within the district, shall be tested in the name of the chief judge of the district of Columbia.
Saving of the rights of corporations.Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall in any wise alter, impeach or impair the rights, granted by or derived from the acts of incorporation of Alexandria and Georgetown, or of any other body corporate or politic, within the said district, except so far as related to the judicial powers of the corporations of Georgetown and Alexandria.
Approved, February 27, 1801.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XVI.—An Act supplementary to an act, intituled “An act to divide the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio, into two separate governments.”
Act of May 7, 1800, ch. 41.
Certain suits revived.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all suits, and process and proceedings, which, on the third day of July, one thousand eight hundred, were pending in any court of either of the counties, which by the act intituled “An act to divide the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio, into two separate governments,” has been included within the Indiana territory; and that all suits, process and proceedings, which, on the aforesaid third day of July, were pending in the general court of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio, in consequence of any writ of removal or order for trial at bar, had been removed from either of the counties now within the limits of the Indiana territory aforesaid, shall be and they are hereby revived and continued; and the same proceedings, before the rendering of final judgment and thereafter, may and shall be had, in the same courts, in all suits and process aforesaid, and in all things concerning the same, as by law might have been had in case the said territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio had remained undivided.
Approved, March 2, 1801.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Repealed.]
Chap. XVII.—An Act to add to the district of Massac, on the Ohio, and to discontinue the district of Palmyra in the state of Tennessee, and therein to amend the act, intituled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage.”
District of Massac.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the district of Massac, in addition to the territory it already possesses, shall include all waters, shores, and inlets, now included within the district of Palmyra, and all rivers, waters, shores and inlets, lying within the state of Tennessee.
District of Palmyra.
Section 16, Act of March 2, 1799, repealed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, so much of the “Act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” as establishes the district of Palmyra in the state of Tennessee, shall be repealed, except as to the recovery and receipts of such duties on goods, wares and merchandise, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels, as shall have accrued, and as to the recovery and distribution of fines, penalties and forfeitures, which shall have been incurred before and on the said day.
Approved, March 2, 1801.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XVIII.—An Act making appropriations for the Military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and one.
