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Statute Ⅰ.


May 29, 1830.

Chap. CCXIII.An act increasing the terms of the judicial courts of the United States for the southern district of New York, and adding to the compensation of several district judges of the United States.

Monthly sessions of district court.
Vol. iii. 120, 774.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, hereafter, there shall be held, monthly, in the city of New York, a session of the district court of the United States for the southern district of New York, to commence on the first Tuesday of each month, and be held in the manner now provided by law for holding the stated terms of said court.

Two additional sessions of circuit court.
Special sessions.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, hereafter, there shall be held, annually, in the city of New York, two additional sessions of the circuit court of the United States, for the said district, for the trial of criminal causes, and suits in equity, to commence on the last Monday of February, and the last Monday of July: And further, That the said court may, at its discretion, direct special sessions thereof to be held in the said city, for the trial of criminal causes or suits in equity; which said additional and special sessions may be held by the said district judge alone.

Salaries.
District judges of New York.
District judge of Connecticut.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, hereafter, the district judge for the southern district of New York, shall reside in the city of New York; and there shall be allowed the said judge, the yearly compensation of thirty-five hundred dollars, to be paid at the treasury of the United States, in quarterly payments; to the judge of the northern district of New York, the sum of two thousand dollars, and to the judge for the district of Connecticut, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Massachusetts.
South Carolina.
Georgia.
Alabama.
Eastern district of Penn. North Carolina.
Maine.
Rhode Island.
Delaware.
Maryland.
New Jersey.
Vermont.
Western district of Penn.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That, hereafter, there shall be allowed the district judges of the United States for the districts of Massachusetts, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and the eastern district of Pennsylvania, each, the yearly compensation of two thousand five hundred dollars; and to the district judges of the following districts, respectively, the yearly compensation following—to the district judge of North Carolina, two thousand dollars; of Maine, one thousand eight hundred dollars; of Rhode Island, one thousand five hundred dollars; of Delaware, one thousand five hundred dollars; of Maryland, two thousand dollars; of New Jersey, one thousand five hundred dollars; of Vermont, one thousand two hundred dollars, and of the western district of Pennsylvania, one thousand eight hundred dollars, to be paid at the treasury of the United States, in quarterly payments.

Approved, May 29, 1830.

Statute Ⅰ.



May 30, 1830.

Chap. CCXV.An Act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Virginia line and navy, and of the continental army, during the revolutionary war.[1]

Certain troops of Virginia authorized to draw scrip, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the officers and soldiers, sailors and marines, who were in the service of Virginia on her own state establishment during the revolutionary war, and who were entitled to military land bounties, by the laws and resolutions of that state, their heirs, and assigns, shall be, and they are hereby, authorized to surrender, to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, such of their warrants for the said land bounties as shall remain unsatisfied, in whole or in part, and to receive certificates or scrip for the same, at any time before the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, which certificates or scrip shall be issued by the said Secretary, and signed by him, and countersigned by the commissioner of the general land office, in the following manner, that is to say: There

  1. Notes of the acts which have been passed relating to Virginia military bounty land, vol. ii. p. 274.