Chapter 136. To amend section ninety of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 136.— An Act To amend section ninety of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes. May 27, 1912.[[H. R. 19238](/us/bill/62/hr/19238).][[Public, No. 168](/us/62/pl/168).] *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. 1116, amended.*Ante*, p. 59. That section ninety 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. 90. The State of Mississippi is divided into two judicial districts,Mississippi judicial districts. to be known as the northern and southern districts of Mississippi. The northern district shall include the territory embraced onNorthern district.Eastern division. the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, in the counties of Alcorn, Attala, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Itawamba, Lee. Lowndes, Monroe, Oktibbeha, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tishomingo, and Winston, which shall constitute the eastern division of said district; also theWestern division. territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Benton, Calhoun, Carroll, De Soto, Grenada, Lafayette, Marshall, Montgomery, Panola, Tate, Tippah, Union, Webster, and Yalobusha, which shall constitute the western division of said district; also theDelta division created. territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Bolivar, Coahoma, Leflore, Quitman, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, and Tunica, which shall constitute the Delta divison of said district.
TheTerms. terms of the district court for the eastern division shall be held at Aberdeen on the first Mondays in April and October; and for the western division, at Oxford on the first Mondays in June and December; and for the Delta division, at Clarksdale on the fourth Mondays in January and July: *Provided*, That suitable rooms and accommodations*Proviso*.Rooms at Clarksdale. for holding court at Clarksdale are furnished free of expense to the United States. The southern district shall include the territorySouthern district.Jackson division. embraced on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, in the counties of Adams, Amite, Copiah, Covington, Franklin, Hinds, Holmes, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Madison, Pike, Rankin, Simpson, Smith, Scott, Wilkinson, and Yazoo, which shall constitute the Jackson division; also the territory embraced on theWestern division. date last mentioned in the counties of Claiborne, Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, and Washington, which shall constitute the western division: also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the countiesEastern division. of Clarke, Jones, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, and Wayne, which shall constitute the eastern division: alsoSouthern division. the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of119Forrest, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Lamar, Marion, Perry, and Pearl River, which shall constitute the southern division of said district.
Terms of the district court for the Jackson division shall beTerms. held at Jackson on the first Mondays in May and November; for the western division, at Vicksburg on the first Mondays in January and July; for the eastern division, at Meridian on the second Mondays in March and September; and for the southern division, at Biloxi on the third Mondays in February and August. The clerk of the court forOffices. each district shall maintain an office in charge of himself or a deputy at each place in his district at which court is now required to be held at which he shall not himself reside, which shall be Kept open at all times for the transaction of the business of the court.
The marshal for each of said districts shall maintain an office in charge of himself or a deputy at each place of holding court in his district.” " Approved, May 27, 1912.