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shall authorize to administer the same; the secretary, judges, and members of the legislative council, before the governor; and all other officers before such persons as the governor shall direct. The governor shall receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars; the secretary of two thousand dollars; and the judges of two thousand dollars each; to be paid quarter yearly out of the revenues of impost and tonnage, accruing within the said territory. The members of the legislative council shall receive four dollars each per day, during their attendance in council.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the following acts, that is to say:

An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States.

An act, in addition to an act, for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States.

Act of June 14, 1797, ch. 1.An act to prevent citizens of the United States from privateering against nations in amity with, or against citizens of the United States.

Act of Jan 30, 1799, ch. 1.An act for the punishment of certain crimes therein specified.

Act of Feb. 12, 1793, ch. 7.An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from service of their masters.

Act of March 22, 1794, ch. 11.An act to prohibit the carrying on the slave trade from the United States to any foreign place or country.

Act of Feb. 28, 1803, ch. 10.An act to prevent the importation of certain persons into certain states, where by the laws thereof, their admission is prohibited.

Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 43.An act to establish the post-office of the United States.

Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 34.An act further to alter and establish certain post roads, and for the more secure carriage of the mail of the United States.

Act of March 3, 1795, ch. 50.An act for the more general promulgation of the laws of the United States.

Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 30.An act, in addition to an act, intituled an act for the more general promulgation of the laws of the United States.

Act of Feb. 21, 1793, ch. 11.An act to promote the progress of useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose.

Act of April 17, 1800, ch. 25.An act to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for useful discoveries and inventions to certain persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the rights of patentees.

Act of May 31, 1790, ch. 15.An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned.

Act of April 29, 1802, ch. 66.An act, supplementary to an act, intituled An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.

Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 24, sec. 7.An act providing for salvage in cases of recapture.

Act of July 6, 1798, ch. 66.An act respecting alien enemies.

Act of May 26, 1790, ch. 11.An act to prescribe the mode in which the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings in each state shall be authenticated, so as to take effect in every other state.

Act of April 18, 1796, ch. 13.An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes.

Act of April 30, 1802, ch. 39.An act for continuing in force a law, intituled An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes. And

Act of May 13, 1800, ch. 68.An act making provision relative to rations for Indians, and to their visits to the seat of government, shall extend to, and have full force and effect in the above mentioned territories.

District court of the U. States created in the territory, the court to consist of one judge.
Sessions and jurisdiction of the court.
Sec. 8. There shall be established in the said territory a district court, to consist of one judge, who shall reside therein, and be called the district judge, and who shall hold, in the city of Orleans, four sessions annually; the first to commence on the third Monday in October next, and three other sessions, progressively, on the third Monday of every