The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-21
CHAP. CCLXXX.

ShAI. SOAA-A-A.
An Act in Relation to the District Courts of the
United States in the State OF California and
Louisiana.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentativcs of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the southern judicial
district of the State of California and the western
hereby, abolished, and hereafter the said States
shall respectively constitute judicial district,
and shall respectively be called the districts of
California and Louisian1. The district Judge mar
shal, and district attorney of the United States
for the northern district of California and the
tern district of Louisiana shall respectfully pos
sess and exercise the same powers and jurisdic-
ton in said district courts of California and Louis
lana as they now possess and exercise in thcr re-
spective districts.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all ac-
tions, suits, and proceedings, civil or criminal,
which shall have been commenced, and at the
time of the passage of this act shall be pending in
the southern district of California or the western
district of Louisiana, and all process orders, judg
ments, DEGREES, records or other papers pro-
ceedings relating thereto or filed therein shall be
transferred to the said district courts of Calfor-
mia and Louisiana respectfully, which courts shall
possess and exercise over such actions, suits, and
proceedings, and the process, orders, judgments,
DEGREES, records, and other papers and proceed
ings SO transferred, the same authority and jurs
diction as they would have had if such actions,
suits, and proceedings had been commenced in
Sauu courts ana no I1QlcGMenG, VIII process re-
cognizance or other proceeding returnable to or
to be heard, tried considered in the said south
district of California said western district
of Louisiana shall be abated, discontinued, or
rendered void by the transfer thereof as afore-
said.
Sec. g. And be it further enacted, That the
clerks of the said southern district of California
and the said western district of Louisiana shall,
as practicable after the passage of this
act, deliver to and deposit with the clerks of the
said district courts of California and Louisiana,
respectively, all property, books, records docu-
ments, and papers remaining in their respective
offices, and the same shall be received and kept
by the said last-mentoned clerks subject to the
order and direction of such courts respectively.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That eYecu-
tions may be issued out of the said district court
of California and the said district court of Louis
lana, respectively, to collect any Judgment or de-
cree rendered in the said southern district of CAL
ifornia or said western district of Louisiana be-
fore the passage OF this act with the same effect
as the same might now be issued out of the court
in which such Judgment or decree was rendered;
and all process which shall have been issued out
of said district court for the southern district of
California or said western district of Louisiana,
and shall not have been returned before the pas
sage of this act, shall be returned to and filed
with the clerks of the district courts of Califor-
mia and Louisiana respectively.
Sec. 5. AMI be it further enacted, That the sal
ary of the United States district Judge for the dis
trict of Louisiana shall hereafter be four thousand
five hundred dollars per annum.
Approved, July 81 1866.