United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 12
Chap. XII.—An Act in addition to the act, entitled “An act to amend the judicial system of the United States.”[1]
Act of April 29, 1802, ch. 31.
Authority to adjourn the Supreme Court from day to day, in case of non-attendance of quorum, extended.
Court not to be adjourned, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if, at any session of the Supreme Court, four justices thereof shall not attend on the day appointed for holding said session, such justice or justices as may attend shall have authority to adjourn said court from day to day, for twenty days after the time appointed for the commencement of said session, unless four justices shall sooner attend; and the business of said court shall not, in such case, be continued over to the next stated session thereof, until the expiration of said twenty days, instead of the ten days now limited by law.
After quorum once formed and subsequent non-attendance of, quorum, authority given to adjourn, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if it shall so happen, during any term of the said Supreme Court, after four of the judges shall have assembled, that, on any day, less than the number of four shall assemble, the judge or judges so assembling shall have authority to adjourn said court from day to day until a quorum shall attend, and, when expedient and proper, may adjourn the same without day.
Approved, January 21, 1829.
- ↑ See notes to act of March 3, 1837, ch. 34.