The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-10-01
Tbe Aaitp auupnaG,
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Public--No. 146.

an ACT to amend the act Of the third Of March,
eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, entitled can
act supplementary to the act entitled can act to
amend the judicial system of the United States"
Be Il enacted By The Senate and Hoase Of RePrescn-
fatires Of the Unted States OF America IN Congress
seHbled, That hereafter the districts Of Maryland,
Delaware, Virginia, and North Carolina shall con-
stitute the fourth circuit; the districts Of South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Flori-
ola shall constitute the fifth circuit the districts
Of Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, and
Tennessee shall constitute she sixth circuit; the
districts Ohio and Indiana shah constitute the sew
enth circuit, the districts Of Michigan, Wisconsin,
and Illinois shall constitute the eighth circuit 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 the United States which by this act
are attached to different circuit shall be led at
the same times aud places are now prescribed by
law and the circuitcourts in districts by which
this act for the first Inc attached to circuits
shall be held at the same times and places are
now prescribed by law for holding the district
courts in said DISTRICTS except In the district Of To-
wa, in which the circuit court shall be holden at
the capital of the State on the second Tuesday in
May and November of each year, at which times and
place terms of the district court shall be holden:
P,ogd q, this act shall not interfere with the terms
of said district court provided by law for said
district The allotment OF their chief Justice and
the associate justices of the said Supreme Court to
the several circuits shall be made as heretofore.
Section 2. And be q further enacted, That as much
any act acts Of Congress vests in the district
courts of the United States for the districts ofTex
as Florida, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Kan
sas, or either of them, the power and jurisdiction
Of circuit courts, be and the Same is hereby repeal
I'd and there shall hereafter be circuit courts held
for said districts by the chief associate Justices
of the supreme Court, assigned or allotted to the
circuit to which said districts may respectively be-
long, and the district judges Of such districts
orally and respectively, either of whom shall con-
siitute quorum which circuit courts and the
Judges thereof shall have like powers and exercise
like Jurisdiction other circuit courts and the
Judges thereof shall have like powers and exercise
like jurisdiction as the district courts and the
judges thereof, in the other circuits.
SEC. 3. ARd be further enacted, That all ac-
tons SUITS prosecution causes, pleas process, and
other proceedings relative 20 any cause, civil OF
criminal (Which might have been brought and
could have been originally equitable in circuit
court,) pending in or returnable to the sever
al district courts of Texas, Florida, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa, and Kansas, aching circuit
Courtl, Tor empowered TO act) on the first day of
October next shall be aud hereby declared to DO
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 enter
ed, prosecuted or had in suci circuit courts And
the said circuit courts shall be governed by the
same laws and regulations apply 10 the other
circuit courts of the United States; and the clerks
OF the sail courts, respectively shall perform the
same duties and shall be entitled to receive the
shcd for the clerks Of the other circuit courts d
the United States. G.
SEC. 1lid be further enacted, That all acts
and provisions inconsistent with this act beand til,
samea are hereby repealed. 60
Approved, July Is, 1862.