Chapter CXLIII. to change the Time for holding the Circuit anil District Courts of the United States for the western District if Wisconsin, at La Crosse
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CHAP. CXLIII.— An Act to change the Time for holding the Circuit anil District Courts of the United States for the western District if Wisconsin, at La Crosse.May 9, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatTime of holding circuit and district court at La Crosse, Wis. 1870, ch. 175, § 2. Vol. xvi. p. 171.December term abolished. the time of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States for the western district of Wisconsin, at La Crosse, be on the third Tuesday of September of each year, instead of the first Monday of December, as now provided by law; and that the December term at La Crosse be, and the same is hereby, abolished, and that all recognizances, indictments, writs, process, and other proceedings, civil and criminal, now pending in either of said courts, may be entered, heard, and tried at the time herein fixed for holding said courts:Proviso. *Provided, however,* That a term of said court may be held in December, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, for the purpose of taking forfeitures of recognizances and disposing of any and all matters pending in said court, civil or criminal, necessary to be disposed of at said term to prevent discontinuances or any loss of any rights that may have accrued to any party or to the government of the United States.
Sec. 2. ThisCourts at Madison and certain power of judges not interfered with. act shall not interfere with the term of said courts appointed to be holden at Madison, in said district, nor with the power now possessed by the judges of said courts to order special terms of the same, as now provided by law. Approved, May 9, 1872.