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eight hundred and thirty-three, and shall, in all respects, be placed upon the same footing as the said first regiment of dragoons.

, April 4, 1844.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Spring term of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, which is now directed by law to commence on the first day of May in the borough of Norfolk, shall hereafter commence on the thirtieth day of May in each year: Provided, That whenever the day on which the term of said Court is herein provided for shall happen to be on Sunday, then the term of said Court shall commence on the following day:

. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this act, all proceedings and process depending in, or issuing out of the said Court, which are, or may be made returnable to any other time for holding the Spring term of the said Court than as above specified, shall be deemed legally returnable on the day herein before prescribed and not otherwise. And that all suits and other proceedings in said Court, which stand continued to any other time, for the Spring term of said Court than as above specified shall be deemed continued to the time prescribed by this act, and no other.

. And be it further enacted, That hereafter the Spring term of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Fifth Judicial Circuit and Southern District of Alabama, shall commence on the third Monday in April; and the Fall term of said Court shall commence on the fourth Monday in December in each and every year, instead of the periods now fixed by law, and continued in session as long as the business may require.

. And be it further enacted, That if from any cause there should be a failure to hold the said Circuit Court at the periods designated in this act, the judges thereof shall have power, and are hereby authorized to hold an extra term of said Court at such time as they may think proper.

, April 12, 1844.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums, in addition to unexpended balances, be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year commencing on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-four, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five.

For pay of officers, instructors, cadets and musicians, fifty-one thousand five hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents; for commutation of subsistence, thirty-three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars and forty-eight cents; for commutation of forage for officers’ horses, two thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven dollars and sixty-nine