Chapter 1648. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to create the southern division of the southern district of Iowa for judicial purposes, and to fix the time and place for holding court therein,” approved June first, nineteen hundred, and all Acts amendatory thereof
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CHAP. 1648.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to create the southern division of the southern district of Iowa for judicial purposes, and to fix the time and place for holding court therein,” approved June first, nineteen hundred, and all Acts amendatory thereof. April 21, 1906. [[H. R. 16014](/us/bill/34/hr/16014).] [[Public, No. 116](/us/pl/34/116).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section one of an ActIowa southern judicial district.Appanoose County transferred from southern to eastern division.Vol. 31, p. 249. amended. entitled “An Act to create the southern division of the southern district of Iowa for judicial purposes, and to fix the time and place for holding court therein,” approved June first, nineteen hundred, and all Acts amendatory thereof, be amended to read as follows:
“That the counties of Lucas, Clarke, Union, Adair, Adams, Tremont, Page, Taylor, Ringgold, Decatur, and Wayne shall constitute the southern division of the southern judicial district of Iowa; and a term of a circuitTerms at Creston. and district court for said district shall be held in said division hereby created at Creston, in Union County, on the fourth Tuesday in March and first Tuesday in November of each and every year.” And the county of Appanoose heretofore within said southern division is hereby transferred to and made a part of the eastern division of the southern judicial district of Iowa.
Sec. 2. That all causes now pending in the southern division of thePending causes transferred to Keokuk. southern judicial district from Appanoose County shall be transferred to the eastern division of the southern judicial district of Iowa, at Keokuk, in Lee County. Sec. 3. That all crimes and offenses against the laws of the UnitedCriminal cases. States committed within said Appanoose County shall be prosecuted, tried, and determined at the terms of the circuit and district courts of said eastern division of the southern judicial district of Iowa, at 128Prior offenses, etc., not affected.Keokuk, in Lee County: *Provided, however,* That all criminal offenses committed prior to and all prosecutions begun and pending at the taking effect of this Act shall be proceeded with and finally determined as if this Act had not been passed.
Approved, April 21, 1906.