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pending in thedistrict courts,at Mobile andCahawba , to beadjourned, &c.to the times ap-pointed by thisact, &c.
All casespending in saidcourts, in whichthe defendantor defendantsresided in thenorthern dis-trict at thetime of servingthe process, tobe transferredto the court forthe northerndistrict, &c.
All suitshereafter to bebrought, not ofa local nature,to be broughtonly in the dis-trict where thedefendant shallreside, &c.
A clerk ofthe districtcourt for thenorthern dis-trict to be ap-pointed.
The districtattorney for thedistrict of Ala-bama to be at-torney for thesouthern, andone to be ap-pointed for thenorthern dis-trict.
Adj ournmentin case of thenon-attendanceof the judge.
Statute I.March 16, 1824.
The countrylying betweenthe Illinois andMississippi rivers, &c. tobe attached to,&c. the landdistrict of Ed-wardsville, &c.
said district courts at Mobile and Cahawba shall be adjourned and con-tinued from the times heretofore prescribed by law for holding saidcourts respectively, to the times appointed by this act: and all recogni-sances and process of every description, made returnable to the formerterms of holding said courts, respectively,shall be returned to the termsherein established, and be as valid as if the time of holding the samehad not been changed.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all causes at law or in chancery,pending in the said district courts at Mobile and Cahawba , in whichthe defendant or defendants resided in the northern district, at the time ofserving the process, shall be transferred to the district court for the saidnorthern district, established by this act, and be proceeded in, adjudged,and determined, in the same manner as if originally commenced in saidcourt; and it shall be the duty of the clerks of the said district courtsat Mobile and Cahawba , to transmit by some safe conveyance, to .theclerk of the district court for the northern district, the original papersin all such causes, together with a transcript of all proceedings hadtherein.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all suits hereafter to be brought,in either of the courts aforesaid, not of a local nature, shall be broughtonly in the district where the defendant shall reside ; but if there bemore than one defendant, and some of them reside in the northern, andsome in the southern district, the plaintiff may sue in either, and senda duplicate writ to the other, on which he shall endorse that it is part ofa suit brought in the district from which it is sent; and the said writs,w r hen executed and returned, shall constitute one suit, and be proceededin accordingly.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the judge of said courts shallappoint a clerk of the district court of the northern district, who shallreside and keep his office, and the records and documents appertainingthereto, at the place of holding said court: be entitled to the same feesallowed by law to the clerks of the southern district, and be subject tothe same liabilities and penalties.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the district attorney hereto-fore appointed for the district of Alabama , shall be the district attorneyfor the southern district of Alabama ; and there shall be a district attorneyappointed for the, northern district of Alabama , who shall hold his ap-pointment for the same term, be subject to the same duties, and receivethe same salary, fees, and emoluments allowed to the district attorney ofthe southern district of Alabama .
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That, should the judge fail to at-tend at the time and place of holding any of the courts herein men-tioned, before the close of the third day of the term, the business thereofshall stand adjourned to the next term.
Approved, March 10, 1824.
Chap. XXIX .—An Act to define the boundary line between the Edwardsville andSpringfield land districts, in the state of Illinois .
Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That all that tract of countrylying between the Illinois and Mississippi rivers, and south of the baseline of the military surveys, be, and the same is hereby, attached to, andmade a part of, the land district, the office of which is located at Ed-wardsville ; and all that tract of country lying between the said rivers,and north of the said base line, be, and the same is hereby, attachedto, and made a part of, the land district, the office of which is establishedat Springfield , in the county of Sangamo.
Approved, March 16, 1824.