the
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
ACTS OF THE SIXTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
Proceedings which were discontinued by the failure to hold October session 1799, revived.
Teste of writs.
Jurors maybe summoned for next April term.
Penalties for non-attendance.
[Obsolete.]
[Obsolete.]
Act of July 9, 1798.
Commissioners may vary the valuations in subdivisions of assessment districts.
They may direct the variations to be made out by their clerk, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Prisoners entitled to the limits of gaols as persons confined under process from state courts.
Prisoners in execution may have an oath of insolvency administered to them by the District Judge.
or by commissioners.
If no cause is shown to the contrary,
on making oath or affirmation,
they shall be discharged.
Proceedings to be filed in district court.
Powers of the judge and commissioners, to send for books and papers.
Debtor may be removed to facilitate proceedings, and may be remanded.
Penalty on taking a false oath or affirmation.
1790, ch. 9, sec. 18.
1798, ch. 49, sec. 2.
Thirty days after judgment, debtor imprisoned may take the benefit of this act, although no execution is sued out.
[Expired.]
Penalty on correspondence with the Indians, to produce infraction of treaties, or disturb the peace of the United States.
Penalty on the bearers of such correspondence.
Penalty on certain correspondence with a foreign power, in relation to the Indians—and on attempting to alienate their confidence.
Certain provisions of a former act applied to this.
Vol. i. 743.
Limitation.
Vol. i. 500.
[Obsolete.]
1796, ch. 46.
[Obsolete.]
[Expired.]
Intercourse suspended.
On clearing other than certain foreign vessels for a foreign voyage, security to be given.
Master of a vessel going to a French port and unlading, by compulsion, may receive payment in money or bullion, &c.
Forfeiture of vessel and cargo coming from a French port, or from an intermediate port, &c.
Exceptions.
Treatment of vessels coming from a French port or with a cargo therein obtained, and putting in through stress of weather, &c.
Vol. i. 627.
The President may remit the prohibition of intercourse and renew it again.
How Hispaniola shall be considered under this act.
President may instruct the public armed ships to stop vessels contravening this act.
Penalties may be mitigated, &c.
Vol. i. 506.
Distribution of penalties.
Vol. i. 715.
Vol. i. 697.
President may grant permission to enter and clear in certain cases.
Former act continued in part.
Vol. i. 613.
Limitation of this act.
[Obsolete.]
Marshals of the districts and secretaries of the territories to cause an enumeration to be taken.
Indians not taxed not to be enumerated.
They may appoint assistants.
Oath to be taken by the marshals, secretaries and their assistants.
1800, ch. 23.
Commencement and close of the enumeration.
Assistants to make returns.
Form of returns.
| Name of county, parish, town, ship, town, or city where the family resides. | Name of head of family. | Free white males under ten years of age. | Free white males of ten and under sixteen. | Free white males of sixteen and under twenty-six, including heads of families. | Free white males of twenty-six and under forty-five, including heads of families. | Free white males of forty-five and upwards, including heads of families. | Free white females under ten years of age. | Free white females of ten years and under sixteen. | Free white females of sixteen and under twenty-six, including heads of families. | Free white females of twenty-six and under forty-five, including heads of families. | Free while females of forty-five and upwards, including heads of families. | All other free persons, except Indians, not taxed. | Slaves. |
Penalty on assistants making no return, or a false one.
Marshals and secretaries to file their assistants’ returns with the clerks of certain courts, and make aggregate returns to the Secretary of State.
Certain judges to give this act in charge to the grand juries.
Compensation to assistants.
Compensation to the marshals.
How transient persons and absentees are to be returned.
Free persons above sixteen years old to give information to the assistants.
Assistants to post up their schedules of the number of inhabitants, &c.
Secretary of State to give instructions for carrying this act into effect, &c.
Points of intersection of the lines actually run are to be considered as the corners of townships.
Vol. i. 490.
Boundaries of quarter townships, where they are stated to contain four thousand acres.
Boundaries of quarter townships, where they are stated to contain more or less than four thousand acres.
Method of running lines.
Locations may be made on the general tract by the holders of warrants for military services.
Certain fractional quarter townships to be taken for four thousand acres.
Vol. i. 491.
When locations are made on quarter townships stated to contain less than four thousand acres, the Secretary of Treasury shall cause certificates to be issued for the deficiency.
What is to be done when they are made on quarter townships stated to contain more than four thousand acres.
Land at two dollars per acre.
Reservations for satisfying warrants granted to individuals for their services.
Reservations to be divided into lots of one hundred acres.
Holders of such warrants may make locations on those lots, and receive patents to their own use only, after 16th March, 1800, and before Jan. 1st, 1802.
Post 155.
Vol. i. 464.
Vol. i. 491.
Upon surrender of warrant shall receive patent.
Where locations are made on the same tract, priority to be determined by lot.
Public notice to be given of the reservations by the Secretary of the Treasury.
The plat returned by the Surveyor General to be conclusive as to quantity.
On the recapture of a vessel by a neutral vessel, no claim for salvage can arise, for the recapture was a hostile act, not justified by the situation of the nation to which the recapturing vessel belongs, in relation to that from the possession of which the recaptured vessel was taken. The degree of service rendered in such a case, is precisely the same as if it had been rendered by a belligerent; yet the rights accruing from the recapture are different, because no right can accrue from an act which was unlawful, Ibid.
American property recaptured was restored on payment of salvage; the libel having prayed the condemnation as prize, and no salvage having been claimed. The question of salvage is incident to the question of prize. The Adeline, 9 Cranch, 244; 3 Cond. Rep. 397.
In order to entitle to salvage, as upon a recapture or rescue, the property must have been in possession of the enemy, either actual or constructive. The Ann Green, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 274.
Salvage is not due for “rescuing a vessel of a neutral out of the hands of a belligerent, who has taken possession for a supposed violation of a treaty or the law of nations.” The Antelope, Bee’s D. C. R. 233.
An American vessel was captured by an enemy, and after condemnation and sale to an enemy, was recaptured by an American privateer. The original owner claimed the vessel, offering to allow salvage. Held : that it was not a case for salvage, under the act of March 3, 1800, or the act of June 26, 1812. The property had become completely divested by the capture and condemnation. The Star, 3 Wheat. 78; 4 Cond. Rep. 198.
Salvage on recaptured property claimed by residents of the U. States, and claimed before condemnation.
One moiety to be paid in lieu of salvage.
Compensation for recaptured property claimed by the United States.
Distribution of salvage.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 24, sec. 97, Act of April 23, 1800, ch. 33.
Repeal of former laws.
[Expired.]
Act of April 20, 1808, ch. 47. Act of April 16, 1814, ch. 60. Act of April 20, 1822, ch. 29.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 27. Act of Feb. 13, 1801, ch. 4. Act of March 3, 1801, ch. 32.
In the case of negotiable paper, the assignee takes it, discharged of all the equity as between the original parties, of which he had no notice. But wherever the assignee has notice of such equity, either positively or constructively, he takes the assignment at his peril. A commission of bankruptcy is legal notice that wherever mutual debts subsisted between the bankrupt and his creditors, the right of set-off attaches. When the negotiable paper was assigned after the commission of bankruptcy, the party takes it, subject to any set-off as between the drawer and payee. Ibid.
Under the bankrupt law of the United States, a joint debt may be set-off against the separate claim of the assignee of one of the partners; but such set-off could not have been made at law, independent of the bankrupt law. Tucker v. Oxley, 6 Cranch, 34; 2 Cond. Rep. 182.
A joint debt maybe proved under & separate commission, and a full dividend received; it is equity alone which can restrain the joint creditor from receiving his full dividend until the joint effects are exhausted. Ibid.
Wherever the terms in which a power is granted by the constitution to Congress, or wherever the nature of the power itself, requires that it shall be exclusively exercised by Congress, the subject is completely-taken away from state legislatures, as if they had been forbidden to act upon it. The power granted to Congress of establishing uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcy, is not of this description. Sturges v. Crowninshield, 4 Wheat. 122; 4 Cond. Rep. 409.
In the distribution of a bankrupt’s effects in this country, the United States are entitled to a preference, although the debt was contracted by a foreigner in a foreign country; and although the United States had proved their debt under the commission of bankruptcy, and had voted for an assignee. Harrison v. Sterry et al,, 5 Cranch, 289; 2 Cond. Rep. 260.
A conveyance on the eve of bankruptcy, to give a preference to a particular class of creditors, is a fraud on the bankrupt law and void. Ibid.
Such assignment may be valid to secure money actually advanced on the credit of it, and subsequent to its date. Ibid.
Under a separate commission of bankruptcy, against one partner only, his private property, and his interest in the funds of the company passes. Ibid.
The right to compensation from Spain, held under an abandonment made to underwriters, and accepted by them, for damages and injuries, which were to be satisfied under the treaty, by the United States; passed to the assignees of the bankrupt, who held such rights by the provisions of the bankrupt law of the United States, passed April 4, 1800. Comegys et al. v. Vasse, 1 Peters, 193.
The circuit courts of the United States have jurisdiction of matters arising under the bankrupt law of the United States, as they have of any other subject, where the constitution and laws of the United States give jurisdiction; but the district courts have not the same jurisdiction in cases of bankruptcy, as the chancellor of England has. Lucas et al, v. Morris et al., 1 Paine’s C. C. R. 396.
The district courts of the United States have not, like the chancellor in England, exclusive jurisdiction over the entire execution of the bankrupt law. They cannot remove assignees, nor compel them to account. Ibid.
Upon the death of an assignee under the bankrupt law of the United States, the right of action for a debt due to the bankrupt, vested in the executor of the assignee. Richards et al. Assignees, &c. v. Maryland Ins. Co., 8 Cranch, 84; 3 Cond. Rep. 45.
Where the original ground of action is founded on contract, but the immediate cause arises ex delicto, and the claim is for damages, unliquidated by any express agreement, or such as the law will not imply an agreement to pay; the certificate of bankruptcy is no bar; because such claim could not have been proved under the commission. Dusar v. Murgatroyd, 1 Wash. C. C. R. 13.
But if the agreement were to pay a particular sum, on failure to perform the contract; or if the case was such that the plaintiff has his election to bring either trespass or case for money had and received, and waives the former by bringing the latter; the damages become a debt, which the law implies a promise to pay, and the certificate is a bar. Ibid.
In on action brought against the owner of a vessel for damages for an injury sustained on board a ship by the neglect of the master, a certificate of bankruptcy cannot be pleaded in bar. Ibid.
One guilty of perjury in proceedings under the bankrupt law, cannot be prosecuted for the offence, after the repeal of the law. United States v. Passmore, 4 Dall. 372.
A deed executed before the 1st of June, 1800, although acknowledged after, is not within the 1st section of the bankrupt act of April 4th, 1800, chap. 19. Wood v. Owings, 1 Cranch, 239; 1 Cond. Rep. 302.
A certificated bankrupt or insolvent, discharged from the particular contract, need not be made a party to the bill on the contract. Van Reimsdyke v. Kane’s Ex’r, I Gall. C. C. R. 371.
The power given to Congress to pass uniform laws, relative to bankruptcy, is exclusive of such power in the state governments; and this, whether the former has thought proper to exercise it or not. Golden v. Prince, 3 Wash. C. C. R. 313.
A discharge from a debt under the bankrupt laws of the place of contract, is good in every other place where pleaded, as an extinguishment of the debt. But a like discharge where the contract is not made, has no effect. Le Roy v. Crown in shield, 2 Mason’s C. C. R. 151.
A debtor concealing himself from, and being denied to his creditors, does not constitute an act of bankruptcy under the laws of the United States; unless the service of process is thereby prevented. Barnes et al. v. Billington, 1 Wash. C. C. R. 29.
If the debtor order himself to be denied to creditors and others, and is in consequence thereof denied to an officer, who comes to serve a process, it is an act of bankruptcy; provided the officer comes to serve the process, and not on other business : and the denial has taken place within six months of the issuing of the commission. Ibid.
Giving a bond, with warrant to confess judgment to one creditor, upon the eve and in contemplation of bankruptcy, does not constitute a bankruptcy; unless the judgment entered on the bond, and the issuing of the execution was al the instance or by the procurement of the debtor. Such a bond would be a fraud on the general creditors. Ibid.
Where two of three assignees of a bankrupt enter into an agreement in the absence of the third, the contract is not binding on the absent assignee; unless he had previously given authority to make it, or substantially recognize and acknowledge it. After, among partners. Blight v. Ashley el al., I Peters’ C. C. R. is:
The agreement of the assignees of u bankrupt, to give a preference to a particular creditor, is not valid, without the assent of the commissioners, and a certain portion of the creditors. Ibid.
Denial to an officer, whereby ho is prevented serving process, must be really adversary, and not by concert between the creditor and the debtor, to bring about an act of bankruptcy. Ibid.
No debt but such as is due and owing at (he time of the bankruptcy, can be proved under the commission; and, consequently, an endorser or acceptor of a bill of exchange, drawn by the bankrupt, who has not paid it before the bankruptcy, cannot prove the debt. Marks et al. Assignees v. Barker et al., 1 Wash. C. C. R. 178.
The acceptor or endorser of a bill of exchange, who pays the bill after the bankruptcy of the drawer, may offset the same against the bankrupt’s assignees; but he must show the debt to be a subsisting one in him, at the time the action was brought, for this is a case of mutual credit, given before the bankruptcy, although the money was not paid until after. Ibid.
The district courts of the United States have not power, in bankrupt cases, to remove assignees, or compel them to account. Lucas v. Morris, Paine’s C. C. R. 396.
The holder of the negotiable paper, payable “without defalcation,” under the laws of Pennsylvania, assigned after a commission of bankruptcy has issued, may come in under the commission; allowing all just offsets existing at the time of the bankruptcy, and which would have been admitted if the assignment had not been made. Humphreys v. Blight’s Assignees, 1 Wash. C. C. R. 44.
The purchaser of a negotiable note, who becomes so after a commission of bankruptcy has issued, may prove under the commission; and he holds the note, subject to all legal offsets. Ibid.
The 65th section of the bankrupt law of the United States, passed the 2d of March, 1799, does not repeal the provisions of the laws of the United States, which give to the surety who pays bonds for duties, a preference over other creditors. Mott v. The Assignees of Maris, 2 Wash. C. C. R. 196.
The provisions of the bankrupt law except from its general operation, not only the preference of the United States, but also the right of preference for satisfaction of debts due to the United States. Ibid.
P. paid a sum of money to the United States, as surety of S., in a bond for duties. S. became insolvent, and assigned his effects to Baker, who received four thousand dollars under the assignment, mixed the same with his own funds, and afterwards became bankrupt, and the defendants were appointed his assignees; but no effects, known to be part of the estate of S., came into their hands. The plaintiff claimed to have a preference and priority over the general creditors of Baker. By the Court—Although the United States might, under the 65th section of the law to regulate the collection of duties, be entitled to claim of the defendants to the amount which came into the hands of B., as the assignees of S., the provisions of the law do not extend to the surety who has paid the bond, the same rights and privileges. Pollock v. Pratt & Harvey, 2 Wash. C. C. R. 490.
A. H. devised an estate to C. S., for life; and after the death of C. S., he directed that the estate should be sold, and divided among the grandchildren of the testator, who should be living at the death of C. S. B. married one of the grandchildren, and, before the death of C. S., B. became bankrupt. B. and wife, after the decease of C. S., sold the property claimed under the will of A. H., and the plaintiff claimed under this conveyance. By the Court—The decisions of the English courts, abundantly prove that a possibility, whether belonging to the husband or the wife, would not pass to the assignees of the husband, on his becoming bankrupt, if it were not for the strong language of the statutes of bankruptcy. Krumbaar v. Burt, 2 Wash. C. C. R. 406.
The possibility held by B., under the will of A. H., formed no part of his estate to which he was entitled in law or equity, of which the commissioners could take possession under the 5th section of the bankrupt law of the United States; and, therefore, they could not transfer it to the assignees of the bankrupt, under the provisions of the 6th section. Ibid.
The provisions of the English bankrupt laws, and those of the bankrupt law of the United States, differ in relation to the contingent interests of the bankrupt; and it is clear, that by the most liberal construction of the law, the interest of the husband in the estate of his wife, under the will of A. H., did not pass to the assignees. Ibid.
The provisions of the 13th section of the bankrupt law of the United States, do not affect this question; they do not require an assignment of contingent interests, but relate to their disclosure by the bankrupt. Ibid.
So exclusively have bankrupt laws operated on traders, that it may well be doubted, whether an act of Congress, subjecting to such a law every description of persons within the United States, would comport with the spirit of the powers vested in them in relation thereto. Per Livingston, J. in Adams v. Storey, Paine’s C. C. R. 79.
Repealed by Act of Dec. 19, 1803, ch. 6.
Who may be a bankrupt.
What shall be an act of bankruptcy.
Proceedings to obtain a commission of bankruptcy.
Commissioners to take an oath, and the mode of declaring the party a bankrupt.
Commissioners may cause the bankrupt to be arrested.
They shall take into their possession the bankrupt’s property, books and papers.
Notice of the bankruptcy, appointment of assignees, proof of debts, and assignment of the bankrupt’s estate.
Creditors may remove the assignees and choose others.
Suits not abated by the removal of assignees.
General effect of the assignment by the commissioners.
It shall bar an estate tail.
Commissioners may tender performance of the conditions on which the bankrupt’s property is pledged.
Effect of the assignment of debts, and mode of recovery.
Mode of discovering concealed property or debts.
Mode of compelling the attendance of witnesses.
Their compensation.
Punishment of perjury and subornation thereof.
Penalty on making a fraudulent claim.
Commissioners may assign property fraudulently conveyed away.
Duty of the bankrupt to surrender himself and be examined, &c.
Mode of examination when the bankrupt is in prison.
Days of meeting to be appointed within the term limited for the surrender, &c.
The term may be enlarged.
Houses, doors, &c. of the bankrupt may be broken open.
Bankrupt may be committed for refusal to be examined, &c.
Punishment of his perjury.
To have access to his books and writings.
To be free from arrest in coming to surrender, &c.
Penalty on concealing a bankrupt.
Bankrupt’s wife may be examined.
Cause of commitment to be expressed in the commissioners’ warrant.
Bounty for discovering bankrupt’s estate.
Penalty on trustees concealing his property.
Goods of which the bankrupt is the reputed owner, may be assigned.
Penalty on the person suing out a commission, receiving an undue satisfaction from the bankrupt. Proceedings thereon.
Notice of a dividend.
Mode of making the first dividend.
Second and subsequent dividends.
Bankrupt’s estate to be proportionally divided without regard to creditors’ security.
Assignees shall keep books of account open to the creditors’ inspection.
Bankrupt bound to attend the assignees when required.
Allowance to the bankrupt out of his estate.
He shall be discharged from all debts which might be proved under the commission.
If the bankrupt’s estate does not pay half his debts, what allowance he shall have.
A certificate of discharge may be necessary, and how it is to be obtained.
For what misconduct of the
bankrupt, he shall lose his right to a certificate, &c.
Bankrupt, if arrested, may be discharged on an habeas corpus.
Persons whose debts are due at a future day may prove them.
Obligees of certain bonds, and the assured in a policy of insurance may claim under the commission, &c.
Proceedings on habeas corpus, brought by a person committed by the commissioners.
Penalty on the gaoler suffering such person to go at large.
Prisoner to be produced by the gaoler on demand of a creditor.
Offsets to be allowed.
Assignees may with consent of the commissioners, &c. agree to a reference or compromise.
Bankrupt’s estate maybe disposed of at public auction, without paying duty, &c.
What is to be done if the bankrupt die, pending the proceedings.
Commissioners may demand security for the expenses of the commission.
District judge to fix the compensation to the commissioners.
Penalties how recovered and appropriated.
General issue and double costs provided for defendants who acted under the commission.
Property coming to the bankrupt, before he obtains a certificate, to be vested in the commissioners.
Proceedings of the commissioners to be filed in the office of the clerk of the district, &c.
Creditors may attend the examinations of the bankrupt and the allowance of the certificate.
Trial by jury may be had in relation to certain facts.
Allowance to the bankrupt, pending the proceedings.
Creditors may direct where
the money shall be deposited.
Majority of the commissioners may act.
The commission shall be evidence of the party being a bankrupt, &c.
Effect of a discharge under a second commission.
Claims of creditors may be tried by jury.
Bankrupt’s estate may be sold on credit.
Creditors or commissioners may release the bankrupt from prison, and the former may issue a new execution if he does not obtain a discharge.
How far this act shall affect the insolvent laws of the states.
Saving of the rights of the U. States and of each state as to their debts.
Saving of existing liens.
Limitation of this act.
Repealed by Act of Nov. 25, 1803, ch. 5.
Vol. i. 627.
[Obsolete.]
Act of Feb. 16, 1792, ch. 6. Act of June 19, 1813, ch. 2.
Continuation of the act for ten years.
Continuation of certain allowances to fishing vessels.
Vol. i. 260.
Vol. i. 533.
[Obsolete.]
Act of Feb. 28, 1800, ch. 12.
[Repealed.]
Aliens having resided two years within the
United States entitled to the benefit of the former act.
Act of Feb. 21, 1793, ch. 11.
Oath to be taken by such resident, that the invention or discovery hath not been used.
The legal representatives of a deceased inventor may obtain a patent.
Damages for breach of patent right.
To be recovered by action on the case in the circuit court.
Repeal of part of the former act.
Act of Feb. 21, 1793, ch.11.
[Repealed.]
Act of March 16, 1802, ch. 9.
[Obsolete.]
June 25, 1798, ch. 60.
Act of Jan. 23, 1798, ch. 8.
Lieutenant-Colonel to be appointed.
Act of July 11, 1798, ch. 72. Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 65.
Office of Major of the corps abolished.
Military officers, who may arrest any one in the Indian territory for violating the laws for the protection of the Indian territory, to take the person before a magistrate.
Act of March 3, 1799, ch. 46.
Repealed by Act of April 6, 1802, ch. 19.
Superintendent of stamps to be appointed.
His duty.
1801, ch. 20.
His office to be held at the seat of government.
His allowance.
Privilege of franking.
Allowance of clerks.
He shall give bond.
Certain powers of the supervi.
sors to cease after six months notice, &c.
Vol. i. 527.
Manner of legalizing an instrument not stamped or improperly stamped.
Duty of the Collectors and Surveyors of the revenue herein.
Penalty on forging or uttering receipts or certificates directed by the sixth section.
Vol. i. 527.
Mode of procuring stamps to the blank vellum, &c. of individuals.
Vellum, &c. to be counterstamped.
Penalty on forging stamps, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Discontinuance of certain post roads.
Act of May 1, 1810.
Discontinuance of certain post roads.
New post roads established.
In Georgia.—From Augusta to Petersburg, by Lincoln Courthouse; from Franklin Courthouse to Jackson Courthouse; from Georgetown to Warrenton; from Louisville to Saundersville; from Washington to Ogelthorpe Courthouse.
In South Carolina.—From Augusta, Georgia, by the Three Runs, to Coosawhatchie; the post road from Edgefield Courthouse, to Augusta, shall pass through Campbeltown; from Georgetown, by Willtown, Greenville, and Chatham, to Richmond Courthouse, North Carolina; from Statesburg, by Salem Courthouse, and Kingstree, to Willtown; from Columbia to Clarendon Courthouse; from Chester Courthouse, by York Courthouse, Pinckneyville, and Union Courthouse, to Spartanburg.
In North Carolina.—From Washington to Bath, and from thence by Woodstock, to Hyde Courthouse; from Fayetteville, by M‘Fall’s, and Winfield’s, to Cheraw Courthouse, South Carolina; from Fayetteville, by Lumberton and Barefield’s mill, to Willtown, South Carolina; from Lumberton, by Elizabethtown, to the house of John Anders, or William H. Beaty, on South River; from Fayetteville to Wilmington; from Charlotte, by Lincolnton, and Morganton, Buncomb Courthouse, the Warm Springs, and thence to Greenville, in Tennessee; the post road from Salem to Salisbury, shall pass through Lexington; the post road from Raleigh to Newbern, shall pass through the county of Davie; the post road from Moore Courthouse to Salisbury, to pass by the new or old Courthouse of Randolph, as may be found most eligible; from Rockford to Grayson Courthouse, Virginia.
In Tennessee.—From Knoxville to Marysville; from Sullivan Court-house, by Hawkins Courthouse, and Orr’s tavern, to Knoxville; from Nashville, by Robertson Courthouse, and Montgomery Courthouse, to Palmyra; from Nashville to Natchez, in the Mississippi territory; the post road which now passes from Abington, in Virginia, to Knoxville, in Tennessee, shall hereafter pass by Sullivan Courthouse, Jonesborough, Greenville, Cheek’s cross roads, and Jefferson Courthouse.
In Kentucky.—From Frankfort, by Versailles, and Richmond, to New post roads established.
In the North Hrstoui Territory.—From Washington, Kentucky, by Manchester, in North Western Territory, to Chilicothe; from Louisville, Kentucky, to Vincennes; from Zanes, on the Muskingum, to Marietta.
In Virginia.—From Culpepper Courthouse, by Madison Courthouse, to Orange Courthouse; from Fredericksburg, by Spotsylvania Court-house, and Louisa Courthouse, to Columbia; from Fredericksburg, by King George Courthouse, Mattoxbridge, Leedstown, Westmoreland Courthouse on Templcman’s cross roads, Richmond Courthouse, and Farnham, to Kinsale; from Fredericksburg, by Rogers’ mills, Chiles’ store, Chesterfield, Oxford, and Crew’s store, to Goochland Courthouse; from King and Queen Courthouse, to Shackleford’s store; from Gloucester Courthouse, to Matthews Courthouse; from Moorefields, by Franklin, to Bath Courthouse; from Richmond, by Coles’ in Chesterfield county, Janetoebridge, Amelia Courthouse, Pridesville, and Ligontown, to Jamestown; from Petersburg, by Amelia Courthouse, Nottaway Courthouse, Bibb’s ferry on Staunton river, to Halifax Courthouse; from Alexandria, by Centerville, Middleburg, Paris, and Millwood, to Winchester; from Cartersville, by New Canton, Buckingham Courthouse, and Bent Creek, to Lynchburg; from Romney, by Springfield and Frankfort, to Cumberland, in Maryland; from Centerville, by the Red House, to Fauquier Courthouse; from Washington, Pennsylvania, by Charlestown or Brooke Courthouse, in Virginia, to Wheeling; the post road from Alexandria to Leesburg, shall passthrough Matildaville; and the post road from Leesburg, to Shepherdstown, shall pass through Charlestown, in tire county of Berkeley; the post road from Sweetspring, to Greenbrier Courthouse, shall pass by Monroe Courthouse; from Greenbrier Courthouse to Kanhaway Courthouse; from Lexington, direct to Cabellsburg; from Mecklenburg Courthouse, the mail shall return by Christian’s store, at Coxe’s, to Lunenburg Courthouse, and Edmond’s store, to Gholson’s.
In Maryland.—From Baltimore, by Reisterstown, Westminster, Taneytown and Emmitsburg, to Fairfield, Pennsylvania; from Baltimore, by Libertytown, to Fredericktown; and from Fredericktown, by Harper’s Ferry, to Charlestown, in Berkeley county, Virginia; from Port Tobacco, by the Top of the Hill, to Nanjemoy; from Leonardtown, by the Great Mill to the Ridge; from Washington, to Upper Marlborough; from Washington, by Queen Ann, to Annapolis; from Easton, by Cambridge and New Market, to Vienna; from Easton, by Hillsborough, Deuton and Greensborough, to Whitelysburgh.
In Pennsylvania.—From Lancaster, by Elizabethtown and Middletown, to Harrisburg, Sunbury, and Northumberland; from Lancaster, to New Holland; from Harrisburg, by Clark’s ferry, Millerstown, Thompsontown, Mifflintown, Lewistown, and Huntington, to Alexandria; from Lewistown, by Mifflintown, Aaronsburg, Milesburg, and Bellefont, to Centre Furnace; from Lewistown, by Muncey, and Milton, to Williamsport; from Northumberland, to Berwick, and thence by New post roads established.
In New York.—From Hudson, by Katskill, Harpersfield, Ouliout, Unadilla, and Union, to Athens, Pennsylvania; from Athens, Pennsylvania, by Newtown, Painted Post, and Bath, to Canandarqua; from Utica, by New Hartford, Hamilton and Sherboume, to Oxford; from Cooperstown, on the State road, to Scipio; from Vergennes, Vermont, by Charlotte, Vermont, and Peru, to Plattsburg.
In New Jersey.—From Easton, Pennsylvania, by Belvidere, and Johnsonburg, to Newtown; from New Brunswick, by Somerset Courthouse, and Pluckemin, to New Germantown; from Trenton, by Bordentown, Slabtown, Mount Holly, Moorestown, and Haddenfield, to Philadelphia.
In Connecticut.—From Fairfield, by Trumbull, Huntington, Newtown, and Brookfield, to New Milford.
In Massachusetts.—From Boston, by Bridgewater, and Taunton, to New Bedford; from New Bedford, by Rochester, and Wareham, to Sandwich; from Hanover, by Scituate, Marshfield, and Duxbury, to Kingston; from Truro to Provincetown; from Billerica, by Patucket bridge, to Dracut, and Hovey’s tavern, to Pelham, and Nottingham, West, in New Hampshire; from Concord, by Groton, New Ipswich, and Jaffray, to Marlborough, New Hampshire.
In Vermont.—From Westminster, by Bellows Falls, through Rockingham, Chester, and Cavendish, to Rutland; from Newbury, to Danville; from Burlington, through St. Albans, to Hyegate.
In New Hampshire.—From Exeter, by Nottingham, to Concord; from Salisbury, through Grafton, to Hanover.
In Maine.—From Portland, by Windham, Waterford, Buckfield, and Turner, to Portland; from Bucktown, to Edenton.
Rules and regulations for the government of the navy.
April 23, 1800, ch. 33.
Exemplary conduct incumbent on commanders.
Divine service and preaching.
Punishment of certain scandalous offences.
Penalties on the breach of duty in respect of attack and battle.
Disobedience in time of battle.
Deserting duty.
Punishment of cowardice, &c. death.
Papers to be transmitted respecting captures to the districtjudge of the district to which the prize is ordered.
List of officers, &c.
Penalty on pillaging a prize, or maltreating the persons on board the same.
Protection of persons taken on board of prizes.
Intercourse with enemies and rebels, forbidden.
Message from an enemy to be communicated.
Mutiny and sedition.
Attempt at mutiny.
Disobedience of orders and assault of a superior officer.
Quarreling.
Desertion.
Offences committed on shore.
Frauds against the United States.
Improper navigation of vesseis.
Negligence in the performance of duty, &c.
Murder.
Duties in relation to convoy.
Penalty on receiving merchandise on board.
Waste, embezzlement, &c. of public property.
Burning of public property.
Theft.
Offences against people on shore.
Detection and apprehension of offenders.
Muster rolls and ship’s books.
Inspection of provisions.
Officers and men detached from the ship to be furnished with certain statements.
Rules to be hung up and read.
Treatment of the sick.
Paying off.
Treatment of inferior officers and men.
Master at arms.
Crimes not specified.
Who are petty officers.
Assignment of wages and prize money.
Appointment of naval general courts martial.
Each member of the court, before proceeding to trial, shall take the following oath or affirmation, which the judge advocate or person officiating as such, is hereby authorized to administer.
Oath of members of general courts martial.
This oath or affirmation being duly administered, the president is authorized and required to administer the following oath or affirmation to the judge advocate, or person officiating as such.
Oath of the judge advocate.
Giving of testimony.
Exhibition of charges.
Treatment of an arrested officer.
Continuance of general courts martial.
Order of suspension.
All sentences of courts martial, which shall extend to the How sentences are to be given and confirmed.
A court martial shall not, for any one offence not capital, inflict a punishment beyond one hundred lashes.
Pardon and mitigation of punishments.
Courts of inquiry may be ordered.
Proceedings how authenticated.
The judge advocate, or person officiating as such, shall administer to the members the following oath or affirmation:
“ You do swear, (or affirm) well and truly to examine and inquire Oaths of the members and judge advocate.
After which, the president shall administer to the judge advocate, or person officiating as such, the following oath or affirmation:
“ You do swear (or affirm) truly to record the proceedings of this court, and the evidence to be given in the case in hearing.”
In case of loss of the vessel, the command of the officers shall remain in force.
Pay of captives to continue.
To whom the proceeds of prizes shall accrue.
Distribution of prize money.
Whenever one or more public ships or vessels are in sight at the time any one or more ships are taking a prize or prizes, they shall all share equally in the prize or prizes, according to the number of men and guns on board each ship in sight.
No commander of a fleet or squadron shall be entitled to receive any share of prizes taken by vessels not under his immediate command; nor of such prizes as may have been taken by ships or vessels intended to be placed under his command, before they have acted under his immediate orders; nor shall a commander of a fleet or squadron, leaving the station where he had the command, have any share in the prizes taken by ships left on such station, after he has gone out of the limits of his said command.
Bounty given in certain cases.
Pensions to persons disabled in the service.
Appropriation of the part of captured property belonging to the United States.
Management of the navy fund.
Repeal of the former act.
Appropriation for the purchase of copper.
Act of May 8, 1792, ch. 39.
Part of bullion deposited, to be retained for the expense of refining.
[Obsolete.]
Act of June 5, 1794, ch. 50.
Act of March 2, 1797, ch. 5.
[Obsolete.]
[Obsolete.]
Vol. i. 426.
[Obsolete.]
President may direct the removal of the offices, &c.
Act of July 16, 1790, ch. 28.
Providing of furniture for the President’s house,
and for the capitol.
Footways to be made.
Purchase of books for the use of Congress.
Post 129.
Appropriations how to be paid.
[Obsolete.]
The President may issue letters patent releasing the right of the United States to the soil of the Western Reserve.
That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized to execute and deliver letters patent in the name and behalf of the United States, to the governor of the state of Connecticut for the time being, for the use and benefit of the persons holding and claiming under the state of Connecticut, their heirs and assigns for ever, whereby all the right, title, interest and estate of the United States, to the soil of that tract of land lying west of the west line of Pennsylvania, as claimed by the state of Pennsylvania, and as the same has been actually settled, ascertained and run in conformity to an agreement between the said state of Pennsylvania and the state of Virginia, and extending from said line westward one hundred and twenty statute miles in length, and in breadth throughout the said limits in length from the completion of the forty-first degree of north latitude, until it comes to forty-two degrees and two minutes north latitude, including all that territory commonly called the Western Reserve of Connecticut, and which was excepted by said state of Connecticut out of the cession by the said state heretofore made to the United States, and accepted by a resolution of Congress of the fourteenth of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, shall be released and conveyed as aforesaid to the said governor of Connecticut, and his successors in said office, for ever, for the purpose of quieting the grantees and purchasers under said state of Connecticut, and confirming their titles to the soil of the said tract of land.
Provided Connecticut shall cede to the United States certain western lands ;
and execute a deed relinquishing her jurisdictional claim to the Western Reserve. Saving certain constructions.
Lighthouse at New London.
Lighthouse at Clark’s Point.
Buoys to be placed within Buzzard’s Bay.
Lighthouse to be erected on Wigwam Point.
Land to be first granted to the U. States.
Appropriations.
[Expired.]
Act of April 29, 1802, ch. 35.
Compensation to the officers of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Vol. i. 448.
Sergeant-at-arms and doorkeepers.
Act of Feb. 27, 1809, ch. 19.
Boundary and name of the new territory.
Form of government and privileges of the inhabitants.
Vol. i. 51.
Powers, duties, and compensation of the officers.
Commissions may be issued in the recess.
Organization of a general assembly.
Construction of this act with respect to the government of the new territory.
Eventual change of the boundary.
Seats of the two governments.
[Obsolete.]
President authorized to borrow $3,500,000.
Vol. i. 194.
Appropriation for the payment of interest, and extinguishment of the principal.
Appropriation of the proceeds of the loan.
First, to make up any deficiency in any appropriation heretofore made by law, or to be made during the present session of Congress: and, secondly, to defray the expenses which may be incurred before the end of the next session of Congress, by calling into actual service any part of the militia of the United States, or by raising, equipping and calling into actual service any regular troops or volunteers, pursuant to authorities vested or to be vested in the President of the United States by law.
[Obsolete.]
The Act of July 8, 1797, ch. 15, continued for ten years.
Repealed March 3, 1807.
Marshals may sell the interest in lands delivered to the United States in satisfaction of judgments, in those states where lands are so delivered.
Such sales by the collectors, in former cases, confirmed.
Proviso.
Proceedings to conclude the sale of lands in case of the vacancy of the office of marshal.
Successors of marshals may complete sales.
Rations to the superintendents and master armorers.
Vol. i. 352.
Penalty on enticing away, employing, &c. workmen under engagements to the public.
Penalty on workmen being guilty of certain misconduct.
Exemption from military service, and service as jurors.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations.
For the compensation granted by law to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For the like compensations granted to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of six months continuance, one hundred and ninety thou-sand one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, including the sum stipulated to he paid in pursuance of a resolution of March second, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, for supplying both Houses with the journals of Congress, twenty-one thousand six hundred and sixty-four dollars and forty cents.
For the compensations granted by law to the chief justice, associate judges, district judges, and attorney-general, forty-five thousand five hundred dollars.
For the compensations granted by law to the district attendes, and for defraying the expense of clerks of courts, jurors and witnesses, in aid of the fund arising from fines, forfeitures, and penalties; and like-wise for defraying the expenses of prosecution for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, thirty-three thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons Specific appropriations.
For expenses of stationery, printing, translating of foreign languages, allowance to persons employed in receiving and transmitting passports and sea-letters in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Comptroller of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand nine hundred and seventeen dollars and eight cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the Comptroller’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Auditor of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand one hundred and sixty dollars and ninety-three cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the office of the Auditor, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Treasurer, clerks and persons employed in his office, five thousand nine hundred and seventeen dollars and forty-five cents.
For expenses of firewood, stationery, printing, rent, and all other contingencies in the Treasurer’s office, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Commissioner of the Revenue, clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars and six cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the office of the Commissioner of the Revenue, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Register of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand three hundred and forty-two dollars and one cent.
For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the Register’s office, (including books for the public stocks and for the arrangement of the marine papers,) two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Purveyor of public supplies, clerks and per-sons employed in his office, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For firewood, stationery, office and store rent for the Purveyor, nine hundred and sixteen dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the payment of rent for the several houses employed in the Treasury department, (except the Treasurer’s office) two thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-six cents.
For the expense of firewood and candles in the several offices of the Treasury department, (except the Treasurer’s office) three thousand five hundred dollars.
For defraying the expense incident to the stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred, (including an increase of two hundred dollars in consequence of an extension of the revenue and expenditures) one thousand two hundred dollars.
For defraying the expense incident to the removal of the books and records of the Treasury department from Philadelphia to Trenton, during part of the summer of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, including the extra expenses of the several officers, clerks and messengers in each office, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the expense incident to the removal of the loan office of Pennsylvania from Philadelphia, during part of the summer of the year one Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the clerks to the Commissioners of Loans, and an allowance to certain loan officers in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan offices, fifteen thou-sand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons employed in that department, eleven thousand three hundred dollars.
For the incidental and contingent expenses in the said department, thirteen thousand dollars.
For the expenses incident to the removal of the Department of State from Philadelphia to Trenton, during part of the summer of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, including the extra expenses of the Secretary for the department, the clerks and messengers therein, five hundred and eight dollars and sixty cents.
For compensation to the following officers of the Mint:
The director, two thousand dollars.
The treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars.
The assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The chief coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The melter and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars.
One clerk at seven hundred dollars, and two at five hundred dollars each, one thousand seven hundred dollars.
For the wages of persons employed at the different branches of melting, refining, coining, carpenters, millwrights, and smiths’ work, including the sum of eight hundred dollars per annum allowed to an assistant coiner and the forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, seven thousand dollars.
For the purchase of ironmongery, lead, wood, coals, stationery, office furniture, and for all other contingencies of the establishment of the mint, six thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary at War, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand one hundred and ninety dollars.
For expenses of firewood, stationery, printing, rent, and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary at War, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the War department, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the War department, one thousand dollars.
For the expense incident to the removal of the War department from Philadelphia to Trenton, during part of the summer of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, including the extra expenses of the Secretary for the department, the accountant, the Paymaster-General, the Quartermaster-General, the keeper of military stores, clerks and messengers in each office, four thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars and fifty-six cents.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, including deficiencies in former appropriations for clerk hire, nine thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars and twenty-five cents.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, rent, and other contingencies in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, three thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the Navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the Navy, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For expense of removing the department of the Navy from Philadelphia Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the Surveyor-General, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the assistant surveyors, chain carriers, axe men and other persons employed, stationery and other contingent expenses in the Surveyor-General’s department, (in addition to former appropriations) two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the territory northwest of the river Ohio, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of stationery, printing patents for land, office rent, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Mississippi territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster-General, Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks, and persons employed in the Postmaster-General’s office, nine thousand three hundred dollars.
For expense of firewood, stationery, printing, rent, and other contingent expenses in the office of the Postmaster-General, and for the expense incident to the removal of the genera! post-office from Philadelphia to Trenton during part of the summer of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, including the extra expenses of the Postmaster-General, his assistant, and clerks; with expenses incurred by the post-master at Philadelphia, by a removal of his office to a more healthy part of the city, and of his increased expenses in attending to the duties of his office in the years one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, four thousand and eighty-one dollars and forty-nine cents.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous demands against the United States on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature according to the usage thereof to require payment in specie, two thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, nine hundred fifty-three dollars and thirty-three cents.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars, and shoals, and for occasional improvement in the construction of lanterns and lamps, and materials used therein, and to make good deficiencies in former appropriations occasioned by the increased number of lighthouses, thirty-nine thousand three hundred and ninety-two dollars and three cents.
For repairing Charleston lighthouse, five thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For erecting a lighthouse on Old Point Comfort (in addition to former appropriations) one thousand five hundred dollars.
For rebuilding, altering, and improving the lighthouse at New London, fifteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
For the payment of contracts entered into for building of a lighthouse on Cape Hatteras, and a beacon on Shell Castle island, (the balance of former appropriations being carried to the credit of the surplus fund) thirty-five thousand six hundred and ninety-eight dollars.
Specific appropriations. Vol. i. 562.
For defraying the expenses of printing, with devices, the subscription certificates, and issuing the same to the subscribers to the loan of five millions of dollars, cost of paper; also, the incidental expenses of said loan in its operation at the Bank of the United States; and likewise for printing certificates of the eight per cent, stock for the treasury, and the several loan offices, including the cost of paper, and other incidental expenses of funding this stock, five thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous demands against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, four thousand dollars.
For the expenses of intercourse with foreign nations during the present year, in addition to the sum of forty thousand dollars appropriated by law for that purpose, the sum of fifty-two thousand dollars.
For further expenses in carrying into effect the sixth article of the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation between the United States and Great Britain, including the expenses authorized by the act intituled, Vol. i. 523.
For the salaries of the commissioners under the seventh article of the said treaty, including the contingent expenses, sixteen thousand four hundred and forty-four dollars.
For the salaries, clerk hire, office rent, and other contingencies of the two agents residing in England on business relative to the said seventh article, nine thousand dollars.
For further expenses in carrying into effect the treaty of amity, navigation, and limits, between the United States and Spain, twenty thousand dollars.
For the difference between the cost of the stipulated articles in the annuity to the Dey and Regency of Algiers, and the permanent appropriation therefor, fifty-six thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses incident to the valuation of lands and houses, and enumeration of slaves, within the United States, as directed by the act of July the ninth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, in addition to the sum appropriated by that act, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
How these appropriations shall be paid.
Vol. i. 138.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations.
Specific appropriations.
For the pay of the army of the United States, one million eighteen thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
For the subsistence of the army, seven hundred and eighty-seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars and thirty-five cents.
For forage, the sum of thirty-six thousand six hundred and seventy-two dollars.
For horses to replace those which may die, or become unfit for service, the sum of five thousand dollars.
For clothing, the sum of two hundred and fifty-seven thousand nine hundred and fifty-five dollars.
For bounties and premiums, the sum of fourteen thousand dollars.
For the hospital department, the sum of fifty-one thousand dollars.
For the ordnance department, the sum of one hundred and thirteen thousand five hundred and twenty-two dollars.
For the quartermaster’s department, the sum of five hundred and twenty-eight thousand and sixty-five dollars.
For paying annuities to the following nations of Indians, in pursuance of treaties: To the Six Nations, Cherokees, Chickasaws and Creeks, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars.
For promoting civilization among the Indian tribes, and pay of temporary agents, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars.
For expense attending the running of the line of demarkation between the Indian territory of the United States, including the pay of commissioners, surveyors and assistants, the sum of four thousand dollars.
For the defensive protection of the frontiers of the United States, including the erection and repairs of forts and fortifications, the sum of sixty thousand dollars.
For loss of stores, allowances to officers on being ordered to distant commands, and for special purposes; advertising and apprehending deserters, printing, purchasing maps, and other contingencies, the sum of forty thousand dollars.
For the annual allowance to the invalids of the United States, for their pensions from the fifth of March one thousand eight hundred, to the fourth of March one thousand eight hundred and one, the sum of ninety-three thousand dollars.
1798, ch. 38.
1798, ch. 65.
How these appropriations shall be paid.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
District of Kennebunk.
Certain vessels may unlade at Edgecomb and Newcastle.
Lyme annexed to New London.
Alteration of the district of Bermuda Hundred and City Point.
New district formed.
March 2, 1799, ch. 22, sec. 11.
Manifests to be delivered to the collector of Norfolk, by vessels bound up James river, &c.
Repeal of part of the former act.
Vol. i. 627.
Organization of a general assembly in the Mississippi territory.
Representatives to the general assembly.
First election.
Election to be holden at the most convenient place.
Assembly to meet at Natchez.
Number of Representatives after census.
1808, ch. 9.
Saving of the rights of Georgia, and of all persons.
Vol. i. 549.
Time of meeting of the general assembly.
Adjournment thereof.
The commissioners of the United States may finally settle with Georgia by compromise.
April 7, 1798, ch. 28.
They may inquire into the claims of individuals.
Provisoes.
Act of Feb. 28, 1803, ch. 10. Act of March 2, 1807, ch. 22.
Penalty on citizens having an interest in vessels employed in the slave trade.
Penalty on citizens serving in such vessels.
Commissioned vessels authorized to seize vessels contravening this or the former act.
District and circuit court to have jurisdiction of offences.
Construction of the act.
Distribution of penalties.
[Obsolete.]
Act of July 9, 1798, ch. 70.
Commissioners under the Act of July 9, 1798, ch. 70, to adjust the valuation of unseated lands.
Commissioners may direct deductions.
Compensation.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 23.
Allowance to certain collectors.
Commissions to certain collectors.
Certain collectors to deposit bonds in bank for collection.
Act of May 18, 1796, ch. 29. Act of April 18, 1818, ch. 70. Act of March 30, 1820, ch. 26.
Four land offices established under the direction of Registers.
1803, ch. 30.
Surveyor-General to transmit certain plats.
He shall cause certain lines to be run and marked.
Certain lands to be sold.
Limitation of the price, and mode of purchase and payment.
1797, ch. 14.
Fees to be paid.
One fourth of the purchase money to be paid.
Grade of purchase.
A discount allowed for payment before due.
If one fourth part is not paid the land may be sold at private sale.
If a tract is not paid for in one year, to be resold.
Act of April 15, 1806.
Payments to be made to the Treasurer or receivers of public monies.
Duty of receivers of public monies.
Act of May 18, 1796.
Their compensation.
Duty of the Registers of the land offices.
Patents to be issued.
Registers to note the sales upon the surveys, &c.
Registers to make certain quarterly returns.
Mode of making purchases by registers.
Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe further regulations.
Allowance to the Registers.
Allowance to superintendents of public sales.
1796, ch. 29.
Patent fees.
1804, ch. 35.
Leases of the reservations may be given by the Surveyor General.
Pre-emption right given to builders of mills.
Repeal of part of the former act.
1796, ch. 29.
Repealed by Act of May 1, 1810, ch. 44.
Salaries of public ministers.
Settlement of accounts.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations.
Duty of the Secretary of the
Treasury to lay before Congress estimates of the revenue.
[Obsolete.]
Provision Tor satisfying resolution warrants for Virginia military lands.
1807, ch. 31.
Proviso.
In case of eviction, warrants may be withdrawn and located elsewhere.
[Repealed.]
Lands and dwelling houses omitted in the lists, may be entered by the surveyors of the revenue.
1801, ch. 33, sec. 3.
Unseated lands estimated to contain too large a quantity, may be exonerated.
1798, ch. 75.
Error in charging a person who is not the owner; or in charging the owner more than once.
Allowance to the surveyors of the revenue.
In case of legal ejectment, the person charged may be exonerated.
Act of Sept. 24, 1789, ch. 20.
Mode of selecting jurors.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation for expenses of treaties with the Indians.
[Obsolete.]
Accounts of militia who served against the Indians in 1794, to be settled.
[Obsolete.]
Act of April 14, 1802, ch. 26.
A sum to be retained on drawbacks.
[Obsolete.]
Allowance to the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House.
Presents to the Choctaw Indians.
Reimbursement for advances for claims to captured property.
Various appropriations.
Ante, page 58.
Ante, page 58.
Various appropriations.
[Obsolete.]
Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 107.
Additional duties on sugar, molasses and such articles as have paid ten per cent.
Duties on wines.
Additional duty on such articles imported in foreign vessels.
How the duties are to be collected.
Additional drawback on su-
gar refined, and spirits distilled from molasses in the United States.
Repealed April 6, 1802.
Appropriation of the proceeds of these duties.
[Obsolete.]
Congress to meet the third Monday in Nov. 1800.
Provisions to be issued to the Indians who visit military posts.
Expenses of Indians who visit the seat of government of the U. States to be paid.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 16, 1802, ch. 9.
1798, ch. 76.
1799, ch. 43.
Officers and men may be discharged.
Exceptions.
Three months extra pay allowed.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1801, ch. 21.
The Mint to remain in Philadelphia.
Relative to the death of General Washington.
Relative to the death of General Washington.
Laws for North Carolina.
In honour of Captain Truxton, &c.
Copper mines on Lake Superior.
ACTS OF THE SIXTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
Privilege of franking letters to the delegate from the territory northwest of the river Ohio.
Vol. i. 733.
Delegate to receive letters free of postage.
Compensation to delegate from the territory.
1796, ch. 3.
Lighthouse to be erected on Cape Poge.
Appropriation.
Repealed by Act of April 29, 1802, ch. 31.
Terms of the Supreme Court.
The court to be holden at the city of Washing, ton, by four justices.
To adjourn if four justices do not attend.
One or more of the justices attending may make rules and orders respecting courts, &c.
Court to have power to issue certain writs.
The court to consist of five justices after the next vacancy.
Division of the states into districts in relation to the Circuit Courts.
Maine.
New Hampshire.
Rhode Island.
Connecticut.
Vermont.
New York.
New Jersey.
Pennsylvania.
Delaware.
Maryland.
Virginia.
North Carolina.
South Carolina.
Georgia.
Tennessee.
Kentucky.
Ohio.
Waters and mountains to be considered as within both the adjoining districts.
Classification of the districts into six circuits.
Three judges to be appointed for the circuits, except the sixth circuit.
Times of holding the circuit courts.
Massachusetts.
New Hampshire.
Maine.
Connecticut.
Vermont.
New York two districts.
New Jersey.
Pennsylvania.
Delaware.
Maryland.
Virginia.
North Carolina.
South Carolina.
Georgia.
East Tennessee.
West Tennessee.
Kentucky.
Ohio.
Sixth Circuit,
The circuit courts may hold special sessions.
A judge of the circuit court may alter the place of its meeting.
General powers of the circuit courts.
Subjects of the cognizance of the circuit courts.
Circuit courts and judges to have cognizance under the bankrupt law.
Certain suits may be removed from the state courts.
Manner of removal.
Certain suits may be removed from the state courts.
Proceedings when both parties to a suit claim under the same title to lands under different states.
Proviso as to pleading.
One judge of the circuit court may hold the court for five days and do certain acts therein.
Adjournment if another judge does not attend.
In civil suits no arrest shall be made in one district for trial in another, and no original civil process shall be brought but against inhabitants of the district or such as are found therein.
Suits founded on assignments.
Trial by jury.
Writs of neexeat and injunctions.
Removal of prisoners in case of danger.
Continuance of suits now depending in the circuit courts.
Additional district courts established.
Additional district courts.
Clerks of the district courts to be appointed.
Marshals and attornies to act in the subdivisions of their districts.
District court of Maryland to be held at Baltimore only.
District courts of Tennessee and Kentucky abolished.
Judges for the sixth circuit to have the powers of district judges.
In case of inability of the district judge, a circuit judge may act.
Clerks of the circuit courts to be appointed.
Former circuit courts abolished.
Certain courts constituted courts of record.
Test, signing and return of writs.
Judges of the supreme and circuit courts may grant writs of habeas corpus.
New trials, rehearings and practice.
The courts or judges empowered to administer oaths generally, &c.
Oath of a circuit judge.
Appeals from the district courts, to the circuit courts,
and from thence to the supreme court.
Writs of error to the circuit courts.
Security taken upon writs of error or appeals to be sent up with the record.
Marshals to be appointed.
District attornies to be appointed.
District attornies.
Compensation of jurors and witnesses.
Records of the circuit courts, where to be kept.
Suitors, &c. how far privileged from arrest.
Salaries of judges.
Survey of lands for the refugees from Canada, &c. to be made.
How locations shall be made.
Patents to be granted.
Quantities of land assigned to the refugees, nominally.
District of Bristol established.
Collector to reside at Bristol.
1799, ch. 22, sec. 3.
Vessels from or beyond the Cape of Good Hope may enter at its ports.
Kittery and Berwick annexed to Portsmouth.
Letters to John Adams to be free of postage.
Act of March 3, 1801, ch. 35, sec. 3.
Repealed by Act of April 6, 1802, ch. 19.
Act of Nov. 5, 1794, and Act of June 9, 1794, continued in force to March 4, 1801.
1794, ch. 65.
“Act laying duties upon car-
riages,” &c. continued without limitation.
May 28, 1796, ch. 37.
[Expired.]
Continued by Act of March 1, 1805, ch. 19.
Goods imported into Baltimore or Philadelphia may be transported by Appoquinimink and Sassafras rivers.
1799, ch. 22.
1. An act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the government of the United States, July 16, 1790, chap. 28.
2. An act supplementary to an act entitled, “An act concerning the District of Columbia,” March 3 1801, chap. 24.
3. An act concerning the District of Columbia, February 27, 1801, chap. 15.
4. An act additional to an act amendatory of an act entitled, “An act concerning the District of Columbia,” May 3, 1802, chap. 53.
5. An act to amend the judicial system of the United States, April 29, 1802, chap. 31, sec. 24.
6. An act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the District of Columbia, March 3, 1803, chap. 20.
7. An act to extend the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the recovery of debts, in the District of Columbia, March 1, 1823, chap. 23.
8. An act respecting the adjournment of the circuit court of the District of Columbia, March 3, 1825.
9. An act altering the times of holding the circuit courts in the District of Columbia, May 20, 1826, chap. 131.
10. An act to establish a criminal court in the District of Columbia, July 7, 1838, chap. 192.
11. An act to restrain the circulation of small notes as a currency in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, July 7, 1838, chap. 212.
12. Resolution directing the manner in which certain laws of the District of Columbia shall be executed, March 2, 1839.
13. An act for granting possessions, enrolling conveyances and securing the estates of purchasers within the District of Columbia, May 31, 1832, chap. 112.
14. An act changing the times of holding the courts in the District of Columbia, May 31, 1832, chap. 114. Act of February 30, 1839, chap. 30.
The decisions of the courts of the United States upon this and other statutes relating to the District of Columbia, and other questions arising in the district, have been :
The act of Congress of 27 February, 1801, concerning the District of Columbia, directs that writs of error shall be prosecuted in the same manner, under the same regulations, and the same proceedings shall be had thereon, as is or shall be provided in case of writs of error on judgments, or appeals upon orders or decrees, rendered in the circuit courts of the United States. United States v. Hooe et al., 1 Cranch, 318; 1 Cond. Rep. 322.
By the separation of the District of Columbia from the state of Maryland, the residents in that part of Maryland which became a part of the district ceased to be citizens of the state. Reilly, Appellant v. Lamar et al., 2 Cranch, 344; 1 Cond. Rep. 419.
A citizen of the District of Columbia, could not be discharged by the insolvent law of Maryland, out of the district. Ibid.
A citizen of the District of Columbia, cannot maintain an action in the circuit court of the United States, out of the district; he not being a citizen of a state within the meaning of the provision in the law of the United States, regulating the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States. Hepburn and Dundas v. Ellzey, 2 Cranch, 445; 1 Cond. Rep. 444.
A justice of the peace, in the District of Columbia, is an officer of the government of the United States; and is exempt from militia duty. Wise v. Withers, 3 Cranch, 331; 1 Cond. Rep. 552.
Under the sixth and eighth sections of the act of assembly of Virginia, of the 22d of December, 1794, property pledged to the Mutual Assurance Society, &c. continues liable for assessments, on account of the losses insured against, in the hands of a bona fide purchaser, without notice. The Mutual Assurance Society v. Watts’ Ex’rs, 1 Wheat. 279; 3 Cond. Rep. 570.
A mere change of sovereignty produces no change in the state of rights existing in the soil; and the cession of the District of Columbia to the national government did not affect the lien created by the above act on real property situate in the town of Alexandria; though the personal character or liability of a member of the society could not be thereby forced on a purchaser of such property. Ibid.
Congress has authority to impose a direct tax on the District of Columbia, in proportion to the census directed to be taken by the constitution. Loughborough v. Blake, 5 Wheat. 317; 4 Cond. Rep. 660.
Congress, when legislating for the District of Columbia, under the fifth section of the first article of the constitution, is still the legislature of the Union, and its acts are the laws of the United States. Cohens v. Virginia, 6 Wheat. 264; 5 Cond. Rep. 90.
An act of the legislature of Maryland, passed the 19th of December, 1791, entitled “An act concerning the territory of Columbia, and the city of Washington,” which, by the 6th section, provides for the holding of lands by “ foreigners,” is an enabling act; and applies to those only who could not take lands without the provisions of that law. It enables a “foreigner” to take in the same manner as if he were a citizen. Spratt v. Spratt, 1 Peters, 349.
A foreigner who becomes a citizen, is no longer a foreigner, within the view of the act. Thus, after purchase, lands vested in him as a citizen; not by virtue of the act of the legislature of Maryland, but because of his acquiring the rights of citizenship. Ibid.
Land in the county of Washington, and District of Columbia, purchased by a foreigner, before naturalization, was held by him under the law of Maryland, and might be transmitted to the relations of the purchasers, who were foreigners: and the capacity so to transmit those lands, is given, absolutely, by this act, and is not affected by his becoming a citizen; but passes to his heirs and relations, precisely as if he had remained a foreigner. Ibid.
The supreme court of the United States has jurisdiction of appeals from the orphans’ court, through the circuit court for the county of Washington, by virtue of the act of Congress of February 13, 1801; and by the act of Congress subsequently passed, the matter in dispute, exclusive of costs, must exceed the value of one thousand dollars, in order to entitle the party to an appeal. Nicholls et al. v. Hodges’ Ex’rs, 1 Peters, 565.
The statute of Elizabeth is in force in the District of Columbia. Cathcart et al. v. Robinson, 5 Peters 264.
The levy court of Washington county is not entitled to one half of all the fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed by the circuit court in cases at common law, and under the acts of Congress, as well as the acts of assembly of Maryland, adopted by Congress as the law of the District of Columbia. Levy Court of Washington v. Ringgold, 5 Peters, 451.
The supreme court of the United States has no jurisdiction of causes brought before it, upon a certificate of division of opinion of the judges of the circuit court for the District of Columbia. The appellate jurisdiction, in respect to that court, extends only to its final judgments and decrees. Ross v. Triplett. 3 Wheat. 600; 4 Cond. Rep. 351.
By the insolvent law of Maryland, of January 3, 1800, the chancellor of Maryland could not discharge one who was an inhabitant of the District of Columbia, after the separation from Maryland, unless previous to that separation he had entitled himself to a discharge by performing all the requisites of the act. Reilly v. Lamar et al. 2 Cranch, 344; 1 Cond. Rep. 419.
No appeal or writ of error lies, in a criminal case, from the judgment of the circuit court of the District of Columbia, to the supreme court of the United States: the appellate jurisdiction given by the act of Congress, is confined to civil cases. United States v. Moore, 3 Cranch, 159; 1 Cond. Rep. 480.
There is, in the District of Columbia, no division of powers between the general and the state governments. Congress has the entire control over the district, for every purpose of government: and it is reasonable to suppose that, in organizing a judicial department in the district, all the judicial power, necessary for the purpose of government, would be vested in the courts of justice. Kendall, Postmaster General v. The United States, 12 Peters, 524.
The circuit court of the United States, for the District of Columbia, has a right to award a mandamus to the postmaster-general of the United States, requiring him to pass to the credit of certain contractors for conveying the mail of the United States, a sum found to be due to them by the solicitor of the treasury of the United States, the solicitor acting under the special provisions of an act of Congress. Ibid.
There can be no doubt, that, in the state of Maryland, a writ of mandamus might be issued to an executive officer, commanding him to perform a ministerial act, required of him by the laws: and if it would lie in that state, there can be no good reason why it should not lie in the District of Columbia, in analogous cases. Ibid.
The powers of the supreme court of the United States, and of the circuit courts of the United States, to issue writs of mandamus, granted by the fourteenth section of the judiciary act of 1789, is only for the purpose of bringing the case to a final judgment or decree, so that it may be reviewed. The mandamus does not direct the inferior court how to proceed, but only that it must proceed, according to its own judgment, to a final determination ; otherwise it cannot be reviewed in the appellate court. It is different in the circuit court of the District of Columbia, under the adoption of the laws of Maryland, which included the common law. Ibid.
The power of the circuit court of the District of Columbia, to exercise the jurisdiction to issue a writ of mandamus to a public officer, to do an act required of him by law, results from the third section of the act of Congress of February 27, 1804 ; which declares that the court and judges thereof shall have all the powers by law vested in the circuit courts of the United States. The circuit courts referred to, were those established by the act of February 13, 1801. The repeal of that law, fifteen months afterwards, and after that law had gone into operation, under the act of February 27, 1801, could not in any manner affect that law, any further than was provided by the repealing act. Ibid.
The circuit courts of the United States, sitting in the states of the Union, have no jurisdiction in a case in which a citizen of the District of Columbia is plaintiff. Westcott’s Lessee v. Inhabitants, &c. Peters’ C. C. R. 45.
The act of Congress of June, 1822, authorizes any person to whom administration has been granted by the states of the United States, to prosecute claims by suits in the District of Columbia, in the same manner as if the same had been granted by proper authority, in the District of Columbia, to such persons.
The power is limited by its terms to the institution of suits, and does not authorize suits against an executor or administrator. The effect of this law was to make all debts due by persons in the District of Columbia, not local assets, for which the administrator was bound to account in the courts of the district, but general assets which he had full authority to receive, and for which he was bound to account in the courts of the state from which he derived his letters of administration. Vaughan et al. v. Northup et al 15 Peters’ Rep. 1.
The courts of the United States in the District of Columbia, have a like jurisdiction upon personal property, with the courts in England, and in the states of the Union; and in the absence of statutory provisions, in the trial of them they must apply the same common law principle which regulates the mode of bringing such actions, the pleadings and the proof. M‘Kenna v. Fiske, 17 Peters’ Ren. 245.
land continued in force in the district.
It shall be formed into two counties.
Washington county.
Alexandria county.
Circuit court established in it.
To consist of one chief judge and two assistant judges.
Sessions of the court in Washington county,
in Alexandria county.
Subjects for the cognizance of the court.
Where local actions shall be commenced.
No suits to be brought, but against inhabitants or persons found in the district.
A marshal to be appointed for the district.
Writs of error and appeal.
An attorney to be appointed.
Compensation of the judges.
Justices of the peace to be appointed.
Their jurisdiction.
Registers of wills and judges of the orphans’ court to be appointed.
Act of May 19, 1828, ch. 59.
How to obtain execution within the district, upon judgments already rendered in courts of Maryland and Virginia.
Suits in the courts of Hustings for Alexandria and Georgetown continued to the circuit court.
Test of writs.
Saving of the rights of corporations.
[Obsolete.]
Act of May 7, 1800, ch. 41.
Certain suits revived.
[Repealed.]
District of Massac.
District of Palmyra.
Section 16 Act of March 2, 1799, repealed.
[Obsolete.]
That for defraying the Appropriations for the military establishment and the Indian annuities.
For the pay of the army of the United States, four hundred and eighty thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars.
For the subsistence of the army, three hundred and six thousand three hundred and ninety-five dollars.
For forage, the sum of seven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. For horses to replace those which may die, or become unfit for service, the sum of five thousand dollars.
For clothing, the sum of one hundred and forty-one thousand five hundred and thirty dollars.
For bounties and premiums, the sum of forty-two thousand dollars. For the hospital department, the sum of twenty thousand dollars. For the ordnance department, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. For the quartermaster’s department, the sum of one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.
For paying annuities to the following nations of Indians, in pursuance of treaties: to the Six Nations, Cherokees, Chickasaws and Creeks, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars; and for presents to the Choctaws, two thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of the transportation of annuities to the Indian tribes, ten thousand dollars.
For promoting civilization among the Indian tribes, and pay of temporary agents, and rations to Indians at the different military posts, the sum of forty-five thousand dollars.
For the defensive protection of the frontiers of the United States, including the erection and repairs of forts and fortifications, the sum of thirty thousand dollars.
