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 390 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 792, 793. 1888. 1:. s., sem sm, cess, each term for eighteen judicial da s, if the business shall reduire it; pp °°· 121* and the jud es of said courts shall have the same power to cal special terms in said division as they may now do under the laws of the United States elsewhere in said district. J¤ri¤•1ic¤¤¤· Sec. 2. That the said courts so sitting at Owensborough shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction, power, and authority in all civil ' actions, pleas, or roceedings, and in all prosecutions, informations, indictments. or otgier criminal or penal proceedings, conferred by general laws on the district and circuit courts of the United States; and where one or more defendants in any civil cause shall reside in said division, and one or more defendants to such cause shall reside out of said division but in said district, then the plaintid may institute his action either in the court having jurisdiction over the latter or in the said division. Deputy clerk- Sec. 3. That in and for said division the clerk of the said district, at Louisville, shall appoint a deputy who shall reside at Owensborough, and in case of the eath or removal of said deputy, or from other cause, it becomes necessary, he shall appoint a successor or successors to said deputy in like manner in all respects as by law he may now appoint and remove deputies; and he may reguire bond of said deputy to himself, with surety for the faithful ischarge of his duties and for indemnity in case of breach, on which actions may be maintained in said district court- and said deppty shall keep and preserve the records of the court at Cwensboroug ; issue all writs, precepts, and process, and perform all other duties devolved upon his principal. Deputy m¤¤·¤¤1 ‘ Sec. 4. That the marshal of said district shall, by himself or deputy, attend udpon the terms of the court in said division; and he may appoint a eputy to reside at Owensborough (and shall do so if or ered y the court), who shall discharge all the duties of marshal; and the marshal may reguire a bond o indemnity to himself with surety _ for the faith ul ischarge of his duties and for indemnity in case of breach, on which actions may be maintained in said district Court. jgé? ¤¤“°¤¤ ¤°° Sec. 5. That this act shall not affect the jurisdiction, power, and au- ` thority of the court as to actions, prosecutions, and proceedings already begun and pending in said district, but the same will proceed as though this act ha not been passed, except that the court shall have power, which it may exercise at discretion, to transfer to the court in said division suc of said pending actions, prosecutions, and procleedings as might properly be begun therein under the provisions of t is act. ¤<>¤¤ Mm Sec. 6. That until the public building of the United States at Owensborough, the erection whereof has een provided for by an act of the plresent session of Congress, shall have been completed, the courts erein provided for shall be held at the court-house of Daviess County, and the deputy clerk shall provide himself with an office at Owensborou gh, but in no event shal the United States be chargeable with rent or otherwise on account of either. Approved, August 8, 1888. August 8. UBB- CHAP. ’l93.—An act for the erection of a public building at Brownsville, Texas, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Browns-i1¤e,'r•¤. Un tted States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary P¤*>¤¢ ‘>¤**·*i¤8- of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to accept Si=¤¤>b¤•¤¤¤v¤¤1 the donation of a site, and cause to be erected thereon a substantial and commodious building. with ure proof vaults, for the use and accommodation of the United States courts, custom-house, post-office, and for other Government offices and uses at Brownsville, in the State rms em. of Texas. The building, when completed u n lans and specifications to be previously made and approved hy the Secretary of the