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Volume 54 · 110

Public Law 76–100

To provide for terms of the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Approved April 17, 1940

Statutory text

AN ACT

To provide for terms of the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

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

That subsections

Judicial Code, amendments.

36 Stat. 1106.

Post, p. 302.

(a), (b), and (c) of section 71 of the Judicial Code, as amended (U. S. C., title 28, Sec. 144 (a), (b), and (c), be and they are hereby, amended to read as follows:

“Sec. 71.

(a)

The State of Arkansas is divided into two districts,

Arkansas judicial districts.

to be known as the western and eastern districts of Arkansas.

“(b)

The western district shall include five divisions constituted

Western district.

Texarkana division.

as follows: The Texarkana division, which shall include the territory embraced on July 1, 1920, in the counties of Sevier Howard, Little River, Pike, Hempstead, Miller, Lafayette, and Nevada; the El

El Dorado division.

Dorado division, which shall include the territory embraced on such date in the counties of Columbia, Ouachita, Union, Ashley, Bradley, and Calhoun; the Fort Smith division, which shall include the

Fort Smith division.

territory embraced on such date in the counties of Polk, Scott, Logan, Sebastian, Franklin, Crawford, and Johnson; the Harrison division,

Harrison division.

which shall include the territory embraced on such date in the counties of Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Marion, Newton, and Searcy; and the Fayetteville division, which shall include the territory

Fayetteville division.

embraced on such date in the counties of Benton, Madison, and Washington.

“(c)

Terms of the district court for the Texarkana division shall

Terms of court.

be held at Texarkana on the second Mondays in May and November; for the El Dorado division, at El Dorado on the third Mondays in April and October; for the Fort Smith division, at Fort Smith on the second Mondays in January and June; for the Harrison division, at Harrison on the first Mondays in April and October; and for the Fayetteville division at Fayetteville on the second Mondays in March and October: Provided, That suitable rooms and accommodations

Provisos.

Rooms, etc., at Fayetteville.

Accommodations in new Federal building.

for holding court at Fayetteville are furnished without expense to the United States: And provided further, That nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the provision of quarters for the officers of said court and appropriate courtrooms for the holding of the sessions of said court in any new Federal building which may be constructed in Fayetteville.”

Approved, April 17, 1940.

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