The Laws of Texas, 1927 [Volume 25] Page: 349 of 1,111

                                
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lars, and the fact that the collector of taxes for said school district
is not now clothed with sufficient power or authority to enforce
collection of said delinquent taxes, and the collection of
which is necessary to keep the schools of said district open for
the time required by law, create an emergency and an imperative
public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills
to be read on three several days be suspended, and said rule is
hereby suspended, and that this Act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
Approved March 30, 1927.
Effective March 30, 1927.
REDUCING THE JURISDICITION OF COUNTY COURT OF
EDWARDS COUNTY TO THAT OF A PROBATE COURT
AND INCREASING THE JURISDICTION OF THE
DISTRICT COURT PRO TANTO.
S. B. No. 265.]        CHAPTER 226.
An Act transferring the civil and criminal jurisdiction of the county court
of Edwards County to the district court of said county; providing that
hereafter said county court shall have jurisdiction only in probate
matters; providing for the transfer of cases and making provision for
all things incidental to the purpose of this Act; and declaring an
emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. Hereafter the county court of Edwards County
shall have no civil or criminal jurisdiction and shall have jurisdiction
in probate matters only. The civil and criminal jurisdiction
heretofore vesting in said county court is hereby transferred
to the district court of said county.
SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the county clerk of said county
within thirty days after this Act shall take effect to make a
full and complete transcript of all orders on the civil and criminal
docket in said county court in all civil and criminal matters,
and shall transfer the same together with all other papers and
records in connection with such cases and matters, to the clerk
of the district court of said county. Said county clerk shall also
prepare certified bills of costs in each such case and deliver the
same to said district clerk, and the district clerk shall take charge
of such transcripts, papers and costs bills and file and enter the
same in said cases on the proper docket. All process heretofore
issued from the county court in said county in cases transferred
by this Act to the district court shall be returnable to the first
term of the district court after this Act takes effect, and all cases
transferred by this Act shall be entered as appearance cases upon
the docket of the district court.
SEC. 3. The fact that it is to the best interest of the people
of Edwards County to transfer the civil and criminal jurisdic-