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TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch.24,25. 1839.
The Attorneyfor the northernand the Marshalfor the southerndistrict to per-form certain du-ties.
Jurisdiction ofcourt for themiddle district.
Laws contra-vening this actrepealed.
Appropriationfor the Semi-noles.
Appropriations.
Revolutionarypensioners un-der acts otherthan those ofMay 15, 1828,ch. 56, June 7,1832, ch. 125,and July 4,1836, ch. 362.
who shall reside and keep his office, and the records and documentsappertaining thereto, at the place of holding said court; said clerk shallbe entitled to the same fees allowed by law to the clerks of the otherdistricts of said State, perform the like duties, and be subject to thesame liabilities and penalties.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the district attorney of thenorthern, and the marshal of the southern, district of Alabama shallrespectively perform the duties of district attorney and marshal ofand for the middle district hereby established; and the said marshalshall keep an office at the city of Tuscaloosa , and his charges for mile-age in the execution of the duties of his office within said middle dis-trict shall be computed from the said city of Tuscaloosa .
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted , That the said district court forthe middle district of Alabama , in addition to the ordinary jurisdictionand powers of a district court of the United States , shall, within thelimits of said middle district, have jurisdiction of all causes, except ap-peals and writs of error, which now are or hereafter may by law bemade, cognizable in a circuit court of the United States , and shall pro-ceed therein in the same manner as a circuit court.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That appeals and writs of errorin the nature of appeals, shall lie and may be sued from the said districtcourt at Tuscaloosa to the circuit court of the United States at Mobilein the State of Alabama .
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That should the judge of thedistrict courts aforesaid fail to attend at the time and place of holdingthe court for the said middle district, at any one of its terms aforesaid,before the close of the fourth day of any such term, the business pend-ing in such court shall stand adjourned to the next term thereof.
Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That all laws contravening oropposed to the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby re-pealed.
Approved, February 6, 1839.
Chap. XXIV .—Jin Act to provide for the location and temporary support of theSeminole Indians removed from Florida .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the President of theUnited States be, and hereby is, authorized to provide a suitable loca-tion, west of the States of Missouri or Arkansas , for the Seminole In-dians who have been or may be removed from Florida ; and to providefor their support until they shall be removed to such location ; and that,for these purposes, the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same ishereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury nototherwise appropriated.
Approved, February 13, 1839.
Chap. XXV .—An Act making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionaryand other pensioners of the United States , for the year eighteen hundred andthirty-nine.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be,and the same are hereby, appropriated, in addition to former appropria-tions, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-priated, for the pensioners of the United States , for the year one thou-sand eight hundred and thirty-nine :
For the revolutionary pensioners, under the several acts, other thanthose of the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight; the seventh of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two;