United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 38

4107616United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5 — Public Acts of the Twenty-Eighth Congress, First Session, Chapter 38United States Congress


June 4, 1844.

Chap. XXXVIII.An Act to alter the places of holding the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey.[1]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,District Court of U. S. for New Jersey to be held at Trenton. That the district court of the United States, in and for the district of New Jersey, shall hereafter be held at the city of Trenton, in said State, instead of the cities of New Brunswick and Burlington, the places heretofore established by law. And all indictments, informations, recognizances,Indictments, &c. to be tried at Trenton. writs, suits, pleas, actions, motions, and all other proceedings, civil and criminal, shall be heard, tried, proceeded with, and determined by the said court at the said city of Trenton, in the same manner as might and ought to have been done had the said court been holden at the places heretofore directed by law.

Approved, June 4, 1844.


  1. See notes of acts relating to the District Court of New Jersey, vol. 3, 678.