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Times of holding the

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district of Rhode-Ifland; at Boston, in and for the district of Maffachusetts, on the twentyfecond day of May and fifteenth day of October; at Portsmouth on the eighth day of June, and at Exeter on the twenty-ninth day of September, in and for the district of New-Hampfhire; in and for the district of Maine, at Portland on the fifteenth day of June, and at Wif caffet on the twenty-fecond day of September. The circuit court of the fecond circuit, at New-Haven on the fifteenth day of April; and at Hartford, on the twenty-fifth day of September, in and for the district of Connecticut; at Windfor, on the fifth day of May, and at Rutland on the fifteenth day of October, in and for the district of Vermont; at the city of Albany, in and for the district of Albany, on the twentieth day of May and twenty-fifth day of October; at the city of NewYork, in and for the district of New-York on the fifth day of June and the tenth day of November. The circuit court of the third circuit, at Trenton, in and for the district of Jerfey, on the second days of May and October; at the city of Philadelphia, in and for the Eaftern district of Pennsylvania, on the eleventh day of May and eleventh day of October ; at Bedford, in and for the Western diftrict of Pennsylvania, on the twenty-fifth day of Juue and twenty-fifth day of November; and at Dover, in and for the diftrict of Delaware, on the third day of June and twenty-feventh day of October. The circuit court of the fourth circuit, at Baltimore, in and for the diftrict of Maryland, on the twentieth day of March and fifth day of November; at Lexington in Rockbridge county, in and for the Western district of Virginia, on the fifth day of April and twenwath day of November; and at the city of

Richmond in and for the Eastern district of Virginia, on the twenty-fifth day of April, and fifth day of December. The circuit court of the fifth circuit, at Raleigh, in and for the dif trict of North-Carolina, on the first day of June and first day of November; at Charleston on the fixth day of May, and at Columbia on the thirtieth day of November, in and for the district of South-Carolina; at Savannah on the tenth day of April, and at Auguf ta, on the fifteenth day of December, in and for the district of Georgia; and the circuit court of the fixth circuit at Knoxville, in and for the district of Eaft Tenneffee, on the twentyfifth day of March and twenty-fifth day of September; at Nashville, in and for the district of West Tennessee, on the twentieth day of April and twentieth day of October; and at Bairdstown, in and for the district of Kentucky, on the fifteenth day of May and fifteenth day of November; and at Cincinnati in and for the diftrict of Ohio, on the tenth day of June and on the tenth day of December; and fo on the feveral days and at the several places aforefaid, in each and every year afterwards; Provided always, That when any of the faid days fhall happen on Sunday, then the faid court hereby directed to be holden on fuch day, fhall be holden on the next day thereafter; and provided alfo, that there shall be appointed, in the fixth circuit, a judge of the United States, to be called a circuit judge, who together with the dif trict judges of Tenneffee and Kentucky, fhall hold the circuit courts, hereby directed to be holden, within the faid circuit; and that whenever the office of diftrict judge, in the districts of Kentucky and Tenneffee refpectively, fhall become vacant, fuch vacancies fhall refpec

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tively, be fupplied by the appointment of two additional circuit judges, in the faid circuit, who, together with the circuit judge firft aforefaid, fhall compofe the circuit court of the faid circuit.

Sec. 8. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the faid circuit courts hereby established shall have power, and hereby are authorized to hold special feffions, for thetrial of criminal causes, at any other time or times than is hereby directed, at their discretion.

Sec. 9. And provided alfo, and be it further enacted, That if in the opinion of any judge of any of the faid circuit courts, it fhall be dangerous to hold the next ftated feffion of fuch court, for any district within the circuit to which fuch judge fhall belong, at the place by law appointed for holding the fame; it fhall be lawful for fuch judge to iffue his order, under his hand and feal, to the marshal of fuch court, directing him to adjourn the said feffion, to fuch other place within the fame diftrict as the faid judge fhall deem convenient; which faid marthal thall, thereupon adjourn the faid court pursuant to fuch order, by making, in one or more public papers, printed within the faid diftrict, publication of fuch order and adjournment, from the time when he fhall receive fuch order, to the time appointed by law for commencing fúch ftated feffion; And that the court fo to be held, according to and by virtue of fuch adjournment, fhall have the fame powers and authorities, and fhall proceed in the fame manner, as if the fame had been held at the place appointed by law for that purpose.

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the circuit courts fhall have, and hereby are invefthout coute, ted with, all the powers heretofore granted

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Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the faid circuit courts refpectively fhall have cog- Subjects of the nizance of all crimes and offences cognizable the circuit cognizance of under the authority of the United States, and courts. committed within their refpe&tive districts, or upon the high feas; and alfo of all cafes in law or equity, arifing under the conftitution and laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; and alfo of all actions, or fuits of a civil nature, at common law, or in equity, where the United States fhall be plaintiffs or complainants; and also of all feizures on land or water, and all penalties and forfeitures, made, arifing or accruing, under the laws of the United States; which cognizance of all penalties and forfeitures fhall be exclufively of the ftate courts, in the faid circuit courts, where the offence, by which the penalty or forfeitureis incurred, shall have been committed within fifty miles of the place of holding the faid courts; and alfo of all actions, or fuits, matters or things cognizable by the judicial authority of the United States, under and by virtue of the conftitution thereof, where the matter in dif pute fhall amount to four hundred dollars, and where original jurisdiction is not given by the constitution of the United States to the fupreme court thereof, or exclufive jurisdiction by law to the district courts of the United States: Provided always, That in all cafes. where the title, or bounds of land fhall come into queftion, the jurisdiction of the faid circuit courts fhall not be reftrained, by reafon of the value of the land in difpute.

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Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That the Circuit courts faid circuit courts respectively shall have cognizance concurrently with the district courts, nizance under of all cafes which fhall arife, within their rethe bankrupt fpective circuits, under the act to establish an

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uniform fyftem of bankruptcy throughout the United States; and that each circuit judge, within his refpective circuit, fhall and may perform all and fingular the duties enjoined by the faid act, upon a judge of a diftrict court: And that the proceedings under a commiffion of bankruptcy, which fhall iffue from a circuit judge, fhall in all refpects be conformable to the proceedings under a commiffion of bankruptcy, which fhall iffue from a district judge, mutatis mutandis.

Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That Certain fuits where any action or suit shall be, or shall have been commenced, in any ftate court within the United States, against an alien, or by a citizen or citizens of the state in which fuch fuit or action shall be, or fhall have been commenced against a citizen or citizens of another state, and the matter in dispute, except in cases where the title or bounds of land fhall be in question, fhall exceed the fum or value of four hundred dollars, exclufive of cofts, and the defendant or defendants in such suit or action fhall be perfonally served with the original process therein, or fhall appear thereto; or where, in any fuit or action, fo commenced or to be commenced, final judgment, for a fum exceeding four hundred dollars, exclusive of costs, fhall have been rendered in fuch state court, against fuch defendant or defendants, without return of perfonal fervice on him, her, or them, of the original process in such suit or action, and without an appearance thereto, by

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