United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 35
Chap. XXXV.—An Act to change the time for holding the Circuit and Criminal Courts in the county of Washington.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Time of holding fall term of circuit court changed. That the Circuit Court of the United States for the county of Washington, District of Columbia, shall hereafter be held on the third Monday of October of each year, instead of the fourth Monday of November designated by law.
Times of holding criminal court now fixed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That hereafter there shall be but three terms of the criminal court for Washington county, in the District of Columbia, instead of the four terms of said court now fixed by law; and that said three terms hereafter shall commence and be held on the first Monday in March, the third Monday in June, and the first Monday in December, in each and every year.Process returnable on days now fixed. All process whatsoever in the said criminal court now issued or which may be issued in the county of Washington, in said District, returnable to the days now fixed by law for said county, shall be returnable and returned on the days for holding said criminal court, prescribed by this statute.
Approved, March 1, 1845.