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HB 183, 51st R.S.
Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that any person, his guardian, or his dependents or heirs at law, may secure certified or authenticated copies of instruments in the custody or on file in the offices of the county clerks, district clerks, or other public officials of this State for the purpose of establishing any claim against the Government of the United States of America arising out of the service of any person in the armed forces of the United States of America or the services auxiliary thereto, including the maritime service and the merchant marine; providing that the country clerks, district clerks, and other public officials shall furnish said copies of instruments to said parties without said person, his guardian or dependents or heirs at law having to pay any fee therefor; providing furthers that in cases where said copies are furnished by the county clerk or district clerk in a fee county that said clerk shall receive 15 cents from the Commissioners' Court for each 100 words curtained in said instrument; and that said fee shall be paid by the Commissioners' Court out of the general fund of said county; and that the provisions of this Act shall not be applicable to counties where the county officials are compensated on a salary basis under the provisions of a certain Article; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.

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