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compensation exceeds one thousand dollars, an addition of ten per cent,thereto; and twenty per cent, in addition to the salaries of messengersand assistant messengers employed in the respective offices, and thelibrary of Congress; the amount of increase of compensation providedfor in this section, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury nototherwise appropriated, Provided , That nothing in this section shall beso construed as to affect the salaries of any clerks whose salaries havebeen fixed by any law of the last or present session of Congress , Pro-vided, That no further extra allowance be given for any extra servicesperformed by them under any law or resolution of Congress .
Approved, March 3, 1S37.
Chap. XXXIV .—An Act supplementary to the act entitled “An act to amend thejudicial system of the United States , (a')
Be it enacted , by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the Supreme Court ofthe United States shall hereafter consist of a chief justice, and eightassociate judges, any five of whom shall constitute a quorum; and forthis purpose there shall be appointed two additional justices of saidcourt, with the like powers, and to take the same oaths, perform thesame duties, and be entitled to the same salary, as the other associatejudges. Hereafter, the districts of Vermont, Connecticut, and NewYork, shall constitute the second circuit ; the district of New Jersey ,the eastern and western districts of Pennsylvania , shall constitute thethird circuit; the district of Maryland and the district of Delaware shall constitute the fourth circuit; the districts of Virginia and the dis-trict of North Carolina shall constitute the fifth circuit; the districtsof South Carolina and Georgia shall constitute the sixth circuit; thedistricts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan , shall constitute theseventh circuit; and the circuit courts shall be held at Columbus , inthe Ohio district, on the third Mondays in May, and December; atDetroit, in the Michigan district, on the fourth Monday in June; atIndianapolis, in the Indiana district, on the first Monday in December;at Vandalia, in the Illinois district, on the last Monday in November,in each year; the districts of Kentucky, east and west Tennessee , andMissouri , shall form and be called the eighth circuit; and the districts
(a) By “ an act concerning the Supreme Court of the United States, ” June 17, 1844, chap. 9G, thesessions of the Supreme Court were directed to commence in December in each year. By the secondsection of the act, the Justices of the Supreme Court were only required to hold one term of the CircuitCourt each year. The Justices of the Supreme Court may attend at any of the terms.
An act to abolish the Circuit Court at Huntsville, in the state of Alabama , and for other purposes, Feb-ruary 22, 1838, chap. 12.
An act to require the Judge of the District Court of east and west Tennessee to hold a court atJackson, in the said state, June 18, 1838, chap. 118.
An act to amend an act entitled “An act to require the Judge of the District Court of east and west Ten-nessee to hold a court at Jackson in the said state,” approved June eighteenth, one thousand eight hun-dred and thirty-eight, Jan. 18, 1839, chap. 3.
An act to reorganize the District Courts of the United States in the state of Alabama , February 6,1839, chap. 20.
An act to amend “ an act to reorganize the District Courts of the United States in the state of Mis-sissippi, ” approved June 18, 1839, chap. 27.
An act to amend the act of the third of March 1837, entitled “an act supplementary to the act toamend the judicial system of the United States ” and for other purposes, March 3, 1839, chap. 81.
An act in addition to the acts respecting the judicial system of the United States , July 4, 1840,chap. 42.
An act to amend the act approved May 13, 1800, entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to es-tablish the judicial courts of the United States , July 20, 1840, chap. 46.
An act changing the time of holding the courts at Clarksburg and at Wheeling in the western districtof Virginia, and the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Arkansas , March 4, 1844,chap. 4.
An act to change the time of holding the Spring term of the District Court of the United States forthe eastern district of Virginia, and of the Circuit Court of Alabama , April 12, 1844, chap. 12.
An act to change the time of holding the Federal Courts in Kentucky, North Carolina, South Caro-lina, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana , March 1, 1845, chap. 39.
Proviso.
Further pro-viso.
Statute II.March 3, 1S37.
Act of April29, 1802, ch. 31.
SupremeCourt to consistof a chief j us-tice and eightassociatejudges, &.c.
Act of Jan. 21,1829, ch. 12.
2d circuit.
3d circuit.
4th circuit.
5th circuit.
6th circuit.
7 th circuit.
8th circuit.