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 426 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 271. 1887. record of all orders; interlocutory decrees, or other entries in the cause; and he shall also certify under seal of the court, that the papers sent are all which are on file in said court belonging to the cause, for the performance of which duties said clerk so transmitting_ and certifying shall receive the same fees as now allowed by law for similar services, to be taxed in the bill of costs and regularly collected with the other costs of the cause; and such transcript, when so certified and received, shall thence forth constitute a part of the record of the cause in the , court to which the transfer shall be made. Clerks. Sec. 5. That there shall be appointed a clerk for each of said courts at Hannibal, Saint Joseph, City of Kansas and Springfield, and each ' clerk shall be a resident of the division in which the court of which he is clerk is held; he shall keep an office, and the records, files and documents pertaining to the court of his division, and he shall discharge ¥¤¤h¤1¤¤¤ddi¤- all the duties and receive the fees required or allowed by law. And judicial district shall be the marshal and attorney, respectively. for the divisions for their respective /district, and shall be allowed the same fees and be subject to the same duties and liabilities as may be provided Process. by law; that process issuing out of the courts of either division of said districts shall be directed to the marshal of the district in which the division is located, and may be executed by him or his deputies upon the party or parties against whom issued wherever found within his district; and the marshal of each district shall keep an office and at least one general deputy residing at the place of holding courts in each division, excepting the division in which he may himself reside. Transfers may be Sec. 6. That all civil causes and proceedings in law, equity, or bankmsde in v¤¤ati¤¤ rnptcy now pending in anydistrict or circuit court of the United States °’ *°"'“‘*"“°· in the State of Missouri, where all the defendants (or plaintiffs, where the jurisdiction is derived from the residence of the plaintiffs) shall reside in either of the divisions in which courts are hereby established, may in the discretion of the court be transferred to the court of the division in which the defendants (or plaintiffs, where the jurisdiction is derived from their residence) reside, and the transfer may be made in vacation or in term-time. If made in vacation, an affidavit of all the parties defendant that they are resident in said division shall be tiled, and ten days notice of the purpose and time of hearing of said motion shall be given the opposite party or his attorney of record; but if made in term-time, then on motion and aiildavit only. And the said circuit and district courts for said divisions shall have the same powers and jurisdiction, with the same right to parties to prosecute appeals and writs of error thereupon, as now pertain to the district and circuit courts Cri¤¤¤¤· for said eastern and western judicial districts. All crimes and offenses heretofore committed within either of said districts shall be prosecuted, tried and determined in the same manner and with the same effect as if this act had not been passed. Courts at Saint Sec. 7. That before the judge shall hold the terms of courts at Saint J¤¤¤r!¤- Joseph he shall have satisfactory evidence that the county court of Buchanan county has provided and set apart for the use of said courts a court-room, clerk’s office, marshal’s office, and attorney’s office, free of expense to the United States for rent therefor, to be used and occupied until the completion of the public building belonging_ to the United States Government now in process of construction at said city of Saint Joseph, at which time the courts shall be held and said offices estabcoms at Hnnni- lished in said public building; and before the judge shall hold the terms ML of courts at Hannibal he shall have satisfactory evidence that the _ county court of Marion county has provided and set apart for the use of said courts a court-room, clerk’s otiiee, marshal’s ofliee, and attornev’s omce, free of expense to the United States for rent therefor, to be used and occupied until the completion of the public building belonging to the United States Government now in process of construction at said
 * "°° ‘“°"“°Y“· the marshals and the district attorneys for the said eastern and western