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 PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FCRTYEIGHTH CONGRESS or um UNITED STATES, Passed at the jirst session, which ua: begun and  at ¢$o£ty of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the third day kD? , 1883, and was adjourned without day on Monday, the seventh day of Jul&(¥884. . . e °¤ <> . Grmsrmz A. Anrmm, President; Gnome . EmiUN1>£*was elected President of the · Senate gre tempore on the fourteenth f QE 1884; J 0HN G. CARLISLE was elected peaker of the House of Repres tas e third day of December, 1883, and acted as such until the iifrh day of J, 1 when Josnrrr C. S. BLAc1¤:u1m was elected Speaker pro tempore and ac until the  of the session. Q 0 CHAP. 1.—An not to Bx the time for holding the District Court in the District of Jan. 18, 1884. Maine at Bangor. ···——···—···· Be it enacted by the Senateand Honeeof Representatives of the United State: of America in Congress assembkd, That the regular term of the Maine; form of District Court of the District of Maine now held at Bangor on the mm, M3: xm f°' Fourth Tuesday shall hereafter be held on the First Tuesday of June. Approved, January 18th, 1884. - CHAP. 2.-An not making an  the improvement of the Jan. 19, 1884. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of  of the United State: of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of one million Appropriation, dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated or so much thereof as may be °°¤*¤¤¤¤¤gfMT necessary, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, E;Qvg,_ for the improvement of the Mississippi River, which said sum shall be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of War, in accordance with the plans, specitlcations, estimates, and recommendations of the Mississippi River Commission created by an act entitled “An act to provide for the appointment of a Mississippi River Commission for the improvement of said river- from the Head of the Passes, near its mcg to its head·waters” approved June twenty-eighth, eighteen hun and seventy-nine: Ibrevtded, That the money hereby appropriated shall Prvviw- · be used solely for the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi River and no part thereof shall be expended with the view to the improvement of private property. Approved, January 19, 1884. CHA!. 3-An act to anthorizeths increase of the capitalstookoftholtirst National. J¤¤- 29, 1*4- Bank of Fort Worth Texas. """'°"""‘ Be it enacted by the Senateand Home of Representatives of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the First National Bank HM N¤fi¤¤¤\ of Fort wm,1mm in me city of rm wma, in the sms of mens, ggFg;g,§3g_¤g, is hereby authorized to increase its capital stock, in accordance with mm} ,,,,,ck of_ xxm--1 (1)