Chapter VII. to provide a place for the holding of the Courts of the United States in the Southern District of New York, and for other purposes
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Chap. VII.— An Act to provide a place for the holding of the Courts of the United States in the Southern District of New York, and for other purposes. Feb. 2, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Court rooms in the Southern District of New York. That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Interior to provide by lease from year to year, or for a term of years, at his discretion, rooms in the city of New York for holding the courts of the United States for the southern district of New *Post*, p. 383.York, and for the accommodation of the judges of the said courts, and of the district attorney and marshal of the United States for the southern district of New York, and for the clerks of the circuit and district courts of said district.
Sec. 2. Returns of process.*And be it further enacted*, That all orders, venires, writs, process, and recognizances in the circuit or district court of the United States for the southern district of New York, may be dated, tested and made returnable at the United States’ court-room in the city of New York, and whether made returnable at the United States’ court-room, or at the City Hall of the city of New York, shall be in fact returnable at, and shall be returned to the court-room in the city of New York, where, at the time of such return, the court shall be actually held: and that the said circuit and district courts for the southern district of New York shall be held and trials in actions therein had, at the court-rooms that may from time to time be provided for that purpose.
Approved, February 2, 1854.