Chapter 785. Fixing the terms of the circuit and district courts in and for the district of South Dakota, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 785.— An Act Fixing the terms of the circuit and district courts in and for the district of South Dakota, and for other purposes. May 9, 1902. [[Public, No. 111](/us/pl/57/111).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * South Dakota judicial district. Terms of district and circuit courts. Sioux Falls. Aberdeen. That hereafter the terms of the district and circuit courts of the United States in and for the State of South Dakota shall be held as follows:
At Sioux Falls, the first Tuesday in April and the third Tuesday in October; at Aberdeen, the first Tuesday in May and the second “Tuesday in November; at Pierre,Pierre. the second Tuesday in June and the first Tuesday in October; at Deadwood,Deadwood. the third Tuesday in May and the first Tuesday in September. Sec. 2. That the provisions of statute now existing for the holdingRepeal of former laws.Vol. 26, p. 14; Vol. 27, p. 392; Vol. 28, p. 5. of said courts on any day contrary to the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, and all suits, prosecutions, process, recognizances, bail bonds and other things pending in or returnable to said courts onPending causes. the days now fixed by law are hereby transferred to and shall be made returnable to and have force in the said respective terms in this Act provider! in the same manner and with the same effect as they would have had had said existing statute not have been passed.
Sec. 3. That ’when the circuit and district courts are held, as providedJuries. in this Act, at the same time and place, one grand and one petit198 jury only shall be summoned and serve in both said courts, and all grand and all petit juries for the circuit and district courts of the district of South Dakota shall be drawn from the body of said district and from the inhabitants of the State of South Dakota who are liable according to the laws of said State to do jury duty in the courts thereof, in the manner now provided by law.
Sec. 4. That this Act shall be in full force and effect on and afterIn effect July 1,1902. July first, anno Domini nineteen hundred and two. Approved, May 9, 1902.