United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 30
Chap. XXX.—An Act changing the times of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States for the districts of East and West Tennessee.[1]
Act of June 18, 1838, ch. 118.
Act of Jan. 18, 1839, ch. 3.
Vol. 2, 273.
Times of holding said courts in East Tennessee.
West Tennessee.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the circuit and district courts of the United States for the district of East Tennessee, shall hereafter be held at Knoxville in said district, on the first Mondays in November and May, in each and every year, instead of the times heretofore fixed by law; and that the circuit and district courts for the district of West Tennessee shall hereafter be held at Jackson, in said district, on the second Mondays in October and April, in each and every year, instead of the times heretofore fixed by law―the spring terms of said circuit court at Knoxville and Jackson, as herein provided, to be held by the district judge; and should any difficult question of law arise in any cause, said judge may,The judge may adjourn a cause. at his discretion, adjourn said cause to the succeeding term of said court. And all writs, pleas, suits, recognizances, indictments, or other proceedings, civil or criminal, issued, commenced, or pending in either of said courts, shall be returnable to, be entered and have day in court, and be heard and tried according to the times of holding said courts, as herein provided.
Rule days to be fixed, and orders made by the courts.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That such rule days, for the return of process and the filing of pleadings, may from time to time be fixed, and other orders made by said courts, respectively, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, as may be necessary or proper for the convenience of parties and the advancement of business in said courts;1st sec. act 4th July 1840, ch. 42, repealed. and that the first section of “An act to amend an act, approved the eighteenth of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled ‘An act to amend an act entitled an act to require the judge of the district of East and West Tennessee to hold a court at Jackson, in said State,’ approved June the eighteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for other purposes,” approved July the fourth, eighteen hundred and forty, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Approved, May 18, 1842.
- ↑ See notes to the act of June 18, 1839, chap. 3.