FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sicss. I. Ch. 183. 1902. 67 the State of Texas as hereby constituted would have had jurisdiction if said districts and the courts thereof had been constituted as under the provisions of this Act when said causes or proceedin s were instituted, shall be, and the same are hereby, transferred to, and the same shall be proceeded with in the said several judicial districts of the State of Texas as hereby constituted the same as if said judicial districts had been constituted and created as by the provisions of this Act, when such causes or proceedings were instituted and jurisdiction thereof is hereby transferred to and vested in the courts of said judicial districts, respectively, as hereby constituted, and the records and proceedings therein and relating to said roceedings and causes shall be certified and transferred thereto: Provided, That all motions and causes submitted and all causes grvwvi f and proceedings, both civil and criminal, includin proceedin s in bank- wnéigmgviagacguudg ruptcy, now pending in the judicial districts og Texas as beretofore ”°*‘“ ‘“"°“· constituted in which the evidence has been taken in whole or in part before the present district judges of the judicial districts of Texas
heretofore constituted, or taken in whole or in part and submitted
and passed upon by the said district judges, respectively, shall be proceeded with and disposed of in the said judicial districts, respectively, as heretofore constituted, where said motions and causes were submitted or where such evidence was taken in whole or in part or taken in whole] or in part and submitted and passed upon as hereinbefore mentione . Sec. 8. That all prosecutions for crimes or offenses hereafter com- m§,’;'“*““’ P’°“°°“‘ mitted in either of said judicial districts as hereby constituted shall be ° cognizable within the district in which committed, and all prosecutions for crimes or offenses committed before the passage of this Act in which indictments have not yet been found or proceedings instituted shall be cognizable within the judicial district as hereby constituted in which such crimes or offenses were committed. Sec. 9. That all process issued against defendants residing in the ggjjgs °’ P'°°°“· counties of Navarro, Johnson, Ellis, Kaufman, Dallas, Rockwall, and Hunt shall be returned to Dallas. _ That all process issued against defendants residing in the counties of Fm “°"h· Comanche, Hood, Erath, Tarrant, Parker, Palo Pinto, Wise, Clay, Jack, Youn , Archer, \Nichita, Wilbar er, Baylor, Bailey, Hardeman, Cottle, lVTotley, Briscoe, Hall, Childress, Lollingsworth, Donle *, Armstrong, Randall, Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Carson, Gray, Vi/heeler, Hemphill, Li omb, Ochiltree, Roberts, Hutchinson, Hansford. Sherman, Moore, Hdrtley, Dallam, Foard, Parmer, Swisher, Castro, Lamb, Hale, Floyd, Cochran, Dawson, and Hockley shall be returned to Fort \ orth. That all process issued against defendants residing in the counties of A"“°“°· Eastland, Ste hens, Throckmorton, Sbackelford, Callahan, Tavlor, Jones, Haskell; Knox, Nolan, Fisher, Stonewall, Kent, Dickens, King, Crosby, Garza, Lubbock, Gaines, Andrews, Mitchell, Scurry, Borden, Howard, Martin, Midland, Yoakum, Terry, and Lynn shall be returned to Abilene. That all process issued against defendants residin in the counties of San **“¥°l°· Glasscock, Sterling, Coke, Tom Green, Crockett, Schleicher, Sutton, I rion, Mills, Runnels, Coleman, Concho, Menard, Brown, and Upton shall be returned to San Angelo. _ That all process issued against defendants residing in the counties of ‘*““‘“· Fayette, Washington, Burleson, Willianison, Lee, Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, Blanco, Gillespie, Burnet, Llano, Mason, imble, Mc- Culloch, San Saba, and Lampasas shall be returned to Austin. _ That all process issued against defendants residing in the counties of S““ ‘“°°“‘°‘ Bee, Live Oak, Karnes, Dewitt, Gonzales, Guadalupe, \Vilson, Atascosa, Bexar, Comal, Kendall, Kerr, Edwards, Bandera, Medina, F rio, Uvalde, Zavalla, Kinney, Maverick, and Valverde shall be returned to San Antonio.
