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GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS. 135
Ward County: On the second Monday in January and on the
eighteenth Monday after the first Monday in February and may
continue two weeks.
For Judicial and other purposes, the unorganized county of
Loving is hereby attached to Reeves County, and the unorganized
county of Crane is hereby attaced to Ector County.
SEC. 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith
are hereby repealed.
SEC. 3. The importance of this legislation and the crowded
condition of the calendar creates an emergency and an imperative
public necessity requiring that the constitutional rule providing
that bills be read on three several days shall be suspended
and such rule is therefore suspended, and this Act shall take
effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so
enacted.
Approved March 15, 1927
Effective March 15 1927
JUDICIAL DISTRICTS-HARRIS COUNTY
H. B. No. 455.] CHAPTER 88.
An Act to amend Sub-division 11 of Article 199, Title 8 of the Revised
Civil Statutes of the State of Texas of 1925, providing for the election
of special Judges in case of absence, sickness or inability of any
of the regular Judges to act and preside in the Civil District Courts
of Harris County, Texas, and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. Sub-division 11 of Article 199, Title 8, of the Revised
Civil Statutes of the State of Texas of 1925, is hereby
amended so as to hereafter read as follows:
Harris County shall constitute the Eleventh, Fifty-fifth,
Sixty-first and Eightieth Judicial Districts. None of said four
district courts shall have nor exercise any criminal jurisdiction
in Harris County. Said district courts of the Eleventh, Fiftyfifth,
Sixty-first and Eightieth Judicial Districts shall have and
exercise concurrent jurisdiction co-extensive within the limits
of Harris County in all civil cases, proceedings and matters of
which district courts are given jurisdiction by the Constitution
and laws of this State. There shall be two terms of each of said
four civil courts in Harris County in each year, and the first
term, which shall be known as the January-June term, shall be
begun on the first Monday in January and shall continue until
and including Sunday next before the first Monday in July; and
the second term, which shall be known as the July-December
term, shall begin on the first Monday in July and shall continue
until and including Sunday next before the first Monday in the
following January.
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1927 [Volume 25], book, 1927; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16125/m1/151/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .