Terms.

Repealed.

CHAPTER CXV.

FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT-TERMS OF COURT

CHANGED.

AN ACT to change the terms of court in the fourth judicial district.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

SECTION 1. That hereafter the terms of the district court in the fourth judicial district shall commence as follows, in each year: In the county of Douglas on the first Monday in February, the third Monday in August, and the third Monday in November. In the county of Franklin on the fourth Monday in March, first Monday in August, and the first Monday in November. In the county of Anderson on the second Tuesday in March and the second Tuesday in September.

SEC. 2. That the act entitled "an act to amend an act (chapter thirty-six, Laws of 1869,) entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act concerning district courts, approved February 26, 1867, approved March 2, 1869," be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This act shall 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 March 29, 1872.

W. H. SMALLWOOD,
Secretary of State.

CHAPTER CXVI.

TWELFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.

AN ACT to amend section two of an act entitled "an act to create the twelfth 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 section two of the act entitled "an act to create the twelfth judicial district, and to provide for a judge thereof, and for holding the terms of court therein," approved February 28, 1871, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 2. The terms of court Terms of court. in the twelfth judicial district shall commence as follows: In the county of Marshall on the third Monday of March, on the second Monday of August, and on the fourth Monday of November of each year. In the county of Washington on the first Monday of April, first Monday of August, and on the second Monday of December of each year. In the county of Republic on the second Monday of April, and on the second Monday of October of each year. In the county of Jewell on the third Monday of April, and on the third Monday of October of each year. In the county of Osborne on the fourth Monday of April, and on the fourth Monday of October of each year. In the county of Mitchell on the first Monday of May, and on the first Monday of November of each year. In the county of Cloud on the second Monday of May, and on the second Monday of November of each year. In the county of Clay on the third Monday of May, and on the third Monday of November of each year.

SEC. 2. The county of Osborne is hereby detached from the county of Mitchell for judicial purposes.

ferred.

SEC. 3. All criminal actions arising in Osborne county, Actions transand now pending in the district court of Mitchell

Summons, etc.

Notices.

Refer where.

county, and all civil actions pending in said district court. between citizens of Osborne county, are hereby transferred to the district court of Osborne county, and the clerk of the district court of said Mitchell county shall forthwith certify and transmit all papers, pleadings and proceedings in such actions to the clerk of Osborne county district court.

SEC. 4. All summons, subpoenas, bonds, recognizances, and all other processes which may have been or may be 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 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. That original section two of the act to which this is amendatory, is hereby repealed.

SEC. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication once 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 March 7, 1872.

W. H. SMALLWOOD,
Secretary of State.

CHAPTER CXVII.

JUDICIAL DISTRICTS-SIXTH, SEVENTH, EIGHTH
AND NINTH.

AN ACT entitled an act to provide for the election of judges of the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth judicial districts of the State of Kansas.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas :

judges.

SECTION 1. That at the general election of 1872, and every four years thereafter, there shall be elected in the Election of sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth judicial districts of the State of Kansas, judges of the same, who shall hold their offices for four years from the second Monday of January, 1873, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its publication in the statute book.

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.

W. H. SMALLWOOD,

Secretary of State.

Terms of court.

CHAPTER CXVIII.

NINTH AND THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.

AN ACT to attach certain counties therein named to the ninth and thirteenth judicial districts, and to provide for holding terms of court therein.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

SECTION 1. The counties of Rice, Reno and IIarvey Counties attached are hereby attached to and made a part of the ninth judicial district with terms of court therein as follows: In the county of Rice on the second Monday in March and August.

Same.

criminal.

SEC. 2. The county of Butler is hereby attached to and made a part of the thirteenth judicial district, with terms of court therein as follows: On the first Monday in February, June and September.

SEC. 3. The counties of Reno and Harvey are hereby attached to the county of Marion for judicial purposes.

SEC. 4. All actions, civil and criminal, arising in Rice Actions, civil and county, and now pending in the district court of Ellsworth county, and all actions, civil and criminal, arising in Reno county as now organized and bounded and now pending in the district court of Sedgwick county, and all actions, civil and criminal, arising within the bounds of Harvey county as now organized and bounded and pending in the district court of Sedgwick county, are hereby ordered to be transmitted and transferred to the district court of the counties to which they are by this act attached for judicial purposes, or to the district court of the county in which they arose, if not so attached to any other county for judicial purposes; and the clerks of the district courts of Ellsworth and Sedgwick counties shall forthwith certify and transmit all papers, proceedings and pleadings in such actions to the clerk of the district court of the county in which they arose, or to which