Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-25

tached to Childress county for judicial
purposes. The unorganized counties OF
Armstrong, Briseo and Hall are hereby
attached TO Donley county for judicial
purposes.
Sec. g. The Fortv-s seventh judicial
district shall be composed of the counties
of Potter, Hale, Oldham and the unor-
ganized counties of Dallam, Sherman,
Moore Hartley Deaf Smith, Randall /,
Farmer, Cochran, Hockey, Bailey ],
Lamb, Swisher and Castro, and terms or
the district court shall be held therein as
follows:
In Potter county on the first Mondays in
March and September, and may continue
in session four weeks.
In Hale county on the first Mondays in
April and October, and may continue IN
session three weeks.
In Oldham county on the first Mondays
in May and November. and may continue
in session until the business is disposed of !.
Sec TO- The unorganized counties of
Sherman Moore and Randall are hereby
attached to Potter county for judicial
purposes. The unorganized counties of
Hockey, Cochran, Bailey, Lamb and
Swisher are hereby attached to Hale
county for judicial purposes. The unor-
ganized counties of Farmer, Castro,
Deaf Smith, Hartley and Dallam are
hereby attached TO Oldham county for
judicial purposes.
Sec. IL The district judges and dis
trict attorneys heretofore elected and
now acting for the Thirty first, Thirty
second and Thirty ninth judicial districts
herein mentioned shall continue the ex-
ercise of their said offices resi- ectively.
Sec. r. That Immediately after the
taking effect of this act the governor shall
appoint a suitable person as district attor-
ney and suitable person as district judge
in each of said Forty-siXth and Forty
seventh judicial districts, who shall hold
their Offices until the next general cleo
ton, at which time a district judge and
a district attorney shall be elected in each
of said districts, and at subsequent cleo
tions according to existing laws.
Sec 10. That all processes issued or
served before this act goes into effect re-
turnable to the district court of any of
the counties of said judicial districts,
shall be considered as returnable to said
courts in accordance with the terms as
prescribed in this act, and all such pro-
cess is hereby legalized, and all grand
and petit juries drawn and selected I'M
der existing laws in any of the counties of
said judicial districts shall be considered
lawfully drawn and selected for the next
terms of the district courts of their re-
spective counties held after this act takes
effect, and all such process is hereby le-
galiZed and validated.
Sec IA That all laws and parts of
laws in conflict with the provisions of
this act be and the same are hereby re-
peaied.
Sec Is Whereas the rapid settlement
of the counties mentioned in this act and
the inability of the district judges under
former laws to transact all the business
in the courts of the several counties,
creates an imperative public necessity
and an emergency exists requiring the
suspension of the constitutional rule re-
quiring bills to be read on three several
days; therefore, said constitutional rule
is suspended and this act shall take effect
from and after its passage, and it is so
enacted