United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 70
Chap. LXX.—An Act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the state of Illinois.[1]
Laws of the United States not inapplicable, in force in Illinois.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the laws of the United States, which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect, within the state of Illinois as elsewhere within the United States.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said state shall be one district, and be called the Illinois district. And a district court shall be Illinois a district.
District court, one judge.
Two sessions of the court annually.
Act of Sept. 24, 1789, ch. 20.
A clerk.
Clerk’s fees.held therein, to consist of one judge, who shall reside in the said district, and be called a district judge. He shall hold, at the seat of government of the said state, two sessions annually, on the first Mondays in May and December; and he shall, in all things, have and exercise the same jurisdiction and powers which were by law given to the judge of the Kentucky district, under an act, entitled “An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States.” He shall appoint a clerk for the said district, who shall reside and keep the records of the court, at the place of holding the same, and shall receive, for the services performed by him, the same fees to which the clerk of the Kentucky district is entitled for similar services.
1000 dolls yearly compensation to the judge.
Payable quarterly.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the judge of the said district court, the annual compensation of one thousand dollars, to commence from the date of his appointment; to be paid quarter yearly, at the treasury of the United States.
District attorney.
200 dolls. per ann. for his extra services.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed, in the said district, a person learned in the law, to act as attorney for the United States, who shall, in addition to his stated fees, be paid, by the United States, two hundred dollars, as a full compensation for all extra services.
A marshal.
200 dolls. annually for his extra services.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That a marshal be appointed for the said district, who shall perform the same duties, be subject to the same regulations and penalties, and be entitled to the same fees, as are prescribed to marshals in other districts; and shall, moreover, be entitled to the sum of two hundred dollars annually, as a compensation for all extra services.
Approved, March 3, 1819.
- ↑ See notes to the act of April 18, 1818, ch. 67.