United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 77

2821859United States Statutes at Large, Volume 4 — Public Acts of the Nineteenth Congress, 2nd Session, Chapter 77United States Congress


March 3, 1827.

Chap. LXXVII.An Act for altering the times of holding the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, holden at the city of Richmond.[1]

Terms of the district court for the eastern district, changed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the terms of the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, now directed to be holden in the city of Richmond, on the second day of April, and the fifteenth day of October, in every year, shall, in future, be held in the said city on the fifteenth day of May, and on the fifteenth day of November, annually; and that all suits, actions, and proceedings of whatever kind, now depending in, or returnable to, said court, shall be taken to be continued or returnable to the terms herein established.

Approved, March 3, 1827.


  1. See notes to the act of Feb. 4, 1819, ch. 12, for a list of the acts relating to the district courts in Virginia.