In South Carolina, at Charleston, on the sixth day of May and the twenty-fifth day of October. In North Carolina, at Raleigh, on the first day of June and on the thirtieth day of November: Provided, That if any of these days shall happen on a Sunday, the court shall be held on the day following: SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the fifth section of "An act for altering the times of holding the Circuit Courts in certain districts of the United States, and for other purposes," and the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth sections of "An act making certain alterations in the act for establishing the judicial, and altering the time and place of holding certain courts," be, and the same are hereby, repealed; and that the stated district courts of North Carolina shall, in future, be held at the town of Newbern. and after the first day of September next, the pre- Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be requested to adopt some speedy and effectual means of obtaining information from the States of Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina, whether they have ratified the amendment pro posed by Congress to the Constitution, concerning the suability of States; if they have, to obtain the proper evidence thereof. Approved, March 2, 1797. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all such process of the several district courts, within the said district, as, before the passing of this act, shall have issued, and all recognizances made, returnable to any of the said several district courts, Resolved, &c., That the five hundred copies of and all suits and other proceedings that were continued and are depending therein, shall now be the laws of the United States, directed to be printreturned and held continued to the district courted by the act, entitled "An act for the more genof the said State, to be holden at Newbern, on the eral promulgation of the laws of the United first Monday in April next; and shall therein be States," and which were, by the said act, reserved tried, and otherwise proceeded on, according to for the future disposition of Congress, shall be dislaw; and the dockets and records of the said seve-tributed by the Secretary of State in the manner ral district courts shall be hereafter kept at New-following: One set shall be delivered to George bern, aforesaid. And to the end that suitors, wit- Washington, now President of the United States; nesses, and all others concerned, may have notice to the President of the United States; to the Vice of the alteration hereby made, the marshal of the President of the United States, and to each of the said district of North Carolina is hereby required members of the Senate and House of Represento make the same known, by proclamation, on or tatives; six sets shall be delivered to the Secre before the twenty-third day of the present month. tary of the Senate, and twelve sets to the Clerk SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all pro- of the House of Representatives; one set shall be ceedings and process depending in, or issuing out of delivered to each of the Judges of the Supreme any of the said courts, which are or may be made Court, to each of the Judges of the District Courts, returnable to any other times and places appointed and to each of the Marshals and Attorneys of each for holding the same than those above specified, district; one set shall be delivered to the Secreshall be deemed legally returnable on the days and tary of State, to the Secretary of the Treasury, to at the places above specified, and not otherwise. the Secretary of War, to the Attorney General, And all suits and other proceedings in any of the said to the Director of the Mint, to the Comptroller of courts, which stand continued to any other times the Treasury, to the Commissioner of the Reveand places than those above specified, shall be nue, to the Register, to the Auditor, to the Acdeemed continued to the times and places pre-countant of the War Department, and to the Postscribed by this act, and no other. SEC. 5. Provided, and be it further enacted, That if, in consequence of any alterations made by this act, it shall appear expedient to the district judge of any of the districts where such alterations are made as aforesaid, that a new, venire should issue for the summoning of jurors to attend the Circuit Court of such district, which is to be first held after the present session of Congress, it shall be lawful for him to direct the clerk of the said Circuit Court to issue a venire accordingly for the summoning of such number of jurors as the said district judge shall think fit, and from such parts of the district as shall appear to him most suitable to the convenience of the people thereof, giving reasonable notice of the time and place of attendance. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That, from master General, and the Purveyor of Public Supplies; one set shall be delivered to the Governor and to the Secretary of the Territory Northwest of the Ohio, and to each of the Judges thereof; one set shall be delivered to each Collector, Naval Officer, and Surveyor, and to each Supervisor and Inspector of the Revenue in the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case of the death, resignation, or dismission from office of either of the officers before mentioned, excepting the President and Vice President of the United States, the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, and the Judges of the Supreme and District Courts, the said copies of the Laws of the United States, delivered to them as aforesaid, shall belong to their respective successors in the said offices. Approved, March 3, 1797. |