United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/18th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 168
Chap. CLXVIII.—An Act for altering the time for holding the circuit court of the United States for the fourth circuit in the Maryland district.[1]
Terms of the circuit court in the district of Maryland altered.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the terms of the circuit court of the United States for the fourth circuit in the district of Maryland, which are now directed by law to be holden on the first day of May and seventh day of November, in each year, shall be hereafter holden on the 8th days of May and December in each year, except where such days shall occur on Sunday, when the terms of the said court shall commence and be holden on the next succeeding day.
First session to be held on December the 8th, 1824.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the first session of the said circuit court, after the passage of this act, shall be held on the eight [eighth] day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-four.
All process which may have issued, to be held returnable to the terms appointed by this act.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all process which may have issued, or which may hereafter issue returnable to the next succeeding terms, as heretofore established, shall be held returnable, and be returned, to those terms to which they are severally changed by this act.
Approved, May 26, 1824.
- ↑ Acts of Congress relating to circuit courts in Maryland:An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States, September 24, 1789, ch. 20, sec. 3.An act concerning the circuit courts of the United States, March 3, 1797, ch. 27.An act to amend the judicial system of the United States, April 29, 1802, ch. 31, sec. 4.An act for altering the time of holding the circuit court of the United States for the fourth circuit in the Maryland district, May 26, 1824, ch. 168.An act to alter the time of holding the circuit court of the United States, for the district of Maryland, February 11, 1830, ch. 11.An act supplementary to the act, entitled “An act to amend the judicial system of the United States,” March 3, 1837, ch. 34, sec. 2.An act to change the time of holding the United States circuit court in the district of East Tennessee, and the district of Maryland, July 7, 1838, ch. 193.