This act in force until 1st July, 1822.until the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and no longer.
Approved, May 15, 1820.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CXI.—An Act for altering the times for holding the court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes.[1]
The terms to be hereafter holden on the first Monday in May and second Monday in October.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the terms of the district court for the western district of Pennsylvania, which are now directed by law to be holden on the first Mondays of the months of June and December, in each year, shall hereafter be holden, for the said district, on the first Monday in May, and second Monday in October, in each year.
Suits, &c. commenced and pending, made valid to the times fixed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings, commenced or pending in the said district court, shall be as good and valid to the said first Monday in May, and second Monday in October, in each year, as if this change had not been made, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Appeals and writs of error to the Supreme Court, as from circuit courts.
April 20, 1818, ch. 103.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That appeals and writs of error shall lie from decisions in the said district court for the western district of Pennsylvania, when exercising the powers of a circuit court, to the Supreme court of the United States, in the same manner as from circuit courts; and that so much of the fourth section of the act, entitled “An act to divide the state of Pennsylvania into two judicial districts,” passed on the twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, as provides that writs of error shall lie from decisions in the said district court to the circuit court in the eastern district of Pennsylvania, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Salaries to the district attorneys and marshals of the western district of Pennsylvania and northern district of New York.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the district attorney, and to the marshal of the said western district of Pennsylvania, and the northern district of New York, the yearly sum of two hundred dollars each; to commence from the twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; to be paid quarterly, at the treasury of the United States.
Approved, May 15, 1820.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CXII.—An Act to authorize the erection of a lighthouse on one of the Isles of Shoals, near Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, and for other purposes.
And to agree for salaries, &c. of superintendents.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, as soon as the jurisdiction of such one of the Isles of Shoals, in the state of New Hampshire, in the state of Massachusetts, or in the state of Maine, as the President of the United States shall select for the site of a lighthouse,
- ↑ Acts relating to the courts of the United States in the western district of Pennsylvania: An act to divide the state of Pennsylvania into two judicial districts, April 20, 1818, ch. 108. An act concerning the western district court of Pennsylvania, Dec. 16, 1818, ch. 4. An act for altering the times for holding the court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, May 15, 1820, ch. 111. An act to alter the judicial districts of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes, May 26, 1824, ch. 170. An act supplementary to an act entitled “An act to amend the judicial system of the United States,” March 3, 1837, ch. 34, sec. 4. An act respecting the jurisdiction of certain district courts, Feb. 19, 1831, ch. 28. An act altering the time of holding the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, May 8, 1840, ch. 23. An act to authorize the judge of the district court for the western district of Pennsylvania, to hold a special session of said court, March 19, 1842, ch. 6. An act to amend “An act for altering the time of holding the district court of the United States, for the western district of Pennsylvania at Williamsport,” approved May 8, one thousand eight hundred and forty, July 27, 1842, ch. 68.
