Chapter XXXVI. *for the regulation of the times of holding the courts of the district of Columbia, and for other purposes.*April 21, 1806. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Session of the court of Washington changed
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Chap. XXXVI.— An Act *for the regulation of the times of holding the courts of the district of Columbia, and for other purposes.*April 21, 1806. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Session of the court of Washington changed. Of Alexandria likewise. Present courts adjourned accordingly. Process made returnable according to the change. States of America in Congress assembled,* That the circuit court for Washington county, in the district of Columbia, shall hereafter commence and be held on the first Monday in June in each year, instead of the fourth Monday in July, as now fixed by law; and the circuit court for Alexandria county, in said district, on the first Monday in July, instead of the fourth Monday in June, as now established; and that the circuit court for Washington county, which now stands adjourned to the fourth Monday in July next, shall be, and is hereby adjourned to the first Monday in June next; and the circuit court for Alexandria county shall be adjourned to, and held on the first Monday in July next; and that all process whatsoever, now issued, or that may be issued in the respective counties of Washington and Alexandria, in said district, returnable to the fourth Mondays in June and July next, respectively, or to any particular day in the first, second, or other succeeding weeks during the said terms, as heretofore established, shall be returnable, and returned to the first Mondays in June and July next, or to corresponding days in the first, second, or other succeeding weeks during the said terms, respectively, as now by this law established; and all causes, recognizances, pleas, and proceedings, civil and criminal, returnable to, and depending before the said courts, at the respective times of holding 391NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 38, 39. 1806. the same as heretofore established, shall be returned and continued to the said first Monday in June and July next, in the same counties, respectively, in the same manner, as if the said causes, recognizances, pleas and proceedings, had been regularly returned or continued to the said respective times appointed by this act, for holding the said courts. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the provisions of the act, Provisions of a former act extended to insolvent debtors. 1803, ch. 31. intituled “An act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the district of Columbia,” shall extend to any debtor who may have been, or hereafter shall be arrested and holden to bail in the said district, and who at the time of his arrest shall have been a resident in the said district one year, next preceding his arrest.
Approved, April 21, 1806.