INDEX
TO THE
MATTERS IN VOLUME V.
Acts of Congress.
Acts which are made to expire at the closeof the 25th Congress , continued to the endof the session, to commence first Mondayof December, 1837, October 12, 1837, 204Admiralty Jurisdiction of the District Courts onthe Lakes .
In matters of contract and torts, the districtcourts of the United States to have the samejurisdiction on the lakes as on the highseas, under the act of September 24, 1789,
chap. 20,. 726
The maritime law, as far as applicable to thecase, to be a rule of decision, - - 726
The circuit court at Huntsville abolished,February 22, 1838, ... 210
Jurisdiction of the circuit court to be exer-cised by the district court, - - 210
Appeals from the district court to the circuit
court at Mobile, - - - - 210
District courts in Alabama , February 6,1839,
315
Division of the state into two districts, courtsestablished in each district, - - 315
Circuit court of Alabama , March 3, 1839,
337
Representatives in Congress under the sixth
census,.491
Appeals shall lie from the district court of thenorthern district of Alabama at Huntsville to the Supreme Court , August 4, 1842,
504
Payment for expenses of militia called intoservice and not mustered in 1837, duringthe Creek and Seminole hostilities, August
16, 1842,. 506
The state of Alabama to be paid for moneysadvanced and paid for subsistence, &c., oftroops called into service during the Creekand Seminole hostilities in 1837, and notmustered, August 16, 1842, - - 506
Bills of the Bank of Alabama to be receivedfrom actual settlers, for lands to the amountof the two per cent, fund for lands sold inAlabama , March 1, 1843, - - 606
The state of Alabama shall receive the notesin payment of the two per cent, fund, 606
The terms of the circuit courts in Alabama shall commence on the third Monday inApril and the fourth Monday in December,
655
Time of holding the circuit court in Alaba-ma , - ' 655
Compact between Alabama and Mississippi with regard to the five per cent, fund, &c.,act of July 4, 1836, amended February 26,
1845,. 727
Compact between Alabama and Mississippi relating to five per cent, fund and the school
reservations,.116
Alleghany Bank of Pennsylvania.
Repeal of the proviso which prohibits a com-promise with the Alleghany Bank of Penn-sylvania, February 16, 1839, - - 317
Alexandria.
The charter of the town of Alexandria amend-ed, February 15, 1843, - 599
Apportionment of Representatives in Congress .The House of Representatives to be composedof a representative for every 70,680 personsin a state, and an additional representativefor every state having a fraction greaterthan one moiety of that ratio, June 25,
1842,. 491
When a state is entitled to more than onerepresentative, the election shall be by dis-tricts, composed of contiguous territory,equal in number to the number of repre-sentatives to which the state may be en-titled, no one district to elect more thanone representative, - 491
Appropriations.
Appropriations, in part, for the support of go-vernment for 1836, February 11, 1836, 2
Appropriations for the support of government,
May 9, 1836,. 17
Appropriations for the support of governmentfor the year 1836, - - - - 112
Appropriations for the support of the govern-ment in 1837, March 3, 1837, - 163
Further appropriations for the year 1837,October 16, 1837, ... - 207
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