Chapter 18. to amend an act approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine entitled "An act to create the northern judicial district of the State of Texas, and to change the eastern and western judicial districts of said State, and to fix the time and places of holding courts in said distric
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CHAP. 18.— An Act to amend an act approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine entitled "An act to create the northern judicial district of the State of Texas, and to change the eastern and western judicial districts of said State, and to fix the time and places of holding courts in said districts."June 11, 1879.1879, eh. 97,30 Stat., 318. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Courts in Texas.Transfer of Jackson County, That, so much of the act to which this is amendatory as provides that Jackson County shall be embraced in the western judicial district of Texas, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the said county of Jackson is hereby placed in the eastern judicial district of said State; and all process issued against defendants residing therein shall be returned to Galveston; and all civil causes of action which have accrued in said county, of which the courts of the United States have jurisdiction, shall be cognizable in the court at Galveston, but all offenses committed in said county against the laws of the United States before the passage of this act shall be cognizable in the court of the western district, as provided in said act of the twenty- fourth of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
Sec. 2. Return of process. That so much of the act to which this is an amendment as makes all process against defendants residing in the counties of Aransas, Duval, Nueces, La Salle, Zapita, San Patricio, Refugio, Dimmit, Webb, Encinal, and Maverick returnable to Brownsville is hereby repealed, and such process is hereby made returnable to San Antonio; and all causes of civil action which have accrued in said counties, or either of them, since the passage of the act to which this is an amendment, or which shall hereafter accrue, shall be cognizable in the court at San Antonio.
Sec. 3. Transfer of civil actions. Civil actions or proceedings now pending against parties residing in either of said counties in the courts named in the first and second sections hereof, as provided in the act to which this is an amendment, may, on the application of either party, be transferred to the proper court of said district under this act: and incase of such transfer, all papers and files therein, with copies of all journal-entries, shall be transferred to the office of the clerk of such court; and the same shall proceed in all respects as though originally commenced in said court; and civil actions or proceedings now pending in the circuit courts at Brownsville, Austin, Galveston or Tyler which under this act would be cognizable in some other district, may on the application of cither party be transferred to the proper court of said district, and iu case of such transfer all papers and files therein with copies of all journal-entries, shall be transferred to the office of the clerk of such court, and the same shall proceed in all respects as though originally commenced in said court.
Sec. 4. Fifth judicial circuit. The several districts as established in the act to which this is an amendment are hereby declared to be a part of the fifth judicial Jurisdiction.circuit; and the courts of the said northern district shall have the same jurisdiction as is conferred by law upon the courts of the eastern and Terms.western districts of said State.; and the circuit court for said northern district shall be held twice a year at Waco on t he first Mondays in April and October, at Dallas on the first Mondays in June and December, and at Graham on the first Mondays in February and August, and the circuit courts shall be held at Jefferson in the eastern district on the 11 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 18, 19, 20, 21. 1879. second Mondays in February and September, and at San Antonio in the western district on the first Mondays in May and November. Sec. 5. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are herebyRepeals. repealed. Approved, June 11, 1879.