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Volume 45

Public Law 70–752

To create a new division of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas.

Approved May 26, 1928

Statutory text

An Act

To create a new division of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That there is hereby

Texas northern judicial district.

Lubbock division of, created.

Vol. 36, p. 1125, amended.

Counties constituting.

created, in addition to those now provided by law, a new division of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas, which shall include the territory now embraced in the counties of Bailey, Borden, Lamb, Floyd, Kent, Motley, Hale, Dickens, Crosby, Lubbock, Scurry, Hockley, Cochran, Yoakum, Terry, Lynn, Garza, Dawson, and Gaines, which shall constitute the Lubbock

Terms of court.

division of said district. Terms of the district court for the Lubbock division shall be held at Lubbock on the third Monday in May and the second Monday in December: Provided, That suitable accommodations

Proviso.

Room to be furnished.

for holding court at Lubbock shall be provided by the county or municipal authorities without expense to the United States.

The clerk of the court for the northern district shall maintain an

Office of clerk.

office in charge of himself or a deputy, in addition to the places now provided, at Lubbock, which shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of the business of the court.

Sec. 2.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby

Conflicting laws repealed.

repealed.

Approved, May 26, 1928.

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