The Empire County argus., 1854-05-20
Public, No. AL

AN ACT TO amend act entitled can act to divide the
State of Arkansas into two judicial DISTRICTS approved
March the third, eighteen hundred and ifty-one
Be enacted By tie Senate and House of Rpresentat
of the United States Of Aanerica in Congress asstm5yed
That upon conviction of offenders in the judicial
district of the State of Arkansas, for offences which,
punishment by confinement in the penenafy annexed
it shall be lawful for the before whom convictions
have or may be had to sentence convcs to undergo i'm
prsonmen in the penitentary house of the State situated
in the judicial district in the same manner as
though the pententary house situated in the
judicial district of the State of Arkansas and the
ties of Sewer and Sebastian in the said State hereby
added to- and made part of the western judicial district
SEC. Q ind be fu1ther enacted, That when any per-
shall be convicted the district court for the western
district of Arkansas of any offence committed after the
passage of this act the punishment part of the punish
men whereof is imprisonment by the laws existing,
confinement and Imprisonment with hard labor for the
same length of tme and shall be carried into effect as
provided in the preceding section
Sec g. 4nd be 1t ,ther enacted That nothing contain
ed in the twenty yh section of an act entitled IAN act to
regulate intercourse with the Indian tribes and preserve
peace on the frontiers" approved hrteth of June, cgh
apply to said Indian country any the laws enacted
the District of Columbia and that nothing contained in
the twentieth section of the said act which provides for
the punishment of offences therein specified shall be
strued to extend TO any Indian committing said offences in
the Indian country, or to any Indian committing any of
fence in the Indian country who has been punished by the
local law of the tribe, in any where by treaty stp
uaons the exclusive jurisdiction such offences may
hereafter be secured said Indian tribes respect
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be, and the same is hereby repealed.
SEC And be At further endced That any white person
who shall hereafter set fire. attempt to set fire, to any
house clubhouse, cabin, stable other building in said
Indian country to whomsoever belongings and any Indian
who shall set fire to any house. ouhouse cabin stable
other building in said Indian country, belonging to or in
lawful possession of white person. in whole in part
and whether the same be consumed not shall be deem
ed guilty OF felony and shall be punished by confinement
and imprisonment, with hard labor for not than
twenty-one nor less than two years.
SEC s. And furter enacted That any white person
who shall make assault upon Indian other per.
son. any Indian who shall make assault upon white
person, within said Indian country, with gun, rife
sword pistol knife any other deadly weapon, with in.
tent to kill main the person assaulted shall be deem
ed guilty of felony and SHALL conviction be punished
with confinement and imprisonment, with hard labor for
not more than five years nor less than one year.
Sec g. Ind be 1t FURTHER enacted, That in all criminal
cases. upon indictment for offences committed in said In
dian country prior the creation of said western district
of Arkansas pending in the circuit court of the Uni
ted States for the eastern district of Arkansas for
witnesses residing to be found in said western district
may issue TO the marshal of said district and be
by him any part of said western district and
that the fees of all witnesses summoned shall be paid
by the United States.
Approved 27 March, 1854.