Chapter 1335. Amending an Act creating the middle district of Pennsylvania
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CHAP. 1335.— An Act Amending an Act creating the middle district of Pennsylvania. June 30, 1902.[[Public, No. 212](/us/pl/57/212).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the terms of the circuit United States courts.Pennsylvania middle judicial district.Terms of courts. and district courts of the middle district of Pennsylvania shall be as follows, to wit: At the city of Scranton, in the county of Lackawanna, on the fourth Monday of February and the third Monday of October Vol. 31, p. 880, amended. in each year; at the city of Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin, on the first Monday of May and the first Monday of December in each year, and at the city of Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming, on the second Monday of January and the second Monday of June in each year.
The sessions of the said courts shall continue for such time as the judges thereof shall severally direct and determine; and adjourned sittings and sessions may be held from time to time according as the business of the said courts shall, in the opinion of the same, require it. Sec. 2. That the records of the circuit and the district courts shall Permanent records to be kept at Scranton.Temporary records. be kept at the city of Scranton; but the said courts may provide by rule for the keeping of provisional or temporary records at Harrisburg and Williamsport of such actions, suits, or proceedings as may be there entered or brought.
Nothing herein contained, however, shall be construed as requiring the removal to Scranton of the records of the late courts of the western district at Williamsport, but the same shall there remain as heretofore, under the control and direction of the courts of the middle district, as provided in the ninth section of the Act, to which this is an amendment, and in the charge and custody of the respective clerks thereof. Sec. 3. That the number of traverse or petit jurors summoned to Jurors. attend at any term of the said court shall not be less than twenty-four nor more than forty-eight, as the said courts by their order from time to time shall direct.
Approved, June 30, 1902.