Chapter IV. *changing the time of holding the courts at Clarksburg and at Wheeling, in the western district of Virginia,*(*a*)(*a*) See notes of the acts relating to the District Courts of Virginia, vol. 3, 479. *and the circuit court of the United States for the district of Arkansas.*(*b*)(*b*) Act of April 17
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Chap. IV.— An Act *changing the time of holding the courts at Clarksburg and at Wheeling, in the western district of Virginia,*(*a*)(*a*) See notes of the acts relating to the District Courts of Virginia, vol. 3, 479. *and the circuit court of the United States for the district of Arkansas.*(*b*)(*b*) Act of April 17, 1828, chap. 29.March 4, 1844. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the district court To be held at Clarksburg, when. of the United States, required by law to be holden at Clarksburg, in the western district of Virginia, shall hereafter commence its sessions on the last Mondays of March and of August of every year; and that the sessions of said court required by law to be held at Wheeling, within said At Wheeling. district, shall hereafter Circuit court of Arkansas, to be held when. commence on the Wednesdays after the first Mondays in April and September of every year, instead of the times now fixed by law for holding said courts, respectively; and that the circuit court of the United States for the district of Arkansas, shall hereafter be held on the second Monday of April of each year, instead of the time now designated by law; and that all actions, suits, recognizances, processes, writs, and proceedings whatever, pending, or which may be pending, in said courts, respectively, or returnable thereto, shall have day therein, and be heard, tried, proceeded with, and decided, in like manner as if the time of holding said sessions had not been hereby altered.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That this act be in force from and after the passage thereof. Approved, March 4, 1844.