TPublic-No. 24.1
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AN ACT to alter the time of holding the Dis


trict Court of the United States for the South


ern District of Alabama, and for other purpos-


es.


Be ii enacted By the Senate and House Of
Representatives Of the United States of .d-
merica in Congress assembled, That the
Diatriet Court of the United States, for the
Southern District Of Alabama, shall be holden in
the city of Mobile, ON the second Monday in De-
cember instead Of the second Monday in October,
and IN addition to the term now directed by law
10 be holden on the first Monday in May in each
and every year, and shall continue so long as bu-
slness may require.


SEC. 9. ind be il further enacted, That
the records and papers belonging to the Dis
trict Court heretofore holden at the town of
Cahawba, in the Southern District of Alabama,
except such as may be necessary in any crmn-
al prosecution pending in the said Court, shall
be transferred to, and become part of the re-
cords and papers of the District Court holden at
Mobile, and all causes of a civil nature pending
in the District Court heretofore holden at the
said town of Cahawba, shall be transferred to the
District Court holden in the city of Mobile, and
shall have day therein and be proceeded in to
final Judgment and execution, in the same man
ner rs fthe said cause had originated in the said
Court holden at Mobile; and it shall be lawful
for the SAID last mentioned court to issue eXecu-
,ion upon any Judgment heretofore rendered in
the District Court holden at Cahawba, which
said Judgment shall not have been satisfied, and
to issue writs of scire 'facas for the purpose Of
reviving any Judgment heretofore rendered by
the District Court holden at Cahawba, and to is
sue all other wrts or process which may be ne
cessary, according to the course of judicial pro-
ceedngs.


SEC. 8. ind be il further enacted, That
Ill causes of criminal nature, now pending in
the District Court holden at Cahawba, shall be
proceeded in by said Court, to final judgment,
ard to execution of such judgment or sentence
as may be rendered by the said Court, in the
| said causes; and, that Immediately thereafter, the
records and papers in the said causes shall be
transferred to, and become a part of, the records
and papers Of the District Court, holden at Mo.
bile.


approved March 2, 1897.