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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
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Hcmorsblo c. J. #Llde
county .~udit~,r, luooer County
Corpue Christi, Texas
Dear Sir;
Tho ooeontlal
thlr
al80 llko your o
83266, whioh rea
Cea~ua, aad whioh
re judiolal districts,
tlon of tra3sorlpt
by law, shall be Three Thou-
Qo3hre per annuts to be paid
or other court reporWW8.iere
"The Crlnlnal District Court in thla County also covers
Kloberg, Kenedy, nlllaoy a4 Cassron Counties, and any
four of the oountfsa co;aprialng suoh Judiolal dlstrlot
sect tho sggregte popul~tlon requlremmt and other ro-
qulreuents enmerrted in auoh artlole. We should like
to know wbotber this County rhauld not pay the reporter
for this Court on the barle of +3,000.00 a8 provided in
eufd .atlcle Z3Ebd. * * l "
?horablo C. J. Wilde, page 2 856
By Ac?tE o? 1925, 39th hgialature, page 244, chap-
ter 79, paragraph 1, (Article 199, Sea. 28, Subdivisions 1 to
8, lnoluelve, Vernon’6 Annotated Civil Statutes) the Legisla-
ture “continued as. established for the counties of Nuecee,
Kleberg, Kenedy, Willaoy and Camron a orlminal district court,”
whioh le the aam as referred to in your communication. It will
be noted that five (5) oountiee compose the judioial district
in whioh said oourt has jurisdiction. Thus, said rive counties
alone oompoae eald judloial district.
Article 23286, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes,
hereinabove quoted rrom your letter and therein rersrred to as
Artlolo 23266, applied only to the salary of the orflcial short-
hand roporter ln eaoh judiolal dirtriet eoaposed of four oapn-
ties, with an aggregate oxoeae population aa therein eet forth,
and which four oountiee *alone oonstitute one or more judioiel
dlstricte~e (Kmphaeia ours)
It 16 obvious, therefore, that tho provisions or said
Artiolo 23266, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes, have no ap-
plloation to the salary of the offlOlaI shorthand reporter ror
the Criminal Distrlot Court for the countiee of Dueoes, KIeberg,
Kenedy, Willaoy and Cameron.
Art1010 2327a, Vernon’r Annotated Clvll Statutes, rlres
the salary of the ortloial oourt reporter la eaOh judlolel district
eompoeed of two or more oountlse at $2,700 per annum, “in addition
to the oompensatlon for transcript fees end allowances for expenses
as now provided by lag.”
You are, thererore, advised that the salary of the
orrlolal shorthand reporter for the Criminal District Court of
ibsoee, Kleberg, Kenedy, Wlllaoy and Caneron Counties 1s rlxed
and governed by the provlaione of’ Article 2327a, supra.
Your8 very truly
ATT{IRNH Gii’WAL OF TEXAS
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L. E. Blewellen
Assi etant