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United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 45

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March 3, 1823.

Chap. XLV.An Act to alter the times of holding the district court of the United States for the district of Vermont.[1]

Time of holding the district court of Vermont altered.
Proviso.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the district court of the United States for the district of Vermont, shall be hereafter holden on the sixth day of October, and on the twenty-fourth day of May, in each year, instead of the tenth day of October, and the twenty-seventh day of May, as is now required by law: Provided, That if either of the days prescribed by this act for holding said court, shall be a Sunday, then the said court shall commence and be holden on the following day.

Causes to be proceeded in as if no alteration had been made.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all proceedings of a civil or criminal nature, now pending in, or returnable to, said court, shall be proceeded in by the said court, in the same manner as if no alteration of the time for holding said court had taken place.

Approved, March 3, 1823.


  1. See act of March 22, 1816, ch. 31, for notes of the acts relating to the circuit and district courts of Vermont.