and the original and duplicate writs, when executed and returned into the office from which they issue, shall constitute and be proceeded in as one suit. All issues of fact in such suits shall be tried at a term of the court held in the division where the suit is so brought. (Rev. Stats. sec. 744.) That all civil suits not of a local nature which shall be hereafter brought in the circuit or district court of the United States in said districts, must be brought in the division of the district where the defendant or defendants reside; but if there are two or more defendants residing in different divisions the plaintiff may sue in either one of the divisions in which a defendant resides. All issues of fact triable in either of said courts shall be tried in the division where the defendant or one of the defendants resides, unless by consent of both parties the case shall be removed to some other division. When the defendant is a non-resident of the district suit may be brought in any other division where property or the defendant is found. (Sec. 2 of 21 U. S. Stats. 155; 22 U. S. Stats. 176.) Causes moved from any of the courts of the State of Iowa to the circuit court of the United States shall be removed to the circuit court in the division in which said State court is held. (22 U. S. Stats. 'sec. 176.)

IN KANSAS. That all civil suits not of a local character which shall be hereafter brought in either of said divisions 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 defendant or defendants reside, but if there are two or more defendants residing in differ

ent divisions such suit may be brought in either division, and all mesne and final process subject to the provisions of this act, issued in either of said divisions, may be served and executed in either or both of the divisions. (26 U. S. Stats. sec. 129.)

IN KENTUCKY.-In the district of Kentucky the clerks of the circuit and district courts, respectively, 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 a court, if he have information sufficient, 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. (Rev. Stats. sec. 745.)

IN LOUISIANA. That all suits not of a local nature in the circuit and district courts, against a single defendant, inhabitant of said State, must be brought in the district where he resides, but if there are two or more defendants, residing in different districts, such suits may be brought in either district. (Sec. 2, 21 U. S. Stats. 507.) That if there be more than one defendant and they reside in different divisions of the district, the plaintiff may sue in either division, and send duplicate writ or writs to the other defendants; and the said writs, when executed and returned into the court from which they issued, shall constitute one suit

the marshal of the district where he or they may reside, on which said writs shall be indorsed by the plaintiff or his attorney, that the same is a duplicate of the original writ sued out of the district court of the proper division or district; but whenever a defendant is sued out of the division of his residence, and is not joined with a co-defendant whose residence is in the division where the suit is brought, he may, before pleading therein, on motion and on affidavit of the division of his residence, change the venue to the court of the division of his residence, which suit shall stand for trial at the first term of the court to which the venue may be SO changed; but any cause may, by written consent of both parties or their attorneys of record, be transferred to the court of either division, without regard to the division of the residence of the defendants, and whether such cause be now pending or be instituted hereafter. (22 U. S. Stats. 101.)

MISSOURI, WESTERN DISTRICT. - All civil suits not of a local character which shall be hereafter brought in the district or circuit courts of the United States for the western district of Missouri, in either of said divisions 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 defendant or defendants reside; but if there are two or more defendants residing in different divisions, such suit may be brought in either division, and all mesne and final process subject to the provisions of this act, issued in either of said divisions, may be served and executed in either or both of the divisions. (20 U. S. Stats. 263; 1 Sup. Rev. Stats. 393.) That here

after all suits to be brought in the courts of the United States in Missouri, not of a local nature, shall be brought in the division having jurisdiction over the county where the defendants, or either of them, reside; but if there be more than one defendant, and a part of them reside in different divisions or districts of said State, the plaintiff may sue in either division of either district where one of such defendants resides, and send duplicate writs to the other division or district directed to the marshal of said district, on which said writs shall be indorsed, by the plaintiff or his attorney, that the same is a duplicate of the original writ sued out of the court of the proper division and district. (Sec. 4, 24 U. S. Stats. 424.)

NORTH DAKOTA. That all civil suits not of a local character now pending or which shall be brought in the district or circuit courts of the United States for the district of North Dakota, in either of the said divisions against a single defendant, or where all the defendants reside in the same divisions of said district, shall be brought in the division in which the defendant or defendants reside, or, if there are two or more defendants residing in different divisions, such suit may be brought in either division, and all mesne and final process subject to the provisions of this act, issued in either of said divisions, may be served and executed in either or all of said divisions. All issues of fact in civil causes triable in any of the said courts shall be tried in the division where the defendant or one of the defendants reside, unless by consent of both parties the case shall be removed to some other division. (26 U. S. Stats. 68.)