OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 

AUSTIN 

Honorable Dan FJ. 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 aia tollowtir : .' 

don riq: the -@harp 

the zmw aollhty. 

ta fo .be'pald to 

is srieated. 

hat the alerk oi.the~ oXd oounty 

tethe new oouuty both a traxisoript or 'ths,ptiaeedings~ in the 018 00&q *together with 'h&l the original papers in th& .6aiae.l 

Under Art. 4294 the ~removal is not etisotive nntil 

the rlllq is ampleted in the new oount and th8 

clerk 0r the new oounty riies his oetiir f~ orte ,to 

that efleot in the old oounty. Art. 4295 provides 
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Honorable Iran W. Jaokson, Page 2 

that when the-removal is effected the new oauaty 

shall prooeed lu the ease *as if it had been orlglnally oommeneed in 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 new oountg 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 prorides 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,oh paper exoept subpoenas. .::;‘:~‘~.~~ i . . ,. . . ~. ; . . . .05 

Iloaketlng~ eaoh ,appllcatlon, 

eomplalnt, ljetltlon or prooeedlng to’be 8harged but 

.; ~~~~onoe. . ~;‘:i’k i . i . 7 .’ . . . 30 

EGE certirieate to any faot 

or raotseontalned In the reoords or his of.fioe with oertif lcate 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 s aate and 

seal, ror eaoh IO0 words. . . . . .IO’ 

. 

aArt. 3930 taken alone will require the aharging 

been Ad from’ thebtp to the new eouui 

or a rilln 1 &e for ,:eaoh eri 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 f nal 

ers 

.papers In the DSW aotity is an essentisl .element of 

the- removal prooeedinga. 
%inoe the stat& is mandatory 5.n this 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 %a m@, 

oases 'bsoauss In most oases the remoral~is et the 

eleotlon of thd.gti&dlan or some other person uhoae 

aonoenienoe niU,be better aerved bf 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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