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or trustees under foreign wills, duly filed and recorded, as provided
in Articles 7875, 7876, 7877, and 7878, Revised-Civil Statutes, 1911,
where such wills confer upon the executors or trustees the power to
sell such real or personal property, be and the same are hereby validated,
and the record of such conveyance or releases heretofore made
shall have the same effect as if they were made and recorded after the
passage of this Act, and that all laws and parts of laws in conflict
herewith are hereby in all things repealed.
SEC. 2. The fact that there is some question as to the power of
foreign executors to execute deeds under the powers contained in foreign
wills to real and personal property situated in this state, create.,
an emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suipension
of the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three
several days in each House, and this Act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
[NOTE.-H. B. No. 235 passed the House March 13, no vote given.
Passed the Senate with amendments March 17, no vote given. House
concurred in amendments March 17, no vote given.]
Approved March 22, 1915.
Takes effect 90 days after adjournment.
NINTH    SUPREME     JUDICIAL    DISTRICT-CREATING, AND
PROVIDING FOR COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS THEREIN.
S. B. No. 61.]            CHAPTER 70.
An Act to amend an Act of the Thirty-second Legislature entitled "An
Act to amend Article 21, Title 4, of the Revised Civil Statutes,
and to amend an Act passed by the Thirtieth Legislature creating the
Sixth Supreme Judicial District of Texas, and to create the Seventh
and Eighth Supreme Judicial Districts of Texas," and to create the
Ninth Supreme Judicial District of Texas, and to provide for the organization
of a Court of Civil Appeals within the Ninth Supreme Judicial
District of Texas, and to repeal all laws in conflict herewith and
declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislatutre of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. That an Act passed by the Thirty-second Legislature
creating the Seventh and Eighth Supreme Judicial Districts of
Texas, and reorganizing the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and
Sixth Districts, and prescribing their boundaries, same being Chapter
120, of the Acts of the Regular Session of the Thirty-second Legislature,
be so amended as to read as follows, to-wit:
The State of Texas shall be, and is hereby divided into nine Supreme
Judicial Districts, for the purpose of constituting and organizing
courts of civil appeals therein, respectively:
1. The following counties shall compose the First Supreme Judicial
District: Houston, Madison, Walker, Harris, Grimes, Washington,
Waller, Fort Bend, Brazoria, Matagorda, Wharton, Colorado, Austin,