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THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS1 Sess. I. Ch. 48, 50, 51. 1856. 23 sales, and to all other preemption cases or locations, where the law has been substantially complied with, and the error or informality has arisen from ignorance, accident, or mistake, and is satisfactorily explained, and where the rights of no other claimant- or preémptor will be prejudiced or where there is no adverse claim. Approved, June 26, 1856. C1zA1>.XLVIII.—An Act changing the timevézf holding thaDistrid Cburt of the United June 26, 1855. States at Wyhwqilk, in the eslem District of Virginia. '—"°"""°_“ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Uangress assembled, That instead of the times now C°¤1‘g§Y<>!`W<>S*; prescribed by law for holding the courts of the United States in the %'§gi,,};_m°t ° Western District of Virginia, the said courts shall hereafter be held anna- 1819, 0h_ 1g_ ally at Clarksburg, on the twenty-fourth days of March and August; at 1885, ch. ss. Wheeling on the sixth days of April and September; at Charleston on 1836, ch. 232. the nineteenth days of April and September; at Staunton on the first days of May and October; and at Wythe Court-house on the fourth Mondays of May and October; and that all suits, actions, and proceedings of whatever kind now depending in or returnable to said courts respectively shall be taken to be continued or returnable to the terms herein established. Sec. 2. And be itherthvr enacted, That the term of the circuit court Circuit com, of the United States shall be holden annually at Lewisburg, in the said western district of Virginia, commencing, as now, on the first Monday of Au ust. gm:. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force from and after the passage thereofl A1>1>1z0vm>, June 26, 1856. CHAP. L.——An Act to change the iirruas of holding the United States Courts in Tennessee. July 8, 1856. Be ii enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembkd. That instead of the times now Sessions of fixed by law, the circuit and district courts of the United States for the °°“"“ in T°¤* several districts in Tennessee shall hereafter be held at the following mssw times, to wit: at Jackson on the first Mondays in April and October; at 1855, ch. 148. Nashville on the third Mondays in April and October; and at Knoxville on the third Mondays in May and fourth Mondays in November ; and all writs, processes, recognizances, and other proceedings, shall be returnable to the said times, and shall be heard and tried accordingly. But this act shall not take eH`ect until the next terms of said courts after Act when to the passage of this act in the said divisions shall be held. °“k° °E°°l’· Avrnovmm, July 3, 1856. l Cm?. LI.-An Act granting m certain Gitizens of the State of Missouri the io July 8, 1856. enter certain Lands in the Plattsburg Dktrict, in said State. ""‘; Whereas the State of Missouri, under the provisions of the eighth sec· Preamble. tion of the act of Congress of the fourth September, eighteen hundred 1841, ch. 16. and fox-ty-one, selected certain lands in the Plattsburg district, in the said State of Missouri, which lands were thereupon withheld from sale by the VOL "- P- 458- United States; and whereas the said State of Missouri permitted entries thereof to be made at the state land-office; and whereas, also, the said selections by the State of Missouri were subsequently rejected aud not confirmed to the said State; now therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate cmd House of Representatives of the United States of America in Oangress assembled, That in all cases where persons _Pum]mscrs purchased such lands from the said State of Missouri, by entry at the ;‘;;’;’1I‘“f:;*5‘?’ State land—oHicc, the title to which lands is still in the United States, such the plmsbmig