Chapter XIV. *supplementary to the act, intituled “An act to amend the act, intituled An act establishing Circuit Courts, and abridging the jurisdiction of the District Courts of the districts of Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio.”* Feb. 4, 1809. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives o
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Chap. XIV.— An Act *supplementary to the act, intituled “An act to amend the act, intituled An act establishing Circuit Courts, and abridging the jurisdiction of the District Courts of the districts of Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio.”* Feb. 4, 1809. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Act of March 23, 1804, ch. 31.Act of Feb. 24, 1807, ch. 16.Act of March 22, 1808, ch. 38.Process, how to be issued.
That in all actions or suits that were pending in the circuit courts of the United States for the district of Tennessee, established by an act, intituled “An act establishing circuit courts, and abridging the jurisdiction of the district courts of the districts of Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio,” in which any judgmentor decree was rendered, or any sentence passed previous to the passage of the act, intituled “An act to amend the act, intituled An act establishing circuit courts, and abridging the jurisdiction of the district courts of the districts of Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio,” the clerk of the circuit court of the United States for the district of East Tennessee be, and he is hereby authorized To whom directed.and directed to issue executions, and ail other process necessary for carrying the same into complete effect, in the same manner as if the said last mentioned act had not passed; which executions and other process shall be directed to the marshal of either of the districts of East or West Tennessee, in which the party against whom the same shall issue may reside, or his property may be found, who shall execute and return the same, in like manner he would have done if the act to which this is a supplement had not passed, and shall receive the same fees as are by law allowed for similar services in other cases.
Sec. 2. Sessions of the Kentucky district courts. *And be it further enarted,* That the next session of the district court of the United States, for the district of Kentucky, shall be holden on the second Monday in May next, and that the session of the said court heretofore holden on the first Monday in June, annually, shall thereafter be holden annually, on the second Monday in May. Sec. 3. Writs, &c. &c. to be continued over, &c. &c. *And be it further enacted,* That all writs and process, which shall have been issued, or may hereafter issue, and all recognizances returnable, and all suits and other proceedings of what nature or kind soever, which have been continued to the said district court on the first Monday in June next, from the last December term, shall be returned and held continued to the said second Monday in May next.
Approved, February 4, 1809.