Chapter XV. to change the time of holding the terms of the Circuit Court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, and of the District Court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, directed by law to be held in the city of Richmond.(a)(a) See notes of the acts relating

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Chap. XV.— An Act *to change the time of holding the terms of the Circuit Court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, and of the District Court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, directed by law to be held in the city of Richmond.*(*a*)(*a*) See notes of the acts relating to the District Court of Virginia, vol. 3, 479.March 2, 1838. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That, hereafter, the spring Spring term of Circuit Court to commence on 18th May, and fall term on 18th November, in each year. term of the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia shall commence on the eighteenth day of May, and the fall term on the eighteenth of November, in each year, instead of the twenty-second of May and the twenty-second of November, as is now provided by law.

Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the terms of the district Terms of District Court to commence on 12th May and 12th November, in each year. court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, which are now directed by law to commence on the fifteenth day of May and the fifteenth [day] of November, in each year, shall hereafter commence on the twelfth day of May and the twelfth day of November, in each year: *Provided, nevertheless,* That, whenever the day on which the terms of Proviso. either of the said circuit or district court, as herein provided for, shall happen to be Sunday, then the term of said court shall commence on the following day.

Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That all proceedings and process All proceedings, &c., to be deemed returnable on the days hereinbefore prescribed, for holding said Courts. depending in or issuing out of either of the said courts, which are or may be made returnable to any other time appointed for holding the same than that above specified, shall be deemed legally returnable on the days hereinbefore prescribed, and not otherwise. And all suits and other proceedings in either of the said courts which stand continued to any other time than that above specified, shall be deemed continued to the time prescribed by this act, and no other.

Approved, March 2, 1838.