Chapter CXIX. *to alter the Time for holding the District Court in South Carolina, and for other Purposes.* Aug. 16, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That so much of the act ofTime and place of session of District Court in S
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Chap. CXIX.— An Act *to alter the Time for holding the District Court in South Carolina, and for other Purposes.* Aug. 16, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That so much of the act ofTime and place of session of District Court in S. Carolina. 1824, ch. 146, § 3.Vol. iv. p. 86. Congress, passed the twenty-fifth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, as provides for holding the district court of the United States at Laurens court-house, South Carolina, on the Tuesday next ensuing after the adjournment of the circuit court of the United States at Columbia, be and the same is hereby repealed; and that in place thereof the said court shall be holden at Greenville court-house, South Carolina, on the first Monday in August in each year.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the jurors for the said court, grand as well as petit, be drawn from the inhabitants of Greenville district,Jurors therefor, bow and whence to be drawn. South Carolina, who are or may be liable, according to the laws of South Carolina, to do jury duty in the courts of law in the said State; and that the jurors to be drawn for the first term of the said court shall be drawn at the term of the district court to be holden in the city of Charleston: *Provided,* That they shall be drawn at least ninety days previous to the time appointed for holding the said court at Greenville; but from and after the holding of the first term of the said court, all jurors for the next succeeding term shall be drawn at Greenville during the sitting of the said court.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the said district court for Greenville, in addition to the ordinary jurisdiction and powers of a districtDistrict Court at Greenville to have Circuit Court jurisdiction. court of the United States, shall have jurisdiction of all causes (except appeals and writs of error) which now are or may be hereafter made cognizable in a circuit court of the United States, and shall proceed in the same manner as a circuit court. Approved, August 16, 1856.
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*to alter the Time for holding the District Court in South Carolina, and for other Purposes.* Aug. 16, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That so much of the act ofTime and place of session of District Court in S
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