Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 39 Part 1.djvu/554

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SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cris. 399, 400. 1916. 533 iniuired into all the matters set forth in the etition, and that he be eves them to be true, shall be presented to tlie said district court, if in session, or if it be not, to the clerk thereof at his office, and shall be filed in said office. The cause shall thereu n be entered on the docket of the district court and shall proceedpo as a cause originally commenced in that court; but all bail and other security given upon ipch suit og grosecutigndshahézlpgliltmue in like force and effect as if e same a rocee e to `u ent and execution in the . State court. Y\lzhen the suit is co ced in the State court by c¤$il?<?rrir¤i=wt§,•l¢t?” summons, subpoena, petition, or any other process except capias, the clerk of the district court shall issue a writ of certiorari to the State court requiringx it to send to the district court the record and cmu pm M the proceedings in the cause. When it is commenced by ca ias or ' by any other similar form of proceeding by which a personal? arrest is ordered, he shall issue a writ of habeas corpus cum causa, a du licate of which shall be delivered to the clerk of the State court or lleft at his office bg the marshal of the district or his deputy or by some other person uly authorized thereto; and thereu n it shall be the duty of the State court to stay all further proceedings in the cause, and the suit or prosecution, upon delivery 0 such process, or leaving the samedas afpresgid, shall e held tgl be reifgged tohthe court, an an urt er roceed1ngs` , tri , or `u ent thereinin the mmm State court shlill be voidl If the defendant the suit or prosecution Duty M ' be in actual custody on mesne process therein, it shall be the duty of the marshal by virtue of the writ of habeas corpus cum causa, to take the body of the defendant into his custody, to be dealt with in the cause according to law and the order of the district court, or, D t of in vacation, of any judge thereof; and if, utplon the removal of such ° Y mmm suit or {prosecution, it is made to appear to e district court that no copy o the record and proceedings therein in the State court can be obtained, the district court may allow and require the plaintiff to proceed de novo and to file a declaration of his cause of action, and the parties may thereupon proceed as in actions originally brought in said district court. On failure of the (plaintiff so to proceed, judgment of non (proseguitur may be ren ered against him, with costs for the defen ant.’ Approved, August 23, 1916. CHAP. 400.-—An Act Permitting the Needles and Oatman Bridge Company to `i‘i£%t.?{si2.i?° construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Colorado River between the States of California and Arizona. ’ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States (g`A7H·61'tCd in Congress assembled That the consent of Congress is here y granted to the Needles and Catrnan Bridge Companihand sqm;. (away my its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, an operate a ridge ""“g°·N °‘·°“· and approaches thereto across the Colorado River at a gpint siutab e to the interests of navigation at or near the city of Nee es, San Bernardino Cormt , State of California, about ten miles north of the existing bridge ofy the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company in that vicinity, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled Cmtmmm "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable v¤1.ar,p.se. waters/’ a roved March twenty-third nineteen hundred an six. Ammdmmg Sec. 2. 'lllllat the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act IS hereby expressly reserved. Approved, August 23, 1916.