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United States Statutes at Large, Volume 4
United States Congress
Public Acts of the Twenty-First Congress, Second Session, Chapter 10
3010859United States Statutes at Large, Volume 4 — Public Acts of the Twenty-First Congress, Second Session, Chapter 10United States Congress


Jan. 27, 1831.
Chap. X.—An Act to alter the times of holding the district courts of the United States for the districts of Maine and Illinois, and northern district of Alabama.[1]

District court of Alabama.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 of the United States for the northern district of Alabama, which are now directed by law to be held on the first Mondays of March and October in each year, shall hereafter be held on the second Mondays of April and October in each year;District court of Maine. and that the term of the district court of the United States for the district of Maine, which is now directed by law to be held on the second Tuesday of September in each year, shall hereafter be held on the first Tuesday of September in each year: and all processes which may have issued, or which shall hereafter issue, returnable to the next succeeding terms of the said district courts as heretofore established, shall be held returnable, and be returned, to those terms to which they are severally changed by this act.

District court of Illinois.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the terms of the district court of the United States for the district of Illinois, which are now directed by law to be held on the third Mondays of June and November in each year, shall hereafter be held on the first Mondays of May and December in each year; and all process which may have issued, or which shall hereafter issue, returnable to the next succeeding terms of the said district court as heretofore established, shall be held returnable, and be returned, to those terms to which they are severally changed by this act.

Approved, January 27, 1831.