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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever any criminal convicted of any offence against the United States, shall be imprisoned, in pursuance of such conviction, and of the sentence thereupon, in the prison or penitentiary of any state or territory, such criminal shall in all respects be subject to the same discipline and treatment, as convicts sentenced by the courts of the state or territory, in which such prison or penitentiary is situated; and while so confined therein, shall also be exclusively under the control of the officers having charge of the same, under the laws of the said state or territory.

, June 30, 1834.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be allowed and paid, annually, to each of the judges of the United States for the territories of Michigan, Arkansas, and Florida, the sum of three hundred dollars, in addition to the salaries now allowed by law to the said judges, respectively.

. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and that the several sums authorized to be paid, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

. And be it further enacted, That the increased salary allowed by this act, shall only be paid to such judges in the territories of Florida and Arkansas, as are not allowed the extra compensation under the, providing for the adjudication of land claims, and shall take effect as to the remainder, when the extra pay aforesaid shall no longer be paid.

, June 30, 1834.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be allowed and paid to W. H. D. C. Wright, to supply the deficiency of a former appropriation, in payment of the balance found due to him in the adjustment of his accounts, and for his diplomatic services at the court of Brazil, after the death of Mr. Tudor, and before the arrival of Mr. Brown, the sum of five thousand and thirty-seven dollars.

Also, to the state of Maine, to reimburse the expense of supporting certain American citizens, in prison at Fredericton, in New Brunswick, seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.

Also, to John Adams Smith, Nathaniel Niles, and J. C. Pickett, secretaries of legation, a compensation for their services as chargés des affaires, at the rate of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, during the time that they were actually left in charge of the affairs of the legations to which they were attached, deducting therefrom the amount already paid to them as secretaries of legation; the aforesaid sums to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.