The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-12
CHAP. G.,

An Act to provide Circuit Court for the Districts
of California and Oregon, and for other Pur-
poses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the supreme court of
the United States shall hereafter consist of chief
justice and Ene associate justices, any six whom
shall constitute quorum; and for this purpose
there shall be appointed one additional associate
justice of said court with the like powers, and to
take the same OathS, perform the same duties,
and be entitled to the same salary, as the other
associate justices. The districts of California and
Oregon shall constitute the tenth circuit and the
other circuits shall remain as now constituted by
law.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, so much
of any act acts of Congress vests in the dis
trict courts in and for the said States of California
and Oregon, or either of them, the power, and
jurisdiction of circuit courts, and the act entitled
An act to establish circuit court of the United
States in and for the State of California; ap-
proved March second, eighteen hundred and fifty
five, be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and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 one OF the associate justices
of the supreme court of the United States assign
ed or allotted to the circuit to which such dis
tricts may respectively belong, and the district
Judges of such districts, severally and respec-
lively, either of whom shall constitute 4 quorum,
which circuit courts and the judges thereof shall
have like powers and exercise like jurisdiction rs
other circuit courts and the judges thereof; and
the district courts III Tor The several districts
in and for said States of California and Oregon,
and the Judges thereof, shall have like powers and
exercise like jurisdiction as the district courts
and the judges thereof i'll the other circuits.
Sec 3. And be If further enacted, That all ac
tions, 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 cognizabe in u circuit
court as established by this act now pending in
or reurnable to the several district courts of the
United States in the said States of California and
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circuit court of California by this act abolished,
acting as circuit courts Cor so empowered to act)
shall be, and are hereby declared to be, reSpeC
lively, transferred, returnable, and 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 as if originally brought,
tered, prosecuted, or had in such circuit courts;
and no bail-bond or recognizance taken in any of
Of said actions, suits, prosecutions, or causes
transferred to said circuit courts by TINS act shall
thereby be avoided, impaired, orinvalidated 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 said courts, respectively, shall perform the
same duties, and shall be entitled to receive the
same fees and emoluments which are by law
tabished for the clerks of the other circuit courts
Sec l. And be it further enacted, That the
circuit court for the districts in California shall
be held at the city of San Francisco and the city
of Los Angeles in said State, at the same times
now prescribed by law for holding terms o. the
district courts for the northern and southern dis
tricts of said State at said places; and the circuit
court for the State of Oregon shall be held at
Portland, in said State, at the same times now
fixed by law for holding terms of the district
court for the district of Oregon at that place.
Sec s. And be it further enacted, That the
Judge assigned IT, the tenth circuit, as constituted
by this act shall receive, in addition to his salary
hcreinbefore provided, the sum of one thousand
dollars for his travelling expenses for each year
in which he may actually attend session of the
supreme court of the United States.
Approved, March 3, 1868