now fixed by law, shall be held on the second Monday of July next; and thereafter on the first Mondays of January and June in each year; and the district court of the United States, in and for said district, shall hereafter be held on the Mondays next succeeding the times herein fixed for holding the circuit court.
The next fall term of the circuit court for the Kentucky district, to be held on the second Monday in October.
Proviso.
All recognisances, &c. to be proceeded in, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the next fall term of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Kentucky, be commenced and held on the second Monday in October next, in lieu of the first Monday in November: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to extend to, or embrace, any other or future term of the said circuit court, than the next November term, as aforesaid.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all recognisances, process, suits, and proceedings, of every kind, whether of a civil or criminal nature, commenced or pending in either of said courts, shall be returned to, proceeded in, and determined at, the terms herein provided for, in the same manner as if the time of holding said courts had not been changed.
Approved, April 22, 1824.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XXXVII.—An Act giving the consent and sanction of Congress to a certain act of the legislative council of the territory of Florida.
Consent, &c. of Congress given to the act of the legislative council of Florida.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent and sanction of Congress be, and the same are hereby, given to the act of the legislative council of the territory of Florida, approved by the governor of said territory on the fourth day of July, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, entitled “An act to provide for levying a poll tax.”
Approved, April 22, 1824.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XXXVIII.—An Act to alter the times of holding the district court of the United States for the district of Illinois.[1]
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 70.
The district court for the district of Illinois to be holden on the third Mondays in June and November.
All writs to be proceeded in &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in lieu of the times now appointed by law, the district court of the United States for the district of Illinois, shall be hereafter holden on the third Mondays in June and November in each year.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all writs, pleas, suits, recognisances, indictments, and all other proceedings of a civil or criminal nature, now pending in, or which are, or may be, returnable to, said court, shall be heard, tried and proceeded with, by the said court, in the same manner as if no alteration of the times for holding said court had taken place.
Approved, April 22, 1824.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XXXIX.—An Act supplementary to the act, entitled “An act supplementary to the act, entitled ‘An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt.’”[2]
Act of Jan. 7, 1824, ch. 3.
Persons commissioned under act of Jan. 6, 1800, to have full power, &c. to issue a citation directed to the creditor, agent, or attorney, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the person or persons who shall or may be commissioned, either by any judge of the
- ↑ See notes to act of April 18, 1818, ch. 67.
- ↑ The constitutional and legal rights of a citizen of the United States to sue in the circuit court of the United States, do not permit an act of insolvency, completely executed under the authority of a state, to be a good bar to a recovery upon a contract made in another state. Suydam et al. v. Broadnax, 14 Peters, 97.
