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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 390, 391. 1900. 175 olina in the city of Florence on the first Tuesday in March in each year hereafter: Provided, however, That suitable rooms and accommo- c0Prwt¤¤- dations are furnished for the holding of said courts at Florence free °m°°m°' of expense to the Government of the United States. Approved, May 10, 1900. CHAP. ·391 .——An Act To amend the Revised Statutes of the United States relating MW 12. 1900- to the northern district of New York, to divide the same into two districts, and pro- ""`W‘_ vide for the terms of court to be held therein and the officers thereof and the disposition of pending causes. l Be it enacted by the Senate and House of R esentatiues of the United States of America in ébngress assembled, Tlitat section five hundred ,,,§§}‘§,_}’,‘{{,,’§,{},‘;""°’“ gnili forty-one of the Revised Statutes be amended so as to read as dig3¢;ié¤¤ i¤t6 two o ows: ‘ "The State of New York is divided into four districts, which shall ,,,§;,§;;,§‘f°· 5*1- P- 9*- be called the western, northern, eastern, and southern districts of New ‘·'V¤¤t¤r¤ district. ¤f York. The western district includes the counties of Allegany, Catta- wh”°°mp°°°d` raugus, Chautauqua, Chemung), Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario, Orleans, Sc uyler, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates, with the waters thereof. The northern district includes the counties of Alba_ny, Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Clinton, Cortland, Delaware, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, J eiferson, Lewis, Madison, Montgomery, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, Otsego, Rensselaer, Saint Lawrence, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Tioga, Tompkins, Warren, and Washington, .with the waters thereof. The eastern district includes the counties of Richmond, Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk, with the waters thereof. The southern district includes the residue of said State, with the waters thereof." Sec. 2. That the President of the United States, by and with the "‘“““'i°tj“d€°*°’- advice and consent of the Senate, shall a point a district judge for the western district of New York, who shall)possess and exercise all the powers conferred b existing law upon the judges of the district courts of the Unitecf States, and who shall, as to a 1 business and proceedings arising in said western district as hereby constituted or transferred thereto, succeed to and (possess the same powers and perform the same duties within the said western district as are now possessed $1d lperforrnedby the district judge for the northern district of New or. A A Sec. 3. That that part of section five hundred and seventy-two of coiljjtfms ¤t dimtt the Revised Statutes declaring the times, places, and provisions for ns., seesvz, p. 100, holdin terms of the district court in the northern district of New ’”"°"°°d· York be, and is hereby, repealed, and that said section be, and is hereby, amended by inserting in place of the part so repealed the followin two ara ra sz ’ e . "I1% the nbrthernpdistrict of New York, at Albany, on the second ·i¤ ¤°*th°’¤ district- Tuesday of February; at Utica, on the first Tuesday of December; at Binghamton, on the second Tuesday of June; at Auburn, on the first Tuesday of October; at Syracuse, on the first Tuesday of Alpril, and, in the discretion of the judge of the court, one term annual y at such time and place within the counties of Saratogia, Onondaga, Saint Lawrence, Clinton, J eiferson, Oswego, and Fran hn as he may. from time to time appoint. Such appointment shall be made by notice of at least twelnty days pullrlislhedi in a newspaper published at the place where sai court is to e el . ‘ . "In the western district of New York, at the city of Elmira, on the ··i¤‘· ttm °“¤t*'l°t- second Tuesday of January; at the city of Buffalo, on the second Tuesdays of March and November; at the city of Rochester, on the second Tuesday of May; at the city of Jamestown, on the second Tuesday of July; at the city of Lockport, on the second Tuesday of October."