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 F ORTY—~SECON D CONGRESS. II. Ch. 284-286. 1872. 219 from whence they issued, shall constitute one and the same suit, and bo proceeded in accordingly. Sec. 5. That the rules of court, heretofore adopted, and now of force in _Rules ofdi•- the district court for the northern district of Georgia, be, and they are m°:h°°“‘gfPt;. t hereby declared to ba, adopted and of force in the circuit court of said {13,% igngosseig northern district; but the same may be altered, modified, amended, or circuit comannulled by the said courts. and new rules may be added thereto in the same manner as in other district and circuit courts. The return-days of Beturn-d¤y¤ of writs and executions returnable to the said district and the said circuit wm‘°• &°' courts shall be the first days of the terms of said courts respectively, but the time for the return of writss may be, by rule of court, changed to any rules-day. Sec. 6. That the grand and traverse juries which have been or which Gmd Em'} _ may be drawn for the first term after the passage of this act, of the dis- mw°”° ·]m°°’ trict court for the northern district of Georgia, shall be the juries for both · the circuit and the district court; and all the acts as such in either court shall be valid, as if said juries belonged exclusively to the court in which they are acting for the time being. Sec. 7. That it shall be lawful for the requisite jurors, grand and petit, when may be for either or both-of said courts, to serve at the first term thereof, to be d""“· drawn at any time by che judge of the said district court, or by either of the judges of said circuit court. Sec. 8. That the ninth and tenth sections of the act; of August elev- Repealing auth, eighteen hundred and forcy-eight, organizing the district court of *1*;*;;% cb 151 the northern district of Georgia, and all acts and parts of acts militatiug g2/_g_ ;b_’ against this act, be, and the same, are hereby, repealed. 01- ix- p- 281- APPROVED, June 4, 1872. CHAP. CCLXXXV.—An Act suppleznentaqy to an Act entitled “An Act to aid in the June 4, 1872. Construction of Telegraph Lines, and to secure to the Government the Use of the same jbr postalkmilitary, and ather Purposes," approved July twenqyfaurth, ery/ztcen hun- V01_£iv_ p_ 221. dred and szxty-sax. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Intematiomxl Ocean Inmmational Telegraph Company shall _ have the right to pre-cmpt and usc public g§;:“aE°l;f;*;“Ph lands at the following stations in Florida on the line of telegraph belong- p,.,,_§upg gmx ing to said telegraph company, to wit: at the two ends of the cables 011 ¤¤rt¤ir3 p¤b¤i9 Sinabcl Island, the station at Punta. Rasa, ucar the mouth of the Ca100sa.— 1"”d“‘° F1°"d°; hatchia river, the station at Fort Myers, the points where the line of telcgraph crosses tho Caloosahatchic river, the station at Pina island, and the stations at Branch river, Bambow, and Tuckcrtown, each forty acres; such lands being public lands, and now actually used by the Inberna.ti011a,I Ocean Telegraph Company of the State of New York: Provided, That whenever any one of the smallest legal subdivisions at any one of the stations designated is less than forty acres, by reason of the land lying adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico, or any bay or river, the said company 0,,;), the small. shall pre-empt only such smallest fractional subdivision upon which the estfqaqtimml buildings and offices of the company are located. S“bdmS‘°°’ APPROVED, June 4, 1872. CHAP. CCLXXXVI.—-An Act to enable the Preszklent to appoint a Pug/master-Gen- J¤¤¤ 4, 1872- aal of the Army. ___-_-—— Be it enacted by ihe Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Omzgress assembled, That the sixth section of the ge?;;;?:??;;' uct of third March, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, making appropria- urmy may be tions for the suppport of the army, is so far modified, that the President “P1{’;;‘L*°dé gm. is hereby authorized to appoint a. Paymastcr-Gc11era1, with the rank, pay, IgG2mg_!;;);; § 6_ and cmolumenbs of a colonel, said appointment to date from the time the Vvr xv- p· 318·