Exemplifications of warrants &c. to be of equal validity with the originals.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That exemplifications granted in pursuance of the aforesaid section of the act aforesaid, of any warrant survey, assignment, and other evidences comprising the entire muniments of title, whereon any patent has been based for lands granted by the United States, in the aforesaid Virginia military land district or elsewhere, shall be, and are hereby, declared and held as of equal validity with the original patent, warrant survey, assignment, or other evidence of title, on file in said office.
Approved, March 3, 1843.
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Chap. XCVI.—An Act providing for the settlement of claims for supplies furnished the Florida militia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Claims to be settled on principles of equity and justice.
1842, ch. 192. That the accounting officers of the treasury are authorized and required to settle the claims for supplies furnished the Florida militia, the payment of which is provided for by the acts of August the twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, upon principles of equity and justice, under the directions of the Secretary of War.
Approved, March 3, 1843.
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Chap. XCVII.—An Act to provide for holding circuit courts at Williamsport in the western district of Pennsylvania.[1]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Acts vesting circuit powers in district court at Williamsport repealed.
Circuit courts, when to be held. That so much of any act or acts of Congress as vest in the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania holding its sessions at Williamsport the power and jurisdiction of a circuit court be, and the same is hereby repealed; and there shall hereafter be circuit courts held at Williamsport on the third Mondays of June and the third Mondays of September in each year by the associate justice of the Supreme Court who now is or shall hereafter be allotted to the circuit in which said district is situated and the district judge of the western district of Pennsylvania; either of whom shall constitute a quorum; which circuit court and the judges thereof shall have like powers and exercise like jurisdiction as other circuit courts and the judges thereof, and the said district court and the judge thereof shall have like powers and exercise like jurisdiction as the district courts and the judges thereof, in the other circuits.
Proceedings cognizable in a circuit court, now pending in the dist. court, transferred.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all actions, suits, prosecutions, causes, pleas, process and other proceedings, relative to any cause, civil or criminal, (which might have been brought, and could have been originally cognizable in a circuit court) now pending in or returnable to the said district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania held at Williamsport, acting as a circuit court on the first day of April next shall be and are hereby declared to be, respectively transferred, returnable and continued to the said circuit court constituted by this act to be holden at Williamsport within the said district; and shall be heard, tried and determined therein, in the same manner as if originally brought, entered, prosecuted or had, in such circuit court. And the said circuit court shall be governed by the same laws and regulations as apply to the other circuit courts of the United States; and the clerk of the said court shall perform the same duties and shall be entitled to receive the same fees and emoluments, which are by law established for the clerks of the other circuit courts of the United States.
Approved, March 3, 1843.