Volume 20 · 36
Public Law 45–51
to amend section five hundred and forty, chapter one, title thirteen, Revised Statutes of the United States.
Approved April 8, 1878
Statutory text
AN ACT
to amend section five hundred and forty, chapter one, title thirteen, Revised Statutes of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section five hundred and forty, of chapter one and title thirteen of the Revised Statutes, be amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 540.
The State of Missouri is divided into two districts, which
Missouri, judicial districts of.
shall lie called the eastern and the western district of Missouri. The FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 51, 58, 59, 60, 61. 1878. eastern district includes the counties of Schuyler, Adair, Knox, Shelby, Monroe, Pike, Montgomery, Gasconade, Franklin, Washington, Reynolds, Shannon, and Oregon, as they existed January first, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, with all the counties east of them. The western district includes the residue of said State.
Approved, April 8, 1878.