United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 20
Chap. XX.—An Act to amend the several acts establishing a district court of the United States at Jackson, in the District of West Tennessee.[1]
Dist. Court at Jackson attached to the 8th judicial circuit.
Its powers and jurisdiction.
Associate justice of supreme court for said circuit, to hold fall term.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the district court of the United States at Jackson, in the District of West Tennessee, shall in future be attached to, and form a part of, the eighth judicial circuit of the United States, with all the powers and jurisdiction of the circuit court held at Nashville, in the middle district of Tennessee. And it shall be the duty of the associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States assigned to hold the court for the eighth circuit to attend the fall term of said court at Jackson, and hold the same; and when he does so, then he may dispense with his attendance at the fall term of the court at Knoxville, in the district of East Tennessee; or when said judge holds the term at Knoxville, then he may dispense with holding the corresponding fall term at Jackson. And said circuit judge may elect which court he will hold, at discretion, in the exercise of which he shall be governed by the nature and importance of the business:Proviso.
Proviso. Provided, Said circuit judge may attend at Knoxville and Jackson at any of their fall terms; And provided also, That in the absence of said circuit judge at any term of either of said courts, the district judge shall hold the same, and may exercise all the powers and jurisdiction conferred on the circuit court when held by the circuit judge.
Appeals to lie from the district to the circuit court.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That appeals shall lie from the district court at Jackson, to the circuit court, in the same manner that they lie from the district court to the circuit court at Nashville.
Times of holding fall terms at Jackson and Knoxville.
District and circuit courts of Kentucky.
Vol. 3, 742.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the fall terms of the district and circuit courts at Jackson, shall in future be held on the second Monday of October in each year; that the fall terms of the district and circuit courts of Kentucky be in future held on the third Monday of November in each year; and that the fall terms of the circuit and district courts at Knoxville, be held on the first Monday of November, in each year.
Approved, April 14, 1842.