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. And be it further enacted, That the said State shall be one district, and be called the District of Michigan; and a district court shall be held therein, to consist of one judge, who shall reside in the said district, and be called a district judge. He shall hold, at the seat of government of the said State, two sessions of the said district court annually on the first Mondays in May and October; and he shall, in all things, have and exercise the same jurisdiction and powers which were by law given to the judge of the Kentucky district under an act entitled “.” He shall appoint a clerk for the said district, who shall reside and keep the records of the said court at the place of holding the same, and shall receive, for the services performed by him, the same fees to which the clerk of the Kentucky district is by law entitled for similar services.

. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the judge of the said district court, the annual compensation of fifteen hundred dollars, to commence from the date of his appointment, to be paid quarterly at the Treasury of the United States.

. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed in the said district, a person learned in the law, to act as attorney for the United States, who shall, in addition to his stated fees, be paid annually by the United States, two hundred dollars, as a full compensation for all extra services; the said payment to be made quarter-yearly at the Treasury of the United States.

. And be it further enacted, That a marshal shall be appointed for the said district, who shall perform the same duties, be subject to the same regulations and penalties, and be entitled to the same fees as are prescribed and allowed to marshals in other districts, and shall, moreover, be entitled to the sum of two hundred dollars annually, as a compensation for all extra services: Provided, however, That this act shall not take effect until the State of Michigan shall be admitted into the Union, according to the provisions of the act entitled “.”

, July 1, 1836.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in addition to the unexpended balance of six thousand four hundred and seventy-one dollars and fifty-eight cents of a former appropriation, there shall be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight thousand eighty-four dollars and seventy-three cents, for the pay of officers, the purchase of materials and implements, the support of prisoners, and other contingent expenses of the said penitentiary, for and during the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five.

. And be it further enacted, That, for the support of the penitentiary for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, including the pay of the officers, the purchase of materials and implements, the support of prisoners, and other contingent expenses of the said penitentiary, the sum of fourteen thousand dollars be, and hereby is, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

, July 1, 1836.