TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess.III. Ch.81. 1839.
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sand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasurynot otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying this act intoeffect.
Approved, March 3, 1839.
Chap. LXXXI .—An Act to amend the act of the third of March, eighteen hundredand thirty-seven, entitled “ An act supplementary to the act entitled ‘ An act toamend the judicial system of the United States, ’’and for other purposes."
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be theduty of the district judge of Missouri to attend at St. Louis , on the firstMonday of October annually, who shall have power to make sill neces-sary orders touching any suit, action, appeal, writ of error, process,pleadings, or proceedings returned to the circuit court, or dependingtherein, preparatory to the hearing, trial, or decision of such action,suit, appeal, writ of error, process, pleadings, or proceedings; and allwrits and process may be returnable to the said courts on the first Mon-day of October, in the same manner as to the sessions of the circuitcourts directed to be held by the said act of third March, eighteen hun-dred and thirty-seven; and the said writs returnable to the circuit courtsmay also bear teste on the said first Monday of October, as though asession of said court was holden on that day. (a)
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the district court of theUnited States for the district of East Tennessee shall, hereafter, beholdenon the third Monday of October in each year, instead of the secondMonday of October, as now prescribed by law; and that the districtcourt of the Middle District of Tennessee shall be holden on the firstMondays of March and September, in each year; and all causes andprocesses shall be continued over, and be returnable to, the respectiveterms of said courts as hereby established; and said courts shall beholden at the places now prescribed by law, and exercise all the powersand jurisdiction they now enjoy, (b)
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first dayof June next the circuit court of the United States for the southern dis-trict of Alabama shall commence its terms on the second Monday ofMarch and the fourth Monday of November, in each and every year;and the circuit court for the eastern district of Louisiana shall com-mence its terms on the first Monday of April and the third Monday ofDecember in each and every year; and all writs, pleas, suits, recog-nizances, indictments and all other proceedings, civil and criminal, shallbe heard, tried and proceeded with by said court, at the times hereinfixed, in the same manner as if no change in the times of holding saidcourts had taken place.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the circuit and districtcourts of the United States for the district of Michigan , shall be heldat Detroit , on the second Monday of October, instead of the first Mon-day in November, as heretofore established; and that all writs, pleas,suits, recognizances, indictments and all other proceedings, civil andcriminal, shall be heard, tried, and proceeded with by the said court, atthe times herein fixed, in the same manner as if no change in the timesof holding the said court had taken place.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the district court of theUnited States for the district of Arkansas, shall be held at Little Rock on the first Monday of October, instead of the first Monday in November
Statute III.March 3, 1839.
Act of March3, 1837, ch. 34.
District courtfor East Ten-nessee.
District courtfor Middle dist.Tennessee.
All causes,&c.continued over,&c.
Writs, pleas,&c how to beproceeded in.