Public Law 53–55

That sections three and five of the Act approved April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act to divide the judicial district of North Dakota,” are hereby amended to read as follows;

“Sec. 3.

That the terms of the district court for the district of North

Terms of district court.

Dakota shall be held at Bismarck on the first Tuesday of March in each year; at Fargo on the third Tuesday of May in each year: at Grand Forks on the second Tuesday of November in each year, and at Devils Lake on the first Tuesday of July in each year. And the provisions of law now existing for the holding of said court on the first Monday in April and February of each year is hereby repealed.”

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“Sec. 5.

That the circuit court of the United States for the said district

Terms of circuit court.

shall be held at Bismarck on the first Tuesday of March in each year, and at Fargo on the third Tuesday of May in each year, and at Grand Forks on the second Tuesday of November of each year, and at Devils Lake on the first Tuesday of July of each year, When the circuit court and district court is held, as provided in this Act, at the same time and place, one grand and one petit jury only shall be

Proviso.

Returns of pending actions, etc.

summoned and serve in both said courts; Provided, That all suits, prosecutions, and processes, recognizances, bail bonds, and other proceedings of whatever nature pending in or returnable to said district and circuit courts, respectively, on the days named in the Act to which this is an amendment, are hereby transferred to and shall be made returnable and have force in the said respective terms of said district and circuit courts, respectively, as provided in this Act, in the same manner and with the same effect as they would be returnable and have effect in said courts, respectively, at the terms thereof as now fixed by the Act to which this is amendatory, as though this Act had not been passed.”

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Sec. 2.

The marshal, district attorney, and clerks of the circuit and

Fees, etc., of marshal attorney, and clerks.

R. S., secs. 837, 840; pp. 158, 159.

district courts of said district, and all other officers and persons performing duties in the administration of justice therein, shall, for the services they may perform, receive the fees and compensation allowed by law to other similar officers and persons performing similar duties in the State of Oregon.