Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-09
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An Act 10 amend section 80, Of IAN
Act TO redistrict the state into judi
cial districts, aud fixing the time
for holding courts therein, and to
provide for the election OF judges
and district attorneys in said dis
tricts at the next general election, to
/ be held on the first Tuesday after
J the first Monday in November,
1SSi,n approved April .. lSS3.
/ Section /. BE it enacted by the legis-
lature of the state OF Texas, that sec.
ton 50 Of an act to redistrict the state
/ INTO judicial districts aud fix the
times for holding courts therein, aud
10 provide for the election of judges
and district attorneys in said district
OF the next general election, to be held
on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November, 1854, approved
April 8, 1856, shall hereafter read as
follows:
See. 80. The Thirtieth judicial dis
trict shall I've cOmpo sed Of the counties
of Jack, Clay, Wichita, Archer, Young,
Throckmorton, Baylor aud Wilbarger,
aud the unorgsnized counties of
Hardemsn, Knox, Haskell, King,
Lamb, Bailey. Dickens, Crosby, Lub-
book, Hockey, Cochran and Cottle,
and the district courts shall be held
therein a. follows: In the county Of
Jack on the second Mondays in jan
uary and July, and may continue in
session three weeks; in the county of
Young on the third Mondays after the
second Mondays in January and July,
and may continue in session three
weeks; in the county of ThrockmOrton
on the sixth Mondays after the second
Mondays in January and July, aud
may continue in session two weeks; in
the county of Baylor on the eighth
Mondays after the second Mondays IL
January and July, aud may continue
in session two weeks; in the
county OF Wilbarger on the tenth
Mondays after the second Mondays
in January and July, and
may continue in session two weeks
in the county of Wichita on the twelfth
Monday after the second Mondays in
January and July, and may continue
in session TWO weeks in the county of
Archer on the fourteenth Monday az
ter the second Mondays in January and
July, and may continue in session two
weeks; IN the county of Clay on the
sixteenth Mondpy after the second
Mondays in January and July, and
may continue in session four weeks;
the county of Haskell be and the same
Is hereby attached, for judicial pur-
poses, to the county of Throckmorton;
the coanties of King, Lamb, Bailey,
Dickens, Crosby, Lubbock, Hockey,
Cochran, kuox, to the county of Bay
lor; the counties of Hardemen and Cot
tie to the county of Wilbarger; and
when the county of Knox shall be or
ganizeo, the county of King shall be
attached toit for judicial purposes, and
the county of Cottle to the county of
Hardeman, whenever the county of
Hardeman shall be organized.
Sec. .. All judges heretofore elected
or appointed, and whose terms OF
office shall not expire at the next gem
eral election, shall continue TO hold
their offices until the terms for which
they Were appointed or elected shall
expire, and shall hold the courts in
the district in which they reside.
Sec. 8. All laws and paris of laws in
conflict with the provisions of this act
are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. The near approach of the
close the present session of the leg
islature and the great amount of bus
mess requiring action, creates an i'm.
perative public necessity for the sus-
pension of the constitutional rule re-
quiring bills to be read on three sew
eral days In each house, said rule is
therefore suspended.
Approved January 80, 1851
Takes effect ninety days after adj
journment.