Sec. 53 contains a like provision as to dis tricts having two divisions. All prosecutions for offenses shall be brought in the division of such distriCt where they were committed unless, upon the application of the defendant, the court or the judge thereof shall transfer the case to another division of the district. In all cases of the removal of suits from a state court to a district court, it shall be to the district court of the division in which the county is situated from which the removal is made ; and the time within which the re moval shall be perfected, in so far as it re fers to or is regulated by the terms of United States courts, shall be deemed to refer to the terms of the district court in such division.
The above secs. 51-53 refer only to suits not of a local nature.
Sec. 54. In suits of a local nature where the defendant resides in a different district, in the same state, from that in which the suit Is brought, the plaintiff may have original and final process against him, directed to the marshal of the district where he resides.
Sec. 55. Any suit of a local nature, at law or in equity, where the land or other subject matter of a fixed character, lies partly in more than one district in the same state, may be brought in either district.
Sec. 56. Where a receiver has been ap pointed over land or other property of a fixed character, and. it lies within different states within the same circuit, a receiver may be vested with full jurisdiction over all the property lying in the circuit, subject, how ever, to the disapproval of an order to that effect by the circuit court of appeals for the circuit or by a circuit judge thereof.
Sec. 57. In a suit commenced in any dis trict to enforce any legal or equitable lien or remove an incumbrance or lien or a cloud on any title in the district, to real or per sonal property, if any one or more of the de fendants shall not be found within the dis trict or voluntarily appear, the court may order the absent defendant to appear, etc., by day certain to be designated, which order may be served upon the defendant, if prac ticable, wherever found, and also upon the person in possession of the property. If serv ice upon the defendant is not practicable, it may be made by publication, as the court may direct, not less than once a week for six consecutive weeks.
Sec. 58. Civil causes may, by written stip ulation of the parties or their attorney of rec ord and upon the order of a judge, be trans ferred to the court of any other division of the same district.
Sec. 65. When a receiver is appointed, he shall manage and operate the property ac cording to the valid laws of the state where 'it is situated ; any receiver who- violates this section is liable to a fine of not more than $3,000 or imprisonment for one year, or both.
Sec. 66. Receivers may be sued in respect of any act or transaction of his in carrying on the business connected with the property, without the previous leave of the court by which he was appointed ; but such suits shall be subject to the general, equity jurisdiction of the court as far as may be necessary to the ends of justice.
Sec. 67. No person shall be appointed in any office or duty of any court who is related within the first degree of affinity or consan guinity to the judge thereof.
Sec. 68. No clerk of a district court or his deputy shall be appointed receiver or master in any case, "except where the judge of the court shall determine that special reasons ex ist therefor, to be assigned in the order of appointment." Circuit Court of Appeals. Secs. The nine judicial circuits of the United States are referred to above, also the number of circuit judges constituting the court in the different circuits. The chief justice and the associate justices of the supreme court are allotted among the circuits by an order of the court, and the several district judges in each district may sit in this court. If a member of the supreme court attends a session, he shall preside. Otherwise, the circuit judges in attendance upon the court shall preside in the order of seniority of their commissions. If a full court shall not be made up, one or more district judges within the circuit shall sit according to such provision among the district judges as either by general or par ticular assignment shall be designated by the court, but no judge before whom a question has been tried or heard in the district court shall sit on the trial of such cause or ques tion in the circuit court of appeals.
Sec. 128. The circuit courts of appeals shall exercise appellate jurisdiction to re view by appeal or writ of error final deci sions in the district courts, including the United States district court for Hawaii, in all cases other than those in which appeals and writs of error may be taken direct to the supreme court, as provided in section two hundred and thirty-eight, unless otherwise provided by law ; and, except as provided in sections two hundred and thirty-nine and two hundred and forty, the judgments and decrees of the circuit courts of appeals shall be final in all cases in which the jurisdiction is dependent entirely upon the opposite par ties to the suit or controversy being aliens and citizens of the United States, or citizens of different states ; also in all cases arising under the patent laws, under the copyright laws, under the revenue laws, and under the criminal laws, and in admiralty cases.