fore named, as heretofore to be held, shall be deemed and taken to be returnable to the terms of the district court in the respective counties as herein required to be held. All notices which may have been given by publication or otherwise, with reference to the terms of court as heretofore required to be held, or any or either of them shall, by force of this act, refer to the terms of court required to be held under this act. All proceedings pending in Proceedings said courts shall be taken up and proceeded with at the terms herein specified for the holding of said courts as if no alteration had been made in times for holding the same. SEC. 5. The counties of Harper, Barbour, Comanche pending. and Clark, shall be and are hereby attached to Sumner Counties attached county for judicial purposes, and shall remain so attached until otherwise provided; and all criminal actions arising in Harper, Comanche and Clark counties, and now pending in the district court of Sedgwick county, and all civil actions pending in said district court between citizens of Harper county, are hereby ordered to be transmitted to the district court of Sumner county, and the clerk of the district court of said Sedgwick county shall forthwith certify and transmit all papers, pleadings and proceedings in such actions to the clerk of the Sumner county district court, who shall file and docket the same in the court of which he is clerk. point judge. SEC. 6. The Governor is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint a district judge for the thirteenth Governor to apjudicial district, whose term shall commence on the twentieth day of February, A. D. 1872, and who shall hold his office until the second Monday in January, A. D. 1873, and until his successor is elected and qualified, and who shall, by virtue of said appointment, have all the powers and perform all the duties that are now conferred upon judges of the district court by law. SEC. 7. There shall be elected at the next general election (Tuesday, after the first Monday in November, A. Judge elected, D. 1872,) and every four years thereafter, a judge of the when. district court for the thirteenth judicial district, whose term shall commence on the second Monday of January, A. D. 1873. Such judge shall have and exercise all the powers and perform all the duties which are now or may be imposed by law upon judges of the district courts of this state, and he shall hold his office for the term of four years and until his successor is elected and qualified. SEC. 8. This act shall take effect and be force from and after its publication in the Kansas Daily Commonwealth. Approved February 29, 1872. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and that the same was published in the Kansas Daily Commonwealth March 6, 1872. W. H. SMALLWOOD, CHAPTER CXIII. FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. AN ACT to create the fourteenth judicial district, and to provide for a judge thereof, and for holding the terms of court therein. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That the fourteenth judicial district be and the same is hereby created, consisting of the counties Counties. of Saline, McPherson, Lincoln, Ellsworth, Ellis, Russell, Wallace, Trego, Ness, Rush, Barton and Pawnee. SEC. 2. The terms of the district courts for the fourteenth judicial district, shall commence in each year as Terms of court. follows: In the county of Saline on the second Mondays in April, July and November. In the county of Ellsworth on the third Monday in May, and the fourth Monday in October. In the county of Ellis on the fourth Monday in May and the first Monday in November. In the county of McPherson on the third Monday in October. In the county of Lincoln on the second Mondays in May and October. The county of Barton and the counties attached county of Russell are hereby attached to Ellsworth county, and the counties of Trego, Ness, Rush, Pawnee and Wallace are hereby attached to Ellis county for judicial purposes. SEC. 3. The judge of the district herein named, is hereby empowered to hold as many adjourned or special terms of court in either of the counties in the district as he may deem advisable. SEC. 4. All summons, subpoenas, bonds, recognizances and all other processes which may have been, or may be summonses, etc, issued and made returnable to the terms of the district court in the respective counties as herein required to be held, all notices which may have been given either by publication or otherwise, with reference to the terms of returnable, where Judge to be appointed. said courts as heretofore required to be held, or any or either of them, shall by force of this act refer to the terms of court required to be held under this act; all proceedings pending in said courts shall be taken up and proceeded with at the terms herein specified for holding of said courts, as if no alteration had been made in the time of holding the same. SEC. 5. The Governor is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint a district judge for the fourteenth judicial district, whose term shall commence on the first day of March, 1872, and who shall hold his office until the second Monday of January, 1873, and until his successor is elected and qualified, and who shall by virtue of said appointment, have all the powers, and perform all the duties that are now conferred upon judges of the district court by law. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth. Approved February 29, 1872. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and that the same was published in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth March 7, 1872. W. H. SMALLWOOD, CHAPTER CXIV. SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT-TERMS OF COURT. AN ACT to provide for holding certain terms of court in certain counties therein named. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That the terms of the district court in the several counties of the seventh judicial district shall commence in each year as follows, viz: In the county of Woodson on the first Monday of March, second Monday of June and second Monday of October. In the county of Allen on the second Monday of March, first Monday of July and third Monday of November. In the county of Neosho on the first Tuesday of April, second Tuesday of July and second Tuesday of December. In the county of Wilson on the first Tuesday of May, the fourth Tuesday of July, and the first Tuesday of February. SEC. 2. An additional term of the district court is hereby authorized and required to be held in the county Additional term. of Wabaunsee, in the third judicial district, commencing on the fourth Monday of March in each year. SEC. 3. Chapter seventy-three, of the Laws of 1871, approved March 3, 1871, and published March 16, 1871, is hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth. Approved February 23, 1872. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and that the same was published in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth February 29, 1872. W. H. SMALLWOOD, |