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the transfer be made from any head or object of appropriation which may require another appropriation at any future time to supply the deficiency created by said transfer.

Approved, February 23, 1844.

Statute Ⅰ.



March 4, 1844.

Chap. IV.An Act changing the time of holding the courts at Clarksburg and at Wheeling, in the western district of Virginia,[1] and the circuit court of the United States for the district of Arkansas.[2]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,To be held at Clarksburg, when. That the district court of the United States, required by law to be holden at Clarksburg, in the western district of Virginia, shall hereafter commence its sessions on the last Mondays of March and of August of every year; and that the sessions of said courtAt Wheeling. required by law to be held at Wheeling, within said district, shall hereafter commence on the Wednesdays after the first Mondays in April and September of every year, instead of the times now fixed by law for holding said courts, respectively; and that the circuit court of the United States for the district of Arkansas,Circuit court of Arkansas, to be held when. shall hereafter be held on the second Monday of April of each year, instead of the time now designated by law; and that all actions, suits, recognizances, processes, writs, and proceedings whatever, pending, or which may be pending, in said courts, respectively, or returnable thereto, shall have day therein, and be heard, tried, proceeded with, and decided, in like manner as if the time of holding said sessions had not been hereby altered.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act be in force from and after the passage thereof.

Approved, March 4, 1844.

Statute Ⅰ.



March 26, 1844.

Chap. V.An Act to repeal the act entitled “An act to amend the act of the tenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, entitled ‘An act to change the time of holding the circuit and district courts in the district of Ohio.’”

Act of June 1, 1842, ch. 31.
Act of 1st June 1842 repealed.
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 to amend the act of the tenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, entitled ‘An act to change the time of holding the circuit and district courts in the district of Ohio,’” approved June 1st, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, be, and the same is hereby, repealed:Proviso. Provided, That this act shall not take effect until from and after the next July term of said court at Cincinnati.

Approved, March 26, 1844.

Statute Ⅰ.



April 2, 1844.

Chap. VII.An Act to amend the act entitled “An act to establish branches of the Mint of the United States.”

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,How oath required by 3d section of act of 3d March 1835, ch. 39, may be taken. That the oath or affirmation required by the third section of an act passed March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, entitled “An act to establish branches of the Mint of the United States,” may be taken before any judge of the superior court, or of any court of record, in the State where the branch of which the person taking said oath is an officer or clerk, is situated.

Approved, April 2, 1844.

  1. See notes of the acts relating to the District Courts of Virginia, vol. 3, 479.
  2. Act of April 17, 1828, chap. 29.