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66 GENERAL LAWS.
SEC. 7. If any sentence, paragraph or section of this Act
shall be held invalid or unconstitutional, such holding shall not
invalidate any other sentence, paragraph or section hereof, and
the Legislature hereby expressly declares that it would have
passed such remaining sentences, paragraphs and sections despite
such invalidity.
SEC. 8. All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act or
with the rules and regulations adopted under this Act by the
Supreme Court are hereby repealed.
SEC. 9. The fact that there is no law creating a State Bar
and the further fact that there is a growing demand upon the
part of the public and the lawyers of this State that the Supreme
Court be empowered to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations
governing the legal profession and the professional conduct
of attorneys 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 suspended,
and this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
passage, and it is so enacted.
[NOTE.-H. B. No. 74 was passed by the House, as amended,
February 22, 1939, by a vote of 110 yeas, 34 nays; by the Senate,
with amendments, April 5, 1939, by a vote of 21 yeas, 6 nays;
House concurred in Senate amendments, April 6, 1939, by a
vote of 103 yeas, 20 nays.]
Approved April 19, 1939.
Effective April 19, 1939.
CHAPTER 2.
PRESCRIBING RULES AS TO THE GRANTING OF
LICENSES TO PRACTICE LAW.
S. B. No. 477.]
An Act to amend Section 3 of House Bill No. 74, passed at this, the
Regular Session of the Forty-sixth Legislature, so as to prescribe rules
and regulations by which it may be established who are now licensed
to practice law within this State within the meaning of said Section;
and limiting the power of the District Judge and the Supreme Court;
and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. That Section 3 of House Bill No. 74, passed at
this, the Regular Session of the Forty-sixth Legislature, be and
the same is hereby amended so as to read hereafter as follows:
"Section 3. All persons who are now or who shall hereafter
be licensed to practice law in this State shall constitute and be
members of the State Bar, and shall be subject to the provisions
hereof and the rules adopted by the Supreme Court of Texas;
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1937-1939 [Volume 31], book, 1939; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth18824/m1/440/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .