Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-10
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Approved March 10, 1891.


COUNTY OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES COUNTY.
Chapter 9Th. B. No. 54. An act
amendalory of and supplemental to an act
entitled an act to restore and confer upon
the county court of Nacogdoches county
the civil and criminal jurisdiction hereto
fore belonging to it under the laws OF the
state, and to conform the jurisdiction OF
the district court of said county to such
change, approved February, 1891
Section l. Be it enacted by the legisla-
ture Of the state of Texas: That sections
and of an act entitled an act to restore to
and confer upon the county court of Nacog-
doches county the civil and criminal iuris-
diction heretofore belonging to 1t under the
constitution and general laws of the state,
and to conform the Jurisdiction of the dist
riot court OF said county to such change, ap-
proved February, 1891, be so amended as TO
hereafter read as follows:
Sec 8. Said county court shall have
exclusive original jurisdiction over
all misdemeanors except the mis-
demeanors involving official misconduct,
and except cases in which the
highest penalty of fine that may be imposed
under the law, may not exceed 800, and
shall have original jurisdiction of all INSIDE
meanors except the misdemeanors involving
official misconduct and concurrent jurisdic-
ton with that Of justices of the peace in
criminal cases; and said court shall have
"a
which justices of the peace and other infe-
rior tribunals of said county have original
Jurisdiction.
Sec. g. The district court Of said county
of Nacogdoches shall no longer have juris-
diction of misdemeanors, except misde-
meanors involving official misconduct, and
shall no longer have jurisdiction of cases of
which the county court of said county by
the provisions of this act, have original or
appellate jurisdiction and 1t shall be the
duty of the district clerk Of said county
within thirty days after this act shall take
effect, to make full and complete transcripts
of all orders on the criminal and civil dock
cts in cases then pending before the dis
trict court of said county, of which cases by
the provisions of this act original and ap-
pellate Jurisdiction Is given to the said
county court, and to deliver said transcripts
together with the original papers and q GER
titled bill Of costs in each case, to the county
clerk of said county, and said county clerk
shall take charge of said transcripts and
papers, file the same, and enter said cases
on their respective dockets for trial by said
court.
Sec. 9. Be it further enacted that section
10 be added to said act and be as follows:
Sec. 10. Said county court shall also have
power to hear and determine all motions
against sheriffs and other officers of the
court for failure to pay over moneys col
lected under the process Of said court, or
other defalcation of duty in connection with
such process, and shall have power to pun
ish by fine not exceeding one hundred dol
lars, and by Imprisonment not exceeding
three days, any person guilty of contempt
of said court, and all other powers and iur-
isdiction conferred on county courts by the
constitution and general laws Of this state.
Sec 8. AL laws and parts of laws in con-
flict with the provisions of this act be and
the same are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. That the above recited act, having
taken effect from and after its passage,
creates such an emergency and imperative
public necessity as required that the con-
stitutional rule requiring bills to be read
on three several days be suspended, that
this supplemental act, in order to be con-
sistent and in harmony Herewith, should
also take effect and be in force from and
after its passage, and it is so enacted that
said rule is hereby suspended, and that this
act do take effect and be in force from and
after its passage.
[Note2The foregoing act originated in
the house and passed the same by two
thirds vote, ayes 70, nays 0; and passed the
senate by two-thirds vote ayes q, nays o.
Approved March 10, 1891.