The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-30
GENERAL NAruRE-Noi s5:l
AN ACT relating to circuit courts of the Unit
ed States for the districts Of Alabama,

| ed States for the districts OF Alabama.
| Be in enacted by the Senate and House of
| Representatives OF the United States of Ameri-
| ca in Congress assembled, That there shall be,
and is hereby established a circuit conrt of the
United States for the middle district Of Alabam-
a, as said district is now constituted by law, to
be held in the city of Montgomery, and a like
co'rt for the northern district of Alabama, as
said district is now constituted by law, to be
held in the city OF Huntsviles.,
&c. 2 That said courts shall have and exer-
cise, within their respective districts, the same
original powers and Jurisdictions as are or may
be conferred by law upon the circuit court Of
the United States for the Southern district Of
Alabama at Mobile, and shall have and exercise
! appellate and revisory jurisdiction over the de-
crees and judgements Of the district courts of
the United States for the saieYmidtlle and north
ern districts, respectively, under the laws OF the
United States, regulating the jurisdiction, pow
ers, and practice of the circuit courts and the
Judges thereof. in cases removed into said court
by appeal or writ of error; and said courts and
the judges thereof, shsll have the general SUI
| perintendence and jurisdiction, over all cases
and questions arising in said district courts resv
| pectiyely. under the act approved March second
| eighteen hundred and si&ty-seven entitled can
act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy
! throughout the United States as is provided
| for in the second section of said act.
SEC. 3. That there shall be appointed for
each of said CIRCUIT courts for said middle and
| northern districts. by the circnit Judge of the
circuit, clerk who shall take the oath and give
| the bend required by law Of clerks of circuit
courts, and who shall discharge all the duties,
! and be entitled to all the fees and emoluments
prescribed by law for clerks Of circuit courts
and the United States marshals for said middle
and northern districts SHALL respectively. act as
marshals Tor said circuit COURTS and the United
States district attorney for said districts shall
discharge the duties of district attorney in said
| circuit courts for said northern and middle dis
| tricts.
| SEC. 4. That the clerks of said district courts
for said middle and northern districts shall
| transfer to the clerks of the said circuit court
respectively all the original dockets, records
| and files OF papers in all common-law and equi-
ty causes which might have been brought and
would have been originally cognizable in cir
cult court, and which were either disposed OF
or pendingln said district courts while the same
were vested with cireuit~court powers.
| Sec. 5. That the circuit court of the United
States held at Mobile, Alabama, shall be tesig-
| mated and known as the circuit court of the o.
| nlted States for the Southern district of Ala
bama; and its appellate and revisory power,
upon appeal OF writ of error, or by bill or petit
| ton, or otherwise. under the second section of
said act, entitled, San act to establish a uni
form system of bankruptcy throughout the u
nited States'' is hereby restricted to judgments
and DEGREES rendered or causes and questions
arising in the district court Of The United States
for said Southern district and that the fourth
section of the act approved March third eigh-
teen hundred and seventy three, entitled IAN
act relating to the circuit and district courts OF
| the United States for the middle and northern
| districts of Alabama be and the same is here
| by repealed.
Seq. g.. That terms Of the circuit and dis
trlct courts for the several districts of Alabama
shall be held as follows For the southern dis
trict, the terms of circuit and district courts
shall commence on the fourth Monday Of De
cenlber and the first Monday Of June in each
year for the middle district, on the first Mon
day OF May and the first Monday of November
in each year: for the northern district, on the
the first Monday of April and the second Mon
day OF October of each year.
Sec. 7. That the fifth section of fine act ap-
proved February twenty-second eighteen humid
red and thirty-eight entitled ''An act to abolish
| the circuit court of Huntsville in the state OF
Alabama and for other purposes and the ACT
approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and
forty-two, entitled San act to regulate appeals
and writs OF error from the district court of the
United States for the northern district of Ala
bama, be and the same are hereby repealed
SEC. 8 That all laws and parts of laws in
consistent with the provision of this act be and
the same are hereby repealed.
| Approved. June %, 1874.