APPROPRIATION-TO PAY FOR REPAIRS FOR THE NORTH TEXAS HOSPITAL FOR INSANE. S. B. No. 96.] CHAPTER 6. An Act making an appropriation to pay for repairs contracted for by the Board of Managers of the North Texas Hospital for the Insane, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That the sum of seven thousand, one hundred and ninety-five dollars ($7,195.00) is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the public treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to pay for repairs contracted for at the North Texas Hospital for the Insane, and that the further sum of three hundred and fifty-nine and 75-100 dollars ($359.75) is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the public treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to pay the fee of the architect for examining the buildings of the said North Texas Hospital for the Insane and supervising the repairs above referred to. SEC. 2. There being no authority authorizing the payment of the sums referred to in Section 1 of this Act, and further that the contract for said work has been awarded and the work nearing completion, creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the Constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended, and the same is hereby suspended, and that this Act take effect from and after its passage, and it is so enacted. An Act to confer upon the County Court of Jasper County the civil and criminal jurisdiction belonging to said court under the Constitution and General Statutes of Texas, to define the jurisdiction of said court; to conform the jurisdiction of the district court of said county to said change; to fix the time of holding court, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this Act, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That the County Court of Jasper County shall hereafter have exclusive original jurisdiction in civil cases wherein the matter in controversy shall exceed in value two hundred dollars, and shall not exceed five hundred dollars, exclusive of interest, and shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the district court of said county, when the amount in controversy shall exceed five hundred dollars, and not exceed one thousand dollars exclusive of interest. SEC. 2. Said county court shall have appellate jurisdiction in civil cases over which justices courts have original jurisdiction, when the judgment of the court appealed from, or the amount in controversy, shall exceed twenty dollars, exclusive of interest and costs, and said county court shall have power to hear and determine cases brought up from the justices courts by certiorari, under the provisions of the title of the Revised Civil Statutes, of 1895, relating thereto. SEC. 3. The county judge of said county shall have authority, either in term time or in vacation, to grant writs of injunction, sequestration, mandamus, garnishment, attachment, certiorari, supersedeas, and all other writs necessary to the enforcement of the jurisdiction of said court, and shall also have power to issue writs of habeas corpus in all cases in which the Constitution has not exclusively conferred the power on the district court or judge thereof. SEC. 4. That said court shall have and exercise the general jurisdiction of a probate court, shall probate wills, appoint guardians of minors, idiots, lunatics, persons non compos mentis, and common drunkards, grant letters testamentary and of administration, settle accounts of executors, administrators, and guardians; transact all business pertaining to the estates of deceased persons, minors, idiots, lunatics, persons non compos mentis and common drunkards, including the partition, settlement and distribution of estates of deceased persons; and to apprentice minors as provided by general law and to issue all writs necessary for the enforcement of its jurisdiction and decrees. SEC. 5. Said county court shall have jurisdiction in the forfeiture and judgment of all bonds and recognizances taken in criminal cases of which said court has original or appellate jurisdiction. SEC. 6. Said county court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of all misdemeanors, except misdemeanors involving official misconduct and except misdemeanors in which the highest penalty that may be imposed by the law is a fine without imprisonment, that does not exceed two hundred dollars, and said court shall have appellate jurisdiction with trial de novo in criminal cases in which justices of the peace and other inferior tribunals of said county have original jurisdiction. SEC. 7. The district court of said county shall no longer have jurisdiction of misdemeanors except misdemeanors involving official misconduct, and shall no longer have jurisdiction of cases in which the county court of said county by provisions of this Act have [has] original or appellate jurisdiction. SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the district clerk of said county within thirty days after this Act shall take effect to make full and complete transcripts of orders on the criminal and civil dockets, then pending before the district court of said county, of which cases by the provisions of this Act original and appellate jurisdiction is given to the said county court, and to deliver said transcripts, together with the original papers in each case, to the county clerk of said county, and the said county clerk shall file the same and enter said cases on the respective dockets for trial by said court. SEC. 9. The said court shall also have the power to hear and determine all motions against sheriffs, and other officers of the court, for failure to pay over moneys collected under the process of said court or other defalcation of duty in connection with such process, and shall have pwer to punish by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three days, any person guilty of contempt of said court, and shall also have all other powers and jurisdiction conferred on county courts by the Constitution and General Laws of this State. SEC. 10. The terms of said court shall commence on the third Monday in February, and on the third Monday in May, and on the third Monday in August, and on the third Monday in November of each year, and shall continue in session for each term until the business may be disposed of; provided that the county commissioners court of said county may hereafter change the terms of said court whenever it may be deemed necessary. SEC. 11. