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be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. (23 U. S. Stats. 72.)

DIVISION OF EASTERN DISTRICT.-The counties of Lamar, Fannin, Red River and Delta, and all that part of the Indian Territory attached to the said eastern judicial district by the provisions of this act, shall constitute a division of the eastern judicial district. (25 U. S. Stats. 786, sec. 18.)

WESTERN DISTRICT.—From and after the passage of this act, the territory embraced in the following named counties, as now constituted, shall compose the western judicial district of said State, namely: Calhoun, Victoria, Goliad, Refugio, Bee, San Patricio, Nueces, Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, Zapata, Duval, Encinal, Webb, La Salle, McMullen, Live Oak, De Witt, Lavaca, Gonzales, Wilson, Karnes, Atascosa, Frio, Dimmit, Zavala, Maverick, Kinney, Uvalde, Medina, Bexar, Guadalupe, Caldwell, Fayette, Washington, Lee, Burleson, Milan, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Hays, Comal, Kendal, Blanco, Burnett, Llano, Gillespie, Kerr, Bandera, Edwards, Kimball, Mason, Menard, El Paso, Presidio, Tom Green, Crockett, Pecos, Concho, McCulloch, San Saba, Lampasas and Aransas.1 (20 U. S. Stats. 318.)

1 Aransas was added by 21 U. S. Stats, 198.

VIRGINIA. The State of Virginia is divided into two districts, which shall be called the eastern and western districts of Virginia. The western district includes the counties of Albemarle, Alleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta, Bath, Bedford, Bland, Botetourt, Buchanan, Buckingham, Campbell, Carroll, Charlotte, Clarke, Craig, Camberland, Floyd, Franklin, Frederick, Fluvanna, Giles, Gray

son, Greene, Halifax, Henry, Highlanl, Lee, Madison, Montgomery, Nelson, Patrick, Page, Pulaski, Pittsylvania, Rappahannock, Roanoke, Rockbridge, Rockingham, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Shenandoah, Tazewell, Washington, Wise, Wythe and Warren. The eastern district includes the residue of said State. (Rev. Stats. sec. 549.)

INDIAN NATIONS ATTACHED. -The Chickasaw ntion and portions of the Choctaw nation within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at Red River on the southeast corner of the Choctaw nation; thence north with the boundary line be tween the said Choctaw nation and the State of Arkansas to a point where Big creek, a tributary of the Black Fork of the Kimishi river, crosses the said boundary line, thence westerly with Big creek and the said Black Fork to the junction of the said Black Fork with Buffalo creek; thence northwesterly with said Buffalo creek to a point where the same is crossed by the old military road from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Boggy Depot, in the Choctaw nation; thence southwesterly with the said road to where the same crosses Perryville creek; thence northwesterly up said creek to where the same is crossed by the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas railway track; thence northerly up the center of the main track of the said road to the South Canadian river; thence up the center of the main channel of the said river to the western boundary line of the Chickasaw nation, the same being the northwest corner of the said nation; thence south to the boundary line between the said nation and the reservation of the Wichita Indians; thence continuing south with the boundary line between

the said Chickasaw nation and the reservations of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians to Red river; thence down said river to the place of begining; and all that portion of the Indian Territory not annexed to the district of Kansas by the act approved January 6th, 1883, and not set apart and occupied by the five civilized tribes, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be annexed to and constitute a part of the eastern judicial dis trict of the state of Texas, for judicial purposes. (22 U. S. Stats. 400; 25 U. S. Stats. 786, sec. 17.)

The public land strip, west of the one hundredth meridian, bounded on the south by Texas, on the west by New Mexico, and on the north by Colorado and Kanss, was anuexed by the act of 1889 to the eastern district of Texas for such judicial purposes as by that act appertained to the court held at Paris in that district. (Cook v. United States, 138 U. S. 157.)

WASHINGTON.-DIVISION OF DISTRICT.-For the purpose of holding terms of the district court, said district shall be divided into four divisions, to be known as the eastern, southern, northern and western divisions. (26 U. S. Stats. 45.)

EASTERN DIVISION.-The counties of Spokane, Stevens, Okanogan, Douglas, Lincoln, Adams and Kittitas, including any and all Indian reservations in one or more of said counties, shall constitute the eastern division, the court for which shall be held at the city of Spokane Falls. (26 U. S. Stats. 45.)

SOUTHERN DIVISION.-The counties of Whitman, Asotin, Garfield, Columbia, Walla-Walla, Franklin, Yakima, and Klickitat, including any and all Indian reservations in one or more of sail counties, shall constitute the southern division, the court

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for which shall be held at the city of Walla Walla. (26 U. S. Stats. 45.)

NORTHERN DIVISION.- -The counties of Whatcom, Skagit, San Juan Island, Snohomish, Clallam, Jefferson, Kitsap, and King, including any and all Indian reservations in one or more of said counties, shall constitute the northern division, the court for which shall be held at the city of Seattle.

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WESTERN DIVISION.-The counties of Pierce, Mason, Thurston, Chehalis, Pacific, Lewis, Wahkiakum, Cowlitz, Clarke, and Skamania, including any and all Indian reservations in one or more of said counties, shall constitute the western district, the court for which shall be held at the city of Tacoma. (26 U. S. Stats. 45.)

WISCONSIN.-The State of Wisconsin is divided into two districts, which shall be called the eastern and western districts of Wisconsin. The western district includes the counties of Rock, Jefferson, Dane, Green, Grant, Columbia, Iowa, La Fayette, Sauk, Richland, Crawford, Vernon, La Crosse, Monroe, Adams, Juneau, Buffalo, Chippewa, Dunn, Clark, Jackson, Eau Claire, Pepin, Marathon, Wood, Pierce, Polk, Portage, Saint Croix, Trempealeau, Douglas, Barron, Burnett, Ashland, and Bayfield. The eastern district includes the residue of said State. (Rev. Stats. sec. 550.)

§ 17. Effect of alteration of judicial district on pending actions and proceedings.-Transfer of causes.

ALABAMA.-All civil suits and proceedings now pending in the circuit or district courts in said

State shall not be affected by this act. (Approved May 2, 1884. 23 U. S. Stats. 18.)

ARKANSAS.-All actions or proceedings now pending against parties residing in either of said counties in the court for the said western district may, on the application of either party, be transferred to the court for the eastern district at Little Rock; and in case of such transfer, all papers and files therein, with copies of all record entries, shall be transferred to the office of the clerk of such court; and the same shall proceed in all respects as though originally commenced in said court at Little Rock. (24 U. S. Stats. 83.)

CALIFORNIA. -All suits and other proceedings of every kind and nature now pending in the circuit or district court of the United States for the district of California shall be tried and disposed of in the circuit and district courts, respectively, for said northern district of California, as the same would have been if this act had not been passed, and for that purpose, jurisdiction is reserved to said courts in the said northern district of California. (24 U. S. Stats. 308.) Upon application of any party to any suit or proceeding now pending in the present circuit or district court of the present district of California, which would have been commenced in the proper court for the southern district of Caliifornia if this act had been in force at the time of the commencement thereof, the proper court shall order that the same be removed for further proceedings to the proper court for said southern district, at the cost of the party applying for such removal; and thereupon the clerk shall transmit certified copies of all the papers, and of all orders and

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