Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-15

Be it enacted by the Senate and House
ot Representatives OF the United States
OF America in Congress assembled. The
western dristrict ai Missouri is hereby
divided into two divisions. which shall
be known as the eastern and western
divisions oi the western district oi Mis-.
souri,. The western division shall include
the counties oil Andrew. AtchisUn, Bar
ton. Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell. Carroll,
Cass. Charlton, Clay. Clinton, UayIess,
Dekalb. Gentry .Grundy, Harrison. Holt,
Jackson. Jasper, Lafayette, Linn.s Liv-
ingston, Mercer, Notlaway, Platte: Put
nam. Ray, Saline, Vernon and Worth;
and term of the district court and, cir
cult court ot the United States ter said
district shall be held therein ut the city
ol Kansas on the third Monday ia May
and the third Monday in October OF each
year. The remaining counties embraced
in said district shall constitute the cas-
tern division thereof, and the terms of
the district and circuit courts OF the Uni
ted States for said district shall be held
therein ut the times and place now pre-
scribed by law.
Sec. 2. All offenses hereafter commit
ted IN either of said divisions shall be
cognizable and indictab within the di.
vision where committed; and alk grand
and petit jurors summoned for service IN
each division shall be inhabitants there
OF. And all offenses heretofore commit
ted within said district shall be prOsecu-
ted and tried as if this act had not passed.
Sec. 3. All civil suits not OF local char
acter which shall be hereafter brought
in the district or circuit courts of the
United States for the western district of
Missouri in either OF said divisions,
against single defendant. or where all
the defendants reside in the same divis.
ion of said district. shall be brought in
the division in which the defendant or
defendants reside; but if there are two
or more defendants residing in different
divisions. such suit may be brought IN
either division. and all mesne and final
process subject to the provisions of this
act, issued in either of said divisions.
may be served and executed in either or
both OF the divisions.
Sec. 4. The clerks of the circuit and
district courts for said district shall each
appoint deputy clerk at the place
where their respective courts are reqnir-
ed to be held in the division of the dis
tiict in which such clerk shall not him..
self reside. each of whom shall, in the
absencc OF the clerk. exercise all the
powers and perform all the duties of
clerk with the division for which he shall
be appointed: Provided, That the APP
polntment of such deputies shall be APP
proved by the court tor which they shall
he respectively appointed, and may be
annuiled by such court at its pleasure.
And the clerk shall be rpsponsib ior
the official acts and neglects of such dep.
uties. eo.
Sec. 5. All civil suits and proceedings
now pei.ding in the circuit ur district
court al said western distr ot Missou-
ri, and bich would. il instituted aztec
the passage of this act. be required to
be brought in the western divisiena OF
said district, may he transferred. by c,n-
sent OF all the parties, to said western
division OF said district, and there dis
pose nt in the same manner and with
ike effect as il the same had been there
instituted; and all process. writs, and
recognizances relating to such suits and
proceedings so transferred shall be con-
sidered rs belonging to the term of the
court in the western division OF said dis.
trict. in the same manner and with like
effect as ii they had been issued or taken
in reference thereto originally. ~
Approved. January 81, 1879