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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson. (search)
at it was only necessary for him to order the keeper of the Fort Monroe jail to deliver Mr. Davis up to the marshal of the District of Virginia on proper application. While the Attorney-General saw no reasons why Mr. Davis should not be tried, he set forth many reasons why the court which was to try him could not sit, and why the court had not convened on the 6th of October, the day to which it adjourned and to which Mr. Davis' trial was postponed. Congress, he said, had, on the 22nd day of May, 1866, passed an act providing that the Circuit Court of the United States should be held at Richmond on the first Monday in May and the fourth Monday in November in each year. This, the Attorney-General held, abrogated the special term fixed for October. But on the 23d of July Congress passed an act to fix the number of judges of the Supreme Court and to change certain judicial circuits. Among those changed was that assigned to the Chief Justice, when Delaware was taken out and South Ca
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The trials and trial of Jefferson Davis. (search)
at it was only necessary for him to order the keeper of the Fort Monroe jail to deliver Mr. Davis up to the marshal of the District of Virginia on proper application. While the Attorney-General saw no reasons why Mr. Davis should not be tried, he set forth many reasons why the court which was to try him could not sit, and why the court had not convened on the 6th of October, the day to which it adjourned and to which Mr. Davis' trial was postponed. Congress, he said, had, on the 22nd day of May, 1866, passed an act providing that the Circuit Court of the United States should be held at Richmond on the first Monday in May and the fourth Monday in November in each year. This, the Attorney-General held, abrogated the special term fixed for October. But on the 23d of July Congress passed an act to fix the number of judges of the Supreme Court and to change certain judicial circuits. Among those changed was that assigned to the Chief Justice, when Delaware was taken out and South Ca