Chapter 38.
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CHAP. 38.— An act to add certain counties in Alabama to the Northern District therein, and to divide the said Northern District after the addition of said counties into two divisions, and to prescribe the times and places for holding courts therein, and for other purposes.May 2, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Alabama, counties added to the northern district. That the counties of Sumter, Greene, Hale, and Pickens, included in the southern district of Alabama, and the counties of Tuscaloosa, Bibb, Shelby, and Talladega, included in the middle district of Alabama, shall be hereafter included in and constitute part of the northern district of said State.
Sec. 2. Northern and southern divisions of northern district. That the. said northern district is hereby divided into two divisions, which shall be known as the northern and southern divisions of the northern district of Alabama. The southern division of said northern district shall include the counties of Sumter, Greene, Hale, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Lamar, Fayette, Walker, Jefferson, Blount, Bibb, Shelby, Saint Clair, Etowah, Calhoun, Cleburne, Clay, Talladega, Term, held at Birmingham, when.Cherokee, and De Kalb; and a term of the district court and circuit court of the United States for said northern district shall be held for said southern division at the city of Birmingham, in the said county of Jefferson, twice in each year, on the first Mondays in March and Counties comprising the northern division; terms.September.
The remaining counties in said northern district shall constitute the northern division thereof; and the terms of the district and circuit courts of the United States for said northern division shall be held therein at the times and place now prescribed by law. Sec. 3. Offenses cognizable and indictable in division where committed. That all offenses hereafter committed in either of said divisions shall be cognizable and indictable within the division where committed; and all grand and petit jurors summoned for service in each division shall be inhabitants thereof; and all offenses committed within Jurors.either of said districts prior to the time this act goes into operation shall be prosecuted and tried as if this act had not been passed.
Sec. 4, Civil suits, not local in character. That all civil suits, not of a local character, which shall be hereafter brought in the circuit or district court of United States for the 19 northern district of Alabama, in either of said divisions, against a single defendant, or where all the defendants reside in the same division of said district, shall be brought in the division in which the defendant or defendants reside; but if there are two or more defendants, residing in different divisions, such suit may be brought in either division; and all mesne and final process, subject to the provisions of this act, issued in either of said divisions, may be served and executed in either or both of the divisions.
Sec. 5. That all civil suits and proceedings now pending in the circuitCivil suits pending. or district courts in said State shall not be affected by this act. Sec. 6. That this act shall be in force from the first day of January,Act to take effect Jan. 1, 1885. eighteen hundred and eighty-five; and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved, May second, 1884.