Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-02-22
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Third Session Of the FOrty-flrst
" Congress.
TPUBLIsHED BY AUTHORITY
GENERAL NATURE-No. Il.
An ACT to divide the State of Virginia into two
judicial districts.

An ACT to divide the State of Virginia into two
judicial districts
Be It eltacted By the Senate and House Of Re-
personalities of the United States Of Anterlea
bemar1e, Allegheny, Amherst. Appomatox,
A[ulgusta, Bath, Bedford Bland, Botetou[rlt
Buchanan, Buckingham, Campbell, Carroll,
Charlotte, Clarke, Craig, Cumberland. Floyd,
Franklin, Frederick, Fluvanna, Giles, Grayson,
Green, Halifax, Henry, Highland, Lee, Madi-
son, Montgomery, Nelson, Patrick, Page, Pu-
laski, Pittsylvania, Rappahauuock, Roanoke,
Rockbridge, Rockingham, Russell, Scott,
Smyth, Shenandoah, Tazewell, Washington,
Wise Wythe and Warren, of the State of Vir-
ginia, 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 west
ern district of Virginia shall be held at Lynch
burg, Danville, Abingdon, and Harrisonburg,
within said district.
SEC 2 A,,d be it further enacted, That
term of the circuit and district court of the
United States for said western district shall be
held at Dan vile, on the first Monday of March
and September; at Lynchburg, on the second
Monday of March and September; at Abing-
don on the third Monday of March and Sep
TENDER; and at Harrisonburg. on heWednesday
after the fourth Monday of March and Septenl-
Der. In each year.
SEC g. And be it further enacted, That tina
district of Virginia shall hereafter consist of the
counties of said State not named in this act, and
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. e.,
SEC 4 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 grand or petit jury, or both,
to attend the same, by an order to be entered of
record twenty days before the day at which said
special term shall be ordered to convene and
said courts respectively at such special terms
shall have all the powers that they have at q
regular term appointed by law; Provided, hoIo-
ever, That no special term of said circuit court
for either district shall be appointed except by
and with the concurrence and consent OF the
circuit judge
SEC. s. 4,ad be it further enacted, That all
suits and other proceedings, of whatsoever 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 district, as the same would have been IL
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
within the eastern district except as is hereinaf
ter provided; and all process returnable to or
proceeding noticed for any term of the present
circuit or districts court shall be deemed to be
returnable to the next term of said courts re-
spectively, in the said eastern district, as fixed
by this act.
SEC. 6. A,,d be 1t further enacted, That upon
application of any party to any suit or pooceed
ing now pending in the present circuit or dis
trict courts of the United States for the present
district of Virginia, which should have been
commenced in the proper court for the western
district if this act had been in force at the time
of the commencement thereof, the proper court
shall order that the same be removed for further
proceedings to the proper court for said western
district and thereupon the clerk shall transmit
certified copies of all the papers and Of all Or
ders made therein to the clerk of the court to
which such suit or proceeding shall be removed,
and all further proceedings shall be had in said
court to which the same shall be removed as If
the said suit or proceeding had originally been
commenced therein.
SEC. Z. Ind be 1T further enacted, That the
passage of this act shall not have the effect to
destroy or impair the lien of any Judgment or
decree, rendered by the circuit or district court
of the United States for the present district of
Virginia, prior to this act taking effect; and f.
nal process on any judgment or decree entered
IN the circuit or district court of the United |
States for the district Of Virginia. or which shall
be entered therein prior to this act taking effect
and all other process for the enforcement of any
order Of said courts respectively, in any cause