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according to the estimate of the Engineer Department, five thousand dollars.

Escambia river.For continuing the removal of obstructions in, and improving the navigation of, the Escambia river, in the Territory of Florida, five thousand five hundred dollars.

Huron river.For further improvements at the mouth of Huron river, in the State of Ohio, four thousand three hundred dollars.

To close accounts in the Third Auditor’s office.And the following sums, necessary to close accounts, in the office of the Third Auditor, viz.

Cunningham creek.For removing obstructions at Cunningham creek, Ohio, thirty-two dollars and thirty-six cents.

Michigan Territory.For completing the pier at La Plaisance bay, Michigan Territory, three hundred and twenty-three dollars and fifteen cents.

Cleaveland, Ohio.For removing obstructions at Cleaveland harbor, Ohio, six dollars and fifty-nine cents.

Presque isle.For repairing breach in the peninsula at Presque Isle, one hundred and twenty-two dollars and eighty cents.

Erie, Pennsylvania.For erecting a beacon light at Erie, Pennsylvania, sixty-nine dollars and sixty-nine cents.

Buffalo, New York.For erecting a light-house at Buffalo, New York, four hundred and ninety-four dollars and seventy-eight cents.

Ohio and Mississippi.For improvement of the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers from Pittsburg to New Orleans, under the act of second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars and five cents.

Geological and mineralogical surveys.For defraying the expenses incidental to making examinations and surveys, under the act of the thirtieth of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, of which sum five thousand dollars shall be appropriated and applied to geological and mineralogical surveys1824, ch. 46. and researches in the Indian country on the public lands and in the Territories of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.

Approved, July 2, 1836.

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July 2, 1836.
[Expired.]

Chap. CCLX.An Act to extend the charters of certain Banks in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Charters extended to July 4, 1838. That the charters of the several Banks herein enumerated, namely; the Union Bank, and Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Georgetown; the Bank of the Metropolis, Patriotic Bank of Washington, and Bank of Washington, in the city of Washington; and the Farmers Bank of Alexandria, and Bank of Potomac, in the town of Alexandria, be, and the same are hereby extended till the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

Approved, July 2, 1836.

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July 2, 1836.

Chap. CCLXI.An Act regulating the terms of the superior courts of the middle district of Florida, and for other purposes.

Act of Territorial Legislature of 12th Feb. 1836 approved.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act entitled “An act to alter and change the terms of the superior court for the middle district of Florida,” passed by the Governor and Legislative Council of said Territory, and approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, be, and the same is hereby, approved, so far as it does not interfere with the terms of the court directed to be holden in the county of Franklin, which has been annexed to the said middle district.

Trials may be removed from the southern to the eastern or middle district.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if, in any prosecution for piracy, or any other criminal offence against the laws of the United States, or of the Territory of Florida, it shall be found impracticable