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. And be it further enacted, That when any person, not being an executor or administrator, applies for a writ of error, such writ of error shall be no stay of proceedings in the court to which it issues, unless the plaintiff in error shall give security, to be approved of by a judge of the said superior court, that the plaintiff in error shall prosecute his writ to effect, and pay the condemnation money and all costs, or otherwise abide the judgment in error, if he fail to make his plea good.

. And be it further enacted, That all pleas, process, and proceedings whatever, which may have been commenced in the said superior court within the aforesaid district of Washington, shall be, and the same are hereby transferred to the court established by this act, and the officers appointed to issue or execute the process of the said superior court within the district of Washington, and to record the proceedings of the same, are hereby authorized and required to issue and execute the process of the court established by this act, and to record the proceedings thereof.

. And be it further enacted, That the court established by this act, shall hold two terms in each and every year, at the place where the courts for Washington county, within the said territory, shall be held, to commence on the days following, to wit: on the first Monday in May and September, annually; and shall then and there proceed to hear and determine the pleas, process and proceedings depending before them, in the same manner as the said superior court within the district of Washington aforesaid, might or could have done, in case this act had not been passed.

. And be it further enacted, That the judge to be appointed by virtue of this act, shall receive the same salary, and payable in the same manner, which is established by law for judges of the said superior court of the Mississippi territory.

, March 27, 1804.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary for the department of State, be, and he hereby is authorized and empowered to procure four hundred copies of the laws of the United States: one hundred copies of which shall be distributed in just proportions in the territory of Orleans and district of Louisiana, the other three hundred copies to be reserved for the disposal of Congress.

. And be it further enacted, That one thousand copies of the laws of the United States which shall be printed at the close of each session shall be reserved for the disposal of Congress: and that the distribution of the remainder shall be extended to the territory of Orleans, and district of Louisiana, and to such other territories as are or may hereafter be established, in the same manner and proportion as is already provided by law for distributing them among the several states and territories: and the Secretary of State shall cause to be published in one newspaper in each of the territories of the United States, where newspapers are printed, the laws which have passed during the present session, and which may hereafter be passed by Congress.

. And be it further enacted, That there shall be transmitted, by the Secretary of State, to each member of the Senate and House of Representatives, and to each territorial delegate, as soon as may be, after the expiration of each session of Congress, a copy of all the laws which shall have been passed at such session.

. And be it further enacted, That the sum of two thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated for defraying the expense