might legally have done had no other change than a mere alteration of the terms taken place.
Appeals may be prayed, &c., to the court of appeals.Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That appeals may be prayed and writs of error taken out upon matters of law only, in all cases wherein they are now allowed by law, to the said court of appeals, and all writs of error shall be issued by the clerk of the said court of appeals, and made returnable to the said court at Kaskaskia, but no question upon appeal or writ of error shall be decided without the concurrence of two judges at least.
Legislature empowered to alter the time specified in this act.Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That the legislature of the said territory shall have power to change the times of holding any of the courts required to be holden by this act: Provided however, That the said legislature shall not have authority to increase the number of sessions to be held by the said courts respectively, in conformity with the provisions of the preceding sections of this act.
Territorial judges not to be associated with the United States’ judges.Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That no judge or justice appointed under the authority of the government of the said territory, shall be associated with the aforesaid United States’ judges, when sitting as circuit court judges as aforesaid. This act to commence and be in force from and after the first day of April next.
Approved, March 3, 1815.
Statute III.
Chap. XCIX.—An Act to continue in force, for a limited time, the act entitled “An act for establishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes.”
Act of March 2, 1811, ch. 30, continued in force until March 4, 1817.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled “An act for establishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes,” approved on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and eleven, shall be, and the same is hereby continued in force until the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, and no longer.
Approved, March 3, 1815.
Statute III.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. C.—An Act to fix the compensations, and increase the responsibility of the collectors of the direct tax and internal duties; and for other purposes connected with the collection thereof.
Act of Dec. 23, 1817, ch. 1.
Collectors entitled to the commission now allowed by law until 1st July, 1815.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the collectors of the direst tax and internal duties, shall be entitled to receive the same commissions which are now allowed by law, until the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen: Provided, That the commissions accruing to any one collector, upon the moneys collected and paid into the treasury, between the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars; and the said collectors shall, from and after the said first day of July, be allowed, in lieu of the commission now allowed by law, four and one half per centum upon all moneys accounted for and paid into the treasury, from the first [of] July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars; and one per centum upon all sums over and above that amount.
