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Volume 53

Public Law 76–356

To amend the Act entitled “An Act to create a new division of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas”, approved May 26, 1928 (45 Stat. 747).

Approved July 25, 1939

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend the Act entitled “An Act to create a new division of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas”, approved May 26, 1928 (45 Stat. 747).

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

That the Act to create a new division of the District Court of the United States for

45 Stat. 747.

28 U. S. C. § 189.

the Northern District of Texas, approved May 26, 1928 (45 Stat. 747), be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows:

Lubbock division.

“That there is hereby 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

Terms of court.

the Lubbock 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 fourth Monday in November.

Clerk’s office.

“The clerk of the court for the northern district shall maintain an 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All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved, July 25, 1939.

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