United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/18th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 66
Chap. LXVI.—An Act altering the times of holding the courts in the District of Columbia.[1]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the circuit court for Session of the circuit court of the District of Columbia.Washington county, in the District of Columbia, shall hereafter commence and be held on the third Monday of December, and first Monday of May, in each year, instead of the days now fixed by law; and the circuit court for Alexandria county, in said district, on the fourth Monday of November and second Monday of April, instead of the days now established by law; and that all process whatsoever, now issued, or which may be issued, in the respective counties of Washington and Alexandria, in said district, returnable to the days, respectively, now fixed by law, for each of the said counties, shall be returnable, and returned, on the days prescribed by this act; and all causes, recognisances, pleas, and proceedings, civil, and criminal, returnable to, and depending before, the said courts, at the respective times of holding the same, as heretofore established, shall be returned, and continued, in the same counties respectively, in the same manner as if the said causes, recognisances, pleas, and proceedings, had been regularly returned or continued, to the said respective times appointed by this act for holding the said courts.
Approved, April 29, 1824.
- ↑ An act concerning the orphans’ court of Alexandria county, in the District of Columbia, May 19, 1828, ch. 59.An act to establish a criminal court in the District of Columbia, July 7, 1838, ch. 192.