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4 GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS.
PROVIDING FOR OFFICIAL COURT REPORTER FOR
HARRIS COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 2, AND
CONFERRING CIVIL JURISDICTION UPON
SAID COURT.
H. B. No. 14.] CHAPTER 3.
An Act to amend Section 2, Chapter 8, of the General Laws of the Thirtyfourth
Legislature, passed at its First Called Session, as amended by
Senate Bill No. 143, Sec. 2, Chapter 24 of the General Laws of the Fortyfirst
Legislature, passed at its Regular Session in 1929; also providing for
an Official Court Reporter of the County Court at Law No. 2 of Harris
County, Texas, fixing the duties and compensation of said Reporter, conferring
civil as well as criminal jurisdiction upon said Court, providing
for filing and docketing and transferring causes, providing that the
County Clerk of Harris County, Texas, shall be the Clerk of said County
Court at Law No. 2 in civil matters and that the District Clerk of Harris
County, Texas, shall be the Clerk of the County Court at Law No. 2 of
Harris County, Texas, in criminal matters; declaring an emergency and
fixing effective date of this Act.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. That Section 2, Chapter 8, of the General laws
of the Thirty-fourth Legislature, passed at its First Called Session,
as amended by Senate Bill No. 143, Sec. 2, Chapter 24 of
the General Laws of the Forty-first Legislature, passed at its
Regular Session in 1929, be amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 2. Said County Court at Law No. 2 of Harris County,
Texas, shall have, and it is hereby granted the same jurisdiction
over criminal matters that is now or may be vested in
county courts having jurisdiction in criminal actions and proceedings
under the Constitution and laws of Texas, and shall
have appellate jurisdiction in all appeals in criminal cases from
Justice Courts and Corporation Courts within Harris County,
and the Judges of said Court shall have the same powers,
rights, and privileges as to criminal matters as are or may be
vested in the Judges of County Courts having criminal jurisdiction;
provided that said Court shall have no jurisdiction over
any of those matters which is now vested exclusively in the
County Court of Harris County, or in the Judge thereof.
"Said County Court at Law No. 2 of Harris County, Texas,
and the Judge thereof shall have, and is hereby granted the
same jurisdiction and powers in civil actions or proceedings
that is now or may be by law conferred upon and vested in the
County Court at Law of Harris County, Texas, and the Judge
thereof; the Clerk of said last named Court shall also be the
Clerk of said County Court at Law No. 2 of Harris County,
Texas, in civil matters; and shall file each fifth civil action or
proceeding filed in said Courts in said County Court at Law
No. 2, beginning with the first civil action or proceeding divisible
by five without any remainder, and so on with each succeeding
civil action or proceeding so divisible; and said Clerk
shall keep separate dockets for each of said Courts; and shall
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1934-1935 [Volume 29], book, 1935; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth17292/m1/258/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .