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Public Law 75–728

To amend section 77 of the Judicial Code, as amended, to create a Brunswick division in the southern district of Georgia, with terms of court to be held at Brunswick.

Approved August 21, 1937

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend section 77 of the Judicial Code, as amended, to create a Brunswick division in the southern district of Georgia, with terms of court to be held at Brunswick.

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

That subsections

Judicial Codes amendments.

28 U. S. C. § 150 (f), (g).

(f) and (g) of section 77 of the Judicial Code, as amended, are amended to read as follows:

“(f)

The southern district shall include five divisions, to be constituted

Georgia southern judicial district.

Augusta division.

as follows: The Augusta division, which shall include the territory embraced on January 1, 1925, in the counties of Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Jefferson, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Taliaferro, Warren, and Wilkes; the Dublin division, which shall include

Dublin division.

the territory embraced on such date in the counties of Dodge, Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs, Treutlen, and Wheeler; the Savannah division, which shall include the territory

Savannah division.

embraced on such date in the counties of Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans, Jenkins, Liberty, Screven, and Tattnall; the Waycross division which shall include the territory embraced on

Waycross division.

such date in the counties of Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Brantley, Charlton, Coffee, Pierce, and Ware; and the Brunswick division,

Brunswick division.

which shall include the territory embraced on such date in the counties of Appling, Camden, Glynn, Jeff Davis, Long, McIntosh, and Wayne.

“(g)

The terms of the district court for the Augusta division shall be held at Augusta on the first Monday in April and the third Monday in November; for the Dublin division at Dublin on the third

Provisos.

Court Accommodations.

Mondays in January and June: Provided, That suitable rooms and accommodations are furnished for holding court at Dublin, free of cost to the Government, until a public Building shall have been erected or put into proper condition for such purpose in said city; for the Savannah division at Savannah on the second Tuesdays in February, May, August, and November; for the Waycross division at Waycross on the second Mondays in June and December; for the Brunswick division at Brunswick on the second Mondays in March

Quarters at Brunswick, no Federal expense.

Middle district, Valdosta division.

Clinch County added.

28 U. S. C. § 150 (d).

and October: Provided, That no cost shall be incurred by the Government in furnishing quarters for holding court at Brunswick.”

Sec. 2.

Subsection (d) of section 77 of the Judicial Code, as amended, is amended by inserting after the name “Berrien” a comma and the name “Clinch”.

Approved, August 21, 1937.

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