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and from places beyond the same, any law now in force to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, February 13, 1837.

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Feb. 13, 1837.

Chap. XIV.An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to establish branches of the mint of the United States,” passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.[1]

Act of March 3, 1835, ch. 39.
Act of Jan. 18, 1837, ch. 3.
Officers of branch mints at New Orleans, Charlotte and Dahlonega.
Their salaries.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the officers of the branch mint at New Orleans shall be one superintendent, one treasurer, one assayer, one melter and refiner, and one coiner; and that the officers of the branch mints, at Charlotte and Dahlonega, severally, shall be one superintendent, who shall also perform the duties of treasurer; one assayer, who shall also perform the duties of melter and refiner; and one coiner; and the annual salaries of the said officers shall be as follows: for the branch at New Orleans, to the superintendent, two thousand five hundred dollars; to the treasurer, the assayer, the melter and refiner, and the coiner, each, two thousand dollars; for the branches at Charlotte and at Dahlonega, to the superintendent, two thousand dollars; and to the assayer and the coiner, each, fifteen hundred dollars.

Part of act of 3d March, 1835, ch. 39, repealed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act entitled “An act, to establish branches of the mint of the United States,” approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, as is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Approved, February 13, 1837.

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March 1, 1837.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. XV.An Act to suspend certain provisoes of “An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports,” approved the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Provisoes of Act July 14, 1832, ch. 227, suspended. That the provisoes of the tenth and twelfth clauses of the second section of the act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports, passed July the fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, be, and the same are hereby, suspended, until the close of the next session of Congress.

Approved, March 1, 1837.

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March 1, 1837.

Chap. XVI.An Act to extend the jurisdiction of the District Court of the United States, for the district of Arkansas.[2]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,To have the same jurisdiction and power as the several district courts, U. S.
Act of March 30, 1802, ch. 13.
That the district court of the United States for the district of Arkansas shall have the same jurisdiction and power in all respects whatever that was given to the several district courts of the United States, by an act of Congress, approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and two, entitled “An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers,” or by any subsequent acts of Congress, concerning crimes, offences, or misdemeanors, which may be committed against the laws of the United States, in any town, settlement, or territory, belonging to any Indian tribe, in amity with the United States, of which any other district court of the United States may have jurisdiction.

Approved, March 1, 1837.

  1. Notes of acts relating to the Mint and Coins of the United States, vol. 1, 246.
  2. Notes of the acts relating to the Territory, afterwards State of Arkansas, vol. 3, 493.