Chapter 58. to provide for the establishing of terms of court in the district of Colorado
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CHAP. 58.— An Act to provide for the establishing of terms of court in the district of Colorado.April 20, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,United States district and circuit courts for District of Colorado.Terms.Where held. That terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the district of Colorado shall be held at the times and places hereinafter designated, namely: At Denver, on the first Tuesday in May and the first Tuesday in October in each year; at Pueblo, on the first Tuesday in March in each year; at Del Norte, on the first Tuesday in September in each year.
Sec. 2. Jurors.1879, ch. 82,20 Stat., 292.Records. Whenever the terms of the said circuit and district courts shall be held at the same time and place, grand and petit jurors summoned to attend in either of said courts may serve in the other of said courts, and but one grand or petit jury shall be summoned to attend on said courts at one and the same time; but this provision shall not prevent either of said courts from procuring the attendance of several panels of jurors successively, as the business of the courts may require.
Sec. 3. The records of the district court in the several divisions of the district of Colorado, as declared by the act approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled “An act to provide for holding terms of the circuit and district courts in the district of Where kept.Colorado”, shall be kept and retained in the clerk’s office of the district court of Colorado; and the district court sitting at the places mentioned in this act respectively, shall have jurisdiction of actions, civil and Actions.criminal, heretofore brought and now pending at any such place.
Actions, suits, and proceedings pending and undetermined in the district court for the southern and western divisions, as declared by said act, of which a circuit court has jurisdiction exclusive of the district court, may be Final hearing or trial.1879, eh. 82,20 Stat., 292, Repealed.Effect of repeal provisions limited.certified into the circuit court sitting at the same place, for further proceedings therein and for final hearing or trial thereof. Sec. 4. The act mentioned in the last section is repealed, but such repeal shall not affect the power of the courts to proceed according to the terms thereof in any action, suit, or proceeding now pending therein and undetermined, or according to the terms of tins act.
Approved, April 20, 1880.