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Illinois a district.
District court, one judge.
Two sessions of the court annually.
Act of Sept. 24, 1789, ch. 20.
A clerk.
Clerk’s fees.
held therein, to consist of one judge, who shall reside in the said district, and be called a district judge. He shall hold, at the seat of government of the said state, two sessions annually, on the first Mondays in May and December; and he shall, in all things, have and exercise the same jurisdiction and powers which were by law given to the judge of the Kentucky district, under an act, entitled “An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States.” He shall appoint a clerk for the said district, who shall reside and keep the records of the court, at the place of holding the same, and shall receive, for the services performed by him, the same fees to which the clerk of the Kentucky district is entitled for similar services.

1000 dolls yearly compensation to the judge.
Payable quarterly.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the judge of the said district court, the annual compensation of one thousand dollars, to commence from the date of his appointment; to be paid quarter yearly, at the treasury of the United States.

District attorney.
200 dolls. per ann. for his extra services.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed, in the 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.

A marshal.
200 dolls. annually for his extra services.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That a marshal be appointed for the said district, who shall perform the same duties, be subject to the same regulations and penalties, and be entitled to the same fees, as are prescribed to marshals in other districts; and shall, moreover, be entitled to the sum of two hundred dollars annually, as a compensation for all extra services.

Approved, March 3, 1819.


Statute II.


March 3, 1819.

Chap. LXXI.An Act supplementary to the act, entitled “An act to authorize and empower the president and managers of the Washington Turnpike Company of the state of Maryland, when organized, to extend and make their turnpike road to or from Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, through the said district, to the line thereof.”

The law of Maryland in force in the District of Columbia.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the law of the state of Maryland, entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled an act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from the line of the district of Columbia, where it crosses the post-road leading from Georgetown to Fredericktown, through Montgomery and Frederick counties, to Fredericktown,” passed in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, be, and the same is hereby declared to be, in full force within the District of Columbia.

Approved, March 3, 1819.


Statute II.


March 3, 1819.

Chap. LXXII.An Act to alter and establish certain post-roads.

Post-roads discontinued.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following post-roads be, and the same are hereby, discontinued, that is to say:

From Brunswick, by Topsham, to Starbird’s corner, in Bowdoin, in Maine.

From Plymouth, by Carver, and Plympton, to Middleborough, and from Medford to Reading, in Massachusetts.

From Worthington to Urbana, in Ohio.

From Hagerstown, in Maryland, to M‘Connelstown, in Pennsylvania.

From Currituck Courthouse to Knott’s Island, in North Carolina.