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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 138. 1894. ] 11 place aforesaid on the first Monday in April and the first Monday in November of each year. For judicial purposes, the district of Utah shall be attached to the eighth judicial circuit, and only one grand jury 0i€`§i.ii?h“`l “` °ig1‘“‘ and one petit jury shall be summoned in both of said courts. Sec. 15. That the circuit and district courts for the district of Utah Jurisdiction. and the judges thereof, respectively, shall possess the same powers and jurisdiction and perform the same duties possessed and required to be performed by the other circuit and district courts and judges of the United States, and shall be governed by the same laws and regulations. Sec. 16. That the marshal, district attorney, and clerks of the circuit Powers of orucm. and district courts of the said district of Utah, and all other officers and other persons performing duty in the administration of justice therein, shall severally possess the powers and-perform the duties lawfully possessed and required to be performed by similar officers in Compensation. other districts of the United States, and shall, for the services they may perform, receive the same fees and compensation allowed by law to other similar officers and persons performing similar duties. Sec. 17. That the convention herein provided for shall have the T"*¤¤*“°* °* ¢¤¤¤¤¤. power to provide, by ordinance, for the transfer of actions, cases, proceedings, and matters pending in the supreme or district courts of the Territory of Utah at the time of the admission of the said State into the Union, to such courts as shall be established under the constitution to be thus formed, or to the circuit or district court of the United States for the district of Utah; and no indictment, action, or proceeding shall abate by reason of any change in the courts, but shall be proceeded with in the State or United States courts according to the laws thereof, respectively. That all cases of appeal or writ of error cosooponuinginsn. heretofore prosecuted and now pending in the Supreme Court of the P'°m° 00***- United States upon any record from the supreme court of said Ter- ‘ ritory, or that may hereafter lawfully be prosecuted upon any record from said court, may be heard and determined by said Supreme Court of the United States; and the mandate of execution or of further pro- Final proceedings ceedings shall be directed by the Supreme Court of the United States ` to the circuit or district court hereby established within the said State from or to the supreme court of such State, as the nature of the case may require. And the circuit, district, and_State courts herein named Succession of sim, shall, respectively, be the successors of the supreme court of the Ter- ‘·j¥§,1;§”§§}§fj Qf,§§}{‘°“°° ritory as to all such cases arising within the limits embraced within the jurisdiction of such courts, respectively, with full power_to proceed with the same, and award mesne or linal process therein; and that from all judgments and decrees of the supreme court of the Territory, mentioned in this Act, in any case arising within the limits of the proposed 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. _ _ Sec. 18. That the sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof mj§gggQQQ;Q¤s;;' as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the ' Treasury not otherwise appropriated to said Territory for defraying the expenses of said convention and for the payment of the members thereof, under the same rules and regulations and at the same rates ps are now provided by law for the payment of the Territorial legisature. Sec. 19. That the constitutional convention may by ordinance pro- StE;¤¤i¤¤ fw {ull Vide for the election of officers for a full State government, ilwluding g°v°mm°” ' members of the legislature and Representative in the Fifty-fourth Congress, at the time for the election for the ratification or rejection of the constitution; but the said State government shall remain in abeyance until the State shall be admitted into the Union as proposed by this Act. In case the constitution of said State shall be ratified by the people, but not otherwise, the legislature thereof may aSSe1nble, organize, and elect two Senators of the United States in the manner senntoio. now prescribed by the laws of the United States; and the governor