Inventory of county records, Newton County Courthouse, Newton, Texas Page: 6
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attending all Commissioners' meetings, posting notices of such
meetings, preparing the agenda for each meeting, taking minutes,
and indexing and maintaining these records.9
COUNTY ATTORNEY
The Constitution provides that
a County Attorney, for counties in which there
is not a resident Criminal District Attorney,
shall be elected by the qualified voters of
each county, who shall be commissioned by the
Governor, and hold his office for the term of
four years. In case of vacancy the Commissioners
Court of the county shall have the power to appoint
a County Attorney until the next general
election.
The County Attorney has the responsibility of representing
the State in the district and inferior courts in his county.2
DISTRICT CLERK
According to the Constitution, the State is to be divided
into as many judicial districts as may be provided by law.1
The District Court has jurisdiction in
all criminal cases of the grade of felony; in
all suits in behalf of the State to recover
penalties, forfeitures and escheats; of all
cases of divorce; of all misdemeanors involving
official misconduct; of all suits to recover
damages for slander or defamation of character;
of all suits for trial of title to land and for
the enforcement of liens thereon; of all suits
for the trial of the right of property levied
upon by virtue of any writ of execution, sequestration
or attachment when the property
levied on shall be equal to or exceed in value
five hundred dollars; of all suits, complaints
or pleas whatever, without regard to any distinction
between law and equity, when the matter
in controversy shall be valued at or amount to
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Newton County Historical Commission. Inventory of county records, Newton County Courthouse, Newton, Texas, book, 1978; Denton, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth25190/m1/21/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.