Kendall and Kerr, and the times of holding the district court therein shall be as follows:

In the county of Edwards, on the first Monday in March and September, and may continue in session two weeks.

In the county of Zavalla, on the second Monday after the first Monday in March and September, and may continue in session two weeks.

In the county of Uvalde, on the fourth Monday after the first Monday in March and September, and may continue in session three weeks. In the county of Medina, on the seventh Monday after the first Monday in March and September, and may continue in session four weeks. In the county of Bandera, on the eleventh Monday after the first Monday in March and September, and may continue in session two weeks.

In the county of Kendall, on the thirteenth Monday after the first Monday in March and September, and may continue in session two weeks.

In the county of Kerr, on the fifteenth Monday after the first Monday in March, and on the first Monday in January, and may continue in session until the business is disposed of.

SEC. 2. All writs, process, recognizances and bonds issued, entered into or executed prior to the taking effect of this Act and returnable to the terms of court heretofore fixed by law in the several counties composing said district, are hereby made returnable to the terms of said court as fixed by this Act, and shall be as valid and binding as if no change had been made in holding said courts.

SEC. 3. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. The necessity for a change in the times of holding court in said district, and the crowded condition of the calendar, create an emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring a suspension of the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days, and said rule is hereby suspended.

[NOTE. The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing act passed the House of Representatives, no vote given; was referred to the Senate, where it was amended and passed, no vote given; the Senate amendments were concurred in by the House of Representatives by a two-thirds vote, yeas 98, nays 0.]

Approved March 31, 1905.

Takes effect 90 days after adjournment.

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COURTS-FIXING JURISDICTION IN THE SIXTH, EIGHTH AND SIXTY-SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.

An Act to amend an Act passed by the Twenty-eighth Legislature to create the Sixty-second Judicial District of Texas; to name the counties composing said district; to prescribe the time of holding the terms of the district court in said district; empowering the judge of the Sixth Judicial District to empanel the grand jury for Lamar county, and empowering the judge of the Eighth Judicial District to empanel the grand jury for Hunt county and Delta county, and giving authority to the judges of either the Sixth or the Sixty-second Judicial District, in the county of Lamar, to transfer cases from their respective courts to the other of said courts; and giving authority to the judges of either the Eighth or the Sixty-second Judicial Districts in the counties of Hunt and Delta, to transfer cases from their respective courts in each of said counties to the other of said courts; so as to add another term to the county of Delta, and fixing the time of holding the term of court in said county; and giving the judge of the Sixty-second Judicial District power to empanel the grand jury whenever he thinks it necessary and to have cognizance of civil and criminal cases, and to have power to summon and empanel juries in all cases in said Delta county; and declaring an emergency.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: The Sixty-second Judicial District of Texas shall be composed of the counties of Hunt, Delta and Lamar, and the district court shall be held therein each year hereafter, as follows:

In the county of Hunt, beginning on the fourth Monday after the first Monday in January, and may continue in session six weeks; and on the third Monday in May, and may continue in session ten weeks.

In the county of Delta, beginning on the twelfth Monday after the first Monday in January, and may continue in session three weeks; and on the ninth Monday after the first Monday in August, and may continue in session three weeks.

In the county of Lamar, beginning on the first Monday in August, and may continue in session eight weeks, and on the first Monday in December, and may continue in session until Saturday night next before the fourth Monday in January.

SEC. 2. The clerk of the district court of Lamar county as heretofore constituted, and his successors in office, shall be the clerk of both the Sixth and Sixty-second Judicial District courts in said Lamar county, and shall perform all the duties pertaining to the clerkship of both of said courts.

SEC. 3. The clerks of the district courts of Delta and Hunt counties, respectively, as heretofore constituted, and their successors in office, shall be the clerks of both the Eighth and Sixty-second district courts in said counties, respectively, and shall perform all the duties pertaining to the clerkship of both of said counties.

SEC. 4. The district court of the Sixth Judicial District and the district court of the Sixty-second Judicial District, in the county of Lamar, shall have concurrent jurisdiction with each other, throughout the limits of Lamar county, of all matters, civil and criminal, of which jurisdiction is given to the district courts by the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas; and the district court of the Eighth Judicial District and the district court of the Sixty-second Judicial District in the county of Hunt,

shall have concurrent jurisdiction with each other in said county, throughout the limits of the county of Hunt, of all matters civil and criminal, of which jurisdiction is given to the district courts by the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas; and the district court of the Eighth Judicial District and the district court of the Sixty-second Judicial District, in the county of Delta, shall have concurrent jurisdiction with each other in said county, throughout the limits of the county of Delta of all matters civil and criminal, of which jurisdiction is given to the district courts by the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas; provided, that the judge of the Sixty-second Judicial District shall never empanel the grand jury in said court in the counties of Lamar, Hunt and Delta, unless in his judgment he thinks it necessary.

SEC. 5. Either of the judges of the district courts of Lamar county may, in their discretion, either in term time or vacation, transfer any case or cases, civil or criminal, that may at any time be pending in his court to the other district court in Lamar county by order or orders entered upon the minutes of the court making such transfer, and where such transfer or transfers are made, and when so entered upon the dockets the judge of said court shall try and dispose of said cases in the same manner as if such cases were originally filed in said court.

