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FORTY-—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 107-110. 1871. 478 register and receiver for said district, who shell -be required to reside at ¤>¤id¤¤¤¤ md the city of Walla.·Wallzt until such time as the President, in his discretion, P"}" may remove the site of said land office from said city, be subject to the site of bmi same laws, and entitled to the same compensation as is, or may hereafter gifs gfy b° be, provided by law in relation to the existing land offices and officers in g ` said Territory. APPROVED, March 3, 1871. CHAP. CYII];. ·-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to require the hokling ofad- March 8, 1871. dmonal Dtstrzct and Czrcutt Courts of the United States in the District of Indiana, and {gr ot/2; Purposes,"` approved June thirly, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other Amb p. 175. MTPOS . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ey" America in Oemgress assembled, That section seven of the act Deputy clerks aforesaid be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the fol- *°°¤‘ ¤d*ml°¤¤l lowing additional proviso: And provided further, That a deputy clerk for (f;°£{;§°gt?,:,m each of said additional courts shall be appointed in the manner aforesaid Indiana; as soon as practicable after the passage of this act, and that such deputy clerks for the additional courts to be held at New Albany shall reside and at New A1. keep an office at said city, and that such deputy clerks for the additional hwy; courts to be held at Evansville shall reside and keep an office at said city, Evsmvms, and that they shall respectively keep at said places full records of all actions and proceedings in said additional courts respectively, and shall have the same power to issue all process from said additional courts that Powers. is now enjoyed by the clerks of other district and circuit courts of the United States in like cases. Sec. 2. That all actions over which said district and circuit courts have Actions in jurisdiction respectively under existing laws may be instituted in said Such ¤ddm°¤¤l additional district and circuit courts respectively in the first instance by °°°m' filing the proper pleadings or other papers in the offices of the deputy clerks performing the duties of clerks of said courts respectively, and that all proper and lawful process shall issue therefrom in the same manner as from other district or circuit courts of the United States in like actions, P’°°°““‘ (58.588, or proceedings. APPROVED, March 3, 1871. CHAP. CIX.—An Act to grovz'a'e jbr the Collection zg Debts due from southern Rail- March 3, 1871. road orparations, andjbr other wposes. *""°"' Wmznms certain suits are now pending in the United States courts Preamble. within the State of Tennessee, against certain railroad corporations in that State, on account of property sold to said corporations by the government, which suits are contested by the defendant corporations; end whereas it is for the interest of the government to speedily adjust and collect the claims of the United States while avoiding litigation and loss by the insolvency of any such railroad: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, Secretary of and is hereby, authorized and required, if he shall deem it advisable, by v{:,;{;*j{&‘i€Sm‘ and with the advice of the counsel of record in such suits for the United gg,,,,,,, ,,,,;,0,,; States, and Attorney-General of the United States, to compromise, adjust, grorporutions in and settle the same upon such terms as to amount and time of Payment °““°“”°‘ as may be just and equitable, and best calculated to protect the interests of the government. APPROVED, Merch 3, 1871. CHAP. CX.——An Ad to authorize the Construction of a Bridge over the Mississuzpi Merch 8, 1871. Ritvr at Lmulciana, Missouri, and also a Bridge over the Missouri River at Glasgow, in """""""'°"" mid State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives. of the United State: of America in Congress assembled, That the Loumaua. and Mm-