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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That upon the application of the Secretary of the Navy, the President of the United States shall have authority, whenever, in his opinion, the contingencies of the public service may require it, at any period between the close of the year, and the passage of the new naval appropriation bills, to direct that a part of the money appropriated for a particular branch of the naval service the former year to be applied to another branch of the said service; in which case, a special account of the moneys thus transferred, and of their application, shall be laid before Congress previous to its adjournment.

, June 30, 1834.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the term of the district court of the United States for the western district of Louisiana, shall hereafter commence and be holden on the third Monday of March in each and every year, instead of the time heretofore appointed by law, and the court shall then be holden under the powers, duties, rules, and regulations heretofore prescribed by law.

. And be it further enacted, That all process, pleadings, motions, suits and business, heretofore begun, pending, and undetermined, shall stand continued, valid and adjourned over to the said next term of said court to be holden on the said third Monday in March next, then to be proceeded in, as if regularly returnable to, notified, or set, for that term.

, June 30, 1834.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall not be lawful for the corporations of Washington, Georgetown, or Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, or either of them, after the first day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, to issue any promissory note or bill of a less denomination than ten dollars: Provided, That it shall not be lawful for either of the corporations aforesaid to make or issue any new promissory note or bill, after the passage of this act, of a less denomination than ten dollars.

. And be it further enacted, That each and all the corporations aforesaid shall annually withdraw from circulation and destroy promissory notes or bills respectively issued by either of them or a less denomination than ten dollars, so as to effect a reduction of one-fifth per annum of the amount which each corporation may have in circulation of the said notes or bills; and render an account at each session to Congress, showing the amount withdrawn and extinguished as aforesaid, and the balance still in circulation.