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 FIFTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Suss. I. CHS. 402, 403. 1890. 129 thousand dollars; nor shall any site be purchased until estimates for Limitations upon the erection of a building which will furnish sufficient accommoda- p‘“`°“”° °f ”"°· °°°· tions for the transaction of the public business, and which shall not exceed in cost the balance of the sum herein limited after the site shall have been purchased and paid for, shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury; and the site purchased shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an 0,,,,,, mm open space of at least forty feet, including streets and alle s: Pro- Pmmo. ` vided, That no part of sa1d sum when a ropriated shallybe ex- No mu,,,,.,,,,,, pended until a va 1d title to the said site shalfbe vested in the United Qllcggllcgggle ¤¤dJ¤¤¤— States, and the State of Iowa shall cede to the United States exclu- as s1ve Jxuusdiction over the same, durin the time the United States shall  or remain the owner thereog for all purposes except the adm1n1stration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of any civil process therein. Approved, June 9, 1890. CHAP. 403.-An act to fix the time and places for holding Federal co1u·ts in Jnme 9,1M. the district of Kansas. ‘———-——-—-—— Be it enacted 3; the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of mehca in Omogress assembled, That the ju icial mK·=¤¤¤¤ judicial ua district of Kansas is hereby divi ed into two divisions, which shall i€°'g__ M_ 5,,, p_ Nv be known, res ctively, as the first division and the second division **§n°¤gg1dMd of the districtw of Kansas. The second division shall include the sec¤¤umv1¤1c°il` counties of Cowley, Butler, Harvey, McPherson, Rice, Ellsworth, Oomvvsiticnot. Barton, Rush, Ness, Lane, Scott, Wichita, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearney, Finney, Garfield, Hoddgeman, Pawnee, Stafford, Reno, King- - man, Pratt, Kiowa, Edwar, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Grant, Stanton, Morton, Sedgwick, Stevens, Seward, Meade, Clark, Comanche, Harper, Barber, and Sumner, and a term of the circuit and district Terms or com-t. courts for said district shall be held therein at the city of Wichita on the first Monday of March and the second Monday of September of each year. The remaining counties embraced in the district of Fcggmmwn Kansas shall constitute the rst division thereof, and the terms of re»·m¤p°Y»li£`¤Y-ij the circuit and district court for said district shall be held therein m!};; g- gtgby- 95 at the time and places now prescribed by law.'‘ Sec. 2. That all civil suits not of a local character which shall be Jurlsdrcuoa. hereafter brought in either of said divisions against a single defendant, or where all the defendants reside in the same division of said district, shall be brought in the division in which the defendant or defendants reside, but if there are two or more defendants residing in djferent divisions such suit may be brought in either division, and all mesne and iinal process subject to the provisions of this act, mmissued in either of said divisions, may be served and executed in either or both of the divisions. _ _ Sec. 3. That the clerks of the circuit and district courts for said deégtpwgeut tz district shall each appoint a deputy clerk at the city of Wichita., P ’ ' each of whom shall, in the absence of the clerk, exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of clerk within the division for _ which he shall be a pointed: Provided, That the appointment of P¤¤·f·<>. such deputies shall he a proved by the court for which they shall subject to judicial be respectively appointedlj and they may be removed by such court “PP'°'¤*»°*¤· at leasure; and th)e clerk shall be responsible for the official acts and) neglects of all such deputies. _ __ _ Sec. 4. That all civil su1ts and proccodmgs now 3GBOH1g in the mT¤¤sf¤r ct mu -circuit or district court of said district of Kansas, an which would, ' if instituted after the pssa e of this act, be required to be brought in the second division of said district, may be transferred, by consent of all the parties, to said second division of said district, and there disposed o in the same manner and with l1ke effect as if the same stun L-v01.. xxvr--9