Chapter CXX. *to provide for the holding of additional Terms of the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern District of New York*
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CHAP. CXX.— An Act *to provide for the holding of additional Terms of the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern District of New York*. Feb. 7, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Additional terms of the circuit court in the southern district of New York. That additional terms of the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York shall hereafter be held in each year, commencing as follows:
On the second Wednesday of January, on the second Wednesday of March, on the second Wednesday of May, on the third Wednesday of June, on the second Wednesday of October, and on the second Wednesday of December. The holding of any of the above-mentioned terms shall not dispense with or Other terms of the court not interfered with.affect the holding of any other term of the court at the same time, nor shall the pending of any other term of the court prevent the holding of any of the terms hereby appointed.
Sec. 2. Terms hereby created, to be for criminal cases;That the terms hereby appointed shall be devoted exclusively to the trial and disposal of the criminal cases and matters arising and pending in said court. The terms of said court appointed by this act may by what judges to be held.be held by the circuit judge of the second judicial circuit and the district judges for the southern and eastern districts of New York, or any one ofFORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 122, 126. 1873.423 said three judges; and at every such term held by said judge of saidPay of judges. eastern district he shall receive the sum of three hundred dollars, the same to be paid in the manner now prescribed by law for the payment of the expenses of another district judge while holding court in said district.
All recognizances and bail bonds taken in criminal cases for an appearanceRecognizances and bail bonds. at a circuit court in said district conditioned upon an appearance at the next one of the terms hereby appointed shall be valid, and grand and petit juries shall be summoned to attend the said terms as now at otherJuries. terms of the court. Approved, February 7, 1873.