Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-05-21

may be necessary to enforce its own ju.
risdiction. The Court of Criminal Ap'
peals shall have power, upon affidavit OF
otherwise, to ascertain such matters OF
fact as may be necessary to the exercise Of
its jurisdiction. The Court of Criminal
Appeals shall sit for the transaction OF
business from the first Monday in Octo.
Der to the last Saturday OF June in each
year, at the State Capital and two other
places Tor the capital city, if the Legisla'
ture shall hereafter so provide. The
Court of Criminal Appeals shall appoint
a clerk for each place at which it
may sit, aud each clerk shall give bond
in such manner as is now or may here
after be required by law, and who shall
hold his office for four years unless soon
er removed by the court for good cause,
entered of record on the minutes of said
court
Section 6. The Legislature shall, as
soon as practicable after the adoption OF
this amendment, divide the State into
not less than two nor more than three
supreme judicial districts, and there
after into such additional districts as
the increase of population and business
may require, and shall establish Court
of Civil Appeals in each of said districts,
which shall consist of chief justice and
two associate justices, who shall have the
qualifications as herein prescribed for
justices of the Supreme Court. Said
Court of Civil Appeals shall have appel
late jurisdiction coextensive with the
limits of their respective districts, which
shall extend to all civil cases of which
the District Courts or County Courts
have original or appellate jurisdiction,
under such restrictions and regulations
as may be prescribed by law: Provided,
That the decision of said courts shall be
conclusive on all questions of fact
brought before them on appeal or error.
Each of said Courts of Civil Appeals
shall hold its sessions at a place in its
district to be designated by the Leglsla-
ture, and at such time as may be pre-,
scribed by law. Said justices shall be
elected by the qualified voters of their re-
spective districts, at a general election, fol
a term of six years, and shall receive fol-
their services the sum of three thousand
and five hundred dollars per annum until
otherwise provided by law. Said courts
shall have such other juris diction. orig.
inal and appellate, as may be prescribed
by law. Each Court Of Civil Appeals
shall appoint clerk in the same manner
as the clerk of the Supreme Court, which
clerk shall receive such compensation as
may be fixed by law. Until the organiza,
ton of the Courts of Civil Appeals and
Criminal Appeals, as herein provided for,
the jurisdiction, power and organization
and location of the Supreme Court, tbs
Court of Appeals and the Commission
of Appeals shall continue as they were
before the adoption of this amendment.
All civil cases which may be pending in
the Court of Appeals shall, as soon as
practicable after the organization of the
Courts of Civil Appeals, be certified to
and the records thereof trans
mitted to the proper Courts OF
CivilAppeals, TO be decided by said courts
at the first session of the Supreme
Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals, and
such of the Courts of the Civil Appeals
which may be hereafter created under
this article until after the first election
of the judges of such courts under this
amendment The terms of Office of the
judges of each court shall be divided
into three classes, and the justices thereof
shall draw for the different classes
Those who shall draw class No. 1 shall
hold their offices two years, those draw
ing class No. 2 shall hold their offices
for four years, and those who may draw
class No. shall hold their offices fer six
years from the date of their election
and until their successors are elected
and qualified: and thereafter each of the
said judges shall hold his Office for sir
years, as provided in this Constitution.
Section 7. The State shall be divided
into as many judicial districts as may
now or hereafter be provided by law,
which may be increased or diminished
by law. For each district there shall be
elected by the qualified voters thereof, at
a general election, a judge, who shall be
a citizen of the United States and of this
State, who shall have been a practicing
lawyer of this State or a judge of a
court in this State for four years next
preceding his election, who shall have
resided in the district in which he was
elected for two years next preceding his
election, who shall reside in his district
during his term of Office, who shall hold
his Office for the period of four years,
and shall receive for his services an an
nual salary of two thousand FIVE hun.
dred dollars, until otherwise changed
by law. He shall hold the regular terms
of his court at the county seat of each
county in his district at least twice in
each year in such manner as may be
prescribed by law. The Legislature
shall have power by general or special
laws to authorize the holding of special
terms of the court or the holding
of more than two terms in
any county for the dispatch of
business. The Legislature shall also
provide for the holding of district court
when the judge thereof is absent, or is
from any cause disabled or disqualified
from presiding. The district judges
who NAV be in Office when this amend