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the same regulations and penalties, and be entitled to the same fees, as are provided for, and prescribed to, marshals in other districts; and shall, moreover, be entitled to the sum of two hundred dollars annually, as a compensation for all extra services.

Causes pending in the state courts transferable, &c., may be removed.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all causes pending in the state courts at the passage of this act, which, by law, were transferable to the United States courts, may be so removed, under the rules governing such removals, as soon after the passage of this act as may be reasonably practicable.

Approved, March 16, 1822.

Statute Ⅰ.



March 30, 1822.

Chap. XIII.An Act for the establishment of a territorial government in Florida. [1]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that territory ceded

  1. The acts relating to the territory of Florida are:
    An act to authorize the President of the United States to take possession of East and West Florida, and establish a temporary government therein, March 3, 1819, ch. 93.
    An act for carrying into execution the treaty between the United States and Spain, concluded at Washington, on the twenty-second day of February, 1818, March 3, 1821, ch. 39.
    An act for establishing a territorial government in Florida, March 30, 1822, ch. 13.
    An act to provide for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage in Florida, and for other purposes, May 7, 1822, ch. 62.
    An act concerning the commerce and navigation of Florida, March 30, 1822, ch. 15.
    An act to amend “An act for establishing a territorial government in Florida,” and for other purposes, March 3, 1823, ch. 28.
    An act to carry into effect the ninth article of the treaty concluded between the United States and Spain, and the 22d day of February 1819, March 3, 1823, ch. 35.
    An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to amend an act for the establishment of a territorial government in Florida, and for other purposes,” May 26, 1824, ch. 163.
    An act to amend the several acts for the establishment of a territorial government in Florida, May 15, 1826, ch. 46.
    An act to authorize the governor and legislative council of Florida to provide for holding additional terms of the superior courts therein, March 3, 1827, ch. 91.
    An act authorizing the legislative council of Florida to meet in October instead of December, and repealing the proviso in the sixth section of the act entitled “An act to amend an act for the establishment of a territorial government in Florida, and for other purposes,” approved March the third, one thousand eight hundred and [twenty-]three, April 28, 1828, ch. 42.
    An act to authorize the citizens of the territories of Arkansas and Florida to elect their officers, and for other purposes, Jan. 21, 1829, ch. 13.
    An act to amend the several acts establishing a territorial government in Florida, March 22, 1832, ch. 52.
    An act to ascertain and mark the line between the state of Alabama, and the territory of Florida, and the northern boundary of Illinois, and for other purposes, March 2, 1831, ch. 86.
    An act to authorize the territory of Florida to open a canal through the public lands between Chipola river and Saint Andrew’s bay, in West Florida, March 2, 1831, ch. 73.
    An act making provision for the sale and disposition of the public grounds in the cities of St. Augustine and Pensacola, and to reserve certain lots and buildings for public purposes, and to provide for their repair and preservation, June 28, 1832, ch. 152.
    An act to authorize the surveying and laying out a road from Detroit to the mouth of Grand river, in late Michigan territory, and for the survey of canal routes in the territory of Florida, July 4, 1832, ch. 164.
    An act to amend the several acts for the establishment of a territorial government in Florida, July 14, 1832, ch. 239.
    An act to establish a court at St. Mark’s, in Florida, March 2, 1833, ch. 93.
    An act to equalize representation in the territory of Florida, and for other purposes, June 18, 1834, ch. 46.
    An act repealing certain acts of the legislative council of the territory of Florida, June 30, 1834, ch. 166.
    An act for the relief of the inhabitants of East Florida, June 26, 1834, ch. 87.
    An act to disapprove and annul certain acts, of the territorial legislature of Florida, and for other purposes, July 1, 1836, ch. 231.
    An act regulating the terms of the Superior Court of the district of Florida, and for other purposes, July 2, 1836, ch. 261.
    An act authorizing a special term of the court of appeals for the territory of Florida, and for other purposes, Feb. 25, 1836, ch. 41.
    Resolution authorizing the President to furnish rations to certain inhabitants of Florida, February 1, 1836.
    An act to re-organize the legislative council of Florida, and for other purposes, July 7, 1838, ch. 168.
    An act to establish a new judicial district in the territory of Florida, July 7, 1838, ch. 181.