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 88 FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 142, 143, 144. 1872. improvements and repairs in said District by the issuing of fonr millions of bonds and levying a. tax for the payment of the interest as it shall an— nually accrue thereon, and submitting the act; Wllih the question of the issuing of four millions of improvement bonds to a vote of the people at a general election in said Distmct ; " and also the act of the legislative assembly, approved August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy4me, entitled "An act levyiug a. tax for the payment of the mterest as 1t shall annually accrue on four million dollars of bonds authorized to be issued by the District of Columbia to create a. debt for special improvements and repairs in said District, by the issuing of fbnr millions of bonds and Ievying a tax for the payment of the interest as 1t shall annually accrue. thereon, and submitting the act, with the question of the issuing of fonr millions of improvement bonds, to a. vote of the people at a general election in the said C¤ri¤i¤_b0¤d¤ Disti·ict," be, and the same are hereby, disapproved and declared null and ”°° °° b° ‘""°d' void, and the authorities of the District are hereby forbidden to issue any portion of the four millions of bonds named in said acts; and that the act Certain mt sp- of the said legislative assembly, approved July tenth, eighteen hundred and P'°"°d· seventy-one, entitled "An act making appropriations for improvements and repairs in the District of Columbia, and providing for the payment thereof? be, and the same is hereby, approved, ratided, and confirmed. Debt of the Sec. 7. That the debt of the District of Columbia, including the debts gjgfjgll of *° of the late corporations, shall at no time exceed the sum of ten millions of I,,,;,,,,,,';,,,," dollars, unless an increase over the said amount shall have been previously authorized by act of Congress. Repealing Sec. 8. Elie; all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this act are ¤l¤¤S¤· hereb rope e. A.P51;B'.0VED, May 8, 1872. May 9, 1872· CHAP. CXLIII. —An Act to change the Time for holding theCircuit a1zdD{stricl Courts '""*"‘ of the United States for the western District of Wisconsin, at La Crosse. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ Tirne of hold- States of America in Congress assembled, That the time of holding the ggtgzslguigit circuit and district courts of the United States for the western district of Lu Crosse, wi, Wisconsin, at La Crosse, be on the third Tuesday of September of each 18T0.¤h;175. § 2· year, instead of the first Monday of December, as now provided by law ; v‘%e§;;b%,;[:i and that the December term at La Crosse be, and the same is hereby, abolished. abolished, and that all recognizances, indictments, writs, process, and other proceedings, civil and criminal, now pending in either of said courts, may be entered, heard, and tried at the time herein fixed for holding said Proviso- courts: Provided, however, That a term of said court may be held in December, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, for the purpose of taking forfeitures of recoguizances and disposing of any and all matters pending in said court, civil or criminal, necessary to be disposed of at said term to prevent disoontinuances or any loss of any rights that may have accrued to any party or to the government of the United States. Courts at Mad- Sec. 2. This act shall not interfere with the term of said courts appointed l°°"°*:_”0‘},. s=lj_;¤¤¤g to be holdeu at Madison, in said district, nor with the power now pos- £gYmm;L,€g° sessed by th; judges of said courts to order special terms of the same, as with- now provide by law. — Amuzoved, May 9, 1872. MU 9s 1872- CHAP. CXLIV.—An Act to extend the Time of Pa;/ment£>r their Lands by Persona holding Preampticns on the gublic Lands in the States of imeesota, Wisconm'1n, and M wlugan, and Territory of akota. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ P¢¤‘¤<>¤¤ h¤l_<i- States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons holding prefggpgfsggllggggns emptions upon any of the public lands of the United States within the in certain Sums States of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and Territory of Dakota,
 * °h*“'° °” YW whose final payment has not been made, shall be allowed the additional