Chapter 621. To create the eastern division of the northern Federal judicial district of Georgia, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 621.— An Act To create the eastern division of the northern Federal judicial district of Georgia, and for other purposes. February 28, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Georgia northern judicial district. Eastern division of, created. —counties composing. That the eastern division of the northern judicial district of Georgia is hereby created and established. to be composed of the counties of Banks, Clarke, Franklin, Greene, Habersham, Hart, Jackson.
Morgan, Madison, Oglethorpe, Oconee, Walton. Rabun, White, and Elbert. Sec. 2. That there shall be held at the city of Athens, in said easternTerms of court. division of the said northern judicial district of Georgia, two terms of the district and circuit courts in each and every year, on the third Monday in April and the first Monday in November, and it shall beClerk, etc. the duty of the clerk or his deputy and other officers of the northern judicial district aforesaid to attend said terms of said court and per-form all the duties appertaining to their position, and no additionalNo additional officers. district attorney, clerk, or marshal shall be appointed in said district.
If in the opinion of the court it shall become necessary, a deputy clerkDeputy clerk. may be appointed by the court to attend to the duties of that office in the eastern division. All pleadings and other papers may be filed inFiling papers, etc. the clerk’s office at Atlanta, and all process may issue therefrom, except while court is in session at Athens. The compensation of the clerks shall not be changed or affected by the failure to appoint a deputy clerk at Athens: *Provided*, That suitable rooms and accommodations*Proviso*.Court rooms. are furnished for the holding of said courts free of expense to the Government of the United States.
Sec. 3. That all actions at law and all suits in equity against aWhere suits to be brought. defendant who shall be a resident of said eastern division shall be brought therein. Suits for the recovery of lands shall be brought in the division of the district where the land is situated; but in all cases at law or in equity against more than one defendant, in which some of the defendants shall reside in the western and some in the eastern division, such action at law may be brought in either division, and such suit in equity may be brought in either division in which a defendant may reside against whom substantial relief is prayed.
Cases removed from any of the courts of the State of Georgia to the circuit court of the United States for the northern district shall be removed to the circuit court in and for the division in which said court is held from which it was removed. Sec. 4. That all prosecutions for crime or offense committed afterCrimes. the date at which this Act takes effect, in any of the counties compos-819ing the said eastern division, shall be cognizable within such division, and all prosecutions begun and pending when this Act takes effect shall be proceeded with as if this Act had not been passed.
Sec. 5. That all grand and petit jurors summoned for service in saidJurors. eastern division shall be residents thereof and shall be selected from such counties as the court may direct, and all laws heretofore applicableJurors. to the northern district of Georgia regulating writs, actions, suits, and other proceedings therein shall be applicable to the eastern division of said district hereby created so far as the same may relate to any right, action, suit, or other proceeding of which the courts of said eastern division shall have jurisdiction.
Sec. 6. That this Act shall be of force from and after the thirtiethEffect. day of June, nineteen hundred and one, and all Acts and parts of ActsRepeal. inconsistent therewith are hereby repealed. Approved, February 28, 1901.