United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 15
Chap. XV.—An Act to change the time of holding the terms of the Circuit Court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, and of the District Court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, directed by law to be held in the city of Richmond.[1]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Spring term of the Circuit Court to commence on 18th May, and the fall term on 18th November, in each year. That, hereafter, the spring term of the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia shall commence on the eighteenth day of May, and the fall term on the eighteenth of November, in each year, instead of the twenty-second of May and the twenty-second of November, as is now provided by law.
Terms of Dist. Court to commence on 12th May and 12th November, in each year.
Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the terms of the district court of the United States of the eastern district of Virginia, which are now directed by law to commence on the fifteenth day of May and the fifteenth [day] of November, in each year, shall hereafter commence on the twelfth day of May and the twelfth day of November, in each year: Provided, nevertheless, That, whenever the day on which the terms of either of the said circuit or district court, as herein provided for, shall happen to be Sunday, then the term of said court shall commence on the following day.
All proceedings, &c., to be deemed returnable on the days hereinbefore prescribed, for holding said Courts.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all proceedings and process depending in or issuing out of either of the said courts, which are or may be made returnable to any other time appointed for holding the same than that above specified, shall be deemed legally returnable on the days hereinbefore prescribed, and not otherwise. And all suits and other proceedings in either of the said courts which stand continued to any other time than that above specified, shall be deemed continued to the time prescribed by this act, and no other.
Approved, March 2, 1838.