THE FEDERAL REPORTER. VOLUME 60. CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS AND CIRCUIT PERMANENT EDITION. APRIL MAY, 1894. ST. PAUL: 1894. AMENDMENTS TO RULES OF THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS. Seventh Circuit. In the circuit court of appeals for the seventh circuit, rule 3 of the ules of the court has been amended so as to read as follows: 3. TERMS. A term of this court shall be held annually at the city of Chicago, on the first Monday in October, and continued until the first Monday in October of the succeeding year. Every term shall be adjourned to such times and places as the court may from time to time designate. Unless otherwise specially ordered, the court will hold three sessions for the hearing of causes during each term, beginning on the first Monday in October, the first Monday in January, and the first Monday in May, respectively. Rule 14, § 5, of the rules of the court has been amended so as to read as follows: 14. 5. All appeals, writs of error, and citations must be made returnable not exceeding thirty days from the date on which the appeal is allowed, the writ of error issued, or the citation signed, whether the return fall in vacation or in term time, and be served before the return day. Rule 17 of the rules of the court has been amended so as to read as follows: 17. DOCKET. The clerk shall prepare calendars of causes for the regular terms of this court, to be held on the first Monday of October in each year, and calendars for each adjourned term of the court, placing thereon in proper chronological order only causes in which the record shall have been printed fully twenty days before such term or such adjourned term, and those causes in which, the record having been printed. briefs upon both sides have been filed seven days before the beginning of such term or adjourned term. Rule 24, § 1, of the rules of the court has been amended so as to read as follows: 24. BRIEFS. 1. The counsel for the plaintiff in error or appellant shall file with the ⚫ clerk of this court, within twenty days after the date of the delivery by the clerk of the printed record, twenty copies of a printed brief, one of which shall, on application, be furnished to each of the counsel engaged upon the opposite side. Rule 24, § 3, of the rules of the court has been amended so as to read as follows: 3. The counsel for defendant in error or an appellee shall file with the clerk twenty printed copies of his brief within twenty days after the filing of the brief of the plaintiff in error or appellant. His brief shall be of a like character with that required of the plaintiff in error or appellant, except that no specification of errors shall be required, and no statement of the case, unless that presented by the plaintiff in error or appellant is controverted. Either party may, at or before the argument of the cause, file a supplemental brief, strictly confined to matter in reply to the brief of the opposite party. |