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It is used as a courthouse by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. [2] The courthouse was renamed in 1994 to honor state representative and district judge Sam B. Hall Jr. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1]
The first federal judge in Texas was John C. Watrous, who was appointed on May 26, 1846, and had previously served as Attorney General of the Republic of Texas. He was assigned to hold court in Galveston, at the time, the largest city in the state. As seat of the Texas Judicial District, the Galveston court had jurisdiction over the whole state ...
The State of Texas concluded that, since 2000, the area had the highest annual averages of 1,3-Butadiene of any area in Texas. [4] On May 27, 2005, the State opened a pollution monitor in Manchester. [5] In 2019 Mayor of Houston Sylvester Turner added Manchester to the Complete Communities program. [6]
The Texas Supreme Court Building. Texas is the only state besides Oklahoma to have a bifurcated appellate system at the highest level. [4] The Texas Supreme Court hears appeals involving civil matters (which include juvenile cases), and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals hears appeals involving criminal matters. [4]
Districts map. There are fourteen appellate districts each of which encompasses multiple counties and is presided over by a Texas Court of Appeals denominated by number: [19] The counties of Gregg, Rusk, Upshur, and Wood are in the jurisdictions of both the Sixth and Twelfth Courts, while Hunt County is in the jurisdiction of both the Fifth and Sixth Courts.
Houston County and Crockett were both established in 1837. The first version of courthouse was a log cabin built the following year on the square, which was replaced by a more permanent brick building in 1851. This second courthouse was destroyed by fire in 1865, also burning most of the county's records.
In the United Kingdom (and particularly in England and Wales) a county record office is usually a local authority repository, also called a county archives.. Such repositories employ specialist staff to administer and conserve the historic and the semi-current records of the parent body.
John Hemphill (1803–1862), U.S. Senator and Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court 3,189: 910 sq mi (2,357 km 2) Henderson County: 213: Athens: 1846: Houston County and Nacogdoches County: James Pinckney Henderson, the first governor of Texas (1846–1847) 86,158: 874 sq mi (2,264 km 2) Hidalgo County: 215: Edinburg: 1852: Cameron County