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United States, and exported therefrom, of five cents per pound, in lieu of the drawback at present allowed by law on sugar so refined and exported: Provided, That this act shall not alter or repeal any law now in force regulating the exportation of sugar refined in the United States, except to change the rate of drawback when so exported: And provided, That this act shall cease to be in force so soon as the exports of sugar shall be equal to the imports of the same article.

, January 21, 1829.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if, at any session of the Supreme Court, four justices thereof shall not attend on the day appointed for holding said session, such justice or justices as may attend shall have authority to adjourn said court from day to day, for twenty days after the time appointed for the commencement of said session, unless four justices shall sooner attend; and the business of said court shall not, in such case, be continued over to the next stated session thereof, until the expiration of said twenty days, instead of the ten days now limited by law.

. And be it further enacted, That if it shall so happen, during any term of the said Supreme Court, after four of the judges shall have assembled, that, on any day, less than the number of four shall assemble, the judge or judges so assembling shall have authority to adjourn said court from day to day until a quorum shall attend, and, when expedient and proper, may adjourn the same without day.

, January 21, 1829.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the citizens of the territory of Arkansas, qualified to vote, shall and may, at such time and place, and under such rules and regulations as the legislature of said territory may prescribe, elect their officers, civil and military, except such as, by the laws of Congress now in force, are to be appointed by the President of the United States; and except, also, justices of the peace, auditor and treasurer for said territory, who shall be chosen by joint vote of both houses of the legislature, at such time, and for such term of service, as the said legislature shall prescribe.

. And be it further enacted, That the term of service, and the duties and powers, fees, and emoluments, of the officers, civil and military, so chosen by the citizens, shall be prescribed by the legislature, and they shall be commissioned by the governor of the territory, and subject to be removed from office in such mode and for such cause as the legislature shall declare by law. All laws now in force, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. This act shall take effect from and after the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

. And be it further enacted, That every bill that shall have passed the House of Representatives and the legislative council of the