ior the oifginal pa and this~fndloates that the riling or the orig nal fers .papers In the DSW aotity is an essentisl .element of the- removal prooeedinga.%inoe the stat& is mandatory 5.nthis Poz&and ,that the oxi&ml papers **;be**u in 

### the'new oo&tty an4.that,tho

al&c of the naw oorraty aertlfy:thl.& faot I ham

of the Opinion that the county **olerk is**  

### req&& 

### to oharp a 

### riling ree ror eaoh original paper filed in the county. Only IR thle way ma the new aounty,be paid ror the serviae of the mantj o1erk.U ,periorm.ing one of the indispsnsabla offioial sertioes~ required by removal proceed-. This nlll,xiot~work a hardship ~011 the estate %am@, oases 'bsoauss In most oases the remoral~is et the eleotlon of thd.gti&dlan or some other person uhoae aonoenienoe niU,be better 

### aervedbf removing thd ease to~tha:nea:oounty. In other woPds~;~.tihe~rem~ al Is: not ror'the..Qonvanienoe.oi the adatlnlatratlre 'machinery or the St,ate':oti' adunty. : : ' I( 0.

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