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to said court, shall, after the said first day of April next, be continued over until the next court to be held in conformity to this act.

Sessions of the district court of West Tennessee altered.
Process continued over accordingly.
See act of February 24, 1807, sec. 4, ch. 16.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the sessions of the district court for the district of West Tennessee, directed by law to be held in the town of Nashville, shall be hereafter held and commence on the Thursday next succeeding the fourth Mondays of May and November, in every year; and that all writs, and process which have been issued, and all recognizances returnable, and all suits and other proceedings which have been continued to the said district court, directed by law to be held at Nashville, on the fourth Monday of May next, shall be returned and held continued to the Thursday next succeeding said fourth Monday.

Approved, March 23, 1804.

Statute Ⅰ.



March 23, 1804.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. XXXII.An Act supplementary to the act, intituled “An act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States.”

Act of February 18, 1791, ch. 10.
Bank of the U. States authorized to establish offices of discount and deposit.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the president and directors of the Bank of the United States shall be, and they are hereby authorized to establish offices of discount and deposit in any part of the territories or dependencies of the United States, in the manner, and on the terms prescribed by the act to which this is a supplement.

Approved, March 23, 1804.

Statute Ⅰ.



March 23, 1804.

Chap. XXXIII.An Act to ascertain the boundary of the lands reserved by the state of Virginia, northwest of the river Ohio, for the satisfaction of her officers and soldiers on continental establishment, and to limit the period for locating the said lands.[1]

Boundary line now under the direction of the surveyor-general established.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the line run under the direction of the surveyor-general of the United States, from the source of the Little Miami, towards the source of the Scioto, and which binds on the east, the surveys of the lands of the United States, shall, together with its course continued to the Scioto river, be considered and held as the westerly boundary line, north of the source of the Little Miami, of the territory reserved by the state of Virginia, between the Little Miami and Scioto rivers, forProviso, that within two years the state of Virginia recognize the line. the use of the officers and soldiers of the continental line of that state: Provided, that the state of Virginia shall, within two years after the passing of this act, recognize such line as the boundary of the said territory.

Officers and soldiers to complete their locations in three years within the reserved territory.
Officers and soldiers whose bounty land shall have been located on that part of the territory to which the Indian title has been extinguished, to make returns, &c. to the Secretary of War in five years.
Papers returned to be evidence entitling the claimants to patents.
1803, ch. 21.
Act of April 11, 1818, chap. 43.
Act of February 24, 1819, chap. 40.
Unlocated portion of the reserved territory in five years to be released from claims and disposed of, &c.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the officers and soldiers, or their legal representatives who are entitled to bounty lands within the above-mentioned reserved territory, shall complete their locations within three years after the passing of this act, and every such officer and soldier, or his legal representative, whose bounty land has or shall have been located within that part of the said territory, to which the Indian title has been extinguished, shall make return of his or their surveys to the secretary of the department of war, within five years after the passing of this act, and shall also exhibit and file with the said secretary, and within the same time, the original warrant or warrants under which he claims, or a certified copy thereof, under the seal of the office where the