and proceedings so transferred shall be considered as belonging to the term of the court in the second division of said district, in the same manner and with like effect as if they had been issued or taken in reference thereto originally. (26 U. S. Stats. 129.)

KENTUCKY.-This act shall not affect the jurisdiction, power and authority of the court as to actions, prosecutions and proceedings already begun and pending in said district, but the same will proceed as though this act had not been passed, except that the court shall have power, which it may exercise at discretion, to transfer to the court in said division such of peading actions, prosecutions and proceedings as might properly be begun therein under the provisions of this act. (25 U. S. Stats. 389.)

LOUISIANA. All civil suits in law or equity which have arisen in the parishes composing said western district, or against persons residing therein, or concerning lands situated therein, and now pending, together with all process, writs, recognizances, and records belonging thereto, shall, with the consent of a.l the parties, be transferred to said western district. (21 U. S. Stats. 507.) And it shall be the duty of the clerks of the district and circuit courts of the United States in New Orleans, whenever the courts shall so order, to transmit, by some safe conveyance, or to deliver to the clerks of the courts in the western district, or their order, the original papers in all such cases as properly belong to the court in the western district by the provisions of this act, together with a transcript of the proceedings had therein. (21 U. S. Stats. 507.)

MICHIGAN. This act shall not affect or in any wise interfere with causes of action now pending in the circuit or district courts for the eastern district of Michigan, but the same may be proceedel with in the same manner as though this act had not been passed; provided, houver, that upon cause shown, the circuit and district courts for the eastern district may transfer civil causes arising in that portion of said district detached therefrom by this act to the circuit and district courts for the northern division of the western district of Michigan, provided for in this act. (20 U. S. Stats. 175.)

MISSISSIPPI.-All causes and proceedings in law, equity, or bankruptcy, now pending in the district court of the northern district of Mississippi, where all the defendants (or the plaintiffs, where the jurisdiction is derived from the residence of the plaintiffs within the district) shall reside in the eastern division of said district, shall be transferred to the court of such eastern division of said northern district, said transfer to be made in vacation or in term-time; if made in vacation, only on an affidavit of all the parties defendant that they are resident in said eastern division, and on ten days' notice of the purpose and time of hearing of said motion; but if made in term-time, then on motion and affidavit only. (22 U. S. Stats. 101, sec. 6). All civil causes now pending in the United States court for the southern district of Mississippi against parties residing in that part of the territory of said southern district by this act annexed to and incorporated in the aforesaid northern judicial district, and that all civil causes now

pending in the Unitel States court for the northern district of Mississippi against parties residing in that part of the territory of said northern district by this act annexed to and incorporated in the aforesaid southern judicial district, may remain and be finally disposed of, respectively, in the courts in which they are now pending, unless the defendants therein shall desire to have the same transferred to the appropriate courts in the district in which they reside, as provided by this act; in which last event such transfer shall be applied for and made to the court for the division of the residence of such defendant in said northern district, or to the court of the said southern district, as the case may be, in the manner above providel in the sixth section hereof for the transfer of pending causes from the court of the western division of said northern district to that of the castern division thereof, mutatis mutandis. (-2 U. S. Stats. 101, sec. 8.)

DUTY OF CLERK ON TRANSFER.-When a cause shall be transferred, as above provided by the sixth and eight sections hereof, either from the western division of said northern district to the eastern division thereof, or from the southern district of Mississippi to the appropriate division of said northern district, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court from which the transfer is made to carefully transmit to the clerk of the court to which the transfer is made the entire file of papers of the cause, and all documents and deposits in his court pertaining thereto, together with the certified transcript of the record of all orders, interlocutory decrees, or other entries in said cause; and he shall

also certify, under seal of the court, that the papers sent are all which are on file in said court belonging to the cause; for the performance of which duties said clerk s› transmitting and certifying shall receive the same fees as are now allowed by law for similar services, to be taxed in the bill of costs and regularly collected with the other costs of the cause; and such transcript, when so certified and received, shall thenceforth constitute a part of the record of the cause in the court to which the transfer shall be made. (22 U. S. Stats. 101, sec. 9.) It shall be the duty of the clerks of the courts now held at Jackson, on demand of either party to any suit now pending in either of said courts, and properly belonging to the court at Vicksburg, to make out and certify a copy of the record and proceedings in such suit, and to transmit the same to the deputy clerk of the proper court at Vicksburg, who shall enter said cause on his docket, and the same shall be proceeded with as if it had been originally brought in said court. The fees for such transcript shall be paid by the party applying for the same. (24 U. S. Stats. 430, sec. 3.) It shall be the duty of the clerks of the courts now held at Jackson, on demand of either party to any suit now pending in either of said courts, and properly belonging to the court at Mississippi City, to make out and certify a copy of the record and proceedings in such suit, and to transmit the same to the deputy clerk of the proper court at Mississippi City, who shall enter said cause on his docket, and the same shall be proceeded with as if it had been originally brought in said court. The fees for such transcript shall be paid by the party applying for the same. (25 U. S. Stats. 78, sec. 3.)

MISSOURI. When a cause shall be ordered to be transferred, as above provided, to a court in any other division, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court from which the transfer is made to carefully transmit to the clerk of the court to which the transfer is made the entire file of papers of the cause, and all documents and deposits in his court pertaining thereto, together with a certified transcript of the record of all orders, interlocut ry decrees, or other entries in the cause; and he shall also certify, under seal of the court, that the papers sent are all which are on file in said court belonging to the cause, for the performance of which duties said clerk so transmitting and certifying shall receive the same fees as now allowed by law for similar services, to be taxed in the bill of costs and regularly collected with the other costs of the cause; and such transcript, when so certified and received, shall thenceforth constitute a part of the record of the cause in the court to which the transfer shall be made. (24 U. S. Stats. 424.) Any cause may, by the written consent of both parties or their attorneys of record, be transferred to the court of either division or district, without regard to the residence of the defendants, and whether such cause be now pending or be instituted hereafter. (24 U. S. Stats. 424.) All civil and criminal causes or proceedings pending in the eastern district of Missouri which originated in said county of Audrain shall remain within the jurisdiction of the United States court for said eastern district for final disposition. (25 U. S. Stats. 153.) All civil causes and proceedings in law, equity or bankruptcy now pending in any district