Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-07-30
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GENERAL NATURE-NO. S..
AN ACT relating to circuit courts of the
United States for the districts Of Alabama.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, That
there shall be, and is hereby established
circuit court of the United States for
the middle district of Alabama, as said
district Is now constituted by law, to be
held in the city OF Montgomery, and a
like court for the northern district of
Alabama, as said district is now consti.
tnted by law, to he held in the city of
Huntsville.
SEC. 2. That said circuit courts shall
have and exercise, within their respect.
i've districts, the same original powers
and jurisdiction as are or may be confer.
red 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 rcvisory jurisdic:
ton over the DEGREES and judgments OF
for the said middle and northcren dis.
tricts, respectively, under the laws of the
United States regulating the jurisdiction
powers, and practice of the circuit courts
and the judges thereof, in cases removed
into said courts by appeal or writ of er:
ror; and said courts, and the judges
thereof shall have the general superin.
tendence and jurisdiction over all cases
and questions arising in said distric,
courts, respectively, under the act ap-
proved March second, eighteen hundred
and sixty seven entitled IAN act to es.
An1 1saA n >E
throughout the United States" as is pro.
act -
SEC. 5. That there shall be appointed
for each of said circuit courts for said
middle and northern districts, ~by the
circuit judge Of the circuit, clerk who
shall take the oath and give the bond rc-
qulred by law of clerks Of circuit cnurts,
and who shall discharge all the duties
and be entitled to all the fees and cmolu.
mcnts prescribed by law for clerks of
circuit courts; and the United States
marsha]s for said middle and northern
districts shall, respectively, ;act Us mar
shals for said circuit courts, and the Uni
ted States district attorney for said dis
tricts shall discharge the duties of dis
trict attorney in said circuit courts for
said middle and northern districts.
SEC, 4. That the clerks of said dis.
trict 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 cogniza.
bic in circuit court, and which were
either disposed of or pending In said dis
tfict courts while the same were vested
with circuit-court powers.
SEC. 8. 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 for the
southern district of Alabama; and its
appellate and rcvisory power, upon ap-
peal or writ Of error, or by bill or petition
or otherwise, under the second section of
said act, entitled, IAN act to establish q
uniform system of bankruptcy Through.
out the United States" is hereby restrict.
ed to judgments and DEGREES rendered or
causes and questions arising in the dis
trict court Of the United States for said
southern district; and that the fourth
section Of the act approved March third,
eighteen hundred and seventy-t three, en-
titled, IAN act relating to the circuit and
district courts Of the United States for
the middle and northern districts Of Ala
bama' be, and the same is hereby re-
pealed.
SIC. 6 That terms of tho circuit and
district courts for the several districts of
Alabama shall be held as follows: For
the southern district, the terms of the
circuit and district courts shall CON-
mence on the fourth Monday of Decem-
Der and the first Monday Of June in each
year; for the middle district on the first
Monday of May and the first Monday Of
November in each year; for the north
ern district, on the first Monday of April
and the second Monday Of October in
each year.
SIC. Z. That the fifth section of the
act approved Februrry twenty.second,
eighteen hundred and thirty-eight enti.
tied, IAN act to abolish the circuit court
at Huntsville In the State Of Alabama
and for other purposes and the act ap-
proved August fourth, eighteen hundred
and fofty-two, entitled "1n act to reRu.
late appeals and writs Of error 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: inconsistent with the provisions of
thtalact, be and the same are hereby ap-
pca1ed.
Approved June ~, 1874.