(ACT of December 16th, 1818.)

one person as direct attorney, and one person as marshal for the said Western district, whose terms of appointment and service, as well as duties and emoluments, shall be the same with those respectively annexed to the said offices in the Eastern district. And the district attorney and the marshal for the district of Pennsylvania shall respectively, be district attorney and marshal for said Eastern district.

SEC. VI. All actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings, of a civil nature, except in cases of appeals and writs of error, commenced or pending in the district or circuit court of said district of Pennsylvania, in which no verdict shall have passed, or plea to the merits, shall have been decided, and which, by law, should have been had or commenced in said district court of said Western district, if the same had been had, or commenced before the passing hereof, and where the parties to the same shall not otherwise agree, shall be, and hereby are, continued over to the district court of the Western district established by this act, and shall there be proceeded in with like effect, and in the same manner, as if originally had or commenced therein. And the said district and circuit courts of said Eastern district shall possess and exercise all the necessary powers for the removal of all papers and files relating to such actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings, to the said district court of said Western district, so continued over as aforesaid: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any bond or recognizance made or entered into in any of the actions or suits hereby directed to be removed; but the same shall continue of as much validity as though this act had not passed.

Act of December 16th, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 4.

An act concerning the Western District Court of Pennsylvania. SEC. 1. No suit, action, plea, process, or proceeding, at law or în equity, which, on the twentieth day of April last, was depending and undetermined in the district or circuit court of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania, and by law directed to be removed to the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, shall be discontinued or abated on account of the said court not having been opened and holden on the first Monday of June last, agreeably to the act of Congress passed on the twentieth day of April last, but all such suits, actions, pleas, process, and proceedings, both at law and in equity, shall be deemed, taken, and, to all intents and purposes, be held to be depending in the said district court for the western district of Pennsylvania, as fully and effectually as if the said court had been opened and holden on the said first Monday of June last.

SEC. II. The said court is hereby authorized and empowered, from time to time, to make all such rules and orders touching

(ACT of February 15th, 1819.)

such suits, actions, pleas, process, and proceedings, at law and in equity, as they might or could have done, if said court had been opened and holden on the said first Monday of June.

SEC. III. All suits, actions, pleas, process, and proceedings, aforesaid, which may be hereafter certified and transferred from the district or circuit court of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania, to the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, shall, to all intents, and purposes, be deemed and taken to be depending in the said court on the said first Monday of June last, and the same proceedings may be had therein as if the same had been on that day entered in the said court agreeably to the act of Congress aforesaid.

ACT of February 4th, 1819. Pamphlet edit. 8.

An act to establish a Judicial District in Virginia, West of the Allegheny Mountain.

126. SEC. 1. So much of the state of Virginia as is situate west of the summit of the mountains which separate the waters emptying into the Chesapeake Bay and Roanoke river from the waters which fall into the Ohio river, shall be one judicial district; and there shall be a district court therein, to consist of one judge, who shall reside in the said district, and be called a district judge, and annually hold six sessions. [See act of February 10th, 1820, Infra, 129.]

SEC. II. The said court shall, besides the ordinary jurisdiction of a district court, have jurisdiction of all causes, except of appeals and writs of error, cognizable by law in a circuit court, and shall proceed therein in the same manner as a circuit court; and writs of error shall be from decisions therein to the supreme court, in the same manner as from circuit courts,

SEC. III. There shall be a clerk appointed for the said court; and a district attorney and marshal shall be appointed for the said district, in like manner as in other judicial districts.

SEC. IV. There shall be allowed to the said judge of the said district court, the yearly compensation of one thousand six hundred dollars, to commence from the date of his appointment; there shall be allowed to the said district attorney the yearly compensation of two hundred dollars, to commence from the date of his appointment; and there shall be allowed to the said marshal the yearly sum of two hundred dollars, to commence from the date of his appointment; to be paid quarterly at the Treasury of the United States.

ACT of February 15th, 1819. Pamphlet edit. 13.

An act to extend the Jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts of the United States to cases arising under the law relating to Patents.

127. SEC. I. The circuit courts of the United States shall have

(ACT of March 3d, 1819.)

original cognizance, as well in equity as at law, of all actions, suits, controversies, and cases, arising under any law of the United States, granting or confirming to authors or inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings, inventions, and discoveries; and upon any bill in equity, filed by any party aggrieved in any such cases, shall have authority to grant injunctions, according to the course and principles of courts of equity, to prevent the violation of the rights of any authors or inventors, secured to them by any laws of the United States, on such terms and conditions as the said courts may deem fit and reasonable: Provided, however, That from all judgments and decrees of any circuit courts, rendered in the premises, a writ of error or appeal, as the case may require, shall lie to the supreme court of the United States, in the same manner, and under the same circumstances, as is now provided by law in other judgments and decrees of such circuit courts.

[ACT of February 20th, 1819. Pamphlet edit. 23, increases the salary of the chief justice to five thousand dollars, and of each of the judges of the supreme court to four thousand five hundred dollars, see SALARIES.]

