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 [ FOBTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. l. Ch. 17, 18. 1879. money realized from the sale of said bonds shall be paid out by the _ Secretary of the Treasury only for the purposes named 111 this act. Repoals. Sec. 2. That the provisions of all acts conflicting herewith, and the acts or parts of acts authorizing sand Commissioners of the District of Columbia to issue bonds to redeem certam bonds of said District talling due January first and March iirst,eighteen hundred and seventy nine, no bonds having been issued thereunder, are hereby repealed., Approved, June 10, 1879. n S70. ,- . an act a rovcd Fehru twenty-fourth, e' hteen Cgiiidreglsandlgdvbtidyigiiilildghfiiitled "An Edt to create th;lnYi>rthern?iudicial didtgiiei; of 1879, ch. 97, the State of Texas and to chan c the eastern and western Judicial districts of said 20 Smtw iué- State, and to iix the time and pdaces of holding courts in said districts! Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United comms in Texas. States of America om Congress assembled, That so much of the act to which '1‘¤·nn¤fcr¤fJo¤k— this is amendatory as provides that Jackson County shall be embraced judicial district of said State; and all process issued against defendants residing therein shall be returned to Galveston; and all civil causes of action which have accrued in said county, of which the courts of the United States have jurisdiction, shall be cognizable in the court at Galveston, but all offenses committed in said county against the laws of the United States before the passage of this act shall be cognizable in the court of the western district, as provided in said act of the twenty- fourth of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. Return of 1¤·¤· Sec. 2. That so much of the act to which this is an amendment as °°"“· makes all process against defendants residing in the counties of Aransas, Duval, Nueces, La Salle, Zap ata, San Patricio, Refugio, Dimmit, V\'ebb, Fmcinal, and Maverick returnable to Brownsville is hereby repealed, and such process is hereby made returnable to San Antonio; and all causes of civil action which have accrued in said counties, or either of them, since the passage of the act to which this is an amendment or which shall hereafter accrue, shall be cognizable in the court at San Antonio. ’1ji·am1n·.-or civil Sec. 3. Civil actions or proceedings now pending against parties ¤<=*"*"*· residing in either of said counties in the courts named in the first and second sections hereof, as provided in the act to which this is an amendment, may, on the application of either party, be transferred to the proper court of said district under this act; and in case of such transfer, all papers and tiles therein, with copies of all journal-entries, shall be transferred to the office of the clerk of such court; and the same shall proceed in all respects as though originally commenced in said court; and civil actions or proceedings now pending in the circuit courts at Brownsville, Austin, Galveston or Tyler which under this act would be cognizable in some other district, may on the application of either party be transferred to the proper court of said district, and in case of such transfer all papers and files therein with copies of all journal-entries shall be transferred to the office of the clerk of such court, and the sand shalh proceed in all respects as though originally commenced in said cour. man judicial cir- Sec. 4. The several districts as established in the act to which this is ¤¤¤*#· an amendment are hereby declared to be a part of the fifth judicial cir- Jursmiaetseu. cult; and the courts of the said northern district shall have the same jurisdiction as is conferred by law upon the courts of the eastern and Terms. western drstricts of send State, and the circuit court for said northern district shall be held twice a year at Waco on the first Mondavs in April and October, at Dallas on the lirst Mondays in June and December and at Graham on the lirst Mondays in February and August, and thd circuit courts shall be held at Jefferson in the eastern district on the
 * “" (°‘“"'*·l'· in the western judicial district of Texas, be, and the same is hereby, repealed and the said county of Jackson is hereby placed in the eastern