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marshal shall be appointed in said district. (24 U. S. Stats. 406.)

CALIFORNIA-SOUTHERN DISTRICT CREATED.—All that portion of the State of California now comprised in the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Fresno, Tulare, and Kern is hereby detached from the United States judicial district of California, and made a separate judicial district, called the southern district of California.

NORTHERN DISTRICT.-The district of California shall hereafter be called the northern district of California, and shall consist of all the counties in said State not named in this act. (24 U. S. Stats. 309.)

The act of 1886, sec. 11, creating the southern district of California (Stats. 1886, p. 310), continues the district of California in existence for the trial and punishment of all offenses committed prior to the passage of the act. (United States v. Benson, 31 Fed. Rep. 896.)

COLORADO.-That when the State of Colorado shall be admitted into the Union by the Enabling Act approved March 3, 1875, the laws of the United States not locally inapplicable shall have the same force and effect within the said State as elsewhere in the United States; and said State shall constitute one judicial district, to be called the district of Colorado. (19 U. S. Stats. 61.) The circuit and district courts for the district of Colorado, and the judges thereof respectively, shall possess the same powers and jurisdiction and perform the same duties possessed and required to be performed by the other circuit and district courts and judges of the United States, and shall be governed by the

same laws and regulations. (19 U. S. Stats. 61.) TEXAS.-Courts of the said northern district shall have the same jurisdiction as is conferred by law upon the courts of the eastern and western districts of said State. (21 U. S. Stats. 10.)

FLORIDA.-The State of Florida is divided into two districts, which shall be called the northern and southern districts of Florida. The southern judicial district of the State of Florida shall embrace the counties of Hernando, Hillsborough, Polk, Manatee, and Monroe, in said State; and all the territories within the remaining counties shall constitute the northern judicial district. (20 U.S. Stats. 280; Rev. Stats. sec. 534.)

SOUTHERN DISTRICT.-From and after the passage of this act, the southern judicial district of the State of Florida shall embrace the counties of Hernando, Hillsborough, Polk, Manatee, and Monroe, in said State; and all the territory within the remaining counties shall constitute the northern judicial district. (20 U. S. Stats. 280.)

GEORGIA, NORTHERN DISTRICT.-The State of Georgia is divided into two districts, which shall be called the northern and southern districts of Georgia. The northern district includes the counties of Troup, Meriwether, Morgan, Greene, Taliaferro, Wilkes, and Lincoln, as they existed August 11, 1848, with all the counties north of them. (Rev. Stats. sec. 535.)

WESTERN DIVISION, NORTHERN DISTRICT.— -A new division of the northern judicial district of the State of Georgia, to be known as the western division of the northern judicial district of Georgia, be, and the same is hereby, established, to be composed

of the following counties, to wit: Muscogee, Heard, Troup, Meriwether, Harris, Talbot, Taylor, Marion, Chattahoochee, Stewart, Schley, Webster, Quitman, Clay, Randolph, Early, Miller, and Terrell, and all of said counties which may not now belong for judicial purposes to the northern district cf the State of Georgia, be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the said northern district. (26 Ü. S. Stats. 1110.)

.EASTERN DIVISION.-The eastern division shall consist of the remaining counties in said district. No alditional clerk or marshal shall be appointed in said district. (21 U. S. Stats. 63.)

SOUTHERN DISTRICT.-The southern district includes the counties of Harris, Talbot, Uxson, Monroe, Jones, Putnam, Hancock, Warren, Columbia Pike, Butts, and Jasper,' as they existed August 11, 1848, with all the counties south of them.

1 Pike, Butts, and Jasper were transferred to the southern district by 21 U. S. Stats. 63.

NORTHEASTERN DIVISION OF SOUTHERN DISTRICT. -The northeastern division of the southern julicial district of Georgia shall be composed of the counties of Warren, Glascock, McDuffie, Columlia, Richmond, Burke, Jefferson, Johnson, and Washington of the southern district, and of the counties of Lincoln, Wilkes, and Taliaferro of the northern district, detached from the northern and made part of the northeastern division of the southern district. (25 U. S. Stats. 671.)

WESTERN DIVISION, SOUTHERN DISTRICT. - The western division of the southern district shall consist of the counties of Bibb, Monroe, Jones, Twiggs, Houston, Crawford, Baldwin, Wilkenson, Laurens,

Pulaski, Dooly, Macon, Upson, Pike, Butts, Jasper, Putnam, IIancock, Dodge, Wilcox, Telfair, Sumter, Lee, Calhoun, Dougherty, Baker, and Mitchell. (21 U. S. Stats. 63, as modified by 26 U. S. Stats. 1110.)

ILLINOIS. NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN DISTRICT. The State of Illinois is divided into two districts, which shall be called the northern and southern districts of Illinois. The northern district includes the counties of Henderson, Warren, Knox, Peoria, Woodford, Livingston, and Iroquois, as they existed February 13, 1855, with all the counties north of them. The southern district includes the residue of said State. (Rev. Stats. sec. 536.)

NORTHERN DISTRICTS.-The counties of McDonough, Fulton, and Tazewell be detached from the southern district of Illinois, and be included in the northern district of Illinois. (24 U. S. Stats. 442.)

DIVISIONS OF NORTHERN DISTRICTS.-The northern district of Illinois shall be divided into two divisions, to be known as the northern and southern divisions. The counties of Peoria, Stark, Henry, Rock Island, Mercer, Henderson, Warren, Knox, McDonough, Fulton, Putnam, Marshall, Woodford, Tazewell, Livingston, and Iroquois shall constitute the southern division of said northern district of Illinois, the courts for which shall be held at the city of Peoria. (24 U. S. Stats. 442.)

IOWA-NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN DISTRICTS.The State of Iowa be, and the same is hereby, divided into two judicial districts, in manner following, to wit: The counties of Black Hawk, Hamilton, Webster, Calhoun, Sac, Ida, Monona, and all the counties no.th of those named shall constitute

a new aistrict, to be known as the northern district of Iowa.' The remaining counties of the State shall constitute the southern district of Iowa; and the present district court of Iowa, from and after the passage of this act, shall be known as the district court for the southern district of Iowa. (22 U. S. Stats. 172; Rev. Stats. sec. 537.)

1 The counties of Clinton, Jones, Linn, Benton, Grundy and Hardin were taken from the list of counties named in the original (sec. 537 of the Rev. Scats.) to form with certain counties taken from the southern district a new division of the northern district. (See 26 U. S. Stats. 767.)

CEDAR RAPIDS DIVISION.—The counties of Cedar, Johnston, Iowa, and Tama be, and hereby are, transferred to the northern district and made a part thereof; and that said counties and the counties of Grundy, Hardin, Benton, Linn, Jones and Clinton shall constitute a new division in said northern district, the terms of court for which shali be held at the city of Cedar Rapids. All the provisions of said act approved July twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, shall be applicable to the division created by this act. (26 U. S.

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DIVISION OF NORTHERN DISTRICT.-For the purpose of holding terms of court the northern district shall be divided into three divisions, to be known as the eastern, central, and western divisions. counties of Jackson, Black Hawk, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Clayton, Fayette, Bremer, Floyd, Chickasaw, Mitchell, Howard, Winneshiek, and Alamakee shall constitute the eastern division, the courts for which shall be held at the city of Dubuque. The counties of Hamilton, Webster, Calhoun, Pocahontas, Palo Alto, Emmett, Kossuth, Humboldt, Wright, Hancock, Winnebago, Worth,

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