Chapter 1636. To create a new division of the southern judicial district of Texas, and to provide terms of court at Victoria, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 1636.— An Act To create a new division of the southern judicial district of Texas, and to provide terms of court at Victoria, and for other purposes. April 18, 1906. [[H. R. 12863](/us/bill/34/hr/12863).] [[Public, No. 108](/us/pl/34/108).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the counties of Bee,Texas southern judicial district.New division created.[R. S., sec. 548, p. 92](/us/rs/s548/p92).Vol. 32, p. 65, amended.Terms at Victoria.
Calhoun, Dewitt, Goliad, Jackson, Live Oak, Refugio, Aransas, San Patricio, and Victoria shall constitute a division of the southern judicial district of Texas. Sec. 2. That terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the southern district of Texas shall be held twice in each year at the. city of Victoria, in Victoria County, and that, until otherwise provided by law, the judges of said courts shall fix the times at 122which said courts shall be held at Victoria, of which they shall make publication and give due notice.
Sec. 3. Return of process, etc.That all civil process issued against persons resident in the above-named counties and cognizable before said courts shall be issued out of and made returnable to said courts at Victoria, and that all prosecutions against persons for offenses committed in any of said counties *Proviso*.Pending causes, etc., not affected.shall be tried in said courts at Victoria: *Provided,* That no civil cause begun and pending or any criminal offense committed prior to the passage of this Act shall be in any way affected by it.
Sec. 4. Office at Victoria.That the clerks of said courts of said district shall maintain an office in charge of themselves or a deputy, at. said city of Victoria, which shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of business. Approved, April 18, 1906.