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Statute I.
May 4, 1826.[Obsolete.]On applica-tion of a consulor vice consulof France , madein writing, sta-ting that theperson thereinnamed has de-serted from apublic or pri-vate vessel ofFrance while inany port of theUnited States ,he shall be de-livered up.
Proviso.
Act to be inforce so long asthe conventionof June 24,1822, be obli-gatory.
Chap. XXXVI .—An Act to provide for the apprehension and delivery of desertersfrom French ships in the ports of the United States .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America , in Congress assembled, That, on the application of aconsul or vice consul of France , made in writing, stating that the persontherein named has deserted from a public or private vessel of France ,while in any port of the United States , and on proof, by the exhibition ofthe register of the vessel, ship’s roll, or other official document, that theperson named belonged, at the time of desertion, to the crew of saidvessel, it shall be the duty of any court, judge, justice, or other magistrate,having competent power to issue warrants, to cause the said person tobe arrested for examination; and if, on the examination, the facts statedare found to be true, the person arrested, not being a citizen of theUnited States , shall be delivered up to the consul or vice consul, to besent back to the dominions of France ; or, on the request, and at theexpense of the said consul or vice consul, shall be detained, until theconsul or vice consul finds an opportunity to send him back to thedominions of France : Provided nevertheless , That no person shall bedetained more than three months after his arrest, but at the end of thattime shall be set at liberty, and shall not be again molested, for the samecause.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That this act shall continue inforce, so long as the convention of the twenty-fourth of June, eighteenhundred and twenty-two, between the United States and France , shall bemutually obligatory on the parties to it, and no longer.
Approved, May 4, 1826.
Statute I.May 4, 1826.
After the year1826, the ses-sion of the Su-preme Court ,changed.
Courts to beheld on the se-cond Monday inJanuary.
Sessions ofthe sixth circuitcourt of theUnited States for Georgia dis-trict, and thesixth circuitcourt for SouthCarolina dis-trict, changed.
Chap. XXXVII .—An Act for altering the time of holding the session of theSupreme Court of the United States , and of the sessions of the circuit courts ofthe United States, for the districts of Georgia and South Carolina . (a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That, from and after the yearone thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, the session of the SupremeCourt , heretofore held on the first Monday of February annually, shall,instead thereof, be held on the second Monday of January annually ; andall actions, suits, appeals, recognisances, processes, writs, and proceed-ings whatever, pending, or which may be pending in said court, or return-able thereto, shall have day therein, and be heard, tried, proceeded with,and decided, in like manner as if the time of holding said session hadnot been altered. ( b )
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sixth circuit court of theUnited States, for the district of Georgia , which is by law appointed tobe holden on the fourteenth day of December, annually, shall hereafterbeholden on the fourth Monday in November annually ; and that the sixthcircuit court of the United States, for the district of South Carolina ,which is by law appointed to be holden on the fourth Tuesday of No-vember, annually, shall hereafter be holden on the second Monday inDecember annually; and all that process which shall have been issued,and all recognisances returnable, and all suits and other proceedings
(a) See notes to the act of May 25, 1824, ch. 145, as to the sessions of the circuit courts in the dis-tricts of Georgia and South Carolina .
( b ) By i( An act concerning the Supreme Court, ” act of June 17, 1844, ch. 96, the sessions of theSupreme Court are directed to commence on the first Monday in December in each year. The justicesof the Supreme Court are required to attend one term of the circuit court in each year, to be designatedby the justice of the Supreme Court, assigned to any circuit. The justice of the Supreme Court may,at his discretion, attend any other terms of the circuit court, whenever, in his opinion, the public interestor special exigencies may require.