Chapter 789.
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CHAP. 789.— An act to subdivide the western judicial district of Louisiana.August 8, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Louisiana.Return of process in western judicial district. That all processes from the circuit and district courts of the United States from the western district of Louisiana against defendants residing in the parishes of Saint Landry, Saint Martin, Cameron, Calcasieu, La Fayette, and Vermillion, in the State of Louisiana, shall be returned to said courts at Opelousas.Opelousas: all process against defendants residing in the parishes of Rapides, Alexandria.Vernon, Avoyelles, Catahoula, Grant, and Winn shall be returned to Alexandria: all processes against defendants residing in the parishes of Caddo, De Soto, Bossier, Webster, Claiborne, Bienville, Natchitoches, Red River, and Sabine, Shreveport.shall be returned to Shreveport: and all processes against defendants residing in the parishes of Ouachita, Franklin, Richland, Morehouse, East Carroll, West Carroll, Madison, Tensas, Concordia, Monroe.Defendants in different divisions.Union, Caldwell, Jackson, and Lincoln shall be returned to Monroe.
Sec. 2. That if there be more than one defendant and they reside in different divisions of the district, the plaintiff may sue in either division, and send duplicate writ or writs to the other defendants; and the said writs, when executed and returned into the court from which they issued, shall constitute one suit and he proceeded in accordingly. Sec. 3. That all causes triable in either of the courts of said westernCauses to be tried in division of process. district shall be tried in the division to which the process is returnable under the provisions of this act, unless by consent of all parties the cause be removed to some other division of said district.
Sec. 4. That all prosecutions for crimes Crimes.or offenses hereafter committed in either of the divisions shall be cognizable within such division: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Pending trials. That all crimes and offenses heretofore committed within the divisions created by this act shall be prosecuted, tried, and determined in the same manner and with the same effect as if this act had not been passed. Sec. 5. That all grand and petit jurors Jurors.summoned for service in each division shall be residents of such division.
Sec. 6. That a deputy clerk of the district court shall be appointedDeputies. at each place in the four divisions of said western district where said court is required to be held, each of whom, in the absence of the clerk, may exercise all the official powers of clerk at the place and within the division for which he is appointed. Sec. 7. That causes removed from any court of the State of LouisianaRemovals from State courts. into the circuit court of the United States within said western district shall be removed to the circuit court in the division in which such State court is held.
Approved, August 8, 1888. Chapter 790: providing for the holding of the United States courts in the city of Newark, New Jersey. Chapter 790 25 Stat. 388 1888-08-08 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-23 50 1 public
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