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THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 100. 1857. 197 of said roads or branches are within any Indian territory no title to the Zvvbjt *=¤_:¤¤d=*t§H same shall accrue, nor shall the same be entered upon by the authority of tag,. $;5’B°¥ B; said Territory or State until the Indian title to the same shall have been tiuguisued. extinguished. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That there be and is hereby granted _ ( to the State of Alabama, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of m%§;};'m;¢f“* a railroad " from the line of Georgia, on the Chattahoochee River, to the city of Mobile, Alabama," " through the counties of Henry, Dale, Coffee, Covington, Conecuh, Baldwin and Mobile," and a branch railroad " from Eufaula. to Montgomery," “ through the counties of Barbour, Pike, Macon and Montgomery," chartered by the State of Alabama by an act entitled "An act to authorize the Savannah and Albany Railroad Company to extend their railroad from the line of Georgia, on the Chattahoocee River, to the `city of Mobile, Alabama, and to extend a branch road from Eufaula to Montgomery," approved December twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, alternate sections of the public lands to the same extent and in the same manner, and upon the same limitations and restrictions in every respect, as was granted to aid in the construction of other railroads under an act of Congress entitled "An act granting public lands in alternate sections to the State of Alabama to aid in the construetion of certain railroads in said State,” approved June three, eighteen 185*% °h· 41- hundred and fifty-six.Amc’p‘ H` Approved, March 3, 1857. Cntr. C.-An Act to duiide the State g' Missouri im two Judicial Districts. March 8. 185% Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Missouri is _Miss¤uri divided hereby divided into two judicial districts, in the following manner, to $;g_,;'{s° -l“d‘°“‘l wit: the counties of Schuyler, Adair, Knox, Shelby, Monroe, Audrain, ` Montgomery, Gasconade, Franklin, Washington, Reynolds, Shannon, and Oregon, as the same were bounded on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, with all that part of the State lying east of the above·mentioned counties, shall compose one district, to be called the eastern district of Missouri, and a court shall be held for the said district at the city of Saint Louis, in said State. All the remaining part of said SMH V->W¤¤· State shall compose another district, to be called the western district of Missouri, and a court shall be held for the same in the city of Jefferson, iu said State. Src. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be two terms of Terms of disthe district court begun and held in and for said western district, at the Mci °°¤¤‘¤~ city of J efferson, on the first Mondays of March and September of each year; and there shall be three terms of the district court begun and held iu and for said eastern district, at the city of St. Louis, on the third Mondays of February, May, and November of each year; and the said courts are hereby authorized to hold adjourned terms when the business before the court shall, in the opinion of the court, require it. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That'a1l suits and other proceedings Pendin cases of whatever name or nature now pending in the district court of the *·°l>°¤i°§ i¥{*·l¤¤ United States for the present district of Missouri, shall be tried and dis- "°“°'" d"m°°' posed of in the district court for said western district, in the same manner as the same would have been in case said State had not been divided into two districts ; and for that purpose the jurisdiction is reserved to said district court in the said western district; and all process and other proceedings taken or issued or made returnable to the district court for the present district of Missouri, shall be returnable at the next term of said district court in and for said western district of Missouri. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That upon the application of any 9,,,4;,,8 c,,,,, party to any suit now pending in the district court for the present district me? l>• ¤‘¤¤¤¤V¤d