Chapter 113. To amend section one hundred and three of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven
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CHAP. 113.— An Act To amend section one hundred and three of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven.March 3, 1913.[[S. 7802](/us/bill/62/s/7802).][[Public, No. 415](/us/pl/62/415).] *Be, it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,United States courts.Vol. 36, p. 1123, amended. That section one hundred and three of an Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 103. Pennsylvania judicial districts.That the State of Pennsylvania is divided into three judicial districts, to be known as the eastern, middle, and western Eastern district.districts of Pennsylvania. The eastern district shall include the territory embraced on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, in the counties of Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Lehigh, Terms.Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia, and Schuylkill. Terms of the district court shall be held at Philadelphia on the second Mondays in March and June, the third Monday in September, and the second Monday in December, each term to continue until the Middle district.succeeding term begins.
The middle district shall include the territory embraced on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, in the counties of Adams, Bradford, Cameron, Carbon, Center, Clinton, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lackawanna, Lebanon, Luzerne, Lycoming, Mifflin, Monroe, Montour, Northumberland, Perry, Pike, Potter, Snyder, Terms.Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Union, Wayne, Wyoming, and York. Terms of the district court shall be held at Scranton on the second Monday in March and the third Monday in October, at Harrisburg on the first Mondays in May and December, at Sunbury on the second Monday in January, and at Williamsport on the first Monday in Office, etc., at Harrisburg.June.
The clerk of the court for the middle district shall maintain an office, in charge of himself or a deputy, at Harrisburg, and civil suits instituted at that place shall be tried there, if either party resides nearest that place of holding court, unless by consent of Western district.parties they are removed to another place for trial. The western district shall include the territory embraced on the first day of July, 731nineteen hundred and ten, in the counties of Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Butler, Cambria, Clarion, Clearfield, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Fayette, Forest, Greene, Indiana, Jefferson, Lawrence, McKean, Mercer, Somerset, Venango, Warren, Washington, and Westmoreland.
Terms of the district court shall be held at PittsburghTerms. on the first Monday in May and the third Monday in October, and at Erie on the third Monday in July and the second Monday in January.”" Approved, March 3, 1913.