For loss of stores, allowances to officers on being ordered to distant commands, and for special purposes; advertising and apprehending deserters, printing, purchasing maps, and other contingencies, the sum of thirty thousand dollars.
For the annual allowance to the invalids of the United States, for their pensions, from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and one, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and two, the sum of ninety-three thousand dollars.
For the fortification of ports and harbors within the United States, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars. For the fabrication of cannon and small arms, and the purchase of ammunition, being the balance of appropriations unexpended which have been carried to the surplus fund, four hundred thousand dollars.
[Repealed.]
April 6, 1802, ch. 19.
Mode of obtaining a stamp
to an instrument not stamped.
Act of April 23, 1800, ch. 31.
Act of April 23, 1800.
Repeal of part of the former act.
[Obsolete.]
The President may cause to be sold certain of the public vessels.
Six of the frigates to be retained in constant service.
Residue of the frigates laid up.
Component parts of a ration after the reduction of the Navy.
Number of officers to be retained.
Four months extra pay allowed to those who are discharged.
Repealed April 21, 1806.
By the 32d section of the act supplementary to an act entitled, “An act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States,” passed January 18, 1837, chap. 1, the annual trial of the gold and silver coins of the United States, is required to be made before the district judge of Pennsylvania, the attorney of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania, and collector of the port of Philadelphia, and such other persons as the President of the United States shall, for that purpose, designate.
To remain at Philadelphia.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 36.
Act of April 1, 1808, ch. 41.
Act of Dec. 2, 1812, ch. 2.
Act of Jan. 14, 1818, ch. 4.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 42.
Certain duties to be performed by the district judge and attorney of Pennsylvania and the commissioner of loans.
1798, ch. 70.
1800, ch. 3.
1800, ch. 53.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 29.
Act of May, 1802, ch. 44.
Right of preemption given to certain persons who have contracted with J. C. Symmes, &c.
1800, ch. 55.
Persons claiming the benefit of this act to give notice to the receiver of public monies at Cincinnati.
Duty of the receiver herein.
And also of the two commissioners to be appointed.
Duty of the Surveyor General and Register at Cincinnati.
Act of May 10, 1800, ch. 55.
Fees allowed to the receiver and commissioners.
Mode in which the land shall be surveyed.
Applications to be made as for a section of 640 acres, &c.
Duties and allowance of the Surveyor General, Register, and Receiver of public monies.
Parts of the land to be sold in a different manner.
Vol. i. 51.
Repeal of former laws within the purview of this.
Act of Feb. 27, 1801, ch. 15.
Powers of the circuit court.
Fees of certain officers of the territory.
Form of indictments.
Mode of recovering and distribution of penalties.
Punishment of felonies.
Jurisdiction of the circuit court for Alexandria.
Magistrates to form a board of county commissioners
Duties and emoluments of the clerks of courts.
Act of Feb. 27, 1801, ch. 15.
Delivery of fugitives from justice or labour from any state.
Powers of sheriffs and collectors of certain adjacent counties may be exercised within the district for the collection of certain public dues.
Sheriffs may make certain arrests.
The chief judge and one of the associate justices may make appointments.
Alterations in the districts.
1800, ch. 49.
[Obsolete.]
Duties on goods destroyed by fire remitted.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations.
For the compensation granted by law to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For the like compensation to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, one hundred and ninety-three thousand four hundred and seventy dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, including the payment of certain articles of furniture purchased for the accommodation of Congress, and not provided for by former appropriations, seventeen thousand dollars.
Specific appropriations.
For defraying the expense of courts, jurors, and witnesses, and for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand three hundred and nine dollars, eighty-one cents.
For expenses of stationery, printing, translating foreign languages, allowance to persons employed in receiving and transmitting passports and sea letters, and all other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Comptroller of the Treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars, eight cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the Comptroller’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Auditor of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty dollars, ninety-three cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and ail other contingent expenses in the Auditor’s office, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Treasurer, clerks and other persons employed in his office, six thousand three hundred and forty-eight dollars, ninety-eight cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the Treasurer’s office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Commissioner of the Revenue, clerks, and other persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and fifty-three dollars, six cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the office of the Commissioner of the Revenue, nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Register of the Treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty-two dollars, one cent.
For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the Register’s office, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Superintendent of Stamps, clerks, and persons employed in his office, and for making good a deficiency in former appropriations for the stamp-office, five thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars, twenty-four cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the stamp-office, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For firewood and candles for the offices of the treasury, including the stamp-office, and other contingencies, four thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and one, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For making good the deficiency of former appropriations, for the expense of removing the books and records of the treasury from Philadelphia to Trenton, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand six hundred and thirty-nine dollars, seventy-sixty cents.
For the expense of new office furniture for the treasury, at the city of Washington, two thousand dollars.
For flooring the treasury, and incidental expenses for securing the Specific appropriations.
For paying two watchmen for the treasury, six hundred dollars.
For the expense of two buildings for messengers of the treasury, and sinking two wells for the treasury, five thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars.
For compensation to the several loan-officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of the commissioners of loans, and an allowance to certain loan-officers in lieu of clerk hire, twelve thousand one hundred dollars.
For defraying the authorized expenses of the several loan-offices, two thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks, and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the office of state, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the director of the mint, officers, clerks, and other persons, employed in the mint establishment, seventeen thousand six hundred dollars.
For repairs, and all other contingent expenses in the mint establishment, six thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and ten dollars.
For the compensation of two additional clerks employed by the Secretary at War in copying papers in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, to replace those lately burnt in the war-office, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For such additional compensation to the clerks of the several departments of the treasury, of state, of war, of the navy, and of the general post-office, not exceeding for each department, respectively, fifteen per cent, in addition to the sums allowed by the act, intituled “An act to 1799, ch. 40.
For an additional allowance to the chief clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, for his services in the year one thousand eight hundred, the sum of three hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses attending the office of Secretary of War, and to make good the deficiency of former appropriations, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks, and persons employed in his office, ten thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the accountant’s office, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the purveyor of public supplies, clerks, and persons employed in his office, and for contingent expenses of the same, four thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks, and persons employed in his office, nine thousand one hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expense in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, three thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the navy department, clerks, and persons employed in his office; and to make good a deficiency in the appropriation of the last year, eleven thousand four hundred and forty-nine dollars, forty-one cents.
Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the Postmaster-General, Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks and persons employed in the general post-office, nine thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
For the contingent expense in the general post-office, two thousand one hundred and twelve dollars, fifty cents.
For compensation to the Surveyor-General, the contingent expenses in his office, and the expense of executing surveys of the public land northwest of the river Ohio, twenty-eight thousand two hundred dollars.
For salaries to the governor, secretary, and judges of the territory northwest of the river Ohio, and the contingent expenses of that government, five thousand five hundred dollars.
For salaries to the governor, secretary, and judges of the Mississippi territory, and the contingent expenses of that government, five thousand five hundred dollars.
For salaries to the governor, secretary, and judges of the Indiana territory, and the contingent expenses of that government, five thousand five hundred dollars.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States unprovided for, as shall be ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, two thousand dollars.
For satisfying annuities and grants to Isaac Van Wart, John Paulding, David “Williams, Joseph De Bealeau, JosephTraversie, James M’Kensie, Joseph Brussels, Elizabeth Bergen, and the children of Major Alexander Trueman, and Colonel John Harding, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-three dollars, thirty-three cents.
For the expenses of intercourse with foreign nations during the present year, and making good the deficiency of the appropriation for the year one thousand eight hundred, for the expense of the mission to France, eighty-five thousand dollars.
For carrying into effect the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, between the United States, and the King of Great Britain, fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dollars.
For a deficiency of former appropriations for carrying into effect the treaty between the United States and the King of Spain, forty-six thousand five hundred dollars.
For fulfilling the engagements of the United States with the Mediterranean powers, two hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars.
For prosecuting the claims of American citizens for property captured by the belligerent powers, sixty-four thousand dollars.
For the relief of American seamen, thirty thousand dollars.
For defraying the further expenses incident to the valuation of houses and lands, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States, forty thousand dollars.
For the support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers, and other improvements in navigation, thirty-eight thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars, seventy cents.
For discharging the expense of the second enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, the sum of sixty thousand dollars.
For discharging such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall be admitted at the treasury, which, according to the usage thereof, require payment in specie, four thousand dollars.
For the expense of returning the votes for President and VicePresident of the United States, one thousand five hundred and twenty-four dollars, fifty cents.
For repairing the building occupied by the treasury department, the sum of two thousand dollars.
For satisfying the claim of Clement Biddle, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-six dollars, sixty-three cents.
For erecting a lighthouse at old Point Comfort, the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22, sec. 74.
1799, ch. 22, sec. 36.
[Obsolete.]
Salaries increased.
1789, ch. 18.
[Obsolete.]
1797, ch. 6.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations.
For the pay of the officers of the navy of the United States, the sum of three hundred and eighty-two thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight dollars.
For the subsistence of the officers of the navy, the sum of sixty-nine thousand eight hundred and two dollars and sixty cents.
For the pay of the seamen, the sum of eight hundred and sixteen thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
For provisions, the sum of five hundred and ninety-seven thousand one hundred and one dollars and thirty-seven cents.
For the expenses of medicines, hospitals, and hospital stores, the sum of thirty-one thousand six hundred and forty-seven dollars, and twenty cents.
For the contingent expenses of the navy, including expenditure of military stores, the sum of three hundred and forty-four thousand six hundred dollars.
For salaries to store-keepers, clerks, store rent, labourers, and other contingencies, the sum of thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For the pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of the marine corps, the sum of ninety-nine thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars.
For the subsistence of the officers and privates of the marine corps, the sum of eleven thousand four hundred and eighty-six dollars and ten cents.
For clothing for the marine corps, the sum of thirty-three thousand five hundred and eighty-one dollars, and thirty cents.
For military stores for the marine corps, the sum of nine thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars, and thirty-eight cents.
For the contingent expenses of the marine corps, including camp equipage, quartermaster, barrack master, hospital stores, stationery, and other contingencies, the sum of thirteen thousand four hundred and thirty-six dollars.
For the expenses attending six seventy-four gun ships, and for completing navy yards, docks, and wharves, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars.
For erecting marine barracks, the sum of twenty thousand dollars.
For maintenance of French prisoners, the sum of thirty thousand dollars.
For making up deficiency of former appropriations for the maintenance of French prisoners, the sum of forty-five thousand dollars.
[Repealed.]
Act of March, 1802, ch. 8.
Times and places of holding the circuit courts of Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, altered.
Continuances to those courts.
Causes to be proceeded on therein.
Times and places of holding the district courts in North Carolina, altered.
Continuance of causes in the district courts of N. Carolina and New Jersey.
Place of holding the circuit court in Kentucky.
Chief judge of Columbia to be the judge of Potomac district.
[Obsolete.]
Act of July 11, 1798, ch. 70.
Surveyors of the revenue to make certain returns to the supervisors and inspectors of the revenue.
1798, ch. 75.
Repeal of part of the former act.
1798, ch. 70.
Repeal of a former act.
1800, ch. 60.
Lighthouses to be erected on New Point Comfort and on Smith’s Point.
A lighthouse to be erected on Faulkner’s Island.
Buoys to be placed in Naraganset Bay.
Appropriation.
[Repealed.]
Act of April 28, 1810, ch. 37. Certain postroads to be discontinued.
From Lancaster to New Holland in Pennsylvania.
From Greenville in Tennessee, by the Warm Springs, to Buncomb Courthouse.
From Elizabeth city in North Carolina, by New Lebanon, to Northwest river bridge.
From Upper Marlborough to Piscataway.
From Henderson Courthouse to Muhlenberg Courthouse.
Post-roads established.
In Maine.—From Standish to Fryburg.
In New Hampshire.—From Amherst by Francistown, Washington and Claremont, to Windsor in Vermont.
In Vermont.—From Bennington to Brattleborough.
From Newbury by Bradford, Corinth, Washington and Barre, to Montpelier.
In Massachusetts.—From Leominster, through Westminster, Templeton and Athol, to Greenfield.
From Worcester, by Mendon, to Providence, and from Worcester to Lancaster.
In Rhode Island.—From Providence, by Rehoboth and Attleborough, to Taunton, Massachusetts.
In New York.—From Albany, by Duanesburg and Durlock, to Cherry Valley.
From Poughkeepsie, by Sharon, to Litchfield.
In Delaware.—From Georgetown, by Concord and the village of Laurel, to Salisbury.
In Maryland.—From Annapolis to Easton, by Young Hadaways.
From Annapolis to Centreville, by Kent Island.
From the city of Washington to Piscataway.
From Elkton, by Warwick and Bridgetown, to Greensborough, in Caroline county.
From the city of Washington, by Brookville and W. Hobbs’s in Frederick county, to Taneytown.
From the city of Washington to Wiley’s tavern in Fairfax county, Virginia.
In Pennsylvania.—From Pittsburg, by Georgetown and Canfield, to Warren in the Northwestern territory.
From Berwick to Wilkesbarre.
In Virginia.—From Richmond to Charles City Courthouse.
From Clarkesburg to Marietta.
From Romney to Morganton or Clarkesburg.
From Alexandria, by Thomas’s ferry, to Piscataway, in Maryland.
From Halifax Courthouse to Danville.
From Bowling Green, by Broaddus’s mill, S. Harrison’s and Dunkirk, to New Kent Courthouse.
The post road from Jerttsalemto Hicks’s ford shall pass by the Cross-keys, and from the Cross-keys to Murfreesborough.
From Petersburg, by Sussex Courthouse, to Southampton Courthouse.
From Jamestown to Farmville.
The mail from Mecklenberg Courthouse, in Virginia, to Christi an ville, shall be carried by Marshall’s and Wilson’s store.
In the Northwestern Territory.—From Cincinnati to Detroit.
In Indiana Territory.—From Vincennes, by Kaskaskias, to Kahokia.
In Kentucky.—From Harding Courthouse to Breckenridge Courthouse, to Henderson Courthouse, Eddy Grove and Eddyville, to Fort Massac.
From Breckenridge Courthouse, by Hartford and Vienna, to Muhlenberg Courthouse.
In Tennessee.—From Knoxville, by Sevierville, Newport and the Warm Springs, to Buncomb Courthouse.
From Newport, by Cheek’s cross-roads, to Oresville.
In the Mississippi Territory.—From Natchez to the southern boundary line of the United States.
In North Carolina.—The post road from Raleigh to Chatham Court-house, New post roads established.
The post road from Raleigh to Newbern, shall pass through Greene county.
From Elizabeth City to Indiantown and Tull’s creek, to Northwest river bridge.
The post road from Winton to Windsor shall pass through Pitchanding and Colerain.
From Louisburg, by Nash Courthouse, to Tarborough.
From Charlotte Courthouse to York Courthouse, in South Carolina.
From Charlotte to Camden, in South Carolina.
Privilege of franking extended to John Adams.
ACTS OF THE SEVENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
By the act of January 14, 1802, chap. 1, the ratio of representatives was one member to every thirty-three thousand persons in each state, after the second census.
By the act of December 21, 1811,chap. 9, the ratio of representatives was one member to every thirty-five thousand persons in each state, after the third census.
By the act of March 7, 1822, chap. 10, the ratio of representatives was one member to every forty thousand persons in each state, after the fourth census.
By the act of May 22, 1832, chap. 91, the ratio of representatives was one member to every forty-seven thousand seven hundred persons in each state, after the fifth census.
By the act of June 25, 1842, chap. 21, the ratio of representatives was one member to every seventy thousand six hundred and eighty persons in each state, and one additional member to each state having a fraction greater than one moiety of that number of persons, according to the sixth census.
[Obsolete.]
Apportionment of representatives.
One member to every thirty-three thousand persons in each state.
N. Hampshire 5.
Mas’chus’ts 17.
Vermont 4.
Rhode Island 2.
Connecticut 7.
New York 17.
New Jersey 6.
Pennsyl’a 18.
Delaware 1.
Maryland 9.
Virginia 22.
N. Carolina 12.
S. Carolina 8.
Georgia 4.
Kentucky 6.
Tennessee 3.
Certain books and maps to be deposited together in a room in the Capitol.
Certain regulations in relation to the library to be formed by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives.
A librarian to be appointed, who shall give bond, &c.
Bond to be deposited in the office of Secretary of the Senate.
No maps to be taken out of the library.
Who may take out books.
Pay of the librarian, &c.
To be paid out of the contingent fund of Congress.
Manner of purchasing books for the library under a joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives.
[Obsolete.]
President may employ such of the armed vessels of the United States as he
may judge requisite for the protection of the commerce and seamen on the Atlantic and Mediterranean.
Acts of hostility and precaution authorized.
Captured vessels to be brought into port, and proceeds of prizes distributed.
Commissions against Tripoli to be issued to private armed vessels.
Bonds of the owner and commander to be previously given.
Captured property may be condemned and distributed according to agreements.
Period for which seamen may be engaged to serve.
Privilege of sending and receiving letters free of postage to be enjoyed by delegates from territories to Congress.
Travelling ex-
penses and attendance on Congress to be the same as members of the Senate and House of Representatives.
1799, ch. 43, sec. 17.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations.
For the printing of the public accounts, to make good the deficiency of former appropriations for the same, the sum of fourteen hundred dollars.
Towards the contingent expenses of the department of the treasury, during the year one thousand eight hundred and two, the sum of one thousand dollars.
Towards the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, during the year one thousand eight hundred and two, the sum of three thousand dollars.
To the accountant of the navy department, one thousand nine hundred dollars, and thirty-one cents.
To the purveyor of public supplies, seven hundred dollars.
To the superintendent of stamps, three hundred and seventy-seven dollars, and seventy-eight cents.
To the commissioner of loans of Pennsylvania, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Expenses allowed not to exceed the sums appropriated by law.
[Obsolete.]
Repeal of the acts of last session, relative to the judiciary.
Act of Feb. 13, 1801, ch. 4, repealed.
Act of March 3, 1801, ch. 32, repealed.
Revival of former acts.
Act of March 23, 1804, ch. 31.(b)
Continuance of suits to the circuit and district courts reestablished by this act.
Writs and process issued under the acts repealed, to be returned to the next circuit or district court reestablished by this act.
Military peace establishment.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78. Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 106. Act of April 14, 1818, ch. 56. Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 12.
How composed.
One regiment of artillerists—its complement of officers, privates, &c.
To be formed into battalions:
Certain lieutenants may be retained in service, with their present grade—new appointments in case of vacancies.
Two regiments of infantry, their complements of officers and privates, &c.
One brigadier-general, &c. to be appointed.
Paymasters.
Military agents.
Monthly pay to the officers, non-commissioned officers, privates, &c.
Rations to be furnished in proportion to rank.
Component parts of a ration.
Certain officers to receive money in lieu of forage, when not furnished by the public, and how much.
The troops to be furnished with uniform clothing.
The Secretary of War may supply surplus clothing, to be furnished the men at contract prices.
The new corps to be arranged out of the corps now in service.
Supernumeraries to be discharged, and when.
The corps to be governed by the articles and rules of war now in force—and such others as may be made;—sentences of general courts martial, with their proceedings, to be laid before the President, in certain cases.
Compensation to recruiting officers for each recruit, of a par-
ticular description.
This regulation not to extend to musicians and soldiers re-enlisted;—no one to be enlisted but with the consent of the person having the legal care of him.
Penalty for infringing this provision.
Bounty to a recruit.
Payment, part to be deferred.
Arrears of pay not exceed two months if avoidable.
Officers and privates may be placed on the pension list in certain cases, at specified rates.
Not to be exceeded.
Inferior disabilities to entitle to proportionate allowances.
Provision for the widow, or children under sixteen, of a commissioned officer, who dies from wounds received in the service of the U. States.
In case of the death or marriage of the widow to enure to the benefit of the children: determinable with their deaths.
Paymaster to act according to the directions of the President.
To give bond, with sureties for the faithful discharge of his office.
To take an oath of office
To appoint certain paymasters from the line, with the President’s approbation.
Authorized to require them to give bonds with sureties.
Duties of military agents prescribed.
They shall account with the department of war.
Additional penalty to noncommissioned officers, &c. for desertion.
They may be tried and punished, if apprehended after the term for which enlisted.
Persons concerned in procuring or assisting in the desertion of soldiers, or who shall purchase their uniform clothing, may be fined or imprisoned at the discretion of certain courts.
Oath to be taken by officers, musicians and privates.
In case of a general court martial the President may appoint a judge advocate.
An additional allowance to the judge advocate.
Brigadier-general to appoint in cases that the President does not.
Provision to commissioned officers for extra expenses in travelling to and sitting on general courts martial.
Non-commis-
sioned officers and privates to be free from arrests for debts under twenty dollars, contracted before enlistment, and for all while in service.
Allowance to officers and soldiers, upon being discharged except by way of punishment.
Additional allowance to officers deranged by this act.
President may organize a corps of engineers.
Of whom it shall consist.
Pay of cadets.
President may make promotions therein within certain limitations.
Corps of engineers to be stationed at West Point, and to form a military academy, but to go to and do duty in other places as the President shall direct.
The principal engineer, and in his absence the next in rank, to superintend the military academy.
The secretary of war to procure the necessary books, &c.
Repeal of laws within the purview of this.
Saving clause.
Collector of the customs at Edenton to permit the landing
of salt at fisheries and other places in his district.
In other respects the usual regulations to be observed.
Act of 1799, ch. 22, sec. 53, 56.
Inspectors or other officers of the customs entitled to accommodations from the vessels.
And to pecuniary compensations if more than fifteen days be spent therein.
[Obsolete.]
Collectors to provide lists of lands taxable.
Act of July 9, 1798, ch. 75.
Transcripts of which to be published, and how.
Payment within six months.
Lands to be sold on failure of payment.
Tax and costs a lien on land till discharged.
Tracts parcelled may pay in proportion.
Provision for sale of lands of persons not named correctly.
1798, ch. 75.
Right of redemption secured under regulations.
Secretary of the Treasury authorized to augment compensation of officers.
1798, ch. 70.
The acts which are no longer in force, have been: An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, July 22, 1790, chap. 33—Expired. An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, March 1, 1793.—Repealed by act of May 19, 1796, chap. 30. An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers, May 19, 1796, chap. 25.—Expired. An act for the preservation of peace with the Indian tribes, January 17, 1800, chap. 5.—Expired. An act supplementary to the “act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers,” April 22, 1800, chap. 30.—Expired.
The acts now in operation and force, are: An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers, March 30, 1802, chap. 13; an act erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof, March 26, 1804, chap. 38, sec. 15; an act supplementary to the act passed the thirtieth of March, one thousand eight hundred and two, to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers, April 29, 1816, chap. 165; an act to provide for the punishment of certain crimes and offences committed within the Indian boundaries, March 3, 1817, chap. 92; an act to amend an act entitled, “An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers,” approved thirteenth March, one thousand eight hundred and two, May 6, 1822, chap. 54; an act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers, June 30, 1834, ch. 161. Also ch. 162.
Act of April 29, 1816, ch. 165.
Act of March, 1817, ch. 43.
Act of May 6, 1822, ch. 54.
Boundaries to be established according to treaties, to be marked.
Beginning thereof.
Indian boundary described.
Boundary terminates.
Indian boundary may be varied by treaties and the act to apply.
Line not to be crossed.
Penalty for trespass.
No one to go into the Indian country without a passport.
By whom passports to be granted.
Penalty for going into the Indian territory without a passport.
Offences in the Indian territory punishable.
Penalties.
Indians not to be remunerated if they use violence.
No settlement or survey to be made.
Penalties.
Military force may be employed against intruders.
Murder of Indians punishable with death.
Traders who reside must have a license.
Licenses not to exceed two years.
Bond to be given by licensed traders.
License may be recalled for misconduct.
Goods of unlicensed traders forfeited.
Further penalty.
Articles which shall not be purchased from Indians.
Penalty.
Horses not to be bought or sold without license.
Fifteen days notice before sale of a horse, and description given.
Penalties.
Agents of the public not to trade.
No purchases from Indians but under treaties.
Misdemeanor to attempt procuring them in any other manner.
How punishable.
Exception as to states making purchases in a certain manner.
President authorized to use means of civilizing the Indians.
Means limited.
Means of redress prescribed for transgression of Indians.
Party injured loses his remedy if he seeks private revenge or redress.
But this does not exempt the Indian offending from legal apprehension in U. States.
How property is to be paid for.
What courts have jurisdiction in these cases.
Persons crossing the line and going into the Indian country contrary to this act, how to be dealt with.
Military not to use violence.
Violators of this law, if found within the U. S. how punishable.
How penalties are to be fixed.
To whose benefit.
Trade and intercourse with Indians under circumstances described not forbidden by this act.
President to cause boundaries to be ascertained and marked.
He may take measures to prevent the sale of spirituous liquors to the Indians.
This act to be in force from its date.
Proceedings under not to be affected by act of Feb. 19, 1799, ch. 8.
It was doubted whether a state can be seised in fee of lands subject to the Indian title, and whether a decision that they were seised in fee, might not be construed to amount to a decision that their grantee might maintain an ejectment for them, notwithstanding that title. The majority of the court is of opinion that the nature of the Indian title, which is certainly to be respected by all courts until it be legitimately extinguished, is not such as to be absolutely repugnant to a seisin in fee on the part of the state. Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch, 87; 2 Cond. Rep. 308.
The acts of assembly of North Carolina, passed between the years 1783 and 1789, avoid all entries, surveys, and grants of land set apart for the Cherokee Indians, and no title can be acquired to those lands. Danforth’s Lessee v. Thomas, 1 Wheat. 155; 3 Cond. Rep. 524.
The boundaries of the reservation made by the laws of North Carolina, have been altered by treaties with the Indians; but it seems that the mere extinguishment of their title does not subject the land to entry, unless expressly authorized by the legislature. Ibid.
The condition of the Indians, in relation to the United States, is perhaps unlike that of any other two people in existence. In general, nations not owing a common allegiance, are foreign to each other. The term foreign nation, is with strict propriety applicable by either to the other. But the relation of the Indians to the United States, is marked by peculiar and cardinal distinctions, which exist no where else. The Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia, 5 Peters, 1.
The Indians are acknowledged to have an unquestionable, and heretofore an unquestioned right to the lands they occupy, until that right shall be extinguished by a voluntary cession to the government. It may well be doubted, whether those tribes which reside within the acknowledged boundaries of the United States, can with strict accuracy be denominated foreign nations. They may more correctly, perhaps, be denominated domestic dependent nations. They occupy a territory to which we assert a title, independent of their will, which must take effect in point of possession, when their right of possession ceases; meanwhile they are in a state of pupilage. Their relations to the United States resemble that of a ward to his guardian. They look to our government for protection; rely upon its kindness and its power; appeal to it for relief to their wants; and address the President as their great father. Ibid.
The treaties and laws of the United States, contemplate the Indian territory as completely separated from that of the states; and provide that all intercourse with them shall be carried on exclusively by the government of the Union. Worcester v. The State of Georgia, 6 Peters, 515.
The Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent political communities, retaining their original natural rights, as the undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial; with the single exception of that imposed by irresistible power, which excluded them from intercourse with any other European potentate, than the first discoverer of the coast of the particular region claimed: and this was a restriction which those European potentates imposed on themselves, as well as on the Indians. The very term “nation,” so generally applied to them, means “a people distinct from others.” The constitution, by declaring treaties already made, as well as those to be made, to be the supreme law of the land, has adopted and sanctioned the previous treaties with the Indian nations, and, consequently, admits their rank among those powers who are capable of making treaties. The words “ treaty” and “nation” are words of our own language, selected in our diplomatic and legislative proceedings, by ourselves; having each a definite and well understood meaning. We have applied them to Indians, as we have applied them to other nations of the earth. They are applied to all in the same sense. Ibid.
One uniform rule seems to have prevailed in the British provinces in America, by which Indian lands were held and sold, from their first settlement, as appears by their laws; that friendly Indians were protected in the possession of the lands they occupied, and were considered as owning them by a perpetual right of possession in the tribe or nation inhabiting them, as their common property, from generation to generation, not as the right of the individuals located on particular spots. Subject to this right of possession, the ultimate fee was in the crown, and its grantees; which could be granted by the crown or colonial legislatures, while the lands remained in possession of the Indians; though possession could not be taken without their consent. Mitchell v. United States, 9 Peters, 711.
Individuals could not purchase Indian lands without permission or license from the crown, colonial governors, or according to the rules prescribed by colonial laws; but such purchases were valid with such license, or in conformity with the local laws: and by this union of the perpetual right of occupancy with the ultimate fee, which passed from the crown by the license, the title of the purchaser became complete. Ibid.
Indian possession or occupation was considered with reference to their habits and modes of life; their hunting grounds were as much in their actual possession, as the cleared fields of the whites; and their rights to its exclusive enjoyment in their own way, and for their own purposes, were as much respected, until they abandoned them, made a cession to the government, or an authorized sale to individuals. In either case their rights became extinct, the lands could be granted disencumbered of the right of occupancy, or enjoyed in full dominion by the purchasers from the Indians. Such was the tenure of Indian lands by the laws of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Ibid.
Grants made by the Indians at public councils, since the treaty at Fort Stanwick’s, have been made directly to the purchasers, or to the state in which the land lies, in trust for them, or with directions to convey to them; of which there are many instances of large tracts so sold and held; especially in New York. Ibid.
It was an universal rule, that purchases made at Indian treaties, in the presence, and with the approbation of the officer under whose direction they were held by the authority of the crown, gave a valid title to the lands; it prevailed under the laws of the states after the revolution, and yet continues in those where the right to the ultimate fee is owned by the states, or their grantees. It has been adopted by the United States, and purchases made at treaties held by their authority, have been always held good by the ratification of the treaty, without any patent to the purchasers from the United States. This rule in the colonies was founded on a settled rule of the law of England, that by his prerogative, the king was the universal occupant of all vacant lands in his dominions, and had the right to grant them at his pleasure, or by his authorized officers. Ibid.
When the United States acquired and took possession of the Floridas, the treaties which had been made with the Indian tribes, before the acquisition of the territory by Spain and Great Britain, remained in force over all the ceded territory, as the laws which regulated the relations with all the Indians who were parties to them, and were binding on the United States, by the obligation they had assumed by the Louisiana treaty, as a supreme law of the land, which was inviolable by the power of Congress. They were also binding as the fundamental law of Indian rights; acknowledged by royal orders, and municipal regulations of the province, as the laws and ordinances of Spain in the ceded provinces, which were declared to continue in force by the proclamation of the governor in taking possession of the provinces; and by the acts of Congress, which assured all the inhabitants of protection in their property. It would be an unwarranted construction of these treaties, laws, ordinances and municipal regulations, to decide that the Indians were not to be maintained in the enjoyment of all the rights which they could have enjoyed under either, had the provinces remained under the dominion of Spain. It would be rather a perversion of their spirit, meaning and terms, contrary to the injunction of the law under which the court acts, which makes the stipulations of any treaty, the laws and ordinances of Spain, and these acts of Congress, so far as either apply to this case, the standard rules for its decision. Ibid.
The treaties with Spain and England, before the acquisition of Florida by the United States, which guarantied to the Seminole Indians their lands according to the right of property with which they possessed them, were adopted by the United States; who thus became the protectors of all the rights they had previously enjoyed, or could of right enjoy under Great Britain or Spain, as individuals or nations, by any treaty, to which the United States thus became parties in 1803. Ibid.
The Indian right to the lands as property, was not merely of possession, that of alienation was concomitant; both were equally secured, protected and guarantied by Great Britain and Spain, subject only to ratification and confirmation by the license, charter or deed from the governor representing the king. Such purchases enabled the Indians to pay their debts, compensate for their depredations on the traders resident among them to provide for their wants; while they were available to the purchasers as payment of the considerations which at their expense had been received by the Indians. It would have been a violation of the faith of the government to both, to encourage traders to settle in the province, to put themselves and property in the power of the Indians, to suffer the latter to contract debts, and when willing to pay them by the only means in their power, a cession of their lands, withhold an assent to the purchase, which by their laws or municipal regulations, was necessary to vest a title. Such a course was never adopted by Great Britain, in any of her colonies, nor by Spain in Louisiana or Florida. Ibid.
The laws made it necessary, when the Indians sold their lands, to have the deeds presented to the governor for confirmation. The sales by the Indians transferred the kind of right which they possessed; the ratification of the sale by the governor, must be regarded as a relinquishment of the title of the crown to the purchaser; and no instance is known where permission to sell has been “refused, or the rejection of an Indian sale.” Ibid.
The colonial charters, a great portion of the individual grants by the proprietary and royal governments, and a still greater portion by the states of the Union after the revolution, were made for lands within the Indian hunting grounds. North Carolina and Virginia to a great extent paid their officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war by such grants, and extinguished the arrears due the army by similar means. It was one of the great resources which sustained the war, not only by those states, but by other states. The ultimate fee, encumbered with the right of Indian occupancy, was in the crown previous to the revolution, and in the states of the Union afterwards, and subject to grant. This right of occupancy was protected by the political power, and respected by the courts, until extinguished, when the patentee took the unencumbered fee. So the supreme court and the state courts have uniformly held. Clark v. Smith, 13 Peters, 195.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriation for the expenses of establishing the boundary line between the U. States and Upper Canada.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriation.
[Obsolete.]
Repeal of the acts imposing duties on certain things after 30th June, 1802.
Provisions of these acts still to be in force with respect to the recovery of what may be due under them.
The office of superintendent of stamps abolished, and when.
The commissioner of revenue to perform certain duties under this act.
Collectors of the internal duties to be continued till their collections are complete, unless sooner discontinued by the President.
Supervisors to continue in office in the same manner.
Certain collectors may be appointed by the President, and made removeable at his pleasure.
They are to be accountable to the treasury department.
President may make an additional allowance for the collection of outstanding duties.
Allowance limited to five per cent.
Office of commissioners of the revenue to be discontinued and when; it may be sooner discontinued by the President.
Provision in case of its discontinuance.
Stamped bonds, &c. not stamped according to law, may be rendered valid, and how.
Owners of stills, &c. to pay according to their option, in certain cases.
Owners of snuff mills.
Banks to pay one per cent, per annum, in lieu of stamp duties until 30th June, 1822.
Retailers of wines and spirits.
Supervisor of the Northwest district allowed an annual salary, in addition to his commission for clerk hire.
Extra allowances for clerk hire to certain supervisors.
Annual entries of stills to be no longer made.
Certain certificates to be furnished by collectors, designated by the Secretary of the Treasury.
And the inspectors to whom delivered, to account to them for all such.
Allowance to the collectors for preparing and delivering certificates.
Stamped paper on hand, upon which a duty has been paid, may be given up, and the money paid, refunded.
Land on which lighthouse on Gurnet Point stood, to be purchased.
Secretary of the Treasury authorized to procure one or more lanterns.
Lighthouse on the Gurnet to be rebuilt.
Secretary of the Treasury authorized to cause a lighthouse to be rebuilt.
On what condition.
A lighthouse to be erected on. Lynde’s Point.
To appoint a keeper.
On what condition to be rebuilt.
Lighthouses to be built between Long Island and the main.
Keepers to be appointed.
On what conditions to be built.
A lighthouse to be built at the entrance of St. Mary’s river.
Appropriations to reimburse certain merchants.
Sum appropriated for public piers in the river Delaware.
On what conditions.
[Obsolete.]
Compensation for taking the census to be apportioned.
1800, ch. 12.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriation.
Act relative to the improvement of the Appomatox, assented to.
[Obsolete.]
Former act revived and continued.
March 2, 1799, ch. 38.
For what time.
1800, ch. 64.
Part of a former law not to operate upon unregistered ships, &c.
In certain cases.
Upon proof, the Secretary of the Treasury to cause a certificate to be issued to an unregistered ship or vessel, entitling her to certain privileges.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 47. Act of July 30, 1813, ch. 36. Act of March 22, 1816, ch. 32. Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 186.
An alien may become a citizen of the United States.
On what conditions.
To declare on oath or affirmation in the supreme or superior court,or district or circuit, court of some of the states or of the U. States, three years before his admission, his intention to renounce forever his allegiance to any sovereign or state of which he is a subject.
To swear or affirm that he will support the Constitution of the U. States.
That he shall have resided in the U. States five years before he shall be admitted a citizen.
Shall prove that he is a man of good moral character and attached to the Constitution of the U. States.
Shall renounce every title of nobility held by him.
On what conditions an alien may be naturalized, who resided in the U. States after the 29th January, 1795
Proceedings to be recorded by the clerk of the court.
Provision in favour of persons residing in the U. States between the 29th January, 1795, and the 18th June, 1798.
Mode of naturalization prescribed.
Free white persons arriving in the U. States to be registered.
Form of register.
What courts are to be considered as capable of naturalizing aliens.
Children of persons naturalized under certain laws to be citizens of the United States.
Privilege of citizenship not to extend to children of persons who have never resided in the U. States.
Or to persons prescribed, &c.
Repeal of former acts.
Act of March 1, 1800, ch. 13. Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 30.
How the holders of certain warrants for military services, or register’s certificates, may register or locate the same.
Provision with respect to certain register’s certificates.
Secretary of War to receive claims to lands, and for duplicates of warrants, suggested to have been lost.
To report the same to Congress, with his opinion.
Supreme court to be holden at Washington, by any four justices.
Sessions to commence on the first Monday of February annually.
Business to be continued over if a quorum does not attend.
One of the justices may make rules, &c.
Part of act of September 24, 1789, ch. 20, providing for a session of the Supreme Court in August, repealed.
Associate justice living in the fourth circuit, to attend at the city of Washington.
When.
For what purpose.
By the act of May 4, 1826, chap. 37, the sessions of the supreme court were directed to commence on the first Monday in January annually: and by the act, of June 17, 1844, the sessions are to commence on the first Monday of December annually.
1839, ch. 35.
To be attended also by the clerk.
Certain proceedings made returnable to August session.
Act of February 13, 1801, ch. 4.
Districts formed into circuits. Circuits formed. First circuit.
The districts of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, shall constitute the first circuit;
The districts of Connecticut, New York and Vermont, shall constitute Second circuit.
The districts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania shall constitute the Third circuit.
The districts of Maryland and Delaware shall constitute the fourth Fourth circuit.
The districts of Virginia and North Carolina shall constitute the fifth Fifth circuit.
The districts of South Carolina and Georgia shall constitute the sixth Sixth circuit.
The inferior courts of the United States, are all of limited jurisdiction, but they are not on that account inferior courts, in the technical sense of those words, whose judgments taken alone, are to be disregarded. If the jurisdiction be not alleged in the proceedings, they are erroneous, but they are not nullities. M‘Cormick et al. v. Sullivant et al., 10 Wheat. 192; 6 Cond. Rep. 71.
The justices of the supreme court have by practice and acquiescence under it, for a period of several years, commencing with the organization of the judicial system, sat as circuit judges: this practical exposition is too strong to be shaken or controlled. Stuart v. Laird, 1 Cranch, 299; 1 Cond. Rep. 316.
The circuit court has jurisdiction on a bill in equity, filed by the United States, against the debtor of their debtor, they claiming a priority under the fifty-fifth section of the act of March 2, 1799, notwithstanding the local law of the state allows a creditor to proceed against the debtor of his debtor by a peculiar process. The United States v. Howland et al., 4 Wheat. 108 ; 4 Cond. Rep. 404.
And there shall be holden annually in each district of the said circuits, Two circuit courts to be held in each district. Altered by act of June 17, 1844. First circuit, of whom the court is to consist, and the time of its session. 1812, ch. 45.
In the second circuit, the said circuit court shall consist of the senior Second circuit court, its sessions where to be held. Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 40. Act of March 9, 1808, ch. 29, sec. 1.
Third circuit court, its sessions. Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 32.
Fourth circuit court, its sessions.
Fifth circuit court, its sessions. Act of February 4, 1807, ch. 5.
Sixth circuit court, its sessions. 1807, ch. 16. At Charleston. Columbia. Savannah. Louisville. Provisions if the judges do not attend. One judge may adjourn the court. 1808, ch. 29. Clerks of district to be clerks of circuit courts. With an exception. justices of the supreme court to allot themselves among the circuits. Allotment to be entered on record. If they fail to do it, the President may make the allotment. Allotment to be binding until another is made. Powers of the circuit courts. In writs of error and appeal, the opinion of the justice of the supreme court to prevail.
In case of disagreement in opinion of the judges of the circuit court, that of the supreme court upon the point stated to be conclusive.
The law which empowers the supreme court to take cognizance of questions adjourned from a circuit court, gives jurisdiction over the single point on which the judges were divided; not over the whole cause. Wayman et al. v. Southard et al., 10 Wheat. 1 ; 6 Cond. Rep. 1.
Where the court is equally divided, the decree of the court below is of course affirmed, so far as the point of division goes. The Antelope, 10 Wheat. 66 ; 6 Cond. Rep. 30.
The supreme court has no jurisdiction in a case in which the judges of the circuit court have divided in opinion upon a motion for a rule to show cause why the taxation of the costs of the marshal on an execution should not be reversed and corrected. Bank of the United States v. Green and others, 6 Peters, 26.
Where the court is equally divided in opinion upon a writ of error the judgment of the inferior court is affirmed. Etting v. The Bank of the United States, 11 Wheat. 59; 6 Cond. Rep. 216. Where a case is certified to the supreme court upon a division of opinion of the judges of the circuit court, and the points upon which they were so divided, are too imperfectly stated to enable the supreme court to pronounce any opinion upon them, it will neither award a venire facias de novo, nor certify any opinion to the court below, but will merely certify that they are too imperfectly stated. Perkins v. Hart’s Ex’rs, &c., 11 Wheat. 237; 6 Cond. Rep. 287.
It appeared on a certificate from the circuit court of the United States of Pennsylvania, that the judges of the court were divided on a motion in arrest of judgment. Held, that judgment must be given on the verdict. United States v. Worrall, 2 Dall. 338.
Where a case is certified from a circuit court of the United States, the judges of the circuit court having differed in opinion upon questions of law which arose on the trial of the cause; the supreme court cannot be called upon to express an opinion on the whole facts of the case, instead of upon particular points of law, growing out of the same. Adams, Cunningham & Co. v. Jones, 12 Peters, 207.
The intention of Congress, in passing the act authorizing a division of opinion of the judges of the circuit courts of the United States to be certified to the supreme court was, that a division of the judges of the circuit court, upon a single and material point, in the progress of the cause, should be certified to the supreme court for its opinion; and not the whole cause. When a certificate of division brings up the whole cause, it would be, if the court should decide it, in effect, the exercise of original, rather than appellate jurisdiction. White v. Turk et al., 12 Peters, 238.
This case came up to the supreme court, from the circuit court, upon a division of opinion between the judges of the court. It was decided by the supreme court, that the question certified would, alone, be considered ; each party being left to bring up the whole case from the circuit court, by a writ of error. Ogle v. Lee, 2 Cranch, 33.
The question certified from the circuit court of North Carolina, was, “whether the act of assembly, (of North Carolina,) entitled, an act concerning proving wills, and to prevent frauds in the management of intestates’ estates, passed in 1715, recited in the plea of the defendants, was, under all the circumstances stated, and the various acts passed by the legislature of North Carolina, a bar to this action.” The certificate stated, that the 9th section of the act had been pleaded by the defendant, in bar to the action. The certificate of the division was granted on the motion of the plaintiff, by his counsel; and at his request, a statement of the facts, “made under the direction of the judges,” was certified. The certificate, thus made out, set forth all the laws of North Carolina, which operated on the question certified ; and stated the questions which arose in the cause, on which the opinions of the judges were divided. The court decided in favour of the plaintiff. Ogden, Adm’r of Cornell v. Blackledge, Ex’r of Sater, 2 Cranch, 272; 1 Cond. Rep. 411.
The certificate of division of opinion by the judges of the circuit court of Virginia, stated, “In this cause it occurred as a question, whether Hepburn and Dundas, the plaintiffs in this cause, who are citizens and residents in the District of Columbia; and are so stated in the pleadings; can maintain an action in the supreme court against the defendant, who is a citizen and inhabitant of the district and the commonwealth of Virginia, and is also stated so to be in the pleadings: or whether, for want of jurisdiction, the said suit ought to be dismissed.” It was certified that the circuit court had no jurisdiction in the case. Hepburn and Dundas v. Ellzey, 2 Cranch, 445; 1 Cond. Rep. 444.
This case was certified from the circuit court of Pennsylvania, the judges being divided in opinion upon the question, “ whether, in the state of the pleadings, the judgment ought to be rendered for the plaintiffs.” The supreme court said—Judgment, therefore, on the pleadings, must be rendered for the plaintiffs. Mr. Chief Justice Marshall, who delivered the opinion of the court, said: “By the twenty-sixth section of the judicial act, it is directed that, in cases of this description, the court shall render judgment for so much as is due according to equity. And when the sum for which judgment is to be rendered is uncertain, the same shall, if either of the parties request it, be assessed by a jury. In this case, it is the opinion of a majority of the court, that the judgment ought to be rendered for so much as remains due of the sum of one hundred and seventy thousand guilders, calculating interest thereon from the 1st of March, 1803; and if either of the parties request it, that a jury be empannelled to ascertain the value of this sum in money of the United States.” United States v. Gurney and others, 4 Cranch, 333; 2 Cond. Rep. 132.
This case was certified on division of opinion of the judges of the circuit court, on a motion in arrest of judgment, the question being, whether the assignee of a part of a patent right, cannot maintain an action on the case, for a violation of the patent right. 6 Cranch, 324.
In this case, the question certified, on which the judges of the circuit were divided in opinion, was whether a writ of habere facias possessionem should be issued; the defendant, in the circuit court of
Maryland, having obtained, in a state court, an order for the injunction of the proceedings in the circuit court. The supreme court directed that the writ be issued. M‘Kim v. Voorhies, 7 Cranch, 279; 2 Cond. Rep. 492.
The defendant was indicted in the circuit court of Vermont, under embargo laws, for loading carriages with pearl ashes, with intent to export them. The jury found him guilty ; and that the ashes were worth two hundred and eighty dollars. The defendant moved in arrest of judgment, for defect in the finding ; and on the question presented by the motion, the judges were divided in opinion ; which division was certified to the supreme court. United States v. John Tyler, 7 Cranch, 285; 2 Cond. Rep. 492.
The question certified to the supreme court, from the circuit court of West Tennessee, was on the construction of the act of the legislature of Tennessee, relative to possession of lands. Patton’s Lessee v. Easton, 1 Wheat. 476; 3 Cond. Rep. 631.
The supreme court of the United States has no jurisdiction of causes brought before it, on a certificate of division of opinion of the judges of the circuit court, for the District of Columbia. The appellate jurisdiction extends, only, to the final judgment and decrees of that court. Ross v. Triplett, 3 Wheat. 600 ; 4 Cond. Rep. 351.
The question referred to the supreme court, by a certificate of division between the judges of the circuit court, on facts stated by the court, was, whether the circuit court of Kentucky could take jurisdiction of a case, when one of the grants for the land in controversy was issued out by the state of Virginia, the other by the state of Kentucky, both grants being founded upon warrants and locations made under the laws of Virginia. Colson v. Lewis, 2 Wheat. 377 ; 4 Cond. Rep. 168.
The facts of the case being found by a special verdict, and the judges being divided in opinion on questions arising on the verdict, the questions were certified to the supreme court. Somerville’s Ex’rs v. Hamilton, 4 Wheat. 230; 4 Cond. Rep. 436.
The difference of opinion of the judges of the circuit court of Delaware, was, whether certain depositions taken under a commission issued from the circuit court of Delaware, could be read in evidence. This difference was certified to the supreme court, and the question decided. Sergeant’s Lessee v. Biddle et al., 4 Wheat. 508 ; 4 Cond. Rep. 522.
On an indictment for manslaughter, the defendant was found guilty, subject to the opinion of the court, whether the circuit court of Pennsylvania had jurisdiction in a case where the offence was committed on board an American ship, lying in the river Tigris, off Wampoa, in the empire of China. On the question of jurisdiction, the judges were divided in opinion, and the division was certified to the supreme court; and was decided in favour of the defendant. United States v. Wiltberger, 5 Wheat. 76 ; 4 Cond. Rep. 593.
The jury found a special verdict, in the circuit court of Virginia, on a trial of an indictment for piracy ; and on a motion to arrest the judgment, the question whether the acts charged against the defendant, and found by the jury, was a piracy by the law of nations, so as to be punishable under the act of Congress of 3d March, 1819, was presented; and the judges of the circuit court were divided in opinion ; and thereupon, the question was certified to the supreme court. United States v. Smith, 5 Wheat. 153 ; 4 Cond. Rep. 619.
The prisoners were found guilty in the circuit court of Massachusetts, for murder on the high seas, out of the jurisdiction of a particular state. The counsel of the prisoners moved the court for a new trial for the misdirection of the court on points of law which arose during the trial. The judges of the court being opposed in opinion upon questions presented with the motion; the indictment, and a statement of the evidence, were certified to the supreme court. United States v. Holmes et al., 5 Wheat. 412; 4 Cond. Rep. 708.
The defendant was indicted in the circuit court of South Carolina, charging him with wickedly and maliciously concealing a murder committed on the high seas, of which he had knowledge. The judge charged the jury, that the concealment, under the circumstances, was sufficient to convict the defendant, and the jury found him guilty. On a motion to arrest the judgment, and for a new trial, the judges were opposed in opinion on the motion, which was certified to the supreme court. The supreme court said, a motion for a new trial is not a part of the proceedings of the case. The question must be one which arises in a cause depending before the court, relative to a proceeding belonging to the cause. A motion for a new trial has never before been brought to this court on a division of opinion in the circuit court. United States v. Daniel, 6 Wheat. 542; 5 Cond. Rep. 170.
On a trial of a writ of right in the circuit court of Kentucky, the judges of the court differed in opinion on questions as to the constitutionality of certain laws of Kentucky, giving to occupying claimants of land, the value of their improvements. The questions were certified to the supreme court. Green v. Biddle, 8 Wheat. 1; 5 Cond. Rep. 369.
The question certified from the circuit court of Maryland, in this case, was on a motion to instruct the jury, that, on the whole evidence, the plaintiffs cannot sustain their demand. All the evidence given on the trial of the cause was before the supreme court. The supreme court certified their opinion to the circuit court. Willinks v. Hollingsworth, 6 Wheat. 240 ; 5 Cond. Rep. 79.
This was a case certified from the circuit court of New Jersey. The question on which the court was divided was, whether on the special pleadings and demurrer, an alteration in the bond of a collector of taxes, made without the knowledge of his surety, by which the collector was appointed for nine instead of eight townships, discharged the surety from liability for taxes collected after the alteration was made. Miller v. Stewart, 9 Wheat. 680; 5 Cond. Rep. 727.
This cause was certified from the circuit court of the district of Kentucky, upon a division of opinion between the judges of that court, on several questions which occurred, on a motion made by the plaintiff, to quash the marshal’s return on an execution issued on a judgment obtained in that court on a replevin bond ; and also to quash the replevin bond taken on the execution, for the causes assigned in the motion. The court divided in opinion on the points stated in the motion, and the same were certified to the supreme court. Wayman et al. v. Southard, 10 Wheat. 1 ; 6 Cond. Rep. 1.
The defendants, Kelly and others, were indicted in the circuit court of Pennsylvania, for feloniously endeavouring to make a revolt on the high seas, on board of a merchant vessel of the United States. They were found guilty; and their counsel moved to arrest the judgment, on the ground, “that the act of Congress does not define the offence of making a revolt, and that it was not competent to the court to give a judicial definition of a crime heretofore unknown.” The opinions of the judges of the circuit court were divided on this motion, and the same was certified to the supreme court. United States v. Kelly et al., 11 Wheat. 417; 6 Cond. Rep. 370.
An action of general indebitatus assumpsit, was brought in the circuit court of Ohio, for work, labour and services in exploring and surveying lands, showing and selling them, investigating titles, and paying taxes, &c. The plaintiff also filed an additional bill of particulars, stating other services. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, “ if, on points reserved, the court should be of opinion that the law is for the plaintiff; if not, for the defendant.” The opinions of the judges being opposed, the cause was removed to the supreme court, upon a certificate of disagreement upon points stated, and the special verdict. The points were, that the whole evidence and certain letters, show a subsisting and open agreement at the time of action brought; that the whole evidence constitutes a special agreement, &c.; that the plaintiff cannot recover on two items of the account, &c. The supreme court held the points imperfectly stated, and refused to give a certificate of their opinion. Perkins v. Hart’s Ex’r, 11 Wheat. 237 ; 6 Cond. Rep. 287.
In this case, the judges of the circuit court of West Tennessee, after a judgment rendered in the court, divided in opinion as to the amount of the surety bond to be given by the party who applied for a writ of error: whereupon the division was certified to the supreme court. The court were of opinion, that it had no jurisdiction of the question on which the opinions of the judges of the circuit court were opposed; the division of opinion having arisen after a decision of the cause, in the court below. It was certified, accordingly, to the circuit court. Devereaux v. Marr, 12 Wheat. 212; 6 Cond. Rep. 522. In this case, an action of debt was brought in the circuit court of Rhode Island, on two bonds given, conditioned that N. H. should remain a true prisoner within the limits of the prison. The defendant pleaded a discharge from imprisonment by an act of the legislature of Rhode Island. The judges of the circuit court were opposed in opinion, as to the validity of the discharge; and the same was certified to the supreme court. Mason v. Haile, 12 Wheat. 370 ; 6 Cond. Rep. 535.
An action was instituted in the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York, against the drawer, upon nine several bills of exchange, and a verdict was taken for the plaintiffs, subject to the opinion of the court, on a case agreed. The judges of the circuit court being divided in opinion upon certain points, the same was certified to the supreme court. The case stated formed a part of the record sent up to the supreme court. The supreme court directed the opinion of the court to be certified on each of the points, on which the judges of the circuit court had been divided in opinion ; and which were argued before it. Schimmelpennich et al. v. Bayard et al., 1 Peters, 264.
This case came before the court on a certificate of a division of opinion between the judges of the circuit court of the southern district of New York ; the court having divided in opinion on a motion for execution, after a verdict against the sureties of a postmaster, for the plaintiff. The circuit court directed the questions which arose on the motion, and on which they had differed, to be certified to the supreme court. Dox et al. v. The Postmaster General, 1 Peters, 318.
An action was instituted in the circuit court of Kentucky on a promissory note, by the Bank of the United States: and the defendants filed a plea, setting forth circumstances which brought up the question of usury, in the discounting of the note. The plaintiffs demurred; and the judges of the circuit court differed in opinion on the questions raised by the pleadings: 1. Whether the facts set forth in the plea, made out a case of usury. 2. Whether, if there was usury in the case, the note is invalid, so that no recovery can be had thereon. 3. Whether, if not wholly void, a part of the note can be recovered. Bank of the United States v. Owens and others, 2 Peters, 527.
Action on a bill of exchange. A judgment was confessed on a case stated, subject to the opinion of the court, whether the court had jurisdiction of the suit. The judges differed in opinion, and the question on which they divided was certified to the supreme court. Buckner v. Finley and Van Lear, 2 Peters, 586.
A writ of right was brought in the circuit court of the southern district of New York, and the judges of the court were opposed in opinion on questions presented in the trial of the cause, on the pleadings, and on the merits. The record contained all the pleadings, and the evidence given on the trial; and the questions on which the judges were opposed were certified to the supreme court. Inglis v. The Trustees of the Sailor’s Snug Harbor, 3 Peters, 99.
The questions on which the judges of the circuit court of North Carolina were opposed in opinion, arose in an action instituted against the defendant, to recover damages for neglecting to institute a suit against the indorser of a promissory note, until after the remedy was barred by the statute of limitations. The question certified to the supreme court, arose on the finding of the jury for the plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the court, whether the statute of limitations was not a bar to the plaintiff’s action against the defendant. Wilcox et al. v. The Ex’rs of Plummer, 4 Peters, 172. On inspecting the record, it was perceived that the judges of the circuit court of Rhode Island, instead of dividing on one or more points, had divided on the whole case, and had directed the whole case to be certified to the supreme court. Considering this as irregular, the supreme court directed the cause to be remanded to the circuit court, that further proceedings may be had therein according to law. Saunders v. Gould, 4 Peters, 392.
A bill was filed on the equity side of the circuit court of Virginia, and the judges were opposed in opinion on questions arising in the case, as to the appropriation and distribution of the assets of the estate of a testator. These questions were certified to the supreme court. Backhouse v. Patton, 5 Peters, 160.
In an action on a bond to the United States, the judges of the circuit court of Maryland were divided in opinion as to the right of the plaintiffs to recover against the defendants as sureties for a debt due to the United States, by the Bank of Somerset. United States v. Robertson, 5 Peters, 641.
An action of debt was brought on a promissory note in the circuit court for the district of West Tennessee, and the judges of the court were opposed in opinion on questions which arose on the plaintiff’s demurrers to the defendant’s pleas; and also whether the averment of the citizenship of some of the parties to the suit was sufficient. A certificate of this division of opinion was, by the direction of the circuit court, made to the supreme court, according to law. Kirkman v. Hamilton, 6 Peters, 20.
The judges of the circuit court of North Carolina were opposed in opinion, on a question, whether the priority to which the United States are entitled in case of a general assignment made by a debtor, comprehends a bond for duties executed anterior to the assignment, but not payable until after the same. The question was certified to the supreme court. United States v. The State Bank of North Carolina, 6 Peters, 29.
In this case the defendant was indicted and convicted of robbing the United States’ mail, and being pardoned by the President of the United States, a question arose in the circuit court of the United States, whether the defendant should plead the pardon. On this question the judges of the court were opposed in opinion, and the question was certified to the supreme court, for its decision. United States v. Wilson, 7 Peters, 150.
This case was submitted to the circuit court, on a statement of facts agreed upon by the counsel of the plaintiff, and the district attorney of the United States. The whole of the agreed facts were sent up with the record. Upon the trial and statement of facts in the cause, certain questions had occurred, on which the opinions of the judges were opposed; and the points of disagreement were certified to the supreme court for their decision. The court decided on all the questions certified, with one exception. Harris v. Elliott, 10 Peters, 25.
An action of assumpsit was commenced by the plaintiff against the collector of the port of New York, to recover a sum paid to him for duties on certain goods ; the goods not being liable, under the law, to the duties charged by the collector. On the trial of the cause, the judges of the circuit court of the southern district of New York were opposed in opinion, as to the construction of the act of Congress, by which the duties were claimed; and being so opposed in opinion, the question as to the construction of the law was certified to the supreme court for decision. Elliott v. Swartwout 10 Peters 137.
An action of detinue was instituted in the circuit court of West Tennessee, to recover a slave. During the progress of the suit, the defendant died ; and his personal representative moved to dismiss the suit, on the ground that it did not survive. On this motion, the judges of the court were divided in opinion; and the same was certified, for its decision, to the supreme court. Davis v. Braden 10 Peters, 286. ’
A question, whether a plaintiff in ejectment shall be permitted to enlarge the term in the demise is one within the discretion of the court, to which the motion for the purpose is submitted ; and it cannot be certified to the supreme court, if the judges of the circuit court are divided in opinion. Lanning’s Lessee v. Vaughan et al., 10 Peters, 366.
Questions respecting the practice of the circuit court in equity cases, which depend on the sound discretion of the court, in the application of the rules which regulate the course of equity proceedings, to the circumstances of such particular case; are not questions which can be certified, on a division of opinion of the circuit court. Packer v. Nixon, 10 Peters, 408.
The questions certified to the supreme court were, whether, on certain facts which were in evidence in the cause, the deed was admissible in evidence, under the acts of the legislatures of North Carolina and Tennessee ; and whether certain evidence, which was given on the trial, did or did not conduce to prove that the defendants purchased under a particular person. On these questions, the judges of the circuit court of Tennessee were opposed in opinion; and the same were certified, and answered by the supreme court. Denn, Lessee of Scott v. Reid et al., 10 Peters, 524.
An action of debt was instituted on an act of the legislature of New York, to recover certain penalties, for bringing into the state of New York certain paupers, in violation of the provisions of the act. The declaration set out the law of New York, and the breach of its provisions, by the defendant. The defendant demurred to the declaration, and the plaintiff joined in the demurrer. The judges of the circuit court of the southern district of New York were opposed in opinion on the question; whether the act of the legislature of New York, mentioned in the declaration, assumes to regulate commerce between the port of New York and foreign ports. This was certified to the supreme court. City of New York v. Milne, 11 Peters, 102.
The defendant was indicted for forging a bill of the Bank of the United States; and the judges of the circuit court of the United States for the Pennsylvania district, being opposed in opinion, whether the same was a bill of the Bank of the United States, according to the eighteenth section of the act, granting a charter to the bank; the same, with the indictment, was certified to the supreme court for its decision. United States v. Brewster, 7 Peters, 164.
The opinions of the judges of the circuit court of Pennsylvania were opposed in opinion, on a question arising on a demurrer, by the United States, to a plea of autre fois acquit, to an indictment for passing a counterfeit bank note of the Bank of the United States ; and the same was certified to the supreme court. United States v. Randenbush, 8 Peters, 288.
The judges of the circuit court of Massachusetts were opposed in opinion on five points which arose on the trial, before a jury, of the cause; and they were, with all the evidence, certified to the supreme court for its decision. Carrington et al, v, The Merchants’ Ins. Co., 8 Peters, 495.
Decision of the supreme to be remitted to the circuit court and to be of effect.
Imprisonment, &c. not to be inflicted when the court is divided.
North Carolina district divided into three districts.
Names of the districts.
Act of February 4, 1807, ch. 5, sec. 2.
Vol. i. p. 217, 253, 518.
District of Cape Fear court to be holden at Wilmington.
Act of February 4, 1807, ch. 5, sec. 2.
Circuit and district courts for North Carolina to appoint their clerks.
Where they shall reside and keep their records.
Their duties, fees and emoluments.
Continuance of suits depending in the circuit courts on the first day of July, 1802.
The clerks to take charge of all writs, &c.
Suits depending in the circuit court in the district of Ohio, and in the territory of Indiana to be continued over.
Vol. i. 624.
Cognizance of proceedings under commissions of bankruptcy in certain cases.
Act of February 13, 1801, ch. 4.
Salaries of the district judges of Kentucky and Tennessee.
Vol. i. p. 496.
Act of September 24, 1789, ch. 20. Act of January 31, 1797, ch. 2.
Certain marshals and attornies may be continued.
Act of February 13, 1801, ch. 4.
President to discontinue others.
Act of February 13, 1801, ch. 4.
Marshal’s powers and duties.
Marshals and attornies discontinued, to deliver over papers, &c.
General commissioners of bankruptcy.
Proceedings upon a petition for a commission of bankruptcy.
Act of April 4, 1800, ch. 19. sec. 2.
Allowance to the commissioners and clerk.
To be apportioned out of the bankrupt’s property.
Who may be, or are commissioners already appointed.
In certain cases to finish the business of their appointments.
District court of Virginia to be held at Norfolk.
For Maryland, at Baltimore.
For Georgia, at Savannah.
State of Tennessee divided into two districts.
District judge of Tennessee to hold four annual sessions.
Where.
Act of February 24, 1807, ch. 16, sec. 4.
Clerks to be appointed for East and West Tennessee.
Where to reside—their duties and emoluments.
Marshals for East and West Tennessee—their powers, duties, and emoluments.
Act of February 28, 1799, ch. 19, sec. 4.
The present marshals to continue in office, unless removed by the President.
Attornies for East and West Tennessee.
Their duties and emoluments.
The present district attornies to continue in office, unless removed by the President.
Proceedings, &c., depending in the sixth circuit in certain courts continued over to others.
Terms of the district court of Maine.
Annual session to be holden on the last Tuesday in May.
To what time proceedings therein are returnable.
District court of the U. States to be held in the district of Columbia.
Act of February 27, 1801, ch. 15.
Testimony of witnesses in chancery suits maybe taken in writing.
Cases in which it shall not be taken in writing.
Clerk for the district court of Norfolk.
His place of residence, duties and emoluments.
Terms of the district court of Vermont.
Repealing clause concerning the former sessions of this court.
Act of March 22, 1816, ch. 31.
See vol. i. p. 197.
When a grand jury for the district court of Vermont is to be summoned.
And a petit jury.
Circuit court of the district of Vermont to give certain things in charge to the grand juries.
Special juries to be no longer returned by the clerks.
Marshals to do it in certain cases.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for the extinguishment of the public debt.
See vol. i. p. 138, 218, 279, 338, 370, 410, 432, 488, 512, 562. Debts to individual states, vol. i. p, 49, 178, 616.
Balances of unexpended appropriation, how disposed of.
Appropriations, amount of, to be paid each and every year by the Secretary of the Treasury to the commissioners of the sinking fund.
Reimbursement of the capital of the present debt of the United States, including future loans that may be made, and payments on account of interest, &c. to be under the direction of the commissioners of the sinking fund.
Specific appriations to be applied under the direction of the commissioners.
Demands under treaties, &c. may be satisfied out of other monies.
Commissioners authorized to borrow under the direction of the President for the purpose of obtaining a prolongation of the payment of the Dutch debt.
The loans to be made to be reimbursable within six years.
Rate of interest, and of charges.
Power given not to affect the powers given by former acts.
Not to revive any act for the loan of money, which has expired.
Commissioners authorized to employ the bank of the U. States as an agent, for the payment of the Dutch debt, &c.
Compensation to agent.
Authorized to employ an agent in Europe relative to the said business.
His compensation.
Nothing in this act to affect the provisions of former acts pledging the faith of the U. States.
Restrictions and regulations established by former acts, shall apply to the commissioners under this.
Account of the sales of stocks, &c. to be laid before Congress.
