United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 16
Chap. XVI.—An Act to change the times for commencing the sessions of the courts of the United States in the district of Delaware.
1789, ch. 20, sec. 3.
Sessions of the circuit court to commence at
Newcastle, on Tuesday after 4th Monday in May;
Dover, on the Tuesday after 3d Monday in Oct.
District court, at Newcastle, on 3d Tuesday in dec.
Dover, Tuesday after the 3d Monday, March, and after 4th in September.
Return of process, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sessions of the circuit court and district court of the United States in the district of Delaware, shall commence at the times hereinafter mentioned, instead of the times now appointed by law; that is to say: the sessions of the said circuit court shall commence at Newcastle, on the Tuesday next following the fourth Monday of May, and at Dover on the Tuesday next following the third Monday of October annually; and the sessions of the said district court shall commence at Newcastle on the third Tuesday of June, and second Tuesday of December; and at Dover on the Tuesday next following the third Monday of March, and the Tuesday next following the fourth Monday of September annually; and that no process, recognisance, or bail bond, returnable to the next term of either of said courts shall be avoided, or impaired, or affected by this change as to the commencement of said term; but that all process, bail bonds, and recognisances, returnable to the next term of either of said courts, shall be returnable and returned to the said court next held, according to this act, in the same manner as if so made returnable on the face thereof, and shall have full effect accordingly, and that all continuances in either of said courts shall be from the last term to the day appointed by this act for the commencement of the next session thereof.
Approved, March 24, 1834.