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amount, and the interest so acquired shall be subject to all the obliga-tions and restrictions provided in the last section of this act.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the assent of Congress ishereby given to the act of the Territorial Legislature of Wisconsin en-titled an act to incorporate the Milwaukee and Rock river Canal Com-pany, subject to the preceding modifications and to the following provi-sion ; that in estimating the principal sum and interest to be paid bythe said Territory or the future State of Wisconsin to the stockholdersof the said canal, a credit shall be given to the Territory or State forall dividends received by the said stockholders prior to the extinguish-ment of their interest in the said canal, in the mode provided by thetwenty-third section of the said act of incorporation.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That Congress may, at any timeuntil said Territory shall be admitted as a State, prescribe and regulatethe tolls to be received by said company; and after said Territory shallbe admitted as a State, the Legislature thereof shall possess the likepower; and said act of incorporation is hereby approved, subject to themodification and conditions aforesaid.
Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Trea-sury shall reserve from sale the. lands probably falling within the limitsof said grant, and the lands which, by the first section, were reservedto the United States , until the said canal can be located and the landsselected as contemplated by this act, and no pre-emption right shallattach thereto.
Approved, June 18, 1838.
Chap. CXV.— Jin Act to reorganize the district courts of the United States in theStale of Mississippi, (a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Missis-sippi shall be, and the same is hereby, divided into two districts, in thefollowing manner, to wit: The counties of Noxubee, Winston, Attala,Carrol, Bolivar, Coahoma, Tunica, De Soto, Marshal, Tippah, Tishe-mingo, Itawamba, Monroe, Lowndes, Oaktibbeha, Choctaw, Yalobusha,Tallehatcha, Ponola, Lafayette, Pontotoc, and Chickasaw, in said State,shall compose one district, to be called the northern district, and a courtshall be held for the said district, at the town of Pontotoc, and the resi-due of the counties of the said State shall hereafter compose thesouthern district of Mississippi , and a court shall be held for the same,as heretofore, at the city of Jackson .
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be two terms ofthe district court, for the northern district, held at Pontotoc, in eachyear, to begin on the first Monday of June and December, and the dis-trict judge of the United States for the State of Mississippi is herebyrequired to hold the courts aforesaid.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all causes at law or inchancery, and all indictments pending in the district court at Jackson ,in which the defendant or defendants resided in the northern district(hereby established) at the time of serving process or the finding of ahill of indictment, shall be transferred for trial to the district court forthe said northern district, and be proceeded in, heard, adjudged, anddetermined, in the same manner as though originally commenced orprosecuted in the said court; and it shall be the duty of the clerk ofthe district court at Jackson , safely to transmit to the clerk of the dis-trict court at Pontotoc, the original papers in all cases and prosecutionshereby ordered to be transferred, together with a transcript of all ordersand other proceedings had thereon.
Assent ofCongress here-by given to theact of the Le-gislature ofWisconsin , in-corporating theMilwaukee andRock river ca-nal company.
Tolls.
Lands proba-bly falling with-in limits of saidgrant, &tc., tobe reservedfrom sale.
Statute II.June 18, 1838.
Southern dist.
All cases pend-ing in the dist.court at Jack-son, &c. to betransferred fortrial, &c.
The originalpapers to betransferred.