Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 185?-1859, 1856-02-09
CHAP, XCYI.-An act to divide the State Of
Illinois into two iu lieial disIriets
Approved, February 10, 1855.

Illinois into two judicial districts.
Be enacted by the Senate and House Of
of the United States Of Ame-
rica in Congress assembled, That the State of
Illinois be, and the same is hereby y, divided in.
to two judicial districts, in the manner follow
Ing; tu wit: The counties of Hancock Nc Do.
nough, Peoria, WoOdford, Livingston, and Iro-
quos, and all the counties in the said State
north of them, shall compose one district, to be
called the northern district of Illinois, and co
urts shall be held for the said district at the city
of Chicago; and the residue Of tho counties of
the said State shall compose another district.
to be called the southern district of Illinois,
and conrts shall be held for the same at the city
of Springfield.
See. .. And be it further enacted, That
there shall be two terms of the circuit and dis
trict courts begun and held in each of said dis
tricts, to witt At the city of Chicago, for The
northern district, on the first Monday in July,
and third Monday in December, and at the city
of Springfield, for the southern district, on the
first Monday in March, and the first Monday in
October, in each year; and the said courts are
hereby authorized to hold adjourned terms
when the business shall, in the opinion of the
courts, require it.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That all
suits and othcr proceedings of whatever name,
or nature, now pending in the circuit and dis
trct courts Of the United States for the district
of Illinois, shall be tried and disposed Of in the
circuit and district courts respectively for the
northern district Of Illinois, in the same man
ncr as the same would have been in case said
State had not been divided into two districts,
and for that purpose the jurisdiction is rescr-
we'd to the said courts in the northern district,
unu Vllu CIcTh Vi tlc ViGCulU uHu ulhrlcI courts
for the present district of Illinois shall remove
the records and files Of the said circuit and dis
trict courts of the city Of Chicago and do and
perform all duties appcrtaining to his Office
within the northern district. And all process
or other proceedings taken, OR issued, or made
r,,t oh 10 tho a. %
the present district Of Illinois, shall be returna-
bic at the next term of the said courts respec-
lively in the northern district of Illinois.
Sec. A. And he it further enacted, That up
on application of any party to any suit now
pending which would have been commenced in
the southern district, if this act had been in
force before the commencement Of the said suit,
the proper court may, and if all parties consent
shall order that the same be removed for fur.
ther proceedings to the proper court for the
southern district And therenpon the clerks
shall transmit all the papers in the cause with
u transcript of all orders taken therein to the
clerk of the court to which the suit shall be re-.
moved, and all further proceedings shall be had,
in said court, as if the said 'suit had been or.
ginally commenced therein.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the
present judge of the district of Illinois be, and
he is hereby, assigned to the northern district
o: Illinois.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That final
process or any Judgment or decree entered in
the circuit or district courts Of the United Sto.
tes for the district Of Illinois, and all other
process for the enforcement Of any order of
said courts, respectively, in any cause now PEN
ding therein, except causes removed, as here
inbofore provided, shall be issued from and
made returnable to the proper court for the
northern district Of Illinois, and may be direct.
ed to and executed by tho marshal or the said
northern district, in any part Of the said State,