Chapter I. to alter the terms of the district court in Alabama.(*a*)(*a*) See notes to the “Act to establish a district court in the state of Alabama,” April 21, 1820, ch. 47 for a reference to the acts which have been passed relating to the district court of Alabama
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Chap. I.— An Act to alter the terms of the district court in Alabama.(*a*)(*a*) See notes to the “Act to establish a district court in the state of Alabama,” April 21, 1820, ch. 47 for a reference to the acts which have been passed relating to the district court of Alabama.Nov. 27, 1820. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, That the first session of the First session to be holden at Mobile, 3d Monday of Feb. 1821.district court for the district of Alabama, shall be holden at Mobile, on the third Monday of February, eighteen hundred and twenty-one; and Stated sessions at Mobile and Cahawba.thereafter, the stated sessions of said court, instead of the times heretofore appointed, shall be holden, annually, as follows:
At Mobile, on the first Mondays of January and June; and at Cahawba, on the first Mondays of April and November; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Process returnable accordingly. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That all process which may have issued, or may hereafter issue, returnable to the next succeeding terms, as heretofore established, shall be held returnable, and be returned, to those terms to which they are severally changed by this act. But one clerk and one set of records.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That there shall be but one clerk for the district, who shall keep only one set of records, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, November 27, 1820.