The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-05-18
ARTICLE ID.



An act to amend article 1902. chap
ter 10, title II, of the revised civil
statutes of the state of Texas, re-
laiing to the hiring of county con-
Victs.
SECTION /. lie it enacted by the
legislature of the state of Texas.
That article 1902, chapter 10. title Il,
of the revised civil statutes shall be
amended so as to read hereafter as
follows: "Article 1902. Any person
who may be convicted of mis-
demeanOr or petty ofiense, and who
shall be committed to jail in default
of the payment of the fiue and costs
adjudged against him. shall be hired
out To any individual, company or
corporation within the county of
conviction to remain in said county.
AMI the proceeds OF said hiring,
when collected, shall be applied first
TO the payment Of cost. aud second
to the payment of the fine, and every
convict shall be entitled TO a credit
of fifty cents ON his fiue and costs for
each day he may serve under such
hiring including Sundays, and he
shall be discharged at any time upon
payment of the balance due
on his fine and costs, or upon the eX-
piration of his term of service; his
term of service in no event TO be
greater than one day for each fifty
cents of fine and costs; provided,
that III no case shall The counties be
responsible to the officers for their
costs. Aud in no case shall such con-
vict be hired out for longer Lerlod
than two years, for failure 10 pay
fine and costs, and on the expiration
OF said time, unless by bis hire such
fine and costs have been sooner paid
of, said convict shall be finally dis
charged.
Section 2. The near approach of
the end of the session creates an im-
perative public necessity that the
rule requiring this bill to be read
three several days be suspended, and
it is suspended.
Approved May 4. a. d. 1882.
An act TO amend articles 1926. 1927.
1923, 1929, 1880. 1881 and 1892, OF
chapter five, title 26, and articles
1917, 1913, 1919, 1850, 1881 and
1882 of chapter fifteen, of title 26
OF the revised civil statutes of the
state of Texas, approved February
81, 1879.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the
legislature of the stale Of Texas ::
That articles 1926, 1927. 1929. 1890,
1881 and 1882 OF chapter 3, title
XNVI of the revised civil statutes
ofthe state of Texas shall hereafter
read as follows, respectively:
ARTICLE 1926.
The supreme court is authorized
and required to appoint one or more
reporters of its decisions, who shall
be subject 10 removal by said court
for any inefficiency or neglect of
duty.
ARTICLE 1927.
1t shall be the duty of the reporter
to prepare for publication, under
the direction of the supreme court,
the decisions thereof, and cause the
same to be printed and published
with promptness as last as there
shall be a sufficient number to form
secretary of state, for the use OF the
state, one thousand copies of each
volume of the reports.
ARTICLE 1923.
Each volume shall contain an
average number of pages of the
volumes of Texas reports here
tofore published, and each page
shall be twenty-six ems plea wide
and forty-six ems plea long. The
type used shall be long primer and
miniOn of same size as used in vol
ume % Wallace's United States su-
preme court reports. The lines
shall be loaded with not thicker
than eight TO plea leads. The paper,
press work and binding shall he OF
the same style, aud Of ut least equal
quality in every respect with the
volumes of Moore and Walkers re.
ports, heretofore published. They
shall be styled the "Texas Reports"
and shall be so styled on the title
page and back thereof, aud the num-
bers of the volumes shall be con-
tinued on conseeutively. The name
of the reporter may be printed on
the back as on the volumes pub
lisheG by Moore and Walker. Each
volume shall be copyrighted in the
name OF and for the state of Texas.
ARTICLE 1929.
AS sool as the opinions ARE re-
corded, the originals, together with
the records and papers in each case
to be reported, shall be delivered to
the reporter upon his receipt there
for, who shall return them to the
respective clerks from whom he re-
ceived them, when he shall have
finished using them.
ARTICLE 1880.
The reporter shall be entitled to
receive in payment Tor the one
thousand copies of each volume de-
livered as aforesaid, the following
compensation, viz: The sum of five
dollars and fifty cents per page for