Chapter XXVIII. to amend an Act entitled “An Act for the better Organization of the District Court of the United States within the State of Louisiana,” approved the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine
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Chap. XXVIII.— An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act for the better Organization of the District Court of the United States within the State of Louisiana,” approved the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine.July 29, 1850.1849, ch. 114. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the act entitled “An Act for the better organization of the District Court of the United States within the State of Louisiana,” approved third of March, eighteen 1849, ch. 114. hundred and forty-nine, be so amended that it shall be the duty of the judge of the western district of said State to hold a term of the Term to be held at St.
Joseph’s. The judge authorized to appoint a clerk, &c. court at St. Joseph’s, in the parish of Tensas, on the first Monday in December, in each year, for the parishes of Carroll, Madison, Tensas, and Concordia, and to appoint a clerk of the court for that place; and 442THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 29, 30. 1850. it shall be the duty of the clerk of the District Court of the United States, at Monroe, to deliver to the clerk at St. Joseph’s, or to his order, the original papers in all such cases as properly belong to the court at that place, together with a transcript of the proceedings had thereon; and it shall be the duty of the marshal of said western district Marshal’s duties. to attend the terms of said court at St.
Joseph’s, by himself or deputy, and to perform all the duties of his office for that court in the same manner, and with the same powers, duties, and emoluments, as he is required to do for the courts at other places in the district, by the act to which this is an amendment. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That writs of error and appeal Writs of error and appeal to lie in some causes as from a Circuit Court to Supreme Court. shall lie from decisions of the District Court of the Western District of Louisiana, exercising Circuit Court jurisdiction, to the Supreme Court of the United States, in the same causes as from a Circuit Court to the Supreme Court, and under the same regulations.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the parish of Bienville shall The court at Shreveport to be held for Bienville, and that at Monroe for Caldwell. form a part of the western district of Louisiana, and be one of the parishes for which a court is to be held at Shreveport; and that the parish of Caldwell shall be one of the parishes for which a court is to be held at Monroe; and that this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved, July 29, 1850.