Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-01-31

at the time of its commencement. such suit or
proceedings shall be removed for further
proceedings to the proper.co for said western
District, and thereupon the clerk shall transmit
the original papers, and copies OF all orders
made therein, to the clerk of the court to which
said suit or proceedings shall be removed for
trial or such orther proceedings therein il the
said suit or proceedings had originally been
commenced therein; the district attorney OF
said western district to designate the court to
which all suits and 'proceedings, and indct-
ments and criminal proceedings, herein the
United States is plaintiff, shall be removed, and
the plaintiff. his attorney, in all other suits to
designate the court to which they shall be
transferred; but no suit indictment, or criminal
proceeding, where bail is required OF sefend-
ant, shall be transferred until prope. bail is
slven for him to appear accordingly: Prouldcd,
That all suits and other proceeding, both crImi-
district court of United States, at Sails bury,
with all the original papers therein, shall DO
transferred for trial or such other proceedings
as shall be meet and proper to especial term OF
ihe district court of the United States for said
western district of Mort Carolina, to be held
at Salisbury, beginning on the second Monday
in August A. ID. eighteen hundred and seventy
two and all said suits and proceedings not then
finally disposed of shall with the original pa
pers therein, be transferred to the district
courts of said western district at Greensboro or
Ssatesville, rs the judge may ORDER and all
necessary and proper process shall issue and be
made returnsbe in said suits and proceedings
to the next terms of said courts, respectively,
for trial or such other proceedings therein as II
the original proceedings had begun in said last
named courts; and the clerk of said district
court at Greensboro shall act as clerk OF SAID
special court at Salisbury; and all suits and
| other proceedings, both criminal and civil, now
pending at the late term of the United States
district court for The Cape of Fear district held
| at Marian beginning on third Mon1ay CT Au-
gust, eighteen hundred and seventy one, and
not then finally disposed Of shall, with the
original papers therein, be transferred to a spe-
cal term of the district for said western district
to be held at Ashville North Carolina, begin
ming on the third Moudayin August, eighteen
hundred and seventy two. to be then and there
tried, or such other proceedings had therein
may be meet and proper, according to the praC-
tice of the couet, and all such suits and pro-
ceedings as shall not then be finally disposed OF
shall be continued on the docket of said court,
at Ashvitle, TO the next term thereof, and IN the
shall issue from said last named court and be
returna6le thereto, and sue proceedings had
therein as if the original proceedings had begun
in said court, and the clerk of said court Ct
Ashville shall act as clerk Of said special court
at Ashville.
SEC T. That the passage of this act shall not
have the effect 10 destroy or impair the lien CT
any judgment or decree rendered by the circuit
or district court of the United States for the
present district of North Carolina prior 10 this
ment or decree entered in the circuit or district
court of the United States for the district OF
North Carolina or which shall be entered there
in prior to this act taking effect, aud all other
process for the enforcement OF any order OF SAID
courts, respectively, IN any cause or proceed
ings now pending therein, except causes or
proceedings removed as herein provided, shall
be issued from Ind be returnable to the proper
court for the eastern district OF North Carolina,
and may be directed to and executed by the
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district in any part Of the State Of North Car
DINA,
Sec. g. That there shall be appointed a dis
Lrict Judge for the said western district of orth
Carolina, who shall receive an annual salary Of
three thousand FIVE hundred dollars; and there
shall also be appointed district attorney oftl Q
United States for the said western district #
North Carolina, who shall receive sucI fets
and compensation, and exercise such powers
and perform such duties, as arc fixed ana en-
joined by law.
Sec, Q. That the circuit and district judge
shall appoint three clerks, each of whom sba |
DO clerks both OF the circuit and district courts
for said western district of North Carolina, orc
of whom shall reside and keep his Office Al
Statesville, and one who shall reside and keep
his office at Ashville. and the third of whom
shall reside and keep his office at Greensboro,
who shall receive the fees and compensation for
services performed by them now fixed by law.
Sec. TO- That either of the clerks of the dis
trict and circuit courts for said western district
of North Carolina is hereby authorized, under
the direction of the district judge of said west
ern district, to make transcript from any OF
the records, files, or papers of the district and
circuit courts of the United States, remaining
in the Office of the clerks of said eastern dis
trict, of all matters and proceedings which
relate to or concern liens upon or titles to real
estate situated in said western district, and for
that purpose shall have access to said record
in the Office of the said clerks in said eastern
district and such transcripts when made By
either of said clerks, shall be certified to, to be
true and correct, by the clerks making the
same and the same, when so made and ceTt-
fed, shall be evidence in all courts and places
equally with said originals,
Approved, June A, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE.-No. I15.
An ACT to amend an entitled IAN act to regu-
late the diplomatic and consular system Of
the United States" approved August oigh--
teenth, eighteen hundred and fifty six.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States of Amer
ca in Congress assembled. That Schedule G Of
section three of an act entitled "An act to regu-
late the diplomatic and consular systems Of the
eighteen hundred and fifty six, be amended so
as to add to the consuls IN Brazil consul st
Santarem.
Approved, June s, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE.--No. I1G.l~
An Act to amend an act entitled IAN act
regulating proceedings in criminal cases, and
for other purposes" approved March third,
eighteen hundred and sixty FIVE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives of the United States of Ameri-
ca in Congress assembled, That section two Of
the act entitled IAN act regulating proceedings
in criminal cases, and for other purposes" be,
and the same is hereby, amended TO read as
follows:
treason or a capital offence, the defendent shall
he entitled to twenty and the United States f=e
neremtory challenges. On pthe trial of any
other felony, the defendsnt shall be entitled to
ten and the United States to three perem ptory
cbaIIana.s. and in all other cases, civil and
ermna se each d party shall be entitled to three
peramptory challenges; and in all cases where
there are several defendants or several plaintiffs,
the parties On each side shall be deemed e, a sin
nnnder this section All challenges, whether
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