Chapter XLIV. *providing for an additional Term of the United States Circuit and District Courts at Chicago, in the District of Illinois.*(*a*)(*a*) For previous acts respecting courts in Illinois, see note in vol. iv. p. 468, and Stat. 1819, ch. 70; 1824, ch. 38; 1831, ch. 10; 1848, ch. 35
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Chap. XLIV.— An Act *providing for an additional Term of the United States Circuit and District Courts at Chicago, in the District of Illinois.*(*a*)(*a*) For previous acts respecting courts in Illinois, see note in vol. iv. p. 468, and Stat. 1819, ch. 70; 1824, ch. 38; 1831, ch. 10; 1848, ch. 35.March 3, 1851. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That a term of Terms of courts in Illinois. the Circuit Court, and a term of the District Court of the United States for the District of Illinois, shall be held at the city of Chicago, in said district, commencing on the first Tuesday of October in each 637THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 48. 1851. year, and a term of each of said courts shall likewise be held at said Special terms. city, commencing on the third Tuesday of April, in each year; and special terms of said courts, or either of them, may be held at said city of Chicago at such other times as the district judge of the United States for the district of Illinois may appoint; and process may be Return of process. made returnable to any general or special term of said District or Circuit Court at said city of Chicago, at any succeeding term thereof, notwithstanding a term of the said courts may, in the mean time, be held at the seat of government of the State of Illinois, or elsewhere.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the clerk of said Circuit A clerk’s office to be kept at Chicago, and a deputy clerk to be appointed and reside there. and District Courts shall keep a clerk’s office for said courts at Chicago, and all the records and papers pertaining to business in said courts at Chicago shall be kept therein; and he shall appoint a deputy clerk of said courts, to reside in said city of Chicago. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the judge of the District Rules and regulations for such courts, process, &c.
Court of the United States for the district of Illinois may make such rules and regulations for the regulation of the terms of said court, and the process thereof, and the business, and the fees and costs to be taxed therein, as he shall deem expedient, and revise and alter the same when necessary. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the terms of the Circuit Terms of court. Court and the terms of the District Court of the United States for the district of Illinois, now required to be annually held in said district on the first Monday of June, and the first Monday of December, be hereafter held on the first Monday of July, and the third Monday of December, annually, and that all causes, motions, and proceedings pending in said courts, which may have been continued, and all process which may have issued therefrom returnable to the next June term of the said Circuit and District Courts, shall be considered and held as returnable, and continued to the new July terms of the said courts provided for in this section.
Approved, March 3, 1851.