Chapter 931. amendatory of and supplementary to “An act to alter the judicial districts of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes,” approved May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, and providing an additional place for holding the several courts thereof
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CHAP. 931.— An Act amendatory of and supplementary to “An act to alter the judicial districts of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes,” approved May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, and providing an additional place for holding the several courts thereof.August 5, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Western judicial district of Pennsylvania.Terms of circuit and district courts to be held at Scranton.Vol. 4, p. 50.R.
S., sec. 658, p. 122.Marshal to provide place for holding court, etc. That besides the terms of the circuit and district courts of the western judicial district of Pennsylvania now directed by law to be held in said western district, there shall be held two terms of each of said courts in every year at Scranton, in the county of Lackawanna, which shall commence the first Mondays of the months of March and September in each and every year, beginning in September next. Sec. 2. That the marshal of said western judicial district shall for the time being, and with the approval of the Attorney-General, provide a suitable place at the city of Scranton for holding the several courts and for keeping the records thereof.
Approved, August 5, 1886.