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roncrr-sixrn conennss. sues. 11. ou. 120, 121. 1880. 155 CHAP. 120.-—An act rovidin the times and laces of l1 ldi h' - . , of the United States inéhe district of Iovga, and for 'dthegphrpoggéult court ·- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the circuit court of the U. S. Circuit United States in and for the district of Iowa shall hereafter be held at court. th_e times and places provided by law for holding the United States dis- Di°*'i°*’ °fI°'”*· trict court in and for said district. Causes removed from any court of the State of Iowa into said circuit court within said district shall be removed to the circuit court in the division in which such State court is held, unless the parties thereto shall otherwise agree, or the court, for good cause, shall otherwise order. Sec. 2. That all civil suits not of a local nature which shall be here- Civil suits. after brought in the circuit or district court of the United States in said district must be brought in the division of the district where the defendant or defendants reside; but if there are two or more defendants residing in different divisions the plaintiff may sue in either one of the divisions in which a defendant resides. All issues of fact triable in either of said courts shall be tried in the division where the defendant or one of the defendants resides, unless by consent of both parties the case shall be removed to some other division. Where the defendant is a non-resident of the district suit may be brought in any division where property or the defendant is found. Sec. 3. That the northern division of said district shall contain the Nmmem ams. following counties: Alamakee, Winneshiek, Howard, Mitchell, Floyd, ion. Chickasaw, Fayette, Clayton, Butler, Bremer, Grundy, Blackhawk, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Benton, Linn, Jones, Jackson, and Clinton. The southern division shall contain the counties of Cedar, Southern dim. Scott, Muscatine, Louisa, Washington, Keokuk, Mahaska, Monroe, ion. Wapello, Jefferson, Henry, Des Moines, Lee, Van Buren, Davis, and Appanoose. The western division shall contain the counties of Monona, _ Westei·n divis- Crawford, Carroll, Guthrie, Audubon, Shelby, Harrison, Pottawattamie, ¤¤¤· Cass, Adair, Union, Adams, Montgomery, Mills, Fremont, Page, Taylor, and Ringgold. The central division shall contain the remaining coun- Centraldivision. ties of the State. Sec. 4. That the clerk of the district court shall be the clerk of the Clerk. circuit court at all the places where the same is held in said district except at Des Moines. Sec. 5. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are Repeal provishereby repealed. NM- Approved, June 4, 1880. CHAP. 121.—An act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the gov- June 4, 1880. ernment of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eight- ···‘·""" een hundred and eighty- one, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ , { States of America in Congress assembled, That the half of the following lmlgfifft ° C°' sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in A,,,,,,,,,,.;,,,,,,,,,_ the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the · revenues of the District of Columbia, for the purposes following, being the estimated expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty- one, namely: FOR IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS. For repairs to concrete pavements, seventy-ive thousand dollars; for Repairs of pavework on New York avenue intercopting sewer, twenty-eight thousand m°””S· dollars, to be immediately available; for Boundary street auxiliary sewer, one hundred thousand dollars; for lateral sewers, fifteen thou- Sewm. sand dollars; for work on sundry avenues and streets, and replacement