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SEC. 15. The fact that the present law relating to the appointment of
official stenographers does not provide a proper standard of compensation,
thereby causing a dissatisfaction, creates an imperative
necessity that the Constitutional rule requiring bills to be read
on three several days be suspended and that this Act shall effect
from and after its passage, and it so enacted.
Approved March 31, 1911.
Becomes a law ninety days after adjournment.
SUPREME      JUDICIAL     DISTRICT    
  ORGANIZING       THE
SEVENTH AND EIGHTH SUPREME JUDICIAL DISTRICTS
AND REORGANIZING THE FIRST,
SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH, AND
SIXTH AND PRESCRIBING THEIR
BOUNDARIES.
CHAPTER 120.
Commttee Substitute S. B. Nos. 10 and 86.]
An Act to amend Article 21, Title 4, of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas,
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 provide for the organization
of a Court of Civil Appeals within the Seventh Supreme
Judicial District of Texas, and to provide for the organization of a Court
of Civil Appeals within the Eighth Supreme Judicial District of Texas,
and repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict therewith, and declaring
an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. That Article 21 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas,
and also an Act passed by the Thirtieth Legislature, creating the
Sixth Supreme Judicial District of Texas, be and the same are hereby
amended so as to read as follows:
Article 21. The State of Texas shall be and is hereby divided into
eight 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: Newton, Jasper, Orange, Jefferson, Hardin, Tyler,
Polk, Trinity, Houston, Madison, Walker, San Jacinto, Liberty,
Chambers, Harris, Montgomery, Grimes, Washington, Waller, Fort
Bend, Brazoria, Matagorda, Wharton, Colorado, Austin, Fayette,
Lavaca, Jackson, Sabine, San Augustine, Angelina, Anderson,
Brazos, Leon, Burleson, DeWitt, Galveston, and Nacogdoches.
2. The following counties shall compose the Second Supreme
Judicial District: Wichita, Cooke, Montague, Clay, Archer, Baylor,
Knox, Stonewall, Haskell, Throckmorton, Young, Jack, Wise, Denton,
Tarrant, Parker, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Shackelford, Jones, Mitchell,
Nolan, Taylor, Callahan, Bosque, Eastland, Erath, Hood, Somervell,
Comanche, Johnson, Dawson, Howard, and Scurry.
3. The following counties shall compose the Third Supreme Judi