New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-03-11
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the Third Session of the Forty.
First Congress-.

GENERAL NATCRE-No. L..
AN ACT to divide the State of Virginia
into two judicial districts
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
counties of Albemarlc. Allegheny, Amherst,
Appomatox. Augusta, Bath. Bedford.
Bland, Botetoufrlt, Buchanan. Bucking-
ham. Campbell Carroll, Charlotte, Clarke,
Craig, Cumberland, Floyd, Franklin, Fred
erick. Fluvanna, Giles. Grayson. Green,
Montgomery. Nelson. Patrick, Page, Pull
ask, Pittsylvania, Rappahannock, Roanoke,
Rockbrdge, Rockingham. Russell. Scott,
Smytb. Shenandoah. Tazewell, Washington,
Wise. Wythe, and Warren of the State of
Virginia, shall hereafter constitute new
judicial district of the United States, and be
called the western district of Virginia; and
the circuit and district courts of the United
States for said western district OF Virginia
shall be held at Lynchburg. Danville,
Abingdon. and HarrisOnburg, within said
district.
SEC - And be it further enacted, That a
term of the circuit and district court of the
United States for said western district shall
be held at Danvile, on the first Monday of
March and September: at Lynchburg, on
the second Monday of March and Septem-
March and September and at Harrison
burg, on tho Wednesday aftcr the fourth
Monday of March and September in each
year.
SEC. 3 And he it further enacted. That
the district of Virginia shall hereafter con-
sist OF the counties of said State not named
in this act, and shall be called the eastern
district Of Virginia; and circuit and district
courts of the United States shall be held in
| said eastern district. as follows: At the CITY
OF Richmond on the first Monday of April
and October, and at the city Of Alexandria
ON the first Monday of January and on the
first Monday of July, and at Norfolk on the
first Monday of May and first Monday Of
November in each year.
SEC. a. And be it further enacted That
the said circuit or district court for either
OF SAID districts may. in its discretion, order
special terms, and order q grand or petit
jury, or both, to attend tho same, BY an
order to be entered Of record twenty
days before the day at which said special
term shall be ordered to convenc and said
courts respectively at such special terms
shall have all the powers that they have at
regular term appointed by law: Provided,
however, That no special term of said cir
cult court for either district shall be ap-
pointed except by and with the concurrence
and consent of the circuit Judge.
SEC. D. And be it further enacted. That
all suits and other proceedings, of whatso-
ever name or nature, now pending in the
circuit or district court of the United States
for the district of Virginia, shall be tried
and disposed of in the circuit and district
courts, respectively, for said eastern dis
trict, as the same would have been if this
act had not been passed, and for that pur-
pose jurisdiction is reserved to the said
courts in the said eastern district; and the
clerks of the circuit and district courts of
the present district of Virginia shall retain
the records and files of the said circuit and
district courts, at the city of Richmond, and
do and perform all the duties appertaining
to the said Offices, respectively, within the
eastern district, except as is hereinafter
provided; and all process returnable to or
proceedings noticed for any term Of the
present circuit or district court shall be
deemed to be returnable to the next term OF
said courts, respectively, in the said eastern
district, - fixed by thu cot.
SEC. 6. And be It further enacted, That