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 74TH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 695. JUNE 22, 1936. 1805 [CHAPTER 695 .1 AN ACT June 22, 1936. To provide for the appointment of an additional district judge for the northern 	[S. 2456 .] and southern districts of West Virginia. [Public, No.745.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o America in Congress assembled Tha t the Pr esident West Virginia north~ f ern and southern judY- of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the cial districts. Senate, is hereby authorized to appoint an additional district judge for the northern and southern districts of West Virginia, who shall, t hAdd it foal judge as at the time of his appointment, be a resident and a citizen of the Lions, powers, etc. State of West Virginia ; and who, when appointed and qualified as provided by law, shall exercise all the powers conferred by existing law upon judges of the District Courts of the United States ; and who shall, as to all business and proceedings arising in said northern and southern districts of West Virginia, as now constituted or which may be transferred thereto, succeed to and possess the same powers, and perform the same duties within said districts, that are now possessed and performed by the district judges heretofore appointed for and now serving therein, respectively. The present district judge for the northern district of West No rthe rn di stri ct. Virginia shall hold regular terms of court in said northern district, Terms of court. at the following places and times, that is to say : (a) At the city of Martinsburg on the first Tuesday in April and the th ird Tues day in Septembe r in ea ch year ; (b) At the city of Wheeling on the first Tuesday in May and the third Tuesday in October in each year ; (c) At the ci ty of Elkins on the th ird Tuesdays in June a nd November in each year ; (d) Said judge shall also hold such special terms as may be neces- Sp ecial terms. sary for the orderly dispatch of the business of said court ; the same to be held at said places and at such times as he shall appoint. The present district judge for the southern district of West Vir- S outhern d istrict. ginia shall hold regular terms of court in said southern district at Terms. the following places and times, that is to say (a) At the city of Bluefield on the third Tuesdays in January and June in each year ; (b) At the city of Lewisburg on the first Tuesday in March and the th ird Tues day in Septembe r in ea ch year ; (c) At the city of Charleston on the third Tuesdays in April and November in each year ; (d) Said judge shall also hold such special terms as may be neces- S pecial terms. sary for the orderly dispatch of the business of said court ; the same to be held at said places and at such times as he shall appoint. T he distr ict jud ge for t he said norther n and s outhern distric ts J udge for northern of West Virginia, to be appointed under this Act, shall hold reg'u- and southern districts, terms of court. lar te rms of c ourt in said no rthern and sout hern di stricts at the following places and times ; that is to say (a) At the city of Clarksburg, in said northern district, on the second Tuesdays in January and September in each year ; (b) At the city of Parkersburg, in said northern district, on the third Tuesday in March and the second Tuesday in October in each year ; (c) At the city of Huntington, in said southern district, on the second Tuesdays in May and November in each year ; (d) Said judge shal l also hold such spec ial terms as may be Special terms. necess ary for the ord erly dis patch o f the bu siness of said court ; the same to be held at said places and at such times as he shall appoint : Provided, however, That whenever a vacancy shall occur proviso ° in the office of the district judge for the northern district of West Filling vacancy.