Public Law 74–413

That section 114

United States courts.

Vol. 36, p. 1129.

U. S. C., p. 1256.

of the Judicial Code (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 195) is hereby amended to read as follows:

“Sec. 114.

The State of Wisconsin is divided into two districts,

Wisconsin judicial districts.

to be known as the eastern and western districts of Wisconsin.

Eastern district.

The eastern district shall include the territory embraced on the 1st day of July 1910 in the counties of Brown, Calumet, Dodge, Door, Florence, Fond du Lac, Forest, Green Lake, Kenosha, Kewaunee, Langlade, Manitowoc, Marinette, Marquette, Milwaukee, Oconto, Outagamie, Ozaukee, Racine, Shawano, Sheboygan, Walworth, Washington, Waukesha, Waupaca, Waushara, and Winnebago. Terms of the district

Terms.

court for said district shall be held in Milwaukee on the first Mondays in January and October, at Oshkosh on the second Tuesday in June, and at Green Bay on the first Tuesday in April. The western

Western district.

district shall include the territory embraced on the 1st day of July 1910 in the counties of Adams, Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Buffalo, Burnett, Chippewa, Clark, Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Douglas, Dunn, Eau Claire, Grant, Green, Iowa, Iron, Jackson, Jefferson, Juneau, La Crosse, Lafayette, Lincoln, Marathon, Monroe, Oneida, Pepin, Pierce, Polk, Portage, Price, Richland, Rock, Rusk, Saint Croix, Sauk, Sawyer, Taylor, Trempealeau, Vernon, Vilas, Washburn, and Wood. Terms of the district court for said district shall

Terms.

be held at Madison on the first Tuesday in December, at Eau Claire on the first Tuesday in June, at La Crosse on the third Tuesday in September, at Wausau on the second Tuesday in April, and at Superior on the fourth Tuesday in January and the second Tuesday in July. The district court for each of said districts

Admiralty, etc., jurisdiction.

shall be open at all times for the purpose of hearing and deciding causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction so far as the same can be done without a jury. The clerk of the court for the western district shall maintain an office in charge of himself or a deputy at Madison, at La Crosse, at Wausau, and at Superior, which shall be kept open at all times for the transactions of the business of the court. The marshal for the western district shall appoint a deputy

Return of process at Superior.

marshal who shall reside and keep his office at Superior. All writs and other process, except criminal warrants, issued at Superior, may be made returnable at Superior; and the clerk at that place shall keep in his office the original records of all actions, prosecutions, and special proceedings so commenced and pending therein.

Criminal warrants.

Criminal warrants may be returned at any place within the district where court is held. Whenever warrants issued at Superior shall be returned at any other place the clerk of the court wherein the warrant is returned shall certify the same under the seal of the court, together with the plea and other proceedings had thereon and the determination of the court upon such plea or proceedings, with all papers and orders filed in reference thereto, to the clerk of the court at Superior; and the clerk at Superior shall enter upon his records a minute of the proceedings had upon the return of said warrant, certified as aforesaid. All causes and proceedings instituted in the court at Superior shall be tried therein, unless by consent of the parties, or upon the order of the court, they are transferred to another place for trial”.

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