Volume 30
Public Law 55–452
To authorize the appointment of a clerk of the district courts of the United States within and for the eastern district of Virginia, to validate their acts, and prescribe where the records shall be kept.
Approved March 3, 1899
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize the appointment of a clerk of the district courts of the United States within and for the eastern district of Virginia, to validate their acts, and prescribe where the records shall be kept.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That within and for the eastern district of Virginia, there shall be only one clerk, to be appointed by the judge of the district court, and said clerk may have as many deputies as may be necessary to be appointed as now provided by law.
Sec. 2.
That all acts heretofore performed by the several persons acting as the clerks of said court at its several places of meeting, and all payments heretofore made, in pursuance of law or judgments and decrees of said court, or sums due, to any one or all of said clerks are hereby validated.
Sec. 3.
That the records of said court shall be kept at the respective places of meeting thereof.
Sec. 4.
That this Act shall be in force from and after its passage.
Approved, .