ACTS OF THE SIXTEENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the thirteenth day of November, 1820, and ended on the third day of March, 1821.
James Monroe, President; Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; John Gaillard, President of the Senate pro tempore; John W. Taylor, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
STATUTE II.
Chapter I.—An Act to alter the terms of the district court in Alabama.[1]
First session to be holden at Mobile, 3d Monday of Feb. 1821.
Stated sessions at Mobile and Cahawba.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first session of the district court for the district of Alabama, shall be holden at Mobile, on the third Monday of February, eighteen hundred and twenty-one; and thereafter, the stated sessions of said court, instead of the times heretofore appointed, shall be holden, annually, as follows: At Mobile, on the first Mondays of January and June; and at Cahawba, on the first Mondays of April and November; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Process returnable accordingly.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all process which may have issued, or 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.
But one clerk and one act of records.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be but one clerk for the district, who shall keep only one set of records, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, November 27, 1820.
Statute II.
Chap. II.—An Act to provide for paying to the state of Illinois three per cent. of the net proceeds arising from the sale of public lands within the same.
To be applied for the encouragement of learning.
Act of April 18, 1818, ch. 67.
Annual account of the application of the moneys to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, or payment may be withheld.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, from time to time, and whenever the quarterly accounts of public moneys of the several land offices shall be settled, pay three per cent. of the net proceeds of the lands of the United States, lying within the state of Illinois, which since the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, have been, or hereafter may be, sold by the United States, after deducting all expenses incidental to the same, to such person or persons as may be authorized by the legislature
- ↑ See notes to the “Act to establish a district court in the state of Alabama,” April 21, 1820, ch. 47, for a reference to the acts which have been passed relating to the district court of Alabama.
