Chapter 7. detaching Grandy County, Tennessee, from the southern division of the district of East Tennessee and attaching it to the middle district of said State, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 7.— An Act detaching Grandy County, Tennessee, from the southern division of the district of East Tennessee and attaching it to the middle district of said State, and for other purposes.Dec. 27, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Grundy County, Tenn.Detached from southern division of District of East Tennessee, and attached to middle district of the State. That hereafter the County of Grundy, in the State of Tennessee, shall be detached from the southern division of the District of East Tennessee and be attached to the middle district of Tennessee and that all process hereafter issuing except as hereinafter provided against citizens of said county of Grundy from the district or circuit courts of said State shall be returnable before the district or circuit courts for the middle district of Tennessee; and that any case now pending in the district or circuit court of the United States for the southern district of East Tennessee against citizens of said county of Grundy may, at their election, be transferred to the district or circuit court for the middle district of Tennessee at Nashville.
Sec. 2. That the county of Fentress in the middle District of TennesseeFentress County, Tenn.Detached from middle district of Tennessee, and attached to southern division of District of East Tennessee. be detached therefrom and added to the southern division of the District of East Tennessee; and hereafter all process issuing except as hereinafter provided against citizens of the county of Fentress from the District and Circuit Courts of the United States shall be returnable before said court at Chattanooga in said State: *Provided*, That causes now pending in the middle District of Tennessee from Fentress county shall be determined where pending, except in cases where both parties *Proviso*.consent to removal: *And provided further*, That all prosecutions for crimes or offenses heretofore committed in either of said counties, shall be commenced and proceeded with as if this act had not been passed.
Approved, December twenty seventh, 1884.