Chapter 60. To provide for circuit and district courts of the United States at Dothan, Alabama
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CHAP. 60.— An Act To provide for circuit and district courts of the United States at Dothan, Alabama. March 7, 1908.[[H. R. 17524](/us/bill/70/hr/17524).][[Public, No. 41](/us/pl/70/41).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the southern divisionAlabama middle judicial district.Southern division established. of the middle judicial district of the State of Alabama is hereby established, composed of the counties of Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, and Houston.
And all other counties now in the middle judicial districtR. S., sec. 532, p. 89. of the State of Alabama shall constitute the northern division ofNorthern division. the middle district of Alabama, and the courts of said northern divisionTerm at Montgomery.Vol. 32, p. 820.Southern division. shall be held in Montgomery, as now provided by law. Sec. 2. That a term of the circuit and the district courts for the southern division of the middle judicial district of the State of Alabama shall be held at Dothan, in Houston County, in said State, onTerm at Dothan. the first Monday in June and the first Monday in December in each year: *Provided, however*, That suitable rooms and accommodations are*Proviso*.Court room. furnished for the holdings of said courts free of expense to the Government until the public building provided for by Act of Congress shall be erected.
Sec. 3. That all civil process issued against persons resident in saidReturn of process. counties of Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, and Houston and cognizable before the United States court shall be made returnable to the courts of the United States respectively to be held at Dothan, as provided by this Act, and all prosecutions for offenses committed in any of said counties shall be tried in the appropriate United States court at Dothan: *Provided*, That no process issued or prosecutions commenced or suits*Proviso*.Pending causes not affected. instituted before the passage of this Act shall be in any way affected by the provisions hereof, and that all prosecutions heretofore commenced for offenses heretofore committed against the United States in any of the said counties of Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, and Houston shall be prosecuted and tried as though this Act had not been passed.
Sec. 4. That it shall be the duty of the clerks, marshal, and otherClerks, marshal, etc. court officers of the middle judicial district to attend said terms of said court and perform the duties pertaining to their positions, and no additional clerk or marshal shall be appointed in said district; and that the clerks of the circuit and district courts of said southern division shall maintain an office, in charge of themselves or a deputy, at Dothan,Office at Dothan. which shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of the business, of said division.
Approved, March 7, 1908. 39