1795, ch. 45.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation for the children of officers, seamen and marines lost in the ship Insurgent, and brigantine Pickering.
[Obsolete.]
Salaries of the Secretary of the Senate, Clerk of the House of Representatives &c.
1806, ch. 23.
Of the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate.
Of the doorkeeper and assistant doorkeeper of the House of Representatives.
Commencement of the salaries.
[Obsolete.]
Additional requisites prescribed for persons claiming to be authors or proprietors of maps, charts or books.
1790, ch. 15.
Same rules prescribed with respect to persons who shall invent, and design, engrave, etch, or work, historical or other prints.
Penalties for engraving, etching or working, or copying and selling a print or prints, without the consent of the owner or owners, in writing.
4 Wash. C. C. R. 48.
A moiety of the forfeiture to any one who shall sue for the same.
Penalties for publishing maps, charts, books or prints, but in the way prescribed by law.
Limitation of action in cases of forfeiture.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Additional compensation to the collector at Richmond.
Discontinued 1804, ch. 58.
Salary to the collector at Petersburg discontinued.
Emoluments of custom-houses limited.
But the provisions of this act not to extend to fines, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Part of the act for regulating foreign coins, &c.
Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 35. sec. 40. Act of Feb. 9, 1793, ch. 5. Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 22.
[Expired.]
A former act revived and continued in force.
Act of April 18, 1796, ch. 13.
1803, ch. 14.
Act of August 7, 1789, ch. 8. Act of May 8, 1792, ch. 42.
The inhabitants of the eastern division of the territory west of the Ohio to form a constitution and become a state.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 21.
Boundaries thereof.
Act of February 19, 1803, ch. 7. Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 240. Act of June 15, 1836, ch. 98.
Territory east thereof at the disposal of Congress.
1805, ch. 5.
What part of territory attached to Indiana.
Qualifications of electors for choosing a convention.
Election districts.
Convention to meet at Chilicothe in November, 1802.
Constitution must be republican.
To have one representative in Congress till next census.
Propositions offered to the convention.
1811, ch. 9.
Commission to cease on first of June, 1802.
Act of July 16, 1790, ch. 28.
To transfer records to a superintendent.
A superintendent to be appointed by the President.
Powers same as commissioners.
1803, ch. 29.
Commissioners shall settle accounts immediately.
Superintendent to pay all obligations contracted by his predecessor.
Lots shall be sold to pay debt to Maryland.
In default of sale, the debt to be paid from public treasury.
Lots to be resold which had not been paid for.
The amount of sales to be applied to the payment of a sum due to Maryland.
Provision in case of a deficiency.
After debts already contracted are discharged monies advanced out of the treasury to be reimbursed by superintendent.
Part of a former act relating to the appointment of a board of commissioners repealed.
Books of subscription to be
opened for completing the canal from the Potomac to the Eastern Branch.
Under whose direction.
Sum to be raised, amount of shares. Act of May 31, 1832, ch. 112.
Subscribers incorporated ;
Empowered to choose a president and four directors.
Shares to entitle the holders to an equal number of votes.
A proxy may act.
Shares to be personal property.
Powers of the president and directors when elected.
Treasurer to give bonds with security.
President and directors may call upon the proprietors for payments on their shares.
When wharfage and tolls are made demandable.
Oath of office to be taken by the president and directors.
A general meeting of the proprietors twice a year.
President and directors to make reports of their proceedings to them.
Certificates to be given by the proprietor to the president and directors.
Rates of wharfage fixed.
Rates of tolls.
Public property free from tolls and wharfage.
In what case the canal is to revert to the U. States.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums, including any sum which may have been, or might be expended during the present year, by virtue of any former appropriation, be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, to defray the expenses of the navy of the United States during the year one thousand eight hundred and two; that is to say:
Specific appropriations.
For medicines, instruments, and hospital stores, ten thousand dollars.
For the purchase of ordnance and other military stores, twenty thousand dollars.
For salaries of superintendents of navy yards, storekeepers and clerks, Specific appropriations.
For the purchase and expense of transportation of timber, and other materials, including ordnance for the seventy-four gun ships, one hundred and ninety thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For the improvement of navy yards, docks and wharves, fifty thousand dollars.
For contingencies, ten thousand dollars.
For the pay and subsistence, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff of the marine corps, seventy-one thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty cents.
For clothing for the same, fifteen thousand five hundred and nineteen dollars.
For military stores for the same, one thousand two hundred and twenty-four dollars and sixty cents.
For the quartermaster’s department, comprising quarters for the officers, and barracks for the men at different stations, fuel, stationery, camp utensils, &c. seven thousand and sixty-one dollars.
For medicine, medical services, and hospital stores, one thousand dollars.
For officers’ travelling expenses, armourers and carpenter’s bills, and other contingent expenses, two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Act of March 3, 1801, ch. 23. Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 29.
Provisions of a former act, under certain modifications, continued in force.
Provisions of that act extended to persons claiming lands between the Miami rivers in certain cases.
Persons claiming lands—who have not obtained certificates of the right of pre-emption.
How such claims are to be settled.
Vacancies in the board of commissioners for that purpose to be filled by the President.
Duties, emoluments, &c. to the members composing it, and the surveyor general continued.
Persons possessing certificates of the right of preemption, allowed time for payment.
Secretary of the Treasury may cause to be opened such roads within the territory northwest of the Ohio as shall promote the sale of public lands.
Limitation of the sum to be expended for that purpose.
How the lands around Vincennes, to which the Indian title remains, are to be surveyed, &c.
Limitation of the expense for that object.
1800, ch. 55.
In cases where a section or fractional section within the seven ranges of townships has been sold.
How to be laid off.
[Obsolete.]
Act of 1799, ch. 22. Act of 1817, ch. 109.
A district formed, to be called the district of East River, from the district of Yorktown, in Virginia.
Port of entry and delivery may be designated by the President, and a collector and surveyor to be appointed by him.
Their compensations.
Bennet’s creek in the district of Edenton to be discontinued, as a port of delivery.
A port of delivery substituted on Salmon creek, at Tombstone.
Surveyor toreside there.
His compensation.
A port of delivery established at the mouth of Slade’s creek.
1799, ch. 23.
1804, ch. 13.
District of Marietta established.
A collector to be appointed to reside at Marietta.
No other port of entry and delivery in the district.
Collector’s salary.
President may establish another port of entry and delivery on the Mississippi—
May appoint a collector to reside there—and one or more surveyors at such places as he shall designate for ports of delivery only on the Mississippi.
No duty to be collected on merchandise not subject to it in other cases, because landed at New Orleans.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22. Act of April 5, 1800. Act of Nov. 25, 1803.
Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President, to prescribe certain forms to prevent frauds in cases of debentures.
Repealed.
Goods brought to ports on the Mississippi from Louisiana, in vessels belonging thereto—to what duties subject.
No duty demandable on the tonnage of boats, fiats, &c. in the districts on the Mississippi.
Cases in which this exemption does not apply.
October 31, 1803, ch. 1.
Collector of the district of Georgetown may reside out of that town.
Vol. i. 627.
[Obsolete.]
That for defraying the several expenses of the military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and two, for the Indian department, for arsenals and armories, and for the erection of fortifications, the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For the pay of the army of the United States, the sum of two hundred and ninety-two thousand two hundred and seventy-two dollars, including therein the sum of sixty thousand dollars appropriated by an act of the present session.
For the subsistence of the army, the sum of two hundred Specific appropriations.
For forage, three thousand eight hundred and four dollars.
For clothing, sixty-six thousand six hundred and thirty dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, ten thousand dollars.
For bounties and premiums, two thousand dollars.
For all expenses of transportation, tents, tools, and the contingent expenses of the war department, sixty-four thousand dollars.
For the pay, subsistence, and clothing of the corps of engineers, seven thousand and ten dollars and eighty cents.
For the Indian department, seventy-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For the expenses incident to the arsenals, magazines, and armories of the United States, sixty-six thousand seven hundred and sixty-six dollars and eighty-eight cents.
For erecting and completing fortifications and barracks, seventy thousand five hundred dollars.
For running certain boundary lines between the Indians and white inhabitants of the United States, and for ascertaining the lines of sundry reserved tracts of land in the Indiana and Northwestern territories, five thousand dollars.
1802, ch. 9.
For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, to be discharged, thirty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
For subsistence, eighteen thousand dollars.
For clothing, twelve thousand dollars.
For forage, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the medical department, two thousand dollars.
For the quartermaster’s department, forty-five thousand dollars.
For bounties and premiums, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For allowance to officers and soldiers who are to be discharged, thirty thousand dollars.
For contingencies, nine thousand dollars.
1800, ch. 62.
Limitation of the compensation to be allowed to a commissioner for holding treaties with Indians, south of the Ohio.
How the several appropriations of this act are to be paid.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations.
That for the expenditure of the civil list, including the contingent expenses of the several departments and officers; for the compensation of clerks in the several loan offices, and for books and stationery for the same: for the payment of annuities and grants, for the support of the mint establishment, for the expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, for the support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims and expenses, the following sums, including therein the sum of one hundred thousand dollars already appropriated, by an act, intituled “An act making a partial appropriation for the support of government during the year one thousand eight hundred and two,” be, and are hereby appropriated, that is to say:
For compensations granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of five months continuance, one hundred and sixty-four thousand five hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty-six cents.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, seventeen thousand dollars.
For extraordinary contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, by resolutions of the house during the present session, including also the expenses of the library of the two houses of Congress, and for printing one thousand copies of the census of the United States, seven thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of new furniture, provided for the House of Representatives, one thousand two hundred and forty-four dollars and eighty-five cents.
For the compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons employed in that department, eleven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
For the incidental and contingent expenses in the said department, twelve thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-one cents.
For expenses of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in receiving and transmitting passports and sea letters, stationery and printing, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Comptroller of the Treasury, clerks and Specific appropriations.
For expense of stationery and printing in the Comptroller’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Auditor of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty dollars and ninety-three cents.
For expense of stationery and printing in the office of the Auditor, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Treasurer, clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-five cents.
For expense of stationery and printing in the Treasurer’s office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Commissioner of the Revenue, clerks and persons employed in his office, (including the wages of two persons employed in counterstamping paper in the said office,) six thousand six hundred and fifty-three dollars and six cents.
For expense of stationery and printing in the office of the Commissioner of the Revenue, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Register of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty-two dollars and one cent
For expense of stationery and printing (including books for the public stocks and for the arrangement of the marine papers) in the Register’s office, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Superintendent of stamps, clerks and persons employed in his office, one thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For expense of stationery and printing in the office of Superintendent of stamps, two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sink-ing fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation of clerks to be employed in the treasury, in addition to those authorized by the act of the second of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, for the purpose of making drafts of the several surveys of lands in the territory of the United States, northwest of the river Ohio, and for keeping the books of the treasury in relation to the sales of lands at the several land-offices, two thousand dollars.
For fuel and other contingent expenses of the treasury department, including therein the sum of one thousand dollars already appropriated, four thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense incident to the stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and two, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For defraying the expense of printing two large tables of imports, for one year, (ending the thirtieth of September, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine,) in American and foreign vessels, including paper furnished for the same, one hundred and sixty-four dollars.
For compensation to a superintendent employed to secure the buildings and records in the treasury department, during the present year, and for nine months service in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, not heretofore appropriated, including the expense of two watch-men, and the repair of fire engines, buckets, &c., one thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of fuel, stationery, printing and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary at War, one thousand dollars.
Specific appropriations.
For contingent expenses in the office of the Accountant of the War department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation of clerks employed in the paymaster-general’s office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel in the said office, ninety dollars.
For compensation to the Purveyor of public supplies, clerks and persons employed in his office, including a sum of seven hundred dollars for 1799, ch. 40.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, nine thousand one hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Accountant of the Navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand one hundred 1799, ch. 40.
For contingent expenses in the office of the Accountant of the Nary, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster-General, Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks and persons employed in the Postmaster-General’s office, and for making good a deficiency in the appropriation for clerk hire in the said office, in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, including a sum of two thousand three hundred dollars for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the second of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, eleven thousand seven hundred and five dollars.
For expense of fuel, candles, stationery, furniture, chests, &.c., exclusive of expenses of suits, prosecutions, mail Jocks, keys, portmanteaus, saddle-bags, blanks for post-offices, advertisements relative to the mail, and other expenses incident to the department at large, these being paid for by the Postmaster-General out of the funds of the office, two thou-sand dollars.
For compensation to the several Loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks to the commissioners of loans, and an allowance to certain Loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan offices, thirteen thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of clerk hire in the office of the commissioner of loans, for the state of Pennsylvania, in addition to the permanent provision made by law, in consequence of the removal of the offices of the treasury department, in the year one thousand eight hundred, to the permanent seat of government, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Surveyor-General, and the clerks employed by him, and
For expense of stationery and other contingent expenses in the Surveyor-General’s office, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For defraying the expense of publishing in the Sciota Gazette, the act providing for the sale of lands in the territory northwest of the river Ohio, and of paper for printing twelve hundred copies of the act providing for the sale of western lands of the United States, eighty-four dollars
For completing certain surveys authorized by acts of Congress passed Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the following officers of the Mint:—
The director, two thousand dollars.
The treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars.
The assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The chief coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The melter and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars.
One clerk, at seven hundred dollars.
And two, at five hundred dollars each.
For the wages of persons employed at the different branches of melting, refining, coining, carpenter, millwright and smith’s work, including the sum of eight hundred dollars per annum, allowed to an assistant coiner and die-forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, seven thousand dollars.
For repairs of furnaces, cost of rollers and screws, bar iron, lead, steel, office furniture, and for all other contingencies of the establishment of the mint, three thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the governor and judges and secretary of the territory northwest of the river Ohio, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of stationery, printing patents for land, and other contingent expenses for lands in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Mississippi territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Indiana territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks of the several departments 1799, ch. 40.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, two thousand dollars.
For the compensation granted by law to the chief justice, associate judges, circuit judges, and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice and two associate judges of the district of Columbia, and to the attorney-general, sixty-eight thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For the like compensations granted to the district attornies, and for defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit and district courts of the United States, including the court for the district of Columbia, jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures and penalties: and likewise for defraying the expenses of prosecution for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, fifty-six thousand nine hundred dollars.
Specific appropriations.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, nine hundred dollars.
For carrying into effect the act of Congress, of the third of February, one thousand eight hundred and two, relative to the officers and crew of the United States schooner Enterprise, one thousand seven hundred and nineteen dollars.
For payment of the annuity granted to the children of the late Colonel John Harding and Major Alexander Trueman, by an act of Congress passed the fourteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred, six hundred dollars.
For payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, for their pensions from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and two, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and three, ninety-three thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars and shoals, and for occasional improvement in the construction of lanterns and lamps, and materials used therein, and other contingent expenses, including commissions to the superintendents of the said lighthouses, at two and a half per centum, forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-one dollars and forty-four cents.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous demands against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, four thousand dollars.
For defraying the contingent expenses of government, twenty thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses of taking the second enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, in addition to the appropriation heretofore made for that object, twenty thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses incident to the purchase or erection of 1799, ch. 12.
For the expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, sixty-four thousand and fifty dollars.
For the salaries of the commissioners under the seventh article of the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, between the United States and Great Britain, including contingent expenses, twenty-four thousand and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For salaries of the agents of the United States, in London and Paris, expenses of prosecuting claims and appeals in the courts of Great Britain, in relation to captures of American vessels, and defending causes elsewhere, twenty-nine thousand dollars.
For the salary of an agent in London for the relief and protection of American seamen, and contingent expenses to be incurred therein; and for relieving seamen elsewhere, fifteen thousand dollars.
1790, ch. 34.
[Obsolete.]
Post roads discontinued.
That the following post roads be discontinued;
From Pelham to Nottingham West, in New Hampshire.
From Hanover to Scituate, in Massachusetts.
From Eridgewater to Taunton.
From New York to Saggharbor, in the state of New York.
From Schenectady to Sandy-hill.
From Salem to Bridgetown, in New Jersey.
From Lumberton, by Elizabethtown, to Andersville, in North Carolina.
From Rockford, by Scull Camp, to Grayson Courthouse.
From Amelia Courthouse, by Pridesville, to Paynsville, in Virginia.
From Washington to Cincinnati.
From Franklin Courthouse to Jackson Courthouse, in Georgia.
From Goldson’s, by Geesbridge, St. Tammany’s, Mecklenburgh Courthouse, Marshall’s store, Christian’s store, Lunenburg Courthouse and Edmund’s store, to Goldson’s.
And be it further enacted, That the following post roads be Nevpost roads established.
In Maine.—From Dennysville to Eastport.
From Machias, by Dennysville, to Scodiac.
In New Hampshire.—From Pelham, by Windham, to Londonderry.
From Haverhill, by Bath and Littleton, to Lancaster.
In Massachusetts.—From Boston, by Easton, to Taunton.
From Hingham, by Cohasset, to Scituate.
From Springfield, by South Hadley, to Northampton.
From Salem, by Topsfield, to Haverhill.
In Vermont—From Middlebury, by New Haven, Moncton, Hinesburg, Williston, Jericho, Essex, Weslford, Fairfax and Sheldon, to Huntsburg; to return from Huntsburg, by Berkshire, Enosburg, Bakersfield, Cambridge, Underhill, Jericho, Richmond, Huntington, Starkaborough and Bristol, to Middlebury.
From Danville, by St. Johnsbury, through Barnet, to return to Ryegate.
In Connecticut.—From Hartford, by Coventry, Windham and Canterbury, to Plainfield.
From Middletown, by Haddam, to Saybrook.
From New Haven, by Woodbridge, Waterbury and Watertown, to Litchfield.
From Norwich, by Lisbon, Canterbury, and Brooklyn, to Pomfret.
In New York.—From New York, by Brooklyn, Jamaica, Hampstead, Merrick, Oysterbay South, Huntington South, Islip, Patchauge Fire-Place, Moriches, West Hampton, Southampton and Bridgehampton, to Saggharbor.
From Hampstead, by Huntington, Smithtown, Brookhaven, and Riverhead, to Southhold.
From Newtown, in the county of Tioga, by Catharinetown, to Geneva.
From Schenectady to Ballstown Springs, Milton, Saratoga Springs, Greenfield, Hadley, Galloway, Charleton, and again to Schenectady.
From Sandy-hill to Fort George, and through the towns of Thermon and Jay, to Plattsburg, and thence to the northern line of said state.
In New Jersey.—From Woodbury, by Bridgetown, Milvilie, Port Elizabeth, and Cape May Courthouse, to Cape Island.
From Somerset Courthouse, by Baskenridge, to Morristown.
New post roads established.
In Pennsylvania,—From Lancaster, by Reading, Allentown, Bethlehem and Stroud’s, to Milford.
From Lebanon to Jonestown.
From Jenkintown, by the Cross-roads and New Hope, to Flemington, New Jersey.
From Chambersburg, by Messersburg, to Bedford.
From Downingtown, by West Chester, Rennet’s Square, and New London Cross-roads, to the Brick Meeting-house, in Maryland.
In Maryland,—From Reisterstown, by M‘Allisterstown, Abbotstown, and Berlin, to Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
From Elkton, by the Brick Meeting-house, to the Rising Sun, Black Horse and Sorrel Horse Taverns, to Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
From Westminster, in Maryland, by Union Mills, Petersburgh and Gettysburgh, to Chambersburg, in Pennsylvania.
From Boonesborough, by Sharpsburg and Hagerstown, to Messersburg, Pennsylvania. The mail from Ellicott’s Mills to Montgomery Courthouse, shall pass by Brookville.
In Delaware.—From Georgetown, by Broadkiln Landing, to Lewistown.
From Newport, by Chatham, Cochran’s and Strasburg, to Lancaster, in Pennsylvania.
From Whitelysburg to Frederica.
From Georgetown, by Bridge Branch, and Northwest Fork Bridge, to Hunting Creek or New Market, Maryland, as the postmaster may direct.
In Virginia.—From Leesburg to Centreville.
From New Dublin, by Tazewell Courthouse, Russel Courthouse, and Lee Courthouse, to Robinson’s Mills, at the foot of Cumberland Moun-tain.
From Cumberland Courthouse to Ca Ira.
From Culpepper Courthouse, by Woodville and Mundell’s store, to New Market, in Shenandoah county.
From Fauquier Courthouse, by Aquia, to King George Courthouse.
From Winchester, by Front-Royal, to Culpepper Courthouse.
From Brooke Courthouse to Steubenville, in the Northwestern Territory.
From Brooke Courthouse to West Liberty.
From Brookington, by Newman’s and Randolph’s taverns, and Den-nis’ store, to Henderson and Fitzgerald’s store.
From Amelia Courthouse, by Perkins’ store, to Painesville.
From Wylliesville, in Charlotte county, by Speed and Wilson’s store, Sterling Yancey’s and Norman’s store, to Person Courthouse, in North Carolina.
From Harrisville, by Field’s mill, Quarlesville, M‘Farland’s store, Lunenburg Courthouse, Christiansville, Marshallsville, Mecklenburg Courthouse and St. Tammany’s; and to return by Geesbridge, Edmund’s store, Field’s mill to Harrisville.
From Richmond Courthouse to Tappahannock.
In North Carolina.—From Plymouth to Robert Winn’s, on Scuppernong river.
From Jonesburg to Pasquotank river bridge.
From Rutherfordstown, by John Gowen’s store, to Greenville Court-house, in South Carolina.
From Wilkes to Ash Courthouse.
The road from Mount Airy to Grayson Courthouse, in Virginia, shall pass by Scull Camp.
In Tennessee.—From Jonesborough to Carter Courthouse.
From Nashville to Franklin. New post roads established.
From Knoxville to Burville.
In South Carolina.—The road from Edgefield to Cambridge, shall pass by Amos Richardson’s, and return by Northampton.
From Monk’s corner over Biggen bridge, by Pineville, Murray’s ferry, Santee, to Kingstree.
In Georgia.—From Oglethorpe Courthouse, by Athens, through Clarksburg, to Jackson Courthouse.
From Riceburg, by Fort James, to Tatnall Courthouse.
In Kentucky.—From Shelbyville to Louisville.
From Danville, by Pulaski Courthouse, to Wayne Courthouse.
In the Northwestern Territory.—From Marietta, by Chilicothe and Williamsburg, to Cincinnati.
Postmaster-General authorized to contract for carrying the mail in coaches from Petersburg to Louisville in Georgia, for a time limited.
Additional expense not to exceed a certain amount.
He may have the mail from Suffield in Connecticut by Windsor, in Vermont, to Dartmouth College, carried in the same way. Under a limitation of expense.
Free white persons to be only employed in carrying the mail.
Penalty for not complying with this provision.
Privilege of franking extended to the Attorney-General, and of receiving letters, &c. free of postage.
Allowances may be made to the postmasters at the distributing offices ;
Limitation thereof.
No allowance if the number of mails is not actually increased by the distributing system.
An additional compensation to
the deputy postmaster at the city of Washington.
This act not to affect existing contracts.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriation.
How to be applied.
[Obsolete.]
Fund provided for the relief of sick and disabled seamen.
Act of July 16, 1798, ch. 77. Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 24.
Sum appropriated for an hospital in Massachusetts.
President may cause accommodations, &c. to be provided for the relief of the U. States seamen at New Orleans, with the consent of the local government.
Masters of boats, rafts, &c. going to New Orleans, down the Mississippi, to make reports of the number of hands, &c.
Penalty for rendering a false account.
Persons navigating such boats, to be considered as seamen of the United States.
President to appoint a director of the marine hospital at New Orleans.
Sick foreign seamen may be admitted in certain cases.
Seamen admitted into the hospital subject to a charge for every day they shall remain therein.
Clearance not to be given by the collector until the money due from the master, as aforesaid, shall be paid.
Accs. against foreign seamen to be made out by the director of the hospital.
Collectors to pay the money they collect into the Treasury of the U. States under this and the act to which this is a supplement.
Director of the marine hospital to account for the money received by him.
Allowed a commission.
February 27, 1801, ch. 15.
Same proceedings may be had against non-residents in the circuit court for the county of Washington as in the general court or court of chancery in Maryland.
Proceedings against non-residents in the circuit court of Alexandria county
to be the same as in the district or high court of chancery in Virginia.
Times of sessions of the circuit courts of Alexandria and Washington counties.
Process heretofore issued.
Causes depending to stand adjourned to these sessions.
These courts have power to hold adjourned sessions.
No capias ad satisfaciendum to be issued where the costs do not exceed twenty dollars.
Executions in such cases to be issued against the goods and chattels of the debtors.
Constables to give bond with surety, approved of by one of the district judges.
Clerk’s fees.
Constable’s fees and commissions.
The act to which this is a supplement not to extend to cases where, by the Virginia and Maryland laws, attachments may issue against the property of absconding debtors.
How taxes are to be levied in the county of Alexandria.
And the poor of the said county provided for.
The laws of Virginia and Maryland adopted by a former act, not to prohibit the owners of slaves from hiring them in and removing them to the district.
Parts of former acts with respect to com-
pensation to justices of the peace and jurors abolished.
Except as to the travelling expenses of jurors.
Jurors to be summoned, &c.
Certain licenses to be granted in the same way as they have been granted by the courts of Maryland and Virginia.
Judges of the circuit court may grant such licenses in vacation.
Marshal authorized to cause a jail to be built in the city of Washington with the President’s approbation.
A limitation of expense and appropriation of money.
Corporation of Georgetown to lay a tax.
For what purpose.
Limitation of the rate of tax and the manner to be enforced and collected.
Articles inspected in one port of the district exempt from further inspection in the district.
President of the U. States to cause the militia of Washington and Alexandria counties to be organized.
To appoint and commission officers, &c.
To call them into service.
Their pay and emoluments while in service.
Act of February 24, 1804, ch. 14. Act
of May 4, 1812, ch. 75, repealed.
Act of Feb. 20, 1819, ch. 34, repealed.
Act of Feb. 28, 1820, ch. 15.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 103, repealed.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 191.
The inhabitants of the city of Washington made a body politic.
Their powers as such.
The city to be divided into wards.
City council to consist of twelve members.
To be divided into two chambers, in what manner.
Council to be annually elected, and by whom.
Judges of elections.
Times of holding the elections.
How long the polls are to be kept open.
When and how the votes are to be counted.
Persons having the greatest number to be notified thereof by the judges, and a return made to the mayor of the city.
How the mayor is to be appointed.
His continuance in office and qualifications.
Where the city council is to hold its sessions, and when.
The mayor may convene it on extra occasions.
What number shall make a quorum to do business in each council.
The two councils may appoint their own officers, &c., and make their own rules and regulations.
The mayor to appoint to all offices under the corporation.
Ordinances to be binding must be approved by him, but in certain cases.
Powers of the corporation prescribed.
Ordinances and by-laws not to be obligatory upon strangers but in certain cases.
How fines, &c. may be recovered.
Taxes may be collected by distress and sale of personal property in certain cases.
No sale but upon previous notice.
No law to be passed subjecting vacant lots to sale.
City council to provide for the support of the poor.
Limitation of the rate of taxation on real property.
Commencement of this act and how long to be in force.
The sense entertained by Congress of the gallant conduct of lieutenant Sterret in the capture of a Tripolitan corsair.
President requested to present a sword to him.
An allowance of one month’s pay made to the officers &c.
ACTS OF THE SEVENTH CONGRESS
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
Secretary of the Navy authorized to convey a piece of land to the Salem bridge corporation.
A valuation to be ascertained by disinterested persons and paid.
Act of February 24, 1804, ch. 13.
In what manner goods to be exported from the Mississippi are to be identified.
That it shall be lawful for the Certificate to be granted by the collector of the Mississippi district.
“District of Mississippi, to
Port of Adams,
These are to certify to all whom it doth concern, that
Given under my hand and seal, at the custom-house of Fort Adams, this
Not to be given till it is ascertained that the goods are of the growth, & c. of the U. States. Certificate to be exhibited to the Consul of the U. States.
Sufferers by fire at Portsmouth to have the indulgence further time for discharging their custom-house bonds.
Proviso that this act shall not extend to bonds due before the 26th December, 1802.
Act of April 30, 1802, ch. 40.
Laws of the United States to be carried into effect in the state of Ohio.
Act of April 30, 1802, ch. 40.
All the laws of the United States not locally inapplicable to be in force and executed there.
Ohio to be one district.
District court to be held therein, to consist of one judge.
Sessions of the court, where to be held.
Its powers and jurisdiction.
Clerk to be appointed.
His place of residence, fees, etc.
Salary of the judge to be 1000 dollars.
1807, ch. 16.
District attorney to be appointed.
His compensation.
Marshal to be appointed.
His duties and compensation.
[Obsolete.]
Further appropriation for foreign intercourse.
President authorized to borrow the money.
The terms and time of reimbursement.
Surplus of duties on imports and tonnage pledged for the payment of interest and reimbursement of principal.
Act of April 14, 1792, ch. 24. Act of May 1, 1810, ch. 44. Act of February 28, 1811, ch. 23. Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 40.
Masters of vessels to deliver lists to the collectors of the ports whence they go from the U. States of their ship’s compa nies, containing descriptions of their persons, &c.
Certified copies to be delivered to the masters : fees to be paid for them.
Masters to enter into bonds, for what conditioned.
Provisions in favor of the captains.
Proofs of persons discharged in foreign ports, or persons dying to be exhibited to collectors.
Masters of vessels belonging to U. States arriving in foreign ports to deliver to the consuls, &C. there certain papers.
Penalty for not doing it.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 40.
Acts to be done upon the discharge of American seamen in foreign ports.
Lists of the ship’s company to be furnished to the consul.
Three months pay for every seaman discharged to be paid to the consul, two thirds of which to be paid by the consul to the seaman.
Residue to be retained by the consul to create a fund for the payment of the passages of seamen to the U. States.
Consuls, &c. to provide for destitute seamen, &c. subsistence and passages to the U. States, subject to the instructions of the Secretary of Slate.
Commanders of vessels required to take such on board if not more than two to every hundred tons.
On terms not exceeding ten dollars each.
Seamen, &c. to do duty if able.
Penalty on the refusal of the captain or master.
Act of February 28, 1811, ch. 28.
Seventh and eighth sections of the act of April 14, 1792, ch. 24,concerning consuls and vice-consuls repealed.
Secretary of Stale to reimburse the consuls, &c.
Consuls. &c. may receive fifty cents for a certificate of discharge and two and a half per cent, on paying and receiving the wages of discharged seamen in foreign ports.
Consuls, &c. giving false certificates subject to fine and imprisonment.
If for false passports, &c. subject to fines.
Powers of attorney, &c. executed in foreign countries to be verified by consuls, &c. who may receive fifty cents on each.
Repealed March 27, 1804.
Prohibited importation of persons of colour subject to a fine of one thousand dollars for each, after April 1, 1803.
Penalties.
Persons may be held to bail against whom suits are brought for penalties.
No vessel containing prohibited persons of colour admitted to an entry.
Vessel, &c. to be forfeited if any prohibited person of colour be landed therefrom.
Collectors and other officers to be governed by the laws of the states prohibiting persons of colour.
Vigilance enjoined to execute the law.
[Obsolete.]
President authorized to put into service four vessels of sixteen guns each.
Appropriation for the above.
President authorized to put into service fifteen gun boats.
Appropriation for the above.
[Obsolete.]
[Obsolete.]
Two teachers of music added to the artillerists.
1802, ch. 9.
A teacher of the French language, and a teacher of drawing appointed to the corps of engineers.
Authority to enlist one artificer and eighteen men.
Clerk hire to certain officers of the army.
[Obsolete.]
Act of April, 18, 1796, ch. 13, continued for two years from 4th March, 1803.
Act of May 8, 1792, ch. 33. Act of April 10, 1806, article 20. Act of April IS, 1814, ch. 76. Act of May 12, 1820, ch. 96. Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 12.
Adjutant-general of the militia to make returns to the President annually.
Act of April 20, 1816, ch.64.
Abstracts of the returns to be laid before Congress.
Citizens enrolled in the militia to be constantly provided with arms, &c.
Additional officers to the militia.
Act of June 1, 1796, ch. 45
Unregistered vessels soiling with sea letters to be furnished with passports on paying ten dollars.
Unregistered vessels sailing to foreign countries to pay the name on clearing as vessels of the U. States.
[Obsolete.]
That for defraying the Specific appropriations for the Navy of the United States. 1803, ch, 1.
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and the pay of the seamen, two hundred and eighty-three thousand nine hundred and ninety-three dollars.
For provisions, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars and twenty cents.
For medicines, instruments, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, seven thousand seven hundred dollars.
For the purchase of ordnance and other military stores, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the repairs of vessels, store rent, and other contingent expenses, one hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars.
For completing the contracts made for the timber, ordnance, and other materials for the seventy-four gun ships, including their transportation, &c., one hundred and fourteen thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For the expense of erection of sheds and navy yards, including docks and other improvements, the pay of superintendents, store-keepers, clerks and labourers, forty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty-one dollars and thirty-seven cents.
For the pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, sixty-four thousand and ninety-five dollars and sixty cents.
For clothing and military stores for the same, sixteen thousand two hundred and twenty-three dollars and eighty-three cents.
For medicines, medical services, hospital stores, and all expenses on Specific appropriations for the Navy of the U. States.
For quartermaster’s and barrackmaster’s stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorers and carpenters’ bills, and other contingent expenses, nine thousand four hundred and sixty-one dollars.
To make good deficiencies in the appropriations for the navy of the United States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, that is to say :
For pay and subsistence of the officers, the pay of the seamen, provisions, repairs and expenses incurred in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, and which have been paid out of an appropriation made in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, including a deficiency for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and two, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-one cents.
For salaries of superintendents of navy yards, store-keepers, and clerks, store rent, hire of labourers, &c., on account of expenses incurred in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, including a deficiency for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and two, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars and sixty-eight cents.
For navy yards, docks and wharves, eleven thousand five hundred and thirty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents.
For medicines, medical services, and hospital stores for the marine corps, on account of expenses incurred in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, including a deficiency for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and two, five hundred and ninety-six dollars and thirty-nine cents.
For marine barracks, on account of expenses incurred in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, four hundred and one dollars and ninety-three cents.
For the payment of a balance due the estate of John Habersham, late Payment to the estate of John Habersham, for naval materials.
Whence the appropriations are to be drawn.
Act of July 31, 1789, ch. 6. Act of December 31, 1792, ch. 1. Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Penalty on forging sea letters, passports, &c. or using such.
Officers disqualified thereby.
Comptroller or the treasury to cause blank certificates of registry to be provided with secret marks.
Which are to be exchanged [gratis] for old certificates of registry after the 31st December, eighteen hundred and three.
A duly registered vessel sold out of the United States to a citizen, to have the benefit of a vessel of the U. States under certain provisions.
Power of the Secretary of the Treasury to remove disabilities, extended.
[Obsolete.]
That for the expenditure of Specific appropriations. Specific appropriations.
For compensations granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimating for sixty-two days continuance in the present session, and for twenty-seven days in the first session of the eighth Congress, one hundred and twenty-five thousand three hundred and forty-eight dollars.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, nineteen thousand dollars.
For the compensation to the President and Vice-President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks, and persons employed in that department, eleven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
For the incidental and contingent expenses in the said department, twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-one cents.
For expenses of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in receiving and transmitting passports and sea letters, stationery and printing, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and eight cents.
For expense of stationery and printing in the comptroller’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty dollars and ninety-three cents.
For expense of stationery and printing in the office of the auditor, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer, clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-five cents.
For expense of stationery and printing in the treasurer’s office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the commissioner of the revenue, clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and fifty-three dollars and six cents.
For the expense of stationery and printing in the office of the commissioner of the revenue, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty-two dollars.
For expense of stationery and printing, (including books for the public stocks, and for the arrangement of the marine papers) in the register’s office, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation of clerks employed for the purpose of making drafts of the several surveys of lands in the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio, and in keeping the books of the treasury in relation to the sales of lands at the several loan offices, two thousand dollars.
For fuel, and other contingent expenses of the treasury department, four thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense incident to the stating and printing the Specific appropriations.
For the purchase of books, maps and charts for the use of the treasury department, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to a superintendent employed to secure the buildings and records in the treasury department, during the present year, including the expense of two watchmen, and for the repair of fire engines, buckets, and so forth, one thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of War, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the war department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation of clerks employed in the paymaster’s office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel in the said office, ninety dollars.
For compensation to the purveyor of public supplies, clerks and persons employed in his office, including a sum of seven hundred dollars, for compensations to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and for expense of stationery and fuel in the said office, three thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, including a compensation of five hundred and sixty-one dollars and fourteen cents to the clerk of the navy pension fund for the years one thousand eight hundred, one thousand eight hundred 1799, ch. 40.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand one hundred dollars, for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the second of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, ten thousand four hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the navy, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster-General, assistant Postmaster General, clerks and persons employed in the Postmaster-General’s office, including a deficiency of three hundred and forty-five dollars in the last 1799, ch. 40.
For expenses of fuel, candles, rent of a house for the messenger, stationery, chests, &c. exclusive of expenses of prosecution, portmanteaus, mail locks, and other expenses incident to the department at large (these being paid for by the Postmaster-General, out of the funds of the office,) two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of the commissioners of loans, and an allowance to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan offices, thirteen thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of clerk hire in the office of the commissioner Specific appropriations.
For extra expenses occasioned by the removal of the loan office of Pennsylvania to Germantown, during the prevalence of the yellow fever in Philadelphia, in the summer of one thousand eight hundred and two, four hundred and ninety-four dollars.
For extra expenses occasioned by the removal of the office of purveyor of public supplies from Philadelphia, during the prevalence of the yellow fever, in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, one hundred and thirteen dollars and fifty cents.
For compensation to the surveyor-general and the clerks employed by him, and for expense of stationery and other contingencies of the surveyor-general’s office, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For completing certain surveys of the lands of the United States, authorized by acts of Congress, including an allowance of five hundred dollars for transcribing plats of surveys near Vincennes, six thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars.
For compensation to the following officers of the mint, ten thousand six hundred dollars, that is to say—
To the director, two thousand dollars.
The treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars.
The assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The chief coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The melter and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars.
One clerk, at seven hundred dollars.
And two, at five hundred dollars each.
For the wages of persons employed at the different branches of melting, coining, carpenter’s, millwright’s, and smith’s work, including the sum of eight hundred dollars per annum, allowed to an assistant coiner and die forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs of furnaces, cost of rollers and screws, timber, bar iron, lead, steel, potash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, two thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Mississippi territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Indiana territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, two thousand dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks of the several departments of state, treasury, war and navy, and of the genera] post-office, not 17S9, ch. 40.
For the compensation granted by law to the chief justice, associate judges, and district judges of the United States, including the chief Specific appropriations.
For the like compensations granted to the several district attornies of the United Slates, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the marshals of the districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Kentucky, east and west Tennessee, and Ohio, one thousand four hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United Stales, including the district of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from lines, forfeitures and penalties; and likewise, for defraying the expenses of prosecution for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, including an additional appropriation of three thousand seven hundred and two dollars and sixty-six cents, for completing the gaol in the city of Washington, forty-three thousand seven hundred and two dollars and sixty-six cents.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, nine hundred dollars.
For payment of the annuity granted to the children of the late Colonel John Harding, and Major Alexander Trueman, by an act of Congress, passed the fourteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred, six hundred dollars.
For payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and three, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, ninety-three thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars and shoals, and for occasional improvement in the construction of lanterns and lamps, and other contingent expenses, fifty thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars and eighty-two cents.
For rebuilding the lighthouse on the eastern end of New Castle island, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, five hundred dollars.
For the erection of the lighthouse on Smith’s Point, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the payment of a balance due on contracts for building the lighthouse on Cape Hatteras, and beacon on Shell Castle island, and for a compensation to the persons who superintend and inspect the execution of the work, the balance of the former appropriation being carried to the credit of the surplus fund, one thousand dollars.
For the erection of a lighthouse on New Point Comfort, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that purpose, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For erecting lighthouses and placing buoys in the sound between Long Island and the Main, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that purpose, one thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous demands against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, four thousand dollars.
For the expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, seventy-five thousand five hundred and sixty-two dollars.
For the salaries of the commissioners under the seventh article of the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, between the United States and Great Britain, including half the compensation of the fifth commissioner, the salary of the assessor to the commissioners, the half of ex- Specific appropriations.
For salaries of the agents of the United States in London and Paris, expenses of prosecuting claims and appeals in the courts of Great Britain, relative to captures of the vessels of the United States, and of defending American causes elsewhere, twenty-nine thousand dollars.
For intercourse between the United States and Algiers, and other Barbary powers, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, five thousand dollars.
Militia of Columbia may be organized by the President of the U. States.
May appoint officers to cavalry, artillery, &c.
Uniform how to be provided.
Conditions of enrolment.
Whence he cannot withdraw, under a penalty of ten dollars.
Legionary commanders—their duty.
Alterations in battalion and company districts, in what cases to be made.
Militia districts—how designated.
Commanding officers of companies shall regulate duty, and how.
Removal of militia men how to be notified.
Certificates of service provided.
Penalty on refusal of certificate.
Officers shall be sworn into office.
Oath.
Oath how certified.
Who shall be enrolled in the militia.
Mode of proceeding against delinquents.
General courts martial, how constituted for superior officers.
Field officers and staff.
Their powers.
Captains and subalterns.
Brigade court martial.
Evidence, how to be obtained.
Penalties.
Courts of inquiry.
When and how held.
Oath of members.
Legionary courts of inquiry.
Extraordinary inquiry court.
Duties of courts of inquiry.
May remit fines and exempt from duty.
Clerk and provost marshal, shall be appointed by ballot.
List of fines to be kept, and by whom.
Fines incurred heretofore, how disposed of.
Musters, and at what periods.
Muster of inspection in May.
Legionary muster in October.
Muster to continue one day only.
Notice how given, and when.
Notices in writing to commanding officers.
Penalty on omitting to give notice.
Appearance at muster.
Forms to be observed in returns.
Returns to be certified.
Returns of companies, how and when made.
Returns of legions.
Non-commissioned officers, appointment of.
Neglect of duty, penalty on.
Officers to meet for training once a year.
Training three days, eldest officer shall call the roll.
Penalty on non-attendance.
Misconduct of officers, how treated.
Non-commissioned officers, how treated for misconduct.
Penalty.
Spectators or bystanders interrupting or insulting, liable to punishment.
Parade limits.
Officers on duty shall be in uniform.
Penalty.
Brigade inspector.
Legionary staff.
Duties of brigade inspector.
Penalty on neglect of duty.
Adjutant, his duty.
Penalty on neglect.
Delinquencies, forfeitures, and penalties on.
Commanders of corps.
Major’s neglect.
Captain’s neglect.
Subaltarn’s neglect.
Non-commissioned officer’s neglect.
Penalties.
Fines of persons under age, how paid.
Legionary court of inquiry to appoint a collector, and when.
Allowance of six per cent.
Collector a defaulter, to be sued, and how.
Fines not paid, how recoverable.
Collector to give bond and security.
Fines to be a fund Tor salaries of officers, musicians, &c. also for furnishing the necessary equipage, &c.
Paymaster of the legion shall settle his accounts once in three months.
Shall give bond and security.
Two and an half per centum allowed on disbursements.
President authorized to call forth the militia on an invasion, &c.
And to appoint certain officers with pay.
Militia when called forth, how governed.
Courts martial.
Pay and rations of the militia.
Power of the commanding officer of the district, in case of invasion or insurrection.
Arms, &c. always exempt from execution, and persons from civil arrests while in service.
Brigadier-generals may employ couriers.
Their compensation.
Non-commissioned officers and privates of battalions shall on dirty appear in uniforms,
or be fined.
Courts of inquiry may bind young men and bore to learn military music.
Their fathers exempt from militia duties.
Courts of inquiry to provide or the musicians.
Compensation.
Each commissioned officer to be furnished with the articles of war and militia law.
Act of April 30, 1802, ch. 40.
Tracts of land appropriated for the use of schools.
Quarter townships in the Connecticut reserve for the use of schools.
Part of the Virginia reservation for the use of schools.
1807, ch. 21.
Number sixteen in every township in all lands in the state of Ohio, reserved for the use of schools.
Appropriation for public roads in the state of Ohio from the receipts from public lands.
Annual account to be transmitted to the Treasury.
Conditions.
Sections for schools in lieu of others to be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Appropriation for establishing an academy, to be located by the legislature of Ohio.
Proviso.
Further provision for an academy.
Vol. i, 266.
Jurisdiction to the circuit court of the county of Alexandria, in suits by certain insurance companies.
[Obsolete.]
That for defraying the several Specific appropriations.
For the pay of the army of the United States, two hundred and ninety-nine thousand one hundred and twenty-four dollars.
For forage, four thousand and fifty-six dollars.
For the subsistence of the officers of the army and the corps of engineers, twenty-nine thousand and eighty-six dollars and eighty-five cents.
For the subsistence of non-commissioned officers and privates, one hundred and fifty-four thousand five hundred and forty dollars and seventy-five cents.
For clothing, fifty-six thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
For bounties and premiums, eight thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, ten thousand dollars.
For camp equipage, fuel, tools, and transportation, and contingent expenses, fifty-eight thousand dollars.
For fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, one hundred and nine thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars and eighty-eight cents.
For the Indian department, seventy-three thousand five hundred dollars.
For purchasing maps, plans, books and instruments for the department of war and the military academy, two thousand dollars.
For postage on letters on public service to and from the offices of Specific appropriations.
A lighthouse to be erected on Whitehead, Penobscot bay.
Appropriation.
District of Beaufort formed from Newborn, North Carolina.
Beaufort port of entry.
Collector appointed.
1799, ch. 22, sec. 12.
Salary.
Easton, Maryland, and Tiverton, Rhode Island, parts of delivery.
Surveyor to each.
Salaries.
Additional port of entry and delivery, on Lake Ontario.
1799, ch. 22, sec. 5.
With a collector.
Port of entry and delivery in Passamaquoddy, Massachusetts.
Residents in the Mississippi territory, confirmed in then claims.
Proviso.
Grants to inhabitants where the territory was evacuated by the Spaniards.
Limitations.
Residents entitled to a preference as purchasers.
Without interest on instalments.
Two land-offices in the Mississippi Territory.
Register and receiver of public money in each.
Security.
Claimants and residents to state their claims before the thirty-first of March, one thousand eight hundred and four.
To be recorded.
Neglect thereof to bar their claims.
Commissioners appointed to settle the claims.
Their oath or affirmation.
Duties.
Powers.
The determination of the board to be final.
Appointment of clerks.
Duties.
Papers, &c. on dissolution of the boards to be lodged in the Secretary of State’s office.
Oath or affirmation of the clerk.
Titles, when to be granted, and how,—under the Georgia cession.
A certificate to be given.
Under the Bourbon act of the state of Georgia.
Certificate to be returned before January 1, 1805, which shall entitle the party to a patent.
Right of pre-emption.
Proviso that receipts for purchase money be produced.
Proviso.
Reference to be made to adverse claims.
Clerk to receive two dollars for every certificate.
Commissioners shall report to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Report to be laid before Congress.
Unconfirmed claims provided for.
Proviso, that no claims shall be embraced by the appropriation in this act which have not been presented before the first of January, 1804.
Fees on recording.
No grant, deed or conveyance from the state of Georgia to be evidence unless recorded.
Claims not recognized.
Authority given to receive propositions of compromise.
Land surveyor south of Tennessee appointed, who shall engage deputies.
Duties.
Further duties of the surveyor.
Other lands in the Mississippi territory to be surveyed.
Expenses of surveying.
1800, ch. 55.
The lands aforesaid unappropriated to be sold.
Under the directions of the governor, surveyor and register.
Sales to remain open for three weeks—then private sales, by whom,
and on what terms.
Proviso.
Lands not to be sold for less than two dollars per acre.
Patent fees.
Proviso.
Fees of the registers of the land-offices, and receivers of public monies.
Salary of the surveyor,
and of his two clerks.
Compensation of the commissioners.
and of their clerks.
Pay of the superintendents.
Commissions of the surveyor, registers of the land-offices, and receivers of public monies.
Appropriation for the execution of this act.
Appropriation of the monies arising from the above sales.
Navigable rivers south of Tennessee to remain public.
[Obsolete.]
Salt works to be established on the Wabash river.
1807, ch. 46.
[Obsolete.]
Salary of the superintendent.
Allowance to the surveyor.
That the following sums be, and Sums appropriated.
For the salary of the superintendent for the year one thousand eight hundred and three, including an allowance at the same rate for six months of the preceding year, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For clerk hire in his office, five hundred dollars.
For the wages of the surveyor, one thousand dollars.
For a messenger to both offices, and also to attend the surveyor in the field, two hundred dollars.
For fuel, stationery and other contingent expenses of both offices, two hundred dollars.
To be paid out of the city funds.
Appropriation from the treasury.
Act of April 26, 1802, ch. 30, revived and continued in force four weeks.
Act of March 19, 1804, ch. 26. Act of March 27, 1804, ch.61.
Secretary of War to issue land warrants ; when and to whom.
1802, ch. 30.
Where to be located.
1800, ch. 13.
Land warrants to General La Fayette.
1804, ch. 61, sec. 14.
Unappropriated lands within the military tract ; how to be surveyed.
Part to be attached tn the district of Chilicothe ; and for sale
Certain tracts for sale.
Possessors of rights of pre-emption under John Cleves Symmes and others allowed further time of payment.
1801, ch. 23.
1802, ch. 44.
Land patents how to be obtained when the military warrants are lost or destroyed.
Debtors confined in the jail of the district of Columbia may petition for relief.
In what manner.
Notice to be published in the public newspapers.
Oath or affirmation of an insolvent debtor.
Trustee appointed.
Who shall give bond and security.
A certified copy of the bond to be evidence.
In case of death or refusal to act, another appointed.
The petitioning debtor discharged on executing a deed or deeds to the trustee, and delivering his property with his books and papers.
Proviso, that no person who has been guilty of a breach of the laws and imprisoned therefor shall be discharged from such imprisonment.
Wearing apparel, bedding and tools of trade allowed.
Property of the debtor how sold.
Product thereof how divided.
What process only can take effect.
Trustee may sue in his own name.
Fraud or deceit towards creditors.
Debtor gaming to a certain extent.
To be precluded from the benefit of this act.
False testimony or corrupt swearing or affirming.
How punished.
Trustee allowed a commission.
Trustee may be superseded for misconduct.
Exhibition of claims to the trustee.
Contested claims how settled.
Provision for contested claims.
Collusion forfeits the debt.
Debtor arrested after being relieved, how to be discharged, and in what cases.
The judge shall lodge with the clerk of the county the
certificate of discharge.
Copy of the recorded certificate evidence in law.
Unfinished acts of a judge how completed.
What papers are to be recorded by the county clerk.
Copies of the record legal evidence.
Clerk’s fees, how payable.
Limitation to the effect of this discharge.
Circuit court shall determine the allowance of prisoners in civil suits.
Who shall not be detained un-
less provided for—
With prison fees.
Proviso.
Prison bounds in the district.
Liberty of the prisoners under approved security.
Public debtors and non-residents a year, excluded the provisions of this act.
[Repealed.]
Act of April 18, 1806, ch. 32, sec 7.
President authorized to order eighty thousand militia in readiness.
Act of March 30, 1808, ch. 33.
Volunteers for a year included.
1812, ch. 55.
Appointment of officers.
Specific appropriations.
Altered by act of 1806,ch. 13.
1807, ch. 16.
Act of February 18, 1801, ch. 5.
[Obsolete.]
Act of April 1, 1808, ch. 41.
1812, ch. 2.
Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch.79.
Act of May 1, 1820, ch. 61.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 108.
Persons entitled to be placed on the pension list.
Proviso.
Evidence, before whom to be taken.
Nature of the evidence.
Every claimant shall be examined on oath or affirmation, by Nature of the disability.
Fourthly. Every claimant must produce evidence of his having continued Requisite time of service.
Cause of deferring the application to be stated.
Copies of the evidence, &c. to be given to the claimants.
Who are to be placed on the pension list.
Proviso.
Estimation of the pensions.
Pensioners to be paid in the manner of former ones.
[Obsolete.]
Duties of supervisor to be attached by the President to any other officer or the government.
Commissions to be allowed to the officer performing the duties of supervisor.
That the circuit court of the Act of 1802, ch. 31. Act of March 9, 1808, ch. 29. The circuit court shall consist of the justice of the supreme court residing in the circuit, and the district judge where the court sits. In the third circuit it shall consist of the senior associate justice, &c. Appeals from final judgments when the value in dispute exceeds fifty dollars from the district court to the circuit court. Appeals from the circuit court to the supreme court where the matter in dispute exceeds 2000 dollars. Proceedings to be transmitted to the supreme court. No new evidence to be received in the supreme court, except in admiralty and prize causes. 19th and 22d sections of the act of24th Sept. 1789, ch. 20, so far as affected by this act, repealed.
In the third circuit, the said circuit court shall consist of the senior associate justice of the supreme court residing within the fifth circuit, and the district judge of the district where such court shall be holden.
ACTS OF THE EIGHTH CONGRESS
UNITED STATES,
Louisiana to be taken possession of by the President of the U. States.
Authority of the U. States in Louisiana established.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 32. Appropriations.
All the military, civil and judicial powers exercised by the officers of the existing government to be exercised as the President may direct for the protection of the inhabitants.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 38. Act of February 15, 1811, ch. 14. Act of April 8, 1812, ch. 50.
[Obsolete.]
The Secretary of the Treasury authorized to cause to be constituted stock for eleven million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Terms of creation and delivery.The certificates of stock to be delivered to the government of France.
Credits of stock to be transferable on the books of the treasury.
Period of redemption may be shortened.
Interest payable in Europe.
Rate of exchange, dollars at 4s. 6d. and 2½ guilders.
Interest provided for out of monies in the treasury.
Act of April 29, 1802, ch. 32. Seven hundred thousand dollars to be added to the sinking fund.
Commissioners of the sinking fund to redeem the stock.
Secretary of the Treasury to pay to commissioners, who shall apply the money to discharge of debt.
[Obsolete.]
Three millions seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars appropriated to pay citizens of the U. States.
Act of February 26, 1803, ch. 8.
Treaty with France for the cession of Louisiana.
Claims to be paid at the treasury of the U. States.
President of the U. States to borrow not exceeding one million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
One million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars at six per cent, interest chargeable on customs.
Expenses of investigation of claims how provided.
Not to exceed four thousand four hundred and fifty dollars per annum, beside secretary and agent’s salaries.
[Obsolete.]
Expenses of treaty with Great Britain of 1794, provision for.
Funds how to be provided.
[Obsolete.]
Act of April 5, 1800, ch. 21.
Drawback on goods shipped to New Orleans abolished.
Bankrupt act of April 4, 1800, repealed.
Act of April 4, 1800, ch. 19.
What commissions may yet be acted on.
Act of April 29, 1802, sect, 14, ch. 31.
That for defraying the expenses Navy appropriations.
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and the pay of the seamen, Pay.
For provisions, one hundred and twenty-five thousand, five hundred Provision.
For medicine, instruments, hospital stores and all expenses on account Medical aid.
For repairs of vessels, store rent, and other contingent expenses, one Repairs.
For the purchase of ordnance, and other military stores, five thousand Ordnance.
For the expense of navy yards, docks and other improvements, the Docks
For the pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions Marine corps.
For clothing for the same, twelve thousand eight hundred and fifty-two Clothing.
For military stores for the same, four hundred and fifty-two dollars. Military stores.
For medicine, medical services, hospital stores, and all expenses on Medical aid.
For quartermasters and barrack-masters’ stores, officers’ travelling Barracks, &c.
For completing the marine barracks at the city of Washington, three Completion of the marine barracks at Washington. Funds to pay.
| Act of September 29, | 1789, | chap. 25. | Repealed. | Vol. i. | page | 95. |
| Act of April 30, | 1790, | chap. 10. | Repealed. | ″ | ″ | 119. |
| Act of March 3, | 1791, | chap. 28. | Repealed. | ″ | ″ | 222. |
| Act of March 5, | 1792, | chap. 9. | Obsolete. | ″ | ″ | 241. |
| Act of May 8, | 1794, | chap. 24. | Obsolete. | ″ | ″ | 366. |
| Act of June 7, | 1794, | chap. 52. | Obsolete. | ″ | ″ | 390. |
| Act of March 3, | 1795, | chap. 44. | Obsolete. | ″ | ″ | 430. |
| Act of May 30, | 1796, | chap. 39. | Expired. | ″ | ″ | 483. |
| Act of March 3, | 1797, | chap. 16. | Repealed. | ″ | ″ | 507. |
| Act of April 27, | 1798, | chap. 33. | Obsolete. | ″ | ″ | 552. |
| Act of May 28, | 1798, | chap. 47. | Repealed. | ″ | ″ | 558. |
| Act of June 22, | 1798, | chap. 57. | Obsolete. | ″ | ″ | 569. |
| Act of March 2, | 1799, | chap. 31. | Obsolete. | ″ | ″ | 725. |
| Act of March 3, | 1799, | chap. 48. | Obsolete. | ″ | ″ | 749. |
That for defraying the expense Military appropriation.
For the pay of the army of the United States, three hundred and one Pay.
For forage, four thousand and fifty-six dollars. Forage.
For the subsistence of the officers of the army and corps of engineers, Subsistence.
For the subsistence of non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, one hundred and sixty-three thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine dollars and thirty-seven cents, and one halt of a cent.
For clothing, eighty thousand dollars. Clothing.
For bounties and premiums, fourteen thousand dollars. Bounties and premiums.
For the medical and hospital department, ten thousand dollars. Medical.
For camp equipage, fuel, tools, expense of transportation and other Field equipage.
For fortifications, arsenals, magazines, and armories, one hundred Fortifications and armories.
For purchasing maps, plans, books, and instruments for the war department and military academy, one thousand dollars. Maps, &c.
For the Indian department, seventy-five thousand five hundred dollars. Indian Department.
Funds how provided.
That from and after the Salaries of Civil List. Secretary of State. Secretary of the Treasury. Secretary at War. Secretary of the Navy. Attorney-General. Comptroller of the Treasury. Treasurer. Auditor of the Treasury. Register of the Treasury. Accountant of the War department. Accountant of the Navy department. Postmaster-General. Assistant Postmaster-General. Limited to three years.
To the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars.
The Secretary of the Treasury, five thousand dollars.
The Secretary of War, four thousand five hundred dollars.
The Secretary of the Navy, four thousand five hundred dollars.
The Attorney-General, three thousand dollars.(b)
The Comptroller of the Treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars.
The Treasurer, three thousand dollars.
The Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand dollars.
The Register of the Treasury, two thousand four hundred dollars.
The Accountant of the War department, two thousand dollars.
The Accountant of the Navy department, two thousand dollars.
The Postmaster-General, three thousand dollars,(c)
The Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand seven hundred dollars; which sums shall be respectively paid quarter-yearly, at the treasury of the United States.
That the same duties which Duties on imports and tonnage in Louisiana as in other states. What laws shall be in force there. Act of Sept. 2, 1789, ch. 12. Act of Dec. 31, 1792, ch. 1. Act of Feb. 18, 1793, ch. 8. Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22. Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 9. Act of March 3, 1795, ch. 48. Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 20. Act of May 7, 1800, ch. 45.
“An act to establish the treasury department.”
“An act concerning the registering and recording of ships and vessels.”
“An act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries.”
“An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage.”
“An act to establish the compensations of officers employed in the collection of the duties on imports and tonnage, and for other purposes.”
“An act for the more effectual recovery of debts due from individuals to the United States.”
“An act to provide more effectually for the settlement of accounts between the United States and receivers of public money.”
“An act to authorize the sale and conveyance of lands in certain cases, by the marshals of the United States, and to confirm former sales;” and
“An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities accruing in certain cases therein mentioned.”
“An act to establish a mint and to regulate the coins of the United States.” Act of 1797, ch. 13. Act of April 2, 1792, ch. 16. Act of Feb. 9, 1793, ch. 5.
“An act regulating foreign coins, and for other purposes.”
And the act supplementary to, and amendatory of the two last-mentioned acts, or so much of the said acts as is now in force, and also so Alt acts or of such parts now in force, or which may be enacted for laying duties on imports and tonnage, seamen or shipping for the collection of duties, regulating drawbacks and enrolling vessels to be in force. Vessels of that territory entitled to same benefit as of U. States which were owned on the 20th December, 1803, &c. But shall register and take oath of allegiance.
Other acts extended to Louisiana.
Act concerning the Bank of the U. States ; and an act for the regulation of seamen and for protecting the exportation of goods not inspected, extended to Louisiana.
Commercial regulations inconsistent with the provisions of the second section repealed.
Fees, &c. usually paid for pilotage, wharfage, &c. not affected.
Territory annexed to the District of Mississippi.
New Orleans the sole port of entry.
Officers to be appointed by the President of the U. States.
Act of 1799, ch. 22.
Repeal of any laws which establish a district on the river Mississippi south of the Tennessee river.
District of Natchez, officer there.
Ships to stop at New Orleans, and deliver a manifest of their cargo.
1807, ch. 14
Foreign vessels to unlade only at New Orleans.
Drawbacks at N. Orleans how regulated.
Repealed.
Ships bound for other ports must stop at New Orleans, and make entry.
Under a penalty of five hundred dollars.
French and Spanish ships privileged in ports of Louisiana for twelve years, from the exchange of ratifications of Louisiana treaty.
To pay only like duties with ships of the U. States.
Collector to give bond.
Emoluments.
Naval officer and surveyor’s compensation.
Additional revenue cutter to be built,
1799, ch. 22, sec. 97.
Mobile may be made a separate district.
Two ports of delivery in Mobile.
Officers may be appointed.
Act in force 24th March, 1804.
Act of May 3, 1802, ch. 53.
Period of incorporation of Washington, enlarged to fifteen years.
City councils, of what numbers they are to consist and how to be elected.
Powers of the councils enlarged.
Power of levy court abolished.
Act of May 13, 1826, ch. 45.
Charter of Alexandria altered.
Town divided into wards.
How taxes are to be applied.
How taxes to be raised.
Who shall vote.
Who shall not vote.
Election to be held first Tuesday in March annually.
Meeting of councils fixed.
Common council to choose a president from its own body.
His powers and duty.
The length of time limited for the authority of the council.
The common council created a body politic, &c.
Its powers and authorities.
All the estate, rights and credits of the mayor and commonalty vested in the common council.
Extent of the common council’s jurisdiction.
The concurrence of n majority of all the members necessary to the passing of a law, &c. &c.
Powers of the council defined.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Powers of the common council.
Further definition of the powers of the common council.
A mayor to be annually chosen by a vote of the common council.
The president of the council to decide the election in case the council is equally divided.
The time for which the mayor shall hold his office.
To take an oath of office.
His powers and duties.
To receive a compensation for his services.
His qualifications.
Provision in case of the refusal, &c. &c. of the mayor to serve.
Common council to have vacancies in their own body supplied, and how.
In the temporary absence, &c. &c. of the mayor, the president of the council to supply his place.
Mayor to sign the bills of which he approves, or to return those to the council of which he does not approve, with his objections in writing.
How passed.
Copies of the acts of the council to be printed.
Oath of the commissioners for holding the elections prescribed.
Duties and powers of the commissioners.
Common council to judge of the legality of elections.
May make laws and rules for its own order and government.
How the taxes of absentees shall be collected.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Interfering acts of the Virginia assembly repealed.
Vessels belonging to citizens of the United States, residing therein, or to persons inhabiting the territory ceded to die United States by France, entitled to the benefits of vessels of the United States.
Proviso, that the collector may make alterations in the form of the oaths, &c., to make them applicable to this law.
Oath of applicant.
Inhabitants of the ceded territory residents thereof the 30th April, 1803, entitled, on certain conditions, to all the privileges, &c. of owning ships, &c. of the United States.
Certain military pensioners of South Carolina to be placed on the books of the war office, and paid as other pensioners.
A certificate from the state of South Carolina required for entitling any person to the benefit of this act : certificate to be recorded at the war office.
The amount payable to the several claimants, and the principles of settlement.
1790, ch. 45.
Proviso.
Goods imported into certain ports and transported by inland conveyance to others, and thence exported, entitled to drawbacks.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Goods imported into the district of Delaware entitled to drawbacks as in cases of exportation, from Philadelphia, &c.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22, sec. 79, vol, i, 686.
[Obsolete.]
Act of July 14, 1798, ch. 70. Act of March 1, 1805, ch. 20.
Collectors of the direct tax to send transcripts of their sales of land for non-payment of tax to the supervisors or other officers acting in their stead.
Contents of the transcripts.
And to pay over to the same officers any monies received by them under such sales, and belonging to original proprietors.
Forfeiture for failure to comply by collector.
Provision in case of the collector’s neglect to comply with the first section.
Lists to be furnished by collectors.
February 28, 1799, ch. 20.
And penalties upon the officers upon whom the duty devolves in that case for their neglect of it.
Supervisors, &c. to keep open the original assessment books, and to receive, and to pay over to purchasers the amount paid by them for property sold on account of taxes.
Limitation of time in which proprietors in this way may redeem their land.
Supervisors, &c. to lodge transcripts of lands sold for non-payment of tax in the clerks’ offices of their districts :
and to pay into the said offices the money received from the original proprietors, to redeem their lands for the purchasers.
Duty of the supervisors, &c. in case of the failure of the collectors to furnish the transcripts prescribed by the first section.
Marshals in certain cases to execute deeds for lands sold, and not redeemed.
No deed to be executed except for lands or lots in the transcripts.
Proviso.
Collectors to be answerable to purchasers for any excess paid by them over the lands they receive : lands to be conveyed ascertained by the ratio of tax and land sold.
Proviso.
That for the services prescribed Fees for services under this act.
