said agent, within sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such delinquent and his sureties.
Approved, April 29, 1824.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XLIV.—An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
Specific appropriations for certain fortifications.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, appropriated, to wit; For fortifications, to each specifically, as follows:
For fort Jackson, at Plaquemine Turn, on the river Mississippi, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
For the fort at Chef Menteur, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the fort at Mobile Point, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Fort fort Monroe, ninety-five thousand dollars.
For fort Calhoun, ninety thousand dollars.
For topographical reconnoisance, repairs, and contingencies, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For the purchase of a site, and collecting materials for the projected work at New Utrecht Point, one of the works intended to defend the Narrows, in New York harbour, fifty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of a site, and collecting materials for the projected work at Brenton’s Point, Narraganset Bay, Rhode Island, fifty thousand dollars.
Approved, April 29, 1824.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XLV.—An Act to alter the times of holding the district court, in the district of Missouri.[1]
The district court for Missouri, to be held on the first Monday in March and September yearly.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the district court, for the district of Missouri, shall hereafter be held on the first Mondays in March and September, in every year; any thing in any act heretofore passed, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Writs, &c. to be proceeded with as though no alteration had been made.Sec. 2 And be it further enacted, That all writs, pleas, suits, recognisances, indictments, and all other proceedings, civil and criminal, shall be heard, tried, and proceeded with, by the said court, at the times fixed in the first section of this act, in the same manner as if no alteration in the times for holding said court had taken place.
Approved, April 29, 1824.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XLVI.—An Act to procure the necessary surveys, plans, and estimates, upon the subject of roads and canals.
- ↑ The acts relating to the district court of Missouri, are:An act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States, within the state of Missouri, and for the establishment of a district court therein, March 16, 1822, ch. 12, sec. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.An act to alter the time of holding the district court in the district of Missouri, April 29, 1824, ch. 45.An act supplementary to the act entitled “An act to amend the judicial system of the United States,” March 3, 1837, ch. 34.An act to amend the act of the third of March, 1837, entitled “An act supplementary to the act entitled ‘An act to amend the judicial system of the United States, and for other purposes,’” March 3, 1839, ch. 81.
