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350 GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS.
fice than is now provided by law and the crowded condition of
the calendar creates an emergency and an imperative public
necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read
on three several days in each House be suspended, and that this
Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
And said rule is hereby suspended and it is so enacted.
Approved March 30, 1927.
Effective March 30, 1927.
INCREASING THE PAY OF DISTRICT ATTORNEYS IN
DISTRICTS OF TWO OR MORE COUNTIES TO
$20 PER DAY.
S. B. No. 383.] CHAPTER 236.
An Act to amend Article 1021 of Chapter 2, of Title 15, of the Code of
Criminal Procedure, Revised Criminal Statutes of Texas, so as to provide
for the payment of $20.00 per day for each day district attorneys
in certain districts attend any session of the district court in their
respective districts, in the necessary discharge of their official duties,
and for each day they represent the State at examning trials, inquest
proceedings in vacation, and providing the manner of the payment
thereof, and for each day necessarily used in going to and coming
from one court to another in the necessary and official discharge of
their duties, repealing all laws in conflict therewith; and declaring an
emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. That Article 1021 of Chapter 2, of Title 15 of the
Code of Criminal Procedure, Revised Statutes of Texas, be
amended so as to hereafter read as follows:
Article 1021. DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OF TWO OR MORE
COUNTIES.-District Attorneys in all judicial districts composed
of two counties or more, shall receive from the State as
pay for their services the sum of $500.00 per annum, and in addition
thereto, shall receive from the State as pay for their services,
the sum of $20,00 for each day they attend the Session of
the District Court in their respective districts in the necessary
discharge of their official duties, and $20.00 for each day used in
necessarily going to and coming from the District Court in one
county to the District Court in another county in their respective
districts in the necessary discharge of their official duties,
and in attending any Session of said Court; and $20.00 per
day for each day they represent the State at examining trials,
inquest proceedings and habeas corpus proceedings in vacation;
said $20.00 per day to be paid upon the sworn account of the
District Attorney, approved by the District Judge, who shall
certify that the attendance of said District Court for the number
of days mentioned in his account was necessary, after which
said account shall be recorded in the Minutes of the District
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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/m1/366/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .