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Volume 49

Public Law 74–385

To provide for terms of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania to be held at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Approved May 13, 1936

Statutory text

AN ACT

To provide for terms of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania to be held at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

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

That terms of the

Pennsylvania Middle Judicial District.

Terms of District Court at Wilkes-Barre.

United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania shall be held at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on the second Monday of April and second Monday of September of each year: Provided, however, That all writs, precepts, and processes shall be

Provisos.

Writs, etc., returnable to terms at Scranton.

returnable to the terms at Scranton and all court papers shall be kept in the clerk’s office at Scranton unless otherwise specially ordered by the court, and the terms at Scranton shall not be terminated or affected by the terms herein provided for at Wilkes-Barre:

Court accommodations at Wilkes-Barre.

Provided further, That this authority shall continue only during such time as suitable accommodations for holding court at Wilkes-Barre are furnished free of expense to the United States.

Approved, May 13, 1936.

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