The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-04-21
AN ORDINANCE
To Organize and Establish 4 Corporation
Court. Of the City Of Brownsville,
and to Define rs Powers
and Jurisdiction.


BE IT ORDAISED BY THE CRY COUN-
Gil. OF THE CRY, OF BROWNSVILLE
Section L. That there is hereby Great
ed and established, in and for the City
of Brownsville, County OF Cameron and
State of Texas, a court to be known as
the Corporation Court of the City of
Brownsville, which Court shall have
jurisdiction as defined by Chapter 50, of
the General Laws, of the State of Texas,
passed at the regular session of the
Twenty-sixth Legislature, and entitled.
IAN act to establish and create in each of
the cities, towns and villages, ofthe State,
a State Court to be known as the corpor-
alton court, in such city, town or village,
and to prescribe the jurisdiction and
organization thereof, and to abolish
municipal courts"
Section II. The Mayors Court of the
City of Brownsville, is hereby abolished,
and all of its records, books and papers,
shall be transferred to the said corpora
ton court of the City of Brownsville, and
all pending prosecutions in said Mayors
Court, shall also be transferred to said
corporation court of the City of Browns
vile.
Section III. Said corporation court of
the City of Brownsville, shall have the
jurisdiction conferred upon it by the said
Act of the Legislature.
Section ". That the Mayor. of the
City of Brownsville, shall be Ex-of6cio
Judge of said corporation court, and shall
be known as the recorder of such Court,
and shall hold his Office until the next
general election, and until his successor
shall qualify.
Section v. That the City Secretary of
the said City of Brownsville, shall be
Ex-oHicio Clerk of said corporation court,
and shall hold his Office until his sue
cessor shall qualify.
Section vi. That all prosecutions in
said Court shall be commenced and
conducted as prescribed BY the said Act
of the Legislature.
Section VII. That there shall be taxed
against, and collected of, and from each
party against whom judgment 10 render
ed, in and by said Court, the fees pre-
scribed by the Laws of the State of Texas
in Justice of the Peace Courts.
Section VIII. That the officers of said
corporation court shall be allowed and
paid the following compensation and
fees:-The Clerk of said Court shall be
paid the sum of fifteen (flS.00] dollars
per month, for his services rendered in
said Court. The recorder of said Court
shall be paid the sum of one dollar
II .OO] in each case tried and determined
in said Court. The City Attorney shall
be allowed and paid the sum of FIVE
dollars (S.O0], for each case in which he
appears and prosecutes the same. The
City Marshal and other officers, shall be
paid the fees allowed by law to Sheriffs
and Constables in Justice of the Peace
Courts, the same to be paid by the City
Treasurer, ort of the costs collected and
to BIN,
Section TX. That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances, in conflict with said
Act of the Legislature, and this ordin-
ance, be, and the same are, hereby
repealed.
Section Y. This ordinance shall 60
into effect from and after its publication
as provided by law.
Approved April 18th. 1904.
JOHN BARTLETT, Mayor.
Attest: FRANK CHAMPION,
Secreta-y