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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 3 STAT. · April 21, 1820 · Chapter XXIII

Chapter XXIII. *supplementary to an act, entitled “An act to alter the terms of the district court in Alabama.”*(*a*)(*a*) See notes to the act of April 21, 1820, ch. 47

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Chap. XXIII.— An Act *supplementary to an act, entitled “An act to alter the terms of the district court in Alabama.”*(*a*)(*a*) See notes to the act of April 21, 1820, ch. 47. April 17, 1822. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, The 3d section of the act of Nov. 27, 1820, ch. 1, repealed ; and part of another act revived.Act of April 21, 1820, ch. 47.Causes, actions, &c. commenced and made returnable at Cahawba and Mobile, &c.
That the third section of the act, entitled “An act to alter the terms of the district court in Alabama,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and so much of the second section of the act, entitled “An act to establish a district court in the state of Alabama,” as was repealed by the said third section, is hereby revived, re-enacted, and declared to be of full force and effect. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That all causes, actions, suits, indictments, libels, pleas, processes, and proceedings of whatsoever kind, nature, or description, sued out, commenced, or made returnable, at Cahawba, shall be there proceeded in and determined; and, in like manner, all such sued out, commenced, or made returnable, at Mobile, shall be there proceeded in and determined.
Approved, April 17, 1822.
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