the eastern district of Pennsylvania, one additional district judge for the middle district of Pennsylvania, two additional district judges for the western district of Pennsylvania, one additional district judge for the district of Puerto Rico, one additional district judge for the eastern and western districts of South Carolina, one additional district judge for the eastern district of Tennessee, one additional district judge for the middle district of Tennessee, one additional district judge for the western district of Tennessee, two additional district judges for the northern district of Texas, one additional district judge for the southern district of Texas, one additional district judge for the western district of Texas, and one additional district judge for the eastern and western districts of Washington.

(b) The existing district judgeship for the middle district of Georgia, created by the Act of March 29, 1949 (63 Stat. 16), entitled "An Act to provide for the appointment of an additional district judge for the middle district of Georgia", and the existing district judgeships for the district of New Mexico, the western district of Pennsylvania, and the district of Utah created by paragraphs (1), (5), and (6), respectively, of section 2(b) of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the appointment of additional circuit and district judges, and for other purposes", approved February 10, 1954 (68 Stat. 10, 11), shall be permanent judgeships and the present incumbents of such judgeships shall henceforth hold their offices under section 133 of title 28 of the United States Code as amended by this Act. The Act of March 29, 1949 (63 Stat. 16), and paragraphs (1), (5), and (6) of section 2 (b) of the Act of February 10, 1954 (68 Stat. 10, 11), are hereby repealed.

(c) The existing district judgeship for the eastern and western districts of Washington, heretofore provided for by section 133 of title 28 of the United States Code, shall hereafter be a district judgeship for the western district of Washington only, and the present incumbent of such judgeship shall henceforth hold his office under section 133, as amended by this Act.

(d) In order that the table contained in section 133 of title 28 of the United States Code will reflect the changes made by this section in the number of permanent district judgeships for said districts and combination of districts, such table is amended to read as follows with respect to said districts:

28 USC 90 note.

28 USC 133 note.

62 Stat. 895.

Table of permanent district judgeships, amended.

(e) (1) The President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one additional district judge for the southern district of Ohio. The first vacancy occurring in the office of district judge in said district shall not be filled.

(2) The President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one additional district judge for the northern district of Ohio. The first vacancy occurring in the office of district judge in said district shall not be filled.

(3) Section 134 (c) of title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting at the beginning the following new sentence: "One of the district judges for the Eastern District of Louisiana shall reside in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana."

SEC. 3. (a) The second sentence of section 81(a) (2) of title 28, United States Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Court for the Northeastern Division shall be held at Huntsville and Decatur."

(b) The second sentence of section 86 of title 28, United States Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Court shall be held at Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven, and Waterbury."

(c) The second sentence of section 93 (b) (2), title 28, United States Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Court for the Southern Division shall be held at Alton, Quincy, and Springfield."

(d) The second sentence of section 102 (b) (1) is hereby amended to read as follows: "Court for the Southern Division shall be held at Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and Lansing."

(e) The second sentence of section 123 (c) (2), title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "Court for the Western Division shall be held at Memphis and Dyersburg."

(f) The second sentence of section 89 (a) of title 28, United States Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Court for the Northern District shall be held at Gainesville, Marianna, Panama City, Pensacola, Tallahassee, and Live Oak.”

(g) The limitations and restrictions contained in section 142 of title 28, United States Code, shall be waived with respect to the holding of court at Kalamazoo, Michigan, by the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, at Fayetteville, North Carolina, by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and at Dyersburg, Tennessee, by the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.

SEC. 4. Section 98 of title 28, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

"§ 98. Louisiana

"Louisiana is divided into two judicial districts to be known as the Eastern and Western Districts of Louisiana.

Ohio.

68 Stat. 12.

Alabama.

62 Stat. 873.

Connecticut.

Illinois.

Michigan.

Tennessee,

Post, p. 2 03.

Florida,

Waiver.

62 Stat. 881.

"Eastern District

"(a) The Eastern District comprises two divisions.

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"(1) The New Orleans Division comprises the parishes of Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, and Washington.

"Court for the New Orleans Division shall be held at New Orleans. "(2) The Baton Rouge Division comprises the parishes of Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Point Coupee, Saint Helena, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana.

"Court for the Baton Rouge Division shall be held at Baton Rouge.

Arkansas.

