Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AMENDED RULES. [Subsequent amendments to the rules of the United States Circuit Oourts of Appeals will be published in future volumes of these reports.] /'ro, FIRST CIRCUIT. [The rules as originally adopted, where identical with those of the other circuits, will be found at pages xxv-xxxvl. Only such originally adopted rules as were not identical with those of the other circuits, and amendments, changes, and repeals of the rules as originally adopted, are given under this head, reference being made to others in their proper places.] [As originally adopted. See page xxv.] [As originally adopted. See page xxv.] [This rule as originally adopted rend as follows: "Terms. One term of this court shall be held annually at the city of Boston ou the first Tuesday of October, and shall be adjourned to such times and places as the court may from time to time designate." It was amended, September 15, 1892, to take effect the flrst Tuesday In November following, Mr. Justice Gray, Judge Colt, and Judge Putnam being present, so as to rend as follows:] TERMS ANt) SESSIONS. One term of this court shall be held annuilly at the city of Boston at ten o'clock in the forenoon on the first Tuesday of October. Stated sessions thereof shall be there held at the same hour on the first Tuesday of every month, and may b: adjourned to such times and places as the court may from time to time' designate. But, unless otherwise ordered, any adjournment shall bz held to have been made to the first day of the next stated session. 150 F. (xxxvil) [Amendment, adopted October 4, 1898, to take effect on the 1st day of December following; Mr. Justice Gray, Judge Colt, and Judge Putnam being present] QUORUM. 1. In the absence of a quorum on any day appointed for holding a term, or on any ...