Volume 15
Public Law 40–LXXIX
to change the Times of holding the District and Circuit Courts of the United States in the several Districts in the State of Tennessee.
Approved June 25, 1868
Statutory text
An Act
to change the Times of holding the District and Circuit Courts of the United States in the several Districts in the State of Tennessee.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Terms of circuit and district courts in Tennessee.
That the circuit and district courts for the district of East Tennessee shall hereafter be held at Knoxville, on the second Mondays of January and July in each year; and for the district of Middle Tennessee, at Nashville, on the third Mondays of April and October of each year; and for the district of West Tennessee, at Memphis, on the fourth Mondays of May and November, of each year; and that all recognizances, indictments, or other proceedings, civil and criminal, now pending or returnable in said courts, shall be entered in court and be heard and tried according to the times of holding said courts
When act takes effect.
as herein provided. This act shall take effect from and after the first Monday in July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.
Approved, .