Chapter 87. to establish distinct United States courts, with distinct officers, in the northern and southern judicial districts of the State of Georgia
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CHAP. 87.— An Act to establish distinct United States courts, with distinct officers, in the northern and southern judicial districts of the State of Georgia.Apr. 25, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Georgia.District courts in northern and southern judicial districts. That hereafter there shall be for each of the two judicial districts in the State of Georgia a judge, district attorney, marshal and clerk to be appointed, commissioned, anti removed as provided by law for other such officers; but the officers now acting in said places in both said districts shall continue to act until their places shall be filled according to law.
Sec. 2. That the district judge now holding office for both said districtsDistrict judge. shall be assigned to and hereafter be the district judge for the southern district in said State. Sec. 3. That the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint for the northern district in said State a district judge who shall have all the powers and perform all the duties held and performed by the other district judges of the courts of the United States, and shall receive a salary of threeSalary. thousand five hundred dollars a year.
And the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a district attorney and marshal of said southern district, and whenDistrict attorney.Marshal. the term of the present district attorney and marshal hereby assigned to the northern district shall expire the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a district attorney and marshal for said northern district, with the same powers and duties as in other cases, and with the same compensationDuties, powers, compensation. and emoluments as are provided for the district attorney and marshal by existing laws for said districts.
Approved, April 25, 1882.