The tri-weekly standard., 1866-11-13
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Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the
Navy be, and he is hereby authorised to receive
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 Philadelphia, together with all ripa
rian rights and privileges thercunto belonging
and appertaining, to be used for, naval purposes
ey 1hs tt oI she M ~ sa,ted and va
ceived unless the same shall be perfect and indie
Ieasible to the whole island to 1owwater mark
nor, if upon more thorough examination and SUR
vey OF the premises by Competent board of off,
GERS to be by him appointed, he shall discover
that the public interests will not be promoted by
acquiring the title aforesaid.
- Sec 9. And be 1t further enacted, That the
board of officers to be appointed by the Secretary
S Of
to any declsion of the question herein before.
ferred to them, make survey and examination
its surroundings, with reference to its capacity
and fitness for naval depot nd navy yard, and
tne Puec ar i 90
near said harbor OF New London instead of Lea
que Island and that they also max ethe same In
vestigation in regard to the waters OF Narragan-
sett Bay. sa Ss~
Approved, July IS, 1852
CHAP. CLXXvIn
An Act to amend the Act of the third of March,
1897, entitled IAN Act supplementary to the
Act entitled AN Act to amend the Judicial
System of the United States"
=, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatfves of the United States of Americs in
Congress assembled, That hereafter the districts
of Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and North
Carolina shall constitute the fourth crcuit; the
districts of South Carolina Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, and Florida shall constitute the fifth
Gil cult the districts OF Louisia.ia, Texas, Ar
kansas, Kentucky, and Tennesseeshall constitute
the sixth circnit; the districts of Michigan, Wis
consin, and Illinois shall constitute the eighth
circuit, and the districts OF Missouri, Iowa, Kan
sas and Minnesota shall constitute the ninth cir
cult; and the circuit courts in the districts here
tofore included within any circuit of the United
States, which by this act are attached to differ
ent circuit, shall be held ut the same times and
places are now prescribed by law, and the cir
cult courts in districts 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 liinc the district courts in said dis
tricts, except in the district of Iowa. in which the
circuit court shall be holden at the capital of the
State on the second Tuesday in May and Novem-
ber of each yeaf, at which times and place terms
of the district court shall be holden: Provided,
this act shall not interfere with the terms of said
district court now provided by law for said dis
trict The allotment of their chief justice and
the associate justices of the said supreme court
to the sevaral circuits shall be made as heretofore
Sec And be it further enacted, That so much
of any act acts of Congress vests in the dis
trict courts of the United States for the districts
of Texas, Florida Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
and Kansas, either of them,s the power and
jurisdiction of circuit courts he and the same is
hereby rep. .aled and there shall hereafter be cir
cult courts held for said districts by the chief
or allotted to the circuit to which said districts
may respectively belong, and the district judges
of such districts severally and respectively either
of whom shall constitute quorum; which cir
cult conrs and the judges thereof. shall have like
powers and exercise like jurisdiction as other cir
cult courts and the judges thereof: and the said
district courts and the judges thereof, shall have
like powers and exercise like jurisdiction as the
district courts, and the judges thereof, in the
other circuits.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all &C
tions 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 cognizabe in circuit
court, now pending in, or returnable to the sew
eral district courts of Texas Florida, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa, and Kansas. acting circuit
courts Cor so empowered to act, on the first day
of October next, shall be, and are hereby declared
to be, respectively, transferred, returnable and
cntinued to the several circuit courts eonstitu-
ted by this act, to be holden within the said dis
tricts respectively, and shall be heard, tried and
determined therein, in the same manner If orig
inally brought, entered prosecuted, had in such
circuit courts. And the said circuit courts shall
be governed by the same laws and regulations az
apply to the other circuit courts Of the United
States; and the clerks of the said courts respec.
lively shall perform the same duties, and shall be
entitled to receive Il same fees and emOluments
which by law established for the clerks OF the
other circuit courts of the United States.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted. That all acts
and provisions inconsistent with this act be, and
the same are hereby. repealed
AnDrOyed JulV Is. 1862