The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-12-02

revisory jurisdiction the DEGREES and judgments
of the district courts of the United States for the
der the laws of the United States regulating the ju-
risiction powers and practice of the circuit courts
and the judges thereof, in cases removed into said
and the judges thereof shall have the general super
ntendence and jurisdiction over all cases ann CUES
tons arising in said district courts, respectively un
der the act approved March second eighteen hundred
and sixty-seven entitled "An act to establish uni
form system of bankruptcy throughout the United
States as is provided for i'll the second section of said
act.
SEC. 8. That there shall be appointed for each of
said citcut courts for said middle and northern dis
trcts, by the circuit judge of the circuit 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 of cir
cult courts; and the United States marshals for said
middle and northern districts SHALL respectively act
States district attorney for said districts shall dis
charge the duties of district attorney said circuit
courts for said middle and northern districts.
Sec 4. That the clerks of said district courts for
said middle and northern districts shall transfer to
the clerks Of the 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 cog
nizable in circuit court, and which either dis
posed Of or pending in said district courts while the
same were vested with circuit-court powers.
SEC o. That the circuit court of the United
States held at Mobile, Alabama shall be designated
and known as the circuit court of the United States
Tor the southern district of Alabama; and its ap-
pelate and revisory power, upon appeal or writ Of
error OF by bill or petition otherwise, under the
ond section of said act entitled Gan act to establish
uniform system Of bankruptcy throughout the
United States,' is hereby restricted to judgments
and DEGREES rendered 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, Ell hteen hundred and
cult and district courts of the United States for the
middle and northern districts of Alabama, be- and
the same is hereby repealed.
SEC. &, That terms of the oirou;t ord d;str;ot
courts for the several districts of Alabama shall be
held as follows: For the southern district the terms
the fourth Monday of December and the first Mon
day of June in each year, for the middle district on
the first Monday Of May and the first Monday of No.
vember in each year; for the northern district en-
the first Monday of April and the second Monday of
October in each year.
SECT. That the fifth section of the act approved
February twenty eighteen hundred and thirty
eight entitled can act to abolish the circuit court at
Huntsville in the state of Alabama and for other
eighteen hundred and fsrty-two entitled Gan act to
regulate appeals and writs Of from the district
court OF the United States for the northern district of
Alabama" be and the same are hereby, repealed.
SEC. 8. That all laws and parts Of laws, incon-
sistent with the provisions of this act, be- and the
same are hereby, repealed
Approved, June %, 1874.
GENERAL NATuRE-No. SOL
AN ACT to constitute Montgomery, in the state Of
Alabama, port of delivery.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States Of America in Con-
gress assembled, That Montgomery, in the state of
Alabama, shall be, and is hereby, constituted port
Of delivery, within the collection district Of Mobile;
and there shall be appointed deputy collector Of
customs, to reside at said port, who shall receive
salary, to be determined by the Secretary of the
Treasury, not exceeding one thousand five hundred
dollars per annum.
Approved, June %, 1874.
GENERAL NATURE--No. s7l
AN ACT to prevent hazing at the Naval Academy.
Be 1t enacted By the Senate and House OF Repre-.
gress assembled That in all where it shall come
to the knowledge of the superintendent of the Naval
Academy, at Annapolis. that any -midshipman
commonly known as hazDg, it shall be the duty Of
said superintendent to order court-martial, COM
posed Of not less than three commissioned officers
who shall infinitely examine into all the facts and
circumstances Of the case and make afndng there
on; and any acknowledgment or cadet-engineer
found guilty of said oense by said court SHALL upon
Recommendation Of said court be dismissed; and
such finding. when approved by said superintend-
emit shall be final; and the cadet dismissed from
said Naval Academy shall be forever ineligible to re-
appointment to said Naval Academy.
Approved, June %, 1874.
GENERAL NATURE-No. Ss1
AN ACT to amend the act entitled can act to re-
organize the courts in the District of Columbia
and for other purposes approved March 8, 1853
BE IL enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatoes Of the United States Of america in Con-
gress assembled, That the Justice of the supreme
court Of the District Of Columbia, holding crimi-
nal term for said District, may when not engaged
in the proper business Of the criminal term, hold
sittings of the circuit court and employ the petit
juries drawn for the criminal term in the trial of
such cases depending in said circuit court as the
justice presiding therein may assign to him for that
purp0se and the business done at such sttings shall
be recorded in the minutes OF the circuit court
Approved, June %, 1874.