United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 45
Chap. XLV.—An act to alter the times of holding the District Court in the respective districts of New York and Massachusetts.
Act of April 9, 1814, ch. 49.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 94.
Terms of the courts changed to second Tuesday in May and fourth Tuesday of September, at Utica.
Process returnable accordingly.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That instead of the first Tuesdays of April and October, the district court for the district of New York, directed by law to be holden at Utica, shall be holden on the second Tuesday of May, and fourth Tuesday of September, yearly.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all actions, suits, process, and proceedings, commenced or to be commenced, or now pending in said district court, and liable to be discontinued, or suffer prejudice from the foregoing alterations, may be returned to, and shall be continued to the district court, to be holden in pursuance of this act, in such manner as the same shall suffer no discontinuance or prejudice by virtue of this act.
Boston substituted for Salem, for the sessions of the court.
Writs and process returnable to the court at Salem, to be returned to the court at Boston.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the respective terms of the district court of Massachusetts district, which are now required by law to be holden at Salem, within said district, shall hereafter be holden at Boston, within said district, at the respective times now prescribed by law, and that all writs and processes, of whatsoever nature or kind, that have been or may be issued, and made returnable to the said court at Salem, shall be returnable and returned to the said court at Boston, any thing in any former law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, March 3, 1813.