Chapter 104. 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, as amended by the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and thirteen
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CHAP. 104.— 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, as amended by the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and thirteen. June 6, 1914.[[H. R. 15190](/us/bill/63/hr/15190).][[Public, No. 112](/us/pl/63/112).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section one hundred and United States courts.Vol. 36, p. 1123. amended.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, as amended by the Act of Congress approved Vol. 37, p. 730, amended. *Post*, p. 713.March third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
“Sec. 103. That the State of Pennsylvania is divided into three Pennsylvania judicial districts.Eastern district.judicial districts, to be known as the eastern, middle, and western 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, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia, and Schuylkill. Terms of Terms.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 succeeding term begins.
The middle district shall include the territory embraced Middle district.on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, in the comities 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, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Union, Wayne, Wyoming, and York. Terms of the district Terms.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 June.
The clerk of Office, etc., at Harrisburg.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 other party resides nearest that place of holding court, unless by consent of parties they are removed to another place for trial. The western district shall include the territory embraced Western district.on the first day of July, nineteen 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 Terms.district court shall be held at Pittsburgh on the first Monday of May and the first Monday of November, and sessions of the court shall be held at Erie on the third Monday of March and the third Monday of September. The clerk and marshal of said district shall have their Principal offices at Pittsburgh.principal offices at Pittsburgh, and shall maintain by themselves or by their deputies, offices at Erie. "“The Clerk shall place all cases in which the defendants reside Trials at Erie.in the counties of said district nearest Erie, upon the trial list for trial at Erie, where the same shall be tried, unless the parties thereto stipulate that the same may be tried at Pittsburgh.”" Approved, June 6, 1914.