Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-03-02


AN ACT to divide the state of Michigan into
two judicial districts, and to provide for
holding the district and circuit courts
therein.
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled, that the state of
Michigan be and the same is hereby divided
into two judicial districts in the following
manner, namely
THE EASTERN AND WESTERN DISTRICTS.
The western district shall embrace all the
territory and waters within the following
boundaries, to wit Commencing at the south
west corner of Hillsdale county, in the state of
Michigan, and running from thence north, on
the west line of said county, to the south line
of Calhoun county; thence east, on the south
line thereof, to the southeast corner OF said
last-named county; thence north, on the east
boundary of said county, to the south line of
Eaton county; thence east on said south
line, to the southeast corner of Eaton county;
thence north, on the east boundary of Eaton
county, to the south line of Clinton county;
thence west, on the south boundary of said
county, to the southwest corner thereof;
thence north, on the west boundary of Clinton
and Gratiot counties, to the south boundary
of Isabella county; thence west, on its south
boundary, to the southwest corner OF said last
named county, thence north, on the west line
of Isabella and Clare counties, to the south
boundary of Missaukee county; thence east,
on its south boundary, to the southeast corner
of Missaukee county; thence north, on the
east line of Missaukee, Kalcasa, and Antrim
countries, to the South boundary of Emmett
county; thence east to the southeast corner
of Emmett county; thence north, on the east
boundary of Emmett county, to the straits of
Mackinac; thence north to midway across
said straits; thence westerly, in direct line,
to a point on the shore OF Lake Michigan
where the north boundary of Delta county
reaches Lake Michigan; thence west, on the
north line of Delta county, to the northwest
corner of Delta county; thence south, on the
west boundary of said county, to the
dividing line between the states of Michigan
and Wisconsin in Green Bay; thence north
easterly, on the said dividing line, into Lake
Michigan, and thence southerly, through
Lake Michigan, to the southwest corner of
the state of Michigan, on line that will in
clude within said boundaries the waters of
Lake Michigan within the admiralty iurisdic-
ton of the state of Michigan; thence
east, on the south boundary of the
state of Michigan, to the intersection of the
west line of Hillsdale county. The judicial
centre of which district shall be at Grand
Rapids, in the county of Kent, where the
courts of said district shall be held. The
eastern district shall embrace all the otilebter.
ritory of the state of Michigan and all otnc-
waters of said state not embraced withiA the
foregoing boundaries of said western district
The judicial centre of said eastern district
shall be at Detroit, in the county of Wayne,
where the courts of said district shall be
held.
Sect. 9. And be it further enacted, thai
there shall be two terms Of the circuit and dis
trict courts begun and held in each of sale
districts, to wit AT the city of Detroit, fol
the eastern district, on the first Tuesday il