United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/18th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 145

United States Statutes at Large, Volume 4
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Public Acts of the Eighteenth Congress, First Session, Chapter 145
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May 24, 1824.

Chap. CXLV.An Act to alter the times of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States for the district of South Carolina.[1]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That instead of the times now The times for holding the circuit court for the district of South Carolina, to be changed.established by law, the circuit court for the district of South Carolina, shall, annually, be holden as follows, to wit: at Charleston on the second Tuesday of April, and at Columbia on the third Tuesday of November.

All suits to be proceeded with as before.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all suits, actions, writs, processes, and other proceedings, which now are pending in said circuit court, or which now are, or may hereafter be, commenced for, or returnable to the said circuit court, at the times and places heretofore established, shall be returnable to, heard, tried, and determined, in the said circuit court, at the times and places hereby respectively established for the holding thereof.

The times of holding the district courts at Laurens Courthouse, to be altered.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the passing of this act, the times of holding the district court of the United States at Laurens Courthouse, South Carolina, shall be so altered that the said court shall hereafter convene on the Tuesday next ensuing, after the adjournment of the circuit court of the United States at Columbia.

Approved, May 24, 1824.


  1. Circuit and district courts in South Carolina.
    Act of September 24, 1789, (obsolete,) ch. 20, sec. 3.
    An act to alter the times for holding the circuit courts of the United States, in the district of South Carolina, and Georgia, and providing that the district court of Pennsylvania shall, in future, be held at the city of Philadelphia, (obsolete,) August 11, 1790, ch. 42.
    An act concerning the circuit courts of the United States, March 3, 1797, ch. 27.
    An act to amend the judicial system of the United States, April 29, 1802, ch. 31.
    An act for the move convenient arrangement of the times and places of holding the circuit courts of the United States, for the districts of South Carolina and Georgia, April 24, 1816, ch. 74.
    An act to divide the state of South Carolina into two judicial districts, Feb. 21, 1823, ch. 11.
    An act to alter the times of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States, for the district of South Carolina, May 25, 1824, ch. 145.
    An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to alter the times of holding the circuit and district courts of South Carolina,” March 3, 1825, ch. 79.
    An act for altering the time of holding the session of the Supreme Court of the United States, and of the sessions of the circuit court of the United States, for the districts of South Carolina and Georgia, May 4, 1826, ch. 37.
    An act to alter the times for holding the sixth circuit court of the United States, for the district of South Carolina, Feb. 5, 1829, ch. 19.
    An act to change the times of holding the federal courts in Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana, March 1, 1845, ch. 39.