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 FOBTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1874. 195 CHAP. 401.-An act relating to circuit courts of the United States for the districts of June 22, 1874. Alabama. ""*‘j;" Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _0irc¤it courts es- _ States oj America in Congress assembled, That there shall be, and is hereby, mbllshed in Al¤·· established a circuit court of the United States for the middle district of Mfgjdle dismct to Alabama, as said district is new constituted bylaw, to be held in thebe held in Montcity of Montgomery, and a. like court for the northern district of Ala- gvmery- _ bama, as said district is now constituted by law, to be held in the city N°"*“°“l ‘“°“’l°‘l of Elmtsvmm toll? held in Hunts- Smo. 2. That said circuit courts shall have and exercise,.within their rowers and jurisrespective districts, the same original powers and jurisdiction as are or dictionmay be conferred 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 revisory jurisdiction over the decrees and judgments of . the district courts of the United States for the said middle and northern districts, 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 error; and said courts, and the judges thereof; shall have the general superin-. tendence and jurisdiction over all cases and questions arising in said district courts, respectively, under the act approved March second ,186% °b- 17*% WL eighteen hundred and sixtyseven entitled “An act to establish a uni- x“'· P‘ 517* form system of bankruptcy throughout the United States " as is provided for in the second section of said act. Sec. 3. That there shall be appointed for each of said circuit courts Clerks; oath and for said middle and northern districts, by the circuit judge of the circuit, l¤°¤d3 a clerk who shall take the oath and- give the bond required by law of clerks of circuit courts, and who shall discharge all the duties and be D¤$i¤¤ Md *'¤¢¤· entitled to all the fees and emoluments prescribed by law for clerks of d1£’I“Q‘;‘(fl“1f§fbf;fI; circuit courts; and the United States marshals for said middle and north- ,;,,;,,4,,;,, to my ,,, ern districts shall, respectively, act as marshals for said circuit courts, marshals for circuit and the United States district attorney for said districts shall discharge °°'”Z*°·. the duties of district attorney in said circuit courts for said middle and ,,°%fg,Q‘:‘rg:°°5’:€i‘;{ northern districts. in ,,;,1,.,;;; mum, ‘ Sec. 4. That the clerks of said district courts for said middle and Transfer or northern districts shall transfer to the clerks of the said circuit courts ”°:ld&°k°*°»’¢°° °· respectively all the original dockets, records and tiles of papers in all °“ °°‘. common-law and equity causes which might have been- brought and would have been originally cognizable in a circuit court, and which were either disposed of or pending in said district courts while the same · were vested with circuit-court powers. _ SEq._5. That the circuit court of the United States held at Mobile, C§¤¤L*_%°¤¥* Mid Alabama shall be designated and known as the circuit court of the Qmw: B: O2 rlfulf United States for the southern district of Alabama; and its appellate ,,,,,,,4, for sow,,,,,, and revisory power, upon appeal or writ of error, or by bill or petition, district. _ or otherwise, under the second section of said act, entitled,_"An act to °{1°•:t:¤*°¤3:d9f gnestablish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States" {D Muhlzmym is hereby restricted to judgments and decrees rendred or 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 hdge?4 °*` I 18% third, eighteen hundred and seventythree, entitled, “An act relating to ;_ had ’v° '""’ the circuit and district courts of the United States for the middle and - northern districts of Alabama/’ be, and the same is hereby repealed. T S f. ,t SEO. 6. That terms of the circuit and district courts for the several md°Q';m‘;t districts of Alabama shall be held as follows: For the southern district, _ the terms of the circuit and district courts shall commence on the fourth Monday of December and the iirst Monday of June in each year; for ` the middle district, on the ilrst Monday of May and the iirst Monday `of November in each year- for the northern district, on theiirst Monday of April and the second Monday of October in each year. E0. 7. That the fifth section of the act approved February twenty- R»¤£¤¤l$ <>*` I 1836, Second, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight entitled, “An act to abolish $*61 • °‘·'° ‘ "· V the circuit court at Huntsville in the State of Alabama and for other '