To every supervisor for examining the transcripts of land sold, twenty-five cents : for receiving payment of the tax, charges and costs for which any tract of land, or lot, may have been sold in whole, or in part, fifty cents ; and for filing a certificate or receipt of the collector, deposited by the purchaser, or original proprietor, six cents.
To the marshal of the court, one dollar for preparing and executing a deed.
[Obsolete.]
That for the expenditure of For what purposes appropriations made.
For compensations granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of four months and a half continuance, one hundred and ninety-eight thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of both houses, including the expense of printing the Specific appropriations.
For the purchase of books for the use of both houses of Congress, the balance of the former appropriation being carried to the credit of the surplus fund, two thousand seven hundred and three dollars and five cents.
For furniture for the House of Representatives, being an expense incurred in the year one thousand eight hundred and three, twelve hundred dollars.
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons employed in that department, eleven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
For the incidental and contingent expenses in the said department, four thousand eight hundred dollars.
For printing and distributing copies of the laws of the first session of the eighth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, including those engaged on the business belonging to the late office of the commissioner of the revenue, fourteen thousand and ninety-two dollars and eighty-seven cents.
For expenses of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in receiving and transmitting passports and sea letters, stationery and printing, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and eight cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the comptroller’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For defraying the expense of preparing new certificates of registry for 1803, ch. 18.
For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty dollars and ninety-three cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the office of the auditor of the treasury, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer, clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-five cents.
For the expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the treasurer’s office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty-two dollars.
For expense of stationery and printing, (including books for the public stock and for the arrangement of the marine papers) two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the expense of printing and transmitting the certificates of the six per cent, stock, created by virtue of the act of the tenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and three, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation of the clerks employed for the purpose of making drafts of the several surveys of land in the territory of the United States, Specific appropriations.
For fuel and other contingent expenses of the treasury department, four thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses incident to the stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and four, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For purchasing books, maps, and charts, for the use of the treasury department, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to a superintendent employed to secure the buildings and records of the treasury, during the year one thousand eight hundred and four, including the expense of two watchmen, and for the repair of two fire engines, and other incidental expenses, one thousand one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks, and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the expenses of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, including certain contingent expenses incurred in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars and two cents.
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the war department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to clerks employed in the paymaster’s office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel in the said office, ninety dollars.
For compensation to the purveyor of public supplies, clerks and persons employed in his office, including a sum of twelve hundred dollars 1799, ch. 40
For extra expenses incurred by the removal of the office of purveyor of public supplies from Philadelphia to Germantown, in the year one thousand eight hundred and three, two hundred and three dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, nine thousand one hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand one hundred 1799, ch. 40.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the navy, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster-General, assistant Postmaster-General, clerks and persons employed in the Postmaster-General’s office, 1799, ch. 40.
For expense of fuel, candles, house rent for the messenger, stationery, chests, &c., exclusive of expenses of prosecution, portmanteaus, mail locks, and other expenses incident to the department; these being paid for by the Postmaster-General out of the funds of the office, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the several Joan officers, thirteen thousand three Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the clerks of the several commissioners of loans, and an allowance to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan offices, thirteen thousand dollars.
For extra expenses occasioned by the removal of the loan office of Pennsylvania to Germantown, during the summer of one thousand eight hundred and three, three hundred and forty-nine dollars.
For defraying the expense of clerk hire in the office of the commissioner of loans of the state of Pennsylvania, in consequence of the removal of the offices of the treasury department, in the year one thousand eight hundred, to the permanent seat of government, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor-general, and the clerks employed by him, and for expense of stationery and other contingencies of the surveyor-general’s office, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of the lands south of the state of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, stationery, and other contingencies, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the officers of the mint:—
The director, two thousand dollars.
The treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars.
The assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The chief coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The melter and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars.
One clerk, at seven hundred dollars.
And two, at five hundred dollars each.
For the wages of persons employed at the different branches of melting, coining, carpenters, millwrights and smiths’ work, including the sum of eight hundred dollars per annum, allowed to an assistant coiner and die forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For the repairs of furnaces, cost of rollers and screws, timber, bar iron, lead, steel, potash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, two thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Mississippi territory, including a sum of eighty-two dollars, for the compensation of one of the judges, which has been carried to the credit of the surplus fund, five thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Indiana territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, two thousand dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks of the several departments 1799, ch. 40.
For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, associate judges Specific appropriations.
For the like compensation granted to the several district attornies of the United States, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the marshals of the districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Kentucky, Ohio, east and west Tennessee, one thousand four hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures and penalties; and likewise, for defraying the expenses of prosecution for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, nine hundred dollars.
For the payment of an annuity granted to the children of the late Colonel John Harding and Major Alexander Trueman, by an act of Congress, passed the fourteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred, six hundred dollars.
For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and five, ninety-eight thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, fifty-five thousand nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and thirty-three cents.
For the erection of a lighthouse on New Point Comfort, five thousand dollars; being the amount of a former appropriation carried to the credit of the surplus fund.
For the payment of balances due on the contracts for erecting the lighthouses on Old Point Comfort, and Smith’s Point, and for the inspection of the work, the balance of the former appropriations being carried to the credit of the surplus fund, two thousand dollars.
For erecting a lighthouse on Gull’s Island, in the sound between Long Island and the Main, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that purpose, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses incident to the purchase or erection of certain warehouses and wharves, under the act respecting quarantine and health laws, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that purpose, five thousand dollars: and so much of the sums received on account of storage for merchandise deposited in the public warehouses under said act, as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the erection and repairs of the warehouses, and to carry the said act into effect.
For defraying the expenses incident to the valuation of lands and houses, and enumeration of slaves within the United States, as directed 3798, ch. 70.
For the purpose of carrying into effect the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and three, in relation to the lands south of the state of Tennessee, in addition to the sum therein appropriated, ten 1803, ch. 27.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous demands against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, accord- Specific appropriations.
For furniture for the President’s house, being the balance of a former appropriation, carried to the credit of the surplus fund, one hundred and forty-five dollars and seventeen cents.
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, including the compensation of the consuls at the several Barbary powers, forty-six thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For the other expenses of the intercourse between the United States and Algiers, and other Barbary powers, one hundred thousand dollars.
For carrying into effect the treaty between the United States and the king of Spain, the balance of former appropriations having been carried to the credit of the surplus fund, thirty-two thousand seven hundred and forty-seven dollars and thirty-six cents.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, ten thousand dollars.
For salaries of the agents in Paris and Madrid, for prosecuting claims in relation to captures, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For satisfying a balance due to John Habersham, late agent for supplying the troops in Georgia, nine thousand and fifty-five dollars and seventeen cents.
For the relief of sick or disabled American seamen at New Orleans, in addition to the appropriations heretofore made for that purpose, one thousand dollars.
For discharging such sums as may, on settlement of their accounts, by the accounting officers of the treasury, be found due to persons whose properly was taken for the use of the militia employed on the expedition to suppress the former insurrection in the western counties of Pennsylvania, one thousand dollars.
Out of what fund payable.
1790, ch. 34.
Sum found due to Thomas Johnson to be paid to him, and out of what fund.
Assent of Congress to act of Virginia for improving the navigation of James river.
Act of April 7, 1798, ch. 26. Act of Feb. 18, 1801, ch. 5. Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 35. Act of Feb. 24, 1810, ch. 12. Act of April 23, 1812, ch. 63.
Former act revived and continued in force.
[Obsolete.]
That for the purpose of defraying Appropriations made for carrying the convention into effect.
For the salaries of the commissioners, including half the compensation For salaries of commissioners. Proviso.
For the salary of an agent, whom the President of the United States For the salary of an agent.
President authorized to make the appointments of commissioners and an agent, and to grant them commissions.
Act to take effect from the exchange of ratifications.
When a sufficient quantity of land at the point shall be conveyed to the United States, the President shall fix upon the site for a lighthouse.
The Secretary of the Treasury shall make arrangements for building one, &c. The President to appoint a keeper, &c.
Secretary of the Treasury to have buoys placed near the bar of St. Simon’s.
The Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be rebuilt, the lighthouse at Clark’s point.
Secretary of the Treasury required to cause a lighthouse to be built at Fivemile point, &c.
Proviso.
Appropriations for carrying this act into effect.
Lighthouse at Clark’s point.
Lighthouse at Fivemile point, Georgia.
Former act revived and continued in force till the first April, one thousand eight hundred and five.
Act of March 1800. Act of March 23, 1804, ch. 33.
Limitation as to the location of warrants.
1802, ch. 30.
June 1, 1796, ch. 46.
Proviso.
The Secretary of War to endorse the warrant or certificate that no warrant has been issued for the same in virtue of the act of March 3, 1803, ch. 33.
Act of March 1, 1800.
[Obsolete.]
Monies received for duties or taxes in Louisiana to be accounted for and paid into the treasury, as other monies.
Appropriations for defraying the expenses incurred in raking possession of, and holding Louisiana till a new government thereof shall be established.
To be expended under the direction of the President of the United States.
(Obsolete.]
Bonds given for duties, where the obligors have sustained losses by the fire, to be cancelled, and new ones with further indulgence to the debtors, to be taken by the collector.
Appropriations for carrying on the impeachments against Samuel Chase and John Pickering.
Fees to the witnesses.
Any other expense authorised by the chairman of the committee to be allowed and paid.
Sessions of the district court of Virginia altered.
Court at Norfolk to commence June and December 15th, 1805, at Richmond, May and November 19th.
If either of the days Sunday, the court to commence on the following day.
Writs and process continued over accordingly.
Sessions of the district court of Rhode Island altered.
Writs and process continued over accordingly.
Sessions of the district court of "West Tennessee altered.
Process continued over accordingly.
See act of February 24, 1807, sec. 4, ch. 16.
[Obsolete.]
Act of February 18, 1791, ch. 10.
Bank of the U. States authorized to establish offices of discount and deposit.
Boundary line now under the direction of the surveyor-general established.
Proviso, that within two years the state of Virginia recognize the line.
Officers and soldiers to complete their locations in three years within the reserved territory.
Officers and soldiers whose bounty land shall have been located on that part of the territory to which the Indian title has been extinguished to make returns, &c. to the Secretary of War in five years.
Papers returned to be evidence entitling the claimants to patents.
1803, ch. 21.
Act of April 16, 1816,ch. 49.
Act of April 11, 1818, ch. 43.
Act of Feb. 24, 1819,ch. 40.
Unlocated portion of the reserved territory in five years to be released from claims and disposed of, &c.
That the following post roads Post roads discontinued.
In North Carolina.—From Woodstock to Hyde Courthouse ; from North Carolina.
In Virginia.—From Lexington, by Amherst Springs, to Cabelsborough ; Virginia.
In Kentucky.—From Hartford, by Vienna, to Muhlenburg Courthouse. Kentucky.
In Ohio.—From Zanesville to Marietta, and from Cincinnati to Ohio.
In Maryland.—From Westminster to Taneytown; from Emmitsburg Maryland.
In Pennsylvania.—From Pittsburg to Meedsville. Pennsylvania.
In Massachusetts.—From Worcester to Providence, in Rhode Island. Massachusetts.
In Vermont.—From Newbury, by Barry, to Montpelier. Vermont.
In New York.—From the town of Chester, in Washington county, to New York.
That the following post roads be Postroads established.
In Georgia.—From Athens to Walkinsville. Georgia.
In South Carolina.—From Orangeburg, by Barnwell Courthouse, South Carolina.
In North Carolina.—From Warrenton, by Ransom’s bridge and North Carolina.
In Virginia.—From Fredericksburg, by Falmouth, Elk Run Church, Virginia.
In Kentucky.—From Springfield, by Green Courthouse, Adair Courthouse, Kentucky.
In Tennessee.—From Dixon’s Springs, by Lebanon and Rutherford Tennessee.
In Ohio.—From Warren, in the county of Trumbull, by Cleveland, Ohio.
In Pennsylvania.—From Alexandria, through Hollidaysburg, Beula Pennsylvania.
In New Jersey.—From Ringoe’s tavern, by Somerset Courthouse, New Jersey.
In New York.—From Kingston, through Catskill, Loonenburg, and New York.
In Connecticut.—From Hartford, through Granby and Granville, to Connecticut.
In Massachusetts.—From Shrewsbury, through Holden, Rutland, Massachusetts.
In Maine.—From Brunswick, by Litchfield and Hallowell, to Augusta; Maine.
In New Hampshire.—From Haverhill in Massachusetts, to pass New Hampshire.
In Louisiana.—From Massac, on the Ohio river, to Cape Girardeau, Louisiana.
Letters to or from the offices of inspector and paymaster to be conveyed free.
[Obsolete.]
Postmaster-General to report to Congress the roads which have obstructions.
[Obsolete.]
Congress to establish other roads.
Existing contracts not affected by this act.
Powers of the surveyor-general extended over all the lands of the U. States north of the Ohio, and east of die Mississippi ; and he shall cause them to be laid off into townships.
Expenses of surveying not to exceed three dollars per mile.
Tracts claimed to be laid out at the expense of the claimant.
Indian boundary lines to be run and marked.
Land, offices established at Detroit, Vincennes and Kaskaskia.
Register and receiver of public monies appointed for each of them, Duties and emoluments of these officers.
Persons claiming lands described in the preceding sections, under grants from the French, British or United States governments to deliver to the registers of the land-offices of the districts in which the lands are situated, statements of the extent of their claims.
Which shall be recorded.
Fees demandable for the same.
Neglect to deliver notice.
The registers to be commissioners in their respective districts. Oath of office.
It shall be the duty of the said commissioners to meet at the places Their duties. The commissioners to meet in the several districts and to decide upon claims : invested with power to compel the attendance of witnesses to examine them : To report their proceedings to Congress. The board to have power to appoint clerks. Duty of clerks. Books and papers, upon the dissolution of the board, to be lodged in the offices of the registers of the land-offices. Clerks to prepare transcripts of the decisions of the boards. Commissioners to make report to the Secretary of the Treasury of the claims rejected by them, with the substance of the evidence adduced in their support. Secretary of the Treasury to report these with the transcripts of claims admitted to Congress. Compensation to the commissioners and clerks. Official oath of the clerks. All the lands with certain exceptions, to be sold, on what terms and where. Salt springs.
Act of May 18, 1796, ch. 29.
Lands remaining unsold after three weeks may be disposed of at private sale.
Act of May 18, 1796, ch. 29.
All the navigable rivers &c. in the Indiana territory to be public highways.
Salt springs, with contiguous sections reserved for the disposal of the United States.
Surreptitious grants of salt springe null and void.
Provisions in favour of purchases under J. C. Symmes continued in force till June next.
Act of May 1, 1802, ch. 44.
The register and receiver of the land-office at Cincinnati.
No right of pre-emption to be granted except in favour of persons who had contracted with John Cleves Symmes, &c. after January 1, 1800.
Persons who hold such certificates allowed until 1806, to complete the payment of the first instalment.
Proviso in favour of persons who have made improvements.
Persons having certificates of rights of pre-emption under contracts with or purchases from J. Cleves Symmes allowed further time for paying.
Fractional sections may be sold, united or singly.
No fractional sections to be sold at private sale until after offer at public sale.
Public lands of the U. States may be sold in whole, half or quarter sections.
All subdivisions to be at the expense of purchasers.
Interest not payable for purchases of public land, if the principal be punctually paid.
Act of May 18, 1796, ch. 29.
Certain sections of lands and fractional sections and other public land north of the Ohio and above the mouth of Kentucky river, to be offered for sale.
(Act of May 18, 1796, ch. 29.)
Under whose direction.
Times and places of sale.
How long the sales to remain open.
Terms of sales.
Other public lands north of the Ohio, or south of Tennessee to be offered to the highest bidder, in quarter sections.
Reservations in favour of a grant to John C. Symmes and others.
Public lands, after having been surveyed, to be divided by the Secretary of the Treasury, into surveying districts.
For each of which a deputy surveyor, with the approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be appointed.
Oath of office.
His duties.
The surveyor-general to furnish the deputies with copies of the plats and fractional parts of townships in their districts.
Fees of the deputies.
Limitation of grant of a certificate.
Additional compensation to the registers and receivers of public monies of the several land-offices.
Certain fees heretofore payable discontinued.
Books of the officers of the land-offices to be annually examined, and the balance in their hands ascertained.
Fees heretofore demandable for patents no longer payable.
Registers of the land-offices to transmit the final certificates of purchasers to the register of the treasury, —postage to be paid by the purchasers.
Commissions to remain in force till the end of the next session of Congress.
Per diem allowance to superintendents of sales.
Sum appropriated to carry this act into effect.
Congress shall meet on the first Monday in November, 1804.
Act of Feb. 20, 1811,ch.21. Act of April 8, 1812, ch. 50. Act of April 14, 1812, ch. 57.
Lands south of the Mississippi territory in Louisiana made the territory of Orleans.
The executive power-how constituted.
To hold his office three years.
The governor’s powers, duties and authority.
A secretary to be appointed.
In case of vacancy, the government to devolve upon him.
A legislative council to be appointed by the President.
The governor with the advice and consent of the council, may alter or repeal laws, &c.
Legislative powers of the council.
No law to be valid that is repugnant to the constitution, &c. of the U. States; to be a perfect equality and freedom in religious matters.
Laws to be published : and from time to time to be reported to the President, who is to lay them before Congress, for their approbation.
Governor and council to have no control over the primary disposal of the soil, nor to tax the lands of the U. States, nor to decide upon interfering land claims.
Governor may convene and prorogue the council :—made his duty to obtain information concerning the people, &c. of Louisiana, and report it to the President.
Judicial arrangement for the territory.
Inhabitants of the territory entitled to the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus bailable but in certain cases, and exempt from all cruel and unusual punishments.
Governor, &c. may be appointed by the President, in the recess of the senate ; but in that case he must nominate them at the next meeting of the senate.
Governor, &c. to take an oath of office, &c.
Compensation of the governor, &c.
Certain acts of Congress to be in force in the territory.
Act of June 5, 1791. ch. 50.
Act of April 24, 1800, ch. 35.
Act of June 14, 1797, ch. 1.
Act of Jan. 30, 1799, ch. 1.
Act of Feb. 12, 1793, ch.7.
Act of March 22, 1794, ch. 11.
Act of Feb. 28, 1803, ch. 10.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch.43.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 34.
Act of March 3, 1795, ch. 50.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 30.
Act of Feb. 21, 1793, ch.11.
Act of April 17, 1800, ch. 25.
And be it further enacted, That the following acts, that is to say :
An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States.
An act, in addition to an act, for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States.
An act to prevent citizens of the United States from privateering against nations in amity with, or against citizens of the United States.
An act for the punishment of certain crimes therein specified.
An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from service of their masters.
An act to prohibit the carrying on the slave trade from the United States to any foreign place or country.
An act to prevent the importation of certain persons into certain states, where by the laws thereof, their admission is prohibited.
An act to establish the post-office of the United States.
An act further to alter and establish certain post roads, and for the more secure carriage of the mail of the United States.
An act for the more general promulgation of the laws of the United States.
An act, in addition to an act, intituled an act for the more general promulgation of the laws of the United States.
An act to promote the progress of useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose.
An act to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for useful discoveries and inventions to certain persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the rights of patentees.
An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Act of May 31, 1790, ch. 15.
An act, supplementary to an act, intituled An act for the encouragement Act of April 29, 1802, ch. 66. Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 24, sec. 7.
An act providing for salvage in cases of recapture.
An act respecting alien enemies. Act of July 6, 1798, ch. 66.
An act to prescribe the mode in which the public acts, records, and Act of May 26, 1790,ch. 11.
An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes. Act of April 18, 1796, ch. 13.
An act for continuing in force a law, intituled An act for establishing Act of April 30, 1802, ch. 39.
An act making provision relative to rations for Indians, and to their Act of May 13, 1800, ch. 68.
There shall be established in the said territory a district District court of the U. States created in the territory, the court to consist of one judge. Sessions and jurisdiction of the court. A clerk to be appointed : his fees and emoluments.
There shall be appointed in the said district, a person learned in the An attorney and a marshal to be also appointed. Their compensation. Repealed May 22, 1812.
How juries are to be selected.
Importation of slaves for bidden under a penalty.
Importation of slaves brought to the U. States since May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, forbidden under a penalty.
No slaves to be brought into the territory but by citizens of the U. States, bona fide owners of them at their removal.
Certain laws of the territory declared in force.
The residue of the province of Louisiana, ceded to the The remaining part of Louisiana made a separate district. The executive power of Indiana extended to this district, and the legislative also. Proviso.
The executive power now vested in the governor of the Indiana territory, shall extend to, and be exercised in the said district of Louisiana. The governor and judges of the Indiana territory shall have power to establish, in the said district of Louisiana, inferior courts, and prescribe their jurisdiction and duties, and to make all laws which they may deem conducive to the good government of the inhabitants thereof: In all criminal cases the trial to be by jury. The judges to hold two annual sessions of the district court in the Indiana territory. The secretary of the territory to keep a record of executive proceedings and transmit copies to the President. Laws to be published by the governor, and copies to be sent to the President, for the sanction of Congress. District of Louisiana to be subdivided.
The said district of Louisiana shall be divided into districts by the governor, under the direction of the President, as the convenience of the settlements shall require, subject to such alterations hereafter as experience may prove more convenient. The inhabitants of each district, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, shall be formed into a Militia formed out of the inhabitants of the particular districts. Officers to be appointed, &c.
Laws now in force in the district of Louisiana, not inconsistent with this act, continued in force.
Certain grants for lands in the territories ceded to the U. States which were in the crown of Spain at the time of the treaty of St. Ildefonso declared void.
Proviso.
Decisions of the Supreme Court on Louisiana land titles :—By the treaty of St. Ildefonso, made on the 1st of October, 1800, Spain ceded Louisiana to France ; and France, by the treaty of Paris, signed the 30th of April, 1803, ceded it to the United States. Under this treaty the United States claimed the countries between the Iberville and the Perdido-Spain contended that her cession to France comprehended only that territory which al the time of the cession was denominated Louisiana, consisting of the island of New Orleans, and the country which had been originally ceded to her by France, west of the Mississippi. The land claimed by the’ plaintiffs in error, under a grant from the crown of Spain, made after the treaty of St. Ildefonso, lies within the disputed territory ; and this case presents the question, to whom did the country between the Iberville and Perdido belong after the treaty of St. Ildefonso? Had France and Spain agreed upon the boundaries of the retroceded territory, before Louisiana was acquired by the United States, that agreement would undoubtedly have ascertained its limits. But the declarations of France, made after parting with the province, cannot be admitted as conclusive. In questions of this character, political considerations have too much influence over the conduct of nations, to permit their declarations to decide the course of an independent government, in a matter vitally interesting to itself. Foster et al. v. Neilson, 2 Peters, 254.
If a Spanish grantee had obtained possession of the land in dispute so as to be the defendant, would a court of the United States maintain his title under a Spanish grant, made subsequent to the acquisition of Louisiana, singly on the principle that the Spanish construction of the treaty of St. Ildefonso was right, and the American construction wrong 7 Such a decision would subvert those principles which govern the relations between the legislative and judicial departments, and mark the limits of each. Ibid. 309.
The sound construction of the 8th article of the treaty between the United States and Spain, of the 22d of February, 1829, will not enable the court to apply its provisions to the case of the plaintiff. Ibid. 314.
The article does not declare that all the grants made by his Catholic majesty before the 24th of January, 1818, shall be valid to the same extent as if the ceded territories had remained under his dominion. It does not say that those grants are hereby confirmed. Had such been its language, it would have acted directly on the subject, and it would have repealed those acts of Congress which were repugnant to it; but its language is that those grants shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession, &c. By whom shall they be ratified and confirmed? This seems to be the language of contract; and if it is, the ratification and confirmation which are promised must be the act of the legislature. Until such act shall be passed, the court is not at liberty to disregard the existing laws on the subject. Ibid.
The controversy in relation to die country lying between the Mississippi and the Perdido rivers, and the validity of the grants made by Spain in the disputed territory, after the cession of Louisiana to the United States, were carefully examined and decided in the case of Foster and Elam V. Neilson. The supreme court, in that case, decided that the question of boundary between the United States and Spain was a question for the political departments of the government; that the legislative and executive branches having decided the question, the courts of the United States are bound to regard the boundary determined by them as the true one ; that grants made by the Spanish authorities of lands, which, according to this boundary line belonged to the United States, gave no title to the grantees, in opposition to those claiming under the United States; unless the Spanish grants were protected by the subsequent arrangements made between the two governments ; and that no such arrangements were to be found in the treaty of 1819, by which Spain ceded the Floridas to the United States, according to the fair import of its words, and its true construction. Garcia v. Lee, 12 Peters, 511.
In the case of Foster and Elam v. Neilson, the supreme court said, that the Florida treaty of 1819 declares that all grants made before the 24th January, 1818, by the Spanish authorities, shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands, to the same extent that the same grants would be valid, if the territories had remained under the dominion of his Catholic majesty and in deciding the case of Foster and Elam, the court held that even if this stipulation applied to lands in the territory in question, yet the words used did not import a present confirmation by virtue of the treaty itself, but that they were words of contract; " that the ratification and confirmation, which were promised, must be the act of the legislature ; and until such shall be passed, the court is not at liberty to disregard the existing laws on the subject." Afterwards, in the case of the United States v. Percheman, 7 Peters, 86, in reviewing the words of the eighth article of the treaty, the court, for the reasons there assigned, came to a different conclusion ; and held that the words were words of present confirmation, by the treaty, where the land had been rightfully granted before the cession ; and that it did not need the aid of an act of Congress to ratify and confirm the grant. This language was, however, applied by the court, and was intended to apply to grants made in a territory which belonged to Spain at the time of the grant. The case then before the court was one of that description. It was in relation to a grant of land in Florida, which unquestionably belonged to Spain at the time the grunt was made ; and where the Spanish authorities had an undoubted right to grant, until the treaty of cession in 1819. It is of such grants that the court speak, when they declare them to he confirmed and protected by the true construction of the treaty ; and that they do not need the aid of an act of Congress to ratify and confirm the title of the purchaser. The court do not apply this principle to grants made within the territory of Louisiana. The case of Foster and Elam v. Neilson, must in all other respects be considered as affirmed by the case of Percheman ; as it underwent a careful examination in that case, and as none of its principles were questioned, except that referred to. Garcia v. Lee, 12 Peters, 511.
The acts of the commissioners appointed to adjust and settle land titles in Louisiana, under the acts of Congress authorizing and confirming the same, are conclusive as to all titles to lands which have been confirmed, according to the provisions of the different acts of Congress on the subject. Strother v. Lucas, 12 Peters, 410. See also The United States n, Percheman, 7 Peters, 86.
Grants to actual settlers excepted.
Proviso.
Limitation of such grants.
Prohibition of settlements on the lands of the United States.
President authorized to enter into certain agreements with the Indian Tribes, owning lands on the east side of the Mississippi.
The act to regulate trade, &c. and to preserve peace on the frontiers, extended to the territory ceded by France to the United States.
Act of March 30, 1802, ch. 13.
Limitation of a former and the commencement of this act.
Act of October 31, 1803, ch. 1.
This act to be in force on the 1st of October, 1804, and to continue for one year.
Act of March 26, 1802, ch. 9. Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78. Act of April 24, 1816, ch. 69. Act of April 14, 1818, ch. 56. Act of May 12, 1820, ch. 96. Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 12.
More surgeon’s mates may be appointed.
An equivalent in malt liquors or low wines for whiskey, &c.
Destroying a vessel st sea to the injury of the underwriters. Under the second section of the act of March 26th, 1S04, chap. 40, on an indictment for destroying u vessel with intent to prejudice the underwriters, it is sufficient to show the existence of an association actually carrying on the business of insurance, by whose known officers, de facto, the policy was executed, and to prejudice whom the vessel was destroyed ; without proving the existence of a legal corporation authorized to insure, or a compliance on the part of such corporation with the terms of its charter, or the validity of the policy of insurance. United States Amedy, 11 Wheat. 392; 6 Cond. Rep. 362.
The law not making it an offence in the owner to destroy his vessel to the prejudice of the underwriters or the cargo, no evidence can be given to establish charges against the defendant for such destruction, to the prejudice of the underwriters on the cargo, even if the indictment contained such a charge. Evidence of the value of the property insured may be given to show inducements to destroy or preserve it. The United States m Richard Johns, 1 Wash. C. C. R. 363.
It is necessary in the indictment to state that the intent was to prejudice the underwriters. Ibid.
The prosecutor on an indictment for destroying a vessel, must show that the insurance is a valid insurance, and if made by an incorporated insurance company, the act of incorporation must be shown, and the contract of insurance must be shown to have been executed. Ibid.
The legal meaning of the term “destroy” by the act of Congress is to unfit the vessel for service beyond the hope of ordinary means. This, as to the extent of the injury, is synonymous with “cast away.” Both mean, such an act as causes the vessel to perish and to be lost, or to be irrecoverable by ordinary means. Ibid.
Act of April 30, 1790. ch. 9.
Punishment to a person ether than the owner who shall cast away, &c. a vessel at sea.
Punishment to the owner for the like offence.
Persons may be tried and punished for crimes under the revenue laws in five years from the time of commission.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 110.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation.
Act of Sept. 24, 1789, ch. 20.
In case of the inability of the judge of any district court to attend, the marshal may adjourn the court.
[Expired.]
Act of April 21, 1806, ch.38.
Act of Feb. 27, 1813, ch. 40.
1807, ch. 30.
1808, ch. 11.
An additional ad valorem duty of two and a half per cent, imposed for defraying expenses in relation to the Barbary States.
Upon goods imported after the 30th June next.
The first section of this act continued in force by acts of 1806 and 1813.
Distinct account of the duties imposed by this act: proceeds to be called the “Mediterranean fund :” when the duties cease.
Proviso, that the additional duties shall be collected on all goods imported before the act ceases.
President authorized to employ a naval force in the Mediterranean.
President may purchase or build two additional vessels of war.
An additional sum appropriated, not to exceed one million of dollars.
President authorized to borrow this sum.
Bank of the U. States authorized to lend.
See acts of
1809, ch. 7,
1810, ch. 5,
1813, ch. 40.
Accounts to be laid before Congress.
Certain aliens permitted to become citizens of the U. States who resided in the U. States between the 18th June, 1798, and 14th April, 1802.
Act of April 14, 1802, ch. 28.
After an alien shall have complied with certain directions his widow and children made citizens of the U. States.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 24, sec. 9, 10. Act of April 23, 1800, ch. 33, sec. 9, 10. Act of April 16, 1816, ch. 58. Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 60. Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 79.
Money arising from captures, not already paid over, to he paid to the treasurer.
How the money is to be disbursed by the treasurer.
A distinct quarterly account or it to be rendered.
Accountant of the navy to receive and settle all navy pension accounts, and report the same.
Comptroller authorized to institute suits for prize money.
Commissioners of the navy pension fund may appoint a secretary. His duties and emoluments.
See note to chapter 53, post, page 297, Navy Pension Fund. By an act passed 10th July, 1832, Congress authorized the appointment of a separate and permanent navy agent at Washington, and directed the performance of the duties, “not only for the navy yard in the City of Washington, but from the navy department, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, in the payment of such accounts and claims as the secretary may direct.” These duties would not have been so specially stated in this act, if they had been considered by Congress as coming within the ordinary duties of an agent of the navy yard at Washington, under the act of 1804. But independent of this consideration, it is enough to know, that the duties in question were discharged by the defendant, under the construction given to the law by the Secretary of the Navy. United States v. Macdaniel, 7 Peters, 1.
The United States instituted a suit to recover a balance charged on the books of the treasury department, against the defendant, who was a clerk in the navy department, upon a fixed annual salary, and acted as agent for the payment of moneys due to the navy pensioners, the privateer pensioners, and for navy disbursements, for the payment of which, funds were placed in his hands by government. He claimed these commissions at the treasury, and the claim had been there rejected by the accounting offi-
It would be a novel principle to refuse payment to the subordinates of a department because their chief, under whose direction they had faithfully served the public, had given an erroneous construction to the law. Ibid.
The Secretary of the Navy, in authorizing the defendant to make the disbursements on which the claim for compensation is founded, did not transcend those powers, which, under the circumstances of the case, he might well exercise. Ibid.
Commissioners to make rules and regulations for the admission of pensioners.
Lighthouse to be built at the Mississippi under contract to be approved by the President.
Lighthouse to be built at or near the pitch of Cape Lookout in North Carolina, under contract to be approved by the President.
Jurisdiction of the soil to be first conveyed to the United States.
Lighthouses at both places to be provided with keepers, &c. &c.
Appropriation for the foregoing purposes.
A beacon to be erected at the north point of Sandy Hook.
Appropriation.
That whenever the amendment proposed Twelfth amendment to the constitution of the U. States, 22. Act of March 1, 1792, ch. 8, vol. i. 239. The secretary of state to notify the executives of the proposed amendment when ratified and to have it published. Transcripts of the notification to be delivered to the electors ; who are to give their votes conformably with the amendment. How certificates of their votes are to be made, and forwarded. Provisions of a former, not inconsistent with this act extended to all future elections. Act of March 1, 1792, ch. 8, vol. i. 239.
And whereas, the above-mentioned amendment may be ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the states, and thereupon become immediately valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the constitution, on a day so near the day fixed by law for the meeting of the electors in the several states, that the electors shall not in every state be apprised of the said ratification, and may vote in a manner no longer conformable with the constitution, as amended, whereby several states might be deprived of their vote in the election of a President and Vice President: Electors to vote by distinct ballots for President and Vice President, according to the 1st sec. of the 2d art. of the constitution, and according to the proposed amendment: if they be uninformed at the time of the fate of the amendment :—
And to make returns accordingly.
Which of these are to be opened and inspected.
In case of a vote under the constitution of the U. States, as it now stands, and one according to the amendment proposed, lists of the electors to be given to the electors, and one of these lists forwarded.
Act of April 14, 1792, ch. 24. Act of Feb. 28, 1803,ch.9.
Repeal of part of a former act.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 40.
Powers of attorney for the transfer of stock and receipt of interest, in other respects formal, not to be affected by the want of consular certificates.
Act of Dec. 31, 1792, ch. 1.
No ship or vessel to be registered as a vessel of the U. States, if owned by persons residing in foreign countries a certain length of time.
Any ship or vessel before registered, &c.
Satisfactory proof of the citizenship of the purchaser to be first exhibited to the collector.
Proviso in a former act extended to the representative, of a deceased owner of a ship.
Act of June 27, 1797, ch. 6.
A captain of the navy to be attached to the navy yard and vessels in ordinary at Washington. His duties, pay and emoluments.
Who else are to be attached to the navy yard and vessels in ordinary at Washington.
Proviso.
Repeal of a part of a former act.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 29.
Commencement of the compensations and allowances established by an act of Congress, concerning city of Washington.
Allowance to the surveyor.
Superintendent authorized to pay the compensations and to defray other expenses :
And to settle with P. C. L’Enfant.
Out of what fund these compensations, &c. are to be paid.
Appropriation for the public buildings.
Act of May 26, 1790, ch. 11.
The attestation of the keeper of the records which may be kept in any public office of a state not appertaining to a court, under his seal of office, with a certificate of the presiding judge, or of the governor, chancellor, &c., that the attestation is in due form, shall have full force and credit in every court of the U. 8. as in the courts of the state.
To what acts the provisions of this law shall apply.
[Obsolete.]
Additional articles exempted from duty.
Additional duties imposed.
On foreign caught dried fish, fifty cents per quintal ; on foreign caught Specific articles and rates.
Ten per cent, additional ad valorem duty upon importations in foreign vessels of the specified goods.
Manner and terms of collection.
No drawback on the exportation of foreign fish or fish oil, or of playing cards.
Duties and drawbacks to apply to any specific quantity of goods in a rateable proportion.
“Light money” to be levied on foreign vessels.
Act of March 3, 1805, ch. 40.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Act of March 3, 1805, ch. 40.
The person exercising the duties of the late intendent of Louisiana to have the same jurisdiction in certain cases with the district courts of the U. States.
1804, ch. 38.
Fines, penalties or forfeitures, by whom they may he remitted, &c. &c.
That from and after the last day of June, in the present year, the salaries heretofore allowed by law, to the several collectors of the customs, for the districts of Bath, Ports Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 23.
To the collector for the district of Natchez, in addition to the fees Allowance to the collector of Natchez, and to the surveyors of New London, Middletown, New Haven and Alexandria. To the collectors of Wilmington and Newbern, in North Carolina. Petersburg and Richmond. Kennebunk and New London. Bath. New Haven and Middletown. Providence and Alexandria. Newburyport. Portland. Salem and Beverly.
To the collectors for Petersburg and Richmond, two per cent.
To the collectors for Kennebunk and New London, one and three quarters per cent.
To the collector for Bath, one and an half per cent.
To the collectors for New Haven and Middletown, one and three eighths per cent.
To the collectors for Providence and Alexandria, one and one quarter per cent.
To the collector for Newburyport, one and one eighth per cent.
To the collector for Portland, three quarters of one per cent.
And to the collectors for Salem and Beverly, five eighths of one per cent, on all monies by them respectively received on account of the duties arising on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships and vessels.
Surveyor to be appointed for Marblehead.
Allowance to him.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 2, 1810, ch. 16
An additional judge to be appointed for the Mississippi territory.
His place of residence.
His duties and authorities.
Proviso.
Upon the reversal of a judgment of the court established by this act, the judgment of the superior court to he finals but in certain cases, when the cause shah be remanded to the court below.
Plaintiffs in error, other than executors or administrators, to give security.
Proceedings commenced in the superior court of Washington district transferred to that established by this act.
Officers to issue and execute process and to record the proceedings authorized to act for both courts.
Sessions of the court.
Places and times of holding them.
Salary, & c. &c. of the judge.
Four hundred copies of the laws of the U. States, to be procured by the Secretary of State, and one hundred of them to be distributed, in proportions, in the territory of Orleans mid district of Louisiana.
One thousand copies printed at the close of each session of Congress to be reserved for future disposition.
Distribution of the remainder to be extended to the different territories.
Laws of the present and future sessions to be published in the territories.
Appropriation to defray the expense of carrying this act into effect.
Under the act of Congress of March 3, 1803, chap. 27, entitled, "An act regulating grants of lands, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States south of the state of Tennessee," such lands only were authorized to be offered for sale as had not been appropriated by the previous sections of the law, and certificates granted in pursuance thereof. A right therefore to a particular grant of land, derived from a donation certificate given under the law, is superior to the title of any one who purchased the same land at the public sales, unless there is some fatal infirmity in the certificate which renders it void. Ross v. Barland et al., 1 Peters, 606.
The act of Congress requires no precise form for the donation certificate. It is sufficient if the proofs be exhibited to the court of the commissioners to satisfy them of the facts entitling the party to the certificate. It is sufficient if the consideration, the occupancy, and the quantity granted appears; nothing more is necessary to certify to the government the party’s right, or to enable him, after it is surveyed by the proper officer, to obtain a patent. Ibid.
The 2d section of the act of March 3, 1803, was intended to confer a bounty on a numerous class of individuals ; and in construing the ambiguous words of the section, it is the duty of the court to adopt that construction which will best effect the liberal intentions of the legislature. Ibid.
The time when the territory over which the law operated was evacuated by the Spanish troops, was very important, as the law was intended to provide for those who were actually, at that lime, inhabitants of, and cultivated the soil within it; but whether it was in 1797 or 1798, was comparatively unimportant. The decision of the commissioners upon the period when the evacuation took place is sufficient ; and the court are disposed to adopt the construction of the act given by the commissioners, west of Pearl river, that the evacuation took place on the 30th March, 1798, by which persons claiming within the objects of the section were entitled to certificates. Ibid.
Congress have treated as erroneous the construction given to the law by the commissioners to settle claims to lands east of Pearl river; who have decided that only those who have settled on the lands within the territory in the year 1797, were entitled to donation certificates, and who had granted to others pre-emption certificates. Ibid.
The commissioners appointed under the act of Congress relative to claims to lands south of the state of Tennessee, were authorized to hear evidence as to the time of the actual evacuation of the territory by the Spanish troops, and to decide upon the fact. The law gave them power to hear and decide all matters respecting such claims, and to determine thereon according to justice and equity, and declared their deliberations shall be final. The court are bound to presume that every fact necessary to warrant the certificate in the terms of it, was proved before the commissioners ; and that subsequently it was shown to them that the final evacuation of the territory took place on the 30th March, 1798. Ibid.
It is the settled doctrine of the judicial department of the government of the United States, that the treaty of 1819 with Spain, ceded to the United States, no territory west of the Perdido river. It had already been acquired under the Louisiana treaty. Pollard’s Lessee v. Files, 2 Howard’s Sup. Court Rep. 591.
In the interval between the Louisiana treaty, and the time when the United States took possession of the territory west of the Perdido, the Spanish government had a right to grant permits to settle and improve by cultivation, and to authorize the erection of establishments for mechanical purposes. Ibid.
These incipient concessions were not regarded by Congress, but are recognized in the acts of 1804, 1812, 1819, and as claims are within the acts of 1821. Ibid.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 27.
Notice to be given to the register of the land-office by persons claiming lands in the Mississippi territory west of Pearl river, and their claims to be recorded.
Proviso in favor of Spanish and British grants.
Commissioners authorized to adjourn from time to time.
Proviso.
Proviso.
What evidence may be required by the boards of commissioners concerning Spanish grants.
Boards of commissioners to make reports to the Secretary of the Treasury in certain cases.
Agent to be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Board of commissioners for adjusting claims to land, south of Pearl river, authorized to employ an assistant clerk and a translator of the Spanish language.
Compensation not to exceed $2000.
Salary of the surveyor of lands south of Tennessee.
Lands claimed under Spanish grants, the titles to which are not confirmed, to be surveyed at the expense of the United States.
Lands north of the Mississippi territory and south of the state of Tennessee, and bounded on Georgia and Louisiana, made part of the Mississippi territory.
Repeal of part of a former act.
1803, ch. 27.
Commissioners to make a report to the Secretary of the Treasury in a certain case.
* 1798, ch. 23. 1803, ch. 27.
Appropriation for carrying this act into effect.
Part of the twelfth section of the act to which this is a supplement suspended.
Transcripts of the British records of West Florida to be evidence in certain cases.
Appropriation for extending the external commerce, and exploring the limits of the U. States in Louisiana.
Major-General La Fayette authorised to make his location upon public lands in the territory of Orleans.
A variance between an engrossed bill and an inrolled bill to be corrected.
1804 ch. 30.
Resolved by the Senate and Howe of Representatives of the United States of America to Congress assembled, two thirds of both houses concurring, That, in lieu of the third paragraph of the first section of the second article of the constitution of the United States, the following be proposed as an amendment to the constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three fourths of the legislatures of the several states, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the said constitution, to wit :—
The electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves ; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice President and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President and of all persons voted tor as Vice President, and of the number of votes for each, which list they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate; the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted : the person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed j and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers, not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately by ballot the President. But in choosing the President, the vote shall be taken by States, the representation from each State having one vote ; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two thirds of the States, and a majority of all the States shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice President shall act as President, as m the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.
The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed j and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice President : a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice.
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.
ACTS OF THE EIGHTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Appropriation for carrying into effect the seventh article of the treaty between England and the United States.
Specific appropriation.
1790, ch. 34.
[Obsolete.]
Certain copies of the laws and journals of Congress to be placed in the Library.
Act of March 27, 1804, ch. 60.
Secretary of Senate to receive three hundred copies of the law reserved for the disposal of Congress; to be placed in the Library and assorted with others at the end of the last session of every Congress, the laws of that Congress received in the Library to be bound in one volume.
By whom the laws and journals may be taken from the Library.
Expense of binding how defrayed.
The President of Senate and Speaker of House of Representatives to make regulations concerning laws, not repugnant to this act.
Deficiency of a former appropriation for the purchase of laws made up.
Part of a former act, imposing restrictions on the exportation of goods from New Orleans, repealed.
Act of Feb. 24, 1804, ch. 13, sec. 6.
That any goods, wares, or mer Goods exported to the westward or southward of Louisiana, entitled to drawback. Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
This act shall commence and be in force from and after the first day Commencement of this act.
[Obsolete.]
Territory of Michigan taken from the Indiana territory.
Boundaries of the new territory and commencement of a temporary government for it.
Its government.
Vol. i–51, act of August 7, 1789, ch. 8.
Officers to exercise the same powers, be subject to the same duties, and to receive the same compensations as in the Indiana territory.
Duties of superintendent of Indian affairs vested in the governor.
Government of Indiana not affected by this act, except in the establishment of that of Michigan.
Suits or legal proceedings pending on the 30th June, 1805, in the district of country, or arising therein, which forms the territory of Michigan, to be proceeded in to judgments, as if this act had not passed.
Detroit made the seat of government.
Town of Cambridge in the district of Boston made a port of delivery.
1799, ch. 22.
Corporation of Georgetown empowered to levy a tax on the real property within its jurisdiction for erecting a causeway.
Power to cease when the object is effected.
Specific appropriations.
That for defraying the expenses of the navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and five, the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and the pay of the seamen, four hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars.
For provisions, two hundred and twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars, and forty cents.
For medicine, instruments, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, ten thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For repairs of vessels, store rent, and other contingent expenses, four hundred and eleven thousand nine hundred and fifty-one dollars, and two cents.
For the pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, eighty-two thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars, and sixty cents.
For clothing for the same, sixteen thousand five hundred and thirty-six dollars and ninety-eight cents.
For military stores for the same, one thousand six hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For medicine, medical services, hospital stores, and all expenses on Specific appropriations.
For quartermaster’s and barrack master’s stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorer’s and carpenters’ bills, fuel, premium for enlisting, music, and other contingent expenses, eight thousand four hundred and nineteen dollars.
For the expense of navy yards, docks, and other improvements, the pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks and labourers, sixty thousand dollars.
For completing the marine barracks at the city of Washington, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Act of March 25, 1804, ch. 46.
Appropriation for completing the south wing of the Capitol, to be applied under the direction of the President.
Act of July 9, 1798, ch. 70.
Act of Jan. 2, 1800, ch. 3.
Secretary of the treasury to employ clerks, upon such terms as may be reasonable, for completing, &c. the abstracts of the valuation of lands, &c. &c. in the state of South Carolina, under the direction of the supervisor.
The clerks, under the direction of the supervisor, to make the proper additions to or deductions from the valuations.
Lists and abstracts, when finished, to have the same force and effect as if they had been completed, &c. &c. agreeably to the provisions of the acts quoted in this law.
An additional per diem allowance to the supervisor.
Proviso.
Act of July 14, 1798, ch. 75.
Supervisor of S. Carolina to appoint one or more surveyors, when the assessment of the direct tax therein is completed.
The surveyors to make out the lists of the sums payable.
The lists to have the effect of lists made by distinct surveyors of revenue.
Powers, and duties; compensation.
Supervisors, with the approbation of the treasury may unite several assessment districts into one district.
Settlement of the accounts of the commissioners and assessors.
1798, ch. 70.
Allowance to the commissioners.
Appropriation
Act of May 18, 1796, chap. 29.
Mode of surveying public lands north of the Ohio.
Corners to be marked.
Half sections purchased before July 1, 1804, to be surveyed and marked.
Whole expense of survey not to exceed three dollars per mile.
How the expense of marking the surveys is to be paid.
Principles upon which the boundaries and contents of the public lands are to be ascertained.
Boundary lines run and marked by the surveyor south of the Tennessee river to be the proper boundaries of sections.
Boundary lines not actually run to beascertained.
Surveys to be returned.
Part of a former act repealed.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 35.
Cargoes of Spanish vessels, arriving in distress in the U. States, may be reshipped in other vessels without any charges, &c.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22. sec. 80, vol. i. 672.
Collector of Norfolk to refund certain duties on goods reshipped which were landed from the Spanish brig Nancy.
Proviso.
[Expired.]
Postmaster-General authorized to make a new contract for carrying the mail between Fayetteville and Charleston.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations.
That for defraying the expense of the military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and five; for the Indian department; and for the expense of fortifications, arsenals, magazines, and armories, the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:—
For the pay of the army of the United States, three hundred and two thousand seven hundred and ninety-six dollars.
For forage, four thousand four hundred and eighty-eight dollars.
For the subsistence of the officers of the army and corps of engineers, thirty-one thousand three hundred and twenty-nine dollars, and fourteen cents.
For the subsistence of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand and nine dollars, and sixty-nine cents.
For clothing, eighty-five thousand dollars.
For bounties and premiums, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, twelve thousand dollars.
For camp equipage, fuel, tools, expense of transportation, and other contingent expenses of the war department, eighty-one thousand dollars.
For fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, one hundred and thirty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars, and eighty-eight cents.
For purchasing maps, plans, books, and instruments for the war department, and military academy, five hundred dollars.
For the pay and subsistence of the commandants in Louisiana, five thousand nine hundred and seventy-one dollars, and seventy-seven cents.
For the Indian department, ninety-two thousand six hundred dollars.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
The same terms of credit for the payment of duties on goods imported by sea from foreign places, north of the equator, and on the eastern shores of America, as are allowed on West India articles.
Vessels may proceed with their foreign cargoes to foreign ports, or places, free of duties.
Proviso.
1799, ch. 22.
[Expired.]
Act of Feb. 27, 1801, ch. 12.
Assent of Congress given to a law of Maryland, enabling the state to collect a duty on vessels coming from a foreign voyage.
Limitation of the operation of this act.
Act of March 3, 1804, ch. 20.
Further time given to the supervisor of Kentucky for the performance of certain duties.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations.
That for the expenditure of Specific appropriations.
For compensations granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of four months and a half continuance, one hundred and ninety-eight thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, including the sum of three thousand dollars appropriated by the act of the sixth of December, one thousand eight hundred and four, twenty-eight thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses incidental to the dismantling the late library room of Congress, and fitting it up for the accommodation of the House of Representatives, at the ensuing session, seven hundred dollars.
For expenses of removal of the library, all other contingent expenses of the same, and librarian“s allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and five, nine hundred dollars.
For the expense of labelling, lettering and numbering five thousand seven hundred volumes of laws and journals of the old Congress, directed by the act of the present session for the disposal of certain copies of the laws of the United States, to be deposited in the library, five hundred and seventy dollars.
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons employed in that department, eleven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
For the incidental and contingent expenses in the said department, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For printing and distributing copies of the laws of the second session of the eighth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For printing the laws, and other contingent expenses of the government 1804, ch. 38.
For special messengers charged with despatches, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, including those engaged on the business belonging to the late office of the commissioner of the revenue, thirteen thousand four hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-one cents.
For expenses of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in receiving and transmitting passports and sea letters, stationery and printing, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and eight cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the comptroller’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, clerks and persons Specific appropriations.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the office of the auditor of the treasury, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer, clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-five cents.
For the expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the treasurer’s office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty-two dollars.
For expense of stationery and printing in the register’s office, (including books for the public stock and for the arrangement of the marine papers,) two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation of the clerks employed for the purpose of making drafts of the several surveys of land in the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio, and in keeping the books of the treasury in relation to the sales of lands at the several land-offices, two thousand six hundred dollars.
For fuel and other contingent expenses of the treasury department, four thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses incident to the stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and five, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For purchasing books, maps and charts, for the use of the treasury department, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to a superintendent employed to secure the buildings and records of the treasury, during the year one thousand eight hundred and five, including the expense of two watchmen, and for the repair of two fire engines, buckets, lanterns, and other incidental expenses, one thousand one hundred dollars.
For the erection of a fireproof brick building for the preservation of the records of the treasury; the cellars in which they have hitherto been kept, being found from their dampness improper for that use, nine thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the expenses of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the war department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to clerks employed in the paymaster’s office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel in the said office, ninety dollars.
For compensation to the purveyor of public supplies, clerks and persons 1799, ch. 40.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, nine thousand one hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the navy, clerks and persons Specific appropriations. 1799, ch. 40.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the navy, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster-General, assistant postmaster-general, 1799, ch. 40.
For expense of fuel, candles, house rent for the messenger, stationery, chests, &c. exclusive of expenses of prosecution, portmanteaus, mail locks, and other expenses incident to the department, these being paid for by the Postmaster-General out of the funds of the office, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of the several commissioners of loans, and an allowance to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan offices, thirteen thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of clerk hire in the office of the commissioner of loans of the state of Pennsylvania, in consequence of the removal of the offices of the treasury department, in the year one thousand eight hundred, to the permanent seat of government, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor-general, and the clerks employed by him, and for expense of stationery and other contingencies of the surveyor-general’s office, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of the lands south of the state of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, stationery, and other contingencies, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the officers of the mint:
The director, two thousand dollars.
The treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars.
The assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The chief coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The melter and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars.
One clerk, at seven hundred dollars.
And two, at five hundred dollars each.
For the wages of persons employed at the different branches of melting, coining, carpenters, millwrights and smiths’ work, including the sum of eight hundred dollars per annum, allowed to an assistant coiner and die forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For the repairs of furnaces, cost of rollers and screws, timber, bar-iron, lead, steel, potash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, two thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, secretary, and legislative council of the territory of Orleans, nineteen thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the legislative council, and of the secretary of the said territory, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Mississippi territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Indiana territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For the expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, two thousand dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks of the several departments of state, treasury, war and navy, and of the general post-office, not exceeding for each department, respectively, fifteen per centum, in addition to the sums allowed by the act, intituled “An act to regulate and 1799, ch. 40.
For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, associate judges, and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice, and two associate judges of the district of Columbia, and to the attorney-general, fifty-five thousand nine hundred dollars.
For the like compensation granted to the several district attornies of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the marshals of the districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Kentucky, Ohio, east and west Tennessee, and Orleans, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures and penalties, and likewise for defraying the expense of prosecution for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, nine hundred dollars.
For the payment of an annuity granted to the children of the late Colonel John Harding and Major Alexander Trueman, by an act of Congress passed the fourteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred, six hundred dollars.
For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and five, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, ninety-eight thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, one hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred and nine dollars and thirty-six cents.
For fixing buoys in Long Island sound, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that object, three thousand dollars.
For erecting beacons in the harbor of New York, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that object, six thousand dollars.
For erecting a beacon and placing buoys near the entrance of Savannah river, being an expense incurred under the act of the sixteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, (the balance of a former appropriation for the same object, having been carried to the credit of the surplus fund,) two thousand four hundred and ninety-four dollars, and eighty-nine cents.
For reviving so much of unexpended balances of appropriations granted by an act passed the sixth of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, and which have been carried to the surplus fund, to wit:
For erecting public piers in the river Delaware, five thousand eight Specific appropriations.
For erecting certain lighthouses, and fixing buoys in Long Island sound, nine thousand six hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty-eight cents.
And for building a lighthouse on Cumberland South Point, four thousand dollars.
For completing the lighthouse at the mouth of the Mississippi, and the lighthouse at or near the pitch of Cape Lookout, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated to those objects, by the act of the twenty-sixth of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, twenty thousand dollars.
Towards completing the surveys of public lands in the state of Ohio, and in the Indiana and Mississippi territories, forty thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, four thousand dollars.
For defraying certain expenses heretofore incurred in the war and navy departments, and which, in due course of settlement in those departments, have been adjusted, and cannot be discharged out of any existing appropriation, twenty thousand dollars.
For the expense of taking the second census of the inhabitants of the United States, being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, fourteen thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars, and seventy-seven cents.
For the expense of wharves and stores for quarantine of ships and vessels, being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the credit of the surplus fund, seventeen thousand one hundred and forty-three dollars, and one cent.
For the expense of returning the votes for President and Vice President 1792, ch. 8.
For defraying the contingent expenses of government, (the unexpended balance of a former appropriation for the same object, being carried to the credit of the surplus fund,) twenty thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, fifty-seven thousand and fifty dollars.
For the expenses of the intercourse between the United States and the Barbary powers, including the compensation of the consuls at Algiers, Morocco, Tunis and Tripoli, sixty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, two hundred thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, five thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the agents at Paris and Madrid, for prosecuting claims in relation to captures, four thousand dollars.
For payment of demands for French vessels and property captured, pursuant to the convention between the United States and the French Republic, the balance of a former appropriation for the same object, by 1802, ch. 17.
1790, ch. 34.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 38.
Act of Feb. 20, 1811, ch. 21.
Act of April 18, 1812, ch. 50.
President authorized to establish a government within the territory of Orleans, similar (except in particular respects) to that of the Mississippi territory:
Officers to be appointed, &c. &c.
The rights secured to the citizens of Mississippi to be extended to those of Orleans.
Ordinance of July 13, 1787, vol. i. 51.
Ordinance of Congress in relation to a general assembly to be in force in Orleans from the 4th of July, 1805.
Representatives to be chosen.
Subsequent elections to be regulated by the legislature.
Ratio of representation.
Time of the first meeting of the legislature.
Annual meetings to be held.
Neither House to adjourn without the consent of the other.
Laws not inconsistent with this act, to continue in force.
Second paragraph of the ordinance, and 6th art. of compact hot to be in force in Orleans.
Compensations of the officers.
People of the territory of Orleans, when the number of free inhabitants shall have amounted to 60,000, permitted to establish a government for themselves.
Must establish a republican government.
Congress to retain the privilege of altering the boundaries of the territory of Orleans, before its admission into the Union.
No alteration to be made which may defer its admission.
Part of the act erecting Louisiana into two territories, &c. repealed.
The rest to remain in force.
1801, ch. 38.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 27.
Act of March 27, 1804, ch. 61.
Persons obtaining certificates from the board of commissioners in the Mississippi territory, allowed further time for entering them.
Commissioners appointed to ascertain the claims to land in the Mississippi territory, east of Pearl river, authorized to grant certificates for land in the island of Nannee Hubba; and persons having claims permitted to file them before the 1st May, 1805.
Per diem allowances to the commissioners for their attendance after 1st April.
Whole additional allowance limited.
Compensations of the clerks of the boards of commissioners in the Mississippi territory.
Claimants under British grants legally and fully completed, allowed a further time for filing their claims.
Register to make report to Secretary of the Treasury of the grants thus recorded.
The lands included in the grants not to be disposed of for one year.
Grants not filed, &c. according to this act to be no bar to other Spanish and American grants.
Acts which have been passed relative to lands and land titles in Louisiana :—An act erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof, March 26, 1804, chap. 38, sec. 14, 15. An act for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims within the territory of Orleans, and the district of Louisiana, March 2, 1805, chap. 26. An act supplementary to an act entitled, “An act for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to lands within the territory of Orleans, and the district of Louisiana,” April 21, 1806, chap. 39. An act respecting claims to lands in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, March 3, 1807, chap. 36. An act providing for the final adjustment of claims to lands, and for the sale of the public lands in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, February 15, 1811. An act providing for the final adjustment of claims to lands, and for the sale of the public lands in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, and to repeal the last act for the same purpose, and approved February 16, 1811, March 3, 1811, chap. 46. An act giving further time for registering claims to lands in the western district of the territory of Orleans, March 10, 1812, chap. 38. An act for ascertaining the title and claims to land, in that part of Louisiana which lies east of the river Mississippi and the island of New Orleans, April 25, 1812, chap. 67. An act giving validity to the sale of certain tracts of public land, sold in the western district of the territory of Orleans, now the state of Louisiana, July 1, 1812, chap. 118. An act giving further time for registering claims to land in the eastern and western districts of the territory of Orleans, now state of Louisiana, February 27, 1813, chap. 38. An act for the final adjustment of land titles in the state of Louisiana and territory of Mississippi, April 12, 1814, chap. 52. An act supplementary to an act for ascertaining the titles and claims to land in that part of Louisiana which lies east of the river Mississippi and island of New Orleans, April 18, 1814, chap. 85 An act concerning certificates of confirmation of claims to lands in the state of Louisiana, April 18, 1814, chap. 93. An act to provide for the appointment of a surveyor of the public lands in the territories of Illinois and Missouri, April 29, 1816, chap. 151, sec. 3. An act for the confirmation of certain claims in the western district of Louisiana, and in the territory of Missouri, April 29, 1816, chap. 159. An act concerning pre-emption rights given in the purchase of lands to certain settlers in the state of Louisiana, and in the territory of Missouri and Illinois, April 29, 1816, chap. 162. An act in addition to the act, entitled, “An act for the final adjustment of the land titles in the state of Louisiana, and territory of Missouri,” March 3, 1819, chap. 84. An act to authorize the President of the United States to take possession of East and West Florida, and to establish a temporary government therein, March 3, 1819, chap. 91. An act for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land-offices in the district east of the island of Orleans, March 3, 1819, chap. 98. An act confirming the titles to lots in the town of Mobile, and in the former province of West Florida, which claims have been favourably reported on by the commissioners appointed by the United States, May 7, 1822, chap. 122. An act supplemental to the several acts for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land-offices in the districts cast of the island of New Orleans, May 8, 1822, chap. 128. An act supplementary to the several acts for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land-offices in the district east of the island of New Orleans, May 8, 1822, chap. 128. An act supplementary to the several acts for the adjustment of land claims in the state of Louisiana, February 21, 1823, chap. 15. An act to revive and continue in force the seventh section of an act entitled, “An act supplementary to the several acts for the adjustment of land claims in the state of Louisiana,” approved the eleventh of May, 1820, and for other purposes, February 28, 1823, chap. 18. An act providing for the examination of the titles to land in that part of the state of Louisiana, situated between the Rio Hondo and the Sabine river, March 3, 1832, chap. 29. An act supplementary to the several acts for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to land in the St. Helena and Jackson Courthouse land districts, May 26, 1824, chap. 175. An act supplementary to an act providing for the examination of the titles to land in that part of the state of Louisiana situated between the Rio Hondo and the Sabine river, May 26, 1824, chap. 182. An act to confirm the supplementary report of the commissioners of the western district of Louisiana, March 31, 1826, chap. 18. An act to confirm certain claims to land in the district of Opelousas in Louisiana, May 16, 1826, chap. 62. An act granting the right of preference to the purchasers of public lands in the St. Helena district in the state of Louisiana, March 19, 1828, chap. 19. An act to confirm claims to land in the district between the Rio Hondo and Sabine river, May 24, 1828, chap. 92. An act to authorize the registers of the several land-offices in Louisiana, to receive entries of land, in certain cases, and give to purchasers thereof, certificates of the same, May 5, 1830, chap. 86. An act to confirm the adjustment of land claims in the southeastern land district of the state of Louisiana, July 4, 1832, chap. 166. An act in reference to pre-emption rights in the southeastern district of Louisiana, June 28, 1834, chap. 125. An act further to provide for the location of certain land in the territory of Arkansas, June 28, 1834, chap. 106. An act for the final adjustment of claims to land in the state of Louisiana, February 6, 1835, chap. 17. An act supplementary to an act entitled, “An act to entitle the inhabitants of Louisiana to enter the back lands,” February 24, 1834, chap. 24. An act supplementary to an act of the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled, “An act for the final adjustment of claims to land in the southeastern district of Louisiana,” March 3, 1835, chap. 46. An act confirming claims to land in the state of Louisiana, July 4, 1836, chap. 358. An act supplementary to the act entitled, “An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands,” approved June 18, 1838, June 1, 1840, chap. 12. An act to confirm land patents, March 3, 1841, chap. 13. An act to confirm certain entries of land, in the state of Louisiana, and to authorize the issuing patents for the same, April 14, 1842, chap. 10. An act confirming certain land claims in Louisiana, July 6, 1842, chap. 22. An act to set aside certain reservations of lands on account of live oak in the southeastern district of Louisiana, March 3, 1843, chap. 77.
By the treaty by which Louisiana was acquired, the United States stipulated that the inhabitants of the ceded territories should be protected in the free enjoyment of their property. The United States, as a just nation, regard this stipulation as the avowal of a principle, which would have been held equally sacred, although it had not been inserted in the treaty. Sou lard et al. v. The United States, 4 Peters. 511.
The term property, as applied to lands, comprehends every species of title, inchoate or complete. It is supposed to embrace those rights which lie in contract, those which are executory as well as those which are executed. In this respect the relation of the inhabitants of Louisiana to their government is not changed. The new government takes the place of that which has passed away. Ibid.
For the decisions of the Supreme Court on the subject of Louisiana land titles, see notes to act of March 26, 1804, chap. 38, ante, page 288.
The titles of persons residing in the ceded territories on 1st Oct. 1800, who held lands under French or Spanish grants, to which the Indian title has been extinguished, and which were settled or occupied on that day for or by these persons, confirmed.
Proviso.
No such incomplete tide to be confirmed unless the grantee was at its date die head of a family, or above the age of twenty-one years; nor unless the condition of the grant shall have been fulfilled.
Grants to actual settlers of the lands occupied by them, with the permission of the proper Spanish officer, and in conformity with the Spanish usages, &c.
No more than one tract to be granted to such person, and not to exceed one mile square.
This donation not to be made to any one who claims any other under a French or Spanish grant.
Territory of Orleans to be laid off into two districts, for the ascertainment of land titles therein.
A register to be appointed for this purpose in each.
His compensation, duties, &c.
Act of May 10, 1800, ch. 55.
A recorder of land titles to be appointed for Louisiana district.
His compensation, &c.
Persons claiming lands under French or Spanish grants, &c. to have their claims recorded, &c.
Record to be made before the first day of March, 1806.
By whom the foregoing claims are to be recorded, and the officer’s fees, &c., for recording them.
Where lands are claimed by virtue of a complete French or Spanish grant, no other evidence of the claim to be recorded but the original grant or patent. Other deeds to be deposited with the register, and laid before the commissioners.
1806, ch. 39.
Neglect to deliver notice of claim, and to record evidence of it, so far as derived under the two first sections of this act, to be forever barred.
Register and recorder to commence the execution of their offices on or before the 1st September, 1805.
