The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-12-13

the district AMI circuit courts of the United States.
district Of all matters and proceedings which relate
concern liens upon titles to real estate situate
in said western district, and for that purpose shall
have to said records in the Office OF the said
clerks in said eastern district, and such transcrits
when made by either Of said clerks shall be cert,
fled to, to be true and correct by the clerks making
The same, and the same when made and certified
shall be evidence in all courts and places equally with
said originals.
Approved, June 4, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 1911
AN ACT amendatory of an act entitled Gan act do
natlng pubic lands to the several States and Terri
tories men may provide colleges for the beneht OF
agricultural and mechanical arts, passed July sec
ond, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and acts
aGendatory thereto
BE IL enacted by the Senate end House Of Repre-
seatdttces of the United States Of america in Con-
gess assembled That the lands granted to the State
Of Oregon for the establishment If an agricultural
college, by OF Congress Of July second, eighteen
hundred and sixty-two, md acts amendatory slere-
to- may selected by said State from any lands with
in s9 STATE subject to homestead or pre-emp1 ion en-
NV nder The laws of the United sates; and In any
case where land is selected by the State the price Of
which is fixed by law at the double minimum of two
dollars and fifty cents per acre, such land shall be
counted as double The quantity toward satisfying the
grant.
SEC. O. That any such selections already made by
sald state and the lists duly filed in the proper dis
trict and-ofice, be, and the same are hereby con-
hrmed, except SO far as they may conflict W til anv
adverse legal right existing at the passage of this act
ProUided, hoacecer That the State shall not receive
more than ninety thousand acres the quantity grant
e. by the act of July second eighteen hundred and
sixty-two: Provided also, That such lands shall MO
be sold by said State for less than two dollars and if
~ cents per acre. and where settlement is made M
on me same preference in all shall be given to
actual settlers at the price for which said lands may
DC offered. -
Approved, June 4, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 1861
AN ACT to take away the circuit court jurisdiction
OF the district court Of the United States for the
6IStr nf -
court In said district, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted By the Senate and House of Represen
totices Qfthe United States Of AeTica in as
senOfed That SO much of any act acts of Congress
as as vests IN Inc disfes court OF the United States
risictien OF circuit court be, and the same is here
by repea led and there shall hereafter be circuit
cult court now Or hereafter may be- in the south
ern district. -' 'o"'A-
SEC. 9. That all actions SUITS executions c.nso.
pleas process and other proceedings relative to ony
| cause, civil or criminal, which might have bee5
| brought and would have been originally
thereto under any act of Congress- pending in or re-
turnable to the district court the said northern
aseTex o. @eoigia az te time appointed for holding
transferred and made returnabe to the circut coprt
constituted by this act to be holden within the said
district, and shall be heard tried AID detern cd
therein, in the same manner if originally institu
| tea IN OF removed to such circuit court And
me sa,a circuit court shall be governed by
l
apply to other circuit courts of the United States and
the clerk of said court shall perform the sae
and shall be entitled to receive the same fees on
emoluments which are by law established for Al Al.
clerks OF the other circuit courts of the Tnted
and snail be appointed by the circuit judge of crcuit
| Pr0raded, Ihat the present clerk of The distric
court tor said northern district shall be the clerk n
the circuit court of said district till another onn;t
| moved. w 0'Aoi WEE IL
SEC. 3. That there shall be two terms of the dis
tct court Tor the northern district of Georgia he'll
IN Atlanta IN each and every year. to beoin on IN
| first Mondays Of March and Septembsr and Ib e
shall also be two terms of the circuit cort fr COZ;
us.ict, HSiu IN Atlanta in each and every wear +,
oegin ON the second Mondays in March and Sentseno
| bea. anu oepIeih
SEC 4. That all suits hereafter to be instituted !,
oo ct VI cc9i1 court OF either the northern
soutneii ulstrct OF Georgia, not of a local naturn
snail be commenced in court of the district wbar
the defendant resides but if there be more than on
defendant, ana they reside in different districts t
plaintiff may sue in either and send duncata viii
TO the other defendants, which the plaintiff or hi
attorney sai indoTse mat the writs thus sent ar,
copies OF wrlts sued out of the proper district an,
the said wrts, when executed and returned INTO tb
office from whence they issued shall constitute on
ana inc same SUIT and be proceeded in accordingly
SEC o. mat the rules of court heretofore .adonfed
and now of force in the district court for tbe
ern district OF Georgia, be- and they are hereby de
ciared 10 De- adopted and of force in the crcu
eli sad northern district but the same NAV he altere
modlned, amended, or annulled by the said court,
anu new rules Y. may be added thereto in the sam
manner as III other district and circuit courts IN
return days OF writs and executions returnable +
the said district and the said circuit cour. sboiI
Ie INT % s oi te Terms OF said courts respective
| ~, pus the ume 1or the return OF writs NAV be- b.
rule OF court, changed to any rules-dav - :
SEC. O. mat the grand and traverse iuries whicl
nave neen OF which may be drawn for the first tern
after the passage of this act of the district conrt H
the northern district of Georgia. shall be the inre
Tor both the circuit and the district COURT and ali tn
acts as such in either court shall be valid as if sal
Juries belonged exclusively to the court in wbic1
'n syo ar E a Gha for s the time in being
| JULIUS SIdiiu anu petlt, for either hath Of
courts to serve at the first term thereof to be draw
al any Time by the Judge of the said district court
by either Of the judges of said circuit court
SEC g. That the ninth and tenth sections of the ac
of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and forfN S
eight organizing the district court of the norhe;r
olsGrlct OF georgia, and all acts and parts of act
| by repealed, ~ ~ i IL
Approved, June T. 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 1861
AN ACT supplementary to nm act untitled 6. - ~
70 ald IN the construction Of telegraph lines, and
secure 10 the government the use of the same 70
P us, IIary, ana other purposes" approved Jul
C"euty-lourtn, eighteen hundred and siXty-six
BE IL enocsed By the Senate ana Housa of Reo,.
SentataoeS Or the United States of Aperien in I'm
gresS assembled, That the International Ocean Tele
use nn6 snail have the right to preompt an
on the lne OF telegraph belonging to said telegram
Snanppany, 70 wit; at the two ends of the cables q
mn,tb Of ta NE station at Punta Rasa tn
ous OF the Caoosahatchie river the station at For
Myers the points where the line of TELEGRAPH
me Caloosahtclie river, the staff IN at Pine island
s sr se stations at Branch river Barlow and Tuck
ianS II, eacn Iortx acres; such lands being publ
Janus, ana now actually used by the Internafiona
V VaEn Telegraph Company of the State Of Ne1
YORK: ProUlded, That whenever any one of I'll
smallest legal subdivisions at anv' one Of III
stations designated is less than forty acres
~ reason ca Of the land lying adjacent to tn
pany shall pre-empt only such smallest fractiona
snovlslon upon which the buildings and offices Q