Charter of the City of Dallas Page: 36
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2. uiere shall be a court for the trial of misdemeanor offenses known
as the "Corporation Court," with such powers and duties as are defined
and prescribed in an act of the Legislature of the State of 'Texas, and
any acts amendatory thereof, entitled, "An Act to establish and create
in each of the cities, towns and villages of this State, a State court,
to be known as the 'Corporation Court' in each city, town or village,
and to prescribe the jurisdiction and organization thereof, and to abolish
'municipal courts;'" said act having been presented to the (.overnor
of Texas larch 15, 1899, and not having been by him disapproved.
The Magistrate of said court shall be known as the "Judge of the
Corporation Court," he shall be a qualified voter ' of the City of
Dallas, shall be appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Board
of Commissioners, shall hold his office for two years, unless sooner re-
moved by impeachment, and shall receive such salary as may be fixed
by the Board of Commissioners, which salary shall not be increased or
diminished during his term of office. There shall be a clerk or 'clerks
of said court, and such deputies as may be created or provided for by
ordinance adopted by the Commissioners, which deputies shall be ap-
pointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Board of Commissioners,
shall be subject to removal at any time by the Board of Commission-
ers, and shall receive such salary as may be fixed by the. Board of Com-
missioners.
The clerk or clerks of said court and the deputies thereof shall have
the power to administer oaths and affidavits, make certificates, affix
the seal of said court thereto, and generally to do 1a1n1 perform all things
and acts usually or necessary to be performed by clerks of courts in.
issuing process of said courts and conducting the business thereof.
The Board of Commissioners may req uire such clerk, clerks or deputies
created by it to perform such other duties, in adldition to the duties
of clerk or deputy clerk, as may be prescribed, or nay provide that
some other employee or employes of the city, in addition to other duties,
may perform the duties of such clerk or deputy clerk, without extra
compensation.
The Mayor shall within fifteen days after his election and qualification
for the years 1908 and 1909, and biennally thereafter, nominate and sub-
mit to the Board of Commissioners for confirmation, the name of a
person proposed by him for the office of Judge of said corporation court.
Said officer shall be a regularly licensed and practicing attorney and
a qualified voter of the City of Dallas, and shall have resided in said
city at least three years before said appointment. 1ie shall receive
for his services such compensation as may be fixed by the Board of
Commissioners and such compensation shall not be changed during his
term of office,
If the Board of Conmnissioners should fail or refuse to confirm any
nomination for judge of the corporation court, it shall be the duty of
the Miyor to submit another totmination for such office and to continue
so to do until a nomination shall be confirmed. The Mayor shall have
authority to make a temporary appointment to fill a vacancy in said
P toflice, to continue until an appointment thereto made and submitted
by him to the Board of Commissioners shall be confirmed thereby, which
said temporary appointee shall not have been theretofore rejected by the
Board of Commissioners as a nomiinee for said office.
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Texas. Legislature. Charter of the City of Dallas, legislative document, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth610709/m1/42/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dallas Municipal Archives.