Commissioners to be appointed for the district of Louisiana, and the districts to be laid off under this act for ascertaining land titles, &c.
The oath of office which they must take.
Commissioners to meet in their respective districts at such places as may be the residence of the recorders, registers, &c. on or before the 1st December, and not to adjourn until they shall have finished their business.
Powers of the boards of commissioners.
To administer oaths, compel the attendance of witnesses, demand all public records of grants of land.
To take transcripts of records.
To decide summarily according to justice and equity on all complete titles under French or Spanish grants.
Decisions of the boards to be laid before Congress.
No title under a grant subsequent to October 1, 1800, to be recognized.
The boards to appoint a clerk.
His duties.
Transcripts of decisions in favor of claimants to be delivered to the surveyor-general, and the Secretary of the Treasury.
Reports of rejected claims likewise to be made, and filed in the proper land-office, and to be laid by the Secretary of the Treasury before Congress.
Grants antedated or otherwise defective, not to be considered as conclusive evidence of title.
Compensations of the commissioners’ clerks, &c.
Their oaths of office, &c.
Agents to be employed for each board of commissioners.
Their compensations not to exceed 1500 dollars each.
Their duties. Agent for the district of Louisiana to collect information concerning the title to the lead mines, and lay it before the commissioners.
Board of commissioners to employ a translator, to assist in the despatch of business, and to record Spanish or French claims. &c.
Fees to the translator.
Powers of the surveyor of lands south of the state of Tennessee to extend over those of the U. States, &c.
Made his duty to cause these lands to be surveyed and divided.
Gen. La Fayette’s locations.
How and where to be made.
Proviso.
Appropriation for carrying this law into effect.
Act of May 18, 1796, ch. 29.
Act of April 15, 1806, ch. 24.
Secretary of war authorized to issue warrants for military bounty land to certain persons referred to, and to others producing satisfactory evidence of their claims before the 1st April, &c.
Where the foregoing warrants may be located.
1802, ch. 30.
Former act continued in force until the 1st March.
1802, ch. 30.
Act of June 20, 1790, ch. 29.
Regulations of the 8th section of the act referred to, so far as that section relates to a medicine chest for a vessel of 150 tons, extended to smaller vessels, &c.
Appropriation for building a number of gun boats.
President authorized to grant permission for opening and improving a road from Brooklyn ferry, &c., in New York, to erect a bridge across a part of the navy yard of the U. S. in said town, &c.
Proviso.
That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized, by a proper instrument in writing under his hand, in due form, to grant to such person or persons, or body corporate, by their proper name of incorporation, as shall be authorized by an act of the legislature of the state of New York, to open and improve a road from Brooklyn ferry, in that state, along the shore of the Wallaboght, to Bushwick, to erect a bridge across the mill pond and marsh, being part of the navy yard belonging to the United States, in the said town of Brooklyn, and to maintain such bridge under such restrictions and on such conditions as he shall prescribe:
District of Louisiana changed into that of the territory of Louisiana, with a different government.
1804, ch. 38.
That all that part of the country ceded by France to the United States, under the general name of Louisiana, which, by an act of the last session of Congress, was erected into a separate district, to be called the district of Louisiana, shall henceforth be known and designated by the name and title of the Territory of Louisiana, the government whereof shall be organized and administered as follows:
The executive power shall be vested in a governor, who shall reside Executive power vested in a governor. How appointed, &c. His powers and authorities.
Secretary to be appointed—
His duties, &c.
Legislative powers, in whom and how vested.
No law to be valid if inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States.
All criminal trials shall be by jury.
Laws to be published and laid before Congress, and if disapproved of by Congress to cease.
Judges to be appointed, to hold their offices for four years, to hold two courts in a year.
At what place.
Their jurisdiction.
Governor to lay out the territory into districts, &c.
To appoint magistrates, See. for the same.
Compensations of the Governor, &c.
Oaths of office of the Governor, &c.
Before whom the oaths of office shall be taken.
Governor, &c. to be appointed by the President during the recess of the Senate; but to be nominated by him at the next succeeding session for the Senate’s concurrence.
Laws in force to continue in force, unless they be inconsistent with the act.
Repeal of part of a former law.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 38.
Corporation of Georgetown divided into two branches, after the 2nd Monday in March.
The first, how constituted.
The second, how constituted.
Members of the corporation forthwith to choose by ballot out of their own body, the board of aldermen, or 1st branch.
Term of their service.
Present recorder to be the president of the board of aldermen.
2nd branch or board of common council-men, to be composed of the other members of the corporation.
Powers, &c.
An election to be held.
Qualifications of the voters.
For the board of aldermen, and of that of the common council-men.
Term of the service of the members of each Board.
Mayor, &c. to be judges of the elections.
Annual and biennial elections for the aldermen and common council-men, to be held.
Two branches, by joint votes, to make annual appointments of a mayor and recorder.
Oaths of office, &c.
Quorums for doing business.
Semi-annual sessions to be held.
Proviso.
The two branches to be judges of the elections and returns of their own members, &c.
Ordinances may originate in either branch, but must be approved of by the mayor to become laws; if approved of to be signed by him. If disapproved of, to be returned with his objections in writing, &c. upon a reconsideration, on a majority of two thirds, to become laws.
Clerk of the corporation to record the laws and resolutions and to have them published.
Recorder to have a casting vote.
Same power given to the President of the 2nd branch.
Mayor to see that the laws be executed, &c. &c.
Delinquents may he removed from office by the corporation.
Mayor to lay before the corporation, in writing, such alterations in the laws, as he may deem necessary; to exercise the powers of a justice of the peace, and to receive nn annual compensation.
Qualifications of the Mayor.
Vacancies in either branch, how to be supplied.
Corporation to fill the vacancies in the offices of mayor and recorder.
Specific powers of the corporation.
Specific powers of the corporation.
1802, ch. 52.
Duties on licenses to enure to the benefit of the corporation.
Further grant of powers to the corporation.
Local extent of the corporation’s jurisdiction.
A survey to bo made to ascertain the precise limits.
1802, ch. 49.
Last payment due under the convention may be made in Great Britain.
Proviso.
[Repealed.]
Post roads discontinued.
Act of April 30, 1810, ch. 37.
That the following post roads be discontinued, namely:
From Willesville by Waldon’s store, Speed’s and Wilson’s, Sterling Yancey’s and Norman’s store, to Person Courthouse in North Carolina.
From Wilkes to Ash Courthouse, in North Carolina.
From New Dublin by Tazewell, Russell and Lee Courthouse, to Cumberland Gap in Virginia:
From Georgetown by Concord and Laurel, to Salisbury in Maryland.
From Ringo’s tavern, to Flemington in New Jersey.
From Worcester to Lancaster in Massachusetts.
From Springfield to Northampton.
From Boston to Bridgewater.
From Vincennes to Kaskaskias.
From Annapolis by Kent Island and Queenstown to Centreville.
That the following post roads be established:
In Massachusetts.—From Worcester by Holden, Rutland, Hubbardstown, Post roads established.
In New Jersey.—From Cooper’s ferry by Haddinfeld, Longacoming, Blue Anchor, Great Egg Harbor, River Bridge and Somers Point, to Absecome in Gallaway township.
In Pennsylvania.—From Alexandria by Centre Furnace and Bellefont, to Williamsport; from Bristol by Atticboro, Newtown and Doylestown, to Quakertown; from New Hope through Doylestown, Montgomery’s Square, to Norristown; from Norristown by Pawlingsford, Pughtown, Morgantown, Churchtown and New Holland, to Lancaster; from Philadelphia through Germantown, White Marsh, Montgomery Square and Quakertown, to Bethlehem; from Bethlehem by Lausanne to Berwie; from Presqu’ille to Buffaloe Creek.
In Maryland.—From Annapolis by Rockhall to Chestertown.
In Virginia.—From Randolph Courthouse, to Frankfort; from Genito by Carsell’s store to Amelia Courthouse, from thence to Perkinsonville; from Prince Edward Courthouse, by Hunter’s tavern, to Lynchburg; from Lynchburg, by Campbell and Pittsylvania Courthouse, to Danville; from Smithfield by Sleepy Hole ferry to Portsmouth: from Sleepy Hole to Suffolk.
In North Carolina.—From Williamsboro’, by Bullock’s and Brown’s stores, Sterlingville and the Red House, in Caswell county, to Caswell Courthouse; from Richland, by Onslow Courthouse, to Swanborough; from Raleigh, by Paul’s ferry on Neuse, cross-roads at Watson’s, Little river at Richardson’s, Contentney at Woodward’s, Tossnot at Dew’s, to Tarborough; from Greensville Courthouse, in the state of South Carolina, to Ashville in the state of North Carolina.
In Georgia.—From Darien, by Tannall and Montgomery Courthouse, Post roads established.
In Indiana.—From Vincennes to Calokia.
In Upper Louisiana.—From St. Louis to St. Charles.
In Orleans Territory.—From Natchez, in the Mississippi territory, by Caddy’s ferry, Cabola and Rapid Settlements, to Natchitoches; from Washington City, by Athens in Georgia, to New Orleans; and from Knoxville in Tennessee to the Tombigby settlements in the Mississippi territory, so as to intersect the post road from Athens in Georgia to New Orleans, at the most convenient point between Athens and the said settlements.
Appropriation for carrying Indian treaties into effect.
Annuity to the Delawares.
To the Piankeshaws.
To the Sacs and Foxes.
Appropriation for exploring Indian country.
For establishing additional trading houses with Indian tribes.
Act of April 18, 1796, ch. 13.
Superior courts of the several territories of the United States invested with the jurisdiction of the district court of Kentucky, in cases in which the U. States are concerned.
The sixth section of act for imposing more specific duties, &c. &c. not to operate upon unregistered vessels of U. States, if possessed, bona fide, of sea letters, &c.
Act of March 27, 1808, ch. 57.
If entry of any such ship or vessel shall be made at the port where the owner resides, he shall make oath or affirmation that the sea letter contains the names of every person who is owner or part owner of the vessel.
Persons committing treason, felony, &c. &c. within the jurisdiction of the U. States, and taking refuge in foreign armed vessels in our ports, may be arrested upon the warrants of a judge or justice of the U. States.
Marshal may have the aid, upon an order of the judge or justice, or any military force in his vicinity, if the posse comitatus be insufficient to insure the execution of process.
Justifiable homicide.
Felonious homicide.
Aid of United States to be given to executives of particular states, in order to the arrest of offenders against their laws, taking refuge in public armed vessels of foreign nations in the porta or harbors of the United States.
Offenders flying beyond the jurisdiction of the state and within the exclusive jurisdiction or the U. States may be pursued and taken.
Offenders flying to armed vessels in places where U. States have exclusive jurisdiction, how to be dealt with, with those who afford them aid in making resistance, &c. &c.
Felonious homicide.
Justifiable homicide.
Penalty on commanding officers of the militia who refuse to obey the requisition authorized by this act.
The entrance, into our ports and harbors, of foreign armed vessels, may be permitted or interdicted at the pleasure of the President.
When they shall have entered, they are to conform to regulations, &c. and not conforming may be required to depart.
Force may be employed to compel the departure of foreign armed vessels.
Or all intercourse with them and others of the same nation, may be interdicted if they do not depart.
Refusal of permission to trade with the vessels of the same nation, while the offending one remains in our ports, authorized.
Penalties.
Entrance in our ports of any officer of a foreign armed vessel committing a trespass or tort upon vessels of the U. States on the high seas forbidden.
If found in the U. States contrary to the interdiction, how to be dealt with.
To be liable to prosecution and punishment for other offences.
Collectors and marshals to be instructed touching the execution of this act.
This act may be given in evidence, &c.
Limited to two years, and to the end of the next succeeding session of Congress.
[Expired.]
Owners, &c. of armed vessels bound to the W. Indies, &c. &c. to give bonds, &c. &c.
Arms, &c. &c. to be returned or otherwise accounted for.
Bonds may be sued for and recovered, &c. &c.
Armed merchant vessels, &c. &c. not to proceed to any other ports than those described in the first section of this act, &c. &c.
Vessels going to sea, and armed as above, forfeited, if they depart from the U. Stales without the clearance prescribed in the last preceding section.
Collectors to cause prosecutions to be instituted, &c.
Public lands in Indiana:—
An act for granting lands to the inhabitants and settlers at Vincennes, and the Illinois country in the territory northwest of the Ohio, and for confirming them in their possessions, March 3, 1791, ch. 27.
An act making provision for the disposal of the public land in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes, March 26, 1804, chap. 35.
An act to suspend the sale of certain lands in the state of Ohio, and the Indiana territory, April 15, 1806, chap. 28.
An act confirming claims to lands in the district of Vincennes, and for other purposes, March 3, 1807, chap. 47.
An act providing for the sale of certain lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes, April 30, 1810, chap. 35.
An act confirming the titles of certain purchasers of lands who purchased from the board of trustees of the Vincennes University, April 27, 1816, chap. 118.
An act providing for the sale of certain lands in the district of Marietta, and for the location of claims and sale of certain lands in the district of Vincennes, March 18, 1818, chap. 17.
An act to designate the boundaries of the districts, and establish land-offices for the disposal of public lands not heretofore offered for sale in the states of Ohio and Indiana, March 3, 1819, chap. 90.
An act to designate the boundaries of a land district, and for the establishment of a land-office in the state of Indiana, May 8, 1822, chap. 126.
An act to authorize the President of the United States to cause the public surveys to be connected with the line of demarcation between the states of Indiana and Illinois, March 2, 1833, chap. 89.
An act to authorize the states of Indiana and Illinois, to select certain quantities of land in lieu of like quantities heretofore granted to the said states, for the construction of the Wabash and Erie, and Illinois and Michigan canals. August 29, 1842, chap. 262.—See Vol. i. 464, 465. Act of March 3, 1845, ch. 42.
Act of March, 26, 1804, ch. 35.
Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 118.
Lands purchased from the Wabash Indians, and lying between the Wabash and Ohio, attached to the district of Vincennes, and offered for sale, &c. at Vincennes.
Lands lying northwest of the Indian boundary by the treaty of Greenville, shall be surveyed, &c. &c. and offered for sale at Detroit.
Lands purchased from the Sacs and Foxes attached to the district of Kaskaskias, &c.
Lands in the districts of Vincennes, &c. claimed under French or British grants, &c. &c. shall be resurveyed at the expense of the United States.
Claimants of lands in the foregoing districts, to give notice in writing to the registers of the land offices of their claims, &c.
The commissioners appointed for the purpose of examining the claims Powers, duties, &c. &c. of the commissioners. Compensations of the commissioners, clerks, and registers of land-offices.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 34.
Sections reserved for the disposition of Congress, to be offered for sale.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Expenses, how to be defrayed.
The provisions contained in the first section of the act of March 3, 1803, ch. 37, relating to pensions extended.
Persons who apply for a pension must conform to the requirements of the act of March 3, 1803, ch. 37.
Appropriation for the accommodation of the President of the United States.
A sword to be presented to Captain Stephen Decatur.
Thanks of Congress to be presented to Com. Preble, his officers, petty officers, and men.
A gold medal to be presented to him.
A sword to be presented to each of the commissioned officers and midshipmen.
One month’s additional pay allowed to the petty officers, seamen and marines.
ACTS OF THE NINTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
Additional sum appropriated for 1805.
Out of what fund it is to be paid.
1804, ch. 46.
[Obsolete.]
The unexpended balance of a sum heretofore appropriated for paying claims under the French convention, not to go to the surplus fund.
Act of Nov. 10, 1803, ch. 3.
A further sum appropriated to supply a deficiency in a former appropriation.
A lighthouse to be placed on Watch Hill Point, and one on Sands’s or Watch Point in Long Island Sound.
Keepers to be appointed.
Proviso.
The houses to be so constructed, as that their lights, on being discovered, may be distinguished from other lights.
Roxbury, in Massachusetts, to be annexed to the district of Boston and Charlestown.
1799, ch. 22.
[Obsolete.]
Sum appropriated.
President authorized to cause the money to be borrowed.
Rates of interest.
Fund made subject to the reimbursement of principal and the paying of the interest.
Unexpended balance revived and continued: additional appropriation made: to be applied under the direction of a joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives.
1802, ch. 2.
1811, ch. 3.
Act of March 3, 1795, ch. 49.
Repeal of the 4th sec. of a former act, which imposes the condition of actual settlement.
[Obsolete.]
Their accounts to be settled by the accounting officers of the treasury.
[Expired.]
Commercial intercourse with certain parts of St. Domingo interdicted.
Penalties for violating the provision above stated.
Clearances to be given to no vessel destined to any parts of St. Domingo but those in possession of France.
Bonds to be given in cases of destinations to foreign ports, not to touch at such parts of the island of St. Domingo, &c. &c.
How the penaltics and forfeitures, are to be accounted for.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 13.
Act of Feb. 11, 1800, ch. 16.
Continuance of this act.
President authorized to remit the disabilities, &c. &c.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause a tract of land to be surveyed, the site of Fort Washington, and sold, &c. &c.
Act of March 2, 1805, ch. 26.
Powers of the surveyor general to be extended to the territory of Louisiana.
Deputy surveyors to be appointed.
Their duties, &c.
Plots of surveys appertaining to the office of surveyor-general under the Spanish government to be delivered to the principal deputy: What copies are good evidence.
Part of a former act respecting plots of land, &c. &c. repealed.
Act of March 2, 1805, ch. 26, sect. 4.
Commissioners authorized to direct such surveys as they may think necessary for the ascertainment of titles. Proviso.
Private surveys excepted.
All tracts to which the title shall be confirmed by Congress, shall be re-surveyed.
Compensations.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Assent of Congress to an act of the legislature of Pennsylvania, laying a duty on tonnage.
June term of the court changed.
Process made returnable accordingly.
Altered 1807. ch. 5.
July district court of Kentucky abolished.
Jurisdiction given to certain state courts in cases of forfeitures and penalties under the revenue laws of the U.S.
1808, ch. 51.
Criminal jurisdiction in certain cases conferred upon the courts.
Powers given by the act of March 3, 1797, ch. 13, for the remission of forfeitures, to the judges of state courts.
Continuance of this act.
Continued 1808, ch. 51.
Jersey, in the state of New Jersey, made a port of delivery.
1799, ch. 22, sec. 7.
Surveyor to reside at the said place.
A lighthouse to be erected on Wood island, or on Fletcher’s neck.
Proviso.
Stephen B. Balch, &c. made a corporation or body politic.
Their style and title.
Corporation made capable of holding and alienating property, &c.
Proviso.
Made capable of suing or being sued, &c.
Have authority to use a common seal &c.
Proviso.
Annual meetings of the members of the congregation for the choice of trustees, &c.
Suitable books to be kept by the trustees.
[Expired.]
Act of the legislature of South Carolina, laying a duty on tonnage, assented to by Congress.
The collector of Charleston to collect the duty and pay it over.
Limitation of the law.
Continued 1809, ch. 5.
The acts which have been passed relating to the “Cumberland road,” are:
An act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland in the state of Maryland, to the state of Ohio, March 29, 1806, chap. 19.
An act in addition to the “act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland in the state of Ohio,” March 3, 1811, chap. 45.
An act in addition to the act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland in the state of Maryland, to the state of Ohio, May 5, 1812, chap. 78.
An act in addition to the act to regulate the laying out a road from Cumberland in the state of Maryland, to the state of Ohio, February 14, 1815, chap. 43.
An act to authorize the appointment of commissioners to lay out the road therein mentioned, May 15, 1820, chap. 122.
An act for the preservation of the Cumberland road, March 2, 1827, chap. 44.
An act for the construction of the Cumberland road, westwardly of Zanesville, March 2, 1829, chap. 30.
An act for the continuation of the Cumberland road, March 2, 1829, chap. 31.
An act for the preservation and repair of the Cumberland road, March 2, 1829, chap. 52.
An act for the continuation of the Cumberland road in the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, March 2, 1831, chap. 63.
An act declaring the assent of Congress to an act of the general assembly of the state of Ohio, hereinafter recited, March 2, 1831, chap. 97.—[The act of the state of Ohio provides for the erection of toll gates, the appointment of toll gatherers and rates of toll on the part of the Cumberland road, which is in the state of Ohio].
An act declaring the assent of Congress to an act of the general assembly, hereinafter recited, March 2, 1833, chap. 79.—[This act provides for the erection of toll gates, and the collection of tolls in that part of the road which passes through the state of Virginia.]
An act for the continuation and repair of the Cumberland road, June 24, 1834, chap. 68.—[By the 4th section of this act the road is surrendered to the states respectively, through which it passes.]
An act for the continuation and repair of the Cumberland road, in the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, March 3, 1835, chap. 29.
An act amendatory of the act for the continuation of the Cumberland road, March 3, 1835, chap. 30.
An act for the continuation of the Cumberland road in the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, July 2, 1836, chap. 264.
An act to provide for the continuing the construction, and for the repairs of certain roads, and for other purposes, during the year 1837, March 3, 1837, chap. 44.
An act making appropriations for the continuation of the Cumberland road in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and for other purposes, May 25, 1838, chap. 84.
Three disinterested persons to be appointed commissioners to lay out a road.
Width, &c. of the road.
Commissioners to present a plan or the road to the President, &c.
President authorized to accept or reject it, and to pursue measures for having it executed.
Mode in which the road is to bo made.
Compensation of the of the commissioners.
Commissioners authorized to employ surveyor, chainmen, &c. &c.
Their compensation.
Specific appropriation.
President authorized to draw for the whole or a part of the sum appropriated.
Out of what fund the money is to be paid.
1802, ch. 40.
President to make a statement to Congress of the proceedings under this act.
The acts for establishing rules and articles for the government of the army of the United States.
An act for the better organization of the troops of the United States, and for other purposes, March 3, 1799, repealed.
An act fixing the military peace establishment of the United States, March 16, 1802, chap. 9.
An act for establishing rules and articles for the government of the army of the United States, April 10, 1806, chap. 20.
An act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment of the United States, March 2, 1821, chap. 12, section 14. This section provides, “That the system of ‘General regulations of the army,’ compiled by Major General Scott, shall be and the same is hereby approved and adopted for the government of the army of the United States, and of the militia when in the service of the United States.” This section was repealed by the act of May 7, 1822, chap. 88.
An act to alter and amend the sixty-fifth article of the first section of “An act establishing rules and articles for the government of the army of the United States,” passed tenth April, 1806. May 29, 1830, chap. 179.
Armies of the U.S. to be governed by the following rules &c.
Rules and regulations.
Officers to subscribe these rules.
Officers and soldiers recommended to attend divine service.
Indecent and rreverent conduct punished.
Profane swearing.
Absence of chaplains an offence.
Contemptuous words against the President & Vice President.
Contempt or disrespect to commanding officers.
Exciting to mutiny.
Officers present at mutiny or sedition not giving information or endeavouring to suppress the mutiny.
Striking a superior officer.
Death.
Rules and articles to be read on enlistment.
Oath.
To be taken before a magistrate.
After enlistment not to be discharged unless in writing.
Discharges how given.
Furloughs to non-commissioned officers or soldiers.
Certificates signifying how long officers have been absent, to be given to the commissary of musters.
The certificates to be sent to the department of war.
False certificates.
False musters.
Taking money for false musters.
Muster of a person not a soldier.
Making false returns.
Monthly returns of the regiment.
Punishment for neglect.
Desertion.
Absence without leave.
Enlistment in other regiments without having been discharged.
Advising to desert.
Reproachful speeches by soldiers.
Sending a challenge to fight.
Allowing a person to go forth to fight a duel.
Quarrels and affrays.
Upbraiding another for not sending a challenge.
Prohibition of sale of liquors and victuals after nine at night.
Suttlers.
Rents of stalls, &c. to suttlers.
Good order to be kept.
Reparation for injuries.
Officers or soldiers who commit offences against the persons or property of citizens of the United States to be delivered over to the officers of justice.
Punishment for neglect.
Officers who shall think themselves wronged by their commanding officer may complain to the general.
Inferior officers who think themselves wronged.
Embezzlement &c. of public property by commissioned officers.
Embezzlement, &c. by soldiers.
Sale of his horse, arms, &c. by non-commissioned officers or soldiers.
Embezzlement of money.
Every captain of a troop to be accountable for the arms of the troop.
Absence from camp without leave.
Officer or soldier out of garrison without leave in writing.
Retirement to quarters at beating the retreat.
Attendance at parade.
Drunkenness.
Sentinel sleeping on his post.
Excuses from duty.
Hiring of duty.
Connivance at hiring.
False alarms by officers.
Quitting guard.
Violence to persons bringing provisions.
Misbehaviour before the enemy.
Casting away arms.
Plunder.
Making known the watchword.
Behaviour on march.
Forcing a safe guard.
Relieving or assisting the enemy.
Correspondence with the enemy.
All public stores taken in the enemy’s camp to be secured.
Compelling the surrender of a fort, &c.
Suttlers to be subject to orders.
Rank of brevets.
Command on march.
Engineers.
General court martial.
General officers may appoint court martial.
Proceedings of court martial.
Commanding officers of regiments may appoint courts martial.
No garrison or regimental court martial shall have power to try officers.
Limitation of powers.
Court martial how composed.
Judge advocate.
“You A. B. do swear, that you will well and truly try and determine, Oath of officers of court martial.
And as soon as the said oath shall have been administered to the Oath of judge advocate.
“You A. B. do swear, that you will not disclose or discover the vote or opinion of any particular member of the court martial, unless required to give evidence thereof as a witness, by a court of justice in due course of law; nor divulge the sentence of the court, to any but the proper authority, until it shall be duly disclosed by the same.
Prisoner standing mute.
Challenges of members of courts martial by prisoners.
Behaviour of the members of a court martial.
Evidence.
“You swear or affirm, (as the case may be,) the evidence you shall give in the cause now in hearing, shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Depositions.
Officers not to be tried, if it can be avoided, by inferior officers.
Sessions of courts martial.
Officers before courts martial.
Arrest of officers.
Confinement of offenders.
Confinement of persons charged with crimes.
No officer to be confined more than eight days before trial.
Officers refusing to keep prisoners.
Releasing prisoners or suffering them to escape.
Report to be made of prisoners.
Behaviour before courts martial.
Sentences of courts martial.
Punishment for cowardice or fraud.
Courts martial where the officers adequate to form a court martial are not in sufficient number at the post.
Sentence of a court martial shall be by the concurrence of two-thirds.
Limitation of trials.
Power of pardon, or mitigating sentences.
Every judge advocate, or person officiating as such, at Duty of the judge advocate.
The party tried by any general court martial, shall, upon demand Copies of proceedings and sentence of court martial.
Courts of inquiry.
Authentication of proceedings of courts of inquiry.
Where proceedings of courts of inquiry are evidence.
Oath to members of courts of inquiry.
“You shall well and truly examine and inquire, according to your evidence, into the matter now before you, without partiality, favour, affection, prejudice, or hope of reward.
“You A. B. do swear that you will, according to your best abilities, accurately and impartially record the proceedings of the court, and the evidence to be given in the case in hearing.
Effects of a commissioned officer who dies to be secured for his executors or administrators.
The effects of non-commissioned officers or soldiers who die or shall be killed to be taken care of.
These articles to govern all officers, &c.
Officers and soldiers of the militia when in service to be governed by these articles.
Rank of militia officers when serving with officers of the army.
Crimes not capital, and all disorders and neglects not mentioned in these articles to be taken cognizance of by court martial.
Uniform of the army.
Publication of these articles once in six months.
Persons lurking about fortifications as spies.
Rules and regulations, for. merly in force, abolished.
By the 27th section of the act of September 24, 1789, chap. 20, vol. i. 87, the appointment of a marshal in each district, is provided for, and his duties and powers regulated.
The decisions of the courts of the United States as to the duties, powers, and liabilities of Marshals are:—
The marshal may have an attachment to enforce the payment of his fees of office, against suitors in the court; so also against the endorser on the writ, who by the lex loci, is liable to respond for costs. Anonymous, 2 Gallis, C.C.R. 101.
The marshal is entitled to his full commissions according to the act of 1799, chap. 19, upon all interlocutory sales of prize property. The act of 27th January, 1813, applied only to sales after final condemnation. The Avery, 2 Gallis, C.C.R. 308.
It is the duty of the marshal, upon all interlocutory sales, to bring the proceeds into court, with a regular account of the sales. Ibid.
The marshal is entitled to commissions upon prize property, removed from his district, by consent of parties, and other sold. The San Jose Indian, 2 Gallis, C.C.R. 311.
After a rule on the marshal to return the capias ad satisfaciendum issued against the defendants, on the return of the marshal that the plaintiff had directed him not to serve the writ on one defendant, and that the other could not be found, the court have nothing more to do with the rule. If the marshal has misconduct himself, the remedy is an action for a false return. Segourney v. Ingraham et al., 2 Wash. C.C.R. 336.
Where an individual, acting in pursuance of what he conceives a just claim to property, proceeds by legal process to enforce it, and causes a levy to be made on property which is claimed by another, without abusing or preventing its true object, there is and ought to be a very different rule for damages, from the case in which vindictive damages may be allowed, if after a due course of legal investigation, his case is not well founded. Where the defendant had acted as the marshal of the United States, in the execution of his duties as a public officer, and had made a levy, but had done nothing out of the strictest line of duty, the circuit court instructed the jury to allow compensation for the injury sustained, and nothing more. Pacific Ins. Co. v. Conard, Baldwin’s C.C.R. 143.
It has long been settled that a jury ought not in any case to find exemplary damages against a public officer, acting in obedience to orders from the government, without any circumstances of aggravation, if he violates the law in making a seizure of property. Ibid.
A marshal is not removed by the appointment of the one, until he receives notice of such appointment; all acts alone by the old marshal after the appointment of a new one, before notice, are good; but his acts subsequent to notice are void. Wallace’s C.C.R. 119.
If a debtor, committed to the state jail under process from the courts of the United States, escape, the marshal is not liable. Randolph v. Donaldson, 9 Cranch, 76; 3 Cond. Rep. 280.
The act of Congress has limited the responsibility of the marshal to his own acts and the acts of his deputies. The keeper of a state jail is, neither in fact nor in law, the deputy of the marshal; he is not appointed by, nor removable at the will of the marshal. When a prisoner is regularly committed to a state jail by the marshal, he is no longer in the custody of the marshal, or controllable by him. Ibid.
If a marshal, before the date of his official bond, receive, upon an execution, money due to the United States, with orders from the comptroller to pay it into the Bank of the United States, which he neglects to do, the sureties in his official bond, executed afterwards, are not liable therefor upon the bond; although the money remains in the marshal’s hands after the execution of the bond. The United States v. Giles and others, 9 Cranch, 212; 3 Cond. Rep. 377.
Query. Whether the sureties in a marshal’s bond conditioned for the faithful execution of his duty, “during his continuance in the said office,” are liable for money received by him after his removal from office, upon an execution which remained in his hands at the time of such removal? Ibid.
The comptroller of the treasury has a right to direct the marshal to whom he shall pay money received upon executions, and a payment according to such directions is good; and it seems he may avail himself of it upon the trial without having submitted it as a claim to the accounting officers of the treasury. Ibid.
It is the duty of the marshal of a court of the United States, to execute all process which may be placed in his hands; but he performs this duty at his peril, and under the guidance of law. He must, of course, exercise some judgment in the performance. Should he fail to obey the exigit of the writ without a legal excuse, or should he in its letter violate the rights of others, he is liable to the action of the injured party. Life and Fire Ins. Co. of New York v. Adams, 9 Peters, 573.
The marshal makes distribution of proceeds of prize sales in his hands, at his peril; and on his mispayment a libel lies against him. For safety the marshal should obtain the order of the court, which ought not to be made without previous measures guarding against fraud, and providing for latent claims. Keene et al. v. The Gloucester, 2 Dallas, 36.
The marshal is bound to serve a subpoena in chancery as soon as he reasonably can; and be will, in case of neglect, be answerable to the complainant, who may have sustained a loss in consequence of his neglect. Kennedy v. Brent, 6 Cranch, 187; 2 Cond. Rep. 345.
The court will not dictate to the marshal what return he shall make to process in his hands; he must return it at his peril; and any person injured by it, may have his legal remedy for the return. Wortman v. Conyngham, Peters’ C.C.R. 241.
The return of the marshal to a writ, cannot be traversed in an action between the parties to the suit in which the writ issued. Wilson v. The Executor of Hurst, Peters’ C.C.R. 441.
An officer of the United States, who has levied a sum of money on an execution in favour of the United States, to whom the United States are indebted for fees of office in a sum greater than the amount of the execution, has a right to retain it by way of set-off; and on a motion made on the part of the United States to commit the officer for failure to pay over the money so levied, he will be permitted to show that the United States are indebted to him; and if this is shown, it is sufficient cause why be should not be attached. United States v. Mann, 2 Brockenb. C.C.R. 9.
A marshal is liable upon his official bond, for the failure of his deputy to serve original process; but the measure of his liability is the extent of the injury received by the plaintiff, produced by such negligence. If the loss of the debt be the direct legal consequence of the failure to serve the process, the amount of the debt is the measure of damage; but the mere failure to execute the process, does not, in itself, necessarily infer the loss of the debt to the plaintiff, by the negligence of the officer, because the plaintiff might sue out other process, on the failure of the officer to execute the first process. The question, whether the loss of the debt was or was not the direct legal consequence of the negligence of the officer, is a question of fact, depending on circumstances, of which the jury must judge. United States v. Moore’s Administrators, 2 Brockenb. C.C.R. 317.
Where a writ of capias ad respondendum comes to the hands of a deputy marshal, who arrests the debtor, and the debtor thereupon pays to the deputy the amount of the debt for which he was sued, and the officer discharges the debtor from custody, and returns the writ, “debt and costs satisfied,” this is not an official act which binds his principal. The deputy marshal is a mere ministerial officer, and he has no right to adjust the debt, and make himself responsible to the plaintiff. He is bound to pursue the mandate of the writ, and that requires him to arrest the debtor, and take bail. The discharge of the debtor from custody, without taking bail, is indeed a misfeasance in office, for which his principal, the marshal, is responsible; but he is only responsible for the injury done to the plaintiff. The return of the deputy, shows that no bail was taken; and if by taking all other process, the plaintiff could have secured his debt, which is a fact to be determined by the jury; the loss of the debt to the plaintiff, is not the necessary legal consequence of the conduct of the deputy, and no injury, in a legal sense, is done to the plaintiff thereby. Ibid.
Where a decree directs an officer of the court to sell property, “and bring the proceeds of sale into court,” and the sale is on a credit of one, two, and three years, and bonds are given to the payment of the instalments, these bonds are the immediate proceeds of sale. As a matter of convenience, they may be permitted to remain in the hands of the officer; but as matter of strict right, the creditor may require that they shall be brought into court. Wallis v. Thornton’s Administrators et al. 2 Brockenb. C.C.R. 422.
Where bonds are made payable to the marshal of a court, he has a right to collect them. In such case, the marshal must be considered as a trustee for the creditor. Query. Whether the direction to take bond implies, that it shall be taken to the marshal, rather than to the creditor? Where bonds are taken, not to the marshal and his successors, but to J.P., marshal, &c., his executors, administrators, and assigns, could his successor, in the event of the marshal being changed before the money is paid, act on these bonds without an assignment? Ibid.
By the 69th section of the collection act of 1799, ch. 22, the goods or merchandise seized under that act, are to be put into custody of the collector, or such other persons as he may appoint for that purpose, no longer than until the proper proceedings are instituted under the 89th section of the same act, to ascertain whether they are forfeited or not; and as soon as the marshal states the goods under the proper process of the court, the marshal is entitled to the sole and exclusive custody thereof, subject to the future orders of the court. Ex parte Jesse Hoyt, Collector of the Port of New York, 13 Peters, 279.
By the statute of Indiana, the marshal on a replevy bond is required to take one or more sufficient freehold securities, and if freehold security be met taken, the marshal is liable. Bispham v. Taylor, 2 M‘Lean’s C.C.R. 355.
If the sureties be not freeholders, however ample at the time they may have been considered, the marshal is liable. In this respect the statute must be pursued. Ibid.
To examine the county records, it did an unreasonable duty on the marshal. Ibid.
Where the marshal takes insufficient bail for the appearance of a defendant, he is only answerable for the actual injury sustained by the plaintiff. In such a case the insolvency of the defendant may be shown in mitigation of damages. Ibid.
But where a judgment is replevied, good freehold security must be taken for the payment of the judgment. If insufficient security be taken, the marshal is liable. Ibid.
Bond of the marshal shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the court, &c.
Suits may be instituted on the breach of the condition of the bond, &c.
Executions may issue on judgments, &c.
Bonds to remain as a security on judgments rendered, &c.
Within what period suits are to be commenced, &c.
Saving of the rights of infants. &c.
See act of August 4, 1790, sec. 39, vol. i. 167.
An act relative to the rix dollar of Denmark, March 3, 1791, chap. 19, vol. i. 215.
An act regulating foreign coins, and for other purposes, February 9, 1793, vol. i. 300.
An act supplementary to “an act regulating foreign coins, and for other purposes,” February 1, 1798, chap. 11, vol. i. 539.
An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage, March 2, 1799, chap. 22, sec. 61, vol. i. 673.
Foreign gold mid silver coins to be current in the U.S. at the following rates:
That from and after the passage of this act, foreign gold and silver coins shall pass current as money within the United States, and be a legal tender for the payment of all debts and demands, at the several and respective rates following, and not otherwise, viz:
The gold coins of Great Britain and Portugal, of their present standard, Coins and rates. Secretary of the Treasury to cause assays of the foreign coins, &c. to be had at the mint, &c. and to make report of the result to Congress.
Part of a former section repealed.
Vol, i. 300.
Operation of the other section suspended.
[Obsolete.]
Compensations.
Compensations to the sergeants at arms of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Appropriations out of the contingent fund of either house, to be taken as part of the salary.
Time at which the compensations are to commence.
Repeal of a former act.
Act of April 29, 1802, ch. 35.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause the coast of N. Carolina to be surveyed, to report to Congress on the practicability of erecting a lighthouse.
Appropriation.
Act of April 25, 1812, ch. 19.
Act of March 18, 1818, ch. 18.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 58.
Who are to be placed on the pension list.
Officers, soldiers, marines or seamen who did not desert, or resigned from disabilities which render them incapable to procure a subsistence by manual labour, to be placed on the pension list.
See note to act of April 25, 1812, ch. 59.
Rules and regulations for substantiating claims to a pension.
Decisive disability, the effect of a known wound or wounds, received Evidence.
The nature of such disability, and in what degree it prevents the claimant from obtaining his subsistence, must be proved by the affidavit of some reputable physician or surgeon, stating his opinion either from his own knowledge and acquaintance with the claimant, or from an examination of such claimant on oath or affirmation; which when necessary for that purpose, shall be administered to said claimant by said judge or commissioner. And the said physician or surgeon, in his affidavit, shall particularly describe the wound or wounds from whence the disability appears to be derived.
Every claimant must prove, by at least one credible witness, that he Terms and conditions.
Every claimant shall, by his affidavit, give satisfactory reasons why he Affidavit of claimant.
District judge to transmit list of claims, &c. to the Secretary of War.
Secretary of War to make a statement to Congress.
Commencement of pensions.
Increase of pensions to be allowed in certain cases. Proviso.
Every invalid making application for this purpose, shall be examined Invalids to be examined by physicians authorized by the district judge, who are to report, &c. Report to be sent to the Secretary of War.
Of what sums the pensions are to consist.
How pensions, &c. are to be paid.
Transfers of pensions before due, not valid.
Claimants of pensions under powers of attorney, to take an oath that they have not been sold or transferred.
Former laws respecting pensioners under disabilities from the war, repealed.
Proviso.
Duration of this act.
Proviso.
Act of March 21, 1808, ch. 37,
Act of Dec. 19, 1809, ch. 3.
Secretary of War authorized to issue land warrants.
Within what time those warrants maybe located.
Surveyor-general to cause surveys to be made of the quarter townships.
Operation of the sixth condition of the 5th section in a former act suspended.
1800, ch. 55.
In favour of actual settlers.
Act of March 1, 1809, ch. 24.
Act of June 28, 1809, ch. 9.
Importation of certain articles from G. Britain and its dependencies interdicted.
That from and after the fifteenth day of November next, it shall not be lawful to import into the United States, or the territories thereof, from any port or place situated in Great Britain or Ireland, or in any of the colonies or dependencies of Great Britain, any goods, wares or merchandise, of the following description, that is to say:
All articles of which leather is the material of chief value. Articles prohibited.
All articles of which silk is the material of chief value.
All articles of which hemp or flax is the material of chief value.
All articles of which tin or brass is the material of chief value, tin in sheets excepted; woollen cloths whose invoice prices shall exceed five shillings sterling per square yard; woollen hosiery of all kinds; window glass, and all other manufactures of glass; silver and plated wares; paper of every description; nails and spikes; hats; clothing ready made; millinery of all kinds; playing cards; beer, ale and porter; and pictures and prints.
Nor shall it be lawful to import into the United States, or the territories Being of the produce or manufacture of G. Britain, &c. Proviso as to goods imported from beyond the Cape of Good Hope.
Prohibited articles if imported into the U. States contrary to this act, to be forfeited, together with all other goods imported in the vessel, and belonging to the same owner.
The ship or vessel in which such prohibited articles shall be imported or shipped with the knowledge of the owner, to be also forfeited; and treble the value of the goods to be likewise recovered.
The like penalties as are usual to be incurred in case of the omission of the interdicted goods in the permits or manifests of vessels arriving in the U. States.
Powers of search now confided to the custom-house officers in other cases extended to them in those under this act.
Penalties upon persons buying goods prohibited by this act.
Addition to custom-house oath of the captains or masters of vessels.
Addition to the oath of importers, &c.
Penalties and forfeitures how to be sued for and recovered.
1799, ch. 22.
1797, ch. 13.
Claims of citizens of the U. States under the Bordeaux embargo to be paid at the treasury.
The state of North Carolina, by her act of cession of the western lands, of 1789, recited in the act of Congress of April 2, 1790, chap. 6, vol. i. page 106, accepting that cession, and by her act of 1803, chap. 3, ceding to Tennessee the right to issue grants, has parted with her right to issue grants for lands within the state of Tennessee, upon entries made before the cession. Burton’s lessee v. Williams, et al., 3 Wheat. 559; 4 Cond. Rep. 315.
Under the cession act, ratified by the act of Congress, the United States held the domain of the vacant lands in Tennessee, subject to the right which North Carolina retained, of perfecting the inchoate titles created under her laws. Ibid.
But it seems that the holder of such a grant must resort to the equity jurisdiction of the United States for relief. Ibid.
After the cession of land by North Carolina to the United States, the former had no right to grant those lands to any grantee who had not an incipient title before the cession. Polk’s lessee v. Wendall, 9 Cranch, 87; 3 Cond. Rep. 286.
A line established for defining the limits of the vacant lands of the U.S. in Tennessee.
Courses thereof.
Upon relinquishment of tiie claim of Tennessee to certain lands.
The U.S. to cede to that state certain other lands.
Certain entries, &c. to be located within the territory ceded to the state of Tennessee.
Lands to be appropriated by the state of Tennessee for the support of seminaries and schools of learning.
Nothing in this act to affect the Indian title.
Prices of the land.
Proviso.
Proviso, that this act shall not affect titles under the laws of North Carolina and Tennessee.
If the territory hereby ceded to the state of Tennessee falls short, the deficiency to be made up elsewhere.
[Expired.]
President authorized to call upon the executives of the several states to have their proportions of militia ready for immediate service.
Apportionment how to be made.
1808, ch. 39.
President may authorize the acceptance of vol ii ntecr corps.
How the militia are to be officered.
President apportioning the general officers.
Length of time which the militia may be compelled to serve.
Their pay, &c.
President may call into service any proportion of the detachment.
Appropriation.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 32, repealed.
1812, ch. 55.
Commencement and duration of this act.
Objects of appropriation.
That for the expenditure of the civil list, in the present year, including the contingent expenses of the several departments and officers; for the compensation of the several loan officers and their clerks, and for books and stationery for the same; for the payment of annuities and grants; for the support of the mint establishment; for the expenses of intercourse with foreign nations; for the support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers; for the defraying the expenses of surveying the public lands, in the territories of Indiana and Mississippi; and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims; the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For compensations granted by law to the members of the Senate and Specific appropriations.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, thirty-two thousand dollars.
For all contingent expenses of the library, and librarian’s allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and six, four hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons Specific appropriations. 1799, ch. 40
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For printing and distributing copies of the laws of the first session of the ninth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For special messengers charged with despatches, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, including those engaged on the business belonging to the late office of the commissioner of the revenue, twelve thousand three hundred dollars.
For the expense of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in receiving and transmitting passports and sea letters, stationery and printing, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and eight cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses of the comptroller’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty dollars and ninety-three cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the office of the auditor of the treasury, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer, clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-five cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the treasurer’s office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty-two dollars.
For expense of stationery and printing in the register’s office, (including books for the public stock and for the arrangement of the marine papers,) two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed for the purpose of making drafts of the several surveys of land in the territory of the United States, northwest of the river Ohio, and in keeping the books of the treasury in relation to the sales of lands at the several land-offices, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For fuel and other contingent expenses of the treasury department, four thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses incident to the stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and six, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For purchasing books, maps and charts, for the use of the treasury department, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to a superintendent employed to secure the buildings and records of the treasury, during the year one thousand eight hundred and six, including the expense of two watchmen, and for the repair of two fire engines, buckets, lanterns, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the war department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to clerks employed in the paymaster’s office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel in the said office, ninety dollars.
For compensation to the purveyor of public supplies, clerks and persons 1799, ch. 40
For expenses incidental to the removal of the purveyor’s office to Germantown, during the prevalence of the yellow fever in Philadelphia, in the year one thousand eight hundred and five, one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of seven hundred dollars, in 1799, ch. 40
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand one hundred 1799, ch. 40
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the navy, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster-General, assistant Postmaster-General’s officer, clerks, and persons employed in the Postmaster-General’s 1799, ch. 40
For expense of fuel, candles, house rent for the messenger, stationery, chests, &c. exclusive of expenses of prosecution, portmanteaus, mail locks, and other expenses incident to the department, these being paid for by the Postmaster-General, out of the funds of the office, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses incurred by removal of the loan office from New York, during the prevalence of the epidemic fever in the year one thousand eight hundred and five, one hundred dollars.
For expenses incurred by removal of the loan office from Philadelphia, during the prevalence of the epidemic fever, in the year one thousand eight hundred and five, one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of the several commissioners of loans, and an allowance to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan offices, thirteen thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of clerk hire in the office of the commissioner of loans of the state of Pennsylvania, in consequence of the Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the surveyor-general, and the clerks employed by him, and for expense of stationery and other contingencies of the surveyor-general’s office, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of the lands south of the state of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, stationery and other contingencies, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the officers of the mint:
The director, two thousand dollars.
The treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars.
The assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The chief coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The melter and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars.
One clerk at seven hundred dollars.
And two at five hundred dollars each.
For the wages of persons employed in the different branches of melting, coining, carpenter’s, mill-wright’s, and smith’s work, including the sum of eight hundred dollars, per annum, allowed to an assistant coiner and die forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, six thousand two hundred dollars.
For the repairs of furnaces, cost of rollers and screws, timber, bar iron, lead, steel, potash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the territory of Orleans, including the sum of two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, for the salaries from the first of October to the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and four, fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the executive offices of the said territory, including the sum of eight hundred and fifty dollars, a deficiency in the appropriation for one thousand eight hundred and five, and for express hire, and compensation of an Indian interpreter, three thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Mississippi territory, five thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, and to make good a deficiency in the appropriations for the years one thousand eight hundred and four, and one thousand eight hundred and five, five hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Indiana territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan territory, including a deficiency of two thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars, in the appropriation for the year one thousand eight hundred and five, for the support of the said government, seven thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, including the sum of six hundred and forty dollars, to defray similar expenses and others attending the organization of the government in the year one thousand eight hundred and five, nine hundred and ninety dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Louisiana territory, including a deficiency of two thousand five hundred and Specific appropriations.
For expenses of stationery, office rent and other contingent expenses in the said territory, for the years one thousand eight hundred and five, and one thousand eight hundred and six, five hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, two thousand dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks of the several departments 1799, ch. 40
For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, associate judges, and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice, and two associate judges of the district of Columbia; to the attorney general, and to the judge of the district of Orleans, including a deficiency in the appropriation for his compensation in the year one thousand eight hundred and four, fifty-six thousand four hundred dollars.
For the like compensation granted to the several district attorneys of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the marshals of the districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Kentucky, Ohio, East and West Tennessee, and Orleans, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the district of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures, and penalties, and likewise for defraying the expenses of prosecution for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, nine hundred dollars.
For the payment of an annuity granted to the children of the late Colonel John Harding, and Major Alexander Trueman, by an act of Congress, passed the fourteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred, six hundred dollars.
For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the fifth of March one thousand eight hundred and six, to the fourth of March one thousand eight hundred and seven, ninety-eight thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars, and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, eighty-one thousand and eighty-eight dollars and two cents.
For the payment of a commission of two and a half per cent. to the commissioners who superintended the erection of public piers in the river Delaware, four hundred and forty-eight dollars and seventy-one cents.
For fixing buoys in Long Island sound, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that object, one thousand three hundred and forty-two dollars and thirty-four cents.
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, thirty-nine thousand and fifty dollars.
For the expenses of the intercourse between the United States and Specific appropriations.
For the contingent expenses of the intercourse with foreign nations, twenty-six thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of carrying into effect the sixth article of the British treaty, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that purpose, seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Towards completing the surveys of public lands in the state of Ohio, and in the Indiana and Mississippi territories, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement, at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, four thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses incident to the investigation of claims under the French convention of the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated to that purpose, six thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For the salaries of the agents at London, Paris, and Madrid, for prosecuting claims in relation to captures, six thousand dollars.
For the amount admitted at the treasury as due, on the first of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, to the legal representatives of the late Baron de Beaumarchais, for military stores furnished the United States during the late war, including interest on the same, a sum not exceeding seventy-nine thousand dollars.
For exploring the waters of the country ceded by the convention of the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, and establishing commerce with the Indian tribes inhabiting the same, five thousand dollars.
1790, ch. 34.
[Obsolete.]
Per diem allowance to the witnesses.
Secretary of the Senate to ascertain and certify the amount due to each witness.
This certificate to be a good voucher at the treasury.
Appropriation.
Second and fourth sections of the act of March 3, 1801, ch. 20, repealed.
President to keep in actual service, in time of peace, as many frigates as he may think proper.
Rest to be laid up.
Armed vessels to be officered and armed as the President chooses.
Number of officers.
Half pay to officers not under orders.
Session of the court of Washington changed.
Of Alexandria likewise.
Present courts adjourned accordingly.
Process made returnable according to the change.
Provisions of a former act extended to insolvent debtors.
1803, ch. 31.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 46.
1807, ch. 30.
1808, ch. 11.
1809, ch. 7.
1809, ch. 5.
1811, ch. 3.
1812, ch. 18.
1813, ch. 40.
Act of March 2, 1805, ch. 26.
What shall bo considered an actual, settlement according to the second section of the act to which this is a supplement.
Claimants to land not exceeding 640 acres under persons who were not of the age of 21 years confirmed in their titles, if their claims are in other respects regular.
Proviso that the claimants shall have been in possession of the lands for 10 years.
Times for delivering notices in writing to claims of land in the territory of Orleans extended.
Persons neglecting, to be barred.
Registers of the land-offices to appoint deputies.
Their duty.
Evidences of claims to land, how, to whom and when delivered.
Commissioners, their duties under this act.
Transcripts of decisions to be filed and transmitted.
Lands not to be disposed of until the decision of Congress.
Compensations of the commissioners and registers.
Compensation not to exceed 2000 dollars.
President may reduce the number of commissioners.
Salaries of officers.
Proviso.
Commissioners may change the places of their sessions.
Compensation for travel.
Proviso.
Boards to prepare and make reports, &c. &c. to the Secretary of the Treasury, according to forms prescribed by him.
Surveyor of public lands south of Tennessee to appoint deputies, &c.
Their duties.
Compensations.
Receiver of public monies for the western district of Orleans may be appointed by the President, &c.
His compensation.
President may authorize a sale of public lands in the western district of Orleans, &c. &c.
Lands to be offered for sale.
Days of sale to be designated by the President’s proclamation.
How long to remain open.
Prices, &c. &c.
Compensation to superintendents of sales.
Lands remaining unsold may he disposed of at private sale.
In what manner, and on what terms.
Patents how to be obtained.
Locations made for General La Fayette, may be received though containing less than 1000 acres.
Proviso.
Survey of the coast of the territory of Orleans to be made.
Limitation of expense.
Appropriation.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 35.
Registers and receivers of public monies in Vincennes and Kaskaskias authorized to lay out one or more tracts in their respective districts.
Proviso.
Resolution warrants not specific, how to be entered.
Proviso.
Registers and receivers of public monies to transmit reports to the Secretary of the Treasury.—By what time.
Additional compensation to them.
Registers and receivers of public monies in Cincinnati to grant certificates of preemption to residents.
Proviso.
1801. ch. 35.
Certificates not to be granted for lands previously sold,&c.
Heads of departments authorized to apportion the salaries of their clerks.
Proviso.
That the secretaries of state, treasury, war, and navy departments, shall be, and they are hereby authorized to apportion the compensations for clerks in their respective departments, in such manner, as the services to be performed shall, in their judgment, require:
For the department of state, seven thousand one hundred and fifty Limitation of allowance for each of the officers.
For the treasury department, forty-four thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-eight cents, that is to say: in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten thousand two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and eighty-one cents; in the office of comptroller of the treasury, nine thousand and sixty-seven dollars; in the office of the auditor, eight thousand eight hundred and eleven dollars; in the office of the treasurer of the United States, two thousand eight hundred and seventeen dollars forty-five cents; and in the office of the register of the treasury, thirteen thousand two hundred and forty-two dollars and two cents.
For the department of war, sixteen thousand five hundred and forty dollars, that is to say: in the office of the secretary, six thousand three hundred and forty dollars; in the office of the accountant of the war department, eight thousand five hundred dollars; and in the office of the purveyor of public supplies, one thousand seven hundred dollars.
For the department of the navy, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars, that is to say: in the office of the secretary, four thousand nine hundred dollars; and in the office of the accountant of the navy department, eight thousand dollars.
Postmaster-General may appoint what number of clerks he pleases, and apportion their salaries.
Proviso.
Salary to one of the clerk# in the mint,
A further allowance for clerk hire.
Sum allowed the surveyor-general, to be expended in clerk hire.
Allowance to commissioners of loans in certain states for clerk hire.
Aggregate compensations.
When the compensations allowed by this act are to commence.
Heads of departments, &c. &c. to report to Congress the number and names of their clerks.
Secretary of the Treasury to report whether the business in the Ioan office of Pennsylvania requires additional allowance for clerk hire, &c. To report the necessity likewise of employing clerks on the business of the late commissioner of revenue’s office.
In case of the removal of any public office on account of sickness, the cost of such removal to be laid before Congress.
A road to be opened from the frontier of Georgia to New Orleans.
Limitation of expenditures.
Appropriation.
Repeal of a former act.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 40.
for defraying the expenses of the navy for the year 1806.
That for defraying the expenses of the navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and six, the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, two Specific appropriations.
For provisions, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-four dollars and thirty-four cents.
For medicine, instruments and hospital stores, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs of vessels, store rent, pay of armorers, freight and other contingent expenses, four hundred and eleven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, sixty-six thousand and twenty-eight dollars and ten cents.
For clothing for the same, fourteen thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
For military stores for the same, one thousand one hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For medicine, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick, belonging to the marine corps, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For quartermaster’s and barrack master’s stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorer’s and carpenter’s bills, fuel, premium for enlisting, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses, eight thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars.
For the expense of navy yards, docks and other improvements, the pay of superintendents, store-keepers, clerks and labourers, sixty thousand dollars.
For ordnance, fifty thousand dollars.
For completing the marine barracks, at the city of Washington, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 34.
A town to be laid out by the governor and judges of Michigan.
Titles to lots to be adjusted and settled by them.
Lots to be given to actual settlers of the town of Detroit when it was burnt, if they were citizens of the United States.
Land undisposed of according to the preceding section to be sold by the governor and judges.
Specific approriation.
1799, ch. 22.
Collector of Great Egg Harbor may reside any where in his district approved of by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Town of Darien in Georgia made a port of delivery, to be annexed to the district of Brunswick.
Ocracocke inlet in North Carolina, made the district of “Ocracocke.”
Port of entry to be designated by the President.
Collector to reside there.
His compensation.
Duties on what articles to be laid and collected.
Office of surveyor of Beacon island abolished.
1799, ch. 22.
1803, ch. 27.
Persons losing their lands under pre-emption certificates entitled to others.
That whenever any person who shall have received pre-emption certificates from either of the boards of commissioners, appointed for the purpose of ascertaining the rights of persons to lands in the Mississippi territory, shall, by a final judgment or decree of the highest court of law, or equity, in which a decision could be had, within the said territory, rendered in favour of another person claiming by virtue of a British patent, lose the whole or part of the tract of land to which he was entitled by virtue of such certificate, it shall be lawful for the receiver of public monies for the district where the land lies, to repay to such person or his assigns, so much of the purchase money as had been paid by him for the land thus recovered, by the holder of the British patent.
In all cases where only a part of a tract of land, to which any person Interfering claims under British patents and certificates from the commissioners, how to be settled. Proviso.
Rights of pre-emption to lands in the Mississippi territory by what time to be paid for.
Penalty of neglect of payment
Compensation of commissioners.
Proviso.
Registers and receivers of public monies to have discretionary powers with regard to certain locations, &c. &c.
Proviso.
Register and receiver of the district east of Pearl river authorized to grant donation certificates in certain cases.
Proviso.
Right of the United States in land near and adjoining to Natchez, vested in the corporation of that city.
Proviso.
Sec. No. 16, how to be located if it shall have fallen upon any land claimed by virtue of a British grant.
Where Richard Sparks’ claim ia to be entered.
Also those of Richard S. Bryan and George Brewer, Senr.
Sum appropriated for the fortification of the ports and harbors of the U. States.
Sum appropriated for building gun boats for the protection of the harbors, &c. &c. of the U. States.
President authorized to officer, man and equip them.
Armed vessels of the United States may be sold, at the discretion of the President.
Appropriations—out of what funds to be paid.
Act of April 18, 1796, ch. 13.
Trading houses how to be established at such ports and places on the frontiers as the President may choose.
Superintendent of Indian trade.
His duties.
Supplemental act 1809, ch. 34. Repealed 1811, ch. 30.
His compensation.
Agents for the trading houses established by this act to be appointed by the President.
Agents to receive and dispose of in trade among the Indians, goods from the superintendent; according to rules and regulations of the President.
Oath of the agents.
Quarter yearly accounts to be rendered by them to the superintendent.
Duplicates to be sent to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Agents, &c. &c. not to be concerned in exporting, directly or indirectly, the furs and peltries of the United States, or be concerned in trade, &c. &c. but on the public account.
Their emoluments limited to the pay of the United States.
Penalties.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Prices of goods furnished the Indians to be so regulated as that the capital stock is not to be diminished.
Annual appropriation for paying superintendent and his clerks.
President may draw a sum of money every year for the payment of agents and clerks.
Agents and clerks entitled to draw rations.
Sum appropriated for the trade and intercourse of the United States with the Indian tribes.
Penalties for purchasing certain articles from the Indians.
Proviso.
The furs and peltries belonging to the U. States to be sold at public auction after notice shall have been published.
Duration of this act.
Continued 1809, ch. 34.
Penalties for falsely making and uttering coins of the U. States, or of foreign countries made current here.
Penalties upon those who shall import into the United States any false or counterfeit coins to be circulated in this country.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 65, sec. 20.
Penalties for impairing, falsifying, &c. &c. the coins of the United States, or those of foreign countries in circulation here.
Jurisdiction of the individual states not to be affected by this act.
Repeal of such acts as authorize the receipt of evidences of public debt in payment for land after the 30th of April, 1806.
Proviso.
Rates at which purchases may be made of the public debt of the United States.
Repeal of part of a former law, restricting the commissioners as to the mode and time of purchases.
1792, ch. 38, sec. 7, 8.
Lighthouses to be built.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be erected the following lighthouses in the state of Massachusetts:
One on Franklin island, at the mouth of St. George’s river, in the Franklin island.
One on West Passamaquoddy head, at the entrance into the bay and harbor West Passamaquoddy head.
And a double lighthouse at or near Chatham harbor, on the back of Cape Cod.
Proviso.
Beacons or piers to be also erected—at what places.
Appropriations for erecting the lighthouses and piers.
Provisions of a former act extended to the territories of the United States.
Act of Feb. 28, 1799, ch, 19.
1805, ch. 38.
Specific appropriations.
Specific appropriations.
Specific appropriations.
Specific appropriations.
That for defraying the expense of the military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and six; for the Indian department, and for the expense of fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For the pay of the army of the United States, three hundred and two Specific appropriations.
For forage, four thousand six hundred and eight dollars.
For the subsistence of the army and corps of engineers, two hundred and twenty-four thousand nine hundred and ninety-four dollars, five cents.
For clothing, eighty-five thousand dollars.
For bounties and premiums, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital departments, twelve thousand dollars.
For camp equipage, fuel, tools and transportation, eighty-five thousand dollars.
For fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, two hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred and forty-two dollars, five cents.
For purchasing maps, plans, books and instruments, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the war department, eighteen thousand dollars.
For the pay and subsistence of the commandants in Louisiana, six thousand and sixty-six dollars, sixty-seven cents.
For the Indian department, ninety-six thousand six hundred dollars.
Repealed 1810, ch. 30.
Post roads discontinued.
That the following post roads be established:
In Massachusetts.—From Granville, through Sandisfield and New Post roads established.
In the district of Maine.—From Brewer’s to Plantation number five; from Vassalborough, through Fairfax, Unity, Collegetown, to Hamden; from Buckfield, through Hartford, to Livermore; and from New Milford, through Ballstown, Palermo, and Davistown, to Belfast.
In Vermont.—From Royalton, through Tunbridge, Chelsea, and Vershire, to Corinth.
In Connecticut.—From Pomfret, through Gloucester, to Providence in Rhode Island.
In New York.—From the town of Cherry Valley, through Springfield, Post roads established.
In New Jersey.—From Belvidere to Stroudsburg, in Pennsylvania.
In Pennsylvania.—From Berlin, through Salisbury, to Cumberland; from Greensburgh to Kittanning; from Tuckhannok to Chenango Point in New York; and from Greensburgh, through Mount Pleasant, Robbstown, and Williamsport, to Washington; and from Washington, through Alexandria, to Wheeling; from Gettysburg, through Miller’s town, Nicholson’s Gap, and Waynesburg, to Green Castle.
In Delaware.—From the village of Christians, through Newark, to Strasburgh in Pennsylvania; and from Georgetown, through Concord, to Laurel.
In Maryland.—The post road from Vienna, in Dorchester county, to Snow Hill, in Worcester county, and thence returning to Vienna, may, in the discretion of the Postmaster-General, be so altered as to pass over Wicomico lower ferry and Quantico mills:
In Virginia.—From Lynchburgh to Lexington; from Waterford to Sniker’s Gap, by the stores of Robert Braden and Jessy Janny, and from thence to Upperville, and to return by Israel Janny’s mill; from Wythe Courthouse, by Tazewell Courthouse, Russel Courthouse, Lee Courthouse, to Robinson’s mills; and from Madison Courthouse to Stanardsville; the post road from Manchester to Colesville, shall pass by Chesterfield Courthouse and Spring Hill.
In North Carolina.—From Averysborough by Haywood, Chatham Courthouse, to cross Haw river near Jones’ ferry, to Hillsborough; from Raleigh, by Chapel Hill, to Hillsborough; from Wilmington through Conwayborough to Georgetown, in South Carolina; and from Wilksborough to Ashe Courthouse.
In South Carolina.—From Portsferry to Conwayborough; and from Portsferry, by Marion Courthouse, to Thomas Harley’s.
In Georgia.—From Washington to Petersburg, and from Athens to Knoxville in Tennessee.
In Ohio.—From Cincinnati, by North Bend, to Lawrenceburgh in the Indiana territory; from Austinburg to Erie in Pennsylvania, and from Franklinton to Worthington.
In Kentucky.—From New Castle or Henry Courthouse, by Gallatin Courthouse and Boone Courthouse, to Laurenceburgh, in the Indiana territory; and the post road from Henderson to Eddeville shall pass by Livingston Courthouse.
In Tennessee.—From Mount Granger to Carthage, thence, by Kavenaugh, to Lebanon; from Nashville to Charlotte; from Burville by Walnut Cove, thence along the turnpike road, by way of Chitwood’s, to Pulaski in Kentucky; and from Palmyra to Stuart Courthouse, and thence to Eddyville.
In Orleans Territory.—From Rapid settlement to Opelousa.
Sum appropriated on account of Joseph H. Webb.
Acknowledgement of the sense of Congress of the services of the Danish consul at Tripoli.
ACTS OF THE NINTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
Operation of a former act suspended.
Act of April 18, 1806, ch. 29.
Operation of a former act suspended.
Act of April 18, 1806, ch. 29.
Remission of certain penalties, &c.
Further suspension.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
That for defraying the expenses of the navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, the following sums be, and the same hereby are, respectively, appropriated; that is to say:
For the pay and subsistence of the officers and pay of the seamen, Specific appropriations.
For provisions, one hundred and twenty thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars and three cents.
For medicines, instruments, and hospital stores, five thousand dollars.
Specific appropriations.
For repairs of vessels, one hundred and ninety thousand two hundred and eight dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For freight, store rent, commissions to agents, and other contingent expenses, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, seventy-eight thousand six hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty cents.
