Chapter 371. To provide for sittings of the United States circuit and district courts of the eastern division of the eastern district of Arkansas at the city of Jonesboro in said district
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CHAP. 371.— An Act To provide for sittings of the United States circuit and district courts of the eastern division of the eastern district of Arkansas at the city of Jonesboro in said district. June 23, 1910.[[H. R. 20487](/us/bill/61/hr/20487).][[Public, No. 257](/us/pl/61/257).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Section 1. That from and after the passage of this Act there shall Arkansas eastern judicial district.
Terms of court, Jonesboro. *Post*, p. 1107. be held at the city of Jonesboro, in the eastern division in the eastern district of Arkansas, a term of both the circuit and district courts of said division and district on the second Monday of May and the second Monday of November in each year. Sec. 2. That the clerks of the circuit and district courts for the Duties of officials. eastern division of the eastern district of Arkansas, and the marshal and attorney of the United States for said district shall perform the duties appertaining to their offices, respectively, in and for the courts held at the city of Jonesboro; and the clerks’ offices for said court shall Records, etc., at Helena. be at Helena, where all the records of said court shall be kept and all the office duties performed, except when said courts are in session at Jonesboro.
Sec. 3. That the court, or judge thereof, in vacation may order a Grand juries. grand jury for either term of the court herein provided for at the city of Jonesboro. Sec. 4. Prosecution for crimes or offenses hereafter committed in Criminal prosecutions. any part of said division shall be cognizable at either of the terms of court held in the city of Helena or in the city of Jonesboro. Sec. 5. That suits may be brought to be tried in the court held at Civil suits. the city of Helena, or at the city of Jonesboro, as the plaintiff may elect; and trials, civil and criminal, may be transferred by the court or Transfers. judge thereof from Helena to Jonesboro or from Jonesboro to Helena, in said division and district, when the convenience of parties or the ends of justice would be promoted by the transfer; or such transfer may be made upon the written stipulation of the parties or their attorneys; and any interlocutory order may be made by the court or judge in either place.
Sec. 6. That all causes removed from state courts held within said Causes removed from State courts. division to the circuit court of the United States shall be sent to said court at Helena or at Jonesboro, at the option of the adverse party, and be subject to transfer as prescribed in section five. Sec. 7. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions Inconsistent laws repealed. of this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency, but not otherwise.
Approved, June 23, 1910.