Chapter CCCXL. to declare the true Intent and Meaning of Section Two of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Uniform System of Bankruptcy throughout the United States,” approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven
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CHAP. CCCXL.— An Act to declare the true Intent and Meaning of Section Two of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Uniform System of Bankruptcy throughout the United States,” approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.June 8, 1872.1867, ch. 176, § 2.Vol. xiv. p. 518. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the powers and jurisdictionThe jurisdiction of circuit courts in bankruptcy may be exercised in any district in which the power of a circuit court has been, &c., conferred on the district court, as if no such power had been conferred thereon. granted to the several circuit courts of the United States, or any justice thereof, by section two of an act entitled “An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, may be exercised in any district in which the powers or jurisdiction of a circuit court have been or may be conferred on the district court for such district, as if no such powers or jurisdiction had been conferred on such district court; it being the true intent and meaning of said act that the system of bankruptcy thereby established shall be uniform throughout the United States.
Approved, June 8, 1872.