Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1823-04-19
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AN ACT to divide the State of South Carroll
ma into two Judicial Districts.

AN ACT to divide the State of South Carroll
ainto two Judicial Districts.
Be il enacted By the Senate and House
of Refresentatives ofthe United States
Of America in Congress assembled, That
the State of South Carolina be, and the
same is hereby, divided into two districts
in manner following, that is to say the
districts of Lancaster, Chester, York,
Union, Spartanburg, Greenyile, Pcndle-
ton, Abbeville. Edgefeld, Newbury,
Laurens, and Fairfield shall compose
one District, to be called the Western
District; and the residue of the State
shall form one other District, TO be call.
ed the Eastern District. And the terms
ofthe said District Court, for the Eastern
District, shall be held in Charleston, at
such times as they are now by law d.
rected to be holden. And for the trial
of all such criminal and civil causes, as
are by law cognizable in the District
Courts of the United States, which may
hereafter arise or be prosecuted, or sued,
within the said Western District, there
shall be one annual session of the said
District Cour, holden at Laurens Courl
House, to begin on the second Monday
in May in chyear, to be holden by the
District Judge OF the United States of
the State of South Carolina; and he is
hereby authorized and directed to hold
such other special sessions as may be
necessary for the despatch of the causes
in the said Court at such time or times
as he may deem expedient, and may ad-
journ such special sessions TO any other
time previous to a stated session.
Washington, Feb. 81, 1923. -
Approved: JAMES MONROE.
AN ACT to authorize the building of light
houses, light vessels, and beacons, therein
mentioned, and for other purposes.
Belt enacted by the Senate and House
Of REPRESENTATIVES Of the United States
of.4merica in Congress assembled, That
the Secretary Of the Treasury be, and he
hereby is, empowered to provide, by
contract, for building light houses and
light vessels, erecting beacons, and plac-
ing buoys, on the following sites or
shoals, to wit: A light house on Bakers,
Island, near Mount Desert, in the state
of Maine; one on Monamoy Point, in the
state of Massachusetts a light house on
Goat Island, in the state of Rhode Is land;
light vessel, not to be under two hun
bred and fifty tons, on Cape Hatteras,
in North Carolina; light houseon Cape
Roman, in the state of South Carolina;
light house at or near the entrance oil
the harbor of Pensacola, for that part OF
the territory known as West Florida
light house near Fort Gratiot, in Michi-
gan territory; beacon on Hadrell's
Point, in the state of South Carolina
two light vessels TO be placed in the Bay
OF Delaware, the one at or near the
Brandywine Shoal, and the other at or
near the shoal called the Upper Middle;
and, also, to agree for the salaries, wa
ges, or hire, of the persons to be APP
pointed by the President Of the United
States, for the superintendent Of the
same: Provided, That no moneys shall
be expended in erecting such light hous-
es, until the jurisdiction to such portions
of land as the President of the Uuited
States shall select as the sites Of the
same, respectively, shall be coded to,
and the property thereof vested in, the
United States.
Sec. Q. ind be il further enacted,
That there be appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury, not otherwise
appropriated, the following sums of mo.
ney, to wit: for building the light house
on Bakers Island, two thousand five
hundred dollars; for one on Monamoy
Point, three thousand dollars; for one
on Goat Island, two thousand FIVE hun
dred dollars; for an additional sum to
complete the light vessel authorized to
be built, by an act, entitled Gan act to
authorize the building light houses there
in mentioned, and for other purposes"
passed the seventh day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and twenty two,
for the state Of New York, FIVE thou sand
dollars /; for an additional sum to COM
plete the light house on OldHeld Point,
In the same state, one thousand five hum
dred dollars: for an additional sum to
complete tower for the light on Fort
Niagara, in the same state, one thousand
Eve hundred dollars; for plac ing lam
tern at Fort Delaware, in the river
Delaware, one thousand FIVE hundred
dollars for completing the light
house on Cape May, in the state Of
New Jersey, sam not exceeding Eve
thpnssnd seven hundred and Fifty dollars