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For half-pay pensions payable through off. Third Auditor.For half-pay pensions, payable through the office of the Third Auditor, five thousand dollars.

Approved, March 10, 1838.

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March 10, 1838.

Chap. XXXIII.An Act to change the times of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States in the seventh circuit.

1842, ch. 31.
Times of holding the circuit and district courts U. S. in the districts of Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan.
Act of March 3, 1837, ch. 34.
All recognizances, &c., shall be returnable to the first term as above established.
Circuit judge shall attend one circuit court every year.
On a question of law, &c., the dist. judge may adjourn the case.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the circuit and district courts of the United States shall be held in the district of Indiana, at the seat of Government in said State, on the third Monday of May and November; at the seat of Government in the district of Illinois, on the first Mondays of June and December; in the district of Michigan, at the seat of Government in said State, on the third Monday in June and the first Monday in November; and in the district of Ohio, at the seat of Government in said State, on the first Monday of July, and the third Monday in December, and all recognizances entered into, and all mesne and final process, which have been issued, or which shall hereafter be issued, shall be returnable in the respective districts to the first term, as above established: And it shall be the duty of the circuit judge, to attend one circuit court in each year, in the districts of Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan, and should any question of law be raised, in any case, in the absence of the circuit judge, the district judge may, at his discretion, adjourn the cause to the succeeding term of the circuit court.

Approved, March 10, 1838.

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March 19, 1838.
[Expired.]

Chap. XXXIV.An Act to continue in force an act therein mentioned, relating to the port of Baltimore.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,The act passed 17th March, 1800, chap. 15, as relates to the act of Maryland, continued to 3d March, 1843. That the act passed the seventeenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred, entitled “An act declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the States of Maryland and Georgia,” and which, by subsequent acts, has been revived and continued in force until the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, be, and the same, so far as it relates to the act of Maryland, is hereby revived and continued in force until the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three. Provided,Proviso. That nothing herein contained shall authorize the demand of a duty on tonnage on vessels propelled by steam, employed in the transportation of passengers.

Approved, March 19, 1838.

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March 28, 1838.

Chap. XLVI.An Act to restore circuit jurisdiction to the district courts of the western district of Virginia.[1]

So much of 3d section act 3d March, 1837, as repeals all acts conferring circuit court jurisdiction on certain district courts, repealed, &c.
Act of March 3, 1839, ch. 81.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the third section of the act entitled “An act supplementary to the act entitled ‘An act to amend the judicial system of the United States,’” approved March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, as repeals all former acts, or parts of acts, conferring circuit court jurisdiction on certain district courts therein named, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as relates to the courts of the western district of Virginia; and that the district courts of said district exercise the same jurisdiction with which they were invested previous to the passage of said act.

  1. See notes of the acts relating to the District Courts of Virginia, vol. 3, 479.