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Chap. XXXIII.—An Act to prescribe the punishments of consuls, commercial agents, and others, in certain cases.
Fine and imprisonment for giving false certificates.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if any consul, vice consul, commercial agent, or vice commercial agent, shall knowingly and falsely certify to any invoice, or other papers to which his certificate is by law authorized or required, he shall, on conviction thereof, in any court of competent jurisdiction, forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars, at the discretion of the court, and be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three years, at the like discretion.
Approved, March 3, 1835.
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Chap. XXXIV.—An Act to change the place of holding the district court of the United States for the district of Mississippi.
Court to be held at Jackson.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the district court of the United States for the district of Mississippi, now held at Natchez, shall hereafter be held at the town of Jackson, in the state of Mississippi, at the times now prescribed by law for the holding of said court.
Approved, March 3, 1835.
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Chap. XXXV.—An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Potomac, and repealing all acts already passed in relation thereto.”
Solid embankment across the Swash channel, &c.
Act of June 30, 1834, ch. 155.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled “An act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Potomac, and repealing all acts already passed in relation thereto,” which was approved on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, be, and the same is hereby, amended, so far as to authorize a connexion, by a solid embankment across the middle, commonly called the Swash channel, of the river Potomac, of the two embankments now constructing on the shoals of the said river, and the addition of the several improvements upon the plan of the said bridge, contemplated in the contract for the construction thereof, which are recommended in the letter of the engineer superintending the said work, to the Secretary of the Treasury, bearing date December first, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and transmitted to the House of Representatives on the eighth of that month: Provided,Proviso. That the said additional embankment and improvement shall not cause the entire cost of the said bridge to exceed, in amount, the sum of one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, already appropriated thereto.
Approved, March 3, 1835.
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Chap. XXXVI.—An Act to change the times of holding the district courts of the United States for the western district of Virginia, held at Clarksburg.[1]
Court to be held on the first Mondays of June and November.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the second of August next, the sessions of the district court of the United States for the western district of Virginia, required by law to be holden at Clarksburg, shall be held on the first Mondays of June and November annually.
Approved, March 3, 1835.- ↑ See notes of the acts relating to the district courts of Virginia, vol. iii. p. 479.
