Statute I.
Chap. XIX.—An Act for the admission of the state of Maine into the Union.[1]
Act of April 7, 1820, ch. 39.
The people of Maine, with the consent of the legislature of Massachusetts, have formed themselves into an independent state, &c.Whereas, by an act of the state of Massachusetts, passed on the nineteenth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled “An act relating to the separation of the district of Maine from Massachusetts proper, and forming the same into a separate and independent state,” the people of that part of Massachusetts heretofore known as the district of Maine, did, with the consent of the legislature of said state of Massachusetts, form themselves into an independent state, and did establish a constitution for the government of the same, agreeably to the provisions of said act—Therefore,
Maine admitted into the Union from 15th March, 1820.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the fifteenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, the state of Maine is hereby declared to be one of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever.
Approved, March 3, 1820.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XX.—An Act to continue in force for a further time, the act entitled “An act for establishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes.”
Act of March 2, 1811, ch. 30.
The act establishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes, continued until 3d March, 1821.
Act of March 3, 1821, ch. 45.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled “An act for establishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes,” passed on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and which was, by subsequent acts, continued in force until the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, shall be, and the same is hereby, further continued in force until the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, and no longer.
Approved, March 4, 1820.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XXI.—An Act altering the place of holding the circuit and district court in the district of Ohio.[2]
Circuit court to be held at Columbus, the first Mondays of Sept. and Jan.
Causes, &c. to be continued over, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the circuit court in and for the district of Ohio, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be held at Columbus, in said district, on the first Mondays of September and January, [in] each and every year; and that all causes, actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings, of every description, that are, or shall be, existing or depending in the said circuit court, shall be continued over and returnable to the said circuit court, to be held at Columbus as aforesaid, and shall be proceeded within due form of law.
Causes to be continued over.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the district court, in and for the district of Ohio, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be held at Columbus, in said district, on the second Mondays of September and January, each and every year; and that all causes, actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings, of every description, that are or
- ↑ The acts of Congress relating to the state of Maine, in addition to this act, are: An act establishing a circuit court within and for the district of Maine, March 30, 1820, ch. 27. An act apportioning the representatives in the seventeenth Congress to be elected in the state of Massachusetts and Maine, and for other purposes, April 7, 1820, ch. 39.
- ↑ Act of April 22, 1824, ch. 36, Act of May 20, 1826, ch. 132, Act of May 5, 1830, ch. 89, sec. 3. By the act of March 10, 1838, ch. 33, the circuit and district courts are to be holden on the first Monday of July, and the third Monday in December. By the act of June 1, 1842, ch. 31, the term of the circuit and district courts of Ohio, required to be holden on the first Monday of July, annually, at Columbus, shall be held at Cincinnati.
