Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-01-23
U. S. DISTRICT
COURT BILL
run Text Of Measure Introduce
60 Dy Senator Hepburn Gre
ating Court in this CITY


The Press today received from Gan.
ator Hepburn copy OF the bin intro
duced in the senate by him for thu
creation Of an additional district in
the u 5. district court for the state
OF Idaho, and providing for the bo,d.
ing OF the terms Of the circuit court
IN this city. The counties embraced
In the district are, Bonner. shoshone
and Kootenai. The bill is as follows.
Dill to create an additional dis
trict In the judicial district of the
state of Idaho.
be 1t enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Unit.
cd States of America in Congress as
sembled,
That an additional division OF the
judicial district of the State OF Idaho.
TO be known as The northern divls-
ion OF the judicial district Of Idaho, i"
De- and the same is hereby, estab-
lished, to be composed Of the follow
ing counties, to wit: Bonner, Koot-
email, and Shoshone; and said count
les be, and the same are hereby.
transferred to said northern division
of said district of Idaho.
Sec. 2. That terms Of the circuit
court and of the district court of the
northern division OF the judicial dis
trict Of Idaho shall be held at Occur
d'Alene city, in said State, each year
on the first Monday in April and Oct
ober after the passage of this Act.
Sec. 3. That the clerks of the dis
trict and circuit courts for the dis
trict of Idaho and the marshal and
district attorney for said district shall
perform the duties appertaining to
their Offices, respectively, for said
CO rts of said northern division of
said northern division of said judic-
ial district. Whenever in the judy
ment of the district and circuit judg-
es the business of said courts here
after shall warrant the employment
of a deputy clerk at Occur d'Alene
city, Idaho, new hooks and records
may be opened for the court herein
created and kept at Occur d'Alene
city. and deputy clerk appointed to
reside and keep his Office at Occur
d'Alene city.
Sec. 4. That all suits not Of To-
cal nature in said circuit and district
courts against single defendant, in
habitant of said State, must be
brought in the division of the district
in which he resides; but If there are
two or more defendants residing in
different of the district such suits
may be brought in either division.
Sec. 5. That all prosecutions for
crimes or offenses hereafter commit
ted in either of the divisions of said
district shall be cognizable within
such division, and all prosecutions
for crimes or offenses heretofore
committed in the middle district as
heretofore constituted shall be com
menced and proceeded with as II this
Act had not been passed.
Sec. 6. That all grand and petit
jurors summoned for service in each
division shall be residents of such di'
vision. All mesne and final process
subject to the provisions hereinbe.
fore contained, issued in either Of
said divisions, may be served and ex
ecuted in either or both of the divis
ions.
Sec. Z. That in all cases of re
moval of suits from the courts
of the State of Idaho to the courts
of the United States, in the district
of Idaho, such removal shall be to tht
United States courts in the division
in which the county is situated from
which the removal is made, and th'
time within which the removal shat
be perfected, in so far as 1t refers tt
or is regulated by the terms OF thu
United States courts, shall be deemed
to refer to the terms of the United
States courts held in said northeast
ern division of the middle judicia
district,