Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-04
GENERAL NATURE-No. lo5.

AN ACT to take away tho circuit court Jurisdiction Of
the district court VI the Uuited States for the north
cru district Of Georgia TO create a circuit court in
said district and for other purposes.
atycs Of the United States Of America In Congress
assembled That much of any act or acts Of Congress
as vests IN the district court Of the United stats lor
the northern district Of Georgia the power and IuT
dicton Of a circuit court be- aud the same 10 hereby
repealed and there shall hereafter be circuit court
held for said district presided over as the circuit
court now is, o. hereafter may be, in the southern
district
SEC g That all actions, suits, executions, causes,
pleas process and other proceedings relative TO any
cause, civil criminal which might have been brought
court, removed thereto undeI any act OF Congress
pending In returnable the district court Tor the
said northern district OF deorgia at the time appointed
for holding the next term thereof hereby declared
To be transferred and made returnabe 10 the circuit
court constituted by this act 70 be holden within the
said district add shall he heard tried and determined
therein, In the manner originally Instituted
In or removed 10 such circuit court. And the said
circuit court shall be- governed by the same general
laws and regulations apply to other circuit courts
OF the Uni cd states and the clerk Of said court shall
perform the duties and shall DO entitled 10 receive
the same fees and emoumonts which are by law estab
shed for the clerks Of the other circuit courts OF the
United States, and shall be appointed by the circuit
Judge Of circuit Provided That the present clerk Of
the district court tor SAID northern discreet shall be the
appointment be made in his place or he be otherwise
SEQ. =. That there shall he two terms Of the dis
tot court for the northern district Of Georgia, held
IN Atlanta, in each and every year, u begin on the
Arst Mondays Of March and september and there
district, held in Atlanta in each and every, year u
begin on the second Mondays m March and September
SEC T. That all suits hereafter to DO instituted In
the district circuit court Of either the northern OF
southern district of Georgia, not Of local nature
shRll be commenced In court Of the district where
the defendant resides hut II there be more than one
defendant and they reside In different districts, th'
plaintiff may in either, and send duplicate Wrlt
u the other defendants, on which the plaintiff or h
attorney shall ndorse that the writs thus sent ar'
copies Of wrts sued out Of the proper district anc
the said wrts, when executed and returned into th'
Office from whence they Issued, shall constitute one
aud the Same suit, aud be proceeded In accordingly
SEC 3. That the rules OF court heretofore adopted
and now Of force in the district court for the northern
district Of Georgia, be and they are hereby declared
10 be- adopted and Of force In the circuit court OF sa
northern district but the same may DO altered, nodl
d amended, anullcd, by the said courts, ana nev
rules may be added thereto In the same manner as
other district aud circuit courts The return-days
wrts aud executions returnabRbe u the said dlstIc
and the said circuit courts shall be the first days OF IN
terms " said courts respectively, but the time tr
return Of writs may be, by rule Of court changed U
| any rules-dAy,
SEC. O. That the grand aud traverse juries whic
have been or which may be drawn for tho first tern
after the passage Of this act Of the district court 70
the northern district Of Georgia shall he the lures TO
both tho circuit and the district court aud all the act
such la either court shall he valid, " srid jure
belonged exclusively to the court In which they ar
acting for the time being.
SEC, z. That II shall no lawful for the requsit
jurors grand aud petit, for either Or both Of sal
courts 10 at the first term thereof n be- drawn