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59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CHS. 594-596-DEC. 28 , 1945 benefits to which they may be entitled under the laws of the United States, and no such employee shall suffer, by virtue of being placed in the status of a civil-service employee by this Act, a reduction in total pay below that being received by him on the effective date of this Act. Approved December 28, 1945. [CHAPTER 595] AN ACT 661 December 28, 1945 To permit the inclusion of land occupied by Dibble General Hospital within the [H. R. 2965] corporate limits of the city of Menlo Park, California. [Public Law 275] Be it enacted by, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to take such action as may be necessary under the laws of the State of California to provide for or permit the inclusion within the corporate limits of the city of Menlo Park, California, of the tract of land occupied by the Dibble General Hospital, if requested so to do by such city within one year after the date of the enactment of this Act. The inclusion of such tract within the corporate limits of such city shall not affect the exclusive jurisdiction over such land heretofore accepted by the United States. Approved December 28, 1945. [CHAPTER 596] AN ACT To amend section 112 of the Judicial Code to change the times for holding the terms of the District Court for the Eastern District of the State of Washington. Menlo Park, Calif. Dibble General Hospital. December 28, 1945 [H. R. 3167] [Public Law 276] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 112 of Wadcshingtonudicial the Judicial Code, as amended (U. S . C., 1940 edition, title 28, sec. 36Stat. 1128. 193), is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 112 . The State of Washington is divided into two districts, to be known as the eastern and western districts of Washington. The Estern d'rlct eastern district shall include the territory embraced on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, in the counties of Spokane, Stevens, W Ferry, Okanogan, Chelan, Grant, Douglas, Lincoln, Adams, and Whitman, with the waters thereof, including all Indian reservations within said counties, which shall constitute the northern division; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties Southern division. of Asotin, Garfield, Columbia, Franklin, Walla Walla, Benton, Klicki- tat, Kittitas, and Yakima, with the waters thereof, including all Indian reservations within said counties, which shall constitute the southern division of said district. Terms of the district court for Tems of district the northern division shall be held at Spokane on the first Tuesdays ourt. in April and September; for the southern division, at Yakima on the third Tuesday in May and on the second Tuesday in November, and at Walla Walla on the first Tuesdays in June and December. The W.oer it western district shall include the territory embraced on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, in the counties of Whatcom Skagit, Snohomish, King, San Juan, Island, Kitsap, Clallam, and Jefferson, with the waters thereof, including all Indian reservations within said counties, which shall constitute the northern division; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties souther divisio of Pierce, Mason, Thurston, Chehalis, Pacific, Lewis, Wahkiakum, Cowlitz, Clarke, and Skamania, with the waters thereof, including all Indian reservations within said counties which shall constitute the