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CHAP. 19. AN ACT to authorize the issuing of a new register for the
American barque Pons, of Philadelphia, by the name of the Cordelia.

to be issued for

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as-. sembled, That there be issued, under the direction of the A new register Secretary of the Treasury, a new register for the American the barque Pons barque Pons, by the name of the Cordelia, of Philadelphia, by the name of which vessel was recently sold in that city in pursuance of the Cordelia. an order of the United States district court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania, as having been unlawfully engaged in the slave trade, and is now owned by Edward Harris Miles: Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as Proviso. to dispense with the requirements of existing laws relating to new registers to be issued to vessels, except as to the name thereof; and that satisfactory evidence of a full compliance with those requirements shall be furnished to the Secretary of the Treasury before a new register shall be issued, as herein provided.

Approved, February 23, 1847.

CHAP. 20.-AN ACT to establish a court at Key West, in the State of
Florida, and for other purposes.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as

sembled, That all that part of the State of Florida, lying Southern dissouth of a line drawn due east and west from the northern trict of Florida established. point of Charlotte harbor, including the islands, keys, reefs, shoals, harbors, bays, and inlets, south of said line, shall be erected into a new judicial district, to be called the south

ern district of Florida; a district court shall be held in said District courts. southern district, to consist of one judge, who shall reside at Key West, in said district, and be called a district judge;

and shall in all things have and exercise the jurisdiction and Jurisdiction. powers of a district and circuit court of the United States within the district aforesaid; and appeals may be allowed and writs of error sued out and made returnable in the Supreme Court in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations as appeals and writs of error are allowed and sued out from and to a circuit court. The judge shall appoint a clerk, who shall reside and keep the records of the Clerk. court at the place of holding the same; and shall receive for the services he may perform the same fees to which the clerk of the Louisiana district is entitled for similar services. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the judge of Sessions. said district shall hold two regular terms of court in each year at Key West-the one commencing on the first Mon

transferred

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Writs of error and appeals.

to or in the court of appeals of said Territory, on the third day the dist. court of March, eighteen hundred and forty-five, and not legally of Florida, transferred to the State courts of the State of Florida, and which said Territorial courts continued to hold cognizance of, and proceeded to determine after said day, or which are claimed to have been since pending therein as courts of the United States; and in all cases of federal character and jurisdiction commenced in said Territorial courts after said day, and in which judgments or decrees were rendered, or which are claimed to have been since pending therein, the records and proceedings thereof, and the judgments or decrees therein, are hereby transferred to the district court of the United States for the district of Florida; and writs of error and appeals may be taken by either party to remove the judgments or decrees that have been, or may be, rendered in such cases unto the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Supreme Court may hear and decide such cases on such writ of error or appeal, and issue its mandate to said district court: Provided, however, Such writ of error or appeal shall be taken within one year from the passage of this act, or one year from the rendition of such judgment or decree hereafter rendered: And provided, also, That nothing in this act shall be construed as affirming or disaffirming the jurisdiction, power, or authority of the Territorial judges to proceed in or try, or determine, such cases after the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-five, but the same may be referred to said Supreme Court for its decision in all said cases on such writ of error or appeal.

Proviso.

Approved, February 22, 1847.

CHAP. 18.-AN ACT for the relief of Ray Tompkins and others, the
children and heirs-at-law of the late Daniel D. Tompkins.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asThe sum of sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is $45,795 02 to be hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in

paid them.

the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the children and
heirs of Daniel D. Tompkins, late Governor of the State of
New York, deceased, the sum of forty-nine thousand seven
hundred and ninety-five dollars and two cents.
Approved, February 22, 1847.

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CHAP. 19.-AN ACT to authorize the issuing of a new register for the
American barque Pons, of Philadelphia, by the name of the Cordelia.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be issued, under the direction of the A new register Secretary of the Treasury, a new register for the American to be issued for the barque Pons barque Pons, by the name of the Cordelia, of Philadelphia, by the name of which vessel was recently sold in that city in pursuance of the Cordelia. an order of the United States district court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania, as having been unlawfully engaged in the slave trade, and is now owned by Edward Harris Miles: Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to dispense with the requirements of existing laws relating to new registers to be issued to vessels, except as to the name thereof; and that satisfactory evidence of a full compliance with those requirements shall be furnished to the Secretary of the Treasury before a new register shall be issued, as herein provided.

Approved, February 23, 1847.

Proviso.