ACT of March 3, 1819. Pamphlet edit. 64.

128. SEC. 1. The laws of the United States, which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the state of Illinois as elsewhere within the United States.

SEC. 11. The said state shall be one district, and be called the Illinois district. And a district court shall be held therein, to consist of one judge, who shall reside in the said district, and be called a district judge. He shall hold, at the seat of government of the said state, two sessions annually, on the first Mondays in May and December; and he shall, in all things, have and exercise the same jurisdiction and powers which were by law given to the judge of the Kentucky district, under an act, entitled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States." He shall appoint a clerk for the said district, who shall reside and keep the records of the court, at the place of holding the same, and shall receive, for the services performed by him, the same fees to which the clerk of the Kentucky district is entitled for similar services.

SEC. 11. There shall be allowed to the judge of the said district court, the annual compensation of one thousand dollars, to commence from the date of his appointment; to be paid, quarter yearly, at the treasury of the United States.

SEC. IV. There shalb be appointed, in the said district, a person learned in the law, to act as attorney for the United States, who shall, in addition to his stated fees, be paid, by the United States, two hundred dollars, as a full compensation for all extra services.

(ACT of March 30th, 1820.)

SEC. v. A marshal shall be appointed for the said district, who shall perform the same duties, be subject to the same regulations and penalties, and be entitled to the same fees, as are prescribed to marshals in other districts; and shall moreover be entitled to the sum of two hundred dollars annually as a compensation for all extra services.

ACT of February 10, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 6.

129. SEC. I. The sessions of the court for the judicial district of Virginia west of the Allegheny mountain, instead of the times heretofore appointed, shall hereafter be holden annually as follows:-At Wythe court house on the first Mondays of May and October; at Lewisburg, on the second Mondays of May and October; and at Clarksburg, on the fourth Mondays of May and October; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

ACT of March 4, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 12.

130. SEC. I. The circuit court in and for the district of Ohio shall, from and after the passage of this act, be held at Columbus, in said district, on the first Mondays of September and January, in each and every year; and all causes, actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings, of every description, that are, or shall be, existing or depending in the said circuit court shall be continued over and returnable to the said circuit court, to be held at Columbus, as aforesaid, and shall be proceeded with in due form of law.

SEC. 11. The district court, in and for the district of Ohio, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be held at Columbus, in said district, on the second Mondays of September and January, each and every year; and all causes, actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings of every description, that are or shall be existing or depending in the said district court, shall be continued over and returnable to the said district court, to be holden at Columbus as aforesaid, and shall be proceeded with in due form of law.

ACT of March 30, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 25.

An act establishing a circuit court within and for the district of Maine.

131. SEC. I. From and after the passing of this act, the districts of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, shall constitute the First Circuit; and, in addition to the circuit courts now holden in said circuit, there shall be holden annually two circuit courts within and for said district of Maine, by the justice of the supreme court residing in said circuit, and by the district judge of Maine, at the times and places following, viz: One session of said court shall commence and be holdeu

(ACT of April 21st, 1820.)

at Portland, in said district, on the eighth day of May; and the other at Wiscasset, in said district, on the eighth day of October; and when either of said days shall happen to be Sunday, the session shall commence on the day next following; and when only one of the judges hereby directed to hold the said circuit courts shall be able to attend, such circuit courts may be held by the judge so attending.

SEC. n. All acts, and parts of acts, granting said district court of Maine the powers and jurisdiction of a circuit court of the United States, are hereby repealed.

SEC. II. The circuit court by this act established in and for the district of Maine, shall have power to, and may, at its first session, take cognizance of, and proceed to act upon, hear, and decide all actions, causes, pleas, processes, matters, and things which have originated in said district court and which would by law be cognizable, and be heard and determined by the circuit court to be holden in the district of Massachusetts, if this act had never been made and passed.

SEC. IV. Those causes which have originated as aforesaid, in said district court, and have been entered at the circuit court in the district of Massachusetts, and are now pending therein, on error, appeal, or otherwise, shall be transferred to the circuit court by this act established, and entered, on the docket of the same at its first session, in order that the said causes may be heard and decided therein, in the manner provided by the third section of this act.

ACT of April 21, 1820.

Pamphlet edit. 42.

132. SEC. I. All the laws of the United States, which are not locally inapplicable, shall be extended to the state of Alabama, and shall have the same force and effect within the same, as elsewhere within the United States.

SEC. II. The said state shall be one district, and be called the Alabama district: and a district court shall be held therein, to consist of one judge, who shall reside in the said district, and be called the district judge. He shall hold, alternately, at the towns of Mobile and Cahaba, beginning at the first, four stated sessions annually; the first, to commence on the first Monday in April next, and the three other sessions, progessively, on the first Monday of every third calendar month thereafter. He shall, in all things, have and exercise the same jurisdiction and powers which were by law given to the judge of the Kentucky district, under an act, entitled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States," and an act, entitled "An act in addition to the act, entitled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States," approved second March, one thousand seven hundred and ninetythree. He shall appoint clerks for the said district, who shall reside, and keep the records of the court, at the places of holding