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 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 145. 1892. 7 3 northern, central, and southern divisions. The counties of Shoshone, Northern division. Kootenai, Latah, Nez Perces, and Idaho, including any and all Indian reservations in one or more of said counties, shall constitute the northern division, the court for which shall be held at the town of Moscow. com at Moscow. The counties of Washington, Ada, Boise, Owyhee, Alturas, Logan, and coozmi division. Elmore, including any and all Indian reservations in one or more of said counties, shall constitute the central division, the court for which shall Court M B¤i¤<>- be held at the city of Boise. The counties of Custer, Lemhi, Bingham, soiiaioiii division. Bear Lake. Oneida, and Cassia, including any and all Indian reservations in one or more of said counties, shall constitute the southern divi- Court at niaokroot. sion, the court for which shall be held at the town of Blackfoot. Sec. 4. That all civil suits not of a local character, which shall be Joiioaiozioii. brought in the district or circuit courts of the United States for the district of Idaho, in either of the said divisions, against a single defendant, or where all the defendants seside in the same division of said district, shall be brought in the division in which the defendant or defendents reside, or if there are two or more defendents residing in different divisions, such suit may be brought in either division, and all Processmesne and final process subject to the provisions of this act, issued in either of said divisions, may be served and executed in either or all of said divisions. All issues of fact in civil causes triable in any of the rssoos of root. said courts shall be tried in the division where the defendant or one of the defendents resides, unless by consent of both parties the case shall be removed to some other division. Sec. 5. That the clerk of the circuit and district courts for said dis— Deputy clerkstrict shall each appoint a deputy clerk at the place where their respective courts are required to be held in the division of the district in which such clerk shall not himself reside, 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 appointed: Provided, That the mm. appointment of such deputies shall be approved by the court for which Approval. they shall have been respectively appointed, and may be annulled by such court at its pleasure; and the clerks shall be responsible for the official acts and negligence of all such deputies. Sec. 6. That the terms of the district court for the district of the Terms. State of Idaho shall be held at the town of Moscow beginning on the Moooow. iirst Monday in February and the first Monday in July in each year; at Boise City, beginning on the first Monday in April and the first Mon- Boise. day in November; at the city of Blackfoot, beginning on the first Mon- ixiooiixooi. day in May and the first Monday in September in each year; and the provision of statute now existing for the holding of said courts on any day contrary to the provisions of this act is hereby repealed, and all VM- 2*1 r- 21* suits, prosecutions, process, recognizances, bail bonds, and other things pending in or returnable to said court are hereby transferred to and shall be made returnable to and have force in the said respective terms in this act provided in the same manner and with the same effect as they would have had had said existing statute not been passed. Sec. 7. That no action, suit, proceeding, information, indictment, Actions, ctc-. Mt recognizancc, bail bond, or other process in either of said courts shall °m??°°d' abate or be rendered invalid by reason of the change of time in the holding of the terms of said courts but the same shall be deemed to be returnable to, pending, and triable at the terms herein provided for. Sec. S. That instead of the times now fixed by law, the terms of the _Wy<>mi¤g J¤<1i<¤i¤1 Circuit and District Courts of the United States for the District of Wy- d"’°"°f oming to be held at Cheyenne shall commence on the second Monday $,j‘,{_m2g”;f§2*gfF°””*· in May and the second Monday in November in each year." Approved July 5, 1892.