Chapter CCCX. *to provide for the Suits, Judgments, and Business of the United States Provisional Court for the State of Louisiana.* July 28, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Proceedings in the United States provisional court
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CHAP. CCCX.— An Act *to provide for the Suits, Judgments, and Business of the United States Provisional Court for the State of Louisiana.* July 28, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Proceedings in the United States provisional court for Louisiana, to be transferred to the district court, and to be as though originally commenced there. That all suits; causes, prosecutions, and proceedings in the United States provisional court for the State of Louisiana, with the records thereof, be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the United States district court for the eastern district of Louisiana; and all suits, causes, prosecutions, and proceedings so transferred shall be proceeded with in said court and tried and determined, and process and judgment issued and executed therein and by said court in the same manner and with like effect as if the same had been commenced Proviso.originally in said district court: *Provided, however,* That any suit or proceeding so transferred, of which the circuit court could take jurisdiction under the laws of the United States, shall in like manner be heard and determined in the circuit court held in said district.
Sec. 2. Record in certain suits to remain in district court without further action. *And be it further enacted, *That in case suits or proceedings are pending in said provisional court which could not have been instituted in said circuit or district court, the record shall remain in said district court without further action therein. Sec. 3. Judgments, &c. of the provisional court to become at once the judgments, &c. of the district or circuit court. *And be it further enacted, *That all judgments, orders, decrees, and decisions of the United States provisional court for the State of Louisiana, relating to the causes hereby transferred to the district court of the eastern district of Louisiana, or to the circuit court held in said district, shall at once become the judgments, orders, decrees, and decisions of said district court, or said circuit court, unless the same are inconsistent with the rules and proceedings thereof; and may be enforced, pleaded, and proved, as the judgments, orders, decrees, or decisions of said district court, or said circuit court.
Approved, July 28, 1866.