Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-09-02
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
GPuBLlo-No. 1901

PuBLlC-N0. l4B.
AN ACT to amend the act of the third Of March,
eighteen hundred and thrty-seven, entitled
"An act supplementary to the act entitled
San act to amend the judicial system of the
United States."
BE il enacted by the Selaie and House Of Repre-
seRtdtipes Of The United States Of America in Con-
gress assembled, That hereafter the districts oil
Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and North Caro-
lima shall constitute the fourth circuit the dis
lrcts of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi and Florida shall constitute the fifth
circuit the districts of Louisiana, Texas, Ar
kansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee shall constitute
the sixth circuit; the districts of Ohio and Indi-
ana shall constitute the seventh circuit; the dis
tricts Of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois sbnll
constitute tue eighth circuit and the districts
of Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Minnesota shall
constitute the ninth circuit; and the circuit
courts in the districts heretofore included within
any circuit Of tho United States which by this
act are attached to different circuit shall be
held at the same times and places us are now
prescribed by law, and the circuit courts in
districts which by this act are for the first time
attached to circuits shall he held at the snme
times and places as are now prescribed by law
for holding the district courts in said districts
except in the district of Iowa, in which the cir
cult court shall be holden ut the capital of the
State on the second Tuesday in May and Novem-
ber of each year, at which times and place terms
of the district court shall be holden: Providsd
this act shall not interfere with the terms of said
district court now provided by law for said dis
trict. The allotment of their chief Justice and
the associate Justices of the said Supreme Court
to the several circuits shall be made as hereto
fore.
Of any act or acts of Congress as vests in the
district courts of the United States for the dis
tricts Of Texas, Florida, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa, and Kansas, or either of them, the power
and Jurisdiction Of circuit courts, be and the
same ID hereby repealed; and there shall here
after be circuit courts held for said districts by
the chief or associate justices of the Supreme
Court assigned or allotted 10 the circuit to
which said districts may respectively belong, aud
the district judges Of such districts severay and
respectively, either of whom shall constitute a
quorum; which circuit courts and the Judges
thereof shall have like powers and exercise like
jurisdiction us other circuit courts and the Judges
hereof; and the said district courts and the
Judges thereof shall have like powers and exer-
cise like jurisdiction aa the district courts and
the judges thereof, in the other circuits
Sec. 3. And De Il FURTHER enacted, That all ac-
tons, suits, prosecutions, causes, pleas, process
and other proceedings relative to any cause, civil
or criminal, (Which might have been brought
and could have been originally cognizable in II
ciTcnit court,l now peniing in or returnaba tu
the several district courts Of Texas, Florida,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Kansas acting
as circuit courts, Tor 30 empowered to act on
the first day of October next, phall be and are
hereby declared to be, respectively, transferred
returnable, and continued to the several circuit
courts constituted by this act to be holden within
the said districts, respectively; and shall be
heard, tried and determined therein in the same
manner as if originally brought entered, prose.
pseut or had in such circuit courts And the
SAID circuit courts shall be governed by the same
laws and regulations as apply to the other cir
cult courts Of the United States and the clerks
of the said courts, respectively, shall perform