district records shall be placed with the Clerk and Recorder of Deeds of said La Plata County, and shall be kept at said office the same as other County records.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 13th, 1874.

Ei Paso.

Fremont.

AN ACT

To provide Terms of Court in the Third Judicial District.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of Colorado Territory, That terms of the District Court shall be held hereafter at the County seats of the several Counties in the Third Judicial District, commencing on the days following, in each and every year that is to say: In the County of El Paso, on the third (3) Tuesday in April, and the fourth (4) Tuesday in October; in the County of Fremont, on the first (1) Tuesday in May and the second (2) Tuesday in November; in the County of Bent, on the third (3) Tuesday in May, and the fourth (4) Tuesday in November; in the County of Pueblo, on the first (1) Tuesday in June, and the second (2) Tuesday in December; in the County of Las Animas, on the fourth (4) Tuesday in June, and the first (1) Tuesday in January; in the County of Huerfano, on the third (3) Tuesday in January; in the County of Costilla, on the third (3) Monday in July; in the County of Conejos, on the fourth (4) Monday in July; in the County of Rio Grande, on the first (1) Monday in August; in the County of La Plata, on the fourth (4) Monday in August; in the County of Saguache, on the third (3) Monday in September. SEC. 2. The District Court herein appointed to be cisdiction of held in the County of Pueblo, shall have and exercise within the Third Judicial District the jurisdic

Las Animas.

Conejos.

Rio Grande,

La Plata.

Saguache.

Shall exercise

eleuit and dis trict court in

Pueblo.

tion of a Circuit and District Court of the United States, and causes civil and criminal arising in said. district under the constitution and laws of the United States, shall be heard and determined in the said District Court of Pueblo County.

SEC. 3. All criminal.causes and proceedings pending in any of the said District Courts shall be tried, heard, and determined at the terms of such courts herein appointed, although such terms may be held at an earlier day than those heretofore appointed.

causes pending

of this act.

SEC. 4. All civil causes, issues, and proceedings Concerning, instituted, pending, or brought in any of the said prior to passage District Courts in which process has been issued prior to the passage of this act, returnable to any term of court as provided by existing laws, shall be deemed and held to be pending in such courts at the term fixed by this act next succeeding the term to which such process shall have been made returnable; and such process shall be deemed and held to be returnable to the term of such court provided in this act next succeeding the term to which such process has been made returnable; Provided, That in all cases in which a term of any court shall by this act be required to be held prior to the time at which process shall have been made returnable according to existing laws as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the parties to the action in which process shall have been issued, to sue out, and for the clerk of any court in which such action shall be pending, to issue other process returnable to the term of such court provided by this act, and thereafter the suit, action, or proceeding shall proceed, and if the same had been originally brought to the term of such court fixed by this act.

SEC. 5. The County of Hinsdale shall be and hereby is attached to the County of Rio Grande for judicial purposes, and the District Court when sit

Governor may direct terms of

in Hinsdale

County.

ting in the said County of Rio Grande, shall have and exercise jurisdiction in said County of Hinsdale. SEC. 6. The Governor shall have power, and it ourt to be held shall be his duty to appoint and direct a term of the District Court, to be held in the said County of Hinsdale whenever it shall appear to him that the population and business of said County has been sufficient to warrant the holding of such court, and from and after the appointment of a court to be held in said County as aforesaid; the court so appointed to be held shall have and exercise jurisdiction in said county, and the jurisdiction of the said District Court of Rio Grande County, in the said County of Hinsdale, shall cease and determine, provided that such term of court, when appointed by the Governor, as aforesaid, shall be held each year until changed by law.

Repeal of prior
Lets.

SEC. 7. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are repealed.

SEC. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 13th, 1874.

In Arapahoe.

In Douglas.

AN ACT

To Provide for the holding of Courts within the First
Judicial District of Colorado Territory.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of Colorado Territory, That the terms of the District Court shall hereafter be held in the said district at the county seats of the several counties therein as the said county seats now are or may hereafter be established, commencing on the days following, in each and every year-that is to say, in the County of Arapahoe on the first Monday of April and on the second Monday of September; in the County of Douglas on the fourth Monday of June;

in the County of Weld on the second Monday of June and on the fourth Monday of November; in

the County of Park on the second Monday in July; in Park. in the County of Summit on the fourth Monday of In Summit. July; in the County of Lake on the second Monday after the fourth Monday of July.

Relative to

causes pending

of this art.

SEC. 2. All causes, issues, proceedings, civil and criminal, instituted, pending, or brought in any court prior to pass in this Territory, in which process has been issued prior to the passage of this act, returnable to any term of court as provided by existing laws, shall be deemed and held to be pending in such courts at the term in this act next succeeding the term to which such process shall have been made returnable, and such process shall be deemed and held returnable to the term of such court provided in this act next succeeding the term to which such process has been made returnable: Provided, That in all cases in which a term of any court shall by this act be held prior to the term at which process shall have been made. returnable, it shall be lawful for the parties to the action on which such process shall have been issued, to sue out, and for the Clerk of any court in which such action shall be pending to issue other process returnable to the term of such court provided by this act, and thereafter the suit, action or proceeding shall proceed as if the same had been originally brought to the term of such court fixed by this act : Provided further, That suits commenced by attachment when the writ shall have been made returnable as aforesaid, a new writ may be issued returnable to the next term of the court, but of which the same shall have been issued as fixed by this act, and if the same shall not be served upon the defendant or defendants named therein, such defendants shall be notified by publication to appear at the next term of such court as fixed by this act, in the way and manner, provided by existing lawe, and thereupon

the court shall proceed in the same manner as in other suits of the same nature instituted to such term.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 13th, 1874.

As to causes

pending prior

this act.

AN ACT

Prescribing the time of holding the District Courts in the
Second Judicial District.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of Colorado Territory, That hereafter the District Courts of the Second Judicial District shall be held as follows: In the County of Jefferson, on the first Monday in April, and the first Monday in October; in the County of Boulder, on the third Monday in April, and the third Monday in January; in the County of Gilpin, on the first Monday in May, and the first Monday in November; in the County of Clear Creek, on the first Monday in June, and the first Monday in December; in the County of Larimer, on the second Tuesday in July.

SEC. 2. All causes, issues, and proceedings, civil and criminal, now pending in the District Court of the passage of the Counties above named, in which process has been issued or publication had, prior to passage of this act, returnable to any term of Court as provided by existing laws, shall be deemed and held to be pending in, and returnable to the term of Court as provided for and fixed in this act, and shall be disposed of as though the same had been made specificially returnable to the term of court as prescribed herein, and the same shall apply to recognizances taken in criminal cases, Provided, That in all cases in which a term of any court shall by this act be held prior to the time at which process shall have been return