§ 33. Offenses on the high seas.

§ 31. Offenses begun in one district and completed in another.

§ 13 (530) Judicial districts.-The United States shall be divided into judicial districts as follows: (Rev. Stats. sec. 530.)

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§ 14 (531). States constituting one district. The States of California,1 Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont,

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and West Virginia, each constitute one judicial district. (Rev. Stats. sec. 131; 19 U. S. Stats. 61.)

1 California resolved into two districts. (24 U. S. Stats. 308.)

2 Colorado. (21 U. S. Stats. 76.)

3 Iowa resolve l into two districts.

(22 U. S. Stats. 172.)

4 Kansas, certain portion of Indian Territory annexed. Stats. 400.)

5 Kentucky district divided. (25 U. S. Stats. 389.)

6 Louisiana, resolved into two districts. 21 U. S. Stats. 507.)

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§ 15. Newly admitted States. The following newly admitted States shall constitute each one judicial district, the name thereof to be the same as the name of the State: Idaho, Montana,2 North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming.

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1 23 U. S. Stats. 217. 2 25 U. S. Stats. 682.

3 26 U. S. Stats. 67.

4 25 U. S. Stats. 14.

5 23 U. S. Stats. 45.

6 26 U. S. Stats. 225.

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When Congress enacts that a judicial district shall consist of a State, the boundaries of the district will afterward vary as those of the State vary. (Re Devoe Manuf. Co., 108 U. S. 40.)

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§ 16. Division of states into districts. -States constituting more than one United States judicial district are as follows: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia,5 Illinois, Iowa," Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, 10 Missouri," New York,12 North Carolina,13 Ohio, Pennsylvani 1,15 South Carolina,16 Tennessee, Texas, 18 Virginia,19 Wisconsin.20

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1 Three districts, the southern, the middle, and the northern. (Rev. Stats. sec. 532)

2 Two districts, the eastern and the western. (Rev. Stats. sec. 533.)

(20 U. S. Stats. 280.) (Rev. Stats. sec. 535.) (Rev. Stats sec. 530) (22 U. S. Stats. 172. (21 U. S. Stats. 507.) (Rev. Stats. sec. 538.)

3 Two districts, the northern and the southern. (24 U. S. Stats. 309.) 4 Two districts, the northern and the southern. 5 Two districts, the northern and the southern. 6 Two districts, the northern and the southern 7 Two districts, the northern and the southern. 8 Two districts, the western and the eastern. 9 Two districts, the eastern and the western. 10 Two districts, the northern and the southern. 11 Two districts, the eastern and the western. (2) U. S. Stats. 35.)

12 Thee districts, the northern, the eastern, and the southern. (Rev. Stats. sec. 541.)

(Rev. Stats. sec. 543.)

(Rev. Stats. sec. 544) (Rev. Stats. sec. 546.) (Rev. Stats. sec. 545)

13 Two districts, the eastern and the western. 14 Two districts, the northern and the southern. 13 Two districts, the eastern and the western. 15 Two districts, the eastern and the western. 17 Three districts, the eastern, the western, and the middle. (Rev. Stats. sec. 517.)

13 Tree districts, the northern, the eastern, and the western. (Rev. Stats. sc. 543.)

13 Two districts, the eastern and the western. (Rev. Stats. sec. 549.) 2) Two districts, the eastern and the western. (Rev. Stats, sec. 550.)

ALABAMA.-The state of Alabama is divided intɔ three districts, which shall be called the southein, middle and northern district of Alabama.

SOUTHERN DISTRICT.-The southern district includes the counties of Mobile, Washington, Baldwin, Clarke, Marengo, Wilcox, Monroe and Cone

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MIDDLE DISTRICT.-The middle district includes the counties of Montgomery, Aulanga, Coosa, Chambers, Randolph, Macon, Russell, Barbour, Pike, Henry, Dale, Coffee, Covington, Lowndes, Dallas, Perry, Butler, and Tallapoosa. (Rev. Stats. sec. 532.)

NORTHERN DISTRICT.-The northern district includes the remaining counties of the State, and also the counties of Sumter, Greene, Pickens, and Hale, detached from the southern district, and Tuscaloosa, Bibb, Shelby and Talladega,

detached from the middle district, and attached to the northern district. (23 U. S. Stats. 18.)

SOUTHERN DIVISION.-The Southern division shall include the counties of Sumter, Greene, Haie, Peckens, Tuscaloosa, Lamar, Fayette, Walker, Jefferson, Blount, Bibb, Shelby, Saint Clair, Etowah, Calhoun, Cleburne, Clay, Talladega, Cherokee, and De Kalb. (23 U. S. Stats. 18.)

NORTHERN DIVISION.—The remaining counties in said northern district shall constitute the northern division thereof. (23 U. S. Stats. 18.)

ARKANSAS.-The State of Arkansas is divided into two districts, which shall be called the eastern and western districts of Arkansas. The western district includes the counties of Benton, Washington, Crawford, Sebastian, Scott, Polk, Sevier,' Little River,' Howard,' Montgomery, Yell, Logan, Franklin, Johnson, Madison, Newton, Carroll, Boone, and Marion, and the country lying west of Missouri and Arkansas known as the Indian Territory. The eastern district includes the residue of said State. 533.)

(19 U. S. Stats. 230; Rev. Stats. sec.

1 The counties of Sevier, Little River, and Howard were withdrawn from the western, and added to the eastern district. (24 U. S. Stats. 83.)

DIVISION OF EASTERN DISTRICT. The eastern district shall be, and is hereby divided into two divisions, to be known as the eastern and western divisions of the eastern district of Arkansas. The eastern division shall consist of the following counties, to wit: Mississippi, Crittenden, Lee, Phillips, Clay, Craighead, Poinsett, Greene, Cross, Saint Francis, anl Monroe, and the western division of the remaining counties in said district; but no additional

marshal shall be appointed in said district. (24 U. S. Stats. 406.)

CALIFORNIA-SOUTHERN DISTRICT CREATED.—All that portion of the State of California now comprised in the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Fresno, Tulare, and Kern is hereby detached from the United States judicial district of California, and made a separate judicial district, called the southern district of California.

NORTHERN DISTRICT.-The district of California shall hereafter be called the northern district of California, and shall consist of all the counties in said State not named in this act. (24 U. S. Stats. 309.)

The act of 1886, sec. 11, creating the southern district of California (Stats. 1886, p. 310), continues the district of California in existence for the trial and punishment of all offenses committed prior to the passage of the act. (United States v. Benson, 31 Fed. Rep. 896.)

COLORADO.-That when the State of Colorado shall be admitted into the Union by the Enabling Act approved March 3, 1875, the laws of the United States not locally inapplicable shall have the same force and effect within the said State as elsewhere in the United States; and said State shall constitute one judicial district, to be called the district of Colorado. (19 U. S. Stats. 61.) The circuit and district courts for the district of Colorado, and the judges thereof respectively, shall possess the same powers and jurisdiction and perform the same duties possessed and required to be performed by the other circuit, and district courts and judges of the United States, and shall be governed by the