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 FORTY—SECON D CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 280-282. 1872. 215 such baggage, goods, wares, and merchandise to the proper officer of the customs, according to law. Sec. 2. That railroad-cars or other vehicles laden with goods, wares, R¤“*'°¤d °m» 9,nd mcrchaudxsc, scaled by a. customs officer, under the provisions of i23i2in1Q: °°;S_ SCCUOD snx of the act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty- ing from plaie m six, and the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, passing from }g“?° i“*h° one port or place in the United States to another therein, through foreign m¥£§hSé,°E§;,, contiguous territory, shall be exempt from the payment of any fees for ¤¢¤‘if¤¤‘Y. ¤<>M<> receiving or certifying manifests thereotl f°°“ *”°' “‘*‘“i‘ APPROVED, June 4, 1872. 1?6d;cb. 298, $6. Vol. xiv. p. 329. CHAP. CCLXXXI. -·An Act further regulating the Construction of Bridges across the June 4, 1872. Mssisszppi River. ‘;"""‘ Be it enacted Ig the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all bridges hereafter con- All bridges structcd over and across the Mississippi river under authority of any act ;g?j;;‘;gf%hsq. of Congress shall be subject to all the terms, restrictions, and requirements sippi mw, uid; contained in the Efth section of an act cutitlcd "An act to authorize the any W *>*` C¤¤· construction of a bridge across the Mississippi river, at or near the town irfsigm be s“b` of Clinton, in the State of Iowa, and other bridges across said river, and 1872, ch. 73, § 5. to establish them as post-roads," approved April first, eighteen hundred A”‘°·PP· 45s 46· and sevc¤ty-two; and in locating any such bridge the Secretary of War shall have duc regard to the security and convenience of navigation, to convenience of access, and to the wants of all railways and highways crossing said river. APPROVED, June 4, 1872. CHAP. CCLXXXII. -·A.n Act to establish a western judicial District of North Carolina. June 4, 1872. Be it enacted by the Senate and [buss ¢y" Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That that portion of the State Wq¤venjnjugiiof North Carolina comprising the counties of Mecklenburg, Cabarras, §’;;$Sé‘;:gl?;a. Stanly, Montgomery, Richmond, Davie, Davidson, Randolph, Guilford, cstablishgd, and Rockingham, Stokes, Forsyth, Union. Anson, Caswell, Person, Alamancc, of what twiww Orange, Chatham, Moore, Clay, Cherokee, Swain, Macon, Jackson, Gm- °°mp°s°d' ham, Haywood, Transylvania, Henderson, Buncombc, Madison, Yancey, Mitchell, Watauga, Ashe, Allcghany, Caldwell, Burke, McDowell, Rutherford, Polk, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Catawba, Alexander, Wilkes, Surry, Ircdell, Yadkin, and Rowan, and all territory embraced therein which may hereafter be erected into new counties, shall hereafter constitute a new judicial district to be called the western district of North Carolina; and the circuit and district courts of the United States for said western Cigcuit and district of North Carolina shall be held in tha towns of Statcsvillc, Ashe- $:;;?;i0°°l;'féld ville, and Grcensboro’, within said district. S b. L Sec. 2. That two terms of the circuit and district courts of the United am °u J°° States for said. western district of North Carolina shall be held at the fol- 4 lowing times and places in each year, to wit: At Grcensb0ro’, beginning t on the first Monday in April and in October; at Statcsvillc, beginning on first Monday in May and in November. Sec. 3. That the district of North Carolina shall hereafter consist of Eastern distnjict the counties not named in this act, and shall be called the eastern dis- ;’£I;§I;?;:;°l‘“ tfict of North Carolina, and the terms of the circuit and district courts what therein shall be held at the times and places heretofore appointed and T¤¤‘¤¤¤¤f enacted. °°um' Sm:. 4. That the said circuit and district courts for either of said dis- tricts may, in their discretion, order special terms thereof for the trial of $@**1 yrmg criminal and civil issues at such times and places as the court may dcsig— may ° °r °r° ' nate in said districts, and ordcr a grand and a petit jury, or both, to attend
 * the third Monday in April and in October; at Asheville, beginning on the