Supreme Court Clerkship

Citations

• 40 Tex. 1

Syllabus

<p>1. The clerk appointed by the Supreme Court on the eighth of December, A. D. 1873, is continued in office by virtue of that appointment, notwithstanding the amendments to the 2d, 3d and 4th Sections of Article 5 of the Constitution, which effected a radical change in the constitution of the court by changing the number of persons composing it as well as their tenure of office.</p> <p>2. The tenure of office of the clerk of the Supreme Court is determined by the 5th Section of Article 5 of the Constitution, which was in no respect affected by the adoption of the Constitutional Amendments.</p> <p>3. He derived his appointment, not from the members of the court as individual officers, but from their official action as the “Supreme Court.”</p>