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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · April 8, 1878 · Chapter 51

Chapter 51.

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CHAP. 51.— AN ACT to amend section five hundred and forty, chapter one, title thirteen, Revised Statutes of the United States.April 8, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,R. S., 510, p. 90.Amended. That section five hundred and forty, of chapter one and title thirteen of the Revised Statutes, be amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 540. The State of Missouri is divided into two districts, whichMissouri, judicial districts of. shall lie called the eastern and the western district of Missouri.
The 36 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 51, 58, 59, 60, 61. 1878. eastern district includes the counties of Schuyler, Adair, Knox, Shelby, Monroe, Pike, Montgomery, Gasconade, Franklin, Washington, Reynolds, Shannon, and Oregon, as they existed January first, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, with all the counties east of them. The western district includes the residue of said State. " Approved, April 8, 1878.
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