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missioner of the General Land Office may prescribe, be considered, for the time being, as withdrawn from sale, and not subject to entry.

Approved, February 26, 1845.

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Feb. 26, 1845.

Chap. XXVI.An Act to amend the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.”

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,3d sec. act 17th June 1844, ch. 107, not applicable to officers on foreign stations, until after receipt of information of its passage. That the third section of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five,” approved June seventeen, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, shall not be understood or construed to apply to the claim of an officer employed on a foreign station who would be entitled, under the provisions of previous acts of Congress, to receive the pay of a higher grade, while temporarily performing the duties of such higher grade, until information of the passage of the said act shall have been received on board of the vessel to which such officer was or is attached.

Approved, February 26, 1845.

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Feb. 26, 1845.

Chap. XXVIII.An Act to authorize a relocation of land warrants number three, four, and five, granted by Congress to General Lafayette.

Act of March 27, 1804, ch. 61, sec. 14.
Holders of the warrants authorized to enter other lands, &c.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the legal holders or assignees of land warrants numbered three, four, and five, granted by the act of Congress of twenty-seventh March, one thousand eight hundred and four, to General Lafayette, and located at Point Coupee, in the State of Louisiana, in three adjoining surveys of one thousand acres each, and which locations are shown to have bene made in material conflict with several older and better grants, shall, upon exhibiting to the register and receiver of any land office within the State of Louisiana, his or their evidence of right to the warrants above described, be permitted, under the same rules and restrictions of the original law under which said locations were authorized, to enter and locate a like quantity of land on any of the unappropriated public lands in the State of Louisiana:Proviso. That, before any such register and receiver shall issue to such holders or assignees any certificate of relocation, the holders or assignees shall deposite a copy of their deraignment of title from General Lafayette, and a release of title to the lands located at Point Coupee.

Approved, February 26, 1845.

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March 1, 1845.

Chap. XXXV.An Act to change the time for holding the Circuit and Criminal Courts in the county of Washington.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Time of holding fall term of circuit court changed. That the Circuit Court of the United States for the county of Washington, District of Columbia, shall hereafter be held on the third Monday of October of each year, instead of the fourth Monday of November designated by law.

Times of holding criminal court now fixed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That hereafter there shall be but three terms of the criminal court for Washington county, in the District of Columbia, instead of the four terms of said court now fixed by law; and that said three terms hereafter shall commence and be held on the first Monday in March, the third Monday in June, and the first Monday in December, in each and every year.Process returnable on days now fixed. All process whatsoever in the said criminal court now issued or which may be issued in the county of Washington, in said District, returnable to the days now fixed by law