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GENERAL LAWS. 7
SEVENTY-NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT-FIXING TIME OF
HOLDING COURT THEREIN.
S. B. No. 39.] CHAPTER 5.
An Act to prescribe the time and fix the terms of holding the district courts
in the counties comprising the Seventy-Ninth Judicial District of Texas;
and to conform all writs and process from such courts to such changes
and to make all process issued or served before this Act takes effect, including
recognizances and bonds, returnable to the terms of courts in said
district as herein fixed and to validate the summoning of grand and petit
jurors therein; to repeal Section 2 of Chapter 48 of the Laws of the Thirtyfourth
Legislature passed and approved March 12, 1915, relating to the
time of holding district courts in said district and repealing Chapter 8
of the laws of the Thirty-seventh Legislature passed and approved February
2, 1921, relating to the time of holding courts in said district and
repealing all laws in conflict with this Act, and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. 'The Seventy-ninth Judicial District of Texas shall be
composed of the counties of Starr, Hidalgo, Brooks, Jim Hogg,
Duval and Jim Wells, and the terms of the district courts of said
district shall be held therein each year as follows:
In the county of Starr on the second Monday in February of each
year, and may continue in session two weeks; on the first Monday
in September of each year, and may continue in session two weeks.
In the county of Hidalgo on the second Monday after the second
Monday in February of each year, and may continue in session
nine weeks; on the second Monday after the first Monday in September
of each year, and may continue in session nine weeks.
In the county of Brooks on the eleventh Monday after the second
Monday in February of each year, and may continue in session two
weeks; on the eleventh Monday after the first Monday in September
of each year, and may continue in session two weeks.
In the county of Jim Hogg on the thirteenth Monday after the
second Monday in February of each year, and may continue in
session two weeks; on the thirteenth Monday after the first Monday
in September of each year, and may continue in session two weeks.
In the county of Duval on the fiftenth Monday after the second
Monday in February of each year, and may continue in session
two weeks; on the first Monday in January of each year. and may
continue in session two weeks, and in addition thereto, there shall
be an additional term of court in Duval County for the year 1921,
which shall convene on the fourth Monday in August of said year,
and may remain in session one week.
In the county of Jim Wells on the seventeenth Monday after
the second Monday in February of each year, and may continue in
session four weeks; on the second Monday after the first Monday
in January of each year, and may continue in session to and including
the Saturday proceeding the second Monday in February
of each year.
SEC. 2. All processes, writs and bonds issued, served or executed
prior to the taking effect of this Act and returnable to the terms
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1921 [Volume 21], book, 1921; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth14933/m1/15/?rotate=90: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .