Chapter CVIII. to amend an Act entitled “An Act to require the holding of additional District and Circuit Courts of the United States in the District of Indiana, and for other Purposes,” approved June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other Purposes
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CHAP. CVIII.— An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to require the holding of additional District and Circuit Courts of the United States in the District of Indiana, and for other Purposes,” approved June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other Purposes.March 3, 1871.1870, ch. 180.*Ante* p. 175. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That section seven of the actDeputy clerks for additional courts of the United States in Indiana; aforesaid be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following additional proviso: *And provided further,* That a deputy clerk for each of said additional courts shall be appointed in the manner aforesaid as soon as practicable after the passage of this act, and that such deputy clerks for the additional courts to be held at New Albany shall reside andat New Albany; keep an office at said city, and that such deputy clerks for the additional courts to be held at Evansville shall reside and keep an office at said city,Evansville. and that they shall respectively keep at said places full records of all actions and proceedings in said additional courts respectively, and shall have the same power to issue all process from said additional courts thatPowers. is now enjoyed by the clerks of other district and circuit courts of the United States in like cases.
Sec. 2. That all actions over which said district and circuit courts haveActions in such additional courts. jurisdiction respectively under existing laws may be instituted in said additional district and circuit courts respectively in the first instance by filing the proper pleadings or other papers in the offices of the deputy clerks performing the duties of clerks of said courts respectively, and that all proper and lawful process shall issue therefrom in the same manner as from other district or circuit courts of the United States in like actions,Process. cases, or proceedings.
Approved, March 3, 1871.