TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess.I. Ch.95,96. 1S44.
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Statute I.June 17,1844.
Provisions ofact of May 26,1824. so far asthey related tothe State ofMissouri , re-vived and ex-tended.
1824, di. 173.
Statute I.
June 17, 1844.
Act of Auer. 1,1842, eh. 180.Session of Su-preme Court,to commencewhen.
Proceedings,
&,c.
Justice of Su-preme Courtonly required toattend one termof circuit courtin each year;terra to be de-signated byhim.
May attendany otherterms.
Chap. XCV .—An Act to provide for the adjustment of land claims within theSlates of Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and in those parts of the States ofMississippi and Alabama south of the thirty-first degree of north latitude, andbetween the Mississippi and Perdido rivers, (a)
lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of theexpired act of the twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred andtwenty-four, entitled “ An act to enable claimants to land within theState of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas , to institute proceedingsto try the validity of their claims,” as related to the State of Missouri (excluding all such portions of said act as referred to the territory ofArkansas ) be, and is hereby, revived and re-enacted, and continued inforce for the term of five years, and no longer; and the provisions ofthat part of the aforesaid act hereby revived and re-enacted shall be,and hereby are, extended to the States of Louisiana and Arkansas , andto so much of the States of Mississippi and Alabama as is included inthe district of country south of the thirty-first degree of north latitude,and between the Mississippi and Perdido rivers, in the same way andwith the same rights, powers, and jurisdictions, to every extent they canbe rendered applicable, as if these States had been enumerated in theoriginal act hereby revived, and the enactments expressly applied tothem as to the State of Missouri ; and the district court, and the judgesthereof, in each of these States, shall have and exercise the like juris-diction over the land claims, in their respective States and districts,originating with either the Spanish, French, or British authorities, as bysaid act was given to the court, and the judge thereof, in the State ofMissouri .
Approved, June 17, 1844.
Chap. XCVI.— in Act concerning the Supreme Court of the United States .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That from and afterthe passage of this act, the sessions of the Supreme Court , heretoforecommenced and held on the second Monday of January, annually, shallinstead thereof be commenced and held the first Monday of December,annually; and all actions, suits, appeals, recognizances, processes, writs,and proceedings whatever, pending, or which may be pending in saidcourt, or returnable thereto, shall have day therein, and be heard, tried,proceeded with, and decided, in like manner as if the time of holdingsaid sessions had not been hereby altered.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That hereafter it shall not bethe duty of the Justice of the Supreme Court assigned to any circuitto attend more than one term of the circuit court within any district ofsuch circuit in any one year ; such term to be by him from time to timedesignated with reference to the nature and importance of the businesspending therein and the public convenience; and at such term, appealsand writs of error from the district court, questions of law arising uponstatements of fact agreed by the parties or specially reserved by the dis-trict judge, and cases at law and in equity of peculiar interest or diffi-culty, shall have precedence in the arrangement of the business of thecourt; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to take away theright of such Justice of the Supreme Court , in his discretion, to attend
(a) Notes of the acts which have been passed relative to land claims in Missouri , vol. 2, 812.Notes of the decisions of the Supreme Court on land titles in Missouri , vol. 2, 748, 812.
Notes of the decisions of the Supreme Court on land titles in Louisiana , vol. 2, 288.
Notes of the acts which have been passed relating to land and land titles in Louisiana , vol. 2, 324.Notes of the acts relating to the Territory, afterwards the State, of Arkansas ; vol. 3, 493.