Chapter CXXV.
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Chap. CXXV.— An Act *to provide for holding the United States Courts in the Northern and Southern Districts of Florida in case of the Sickness or Disability of either of the Judges of those Districts.* Feb. 24, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all the provisions of the Provisions of act of 1850, ch. 30, respecting disability of judges extended to courts in Florida.act of Congress approved twenty-ninth of July, eighteen hundred and fifty, entitled “An act to provide for holding the courts of the United States in case of the sickness or other disability of the judges of the district courts,” shall be, and are hereby declared to be, applicable to the two judicial districts of the State of Florida and the judges thereof, so far forth as the same can be applied to the said districts and judges; and that the designation and appointment of either of the said judges to hold the courts in the district of the other, in consequence of the sickness or disability of such other judge, may be made either by the chief justice of the United States or by the circuit judge of an adjoining circuit, on such certificate as is required by the act aforesaid: *Provided, however,* That a written certificate of the judge of either of said districts, certifying that Certificate to be filed.he is unable, from sickness or physical inability, to hold any regular term, or adjourned or extra term, of the courts appointed to be holden in his district, and requesting the judge of the other district to hold the same, shall, when filed in the clerk’s office of the place where such term of the court is to be holden, be sufficient to authorize the said judge of the other district to hold said courts, and shall confer upon him all the powers and privileges granted by the aforesaid act to judges designated and appointed by a circuit judge or the chief justice of the United States, in pursuance of the provisions of said act.
Approved, February 24, 1855.