The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-04-24
VOL. VIII.
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OF THE
UNITED TAT ES
PASSED AT THE
THIRD SESSION OF TIE FORTY
SECOND CONGRESS.
TGENEnAL NATuRE-No. 43.1

GENERAL NATURE-NO. 10.
AN ACT to amend an act entitled s.An act to
for holding circuit court of the United States
inthe western district of Missouri approved
June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy
two.
Belt enacted By the Senate and House of Repre-
sentattves of the United States of America in Con-
yress assemblies That the circuit courto of the Uni
ted States in and for the eastern district of Mis-
souri,, which created by the act Of which this
act is amendatory, is hereby vested with full and
complete jurisdiction 10 hear determine, and dis
pose Of according to the usual course of judic
proceedings all suits, causes, motions, and other
matters which were pending in the late circuit
court of the United States in and for the dis
tricts 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 per-
tain to said suits causes, and also to make all
orders and issue of all processes which said last
named court might have done if it had not ceas
ed to exist and said circuit court in and for
said eastern district of Missouri is hereby vested
with jurisdiction and authority to do all and sin
gular that may in the due course of judicial pro.
ceedings 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 never had been passed.
SEC. 2. That the service of process, mesne or
final, issued out of said circuit court of the Uni
which service was had after the act of which
this act is amendatory took effect, and all levies,
seizures, and sale made Hereunder, also all
vice, seizures, levies, and sales made under any
process which issued out Of said court after
the said act took effect, are hereby made valid.
and all said processes are to be deemed returna-
BILE to said circuit court Of the United States in
and for the eastern district of Missouri as of the
return day thereof
SEC. 8. That either of said United States cir
cult courts in and for the eastern and in and for
the western district of Missouri may order any
suit, cause, other matter pending therein, and
commenced prior to the creation of said new
court to be transferred for trial determine
ton to the other of said circuit courts when, in
the opinion of the court, said transfer ought to
be- made and the court to which ga id transfer is
made shall have as full authority and jurisdiction
over the same from the date the certified tran
script of the record thereof is filed if the same
had been originally pending therein.
SEQ. L. That the clerk Of said circuit court in
and for the eastern district of Missouri, and his
successors in Office, shall have the custody Of all
records, books, papers, and property belonging
or in any wise appertainng to said circuit court
of the United States in and for the districts of
Missouri, and, as such custodians and the
cessors of the clerk of said las.-named court,
they are hereby invested with the powers
and authority with respect thereto as the clerk
named circuit count. Said circuit court of the
United States in and for the eastern district of
Missouri is hereby made the successor of said
circuit court of the United States in and for the
districts of Missouri 70 all suits, causes, and
unfinished business therein or in any wise per
tanning thereto, except hereinbefore provided.
Sec. 8. That hereafter there shall be two reg
ular stated terms each year of the district court
of the United States in and fer the eastern dis
trict of Mis- ouri com mencng on the first Mon
days, respectively, of Nay and November, in lieu
of those fixed by law: and no action, suit, pro
cesding, process in said court shall abate or
be rendered invalid by reason of this act, but all
of the same not previously disposed Of or other
wise provided for by special order Of said court
shall be deemed returnable to, pending, and tria-
BILE at the next term of said district court estab
lished by this act which may BE- held after this
act takes effect: Provided ho,0ever, That moth
ing herein contained shall be construed to repeal
the powers heretofore granted for ordering spe-
cal or adjourned terms of said court or the pow
srs and duties of the judge of said court IN yaca-
tion and at chambers.
Approved, February IS, 1873.