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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the circuit court of appeals of the fifth judicial circuit of the United States is hereby authorized and required to hold one term of said court in the city of Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, on the first Monday in September in each year.

. That all appeals, writs of error, and other appellate proceedings which may, after the date of this Act, be taken or prosecuted from the circuit or district courts of the United States in the State of Alabama to the court of appeals of the fifth circuit shall be heard and disposed of by the said court of appeals at the terms of the court held in Montgomery in pursuance of this Act: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall prevent the court from hearing appeals or writs of error wherever the said court shall sit, in cases of injunctions and in all other cases which under the statutes and the rules, or in the opinion of the court, are entitled to be brought to a speedy hearing.

. That this Act shall not operate to prevent the said court from holding other terms in the city of Montgomery or in such other places in the said fifth judicial circuit as said court may from time to time designate.

. That chapter five hundred and seventeen of Twenty-sixth United States at Large is hereby amended in` accordance with the provisions of this act.

. That the clerk of said court is authorized and permitted to pay out of the fees and emoluments of his office (first) the expenses incurred by him in transporting from his office in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Montgomery, Alabama, and in transporting from Montgomery, Alabama, to New Orleans, Louisiana, the records, books, papers, files, dockets, and supplies necessary for the use of the court at its terms to be held in Montgomery, Alabama; (second) an allowance for actual expenses not exceeding ten dollars per day to cover travel and subsistence for each day he may be required to be present at Montgomery, Alabama, on business connected with his said office, such expenses and allowance to be approved and allowed by the senior circuit judge of the fifth judicial circuit.

Approved, January 30, 1903.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That George M. Sternberg, of the District of Columbia; Presley Marion, of the District of Columbia; Walter Wyman of the District of Columbia; Nicholas Senn, of Illinois; Jefferson Davis Griffith, of Missouri; John Van Rensselaer Hoff, of New York; Robert A. Blood, of Massachusetts; Leonard B. Almy, of Connecticut; Nelson H. Henry, of New York; J. Francis Calef, of Connecticut; George Henderson, of the District of Columbia; Charles F. W. Meyers, of New Jersey; John V. Shoemaker, of Pennsylvania; Angelo Festorazzi, of Alabama; Edmund C. Brush, of Ohio; Frederick W. Byers, of Wisconsin; James T. Priestley, of Iowa; James Evelyn Pilcher, of Pennsylvania; Marshall O. Terry, of New York;