Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-09-11
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BRATTLEBORO:
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. IL, 1874.
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GENERAL NATURE-No. $751;


AN ACT relating to circuit courts of the
United States for the districts of Alabama.
Be il enacted By tie Senate and House OF
Representatives Of The United States OF
America in Congress assembled, That thei L
shall be, and il hereby, established a cir
cult court of the United States for the Mid
die district Of Alabama, as said district is
now constituted by law, to be held in the
city of Montgomery, and like court for
the northern district of Alabama, as said
district Is now constituted by law, to he
held in the city of Huntsville.
SEC. q That said circuit courts shall
have and exercise, within their respective
districts, the same original powers and
jurisdiction as are or may be conferred by
law upon the circuit court of the United
States for the Southern district of Alabama
ut Mobile, and shall have and exercise ap.
pellate and revisUry jurisdiction over the
DEGREES and judgments of the district
courts OF the United States for the said
middle and northern districts, respective
ly, under the laws of the United States reg
ulating the Jurisdiction, powers, and
practice of the circuit courts, and the judg-
es thereof, in cases removed into said
courts by appeal or writ of error and said
courts, and the judges thereof, shall have
the general superintendent and jurisdic-
ton over all cases and questions Arising in
said district courts, respectively, under the
ACT ADDfONeu NhTCn SNCOuU tlHnlebIl nuU-
bred and sixty seven entitled IAN act to
establish a uniform system of bankruptcy
throughout the United States" as is pro-
vided for in the second section OF said act.
SEC. 8. That there shall be appointed for
each Of said circuit courts for said middle
and northern districts, by the circuit judge
of the circuit, a clerk who shall take the
oath and give the bond required by law of
clerks OF circuit courts, and who shall dis
charge all the duties and be entitled to all
the fees and emoluments prescribed by
law for clerks II. circuit courts and the
United States marshals for said middle and
northern districts shall respectively, act as
marshals for said circuit courts, and the
United States district attorney for said dis
tricts shall discharge the duties of district
attorney in said circuit courts for said mid
ole and northern districts.
SEQ. 4. That the clerks of said district
courts for said middle and northern dis
tricts shall transfer to the clerks ofthe said
circuit courts respectively all the original
dockets, records and files of papers in all
common-law and equity causes which
might have been brought and would have
been originally cognizable in circuit
court, and which were either disposed OF
or pending in said district courts while the
same were vested with circuit-court pow
ers.
SEC. 5. That the circuit court of the
United States held at Mobile, Alabama,
shall be designated and known as the cir
cult court of the United States for the
southern district Of Alabama ; and its APP
pelate and revisory power, upon appeal OF
writ Of error, or by bill of petition, or 9th
erwise, under the second section OF said
act, entitled, IAN act to establish uniform
system of bankruptcy throughout the
United States" Is hereby restricted to judg-
ments 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 ap-
proved March third, eighteen 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 hereby
repealed
SIC. 8. That terms of the circuit and
district courts for the several districts Of
Alabama shall be held as follows: Fol
the southern district, the terms of the cir
cult and district courts shall commence or
the fourth Monday of December and the
first Monday Of June in each year; for thC
middle district, on the first Monday oil
May and the first Monday OF November in
each year; for the northern district, on the
first Monday of April and the second Mon
day of October in each year.
SEC. 7. That the nth section of the &C
approved February twenty-second, eigh
teen hundred and thrty-eight entitled
IAN act to abolish the circuit court a
Huntsville in the State OF Alabama and TO
other PURPOSES" and the act approved
August fourth, eighteen hundred ant
torty-two, entitled IAN act to regulate ap
peals and writs of error from the distric
court of the United States for the northern
district OF Alabama" be and the same ar
hereby repealed.
SEC. 8. That all laws and parts OF laws
inconsistent with the provisions of this act
he and the same are hereby repealed,
Approved, June %, 1874.