Chapter 212. To amend section 90 of the Judicial Code of the United States, approved March 3, 1911, so as to change the time of holding certain terms of the District Court of Mississippi
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CHAP. 212.— An Act To amend section 90 of the Judicial Code of the United States, approved March 3, 1911, so as to change the time of holding certain terms of the District Court of Mississippi. February 12, 1925.[[H. R. 466](/us/bill/68/hr/466).][[Public, No. 400](/us/pl/68/400).] *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * United States courts.Vol. 37, p. 118, amended. That section 90 of the Judicial Code be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 90. The State of Mississippi is divided into two judicial districts to be known as the northern and southern districts of Northern district.Mississippi. The northern district shall include the territory embraced on the 1st day of December, 1923, in the counties of Alcorn, Attala, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Itawamba, Lee, Lowndes, Monroe, Oktibbeha, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tishomingo, and Winston, which Eastern division.shall constitute the eastern division of said district; also the 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 Yalabusha, Western division.which shall constitute the western division of said district; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Bolivar, Coahoma, Leflore, Quitman, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, and Delta division.Tunica, which shall constitute the Delta division of said district.
Terms.The 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 third Monday in April and the first Monday in December; and for the Delta division, at Clarksdale on the fourth Monday in January and the third Monday in October. Southern district.The southern district shall include the territory embraced on the 1st day of December, 1923, in the counties of Amite, Copiah, Covington, Franklin, Hinds, Holmes, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Leake, Lincoln, Madison, Pike, Rankin, Simpson, Smith, Scott, Wilkinson, Jackson division.and Yazoo, which shall constitute the Jackson division; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Adams, Claiborne, Humphreys, Issaquena, Jefferson, Sharkey, Western division.Warren, and Washington, Southern division.Terms.which shall constitute the western division; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Clarke, Jones, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Neshoba, Eastern division.Newton, Noxubee, and Wayne, which shall constitute the eastern division; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Lamar, Marion, Perry, Pearl.
River, Stone, and Walthall, which shall constitute the southern division of said district. Terms of the district court for the Jackson division shall be held at Jackson on the first Mondays in May and November; for the western division at Vicksburg on the third Mondays in May and November; for the eastern division at Meridian on the third Mondays in March and September; and for the southern division at Biloxi on the third 883Monday in February and the first Monday in June. The clerkOfficers. of the court for each district shall maintain an office in charge of him-self, 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, February 12, 1925.