Volume 3
Public Law 16–III
to amend the act, entitled “An act to alter the times of the session of the circuit and district courts in the District of Columbia.”
Approved December 29, 1820
Statutory text
An Act
to amend the act, entitled “An act to alter the times of the session of the circuit and district courts in the District of Columbia.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That the act, passed on the
Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 93.
The act of 11th May, 1820, to have full effect from the date of this act.
Writs and process to be returned and continued accordingly.
eleventh day of May last, to alter the times of the session of the circuit and district courts in the District of Columbia, instead of being limited to take effect on the first day of January next, shall have full operation and effect from and after the passing hereof; and that all the writs and process of the circuit court of the District of Columbia, for the county of Washington, shall be returned and continued in like manner as if the said act had taken effect from and after the thirtieth day of July last.
Approved, .