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Laws of the State of Texas.
"9. Where the defendants in a case have severed on the trial, the
judge shall not allow the charges for service of process and mileage to be
duplicated in each case as tried, but only such additional fees shall be
allowed as are caused by the severance.
"Article 1058. It shall be the duty of the district judge when any
such bill is presented to him to examine the same carefully and to inquire
into the correctness thereof, and approve the same in whole or part, or
to disapprove the entire bill as the facts and law may require; and such
bill, with the action of the judge thereon, shall be entered on the minutes
of said court; and immediately on the rising of said court it shall be the
duty of the clerk thereof to make a certified copy from the minutes of
said court of said bill and the action of the judge thereon, and transmit
the same by mail in registered letter to the comptroller of public
accounts.
"Article 1059. It shall be the duty of the comptroller upon the receipt
of such claim and said certified copy of the minutes of said court,
to closely and carefully examine the same, and if correct to draw his warrant
on the state treasurer for the amount due in favor of the officer entitled
to the same; provided, that if the appropriation for paying such
accounts is exhausted, the comptroller shall file the same away, if correct,
and issue a certificate in the name of the officer entitled to the same,
stating therein the amount of the claim and character of the service performed.
And all such claims or accounts not transmitted to, or placed
on file in the office of the comptroller of public accounts within six
months from the date of the final disposition of the case in which the
services were rendered, shall be forever barred."
Approved July 9, A. D. 1879.
Takes effect ninety days after adjournment.
CHAPTER XLVII.-An act defining the boundary lines of Montague
county.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas,
That article 860 of the Revised Civil Statutes, adopted by the Sixteenth
Legislature, February ...., 1879, shall hereafter read as follows:
"Beginning six miles west of the northeast corner of Wise county;
thence west with the north line of Wise and Jack counties to a point
four miles west of the northeast corner of Jack county; thence due north
to Red river; thence down said river with its meanders to a point due
north of the beginning; thence due south to the place of beginning."
Sec. 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the above
entitled act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. The near approach of the close of the session creates a public
imperative necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read
on three several days should be suspended, and it is so suspended.
Approved July 9, A. D. 1879.
Takes effect ninety days after adjournment.(74)
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 Volume 9, book, 1898; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6729/m1/76/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .