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dred and twenty dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of appropriation for invalid pensioners of twenty-nine thousand two hundred and forty-six dollars ninety-five cents.

Widows and orphans.For pensions to widows and orphans, five thousand dollars.

Approved, January 27, 1831.

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Jan. 27, 1831.

Chap. X.An Act to alter the times of holding the district courts of the United States for the districts of Maine and Illinois, and northern district of Alabama.[1]

District court of Alabama.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the terms of the district court of the United States for the northern district of Alabama, which are now directed by law to be held on the first Mondays of March and October in each year, shall hereafter be held on the second Mondays of April and October in each year;District court of Maine. and that the term of the district court of the United States for the district of Maine, which is now directed by law to be held on the second Tuesday of September in each year, shall hereafter be held on the first Tuesday of September in each year: and all processes which may have issued, or which shall hereafter issue, returnable to the next succeeding terms of the said district courts as heretofore established, shall be held returnable, and be returned, to those terms to which they are severally changed by this act.

District court of Illinois.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the terms of the district court of the United States for the district of Illinois, which are now directed by law to be held on the third Mondays of June and November in each year, shall hereafter be held on the first Mondays of May and December in each year; and all process which may have issued, or which shall hereafter issue, returnable to the next succeeding terms of the said district court as heretofore established, shall be held returnable, and be returned, to those terms to which they are severally changed by this act.

Approved, January 27, 1831.

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Jan. 27, 1831.
[Expired.]

Chap. XI.An Act to extend the time for entering certain donation claims to land in the territory of Arkansas.

Certain provisions continued in force for two years from May 24, 1831.
Act of May 24, 1828, ch. 108.
Act of Jan. 6, 1829, ch. 2.
Act of Jan. 13, 1830, ch. 3.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the eighth and ninth sections of the act of Congress, approved twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, entitled “An act to aid the state of Ohio in extending the Miami Canal from Dayton to Lake Erie, and to grant a quantity of land to said state to aid in the construction of the canals authorized by law, and for making donations of land to certain persons in Arkansas territory;” and the provisions of the act entitled “An act restricting the location of certain land claims in the territory of Arkansas, and for other purposes,” approved sixth January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine; and, also, the provisions of the act, entitled “An act to extend the time for locating certain donations in Arkansas,” approved thirteenth January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, be, and the same are hereby, continued in force for the period of two years, from the twenty-fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one:Proviso. Provided, That nothing in this act,