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 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 269, 270, 271, 272. 1868.239 Missouri river to the western boundary thereof, be set apart for the per- **0** W 3PM f°* petual and exclusive use of a public road ; and the said road shall be and publglgcrggsciiw remain a public highway for the use of the government of the United the United States, free from tolls or other charges upon the transportation of any S“"“· property, troops, or mails of the United States. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Congress may at any time Ast may be amend or repeal this act. *‘°P°¤l°d»&°- Approved, July 27, 1868. CHAP. CQLXX. —An Act regulating the Itmes and Places of lzolding the District and July 27: 1868· Circuits Courts if the Ifzited States for the Northern District q`Florida. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represemtatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the times and places of ,Tl“‘°Q;“;1d. holding the United States district and circuit .courts for the northern dis- hgiéhogmiesmg triet of Florida shall hereafter be as follows: At Jacksonville, on the ¢<>¤F§¤i¤{¤¤¤h- first Monday of December; at Tallahassee, on the first Monday of Feb- i§‘;,‘;§}°‘°t °f ruary ; and at Pensacola, on the first Monday of March. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the terms of · the United States Terms at Saint courts heretotbre held at Saint Augustine and Appalaehieola be hereafter g“€“f“;‘?c*;‘g ¤ti¤¤¤d- ¤a€€3¤ii°¤tis¤.` Approved, July 27, 1868. CHAP. CCLXXI. - An Act tc disapprove an Act of the Legislative Assembly of Wash- July 27, 1868- ington T territory redistricting the Territory and massigning the Judges thereto. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives qhfhe United States of America in Congress asscmbkd, That the act of the legislative _ Act of iegiam assembly of the Territory of Washington, approved January twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, entitled "An act defining the several rimry dispjudicial districts of the Territory and assigning the judges thereto," be, P¤`°V°d· and the same is hereby, disapproved. Approved, July 27, 1868. CHAP. CCLXXII. ——An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act proposing to the State July 21, 1868, of Texas the /Estab/ishment of her Northern and KVestern Boundaries, the Relinquishment 'j§55`gf,’f[{" by (he said State of all Territory claimed by her, exterior to said Boundaries, and of all VOL QL p_ H6_ her Claims upon the Mzited States, and fo establish a Zerritorial Government fw New ]|{eric0." Be it enacted by the Senate and Muse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the aforesaid act shall be Veta power of amended as follows: Every bill which shall have passed the council and    2; House of Representatives of the said Territory shall, before it becomes a New {times, law, be presented to the governor of the Territory; it' he approve he shall sign it, but if he do not approve it, he shall return it with his objections to the house in which it originated, who shall enter the objections at large upon their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration, two thirds of that house shall pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that house, it shall become a law, the governor’s objections to the contrary notwithstanding. But in such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and entered upon the journal of each house respectively. And if the governor shall not return any bill presented to him for approval, after its passage by both houses of the legislature, within three days, (Sundays excepted,) after such presentation, the same shall become a law in like manner as if the governor had approved it: Provided, however, That the assembly shall not have adjourned sine die, during the three days prescribed as above, in which case it shall not become a law.