Chapter 321. To provide for sittings of the United States circuit and district courts of the eastern division of the eastern district of Missouri at the city of Rolla, in said district
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CHAP. 321.— An Act To provide for sittings of the United States circuit and district courts of the eastern division of the eastern district of Missouri at the city of Rolla, in said district. June 22, 1910.[[H. R. 21219](/us/bill/61/hr/21219).][[Public, No. 230](/us/pl/61/230).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That from and after the passage Missouri eastern judicial district. Terms of court at Rolla. *Post*, p. 1117. of this Act there shall be held at the city of Rolla, in the eastern division of the eastern district of Missouri, a term of both the circuit and district courts of said division and district on the second Monday of January and the second Monday of June in each year: *Provided*, *Proviso*.
Court rooms. That suitable rooms and accommodations are furnished for the holding of said court at said place free of expense to the Government of the United States. 586 Sec. 2. Duties of court officials. That the clerks of the district and circuit courts for the eastern division of the eastern district of Missouri, and the marshal and attorney of the United States for said district shall perform the duties appertaining to their offices, respectively, in and for the courts Records, etc., at Saint Louis. held at the city of Rolla; and the clerks’ offices for said courts shall be at Saint Louis, where all the records of said courts shall be kept and all the office duties performed, except when said courts are in session at Rolla.
Sec. 3. Grand juries. That the court, or judge thereof, in vacation, may order a grand jury for either term of the court herein provided for at the city of Rolla. Sec. 4. Criminal prosecutions. Prosecution for crimes or offenses hereafter committed in any part of said division shall be cognizable at either of the terms of court held in the city of Saint Louis or the city of Rolla. Sec. 5. Civil suits. Transfers. That suits may be brought in the court held at the city of Saint Louis or at the city of Rolla as the plaintiff may elect; and causes, civil and criminal, may be transferred by the court or judge thereof from Saint Louis to Rolla or from Rolla to Saint Louis, in said division and district, when the convenience of parties or the ends of justice would be promoted by the transfer; or such transfer may be made upon the written stipulation of the parties or their attorneys; and any interlocutory order may be made by the court or judge in either place.
Sec. 6. Causes removed from State courts. That all causes removed from State courts held within said division to the circuit court of the United States shall be sent to said court at Saint Louis or at Rolla at the option of the adverse party and be subject to transfer as prescribed by section five. Sec. 7. Inconsistent laws repealed. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency, but not otherwise.
Approved, June 22, 1910.