Chapter 422.
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CHAP. 422.— An act to detach the counties of Howard, Little River, and Sevier from the western and add them to the eastern district of Arkansas.June 19, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Howard, Little-River, and Sevier Counties transferred from western to eastern district, of Arkansas. That so much of section five hundred and thirty-three of the Revised Statutes as provides that Howard, Little River, and Sevier counties shall be embraced in the western judicial district of Arkansas be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the said counties are hereby added to and placed in the eastern judicial district of said State; and all process issued against defendants residing therein shall be returned to Little Rock until otherwise provided,R.
S., sec. 533, p. 89. and all causes of action which have accrued or may hereafter accrue in said counties of which the courts of the United States have jurisdiction shall be cognizable in the court at Little Rock until otherwise provided by law. Sec 2. That all actions or proceedings now pending against partiesPending actions to be transferred. residing in either of said counties in the court for the said western district may, on the application of either party, be transferred to the court for the eastern district at Little Rock; and in case of such transfer, all papers and files therein, with copies of all record 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 at Little Rock.
Sec. 3. All crimes and offences heretofore committed within saidCrimes heretofore committed to be tried in western district. western district shall be prosecuted, tried and determined in the same manner and with the same effect as if this act had not been passed. 84 Sec. 4. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed., Approved, June 19, 1886.