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next stated term after the appointment and quali fication of his successor, except when such firstmentioned term is held as provided in the next section. (Rev. Stats. sec. 602.)

When the office of judge of any district court is vacant, all process, pleadings, and proceedings pending before such court were continued, of course, until the next stated term after the appointment and qualification of his successor, except when that term might be held as provided in section 603. (Ball v. United States, 140 U. S. 118.)

§ 152. Vacancy in office of district judge.—When the office of district judge is vacant in any district in a State containing two or more districts, the judge of the other or of either of the other districts may hold the district court, cr the circuit court, in case of the sickness or absence of the other judges thereof, in the district where the vacancy occurs, and discharge all the judicial duties of judge of such district during such vacancy; and all the acts and proceedings in said courts by or before such judge of an adjoining district shall have the same effect and validity as if done by or before a judge appointed for such district. (Rev. Stats. sec. 603.)

§ 153. Recognizances in New York.— All recognizances and bail bonds taken in criminal cases for an appearance at a circuit court in the southern district of New York, conditioned upon an appearance at the next one of the terms ap pointed by the Act of February 7, 1873, shall be valid. (Rev. Stats. sec. 659.)

§ 154. Special sessions for trial of criminal causes.-Any circuit court may, at its own discretion, or at the discretion of the Supreme Court, hold special sessions for the trial of criminal causes. (Rev. Stats. sec. 661.)

Authority.-Authority is given under this section only when the court is in session (United States v. Wiliams, 4 Cranch C. C. 372), and it is not necessary for he clerk to give thirty days' notice of the time and place f holding the special session. (United States v. Williams, Cranch C. C. 372.) When holding the special session, he circuit court may exercise its general jurisdiction over ll criminal causes arising within the district at the time f holding the session (United States v. Williams, 4 ranch C. C. 379); but no cause can be tried which was ending at the last stated session. (United States v. amilton, 3 Dall. 17; United States v. Insurgents, 3 Dall. 5; Anonymous, 4 Cranch C. C. 337; United States v. ilburn, 4 Cranch C. C. 552; United States v. Cornell, Mason, 91.) This section authorizes special sessions in ses punishable with death in the county where the crime s committed. (United States v. Cornell, 2 Mason, 91.)

§ 155. Special sessions for criminal ials. The Supreme Court, or when that court is sitting any circuit justice or circuit judge, toher with the judge of the proper district, may ect special sessions of a circuit court to be held, the trial of criminal causes, at any convenient e within the district nearer to the place where offenses are said to be committed than the place binted by law for the stated sessions. The clerk uch court shall, at least thirty days before the mencement of such special session, cause the and place for holding it to be notified for at three weeks consecutively in one or more of newspapers published nearest to the place

where it is to be held. All process, writs, and recognizances respecting juries, witnesses, bail, or otherwise, which relate to the cases to be tried at such special session, shall be considered as belonging to such sessions, in the same manner as if they had been issued or taken in reference thereto. Any such session may be adjourned from time to time to any time previous to the next stated term of the court; and all business depending for trial at any special session shall, at the close thereof, be considered as removed to the next stated term. (Rev. Stats. sec. 662.)

Place of offense. This section regards the place, while the preceding section regards the time. By this section a special session may be ordered by the judge out of court. U. S. v. Williams, 4 Cranch C. C. 372.) It vests the court with discretion, and a trial will not be directed in the county where the offense was committed when it cannot be done without inconvenience. (U.S. v. The Insurgents, 3 Dall. 515; U. S. v. Cornell, 2 Mason, 91.) The order may be made by the judge out of court (U. S. v. Williams, 4 Cranch C. C. 373); and the court will have cognizance only of offenses committed in that part of the district nearer to the special than to the ordinary session. (U. S. v. Williams, 4 Cranch C. C. 372.) But it may take cognizance of a criminal case arising after the order is made (U. S. v. Williams, 4 Cranch C. Č. 372), and cases which are pending at the close of the special session will be removed to the stated term. (U. S. v. Williams, 4 Cranch C. C. 372.) No case can be heard at the special session where the indictment was found at the regular stated term. (U. S. v. Cornell, 2 Mason, 91.)

§ 156. Adjourned terms, Missouri.— The circuit courts for the several districts of Missouri may at any time order adjourned terms thereof. In the eastern district a copy of the order shall be posted on the door of the court-room, and

shall be advertised in some newspaper printed in St. Louis; and in the western district a copy of the order shall be posted on the door of the court-room and advertised in some newspaper printed in the city of Jefferson, at least twenty days before the adjourned term is held. At such adjourned term any business may be transacted which might be transacted at a regular term. (Rev. Stats. sec. 663.) See Mechanics Bank v. Withers, 6 Wheat. 106; Anon., Cranch C. C. 159.

§ 157. California, Oregon and Nevala, special sessions.-In the districts of Calornia, Oregon, and Nevada the circuit justice or rcuit judge may appoint special sessions of the rcuit courts, to be held at the places where the gular sessions are held, by an order under his nd and seal directed to the marshal and clerk of ch court, at least fifteen days before the time ed for the commencement of such special sesSaid order shall be published by the marl in one or more of the newspapers within the trict where such sessions are to be held. (Rev. ts. sec. 664.)

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158. Kentucky and Indiana, spec. terms.—In the districts of Kentucky and iana the district judge, and in his absence the uit justice or circuit judge, may, by a written er to the clerk of the circuit court, appoint a ial term of such court; and by said order the e may prescribe the duties of the officers of the t in summoning juries, and in the performance her acts necessary for the holding of such special ; or the court may by its order, after it is

opened, prescribe the duties of his officers, and the mode of proceeding, and any of the details thereof. Notice of such special term shall be given by the clerk by posting a copy of said order on the front door of the court-house where the court is to be held, and by publishing the same in one or more newspapers in the same place. (Rev. Stats. sec. 665.)

§ 159. Mississippi, special terms. That the judge of the United States courts for said northern district may, by order from time to time, appoint and hold additional special terms of said courts, for the disposal of the unfinished business thereof, whenever the interests of the public and the condition of the docket shall so require; provided, that there shall not be more than two such special terms in any one year in each di vision, nor for a longer period than twelve judicial days for each special term. (22 U. S. Stats. 101.) § 160. Tennessee, special terms.—In each of the districts of Tennessee the judges of the circuit court may appoint special terms thereof, to be held at the place where the regular terms are held; and notice of such special term shall be published for four consecutive weeks in at least one newspaper printed at the place where the court is to be held. (Rev. Stats. sec. 666.)

§ 161. North Carolina, special terms In each of the districts of North Carolina the cir cuit court may order special terms thereof, to be held at such times and places in said district as the court may designate; provided, that no special

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