compensation exceed one thousand dollars, an addition of ten per cent. thereto; and twenty per cent. in addition to the salaries of messengers and assistant messengers employed in the respective offices, and the library of Congress; the amount of increase in compensation provided for in this section, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,Proviso. Provided, That nothing in this section shall be so construed as to affect the salaries of any clerks whose salaries have been fixed by any law of the last or present session of Congress,Further proviso. Provided, That no further extra allowance be given for any extra services performed by them under any law or resolution of Congress.
Approved, March 3, 1837.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. XXXIV.—An Act supplementary to the act entitled “An act to amend the judicial system of the United States.”[1]
Supreme Court to consist of a chief justice and eight associate judges, &c.
Act of Jan. 21, 1829, ch. 12.
2d circuit.
3d circuit.
4th circuit.
5th circuit.
6th circuit.
7th circuit.
8th circuit.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Supreme Court of the United States shall hereafter consist of a chief justice, and eight associate judges, any five of whom shall constitute a quorum; and for this purpose there shall be appointed two additional justices of said court, with the like powers, and to take the same oaths, perform the same duties, and be entitled to the same salary, as the other associate judges. Hereafter, the districts of Vermont, Connecticut, and New York, shall constitute the second circuit; the district of New Jersey, the eastern and western districts of Pennsylvania, shall constitute the third circuit; the district of Maryland and the district of Delaware shall constitute the fourth circuit; the districts of Virginia and the district of North Carolina shall constitute the fifth circuit; the districts of South Carolina and Georgia shall constitute the sixth circuit; the districts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, shall constitute the seventh circuit; and the circuit courts shall be held at Columbus, in the Ohio district, on the third Mondays in May, and December; at Detroit, in the Michigan district, on the fourth Monday in June; at Indianapolis, in the Indiana district, on the first Monday in December; at Vandalia, in the Illinois district, on the last Monday in November, in each year; the districts of Kentucky, east and west Tennessee, and Missouri, shall form and be called the eighth circuit; and the districts
- ↑ By “an act concerning the Supreme Court of the United States,” June 17, 1844, chap. 96, the sessions of the Supreme Court were directed to commence in December in each year. By the second section of the act, the Justices of the Supreme Court were only required to hold one term of the Circuit Court each year. The Justices of the Supreme Court may attend at any of the terms.An act to abolish the Circuit Court at Huntsville, in the state of Alabama, and for other purposes, June 18, 1838, chap. 12.An act to require the Judge of the District Court of east and west Tennessee to hold a court at Jackson, in the said state, June 18, 1838, chap. 118.An act to amend an act entitled “An act to require the Judge of the District Court of east and west Tennessee to hold a court at Jackson in the said state,” Jan. 18, 1839, chap. 3.An act to reorganize the District Courts of the United States in the state of Alabama, February 6, 1839, chap. 20.An act to amend “an act to reorganize the District Courts of the United States in the state of Mississippi,” June 18, 1839, chap. 27.An act to amend the act of the third of March, 1837, entitled “an act supplementary to the act to amend the judicial system of the United States” and for other purposes, March 3, 1839, chap. 81.An act in addition to the acts respecting the judicial system of the United States, July 4, 1840, chap. 42.An act to amend the act approved May 13, 1800, entitled an act to amend an act to establish the judicial courts of the United States, July 20, 1840, chap. 47.An act changing the time of holding the courts at Clarksburg and at Wheeling in the western district of Virginia, and the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Arkansas, March 4, 1844, chap. 4.An act to change the time of holding the Spring term of the District Court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, and of the Circuit Court of Alabama, April 12, 1844, chap. 12.An act to change the time of holding the Federal Courts in Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana, March 1, 1845, chap. 39.
