Chapter 192. Amending chapter five hundred and ninety-one of the United States Statutes at Large, Fifty-sixth Congress, approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred, entitled “An Act to provide for the holding of a term of the circuit and district courts of the United States at Superior, Wisconsin.” February 25,
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CHAP. 192.— An Act Amending chapter five hundred and ninety-one of the United States Statutes at Large, Fifty-sixth Congress, approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred, entitled “An Act to provide for the holding of a term of the circuit and district courts of the United States at Superior, Wisconsin.” February 25, 1909.[[H. R. 27311](/us/bill/70/hr/27311).][[Public, No. 261.](/us/pl/70/261)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That chapter five hundredWisconsin western judicial district.Vol. 31. p. 219, amended. and ninety-one of the United States Statutes at Large, approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
“Section. 1. That two terms of the circuit and district courts of theTerms at Superior. United States for the western district of Wisconsin shall he held annually at the city of Superior, one term beginning on the fourth Tuesday 648 in January and another term beginning on the second Tuesday in July. Either of said terms may be adjourned by the court, or by said clerk by the direction of the court, to any other day and from time to time at the same place. “Sec. 2. That in addition to the two clerks now provided for theAdditional clerk. circuit and district judges of the western district of Wisconsin shall appoint a clerk, who shall be clerk both of the circuit and district courts for the western district of Wisconsin, who shall reside and keep his office at Superior, Wisconsin, and who shall receive such fees andOffice, etc. compensation for services performed by him as are now fixed for clerks and limited by law; and one or more deputies of the clerk of the circuit and district courts may be appointed by the judges of said courts on the application of the clerk, and may be removed at the pleasure of the judges authorized to make the appointments.
In case of the death of the clerk his deputy or deputies shall, unless removed, continue in office and perform the duties of the clerk in his name until a clerk is appointed and qualified. “Section. 3. All summonses, writs, and processes, except criminal warrants,Return of process, etc. issued out of said courts at Superior may be made returnable, at Superior, and the clerk shall keep in his office the original records of all actions, prosecutions, and special proceedings so commenced and pending therein.
Criminal warrants may be returned at any place where the court is held. Whenever warrants shall be returned at any place other than Superior, the clerk of the court, where the warrant is returned, shall certify the same, under the seal of the court, together with the plea and other proceedings had thereon, and the determination of the court upon such plea or proceedings, and all papers and orders filed in reference thereto, to the. clerk of the courts at Superior, and shall charge for the same in his account against the United States.
The clerk at Superior shall enter upon his records a minute of the proceedings had upon the return of said warrant and certified as aforesaid. “Sec. 4. All causes triable in either of said courts when the summonses,Trials. writs, warrants, and processes shall be issued from the said courts at Superior shall be tried at Superior, unless by consent of parties, or unless otherwise ordered by the court. “Sec. 5. A grand jury and petit jury shall be summoned for eachJuries. term of said courts, which petit jury shall be competent to sit and act as such jury in either or both of said circuit and district courts at said terms: *Provided*, That the judge of the district court may, in his discretion.*Proviso.*Grand jury. dispense with the summoning or impaneling of a grand jury at either or both of said terms.
“Sec. 6. The marshal of said western district of Wisconsin shallDeputy marshal, etc.Vol. 29, p. 182. appoint a deputy marshal, who shall reside and keep his office at Superior, Wisconsin, whose compensation shall be fixed as provided by section ten. chapter two hundred and fifty-two, of the General Statutes of the United States, approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. “Sec. 7. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and afterEffect. its passage and publication.
” Approved, February 25, 1909.