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 442 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 314, 315. 1887. by such States; and in case any State shall have established under the provisions of said act of July second aforesaid, an agricultural depart— ment or experimental station, in connection with any university, college or institution not distinctively an agricultural college or school, and such State shall have established or shall hereafter establish a separate agricultural college or school, which shall have connected therewith an experimental farm or station, the legislature of such State may apply in whole or in part the appropriation by this act made, to such separate agricultural college, or school, and no legislature shall by contract express or implied disable itself from so doing. Legislative as- Sec. 9. That the grants of moneys authorized by this act are made MM ¤<><>¢¤¤¤f5’· subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purposes of said grants: Provided, T hat paymentot such instalments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to any State be- ‘ fore the adjournment of the regular session of its legislature meeting next after the passage of this act shall be made upon the assent of the governor thereof duly certified to the Secretary of the Treasury. grghtwsusptma, Sec. 10. Nothing in this act shall be held or construed as binding the sito., reserved. United States to continue any payments from the Treasury to any or all the States or institutions mentioned in this act, but Congress may at any time amend suspend or repeal any or all the provisions of this act. Approved, March 2, 1887. Mu-, 9, 1587, CHAP. 315.-An act to amend section five hundred and thirty-six of the Revised -F-;-—· Statutes of the United States, relating to the division of the State nf' Illinois into judicial districts, and to provide for holding terms of court of the northern district at the city of Peoria. Bo it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Illinois northern States of America in Congress assembled, That the counties of McDonjudicial district- ough, Fulton, and Tazewell be detached from the southern district of gb Sa “°"·‘ 53**, Illinois and be included in the northern district of Illinois. P'T,,I° divisions_ _ Sec. 2. That the northern district of Illinois shall be divided into two divisions, to be known as the northern and southern divisions. Southern divis- The counties of Peoria, Stark, Henry, Rock lsland,Mercer, Henderson, \i<>¤- YVarren, Knox, McDonough, Fulton, Putnam, Marshall, \Voodtord, _ Tazewell, Livingston, and Iroquois shall constitute the southern divis· C°“"““tP°°“"· ion of said northern district of Illinois, the courts for which shall he held at the city of Peoria. · T¢¤j¤>¤- Sec. 3. That the terms of the circuit aud district courts in and for said Cl“°“g°· northern district of Illinois shall be held at the city of Chicago, as now Peoria. provided by law, and at the city of Peoria, in the southern division of said district, on the third Mondays of April and October of each year. Jurmiicnou, Sec. 4. That all civil suits not of a local nature, and criminal pros- _ ccutions, must be brought in the division of the said northern district of Illinois where the defendant or defendants reside or the offence is committed; but if there are two or more defendants in civil suits resid ing in the different divisions or districts, the action may be brought in either in which either of the defendants may reside. YVhen the defendant is a non-resident of the district, action may be brought in either division of said district wherein the defendant may be found. ·Cl.erks’ omces. Sec. 5. That the clerks of the circuit and district courts of the northern district of Illinois shall be respectively the clerks of the courts of both divisions of the said district; that each of said clerks, or his deputies, shall keep an office open at all times at each of the places of holding said court, and shall there keep the records, files, and documents pertaining to the court of that division; and said clerk shall be entitled to the same fees now allowed him by law. In addition to his powers to appoint deputies, as now prescribed by law, each of said clerks shall be ·cn1era€p¤tm_ required to appoint a chief deputy for the court of that division in