Chapter 112. To create a new division in the middle judicial district of the State of Tennessee
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CHAP. 112.— An Act To create a new division in the middle judicial district of the State of Tennessee. February 13, 1909.[[H. R. 24685](/us/bill/70/hr/24685).][[Public, No. 225.](/us/pl/70/225)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United*Tennessee middle judicial district.Northeastern division established.R.S.,sec.547, p.92. *States of America in Congress assembled*, That a new division of the middle judicial district of the State of Tennessee, to be known as the northeastern division of the middle judicial district of Tennessee, be, and the same is hereby, established, to be composed of the following counties, to wit:
Putnam, Jackson, Clay, Overton, Pickett, Fentress, Cumberland, White, Van Buren, Dekalb, Smith, and Macon: and said counties be, and the same are hereby, transferred to said northeastern division of said middle district of Tennessee, but no additional clerk or marshal shall be appointed in or for said district. Sec. 2. That terms of the circuit court and of the district, court ofTerms at Cookeville. the northeastern division judicial district of Tennessee shall be held at Cookeville, in said State, each year on the second Mondays in May and November, after the passage of this Act.
Sec. 3. That the clerks of the district and circuit courts for theClerk’s office, etc. middle district of Tennessee, and the marshal and district attorney for said district, shall perform the duties appertaining to their offices, respectively, for said courts of said northeastern division judicial district, and except when court is in session and a judge present the clerk’s office of said courts may be at Nashville, where all records for said courts may be kept as of the same court and all duties performed as though the clerk were at Cookeville; but should, in the judgment of the district judge and the clerk, the business of said courts hereafter warrant the employment of a deputy clerk at Cookeville, Tennessee,Deputy clerk. new books and records may be opened for the court herein created and kept at Cookeville, and a deputy clerk appointed to reside and keep his office at Cookeville.
Sec. 4. That all suits not of a local nature in said circuit and districtSuits not of a local nature. courts against a single defendant, inhabitant of said State, must be brought in the division of the district in which he resides: but if there are two or more defendants residing in different divisions of the district such suits may be brought in either division. Sec. 5. That all prosecutions for crimes or offenses hereafter committedProsecution of crimes. in either or the divisions of said district shall be cognizable within such division, and all prosecutions for crimes or offenses heretofore committed in the middle district as heretofore constituted shall be commenced and proceeded with as if this Act had not been passed.
Sec. 6. That all grand and petit jurors summoned for service inJurors. each division shall be residents of such division. All mesne and final process subject to the provisions hereinbefore contained, issuedProcess. in either of said divisions, may be served and executed in either or both of the divisions. 619 Sec. 7. That in all cases of removal of suits from the courts of theRemoval of suits from State courts. State of Tennessee, to the courts of the United States, in the middle district of Tennessee, such removal shall be to the United States courts in the division in which the county is situated from which the removal is made, and the time within which the removal shall be perfected, in so far as it refers to or is regulated by the terms of the United States courts, shall be deemed to refer to the terms of the United States courts held in said northeastern division of the middle judicial district.
Sec. 8. That each of said courts shall be held in a building to beCourt rooms. provided for that purpose by the county or municipal authorities and without expense to the United States. Sec. 9. That this Act shall be in force from and after the thirtiethEffect. day of June, anno Domini nineteen hundred and nine, and all ActsRepeal. and parts of Acts so far as inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, February 13, 1909.