Chapter 139. to amend section five hundred and thirty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States
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CHAP. 139.— An Act to amend section five hundred and thirty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States.Feb. 17, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Arkansas, eastern judicial district.[R. S., sec. 533, p. 90, amended](/us/rs/t/s533/p90).Two divisions established. That section five hundred and thirty-three of the Revised Statutes be amended as follows, namely: Add, after the words “the eastern district includes the residue of said State” the following:
" “Said eastern district shall be, and is hereby, divided into two divisions, to be known as the eastern and western divisions of the eastern district of Arkansas. The eastern division shall consist of the following counties, to wit: Mississippi, Crittenden, Lee, Phillips, Clay, Craighead, Poinsett, Greene, Cross, Saint Francis and Monroe, and the western division of the remaining counties in said district; but no additional marshal shall be appointed in said district”. “The court for the eastern division shall be held at Helena, and forTerms. the western division at Little Rock, as now provided for b.y law; and Jurisdiction.each of said courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all matters cognizable in said courts and arising in the counties comprising the division to the same extent, to all intents and purposes as if said divisions were separate districts.
” " Sec. 2. That all crimes and offenses heretofore committed within Present actions not affected.either of said districts, shall be prosecuted, tried, and determined in the same manner and with the same effect as if this act had not been passed. Approved, February 17, 1887.