The Laws of Texas, 1927 [Volume 25] Page: 99 of 1,111

GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS. 83
application to the mayor of any such city for a certificate as to
the population of such city. It shall be the duty of any such
mayor to ascertain by some reasonbale accurate estimate the
population of any such city, and his certificate to same under
oath shall authorize the district attorney to assume its correctness
and act upon the information contained in such certificate
in making any appointment of an assistant or assistants under
this Act.
SEC. 3. The fact that it is absolutely necessary in certain localities,
in order to properly enforce the ltaw, for district attorneys
to have additional help in performance of their duties,
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 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 February 23, 1927.
Effective February 23, 1927.
LIS PENDENS NOTICES.
S. B. No. 142.] CHAPTER 59.
An Act amending Article 6643 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925; relative
to lis pendens notices; providing that lis pendens notices mentioned
and referred to in said article shall be notice to all the world of their
contents, and that the suit or suits mentioned therein are pending and
shall operate as soon as filed with the county clerk for record as provided
in Chapter 2 of Title 115 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925,
whether service has been had on the parties to said suit or not; and
declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. Article 6643 of the Revised Civil Statutes of
1925, is hereby amended so as to hereafter read as follows:
Article 6643. All such notices of pendency shall be notice to
all the world of their contents and that the suit or suits mentioned
therein are pending, and such notices shall operate as
soon as filed with the county clerk for record, as provided in
this Chapter whether service has been had on the parties to
said suit or not.
SEc. 2. The fact that the law relative to lis pendens notices
should be changed as herein provided in view of the holding of
the courts in the case of O'Brien versus Perkins, 276 S. W. 308;
285 S. W. 261, 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 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 February 24, 1927.
Effective ninety (90) days after adjournment.