For clothing for the same, fourteen thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
For military stores for the same, five hundred and sixty dollars.
For medicine, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick belonging to the marine corps, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For quartermaster’s and barrack master’s stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorer’s and carpenter’s bills, fuel, premium for enlisting, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses, eight thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars.
For the expense of navy yards, comprising docks and other improvements, pay of superintendents, store-keepers, clerks and labourers, sixty thousand dollars.
For ordnance, fifty thousand dollars.
[Obsolete.]
That for defraying the expense of the military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven; for the Indian department, and for the expense of fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
Specific appropriations.
For the pay of the army of the United States, three hundred and two thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For forage, four thousand six hundred and eight dollars.
For the subsistence of the army and corps of engineers, two hundred and thirty-five thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty cents.
For clothing, eighty-five thousand dollars.
For bounties and premiums, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital departments, fifteen thousand dollars.
For camp equipage, fuel, tools and transportation, ninety thousand dollars.
For fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, two hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred and forty-two dollars and five cents.
For purchasing maps, plans, books, and instruments, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingencies, eighteen thousand dollars.
For the payment of such balances as have been ascertained, and which may be ascertained during the years one thousand eight hundred and six and one thousand eight hundred and seven, from actual settlements by the accountant of the war department, and which cannot be discharged out of any existing appropriation, eight thousand dollars.
For the Indian department, one hundred thousand and six hundred dollars.
Sessions of the circuit court changed.
Actions, suite, process, &c. to have day, and made returnable accordingly.
Proviso.
Sessions of the district court also changed.
1808, ch. 29, acc. 3.
Actions, suite, &c. made returnable and to have day, accordingly.
President of the U. States authorized to cause a survey of the coast of the U. States to be made, and an accurate chart to be prepared.
President also authorized to cause examinations to be made with respect to St. George’s bank, &c.
President authorized to cause proper persons to be employed, and such of the public vessels as may be wanted, &c.
By the 1st section of the act of June 17, 1844, chap. 65, officers of the army and navy shall, as far as practicable, be employed in the coast survey, wherever, and in the manner required by the department having charge thereof.
By an act passed June 3, 1844, maps and charts of the survey of the coast are to be disposed of at such prices as may be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and copies of the same shall be presented to “foreign governments, departments of our own government, and literary and scientific associations.”
Act of April 14, 1818, ch. 56.
Fifty thousand dollars appropriated.
Secretary of the Treasury to have lighthouses built at Fair Weather and Naushawn islands.
To appoint keepers, &c.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause the lighthouse at Smith’s point to be rebuilt.
Proviso.
Secretary of the Treasury to have the lighthouse at North island rebuilt.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause buoys and stakes to be fixed in Winyaw bay, and near the shoals and rocks leading to Salem.
Specific appropriations.
An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt, March 3, 1795, chap. 45, “1790, chap. 47.”
An act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States, April 29, 1802, chap. 32.
An act supplementary to the act entitled, “An act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States,” February 11, 1807, chap. 12.
An act supplementary to the act entitled, “An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt,” &c., June 28, 1809, chap. 10.
An act to provide for the redemption of the public debt, March 3, 1817, chap. 87.
An act to authorize the commissioners of the sinking fund to redeem the public debt of the United States, April 24, 1830, chap. 78.
The redemption of the public debt can only be done by voluntary subscription.
Act of April 29, 1802, ch. 32.
Subscription books to the full amount of the old 6 per cent, deferred and 3 per cent, stock, to be opened at the treasury and the several loan offices.
Mode of effecting the subscription.
Credits to be given for any sums subscribed in old 6 per cent, stock, and new certificates given in 6 per cent, stock.
Subject to redemption at the pleasure of tile United States.
Proviso as to reimbursement.
Notice to be given previous to reimbursement.
At what rate credits are to be given for 3 per cent, stock subscribed.
Sums subscribed to bear an interest of 6 per cent.
When reimbursable.
Commissioners of the sinking fund to appoint agents in London and Amsterdam; their duties.
Interest on certificates issued by agents.
Dividend on the old 6 per cent, stock to be paid to subscribers.
Agents to transmit abstracts of the certificates of stock subscribed to the register of the treasury, &c.
Agents to take an oath, &c.
Foreign stock, holders may receive the interest on the stock subscribed by them, either in Europe or the United States.
Rate of the pound sterling.
Rate of guilders.
Dividend payable in London and Amsterdam.
Every proprietor on surrendering of certificate to receive another, the interest payable quarterly in the United States.
Funds now pledged fur the payment of interest and the reimbursement of principal of the public debt to remain pledged for the payment of interest and reimbursement of principal of stock subscribed.
Commissioners of sinking fund to cause to be applied, annually, such sums as may be required for the interest and charges: and so much as they may think proper towards redeeming, &c.
Eight millions to remain appropriated, &c.
Allowance to commissioners under this act.
Their expenses, &c. to be defrayed.
Allowance to commissioners of loans and agents for clerk hire.
Certificates intended to be reimbursed to be designated.
In every reimbursement the preference to be given to such holders of certificates as may have given notice of their wish to be reimbursed.
Secretary of the Treasury to determine by lot, &c.
Agents and commissioners of loans to perform such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Saving of the rights of non-subscribers to the loan created by this act.
Act of Sept. 21, 1789, ch. 20.
A co-ordinate power of granting writs of injunction conferred upon the judges of the district courts in cases before the circuit courts of their districts.
Proviso
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22, sec. 17.
Act of March 2, 1811, ch. 33, sec. 7.
All the shores and waters of the Ohio and its branches, and of the Mississippi and its branches added to the district of Mississippi.
Surveyors to be appointed for Pittsburg, fee.
Their powers and emoluments.
Permanent registers to be issued by the collector of Mississippi.
Proviso.
Repeal of any act making separate districts of the shores and waters referred to.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause a customhouse to he built at N. Orleans.
[Obsolete.]
President authorized to accept of the services of volunteer corps.
How to he officered, equipped, &c.
Corps offering themselves liable to be called upon to do duty, &c.
How long to continue in service, &c.
Pay, &c.
Proviso.
President authorized to have them organized, when called into service.
In the mean time they are to perform militia duty, &c.
Volunteers to be saved harmless except in cases of negligence or accidental losses and damage.
Specific appropriation.
Repeal of so much of any act as gives jurisdiction of circuit to the district courts of Kentucky, E. and W. Tennessee, and Ohio.
Act of March 23, 1804, ch. 31, sec. 6.
Districts established for the circuit courts.
These districts to compose the seventh circuit.
Sessions of the circuit courts, and places where to be held.
Kentucky.
Act of March 22, 1808, ch. 38, sec. 1, 2, 3, 4.
Tennessee.
Ohio.
1797, ch. 2.
All the authority, &c. vested in the several circuit courts, vested in this court.
Causes, &c. returnable to the circuit court and tried therein.
The circuit courts of the seventh circuit to be governed by the same laws as other circuit courts.
State of Tennessee to be divided into two districts, &c.
East Tennessee.
West Tennessee.
Ohio.
Act of March 26, 1810, ch. 18.
1809, ch. 14.
Supreme court to consist in future of seven judges, &c.
Former act continued in force.
Act of Feb. 28, 1806, ch. 9.
Prohibitions of former act extended further.
Act of Feb. 27, 1801, ch. 15.
Act of May 3, 1802, ch. 53.
Provisions of a former act respecting writs of capias ad satisfaciendum repealed.
Said writs made returnable as if that act bad not passed, &c.
Part of former act repealed.
Costs to be paid by claimants when there was a reasonable cause for seizure.
Proviso.
A doubt concerning the construction of a law, may be a good ground for seizure, and authorize a certificate of probable cause. The United States v. Riddle, 5 Cranch, 311; 2 Cond. Rep. 266.
If a collector justify the detention of a vessel under the 11th section of the embargo law of April 25, 1808, he need not show that his opinion was correct, nor that he used reasonable care and diligence in ascertaining the facts upon which his opinion was founded. It is sufficient if he honestly entertained the opinion in which he acted. Otis v. Watkins, 9 Cranch, 339; 3 Cond. Rep. 424.
Where a seizure for a breach of the laws of the United States, is finally adjudged wrongful and without probable cause by the courts, the party may proceed, at his election, by a suit at common law, or in the instance court of the admiralty for the illegal act. But the common law remedy in such cases must be sought in the state courts, the courts of the United States having no jurisdiction to decide on the conduct of their officers in the execution of their laws, in suits at common law, until the case shall have passed through the state courts. Slocum v. Mayberry et al., 2 Wheat. 1; 4 Cond. Rep. 1.
If a suit be brought against the seizing officer for a supposed trespass in making a seizure of a vessel for a supposed forfeiture, while the suit is depending, the fact of such pendency may be pleaded in abatement, or as a temporary bar to the action; if after a decree of condemnation, then that fact may be pleaded as a bar; if after an acquittal without a certificate of probable cause, then the officer is without any justification for the seizure, and it is definitively settled to be a tortious act. Gelston et al. v. Hoyt, 3 Wheat. 246; 4 Cond. Rep. 244.
To justify a seizure there must be probable cause of seizure; and if an officer of the customs seize without probable cause, no indictment lies for resisting him in the seizure, for he is not in the execution of his office. United States v. Gay, 2 Gallis. C. C. R. 359.
Seizures for breach of municipal laws, are made at the peril of the seizers. If made without probable cause, the seizers are liable for all the consequences; for the act is construed a tortious act, and his diligence for the preservation of the property, is no defence against losses occasioned by the superior force, or inevitable casualty. Burke v. Trevitt, 1 Mason’s C. C. R. 96.
Officers of the treasury to allow the collector of New York for certain sums recovered of him, &c.
1792, ch. 1.
Indictment on the 18th section of the act of Congress, entitled, “
Counterfeiting an indorsement on a post note of the Bank of the United States, is not an offence under the 18th section of the act incorporating the bank. United States v. Stewart, 4 Wash. C. C. R. 226.
In a prosecution for forging the notes of the Bank of the United States, it is not necessary to prove that it was committed with intention to defraud some corporation or person, and that the notes stated in the indictment, and given in evidence as forged, and those alleged to be forged, are the same. United States v. Reuben Moses, 4 Wash. C. C. R. 726. An order on the cashier of the Bank of the United States, is evidence for supporting an indictment for forging an order on the cashier of the corporation of the Bank of the United States. United States v. Hinman, Baldwin’s C. C. R. 292.
Act of April 10, 1816, ch. 44, sec. 18.
Punishment for falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting notes of the Bank of the U. States.
Or checks or orders thereon.
Repeal of act of June 27, 1798, ch. 61.
The territory lying between the two rivers, is the whole country from their sources to their mouths; and if no branch of either of them has acquired the name exclusively of another, the main branch to its source must be considered the true river. Ibid.
The act of June 26, 1812, to ascertain the western boundary of the tract reserved for military warrants, and which provisionally designates Ludlow’s line, as the western boundary, did not invalidate the title to the land between that line and Roberts’s line, acquired under a Virginia military warrant previous to the passage of that act. Ibid.
The land between Ludlow’s and Roberts’s line was not withdrawn from the territory liable to be surveyed for military warrants by any act of Congress passed before the act of June 12, 1812. Ibid.
The reservation made by the law of Virginia of 1783, ceding to Congress the territory northwest of the river Ohio, is not a reservation of the whole tract of country between the rivers Sciota and Little Miami. It is a reservation of only so much as may be necessary to make up any deficiency of good land in the country set apart for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on continental establishment, on the southeast side of the Ohio. The residue of the lands are ceded to the United States as a common fund for those states who come or might become members of the Union; to be disposed of for that purpose. Jackson v. Clarke et al., 1 Peters, 635.
Although the military lands constituted the primary claim upon the trust, that claim was according to the intention of the parties so to be satisfied, as still to keep in view the interests of the Union, which were also vital objects of the trust. This was only to be effected by prescribing the time in which the lands to be appropriated by those claimants should be separated from the general mass, so as to enable the government to apply the residue to the general purposes of the trust. Ibid.
If the right existed in Congress to prescribe the time in which military warrants should be located, the right to annex conditions to its extension, follows as a necessary consequence. Ibid.
If it be conceded that the proviso in the act of March 2, 1807, was not intended for the protection of surveys which were in themselves absolutely void, it must be admitted that it was intended to protect those which were defective, and which might be avoided for irregularity. If this effect be denied to the proviso it becomes itself a nullity. Ibid.
Lands surveyed are as completely withdrawn from the common mass, as lands patented. It cannot be said that the prohibition that “no location shall be made on tracts of land for which patents have previously been issued, or which had been previously surveyed,” was intended only for valid and regular surveys. They did not require legislative aid. The clause was introduced for the protection of defective entries and surveys, which might be made in quiet times. Ibid.
Under the peculiar system of the Virginia land law, as it has been settled in Kentucky and the military district in Ohio, by usages adapted to the circumstances of the country, many principles are established, which are unknown to the common law. A long course of adjudication has fixed these principles, and they are considered as the settled rules by which these military titles are to be governed. Galt v. Galloway, 4 Peters, 313.
Act of Aug. 10, 1790, ch. 40.
Act of June 9, 1791, ch. 62.
Act of June 26, 1812, ch. 109.
Act of Aug. 10, 1790, ch. 40.
Act of June 9, 1791, ch. 62.
Act of June 26, 1812, ch. 109.
Act of Aug. 10, 1790, ch. 40.
Act of June 9, 1791, ch. 62.
Act of June 26, 1812, ch. 109.
A further time allowed for completing locations.
1804, ch. 33.
Proviso.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause a general and connected plat to be made.
Copies thereof, how to be disposed of.
Expense—how defrayed.
A portion of the “Virginia military reservation,” to be vested in the state of Ohio, for the use of schools.
Limitation.
Legislature of Ohio to accept this grant in lieu of the part of the Virginia military reservation.
1803, ch. 21.
Act of March 22, 1794, ch. 11.
Act of May 10, 1800, ch. 51.
Act of Feb. 28, 1803, ch. 10.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 83.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 112, sec. 4, 5.
Act of March 22, 1794, ch. 11.
Act of May 10, 1800, ch. 51.
Act of Feb. 28, 1803, ch. 10.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 83.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 112, sec. 4, 5.
Act of March 22, 1794, ch. 11.
Act of May 10, 1800, ch. 51.
Act of Feb. 28, 1803, ch. 10.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 83.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 112, sec. 4, 5.
Importation of slaves into the U. S. forbidden after Jan. 1, 1808.
Forfeiture of vessels fitted out for the slave trade after Jan, 1, 1808.
Penalties for being engaged in such expeditions.
Forfeitures and penalties for importing slaves from Africa, &c. after Jan. 1, 1808.
Distribution of the forfeitures.
Slaves imported to remain subject to regulations of the states.
Further penalties on citizens and residents, &c. for bringing slaves to the U. S. from any foreign place.
Imprisonment and penalty not to exceed $10,000.
Penalties for buying slaves from the neighbouring territories, &c.
Forfeiture not to extend to the seller or purchaser of any slave sold under the regulations of the legislature of any suite.
Vessels may be seized, having slaves on board.
Vessels seized forfeited to the use of the United States.
Naval force of the U. States may be employed for the purpose of enforcing this act.
Penalties, fine and imprisonment.
Proceeds of prizes divided between the U. States and the officers and men making the seizures.
Every negro and mulatto found on board any vessel captured to be delivered to persons appointed by the respective states to receive them.
An account to be transmitted to the governors of the respective states.
The offence against the laws of the United States under the 7th section of the act of 1807, is not that of importing or bringing into the United States, persons of colour, with intent to hold such persons as slaves, but that of hovering on the coast of the United States with such intent. And although it forfeits the vessel and any goods or effects found on board, it is silent as to disposing of the coloured persons found on board, any further than to impose a duty upon the officers of the armed vessels who make the capture to keep them safely to be delivered to the overseers of the poor, or the governor of the state, or persons appointed by the respective stales to receive them. United States v. Preston, 3 Peters, 57.
The persons sold as slaves under an order of the district court of Louisiana, in a case where the decree was afterwards reversed, were illegally sold, and they are free. Ibid.
Slaves not to be transported in vessels under forty tons burthen, to be disposed of, &c.
Penalties.
This section not to prohibit taking on board or transporting on any river or bay within the jurisdiction of the U. States.
Vessels of larger burthen, sailing coastwise, to have the names of slaves for sale inserted in their papers, &c.
The shipper to swear the negroes were not imported into the U. States after January 1, 1808.
Penalties on departing without such list.
Penalty for negro or mulatto taken on board.
Manifests to be delivered to officers of customs where such slaves carried coastwise are landed.
Penalty for landing a negro or mulatto without a permit.
Act of Feb. 27, 1801, ch. 15.
Service fees, &c. to the marshal.
Clerk of Alexandria county entitled to the same fees as clerks of district courts in Virginia, &c.
In chancery proceedings, fees allowed to clerk of the high court of chancery in Virginia.
For services not incident to the offices of the clerks of the district or chancery courts, the fees allowed hi the county courts.
General court fees of Maryland to be charged by the clerk of Washington county.
For services in chancery, the fees of the register of the court of chancery.
In cases not of a nature of the service performed in either of these courts, the fees allowed in the county courts of Maryland to be paid.
Marshal and clerk of Washington still entitled to their daily allowance.
At what rate fees in tobacco are to be paid.
Tables of fees to be set up in the marshal’s and clerk’s offices.
Attorney’s and solicitor’s fees.
Proviso.
Temporary statutes of Virginia and Maryland, adopted for Columbia, continued in force.
That all laws, and parts of laws, contrary to, or inconsistent with this act, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed.
This act shall commence and be in force from and after the passing thereof.
Act of Feb. 27, 1801, ch. 15.
Repeal of acts inconsistent with this law.
Compensation to the judges of Mississippi, Indiana, Michigan, and Louisiana territory.
[Obsolete.]
That in addition to appropriations already made, the following sums of money shall be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, to the purposes herein after mentioned, Appropriation to finish south wing of the capitol:
For finishing the south wing of the capitol, twenty-five thousand dollars.
to furnish it:
For furnishing the same for the accommodation of the House of Representatives, seventeen thousand dollars.
to make a new roof and other repairs to the north wing:
to open and repair avenues and roads:
to repair and improve President’s house, and the lot of ground on which it stands.
For making a new roof and other repairs to the north wing of the capitol, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For opening and repairing avenues and roads within the territory of Columbia, three thousand dollars.
For repairs and improvements on the President’s house, and the lot of ground on which the same stands, fifteen thousand dollars.
[Obsolete.]
That for the expenditure Objects of appropriation.
Specific appropriations.
For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of four months and a half continuance, two hundred and one thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, twenty-four thousand two hundred dollars.
For all contingent expenses of the library, and librarian’s allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons employed in that department, thirteen thousand dollars.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For printing and distributing copies of the laws of the second session of the ninth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, eight thou sand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For special messengers charged with despatches, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons Specific appropriations.
For the expense of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in receiving and transmitting passports and sea letters, stationery and printing, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, clerks and per sons employed in his office, twelve thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses of the comptroller’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, the clerks and per sons in his office, twelve thousand two hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the office of the auditor of the treasury, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer, clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-five cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the treasurer’s office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty-two dollars and two cents.
For expense of stationery and printing in the register's office, (including books for the public stock and for the arrangement of the marine papers,) two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For purchasing books, maps and charts, for the use of the treasury department, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For fuel and other contingent expenses of the treasury department, four thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses incident to the stating and printing of the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to a superintendent employed to secure the buildings and records of the treasury, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, including the expense of two watchmen, and for the repair of two fire engines, buckets, lanterns, and other incidental expenses, one thousand one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the war department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to clerks employed in the paymaster’s office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel in the said office, ninety dollars.
For compensation to the purveyor of public supplies, clerks and per sons employed in his office, and for expense of stationery, store rent, and fuel for the said office, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, nine thousand eight hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, two thousand dollars. Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the accountant of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the navy, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster-General, to the assistant Postmaster-General, and clerks and persons employed in the Postmaster-General’s office, fourteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For expense of fuel, candles, house rent for the messenger, stationery, chests, &c. exclusive of expenses for prosecution, portmanteaus, mail locks, and other expenses incident to the department, these being paid for by the Postmaster-General, out of the funds of the office, two thou- sand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of the several commissioners of loans, and for an allowance to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan offices, fifteen thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor-general, and for that of the clerks employed by him, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of the lands south of the state of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, stationery and other contingencies, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the officers of the mint:
The director, two thousand dollars.
The treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars.
The assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The chief coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The melter and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars.
One clerk at seven hundred dollars.
And two clerks at five hundred dollars.
For the wages of persons employed in the different branches of melting, coining, carpenter’s, millwright’s, and smith’s work, including the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, allowed to an assistant coiner and die forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, seven thousand two, hundred and seventy-eight dollars.
For the repairs of furnaces, costs of rollers and screws, timber, bar iron, lead, steel, potash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the territory of Orleans, thirteen thousand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the executive officers of the said territory, and for express hire, and compensation of an Indian interpreter, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Mississippi territory, five thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Indiana territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Louisiana territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses Specific appropriations.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, two thousand dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks of the several departments of state, treasury, war, and navy, and of the general post-office, not exceeding, for each department respectively, fifteen per centum, in addition to the sums allowed by the act, intituled “ 1806, ch. 41.
For compensation granted bylaw to the chief justice, associate judges, and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice, and two associate judges of the district of Columbia; to the attorney-general, and to the judge of the district of Orleans, fifty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.
For the like compensation granted to the several district attorneys of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the marshals of the districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Kentucky, Ohio, East and West Tennessee, and Orleans, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the district of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures, and penalties, and likewise for defraying the expenses of prosecution for of fences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, eight hundred and sixty dollars.
For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, to the fourth of March one thousand eight hundred and eight, ninety-eight thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars, and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, eighty-three thousand nine hundred and sixty-one dollars and eight cents.
For erecting a lighthouse on St. Simon’s island, in Georgia, the former appropriation of seven thousand dollars for that object having been carried to the surplus fund, nineteen thousand dollars.
For erecting lighthouses at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and at or near the pitch of Cape Look-out, in North Carolina, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated by law for those objects, the balance of a former appropriation for those objects, of twenty-four thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars and ninety-six cents, having been carried to the surplus fund, fifty-five thousand dollars.
For erecting a lighthouse on Whitehead, at the entrance of Penobscot bay, the former appropriation for that object having been carried to the surplus fund, two thousand two hundred and five dollars and eighty cents.
For the erection of beacons in the harbor of New York, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses incurred in surveying the coast of North Carolina, between Cape Hatteras and Cape Fear, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, one thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensating the commissioners in the aforesaid service for the loss of their effects incident to the service, on board the revenue cutters Specific appropriations.
For carrying on the surveys of public lands in the state of Ohio, and in the several territories, seventy-three thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, thirty-three thousand and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, twenty thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, five thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the agents at London, Paris, and Madrid, for prosecuting claims in relation to captures, six thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, four thousand dollars.
1790, ch. 34.
After the 30th June, 1807, the act of July 8, 1797, ch. 15, repealed so far as respects the duty on salt.
Proviso.
The recovery and receipt of outstanding duties, not to be impaired.
Bounties on salt provisions and pickled fish taken off.
See vol. i. 27, 260, 533, 693.
Proviso.
Mediterranean fund continued till 1st January, 1808.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 46.
Proviso.
Act of May 18, 1796, ch, 29.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 29.
Act of Feb. 22, 1815, ch. 48.
Act of April 11, 1818, ch. 43.
Resolution warrants may be located within three years from March, 1808.
Act of Feb. 9, 1821, ch. 10.
Act of Feb. 21, 1823, ch. 10.
Patents not to issue for a greater quantity of land than the laws of Virginia entitled the person performing the service to.
Surveys to be withdrawn where locations shall have been made in any other way, and re-surveys to be made, &c.
An act regulating the grants of lands in the territory of Michigan, March 3, 1807, chap. 31.
An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes, March 26, 1804, chap. 35, sec. 2, &c.
An act supplementary to die act entitled, “
An act for the adjustment of titles to land in the town of Detroit and territory of Michigan, and for other purposes, April 21, 1896, chap. 43.
An act supplemental to “
An act to authorize the granting patents for lands according to the surveys that have been made, and to grant donation rights to certain claimants of land in the district of Detroit, and for other purposes, April 23, 1812, chap. 62.
An act allowing further time for entering donation rights to lands in the district of Detroit, March 3, 1817, chap. 99.
An act to revive the powers of the commissioners for ascertaining and deciding on claims to land at Green Bay and Prairie des Cheins, in the territory of Michigan, May 11, 1820, chap. 84.
An act to revive and continue in force, certain acts for the adjustment of land claims in the territory of Michigan, February 21, 1823, chap. 10.
An act to confirm certain claims to lands in the territory of Michigan, April 17, 1828, chap. 12. An act to establish a land-office in the territory of Michigan, and for other purposes, February 19, 1831, chap. 27.
An act supplementary to “
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 35.
Act of March 3, 1805, ch. 43.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 35.
Act of March 3, 1805, ch. 43.
Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 43.
Decisions of commissioners in favour of land in certain eases, confirmed.
Persons in occupation of land in Michigan, to which Indian title has been extinguished, confirmed in their titles as of estates of inheritance, in fee simple.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Secretary of Michigan, and the register and receiver of public monies of the land-office of Detroit, made commissioners for claims, &c.
Their oath of office.
Powers and duties of the commissioners.
Lands to be surveyed, &c.
By whom.
Proviso.
General and particular plots to be sent by the surveyor-general to the register of land-office at Detroit, and copies also to Secretary of Treasury.
Transcripts of commissioners’ decisions to be likewise forwarded to Secretary of Treasury.
Certificates of commissioners to give titles to land, &c.
Fees to be paid for certificates.
Powers of commissioners not extended to lots in town of Detroit.
How claims to such lots are to be decided upon.
Compensation to secretary of Michigan, for services under this act.
Out of what fund to be paid.
Appropriations.
Surveyor general of the public lands south of Tennessee to cause lands ceded by the Cherokees and Chickasaws, and lying in Mississippi, to be surveyed and laid out.
President authorized to have a land-office for the sale of them; to appoint a register and a receiver of public monies, &c.
Their emoluments.
Part of the 1st section of a former act repealed, respecting incomplete titles.
Residents in the territories of Orleans or Louisiana, confirmed in their titles, if in possession a certain number of successive years.
Proviso.
Claim of New Orleans to the commons confirmed.
Release to be made by the corporation.
Proviso.
Nothing herein to impair rights under the French or Spanish government.
Claims to be decided according to the usages and customs of the French and Spanish governments, in certain cases.
Time fixed for delivering notices of claims, extended.
Certificates of final decisions to be transmitted to surveyor-general and Secretary of the Treasury.
Patents to issue upon those transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Tracts of land thus granted to be surveyed at expense of the parties, unless an accurate and authentic survey, made under authority of former governments of Orleans and Louisiana, shall have been filed, &c.
Commissioners authorized to direct re-surveys.
Commissioners authorized to direct re-surveys.
Surveyor-general to transmit general and particular plats to Secretary of the Treasury, &c.
Reports of undecided claims to be regularly transmitted by commissioners to Secretary of the Treasury.
Arrangement of claims.
Allowances and compensations.
Proviso.
Specific appropriations.
[Obsolete.]
Land and naval forces to be employed for suppressing insurrections.
Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 35.
Specific appropriations.
That the following post roads [Repealed.] Act of April 28, 1810, ch. 30, sec. 2. Post roads established.
In Orleans.—From New Orleans to the Balize, and from New Orleans, by the mouth of the Fourche, mouth of the canal of Attakapas, lake Veret, the ferry of lake Veret, the mouth of Teache, the church of Attacapas, and the church of Appelousas, to Rapides. And the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby authorized to allow and pay to the postmaster, which may be appointed at the Balize, in addition to the legal fees of office, such sum as he may judge reasonable, not exceeding four hundred dollars per annum, as a compensation for his services.
A road to be opened, on the route from Athens to New Orleans.
Unexpended balance of a former appropriation to be applied to this object.
Establishment of the bank of Detroit disapproved of.
Compensation for extra services.
1804, ch. 38.
Lands of the U. States, by whatsoever title acquired, not to be occupied, possessed or settled, but with the consent of the U. States. Titles of intruders forfeited.
President authorized to have them removed.
The mode of doing this.
Forfeitures to enure to the benefit of the U. States.
Saving of claims before board of commissioners under the act of March 2, 1805, ch. 26.
Actual settlers may hold under the U. States as tenants at will, under bargains with the officers of the land-offices.
Conditions prescribed.
1808, ch. 10.
Proviso.
Applications to be entered on books.
Marshals, &c. authorized, under instructions from the President, to oust intruders.
Penalties for keeping possession after notice to give it up.
Proviso.
Decisions of commissioners, transmitted to Secretary of the Treasury, confirmed.
Confirmations of the governor of the N. West and Indiana territories, confirmed by Congress—conditionally.
1791, ch. 27.
Proviso.
Assurance of certain titles in the tract called “Continuation.”
Claims confirmed under this act to be entered with the register of the land-office of Vincennes.
Proviso.
Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 40.
Proviso.
Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 40.
Persons whose claims are confirmed under this act, entitled to patents, &c. if they shall not previously have received them.
Register and receiver of Kaskaskias allowed a further time.
Additional compensation to them.
Public sales in Vincennes, how long to be kept open.
1804, ch. 35.
Preemption rights in Mississippi—time for satisfying them.
Land of the U. States to be disposed of.
Offices established.
When to be sold.
Reservations, &c.
Act of Feb. 29, 1808, ch. 26.
The sales to remain open for six weeks.
1800, ch. 55.
Lands not to be sold for less than two dollars per acre.
1809, ch. 55.
Compensation of superintendents of sales.
Registers and receivers may be appointed in the recess of the Senate.
Lead mines to be reserved for the future disposal of Congress, &c.
President authorized to lease lead mines.
George Ash to have the right of preemption.
Chart of the survey of the coast of North Carolina to be published.
ACTS OF THE TENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
That for defraying the expenses Specific appropriations.
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, seventy-four thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and twenty-nine cents.
For provisions, thirty-one thousand four hundred and sixty-eight dollars and fifteen cents.
For repairs of vessels, one hundred and forty-two thousand eight hundred and eighty-four dollars and sixty-one cents.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For clothing for the same, ten thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and forty-two cents.
For medicines and hospital stores, one thousand two hundred and sixty-three dollars and forty cents.
For ordnance and military stores, three hundred and ten thousand five hundred and fifty-four dollars and sixty cents.
For timber for the navy, eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
[Obsolete.]
Additional compensation allowed.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22, sec. 2.
Name of Saco substituted for that of Biddeford, &c. &c.
Collector to reside at Saco.
[Obsolete.]
A number of gun boats to be built, equipped, &c. &c. at the discretion of the President.
Specific appropriation.
Where a vessel had been driven by stress of weather into a port, in the West Indies, while proceeding to Portland in Maine, and there detained by the government of the place, this was such a casualty as came within the exception of “dangers of the seas,” in the condition of an embargo bond, dated 29th December, 1807, taken in pursuance of the act of Congress of December 22, 1807. United States v. Hall and Worth, 6 Cranch, 176; 2 Cond. Rep. 340.
Subsequent to the execution of this bond, on the 9th of January, 1808, Congress passed a supplement to the embargo law, by which other and additional penalties were imposed, and the circumstances under which the obligor in any embargo bond given under the act of 22d December, 1807, could obtain relief, were changed. The court said they would never consider the latter act as applying to previous facts, unless such construction should be unavoidable. Ibid.
In an action of debt for the penalty of an embargo bond, it is a good plea under the act of Congress of 12th March, 1808, sec. 3, that the party was prevented relanding the goods in the United States by unavoidable accidents. Durousseau v. The United States, 6 Cranch, 307; 2 Cond. Rep. 380.
It was no offence under the embargo laws, to take goods out of one vessel and put them in another in the port of Baltimore; unless it was with an intention to export them. 6 Cranch, 327.
The evidence of the necessity which will excuse a violation of the embargo laws, must be clear and certain. Brig James Wells v. The United States, 7 Cranch, 22; 2 Cond. Rep. 402.
The departure of a vessel from a wharf in a port, and proceeding a mile and an half therefrom, with the intention of proceeding to sea, is not a departure from the port within the meaning of the supplementary embargo act of January 9, 1808, if the vessel had not actually gone out of the port before seizure. Sloop Active v. The United States, 7 Cranch, 100; 2 Cond. Rep. 431.
A vessel which has proceeded to a foreign port, contrary to the embargo act of January 8, 1808, is liable to be seized on her return, although that act gives a penalty of double her value, in case she should not be seized. United States v. The brig Eliza, 7 Crunch, 113; 2 Cond. Rep. 437.
A merchant vessel captured as prize, condemned and sold, and afterwards purchased by her former master, a citizen of the United States, who obtained a Danish burgher’s brief, and who cleared out of a port of the United States as a Dane, is a foreign ship within the fifth section of the act of January 9, 1808, supplementary to the embargo act, although the purchaser was yet a citizen of the United States. The schooner Good Catherine v. The United States, 7 Cranch, 349; 2 Cond. Rep. 525.
By the 11th section of the act of April 25, 1808, the collector had no right to detain a vessel and her cargo, after her arrival at her port of destination, under a suspicion that she intended to violate the embargo, and such suspicions could not be justified by instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury nor the confirmation of the President. Otis v. Bacon, 7 Cranch, 589; 2 Cond. Rep. 618.
Under the 11th section of the embargo act of April 25, 1808, the collector was justified in detaining a vessel by his honest opinion that there was an intention to violate or evade the provisions of the embargo laws. It was not necessary for him to show that his suspicions were reasonable. Crowell et al. v. M’Faddon, 8 Cranch, 94; 3 Cond. Rep. 48.
A bond taken under the first section of the embargo act of January 9, 1808, is not void, although taken by consent of the parties, after the vessel had sailed. Speake et al. v. The United States, 9 Cranch, 28; 3 Cond. Rep. 244.
The obligors are estopped to deny that the penalty of the bond is double the true value of the cargo. Ibid.
Under the third section of the embargo act of April 25, 1808, a vessel is not subject to forfeiture, for departing without a clearance, unless she has departed out of port. The Active v. The United States, 7 Cranch, 100; 2 Cond. Rep. 431.
It seems to be a good defence to an action on an embargo bond, that the same was given for more than twice the value of the cargo, and that the obligors were constrained to execute it by the refusal of a clearance. United States v. Gordon et al., 7 Cranch, 287; 2 Cond. Rep. 494.
If the collector justify a detention under the embargo law of April 25, 1808, sec. 11, he need not show that his opinion was correct, nor that he used reasonable diligence in ascertaining the facts on which his opinion was founded. Otis v. Watkins, 9 Cranch, 339; 3 Cond. Rep. 424. See Slocum v. Mayberry, 2 Wheat. 1; 4 Cond, Rep. 1; Otis v. Walter, 2 Wheat. 18; 4 Cond. Rep. 10.
Under the embargo act of December 22, 1807, the words, “an embargo shall be laid,” not only imposed upon the public officers the duty of preventing the departure of registered or sea-lettered vessels on a foreign voyage, but consequently rendered them liable to forfeiture under the supplementary act of January 9, 1808. In such a case, if the vessel be actually and bona fide carried by force to a foreign port, she is not liable. The William King, 2 Wheat. 148; 4 Cond. Rep. 71.
Under the embargo act of April 25, 1808, a vessel not arriving at her port of original destination, excites an honest suspicion in the collector, that a demand of a permit to land a cargo, was merely colourable; this is not a termination of the voyage, so as to preclude the right of detention. Otis v. Walter, 11 Wheat. 192; 6 Cond. Rep. 270.
Under the 5th section of the embargo act of January 9, 1808, “a foreign vessel,” means a vessel navigating under the flag of a foreign power; and not a vessel owned in whole or in part by foreigners, domicilled in the United Stales. The Sally, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 58.
A departure from any place within the jurisdictional limits of the United States, although such place be not within any port, is within the embargo act of December 22, 1807. The Ann, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 62.
A vessel, which during the existence of the embargo laws, departed from one port of the United States to another, but was obliged from irresistible necessity, to put into a foreign port, and sell her cargo, was not guilty of a violation of the embargo laws. The Brig William Gray, Paine’s C. C. R. 16.
The embargo law was passed December 22, 1807. A vessel cleared for St. Mary’s, Georgia, on the 15th of January; the collector received information of the passage of the law, and gave notice of it. It did not appear that this was known to the master or owners previous to the sailing. Being seized for a violation of the law, the court ordered her restitution. The Cotton Planter, 1 Paine’s C. C. R. 23.
To excuse a vessel which has sailed under an embargo bond, from re-landing her cargo in the United Stales, under this clause, “the perils of the sea only excepted,” the accident must happen without any fault or negligence of the master, and must occur at sea; or if at land, it must be the immediate consequence of the peril happening at sea. United States v. Hall et al., 2 Wash. C. C. R. 366. See the United States v. The Nancy, 3 Wash. C. C. R. 281. The United States v. Morgan et al., 3 Wash. C. C. R. 10. The United States v. Mitchell et al., 3 Wash. C. C. R. 95.
The third section of the embargo act of December 22, 1807, was not repealed by the act of 1809. The Argo, 2 Gallis. C. C. R. 314.
A libel against a vessel for violating the embargo laws, must contain a substantial statement of the offence, with reasonable precision. 1 Brockenb. C. C. R. 347.
[Repealed.]
Act of Jan. 9, 1808, ch. 8.
Act of March 12, 1808, ch. 33.
Act of April 25, 1808, ch. 66.
Act of March 1, 1809, ch. 24.
Embargo laid upon shipping in the U. States.
Clearances to be given to none but vessels under the direction of the President.
Foreign vessels in ballast or with goods on board when notified to be allowed to depart.
Registered or sea letter vessels not to proceed from one port to another in the U. States without giving bonds, &c. &c.
Exception of public armed vessels, &c.
[Obsolete.]
President authorized to have fortifications repaired and built.
Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 47.
Appropriation.
[Repealed.]
Act of Dec. 22, 1807, ch. 5.
Bonds to be given in cases of coasting vessels, sailing coast wise.
A general bond to be given in the cases of fishing vessels.
Proviso in favour of licensed vessels uniformly employed on rivers, bays and sounds within the U. States.
Forfeitures and penalties on vessels departing without a permit.
If vessel shall not be seized the owner of the vessel shall be liable for a sum equal to double the value of the ship, vessel and cargo, and master of such vessel subjected to a penalty.
Provision in a former to extend only to public armed vessels, and shall not embrace privateers.
Foreign vessels prohibited from shipping specie, merchandise, &c. &c.
Penalties.
Specie may be seized and condemned.
Distribution of forfeitures, penalties, &c.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Distribution of forfeitures, penalties, &c.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 13.
Act of Feb. 11, 1800, ch. 6.
Drawbacks not to be affected by this act.
[Obsolete.]
Qualifications of electors of representatives to the general assembly of the Mississippi territory.
1804, ch. 57, sec. 7.
General assembly may apportion representatives.
Not more than 12 nor less than 10 representatives until there shall be six thousand free inhabitants in the territory.
A delegate to Congress to be elected at the time of the general election.
Actual settlers entitled to a preference in becoming purchasers.
1803, ch. 27.
1807, ch. 46.
Proviso that such tract of land shall not exceed one section, and shall be surveyed agreeably to sectional lines already established.
Notice to be given by persons claiming, under the foregoing section.
Their rights otherwise forfeited.
Time allowed to persons having preemption rights.
This act not to extend to certain other claimants.
[Obsolete.]
Part of a former act revived and continued in force.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 46.
Act of Jan. 10, 1809, ch. 7.
Proviso.
Expenses authorized by the committee of inquiry or the managers of the impeachment of Judge Chase to be settled, and paid.
Proviso.
1804, ch. 29.
[Obsolete.]
Act of Feb. 20, 1804, ch. 12, continued in force for three years.
Names of persons constituted a board of commissioners for receiving subscriptions, &c. &c.
Site of the bridge.
Books to be opened before the first Monday in July, 1808.
The company made a body politic or corporate.
Name of the company.
Their powers, &c. &c.
A meeting of the company to be advertised for choosing directors, officers, &c. &c.
Meetings may be adjourned by the company until a quorum shall be formed.
All the powers of the company to be vested in the directors.
Directors to be annually appointed, &c. &c.
Directors may fill vacancies in the board of directors.
A meeting of the company may at any time be called by a majority of directors.
A majority of the members of the company to be a quorum.
Shares made negotiable and transferable.
Mode of recovering debts from the company.
Shares to be deemed personal property.
Mode of paying up the shares.
Dimensions of the bridge to commence from Maryland avenue, &c.
A draw and wharf to be made and kept in proper order.
Penalties for the detention of vessels, &c. &c.
A second draw to be made across the Maryland channel.
Proviso.
A survey to be made.
Tolls.
Tolls.
Proviso, that no toll be exacted for the passage of any wagon or carriage laden with the property of the U. States, or of any troop of the U. States or militia of any state.
Proviso, if nineteen hundred shares are not subscribed in one year, and if the bridge be not completed in five years, &c. the authorities, &c. of this act to cease.
Bridge to be kept in good order.
Penalty.
Limitation of tolls.
Lighthouse to be built on Point Judith.
Proviso.
Appropriation.
Lighthouse to be so construct ed as that the light may be distinguished.
That for the expenditures Specific appropriations.
For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of four months and a half continuance, two hundred and one thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other con tingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, twenty-nine thousand two hundred dollars.
For all contingent expenses of the library of Congress, and the librarian’s allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons employed in that department, thirteen thousand dollars.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For printing and distributing copies of the laws of the first session of the tenth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For special messengers charged with despatches, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons Specific appropriations.
For the expense of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in receiving and transmitting passports and sea letters, stationery and printing, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses of the comptroller’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the office of the auditor of the treasury, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer, clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-five cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the treasurer’s office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty-two dollars and two cents.
For expense of stationery and printing in the register’s office, (including books for the public stocks, and for the arrangement of the marine papers,) two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For purchasing books, maps and charts, for the use of the treasury department, four hundred dollars.
For fuel and other contingent expenses of the treasury department, four thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses of stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to a superintendent employed to secure the buildings and records of the treasury, during the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, including the expense of two watchmen, and for the repair of two fire engines, buckets, lanterns, and other incidental expenses, one thousand one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the war department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to clerks employed in the paymaster’s office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel in the said office, ninety dollars.
For compensation to the purveyor of public supplies, clerks and per sons employed in his office, and for expense of stationery, store rent, and fuel for the said office, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, nine thousand eight hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of Secretary of the Navy, two thousand dollars. Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the accountant of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the navy, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster-General, to the assistant Post master-General, clerks and persons employed in the Postmaster-General’s office, sixteen thousand dollars.
For expense of fuel, candles, house rent for the messenger, stationery, chests, &c. two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of the several commissioners of loans, and for an allowance to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan offices, fifteen thou sand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor-general, and for his clerks, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of lands south of the state of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, stationery and other contingencies, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the officers of the mint:
The director, two thousand dollars.
The treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars.
The assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The chief coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The melter and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars.
One clerk at seven hundred dollars.
And two clerks at five hundred dollars each.
For the wages of persons employed in the different branches of melting, coining, carpenter’s, millwright’s, and smith’s work, including the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, allowed to an assistant coiner and die forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron works, eight thousand and fifty dollars.
For the repairs of furnaces, cost of rollers and screws, timber, bar iron, lead, steel, potash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the territory of Orleans, thirteen thousand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the executive officers of the said territory, and for express hire, and compensation of an Indian interpreter, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Mississippi territory, including additional compensation allowed the judges for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, nine thousand four hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in said territory, including a deficiency in the appropriation for these objects in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, six hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Indiana territory, including additional compensation allowed to the judges for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan territory, including additional compensation allowed to the judges for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Louisiana territory, including additional compensation allowed to the judges for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, two thousand dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks of the several departments 1808, ch. 41.
For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, associate judges, and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice, and two associate judges of the district of Columbia; to the attorney general, and to the district judge of the territory of Orleans, fifty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.
For the like compensation granted to the several district attornies of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the marshals of the districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Kentucky, Ohio, East and West Tennessee, and Orleans, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the district of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures, and penalties, and likewise for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, eight hundred and sixty dollars.
For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the fifth of March one thousand eight hundred and eight, to the fourth of March one thousand eight hundred and nine, ninety-eight thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, stakeages of channels, bars, and shoals, and certain con tingent expenses, including repairs and raising Newport lighthouse, eighty-five thousand dollars.
For erecting lighthouses at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and at or near the pitch of Cape Look-out, in North Carolina, a former appropriation of twenty thousand dollars for those objects, having been carried to the surplus fund, twenty thousand dollars.
For erecting a lighthouse on the south point of Cumberland island, in the state of Georgia, a former appropriation of four thousand dollars for that object having been carried to the surplus fund, four thousand dollars.
For erecting a lighthouse on Cape Hatteras, and beacon on Shell castle island, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for those objects, one thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars, and forty-four cents.
For erecting the following lighthouses, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for them respectively, that is to say; for erecting a Specific appropriations.
For erecting lighthouses on Long Island sound, one thousand dollars.
For erecting a lighthouse on Wood Island or Fletcher’s neck, one hundred dollars.
For erecting a double lighthouse at or near Chatham harbor, on the back of Cape Cod, two thousand dollars.
For placing buoys and beacons in or near the rocks and shoals in the channel leading into the harbor of Salem, in Massachusetts, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, five thousand dollars.
For the expenses of the boards formed in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, for investigating and adjusting titles and claims to land, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, thirty-three thousand three hundred dollars.
For carrying on the surveys of the public lands in the several territories, twenty-one thousand one hundred and seventy-four dollars.
For the contingent expenses of government, the balance of former appropriations for that object having been carried to the surplus fund, twenty thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, thirty-three thousand and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, twenty thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, five thousand dollars.
For expenses of prosecuting claims in relation to captures, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, four thousand dollars.
1790, ch. 34.
[Obsolete.]
That for defraying the expenses Specific appropriations.
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, three hundred and sixty-eight thousand and forty-eight dollars.
For provisions, one hundred and sixty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and ten cents.
For medicines, instruments and hospital stores, five thousand dollars.
For repairs of vessels, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.
For freight, store rent, commissions to agents and other contingent expenses, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for Specific Appropriations.
For clothing for the same, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty cents.
For military stores for the same, nine thousand six hundred and fifty-four dollars.
For medicine, medical services, hospital stores and all other expenses on account of the sick belonging to the marine corps, two thousand dollars.
For quartermaster’s and barrack-master’s stores, officer’s travelling expenses, armorer’s and carpenter’s bills, fuel, premiums for enlisting, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses, fourteen thousand and thirty-five dollars.
For the expense of navy yards, comprising docks and other improvements, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks and labourers, sixty thousand dollars.
For ordnance, fifty thousand dollars.
[Obsolete.]
Causes, &c. &c. pending in district court of the District of Columbia continued over from last October to next April term.
[Obsolete.]
That for the purpose of carrying into effect a treaty between the United States and the Choctaw nation of Indians, concluded at Pooshapukanuk, in the Choctaw country, on the sixteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and five, the following sums be, and the same hereby are appropriated, in conformity with the stipulations contained in the said treaty, that is to say:
To the said Choctaw nation, fifty thousand five hundred dollars, and Specific appropriations.
To each of the three great Medal Mingoes, Pukshunnubbee, Mingo Hoomastubbee and Pooshamattaha, five hundred dollars, and a further annual sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to each of the said Mingoes during his continuance in office.
Specific appropriations.
Ten thousand dollars to be paid to the said nations in the following proportions:
To the Ottoway nation three thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars thirty-three cents and four mills.
To the Chippeway nation three thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars thirty-three cents and four mills.
To the Wyandotte nation one thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars sixty-six cents and six mills.
To the Pottawatamie nation one thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars sixty-six cents and six mills; and the further annual sum of two thousand four hundred dollars, to be paid to the said nations in the following proportions:
To the Ottoways eight hundred dollars.
To the Chippeways eight hundred dollars.
To the Wyandottes four hundred dollars: and to such of the Pottawatamies as now reside on the river Huron of Lake Erie, the river Raisin, and in the vicinity of the said rivers, four hundred dollars.
[Obsolete.]
Accounts of persons having claims against the U. States for expenses authorized in the inquiry into the conduct of John Smith, (Senator) to be settled and paid.
Per diem allowance to witnesses.
Appropriation.
Additional compensation to the marshals of N. Carolina and N. Jersey.
[Obsolete.]
Qualifications of electors.
Act of April 19, 1816, ch. 57.
Act of April 18, 1806, ch. 29.
Articles not interdicted.
That the articles of the following description shall be held and considered as being embraced by the description of articles, the importation of which is prohibited by the act to which this act is a supplement, that is to say:
All articles manufactured entirely of silk and wool, or of silk and flax, Articles prohibited.
No vessel which cleared out from the U. States before December 14, 1805, subject to this law, &c.
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Reserved lands in Ohio with certain exceptions, to be offered for sale.
1807, ch. 49.
Such sections to be previously offered at public sale.
No reserved sections to be sold at less than four dollars per acre.
That for defraying the expense Specific appropriations. [Obsolete.]
For the pay of the army of the United States, three hundred and two thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For forage, four thousand six hundred and eight dollars.
For the subsistence of the army and corps of engineers, two hundred and forty-two thousand five hundred and forty-eight dollars and thirty-five cents.
For clothing, eighty-five thousand dollars.
For bounties and premiums, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital departments, fifteen thousand dollars.
For camp equipage, fuel, tools and transportation, ninety thousand dollars.
For fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, two hundred and eighteen thousand six hundred and forty-two dollars, and five cents.
For purchasing maps, plans, books, and instruments, fifteen hundred dollars.
For contingencies, eighteen thousand dollars.
For ordnance, forty-five thousand dollars.
For tents, twenty thousand dollars.
For extra transportation of military stores, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the Indian department, one hundred and forty thousand six hundred dollars.
[Obsolete.]
Old copper may be imported free from duty after March 31, 1808.
Persona to determine if the article imported is within the provision of this act.
1799, ch. 22, sec. 52.
Saltpetre and sulphur may also be imported free from duties.
Act of April 29, 1802, ch. 31.
Of what judges the circuit court of the second circuit shall be composed.
December term of circuit court for Georgia district to be held at Milledgeville.
Act of Feb. 4, 1807, ch. 5.
Terms of the district court of N. Carolina changed.
Act of Jan. 23, 1812, ch. 17.
Causes, fee. &c. continued over, accordingly.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 1, 1809, ch. 24, sec. 7.
Payment of duties on the importation of coffee, &c. &c. suspended.
Act of Dec. 22, 1807, ch. 5, not to apply to duties due for any of the articles which have been re-exported or which are not entitled to drawback.
Old bonds to be delivered up, and new ones given.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Same regulations with respect to goods stopped by the embargo law, and laden on board vessels for re-exportation when it went into force, &c. &c.
1799, ch. 22.
Debentures already granted to be surrendered.
What must be done by those entitled to an extension of credit.
Proviso.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation.
Appropriation.
[Repealed.]
Act of Jan. 9, 1808, ch. 8.
Act of April 25, 1808, ch. 66.
Act of March 1, 1809, ch. 24.
Owners of unregistered vessels not allowed clearances bat on certain conditions.
Foreign vessels made subject to the conditions, also, in their clearances.
Proviso.
Bonds not required in cases of boats and vessels not masted, engaged in the river trade, where the adjacent territory docs not belong to a foreign nation: but in particular instances the Secretary of the Treasury may require them.
1807, ch. 5.
Time within which certificates of relanding must be produced.
1807, ch. 6.
Penalties and forfeitures for exporting goods, &c. &c.
1807, ch. 5.
Nothing in this act shall prevent foreign vessels departing with the cargo on board when notified of this act.
Masters and mates of fishing vessels to make declarations, under oath, whether any part of their fishing fare has been sold, &c. &c.
1808, ch. 8.
Proviso.
Penalties and forfeitures.
How to be distributed.
1799, ch. 22.
1797, ch. 13.
1800, ch. 6.
President authorized to grant permission to citizens of the U. States to send vessels in ballast, for properly which they may have, out of the U. States jurisdiction.
Proviso.
Conditions in the bond.
Bond not to be cancelled unless the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied.
Owner, agent and master to make oath.
[Obsolete.]
Duties remited.
Upon a cession of jurisdiction by the state of Georgia a lighthouse to be erected, provided, &c. &c. on the island of Sapelo.
Buoys to be placed in the entrance of the inlet leading into Darien.
Beacons and buoys to be fixed at sundry places.
Appropriation.
[Obsolete.]
Secretary of War may issue land warrants to 1st March, 1810.
1809, ch. 3.
Act of March 23, 1804, ch. 31.
Act of Feb. 24, 1807, ch. 16.
Act of Feb. 4, 1809, ch. 14.
Part of a former law repealed.
State of Tennessee divided into two districts.
Limits of districts.
A circuit court to be annually holden in each.
Sessions of the court.
Causes continued over, &c. &c.
In what courts suits shall be brought and determined.
Rules to be held Tor the districts—at what times, &c. &c.
Process and proceedings to be regulated accordingly.
Clerks of circuit courts to be appointed, &c. &c. for each circuit.
Causes to be continued over, which were commenced at Nashville and Knoxville.
[Expired.]
President authorized to call upon the state executives to 1812, ch. 55.
organize and equip their quotas of militia.
Apportionment, how made.
Executives of states may accept corps of volunteers.
Detachment of militia,—how to be officered.
General officers to be apportioned by the President.
Term of service of the detachment; allowance of pay, rations, &c.
President may call the whole or part of detachment into service.
Appropriation.
Limitation of this act.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 27.
Act of March 27, 1804, ch. 35.
Act of June 30, 1812, ch. 110.
Public lands may be offered for sale in such proportions as the President chooses.
Part of a former act revived.
Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 46.
Part of a former act revived.
Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 46.
Settlers on the river Mobile allowed a further time to put in their claims.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 27.
Reports to be mode by the registers of the land-offices east and west of Pearl river, to the Secretary of the Treasury, &c. &c.
Certain lands to which Indian title has been extinguished, to be attached to land district east of Pearl river.
Actual settlers on lands of the U. States in Mississippi territory, allowed a further time.
1807, ch. 46.
Right of U. States to two town lots ceiled to the corporation of Natchez.
Saving of private rights.
Interfering claims in districts east and west of Pearl river, how to be settled.
[Expired.]
Mint continued in Philadelphia for five years after 4th March, 1608.
1812, ch. 2.
[Obsolete.]
President authorized to sell to individual states public arms.
Payment of the purchase money to be first made into the treasury of the U. States.
1808, ch. 50.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Additional military force to be raised.
Term of service.
How the regiments are to be composed.
Two additional brigadier-generals to be appointed.
When.
Compensations of officers, soldiers, &c.
Officers to furnish their own horses.
The regiment of light dragoons to serve as infantry until equipped.
Same provisions extended to the present force as that already raised, as to compensation.
1802, ch. 9.
Subsistence of officers estimated at twenty cents per ration.
A chaplain to be appointed to each brigade.
His pay, &c.
President may make appointments in recess of the Senate.
Commissioned and staff officers must be citizens of U. States.
[Obsolete.]
President’s message, &c. &c. of March 22, 1808, may be transported by mail free of postage.
By whom in that case to be sent.
[Expired.]
Act of March 3, 1805, ch. 41, continued in force for two years.
[Expired.]
Act of March 17, 1800, ch. 15, revived and continued in force until March 3, 1814.
1800, ch. 15.
1814, ch. 60.
No member of Congress to have any public contract, under the authority of the U. States, directly or indirectly.
Penalty of three thousand dollars.
Advances made by the U. States to be repaid.
Provisions of this act not to extend to incorporated companies, or to bills of exchange negotiated by members of Congress.
Members of Congress to be excepted by particular clauses from participation in public contracts, &c. &c.
Penalties upon officers making public contracts with members of Congress.
Secretary of the Treasury, War, &c. to make to Congress, annual statements of contracts made by their departments.
A board of commissioners for receiving subscriptions, appointed.
Proviso.
Subscribers created a body politic, by the name of the Washington and Alexandria turnpike company, &c. &c.
Board of commissioners to call a meeting of the stockholders to choose directors &c. &c.
Directors to be annually appointed by the company, &c. &c.
Meetings of the company may be called by a majority of the directors.
A quorum to consist of a majority of the members of the company.
Directors &c. &c. to take an oath of office.
Shares transferable.
Shares to be paid for by instalments.
Mode of recovering arrears of instalments.
Former payments towards opening the road, to be placed to the credit of those who advanced the money, and now wish to purchase stock in this company.
Direction or course of the road.
A bridge to be built over Four Mile creek.
Land through which the road is to pass may be purchased, &c. &c.
Tolls, when demandable.
Rates of tolls.
Road to be kept in good repair.
Penalties.
Proviso.
Act of March 8, 1806, ch. 14, continued in force without limitation.
[Repealed.]
Act of March 1, 1809, ch. 24, sec. 19.
In the event of peace or suspension of hostilities between the belligerent powers of Europe the embargo may be suspended.
1807, ch. 5.
1808, ch. 8.
Meeting of Congress on the first Monday in Nov. 1808.
Act of May 8, 1792, ch. 33.
Act of March 2, 1803, ch. 15.
Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 20.
Act of April 18, 1814, ch. 80.
Act of April 24, 1816, ch. 69.
Act of May 12, 1820, ch. 96.
Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 12, sec. 14.
Annual appropriation for arms and military equipments.
President authorized to purchase sites for arsenals, &c.
Arms to be distributed amongst the states and territories—in what proportions.
Post roads established.
Repealed 1810, ch. 30.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation.
Appropriation.
That the Secretary of War Names of persons to be placed on the pension list: and rates. 1806, ch. 25.
Thomas Lamar Davis, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Albert Chapman, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Ambrose Homan, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Names of pensioners, and rates of pensions.
Richard Scott, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Francis Blood, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Jonas Green, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
William Green, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Seth Weed, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Samuel Lathrop, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Peter Smith, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and six.
William Johnston, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
James Houston, at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Jedediah Hyde, at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the third day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Samuel Nesbit, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Shepherd Packard, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Richard Kisby, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Jonathan Wilkins, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Waterman Baldwin, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
John Clark, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
John Venus, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the eleventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
John Holcombe, at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Richard Steads, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Alexander Jones, at the rate of three dollars thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.
Benjamin Saddler, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and three.
Benjamin Jenkins, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
William Scott, at the rate of twenty-five dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
James Bruff, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence Names or pensioners, and rates of pensions.
Nathan Taylor, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Aaron Stevens, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Simon Morgan, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Jonathan Patch, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Ebenezer Rowe, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Benjamin Kendrick, at the rate of three dollars thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.
Nicholas Hoff, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Samuel Shaw, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Nicholas Lott, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Humphrey Becket, at the rale of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Silas Parrot, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the tenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Jared Hinkley, junior, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Francis Davidson, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Andrew Waggoner, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
George Richardson, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the tenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
William Wallace, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Joseph Bird, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
John St. John, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Abner Snow, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh day of January, one thou sand eight hundred and eight.
Aaron Crane, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
James Hawkley, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Elijah Morse, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
John Van Anglen, at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, to com- Names of pensioners, and rates of pensions.
James Boden, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Isaac Burnham, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and three.
Benjamin Hillman, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Silas Pierce, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Randel M‘Allistor, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
John Durnal, at the rate of three dollars per mouth, to commence on the seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Jabez Church, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Thomas Machin, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
David Richey, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
James Campbell, four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
John Beardsley, jun. five dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Thomas Bristol, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Josiah Smith, five dollars per mouth, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Joseph Wace, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Daniel Buck, five dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Lemuel King, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
William Wallace, five dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Joseph Saunders, five dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
William Hastings, five dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Joshua Lovejoy, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Isaac Higgins, three dollars thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Reuben Dow, fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Joseph Harrup, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
David Ranney, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifth day Names of pensioners, and rates of pensions.
John Whitehorn, five dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Richard Sherman, five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Noah Sinclair, three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Nathaniel Church, five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Gersbam Clarke, five dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
John M‘Kinstrey, twelve dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Ebenezer Perkins, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Henry Ten Eyck, fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Thomas Simpson, thirteen dollars thirty-three and one third cents [per month], to commence on the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six.
John Rybecker, four dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Lemuel Dean, five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Thomas Johnson, five dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Levi Chubbuck, three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the twentieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
George Walter, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Samuel Rossetter, five dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Jeremiah Prichard, thirteen dollars thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Abner Gage, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
John Devoe, five dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Nathaniel Bradley, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Thaddeus Seely, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
John Herron, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Peter Nevius, four dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
John Hampton, six dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Roswell Woodworth, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
David Hulbell, five dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
John M‘Coy, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight. Names of pensioners, and rates of pensions.
Caleb Hunt, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Henry Gates, five dollars per month, to commence on the ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
David Hall, five dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Jonah Cook, five dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
William Nelson, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Secretary of War authorized to cause to be placed on the pension list of the U. States persons disabled in the revolutionary war, &c.
No person to exceed the sum allowed by the sixth section of the act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25.
Proviso.
Persons disabled in the actual service of the U. States since the revolution, to be placed on pension list.
At what rates.
1806, ch. 25.
Pensioners now to be placed on pension list how to be paid.
Exchange of lands for fortifications in Portland.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
District of Plymouth formed out of that of Edenton.
Plymouth made the port of entry, &c.
Name of district of Nanjemoy changed to that of St. Mary’s.
Augusta made a port of delivery, to be annexed to district of Bath, &c.
That for defraying the necessary expense to the first day of January next, of the troops to be raised by virtue of an act, intituled “ 1808, ch. 49.
For pay, two hundred and eighty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. Specific appropriations.
For forage, eighteen thousand four hundred and seventy-nine dollars.
For subsistence, two hundred and thirteen thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars.
For clothing, one hundred and fifty thousand five hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
For bounties and premiums, eighty-five thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
For the medical and hospital departments, fifteen thousand dollars.
For camp equipage, tents, barracks, fuel, and transportation one hundred and eleven thousand dollars.
For contingencies, ten thousand dollars.
For ordnance, sixty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of horses and other expenses necessary to mount the cavalry, thirty-six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.
Secretary of Treasury to pay into comptroller’s hands amount of certain bills drawn by Gen. Armstrong.
Money to be held in trust, and paid over to the persons who shall appear to be entitled.
Claims, how to be established.
Claims, when established how to be satisfied.
That in addition to the appropriations Specific appropriations. [Obsolete.]
For making good the deficit of eighteen hundred and seven, including the debt due from the public offices, fifty-one thousand five hundred dollars.
For completing the wall of the President’s square, planting the ground so as to close this part of the expenditure, budding a solid flight of steps to the principal door, and minor expenses, fourteen thousand dollars.
For carrying up in solid work, the interior of the north wing, comprising the Senate chamber, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For executing the work deficient in the interior of the south wing and for painting, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
Act of Dec. 22, 1807, ch. 5.
Act of Jan. 9, 1808, ch. 8.
Act of March 12, 1808, ch. 33.
Act of Jan. 9, 1809, ch. 5.
Act of March 1, 1809, ch. 24.
Additional regulations for coasting vessels.
Clearances to be given to no vessels hut on the regulations prescribed being complied with.
Vessels laden in whole or in part not to be affected.
Forfeitures and penalties.
Proviso.
Vessels going down the Mississippi to stop at Fort Adams, and those going up, at Iberville, to report their cargoes, &c.
Penalty.
Clearances not to be allowed to vessels of the U. States but by special permission of the President, to ports of U. States adjacent to territories of foreign states.
Penalties, forfeitures.
Public armed vessels, and gun boats authorized to stop vessels suspected of violating embargo laws.
Comptroller of treasury may remit certain duties, &c. &c.
Foreign vessels not allowed to carry on the coasting trade in the U. States during the continuance of the embargo.
Fees for clearances of vessels, &c. &c.
Collectors authorized to detain vessels ostensibly bound to other ports of the U. States under suspicions circumstances.
Collectors in ports adjacent to foreign territories may take into their custody provisions, &c. &c. accumulated in large quantities in their districts, &c. &c.
Vessels laden at the passage of the embargo act allowed to go with their cargoes to other ports of U. S.
Forfeitures and penalties—how mitigated or remitted.
1797, ch. 13.
1800, ch. 33, sec. 6.
1799, ch. 22.
Trade with the Indians from Canada permitted through the territories of the U. States.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 34.
Claimants to land in the Michigan territory, where the Indian title has been extinguished, allowed until the first of January next, to deliver to the register a notice of their claims.
Persons whose claims are established entitled to a preference in becoming the purchasers of the contiguous vacant lands.
Surveyor-general to cause surveys to be made.
Every person entitled to the benefit of this section to give notice in writing to the register.
Preemption right secured to actual settlers.
Notice in writing to be given of the situation and extent of the land to be purchased.
Repeal of part of a former act.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 34, sec. 2.
Lands to which Indian title was extinguished by treaty of Detroit to be attached to district of Detroit, and sold, &c.
Secretary of Treasury authorized to cause charts of North Carolina to be sold.
ACTS OF THE TENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
Additional revenue cutters to be employed not to exceed twelve.
[Obsolete.]
Pensions to be paid at Washington where agents to pay pensions have not been appointed.
[Repealed.]
Act of Dec. 22, 1807, ch. 5.
Act of Jan. 9, 1808, ch. 8.
Act of March 12, 1808, ch. 33.
Act of April 25, 1808, ch. 66
Act of March 1, 1809, ch. 24.
Direct or indirect exportation of specie, &c. prohibited.
