Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-09
approved, July IA, 1862.


AN ACT to authorize the secretary of the
navy to accept the title to Leugue island, in
the Delaware river, for naval purposes.
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled, that the secretary
of the navy be and he is hereby authorized
to receive and accept from the city authori-
ties of the city of Philadelphia the title to
League island, in the Delaware river, together
with the marsh east of and adjacent thereto,
within the first ward of the said city of Phla-
dephia, together with all riparian rights and
privileges thereunto belonging and appertain-
ing, to be used for naval purposes by the gov
eminent of the United States Provided, that
SAID title shall not be accepted and received
unless the same shall be perfect and indefeas-
ible to the whole island and marsh adjacent to
low water mark; nor if, upon more thorough
examination and survey of the premises by a
competent board of officers to be by him APP
pointed, he shall discover that the public in
terests will not be promoted by acquiring the
title as aforesaid.
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted, that the
board of officers to be appointed by the secre-
rotary Of the navy, according to the provis-
ions of the first section Of this act, shall, be-
fore proceeding to any decision of the ques-
ton hereinbefore referred to them, make a
survey and examination of the harbOr of New
London, Connecticut, and its surroundings,
with reference to its capacity and firmness for
a naval depot and navy yard, and whether
the public interests will not be promoted by
establishing a naval depot and navy yard in
or near said harbor of New London instead of
League island, and that they also make the
same investigation in regard to the waters of
Narragansett bay.
Approved, July 10, 1862.
PUBLIC-No. 146.
AN ACT to amend the act of the third of
March, eighteen hundred and thirty
entitled Gan act to amend the judicial sys-
TEN of the United States"
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States OF Amer
lea in congress assembled, that hereafter the
districts of Maryland Delaware, Virginia, and
North Carolina shall constitute the fourth cir
cult the districts of South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida shall con-
stitute the fifth circuits the districts of Louis.
lana, Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Ten
nessee shall constitute the sixth circuit; the
districts of Ohio and Indiana shall constitute
the seventh circuit the districts of Michigan,
Wisconsin, and Illinois shall constitute the
eighth circuit; and the districts of Missouri,
Iowa, Kansas, and Minnesota shall constitute
the ninth circuit; and the circuit courts in the
districts heretofore included within any circuit
OF the United States which by this act are at
tached to different circuit shall be held at
the same times and places as are now pre-
scribed by law, and the circuit courts in dis
tricts which by this act are for the first time
attached to circuits shall be held at the same
times and places as are now prescribed by
law for holding the district courts in said dis
tricts except in the district of Iowa, in which
the circuit court shall be holden at the capitol
Of the state on the second Tuesday Of May
and November of each year, at which times