Chapter 64. 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” is hereby am
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CHAP. 64.— An act to amend sections four, five, and nine of 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 for holding courts in said districts”, and to provide for holding terms of the court of the western judicial district of Texas at the city of El Paso, and for other purposes.June 3, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Texas.
Judicial districts. 20 Stat., 318. That the fourth section of 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” is hereby amended as follows. " “Sec. 4. That the courts in the western judicial district shall be heldTerms of court: western judicial district. twice in each year at Brownsville, San Antonio, the city of El Paso, and Austin.
The courts shall be held at the city of Brownsville on the first Mondays in January and July; at San Antonio on the first Mondays in May and November; at the city of El Paso on the first Mondays in April and October; at Austin on the first Mondays in February and August” " Sec. 2. That section five of said act be so amended that all process issuedReturn of process. after this act shall take effect against defendants residing in the counties of El Paso, Pecos, Presidio, Tom Green, Crockett, Andrews, Gaines, Yoakum, Cockran, Bailey, Parmer, Castro, Lamb, Hockley, Terry, Dawson, Martin, Swisher, Hale, Lubbock, Lynn, Floyd, Crosby, Garza, Borden, Howard, Scurry, and Mitchell shall be returned to the city of El Paso.
That civil actions or proceedings now pending in the court at San Antonio against parties residing in the counties of El Paso,Transfer of [tending causes. Pecos, Presidio, Tom Green, and Crockett, and now pending in the court at Graham against parties residing in the counties of Andrews, Gaines, Yoakum Cockran, Bailey, Parmer, Castro, Lamb, Hockley, Terry, Dawson, Martin, Swisher, Hale, Lubbock, Lynn, Floyd, Crosby, Garza, Borden, Howard, Scurry, and Mitchell, as provided in the act to which this is amendatory, may, on the application of either party to such actions or proceedings, be transferred to the court at the city of El Paso; and in case of such transfer all papers and files therein, with copies of all journal entries, shall be transferred to the office of the deputy clerk of the court at the city of El Paso, and the same shall proceed in all respects as if originally commenced in said court. 36 Sec. 3.
Deputy clerk at El Paso. That there shall be appointed, in the manner provided by law a deputy clerk who shall keep his office at the city of El Paso. Sec. 4. That this act shall take effect and be in force on the first day of January anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-five; and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act be and the same are hereby repealed Approved, June 3, 1884.