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and if said company shall fail to give prompt and seasonable notice in both the above cases, they shall forfeit their privileges under this act.

. And be it further enacted, That the time for making the surveys and commencing the work, as prescribed in the said act of incorporation, be, and the same is hereby, extended for one year after the passage of this act.

. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Governor and Legislative Council of the said Territory, or for the Legislature of the State of Florida hereafter, to provide by law for the construction of rail-roads from the Appalachicola river, or from any other point, to cross or intersect the abovementioned rail-road, from the Georgia State Line to the Gulf of Mexico.

. And be it further enacted, That the said East Florida Rail-road Company be, and they are hereby authorized to cross the rail-road proposed to be made at any point between Tallahassee and St. Mark’s.

. And be it further enacted, That the Territory or State of Florida shall, at the end of twenty years, have the privilege of taking one-fourth of the stock at par, by paying to the company the interest on the investment.

. And be it further enacted, That all acts or parts of acts of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida, inconsistent with the foregoing provisions, be, and the same are hereby annulled.

. And be it further enacted, That the Pensacola and Perdido Rail-road Company, organized under acts of the Governor and Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida, and of the State of Alabama, be, and they are hereby, authorized to make a rail-road from Pensacola to the waters of the Mobile bay or river; and also, that the Brunswick and Florida Rail-road Company, incorporated by an act of the Legislature of Georgia, be, and they are hereby, authorized to extend their rail-road from the Georgia line to the city of Tallahassee, and thence to the river Appalachicola, or St. George’s sound, upon the same conditions and limitations contained in the foregoing provisions of this act.

. And be it further enacted, That the Lake Winnico and St. Joseph’s Canal and Rail-road Company, organized under acts of the Governor and Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida, be, and they are hereby authorized to locate and construct a rail-road from the city of St. Joseph to the city of Tallahassee, in said Territory, upon the same conditions and limitations contained in the foregoing provisions of this act; and in the construction of said road, may cross, or intersect, and form a junction with, any other rail-road which may be made west of the city of Tallahassee.

, January 31, 1837.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act the port of New Orleans shall extend, on the river, from the lower to the upper corporate limits of the municipalities of the city of New Orleans.

, February 9, 1837.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of April next, the said District, now known and called by the name of the Dighton District, shall be called the District of Fall River, and as such shall be made a port of entry for vessels arriving from the Cape of Good Hope,