Additional associate justices assigned to fifth and sixth districts.
Act of congress approved July 4, 1884.
§ [44.] Temporarily, and until otherwise ordered by law, the additional associate justices to be appointed under this act are hereby assigned to said fifth and sixth districts, and the time and place as now fixed by the statutes of.said territory for holding court therein shall remain until changed by law.
Jurisdiction of district court of fifth district.Act of congress approved July 4, 1884.
§ [45.] The district court for said fifth judicial district shall have no jurisdiction to try, hear or determine any matter or cause wherein the United States is a party, and no United States grand or petit jury shall be summoned in said court, but said fifth district is hereby attached to and made a part of the second judicial district for the purpose of hearing and determining all matters and causes arising within said fifth district in which the United States is a party.
Jurisdiction of district court of sixth district.Section 8 of an act of congress approved July 4, 1884.
§ [46.] The district court for said sixth judicial district shall have and possess jurisdiction to try, hear and determine all matters and causes that the court of any district in said territory now possesses. And for such purposes two terms of said court shall be held. annually in the city of Bismarck, in the county of Burleigh, and a grand and petit jury shall be summoned thereon in the manner now required by law in the United States courts in said territory.
Offenses committed before passage of this act.Section 14 of an act of congress approved July 4, 1884.
§ [47.] All offenses committed before the passage of this act shall be prosecuted, tried and determined in the same manner and with the same effect (except as to number of judges) as if this act had not been passed.
Suite transferred to new districtsPart of an act of congress approved March 3, 1885.
§ [48.] And all suits or proceedings pending in the district courts of Dakota and Washington territories at the time of the passage of said act [July 4, 1884], and which would, if instituted after the passage of said act, be required to be brought in the new districts created and provided for in said act, may be transferred by consent of parties to said new district courts, and there disposed of in like manner and with like effect as if the same had there been instituted; and all writs and recognizances relating to such suits and proceedings so transferred shall be considered as belonging to the courts of the said new districts, respectively, in the same manner and with like effect as if they had issued or had been taken in reference thereto originally.
Jurisdiction of justices of the peace.Section 1867, R. S. U. S. 1874.
§ [49.] No justices of the peace in any territory shall have jurisdiction of any case in which the title to land, or the boundary thereof, in anywise comes in question.
Same.Section 1926, R. S. U. S. 1874.
§ [50.] Justices of the peace in the territories of New Mexico, Utah, Washington, Dakota, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming shall not have Jurisdiction of any matter in controversy where the debt or sum claimed exceeds one hundred dollars.
Constitution and laws of the United States made applicable to all territories.Section 1891. R. S. U. S. 1874.
§ [51.] The constitution and all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within all the organized territories, and in every territory here after organized, as elsewhere within the United States.
Seat of Government.
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52. Seat of government, how changed.
Seat of government,-how changed.Section 1944, R. S. U. S. 1874.
§ [52.] The seat of government of the territories of New Mexico, Utah, Washington, Colorado, Dakota, Arizona and Wyoming may be changed by the governors and legislative assemblies thereof, respectively.
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