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lars and seventy cents, the sum of three hundred and six thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For pensions to widows and orphans, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

Approved, February 27, 1834.

Statute Ⅰ.



March 24, 1834.

Chap. XVI.An Act to change the times for commencing the sessions of the courts of the United States in the district of Delaware.

1789, ch. 20, sec. 3.
Sessions of the circuit court to commence at
Newcastle, on Tuesday after 4th Monday in May;
Dover, on the Tuesday after 3d Monday in Oct.
District court, at Newcastle, on 3d Tuesday in dec.
Dover, Tuesday after the 3d Monday, March, and after 4th in September.
Return of process, &c.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sessions of the circuit court and district court of the United States in the district of Delaware, shall commence at the times hereinafter mentioned, instead of the times now appointed by law; that is to say: the sessions of the said circuit court shall commence at Newcastle, on the Tuesday next following the fourth Monday of May, and at Dover on the Tuesday next following the third Monday of October annually; and the sessions of the said district court shall commence at Newcastle on the third Tuesday of June, and second Tuesday of December; and at Dover on the Tuesday next following the third Monday of March, and the Tuesday next following the fourth Monday of September annually; and that no process, recognisance, or bail bond, returnable to the next term of either of said courts shall be avoided, or impaired, or affected by this change as to the commencement of said term; but that all process, bail bonds, and recognisances, returnable to the next term of either of said courts, shall be returnable and returned to the said court next held, according to this act, in the same manner as if so made returnable on the face thereof, and shall have full effect accordingly, and that all continuances in either of said courts shall be from the last term to the day appointed by this act for the commencement of the next session thereof.

Approved, March 24, 1834.

Statute Ⅰ.



May 14, 1834.

Chap. XLI.An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.

Appropriations for pay of army, &c.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 the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, that is to say:

For pay of the army and subsistence of officers, one million three hundred and eighty-one thousand seven hundred and seventy-two dollars, including the sum of ninety-four thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars, arrearages of pay and subsistence for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

For forage of officers, fifty-nine thousand one hundred and seventy-nine dollars.

For clothing for servants of officers, twenty-four thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

For subsistence exclusive of that of officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of fifty-five thousand dollars, the sum of three hundred and sixty-one thousand nine hundred dollars.

For clothing of the army, camp, and garrison equipage, cooking utensils and hospital furniture, two hundred and eighty thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars.

For payments in lieu of clothing for discharged soldiers for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, including an arrearage in eighteen