Chapter LX. *to alter the Places of holding the Circuit Courts of the United States for the Rhode Island District.* Feb. 22, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That from and after the firstCircuit court for the district of Rho
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CHAP. LX.— An Act *to alter the Places of holding the Circuit Courts of the United States for the Rhode Island District.* Feb. 22, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That from and after the firstCircuit court for the district of Rhode Island, where and when to be held. day of July one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, the circuit courts of the United States for the district of Rhode Island shall commence and be held at the United States court-room in the city of Providence, on the fifteenth day of November, and on the fifteenth day of June, annually, instead of the places heretofore established by law: *Provided,* That whenProviso. either of the days last named shall fall on Sunday, the session of said court then next to be held shall commence on the Monday next following.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That all indictments, informations,Provision for pending process. suits, or actions, and proceedings of every kind, whether of a civil or criminal nature, pending in the said circuit court on the first day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, shall thereafter have day in court, and be proceeded in, heard, tried, and determined, on the days and at the place herein appointed for holding the said court, in the same manner, and with the same effect as if the said court had been holden on the days and at the places heretofore directed by law.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted, *That all writs, suits, actions, or recognizances,Same subject. or other proceedings, which are or shall be instituted, served, commenced, or taken to the said court to have been holden as heretofore, directed by law, shall be returnable to, entered in, heard, tried, and have day in court, in said court, to be holden at the times and place by this act directed, in the same manner as might and ought to have been done had the said court been holden at the times and places heretofore directed by law.
Approved, February 22, 1867.