236 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 359. 1878. The Eastern division shall include the counties of Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Gibson, Henderson, Henry Madison, McNairy, Hardin, Dyer, Lake, Crockett, Weakley, and Obion, and terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States for said District shall be held therein at the town of Jackson, in the County of Madison at least twice in each year at such times as the judges thereof' shall respectively fix, whenever 1879,c11.1B2, the authorities of said county or town shall provide suitable buildings 1°·"‘·398- therefor free of any expense to the United States. The remaining counties embraced in said District shall constitute the Western division thereof, and terms of the district and circuit courts of the United States for said district sha-ll be held therein at the times and place now prescribed by law. sum, All suits not of a local character which shall be hereafter brought in Where tv be the district or circuit court of the United States for the Western dis- "'°"9"*· trict of Tennessee, against a single defendant, or where all the defendants reside in the same division of said district shall be brought in the division in which the defendaent or defendants reside, but if there are two or more defendants residing in different divisions, such suit may be brought in either division, and duplicate writs may be sent to the other defendants. The Clerk issuing such duplicate writs shall endorse thereon that it is a. true copy of a writ sued out in the proper division of the District and the original and duplicate writs when executed and returned into the office from which they shall have issued shall be proceeded in as one suit, and all issues of fact in such suits shall be tried in the division where the suit is so brought. The Clerks of the Circuit Deputy clerks. and district courts for said district shall each appoint a deputy of their respective courts at the place in the Eastern division of said district where their said courts are required to beheld, who shall in the absence of the Clerk, exercise all the powers, and perform all the duties of Clerk pm,-;,,,, within said division: Provided, That the appointments of such deputies shall he approved by the Court for which they shall be respectively appointed and may be annulled by such Court at its pleasure. The mar- Dqiuly marshal. shal of said district shall also appoint a deputy for said Eastern division, who shall reside therein, and in the absence of the marshal, perform all the duties devolved upon the marshal by law. Support or can- Support of convicts : For support and maintenance of convicts transvices. ferred from the District of Columbia, for support of convicts transferred from other districts, and for collection of criminal statistics to be dishursed under the direction of the Attorney-General fifteen thousand dollars. F-- S- Duvdy- To pay Elmer S. Dundy, United States district judge of the district of Nebraska, his actual traveling expenses to and from Denver, State of Colorado, in the performance of judicial duties, by order of the Attorney-General, four hundred dollars, or so much thereof as is required. Dewitt Stcams. To pay DeWitt Stearns for services as district attorney pro tempore for the northern district of Mississippi, three hundred and twenty-one dollars. 8.15. McLin. That the proper accountingeiiicers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit the account and to pay to Samuel B. McLin, who was appointed by the President an associate justice of the Territory of New Mexico, the salary provided by law for said office for the period during which the said McLin performed the duties of the said office. 11. 1;. \VhitIie1d. To pay Henry B. Whitfield for services as district attorney pro tempore for the northern district of Mississippi, one hundred and fifty dollars. G- R- Maxwell- To pay George R. Maxwell, late marshal of the Territory of Utah, for his expenses and emoluments incurred and earned in the Hscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-tive, and 1814,c11.46§>, June thirtieth eighteen hundred and seventy-six, pursuant to the act of
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