New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-26
lGEkEKAL NAruRE-No. 3sl

C.I
AN ACT authorizing terms of the Unitad
States district courts to be held at Helena
Arkansas, and for other purposes
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Un;tsS
States of America in Congress assem-
bled That in addition to the terms of tbs
district court of the United States for ths
western district of Arkansas, required h.
existing laws to be held at Van Buren,. Il
the State of Arkansas, there shall be belS
by the Judge of said district two terms Of
said court liz 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 sha
be summoned by the marshal at every term
of such court to be at Helena as NAV
have been ordered at a previous term or BY
the district judge in vacation. And 4
grand jury may be summoned to attend anv
such term of said court when ordered by tbs
court or by the judge thereof in vacation
In case of a deficiency of jurors, talesmen
NAV be summoned by order of the court.
SEC. 3. That the district judge may ad
iourn any of the terms of the court pro.
yided for in this act, from time to time. IA
suit the convenience of litigants and h
meet the necessities of the business of such
terms: and the Intervention of term Of
such court at any other place shall not ORE.
clude the power to adjourn over to future
day.
SEC. 4. That clerk of said court shall he
appointed in like manner as other clerks Of
tile district courts of the United States arr
appointed, who shall keep his Office in said
city, and who shall be subject to all the
duties enioine,l 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
Rock. ...
Sec. 5. That the counties of Phillips,
Crittenden, Mississippi, Craighead, Greene,
Randolph, Lawrence, Sharp. Poinsett, Cros,
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 die.
triet 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, a 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 distric
thereof, as if originally appointed thereto.
SEC. 6. That so much of an act entitled
"An act to divide the district of Arkansas
into two judicial districts approved March
three, eighteen hundred and tifty-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.
Annrayed March 3 lS1l.