Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-15
MORNING. SEPTEMBER l5. 1857.

matters now pending therein and have and exercise the same original jurisdiction in said State as vested III the several circuit courts of the United States us organlzed under existing laws and shall also have and exercise the same appellate jurisdiction over the dis trct courts of the United States for said eastern and western districts of Missouri as by existn vest e III the several circuit courts of the United States over the district courts of the United States in tbnr ra spective circuits. Said ci,tuit court shan b oolIl the clrct conrt in and for the districts of Missouri and shall be composed of the justice of the sunrerne court assigned to sad circuit and the two judges of the eastern and western districts of Nssori bnt may be held by any more of said three iud(ras in the absence of the remainder. Said instice of tLe supreme court. or in his absence, the oIdes. in com
 mission of said two district judges. shall be the pre- siding judge of said circuit court and in case of any division of opinion among the judges of said circuit court the opinion of the presiding judge shall prevail and be the judgment of the said circuit court but on any appeal to sad circuit court from one of the said district courts the judge of the district court from winch such appeal was taken shall not sit in said cir cult court on the trial decision of the case so carried by appeal u said circuit court The clerk of the cir cunt court for the present district of Missouri shall be and remain the clerk of the circuit court as modified oy ths act. The district attorney and marshal for said eastern district of Missouri shall act as such dis
 rct attorney and marshal in said circuit court but the process ot sad may be directed to the mar shal of either of said eastern and western districts of Missouri, and shall be executed only by the marshal 10 whom IL IS directed, or by his duly appointed de- putty in his district.
 APPROVED, March 3, 1857.
 AN ACT to amend the Act reducing the Duty on
 Imports, and for other purposes passed July .3oth
 1o46
 Be it enacted etc. That the eighth section of the act approved July 30 o46, and entitled An act re- ducing the duty on imports, and for other purposes be amended as follows:
 ,. That it shah be lawful for the owner consirnee or agent of imports which have been actually pur- chased. or procured otherwise than by purchase on entry of the same make such addition in the entry to the cost or value given in the invoice in his opn ion may raise the same to the true market value of such imports in the principal markets of the country whence the importation shall have been made and to add thereto all costs and charges which. under exist ing laws, would form part of the true value at the port where the be entered. upon which the duties should be assessed. And it shall be the duty ot the collector within whose district the same may be imported entered to the dutiable value of such imports to be appraised, estimated and ascer- tined, in accordance with the provisions of existing laws; and if the appraised value thereof shall exceed by ten per centun nole the value so declared on the entry then, in addition t. the duties imposed by law the same there shall be leved collected and paid a duty of twenty percentm ad valorem on such appraised value: ProtHed, lseregtAe1esS That under no circumstances shall tie duty be assessed upon an amount less than the invoice or entered value. any law of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding. APPROVED, March 3. 1857.