Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-19
July Is, 1862.
pUBLIC-NO. l46.

AN ACT to amend the act of the third of
March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven,
entitled IAN act to amend the judicial sys-
TEN of the United States''
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled, that hereafter the
districts of Maryland Delaware, Virginia, and
North Carolina shall constitute the fourth cir
cult: the districts of South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida shall con-
stitute the fifth circuit; the districts of Louis
lana, Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Ten
nessee shall constitute the sixth circuit; the
districts of Ohio and Indiana shall constitute
the seventh circuit; the districts of Michigan,
Wisconsin. and Illinois shall constitute the
eighth circuit and the districts of Missouri,
Iowa, Kansas, and Minnesota shall constitute
the ninth circuit; and the circuit courts inthe
districts heretofore included within any circuit
of the United States which by this act are at
tached to a different circuit shall be held at
the same times and places as are now pre-
scribed by law, and the circuit courts in dis
trictS which by this act are for the first time
attached to circuits shall be held at the same
times and places as are now prescribed by
law for holding the district courts in said dis
tricts except in the district of Iowa. in which
the circuit court shall be holden at the capitol
of the state on the second Tuesday of May
and November of each year, at which times
and place terms of the district court shall be
holden: Provided this act shall not interfere
with the terms of said district court now pro-
vided for by law for said district. The allot-
ment of their chief justice and the associate
justices of the said supreme court to the sew
eral circuits shall be made as heretofore.
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted that so
much of any act or acts of congress as vests
in the districts courts of the United States for
districts of Texas, Florida, Wisconsin, Min
| neSota, Iowa, and Kansas, or either of them,
the power and jurisdiction of circuit courts,
be and the same is hereby repealed; and
there shall hereafter be circuit courts held for
said district by the chief or associate justices
of the supreme court, assigned or allotted to
the circuit to which said districts may re-
spectively belong, and the district judges of
such districts severally and respectively, eth
or of whom shall constitute quorum; which
circuit courts and the Judges thereof shall
have like powers and exercise like jurisdiction
as other circuit courts and the judges thereof:
and the said district courts and the Judges
thereof shall have like powers and exercise
like jurisdictions as the district courts, and
the judges thereof, in the other circuits
Sect. 3. And be it further enacted, that all
actions, 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 circuit court now pending in
or returnable to the several district courts of
Texas, Florida, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa.
and Kansas, acting as circuit courts, Cor so
empowered to act,) on the first day of Octo-
Der next, shall be and are hereby declared to
be, respectively, transferred, returnable, and
continued to the several circuit courts con-
stituted 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,
prosecuted, or had in in such circuit courts.
And the said circuit courts shall be governed
by the same laws and regulations as apply to
the other circuit courts of the United States
and the clerks of the said courts, respective
ly, shall perform the same duties, and shall
be entitled to receive the same fees and emol-
umcnts which are by law established for the
clerks Of the other circuit courts of the Uni
ted States.
Sect. 4. And be it further enacted, that all
acts and provisions inconsistent with this act
be and the same are hereby repealed.
Approved, July Is, 1862.