United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 4
Chap. IV.—An Act changing the time of holding the courts at Clarksburg and at Wheeling, in the western district of Virginia,[1] and the circuit court of the United States for the district of Arkansas.[2]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,To be held at Clarksburg, when. That the district court of the United States, required by law to be holden at Clarksburg, in the western district of Virginia, shall hereafter commence its sessions on the last Mondays of March and of August of every year; and that the sessions of said courtAt Wheeling. required by law to be held at Wheeling, within said district, shall hereafter commence on the Wednesdays after the first Mondays in April and September of every year, instead of the times now fixed by law for holding said courts, respectively; and that the circuit court of the United States for the district of Arkansas,Circuit court of Arkansas, to be held when. shall hereafter be held on the second Monday of April of each year, instead of the time now designated by law; and that all actions, suits, recognizances, processes, writs, and proceedings whatever, pending, or which may be pending, in said courts, respectively, or returnable thereto, shall have day therein, and be heard, tried, proceeded with, and decided, in like manner as if the time of holding said sessions had not been hereby altered.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act be in force from and after the passage thereof.
Approved, March 4, 1844.
- ↑ See notes of the acts relating to the District Courts of Virginia, vol. 3, 479.
- ↑ Act of April 17, 1828, chap. 29.