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Public Law 75–349

To provide for holding terms of the district court of the United States at Hutchinson, Kansas.

Approved June 13, 1938

Statutory text

AN ACT

To provide for holding terms of the district court of the United States at Hutchinson, Kansas.

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

That section 82 of

United States courts,

36 Stat. 1112.

28 U. S. C. § 157.

the Judicial Code, as amended (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 157) is amended to read as follows:

“The State of Kansas shall constitute one judicial district, to be

Kansas judicial district.

known as the district of Kansas. It is divided into three divisions, to be known as the first, second, and third divisions of the district of Kansas. The first division shall include the territory embraced on the 1st day of July 1910 in the counties of Atchison, Brown, Chase, Cheyenne, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Ellis, Franklin, Geary, Gove, Graham, Jackson, Jefferson, Jewell, Johnson, Leavenworth, Lincoln, Logan, Lyon, Marion, Marshall, Mitchell, Morris, Nemaha, Norton, Osage, Osborne, Ottawa, Phillips, Pottawatomie, Rawlins, Republic. Riley, Rooks, Russell, Saline, Shawnee, Sheridan, Sherman, Smith, Thomas, Trego, Wabaunsee, Wallace, Washington, and Wyandotte. The second

Second division.

division shall include the territory embraced

First division.

on the date last mentioned in the counties of Barber, Barton. Butler, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards, Ellsworth, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Harper, Harvey, Hodgeman, Haskell, Kingman, Kiowa, Kearney, Lane, McPherson, Morton, Meade, Ness, Pratt, Pawnee, Reno, Rice, Rush, Scott, Sedgwick, Stafford, Stevens, Seward, Sumner, Stanton, and Wichita. The third division shall include the

Third division.

territory embraced on the said date last mentioned in the counties of Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey, Chautauqua, Crawford, Elk, Greenwood, Labette, Linn, Miami, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson, and Woodson. Terms of the district court for the first division

Terms.

First division.

shall be held at Leavenworth on the second Monday in October; at Topeka on the second Monday in April; at Kansas City on the first Monday in October and the first Monday in December; and at

Second division.

Salina on the second Monday in May; terms of the district court for the second division shall be held at Wichita on the second Mondays in March and September, and at Hutchinson on the second

Accommodations at Hutchinson.

Monday in June and the first Monday in November, when suitable rooms and accommodations for holding terms of the court shall be provided at Hutchinson free of cost to the United States or until, subject to the recommendation of the Attorney General of the United States with respect to providing such rooms and accommodations for holding court at Hutchinson, a public building containing such

Third division.

suitable rooms and accommodations shall be erected at such place; and for the third division at Fort Scott on the first Monday in May and the

Deputy clerks.

second Monday in November. The clerk of the district court shall appoint three-deputies, one of whom shall reside and keep his office at Fort Scott, one at Wichita, and the other at Salina, and the

Deputy marshals.

marshal shall appoint a deputy who shall reside and keep his office at Fort Scott and the marshal shall also appoint a deputy, who shall reside and keep his office at Kansas City.”

Approved, June 13, 1938.

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