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 66 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 183. 1902. authorized and empowered to a point a clerk of said circuit court in said district in the manner providied by law and said clerks respectively shall possess the wers and perform the duties within said judicial district conferredby law on the clerks of circuit and district courts. "°'*°“‘ ‘“'“'i°‘~ The clerk of the circuit court and the clerk of the district court of the western judicial district as heretofore constituted shall continue to be the clerks of the circuit and district courts, respectively, of the western judicial district as hereby constituted until their successors res tivel shall be appointed and qualified. §““{,l’§; um Si: 4. That the marshals of the northern, eastern, and western mdweswni di¤¤l¤¤·’ judicial districts as heretofore constituted and in office when this Act takes effect shall continue to be the marshals of said northern, eastern, and western judicial districts as hereby constituted, respectively, and until their successors, tively, shall be a pointed and qualified. S°"“‘°"“ "*““"‘°’· The President of the nited States, by andp with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a marshal for the southern judicial ` district of Texas as hereby constituted, who shall within his jurisdiction pgssess ajliglsexgertliiseljall gité powers conferred by existing law u nt emars 0 the United States. §l,”,Y,'i,,‘§,Q*f,°,f,'{2l;",,;,, PS14c. 5. That the district attorneys for the northern and western ¤=¤ di¤¤<¤¤¤- judicial districts as heretofore constituted shall continue to be the district attorneys of the northern and western judicial districts as hereby constituted, ipsplasltzrely, and until their successors, respectively, are a inted an i e . S°“°‘°"‘ ‘"sm°" PTT1e district alttorney for the eastern judicial district as heretofore constituted shall continue to be the district attorney for the southern judicial district as hereby constituted and until his successor is appointed and qualified, with the same salary he is now receiving. E”‘“" ‘“""*“" The President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a district attorney for said eastern judicial district of Texas as hereby constituted, who within his jurisdiction shall possess and exercise all the power- conferred by existing law upon the district attorneys of the United States. "°°°""'“°"°' Sec. 6. That the office of judge, marshal, and district attorney in each of said judicial districts, deputy marshals and assistant district attorneys, and all other officers authorized by law and made necessary by the division of the State of Texas into four judicial districts and by the provisions of this Act, and all vacancies created by said division, in mma either of said districts, as constituted by this Act or hereafter occurring, _ 'shall be filled in the manner provided by existing law. The salaries, pay, fees, and allowances of the judges, district attorneys, marshals, clerks, and other officers in said districts, until changed under the provisions of existing law, shall be the same, respectively, as now fixed by law for such officers in the said judicial districts of Texas as heretofore constituted, except as herein provided. P°°m““ °°“'“‘ Sec. 7. That all causes and proceedings of every name and nature, civil and criminal, now pending in the courts of the judicial districts · of the State of Texas as heretofore constituted, whereof the courts of the southern judicial district of the State of Texas as hereby constituted would have had jurisdiction if said district and the courts thereof had been constituted when said causes or proceedings were instituted, shall be, and the same are hereby, transferred to and the same shall bc proceeded with in the southern judicial district of the State of Texas as hereby constituted, and jurisdiction thereof is hereby transferred to and vested in the courts of said southern judicial district, and the records and proceedings therein and relating to said roceedings and causes shall be certified and transferred thereto; and) all causes and proceedings of every name and nature, civil and criminal, now pending in the courts of the several judicial districts of Texas as heretofore constituted, whereof the courts of the several judicial districts of