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Public Law 16–IX
to alter the terms of the court of the western district of Virginia.(a)(a) See notes to act of Feb. 4, 1819, ch. 12.
Approved February 10, 1820
Statutory text
An Act
to alter the terms of the court of the western district of Virginia.(a)(a) See notes to act of Feb. 4, 1819, ch. 12.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
The sessions of the court to be held.
States of America, in Congress assembled,
That the sessions of the court for the judicial district of Virginia, west of the Alleghany mountain, instead of the times heretofore appointed, shall hereafter be holden, annually, as follows: At Wythe Courthouse on the first Mondays of May
At Wythe.
Lewisburg.
Clarksburg.
and October; at Lewisburg, on the second Mondays of May and October; and at Clarksburg, on the fourth Mondays of May and October; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That all process which may have
Process to be returnable accordingly.
SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 10, 11. 1820. issued, or may hereafter issue, returnable to the next succeeding terms, returnable as heretofore established, shall be held returnable, and be returned, to those terms to which they are severally changed by this act.
Approved, .