Chapter 6. to detach Montgomery County from the Western and add it to the Eastern District of Arkansas
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CHAP. 6.— An Act to detach Montgomery County from the Western and add it to the Eastern District of Arkansas.February 9, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Arkansas. That so much of section five hundred and thirty-three of the Revised Statutes as provide that Montgomery County shall be embraced in the Western Judicial DistrictMontgomery County transferred to eastern judicial district. R. S., sec. 533, p. 89, amended.
Process, etc. of Arkansas be, and the same is hereby, repealed and the said County is hereby added to and placed in the Eastern Judicial District of said State and all process issued against defendants residing therein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, and all causes of action which have accrued or may hereafter accrue in said County, of which the Courts of the United States have jurisdiction, shall be cognizable in the Courts at Little Rock until otherwise provided by law.
Sec. 2. That all actions or proceedings now pending against partiesTransfer of actions. residing in said Montgomery County in the Court of said Western District may, upon the application of either, 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 proceed in all respects as though originally commenced in said Court at Little Rock.
Sec. 3. That all crimes and offenses heretofore committed within saidCrimes and offenses. 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. Sec. 4. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act areRepeal. hereby repealed. Approved, February 9, 1892.