The Laws of Texas, 1929 [Volume 26] Page: 122 of 1,702

                                
106             GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS.
SEC. 6. Provided that should any section of this Act be declared
unconstitutional, it shall not affect any other section and
all other sections shall be in full force and effect.
SEC. 7. The fact that many school districts have been
formed and the area of many districts diminished or increased
and bonds issued or authorized by such districts pursuant to
Chapter 84 aforesaid, the legality of which is in question creates
an emergency and an imperative public necessity, demanding
the suspension of the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be
read on the three several days in each House and said Rule is
hereby 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. 216 passed the House viva voce; passed
the Senate, 30 yeas, 0 nays.]
Approved March 2, 1929.
Effective 90 days after adjournment.
CHANGING THE ELEVENTH, EIGHTH, SECOND, AND
TENTH SUPREME JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.
H. B. No. 231.]         CHAPTER 51.
An Act amending Chapter 255 of the Acts of the 40th Legislature at its
Regular Session, by providing that the counties of Dawson, Borden
and Howard shall be a part of the Eleventh Supreme Judicial District,
and removing said counties from the Eighth Supreme Judicial
District and providing for the appeal of cases from Dawson, Borden
and Howard counties to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Eighth
Supreme Judicial District prior to September 1, 1929, and for the appeal
of cases from Dawson, Borden and Howard counties to the Court
of Civil Appeals for the Eleventh Supreme Judicial District subsequent
to September 1, 1929; by providing that Hood county shall be a part
of the Second Supreme Judicial District and by removing same from
the Tenth Supreme Judicial District and providing for appeals from
said county.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. That Chapter 255, Acts of the 40th Legislature,
at its Regular Session, be. and the same is hereby amended so
as to hereafter read as follows:
"Article 198. This State shall be divided into eleven Supreme
Judicial Districts composed of the following named counties
for the purpose of constituting and organizing a Court of
Civil Appeals in each of the several Supreme Judicial Districts
as follows, to-wit:
"First: Trinity, Walker, Grimes, Burleson, Washington,
Waller, Harris, Chambers, Austin, Colorado, Lavaca, DeWitt,
Jackson, Matagorda, Wharton, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston,
Anderson, Houston.
"Second: Wichita, Clay, Montague, Wise, Tarrant, Cooke,
Denton, Parker, Archer, Young, Jack, Hood.
"Third: Milam, Lee, Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, Wil-