New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-29
O e I'll la L.
Jaws of the United States Passed at the
Second Session of the Forty-Ffrst
EnNywass.
.rGENERAL NATURE-No. 1l7.1

L FAr
Second Session of the Forty-Ffrst
Congress.
.TGENERAL NATURE-No. 1l71
An act to provide for holding circuit court
of the United States in and for the wests
ern district Of Missouri.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House IF
Representatives Of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That a
circuit court of the United States in and far
the western district of Missouri shall here
after be held at the city Of Jefferson, at tfs.
place of holding the district court of the
! United States for the said western district
OF Missouri, on the third Mondays of April
and November of every year.
SEC. ,. That the said circuit court of the
United States in and for the western district
of Missouri shall in al things have and re-
| tain jurisdiction of all matters arising there
in; that circuit court of the United States
IN and for the eastern district OF Missouri
shall be held at the same time ard place lat
! the city of st. Louis) as now provided by
| law for holding the circuit court of NE
! United States in and for both the districts
| of Missouri; that the said circuit court of
the United States in and for the eastern
district of Missouri shall in all thinrs
have and retain jurisdiction of all
matters arising therein; and that the
said circuit courts of the United Sta+as
hereby established in and for tGe
eastern and western districts of Missouri
shall, respectively, have and exercise the.
same original jurisdiction in the said dis
tricts, respectively, as is vested in the sew.
efal circuit courts OF the United States as
organized under existing laws and shall
also respectively nave and exercise the
same appellate jurisdiction over the dis
trict courts of the United States for sid
eastern and western districts, respectively.
as by existing laws Is vested in the said
several circuit court OF the United States
over the district courts of the United States
III their respective circuits Sad circuit
court shall be called, respectively, the cir.
cult court of the United States in and for
tile western district OF Missouri ard the
circuit court OF the United States in and for
the eastern district of Missouri, and shall be
composed, respectively, of the justice of
the Supreme Court OF the United States
allotted to the eighth judicial circuit, the
judge of the eighth judicial circuit, and the
judge OF the district court for the western
district OF Missouri, IN the said western dis
trlct, and OF the said two first named Judges,
and the judge of the district court for the
eastern district of Missouri, in the said
eastern district, but may be held by an7
one Of said three judges in the absence Of
the remainder. The clerk Of the circuit
court tor the present districts of Missouri
shall remain the clerk of the circuit court
OF the United States in and for the eastern
district of Missouri; and the district attor-
ney and marshal for said eastern district OK
and marshal in said circuit court in and for
me eastern ste district ;I OF Missouri as now pro-
wa lieu oy law, Inc clpf re s[;
.ne Western oistflcG OF missouri sha1 apo
nce e5lf the u c 81u Of ee T1 s4a keep
1arform it's dnties and recaira 80 foes
mo1nmants subject and in cor lf f9r 80 %I ~
Existing laws regulating the duties. fees