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TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess.II. Ch.30,31. 1842.
Depredations.
Clerks.
Miscellaneous.Proviso, givingpower to trans-fer funds, &c.
Act of June ’8,
1838, ch. 118.Act of Jan. 18,
1839, ch. 3.
Vol. 2, 273.Times of hold-ing said courtsin Bast Ten-nessee.
West Tennes-see.
The judge mayadjourn a cause.
Rule days tobe fixed, andorders made bythe courts.
1st sec. act 4thJuly 1840, ch.42, repealed.
No. 210. For mail depredations and special agents, twenty-eight thou-sand dollars.
No. 211. For clerks for offices, (i. e. to deputy postmasters,) twohundred thousand dollars.
No. 212. For miscellaneous, fifty-eight thousand dollars : Provided,That the President and the Postmaster General shall have the samepower to transfer funds from one to another head of appropriation, be-tween the foregoing appropriations, made for the service of the GeneralPost Office, as the President and any other head of an Executive De-partment now have to transfer funds appropriated under one head tothe service of another, in any other branch of the public service.
Approved, May IS, 1842.
Ciiap. XXX.— Jin Act changing the times of holding the circuit and district courtsof the United States for the districts of East and West Tennessee.(a i
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the circuit anddistrict courts of the United States for the district of East Tennessee,shall hereafter be held at Knoxville in said district, on the first Mon-days in November and May, in each and every year, instead of the timesheretofore fixed by law; and that the circuit and district courts for thedistrict of West Tennessee shall hereafter be held at Jackson, in saiddistrict, on the second Mondays in October and April, in each and everyyear, instead of the times heretofore fixed by law—the spring terms ofsaid circuit court at Knoxville and Jackson, as herein provided, to beheld by the district judge; and should any difficult question of law arisein any cause, said judge may, at his discretion, adjourn said cause tothe succeeding term of said court. And all writs, pleas, suits, recogniz-ances, indictments, or other proceedings, civil or criminal, issued, com-menced, or pending in either of said courts, shall be returnable to, beentered and have day in court, and be heard and tried according to thetimes of holding said courts, as herein provided.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That such rule days, for the re-turn of process and the filing of pleadings, may from time to time befixed, and other orders made by said courts, respectively, not inconsist-ent with the Constitution and laws of the United States , as may be ne-cessary or proper for the convenience of parties and the advancementof business in said courts; and that the first section of “ An act toamend an act, approved the eighteenth of January, eighteen hundredand thirty-nine, entitled ‘An act to amend an act entitled an act to re-quire the judge of the district of East and West Tennessee to hold acourt at Jackson, in said State,’ approved June the eighteenth, eighteenhundred and thirty-eight, and for other purposes,” approved July thefourth, eighteen hundred and forty, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Approved, May 18, 1842.
Ciiap. XXXI.— An Act to amend the act of the tenth of March, eighteen hundredand thirty-eight, entitled “ An act to change the time of holding the circuit anddistrict courts in the district of Ohio .
lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the term of the cir-cuit and district courts of the United States, in the district of Ohio ,now required by law to be held on the first Monday of July, annually,at Columbus, shall hereafter be held at the city of Cincinnati ; and allprocess and recognizances, and other proceedings taken or issued, ormade returnable at Columbus , at the said July term next, shall be re-
(a) See notes to the act of June 18, 1839, chap, 3.