United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/16th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 21

United States Statutes at Large, Volume 3
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Public Acts of the Sixteenth Congress, 1st Session, Chapter 21
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March 4, 1820.

Chap. XXI.An Act altering the place of holding the circuit and district court in the district of Ohio.[1]

Circuit court to be held at Columbus, the first Mondays of Sept. and Jan.
Causes, &c. to be continued over, &c.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the circuit court in and for the district of Ohio, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be held at Columbus, in said district, on the first Mondays of September and January, [in] each and every year; and that all causes, actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings, of every description, that are, or shall be, existing or depending in the said circuit court, shall be continued over and returnable to the said circuit court, to be held at Columbus as aforesaid, and shall be proceeded within due form of law.

District court to be held at Columbus, the second Mondays of Sept. and January.
Causes to be continued over.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the district court, in and for the district of Ohio, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be held at Columbus, in said district, on the second Mondays of September and January, each and every year; and that all causes, actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings, of every description, that are or shall be existing or depending in the said district court, shall be continued over and returnable to the said district court to be holden at Columbus as aforesaid, and shall be proceeded with in due form of law.

Approved, March 4, 1820.


  1. Act of April 22, 1824, ch. 36, Act of May 20, 1826, ch. 132, Act of May 5, 1830, ch. 89, sec. 3.
    By the act of March 10, 1838, ch. 33, the circuit and district courts are to be holden on the first Monday of July, and the third Monday in December.
    By the act of June 1, 1842, ch. 31, the term of the circuit and district courts of Ohio, required to be holden on the first Monday of July, annually, at Columbus, shall be held at Cincinnati.