The President, with the consent of the Senate, to appoint an attorney and a marshal for the western district, &c.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, be, and hereby is authorized to appoint one person as district attorney, and one person as marshal for the said western district, whose terms of appointment and service, as well as duties and emoluments, shall be the same with those respectively annexed to the said offices in the eastern district. And the district attorney and the marshal for the district of Pennsylvania, shall, respectively, be district attorney and marshal for said eastern district.
Actions, suits, process, &c. continued over to the western district court.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings, of a civil nature, except in cases of appeals and writs of error, commenced or pending in the district or circuit court of said district of Pennsylvania, in which no verdict shall have passed, or plea to the merits shall have been decided, and which, by law, should have been had or commenced in said district court of said western district, if the same had been had or commenced before the passing hereof, and where the parties to the same shall not otherwise agree, shall be, and hereby are, continued over to the district court of the western district, established by this act, and shall there be proceeded in with like effect, and in the same manner, as if originally had or commenced therein. And the said district and circuit courtsThe district and circuit courts of the eastern district invested with powers for the removal of papers, &c.
Proviso. of said eastern district, shall possess and exercise all necessary powers for the removal of all papers and files relating to such actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings, to the said district court of said western district, so continued over as aforesaid: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any bond or recognisance made or entered into in any of the actions or suits hereby directed to be removed; but the same shall continue of as much validity as though this act had not been passed.
Approved, April 20, 1818.
Statute I.
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Chap. CIX.—An Act supplementary to the several acts making appropriations for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Sums appropriated.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be and they are hereby, respectively, appropriated, and shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:
For balances due several states.For the payment of balances due several states, on an adjustment of their accounts, for expenses incurred by calling out the militia during the late war, six thousand dollars.
Barracks at Baton Rouge.Towards erecting a barracks at Baton Rouge, forty thousand dollars.
For carrying into effect the treaty with the Cherokee Indians, eighty thousand dollars.Treaty with Cherokees.
Expenses of holding Indian treaties in 1818.For defraying the expenses of holding Indian treaties in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, fifty-three thousand dollars.
Arrearages.For arrearages in the Indian department, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Pay of militia.For additional pay to the militia, fifty thousand dollars.
Mounted volunteers.For expenses of mounted volunteers, ninety thousand dollars.
Pensions under act of 1818, ch. 19.For pensions for one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, in addition to the sum already appropriated for that purpose, fifty thousand dollars.
For pensions to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army, under the act of the eighteenth of March last, three hundred thousand dollars.Pensions to revolutionary officers and soldiers.
For deficiency in the appropriation for clerk hire, in the office of the Department of War, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, eight hundred dollars.Clerk hire in War Department.
For rent of offices for the above department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, five hundred dollars.Rent of offices for War Department.
For office rent for the above department, for one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, one thousand dollars.
