Chapter 279. to provide for holding terms of United States courts at Vicksburg, Mississippi
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CHAP. 279.— An Act to provide for holding terms of United States courts at Vicksburg, Mississippi.Feb. 28, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mississippi, southern judicial district. That the counties of Washington, Sharkey, Issaquena, and Warren shall constitute a part of the southern judicial district of Mississippi, and shall be known as the western divisionWestern division created. of said district; and circuit and district courts for the transaction of business pertaining to the persons and property in said western division shallTerm at Vicksburg. be held at the city of Vicksburg on the first Mondays of January and July in each year, and shall be held for four weeks, or so long as business may require.
Sec. 2. That the said courts to be held at Vicksburg as provided inJurisdiction. section one of this act shall be possessed of and shall exercise all the powers and jurisdiction now possessed or exercised, or which may hereafter be granted to or exercised, by the circuit and district courts in said district now held at Jackson; and all laws regulating and defining how suits against persons or property located or found in judicial districts shall be brought shall be applicable to and govern the bringing of suits in said division; and all laws touching the removal of causes from State courts to United States courts shall apply to said court Crimes.hereby established; but all crimes and offenses heretofore committed within said southern district shall be prosecuted, tried and determined in the same manner and with the same effect as if this act had not been passed. 431 Sec. 3.
That it shall be the duty of the clerks of the courts now heldTransfer of records. at Jackson, on demand of either party to any suit now pending in either of said courts, and properly belonging to the court at Vicksburg, to make out and certify a copy of the record and proceedings in such suit, and to transmit the same to the deputy clerk of the proper court at Vicksburg, who shall enter said cause on his docket, and the same shall be proceeded with as if it had been originally brought in said court.
The fees for such transcript shall be paid by the party applying for the same. Sec. 4. That the marshal and clerks of said southern district of MississippiDeputy marshals, etc. shall appoint deputies, who shall reside at Vicksburg and act as marshal and clerk of said courts in place of their principals. Sec. 5. That the United States shall not be at any expense in providing for a building or room for the holding of the terms of said court.Court rooms. Approved, February 28, 1887.