Chapter 323. To provide for sittings of the United States circuit and district courts of the western division of the western district of Missouri at the city of Chillicothe, in said district
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CHAP. 323.— An Act To provide for sittings of the United States circuit and district courts of the western division of the western district of Missouri at the city of Chillicothe, in said district. June 22, 1910.[[H. R. 23094](/us/bill/61/hr/23094).][[Public, No. 232](/us/pl/61/232).] *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 western judicial district. Terms of court, Chillicothe. *Post*, p. 1117. of this Act there shall be held at the city of Chillicothe, in the western division of the western district of Missouri, a term of both the circuit and district courts of said division and district on the fourth Monday in May and the first Monday in December of each year: *Provided*, *Proviso*.
Court rooms. That suitable rooms and accommodations are furnished for the holding of said courts at said city free of expense to the Government of the United States. Sec. 2. That the clerks of the district and circuit courts for the Duties of court officials. western division of the western 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 held at the city of Chillicothe; and the clerks’ offices for said courts Records, etc., at Kansas City. shall be at Kansas City, where all the records of said courts shall be kept and all the office duties performed, except when said courts are in session at Chillicothe.
Sec. 3. That the court, or judge thereof, in vacation, may order a Grand juries. grand jury for either term of court herein provided for at the city of Chillicothe. Sec. 4. Prosecutions for crimes or offenses hereafter committed in Criminal prosecutions. any part of said division shall be cognizable at either of the terms of court held in the city of Kansas City or the city of Chillicothe. Sec. 5. That suits may be brought in the court held at the city of Civil suits. Kansas City or at the city of Chillicothe as the plaintiff may elect; and Transfers. causes, civil and criminal, may be transferred by the court or judge thereof from Kansas City to Chillicothe or from Chillicothe to Kansas City, 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 at either place.
Sec. 6. That all causes removed from State courts held within said Causes removed from State courts. division to the circuit court of the United States shall be sent to said court held at Kansas City or at Chillicothe at the option of the adverse party and be subject to transfer as prescribed by section five. Sec. 7. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of Inconsistent laws repealed. this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency, but not otherwise.
Approved, June 22, 1910.