Chapter 869.
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CHAP. 869.— An act to subdivide the eastern judicial district of Louisiana, and to fix the time and place for holding terms of court therein.August 13, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Louisiana.Eastern judicial district.Return of process. That all processes from the circuit and district courts for the eastern district of Louisiana against defendants residing in the parishes of Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, Iberville, Ascension, East Feliciana, West Feliciana, East Baton Rouge, Saint Helena, and Livingston, shall be returned to said courts at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and all processes against defendants residing in the other parishes of the eastern district of Louisiana shall be returned to New Orleans.
Sec. 2. Terms at New Orleans and Baton Rouge.[R. S., secs. 572, 658, pp. 99, 121](/us/rs/s572/658/pp99/121).That the terms of court shall be held at New Orleans as now fixed by law. Terms of circuit and district courts shall be held at Baton Rouge semiannually on the second Mondays of April and November. Sec. 3. Defendants residing in different divisions.That if there be more than one defendant and they reside indifferent 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 be proceeded in accordingly.
Sec. 4. Trials.That all causes triable in either of the courts of said eastern 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. 5. Criminal prosecutions.That all prosecutions for crimes or offenses hereafter committed in either division shall be cognizable within such division: *Proviso*.Pending actions.*Provided*, 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. 6. Jurors.That all grand and petit jurors summoned for service in each division shall be residents of such division. Sec. 7. Deputy clerks.That a deputy clerk of the district court shall be appointed at each place in the two divisions of said eastern 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. 8. Removal of causes from State courts.That causes removed from any court of the State of Louisiana in the circuit court of the United States within said eastern district shall be removed to the circuit court in the division in which such State court is held.
Approved, August 13, 1888. Chapter 870: to authorize the Kentucky Rock Gas Company to lay conduit pipes across the Ohio and Salt Rivers Chapter 870 25 Stat. 438 1888-08-13 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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