SEC. 6. Either of the judges of the district court of the county of Hunt may, in their discretion, either in term time or vacation, transfer any case or cases, civil or criminal, that may at any time be pending in his court, to the other district court in said county of Hunt, by order or orders entered upon the minutes of the court making such transfer, and where such transfer or transfers are made, the clerk of said court shall enter such case or cases upon the dockets of the court to which such transfer or transfers are made, and when so entered upon the docket, the judge of said court shall try and dispose of said cases in the same manner as if such cases were originally filed in said court.

SEC. 7. Either of the judges of the district courts of the county of Delta may, in their discretion, either in term time or vacation, transfer any case or cases of a civil or criminal nature, that may at any time be pending in his court, to the other district court in said Delta county, by order or orders entered upon the minutes of the court, making such transfer, and when such transfer or transfers are made, and when so entered upon the docket, the judge of said court shall try and dispose of said case or cases in the same manner as if such cases were originally filed in said court.

SEC. 8. This Act shall not affect in any manner, the courts of the Sixth and Eighth Judicial Districts, except as hereinbefore provided. SEC. 9. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 10. The crowded condition of the docket of the district court of the county of Delta, creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage; and it is so enacted.

[NOTE. The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing act passed the House of Representatives by a two-thirds vote, yeas 111, nays 0; was re

ferred to the Senate, where it was amended and passed by a two-thirds vote, yeas 24, nays 0; the Senate amendments were concurred in by the House by a two-thirds vote, yeas 114, nays 0.]

Approved March 31, 1905.

Became a law March 31, 1905.

SWITCH LIGHTS AND SWITCHES-REQUIRING RAILWAYS TO MAINTAIN AND REGULATE.

An Act requiring all railway corporations operating a line of railway in the State of Texas to place switch lights on all their main line switches, and to keep the same lighted from sunset until sunrise; and requiring all railway corporations operating a line of railway in the State of Texas to place derailing switches on all their sidings connecting with the main line, and upon which sidings cars are left standing; and providing penalties and remedies for the violation of any of the provisions of this Act, and declaring an emergency. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: It shall be the duty of every railway corporation operating any line of railway in the State of Texas, within six months after the passage of this Act, to place good and sufficient switch lights on all their main line switches connected with the main line, and to keep the same lighted from sunset until sunrise. Provided, that this section of this Act shall not apply to railways which have all their road locomotives equipped with electric headlights.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of every railway corporation operating any line of railway in the State of Texas, within six months after the passage of this Act, to place good and safe derailing switches on all of their sidings connecting with the main line of such railway, and upon which sidings cars are left standing; provided, that no derailing switches shall be required where the siding connects with main line on an up grade in the direction of the main line of one-half of one per cent or over. Provided further, that no derailing switches shall be required on inside tracks at terminal points where regular switching crews are employed.

SEC. 3. Any railway corporation which shall wilfully violate any of the provisions of this Act shall be liable to the State of Texas for a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars for each offense, and such penalty shall be recovered and suits. therefor be brought by the Attorney-General or under his direction in the name of the State of Texas, in Travis county, or in any county through which such railway may run or be operated, and such suits shall be subject to the provisions of Article 4577 of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas; provided, the provisions of Section 1 of this Act shall not apply on railroad lines or divisions on which no trains are regularly run or operated at night.

SEC. 4. Whereas, there are now no adequate safety devices to prevent cars standing upon sidings from being blown on the main line of railways, thereby causing accidents and danger to the lives of passengers and

employes of railway companies in this State, and no lights on all switches connecting with the main line of railways, thereby rendering the same dark and dangerous, creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended, and said rule is hereby suspended, and this Act shall take effect and be full force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.

[NOTE. The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing act passed the House of Representatives by a two-thirds vote, yeas 89, nays 4; it was referred to the Senate, where it was amended and passed, no vote given; and the House of Representatives concurred in the Senate amendments, no vote given.]

Approved April 3, 1905.

Takes effect 90 days after adjournment.

COURTS-FIXING TIME FOR HOLDING IN FIRST AND FIFTY-EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.

An Act to amend Chapter three of the general laws of the State of Texas, passed at the first called session of the 27th Legislature, approved September 2nd 1901, amending chapter three, section one, of an act to amend section one of an act entitled "An Act to redistrict the State into Judicial Districts and fix the times for holding court therein, and to provide for the election of judges and district attorneys in said districts at the next general election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 1884, approved April 9th 1883; to amend an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the terms and fix the times for holding District Courts in the first Judicial District of Texas, composed of Jasper, Newton, Orange, Jefferson and Tyler Counties, so as to change the terms in Tyler and Jefferson Counties, approved April 10th 1899; to create the Fifty-eighth Judicial District of the State of Texas; to fix the times for holding court therein and to provide for the appointment of a District Judge and a District Attorney for said Fifty-eighth Judicial District, and to validate all writs and other process heretofore issued out of the District Court of said First Judicial District and to repeal all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith, and declaring an emergency," and to repeal section 8, of said Act limiting the existence of the Fifty-eighth Judicial District to January 1st A. D. 1907, and all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith, and declaring an emergency.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:

SECTION 1. That from and after the passage and taking effect of this Act, the first Judicial District of the State of Texas, shall be composed of the Counties of Tyler, Jasper, Newton and Orange.

SECTION 2. One term of said Court of the First Judicial District shall begin in the County of Jasper on the first Mondays in February and September and may remain in session five weeks; one term shall begin in the county of Newton on the 5th Mondays after the first Monday in February and September and may remain in session four weeks; and one term shall begin in the County of Orange on the 9th Monday's after the first Monday in February and September and may remain in session six weeks; one term shall begin in the County of Tyler on the