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 294 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. Ill. Ch. S2, 83. 1879. District attorney Sec. 6. That the district attorney and marshal of the district of Colo- 3**** ""*”h“l· rado shall respectively perform the duties of district attorney and marshal of and for the southern, western, and northern divisions of the dis- Deputy may trict of Colorado as established by this act; ·and the said marshal shall Shale- keep an office and deputy at each of the places where the sessions of the , said district court are directed to be held. Concurrent juris- SEO. 7. That in addition to the ordinary jurisdiction and powers of a. diction. district court of the United States, with which the district court of Colorado has been invested, it be, and is hereby, invested, within the lnnits of the said southern and western divisions of same with the exercise of concurrent jurisdiction and power, in all civil cases, now exercised by Error and ap- the circuit courts of the United States; and that in all cases where said {Weis- court shall exercise such jurisdiction, writs of error and appeals shall be allowed and taken from the judgment, orders, or decrees of said court to the Supreme Court of the United States, in the same manner and upon the same conditions as appeals may be taken from the circuit courts. Venue iii mm- Sec. 8. Any person charged with violating any of the penal or crimiinel ¤¤¤S¢¤· nal statutes of the United States of which the said district court has jurisdiction shall be proceeded against, by indictment or otherwise, within the division of said district wherein the alleged offense was committed, and shall have his or her trial at a term of the said district court held in the said division, unless for cause shown the judge shall other- Jnrios wise direct ; and grand and petit juries shall be summoned for the several terms of said district court in manner as is now, or may be, provided by law; and jurors shall be selected and drawn from the division of the said district in which they reside and in which the term of the said district court to which they are summoned is held. Terms of circuit Sec. 9. A term of the circuit court of the eighth judicial circuit shall °°““ at D€*“'°Y· be held at Denver, in said State, upon the first Tuesday in May andthe Jiirics. first Tuesday in October in each year. One grand jury and one petit jury shall be summoned, and serve in both the said circuit and district courts, the terms of which are to be held in Denver. {repeals. Sec. 10. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. · Approved, February 15, 1879. Feb. 15, 1879. CHAP. 83.-An act to abolish the Volunteer Navy of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Volunteer Navy- States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the E X a ni i ri i n g Secretary of the Navy to organize a board of five line officers of the Navy, b°“’d· none of whom shall be below the grade of captain, whose duty it shall be to make an examination of the line officers now composing the Volunteer Navy of the United States, which examination shall be such as Medical board. is required in the examination of officers for promotion; and, further, that it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Navy to organize a board of five medical officers of the Navy, none of whom shall be below the Examinations. grade of lieutenant-commander, whose duty it shall be to make an examination of the eighteen acting and three acting passed assistant surgeons now in the service, should they desire to present themselves, which examination shall be such as is required in the examination of medical officers for admission as assistant surgeons; and in all cases where said board shall find that such officers are professionally, morally, and physically qualiiied to perform the duties of their position, and shall so report Appointment- to the Secretary of the Navy, it shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to appoint such officers in the line and assistant surgeons in the Discharge. Regular Navy of the United States. And in the cases of officers who may 11ot be found to be either professionally, morally, or physically qualified to discharge the duties of their position, then said officcrs shall