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tions of warrants

&c. to be of equal validity with the originals.

STATUTE III.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That exemplifications granted in pursuance of the aforesaid section of the act aforesaid, of any warrant survey, assignment, and other evidences comprising the entire muniments of title, whereon any patent has been based for lands granted by the United States in the aforesaid Virginia military land district or elsewhere, shall be, and are hereby, declared and held as of equal validity with the original patent, warrant survey, assignment, or other evidence of title, on file in said office.

APPROVED, March 3, 1843.

March 3, 1843. CHAP. XCVI.An Act providing for the settlement of claims for supplies furnished the Florida militia.

Claims to be

settled on principles of equity and justice.

1842, ch. 192.

STATUTE III.

March 3, 1843.

Acts vesting circuit powers in district court

at Williamsport repealed.

Circuit courts, when to be held.

Proceedings, cognizable in a circuit court,

now pending in the dist. court,

transferred.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the treasury are authorized and required to settle the claims for sup plies furnished the Florida militia, the payment of which is provided for by the acts of August the twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, upon principles of equity and justice, under the directions of the Secretary of War.

APPROVED, March 3, 1843.

CHAP. XCVII.—An Act to provide for holding circuit courts at Williamsport in the western district of Pennsylvania. (a)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of any act or acts of Congress as vest in the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania holding its sessions at Williamsport the power and jurisdiction of a circuit court be, and the same is hereby repealed; and there shall hereafter be circuit courts held at Williamsport on the third Mondays of June and the third Mondays of September in each year by the associate justice of the Supreme Court who now is or shall hereafter be allotted to the circuit in which said district is situated and the district judge of the western district of Pennsylvania; either of whom shall constitute a quorum; which circuit court and the judges thereof shall have like powers and exercise like jurisdic tion as other circuit courts and the judges thereof, and the said district court and the judge thereof shall have like powers and exercise like jurisdiction as the district courts and the judges thereof, in the other

circuits.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all actions, suits, prosecutions, causes, pleas, process and other proceedings, relative to any cause, civil or criminal, (which might have been brought, and could have been originally cognizable in a circuit court) now pending in or returnable to the said district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania held at Williamsport, acting as a circuit court on the first day of April next shall be and are hereby declared to be, respectively transferred, returnable and continued to the said circuit court constituted by this act to be holden at Williamsport within the said district; and shall be heard, tried and determined therein, in the same manner as if originally brought, entered, prosecuted or had, in such circuit court. And the said circuit court shall be governed by the same laws and regulations as apply to the other circuit courts of the United States; and the clerk of the said court shall perform the same duties and shall be enti tled to receive the same fees and emoluments, which are by law established for the clerks of the other circuit courts of the United States. APPROVED, March 3, 1843.

(a) Act of February 19, 1831, chap. 28.

CHAP. XCVIII.—An Act to amend the laws regulating imprisonment for debt within the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, nothing in the third section of the act entitled "An act to amend the laws within the District of Columbia," approved June twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, shall be so construed as to authorize the recommitment to close jail and confinement, or to deny the benefit of the prison rules to any person imprisoned within the prison bounds of any prison within the said District for debt, being charged in execution issued upon a judgment from which an appeal has been taken and remains undecided, or upon which any writ of error has been sued out and is depending and not finally disposed of, until one year from and after the day upon which every such appeal from, or writ of error upon, such judgment shall have been finally disposed of, and the judgment shall thus have become final and conclusive; but every person so imprisoned within the said District for debt, upon an execution issued upon any judgment thus situated, shall be entitled to the prison rules and to the limits of the liberties of the jail, or prison, to which he may have been, or may be, so committed, until the expiration of one year from and after the day of the final decision upon, and termination of, any such appeal, or writ of error, or any other proceed. ing at law or in equity, by whatever term designated, having for its object a review or reversal of the judgment upon which such debtor is, or may be, charged in execution: Provided, always, That every such debtor now in prison within the said District, shall, before the expiration of the bond under which he is now permitted to go at large within the prison bounds, execute and deliver to the marshal, or sheriff, or other officer to whose custody he has been thus committed, a new bond, with good and sufficient sureties, in the penalty of twice the amount of the judgment upon which he is charged in execution, and conditioned that he will remain a true and faithful prisoner within the bounds of the prison to which he has been committed, and will not depart thence until discharged therefrom by due course of law; and every debtor hereafter to be committed within the said District, charged in execution for debt under the circumstances provided for in this act shall, before being entitled to the prison rules as hereinbefore provided, cause to be executed and deliver to the marshal, or sheriff, or other proper officer, a like bond with sureties, in a like penalty, and with a like condition.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful, in any manner, nor by virtue of any law now existing, as to any prisoner now in confinement under circumstances such as are contemplated and provided for by the first section of this act, or as to any person who may hereafter be confined under such circumstances, to make any alteration in the prison bounds as they existed and were marked and laid out when such prisoner was committed upon the execution under which he remains charged, but the limits of the liberties of his prison shall, to every such prisoner, be what they were at the time of his commitment; and the sixteenth section of the act entitled "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the District of Columbia," approved March the third, one thousand eight hundred and three, shall be, and the same is hereby, so far modified as to conform to the provisions of this section of this act.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That no female shall be imprisoned for debt upon mesne or final process. APPROVED, March 3, 1843.

