Chapter 208.
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CHAP. 208.— An act to provide for holding terms of court in the district of Montana.July 20, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Montana judicial district. Southern division established. That the territory embraced within the following counties in the district of Montana, to wit: Beaver-head County, Madison County, and the county of Silver Bow shall hereafter constitute and be known as the southern division of the district of Montana, and regular terms of the circuit and district courts of the Terms at Butte City.United States for said district may be held at Butte City, Montana, on the first Tuesday in February and the first Tuesday in September of Jurisdiction.each year; and the said courts so sitting at Butte shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction and authority in all civil actions, pleas, or proceedings, and in all prosecutions, informations, indictments, or other criminal or penal proceedings conferred by the general laws on the district and circuit courts of the United States; and where one or more defendants in any civil cause shall reside in said division, and one or more defendants to such cause shall reside out of said division, but in said district, then the plaintiff may institute his action either in the court having jurisdiction over the latter or in the said division.
That this act shall not affect the jurisdiction, power, and authority of the Pending actions not affected.court as to actions, prosecutions, and proceedings already begun and pending in said district, but the same will proceed as though this act had not been passed, except that the court shall have power, which it may exercise at discretion, to transfer to the court in said division such of said pending actions, prosecutions, and proceedings as might properly be begun therein under the provisions of this act.
Approved, July 20, 1892.