CHAP. 20.-AN ACT to establish a court at Key West, in the State of
Florida, and for other purposes.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as

sembled, That all that part of the State of Florida, lying Southern dissouth of a line drawn due east and west from the northern trict of Florida established. point of Charlotte harbor, including the islands, keys, reefs, shoals, harbors, bays, and inlets, south of said line, shall be erected into a new judicial district, to be called the southern district of Florida; a district court shall be held in said District courts. southern district, to consist of one judge, who shall reside at Key West, in said district, and be called a district judge;

and shall in all things have and exercise the jurisdiction and Jurisdiction. powers of a district and circuit court of the United States within the district aforesaid; and appeals may be allowed and writs of error sued out and made returnable in the Supreme Court in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations as appeals and writs of error are allowed and sued out from and to a circuit court. The judge shall appoint a clerk, who shall reside and keep the records of the Clerk. court at the place of holding the same; and shall receive for the services he may perform the same fees to which the clerk of the Louisiana district is entitled for similar services. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the judge of Sessions. said district shall hold two regular terms of court in each year at Key West-the one commencing on the first Mon

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Compensation of judge.

United States attorney to be appointed.

United States

appointed.

day in May, the other on the first Monday of November în
each year.
He shall also hold extra sessions of said court
from time to time, at such places in said district as occasion
may require, to despatch the business of said court; and,
for the purpose of hearing and deciding all cases of admi-
ralty and maritime jurisdiction, the said court shall be at all
times open.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That no vessel nor master thereof, shall be regularly employed in the business of wrecking on the coast of Florida without the license of the judge of said court; and, before licensing any vessel or master, the judge shall be satisfied that the vessel is seaworthy, and properly and sufficiently fitted and equipped for the business of saving property shipwrecked and in distress; and that the master thereof is trustworthy, and innocent of any fraud or misconduct in relation to any property shipwrecked or saved on said coast.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the judge aforesaid an annual salary of two thousand dollars to be paid to him quarterly from the time of his appointment.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed in said district a person learned in the law to act as attorney for the United States, who shall, in addition to his stated fees, be paid by the United States two hundred dollars as a full compensation for all extra services.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That there shall be marshal to be appointed in said district a marshal, who shall perform the same duties, be subject to the same regulations and penal ties, and be entitled to the same fees, as are allowed to marshals in the district of Louisiana, and shall, moreover be entitled to the sum of two hundred dollars annually, as a compensation for all extra services.

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Provisions of SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of an act of this the act passed at this session, entitled "An act to regulate the records,pro- the exercise of the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme ceedings, &c. of Court of the United States in certain cases and for other purlished by this poses," shall be held to apply to all records, proceedings, judgments or decrees transferred to the court hereby established; and all and singular the records and proceedings, judgments or decrees specified in said act, that arose or pending, or claimed to be pending as stated in said act, in or before the superior court of the southern district of the late Territory of Florida, and provided by said act to be transferred to the district court of the United States for the district of Florida, shall be, and are hereby transferred to the court hereby created, and all the provisions of said act relating to said district court of the United States for the district of Florida, or respecting the removal of judgments or

decrees in such cases to the Supreme Court of the United States, or otherwise relating to such cases, shall be deemed and held to apply to the court hereby created, the same as to said district court of the United States for said district of Florida, and to the cases so as aforesaid transferred to the court hereby created.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the title and name Northern disof said district court of the United States for the district of trict of Florida. Florida shall hereafter be the "district court of the United States for the northern district of Florida ;" and that the judge of said northern district shall, in addition to the terms

of his court heretofore prescribed to be held within said

northern district, hold one term of the court for said district Terms of courts at Apalachicola on the first Monday in February of each for said district. year, and one term of said court at Pensacola on the first Monday in March of each year, for the trial of causes arising in the western section of the State of Florida. Approved, February 23, 1847.

CHAP. 21.-AN ACT in addition to an act to establish a court at Key
West in the State of Florida.

trict court continued until the

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the jurisdiction at present exercised under the Jurisdiction of existing laws by the district court of the United States for the present disthe district of Florida, shall continue to be exercised by the said court until a judge shall have been appointed and quali- appointment & fied under the provisions of an act of this session, entitled qualification of "An act to establish a court at Key West in the State of judge for the Florida," anything in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, February 23, 1847.

CHAP. 22.-AN ACT to authorize the issuing of a register to the brig antine Ocean Queen.

new district.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asA register to be sembled, That there be issued, under the direction of the issued for the Secretary of the Treasury, a register for the brigantine Ocean brig❜tine Ocean Queen, formerly a British colonial vessel, but now owned by Queen. Trusten P. McColley and Hiram W. McColley, citizens of the State of Delaware; and which said vessel, having been wrecked and condemned on cape Henlopen beach, was purchased by them, and which they have caused to be repaired and refitted for sea again: Provided, It shall be proved to Proviso.

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