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 FI.FTY·SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 801. 1901. 881 and sessions may be held when the business shall, in the opinion of such courts, respectively, require it. _ Sec. 3. That the President, by and with the advice and consent of bg',§‘§;,'§§,c‘gj“°°” "° the Senate, shall appoint for said middle district a district judge, a marshal, and district attorney; and clerks for the said circuit and district courts shall be appointed in the same manner as is now provided by law with rega to ,such officers in the western district of Pennsylvania. Sec. 4. That the courts and judges of said middle district shall, J“'*S*“°'*°¤- within said district, respectively possess the same jurisdiction and gowers, civil, criminal, equitable, or otherwise, and perform the same uties as are now respectively possessed and rformed by the circuit and district courts and judges of the Unite§BStates of the western district of Pennsylvania. Sec. 5. That the district judge of the Said middle district shall S‘"“’"*°’· °*° receive the same compensation as is now by law provided for the districtjudge of the western district of Pennsy vania; and the marshal, district attorney, and clerks of the circuit and district courts shall severally possess the powers and perform the duties lawful] possessed and rformed by the like officers in the said western district, and shallllse, respectively, entitled to like fees, compensation, and emolu- ' ments; and until otherwise provided by law the salaries herein prescribed or provided for shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise aplpropriated.1 Sec. 6. That the said circuit and district courts, or either of them, SP°°*¤l°¤¤¤¤~ may from time to time, in their discretion, appoint special terms of court, civil or criminal, and require grand, traverse, or petit juries, or all of them, to attend the same, by an order to be entered of record thirty days before the day at which such term shall convene, and at such special terms shall have all the powers which the respectively have at the regular terms appointed by law: Prwided, liiowever, That _,,P§‘{,"g£’·0f c,,c=u,, no special term of said circuit court shall be appointed except upon 5¤¤s¤.<¤¢c.. necessary. the order of the circuit judge orof the associate judge of the supreme court allotted to the third judicial circuit. Sec. 7. That the jurisdiction and authority of the courts and officers c0§{,?,§$,’;f,j‘{f_§¤,*}}°}jg‘*; of the eastern and western districts of Pennsylvania over the territory courts mblished. embraced within the said middle district shall continue as heretofore constituted and established up to the day of the organization of the courts of said middle district, but shall thereafter cease and determine, . except as hereinafter rovided in regard to crimes and misdemeanors theretofore committed) therein; but any lien acquired by virtue of a decree, judgment, execution, attachment, seizure, or otherwise upon f Existiugheus mmgxapert situate or being within the said middle district shall not be °°t°d‘_ ` esteg or affected by t is Act: Hwided, That to enforce the same, _§;`f‘{,‘§‘g,'f,;,,,,,,,0f_ certified copies of the record thereof shall be taken and entered in the proper court of the said middle district, and thereafter like proceedings shall be had thereon, as though the same had been originally entered in such court. _ Sec. 8. That the jurisdiction of the courts and officers of the eastern m§;¤di¤g P¤>¤¤•=¤- and western districts of Pennsylvania as now constituted and established ` iswhereby reserved to the same, respectively, over all crimes and misdemeanors which shall have been committed within the territory embraced in the said middle district priorto the organization of the courts thereof the same as though the said middle district had not been established; and the respective courts of the said eastern and western districts shall have the right to summon grand and petit jurors from the body of the districts as now constituted, respectively, for the purpose of inquiring into_ such crimes and misdemeanors, and prosecuting and trying indictments founded thereon, until every of such crimes and misdemeanors shall have been inquired into, prosecuted, and tried: Rromfded, That such offenses shall be inquired into, prosecuted, and Prwi-wevoL xxx1—56 ‘"‘