Chapter 203. to establish a district and circuit court at Chattanooga Tennessee, and to add the county of Grundy to the eastern district of Tennessee

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CHAP. 203.— An Act to establish a district and circuit court at Chattanooga Tennessee, and to add the county of Grundy to the eastern district of Tennessee.June 11, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,U. S. courts, Tennessee. That the county of Grundy heretofore composing a part of the middle district of Tennessee be transferred to, and henceforth form a part of, the eastern district of Tennessee.

Sec. 2. A term of the circuit court and of the district court for theTerm at Chattanooga. eastern district of Tennessee shall be held at Chattanooga in said state in each year on the first Mondays of April and October, after the passage of this act. Sec. 3. Said eastern district shall be and hereby is divided into twoNorthern and southern divisions of eastern districts. divisions, to be known as the Northern and Southern divisions of the eastern district of Tennessee, the southern division shall consist of the following counties, to wit, Handlton, James, Polk, McMinn, Bradley, Meigs, Rhea, Marion, Sequatchie, Bledsoe, Grundy, and Cumberland, and the northern division shall consist of the remaining counties in said district.

But no additional clerk or marshal shall be appointed in said district. Sec. 4. That the clerks of the district and circuit courts for the easternClerks, marshal, and district attorney.Duties, office, &c. district of Tennessee, and the marshal and district attorney for said district, shall perform the duties appertaining to their offices respectively for said courts. And the said clerks and marshals shall each appoint a 176 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 203, 204, 205. 1880. deputy to reside and keep their offices in the city of Chattanooga, and who shall, in the absence of their principals, do and her for in all the duties appertaining to their offices respectively.

Sec. 5. All suits not of a local nature in the circuit and district courtsSuits. against a single defendant, inhabitant of said state, must be brought in the division of the district where he resides; but if there are two or more defendants residing in different divisions of the district, such suits may be brought in either division. All issues of fact in said suits shall be tried at a term of the court held in the division where the suit is so brought. Sec. 6. All prosecutions for crimes or offences hereafter committed inCrimes and offenses. either of the subdivisions shall be cognizable within such division; and all prosecutions for crimes, or offences heretofore committed within said county taken as aforesaid from the middle district or committed in the eastern district as hitherto constituted, shall be commenced and proceeded with as if this act had not been passed.

Sec. 7. All grand and petit jurors summoned for service in each division shall be residents of such division.Jurors.Process. All mesne and final process subject to the provisions hereinbefore contained, issued in either of said divisions may be served and executed in either or beth of the divisions. Sec. 8. In all cases of removal of suits from the courts of the State ofRemoval of suits. Tennessee to the courts of the United States in the eastern district of Tennessee such removal shall be to the United States courts in the division in which the county is situated from which the removal is made; and the time within which the removal shall be perfected in so far as it refers to or is regulated by the terms of the United States courts, shall be deemed to refer to the terms of the United States courts in such division.

Sec. 9. That each of said courts shall be held in a building to be providedBuilding to be provided by State or municipal authorities.Repeal provisions. for that purpose by the State or municipal authorities and without expense to the United States. Sec. 10. This act shall be in force from and after the first day of July anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty; and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, June 11, 1880.