TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 179,180,181,182.1842.
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and he hereby is, required to report to the House of Representatives aschedule of such claims as may be presented for adjustment under thisact, and not allowed, with the reasons for such disallowance, at the nextsession of Congress .
Approved, August 16, 1842.
Chap. CLXXIX .—An Jlct to change the name of the port of entry on Lake Erie ,known as Portland, to that of Sandusky .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That from and afterthe first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eighthundred and forty-two, the port of Portland on Lake Erie , in the dis-trict of Sandusky, in the State of Ohio, shall be called the port of San-dusky .
Approved, August 16, 1842.
Chap. CLXXX .—Jin Act to amend the act entitled “An act supplementary to theact entitled ‘An act to amend the judicial system of the United Slates.’’ ”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the fourth circuit shallbe composed of the districts of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia ;
The fifth circuit shall be composed of the districts of Alabama andLouisiana ;
The sixth circuit shall be composed of the districts of North Caro-lina, South Carolina , and Georgia.
The circuit courts in the district of Virginia shall be holden at Rich-mond on the first Monday in May and on the fourth Monday in No-vember.
The circuit courts in the district of North Carolina shall be holdenon the fourth Monday of May and second Monday in December.
This act shall not take effect until the first day of February next, be-fore which time the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States ,or a majority of them, shall allot the several districts among the Justicesof the said Court .
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That when the time of holdingany court, by this act has been changed, all processes, proceedings, andcauses shall be returned and held to be continued to the said courts, atthe times herein provided for their meeting, respectively.
Approved, August 16, 1842.
Chap. CLXXXI .—An Act requiring foreign regulations of commerce to be laidannually before Congress .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Uni-ted States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the dutyof the Secretary of State to lay before Congress , annually, at the com-mencement of its session, in a compendious form, all such changes andmodifications in the commercial systems of other nations, whether bytreaties, duties on imports and exports, or other regulations, as shallhave come to the knowledge of the Department.
Approved, August 16, 1842.
Chap. CLXXXII .—in Act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the. “Dubuque claim” so called, in the Territory of Iowa, (a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the lands lying in the
Act of March3, 1837, ch. 34.Act of March3, 1839, ch. 81.Act of June 17,1844, ch. 96.
What districtsshall composethe 4th,
5th,and6th circuits.Times of hold-ing circuitcourts in Virgi-nia , andN. Carolina .
Act to take ef-fect 1st Febru-ary next.
Justices of theSupreme Court to allot the dis-tricts.
Process, Ac,when return-able.
Changes in thecommercial sys-tems of othernations to be
eQtrunanicated.
(a) Notes of acts relating to the territory of Rwa; act of June 12, 1838, chap. 96.