Tom Green County v. Proffitt

McCLENDON, Chief Justice.

This case involves the constitutionality of the 1945 amendment to Art. 2326, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St., H.B. 555, Ch. 291, p. 460, Gen. Laws Reg.Ses. 49th Leg. H.B. 555 provides for annual salaries, payable monthly, of official court reporters of each district court, civil or criminal, and of each county court at law, civil or criminal, at not less than $2,400 nor more than $3,750, to be fixed and apportioned among the affected counties by the respective judges of those courts; but exempts from the provisions of the act counties having a population of not less than 220,000…