New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-20
GENERAL NATURE-No. "a !

AN ACT authorizing terms of the Init,
States district courts TO be held at HaIaseau
Arkansas, and for other purposes
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Irn;toSS
States of America in Congress assa.N
bled, That in addition to the terms of ~
district court of the United States for I .Ie
western district of Arkansas. reouirnd s I
existing laws to be held at Van Buren, 4!
the State of Arkansas, there shall be bsi "A
by the judge of said district two terms ~
said court in each year at the city of Helaro'
in said State, on the second M, ,davs- -
March and September. ="
SEC. 2. That such number of Jurors shall
be summoned by the marshal at every fern
of such court to be at Helena as mon
have been ordered at previous term or h.
the district judge in vacation. And
grand jury may be summoned to attend AM
such term of said court when ordered by tIs
court or by the judge thereof in vacat;oD
In case of deficiency of Jurors, talesma.
may be summoned by order of the conrt
SEC. 3. That the district judge NAV al,
journ any of the terms of the court mn.
vided for in this act, from time to time n
suit the convenience of litigants and ~
meet the necessities of the business of surS
terms and the Intervention of a term ~
clude the power to adjourn over to a futnre
day.
SEC. 4. That clerk of said court shall bs
appointed in like manner as other clerks 81
the district courts of the United States ara
appointed, who shall keep his office in aid
city, and who shall be subject to all tbs
duties enjoinetl 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 wears
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. j. That the counties of Phillips
Crittenden, Mississippi, Craighead, Greene
Randolph, Lawrence, Sharp. Poinsett Gross
Saint Francis, Monroe, Woodruff, Jack
son, Independence, lizard, Marion, Fulton
and Boone, in said State, shall hereafterbe
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 6. That so much of an act entitled
IAN 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.
Approved March g. 1871.