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54 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 3D SESS. -CHS. 97, 100-APR . 12, 17, 1940 "If the Commission shall have conveyed all of its properties and rights to the State of New York and to the Canadian interests, as provided in section 6 hereof, the Commission shall be dissolved and shall cease to have further existence, after all bonds issued by the Commission and the interest thereon shall have been paid, and all other obligations of the Commission paid or discharged, or provision for all such payments shall have been made, as hereinbefore provided. In the event that construction of such bridge is not commenced by the Commission and carried to completion within the times prescribed by section 6 hereof, the Commission shall be dissolved and shall cease to have further existence by an order of the comptroller of the State of New York, made on his own initiative or upon application of the Commission or any member or members thereof, but only after a public hearing in the city of Niagara Falls, notice of the time and place of which hearing and the purpose thereof shall have been pub- lished once, at least thirty days before the date thereof in a newspaper published in the city of Niagara Falls, New York, and in a newspaper published in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada." Approved, April 12, 1940. 109 Dissolution. [CHAPTER 100] AN ACT April 17, 1940 To provide for terms of the District Court of the United States for the Western [H. R. 74211 District of Arkansas at Fayetteville. [Public, N*. 44M Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsections (a), (b), and (c) of section 71 of the Judicial Code, as amended (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 144 (a), (b), and (c), be and they are hereby, amended to read as follows: "SEC. 71. (a) The State of Arkansas is divided into two districts, to be known as the western and eastern districts of Arkansas. "(b) The western district shall include five divisions constituted as follows: The Texarkana division, which shall include the territory embraced on July 1, 1920, in the counties of Sevier Howard, Little River, Pike, Hempstead, Miller, Lafayette, and Nevada; the El Dorado division, which shall include the territory embraced on such date in the counties of Columbia, Ouachita, Union, Ashley, Bradley, and Calhoun; the Fort Smith division, which shall include the territory embraced on such date in the counties of Polk, Scott, Logan, Sebastian, Franklin, Crawford, and Johnson; the Harrison division, which shall include the territory embraced on such date in the counties of Baxter Boone, Carroll, Marion, Newton, and Searcy; and the Fayetteville division, which shall include the territory embraced on such date in the counties of Benton, Madison, and Washington. "(c) Terms of the district court for the Texarkana division shall be held at Texarkana on the second Mondays in May and November; for the El Dorado division, at El Dorado on the third Mondays in April and October; for the Fort Smith division, at Fort Smith on the second Mondays in January and June; for the Harrison division, at Harrison on the first Mondays in April and October; and for the Fayetteville division at Fayetteville on the second Mondays in March and October: Provided, That suitable rooms and accommodations for holding court at Fayetteville are furnished without expense to the United States: And provided further,That nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the provision of quarters for the officers Judicial Code, amendments. 3B Stat. 1106 . Post, p . 302. Arkansas judicial districts. Western district. Texarkana division. El Dorado division. Fort Smith division. Harrison division. Fayetteville divi- sion. Terms of court. Provsos. Rooms, etc., at Fay- etteville. Accommodations in new Federal building