New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-23
GENERAL NATuRE-No. 81 ]

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AN ACT authorizing terms of the United
States district courts to be held al Helena
Arkansas, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
| House of Representatives of the United
| States of America in Congress Assem-.
| bled That in addition to the terms of tba
district court of the United States for tbs
western district of Arkansas, required nv
| existing laws to be held at Van Buren, n
the State OF Arkansas, there shall be held
by the Judge of said district two terms of
said court in each year at the city of Helena
in said State. on the second MONDAYS of
March and September.
SEC. 2. That such number of jurors shall
be summoned by the marshal at every term
OF such court to be at Helena as NAV
have been ordered at previous term or by
the district judge i'll vacation. And a
grand Jury may be summoned to attend anv
such term Of said court when ordered by the
court or by the judge thereof in vacation
In case of deficiency of jurors, talesmen
NAV he summoned by order of the court.
SEC. g. That the district judge may ad-
journ any of the terms of the court pro-
vided for in this act, from time to time. To
suit the convenience of litigants and 10
meet the necessities of the business of such
terms: and the Intervention of term of
such court at any other place shall not pre-
clude the power to adjourn over to future
day.
SEC {. That clerk of said court shall be
appointed in like manner as other clerks of
the district courts of the United States are
appointed, who shall keep his Office in said
city, and who shall be subject to all the
duties enioined by law on clerks of the dis
trict court aforesaid Provided, however.
That no court shall be held at Helena in
pursuance of this act until an instrument
in writing, duly executed by the proper
authorities of the county of Phillips agree
ing TO furnish suitable rooms for the hold
ing of said court, for the term of ten years.
without any charge to the government of
the United States. shall first be filed in the
office of the clerk of said court at Little
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ST.. 5. That the counties of Phillips.
Crinenden. Mississippi, Craighead, Greene,
Randolph, Lawrence, Sharp. POinsett, Cross,
Saint Francis, Monroe, Woodruff. Jack,
son, Independence, lizard, Marion, Fulton.
and Boone, in said State, shall hereafter be
deemed and be part of the western dis
trict of Arkansas, and there shall be ap-
pointed by the President of the United
States, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, district Judge for the west
ern district aforesaid, who shall, from and
after the time of his appointment, hold the
terms of court at the times and places re-
quired by law. Said district Judge shall
be paid the same salary and in the same
manner as the judge of the eastern district
of said State. And the terms of the court,
now TO be held at Van Buren, shall hereaf-
ter be held at Fort Smith in said district,
and the present district judge of the said
State shall be and remain the district Judge
of the United States for the eastern. district
thereof. as if originally appointed thereto.
SEC g. That so much of au act entitled
IAN act to divide the district of Arkansas
into two judicial districts" approved March
three, eighteen hundred and tiftv-one, as
gives the judge of the district of Arkansas
jurisdiction over the western district of said
State, and all laws inconsistent herewith,
are hereby repealed.
Approved March 3. 1871.