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IL AT THE THIRD SESSION OF THE
FORTY-SEC0ND OONGRESS eui 1oi 5nial


GENERAL NATURE-No. 43.l
AN ACT to amend an act entitled San
act to provide for holding q circuit court
of the United States in the western dis
trict of Missouri, !" approved June eight,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives Of the United States Of
America aim Congress assembled, That
the circuit court of the United States in
and for the eastern, district Of Missouri,
which was created by the act of which this
act is amendatory, is, hereby vested with
full and complete jurisdiction to hear, de-
termine, and dispose Of, according to the
usual course Of Judicial proceedings, all
suits, causes, motions, and other matters
which were pending in the late circuit
court of the United States in and for the
districts Of Missouri at the time the act of
which this act is amendatory took effect,
and also all other matters which have since
arisen that pertain to said suits or causes,
and also to make all orders and issue of all
processes which sand last-named court
might have done If it had not ceased to ex-
list and said circuit court in and for said
eastern district Of Missouri is hereby vested
Will Jul IoulCLlOu anu W w I'LL
and singular that may in the due course of
judicial proceedings pertain to any OF said
suits, causes or unfinished business, as
fully as the said circuit court In and for the
districts of Missouri might have done if
said act had never been passed.
Sec. 2. That the service of process,
mesne or final, issued out of said circuit
court of the United States in and for the
district of Missouri, which service was had
after the act of which this act is amendato-
ry took effect, and all leyies, seizures, and
sales made hereunder, also all service,
seizures, levies, and sales made under any
process which issued as out Of said court
after the said act took effect, are hereby
made valid, and all said processes are to be
deemed returnable to said circuit court of
the United States in and for the eastern
dstrictsof Missouri as of the return day
thereof. SanA.4 III .llbrfa rb.l.5 .4fg
SEC. 8. That either Of said United
States circuit courts in and for the eastern
and in and for the western districts of
Missouri may order any suit, cause, or
other matter pending therein, and COM
menced prior to the creation Of said new
court, to be transferred for trial or deter
mination to the other of said circuit courts
when, in the opinion of the court, said
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nave 'ie custody VI ai leGolus, oooks,
papers, auu pIoPeI.y .pe'o;snig OF IN any
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tne onl1eo otases ~ anu lol ths alstIlc5s q
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court, ,ney arg heIeny .ivestea WIN tne
same powers anu authorey WIN respect
thereto as me ci e thereof ana curing the
OaiQ cFcult court OF Tue Unlteu states III