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ford, Stevens, Seward, Sumner, Stanton, and Wichita. third division shall include the territory embraced on the said date last mentioned in the counties of Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey, Chautauqua, Crawford, Elk, Greenwood, Labette, Linn, Miami, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson, and Woodson. Terms of the district court for the first division shall be held at Leavenworth on the second Monday in October; at Topeka on the second Monday in April; at Kansas City on the second Monday in January and the first Monday in October; and at Salina on the second Monday in May; terms of the district court for the second division shall be held at Wichita on the second Monday in March and September; and for the third division, at Fort Scott on the first Monday in May and the second Monday in November. The clerk of the district court shall appoint three deputies, one of whom shall reside and keep his office at Fort Scott, one at Wichita, and the other at Salina, and the marshal shall appoint a deputy who shall reside and keep his office at Kansas City." 24

$83. The State of Kentucky is divided into two districts, to be known as the eastern and western districts of Kentucky. The eastern district shall include the territory embraced on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, in the counties of Carroll, Trimble, Henry, Shelby, Anderson, Mercer, Boyle, Gallatin, Boone, Kenton, Campbell, Pendleton, Grant, Owen. Franklin, Bourbon, Scott, Woodford, Fayette, Jessamine, Garrard, Madison, Lincoln, Rockcastle, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley, Bell, Knox, Harlan, Laurel, Clay, Leslie, Letcher, Perry, Owsley, Jackson, Estill, Lee, Breathitt, Knox, Pike, Floyd, Magoffin, Martin, Johnson, Lawrence, Boyd, Greenup, Carter, Elliott, Morgan, Wolfe, Powell, Menifee, Clark, Montgomery, Bath, Rowan, Lewis, Fleming, Mason, Bracken, Robertson, Nicholas, and Harrison, with the waters thereof. Terms of the district court for the eastern district shall be held at Frankfort on the second Monday in March and the fourth Monday in September;

24 36 St. at L. 1112, as amended, 39 St. at L. 725, Comp. St. § 1067. See McGlashern v. U. S., 71 Fed. 434. For special jurisdiction of the courts held in this district over controversies affecting the Gulf,

Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad Company, and the Southern Kansas Railway Company, see 23 St. at L. 72, 75; Briscoe v. Southern Kan. Ry. Co., 40 Fed. 273.

at Covington on the first Monday in April and the third Monday in October; at Richmond on the fourth Monday in April and the second Monday in November; at London on the second Monday in May and the fourth Monday in November; at Catlettsburg on the fourth Monday in May and the second Monday in December; and at Jackson on the first Monday in March and the third Monday in September: Provided, That suitable rooms and accommodations are furnished for holding court at Jackson free of expense to the Government unti! such time as a public building shall be erected there. "At Lexington: Beginning on the second Monday in January, and the second Monday in June in each year. Provided, That suitable rooms and accommodations for holding court at Lexington shall be furnished without expense to the United States." The western district shall include the territory embraced on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, in the counties of Oldham, Jefferson, Spencer, Bullitt, Nelson, Washington, Marion, Larue, Taylor, Casey Green, Adair, Russell, Clinton, Cumberland, Monroe, Metcalf, Allen, Barren, Simpson, Logan, Warren, Butler, Hart, Edmonson, Brayson, Hardin, Meade, Breckenridge, Hancock, Daviess, Ohio, McLean, Muhlenberg, Todd, Christian, Trigg, Lyon, Caldwell, Livingston, Crittenden, Hopkins, Webster, Henderson, Union, Marshall, Calloway, McCracken, Graves, Ballard, Carlisle, Hickman, and Fulton, with the waters thereof. Terms of the district court for the western district shall be held at Louisville on the second Mondays in March and October; at Owensboro on the first Monday in May and the fourth Monday in November; at Paducah on the third Mondays in April and November; and at Bowling Green on the third Monday in May and the second Monday in December. "The clerk of the court for the eastern district of Kentucky shall maintain an office in charge of himself or a deputy or a clerical assistant at each of the places of holding court within said district." "The clerk for the western district shall maintain an office in charge of him

self or a deputy at Louisville, at Owensboro, at Paducah, and at Bowling Green, each of which offices shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of the business of said court. The clerks of the courts for the eastern and western districts, upon issuing original process in a civil action, shall make it returnable to the court nearest to the county of the residence of the

defendant, or of that defendant whose county is nearest to a court, and shall, immediately upon payment by the plaintiff of his fees accrued, send the papers filed to the clerk of the court to which the process is made returnable; and whenever the process is not thus made returnable, any defendant may, upon motion, on or before the calling of the cause, have it transferred to the court to which it should have been sent had the clerk known the residence of the defendant when the action was brought." 25