Penalties.
Proviso.
Informers to be entitled to one half the fine.
Permit previously required to the lading of vessels.
Ladings to be made under the inspection of revenue officers.
Conditions.
Collectors may refuse permits, in certain cases.
Proviso.
Vessels already laden, in part or in whole, to be discharged, on the requisition of the collector.
General permits may be granted to coasting vessels.
Conditions.
Penalties, in cases of violations of the next preceding section.
Persons, whose names appear on the papers, to be considered as the owners.
Proviso.
Proceedings on granting a new register.
Proviso.
Proofs to be furnished of the relanding of cargoes, &c.
Judgment on the bond to be given unless proof of the relanding of the cargo, or the loss of the vessel is produced.
Vessels to be navigated by citizens of the U. States.
Mate and mariners to be produced on the trial.
Registered or sea letter vessels to have clearances, upon what conditions.
Penalties.
Collectors authorized to seize specie, &c. in certain cases.
Powers given by this act and by the embargo laws, with respect to giving and refusing permissions, to be exercised in conformity with directions of the President.
President may employ the land and naval forces to prevent violations of this and the embargo laws.
Penalties and forfeitures; how to be remitted or mitigated.
Act of Dec. 22, 1807, ch. 5.
Distribution of penalties.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 24, sec. 6.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 13.
Act of Feb. 11, 1800, ch. 6.
President may employ a certain number of vessels in enforcing the embargo, &c. &c.
President no longer authorized to grant permissions to despatch vessels.
1808, ch. 33.
Continuance of this act.
1807, ch. 5.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 46.
Act of Jan. 19, 1808, ch. 11.
Additional duty.
Proprietors of squares, &c. &c. may subdivide them.
Subdivisions may be examined by the surveyor, and re corded.
Records of subdivisions to form evidence of the manner in which they were made.
Deficiency, or excess, how to be apportioned.
Surveyor to examine the foundation or walls of houses, &c. &c.
Fees to the surveyor.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Records of divisions, where to be kept.
Public property may be subdivided by direction of the President.
[Obsolete.]
Payment of duties in certain cases suspended.
1807, ch. 5.
1808, ch. 30.
This act not to extend to vessels despatched under permission from the President of the U. States under the embargo acts.
Monies to be refunded.
In what cases.
1808, ch. 33.
Conditions.
[Obsolete.]
Congress to meet on the fourth Monday of May, 1809.
[Obsolete.]
President authorized to man and fit out certain frigates.
And other public vessels.
1809, ch. 17, sec. 2.
President authorized to employ an additional number of seamen.
Appropriation.
An act to divide the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio, into two separate governments, May 7, 1800, chap. 41.
An act supplementary to “an act to divide the territory northwest of the river Ohio, into two separate governments,” March 2, 1801, chap. 16.
An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes, March 26, 1804, chap. 35.
An act erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof, March 26, 1804, chap. 38, sec. 13.
An act extending-the right of suffrage in the Indiana territory, February 26, 1808, chap. 24.
An act for dividing the Indiana territory into two separate governments, February 3, 1809, chap. 13.
An act extending the right of suffrage in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes, February 27, 1809, chap. 19.
An act to extend the right of suffrage in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes, March 3, 1811, chap. 38.
An act supplementary to the act entitled, “An act giving further time to the purchasers of public lands northwest of the river Ohio, to complete their payments,” July 6, 1812, chap. 134.
An act for the regulation of the courts of justice in Indiana, February 24, 1815, chap. 54.
An act to enable the people of the Indiana territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states, April 19, 1816, chap. 57.
An act supplemental to the act entitled, “An act defining the duties of the judges of the territory of Illinois, and for vesting in the courts of the territory of Indiana a jurisdiction in chancery cases arising in the said territory,” April 29, 1816, chap. 154.
Act of May 7, 1800, ch. 41.
Act of March 2, 1801, ch. 16.
Act of Feb. 26, 1808, ch. 20.
Indiana territory divided, and the Illinois formed.
A government similar to that provided for the Northwest territory provided.
1789, ch. 8.
Officers’ duties, &c. &c.
Proviso.
Ordinance for the government of the Northwest territory to be in force in the Illinois.
Government of Indiana, how affected by this act.
Suits, &c. &c. how disposed of.
Arrearages of taxes on land in the Illinois territory still to be paid.
Kaskaskia to be the seat of government.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 23, 1804, ch. 31.
Act of Feb. 24, 1807, ch. 16.
Act of March 22, 1808, ch. 38.
Process, how to be issued.
To whom directed.
Sessions of the Kentucky district courts.
Writs, &c. &c. to be continued over, &c. &c.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation.
Canal of Carondelet, to be made under the direction of the President.
Appropriation.
[Expired.]
Powers vested in the register and receiver of Kaskaskia revived and continued to Jan. 1, 1810.
1806, ch. 40.
Commissioners, &c. appointed for receiving subscriptions.
Stockholders to have a meet
ing and appoint directors, &c.
Style of the company.
Proviso.
Term of service of the directors, &c. &c.
Powers of the directors of the Washington Canal Company.
Treasurer of the company to give bond, &c.
Stockholders to pay up the remaining nine tenths of their shares, &c. &c.
Proviso.
When tolls shall be receivable.
President and directors to be sworn.
Shares to be personal property—made liable to executions, as such.
Annual meetings to be held of the stockholders.
Dividends to be made.
Proviso.
Tolls.
Proviso.
Public property free of toll.
Limitation of the time when the canal shall be finished.
Bridges may be erected over the canal.
Proviso.
Annual statement of the receipts and expenditures to be laid before Congress.
[Obsolete.]
That for the expenditure of the civil list in the present year, including the contingent expenses of the several departments and offices; for the compensation of the several loan officers and their clerks, and for books and stationery for the same; for the payment of annuities and grants; for the support of the mint establishment; for the expense of intercourse with foreign nations; for the support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers; for defraying the expenses of surveying the public lands, and for satisfying certain miscellaneous cl aims; the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
Specific appropriations.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, twenty-eight thousand dollars.
For all contingent expenses of the library of Congress, and for the librarian’s allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons employed 1806, ch. 41.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, Specific appropriations.
For printing and distributing the laws of the second session of the tenth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For special messengers charged with dispatches, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand dollars, for clerk hire, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first April, one thousand eight hundred and six, sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
For the expense of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in transmitting passports and sea letters, and for stationery and printing in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand six hundred and thirty-nine dollars, for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first April, one thousand eight hundred and six, fourteen thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing and incidental and contingent expenses of the comptroller’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses of the auditor’s office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer, clerks and persons employed in bis office, six thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-five cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the treasurer’s office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty-two dollars and two cents.
For expense of stationery, printing and all other incidental and contingent expenses in the register’s office, including books for the public stocks, and for the arrangement of the marine records, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel and other contingent and incidental expenses of the treasury department, four thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of printing and stating the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For the purchase of books, maps and charts, for the use of the treasury department, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to a superintendent employed to secure the buildings and records of the treasury department, during the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, including the expense of two watchmen, the repairs of two fire engines, buckets, lanterns, and other incidental and contingent expenses, one thousand one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks, and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks, Specific appropriations.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the war department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the paymaster’s office, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses in the said office, two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the purveyor of public supplies, clerks, and persons employed in his office, and for expense of stationery, store rent and fuel for the said office, including the sum of five hundred dollars for compensation to clerks in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, five thousand one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks, and persons employed in his office, nine thousand eight hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the said office, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the navy, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster-General, assistant Postmaster-General, 1806, ch. 41.
For expense of fuel, candles, house rent for the messenger, stationery, chests, &c. pertaining to the Postmaster-General’s office, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of the several commissioners of loans, and for allowances to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expense of the several loan offices, fifteen thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor-general and his clerks, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of the lands south of the state of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, and for stationery, and other contingencies, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the officers of the mint:
The director, two thousand dollars.
The treasurer, twelve hundred dollars.
The assayer, fifteen hundred dollars.
The chief coiner, fifteen hundred dollars.
The melter and refiner, fifteen hundred dollars.
The engraver, twelve hundred dollars.
One clerk, at seven hundred dollars.
And two clerks, at five hundred dollars each, one thousand dollars.
For wages to the persons employed in the different branches of melting, coining, carpenter’s, millwright’s and smith’s work, including the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, allowed to an assistant coiner and die forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron-work, and of six hundred dollars per annum, allowed to an assistant engraver, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs of furnaces, cast-rollers and screws, timber, bar-iron, lead, steel, potash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, three thousand, two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the territory Specific appropriations.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the executive officers of the said territory, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Mississippi territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Indiana territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent and other contingent expenses of the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Louisiana territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent and other contingent expenses of the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Illinois territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, two thousand dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks in the several departments 1806, ch. 41.
For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, the associate judges and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice and two associate judges for the district of Columbia, to the attorney-general, and to the district judge of the territory of Orleans, fifty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.
For the like compensation granted to the several district attornies of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensations granted to the marshals for the districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, East and West Tennessee, and Orleans, including the compensation allowed to the marshals of New Jersey and North Carolina, for the three last quarters of the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, by the act of the twenty-fifth of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight, two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures and penalties, and for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, nine hundred and sixty dollars.
For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the fifth of March one thousand eight hundred Specific appropriations.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, stakeages of channels, bars and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, seventy-nine thousand and thirty-nine dollars and forty cents.
For erecting two lighthouses on Long Island sound, one on Watchhill point, and the other on Sands or Watch point, the following sums, that is to say: the sum of two thousand six hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents, balance of a former appropriation for these objects carried to the “ surplus fund,” and the further sum of five thousand seven hundred dollars, in addition to the appropriations heretofore made for the same objects.
For placing buoys and beacons on or near the shoals and rocks in the channel leading into the harbor of Salem, in the state of Massachusetts, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that purpose, sixty-seven dollars and twenty-nine cents.
For re-building two lighthouses on Plumb island, in the state of Massachusetts, ten thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses of surveying the public land, within the several territories of the United States, eighteen thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
For expenses of the boards formed in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, for investigating and adjusting titles and claims to land, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, ten thousand dollars.
For the expense of taking the second census of the United States, being the balance of a former appropriation for that object, and carried to the surplus fund, thirteen thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars end ninety-six cents.
For the expense of returning the votes of President and Vice President of the United States, for the term commencing on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nine, one thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, thirty-three thousand and fifty dollars.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, five thousand dollars.
For the expenses of prosecuting claims in relation to captures, six thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses of regulating, laying out, and making a 1806, ch. 19.
For defraying the expense of opening a road from the frontier of 1806, ch. 41. Specific appropriations.
For defraying the expense of opening a road or roads through the territory lately ceded by the Indians to the United States, from the Mississippi to the Ohio, and to the former Indian boundary line, which was established by the treaty of Greenville, agreeably to the last above recited act; the balance of a former appropriation made for that object having been carried to the surplus fund, one thousand eight hundred dollars and forty-eight cents.
For defraying the expense of opening a road from Nashville, in the 1806, ch. 41.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted, in due course of settlement, at the treasury, four thousand dollars.
1790, ch. 34.
Delegates to Congress, by whom to be elected, and when.
1809, ch. 13.
Returns of the election, how to be made.
Representatives to the legislative council, how to be chosen.
General assembly to apportion the representatives.
Proviso.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch.27.
Act of March 27, 1804, ch. 61.
Act of March 2, 1805, ch. 24.
Act of Jan. 19, 1808, ch. 10.
Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 123.
Spanish grants, how to be established.
Proviso.
Grants to be valid, must have been surveyed before the 27th October, 1795.
Parole evidence lawful for supporting or invalidating grants.
Abraham Ellis confirmed in his title to a tract of land.
Daniel Harregal also confirmed in his title.
President to cause a tract of land in the Orleans territory to be laid off for the Alibama Indians.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause two tracts of land in Michigan to be laid off for the Wyandotts.
Upon an indictment under the non-intercourse laws, for putting goods on board a carriage, with intent to transport them out of the United States, contrary to the act of January 9, 1809, the punishment of which offence is a fine of four times the value of the goods, it is not necessary that the jury should find the value of the goods. United States v. John Tyler, 7 Cranch, 285 ; 2 Cond. Rep. 492.
Under the non-intercourse law, a vessel in March, 1811, had no right to come into the waters of the United States, to inquire whether she might land her cargo. The Brig Penobscot v. The United States, 7 Cranch, 356; 2 Cond. Rep. 528.
Wines, the produce of France, imported into the United States before the non-intercouse act; re-exported to a Danish island, and there sold to a merchant of that place; and thence exported to New Orleans, during the operation of the non-intercourse law, were liable to forfeiture under that law. The schooner Hoppet v. The United States, 7 Cranch, 389; 2 Cond. Rep. 542.
The non-intercourse act of March 1, 1809, was in force between the 2d of February and the 2d of March, 1811, by virtue of the President’s proclamation of November 2, 1810. The schooner Anne v. The United States, 7 Cranch, 570.
The non-intercourse act of 28th June, 1809, which requires a vessel bound to a permitted port, to give bond in double the amount of vessel and cargo, not to go to a prohibited port, is applicable to a vessel sailing in ballast. The ship Richmond v. The United States, 9 Cranch, 102; 3 Cond. Rep. 294.
Under the non-intercourse act of 1809, a vessel from Great Britain had a right to lay off the coast of the United States, to receive instructions from her owners in New York ; and if necessary, to drop anchor; and in case of a storm to make a harbor; and if prevented by a mutiny of her crew from putting to sea again, she might wait in the waters of the United States for orders. The cargo of the ship Fanny, 9 Cranch, 181 ; 3 Cond. Rep. 347.
Under the 3d section of the act of 28th June, 1809, every vessel bound to a foreign permitted port, was obliged to give a bond, with a condition not to proceed to any port with which commercial intercourse was not permitted, nor to trade with such port. The Edward, Scott claimant, 1 Wheat. 261; 3 Cond. Rep. 565.
The obvious intention of the legislature of the United States, by the non-intercourse laws, was to prohibit the American citizens and property from a commerce with foreign nations. The Sally and cargo, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 58.
At no time was it illegal for a foreign vessel to depart from the United States in ballast. Ibid.
[Expired.]
Act of June 28, 1809, ch. 9.
Entrance of the ports and harbors of the U. States forbidden to the public vessels of England and France, after March 1, 1809.
President may cause eventual measures to be taken by the naval forces and militia.
Intercourse with such vessels forbidden, or to supply them with necessaries.
Penalties, from 100 to 10,000 dollars.
After the 20th May, all vessels under the flag of Great Britain or France interdicted.
Any vessel under the flag of Great Britain or France shall be forfeited, and if with a cargo, the same to be forfeited.
Importation of goods, &c. &c. from England and France and their dependencies forbidden.
Vessels excepted which cleared for any port beyond the Cape of Good Hope prior to December 22, 1807.
Forfeiture of prohibited articles, &c. &c.
With treble damages.
Articles prohibited to be forfeited if put into vessels, &c. &c. destined for the U. States after 20th May, 1809.
Treble the value of articles.
Prohibited articles not contained in manifest, or included in entry to be forfeited arriving after 20th May, 1809.
Powers of the collector, &c. &c. with respect to seizures.
Persons concealing goods liable to forfeiture.
Additions to the oaths on importation.
Oaths and affirmations to be taken by importers, &c.
Form of oath or affirmation.
President may cause by proclamation a renewal of intercourse.
All penalties and forfeitures incurred to be collected.
Vessels bound to foreign ports not to trade with prohibited ports.
Embargo raised, except as to England and France, after March 15, 1809.
Act of Dec. 22, 1807, ch. 5.
Act of Jan. 8, 1808, ch. 6.
Proviso, that the repeal of these acts shall not release from penalties and forfeitures incurred.
Bonds to be given when vessels are bound to permitted ports, that the cargoes shall not be landed in any other places, &c. &c.
Act of Jan. 9, 1809, ch. 5.
Certain restrictions with respect to coasting vessels taken off.
No coasting vessel to depart without producing bond.
Distribution of penalties.
Regulations respecting coasting vessels bound to foreign ports.
Proviso, in favour of vessels whose employment has been confined to rivers.
Penalties, &c. &c.
Vessels departing without giving bond.
Non-importation acts repealed.
Act of April 18, 1806, repealed.
Proviso.
Penalties and forfeitures.
Recovery and mitigation of.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Act of March 3 1797, ch. 13.
1800, ch. 6.
Continuance of this act.
Repeal of the embargo acts.
[Obsolete.]
Fourteen thousand dollars appropriated.
[Obsolete.]
Act of April 30, 1810, ch. 33.
Further time allowed for completing payments to those who purchased lands.
Arrears of interest to be paid.
Payment of the residue with interest.
Penalty on failure to pay arrears of interest, &c.
Act of April 30, 1810, ch. 36.
Circuit court of the U. States to perform the duties of the district courts, in cases of the disability of the district judges.
Justices of the supreme court to direct the clerk of the district court to certify to the next circuit court all actions, &c. depending in the district court.
Notice to be published.
Justice of the supreme court to exercise the powers of district judge during disability of the district judge.
Nothing in this act shall require the judge of the supreme court to hold any special court or court of admiralty at any other time than the legal time of
the session of the circuit court.
Duties of the district clerks under this act.
Process &c. &c.
On the ceasing of the disability of the district judge, all causes shall be remanded to the district court.
District clerks during the disability of the judges, to take examinations, make rules, &c. &c.
Act of May 8, 1792, ch. 37.
Act of March 3, 1795, ch. 48.
Act of April 21, 1808, ch. 48.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 45.
Act of May 1, 1820, ch. 50.
Warrants to be charged to the distinct appropriations on which they are founded.
Payments to be charged to specific appropriations.
Separate accounts to be rendered to Congress by the officers.
The President during the recess of Congress may order a portion of the monies appro.
priated for a particular branch of expenditure to be applied to another branch of expenditure in the same department; this application to be laid before Congress.
Comptroller of the treasury authorized to cause the settlement of certain accounts.
Annual statement to be laid before Congress by the comptroller of certain delinquencies.
Agents for the purchase of supplies and making of contracts, and disbursements.
The President may during the recess of the Senate appoint agents and fix the number and compensation.
Limitation of the compensation.
Agents, &c. to give bonds.
To keep the public money in banks, &c. &c.
Purchases and contracts, how to be made, &c. &c.
An annual statement of contracts and purchases to be laid before Con-
gress at the beginning of each year.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, that is to say:
For improvements and repairs of the House of Representatives, six Specific appropriations.
For completing the work in the interior of the north wing, comprising the Senate chamber, court room, &c. &.c. twenty thousand dollars.
For completing the staircase, and providing temporary and adequate accommodations for the library, in the room now used for that purpose, and in the one in which the Senate now sit, five thousand dollars.
For improvements and repairs of the President’s house and square, including a carriage house, twelve thousand dollars.
Boundaries of Georgetown.
Corporation of Georgetown to cause a survey to be made of the town.
To be recorded in the clerk’s office of Washington county.
Plights and powers formerly granted to the corporation, to be exercised by them.
Corporation of the town may lay out streets, &c. &c.
Regulations for opening streets, &c.
Proviso.
The recorder to be a member of the corporation.
Commissioners to be appointed.
Directors to be appointed.
Proviso, as to the powers of voting.
Meetings of the company.
Their powers.
Printed certificates of shares, &c. &c.
Penalty on non-payment of instalments on shares.
Meetings of tire president and directors.
Route or course of the road.
Proviso.
Property thro’ which the road is to pass, how to be condemned.
Proceedings.
Dimensions and quality of the road.
When the tolls may become receivable.
Rates of tolls.
No gate to be erected within one mile of Alexandria.
Regulations to be made by the president and directors.
Mile-stones to be put up.
List of tolls to be marked on the gates.
Penalties for obstructing the road.
President and directors to cause accounts to be kept, &c.
May increase the stock.
Dividends, how to be made and accounted for.
Penalty for evading the payment of tolls.
Proviso.
Act of July 11, 1798, ch. 72.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 37.
Augmentation of the marine corps authorized.
Term of establishments.
[Obsolete.]
Further appropriation.
Act of April 18, 1796, ch. 13.
Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 48.
Act of March 2, 1811, ch. 30.
Appropriation for an additional clerk in the superintendent’s office.
A proviso of a former law repealed.
Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 48.
Continuance of this act and of the one to which it is a supplement.
That for defraying the expense of the military establishment of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, for the Indian department, and for the expense of fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For the pay of the army of the United States, eight hundred and Specific appropriations.
For forage, sixty-four thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars.
For subsistence, six hundred and forty-one thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-five cents.
For clothing, two hundred and ninety-three thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars.
For bounties and premiums, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital departments, forty-five thousand dollars.
For camp equipage, fuel, tools and transportation, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
For ordnance, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For purchasing horses, saddles and bridles for the light dragoons, and for the light artillery fifty-one thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For forage for the horses for the regiment of light artillery, ten thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, two hundred and nineteen thousand and thirty-four dollars and seventy-five cents.
For purchasing maps, plans, books and instruments, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingencies, fifty thousand dollars.
For the salary of clerks employed in the military agent’s offices, and in the office of inspector of the army, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the Indian department, one hundred and twenty-five thousand six hundred dollars.
For the purpose of paying James Powell, late collector of Savannah, the amount of monies advanced by him to Solomon Ellis, contractor for supplying rations to the troops of the United States, in the state of Georgia, including a commission of two per centum to the collector, twenty-seven thousand six hundred and twenty-one dollars and eight cents.
For the purpose of paying Ferdinand Phinizy, late contractor for supplying the troops in Georgia, a balance due to him as admitted by the comptroller of the treasury, on the twenty-fourth of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-nine cents.
Specific appropriations. 1809, ch. 11.
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, one million three hundred and twenty-three thousand and seventy-seven dollars.
For provisions, five hundred and sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For medicines, instruments and hospital stores, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For repairs of vessels, four hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.
For freight, store rent, commissions to agents, and other contingent expenses, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, one hundred and thirty-five thousand six hundred and forty-seven dollars and seventy cents.
For clothing for the same, thirty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty cents.
For military stores for the same, one thousand three hundred and fifty-four dollars.
For medicines, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick belonging to the marine corps, two thousand dollars.
For quartermasters and barrack-masters’ stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorers and carpenters’ bills, fuel, premiums for enlisting, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses of the marine corps, fourteen thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For the expense of navy-yards, comprising dock and other improvements, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks and labourers, sixty thousand dollars.
For ordnance and small arms, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
ACTS OF THE ELEVENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 1, 1809, ch. 24.
Ships and vessels of foreign nations with which intercourse is permitted by the act of March 1, 1809, shall be permitted to take cargoes and depart for any port with which intercourse is permitted.
Conditions.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriation.
An agent to be appointed to appear before the board of commissioners for adjusting land titles at Kaskaskia.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 35.
Lands ceded by the Cherokees, &c. &c. to be offered for sale.
Reservations, &c. &c.
The sales to remain open for six weeks, after which the lands may be sold at private sale.
Act of March 3, 1803.
Compensation to superintendents of sales.
[Expired.]
Act of March 28, 1806, ch. 17, continued in force for five years.
Congress to meet on the fourth Monday in Nov. 1809.
[Obsolete.]
President authorized to remit penalties and forfeitures, in the case of certain fugitives from Cuba, incurred under the act to prohibit the importation of slaves.
Act of March 2, 1807, ch. 22.
Proviso, that the President shall be satisfied that the person was impelled to import the slave or slaves; and provided, the slave has been brought in the same vessel with the owner.
President authorized to make arrangements with the French minister for transporting the exiles to France, &c. &c.
Appropriation.
Conditions upon which it is to be applied.
Interest of the U. States in the proceeds of the sale of the Clara given up.
[Expired.]
Act of March 1, 1809, ch. 24.
Certain parts of non-intercourse law continued in force.
Third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, seventeenth and eighteenth Sections.
Not to be construed to affect the commercial intercourse permitted by the eleventh section.
Declaratory clause.
Proviso, that all penal ties, &c. shall remain.
Act of Dec. 22, 1807, ch. 5.
Act of March 1, 1809, ch. 24.
Vessels prohibited from going to interdicted ports.
Vessels going to ports other than forbidden ones to give bond, &c. &c.
Proviso, that the provisions of the eleventh section of the act of March 1, 1809, ch. 24, shall extend to prohibitions under this section.
Penalties and forfeitures, how to be recovered and distributed.
Act of March 1, 1809, ch. 24.
Vessels which may have arrived in the U. States between the 20th May and 11th June exempt from forfeiture, &c. &c.
Act of March 3, 1795, ch. 45.
Powers of the commissioners of the sinking fund extended.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriation.
Appropriation to defray the expense of the temporary Senate room.
[Obsolete.]
Act of April 12, 1808, ch. 43.
[Obsolete.]
Letters and packets from Thomas Jefferson be received and conveyed by post free of postage.
Appropriation.
[Obsolete.]
President in the event of a favourable change in the foreign relations authorized to discharge and lay up in ordinary such of the frigates as he shall think proper.
Act of Jan. 31, 1809, ch. 11.
ACTS OF THE ELEVENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
Certain documents to be free of postage.
Act of May 7, 1800, ch. 41.
Act of Feb. 27, 1809, ch.19.
Governor to apportion the representatives, and to issue his writ for the election.
Afterwards to be apportioned by the general assembly.
Governor to issue a proclamation for supplying vacancy in the delegation to Congress.
[Obsolete.]
Act of June 9, 1794, ch. 62.
Act of March 21, 1808, ch. 37.
Act of July 5, 1813, ch. 7.
Secretary of War may issue certain military land warrants.
Where to be located.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 46.
* There is a misrecital of the act of 1804. It was passed on the 26th March, 1804.
Revival and continuance in force of the first section of the act creating the Mediterranean fund.
Act of April 21, 1806,ch. 38.
Act of Jan. 31, 1812, ch. 18.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Specific additional appropriation.
Act of March 29, 1806, ch. 19.
Act of April 30, 1802, ch. 40.
[Obsolete.]
Mode prescribed for the purchase at private sale of the public lands after June 1, 1810.
Joab Garret may withdraw his entry.
Act of April 7, 1798, ch. 26.
Act of Feb. 18, 1801, ch. 5.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 35.
Refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia, to transmit their claims to land to the war office.
Who entitled to the benefits of the provisions of this act.
Proofs, before whom to be taken.
Secretary of War to lay the evidence of claims before the secretary and comptroller of the treasury, and with them to decide upon the measure of relief.
In what cases separate reports are to be made.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Claims to be exhibited, otherwise barred.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
That for the expenditure of the civil list, in the present year, including the contingent expenses of the several departments and offices; for the compensation of the several loan officers and their clerks, and for books and stationery for the same; for the payment of annuities and grants; for the support of the mint establishment; for the expense of intercourse with foreign nations; for the support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers; for defraying the expenses of surveying the public lands, and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims, the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and Specific appropriations. Specific appropriations.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, thirty-four thousand dollars.
For all contingent expenses of the library of Congress, and for the librarian’s allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
1806, ch. 41.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For printing and distributing the laws of the first and second session of the eleventh Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand dollars for clerk hire, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
For the expense of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in transmitting passports and sea letters, and for stationery in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, one thousand dollars.
1806, ch. 41.
For expense of stationery, printing and incidental and contingent expenses of the comptroller’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses of the auditor’s office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer, clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-five cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the treasurer’s office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty-two dollars and two cents.
For compensation to the messenger and doorkeeper of the register’s office, for stamping and arranging the ship registers, ninety dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing and all other incidental and contingent expenses in the register’s office, including books for the public stocks, and for the arrangement of the marine records, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel and other contingent and incidental expenses of the treasury department, four thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of printing and stating the public accounts Specific appropriations.
For the purchase of books, maps and charts, for the use of the treasury department, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to a superintendent employed to secure the buildings and records of the treasury department, during the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, including the expense of two watchmen, the repairs of two fire engines, buckets, lanterns, and other incidental and contingent expenses, one thousand one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks, and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks, and persons employed in his office, ten thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the war department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the paymaster’s office, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses in the said office, two hundred dollars.
For compensation of additional clerks in the office of the superintendent of Indian trade, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the purveyor of public supplies, clerks, and persons employed in his office, and for expense of stationery, store rent and fuel for the said office, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks, and persons employed in his office, nine thousand eight hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the said office, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the navy, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster-General, assistant Postmaster-General, clerks and persons employed in the Postmaster-General’s office, 1806, ch. 41.
For expense of fuel, candles, house rent for the messenger, stationery, chests, &c. pertaining to the Postmaster-General’s office, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of the commissioners of loans, and for allowances to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expense of the several loan offices, fifteen thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor-general and his clerks, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of the lands south of the state of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, and for stationery, and other contingencies, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the officers of the mint:
The director, two thousand dollars.
Specific appropriations.
The assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The chief coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The melter and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars.
One clerk, at seven hundred dollars.
And two clerks, at five hundred dollars each, one thousand dollars.
For wages to the persons employed in the different branches of melting, coining, carpenter’s, millwright’s and smith’s work, including the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, allowed to an assistant coiner and die forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron-work, and of six hundred dollars per annum allowed to an assistant engraver, eight thousand dollars.
For repairs of furnaces, cast-rollers and screws, timber, bar-iron, lead, steel, potash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, two thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the territory of Orleans, thirteen thousand dollars.
For expense of stationery and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Mississippi territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Indiana territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Michigan territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent and other contingent expenses of the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Louisiana territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent and other contingent expenses of the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Illinois territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on ac-count of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, two thousand dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks in the several departments of state, treasury, war and navy, and of the general post-office, not exceeding for each department respectively, fifteen per centum, in addition to the sums allowed by the act, entituled “An act to regulate and 1806, ch. 41.
For compensation granted by law, to the chief justice, the associate judges and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice and two associate judges for the district of Columbia; to the attorney-general, and to the district judge of the territory of Orleans, fifty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.
For the like compensation granted to the several district attorneys of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation granted to the several marshals for the districts of Specific appropriations.
For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures and penalties, and for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, nine hundred and sixty dollars.
For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, ninety-eight thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers, stakeages of channels, bars and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, sixty-eight thousand one hundred and thirty-one dollars and four cents.
For erecting a lighthouse on St. Simon’s island, in Georgia, and placing buoy or buoys on or near the bar of St. Simon’s, being the balance of former appropriations carried to the surplus fund, nine thousand and fifty dollars.
For erecting a beacon and placing buoys near the entrance of Savannah river, being an expense incurred under the act of the sixteenth day of July, seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, (a former appropriation for the same object having been carried to the credit of the surplus fund,) two thousand four hundred and ninety-four dollars and eighty-nine cents.
For erecting lighthouses at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and at or near the pitch of Cape Lookout, in North Carolina, being the amount of an additional appropriation carried to the surplus fund, fifty-five thousand dollars.
For building a lighthouse at Naushawn island, near Tarpaulin cove, in Massachusetts, being a balance of former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, two thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For rebuilding the lighthouse on North island, at the entrance of Winyaw bay, in South Carolina, being the amount of appropriation carried to the surplus fund, twenty thousand dollars.
For fixing buoys and stakes in and along the channel in Winyaw bay, leading to the harbor of Georgetown, South Carolina, being the amount of appropriation carried to the surplus fund, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For erecting a lighthouse on Point Judith, Rhode Island, in addition to the appropriation heretofore made for that purpose, two hundred dollars.
For defraying the expense of surveying the public lands within the several territories of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For repaying the Bank of the United States, a sum advanced to the late collector of New Orleans, to enable him to pay drawbacks, one hundred thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, forty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.
Specific appropriations.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, including the sum of twenty thousand dollars to reimburse the bankers of the United States in London, and others, sums heretofore advanced by them for this object, twenty-five thousand debars.
For expenses of prosecuting claims and appeals in the courts of Great Britain, in relation to captures of American vessels, and defending causes elsewhere, six thousand dollars.
To enable the accounting officers of the treasury formally to pass the accounts of Timothy Pickering, late secretary for the department of state, the sum of seventy-eight thousand five hundred and eighty-three dollars and eleven cents, being the amount of former appropriations of monies received and expended by him in that department, by the application of surpluses in some articles and appropriations to others in which the appropriations were deficient.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, four thousand dollars.
1790, ch. 34.
[Obselete.]
That for defraying the expenses of the navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
Specific appropriations.
For provisions, three hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred and ten dollars and eighty-four cents.
For medicines, instruments and hospital stores, sixteen thousand dollars.
For repairs of vessels, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For freight, store rent, commissions to agents and other contingent expenses, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore and forage for the staff, one hundred and forty thousand one hundred and twenty-one dollars and forty cents.
For clothing for the same, thirty-eight thousand three hundred and ninety-four dollars and seventy cents.
For military stores for the same, one thousand three hundred and ninety-eight dollars and seventy-five cents.
For medicines, medical services, hospital stores and all other expenses on account of the sick belonging to the marine corps, two thousand dollars.
For quartermasters and barrack-masters’ stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorers and carpenters’ bills, fuel, premiums for enlisting, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses of the marine corps, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the expenses of navy yards, comprising dock and other improvements, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks and labourers, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For ordnance and small arms, seventy-five thousand dollars.
[Obsolete.]
That for defraying the expenses of the military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, for the Indian department, and for the expense of fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, the fol-lowing sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For the pay of the army of the United States, eight hundred and sixty-nine Specific appropriations.
For forage, sixty-four thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars.
For subsistence, six hundred and eighty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-two dollars and five cents.
For clothing, two hundred and ninety-three thousand eight hundred and four dollars.
For bounties and premiums, thirty thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital departments, fifty thousand dollars.
For camp equipage, fuel, tools and transportation, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
For ordnance, two hundred thousand dollars.
For fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, including two thousand dollars for such a number of additional military storekeepers as may be required, two hundred and eighty-three thousand five hundred and seventy-four dollars and seventy-five cents.
For purchasing maps, plans, books and instruments, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingencies, fifty thousand dollars.
For the salary of clerks employed in the military agents’ offices, and in the office of inspector of the army, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the Indian department, one hundred and forty-six thousand six hundred dollars.
[Obsolete.]
The citizens of Madison county to elect one representa-
tive and to vote for one delegate from the territory to Congress.
Additional judge to be appointed to reside in Madison county.
1804, ch. 59.
Superior court of Adams county may re-examine, and reverse or affirm the judgments of Washington and Madison courts.
When acting as an appellate cow
Part of a former act repealed.
1804, ch. 59.
[Obsolete.]
A general enumeration to be made under the superintendence of the marshals.
Classification.
Assistants to be appointed by marshals and secretaries.
Allotment of districts.
Oaths of marshals, &c. &c.
| Name of the county, parish, township, town or city where the family resides. | Names of head of family. | Free white males under ten years of age. | Free white males of ten, and under sixteen. | Free white males of sixteen, and under twenty-six, including heads of families. | Free white males of twenty-six, and under forty-five, including heads of families. | Free white males of forty-five and upwards, including heads of families. | Free white females under ten years of age. | Free white females of ten years, and under sixteen. | Free white females of sixteen, and under twenty-six, including heads of families. | Free white females of twenty-six, and under forty-five, including heads of families. | Free white females of forty-five and upwards, including heads of families. | All other free persons, except Indians, not taxed. | Slaves. |
Penalties for neglecting or making a false return.
Marshals and secretaries to file the several returns, &c.
Penalty.
Judges of the district and territorial courts to give this act in charge to the grand juries, and the returns of the assistants.
Rates of compensation.
Who shall be returned.
Heads of families, &c. to render to the assistants of the marshals an account of the members of their families.
Schedule of the number of
inhabitants to be set up in public places by the assistants in their divisions or districts.
Penalty.
Secretary of State to send to the assistants regulations and instructions pursuant to this act.
Where there is no secretary in a territory the governor to perform the duties prescribed by this act.
Act of Feb. 24, 1807, ch. 16, sec. 4.
Terms of the district court at Chilicothe changed.
Returns, &c. &c. to correspond with the change.
To what vessels sea letters, &c. &c. may be granted, after June 30, 1810.
No sea letter to issue to any vessel unless such vessel return to the U. States before 30th June next.
Proviso in favour of vessels detained abroad by any foreign power.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation to defray the expenses of experiments with the torpedo as an engine of war.
Road to the lower eastern branch bridge to be opened and kept in repair.
Commissioners to be appointed by the levy court of Washington to lay out the road, and make return to the clerk of Washington county.
Damages to be ascertained by them to be paid by the county.
Act of March 26, 1810, ch. 17.
Commissioners for receiving subscriptions.
Direction or course of the roads to be opened, gravelled and improved.
The times, places and manner of receiving subscriptions, to be determined by the commissioners.
Proviso.
When 150 shares shall have been subscribed, the commissioners to give notice, that there may be a meeting of the stockholders to choose directors.
Proviso.
Annual meetings of the company for choosing directors, &c. &c.
Printed certificates to be delivered to the stockholders and made transferable.
Assignees to become members of the company.
Shares of delinquent stockholders may be sold at public auction.
Deficiencies of instalments may be recovered by warrants.
Times and places of the meetings of the president and directors—their duties, powers, &c. &c.
Commissioners to be appointed by the court or judges of Washington county to view the ground for the roads, ascertain the damages, and make report, &c. &c.
Commissioners to be appointed by the court, &c. &c.
Dimensions and quality of the roads.
Rates of tolls.
Commissioners to decide what is to be paid to the Washington and Alexandria turnpike company.
In case of disagreement as to the value of materials, the marshal to summon a jury for determining it.
Compensation to the marshal and jurors.
Scales to be erected for ascertaining burdens passing over the roads when there is any doubt in the case.
Restrictions.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Dividends, how to be made and acounted for.
Roads to be kept in repair.
Penalty.
Proviso.
When the roads shall become free.
Penalty for evading payment of tolls.
Proviso.
Act of March 3, 1809, ch. 31
Mode of obtaining stone or gravel where it is necessary.
Toll gate may be removed.
Proviso.
Mode of obtaining the ground for a new toll house, &c. &c.
Corporation authorized to increase the number of shares.
All goods imported into Boston and Newport which shall be conveyed by Rhode Island bridge and Taunton, or exported by the same routes from Boston, shall be entitled to the benefit of a drawback upon exportation to a foreign port.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
[Repealed.]
That the following be established as post roads:
In the District of Maine.—From Portsmouth, N. H. by Kittery, York, Post roads. 1814, ch. 75, sec. 2. 1815, ch. 69.
In New Hampshire.—From Salisbury, Ms. by Seabrook and Hampton, 1812, ch. 80. 1815, ch. 69.
In Vermont.—From Lansingburg, N. Y. by Bennington, Shaftsbury, Arlington, Manchester, Rutland, Pittsford, Branden, Leicester, Salis- Post roads. 1812, ch. 80, sec. 2. 1815, ch. 69, sec. 2.
In Massachusetts.—From Snffield, Ct. by Springfield, Wilbraham, Palmer, Western, Brookfield, Spencer, Leicester, Worcester, Shrewsbury, Northboro’, Marlboro’, Sudbury, Watertown, Cambridge, Boston, Charlestown, Mulden, Lynn, Salem, Beverly, Wenham, Hamilton, Ipswich, Rowley and Newburyport, to Salisbury. From Snffield, Ct. by Westfield, Southampton, Northampton, Hatfield, Whately, Deerfield and Greenfield, to Bernardstown. From Salisbury, Ct. by Sheffield, Great Barrington, Stockbridge, Lenox, Pittsfield, Lanesboro’ and Williamston, to Greenfield. From Canaan, Ct. by Sheffield, to Egremont. From Colebrook, Ct. by Southfield, Sandisfield, Lee, Lenox and Hancock, to New Lebanon, N. Y. From Springfield, by Stockbridge and West Stockbridge, to Albany, N. Y. From Granby, by Granville, Blandford and Chester, to Middefield. From Brookfield, by Ware, Belchertown, Hadley, Northampton, Chesterfield, Worthington, Partridgefield, Dalton, Pittsfield and Hancock, to New Lebanon. From Stafford, Ct. to Brookfield or Worcester, and thence by Framingham, to Boston. From Worcester, by Holden, Rutland, Barre and Petersham, to Athol. From Rutland, by Hubbardstown and Templeton, to Winchenden. From Rutland, by Greenwich, Hardwich, Pelham, Amherst and Hadley, to Northampton, and thence by South Hadley, to Springfield. From Boston, by Dedham, Walpole, Foxborough and Attleborough, to Providence, R, I. From Boston, by the Newburyport turnpike, to Newburyport. From Dedham, by Medfield, Medway, Bellingham, Milford, Mendon, Uxbridge and Douglass, to Thompson, Ct. From Boston, by Milton, Canton, Easton, Taunton, Berkley and Freetown, to New Bed-ford. From Boston, by Dorchester, Quincy, Braintree, Weymouth, Hanover, Pembroke, Kingston, Plymouth, Sandwich, Barnstable, Yarmouth, Dennis, Brewster, Harwich, Chatham, Orleans, Easlham, Wellfleet and Truro, to Provincetown. From Sandwich, by Falmouth, to Nantucket. From Falmouth to Edgarton. From Sandwich, by Ware-ham, Rochester, New Bedford arid Dartmouth, to Westport. From Weymouth, by Hingham, Cohasset, Scituate, Marshfield and Duxbury, to Kingston. From Weymouth, by Abington, Bridgewater, Raynham, Post roads.
In Rhode Island.—From Plainfield, Ct. by Scituate and Providence, 1812, ch. 80.
In Connecticut.—From Rye, N.Y. by Greenwich, Stamford, Norwalk, 1812, ch. 80. 1814, ch. 75. 1815, ch. 69.
In New York.—From Jersey city, by New York, Harlaem and New 1812, ch. 80. 1814, ch. 75. 1815, ch. 69. Post roads.
In New Jersey.—From Morrisville, Pa. by Trenton, Princeton, New 1812, ch. 80. 1814, ch. 75. 1815, ch. 69. Post roads.
In Pennsylvania.—From Wilmington, D. by Chester, Darby, Philadelphia, 1812, ch. 80, sec. 2. 1814, ch. 75, sec. 2. 1815, ch. 69, sec. 2. Post roads.
In Michigan.—From Fort Miami, by Frenchtown, to Detroit.
1812, ch. 80, sec. 2. 1815, ch. 69, sec. 2. Discontinued 1814, ch. 75, sec. 1.
1812, ch. 80, sec. 2. 1814, ch. 75, sec. 1.
In Illinois.—From Vincennes, In. T. by Kaskaskia, Prairies du Rochers and Cohakia, to St. Louis. From Smithland, K. by Fort Massack and Tywappety, to Cape Girardeau, L. T.
In Louisiana.—From St. Genevieve, by Mine an Burton and St. Louis, to St. Charles. From Kaskaskia, I. T. by Genevieve and Cape Girardeau, to New Madrid.
In Delaware.—From Elkton, Md. by Christiana and Newport, to Wilmington. From Wilmington, by New Castle, St. Georges, Cantwell’s Bridge, Smyrna, Dover, Camden, Frederica, Milford, Georgetown 1814, ch. 75.
In Maryland.—From Washington City, by Bladensburg, Baltimore, 1812, ch. 80. 1814, ch. 75. 1815, ch. 69. Post roads. 1814, ch. 75.
In Virginia.—From Washington City, by Alexandria, Dumfries, Stafford 1812, ch. 80. 1814, ch. 75. 1815, ch. 69. Post roads.
1812, ch. 80. 1814, ch. 75. 1815, ch. 69. Post roads.
In North Carolina.—From Warrenton, by Louisburg, Raleigh, Averysboro’, 1812, ch. 80. 1814, ch. 75. 1815, ch. 69.
In Tennessee.—From Abingdon, Va. by Blountsville, Rossville, Rogersville, 1812, ch. 80. 1814, ch. 75. 1815, ch. 69. Post roads.
1S12, ch. 80. 1814, ch. 75. 1815, ch. 69.
1812, ch. 80. 1814, ch. 75.
In Mississippi.—From the Big Spring, by Bear Creek, M‘Intoshville, 1815, ch. 69.
1814, ch. 75.
Act of June 9, 1794, ch. 62.
Act of May 10, 1800, ch. 55.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 30.
Act of March 19, 1804, ch. 33.
Act of 1807.
Act of March 21, 1808, ch. 37.
Act of 1810.
Act of July 5, 1813, ch. 7.
Act of 1814.
Act of 1818.
Act of 1821.
Act of 1823.
Five years allowed to obtain warrants and complete locations, and seven years to return the surveys.
[Obsolete.]
Laws, &c. relative to the public lands to be collected and published.
March 3, 1845.
Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 357, sec. 7.
Act of March 3, 1839.
President authorized to buy or to cause to be built a house for the accommodation of the general postoffice, &c.
City post-office, and those of superintendent and surveyor of the city to be removed.
Fire-proof rooms to be erected in the public offices west of the President’s house.
Appropriation.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 35.
Certain lands to which Indian title has been extinguished to be added to the districts of Cincinnati and Vincennes.
These lands to be offered for sale to the highest bidder.
Conditions, places, &c. &c.
Lands unsold may be sold at private sale.
Compensation of the superintendents of the public sales.
Boundary between districts of Vincennes and Jeffersonville.
Sales to be regulated accordingly.
Certain claims to land in the district of Vincennes.
Mode of proceeding for having them recorded.
Act of March 26, 1804,ch. 35.
Persons not giving notice to be barred.
Register of the land office and the receiver of public monies at Vincennes, how affected by this act.
Compensation.
A tract of land in the Illinois territory to be laid off under direction of surveyor-general.
The tract laid off into lots not to exceed the quantity in two sections.
No town lot to be sold for less than eight dollars.
Act of March 2, 1809, ch. 26.
Actual settlers, with some exceptions, under purchases from the United States allowed a further time to make their pay. ments.
That every person who, prior to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and six, had purchased any tract or tracts of land of the United States, not exceeding in the whole, six hundred and forty acres, at any of the land-offices established for the disposal of said lands, whether such purchase was made at public or private sale, (sales by virtue of a preemption right only excepted,) and whose lands have not already been actually sold or reverted to the United States for non-payment of part of the purchase money, Two years allowed for the payment of the residue. Mode of payment of the residue.
Provision in cases where the lands have reverted to the U. States. Proviso, that application be made before June 1, 1810.
Previous acts for the regulation of the Post-office department:—
An act for the temporary establishment of the post-office. (Obsolete.) September 22, 1789, chap. 16.
An act to continue in force for a limited time, “An act for the temporary establishment of the post-office.” (Obsolete.) August 4, 1790, chap. 36.
An act to continue in force for a limited time, “an act for the temporary establishment of the post-office.” (Obsolete.) March 3, 1791, chap. 23.
An act to establish the post-office and post roads within the United States. (Expired.) February 20, 1792, chap. 7.
An act to establish the post-office and post roads within the United States. (Obsolete.) May 8, 1794, chap. 23.
An act in addition to the act entitled, “An act to establish the post-office and post roads in the United States.” (Obsolete.) March 3, 1797, chap. 19.
An act to continue in force the 5th section of the act entitled, “An act in addition to the act entitled, An act to establish the post-office and post roads in the United States.” (Obsolete.) March 28, 1798, chap. 24.
An act to establish the post-office in the United States. (Repealed.) March 2, 1799, chap. 43.
An act further to alter and establish certain post roads, and for other purposes. (Repealed.) March 26, 1804, chap. 34.
An act to establish certain post roads, and for other purposes. (Repealed.) March 3, 1807, chap. 43.
Acts relating to the post-office department, passed subsequent to the act of April 30, 1810, chap. 37.
An act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government, and maintaining the public credit, by duties on sales at auction, and on licenses to retail wines, spirituous liquors, and foreign merchandise, and for increasing the rates of postage. (Repealed.) December 23, 1814, chap. 16.
An act in addition to the act regulating the post-office establishment. (Repealed.) February 27, 1815, chap. 65.
An act to repeal so much of an act passed on the 23d of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, as imposes additional duties on postage, February 1, 1816, chap. 7.
An act in addition to an act to regulate the post-office establishment. (Repealed.) April 9, 1816, ch. 45.
An act to reduce into one, the several acts establishing and regulating the post-office department, March 3, 1825, chap. 64.
An act amendatory of the act regulating the post-office department, March 2, 1827, chap. 61.
An act to increase the salary of the Postmaster-General, March 2, 1827, chap. 62.
An act to change the organization of the post-office department, and to provide more effectually for the settlement of the accounts thereof, July 2, 1836, chap. 270.
A resolution to change the time of making contracts for the transportation of the mail, May 14, 1836.
A resolution to enable the Postmaster-General more readily to change the commencement of the contract year in the post-office department, March 2, 1837.
An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, May 18, 1842, chap. 29, sec. 1. Act of 1845, chap. 43.
A resolution in relation to the transmission of the British mail between Boston and Canada, and for other purposes, June 15, 1844. Act of March 3, 1845.
General post-office established at the seat of government.
Duties of the Postmaster-General.
Oath of office.
Violations of their trusts to be punished, as if the persons concerned therein had not taken it.
Postmaster-General may provide for the carriage of the mail.
Free white persons only to be employed in the carriage of the mail.
Postmaster-General may allow the deputy postmasters such compensation as he may judge reasonable.
Post-roads obstructed by gates, &c. &c. to be reported by the Postmaster-General to Congress, that others may be substituted.
Penalties for obstructing or retarding the mail.
Proposals for contracts to be published by the Postmaster-General.
Duplicates of contracts and proposals to be lodged in the comptroller’s office.
Postmasters to have regular attendance in their offices.
Prescribed by the Postmaster-General.
Regulations concerning letters.
No fees or perquisites allowable in the general postoffice.
Rates of postage.
Act of Dec. 23, 1814, ch. 16, sec. 2.
Postage upon foreign letters and those carried coastwise.
Penalties for charging unauthorized rates of postage.
Letters to be delivered to the postmasters from vessels, previous to their being permitted to report, &c.
Masters of vessels to take an oath as to the delivery of letters, &c.
Penalties.
Masters of vessels, except those of foreign packets, to receive postage for letters brought and delivered by them.
Penalties for setting up posts between post towns.
Regulations concerning way letters.
Penalties for unlawfully detaining, delaying, or opening letters, packets, &c. &c.
Robberies of the mails, how punishable.
Penalties for injuring the portmanteaus, &c. &c. in which mails may be carried.
Accessories to be punished as principals.
Regulations concerning unclaimed letters, &c. &c.
Persons to and from whom letters go free of postage.
An act to establish the post-office and post roads within the United States. (Obsolete.) February 20, 1792, chap. 7, sec. 19.
An act to establish the post-office and post roads within the United States. (Expired.) May 8, 1794, chap. 23, sec. 19.
An act to extend the privilege of franking to the secretary of the navy. (Repealed.) June 22, 1798, chap. 56.
An act extending the privilege of franking letters to the delegate from the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio. (Obsolete.) December 15, 1800, chap. 1.
By an act of March 3, 1801, chap. 35, the privilege of franking was given to John Adams.
An act extending the privilege of franking, and receiving letters free of postage, to any person admitted, or to be admitted to take a seat as delegate, and providing compensation for such delegate. (Obsolete.) February 18, 1802, chap. 5.
An act to provide for the prompt settlement of public accounts, March 3, 1817, chap. 45, sec. 16.
An act regulating the staff of the army, April 14, 1818, chap. 34, sec. 10.
An act in addition to an act entitled, “An act regulating the post-office establishment,” March 13, 1820, chap. 21.
An act to reduce into one act the several acts establishing and regulating the post-office department, March 3, 1825, chap. 64, sec. 27, 28, 40.
By the 27th section of the act of March 3, 1825, chap. 64, such individual as may have been, or shall be, President of the United States, has the privilege of franking.
Resolution authorizing the speaker of the House of Representatives to frank letters and packages, April 3, 1828.
Resolution in relation to Charles Carroll of Carrollton, May 23, 1828.
An act. to extend the privilege of franking letters and packages to Dolly P. Madison, July 2, 1836, chap. 270.
An act authorizing the governors of the several states to transmit by mail certain books and documents, June 30, 1834, chap. 168.
An act to provide for the appointment of solicitor of the treasury, May 29, 1830, chap. 153, sec. 11.
An act to carry into effect the convention between the United States and his majesty the king of the French, &c., July 13, 1832, chap. 199, sec. 8.
An act to continue the office of the commissioner of pensions, March 3, 1835, chap. 44, sec. 3.
An act to promote the progress of the useful arts, &c., July 4, 1836, chap. 357, sec. 1.
An act to authorize the chief clerk in the office of the Secretary of State, to frank public and official documents, sent from the office, February 15, 1843, chap. 3.
An act authorizing the transmission of letters and packets to and from Mrs. Harrison, free of postage, September 9, 1841, chap. 19. See act of March 3, 1845, chap. 43.
Penalties upon franking other letters than their own.
Proviso.
Regulation concerning newspapers.
Further regulations concerning newspapers, &c.
Regulations concerning newspapers, &c.
Compensation of the postmasters.
Limitation of compensation.
Postmasters to settle their accounts, and pay over to the Postmaster-General the balances in their hands every three months.
The Postmaster-General has a right to take a bond from postmasters, to him, as Postmaster-General, under the different acts regulating the post-office department, and particularly under the act of April 30, 1810, sec. 29, 42. Ibid.
The Postmaster-General cannot sue in the federal courts, under that part of the constitution which gives jurisdiction to those courts in consequence of the character of the party, nor is he authorized to sue by the judiciary act. He comes into the courts of the United States, under the authority of an act of Congress, the constitutionality of which rests on the admission that his suit is a case arising under a law of the United States. Osborne et al. v. The Bank of the United States, 9 Wheat. 738 ; 5 Cond. Rep. 741.
The claim of the United States on the official bond of a postmaster, and upon all the parties thereto, is not released by the laches of the Postmaster-General, to whom the assertion of this claim is entrusted by law. Such laches have no effect whatsoever on the claims of the United States, as well on the sureties, as on the principal in the bond. Dox et al. v. The Postmaster-General, 1 Peters, 323. Postmaster-General v. Reeder, 4 Wash. C. C. R. 678.
The provisions of the act of March 3, 1825, releasing the securities of a deputy postmaster, where suit is not brought within two years after a default, do not apply to a default which occurred before the passing of the act. Postmaster-General v. Rice, Gilpin’s D. C. R. 462.
Penalties upon the postmasters for not making duly their returns to the general postoffice.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 103.
Persons to whom pecuniary penalties and forfeitures are to enure.
Postmaster-General may provide for the transmission of letters beyond sea.
Letter carriers may be employed at places designated by the Postmaster-General.
Proviso.
Before what officers offences under this act may be prosecuted and tried.
In suits under this act the court to proceed to judgment at once.
When a continuance shall be allowed.
Continuance to next term for want of evidence, on affidavit of the defendant.
Postmaster-General to report annually to Congress the unproductive roads.
Additional compensation to be paid to deputy postmaster at Washing ton.
Adjutant-general of the militia to transmit and receive certain letters free of postage.
Regulation as to the franking privilege under this act.
Emoluments of the postmasters limited to two thousand dollars.
Certain deputy postmasters to report to the Postmaster-General names of their clerks, &c.
Repealing clause.
Act of May 8, 1794, ch. 23.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 43.
Proviso.
Act of April 21, 1808, ch. 48.
Proviso, that this act shall not exonerate any person who shall have violated the provisions of former acts.
Officers of the post-office department to hold their offices until otherwise removed.
Their bonds to continue in force.
[Expired.]
Act of March 26, 1810, ch. 17.
Oaths of the marshals, secretaries and assistants, under the census act.
1811, ch. 34.
Manufacturing establishments to be reported to the marshals and by them to the Secretary of the Treasury.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 1, 1809, ch. 24.
Act of May 30, 1809, ch. 1.
Act of June 28, 1809, ch. 9.
Act of March 2, 1811, ch. 29.
Act of Dec. 17, 1813, ch. 1
Act of April 14, 1814, ch. 56.
British and French armed vessels not permitted to enter the waters of the U. States, except in certain cases.
Pacific intercourse with interdicted foreign vessels forbidden under penalties.
The whole forfeiture to accrue to the treasury if the prosecution shall be by a public officer.
Penalties and forfeitures under the non-intercourse and embargo, how to be recovered and disposed of.
1809, ch. 24.
Certain sections of the act to interdict the commercial intercourse, &c. to be revived as to the nation refusing to repeal or modify its orders in council, &c. &c.
1809, ch. 24.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 47, sec. 6.
Decisions of the commissioners confirmed.
[Obsolete.]
That in addition to the appropriations heretofore made, the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, to the purposes herein after mentioned, that is to say:
For sculpture, and warming and ventilating the chamber of the House Specific appropriations.
For defraying the expense of completing the court-room, and the offices of the judiciary, on the east side, completing the Senate chamber and stopping the leaks in the roof of the north wing of the Capitol, twenty thousand dollars.
For repairs to the President’s house and offices, five thousand dollars.
[Obsolete.]
That for the purpose of carrying into effect a treaty between the United States and the Delaware, Potawatamies, Miamies and Eel river tribes of Indians, concluded at Fort Wayne, on the thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and nine, the sum of one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid lo the said tribes annually, as follows:
To the Delawares, five hundred dollars. Specific appropriations.
To the Miamies, five hundred dollars.
To the Eel river tribe, two hundred and fifty dollars.
To the Potawatamies, five hundred dollars.
Which several annuities shall be permanent.
Specific appropriations.
Limitation of salary to ministers plenipotentiary, &c. &c.
To a charge des affaires.
Secretary of legation.
Outfit to minister plenipotentiary or charge des affaires.
Charge des affaires, secretaries of legations, &c. &c. to be appointed by the President, with the concurrence of the Senate.
No secretary to be appointed to a charge des affaires or consul resident on the coast of Barbary.
Annual settlements to be made of monies drawn from the treasury for foreign intercourse.
The President to give a certificate of the amount of expenditures from the contingent fund.
Limitations of sums to be paid to the states of Barbary.
Forfeitures by consuls for expenditures without authority.
No consul of the U. States residing in the Barbary states, to own,in whole or in part, a vessel, or be concerned in trade.
Consuls on the Barbary coast to make annual reports to Congress of disbursements and expenditures made on account of the U. States.
Secretary of the Treasury to transmit them to Congress.
Act of July 6, 1797, ch. 12.
Act of May 10, 1800,ch. 66. Repealed.
[Obsolete.]
Loan authorized.
Stock made transferable.
Bank of the U. States authorized to lend the money.
1790, ch. 34.
Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President, authorized to give preference in subscriptions to the Joan, to the holders of exchanged six per cent, stock.
Proviso.
Funds pledged for the payment of principal and interest.
Lighthouse to be built on the point forming the entrance of Scituate harbor.
Beacon to be erected on a spit of sand extending from lighthouse.
Beacons near the entrance of the harbor of Beverly.
Light to be placed near the entrance of Bayou St.John and Bird Island.
For the erection of a lighthouse, at the entrance of Scituate harbor, Specific appropriations.
For the erection of a stone column on a spit of sand, extending from Lighthouse island at the entrance of Boston harbor, three thousand five hundred dollars.
And for the erection and establishment of a light at the entrance of Bayou St. John into Lake Ponchartrain, two thousand dollars.
And for the erection and establishment of two lights on Lake Erie, one thousand six hundred dollars.
And for beacons and buoys near the entrance of Beverly harbor, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars.
Agent of the joint and library committee to have the use of the library.
Resolution in relation to the conduct of F. J. Jackson, minister plenipotentiary from Great Britain.
Proposed amendment to the constitution of the U. States.
Any citizen of the U. S. who shall receive or retain any title or emolument from any foreign prince shall cease to be a citizen of the U. S. and be incapable of holding any office.
two thirds of both houses concurring, That the following section be submitted to the legislatures of the several states, which, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the states, shall be valid and binding, as a part of the constitution of the United States.
If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.
ACTS OF THE ELEVENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
The message of President and the documents accompanying the same to be transmitted free of postage.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation.
[Expired.]
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 46.
Act of Feb. 27, 1813, ch. 40.
Mediterranean fund continued till 4th March, 1812.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 46.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 46.
1810, ch. 5.
Act of Jan. 31, 1812, ch. 15.
The additional duty laid by the 3d section shall be collected on all goods imported previous to March 4, 1812.
An additional assistant Postmaster-General to be appointed with a salary of sixteen hundred dollars.
1810, ch. 37.
[Obsolete.]
Secretary of War authorized to settle exterior line of the public land at West Point.
Commissioners may be appointed for that purpose.
Their award to be approved by Congress.
Commissioners entitled to compulsory process.
[Obsolete.]
Secretary of War authorized to settle exterior line of the public land at West Point.
Commissioners may be appointed for that purpose.
Their award to be approved by Congress.
That for defraying the expenses
The act of Jan. 15, 1811, will be found in Vol. 3, p. 471.
For Specific appropriations.
For forage, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty-six dollars.
For subsistence, six hundred and eighty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-two dollars and five cents.
For clothing, two hundred and ninety-three thousand eight hundred and four dollars.
For bounties and premiums, thirty thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, fifty thousand dollars.
For camp equipage, fuel, tools and transportation, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
For ordnance, one hundred thousand dollars.
For fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, including two thousand dollars for such a number of additional military storekeepers as may be required, two hundred and seventy-six thousand forty-nine dollars and seventy-six cents.
For purchasing maps, plans, books and instruments, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingencies, fifty thousand dollars.
For the salary of clerks employed in the military agents’ offices, and in the office of the inspector of the army, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the Indian department, one hundred and forty-six thousand five hundred dollars.
[Obsolete.]
That for defraying the expenses of the navy of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For Specific appropriations.
For provisions, three hundred and eighty-five thousand, three hundred and thirty dollars.
For medicines, instruments and hospital stores, thirty thousand dollars.
For repairs of vessels, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For freight, store rent, and all other contingencies, one hundred thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for (hose on shore and forage for the staff, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand two hundred and fifty-six dollars and ninety cents.
For clothing for the same, thirty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars and ninety cents.
For military stores for the same, one thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars and twenty-five cents.
For medicines, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses Specific appropriations.
For quartermasters and barrack-masters’ stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorers and carpenters’ bills, fuel, premiums for enlisting men, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses of the marine corps, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the expenses of navy-yards, comprising docks and other improvements, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks and labourers, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For ordnance and small arms, sixty thousand dollars.
A land warrant to be granted to Leitensdorfer.
His account to be settled by the officers of the treasury.
[Repealed.]
Compensations to officers appointed to ascertain the rights of persons claiming lands in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana.
1811, ch. 46, sec. 14.
Compensations of commissioners, &c. &c.
No allowance to the person appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury alter the time the agent ceased to act.
Two principal deputy surveyors of the Orleans territory may alter the mode of surveying certain lands.
Proviso.
Land offices established at New Orleans, and Opelousas, for disposing of the public lands.
1803, ch. 27.
Powers vested in the President extended to him as to the eastern district.
Act of April 21, 1808, ch. 39.
Terms on which persons owning contiguous lands may obtain those belonging to the public.
Limitation of grants.
Periods of opening the land offices, &c. &c.
Preference to inhabitants and cultivators.
Proviso.
1803, ch. 27.
Additional reservation in the western district.
Lands in the territory of Louisiana to be surveyed, &c,
1800, ch. 55.
A land-office to be opened, at such place as the President may designate for disposing of public lands in Louisiana, &c.
1800, ch. 55.
Lands may be offered for sale, &c. &c.
Sale or the public lands.
No land to be offered for sale the claim to which has been presented until after the decision of Congress.
Claim of the corporation of New Orleans to adjacent common to be valid.
1807, ch. 36.
Navigable rivers, &c. to remain public highways.
Specific appropriation.
Suits brought by the bank of Alexandria upon promissory notes, made negotiable at that bank, are entitled to trial at the return time of the writ. Young e. The Bank of Alexandria, 4 Cranch, 384; 2 Cond. Rep. 150.
The bank of Alexandria may, under the charter of the bank, maintain an action against the indorser of a promissory note, made negotiable at that bank, without first suing the maker, or proving him insolvent, according to the law of Virginia; although the endorsement was for the accommodation of the maker: and notwithstanding that in Virginia the implied contract of the endorser of a promissory note, by the general understanding of the country, is that he will pay the debt, if by due diligence it cannot be obtained from the maker. Ibid.
If the case shows that the bank received the note under an understanding that it was subject to the rules which govern inland bills of exchange, then it would seem reasonable, in the case of notes actually negotiated with them, to imply, from the act of endorsement, an undertaking conformable to that usage. Ibid.
A subsequent board of directors of the bank, is to be considered as knowing all the circumstances communicated or known to the previous board. The Mechanics’ Bank of Alexandria v. Louisa and Maria Seton, 1 Peters, 309.
Compensations to officers appointed to ascertain the rights of persons claiming lands in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana.
Corporation of Alexandria bank continued.
Powers of the corporation.
Limitation of the amount of real estate held by the bank.
The bank not to purchase any goods, &c. unless sold on judgments obtained by the bank, &c.
Capital stock.
Votes, how apportioned.
Elections, when to be held.
Proceedings of the directors.
Quarterly and other meetings of the directors.
Powers of the directors.
Number of votes necessary to the appointment of a cashier.
A committee of three directors to be appointed at quarterly meetings to examine the cash accounts.
Any director, officer or other person committing frauds in the bank may be prosecuted.
Amount authorized to be loaned
Stockholders only to be answerable for the amount of their stock.
Exception.
Directors absent when the resolution or act by which the debts of the bank was created, how to exonerate themselves.
No note for a smaller sum than five dollars to be issued.
Reports to be made to Secretary of the Treasury.
Directors, &c. &c. entitled to no emolument but by a vote of the stockholders.
Residents of the district of Columbia only eligible as president or director.
Treasurer or cashier to give bond, &c. &c.
Accidental omission to make an election, provided for.
