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AN ACT to extend the laws of the United States oyer the State of Texas, and for other purposes.

 SEC. Fl Be u enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives. of tue United States of America in Congress assembled. That all the laws of the United States are here. by declared to extend to and over, and to have full force and effect within, the State of Texas, admitted at the present session of Congress into to the confederacy and Union of the United States.

 SEC. 9. And De it further enacted, Tha. the said State of Texas shall constitute one judicial district, to be called the district of Texas, for which one judge shall be appointed, who shall reside therein, and who shall receive salary of two thousand dollars per annum, and who shall hold the first term of said court at Galveston, on the first Monday of February next, and at such other times and places in said district as may be provided by law, or as sad judge may order; and that said court shall have and exer> else the same powers and jurisdiction as have been conferred by law on the district courts of the United States and, also, shall have and ex ercise the powers and jurisdiction of circuit court of the United States and appeals and writs of error shall lie from the decisions of said district and circuit courts for the district of Texas to the Supreme Court of the United States, in the same cases as from a circuit court of the United States to said Supreme Court, and under the same regulations.

 SEC. 3. find De it further enacted, That there shall be appointed in and for said district per- son. learned in the law, to act as attorney of the United States for said district, and also person to act as marshal of the United States for said district, each of whom shall receive an annual salary of two hundred dollars, and also such compensation and fees for official services as have been or may be provided by law for United States district attorneys and marshals and the judge of said court shall appoint clerk there- for, who shall receive like compensation and fees as have been or may be allowed by law to clerks of the district and circuit courts of the United States.

 JOHN w. DAVIS,

 Speaker of thc House Q Representatives.

 G. M. DALLAS,

 Vice President of the United Stafes

 and President ot the Senate. Approved, December %, lo45.

 JAMES K. POLK.