New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-19
lGENERAL NATURE-No. 81 !

| AN ACT authorizing terms of the H.:
States district courts to be held at Hes"e'
Arkansas, and for other purposes. 'p'
Be it enacted by the Senate
House of Representatives of the Tr sa3
States of America in Congress aa aE
| bled, That in addition to the terms Of 'e "
district court of the United States for y ~
western district of Arkansas, renI,irod y
existing laws to be held at Van Buren y
the State of Arkansas, there shall he "a
by the judge of said district two terma W. u
said court in each year at the city of Halo.V
in said State, on the second Mondavs !,
March and September. HQ
SEC. .. That such number of Jurors Il.
be summoned by the marshal at everv taau
of such court to be at Helena "a ~'4
have been ordered at previous term O,T
the district judge in vacation. AMI
grand jury may be summoned to attend 49,
such term of said court when ordered hv.
court or by the judge thereof in vaesfa
In case of deficiency of jurors, taleSma.
may be summoned by order of the conf
SEC. 3. That the district judge NAV,
journ any of the terms of the court N,
vided for in this act, from time to tim
suit the convenience of litigants and
meet the necessities of the business of MI
terms and the intervention of term
such court at any other place shall not M
clude the power to adjourn over to a futs,
day.
SEC A. That a clerk of said court shalt
appointed in like manner as other cIerks
the district courts of the United States,
appointed, who shall keep his office in al
city, and who shall be subject to all A.
duties enjoined by law on clerks of then
trict court aforesaid: Provided, howas
That no court shall be held at Helena
pursuance of this act until an instruptDt
in writing. duly executed by the dom,
authorities of the county of Phillips. ANA
ing to furnish suitable rooms for the S1
ing of said court, for the term of ten yar
without any charge to the government al
the United States, shall first be filed in be
office Of the clerk of said court at Lfil
Rock
SEC. 5. That the counties of phiGn,
Crittenden, Mississippi, Craighead, Grsns
Randolph, Lawrence, Sharp. Poinsett, Cos
Saint Francis. Monroe, Woodruff, JeE
son, Independence, lizard, Marion, Futm
and Boone, in said State, shall hereafter
deemed and be part of the westernG
trict of Arkansas, and there shall ben
pointed by the President of the Uma
cldlCS, w anu WIN CuC ltt anu COHEN
of the Senate, district Judge for the vs
ern district aforesaid, who shall, from an
after the time of his appointment, hold h
terms of court at the times and placesnI
quired by law. Said district judge shl
be paid the same salary and in the sand
as the judge OF the eastern distrI
Of said State. And the terms of the cOut
now to be held at Van Buren,, shall hersat
.er be held at Fort Smith in said disticI
md the present district judge of the ali
State shall be and remain the district judy
If the United States for the eastern, distrI
hereof, as if originally appointed Thereto
SEC 6. That so much of an act enttI
An act to divide the district of ArkanI
nto two judicial districts" approved Ma
hree, eighteen hundred and tifty-One
ives the judge of the district of Arkau
over the western district Ofsl
tate, and all laws inconsistent herev
re hereby repealed.
Approved March B. 1871.