Chapter 8. To amend section ninety-one of an 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. 8.— An Act To amend section ninety-one of an Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven. December 22, 1911.[[H. R. 15462](/us/bill/62/hr/15462).][[Public, No. 53](/us/pl/62/53).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That section ninety-one of anUnited States courts.Vol. 36, p. 1117, amended. 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. 91. That the State of Missouri is divided into two judicialMissouri judicial districts. districts, to be known as the eastern and western districts of Missouri.Eastern district.Eastern division. The eastern district shall include the territory embraced on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, in the city of Saint Louis and the counties of Andrian, Crawford, Dent, Franklin, Gasconade, Iron, Jefferson, Lincoln, Maries, Montgomery, Phelps, Saint Charles, Saint Francois, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Louis, Warren, and Washington, which shall constitute the eastern division of said district; also theNorthern division. territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the. counties of Adair, Chariton, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Linn, Macon, Marion, Monroe, Pike, Ralls, Randolph, Schuyler, Scotland, and Shelby, which shall constitute the northern division of said district; also the territorySoutheastern division. embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Madison, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Perry, Reynolds, Ripley, Scott, Shannon, Stoddard, and Wayne, which shall constitute the southeastern division of said district.
Terms of the district court for the eastern division shall beTerms. 52held at Saint Louis on the third Mondays in March and September *Proviso*.Rooms at Rolla.and at Rolla on the second Mondays in January and June: *Provided,* That suitable rooms and accommodations for holding court at Rolla are furnished free of expense to the United States; for the northern division at Hannibal on the fourth Monday in May and the first Monday in December; and for the southeastern division, at Cape Girardeau on the second Mondays in April and October.
Western district.Western division.“The western district shall include the territory embraced on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, in the counties of Bates, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Grundy, Henry, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Livingston, Mercer, Putnam, Ray, Saint Clair, Saline, and Southwestern division.Sullivan, which shall constitute the western division; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Barton, Barry, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton, Stone, and Vernon, Saint Joseph, division.which shall constitute the southwestern division; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Clinton, Daviess, Dekalb, Gentry, Holt, Harrison, Nodaway, Platte, and Worth, which shall constitute the Saint Central division.Joseph division; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Benton, Boone, Callaway, Cooper, Camden, Cole, Hickory, Howard, Miller, Moniteau, Morgan, Osage, and Pettis, Southern division.which shall constitute the central division; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Christian, Cedar, Dade, Dallas, Douglas, Greene, Howell, Laclede, Oregon, Ozark, Polk, Pulaski, Taney, Texas, Webster, and Wright, which shall constitute the southern division.
Terms.“Terms of the district court for the western division shall be held at Kansas City on the fourth Monday in April and the first Monday in November, and at Chillicothe on the fourth Monday in May and *Proviso*.Rooms at Chillicothe.the first Monday in December: *Provided,* That suitable rooms and accommodations for holding court at Chillicothe are furnished free of expense to the United States; for the southwestern division, at Joplin on the second Mondays in June and January; for the Saint Joseph division, at Saint Joseph on the first Monday in March and the third Monday in September; for the central division, at Jefferson City on the third Mondays in March and October; and for the southern division, at Springfield on the first Mondays in April and October.
Offices of clerks.Eastern district.“The clerk of the court at Saint Louis, in the eastern district, shall maintain an office in charge of himself or a deputy at Saint Louis and Hannibal and at such other places of holding court in said district as may be deemed necesssary by the judge, which shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of the business of the court. Western district.“The clerk of the court for the western district shall maintain an office in charge of himself or a deputy at Kansas City, at Jefferson City, at Saint Joseph, at Chillicothe, at Joplin, and at Springfield, which shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of the business of the court.
Offices of marshals.“The marshal for each district shall also maintain an office in charge of himself or a deputy at each place at which court is now held in his district.” " Approved, December 22, 1911.