The Laws of Texas, 1927 [Volume 25] Page: 47 of 1,111

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grapher's fee of three ($3.00) dollars shall be taxed by the
clerk of said court as costs in this case, the same to be in addition
to all other costs, and said fee, when so collected by said
clerk, shall be by him paid into the treasury of Bexar County
in the same manner as now required of district clerks under
similar circumstances.
SEC. 20. The Act of the Legislature of the State of Texas,
enacted by the Thirty-second Legislature, Regular Session,
known as House Bill No. 111, Chapter 10, approved February
20, 1911, found on pages 15, 16 and 17, of the Session Laws of
said Legislature, creating the county court of Bexar County for
civil cases, and each provision of said Act, and the amendment to
said Act passed by the Thirty-eighth Legislature of the State of
Texas, known as House Bill No. 367, found on pages 73 and 74,
of the Session Laws of the said Legislature, authorizing the appointment
of an official shorthand reporter for said court, shall,
except in so far as in conflict herewith, remain in full force and
effect, and apply to the County Court at Law No. 1, of Bexar
County, Texas.
SEC. 21. The Act of the Legislature of the State of Texas,
enacted by the Thirty-fourth Legislature, Regular Session,
known as Senate Bill No. 323, Chapter 39, approved March 5,
1915, as found on pages 78, 79, 80 and 81, of the Session Laws
of said Legislature, creating the county court of Bexar County
for criminal cases, and each provision of said Act, shall, except
in so far as in conflict herewith, remain in full force and effect,
and apply to the County Court at Law No. 2, of Bexar County,
Texas.
SEC. 22. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions
of this Act are hereby repealed. In case it should be declared
by the courts that any part of this Act is unconstitutional
such decision shall not impair other parts and portions
of this Act.
SEC. 23. The fact that there is now no adequate provision
governing the filing and transfer of cases into and between said
courts; the fact that the dockets of said respective courts should
be equalized; the fact that since the creation of said county court
of Bexar County for civil cases in the year 1911 and the county
court of Bexar County for criminal cases in the year 1915, the
cost of living has greatly increased, and the salaries of the
judges of said courts are wholly inadequate and considerably
lower than the salaries of the judges of similar and corresponding
courts; the fact that the unusually large volume of business
handled by each of said courts, and the large responsibility of
the office in a county seat the size of San Antonio, justifies the
propriety hereof and creates 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 this Act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
Approved February 12, 1927.
Effective February 12, 1927.