United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 23

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2641525United States Statutes at Large, Volume 3 — Public Acts of the Seventeenth Congress, 1st Session, Chapter 23United States Congress


April 17, 1822.

Chap. XXIII.An Act supplementary to an act, entitled “An act to alter the terms of the district court in Alabama.”[1]

The 3d section of the act of Nov. 27, 1820, ch. 1, repealed; and part of another act revived.
Act of April 21, 1820, ch. 47.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the third section of the act, entitled “An act to alter the terms of the district court in Alabama,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and so much of the second section of the act, entitled “An act to establish a district court in the state of Alabama,” as was repealed by the said third section, is hereby revived, re-enacted, and declared to be of full force and effect.

Causes, actions, &c. commenced and made returnable at Cahawba and Mobile, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all causes, actions, suits, indictments, libels, pleas, processes, and proceedings of whatsoever kind, nature, or description, sued out, commenced, or made returnable, at Cahawba, shall be there proceeded in and determined; and, in like manner, all such sued out, commenced, or made returnable, at Mobile, shall be there proceeded in and determined.

Approved, April 17, 1822.