62 Stat. 874.

May 20, 1961 [H. R. 7030]

Cotton.

Acreage allotments, transfer. 72 Stat. 186.

7 USC 1344.

"Western District

"(b) The Western District comprises six divisions.

"(1) The Opelousas Division comprises the parishes of Evangeline and Saint Landry.

"Court for the Opelousas Division shall be held at Opelousas.

"(2) The Alexandria Division comprises the parishes of Avoyelles, Catahoula, Grant, La Salle, Rapides, and Winn.

"Court for the Alexandria Division shall be held at Alexandria. "(3) The Shreveport Division comprises the parishes of Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine, and Webster.

"Court for the Shreveport Division shall be held at Shreveport.

"(4) The Monroe Division comprises the parishes of Caldwell, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Jackson, Lincoln, Madison, Morehouse, Ouachita, Richland, Tensas, Union, and West Carroll.

"Court for the Monroe Division shall be held at Monroe.

"(5) The Lake Charles Division comprises the parishes of Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, and Vernon. "Court for the Lake Charles Division shall be held at Lake Charles. "(6) The Lafayette Division comprises the parishes of Acadia, Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Martin, Saint Mary, and Vermilion.

"Court for the Lafayette Division shall be held at Lafayette." SEC. 5. Section 83 of title 28 of the United States Code is amended by striking out so much thereof as related to the Eastern District of Arkansas and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

"Eastern District

"(a) The Eastern District comprises five divisions.

"(1) The Eastern Division comprises the counties of Cross, Lee, Monroe, Phillips, Saint Francis, and Woodruff.

"Court for the Eastern Division shall be held at Helena.

"(2) The Western Division comprises the counties of Conway, Faulkner, Lonoke, Perry, Pope, Prairie, Pulaski, Saline, Van Buren, White, and Yell.

"Court for the Western Division shall be held at Little Rock.

"(3) The Pine Bluff Division comprises the counties of Arkansas, Chicot, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha, Drew, Grant, Jefferson, and Lincoln. "Court for the Pine Bluff Division shall be held at Pine Bluff. "(4) The Northern Division comprises the counties of Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Sharp, and Stone. "Court for the Northern Division shall be held at Batesville.

"(5) The Jonesboro Division comprises the counties of Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Poinsett, and Randolph.

"Court for the Jonesboro Division shall be held at Jonesboro." Approved May 19, 1961, 12:46 p. m.

Public Law 87-37

AN ACT

To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 344 (n) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended (1) by striking out the figures "1958" where they first appear therein and inserting the figures "1961" and (2) by striking out the last two

sentences thereof and inserting: "Any farm allotment transferred under this paragraph shall be deemed to be released acreage for purposes of acreage history credits under sections 344 (f) (8), 344(m) (2), and 377 of this Act."

Approved May 20, 1961, 10:00 a.m.

Public Law 87-38

JOINT RESOLUTION

To amend section 217 of the National Housing Act to provide an interim increase in the authorization for insurance of mortgages by the Federal Housing Administration.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 217 of the National Housing Act is amended by striking out "$15,000,000,000” and inserting in lieu thereof "$16,000,000,000”.

Approved May 25, 1961.

Public Law 87-39

AN ACT

Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to coin and sell duplicates in bronze of a gold medal presented to Robert Frost by the President of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first section of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the President of the United States of America to present a gold medal to Robert Frost, a New England poet", approved September 13, 1960 (74 Stat. 883), is amended (1) by inserting "(a)" immediately after the word "That", and (2) by adding at the end thereof a new subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) The Secretary of the Treasury shall cause duplicates in bronze of such medal to be coined and sold, under such regulations as he may prescribe, at a price sufficient to cover the cost thereof (including labor), and the appropriations used for carrying out the provisions of this subsection shall be reimbursed out of the proceeds of such sale."

Approved May 25, 1961.

Public Law 87-40

AN ACT

To waive certain restrictions of the New Mexico Enabling Act with respect to certain sales of lands granted to the State by the United States; and to consent to an amendment of the constitution of the State of New Mexico.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That those provisions of section 10 of the Act entitled "An Act to enable the people of New Mexico to form a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States; and to enable the people of Arizona to form a constitution and State government and be admitted to the Union on an equal footing with the original States", approved June 20, 1910 (36 Stat. 557, 563), which pro