Chapter 4. Providing that the circuit court of appeals of the fifth judicial circuit of the United States shall hold at least one term of said court annually in the city of Fort Worth, in the State of Texas, on the first Monday in November in each year
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CHAP. 4.— An Act Providing that the circuit court of appeals of the fifth judicial circuit of the United States shall hold at least one term of said court annually in the city of Fort Worth, in the State of Texas, on the first Monday in November in each year. December 18, 1902.[[Public, No. 4](/us/pl/57/4).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, United States courts.Circuit court of appeals, fifth circuit.Additional term, Fort Worth, Tex.Vol. 26, p. 827.That the circuit court of appeals of the fifth judicial circuit of the United States is hereby authorized and required to hold one term of said court in the city of Fort Worth, in the State of Texas, on the first Monday in November in each year.
Sec. 2. Appeals, writs of error, etc. .That all appeals, writs of error, and other appellate proceedings which may. after the date of this Act, be taken or prosecuted from the circuit or district courts of the United States in the State of Texas to the court of appeals of the fifth circuit shall be heard and disposed of by the said court of appeals at the terms of the court held in Fort Worth *Proviso.*Injunctions, etc.in pursuance of this Act: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall prevent the court from hearing appeals or writs of error wherever the said court shall sit, in cases of injunctions and in all other cases which under the statutes and the rules, or in the opinion of the court, are entitled to be brought to a speedy hearing.
Sec. 3. Other terms.That this Act shall not operate to prevent the said court from holding other terms in the city of Fort Worth or in such other places in the said fifth judicial district as said court may from time to time designate. Sec. 4. Vol. 26, p. 826, amended.That chapter five hundred and seventeen of Twenty-sixth United States Statutes at Large is hereby amended in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Sec. 5. Transportation expenses.That the clerk of said court is authorized and permitted to pay, out of the fees and emoluments of his office,
(one)the expenses incurred by him in transporting from his office in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Fort Worth, Texas, and in transporting from Fort Worth, Texas, to New Orleans, Louisiana, the records, books, papers, files, dockets, and supplies necessary for the use of the court at its terms to be Expenses of clerk.held in Fort Worth, Texas:
(two)an allowance for actual expenses not exceeding ten dollars per day to cover travel and subsistence for each day he may be required to be present at Fort Worth. Texas, on business connected with his said office, such expenses and allowance to be approved and allowed by the senior circuit judge of the fifth judicial circuit. Approved, December 18, 1902.