Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-08-26
lPUBLIc-No. IS |

AN ACT for dividing the Stae Of Georgia into two Judicial
districts and organizing and establishing an additional dis
trct court Of the United Shes with circuit powers
and jurisdiction
Be enacted by the Senat and House Of Representatives.
Of the United States Of Anericd IN Congress assembled
That the State Of Georgia shall be and the is hereby
divided into two judicial dtricts in manner following,
wit the counties Of Harris Talbot Epson, Monroe, Jones'
Putnam, Hancock Warren, Columbia and all the counties
in said State south Of them ha compose one district be
called the southern districts and the courts shall be held
heretofore and at the times authorized and required by
law at Savannah. The counties of Troup, Merriwether
Pike, Butts Jasper, Morgan, Green, Taaferro Wilkes
Lincoln and all the remaining counties in said State north Of
them, shall compose one District to be called the northern
district and court shall be held for the said district Ma.
rietta in the county Of Cobb
SIC. . And be further enacted, That there shall be two
terms Of the district court for the northern district, held at
Marietta, in each and every year, 10 begin the second
Monday in March, and the second Monday in Septem-
bcr And the district judge Of the United States for the
State Of Georgia is hereby required hold the courts afoe
said and furthermore he is authorized and required TO hold
special terms Marietta in each year. IT, in his
opinion the business Of the the public convenience
shall require il 10 he done.
SIC. g. Andh Il further enacted That the second Mon.
day in March and the second Monday IN September each
year, shall be return days for ws and executions reurnabe
the said district be held for the northern district
at Marietta and the parties 10 such suits shall be
returned shall make up their adngs under such rules the
court shall prescribe in order to have the returned
in state OF readiness for trial at the succeeding regular terms
Sec a. And be further enacted, That all causes at law
or in chancey pending in the said district courts at Savannah
or in the circuit court Of the United States Savannah and
Medgeve where the defendant defendants reside in the
northern district @ hereby esablished the time Of serving
process shall be transferred for trial TO the district for
the said northern district and be proceededin heard adudg
ed, and determined in the manner though originally
commenced or prosecuted in said court And shall be the
duty OF The clerks Of the said courts at Savannah and Mil
lcdgeye safely transmit to the clerk Of fhe district court
at Marietta the original papers in oil hereby ordered 10
to be transferred together with transcript Of all orders and
other proceedings bad thereon
sec. . And@ Hfthe enacted, That all suits hereafter
70 De instituted In either Of said courts not Of local nature,
shall be commenced in Of the district where the de
iendant resides but there be than defendant and
they reside IN different districts, the plaintiff may in
ener, ana send duplicate wrs to the other defendants
wnch tne plaintiff or his attorney shall endorse that the w
mus semi Is copy of writ sued out OF the proper district
ana he SAID ws, when executed and returned into the Office
from which they issued, shall constitute and the
| suit and be proceeded in accordingly
sec. And be hfurthr enacted That The Judge Of tn
sad district court shall appoint clerk Of the district cour