Volume 21 · 198
Public Law 46–213
to amend an act entitled “An act. to create the northern judicial district of the State of Texas, and to change the eastern and western judicial districts of said State, and to lix the time and places of holding courts in said districts ”, approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
Approved June 14, 1880
Statutory text
An Act
to amend an act entitled “An act. to create the northern judicial district of the State of Texas, and to change the eastern and western judicial districts of said State, and to lix the time and places of holding courts in said districts ”, approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the above recited act be amended by adding to and at the end of the fifth section thereof the following words, to wit:
And all prosecutions in either of said districts for offenses against the laws of the United States shall be tried in that division of the district to which process for the county in which said offenses are committed is by said section required to be returned. And all writs and recognizances in said prosecutions shall be returned to that division in which said prosecutions by this act are to be tried.
Sec. 2.
That said act be further amended by adding to and at the end
Sees. 3 and 5,
Amended.
Prosecutions now pending not affected.
of section third thereof the words “and Aransas.”
Sec. 3.
This act shall not apply to prosecutions now pending.
June 14, 1880.
Approved, June 14, 1880.