The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-21
GENERAL NATuRE-No. los. ]

AN ACT to take away the circuit csnrt 1ursdie
tion OF the district court If the United states for
the northern district OF Georgia, to create cir
cult court In said district, and for other purposes.
Bsh enacted BY ne Senate and House Of Repre-.
sentattres of III. United States Of /mersca tn Con-
gress assembled, Tha, so much ofany act or acts
OF Cong ress vests in the district court of the
United Slater tor the northern dtsirict Of Geor.
gia the power and Jurisdiction vi circuit court,
Be, and the same Is hereby repea Cd: aud there
shalt here after he circuit court held for said dis.
irict, prssided over rs the circuit court now
Is or hereafter may be in the southern district.
SEC. Q. That all actions. suits, executions,
Causes, pleas, process, ind other proceedings
relative TO any cauae, civil or criminal, Which
might have been brought and would have been
or Einally eognzabie in a circuit court, or 70.
moved thereto under any uct Of Congress, penu.
pa in or returnable to the district court for the
said northern district Of Georgia at the time ap-
pointed far holding the next term thereof, are
hereby declared 10 be transferred and made re-
turpable TO the circuit court constituted by this
act TO be hold, within the sa district and shall
be heard, tried, and determined therein, in the
same manner AZ II originally instituted In or 70.
moved to sush circuit court And the said circuit
court shall be governed BY The same general laws
and rtgu ations as apply 10 other circuit courts
the United States and the clerk Of said court shall
perform the same duties add shall b. entitled to
reecivs the same fees and emoluments which are
By law established for the erks Of ito other cir.
cult courts OF the United States and shall To ap-
pointed by the circuit judge of circuit: Provided
said northern district shal bt the clerk Of the cir.
cult court OF said district till another appoint
nent be made in his place, or he be o herwise re-
moved.
SIC. s. That there shall be two terms Of the dis.
triet court for tho northern district Of Georgia,
held in Atlanta. In each and every year, to begin
on the FIRST Mondays Of March and September;
and there shall also be two terms of the circuit
court fer rsid disrct held in Atlanta, In each and
every year, to begin on the second Mondays IN
Maicn and september.
A .,lt ., hara ufta.,~ \
In the district circuit court Of either the north
ern southern district Of Georgia, not of & local
nature, shall be commenced In o court OF the dis
tIisl here the defendant res'dss but 4 there be
ent district, the plaintiff may sue In either, and
send duplicate writs TO the other dcfandan 9, on
which the plaintif OF his attorney shall indorso
that the writs thus sent are copies Of writs sued
cut OF the proper distIict: and the said wri when
executed and returned into the Office 4 ON whence
they issued shall constitute and the same suit
and be proee. ded in accordingly.
SIC s. That the rules Of court heretofore
adopted, and Ut force In tire district court for
the northern distri; OF Georgia, be. and they are
hereby declared to be. adopted and Of force in the
circuit court Of aaid northern district; but the
same may be altered, mod d. d, amended, or and
nulled by the said courts, and new rules may be
added thereto In the same manner as In other dis
trirt and circuit courts The return Gays Of
trict nd the said circuit courts sha be the first
DAYS OF the terms Of said courts r-spectivey but
the time for the return Of writs may be, BY rule
Of court, changed to any rules.day
SEQ 9. That the grant and traverse juries which
nave been or which ny TO drawn Tor the frat
term after the passage q this act Of thu district
court Ior the y Jrthern district Of Georgia shall
be the juIies for both the circuit and the district
court; aud all the 4c.s such In cthe court
shall be- vaid, as II said juries belonged excu-
siveiy to the court in which they sre acting for
the time being. 4-
SIC q. Thstit shall be lawful for the requisite
jurors grand and Pr Il, for either or bath of said
drawn ct any time by the judge of the said dis
irict court BY either Of the judges Of said cir.
cult court
SIC s. That the ninth anS tenth sections OF
the net of August eleventh, eighteen hundred
~ d forty.eight, organizing the district court of
the northern ds,rict Of Georgia, and all acrs and
parts Of acts initiating against this act, be, and
The same are hereby, repealed.
Approved, June |, 1879.