STATUTE III.

March 3, 1843.

Act of June 24,

1812, ch. 106. No person to be imprisoned upon a judgm't from which an appeal, &c. is taken, until one year after such been finally disposed of.

appeal, &c. has

Proviso.

No alteration to be made in son bounds. the present pri

16th sec. act 3d March 1803, ch.

31, for relief of

insolvent debtors, modified.

Females not

to be imprisoned.

STATUTE III.

March 3, 1843.

Legislative Assembly au

vide for the

CHAP. XCIX. —An Act to authorize the election or appointment of officers in the
Territory of Wisconsin,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin shall be, and are hereby, authorized thorized to pro- to provide, by law, for the election or appointment of sheriffs, judges of probate, justices of the peace, and county surveyors, within the said Territory, in such way or manner, and at such times and places as to them may seem proper; and after a law shall have been passed by the Legislative Assembly for that purpose, all elections or appointments of the above-named officers, thereafter to be had or made, will be in pur suance of such law.

election or appointment of certain officers.

Term of ser

vice of members of the Legislative Assembly.

STATUTE III.

March 3, 1843. [Obsolete.]

Appropriations.

Congress.

Officers of the Senate and H. of Reps.

Contingent

expenses.

Library of Congress.

Contingent

expenses.

Purchase of books.

Laying floor.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the members of both houses of the said Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin, shall, upon the expiration of the terms of service for which the present members have been elected, be hereafter elected to serve for the same terms of service as that for which the members of the Legislative Assembly in Iowa are now elected.

APPROVED, March 3, 1843.

CHAP. C.-An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four.

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 hereby are, appropriated to the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, namely:

For compensation and mileage of Senators and members of the House of Representatives and delegates from the Territories, six hundred and thirty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty dollars;

For compensation of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, thirty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents;

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, sixty thousand dollars;

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred and seventyfive thousand dollars: Provided, That nothing in any resolution of either House of Congress shall prevent the settlement and payment of the bills for the printing of the two Houses of Congress, agreeably to the prices established by the joint resolution of March 3d, 1819;

For compensation of the principal and two assistant librarians, and messenger of the library of Congress, four thousand five hundred dollars;

For contingent expenses of said library, eight hundred dollars; For purchase of books for said library, five thousand dollars; For purchase of law books for said library, one thousand dollars; For laying floor of principal library room with hydraulic cement, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; and the librarian is hereby authorized Sale of old fur- to sell, at public auction, any portion of the old and useless furniture of the library rooms, and pay the proceeds thereof into the treasury of the United States;

niture.

President of United States.

State Depart

ment.

Secretary, &c.

For compensation of the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Department of State.-For compensation of the Secretary of State,

and the clerks, messenger and assistant messenger, in his department, twenty-six thousand three hundred dollars;

For the contingent expenses of said department, viz:
For publishing, packing, and distributing the laws, and packing and
distributing documents, including proof-reading, labor, boxes, and trans-
portation, nine thousand dollars;

For stationery, blank books, and book-binding, two thousand dollars;
For labor and attendance, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For furniture and fixtures, repairs, painting, and glazing, one thou-
sand eight hundred dollars;

For extra clerk hire and copying, two thousand dollars;

For printing, letter-press and copperplate, and advertising, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For newspapers, two hundred dollars;

For books and maps, one thousand dollars;

