Chapter 601. To create the southern division of the southern district of Iowa for judicial purposes, and to fix the time and place for holding court therein
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CHAP. 601.— An Act To create the southern division of the southern district of Iowa for judicial purposes, and to fix the time and place for holding court therein. June 1, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the counties of Lucas, Iowa southern judicial district. Southern division created. Clarke, Union, Adair, Adams, Fremont, Page, Taylor, Ringgold, Decatur, Wayne, and Appanoose shall constitute the southern division of the southern judicial district of Iowa; and a term of a circuit and Terms of court at Creston. district court for said district shall be held in said division hereby created at Creston, in Union County, on the third Monday of May and the fourth Monday of September of each year.
Sec. 2. That all civil suits which shall hereafter be brought against Where suits to be brought. a defendant or defendants who reside in said southern division of said district shall be brought in said southern 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 Process. to the provisions of this Act issued in either of the divisions of the southern district of Iowa may be served and executed in either or all of the divisions.
Sec. 3. That all crimes and offenses against the laws of the United Crimes, etc., where prosecuted. States committed within the counties comprising the southern division of said district shall be prosecuted, tried, and determined at the terms of the circuit and district courts herein provided for: *Provided, however*, *Proviso*. —pending. That all prosecutions begun and pending at the taking effect of this Act shall be proceeded with and finally determined as if this Act had not passed. 250 Sec. 4.
Deputy clerk, etc. That the clerk of the circuit and district courts for said southern district and the marshal of said district shall each appoint a deputy, who shall reside and maintain an office at Creston, in Union *Proviso*. Approval of appointment, etc. County: *Provided*, That the appointment of such deputy shall be approved by the court for which they shall be respectively appointed, and they may be removed by such court at pleasure; and the clerk and marshal shall be responsible for the official acts and neglects of all their deputies.
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. Approved, June 1, 1900.