United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 269

4010146United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5 — Public Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress, Second Session, Chapter 269United States Congress


Aug. 29, 1842.

Chap. CCLXIX.An Act establishing a court at Charleston, in the Commonwealth of Virginia.[1]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter terms of the District Court to be held at Charleston, in lieu of Lewisburg.district court for the western district of Virginia, be holden at Charleston, in the county of Kenawha, commencing on the Wednesdays after the second Mondays in April and September of each year, in lieu of the sessions of said district court now held at Lewisburg, in the county of Greenbriar, which said last mentioned sessions of said court are hereby discontinued.

Approved, August 29, 1842.


  1. See notes of the acts relating to the District Courts of Virginia, vol. 3, 479.