Chapter CVI. authorizing Terms of the United States District Courts to be held at Helena, Arkansas, and for other Purposes
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CHAP. CVI.— An Act authorizing Terms of the United States District Courts to be held at Helena, Arkansas, and for other Purposes.March 3, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That in addition to the terms ofTwo additional terms of the district court for the western district of Arkansas at Helena. the district court of the United States for the western district of Arkansas, required by existing laws to be held at Van Buren, in the State of Arkansas, there shall be held by the judge of said district two terms of said court in each year at the city of Helena, in said State, on the second Mondays of March and September. 472 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 106, 107. 1871. Sec. 2. That such number of jurors shall be summoned by the marshalGrand and petit jurors. at every term of such court to be at Helena as may have been ordered at a previous term or by the district judge in vacation. And a grand jury may be summoned to attend any such term of said court when ordered by the court or by the judge thereof in vacation. In case of a deficiency of jurors, talesmen may be summoned by order of the court. Sec. 3. That the district judge may adjourn any of the terms of theAdjournments; court provided for in this act, from time to time, to suit the convenience of litigants and to meet the necessities of the business of such terms; andnot affected by intervening terms, &c. the intervention of a term of such court at any other place shall not preclude the power to adjourn over to a future day.
Sec. 4. That a clerk of said court shall be appointed in like manner asClerk, office, duties. other clerks of the district courts of the United States are appointed, who shall keep his office in said city, and who shall be subject to all the duties enjoined by law on clerks of the district courts aforesaid: *Provided, however,*No court to be held at Helena, until, &c. That no court shall be held at Helena in pursuance of this act until an instrument in writing, duly executed by the proper authorities of the county of Phillips, agreeing to furnish suitable rooms for the holding of said court, for the term of ten years, without any charge to the government of the United States, shall first be filed in the office of the clerk of said court at Little Rock.
Sec. 5. That the counties of Phillips, Crittenden, Mississippi, Craighead,Counties composing the western district. Greene, Randolph, Lawrence, Sharp, Poinsett, Cross, Saint Francis, Monroe, Woodruff, Jackson, Independence, Izzard, Marion, Fulton, and Boone, in said State, shall hereafter be deemed and be a part of the western district of Arkansas, and there shall be appointed by the PresidentDistrict judge to be appointed. of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a district judge for the western district aforesaid, who shall, from and after the time of his appointment, hold the terms of court at the times and places required by law.
Said district judge shall be paid the sameSalary. salary and in the same manner as the judge of the eastern district of said State. And the terms of the court, now required to be held at VanTerms now required to be held at Van Buren to be at Fort Smith.Judge of eastern district to continue. Buren, shall hereafter be held at Fort Smith in said district, and the present district judge of the said State shall be and remain the district judge of the United States for the eastern district thereof, as if originally appointed thereto.
Sec. 6. That so much of an act entitled “An act to divide the districtRepeal of part of act of1851, ch. 24.Vol. ix. p. 594. of Arkansas into two judicial districts,” approved March three, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, as gives the judge of the district of Arkansas jurisdiction over the western district of said State, and all laws inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. Approved, March 3, 1871.