United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/18th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 170
Chap. CLXX.—An Act to alter the judicial districts of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes.[1]
Certain counties to compose a part of the western, instead of the eastern judicial district of Pennsylvania.
Time and place of holding courts.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following counties in the state of Pennsylvania shall cease to be a part of the eastern judicial district of Pennsylvania, and shall be added to, and form a part of, the western district; that is to say: Susquehanna, Bradford, Tioga, Union, Northumberland, Columbia, Luzerne, and Lycoming: and that, besides the terms of the district court directed by law to be held at Pittsburg, for the western district, the judge of the said western district shall hold two terms in every year, at William’s Port, in the county of Lycoming, which shall commence on the first Mondays of the months of June and October, in each and every year, beginning in October next, and be continued and adjourned from time to time, as the court may deem expedient for the despatch of the business thereof.
Approved, May 26, 1824.
- ↑ See notes to the act of May 15, 1820, ch. 111.