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ken and deemed to all intents and purposes to be within both of faid counties.

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That there

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fhall be a court in faid district, whieh fhall be Circuit court called the circuit court of the diftrict of Columbia; and the faid court and the judges thereof shall have all the powers by law vested in the circuit courts and the judges of the circuit courts of the United States. Said court fhall confift of one chief judge and two affiftant judges refident within the faid diftrict, to hold their respective offices during good behaviour; any two of whom fhall conftitute a quorum; and each of the faid judges fhall, before he enter on his office, take the oath or affirmation provided by law to be taken by the judges of the circuit courts of the United States; and said court fhall have power to appoint a clerk of the court in each of faid counties, who fhall take the oath and give a bond with fureties, in the manner directed for clerks of the diftrict courts in the act to eftablifh the Judiciary of

the United States.

court.

Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That faid court fhall, annually, hold four feffions in each Seffions of the of faid counties, to commence as follows, to wit: For the county of Washington, at the city of Washington, on the fourth Mondays of March, June, September and December; for the county of Alexandria, at Alexandria, on the fecond Mondays of January, April, July, and the first Monday of October.

Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That faid court thall have cognizance of all crimes and Subjects for offences committed within faid district, and of the cogniall cafès in law and equity between parties, court. both or either of which fhall be refident or be found within faid diftrict; and alfo of all ac

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actions fhall

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tions or fuits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, in which the United States fhall be plaintiffs or complainants, and of all ferzures on land or water, and all penalties and forfeitures made, 'arifing or accruing under the laws of the United States.

Sec. 6. Provided, and be it further enacted, Where local That all local actions fhall be commenced in their proper counties, and that no action or ed. No fuits fuit fhall be brought before faid court, by any original process against any person, who shall not be an inhabitant of, or found within faid diftrict, at the time of ferving the writ..

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district.

A marshal to be appointed

for the diftri&t.

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Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That there shall be a marshal for the faid district, who shall have the cuftody of the gaols of the faid counties, and be accountable for the fafe keeping of all prifoners legally committed therein; and he fhall be appointed for the fame term, fhall take the fame oath, give a bond with fureties in the fame manner, fhall have generally, within faid diftrict, the fame powers, and perform the fame duties, as is by law directed and provided in the cafe of marfhals of the United States.

Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That any final Writs of error judgment, order or decree in faid circuit and appeals. court, wherein the matter in difpute, exclufive of cofts, fhall exceed the value of one hundred dollars, may be re-examined and reversed or affirmed in the fupreme court of the United States, by writ of error or appeal; which fhall be profecuted in the fame manner, under the fame regulations, and the same proceedings fhall be had therein, as is or fhall be provided in the cafe of writs of error on judgments, or appeals upon orders or decrees, rendered in the circuit court of the United States.

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SecunqueBe it further enacted, That there An Attorney shall be appointed and attorney of the United pointed. States for faid diftrict, who fhall take the oath and perform all the duties required of the dif trict attornies of the United States; and the faid attorney, marshal and clerks, fhall be entitled to receive for their respective services, ney, marthels the fame fees, perquifites and emoluments, which are by law allowed refpectively to the attorney, marshal and clerk of the United States, for the district of Maryland.

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and clerks.

Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That the chief judge, to be appointed by virtue of this Compenfaact, fhall receive an annual falary of two thou- tion of the fand dollars, and thetwo affiftant judges, of fix. judges. teen hundred dollars each, to be paid quarterly, at the Treasury of the United States.

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Sec. II. Be it further enacted, That there fhall be appointed in and for each of the faid counties, fuch number of discreet perfons to babe justices of the peace, as the President of the to be apUnited States fhall from time to time think pointed. expedient, to continue in office five years; and fuch juftices, having taken an oath for the faithful and impartial discharge of the duties of the office, fhall in all matters civil and criminal, and in whatever relates to the conservation of the peace have all the powers vefted in, and shall perform all the duties required of, juftices of the peace, as individual magiftrates, by the laws herein before continued in force in those parts of faid diftri&, for which they fhall have been refpectively appointed; and they fhall have cognizance in perfonal demands to the value of twenty dollars, exclufive of cofts; which fum they fhall not exceed, any law to the contrary notwithstanding and they fhall be entitled to receive

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Registers of wills and

orphan's

court to be appointed.

for their fervices the fees allowed for like fer*****vices by the laws herein before adopted and continued, in the caftern part of said district, 1. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed in and for each of the judges of the faid counties, a Register of Wills, and a Judge to be called the Judge of the Orphans Court, who fhall each take an oath for the faithful and impartial difcharge of the duties of his office; and shall have all the powers, perform all the duties, and receive the like fees, as are exercifed, performed, and received, by the Regifters of Wills and Judges of the Orphans Court, within the State of Maryland; and appeals from the faid courts fhall be to the circuit court of faid diftri&t, who fhall therein have all the powers of the chancellor of the faid State.

How to obtain execution within the district, upon judgments already rendered in courts of Maryland & Virginia.

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Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That in all cafes where judgments or decrees have been obtained, or hereafter fhall be obtained, on fuits now depending in any of the courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia, or of the State of Maryland, where the defendant refides or has property within the diftrict of Columbia, it fhall be lawful for the Plaintiff in fuch cafe upon filing an exemplification of the record and proceedings in fuch fuits, with the clerk of the court of the county where the defend

ant refides or his property may be found, to

fue out writs of execution thereon, returnable to the faid court, which fhall be proceeded on, in the fame manner as if the judgment or decree had originally been obtained in faid court.

Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That all actions, fuits, procefs, pleadings, and other proceedings of what nature or kind foever, delexandria and pending or exifting in the courts of Huftings for the Townsof Alexandria and George Town,

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shall be, and hoeby are continued over to the the sircut
circuit courts toe holden by virtue of this mouth
act, within the distre of Columbid, in man-
per following that is fay all fuch as fhall
then be depending and determined, before
the court of Huftings for the town of Alex-
andria, to the next circuit court hereby direc
ted to be holden in the Town of Alexandria;
and all fuch as fhall then be depending and
undetermined, before the court of Hultings
for George Town, to the next circuit court
hereby directed to be holden in the city of
Walhington: Provided nevertheless that where
the personal demand in ch cafes, exclufive
of colts, does not exceed the value of twenty
dollars, the Justices of the Peace within their
respective counties, fhall have cognizance
thereof.

Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That all writs and proceffes whatfoever, which fhall Teft ofpip hereafter iffue from the courts hereby eftablifhed within the diftrict, fhall be tefted in the name of the Chief Judge of the District of Co lumbia.

Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That

nothing in this act contained shall in any wife Saving of the alter, impeach or impair the rights, granted rights of car by or derived from the acts of incorporation porations. of Alexandria and George Town, or of any other body corporate or politic, within the faid diftrict, except fo far as relates to the Judicial

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