United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 16
Chap. XVI.—An Act concerning certain courts of the United States, in the State of New York.
No effect on the proceedings of the court of the northern district of New York shall take place by the terms of the court not having been held at Utica and Canandaigua.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no legal proceeding whatever in the courts of the United States for the northern district of New York, shall be discontinued, abated, impaired, or affected, by reason that the last terms of the district court for the said northern district, appointed to be held at Utica and Canandaigua were not held, but that every proceeding whatever shall be in the same state, and have the same force and effect as if the said terms had been duly held.
Approved, February 5, 1816.