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 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 271. 1887. 425 the said western district shall constitute the central division of said dis- C¤¤¤¤1<iivi¤i¤¤- trict, and the courts circuit and district therefor shall be continued and C°“m· held at J eiferson City. Sec. 3. That there shall be and there are hereby established a dis- Cvurtsestablishtrict and circuit court of the United States in each of the several divis- °d· ions of the said eastern and western districts herein created, except the southern division of the western district in which a district court shall ‘be and is hereby created. That in each division there shall be held two terms of the district and circuit courts in each and every year Terms. except said southern division of the western district in which there shall be held two terms of the district court in each and every year. The times of holding said terms of court in the city of Saint Louis, the R- S-, Secs- 572, city of Kansas and the city of Jefferson shall be held at the times now P· 1°°? 65B· P- 121- established by law, and in the other divisions herein named the times of holding said terms of court shall be at the city of Hannibal on the first Mondays in May and November; at the city of St Joseph on the iirst Mondays in April and October; at the city of Springfield on the first Mondays in February and August. That the counties of Cedar, Polk, J ¤{ri¤_¢li¤tio¤ Greene, Dade. Lawrence, Newton, McDonald, Barry and Stone of the Qf8s:;;f1“‘f,if,t’Q'*°· southern division of the western district aforesaid, be and they are mmm dm,§§°’ hereby attached to the western division of the western district for circuit court purposes as to all civil causes and proceedings and that all other counties in said southern division of the western district be, and they are hereby, attached to the central division of the western district for circuit court purposes as to all civil causes and proceedings. The district judges for the eastern and western districts of Missouri, each in the divisions of his proper district, and the circuit judge of the United States for the eighth judicial circuit, are hereby required to hold the courts aforesaid. J uries shall be summoned for the com·ts hereby cre- J¤ri¤¤- ated as now provided by law for the summoning ofjuries in the said districts. And whenever the circuit and district courts in either of said districts or divisions shall be held at the same time and place, jurors shall not be summoned for each of said courts, but for both said courts, and they shall act accordingly as grand and petit jurors for both said courts. ~ Sec. 4. That hereafter all suits to be brought in the courts of the Jurisdiction. United States in Missouri, not of a local nature, shall he brought in the division having jurisdiction over the county where the defendants, or either of them reside; but if there be more than one defendant, and a part of them reside in diiierent divisions or districts of said State, the plaintiif may sue in either division of either district where one of such defendants resides, and send duplicate writs to the other division or district directed to the marshal of said district, on which said writs shall be indorsed, by the plaintiff or his attorney, that the sameis a duplicate of the original writ sued out of the court of the proper division and district. Any cause may, by the written consent of both par- Transfers. ties or their attorneys of record, be transferred to the court of either division or district, without regard to the residence of the defendants, and whether such cause be now pending or be instituted hereafter. All civil causes now pending in any of the courts in said eastern or western Pending cnnses. district, or any division thereof, against parties residing in some other division hereby created, may remain and be nnally disposed of in the court in which they are now pending, respectively, unless the defendants therein shall desire to have the same transferred to the appropriate court of the division in which they reside, in which last event such transfer shall be applied for to the court of the division in which the cause is pending; and when a cause shall be ordered to be transferred, Tr=¤¤¤¤i¢fi¤g pc-. as above provided, to a court in any other division, it shall be the duty P2? “"“‘“‘“"‘P*“» of the clerk of the court from which the transfer is made to carefully ° ` transmit to the clerk of the court to which the transfer is made the entire tile of papers of the cause, and all documents and deposits in his court pertaining thereto, together with a certified transcript of the