of the said state to receive the same; which sums, thus paid, shall be applied to the encouragement of learning within said state, in conformity to the provisions on this subject, contained in the act, entitled “An act to enable the people of the Illinois territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states,” approved April eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and to no other purpose; and an annual account of the application of the same shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, by such officer of the state as the legislature thereof shall direct; and in default of such return being made, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to withhold the payment of any sums that may then be due, or which may thereafter become due, until a return shall be made, as herein required.
Approved, December 12, 1820.
Statute II.
Chap. III.—An Act to amend the act, entitled “An act to alter the times of the session of the circuit and district courts in the District of Columbia.”
Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 93.
The act of 11th May, 1820, to have full effect from the date of this act.
Writs and process to be returned and continued accordingly.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, passed on the eleventh day of May last, to alter the times of the session of the circuit and district courts in the District of Columbia, instead of being limited to take effect on the first day of January next, shall have full operation and effect from and after the passing hereof; and that all the writs and process of the circuit court of the District of Columbia, for the county of Washington, shall be returned and continued in like manner as if the said act had taken effect from and after the thirtieth day of July last.
Approved, December 29, 1820.
Statute II.
Chap. VI.—An Act to alter the time of holding the district court in the district of Mississippi.[1]
The regular terms to be holden only on the 1st Monday in January and July.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the district court, in the district of Mississippi, heretofore holden on the first Mondays in May and December, shall hereafter hold its regular terms only on the first Monday in January and July; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Writs, process, &c., to be returned accordingly.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That every writ, process, subpœna, or recognisance, returnable, according to law, or the tenor thereof, to either of the aforesaid terms, holden on the first Mondays in May and December, shall be returnable to the next succeeding term of said court, to be holden on the first Monday in January and July.
Approved, January 11, 1821.- ↑ The acts relating to the district courts in Mississippi are: An act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States, within the state of Mississippi, April 3, 1818, ch. 29. An act to alter the time of holding the district court in the state of Mississippi, Jan. 11, 1821, ch. 6. An act to charge the time of holding the court of the United States for the district of Mississippi, and the circuit court of the United States in the district of Ohio, May 5, 1830, ch. 89. An act to change the place of holding the district court of the United States for the district of Mississippi, March 3, 1835, ch. 35 An act to reorganize the district courts of the United States, in the state of Mississippi, June 18, 1838, ch. 115.
