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AN ACT to provide for the erection and fupport of a Light House on Cape Poge, at the northeafterly part of Martha's Vineyard.

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the Secretary of the treasury fhall be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to caufe a fufficient light-house to be erected on Cape Poge (fo called) on Martha's Vineyard, in the ftate of Massachusetts, and to appoint a keeper, and otherwife to provide for the fupport of fuch light-house at the expence of the United States; Provided that fufficient land for the accommodation of fuch light-houfe, together with the jurifdiction thereof, fhall be duly and legally granted to, and vefted in the United States.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there fhall be, and hereby is appropriated for the erection of faid light-houfe on Cape Poge, a fum not exceeding two thousand dollars, to be paid out of any monies which may be in the Treasury of the United States, not otherwife appropriated.

THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. TH: JEFFERSON, Vice-President of the United States and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVID―January 30, 1801.

JOHN ADAMS,

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CHAPTER LXXV.

AN ACT to provide for the more convenient organization of the courts of the United States.

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E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of AmeTerms of the rica, in Congrefs affembled, That from and af ter the next feffion of the Supreme Court of the United States, the faid court fhall be holden by the juftices thereof, or any four of them, at the city of Wafhington, and fhall have two feffions in each and every year thereafter, to commence on the first Monday of June and December refpectively; and that if four of the faid juftices fhall not attend within ten days after the times hereby appointed for the commencement of the faid feffions refpectively, the faid court fhall be continued over till the next stated feffion thereof. vided always, That any one or more of the fard juftices, attending as aforefaid, fhall have power to make all neceffary orders touching any fuit, action, appeal, writ of error, procefs, pleadings, or proceeding, returned to the faid court or depending therein, preparatory to the hearing, trial or decifion of fuch action, fuit, appeal, writ of error, procefs, pleadings or proceedings.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the faid court fhall have power, and is hereby aupower to if thorized, to iffue writs of prohibition, mandamus, fcire-facias, habeas corpus, certiorari, procedendo, and all other writs not fpecially provided for by ftatute, which may be ne ceffary for the excercife of its jurifdiction, and agreeable to the principles and ufages of law.

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Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the next vacancy that fhall happen in the faid court, it fhall confift of five jufti

ces only; that is to fay, of one chief juftice, and four affociate juftices.

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Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That for the better establishment of the circuit courts of the United States, the faid states fhall be, and hereby are divided into districts, in man- the Circuit ner following; that is to fay; one to confist of courts, that part of the state of Maffachusetts, which is called the district of Maine, and to be called the district of Maine; one to confift of the ftate of New-Hampfhire, and to be called the district of New-Hampfhire; one to confift of the remaining part of the ftate of Massachufetts, and to be called the diftrict of Maffachufetts; one to confift of the ftate of RhodeIlland and Providence Plantations, and to be called the diftrict of Rhode-Ifland; one to confist of the state of Connecticut, and to be called the diftrict of Connecticut; one to confift of the state of Vermont, and to be called one to confift of that part of the state of New-York which lies north of the counties of Dutchefs and Ulster, and to be called the district of Albany; one to confift of the remaining part of the ftate of NewYork, and to be called the diftrict of NewYork; one to confift of the state of New-Jerfey, and to be called the diftrict of Jerfey; one to consist of that part of the ftate of Pennfylvania which lies eaft of the river Suf quehanna, and the north-eaft branch thereof, to the line betwixt Northumberland and Luzerne Counties; thence weftwardly along the faid line, betwixt Northumberland and Luzerne, and betwixt Luzerne and Lycoming counties, until the fame ftrikes the line of the ftate of New-York, and to be called the Eastern district of Pennsylvania; one to confift of the remaining part of the ftate of Pennsylvania,

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and to be called the Weftern diftrict of Penn. fylvania; one to confift of the state of Delaware, and to be called the diftri&t of Delaware; one to confift of the ftate of Maryland, and to be called the district of Maryland; one to confift of that part of the ftate of Virginia, which lies to the eastward of a line to be drawn from the river Potomac at Harper's ferry, along the Blue-Ridge, with the line which divides the counties on the eaft fide thereof from those on the weft fide thereof, to the North Carolina line, to be called the eaftern diftrict of Virginia; one to confift of the remaining part of the faid ftate of Virginia, to be called the western diftrict of Virginia; one to confift of the state of North-Carolina, and to be cal. led the diftrict of North-Carolina; one to con fift of the state of South-Carolina, and to be called the diftrict of South-Carolina; one to confift of the state of Georgia, and to be called the diftrict of Georgia; one to confift of that part of the ftate of Tenneffee which lies on the eaft fide of Cumberland mountain, and to be called the diftrict of Eaft Tenneffee; one to confift of the remaining part of the faid flate, and to be called the district of Weft Tenneffee; one to confift of the state of Kentucky, and to be called the diftrict of Kentucky; and one to confift of the territory of the United States north-weft of the Ohio, and the Indiana territory and to be called the diftrict of Ohio.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That where any two adjoining diftricts of the United States fhall be divided from each other, in whole or in part, by any river, bay, water, water course or mountain, the whole width of fuch river, bay, water, water courfe or mountain, as the cafe may be, fhall be taken and

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faid diftricts thall be claffed into fix circuits in Claffification manner following; that is to fay: the first cir- of the o cuit fhall confift of the districts of Maine, NewHampshire, Maffachusetts, and Rhode-Ifland; the fecond, of the diftricts of Connecticut, Vermont, Albany and New-York; the third, of the districts of Jerfey, the Eastern and Western diftricts of Pennsylvania and Delaware; the fourth, of the diftricts of Maryland, and the Eaftern and Western districts of Virginia; the fifth, of the districts of North-Carolina, SouthCarolina and Georgia; and the fixth, of the diftricts of East Tenneffee, Weft Tenneffee, Kentucky, and Ohio.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That there fhall be in each of the aforefaid circuits, except the fixth circuit, three judges of the United States, to be called circuit judges, one of whom fhall be commiffioned as Chief Judge; and that there fhall be a circuit court of the United States, in and for each of the aforefaid circuits, to be compofed of the circuit judges within the five first circuits respectively, and In the fixth circuit, by a circuit judge, and the judges of the district courts of Kentucky and. Tenneffee; the duty of all of whom it fhall be to attend, but any two of whom fhall form a quorum; and that each and every of the faid circuit court fhall hold two feffions annually, at the times and places following, in and for each diftrict contained within their feveral circuits refpectively that is to fay, the circuit court of the firft circuit, at Providence, on the eighth day of May,and at New-port,on the first day of November, in and for the Hhod

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