United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 23

United States Statutes at Large, Volume 3
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March 1, 1823.

Chap. XXIII.An Act to alter the time of holding the district court of the United States for the district of Kentucky.[1]

Terms of the district court of Kentucky altered.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the next term of the district court of the United States for the district of Kentucky, the said court shall hold its terms on the second Monday in April and October, in each year.

Approved, March 1, 1823.


  1. The acts establishing the sessions of the district courts of Kentucky are:
    An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States, September 24, 1789, ch. 20, sec. 2.
    An act making certain alterations in the act for establishing the judicial courts, and altering the time and place of holding certain courts, June 9, 1794, ch. 64, sec. 8.
    An act concerning the circuit courts of the United States, March 3, 1797, ch. 27, sec. 6.
    An act for altering the times for holding the circuit court in the district of North Carolina, and for abolishing the July term of the Kentucky district court, Feb. 28, 1806, ch. 13, sec. 2.
    An act establishing the circuit courts, and abridging the jurisdiction of the district courts of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio, Feb. 24, 1807, ch. 16, sec. 4.
    An act supplementary to the act entitled “An act to amend the act entitled ‘An act establishing circuit courts and abridging the jurisdiction of the district courts of the districts of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio,’” Feb. 4, 1809, ch. 14.
    An act to alter the time of holding the district court of the United States for the district of Kentucky, March 1, 1823, ch. 23.
    An act to change the terms of the district courts of the United States for the Kentucky district, March 24, 1824, ch. 30.