Act of June 30, 1870, ch. 177, 16 Stat. 173
An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform System of Bankruptcy throughout the United States,” approved March 2, 1867
Forty-First Congress, Session II · Approved June 30, 1870
This is an unofficial transcription, prepared by Robert J. Pfister for ease of reading and copying. The authoritative text is the United States Statutes at Large.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the jurisdiction conferred upon the supreme courts of the Territories by the act to which this is in amendment may be exercised, upon petitions regularly filed in that court, by either of the justices thereof while holding the district court in the district in which the petitioner or the alleged bankrupt resides, and said several supreme courts shall have the same supervisory jurisdiction over all acts and decisions of each justice thereof as is conferred upon the circuit courts of the United States over proceedings in the district courts of the United States by the second section of said act.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case of a vacancy in the office of district judge in any district, or in case any district judge shall, from sickness, absence, or other disability, be unable to act, the circuit judge of the circuit in which such district is included may make, during such disability or vacancy, all necessary rules and orders preparatory to the final hearing of all causes in bankruptcy, and cause the same to be entered or issued, as the case may require, by the clerk of the district court.
Approved, June 30, 1870.