The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-06-07
TPUBL1o--No. 79.l

AN ACT TO provide for circuit oou rs for the districts
N California and Oregon and for other purposes
BE u enacted bg he Senate and House OF RepTeseHtd
Hre Of The United States Of Ameiica in Congress assem-
bed That the Supreme Court Of the United states
shall hereafter consist Of chief justice and nine asso
Clatc stiCes any six Of whom shall constitute quo
rum and for this purpose there shall be appointed
additional associate justice Of aid court with the
IKE powers, and 10 take the same Oaths perform the
same duties aud be emitted to the same salary A.
the other associate Justices The districts Of Ctor
MIA and Oregon shall constitute the tenth circuit aud
the other circuits shall remain as now constituted by
law.
sec. 2. And BE- Il further enacted, lhlt 90 much Of
any act acts Of Congress as vests in the district
courts in and for the said States Of California and
Oregon, either Of them, the power and jurisdiction
Of circuit COURTS and the act entitled can act to es
tho State Of California" approved March second,
eighteen hundred and ffty.fv be and the same are
hereby repealed and the said circuit court Is hereby
abolished and there shall hereafter be circuit courts
held for the districts Of the states Of California and
oregon by the chief justice, or one Of the aBOcate
justices Of the supreme Court Of the United States
-assgncd or allotted to the circuit to which such dis
tricts may respectively belong, AMI the district
judges Of such districts, severay and respeC lively,
either Of whom shall constitute quorum, which cir
cult courts and Judges thereof shall have like powers
and exercise like Jurisdiction as other circuit courts
ana the judges thereOf and the district courts 10 and
for the several districts in and for said states Of Cali
forna aud Oregon and the judges thereof, shall have
Ike powers and exercise like jurisdiction as the dis
tret courts and the judges thereof In the other cir
cults.
Sec B. Ind be Il 6,rtSe, enacted That all actor &,
suits prosecutions causes pleas, process and other
proceedings, relative to any cause, civil or iminal,
(which might have been brought aud could haze
been originally cognizabo in circuit court as c5tab
llshed by this act) now pending In or return hlo to
the several district courts Of the United states
in the Ead States Of California and Orc
gon, or now pending in or returnablc to
the Circuit court Of California by this act abolished
acting as circuit courts, (or so empowered to act)
shall be, and hereby declared to be, respectively
transferred returnabc, aud continued to the several
circuit courts constituted by this act to be holden
within said districts respectively, and shall be heard
tried and determined therein, In the same manner
If originally brought entered prosecuted, or hal 10
such circuit courts and no bail-bond recOgnizance
taken IN any Of said actions, SUITS prosecutions
transferred to said circuit courts by this act
shall thereby be avoided, impaired, or Invalidated /;
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
said courts respectively shall perform the same du
CmOuments which are by law established for the
clerks Of the other circuit courts of the United
States.
Section 4 And be Il further enacted, That the cir
cult court for tho districts IN California shall be held
at the city Of San Francisco and the city of Los Ange
los, in said State, at the same times now prescribed
By law for holding terms Of tho district courts for the
northern and southern districts Of said State at said
places and the circuit court for the state Of Oregon
shall DO held at Portland, In said State, at the same
TINES fixed by law for holding terms of the dis
rict court for the district Of Oregon at that place.
Section 5. And be further enacted That the Judge
assigned TO the tenth circuit, as constituted by this
act, shall receive In addition to his salay herenbe-
fore provided the sum Of thousand dollars for HE
travelling expenses for each year in which he may
actually attend gcssOn Of the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Approved, March 3, 1868.