Volume 4
Public Law 22–CII
to amend an act, entitled “An act to regulate the practice in the courts of the United States, for the district of Louisiana.(a)(a) See notes to the act of May 26, 1824, ch. 181.
Approved May 20, 1830
Statutory text
An Act
to amend an act, entitled “An act to regulate the practice in the courts of the United States, for the district of Louisiana.(a)(a) See notes to the act of May 26, 1824, ch. 181.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That the mode of proceeding in drawing and empanneling juries in the courts of the United States for the Louisiana districts, shall be the same as is now provided by law in the district courts of the state of Louisiana; and that the judge of the United States’ courts in said district be, and he is hereby authorized, by rule, to adopt any amendment that may hereafter be made to the laws of the said state, prescribing the qualification of jurors, and providing for drawing and empanneling juries.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That all the duties prescribed by the laws of the state of Louisiana, to be performed by the sheriff, in relation to the drawing and summoning of jurors, shall be performed by the marshals, and those so prescribed for the parish judge, or the district judge of the state, shall be performed by the district judge of the United States. And that the duties so prescribed by the said state laws, imposed on any other state officer, shall be performed by such householders as shall be designated by the said judge of the district court of the United States.
Approved, .