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby expressly repealed in so far as they relate to Jasper county. SEC. 12. The importance of the passage of this measure to the people of Jasper county creates an emergency and an imperative necessity that the Constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each House be suspended, and that this Act take effect from and after its passage, and it is so enacted. Approved February 10, 1911. HIDE INSPECTION-EXEMPTING STARR AND ATASCOSA COUNTIES FROM THE OPERATION OF. An Act to exempt the counties of Starr and Atascosa from the provisions and operations of Articles 5002 and 5042, inclusive, of Chapter 6, Title 102 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1895, amended by the Acts of the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Legislatures, relating to the inspection of hides and animals, and repealing all laws in conflict therewith, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That the counties of Starr and Atascosa be and the same are hereby exempted from the provisions and operations of Article 5002 to 5042, inclusive, of Chapter 6, Title 102 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1895, relative to the inspection of hides and animals. SEC. 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. The fact that the operation of said provisions of law in said counties of Starr and Atascosa entails a great and unnecessary expense upon the people and the stock raisers of said counties of Starr and Atascosa and the crowded condition of the calendar create an imperative public necessity that the Constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each House be suspended and this bill be in force and take effect from and after its passage, and it is so enacted. Approved February 18, 1911. Became a law February 18, 1911. APPROPRIATIONS-TO COVER DEFICIENCIES FOR THE An Act making appropriations for the deficiencies in the appropriations heretofore made for the support of the State Government for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1911, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same are hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for deficiencies in the support of the State Government for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1911, and contracted under the provisions of Chapter 46, Acts of the Twenty-fifth Legislature, and of Articles 1089 and 1093 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and to make additional appropriations therefor. Deficiencies approved by the Governor for the year ending August 31, 1911: Public Buildings and Grounds. Water, light, fuel, contingencies and to purchase machinery.$5,000.00 Repairing and painting Capitol building and furniture in the House and Senate.. Feed for teams Total 1,000.00 75.00 .$6,075.00 SEC. 2. Whereas, there are no appropriations to pay claims against the State herein provided for, which are outstanding and are legal claims against the State, creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity which justifies the suspension of the Constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each House, and this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and is so enacted. Approved February 18, 1911. Became a law February 18, 1911. COUNTY COURT FOR BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS-FOR H. B. No. 111.] CIVIL CASES. CHAPTER 10. An Act to create the "County Court of Bexar County for Civil Cases," to define the jurisdiction thereof, and to conform to such change the jurisdiction of the County Court of Bexar County, fixing the salary of the judge of the County Court of Bexar County for Civil Cases; providing for the appointment and election of the judges of said court hereby created; providing for the appointment of special judges and filling of vacancies in said office, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: SECTION 1. That there is hereby created a court to be held in Bexar county, Texas, to be called the "County Court of Bexar County for Civil Cases." SEC. 2. The County Court of Bexar County for Civil Cases shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all civil matters and causes, original and appellate, over which, by the General Laws of the State of Texas, the county court of said county would have jurisdiction, except as provided in Section 3 of this Act, and all civil cases other than probate matters, and such. as are provided in Section 3 of this Act, be, and the same are hereby transferred to the County Court of Bexar County for Civil Cases; and all civil writs and processes, heretofore issued by or out of said county court, other than pertaining to matters over which, by Section 3 of this Act, jurisdiction remains in the County Court of Bexar County, be, and the same are hereby made returnable to the County Court of Bexar County for Civil Cases. SEC. 3. The County Court of Bexar County shall retain, as heretofore, the jurisdiction of all criminal cases, the forfeiture of bonds in criminal cases and all proceedings in relation thereto; of all cases of eminent domain; the general jurisdiction of a probate court; it shall probate wills, appoint guardians of minors, idiots, lunatics, persons non compos mentis, and common drunkards, grant letters testamentary and of administration, settle accounts of administrators, executors and guardians; transact all business pertaining to deceased persons, minors, idiots, lunatics, persons non compos mentis, and common drunkards, including the settlement, partition and distribution of estates of deceased persons, and to apprentice minors as provided by law. The county judge of Bexar county shall be the judge of the County Court of Bexar County, and all ex officio duties of the county judge shall be exercised by the said judge of the County Court of Bexar County, except in so far as the same shall, by this Act, be committed to the judge of the County Court of Bexar County for Civil Cases. The county judge of Bexar county shall retain authority to try all applications for liquor licenses, and shall approve all liquor bonds as may be provided by law. He shall also retain jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court. SEC. 4. The said County Court of Bexar County for Civil Cases or the judge thereof, shall have the power to issue writs of injunctions, sequestration, attachment, garnishment, certiorari, super |