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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 13 STAT. · Jan. 26, 1864 · Chapter V

Chapter V. *to change the Place of holding the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, for the District of West Tennessee, and for other Purposes.* Jan. 26, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Terms of Federal circui

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Chap. V.— An Act *to change the Place of holding the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, for the District of West Tennessee, and for other Purposes.* Jan. 26, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Terms of Federal circuit and district courts in West Tennessee. That hereafter the circuit and district courts of the United States for the district of West Tennessee shall be holden at the city of Memphis in said district, on the first Monday in March and the first Monday in September of each year, and at no other place.
And all process, civil and criminal, which may have been, or hereafter may be, issued, returnable to said courts at Jackson or Huntingdon, in said district, shall be returned to said courts, respectively, at the city of Memphis; and all books and records of every kind, pertaining to said courts, shall be transferred from the places where said courts have heretofore been held to the city of Memphis. Sec. 2. Special terms. *And be it further enacted,* That the judges of the United States circuit court and of the United States district court for the several districts of Tennessee, may, whenever in their opinion the public interests require it, appoint special terms of their respective courts at Knoxville, Nashville, and Memphis, to be holden at such times as said judges, respectively, shall deem most conducive to the public good; notice of each What notice to be given.special term appointed under the provisions of this act shall be published in at least one newspaper printed in the town or city in which a term is to be held, for four consecutive weeks.
Approved, January 26, 1864. Chapter VI: relating to the Admission of Patients to the Hospital for the Insane in the District of Columbia. 13 Stat. 3 1864-01-28 Chapter VI Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-01-27 38 2 public THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 6, 7, 8, 9. 1864. 3
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*to change the Place of holding the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, for the District of West Tennessee, and for other Purposes.* Jan. 26, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Terms of Federal circui
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