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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · Feb. 21, 1855 · Chapter CXVIII

Chapter CXVIII. *to provide for holding an Additional Term of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Missouri, and for holding Special Terms of the District and Circuit Courts of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio.* Feb. 21, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repres

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Chap. CXVIII.— An Act *to provide for holding an Additional Term of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Missouri, and for holding Special Terms of the District and Circuit Courts of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio.* Feb. 21, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That it shall be the duty of the district judge of the United States for the district of Missouri, to hold, at Additional term of the circuit court for Missouri.the city of St.
Louis, on the first Monday in October, in every year, a term of the circuit court of the United States for said district, at which term any business may be transacted which might be transacted at the April term of said court. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the United States circuit court for said district shall have power, at any time, to order an adjourned 612 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 122. 1855.Provision for adjourned terms.term of said court to be held at any other time, at which adjourned term any business may be transacted which could be transacted at any regular term.
A copy of said order shall be posted on the door of the court-room, and advertised in some newspaper printed in the city of St. Louis, twenty days, at least, before said adjourned term shall be holden. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the district judge for said district Same subject.may order a special term or terms of said circuit court, to be holden at St. Louis, on any day mentioned in said order, at which special term any business may be transacted which might be transacted at any regular term of said court, and shall cause the copy of said order to be posted up and published as aforesaid.
He may also rescind any such order, made either in term time or vacation, or fix a different day for said term or terms, giving notice thereof as aforesaid. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That there shall be held at the city of Cleveland, in the State of Ohio, on the third Tuesday in March, Special term of the district court at Cleveland, Ohio.this year, a special term of the district court of the United States for the northern district of Ohio, and also a special term of the circuit court of the United States for said district, at which terms respectively any business may be transacted, which might, under existing laws, be transacted at any regular term.
Approved, February 21, 1855.
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