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Report on claims presented, and not allowed, to be made to the House of Reps.and he hereby is, required to report to the House of Representatives a schedule of such claims as may be presented for adjustment under this act, and not allowed, with the reasons for such disallowance, at the next session of Congress.

Approved, August 16, 1842.

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Aug. 16, 1842.

Chap. CLXXIX.An Act to change the name of the port of entry on Lake Erie, known as Portland, to that of Sandusky.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,After 1st October 1842, Portland to be called Sandusky. That from and after the first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, the port of Portland on Lake Erie, in the district of Sandusky, in the State of Ohio, shall be called the port of Sandusky.

Approved, August 16, 1842.

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Aug. 16, 1842.

Chap. CLXXX.An Act to amend the act entitled “An act supplementary to the act entitled ‘An act to amend the judicial system of the United States.’”

Act of March 3, 1837, ch. 34.
Act of March 3, 1839, ch. 81.
Act of June 17, 1844, ch. 96.
What districts shall compose the 4th,
5th, and
6th circuits.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the fourth circuit shall be composed of the districts of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia;

The fifth circuit shall be composed of the districts of Alabama and Louisiana;

The sixth circuit shall be composed of the districts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

Times of holding circuit courts in Virginia, andThe circuit courts in the district of Virginia shall be holden at Richmond on the first Monday in May and on the fourth Monday in November.

N. Carolina.The circuit courts in the district of North Carolina shall be holden on the fourth Monday of May and second Monday in December.

Act to take effect 1st February next.
Justices of the Supreme Court to allot the districts.
Process, &c. when returnable.
This act shall not take effect until the first day of February next, before which time the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, or a majority of them, shall allot the several districts among the Justices of the said court.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That when the time of holding any court, by this act has been changed, all processes, proceedings, and causes shall be returned and held to be continued to the said courts, at the times herein provided for their meeting, respectively.

Approved, August 16, 1842.

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Aug. 16, 1842.

Chap. CLXXXI.An Act requiring foreign regulations of commerce to be laid annually before Congress.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Changes in the commercial systems of other nations to be communicated. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to lay before Congress, annually, at the commencement of its session, in a compendious form, all such changes and modifications in the commercial systems of other nations, whether by treaties, duties on imports and exports, or other regulations, as shall have come to the knowledge of the Department.

Approved, August 16, 1842.

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Aug. 16, 1842.

Chap. CLXXXII.An Act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the “Dubuque claim” so called, in the Territory of Iowa.[1]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the lands lying in the

  1. Notes of acts relating to the territory of Iowa; act of June 12, 1838, chap. 96.