Chapter 58. to provide for holding terms of the United States courts at Mississippi City
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CHAP. 58.— An Act to provide for holding terms of the United States courts at Mississippi City.April 4, 1888. *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 Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Marion, Perry, and Green, being a part of the southern judicial district of Mississippi, shall be known as Tenn of courts at Mississippi City.[R. S., sec. 572, p. 100](/us/rs/t/s572/p100).[R.
S., sec. 668, p. 121](/us/rs/t/s668/p121).the southern division of said district; and circuit and district courts, for the transaction of business pertaining to the persons and property in said southern division, shall be held at Mississippi City on the third Mondays of February and August in each year. Sec. 2. That the said courts to be held at Mississippi City, as providedJurisdiction. in 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 courts hereby established; but all crimes and offenses heretofore committed within said southern district shall be FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 58– 60. 1888.79 prosecuted, tried, and determined in the same manner and with the same effect as if this act had not been passed. Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of the clerks of the courts nowRemoval of causes. held at Jackson, on demand of either party to any suit now pending in either of said courts, and properly belonging to the court at Mississippi City, 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 Mississippi City, 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 ofDeputy marshal and clerk. Mississippi shall each appoint a deputy, who shall reside at Mississippi City. Sec. 5. That the United States shall not be at any expense in providingCourt rooms. for a building or room for the holding of the terms of said court. Sec. 6. That whenever the circuit and district courts in the Juries.southern district of Mississippi shall be held at the same time and place, only one grand jury and the necessary number of petit jurors shall be summoned for both courts, and they shall be the grand and petit jurors for both said courts.
Approved, April 4, 1888.