"§ 84. The State of Louisiana is divided into two judicial districts, to be known as the eastern and western districts of Louisiana. The eastern district shall include the territory embraced on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, in the parishes of Assumption, Iberia, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Mary, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, and Washington, which shall constitute the New Orlaens division; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the parishes of Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, Saint Helena, West Baton Rouge, Iberville, and West Feliciana, which shall constitute the Baton Rouge division of said district. Terms of the district court for the New Orleans division shall be held at New Orleans on the third Mondays in February, May, and November; and for the Baton Rouge division, at Baton Rouge on the second Mondays in April and November. The clerk of the court for the eastern district shall maintain an office in charge of himself or a deputy at New Orleans and at Baton Rouge which shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of the business of the court. The western district shall include the territory embraced on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, in the parishes of Saint Landry, Evangeline, Saint Martin, Lafayette, and Vermilion, which shall constitute the Opelousas division of said district; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the

25 36 St. at L. 1087, 1112, Comp. St. § 1068, Act of Jan. 19, 1920. Under the former law, 31 St. at L. 781, Comp. St. 1901, p. 360, it was held that a term held in Louisville

did not lapse by reason of the commencement of intervening terms elsewhere. U. S. v. Louisville & N. R. Co., 177 Fed. 780.

parishes of Rapides, Avoyelles, Catahoula, La Salle, Grant, and Winn, which shall constitute the Alexandria division of said district; also the territory embraced on the said date last mentioned in the parishes of Caddo, De Soto, Bossier, Webster, Claiborne, Bienville, Natchitoches, Sabine, and Red River, which shall constitute the Shreveport division of said district; also the territory. embraced on the date last mentioned in the parishes of Ouachita, Franklin, Richland, Morehouse, East Carroll, West Carroll, Madison, Tensas, Concordia, Union, Caldwell, Jackson, and Lincoln, which shall constitute the Monroe division of said district; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the parishes of Acadia, Calcasieu, Cameron, and Vernon, which shall constitute the Lake Charles division of said district. Terms of the district court for the Opelousas division shall be held at Opelousas on the first Mondays in January and June; for the Alexandria division, at Alexandria on the fourth Mondays in January and June; for the Shreveport division, at Shreveport on the third Mondays in February and October; for the Monroe division, at Monroe on the first Mondays in April and October; and for the Lake Charles division, at Lake Charles on the third Mondays in May and December. The clerk of the court for the western district shall maintain an office in charge of himself or a deputy at Opelousas, at Alexandria, at Shreveport, at Monroe, and at Lake Charles, which shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of the business of the court." 26 Prior to the Judicial Code it was held, that in a suit in admiralty in personam, where two or more of the defendants were citizens of dif ferent districts of the State of Louisiana, the suit might be brought in either district.27

$85. The State of Maine shall constitute one judicial district to be known as the district of Maine." It is divided into two divisions, to be known, respectively, as the northern and southern divisions. The counties of Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington, Hancock, Waldo, and Somerset shall be known as the northern division, the court for which shall be held in the said city of Bangor. The remaining counties in said

26 36 St. at L. 1087, 1113, Comp. St. 1069.

27 Downs v. Wall, C. C. A., 176 Fed. 657.

State and district of Maine shall constitute the southern division, the court for which shall be held in the said city of Portland." 28 "For the purpose of determining the jurisdiction and venue of all causes, suits, actions, bills, petitions, matters, libels, proceedings, prosecutions, indictments, complaints, informations, and other judicial business, whether civil or criminal, or whether in equity, in admiralty, in prize, in forfeiture, or in condemnation, in rem, in personam, or mixed, whatsoever, cognizable in the United States district court, each of said divisions shall be as if it were a separate and distinct judicial district of the United States. There shall be but one judge, one clerk, one marshal, and one district attorney for said district of Maine. United States commissioners in either of said divisions, until otherwise. provided by law, shall be appointed and have jurisdiction and cognizance through said district of Maine in the same manner and to the same extent and effect that they now have under existing law." 29

"Any cause, suit, action, bill, petition, matter, libel, proceeding, prosecution, indictment, complaint, information, or other judicial business, whether civil or criminal, or whether in equity, in admiralty, in prize, in forfeiture, or in condemnation, in rem, in personam, or mixed, whatsoever, pending in either of said divisions, when all the parties thereto so stipulate in writing, and where the ends of justice or the convenience of the parties will be promoted thereby, may, at the discretion of the court of judge, be transferred wholly or specially for the hearing, trial, or determination of any single proceeding, matter, step, or motion therein from one of said divisions to the other. On request of all accused in any criminal prosecution and of all claimants in any cause, proceeding, libel, information, or other matter in rem, the same may be transferred, at the discretion of the court or judge from one of said divisions to the division in which a term of said court is next to be held, without the joinder in such request of the United States when the Government is the only other party thereto not joining in such request.3

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"All ex parte, of course, default and pro confesso, proceedings and matters, and all interlocutory matters in which all interested

28 § 3, 39 St. at L. 850, Comp. St. 1070c.

29 § 4, 39 St. at L. 851, Comp. St.

30 $ 5, 39 St. at L. 851, Comp. St. 1070e.

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