So the circuit courts. fuch appeals fhall be fubject to the fame rules, regulations and reftrictions, as are prefcribed by law in cafe of writs of error; and that the faid fupreme court fhall be, and hereby is authorized and required, to receive, hear and determine fuch appeals. Sec. 34. And be it further enacted, That all Writs of error final judgments in civil actions at common law, in any of the circuit courts hereby eftablished, whether brought by original procefs in fuch court, or removed thereto from any state court, and all final judgments in any of the diftrict courts of the United States may, where the matter in difpute, exclufive of cofts, fhall exceed the fum or value of two thousand dollars, be re-examined and reverfed or affirmed, in the fupreme court of the United States, by writ of error; whereto fhall be annexed, and returned therewith at the day and place therein mentioned, an authenticated tranfcript of the record and affignment of errors, and prayerfor reverfal, and also a citation to the adverse party, figned by a judge of fuch circuit court, or by the diftrict judge as the cafe may be; which citation fhall be ferved on the adverfe party perfonally, or by leaving a true copy thereof at his or their usual place or places of refidence, at least thirty days before the time mentioned in fuch writ of error, for the return thereof. upon writs of with the ccord Sec. 35. And be it further enacted, That the Security taken ftipulation, bond or fecurity, taken upon any enor or appeals writ of error or appeal to be brought or allowto be fent up ed as aforefaid, fhall be returned by the judge taking the fame, to the clerk or regifter of the court where the judgment or decree complained of was rendered, to be by him annexed to the tranfcript of the record, hereby directed to be fent up to the fupreme court of the United States. > Marhals to be : Sec. 36. And be it further enacted, That there fhall be appointed, in and for each of the appointed. districts established by this act, a marshal, whofe duty it shall be to attend the circuit courts of the United States hereby established, when fitting within such district, and who shall have and exercife, within fuch diflrict, the fame powers, perform the fame duties, be fubject to the fame penalties, give the fame bond with fureties, take the fame oath, be entitled to and receive the fame compenfation and emoluments, and in all refpects be fubject to the fame regulations, as are now prescribed by law, in refpect to the marshals of the United States heretofore appointed: Provided always, That the feveral mar fhials of the United States, now in office, fhall, during the periods for which they were refpectively appointed, unless fooner removed by the Prefident of the United States, be and continue marfhals for the feveral dif tricts hereby established, within which they respectively refide; and fhall perform the duties, exercife the powers, and receive the emolu. ments, hereby directed to be performed, exercifed and received, by marshals therein. · Sec. 37. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed for each of the districts hereby established, a perfon learned in the law, to act as attorney for the United States within fuch district, and in the circuit and district courts which may be holden, therein; which attorney fhall take an oath or affirmation for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, and fhall profecute, in fuch districts, all delinquents for crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States, and District attor pointed. nies to be ap of jurors and all civil actions or fuits-in which the United States shall be concerned, except actions or fuits in the fupreme court of the United States; and fhall be entitled to, and receive, for their fervices refpectively, fuch compenfations,emo luments and fees, as by law are ar fhall be al lowed, to the district attornies of the United States: Provided always, That the diftri& attor. nies of the United States now in office fhall, feverally and refpectively, be attornies for those diftricts hereby eftablished, within which they refide, until removed by the Prefident of the United States: and fhall perform the duties, exercife the powers, and receive the emolu. ments, hereby directed to be performed, exercifed and received, by the attorney of the United States therein. Sec. 38. And be it further enacted, That juCompenfation rors and witnelles attending any of the courts, witneffes. hereby eftablished, fhall be entitled to and receive, the fame compenfations refpectively, as heretofore have been allowed by law to ju rors and witneffes, attending the circuit and district courts of the United States. Sec. 391. And be it further enacted, That the Records of the records of the feveral circuit, courts, hereby where to be eftablished, fhall hereafter be kept at the re circuit courts, kunt. Suitors, &c. spective places at which the faid courts are hereby directed to be holden: Provided always, That in the district wherein there are more than one place directed by this act for holding faid circuit courts, the records of the circuit court in fuch diftrict fhall hereafter be kept in either of fuch places, as the said court in fuch district hall direct. Sec. 40. And be it further enacted, That the how far pri- privilege from arreft of every perfon going to, attending at, or returning from, any court of pileged from rrest. ! the United States, fhall be computed and continue, from the time of his or her departure from his or her habitation, until his or her return thereto: Provided, That fuch time fhall not exceed one day, Sundays excluded, for every twenty miles of the diftance, which fuch perfon muft neceffarily travel in fo going and returning, over and above the time of attendance. judges Sec. 41. And be it further enacted, That each of the circuit judges of the United States, to Salaries of the be appointed by virtue of this act, fhall be allowed as a compenfation for his fervices, an annual falary of two thousand dollars, to be paid quarter yearly at the Treafury of the United States; except the judges of the fixth circuit, who fhall be allowed the fum of fifteen hundred dollars each, to be paid in like manner; and that the falaries of the diftrict judges of Kentucky and Tenneffee fhall be, and hereby are, fevérally augmented to the like fun of fifteen hundred dollars, annually to be paid in like manner. THEODORE SEDGWICK, APPROVED-February 13, A. D. 1801. JOHN ADAMS, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER LXXVI. AN`A C T regulating the grants of land apprcpriated for the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of Anerica, in Congress affembled, That the furveyor lands for the Canada &c. general be, and he is hereby directed to cause thofe fractional townships of the fixteenth, Refugees from seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first and twenty-fecond ranges of townfhips, which join the fouthern boundary line of the military lands, to be subdivided into half fections, containing three hundred and twenty acres each; and to return a furvey and description of the fame to the fecretary of the Treafury, on or before the first Monday of December next; and that the faid lands be, and they are hereby fet apart and referved for the purpose of fatisfying the claims of perfons entitled to lands under the act, intituled, "An act for the relief of the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia." Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the seHow locations cretary of the Treafury fhall, within thirty days fhall be made. after the furvey of the lands fhall have been returned to him as aforefaid, proceed to determine, by lot, to be drawn in the presence of the secretaries of state and of war, the priority of location of the perfons entitled to lands as aforefaid. The perfons, thus entitled, fhall feverally make their location on the fecond Tuefday of January next, and the patents for the Patents to be lands thus located fhall be granted in the manner directed for military lands, without requiring any fee whatever. granted. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Quantities of following perfons, claiming land under the aland affigned bove-mentioned act, fhall refpectively be ento the Refu- titled to the following quantities of land; that. is to fay; Martha Walker, widow of Thomas Walker, John Edgar, P. Francis Cazeau, John Allan, and Seth Harding, refpectively, two thousand two hundred and forty acres gees, nominally. |