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THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 165. 1864. 199 ascertain the facts upon applications for remission under this act in such Facts,how may manner and under such regulations as shall be by him prescribed, and all be ”°°’°’““°d· fines, penalties, and forfeitures, recovered by virtue of this act, shall, after Fines,&c.,how deducting all proper costs and charges, be disposed of and applied as ro- disP°S°d °f· vided in the ninety-first section of the act entitled "An act to regulate 1799,_ch.22. the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," approved on the second V°l· “P' °°7‘ of March, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine. Approved, June 27, 1864. Cm. cLXV.-An An in Bdanim to me Circuit com in and for the Dmicr v` We- June 27, 1sc4. consin, and for other Pmposes. ‘·;"’Y" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Oorngress assembled, That the act entitled "An act Repeal of act to enable the district courts of the United States to issue execution and l8$§*·,°h£i}l3·807 other dual process in certain cases," approved March three, eighteen hun- °` `P` ` dred and sixty-three, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Sec. 2. And be it fm-:/zer enacted, That in all cases, wherein the dis- Papers in cases trio: courts of the United States within and for the several districts of in °°'m'ag';*“°* Texas, Florida, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Kansas had rendered gggggg ci,,,:;?' judgments or decrees prior to the passage of an act approved July courts. fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, creating circuit courts for said X/}362;§hb_1g$&_ districts, which cases might have been brought, and could have beenl originally cognizable in a circuit court, the original papers and all other papers now on file in the district courts aforesaid, shall be transferred into the clerk’s office of the circuit court for the district in which said causes were heard and determined. And it shall be the duty of the district-court clerks of said districts, respectively, to haye said papers so removed. And it shall also be the duty of said district-court clerks to transfer to the offices of the circuit-court clerks aforesaid the books of records and journals of the district courts aforesaid, in which are any entries, orders, or proceedings affecting, or in any manner relating to, cases which were of circuit-court cognizance, or which might have been presented in a circuit court, after having first copied into a book for that purpose provided, all entries, orders, or other proceedings, which may be Pmviso. found in mid books, journals, or records relating in any manner to cases which were not of circuit-court cognizance, and which could not have been prosecuted in a circuit court. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That for the necessary costs and cosgosmmsm expenses of this transfer of books and papers, and for the expense of pro- md fmcuring books to copy the entries and orders above mentioned, and for the copying of said record entries from the original book into the new one, at the same rate of compensation now allowed to clerks of courts for copies from their records, the clerks of the district courts shall be paid. out of any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, upon the certificate of the judge of the district court. S20. 4. And be it further enacted, That the transcripts thus made into Transcripts a new book, after said book shall have been certified by the clerk to be ;°m6;d mi *2 t ful] and true copies from the original book, shall have the same force and agziiglfsbé °° effect as records as the originals ; and that the clerks of the circuit courts (31m-ks to have aforesaid shall be the custodians of the books and papers transferred to custody <>fP¤P¤¤‘¤· their ohices, and their certificate of a transcript of any of said books or papers shall be received in evidence with the like effect as if made by the clerk of the court in which the proceedings were had. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the terms of the circuit and dis- Terms of 6;*- trict courts of the United States for said district of Wisconsin shall here- gg:;,;°£,dQ$g'_°t atter be held as follows: at the city of Milwaukie, in said district, on the cousin. second Monday of April and the second Monday of September, and at the city of Madison, in said district, on the first Monday of January in each