Public Law 38–V

That hereafter the circuit and district courts of the United States for the district of West Tennessee shall be holden at the city of Memphis in said district, on the first Monday in March and the first Monday in September of each year, and at no other place. And all process, civil and criminal, which may have been, or hereafter may be, issued, returnable to said courts at Jackson or Huntingdon, in said district, shall be returned to said courts, respectively, at the city of Memphis; and all books and records of every kind, pertaining to said courts, shall be transferred from the places where said courts have heretofore been held to the city of Memphis.

Sec. 2.

And be it further enacted, That the judges of the United States circuit court and of the United States district court for the several districts of Tennessee, may, whenever in their opinion the public interests require it, appoint special terms of their respective courts at Knoxville, Nashville, and Memphis, to be holden at such times as said judges, respectively, shall deem most conducive to the public good; notice of each

What notice to be given.

special term appointed under the provisions of this act shall be published in at least one newspaper printed in the town or city in which a term is to be held, for four consecutive weeks.