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Newport, Middletown, New Haven, Delaware, Richmond, Wilmington in North Carolina, Newbern, and Edenton, shall cease and be discontinued. And there shall be allowed and paid, annually, to the officers of the customs hereafter named, the following sums respectively, viz:

To the collector for the district of Natchez, in addition to the fees and other emoluments of office, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars; and to each of the surveyors at New London, Middletown, New Haven and Alexandria, in addition to the allowances already established by law, the sum of fifty dollars.

. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said last day of June, in lieu of the commissions heretofore allowed by law, there shall be allowed to the collectors of the customs for Wilmington, in North Carolina, and Newbern, two and a half per cent.

To the collectors for Petersburg and Richmond, two per cent.

To the collectors for Kennebunk and New London, one and three quarters per cent.

To the collector for Bath, one and an half per cent.

To the collectors for New Haven and Middletown, one and three eighths per cent.

To the collectors for Providence and Alexandria, one and one quarter per cent.

To the collector for Newburyport, one and one eighth per cent.

To the collector for Portland, three quarters of one per cent.

And to the collectors for Salem and Beverly, five eighths of one per cent. on all monies by them respectively received on account of the duties arising on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, on the tonnage of ships and vessels.

. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed a surveyor for the district of Marblehead, to reside at Marblehead; who shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the other emoluments allowed by law, a salary of one hundred dollars, annually.

, March 27, 1804.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be appointed an additional judge for the Mississippi territory, who shall reside at or near the Tombigbee settlement, and who shall possess and exercise, within the district of Washington, as fixed and ascertained by an act of the general assembly of the Mississippi territory, intituled “An act for the more convenient organization of the courts of the said territory,” the jurisdiction heretofore possessed and exercised by the superior court of the said territory within the said district of Washington, and to the exclusion of the original jurisdiction of the said superior court within the same: Provided always, that the said superior court shall have full power and authority to issue writs of error to the court established by this act and to hear and determine the same, when sitting, for the district of Adams, as fixed and ascertained by the act of the general assembly of the Mississippi territory, herein before mentioned.

. And be it further enacted, That the said superior court are hereby authorized, upon the reversal of a judgment of the court established by this act, to render such judgment as the said court ought to have rendered or passed, except where the reversal is in favour of the plaintiff in the original suit, and the debt or damages to be assessed are uncertain, in which case the cause shall be remanded in order to a final determination.