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Public Law 31–XXXI
to regulate the Terms of the Circuit and District Courts of the United States for the District of Ohio.
Approved July 29, 1850
Statutory text
An Act
to regulate the Terms of the Circuit and District Courts of the United States for the District of Ohio.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That there shall be
Two regular terms to be held at the city of Columbus, Ohio, in each year, &c.
1846, ch. 26 and 76.
held at the city of Columbus, in the State of Ohio, two regular terms of the Circuit and District Courts of the United States for the district of Ohio, in each year, which shall commence respectively on the third Tuesday in May and the third Tuesday in October, in each year; and so much of any law as requires the terms of said courts to be held in July and November, respectively, is hereby repealed.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That all issues now pending in
All issues pending to be tried at the terms herein provided for, &c.
either of said courts shall be tried at the terms herein provided for, and no process issued or proceedings pending in either of said courts shall be avoided or impaired by this change of the time of holding the THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 39, 40. 1850. same; but all process, bail-bonds, and recognizances returnable at the next term of either of said courts, shall be returnable and returned to the court next held under this act, in the same manner as if so made returnable on the face thereof, and shall have full effect accordingly.
Approved, .