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 794 THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. C11. 100. 1863. agents in Um: agents in Nevada and Utah shall hereafter be at the rate of fifteen hun- Approved, March 3, 1863. March 3, 1883. CHAP. C.-—·An Act to provide Circus! Cburts for the Distrkts of C’alQ"ornia and Oregon, ""“*";' and for other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Supreme court Scam of America in Oongress assembled, That theisupreme court of the tg. ‘;.°'}“'“Q dmjd United States shall hereafter consist of a chief Justice and nine associate hid; aémgam. justices, any six of whom shall constitute a quorum.; and for this pur- Quorum. pose there shall be apgwinted one additional associate Justice of said court, One additional with the like powers, and to take the same oaths, perform the same duties, J“°*l°°· and be entitled to the same salary, as the other associate justices. The Orgagfxmfogl districts of California and Oregon shall constitute the tenth circuit, and 10tki;circuit. the other circuits shall remain as now constituted by law. District courts Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of any act or acts i" thm $*****5 of Congress as vests in the district courts in and for the said States of mt t§,·h:¥,,B:w` California and Oregon, or either of them, the power and jurisdiction of courts. circuit courts, and the act entitled "An act to establish a circuit court 1855, oh. 142. of the United States in and for the State of California," approved March V<>l-X- P- 631- second, eighteen hundred and fifty-tive, be, and the same are hereby, re- Circuit court pealed, and the said circuit court is hereby abolished; and there shall “l’°l}*l"{d· hereafter be circuit courts held for the districts of the States of California h0€:'t‘;“{:’°°,;’,'5:,°?* and Oregon by the chief justice, or one of the associate justices of the supreme court of the United States assigned or allotted to the circuit to which such districtsmay respectively belong, and the district judges of such districts, severally and respectively, either of whom shall constitute a quorum, which circuit courts and the judges thereof shall have like powers and exercise like jurisdiction as other circuit courts and the judges thereof; and the district courts in and for the several districts in and for said States of California and Oregon, and the judges thereof, shall have like powers and exercise like jurisdiction as the district courts and the judges thereof in the other circuits. Provision for Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all actions, suits, prosecutions, Pmding P'°°"”· causes, pleas, process, and other proceedings, relative to any cause, civil or criminal, (which might have been brought and could have been originally cognizable in a circuit court as established by this act,) now pending in or returnable to the several district courts of the United States in the said States of California and Oregon, or now pending in or returnable to the circuit court of California, by this act abolished, acting as circuit courts (or so empowered to act) shall be, and are hereby declared to be, respectively, transferred, returnable, and continued to the several circuit courts constituted by this act, to be holden within said districts respectively, and shall be heard, tried, and determined therein, in the same manner as if originally brought, entered, prosecuted, or had in such circuit Bairbo¤da,&c. courts; and no bail-bond or recognizance taken in any of said actions, suits, prosecutions, or causes transferred to said circuit courts by this act shall thereby be avoided, impaired, or invalidated; and the said circuit R¤s¤l»,t1o¤¤. courts shall be governed by the same laws and regulations as apply to the Cm-ks. other circuit courts of the United States; and the clerks of said courts, respectively, shall perform the same duties, and shall be entitled to receive the same fees and emoluments which are by law established for the clerks of the other circuit courts of the United States. Times and _ · Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the circuit court for the districts E;:?: izfcgzpgsf m California shall be held at the city of San Francisco and the city of nia, Los Angeles, in said State, at the same times now prescribed by law for holding terms of the district courts for the northern and southern districts in Oregon. of said State at said places; and the circuit court for the State of Oregon
 * 1 N°'*d°· dred dollars per annum.