United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 5
Chap. V.—An Act concerning the District and Territorial Judges of the United States.
District and territorial judges to reside within their districts and not to exercise the profession of counsel or attorney, or to be engaged in the practice of the law.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter it shall be incumbent upon the district and territorial judges of the United States, to reside within the districts and territories respectively for which they are appointed, and that it shall not be lawful for any judge appointed under the authority of the United States, to exercise the profession or employment of counsel or attorney, or to be engaged in the practice of the law. And any person offending against the injunction or prohibition of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor.
Approved, December 18, 1812.