Chapter 273.
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CHAP. 273.— To provide for holding terms of United States courts at Texarkana, Arkansas, and for other purposes.Feb. 28, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Arkansas, eastern judicial District. That terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the eastern judicial district for the State of Arkansas shall be held twice in each year at the city of Term to be held at Texarkana.Texarkana, in said eastern judicial district, commencing on the second Mondays in January and July, to be known as the Texarkana division of said district.
Sec. 2. That all process, civil and criminal, against persons residingTexarkana division. in the counties of Columbia, Howard, Hempstead, La Fayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada, Ouachita, Pike, and Sevier, shall be made *Proviso*.Crimes, etc.returnable to said courts, respectively, at said city of Texarkana: *Provided*, That all crimes and offenses heretofore committed within the division created by this act shall be prosecuted, tried and determined in the same manner and with the same effect as if this act bad not been passed.
Sec. 3. That the clerk of the courts for said district shall appoint aDeputy clerk at Texarkana. deputy for the said division, who shall keep an office open at all times in the city of Texarkana, and shall there keep the records, files, and documents.pertaining to the courts authorized by this act. Approved, February 28, 1887.