General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature Page: 539

                                
COURTS OF CIVIL APPEALS

Sec. 26. The provisions of this Act are separable, and if any section,
or part thereof, shall be held unconstitutional or void by any court of
competent jurisdiction for any reason, such holding shall not affect the
validity of any other section or part of this Act and the same shall remain
and be in full force and effect; and the Legislature hereby declares that
it would have passed the remaining valid part or parts of this Act.
Sec. 27. The fact that the creation of the port district to be known as
the Port of Port Arthur Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas,
will enable said port to properly expand and develop to take care of mari-
time shipping of said port and will contribute to national defense and
the general welfare of the state, and will result in material benefits and
improvements of the territory included therein and in the increase of
taxable value of property included therein; and the crowded condition of
the calendar, create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that
the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in
each House be suspended, and said Rule is hereby suspended; and that
this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it
is so enacted.
Passed the Senate, April 30, 1963: Yeas 31, Nays 0; May 13, 1963,
Senate concurred in House amendments by a viva voce vote; passed
the House, May 8, 1963, with amendments, by a non-record vote.
Approved May 21, 1963.
Effective 90 days after May 24, 1963, date of adjournment.
COURTS OF CIVIL APPEALS-CITIES OF TYLER
AND CORPUS CHRISTI
CHAPTER 198
H. B. No. 68
An Act amending Article 198 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as last
amended by Chapter 641, Acts of the Forty-seventh Legislature, Regular
Session, 1941, and Article 1817 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925,
as last amended by Chapter 421, Acts of the Fifty-fifth Legislature, Regular
Session, 1957, so as to Create the Twelfth Supreme Judicial District and the
Thirteenth Supreme Judicial District and to locate the Courts of Civil Ap-
peals thereof; providing for Jurisdiction of cases; and declaring an emer-
gency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Section 1. That Article 198 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas,
1925, as last amended by Chapter 641, Acts of the Forty-seventh Legisla-
ture, Regular Session, 1941, be amended to 36 read as follows:
"Art. 198. Supreme Judicial Districts.
"This State shall be divided into thirteen (13) Supreme Judicial Dis-
tricts, composed of the following named counties for the purpose of con-
stituting 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, Brazoria, Fort Bend and Galveston.
36. Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. art. 198.
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