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To take effect 1st of August.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after the first day of August next.

Approved, June 28, 1836.

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July 1, 1836.

Chap. CCXXXI.An Act to disapprove and annul certain acts of the Territorial Legislature of Florida, and for other purposes.

Territorial Legislatures not to grant banking privileges until, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no act of the Territorial Legislature of any of the Territories of the United States, incorporating any bank or any institution with banking powers or privileges, hereafter to be passed, shall have any force or effect whatever, until approved and confirmed by Congress.

Acts of Legislature of Florida annulled.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following acts of the Territorial Legislature of Florida, namely: an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Bank of St. Joseph,” passed February twelfth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Florida Insurance and Banking Company,” passed February tenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; an act passed February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled “An act to incorporate the St. Joseph Insurance Company,” and all other acts and parts of acts, passed by the Territorial Legislature of Florida, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, creating banks or extending banking corporations, or corporations with banking powers, or conferring banking powers on any corporation or institution whatever, be, and the same hereby are disapproved and annulled.

Approved, July 1, 1836.

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July 1, 1836.

Chap. CCXXXII.An Act to change the time of holding the district court of the United States for the western district of Virginia, holden at Clarksburg.

Courts to be held on the first Mondays of April and September.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of August, next, the sessions of the district court of the United States for the western district of Virginia, required by law to be holden at Clarksburg, shall be held on the first Mondays of April and September annually.

Approved, July 1, 1836.

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July 1, 1836.

Chap. CCXXXIII.An Act explanatory of an act entitled “An act to release from duty, iron prepared for, and actually laid on, railways and inclined planes.”

Construction of the act of July 14, 1832, ch. 250.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act of the fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An act to release from duty, iron prepared for, and actually laid on, railways and inclined planes,” shall not be so construed as to include spikes, pins, or chains, as railroad iron.

Approved, July 1, 1836.

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July 1, 1836.

Chap. CCXXXIV.An Act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the State of Michigan.[1]

Laws of the United States in force.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the State of Michigan, as elsewhere within the United States.

  1. Notes of the acts which have been passed relative to Michigan; act of Feb. 16, 1819, chap. 22.