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tried, prosecuted, and determined, in the district courts hereby established, which may include the said counties.

Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That all causes which shall have been or may be removed from the courts held by the additional judge for the Michigan Territory, in the counties of Brown and Iowa, by appeal or otherwise, into the supreme court for the Territory of Michigan, and which shall be undetermined therein on the third day of July next, shall be certified by the clerk of the said supreme court, and transferred to the supreme court of said Territory of Wisconsin, there to be proceeded in to final determination, in the same manner that they might have been in the said supreme court of the Territory of Michigan.

Five thousand dollars for the purchase of a library.Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by and under the direction of the Legislative Assembly of said Territory, in the purchase of a library for the accommodation of said Assembly, and of the supreme court hereby established.

Approved, April 20, 1836.

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April 20, 1836.

Chap. LV.An Act in addition to the act of the twenty-fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, entitled “An act to authorize the licensing of vessels to be employed in the mackerel fishery.”[1]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Vessels licensed for the mackerel fishery not subject to forfeitures, &c.
Act of May 1828, ch. 119.
1793, ch. 8.
That vessels duly licensed under the provisions of “An act to authorize the licensing of vessels to be employed in the mackerel fishery,” passed May twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, shall not be deemed or taken to be liable to the forfeitures imposed by the fifth and thirty-second sections of the act of Congress, approved the eighteenth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, entitled “An act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same,” in consequence of any such vessel, whilst licensed as aforesaid, having been engaged in catching cod, or fish of any other description whatever,Proviso. Provided, however, That this act shall not be deemed or considered as authorizing or entitling the owner or owners of any vessel licensed for the mackerel fishery, to receive the bounty allowed by law to vessels employed in the cod fishery.

Approved, April 20, 1836.

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April 20, 1836.

Chap. LVI.An Act to prescribe the mode of paying pensions heretofore granted by the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Laws authorizing the U. S. Bank to pay pensions, repealed.
Pensions to be paid according to the directions of the Secretary at War.
That all laws and parts of laws, authorizing or requiring the Bank of the United States, or its branches to pay any pensions granted under the authority of the United States, shall be, and the same are hereby, repealed; and such payments shall be hereafter made, at such times and places, by such persons or corporations, and under such regulations, as the Secretary of War may direct; but no compensation or allowance shall be made to such persons or corporations for making such payments, without authority of law.

Approved, April 20, 1836.