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Chap. LXXV.—An Act making an additional appropriation for defraying the expenses of bringing to the seat of government the votes for President and Vice President of the United States.
Act of Feb. 11, 1825, ch. 10.
Additional appropriation for bringing to the seat of government the votes for President and Vice President.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and there hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents, for the payment of the expenses of bringing to the seat of government the votes for President and Vice President of the United States, in addition to the sum of three thousand three hundred dollars, heretofore appropriated for the same object.
Approved, March 3, 1825.
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Chap. LXXVI.—An Act authorizing the subscription of stock in the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company.
Secretary of the Treasury authorized to subscribe, for 1500 shares of the capital stock of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to subscribe, in the name and for the use of the United States, for one thousand five hundred shares of the capital stock of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, and to pay for the same, at such times, and in such proportions, as may be required by the said company, out of the dividends which may grow due to the United States upon their bank stock in the Bank of the United States.
The Secretary of the Treasury to vote for the president and directors of said company.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Secretary of the Treasury shall vote for president and directors of the said company, according to such number of shares, and shall receive upon the said stock, the proportion of the tolls which shall from time to time, be due to the United States, for the shares aforesaid.
Approved, March 3, 1825.
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Chap. LXXVIII.—An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to alter the times of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States, for the district of South Carolina.”[1]
The circuit court for the district of South Carolina, at Columbia, to commence on the 4th Tuesday of Nov. annually.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the passing of this act, the circuit court for the district of South Carolina, at Columbia, South Carolina, shall commence on the fourth Tuesday in November, annually, instead of the third Tuesday, as is now provided for by an act approved the twenty-fifth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
Same course to be pursued with suits, &c., as before.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all suits, actions, torts, processes, and other proceedings, which now are pending in said circuit court, or which now are, or may hereafter be commenced for, or returnable to, the said circuit court at Columbia, at the time heretofore established, shall be returnable to, heard, tried, and determined in the said circuit court, at the time hereby fixed and established.
Approved, March 3, 1825.- ↑ See notes to the act of May 25, 1824, ch. 145.
