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 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sites. I. Ch. 24, 25. 1856. 7 Sec. 4. And be itfurtlaer enacted, That all suits or causes instituted in the district courts of California prior to the first Monday of July, eighteen tmusflis $3 hundred and fifty-five, and which remain pending in either of said courts, the :,5.,;:,,, or in which nnal process has not been executed, and which are properly court. within the jurisdiction of circuit courts, and not of district courts of the United States, shall be removed for the district in which the cause is pending by a transfer and delivery to the clerk of the said circuit court of the original papers with an exemplitication of the record or docket entries under the seal of the district coifrt, for which exemplihcatiou the clerk of the said district court shall receive the same fees as are allowed for similar services in making transcripts for appeals or writs of error, to be paid by the party applying for the same, and taxed as costs on final judgment; and all causes now pending in said circuit court of the United States, against parties residing in the southern district of California, shall, on application of the parties defendant, made within three months from the date when this act shall take effect, be removed in like manner to the said circuit court held in the southern district of California, and all such causes shall take rank on the docket according to the date of removal; and all suits removed under the provisions of this section shall be proceeded in, and conducted in the same manner as if originally instituted in the court to which they may be removed. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all laws, or parts of laws, con- Inwnsiswm trary to or inconsistent with this act, shall be, and remain repealed, from laws repealedthe date when this act shall take effect. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect in Aotkwhenw ninety days after the passing thereof, and not before that period. mw G °‘°l· Arnaovnn, April 30, 1856. Cnn. XXIV.—·An Act creating Columbus, in Kentucky, a Port of belivery. May 9, 1856. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Columbus, in the State of Columbum Kentucky, be and is hereby constituted a port of delivery, within the gflééffggf Pm collection district of New Orleans, and there shall be a surveyor of cus- Sm,veym,_ toms appointed for the said port, who shall perform the duties, and receive the salary and emoluments prescribed by the act of Congress, approved on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, entitled 1831.ch- 87- "An act allowing the duties on foreign merchandise imported into Pitts- VOL ,v_ p_ a0_ burg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville, and Natchez, to be secured and paid at those places:" Provided, That it shall be the abolgijsllgll l’° duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to abolish said port of delivery publicgcod whenever, in his judgment, the public interest shall no longer require a r¤q¤ir¤¤if— port of delivery at that place. APPROVED, May 9, 1856. crm. xxv. .-an an to mmza it sagem qzuama the cumzmztmc nm in mz i29E 'tate. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Ocmgress assembled, That so much of the Cumber- the g:’u‘;;‘:_l‘&gg land Road as lies within the State of Illinois, and all the interest of the gm.; as 1,5,, United States in the same, together with all the stone, timber, and other Illi¤<>i§. With materials belonging to the United States, and procured for the purpose :$’;',:'},*`;°",{,`., of being used in the construction of the same, and all the rights and State. privileges of every kind belonging to the United States, as connected with said road, in said State, be, and the same are hereby, transferred and surrendered to the said State of Illinois. Anrnovnn, May 9, 1856.