Chapter 185. To create the northwestern division of the northern district of Georgia for judicial purposes and to fix the time and place for holding court therein
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CHAP. 185.— An Act To create the northwestern division of the northern district of Georgia for judicial purposes and to fix the time and place for holding court therein. April 12, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the counties of Dade, Northern judicial district of Georgia. Northwestern division created. Walker, Catoosa, Whitfield, Murray, Chattooga, Gordon, Floyd, Bartow, Polk, Paulding, Haralson, and Carroll, in the State of Georgia, shall constitute the northwestern division of the northern judicial district of Georgia, and a term of the circuit and district courts for Term of courts at Rome. said district shall be held in said division hereby created at the city of Rome on the third Monday of May and the third Monday of November 74 *Proviso*. —court accommodations. of each year: *Provided*, however, That suitable rooms and accommodations are furnished for the holding of said courts free of expense to the Government of the United States.
Sec. 2. Suits against residents of different divisions, etc. That all civil suits which shall hereafter be brought against a defendant or defendants who reside in said northwestern division of said district shall be brought in said northwestern division; but if there are two or more defendants residing in different divisions of said district, such suit may be brought in either division of said district in which any defendant or defendants reside, and all mesne and final process subject to the provisions of this Act issued in either of the divisions of the northern district of Georgia may be served and executed in either or all of the divisions.
Sec. 3. Prosecution of crimes. That all crimes and offenses against the laws of the United States committed within the counties comprising the northwestern division of said district shall be prosecuted, tried, and determined at *Proviso*. the terms of the circuit and district courts herein provided for: *Provided, —pending cases. however*, That all prosecutions begun and pending at the taking effect of this Act shall be proceeded with and finally determined as if this Act were not passed.
Sec. 4. Appointment of deputy clerks at Rome. That the clerks of the circuit and district courts for said northern district shall each appoint a deputy, who shall reside and maintain an office at the city of Rome, each of whom, in the absence of the clerks, shall exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of his principal within the division for which he shall be appointed: *Proviso*. —approval of, etc. *Provided*, That the appointment of such deputies shall be approved by the court for which they shall be respectively appointed, and they may be removed by such court at pleasure.
Sec. 5. Jurors That all the grand jurors and all jurors for the trial of civil and criminal causes in the division hereby created shall be selected from citizens residing in the division created by this Act. Sec. 6. Effect. That this Act shall take effect from and after the thirtieth day of June, anno Domini nineteen hundred, and all Acts and parts Repeal. of Acts so far as inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, April 12, 1900.