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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 664. 1890. 225 money in the 'Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to said Territory or defraying the expenses of the said convention and for the payment of the members thereof, under the same rules and regulations and at the same rates as are now {provided by law for the pay- ment of the Territorial legislatures, an for the elections held therefor and thereunder. Any money hereby appropriated not necessary ger such purpose shall be covered into the Treasury of the United tates. Sec. 16. That the said State, whe}; admitted as aforesaid, shall °0Clj{“<{¤jgm¤§gS,g·g*¤¢* ·constitute a judicial district, the name thereof to be the same as the ' .name of the State; and the circuit and district courts therefor shall be held at the capital of the State for the time being, and the said district shall, for judicial purposes, until otherwise provided, be attached to the eighth judicial circuit. There shall be appointed for said district one `strict judge, one United States attorney and one Judge, attorney, United States marshal. The judge of said district shal receive a '”“”b“· _yearly salary of three thousand five hundred dollars, ppyable in four ~ equal instal ments, on the first days of January, Ap, July, and October of each year and shall reside in the district. There shall be appointed clerks of said courts in the said district, oxen-rs who shall keep their offices at the capital of said State. The regular terms of said courts shall be held in said district at the place afore- rei-me -said on the nrst Monday in April and the iirst Monday in November of each year, and only one grand j1u·y and one petit jury shall be Junes. summoned in both said circuit and district courts. The circuit and district courts for said district, and the judges thereof, respectively shall possess the same powers and jurisdiction, and perform the same Jurisdiction, ew. duties required to be performed by the other circuit and district courts and jud es of the United States, and shall be governed by the same laws and regulations. The marshal, district attorney, and clerks of w;>w¤¤, ¤¤¢·» ¤f ¤¤- the circuit and district courts of said district, and a l other officers ' and persons performing duties in the administration of {justice therein, shal severa dy possess the powers and perform the uties lawfully ossessed an reigujred to be performed by similar officers in other districts of the nited States; and shall, for the services they may perform, receive the fees and compensation allowed by law to other remote similar officers and persons performing similar duties in the State of regon. Sec. 17. That all cases of appeal or writ of error heretofore rose- S Cem 8§¤d¤¤g in cuted and now pending in the Supreme Court of the United States ““"°'“' “"‘ upon any recor from the supreme court of said Territory, or that may hereafter lawfully be prosecuted upon any record from said courts may be heard and determined by said Supreme Court of the United States. And the mandate of execution or of further roceed- “"“'P'°°°°‘““¤“· ings shall be directed by the Supreme Court of the United Sjtates to the circuit or district court here y established within the said State from or to the supreme court of such State, as the nature of the case ma require. And the circuit, district, and State courts herein named mggmgegimmrwm shall, respectively, be the successor of the supreme court of the Ter- ¤¥>tsn~¤i:.m¤na,¤a ritory, as to all such cases arising within the imits embraced within S °°°“"“· the 'urisdiction of such courts, respectively, with full power to proceecf with the same, and award mesne or final process therein; and that from all judgments and decrees of the supreme court of the Ter- Judgments prior to ritory mentioned in this act, in any case arising within the limits of ‘"“'”“‘°“· the roposed State prior to admission, the parties to such judgment shall) have the same right to prosecute appeals and writs of error to the Supreme Court of the United States as they shall have had by law prior to the admission of said State into the Union. Sno 18. That in respect to all cases, proceedings. and matters now ·1·»-unter or pending pending in the supreme or district courts of the said Territory at the °°“°“‘· °‘°· time of the admission into the Union of the State of Wyoming and . sryr n—voL XX\’I——l5