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Volume 52

Public Law 75–351

To amend the Act of May 13, 1936, providing for terms of the United States district court at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Approved June 13, 1938

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend the Act of May 13, 1936, providing for terms of the United States district court at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

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

That the Act entitled “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”, approved May 13, 1936, is amended to read as follows:

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Terms of court at Wilkes-Barre.

That terms of the 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

Proviso.

Writs, etc, returnable to terms at Scranton; terms not affected, etc.

each year: Provided, however, That all writs, precepts, and processes shall be 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.”

Approved, June 13, 1938.

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