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Chap. CCXXXVII.—An Act to amend the act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution.”

Third section of May 15, 1828, ch. 53, not to embrace invalid pensioners, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the third section of the act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution,” approved the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, shall not be construed to embrace invalid pensioners; and that the pension of invalid soldiers shall not be deducted from the amount receivable by them under the said act.

Approved, July 14, 1832.

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Chap. CCXXXVIII.—An Act repealing part of the fifth section of an act, entitled “An act to establish ports of delivery at Port Pontchartrain and Delaware city, and for other purposes.”

Act of March 3, 1831, ch. 76, repealed.
Office of surveyor discontinued.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the fifth section of an act, entitled “An act to establish ports of delivery at Port Pontchartrain and Delaware city, and for other purposes,” approved March second, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, provides for the appointment of a surveyor to reside at Prospect, in the district of Belfast, in the state of Maine, be, and the [same] is hereby repealed.

Approved, July 14, 1832.

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Chap. CCXXXIX.—An Act to amend the several acts for the establishment of a territorial government in Florida.^[1]

Court of appeals to be composed of judges of the superior courts.
Majority constitute a quorum, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the court of appeals in the territory of Florida, established in virtue of the fourth section of the act of the twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, to which this act is an amendment, shall be composed of the judges of the superior courts in said territory respectively, a majority of whom shall be necessary to be present to constitute a quorum to hear and decide causes; but any two of the said judges shall be sufficient to make any interlocutory order, or to grant any writ authorized by any of the acts to which this is an amendment.

Writs of error and appeals authorized to be taken and prosecuted from the highest court of law or equity, &c., in the same manner, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions and regulations contained in the twenty-fifth section of the act of the twenty-fourth of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, entitled “An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States,” in regard to writs of error and appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States, from a final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of law or equity of a state, shall be applicable to writs of error and appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States from the highest court of law or equity in said territory, having jurisdiction of the subject matter, in the same manner as writs of error and appeals are authorized now to be taken and prosecutedAct of Sept. 24, 1789, ch. 20. under the aforesaid twenty-fifth section of the act of the twenty-fourth of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, from any court in any state; and writs of error and appeals, in virtue of the said twenty-fifth section, are hereby authorized to be taken and prosecuted from the highest court of law or equity having jurisdiction of the subject matter in the said territory.

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1. Notes of the acts relative to the territorial government of Florida, vol. iii. p. 523.