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ALL PUBLIC TREATIES MADE AND RATIFIED SUBSEQUENTLY TO THE PUBLICATION OF THE LAWS OF THE PRECEDING SESSION, AND ALL PROCLAMATIONS BY THE PRESIDENT, PROMULGATED WITHIN THE SAME PERIOD, THAT AFFECT ANY

LAW OR TREATY OF THE UNITED STATES.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

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PASSED AT THE THIRD SESSION, WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD
AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUM-
BIA, ON MONDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF DECEMBER, ONE THOU
SAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHT.

Martin Van Buren, President. Richard M. Johnson, Vice President, and President of the Senate. James K. Polk, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

1838.

CHAP. 1. An ACT making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the years eighteen hundred and thirty-eight and eighteen hundred and thirty

nine.

[SEC. 1.] 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 the same are hereby, Appropriations appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, viz:

for

age of members

For pay and mileage of members of Congress and Delegates, Pay and milethree hundred and seventy thousand nine hundred and forty-f four dollars;

For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, forty-three thousand four hundred dollars; For stationary, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, thirty-five thousand dollars; For stationary, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred thousand dollars.

Congress

Pay of officers,

&c. of Congress.

Contingent ex

penses of Senate.

Contingent expenses of House

of Representatives.

applicable only

The said two sums last mentioned to be applied to the pay- Two last sums ment of the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives, severally, and to no other purpose.

JAMES K. POLK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
RH. M. JOHNSON,

Vice President of the United States, and
President of the Senate.

Approved, December 22d, 1838.

M. VAN BUREN.

to the ordinary expenses.

CHAP. 2. An Act to provide for carrying into effect the convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Texas for marking the boundary between them.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as

1839.

convention, shall

the Presidt. with

the Senate.

sembled, That the commissioner and surveyor to be appointed, The comr. and on the part of the United States, according to the first article of surveyor to be the convention between the United States of America and the appointed under the 1st art. of the Republic of Texas for marking the boundary between them, be appointed by concluded April twenty-five, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, the consent of be severally appointed by the President of the United States, ork to the by and with the consent of the Senate, together with a clerk to Commissioner to the said commissioner, to be appointed in the same manner; and the same manner. that for the purpose of carrying into effect the said first article of said convention, there be appropriated, out of any money in Appropriations the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums: Commissioner's For the salary of the commissioner, two thousand five hun dred dollars;

be appointed in

for

salary

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For the salary of the surveyor, two thousand dollars; For the salary of the clerk, one thousand two hundred dol lars: Provided, That the salaries of the said officers shall not commence until they shall be ordered into service.

For other expenses of the survey of boundary required by said convention, including the purchase of instruments, wages to persons employed, and other contingencies, ten thousand dollars. Approved, January 11th, 1839.

pose the dist. of

CHAP. 3. An ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to require the judge of the district of East and West Tennessee to hold a court at Jackson, in said State," ap proved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as Counties to com- sembled, That to the counties specified in the first section of the West Tennessee. act to which this is an amendment, the counties of Madison, Henderson, and Weakly, are hereby added to compose the disCounties to com-trict of West Tennessee, and the residue of the counties of the district of Ten. said State of Tennessee, formerly composing the district of West Tennessee, shall compose one district, to be called the Middle District of Tennessee.

pose the Middle

nessee.

in addition to dis

diction, shall

The court to be SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the court to be held held at Jackson, at Jackson, in addition to the ordinary jurisdiction and power of trict court juris- a district court, shall, within the limits of its district, have jurishave circt. court diction of all causes, except appeals and writs of error, which cases, except a now are, or hereafter may by law be, made cognizable in a cirDeals and writs cuit court, and shall proceed therein in the same manner as a

jurisdiction in all

of error.

on 1st Monday in

son.

process, when

circuit court.

Said court to be SEC. 3. And be it further That the said court shall be held held annually, annually on the first Monday in April, at the town of Jackson, April, at Jack in the county of Madison, in said State, and all writs and other Writs and other process may be returnable to such court on the first Monday in April, and also at rules on the first Monday in October, in the same manner as to the regular sessions of said court; and the said writs and other process may also bear test on the first Monday in October, as though a session of the court was held on that day at Jackson; and writs and other process issued pre

and how returnable &c.

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