Chapter 65. to provide for the times and places to hold terms of the United States courts in the State of Washington
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CHAP. 65.— An Act to provide for the times and places to hold terms of the United States courts in the State of Washington.April 5, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,State of Washington, judicial district.Vol. 25, p. 682.Terms of circuit court same as district court. That the State of Washington shall constitute one judicial district. Sec. 2. That the circuit court of the United States in and for the State of Washington shall be held at the times and places provided by law for the holding of the United States district court in and for said district, and one grand and one petit jury only shall be summonedJuries. to serve in both said courts when held at the same place.
Sec. 3. That for the purpose of holding terms of the district court,District in four divisions. said district shall be divided into four divisions, to be known as the eastern, southern, northern, and western divisions. The counties ofEastern division. Spokane, Stevens, Okanogan. Douglas, Lincoln, Adams, and Kittitass, ineludingany and all Indian reservations in one or more of said counties, shall constitute the eastern division, the court for which shall be held at the citv of Spokane Falls.
The counties of Whitman.Southern division. Asotin, Garfield, Columbia, Walla Walla, Franklin, Yakima, and Klickitat, including any and all Indian reservations in one or more of said counties, shall constitute the southern division, the court for which shall be held at the city of Walla Walla. The counties of Whatcom, Skagit. San Juan, Island, Snohomish, Clallam,Northern division. Jefferson, Kitsap, and King, including any and all Indian reservations in one or more of said counties, shall constitute the northern division, the court for which shall be held at the city of Seattle.
The counties of Pierce. Mason. Thurston, Chehalis. Pacific. Lewis.Western division. Wahkiakum, Cowlitz, Clarke, and Skamania, including any and all Indian reservations in one or more of said counties, shall constitute the western district, the court for which shall be held at the city of Tacoma. Sec. 4. That all civil suits not of a local character, which shall beJurisdiction. brought in the district or circuit courts of the United States for the district of Washington, in either of the 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, or, 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 provisionsProcess, etc. of this act. issued in either of said divisions, may be served and executed in either or all of said divisions.
All issues of fact inIssue of fact; where triable. civil causes triable in any of the said courts shall be tried in the division where the defendant or one of the defendants reside, unless by consent of both parties the case shall be removed to some other division. Sec. 5. That the clerk of the circuit and district courts for saidDeputy clerks. district shall each appoint a deputy clerk at the place where their respective courts are required to be held in the division of the district in which such clerk shall not himself reside, each of whom shall, in the absence of the clerk, exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of the clerk within the division for which he shall be appointed: *Provided*, That the appointment of such *Proviso*.Appointment subject to judicial approval, etc.deputies shall be approved by the court for which they shall have been respectively appointed, and may be annulled by such court at its pleasure, and the clerks shall be responsible for the official acts and negligence of all such deputies.
Sec. 6. That the terms of the district court for the district of theTerms of district court.Spokane Falls. State of Washington shall be held at the city of Spokane Fall’s on the first Tuesday of September and April in each year; at the city of Walla Walla on the first Tuesday of November and May in eachWalla Walla.Seattle.Tacoma.Vol. 25, p. 682, sec. 21. year; at the city of Seattle on the first Tuesday of December and June in each year, and at the city of Tacoma on the first Tuesday in February and July of each year.
And the provision of statute now 46FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 65, 66, 70. 1890. existing for the holding of said courts on the first Monday in April and November in each year is hereby repealed and all suts, prosecutions, process, recognizances, bail bonds, and other things pending in or returnable to said court on the days last named, are hereby Transfer of pending causes.transferred to and shall be made returnable to and have force in the said respective terms in this act, provided in the same manner and with the same effect as they would have had had said existing statute not been passed.
Approved, April 5, 1890.