Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-02-01
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at Tie Second Session Of the FGrty
Second Congress.
ls,UBEEsHED BY AUTH 0gIgG.
GENERAL NATURE.-No. HI

Il N
An Act to provide for holding circuit court Of
the United States in and for the western dis
trict of Missouri.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of Ameri-
ca in Congress assembled, That circuit court
of the United States in and for the western dis
trict of Missouri shall hereafter be held at the
city of jefferson. at the place of holding the
district court ofthe United Staes for the said we'-
terndistrict of Missouri, on the third Mondays
of April and November in every year.
Sec. 2. That the said circuit court of the
United States in and for the western district OF
Missouri snail in al things have and retain
jurisdiction of all matters arising therein, that
a circuit court of the United States in and for
the eastern district of Missouri shall be held at
the same time and place (at the city of Sans
Louis AS now provided by law for holding the
circuit court of the United STATES in and for
both the districts of Missouri; that the said ere
cult court Of the United Stat es in and for tn
eastern district of Missouri shall in all things
have and retain Jurisdiction of all matters arts
ing therein, and that the said circuit courts OF
the United States hereby established in and
for the eastern districts of Missouri shall re-
spectively, have and exercise the same original
jurisdiction in the said districts, respectively, as
is vested in the several circuit courts OF the
United States as organized under existing laws
and shall also respectively have and exercise
the same appellate jurisdiction over the district
courts Of the United States for said eastern and
western districts, respectively, as by existing
| laws is vested in the said several circuit courts
of the United States over the district courts OF
| the United States in their respective circuits.
Said circuit courts shall be called, respectively,
the circuit court Of the United State in and for
the western district of Missouri, and the circuit
court of the United States in and for the east
ern 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 district, and of the said two first named
Judges and the Judge of the district court for
the eastern district Of Missouri, in the said east
ern district, but may be held by any one of said
three judges in the absence of the remainder
The clerk of the circuit court for 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 dis
trict attorney and marshal for said eastern dis
trct of Missouri shall act as such district
attorney and marshal in said circuit court in
nd for the eastern district of Missouri as now
provided by law. The circuit court in and for
the western district of Missouri shall appoint q
clerk of said court, who shall keep his office in
the city of Jefferson aforesaid, perform its du
ties, receive its fees and emoluments. subject
and in conformity to existing laws regulating
the duties, fees, and emoluments of other cer ks
of circuit courts of the United States. And the
district attorney and marshal for said western
district of Missouri shall act SIS such district
attorney and marshal in said circuit court in
and for the western district of Missouri.
Sec. 3. That the United States circuit court
for said eastern and western district of Missouri
shall have power atany time to order adjourned
terms of said circuit courts, respectively, at
which terms any business may be transacted
which could be transacted at any regular terms
thereof. A copy of said order, in the eastern
district of Missouri shall be posted on the door
of the court room, and advertised In some
newspaper printed in the city of Saint Louis
and copy of said order, in the western district
of Missouri, shall be posted on the court room
door and advertised In some newspaper printed
in the city of Jefferson, twenty days at least
before said adjourned terms snail be holden.
Approved, June s, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-NO. III.
AN ACT to authorized the appoint
ment of shipping commissioners by the
several circuit courts of the United
States, to superintend the shipping and
discharge of seamen engaged in mer-
chant ships belonging to the United
| States, and for the further protection of
seamen.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
| several circuit courts of the United States,
| in which circuits there is q sea port or sea
ports for which there is a collector of GUS
toms, or in which there is port of entry,
shall appoint commissioner for such sea-
port within their respective circuits as in
| their judgment may require the same, and
| which shall also be ports of ocean naviga-
ton; such commissioners to be termed
'shipping commissioners and may,
from time to time, remove from office any
of the said commissioners whom it may
have reason to believe does not property
perform his duties and shall provide for
the proper performance of such duties I'M
til another person is duly appointed in his
place; shall regulate the mode of conduct
ing business in the shipping offices to be
established by the shipping commission
have full and complete control over the