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    THOMAS JEFFERSON SIGNS THE JUDICIARY ACT OF 1802
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    April 29, 1802

    President Thomas Jefferson signed the Judiciary Act of 1802, restoring the official number of Supreme Court justices to six (though the number had never actually dropped to five since there weren’t any vacancies in between the 1801 and 1802 acts.) The number of circuit courts remained at six under Jefferson.