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*1 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS

AUSTIN Honorable Dan FJ. Jaakson

Distriot Attorney

Houston, Texas

Attention: Mr. Conred J. Landrarn

Dear Sir:

Your letter

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hat the alerk oi.the~ oXd oounty tethe new oouuty both a traxi- soript or 'ths,ptiaeedings~ in the 018 00&q *to- gether with 'h&l the original papers in th& .6aiae.l Under Art. 4294 the ~removal is not etisotive nntil the rlllq is ampleted in the new oount and th8 clerk 0r the new oounty riies his oetiir f~ orte ,to in the old oounty. Art. 4295 provides that efleot

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that when the-removal is effected the new oauaty shall prooeed lu the ease *as if it had been orlg- lnally oommeneed in the said oourt; but It shall not be neoessarg tb record any of the papers in the case that have been recorded in the oourt from whiah the same &as been removed.’ It is to be noted that the statute requires a seoond filing in the new oountg but not a second recording I the new county.’ This distinction is importantnbe- oanae Art. 3930, Chap; 2, Title 61, V. a. s. A.

governing .offlolal ,tees Of the County clerk pro- rides both a riling fee an8 a reaord?ng fee as r0ii0w6:

WtFUing .eaeh paper . . . . . . . . # 905 Reoordlng of papers required to be recorded by them in re- lation t.o estates 0r~ ,deeedents or wards for eaoh 100 words . . .I0 Filing ea,oh paper exoept sub- .05 poenas. .::;‘:~‘i ~.~~ . . ,. . . ~. ; . . . Iloaketlng~ eaoh ,appllcatlon, eomplalnt, ljetltlon or pro- oeedlng to’be 8harged but .; ~~~~onoe. . ~;‘:i’k i . i . 7 .’ . . . 30

EGE certirieate to any faot or raotseontalned In the reo- ords or his of.fioe with oerti- f lcate seals when,,not otherwise provided ~ior; ‘. : .~ . . . . . . . . .5q Reoord&ig ,of, Rapera required or permitted-.by’ law to be re- corded not otherw$se,, rovided for, -~inoludlng aertif s aate and seal, eaoh IO0 words. . . . . .IO’ .

aArt. 3930 taken alone will require the aharging or a rilln 1 &e for ,:eaoh eri lnal paper which has- been Ad from’ thebtp to the new eouui to. Rut It does not require the charging of a reoord- . iixg fee ior any of the eriglhal papers whleh are~re-~

quired by law to be reoorded beoause these original papers are not requfred to be reoorded a beaoi&d time. It Is plain that’ the ~statute did net eonelder, ,the ers transerlpt asa substitute ior the oifginal pa f and this~fndloates that the riling or the orig nal .papers In the DSW aotity is an essentisl .element of the- removal prooeedinga.

%inoe the stat& is mandatory 5.n this Poz&and in the'new oo&tty ,that the oxi&ml papers ;be u an4 .that,tho al&c of the naw oorraty aertlfy:thl.& faot I ham of the Opinion that the county olerk is req&& to oharp a riling ree ror eaoh original paper filed in the county. Only IR thle way ma the new aounty,be paid the serviae of the man- tj o1erk.U ,periorm.ing one of the indispsnsabla of- fioial sertioes~ required by removal proceed-.

This nlll,xiot~work a hardship ~011 the estate %a m@, oases 'bsoauss In most oases the remoral~is et the eleotlon of thd.gti&dlan or some other person uhoae aonoenienoe niU,be better aerved bf removing thd ease to~tha:nea:oounty. In other woPds~;~.tihe~rem~ al Is: not ror'the..Qonvanienoe.oi the adatlnlatratlre 'machinery or the St,ate':oti' adunty. : :

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