The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-06-24
AN ACT

10 amend an act entitled &C 4 act ESTABLISHING cir
cur courts and abriGgins the Jurisdiction of the
district Courts Of the Districts Of KENTUCKY, Ten
| ncssee, and Ohio"
! T. 1t enacted by the Senate and House of REPRE-
~ SentatiVes Of the United States of A,,nerica. in
Congress assembled, That so much Of the second
secton of the act, entitled sc An act establishing
circuit courts. and ahridging the Jurisdiction oi
the district courts OF the districts of Kentucky,
Tennessee and Ohio" passed the twentv-fourth
day OF February eighteen hundred and seven,
constituting the state OF Tennessee one district
tor the purpose Of holding circuit courts therein
shall be and is hereby repealed, and from and
after the passage OF this act, the state of Tonnes
see shall be divided into two districts, for the pur-
pose OF holding circuit courts therein, and the
limits OF the said districts shall be the same as
those now prescribed for the ditricts of east and
west Tennessee, in and BY the fourth section of
the above reclted act, and there shall be holden
annually in each of the said two districts one cir
cut court to consist of one Justice of the supreme
court OF the United States and district Judge of
the sad districts of east and west Tennessee
and the sessions of the said courts shall be held
III each OF the said districts, at Nashville on the
second Monday in June, and at Knoxville ON the
| third Monday in October, annually: and that all
actions, causes, pleas, processes, and other pro-
| ceedmGs relative to any cause civil or criminal
which shall be returnable to or deDendiDn in said
circuit court of the United States, TO be held at
Nashville on the first Monday of Iunc next, shall
be returned, and held continued 10, and be pro-
ceeded upon, on the second Monday in Iune nc xt
IN the same manner they would have been if this
change had not taken place
sec % IND be it further enacted, That where
any suit or suits has or have been brought, or is
or arc now pending before the circuit court held
at Knoxville, in and for the district of east Ten
| nessee, against person residing in said district
| Of east Tennessee, and where any suit or su;ts
e
INF before the circuit court held at Nashville, in
and for the district of west Tennessee, against a
person residing iii the said district of west Ten
ncssce, such suit or suits shall be proceeded m
on and finally determined in the district of west
Tennessee.
Sec ). ind be isjurther enacted, That it shall
be the duty of the district Judge of tennessee
to attend Mt Knoxville on the FIRST Thursday after
the third Monday in April next and on the first
Thursday after the third Monday in April of each
and every year thereafter and at Nashville on
the first Thursday after the fourth Monday in No
ycmoer next, and on the first Thursday after the
fourth Monday in November of each and every
year thereafter who sha!! lave bower To make
all necessary orders touching any SUIT action, APP
peal writ of error, process, pleadings, or pro-
ceedngs returned TO the Giro nit cnilrt uezt 60 he
holden thereafter at Knoxville ard Nashville, OF.
| depending therein, preparatory To the hearing.
trlai or decision OF such acton suit, appeal, writ
| - ~ pitNSeo, VI proceedings ami
all writs and process may be returnable to The
said courts on the first Thursday, after the third
! Monday in April, at Knoxville, and OF the first
| Thursday afterthc fourth Monday in November,
at Nashville, IN the same mariner as TO the sessl-
ons OF the circuit court directed TO be held bv this
act m the district of east Tennessee, at Knoxville
and IN the district of west Tennessee, at Nash.
vile and the said wrts, returnabe to the cir
cult courts to DC held at Knoxville, may also bear
test on the SAID first Thursday after the third
Monday IN April; and the writs returnable to the
circuit courts Go be held at Nashville may bear
test on the first Thursday after the fourth Mon
day III November, as though a session of the said
circuit court was holden on those days at Knox
vile and Nashville respectively.
Sec a. ind be IL further enacted, That there
shall be two clerks appointed, one Tor the circuit
court TO be heldat Knoxville, and ono for tie cir
cult court to be held at Nashville, whose duty i,
shall be TO attend the said district Judge Oh the
said first Thursday after the third Monday in A.
nri, and ON the said first Thursday after the
fourth Monday in November. ~ each and cver-
year, title places aforesaid, who yhall make due
entry Of all such matters aud tl.ars as shall or
may be ordered BY the said Judge, and at each
and e'eiyof the said seasons 80 held for tIe Dur.
pose a'orcs id, all actions, r'eas and other pro.
cec'iiii relative to any causc civil or criminal
shall iof The ccmt court to &c held at Nashville,