Note 165 — Chapter II

This arrangement proved to be so difficult and vexatious that in 1792 Congress corrected it to the extent of requiring only one Justice of the Supreme Court to hold circuit court with the District Judge; but this slight relief did not reach the serious shortcomings of the law. (Annals, 2d Cong. 1st and 2d Sess. 1447.)

See Adams: U.S. i, 274 et seq., for good summary of the defects of the original Judiciary Act, and of the improvements made by the Federalist Law of 1801.