Chapter 82. To amend section two of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the practice in certain civil and criminal cases in the western district of Arkansas.” March 5, 1910.[[H
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CHAP. 82.— An Act To amend section two of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the practice in certain civil and criminal cases in the western district of Arkansas.” March 5, 1910.[[H. R. 18019](/us/bill/61/hr/18019).][[Public, No. 77](/us/pl/61/77).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section two of an ActArkansas western judicial district.Vol. 34, p. 207, amended. entitled “An Act to regulate the practice in certain civil and criminal cases in the western district of Arkansas,” approved June second, nineteen hundred and six, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 2. That the defendants in criminal cases now or hereafterTransfer of certain criminal cases to Fort Smith division. pending in the district courts of the Harrison or Texarkana divisions of the western district of Arkansas and who are incarcerated at Fort Smith to await trial because of their inability to furnish bail and who desire to plead ‘guilty’ may, on their written motion showing those facts and filed in the case, in vacation, and upon the order of the judge, duly signed and filed in the case, have their cases transferred to the Fort Smith division of the western district of Arkansas, to the end that trials may be had and sentences imposed as in other cases of like nature; and prisoners bound over to answer to indictmentsTrials on transfer. in the Harrison or Texarkana divisions of the western district of Arkansas for offenses committed in those divisions and who are incarcerated in the jail at Fort Smith, Arkansas, for inability to furnish bail, and who desire to plead ‘guilty’ to such offenses, may on their own motions have their cases submitted to a grand jury of the Fort Smith division for indictment and final disposition in the courts of that division, or in proper cases may plead to informations filed in the proper court in said division and have their cases disposed of as other cases of like nature when the offense was committed in the Fort Smith division.
When a transfer is ordered, as provided in this section, the clerk shallCertified copies of record entries, etc. make out and forthwith send a certified copy of the record entries, together with the indictment and all the original papers, to the clerk of the court to which such case is transferred, who shall file the same, and thereupon the case shall be proceeded with as other cases of like 234 Compensation to be paid by United States.nature pending in such court. For making out said transcript and forwarding the same, together with the original papers in said case, the clerk of the court shall have the usual compensation for making out transcripts and for filing the petition and order and entering the order, and two dollars additional, all such compensation to be taxed and paid by the United States as other costs taxed against the United States are paid.
" Approved, March 5, 1910.