Chapter 974. To create a new division of the eastern judicial district of Texas, and to provide for terms of court at Texarkana, Texas, and for a clerk for said court, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 974.— An Act To create a new division of the eastern judicial district of Texas, and to provide for terms of court at Texarkana, Texas, and for a clerk for said court, and for other purposes. March 2, 1903.[[Public, No. 131](/us/pl/57/131).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, United States courts. Texas eastern judicial district. New division. [R. S., sec. 548, p. 92](/us/rs/s548/p92). That the counties of Bowie, Franklin, and Titus shall constitute a division of the eastern judicial district of Texas. 927 Sec. 2.
That terms of the circuit and district courts of the United Term at Texarkana. States for the said eastern district of Texas shall be held twice in each year at the city of Texarkana, and that until otherwise provided by law the judges of said courts shall fix the times at which said courts shall be held at Texarkana, of which they shall make publication and give due notice. Sec. 3. That all civil process issued against persons resident in the Return of process. said counties of Bowie, Franklin, and Titus, and cognizable before the United States courts, shall be made returnable to the courts, respectively, to be held at the city of Texarkana, and all prosecutions for offenses committed in any of said counties shall be tried in the appropriate United States court at the city of Texarkana: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.
Pending cases. no process issued or prosecution commenced or suit instituted before the passage of this bill shall be in any way affected by the provisions hereof. Sec. 4. That the clerks of the circuit and district courts of said district Clerks. shall maintain an office, in charge of themselves or a deputy, at the said city of Texarkana, which shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of the business of said division. Approved, March 2, 1903.