Chapter 554. To amend an Act to add certain counties in Alabama to the northern district therein, and to divide the said northern district, after the addition of said counties, into two divisions, and to prescribe the times and places for holding courts therein, and for other purposes, approved May second, eight
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CHAP. 554.— An Act To amend an Act to add certain counties in Alabama to the northern district therein, and to divide the said northern district, after the addition of said counties, into two divisions, and to prescribe the times and places for holding courts therein, and for other purposes, approved May second, eighteen hundred and eighty-four.February 16, 1903.[[Public, No. 89](/us/pl/57/89).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, United States courts.Alabama northern judicial district.Vol. 23. p. 18.
That section two of an Act approved May second, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled “An Act to add certain counties in Alabama to the northern district therein, and to divide the said northern district, after the addition of said counties, into two divisions, and to prescribe the times and places for holding courts therein, and for other purposes,” be amended so as to read as follows:" “Sec. 2. Three divisions created. That the said northern district is hereby divided into three divisions, which shall be known as the northern, southern, and eastern Southern.Term at Binningham.*Ante*, p. 821.divisions of the northern district of Alabama.
The southern division of said northern district shall include the counties of Sumter, Greene, Hale, Pickens, Tuscaloosa. Lamar, Fayette, Walker, Jefferson, Blount, Bibb, Shelby, Saint Clair, and Dekalb, and a term of the circuit court and district court of the United States for said northern district shall be held for said southern division at the city of Birmingham, in the said county of Jefferson, twice in each year, at the times provided by law. Eastern.Term at Anniston.“The eastern division of said northern district shall include the counties of Etowah, Calhoun, Cleburne, Clay, Talladega, and Cherokee, and a term of the circuit court and the district court of the United States for said northern district shall be held for said eastern division in the city of Anniston, in the said county of Calhoun, twice in each Northern.*Ante*, p. 820.year, on the first Mondays in May and November.
The remaining counties of said northern district shall constitute the northern division thereof, and the terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States for said northern district shall be held therein at the times and places prescribed by law.” " Sec. 2. Existing laws applicable to eastern division.Vol. 23, p. 18.That this Act shall be in force from its passage, and all other provisions of the Act aforesaid, approved May second, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and all Acts amendatory thereof not inconsistent with this Act, shall remain in full force and effect, and so far as they are applicable shall relate to and govern the eastern division of the northern district of Alabama.
Sec. 3. Court rooms.That a place for holding the courts for the eastern division of the northern district of Alabama shall be furnished to the Government free of cost by the county of Calhoun until other provision is made therefor by law. Sec. 4. Return of process.That all civil process issued against persons residents in said counties of Etowah, Calhoun, Cleburne, Clay, Talladega, and Cherokee, and cognizable before the United States courts, shall be made returnableProsecutions. to the courts, respectively, to be held at the city of Anniston; and all prosecutions for offenses committed in either of said counties shall be tried in the appropriate United States court at the city of Anniston.
Sec. 5. Pending casesThat all cases, civil and criminal, now pending on the dockets of the southern division of the northern district of Alabama, as herein created, shall remain on the docket of the southern division of said district and be tried in Birmingham, Alabama, unless transferred to the dockets of the eastern division of said district by consent of all the parties thereto entered of record, or unless transferred by the order of court for good cause shown. Sec. 6. Clerks.That the clerks of the circuit and district courts of the southern division of the northern district of Alabama shall maintain an office in charge of themselves or a deputy at said city of Anniston 833which shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of the business of said courts.
Approved, February 16, 1903.