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880 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 800, 801. 1901. commission the sum found to be due snall be paid out of any appropriation made or to be made by Congress for the payment and satisfaction of such awards on presentation to the Secretary of the. Treasury of a copy of said award, certiiied by the clerk of the commission and signed by the gresident of said commission, or by the Secretary of State in _ _ _ case said commission has terminated and ceased to exist. 0,l(§;’g,§¤;Q‘,*;§m‘g{0,{°g; All the files and records of said commission shall immediately upon commission. ghe expiration thereof be deposited in the office of the Secretary of tate. . S°"“i°S5 Sec. 15. That the salaries and compensation of the ersons appointed under this Act shall be as follows, and the same shall)be paid monthly in equal installments: _ To each commissioner, the sum of five thousand dollars per annum. To the Assistant Attorney-General, the sum of five thousand dollars per annum. ’· · To the clerk, the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars per annum. ‘ To such assistant attorneys as may be employed, at the rate of two hundred dollars per month to each for the time of actual employment. To the messenger and to each stenographer and typewriter, the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum. To each interpreter, not exceeding the sum of one thousand eight _ yr hundred dollars per annum. s,§,‘f’“"°”°‘°°mm‘“‘ Sec. 16. That the powers and jurisdiction hereby granted to said commission shall be in force and continue for the period of two years from the date of the approval of this Act, and for no longer time: _gggg;·%u Provided, That the President may, from time to time, extend the ' said period beyond said two years, not exceeding six months in each instance, when in his judgment such extension is necessary to enable gg“;g;‘§°“ b°’°’° the commission to complete its work: Andprovided_farther, That in ` case the commission shall have completed its work before the expiration of the said two years the President may dissolve said commission. Approved, March 2, 1901. Mmb 2.1901- CHAP. 801.-An Act To create a new Federal judicial district in Pennsylvania, W to be called the middle district. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRrIe§¢ese¢·ztattves of the [batted d,§°*;g§{;¥l;¤i°gk§;*jQ£ States of America in Ucmfress assembled, at the counties of Lackoromd. awanna, Wyoming, Brad ord, Monroe, Wayne, Pike, Susquehanna, f,Y,‘§},‘“;T§t,‘}§”‘Lh§g· Carbon, Tio , Potter, Cameron, Clinton, Lycoming, Center, Union, Wg,_¤t<·;,¤¤S*},,ig*¤5,;=;¤3) 91 Snydér,_M.i.§iin, J uniata, Northumberland, Montour, Columb1a, Sullioméodéo.'’ van, Luzerne, Dauphin, Lebanon, Perry Huntingdon, Fulton, Franklin, Adams, York, and Cumberland, in the State of Pennsylvania, are hereby detached from ·the eastern and western districts of said State and shall henceforth constitute and compose a judicial district to be C°““·‘* °S“**’“Sh*’d· known as the middle district of Pennsylvania, and a circuit and a dis-

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.u},`gc§j gggtuigf third Sec. 2. That the said middle district of Pennsylvania shall be J Terms or ooui-z. attached to and constitute part of the third judicial circuit, and terms . of said circuit and district courts shall be held therein as follows, to wit: At the city of Scranton, in the count of Lackawanna, on the first Monday of March and iirst Monday ofy October in each year; at the city of Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming, on the second Monday of January and second Monday of June in each year; at the city of Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin, on the first Monday of May and second Monday of November in each year, the sessions of said courts to continue for such periods of time as the judges thereof shall, by their prior order, determine; and adjourned terms, sittings,