For the payment of all claims which Thomas Allen has against the United States for printing twenty thousand copies of "The Compendium or Abridgment of the Sixth Census, by counties and principal towns, together with the tables of apportionment as prepared at the State Department for the use of Congress," the sum of fifteen thousand eight hundred and forty-nine dollars and sixty-four cents; and for the payment of all claims which Blair and Rives have against the United States for printing ten thousand copies of the same document, eight thousand nine hundred and twenty-four dollars and eighty-two cents: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall prejudice any future application to Congress, for further compensation for said works;

For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars: Provided, That nothing contained in the fifteenth and sixteenth sections of the act entitled "An act legalizing and making appropriations for such necessary objects as have been usually included in the general appropriation bills without authority of law, and to fix and provide for certain incidental expenses of the departments and offices of the Government, and for other purposes," shall be deemed to apply to the contingent fund appropriated to the State Department for the calendar year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and for the half calendar year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three;

To defray the expenses of distributing the remaining numbers of the Census and Statistics, according to a resolution of Congress, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For compiling, printing and binding the Biennial Register, three thousand dollars;

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For compensation of the superintendent and three watchmen of the northeast executive building, one thousand three hundred and forty-five tive building. dollars;

For contingent expenses of said building, viz:

For labor, one thousand two hundred dollars;

For fuel and light, one thousand four hundred dollars;

For miscellaneous items, seven hundred dollars;

Treasury Department.-For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the clerks, messenger and assistant messenger, in his office, twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars;

For compensation of the First Comptroller, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office, twenty-two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars;

For compensation of the Second Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger in his office, fifteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation of the First Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, nineteen thousand nine hundred dollars;

Treasury Department. Secretary, &c. First Comptroller, &c.

Second Comptroller, &c.

1st Auditor, &c.

2d Auditor, &c.

3d Auditor, &c.

4th Auditor, &c.

5th Auditor,

&c.

Treasurer, &c.

Register, &c.

Commiss'r of General Land Office, &c.

Solicitor, &c.

Contingent expenses in the

office of the Secretary.

First Comptroller.

Second Comptroller.

1st Auditor.

2d Auditor.

For compensation of the Second Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, twenty thousand nine hundred dollars;

For compensation of the Third Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office, thirty-eight thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;

For compensation of the Fourth Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, twenty thousand one hundred and fifty dollars;

For compensation of the Fifth Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, fourteen thousand eight hundred dollars;

For compensation of the Treasurer of the United States, and the clerks and messenger in his office, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;

For compensation of the Register of the Treasury, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office, twenty-eight thousand six hundred dollars;

For compensation of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the recorder, solicitor, draughtsman, assistant draughtsman, clerks, messengers, and packers, in his office, ninety-eight thousand five hun dred dollars;

For compensation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and the clerks and messenger in his office, twelve thousand four hundred dollars; For the incidental and contingent expenses of the Treasury Depart ment, viz:

In the office of the Secretary of the Treasury:

For blank books, binding, and stationery, three thousand five hun dred dollars;

For newspapers and periodicals, one hundred dollars;

For labor, one hundred and fifty dollars;

For extra clerk-hire, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For printing, (including the printing of the public accounts,) two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars;

For sealing ship registers, one hundred dollars;

For miscellaneous items, seven hundred dollars;

For translating foreign languages, one hundred and fifty dollars.
In the office of the First Comptroller:

For blank books, binding, and stationery, one thousand dollars; For payment of arrears for binding and printing, incurred previous to the year eighteen hundred and forty-two, seven hundred dollars; For paying for the printing of circulars and forms under the late tariff act, six hundred dollars;

For labor, four hundred and fifty dollars;

For extra clerk-hire, two hundred and fifty dollars; ́

For miscellaneous items, four hundred dollars.

In the office of the Second Comptroller :

For blank books, binding, and stationery, seven hundred dollars;
For labor, two hundred dollars;

For extra clerk-hire, four hundred dollars;

For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars.

In the office of the First Auditor:

For blank books, binding, and stationery, five hundred dollars;

For assistant messenger, three hundred and fifty dollars;

For miscellaneous items, one hundred and fifty dollars.

In the office of the Second Auditor:

For blank books, binding, and stationery, four hundred and fifty dol

lars;

For labor, two hundred and fifty dollars;

For extra clerk-hire, one hundred and fifty dollars;

For miscellaneous items, including printing blanks, and one hundred

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