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 -176 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 391. 1900. cO'£${mS 0* °“°““ Sec. 4. That that part of section six hundred and fifty-eight of the R. sec. css, p.121, Revised Statutes dec aring the times, places, and provisions forhold- ‘“"°“°°‘l‘ ing terms of the circuit court in the northern district of New York be, and is hereby repealed, and that said section be, and is hereby, amended by irferting in place of the part so repealed the following two parara S: —i¤ ¤<>¤¤¤r¤ dimict g ‘gn the northern district of New York, at Utica, on the first Tuesday of December; at Syracuse, on the iirst Tuesday of April; » at. Albany, on the second Tuesda of February. S -*1 Wsswm di¤*'i°°· "In the western district of New York, at Rochester, on the second Tuesday of May; at Canandaigua, on the second Tuesday in September; at Buffalo, on the second Tuesday of November." t§¤¤¤i¤¤¤ M B¤¤¤1¤· Sec. 5. That regular sessions of the district court for the western ° ° district of New York, for the hearing of motions and for proceedings in bankruptcy and the trial of causes in admiralty, shall be held at the city of Buffalo at least two weeks in each month of the year except August unless the business is sooner disposed of. The times for holding the same, and such other slpecial sessions as the court shall deem necessary, shall be fixed by ru es of the court. All process in admiralty causes and roceedinés in the western district of New York shall be made returnable at Bu alo. §==i¤¤i:)s‘_5¤t<;i<=i·;1: Sec. 6. That the district judge of the northern district of New York gmggfzm. "°° mw in office at the time this Act takes effect shall continue to be the district judge for the northern district of New York as constituted by this Act. That the clerk of the circuit court for the northern district of New York in oiHce at the time this Act takes effect shall continue to be clerk of the circuit court of the northern district as constituted by this Act until his successor shall be appointed and qualified, and said clerk of said circuit court or his successor shall likewise be clerk of the district court of that district until a clerk of said district court Shall be appointed and qualified. ' c0Q£¤§es¢ti;:;1i<ég§t$1Pgi· i Sec. 7. hat the present clerk of the district court for the northern ’district of New Yor as heretofore constituted shall be the clerk of the A district court of the western district of New York as herebyxconstituted until his successor is appointed and qualified. He shall alsobe the clerk of the circuit court in the said western district hereby consti tuted until a clerk of said circuit court is duly appointed and qualified. mQ¤gjg¤v$,fi(gI*;}¤¤ (gg; Sec. 8. That all prosecutions for crimes or offenses hereafter commima. mitted in either of said districts shall be cognizable within the district in which committed. _ Y di'§ij5¤0g{c<;*§;°°n*fr{gj Sec. 9. That all other officers who have been heretofore appointed em memes.-for the northern district of New York as heretofore constituted who shall bein office at the time of the taking effect of this Act and who reside therein as hereby constituted shall continue in office as officers of the district of their residence until the expiration of their respectiye terms, or until their successors are ap iuted and qualified, and shall perform the same duties and receive tg; same salary and compensation as heretofore. “§r‘g§;°rf,"},§;’,§}’§°°”· All officers not residing in said northern district as hereby constituted shall cease to be officers of said northern district when-their successors, respectively, forthe northern district as hereby constituted are duly 61}g1¢¤¤¢is¤.¢¢¢··h¤W appointed and qualiied. The oiliee of marshal and district attorney in ` each of said districts, de uty marshals and assistant district attorneys, and all other officers autlilorized b law and made necessary by the creation of said western district andy the provisions of this Act, and all vacancies created thereby in either of said districts, shall be filled in the $**'°’i€¤·°°°- manner provided by existing law. The salaries, pay, fees, and allowanoes of the judges, district attorneys, marshals, and other officers in said districts, until changed under the provisions of existing law, shall