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 PUBLIC ACTS OF THE THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS OF run UNITED STATES, Passed at the jirst session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Jibndag, the 5th dag of December, 1853, and ended onjllondag, the 7th dag of August, 1854. Fnimxmn Prnncn, President. DAVID R. Arcnrson, President of the Senate, pro tempore. L1NN BOYD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. I. -—An Act concerning the District Courts of the United States in Calgfmvzia. J*'~U· 18» 185* Be it enacted bg the Senate and Abuse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a district judge for the southern judicial district here- Judge to be tofore established in the State of California; and that the sessions of the 3’P°é"*°31 f°’ district court at San Jose, Stockton, and Sacramento, are hereby abo- Dizmgij mi lished. And in case of the sickness, or other inability, of the district judge for the southern district of California to hold the terms of the district court at the places prescribed by law, or at either of them, it shall be lawful for the district judge of the northern district of California to hold Sessions of the said sessions of the district court for the southern district, or any of °°““‘ them. And in case the district judge for the northern judicial district of California shall, from sickness or other cause, be unable to hold the ses- Provision for sions of the district court for the northern district of California at the ?l°kl“?“ °"?*h°’ . . . . mabihty of either times and places appointed by law, or either of them, 1t shall and may be district judgg lawful for the district judge for the southern districtof California to hold said sessions of the district court for the northern district of California, or any or either of them. APPROVED, January 18, 1854. CHAP. II. —An Act to continue in jorce the Act entitled “An Act to ascertain and settle Jan. 18, 1854. the Private Land Claims in the State of Odlm7TN2.G,,’ and far other purposes. 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 Act of 1851, ascertain and settle the private land claims in the State of California," Ph-f‘Ui°°?‘m“°d passed March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, bc, and the same is ;I;,i;i;°P,$:p:,°_ hereby, continued in force for one year from and after the third day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-four, for the purpose of enabling the board of commissioners appointed under said act to determine the claims presented to said board under the act aforesaid. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said board of commission- Commissioners ers may appoint one or more, not exceeding three, competent persons to $O;$° t°s°' act as commissioners in the taking of testimony to be used before said board, who shall receive a compensation to be fixed by said board, but not to exceed ten dollars per diem. Approved, January 18, 1854. v01.. x. Poe. --34