The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-05-17
yNoPIICAL 81 NuAHN OF ACTS
PASSED ny TIE IunORTAI
INVENT
MANY ueaAures Of Moment and
Lesser Local Laws Fresh From the
rangers OF the Faithful.

81. Senate bill 40 $50, approved
March u. fixes the fees Of district
attorneys, county attorneys and at
torneys ad Item in suits Instituted
by the state for the recovery of IN
terest due the school fund or to for
felt school land for non-pay ment of
purchase mon.y. 1t gives to the
district and county attorneys repre-.
senting the state in such cases fee
Of 40 in each case in which the
state RECEIVERS Judgment, and in
case where one attorney brlr gs the
suit and his successor in office re-
covers the Judgment, = is allowed
each attorney. Attorneys appoint
al by the court 20 represent the dc
PENDANT, in cases wherein the state
RECEIVERS Judgment and the costs
cannot be made out of the defend.
ant. are allowed fee of - Ivy the
state.
81. Senate bill No. 30 was ap.
proved March 20 and Immediately
became Law. This measure ex-
tends the time for the payment of
annual interest on purchase money
due on any public free school, uni
versity or asslum lands, until Nc
vember !.
Note-This measure was in the
nature of an indulgence or relief to
the suffers from the drouth of 1892
in north west Texas.
House bill No. II. approved
March 30, amends article 1868 of
the revised civil statutes 50 that
it reads that in all cases in which
the citation has been served perF "a.
ally at least ten days before the
tirst term to which it is returnable,
exclusive of the days Of service and
return, the answer OF the defendant
shall be filled in the county and
district courts OH or before the
second day of the return term, and
before the call of the appearance
docket on said second day. Thi.
bill cures a defect in the old law
which was in conflict with article
l3S0.
%. House bill No. ABB was ap
proved March 81 and went into
immediate effect. 1t restores to anC
confers upon Angelina, Shelby and
Coke counties both the civil anC
criminal jurisdiction formerly he
longing to them.
House bill No. 2d5, approved
March q, reorganizes the Fifteenth
and Fortieth judicial districts, leav
ing the former composed only o.
Grayson county, while in the latter
are embraced the counties of Collin
Ellis, Kaufman and Rockwell.
Under the bill Grayson has three
terms of court, the first commencing
the first Monday in January, unit
the last Saturday in March, the sec
ond from the first Monday in Apri
to the second Saturday in July, o.
until the business is completed, anc
the third from the first Monday il
September to the third Saturday il
December.
In the fortieth district the term.
are to be held as follows: Kaufman
the first Monday in February, five
weeks, and the first Monday in Sep
TENDER, five weeks, Collin, the sixth
monday after the first monday in
February, six weeks, and the sixth
Monday after the first Monday in
September, six weeks, Rockwell,
the first Monday in Nay, two weeks
and the fourth Monday in Novem
Der, two weeks; Ellis, the third
Monday in Nay, seven weeks, and
the second Monday in December
seven weeks.
Supplementary to the foregoing
is house bill No. 54a, approved
March u, in which is the provision
that ".he provision cf the above
act shall not apply TO the term OF
the distric: ctUu heretofore begun
in Ellis comfy or the first Monday
IN March, lse3, and the IRIS, term
of said court il said county under
this act shall be .ha. beginning on
the second regular term in Collin
county under the &c. shall be begun
the sixth Nonday after the first
monday in September, 1898. The
court referred to was ia progress a,