Process served upon the President sufficient.
Notes made negotiable at bank to be considered as bills of exchange.
Bank to be continued in Alexandria.
Bank of Washington incorporated.
Capital.
Shares, &c. &c.
Bank to be continued in Washington.
Directors, &c. &c. to be appointed.
Votes.
No one to rote who is not a citizen of the United States.
This section may be altered by Congress.
Times of meeting, for choice of directors, &c. &c.
Regulations of elections.
Powers of the president and directors to make by-laws.
Promissory notes, &c. &c. signed by the president obligatory upon stockholders, &c. &c.
Books, &c. &c. subject to inspection of directors.
Reports to be made to the Secretary of the Treasury.
President and directors to appoint the officers, &c. &c.
General meetings of the stockholders.
Shares how transferable, &c. &c.
Dividends, &c. &c. when to be declared, &c.
Limitation of Discounts.
Bank not to own vessels or to be concerned in trade.
Bank not to hold real property but in certain cases.
Vacancies in the board of directors how to be filled.
Meetings of stockholders.
Bank restricted as to its debts.
Liability of directors.
Elections.
This to be deemed a public act.
Bank incorporated.
Capital to consist of 500,000 dollars.
Not to hold real property, but for certain purposes.
Directors, &c. &c.
Proviso.
Directors to have no emolument.
Compensation of the president.
Officers of the bank.
Rules, &c. &c.
Votes.
Stockholders only to be president or director.
A majority of the whole number of directors necessary to the choice of a cashier.
Dividends how and when to be declared.
A book to be kept in which the proceedings of the board are to be entered.
Meetings of stockholders, &c. &c.
President and cashier to give bond, &c. &c.
Limitation of loans or discounts.
Notes, &c. &c. to be signed by the president and cashier.
Rate of discount or interest.
Transfer of shares.
Stockholders members.
In the absence of the president, his place to be supplied by the board.
Vacancies, how to be filled.
Accommodations limited.
Stockholders to forfeit their dividends upon unpaid shares.
Capital stock not to be impaired in dividends.
Proviso.
Rules, Sec. &c. may be altered.
Meetings of the stockholders.
Secretary of the Treasury to be furnished with a statement of the bank affairs.
Proviso.
On the dissolution of the corporation, the capital, &c. &c. to be divided.
Commencement of this act.
Bank incorporated.
The lands, &c. to be held by the bank, shall be such only, as their business may require.
Proviso.
Capital.
Elections.
Votes, &c.
Regulations in relation to elections, &c. &c.
Proviso.
This section may be amended by Congress.
Meetings of the directors.
Powers of the board of directors.
A majority of the directors required, for choosing officers.
Frauds, &c. &c. how to be punished.
Limitation of discounts.
Extent of the liability of stockholders.
Directors who are absent, not to be liable, if they give notice to the stock, holders.
Notes for a smaller sum than Ave dollars not to be issued.
Affairs of the bank to be annually laid before Secretary of Treasury.
Directors not entitled to any emolument, but by a decision of the board.
None hut citizens of the U. States and inhabitants of Alexandria or Fairfax counties eligible.
General meetings may be called by the stockholders.
Bank incorporated.
Capital of the bank.
Bank to be kept in Georgetown.
Affairs of the bank to be conducted by twelve directors and a president, &c.
No person not a citizen of the the U. States to vote.
Proviso.
General meetings for choosing directors, &c. &c.
Powers of the directors.
Promissory notes, &.c. &c. to be signed by the president, &c. &c.
Books, &c. &c. subject to inspection of directors.
Annual statement to be made to Secretary of Treasury.
Officers, &c. &c. how appointed.
General meetings of the stockholders.
Transfer of shares.
Dividends to be declared semi-annually.
Capital not to be impaired thereby.
Directors who are present at the making of dividends liable.
Bank not to he engaged in ships, &c.
Nor in the purchase of lands, &c. &c.
Vacancies, how to be filled.
Extra general meetings may be called.
Limitation of discounts.
Not to discount beyond twice the amount of its capital.
Omissions to make elections provided for.
This to be considered as a public act.
Act of April 27, 1810, ch. 33.
Distribution of the land law.
How to be distributed.
The inhabitants of Louisiana within directed limits to be authorized to form a constitution and state.
Act of April 14, 1812, ch. 57.
Elective franchise, how regulated.
Convention to meet at New Orleans.
The constitution to be republican and consistent with the constitution of the United States.
All right to waste and unappropriated lands to be disclaimed by an irrevocable ordinance.
Lands sold by Congress to be exempt from state taxes for five years.
Convention to send to Congress the act assenting to the adoption of the constitution of United States.
1812, ch. 50.
State to be admitted into the Union.
Reservation for roads, &c.
Specific appropriations.
That for the expenditure of the civil list in the present year, including the contingent expenses of the several departments and offices; for the compensation of the several loan officers and their clerks, and for books and stationery for the same; for the payment of annuities and grants; for the support of the mint establishment; for the expense of intercourse with foreign nations; for the support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers; for defraying the expenses of surveying the public lands; and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims, the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of four months and a half continuance, two hundred and one thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, thirty-four thousand dollars.
For all contingent expenses of the library of Congress, and for the librarian’s allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, eight hundred dollars.
For repairing the roof and fitting up a room in the west side of the north wing of the capitol for the library of Congress, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons employed 1806, ch. 41.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For printing and distributing the laws of the third session of the eleventh Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, five thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons 1806, ch. 41.
For expense of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in transmitting passports and sea letters, and for stationery and printing in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, one thousand dollars.
For Specific appropriations. 1806, ch. 41.
For expense of stationery, printing and incidental and contingent expenses of the comptroller’s office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing and incidental and contingent expenses of the auditor’s office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer, clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-five cents.
For expense of stationery, printing and incidental and contingent expenses in the treasurer’s office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand fifty-two dollars and two cents.
For compensation to the messenger of the register’s office, for stamping and arranging ship’s registers, ninety dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing and all other incidental and contingent expenses in the register’s office, including books for the public stocks, and for the arrangement of the marine records, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel and other contingent and incidental expenses of the treasury department, four thousand dollars.
For the purchase of books, maps and charts for the use of the treasury department, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to a superintendent, employed to secure the buildings and records of the treasury department, during the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, including the expense of two watchmen, the repairs of two fire engines, buckets, lanterns and other incidental and contingent expenses, one thousand one hundred dollars.
For defraying the expense of stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing and other contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the war department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the paymaster’s office, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses in the said office, two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the purveyor of public supplies, clerks and persons 1806, ch. 41.
For compensation of additional clerks in the office of the superintendent Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, nine thousand eight hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of stationery, fuel, printing and other contingent expenses in the said office, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the navy, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster-General, assistant Postmaster 1806, ch. 41.
For the expense of fuel, house rent for the messenger, candles, stationery, chests, &c. incident to the Postmaster-General’s office, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of the commissioners of loans, and for allowances to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expense of the several loan offices, fifteen thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor-general, and his clerks, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of the lands south of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, and for stationery and other contingencies, three thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the officers of the mint, viz:
The director, two thousand dollars.
The treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars.
The assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The chief coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The melter and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars.
One clerk at seven hundred dollars; and
Two clerks at five hundred dollars each.
For wages to the persons employed in melting, coining, carpenters, millwrights, and smiths’ work, including the sum of one thousand dollars allowed to an assistant coiner and die forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, and of six hundred dollars allowed to an assistant engraver, eight thousand dollars.
For repairs of furnaces, cost of rollers and screws, timber, bar iron, lead, steel, potash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, two thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For an allowance for wastage in the gold and silver coinage, including a deficiency in the appropriation for the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, arising from the increase of the coinage for that and several antecedent years, six thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the territory of Orleans, thirteen thousand dollars.
For expense of stationery, and other contingent expenses of said territory, including the sum of one thousand dollars for a deficiency in the appropriation for the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For Specific appropriations.
For expense of stationery, office rent and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Indiana territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Michigan territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Louisiana territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Illinois territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, two thousand dollars.
For 1806, ch. 41.
For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, the associate judges and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice and two associate judges for the district of Columbia; to the attorney-general, and to the district judge of the territory of Orleans, fifty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.
For the like compensation granted to the several district attornies of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation granted to the several marshals for the districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, East and West Tennessee and Orleans, two thousand two hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures and penalties, and for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present government, nine hundred and sixty dollars.
For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the fifth of March one thousand eight hundred and eleven, to the fourth of March one thousand eight hundred and twelve, ninety-eight thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers, stakeages of channels bars and shoals, and certain contin-
Specific appropriations.
For erecting lighthouses at the mouth of the Mississippi, and at or near the Pitch of Cape Lookout, in North Carolina, being the amount of an additional appropriation carried to the surplus fund, twenty thousand dollars.
For building a lighthouse on the south point of Cumberland Island, in Georgia, being the amount of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, four thousand dollars.
For erecting a lighthouse on the south point of Sapelo Island in Georgia, and for placing certain buoys and beacons on Dobay bar and Beach point, being the balance of former appropriations carried to the surplus fund, six thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and six cents.
For erecting a lighthouse on Point Judith, being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For erecting two lights on Lake Erie, viz: on or near Bird Island, and on or near Presque Isle, in addition to the appropriation heretofore made for that purpose, four thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of surveying the public lands within the several territories of the United States, one hundred thousand dollars.
For paying for the printing of new ship’s registers, including the cost of paper, the balance of a former appropriation of one thousand one hundred and forty dollars for this object having been heretofore carried to the surplus fund, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For discharging the expense of the third enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, and that of taking an account of their manufactures, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, forty-seven thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of government, the balance of former appropriations for that object having been carried to the surplus fund, twenty thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, five thousand dollars.
For expenses of prosecuting claims and appeals in the courts of Great Britain in relation to captures of American vessels, and defending causes elsewhere, four thousand dollars.
For compensation allowed George W. Erving as agent in receiving and paying awards of the board of commissioners, under the seventh article of the British treaty, estimated at two and a half per cent, on the amount of such awards as were actually received by him, twenty-two thousand three hundred and ninety-two dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For payment of the claim of Patrick Donnon, late surveyor of the 1800, ch. 60.
For payment of expenditures made by James Simmons, late collector of Charleston, from January first, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, to December thirty-first, one thousand eight hundred and five, for the navy department, as admitted on settlement of his account Specific appropriations.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, four thousand dollars.
For the payment of a balance due the estate of the late Major-general Anthony Wayne, in conformity with the act passed at the present session, entituled “An act for the relief of the heirs of the late Major-general Wayne, 1811, ch. 6.
1790, ch. 34.
Bridge to be rebuilt if agreed to by the stock, holders.
Assessments on the stockholders.
[Obsolete.]
Site of the town of Pulaski to be entered with register of land-office and sold.
Conditions, &c. &c.
Conditions upon which the land for the permanent seat of Indiana government may be obtained.
Act of Feb. 4, 1815, ch. 33.
President authorized to remove certain land-offices from Nashville and from Canton.
By whom public sales of public lands in the district east of Pearl river are to be conducted.
Tracts of land not paid for to be again offered for sale at the courts of the county.
Secretaries of Navy, Treasury and War made a board of commissioners.
Act of 1799, ch. 36.
Fines to be paid to them.
Commissioners to procure sites, at suitable places, for navy hospitals.
Secretary of Navy to prepare necessary rules for the government of the hospitals.
Allowance from the wages and pensions of invalids to be paid to commissioners.
Act of April 14, 1792, ch. 24.
Act of Feb. 28, 1803, ch. 9.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 40.
[Repealed.]
Act of April 14, 1814, ch. 56.
Vessels leaving England before 2d February, not liable to seizure owned wholly by citizens of the U. States.
1810, ch. 39.
Great Britain revoking its decrees, &c. &c. the fact to be declared by proclamation, &c.
Certain sections of a former law to be in force.
Act of March 1, 1809, ch. 24.
Obsolete acts relating in trading houses with the Indians;—
An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes, April 18, 1796, chap. 13.
An net to revive and continue in force “An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes,” April 30, 1802, chap. 39.
An act for continuing in force a law entitled, “An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes,” February 28, 1803, chap. 14.
An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes, April 21, 1806, chap. 48.
An act supplemental to an act entitled, “An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes,” March 3, 1809, chap. 34.
An act establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes, March 2, 1811, chap. 30.
An act to continue in force for a limited time, the act entitled, “An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes.” March 3, 1815, chap. 98.
An act to continue in force an act entitled, “An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes,” March 3, 1817, chap. 43.
An act directing the manner of appointing Indian agents, and continuing the “act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes,” April 16, ISIS, chap. 61.
An act to continue in force for a further time the act entitled, “An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes,” March 3, 1819, chap. 78.
An act to continue in force for a further time the act entitled, “An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes,” March 4, 1820. chap. 18.
An act to continue in force for a further time the act entitled, “An act to establish trading houses with the Indian tribes,” March 3, 1821, chap. 44.
The trading houses with the Indian tribes, were abolished by an act to abolish the United States trading establishments with the Indian tribes, May 6, 1822, chap. 54.
[Repealed.]
Trading-houses to be established.
Superintendent of Indian trade to be appointed—his duties, &c. &c.
Salary of the superintendent.
Agents, &c. &c, to be appointed.
Duties of the agents, &c. &c.
Superintendents of Indian trade not allowed to carry on trade, &c. &c.
Proviso.
Regulations with respect to prices of goods supplied to the Indians.
Penalties, &c.
No suit to be commenced but in the state or territory in which the cause of action arose or in which the defendant may reside.
Goods for annuities to be sent by superintendent, &c.
Specific appropriations for salaries of superintendent, &c. &c.
Pay of the agents, &c. &c.
Appropriation for Indian trade.
1806, ch. 48.
1809, ch. 34.
Superintendent to dispose of the furs and peltry.
Additional trading houses.
How the expenses are to be defrayed.
Repealing clause.
1806, ch. 48.
1809, ch. 34.
No one who shall not have performed the duty, or who shall have violated the prohibitions in the acts to be exonerated from suits.
Commencement and termination of this act.
Mumphreymagog district established.
Oswegatchie district established.
White mountain a district established.
Port of entry for district of Vermont may be altered.
Compensations of the collectors.
1799, ch. 22.
[Obsolete.]
President authorized to borrow live millions of dollars.
Proviso.
Funds pledged for paying interest, &c.
Part of the state of New Jersey added to the district of New York.
1799, ch. 22 sec. 5.
District of Sandusky.
1805, ch. 34.
Cape Vincent made a port of delivery only.
Transfer of the collector’s office from Niagara to Lewistown, &c. &c.
1799, ch. 22, sec. 2.
Vessels from or beyond the Cape of Good Hope may enter at Plymouth.
Bangor made a port of delivery.
District of Teche established.
Surveyor to be appointed, to reside at the mouth of Rappahannock.
Compensations of the collectors and surveyors.
1799, ch. 22.
[Obsolete.]
1810, ch. 17.
[Expired.]
1813, ch. 53.
Secretary of the Treasury may establish a lighthouse on Boon island.
Buoys to be placed off Cape Fear.
Buoys to be placed at Edgartown harbor.
Beacon to be placed on Cape Elizabeth.
Specific appropriations.
Act of Feb. 27, 1809, ch. 19.
Act of Dec. 15, 1809, ch. 2.
Qualifications of voters.
1814, ch. 19.
Biennial elections.
Penalty of one thousand dollars for neglect or refusal of sheriffs.
1809, ch. 19.
Persons holding places of profit, excluded from council, &c.
Sheriff to cause elections to be held under penalty of one thousand dollars.
$200 per annum additional salary allowed to chief justice of the circuit court for the district of Columbia, and $400 additional to each of the assistant judges.
$5,000 appropriated for carrying into effect a treaty between the U. States and the Great and Little Osage nations; with a permanent annual appropriation of $1000 for the Great and $500 for the Little Osage nation.
$680 appropriated to pay the sum allowed J. E. Leitensdorfer by the act of Feb. 13, 1811, ch. 12.
Appropriation.
[Obsolete.]
Compensation to persons taking an account of manufacturing establishments.
[Obsolete.]
1810, ch. 38.
[Obsolete.]
Additional appropriation.
1806, ch. 19.
1815, ch. 43.
President may permit deviations from courses heretofore run.
Act of Feb. 15, 1811, ch. 14.
Act of April 25, 1812, ch. 67.
Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 86.
Allowances and compensations.
Duties of the deputy surveyors and mode of survey.
Land-offices to be established at New Orleans and Opelousas, &c.
Certain powers with respect to public lands in eastern district of Orleans territory extended to the President.
Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 43.
Persons entitled to a preference.
Proviso as to the extent of the pre-emption.
When land offices established by this act to be opened.
1811, ch. 14.
1803, ch. 27.
Proviso.
Proviso.
An additional township to be located in Orleans territory for seminary of learning.
Surveyor-general to cause certain portions of public lands in territory of Louisiana to be surveyed and divided.
Office to he established for disposing of public land in territory of Louisiana.
1800, ch. 55.
Lands in territory of Louisiana to be offered for sale.
1800, ch. 55.
Proviso.
Patents how obtained.
Claim of corporation of Orleans to be deemed valid.
1807, ch. 36.
Navigable rivers to be public highways.
Appropriation.
Repeal of the act of Feb. 15, 1811, ch. 14.
This act, and the act referred to, not to be published until the end of the next session of Congress, unless, &c.
Taking into view the peculiar situation of Spain, and of her American provinces; and considering the influence which the destiny of the territory adjoining the southern border of the United States may have upon their security, tranquillity, and commerce: Therefore,
The United States cannot, without inquietude, see the Floridas pass into the hands of a foreign power, &c.
ACTS OF THE TWELFTH CONGRESS
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
Documents maybe sent free of postage.
District court to be held at Wiscasset, on the second Tuesday of September annually.
By the act of March 3, 1813, chap. 60, the time for holding the sessions of the district court at Wiscasset, was changed from be first Tuesday of March, to the last Tuesday of February.
By the act of April 3, 1818, chap. 9, the district court of Maine, before holden on the last day of May in each year, shall be holden at the same place on the first Tuesday of June in each year.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation of one thousand dollars.
[Obsolete.]
Further time allowed for opening land-offices.
Act of Feb. 15, 1811, ch. 14.
Land-offices to be opened on such days as may be designated by the President.
[Obsolete.]
Purchasers allowed until the first of January, 1813, to complete their payments.
[Obsolete.]
Act of April 16, 1816, ch. 53.
Road from the rapids of the river Miami of Lake Erie to western line of Connecticut reserve.
Commissioners’ report to be made to the President.
Roads to be opened and made under the direction of the President.
Compensation of the commissioners and assistants.
See act of January 14, 1802, chap, J, page 128, and note.
[Obsolete.]
Ratio of one representative to every thirty-five thousand.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch.78.
The military establishment to be completed.
Pay and bounty to officers and men.
Noncommissioned officers and soldiers when discharged to have one hundred and sixty acres of land and additional bounty.
1812, ch. 77.
[Obsolete.]
President at liberty to raise certain companies of rangers when invasion made or threatened.
1812, ch. 119.
How the said companies are to be constituted.
Pay, &c. &c.
Compensation in case of wounds, &c.
To be subject to the rules and articles of war.
1802, ch. 9.
1813, ch. 23.
President may appoint the officers in recess of the Senate.
[Obsolete.]
Road to be opened.
Appropriation.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Certain regiments of artillery, &c. &c. to be raised.
How these regiments are to be constituted.
Regiment of cavalry.
Officers to be appointed for the several regiments.
General officers, &c. &c.
Two major generals and aids.
Brigadier general, adjutant general, and assistants.
Inspector general and assistants.
Hospital surgeons.
Officers detached to serve as brigade majors, &c. &c. not to lose their rank.
Pay, &c. &c. of the major general, &c. &c.
Pay and emoluments of other officers, &c. &c.
Component parts of rations.
Clothing for non-commissioned officers, &c. &c.
Secretary of War to cause surplus clothing to be provided.
Rules and articles of war to be in force.
Premium for enlistments.
Regulation relative to enlistments not to extend to musicians or re-enlistments
Enlistments of minors.
Bounty—how and when to be paid.
Additional pay, in money and land, when to be paid.
How the men are to be paid.
How the officers, non-commissioned officers, &c. &c. may become pensioners.
Limitation of allowance as pensioners.
Proviso.
Representatives of those killed, &c. entitled to pensions.
Penalties for desertion.
Penalties upon those not in service enticing soldiers to desert.
Oaths of officers and soldiers.
Judge advocate for each division.
Extra expense, not exceeding a limited sum, to be paid to officers acting upon courts martial.
Non-commissioned officers, soldiers, &c. exempted from arrest.
Allowance to officers and soldiers discharged, for returning home.
Rate of rations.
Chaplains to be appointed.
General and field officers to receive pay only for the time when they are in actual service.
Land sold and reverting for non-payment not to be sold for less than the price at public sale.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriation of one million five hundred thousand dollars.
Specific appropriation of four hundred thousand dollars for saltpetre and sulphur.
Act of March 9, 1808, ch. 29.
Sessions of the court changed.
1826, ch. 129.
1828, ch. 16.
Process, &c. Ac. to be returnable, &c. &c. accordingly.
Marshal may adjourn the court upon the non-attendance of the judge, the two first days.
[Expired.]
Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 38.
Act of Feb. 27, 1813, ch. 40.
The act continued in force.
1804, ch. 46.
1810, ch. 5.
Act of Sept. 24, 1789, sec. 2.
Sessions of the court changed to the fourth Tuesday of February, May, August and November.
Process, &c. &c. returnable, &.c. &c. accordingly.
Repealed by act January 29, 1813, ch. 15, sec. 18.
President may accept of the services of volunteer corps.
Proviso.
1812, ch. 137.
Services of volunteers, when and how long they may be required.
Subject to the rules and regulations of war, when in service.
Proviso.
President authorized to organize the volunteer companies into battalions, &c. &c.
When.
In the mean time they are not exempt from militia duty.
President authorized to have the volunteers compensated for certain injuries and losses.
Volunteers may be placed on pension list in certain cases.
Proportionable rates of pension.
Proviso.
Heirs and representatives of volunteers entitled to land.
Volunteers, upon being discharged entitled to personal equipments of muskets, &c.
Appropriation.
Act of April 16, 1814, ch. 61.
Act of Feb. 27, 1815, ch. 63.
Register and receiver of the land-office at Kaskaskia to inquire into validity of certain claims to land.
A clerk to be employed by them.
Report to be made to Secretary of the Treasury, which is to be laid before Congress.
Decisions of commissioners, when to be confirmed.
Proviso as to decisions in other cases.
Commissioners, clerk and agent; their compensation; how to be paid.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation for six companies.
That the sum of one hundred and eight thousand seven hundred and seventy-two dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the pay, subsistence and forage, during the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, of the six companies of mounted rangers, to be raised for the service of the United States, Act of Jan. 2, 1812, ch. 11.
Specific appropriations.
For the subsistence of the officers, the sum of two thousand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
For forage, the sum of one thousand three hundred and forty-four dollars. The said sums to be paid out of any monies in the treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated.
[Obsolete.]
The Secretary of the Treasury to locate in one body the thirty-six sections of land reserved for Jefferson College by the act of March 3, 1803, sec. 12.
The decisions of the Courts of the United States upon the law of Bail have been:
Bail in Criminal Cases.—The circuit court has no authority to issue a habeas corpus for the purpose of surrendering a principal in discharge of his bail, when the principal is confined in jail merely under the process of a state court; nor will the court discharge the bail of such party, who has become bound by recognizance in the circuit court to answer, &c., merely on account of such impediment; but, in their discretion, the court will respite the recognizance. U. 8. v. Jonathan French, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 1.
The mere continuance of a cause, on sufficient grounds exhibited by the district attorney, constitutes no reason why the court should admit a defendant who is in confinement, to bail. But if the court is satisfied that the health of the accused is such as that his life will be endangered by his being kept in. confinement until next term, it furnishes a strong ground for bail. The U. S. v. Jones, 3 Wash. C. C. R. 209.
Probable cause, on oath, must be stated, to justify the holding a defendant to bail under the 3d sec. of the act of Congress of 26lh Feb. 1795, ch. 3L Leonard v. Caskin, Bee’s Adm. Decis. 146.
Aaron Burr, charged with carrying on a military expedition against a nation with whom the United States were at peace, was admitted to bail. 1 Burr’s Trial, 18.
The postponement of a criminal case, on the application of the defendant, to allow him an opportunity to obtain testimony, is not a cause of bail. The U. 8. r. Stewart. C. C. U. S. of Pennsylvania, 2 Dall. 345.
The circumstances must be very strong, which will, at any time, induce the court to admit a person to bail who stands charged with high treason. Ibid.
The supreme court of the United States has jurisdiction, under the constitution and laws of the United States, to bail a person committed Tor trial on a criminal charge, by a district judge of the United States. U. S. v. Hamilton, 3 Dall. 13.
The marshal of the United States of the Connecticut district, upon a writ of attachment sued out by the United States, to recover a penalty, may commit a defendant to prison for want of bail, without a mittimus from a state magistrate, as is required by the local laws of the state; for such municipal regulation does not bind the officers of the United States. Palmer v. Allen, 7 Cranch, 560; 2 Cond. Rep. 607.
Bail in Civil Cases.—The bail is fixed by the death of the principal, after the return of a capias ad satisfaciendum, and before the return of the scire facias; and the bail is not entitled to an exoneretur in such a case. Davidson v. Taylor, 12 Wheat. 604; 6 Cond. Rep. 660.
Demanding excessive bail, where the plaintiff has a good cause of action, or holding to bail where there is no cause of action, if done vexatiously, entitles the party injured to an action for a malicious prosecution. If bail be not demanded, no such action will lie. Ray v. Law, Peters’ C. C. R. 207.
Pennsylvania. The circuit court will discharge, on common bail, a defendant who has been arrested for a debt contracted in the state in which he has, subsequent to the commencement of the suit, been discharged by the insolvent laws of the state. Read v. Chapman, Peters’ C. C. R. 404.
Pennsylvania. Where a capias has been issued against a person who has been discharged from the debt for which it was issued, by the insolvent laws of the state in which it was contracted, the court will not quash the writ, but will discharge the defendant on common bail. Ibid.
On a rule to show cause why the defendant should not be discharged on common ball, he having been discharged under the insolvent laws of Pennsylvania; evidence to show that the discharge had been fraudulently obtained, cannot be given. Campbell et al. v. Claudius, Peters C. C. R. 484.
Pennsylvania. Where the debt has been contracted and made payable out of the state, the circuit court will not discharge, on common bail, a defendant arrested for such debt, notwithstanding his discharge by the insolvent laws of the state in which the action was brought. Ibid.
After bail given, and plea pleaded, the defendant cannot arrest the judgment on the ground of a misnomer. Scull r. Briddle, 2 Wash. C. C. R. 200.
The proceedings were amended by the recognizance of bail, and the name of the defendant in the recognizance was inserted in the declaration. Ibid.
The court are not precluded from obtaining further satisfaction as to the debt sworn to in an affidavit to hold to bail, because the affidavit is positive; but the necessity to examine the party who makes the affidavit, must be presented on the face of the same. Oliver v. Parish, 2 Wash. C. C. R. 462.
New York. Under the act of Congress of 6th January, 1800, the sheriff of a county is bound to take a bond for the limits, as provided by the state laws, from a prisoner confined on process from the courts of the United States; and false imprisonment would be on his refusal. United States u. Noah, Paine’s C. C. R. 368.
New York. Such a bond has, in all respects, the same incidents, and the like legal effects with a bond taken under the state laws. Ibid.
New York. It is assignable: and an assignment discharges the sheriff from a liability for a subsequent escape. Ibid.
New York. The United States are expressly named in the act, and bound by it; and an assignment of a bond to them when they are plaintiffs, is valid. Ibid.
New York. The Secretary of the Treasury having accepted such an assignment, the court presumed that he was authorized, and held the plaintiffs bound by his acceptance. Ibid.
New York. The term “ process,” in the act, includes executions, as well as mesne process. Ibid.
New York. After a prisoner has been enlarged upon a limit hond, the sheriff can confine him again only on the bail’s becoming insufficient. He cannot accept a surrender of him; certainly not after an assignment of the hond. Ibid.
Pennsylvania. The bail to the sheriff entered special bail; on being excepted to, he refused to justify, whereupon he was sued on the bail bond, and he surrendered the principal before the return of the writ. Held, that the surrender was good, and the bail was entitled to relief on the usual terms. Stockton r. Throgmorton, 1 Baldwin’s C. C. R. 148.
No justification of bail is necessary, when special bail is entered for the purpose of a surrender. Ibid.
Bail may take the principal on a Sunday, or in another state. Johnson v. Tomkins, 1 Baldwin’s C. C. R. 577.
If the defendant be discharged under an insolvent law’ of the state where the contract is made, after the bail bond has been assigned to the plaintiff, the court will not order an exoneretur to be entered on the bail piece. Bosbyshell v. Oppenheimer, 4 Wash. C. C. R. 317.
By the Pennsylvania practice, filing the declaration before the return of the writ, is not a waiver of the bail. The English rule is otherwise, unless the declaration be filed de bene esse. Ibid.
The undertaking of the appearance bail can be no otherwise fulfilled, than by the defendant giving special bail, if so ruled; and that bail justifying, if excepted to. Ibid.
If, instead of ruling the marshal to bring in the body of the defendant, the plaintiff accept an assignment of the bail bond, and bring a suit thereon, still the court will not fix the appearance bail, if certain terms are complied with; one of which is the defendant’s entering special bail. Ibid.
Ou a rule on the plaintiff to show his cause of action, who thereupon filed a positive affidavit of the debt, the court will not order the party making the affidavit, to be examined on oath in court; no ground appearing to the court to justify a suspicion that the debt was not due. Champion v. Ross, 4 Wash. C. C. R. 325.
The court will not relieve the appearance bail, upon his delivering the principal in court, unless he put in and perfect special bail. Bosbyshell t?. Oppenheimer, 4 Wash. C. C. R. 317.
Although the special bail may deliver up the principal at any time before the second scire facias, it does not follow that the appearance bail may do it. Their engagements are of a different nature. Ibid.
Where the defendant is discharged under the insolvent law of the state where the debt was contracted, and has given special bail, the court will order an exoneretur to be entered on the bail piece. Richardson v. M‘Intyre, 4 Wash. C. C. R. 412.
If the special bail surrender the principal, who has been discharged under an insolvent law, the court will discharge the principal from custody. Ibid.
Under the act of assembly of Virginia, the defendant may enter special bail, and defend the suit at any time before the entering up of judgment, upon a writ of inquiry executed; and the appearance of the defendant, or the entry of special bail, before such judgment, discharges the appearance bail. Bartie v. Coleman, 6 Wheat. 475; 5 Cond. Rep. 142.
If the defendant does not appear, or give special bail, the appearance bail may defend the suit, and is liable to the same judgment as the defendant would have been liable to; but the defendant cannot appear and consent to a reference, the report and judgment on which is to bind the appearance bail as well as himself. Such a joint judgment is erroneous, and will be reversed as to both. Ibid.
District of Columbia. The hail is fixed by the death of the principal after the return of the ca. sc. and before the return of the scire facias; and the bail is not entitled to an exoneretur in such a case. Davidson v. Taylor, 12 Wheat. 604; 6 Cond. Rep. 660.
Ohio. The recognizance of special bail being a part of the proceedings in a suit, and subject to the regulation of the court, the nature, extent, and limitations of the responsibility created thereby, are to be decided, not by a mere examination of the terms of the instrument, but by a reference to the known rules of the court, and the principles of law applicable thereto. Whatever, in the sense of these rules and principles, will constitute n discharge of the liability of the special bail, must be deemed included within the purview of the instrument, as much as if it were expressly stated. Beers et al. v. Haughton, 9 Peters, 329.
By the rules of the circuit court of Ohio, adopted as early ns January, 1808, the liability of special bail was provided for and limited; and it was declared, that special bail may surrender their principal at any time before or after judgment against the principal, provided such surrender shall be before a return of a scire facias executed, or a second scire facias returned “nihil” against the bail. And this, in fact, constituted a part of the law of Ohio, at the time the present recognizance was given; the same having been so enacted by the legislature. This act of the legislature of Ohio, was in force at the time of the passage of the act of Congress of the 19th of May, 1828, regulating the process of the courts of the United States, in the new states; and must therefore be deemed as a part of the “modes of proceeding in suits,” and to have been adopted by it: so that the surrender of the principal within the time thus prescribed, is not a mere matter of favour of the court, but is strictly a matter of legal right. Ibid.
It is not strictly true, that on the return of “ non est inventus” to a capias ad satisfaciendum against the principal, the bail is “ fixed,” in courts acting professedly under the common law, and independently of statute. So much are the proceedings against bail deemed a matter subject to the regulation and practice of the court, that the court will not hesitate to relieve them in a summary manner, and direct an exoneretur to be entered in cases by the indulgence of the court, by giving them time to render the principal until the appearance day of the last scire facias against them, as in cases of strict right. Ibid.
When bail is entitled to be discharged, ex debito justitiæ, they may not only apply for an exoneretur by way of summary proceeding, but they may plead the matter as a bar to the suit, in their defence. But when the discharge is matter of indulgence only, the application is to the discretion of the court; and an exoneretur cannot be insisted on, except by way of motion. Ibid.
When the party is, by the practice of the court, entitled to an exoneretur without a positive surrender of the principal, according to the terms of the recognizance; he is, a fortiori, entitled to insist on it by way of defence, when he is entitled, ex debi to justitiæ, to surrender the principal. Ibid.
The doctrine is fully established, that where the principal would be clearly entitled to an immediate and unconditional discharge, if he had been surrendered, there the bail are entitled to relief by entering an exoneretur without any surrender. And, a fortiori, this doctrine will apply, when the law prohibits the party from being imprisoned at all, and where by the positive operation of law the surrender is prevented. Ibid.
Where the defendants in a judgment are not liable to be imprisoned, having been released under the insolvent laws of a state, the special bail is not bound to surrender them in his discharge. Beers et al. v. Haughton, 1 M’Lean’s C. C. R. 231.
To an action on the recognizance of bail, he may plead the discharge of his principal. Ibid.
To hold to bail under the statute of Illinois, the affidavit must state more than the belief of the assent, or the legal import of the action on which it is founded. Wright et al. u. Cayswell, 1 M’Lean’s C. C. R. 471.
The act of 20th February, 1839, which adopted the state laws, in regard to imprisonment of debtors, took immediate effect, as well in suits pending, as in other cases. Gray, Sherwood & Co. v. Monroe et al., 1 M’Lean’s C. C. R. 528.
The law relates to the remedy, and under it, when appearance bail has been given, the defendant may, on motion, be discharged on common bail. Ibid.
Bail in Admiralty, and in Prize Causes.—Where the court of admiralty has parted with the possession of the property upon bail or stipulation, and it is necessary Tor the purposes of justice to retake the property into the custody of the court, the proper process against any person not a party to the stipulation, but who is alleged to have the actual or constructive possession, is a monition, and not an execution in the first instance. The Gran Para, 10 Wheat. 497; 6 Cond. Rep. 199.
Wherever a stipulation is taken in an admiralty suit for property subjected to legal process and condemnation, the stipulation is deemed a mere substitute for the thing itself; and the stipulators are liable to the exercise of all those authorities on the part of the court, which it could properly exercise if the thing was in custody. The Palmyra, 12 Wheat, 1; 6 Cond. Rep. 397.
Regularly there should be no delivery of prize property on bail, until after a hearing of the cause, and in most cases a sale is preferable tn an appraisement. The George, 2 Gallis. C. C. R. 249.
Proceedings by libel were instituted upon a seizure of goods, and a bond given for their appraised value on the delivery of the goods to the claimant. Afterwards the libel was by amendment changed to an information, and the goods were condemned. On an application for an attachment against the obligors in the bond, it was held that although the case was not regularly within the 89th section of the collection law, yet a compliance with the stipulations in the bond might be enforced by attachment against the obligors. United States v. Four Part Pieces of Woollen Cloth, 1 Paine, 435.
And the court held that it made no difference that the obligors were only sureties, and had not themselves received the goods. Ibid.
If the claimant is not a party on the bond, all the obligors arc to be deemed principals. Ibid.
The bond was taken in the district court of New York, and under the statute dividing the district, the proceedings were transferred to the district court of the northern district, and by a subsequent statute to this court, where the condemnation took place. The condition of the bond was to pay the appraised value of the goods into the district court, if they should be condemned in that court. Held, that a condemnation in this court had the same effect to forfeit the bond. Ibid.
In prize causes, before a hearing, the property is never delivered on bail, unless by consent. If it is perishable, the proper remedy is by an appraisement and sale; and in like manner the court will decree a sale, pending the proceedings, for any other justifiable cause. After a hearing, the property may, in the discretion of the court, be delivered on bail. In cases ordered for further proof, a delivery on bail is sometimes allowed, to the claimants; and if they decline, to the captors. But it is a proceeding adopted with extreme caution, as it opens a door to many inconveniences, and sometimes to frauds. In no case should a delivery on hail take place, until the court is fully satisfied that the appraisement is perfectly fair, and the property estimated at its full value. The ship Euphrates, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 451.
Where, on the hearing, the property is acquitted, and an appeal is interposed to a tribunal not sitting within the same jurisdiction; or into which the property dues not follow the cause, (as an appeal to the supreme court of the United States,) the claimants are generally allowed a delivery of the property, or in a case of sale of the proceeds on bail. Where there is a decree of condemnation, the same rule is generally adopted, as to the captors. But it is always an application to the sound discretion of the court; and if there be danger of injustice, the court will withhold it from either party, and content itself with retaining the property, or with ordering a sale thereof, and a deposit of the proceeds in the registry. Ibid. 452.
If a bond, taken on the delivery of property on bail, be void, as not conforming to law, the court will enforce a redelivery of the property by attachment. The Struggle, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 476.
A bond voluntarily given upon the delivery of property on bail, on application of the claimant, is good; although the condition does not exactly conform to the act of Congress, under which it may have been intended to take it. Ibid.
The act of Congress of 2d March, 1799, chap. 22, is not understood as compulsory on the court as to the delivery on bail. It still rests in the discretion of the court. Ibid. 477.
The district courts of the United States have no authority, after an appeal, to bail or sell property. The Grotius, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 503.
Whether the security for property, delivered on bail, be by bond or stipulation, is immaterial. On such security, a summary judgment may be entered for the appraised value, and for the costs. The Alligator, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 145.
The district court, by virtue of its general admiralty jurisdiction, may deliver property on bail; and the form in which the security is taken is immaterial: on such security a summary judgment may be rendered to the appraised value. The Lively, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 315.
It is the duty of commissioners to whom it is referred to estimate damages, to make their report as specific as the nature of the thing will admit; so that not only the result, but the detail of their judgment should appear. Ibid.
In cases of restitution with damages, in prize proceedings, if in order to ascertain the damages, an inspection or a sale of the cargo be, in the judgment of the commissioner or the parties, necessary; application should be made to the court for an order of unlivery and appraisement, or for a sale, as the case may require. Ibid.
No delivery of property on bail, in a prize cause, can be made legally, where the United States are parties, without due notice to the district attorney. Ex parte Robbins, 2 Gallis. C. C. R. 320.
If the cargo is liable to deteriorate or perish, or the ship to be injured by the delay incident to the salvage proceedings, the proper course is to apply to the court for a sale thereof. It is not a matter of right of either party to have a delivery on bail in such cases. The Ship Nathaniel Hooper, 3 Sumner’s C. C. R. 542.
Act of March 1, 1817, ch. 30.
Commissioners to be appointed by the circuit courts of the U. States, for taking bail and affidavits, and the acknowledgments so taken to have the same effect as if taken before any judge of said court.
Fees for taking them.
Discretionary power to courts of U. States, in cases of depositions in perpetuam rei memoriam.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation.
That for defraying the expenses of the military establishment of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, for the Indian department, and for the expense of fortifications, magazines, arsenals and armories, the following sums, including the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars already appropriated by the first section of the act, entituled “An act 1812, ch. 16.
Specific appropriations.
For forage, one hundred and four thousand six hundred and twenty four dollars.
For subsistence, six hundred and eighty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-two dollars and five cents.
For clothing, two hundred and ninety-three thousand eight hundred and four dollars.
For bounties and premiums, seventy thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, fifty thousand dollars. Specific appropriations.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, one million one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
For fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, including two thousand dollars for such a number of additional military storekeepers as may be required, two hundred and ninety-six thousand and forty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents.
For the quartermaster general’s department, including camp equipage, fuel, tools, barracks, quarters, wagons and transportation, seven hundred And thirty-five thousand dollars.
For the purchase of horses for the dragoons and light artillery, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For contingencies, fifty thousand dollars.
For purchasing maps, plans, books and instruments, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the salary of the clerks employed in the military agent’s offices, and in the office of the inspector of the army, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the Indian department, one hundred and sixty-four thousand five hundred dollars.
For expenses of calling into actual service, in the years one thousand eight hundred and nine, one thousand eight hundred and ten, and one thousand eight hundred and eleven, the militia of the Louisiana and Indiana territories, and state of Kentucky, thirty-two thousand eight hundred dollars.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation.
That for defraying the necessary expense, to the first day of January next, of the troops to be raised by virtue of an act, entituled “An act to raise an additional military force,” passed on the eleventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred 1813, ch. 14.
For pay, one million four hundred and six thousand eight hundred Specific appropriations.
For forage, one hundred and fifty-four thousand four hundred and thirty-five dollars and thirty cents.
For subsistence, one million seventy-four thousand and ninety-seven dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For clothing, eight hundred and sixty-three thousand two hundred and forty-four dollars.
For bounties and premiums, four hundred and forty-two thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.
For the purchase of horses for the dragoons, and for the purchase of horses for the transportation of heavy artillery, ammunition and baggage, two hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars.
For the quartermaster general’s department, including harness and other equipage, quarters, fuel, tools and transportation, four hundred and eight thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Specific appropriations.
Land district formed.
Land-offices in Illinois.
March 3, 1791, ch. 27.
March 3, 1807, ch 46.
Feb. 21, 1812, ch. 29.
Feb, 27, 1815, ch. 63.
March 18, 1818, ch. 17.
May 11, 1820, ch. 85.
May 8, 1822, ch. 124.
March 16, 1824, ch. 29.
How the lands are to be disposed of.
Part of the lands attached to the Vincennes district, how to be disposed of.
Act of April 30, 1810, ch. 35.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation for the expenses of the navy.
That for defraying the expenses of the navy, during the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, the following sums, including therein the sum of four hundred thousand dollars already appropriated by the act, entituled “An act Specific appropriations. 1812, ch. 16.
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, one million one hundred and twenty-three thousand three hundred and forty-one dollars.
For provisions, five hundred and fifty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars.
For medicines, instruments, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, forty thousand dollars.
For repairs of vessels, three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
For freight, store rent and all other contingent expenses, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
For the expenses of navy yards, comprising docks and other improvements, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks and labourers, sixty thousand dollars.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising cannon, carronades, muskets, pistols and other small arms, cannon ball and shot of every description, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of saltpetre and sulphur, and for making the same into powder, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore and forage for the staff, one hundred and fifty-four thousand three hundred and forty-six dollars and eighty cents.
For clothing for the same, forty-nine thousand two hundred and eighty-one dollars and sixty cents.
For military stores for the same, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For medicines, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick, belonging to the marine corps, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For quartermasters and barrack-masters’ stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorers and carpenters’ bills, fuel, premiums for enlisting men, musical instruments, bounty to music and other contingent expenses of the marine corps, twenty thousand dollars.
For the relief of the legal representatives of David Valenzin, deceased, being the amount of a former appropriation for that object, carried to the surplus fund, two thousand six hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy cents.
[Obsolete.]
Act of April 12, 1808,ch. 43.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Officers of light artillery to receive the same, when mounted, as light dragoons.
Proviso.
Saddler and farrier to be provided for each company of artillery, when mounted.
[Obsolete.]
That for the expenditure of the civil list in the present year, including the contingent expenses of the several departments and offices; for the compensation of the several loan officers and their clerks, and for books and stationery for the same; for the payment of annuities and grants; for the support of the mint establishment; for the expense of intercourse with foreign nations; for the support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers; for defraying the expenses of surveying the public lands; and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims, the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
Specific appropriations.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, fifty thousand dollars.
For all contingent expenses of the library of Congress, and for the librarian’s allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons employed 1806, ch. 41.
For compensation to a clerk on old records in the said department, for the year eighteen hundred and eleven, and the year eighteen hundred and twelve, fifteen hundred and seventy-four dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks in the said department, not exceeding fifteen per centum, in addition to the sum allowed by the act, entituled “An act to regulate and fix the compensation of clerks, and to authorize the laying out certain public roads, and for other purposes,” one thousand seventy-two dollars and fifty cents.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For printing and distributing the laws of the first session of the twelfth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, five thousand five hundred dollars.
For printing and binding five hundred copies of the census of one thousand eight hundred and ten, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand seven 1806, ch. 41. Specific appropriations.
For expense of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in transmitting passports and sea letters, and for stationery and printing in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, clerks and persons 1306, ch. 41.
For expense of stationery, printing and incidental and contingent expenses of the comptroller’s office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand seven hundred and seventy-one dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing and incidental and contingent expenses of the auditor’s office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer, clerks and persons employed in his office, five thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-five cents.
For expense of stationery, printing and incidental and contingent expenses in the treasurer’s office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars and two cents.
For additional compensation to the clerks in the treasury department, 1806, ch. 41.
For compensation to the messenger of the register’s office, for stamping and arranging ship’s registers, ninety dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing and all other incidental and contingent expenses in the register’s office, including books for the public stocks, and for the arrangement of the marine records, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel and other contingent and incidental expenses of the treasury department, four thousand dollars.
For the purchase of books, maps and charts for the use of the treasury department, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to a superintendent, employed to secure the buildings and records of the treasury department, during the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, including the expense of two watchmen, the repairs of two fire engines, buckets, lanterns and other incidental and contingent expenses, one thousand one hundred dollars.
For defraying the expense of slating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, twelve hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks and persons employed 1806, ch. 41.
Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of two thousand 1806, ch. 41.
For additional compensation to the clerks in the war department, not exceeding fifteen per centum, in addition to the sum allowed by the act, 1306, ch. 41.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the war department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the paymaster’s office, including the sum of three hundred and twelve dollars for deficiency in the appropriation of the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and a further sum of one thousand two hundred dollars in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, four thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars.
For contingent expenses in the said office, two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the purveyor of public supplies, clerks and persons employed in his office, and for expense of stationery, store rent and 1806, ch. 41.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, eight thousand six hundred and eighty-five dollars.
For expenses of stationery, fuel, printing and other contingent expenses in the said office, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand one hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the navy, one thousand dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks in the navy department, not exceeding fifteen per centum, in addition to the sum allowed by the act, entituled “An act to regulate and fix the compensation of clerks, and to authorize the laying out certain public roads, and for other purposes,” one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster-General, assistant Postmaster-General, clerks and persons employed in the Postmaster-General’s office, including the sum of two thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars for compensation to clerks in addition to the sum allowed by the act of 1806, ch. 41.
For the expense of fuel, house rent for the messenger, candles, stationery, chests, &c. incident to the Postmaster-General’s office, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks employed in the Postmaster-General’s office, not exceeding fifteen per centum, in addition to the sum allowed by the 1806, ch. 41.
For compensation to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand two 1806, ch. 41.
For compensation to the clerks of the commissioners of loans, and for Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the surveyor-general and his clerks, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of the lands south of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, and for stationery and other contingencies, including the sum of fifteen hundred dollars for clerk hire in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that object, four thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the officers of the mint, viz:
The director, two thousand dollars.
The treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars.
The assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The chief coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The melter and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars.
One clerk at seven hundred dollars; and one clerk at five hundred dollars.
For wages to the persons employed in melting, coining, carpenters, millwrights, and smiths’ work, including the sum of one thousand dollars allowed to an assistant coiner and die forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, and of six hundred dollars allowed to an assistant engraver, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs of furnaces, cost of rollers and screws, timber, bar iron, lead, steel, potash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For an allowance for wastage in the gold and silver coinage, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the territory of Orleans, thirteen thousand dollars.
For clerk hire, expense of stationery, and other contingent expenses of said territory, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Mississippi territory, including the sum of six hundred dollars for clerk hire in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, nine thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Indiana territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Michigan territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Louisiana territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Illinois territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, two thousand dollars.
Specific appropriations. 1811, ch. 40.
For the like compensation granted to the several district attornies of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation granted to the several marshals for the districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, East and West Tennessee and Orleans, two thousand two hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures and penalties, and for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.
For the payment of a balance due for the salary of Robert H. Harrison, deceased, formerly a judge of the supreme court of the United States, the same having heretofore been carried to the surplus fund, five hundred and fifty-six dollars and sixteen cents.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present government, nine hundred and sixty dollars.
For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the fifth of March one thousand eight hundred and twelve, to the fourth of March one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, ninety-eight thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers, stakeages of channels, bars and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, ninety-three thousand one hundred dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For defraying the expense of surveying the public land within the several territories of the United States, forty-eight thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
For surveying the coast of the United States, being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the credit of the surplus fund, forty-nine thousand two hundred and eighty-four dollars and twenty-five cents.
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, seventy-three thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, one hundred thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, fifteen thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses of regulating, laying out, and making a road from Cumberland in the state of Maryland to Ohio, agreeably to an act of Congress, passed the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand 1806, ch. 19.
For expenses of prosecuting claims and appeals in the courts of Great Britain, in relation to captures of American vessels, and defending causes elsewhere, four thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United Specific appropriations.
For defraying the expenses authorized by the eleventh section of the act of March the second, eighteen hundred and eleven, entituled “An 1811, ch. 30.
Secretary of the Treasury authorized to purchase Winslow Lewis’ patent right for lighting light, houses.
The sum to be allowed for lighting not to exceed the annual appropriation for the last seven years.
Appropriation.
[Obsolete.]
Act of April 28, 1810, ch. 34.
Postmaster-General, under direction of the President, authorised to repair and finish the Great Hotel for the accommodation of the post-office department and patent office.
When these offices are to be removed.
Appropriation.
[Obsolete.]
Board of commissioners’, west of Pearl river, accounts to be settled and paid.
Appropriation of five hundred thousand dollars in addition to former appropriations.
Act of Feb. 27, 1813, ch. 38.
Further time given for registering claims in the land-office at Opelousas.
Duties of the register and receiver of public monies of the land-office at Opelousas.
The reports of the register and receiver to be laid before Congress.
Allowance on claims filed.
Act of March 22, 1808, ch. 38.
Sessions of the circuit court changed to the second Monday in October, at Knoxville, in East Tennessee.
1807, ch. 16.
1831, ch. 1.
Process, &c. &c. returnable, &c. &c. accordingly.
Steamboats belonging to aliens, to be enrolled and licensed.
Act of Feb. 18, 1793, ch. 8.
Owners of such boats to give bonds, &c.
Act of July 6, 1812, ch. 136.
Limitation of sum to be borrowed.
The U. States may reimburse any sum borrowed after twelve years.
Certificates of stock to be constituted.
Interest thereon.
How transferable.
Proviso.
Funds pledged for paying principal and interest.
Faith of the U. States pledged for the establishment of sufficient revenue to make up deficiencies.
Lawful for the banks in the district of Columbia to make the Joan or any part thereof.
Act of Jan. 11, 1812, ch. 14.
Uniform clothing to the non-commissioned officers.
Light artillery to receive the same clothing as the light dragoons.
Officers to take rank, except the generals, as the President may direct.
The 10th section of the act incorporating the Bank of the United States, February 25, 1791, chap. 10, repealed by this law, was as follows:—
Section 10, of the act of February 25, 1791, chap. 10: “And be it further enacted, That the bills or notes of the said corporation, originally made payable, or which shall have become payable on demand, in gold and silver coin, shall be received in all payments to the United States.
[Obsolete.]
The tenth section of the act incorporating the bank repealed.
See notes to act of April 29, 1802, chap. 23.
Terms of the court changed.
At Portsmouth on the first day of May, and Exeter on the first day of October; at Newport on the fifteenth of June; at Providence on the fifteenth of November; at Boston on the fifteenth of May, and the fifteenth of October.
Proceedings to conform therewith.
Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 27.
1802, ch. 23, sec. 4.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Quartermaster’s department how composed.
1812, ch. 92.
Rank, pay, fee. &c. of the quartermaster general, &c. &c.
1808, ch. 43.
Their duties, &c. &c.
Commissary general, &c. &c. to be appointed.
Their duties, &c. &c.
Quartermaster general and commissary general, &c. &.c. inhibited from trade.
1812, ch. 92.
Compensation of the commissary general, &c. &c.
Commissary general to give bond, &c. &c.
Office of purveyor abolished.
1795, ch. 27.
Quartermaster and commissary general’s letters to be free.
Compensation of the clerks of the quartermaster and commissary general’s offices.
Wagon-masters to be appointed by the quartermaster general.
Wagon-masters inhibited from dealing in wagons, &c.
Compensation of the wagon-masters.
Forage-master to be appointed.
Forage-master prohibited from trading in articles of forage.
Compensation of forage-master, &c. &c.
Conductors of artillery to be appointed.
Repeal of part of a former act.
1802, ch. 9.
Deputy commissaries exempt from military law.
President authorized to make the appointments in recess of Senate.
Preceding nets relating to the Navy of the United States:—
Act of March 22, 1794, . . Vol. i. 350
Act of April 20, 1796, . . . “ i. 453.
Act of July 1, 1797, . . . “ i. 523.
Act of April 27, 1798, . . . “ i. 652.
Act of May 4, 1798, . . . “ i. 556.
Act of June 22, 1798, . . . “ i. 575.
Act of February 25, 1799, . . “ i. 621.
Act for the government of the navy of the United States.
March 2, 1799, chap. 24, Vol. i. 709.
Act of March 1, 1817, ch. 81.
Certain frigates to be repaired and put into commission.
Appropriation.
Officers of the navy may be increased accordingly.
An annual appropriation tor the purchase of materials adapted to die rebuilding and repair of certain frigates.
How the sums appropriated are to be paid.
Gun boats to be distributed to be used as circumstances may require.
Pursers to be appointed by the President with the approbation of the Senate.
Right of the United States to a certain portion of ground in the city of New Orleans ceded to the city.
Proviso, that the ground shall be occupied within three years.
Proviso.
[Expired.]
Embargo laid for ninety days.
Proviso.
Bonds to be given that all goods, See. &c. shipped in the ports of the U. States shall be relanded in others of the United States.
Penalties for going to foreign ports.
Penalties, how to be recovered, distributed, &c.
1799, ch. 22.
1797, ch. 13.
1800, ch. 6.
Proviso.
The decisions of the Supreme Court on the extension of the laws of the United States to Louisiana, and the practice of the courts of the United States in the district of Louisiana, have been:—
As, by the laws of Louisiana, questions of fact in civil cases are tried by the court, unless either of the parties demand a jury, in an action of debt on a judgment, the interest on the original judgment maybe computed, and make part of the judgment in Louisiana, without a writ of inquiry, and the intervention of a jury. Mayhew v. Thatcher, 6 Wheat. 129; 5 Cond, Rep. 34.
By the treaty by which Louisiana was acquired, the United States stipulated that the inhabitants of the ceded territories should be protected in the free enjoyment of their property. The United States, as a just nation, regard this stipulation as the avowal of a principle which would have been held equally sacred, although it had not been inserted in the treaty. Soulard et al. v. The United States, 4 Peters, 511.
The term property, as applied to lands, comprehends every species of title, inchoate or complete. It is supposed to embrace those rights which be in contract; those which are executory, as well as those which are executed. In this respect, the relation of the inhabitants of Louisiana to their government, is not changed. The new government takes the place of that which is passed away. Ibid.
By the provisions of the acts of Congress, Louisiana, when she came into the Union, had organized therein a district court of the United States, having the same jurisdiction, except as to appeals and writs of error, as the circuit courts of the United States in other states; and the modes of proceeding in that court, were required to be according to the principles, rules, and usages which belong to courts of equity, as contradistinguished from courts of common law. And whether there were or not, in the several states, courts of equity proceeding according lo such principles and usages, made no difference, according to the construction uniformly given by the supreme court. Livingston r. Story, 9 Peters, 632.
The provisions of the act of Congress of 1824, relative lo the practice of the courts of the United States in Louisiana, contain the descriptive term civil actions, which embrace cases at law and in equity; and may be fairly construed as used in contradistinction to criminal causes. They apply equally to cases in equity; and if there are any laws in Louisiana directing the mode of proceeding in equity causes, they are adopted by that act, and will govern the practice in the courts of the United States. Ibid.
Under the law of Louisiana, there are two kinds of pledges, the pawn and the antichresis. A thing is said to be pawned, when a movable is given as a security; the antichresis consists of immovables. Livingston u. Story, II Peters, 351.
L. conveyed, in 1822, in fee simple, to F. and S., certain real estate in New Orleans, by deed, for a sum of money paid to him, and took from them a counter-letter, signed by them; by which it was agreed, that on the payment of a sum stated in it, on a day stated, the property should be reconveyed by them to L.; and if not so paid, the property should be sold by an auctioneer; and, after repaying, out of the proceeds, the sum mentioned in the counter-letter, the balance should be paid to L. The money was not paid on the day appointed, and a further time was given for its payment, with additional interest and charges; and if not paid at the expiration of the time, it should be sold by an auctioneer. An agreement was at the same time made by L., that the counter-letter should be delivered up to F. and S., and cancelled. The money not being paid, it was again agreed between the parties, that if on a subsequent day fixed upon, it should not, with an additional amount for interest, &c., be paid, the property should belong absolutely to F. and S. The money was not paid, and F. and S. afterwards held the property as their own. The supreme court held tins transaction to be an antichresis, according to the civil code of Louisiana: and on a bill filed in the district court of the United States, for the eastern district of Louisiana, in 1832, decreed that the rents and profits of the estate should be accounted for by S., who had become the sole owner of the property by purchase of F’s moiety, and that the property should be sold by an auctioneer, unless the balance due S., after charging the sum due at the time last agreed upon for the payment of the money, and legal interest, with all the expenses of the estate, deducting the rents and profits, should be paid to S.; and on payment of the balance due S-, the residue should be paid to the legal representative of L. Ibid.
The antichresis must be reduced to writing. The creditor acquires by this contract, the right of reaping the fruits, or oilier rewards of the immovables given to him in pledge, on condition of deducting, annually, their proceeds from the interest, if any be due to him, and afterwards from the principal of his debt. The creditor is bound, unless the contrary is agreed on, to pay the taxes, as well as the annual charges of the property given to him in pledge. He is likewise bound, under the penalty of damages, to provide for the keeping and necessary repairs of the pledged estate; and may lay out, from the revenues of the estate, sufficient for such expenses. Ibid.
The creditor does not become proprietor of the pledged immovables, by the failure of payment at the stated time; any clause to the contrary is null: and in that case, it is only lawful for him to sue his debtor before the court, in order to obtain a sentence against him, and to cause the objects which have been put into his hands, to be seized and sold. Ibid.
The debtor cannot, before the full payment of his debt, claim the enjoyment of the immovables which he has given in pledge; but the creditor, who wishes to free himself from the obligations under the antichresis, may always, unless he has renounced this right, compel the debtor to retake the enjoyment of his immovables. Ibid.
The doctrine of prescription, under the civil law, does not apply to this case, which is one of pledge; and if it does, the time before the institution of this suit had not elapsed, in which, by the law of Louisiana, a person may sue Tor immovable property. Ibid.
By the contract of antichresis, the possession of the property is transferred to the person advancing the money. In case of failure to pay, the property is to be sold by judicial process; and the sum which it may bring, over the amount for which it was pledged, is to be paid to the person mailing the pledge. Ibid.
If any rule has been made by the district court of Louisiana, abolishing chancery practice in that court, it is a violation of those rules which the supreme court of the United States has passed to regulate tho courts of equity of the United States. Those rules are as obligatory on the courts of the United States in Louisiana, as they are upon all other courts of the United States; and the only modifications or additions which can be made by the circuit or district courts, are such as shall not be inconsistent with the rules prescribed. When the rules prescribed by the supreme court do not apply, the practice of the circuit and district courts shall be regulated by the practice of the high court of chancery in England. Story v. Livingston, 13 Peters, 359.
The supreme court has said, upon more than one occasion, after mature deliberation upon able arguments of distinguished counsel against it, that the courts of the United States in Louisiana, possess equity powers under the constitution and laws of the United States. That if there are any laws in Louisiana, directing the mode of procedure in equity causes, they are adopted by the act of 26th May, 1829; and will govern the practice in the courts of the United States. But if there are no laws regulating the practice in any equity causes, the rules of chancery practice in Louisiana, mean the rules described by the supreme court, for the government of the courts of the United States, under the act of Congress of May 8, 1792, chap. 36, sec. 2. Ibid.
Act of Feb. 15, 1811, ch.21.
Act of May 22, 1812, ch. 93.
Preamble.
1812, ch. 57.
Act of Feb. 20, 1811, ch. 21.
Louisiana to be admitted into the Union, as an independent state.
Proviso.
Act of April 14, 1812, ch.57.
To have one representative in the House of Representatives till otherwise provided.
Laws of the United States to be in force there.
Louisiana made a judicial district.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch.38.
Terms of the court.
Salary of the judges, &c. &c.
Attorney to be appointed.
Marshal also.
Salary of the marshal.
This act not to produce the repeal of a former one.
1804, ch. 13.
Act of Jan. 11, 1812, ch. 14.
Officers and soldiers to receive compensation as allowed to militia called into actual service.
Pensions to wounded officers and soldiers and to the families of such as were killed.
In case of death or marriage of widow, half pension to go to children under sixteen years.
Limitation of amount.
Pensions to be in proportion to the wounds, &c.
Compensation for disabilities not to exceed half monthly pay.
Horses killed in the battle of the Wabash to be paid for.
Further time given to such as were wounded, or to the representatives of those killed to make payment for public lands.
A justice of the peace, in the District of Columbia, is an officer of the government of the United States, and is exempt from militia duty. Wise r. Withers, 3 Cranch, 331; 1 Cond. Rep. 552.
The court martial has not exclusive jurisdiction of that question, and its sentence is not conclusive. Ibid.
Trespass lies against a collector of militia fines, who distrains for a fine imposed by a court martial, upon a person not liable to be enrolled in the militia; the court martial having no jurisdiction in such cases. Ibid.
The act of the state of Pennsylvania of 28th March, 1814, providing, by the 21st section, that the officers and privates of the militia of Pennsylvania, neglecting or refusing to serve when called into actual service, in pursuance of any order or requisition of the President of the United States, shall be liable to tho penalties defined in the act of Congress of 28th February, 1795, chap. 36, or to any penalty which may be imposed since the date of the act, or which may hereafter be prescribed by any law of the United States; and also providing Tor the trial of such delinquents by a state court martial, and that a list of the delinquents fined by such court, should be furnished to the marshal of the United States, and also to the comptroller of the treasury of the United States, in order that the further proceedings directed to be had thereon by the laws of the United States might be completed; is not repugnant to the laws and the constitution of the United States. Houston v. Moore, 5 Wheat. 1; 4 Cond. Rep. 589.
The act of February 28, 1795, chap. 36, to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, to suppress insurrections and repel invasions, is within the constitutional authority of Congress. Martin v. Mott, 12 Wheat. 19; 6 Cond. Rep. 410.
The President is the sole and exclusive judge whether the exigency has arisen, in which he is authorized to call out the militia. Ibid.
Where a party justifies, in an action against him, under the orders of the President calling out the militia, it is not necessary that he should aver in his pleadings, that the exigency had actually occurred; it is sufficient that the President has so decided, and has issued his orders; and if the fact of the existence of the exigency were averred, it might be traversed. Ibid.
Nor is it necessary to set forth the orders of the President at large; it is sufficient to state that the call made by the governor of the state was in obedience to the orders of the President. Ibid.
A requisition from the President upon the governor, is an order, in legal intendment. Ibid.
A militia man who refuses to obey the order of the President, calling him into public service, is liable to be tried for the offence, under the 5th section of the act of 1795. Ibid.
The 64th of the rules and articles of war, enacted by the act of April 10, 1806, chap. 20, which provides that general courts martial may consist of any number of commissioned officers, from five to thirteen inclusively, but they shall not consist of less than thirteen where that number can be convened without manifest injury to the service, being in a matter submitted to his sound discretion, is conclusive. Ibid,
This article, however, is not obligatory in cases where the court martial is convened to try militia-men who have neglected to obey die orders of the President, calling them into public service. Ibid.
Where there is no positive statutory regulation as to the number of persons of whom the court is to be constituted, reference must be had to the general usage of the military service, or what may be called the customary military law. Ibid.
Courts martial, when duly organized, are bound to execute their duties, and regulate their modes of proceeding by this customary military law in the absence of positive enactment. Ibid.
In a case out of the operation of the articles of war, the sentence of a court martial, which has been approved by the President, is sufficiently approved. Ibid.
A court martial regularly called under the act of 1795, does not expire with the termination of the war then existing; nor is its jurisdiction to try offences in any way dependent upon the fact of war or peace. Ibid.
Where, in an action of replevin, the defendant being a deputy marshal of the United States, avowed and justified the taking of the plaintiff’s goods, by virtue of a warrant issued to the marshal of the district, to collect a fine imposed by the judgment of a court martial, described as a general court martial, composed of officers of the militia of the state of New York, in the service of the United States, (six in number, and naming them,) duly organized and convened by general orders issued pursuant to the act of Congress of February 28, 1795, chap. 36, for the trial of those of the militia of the state of New York, ordered into the service of the United States, in the third military district, who had refused to rendezvous and enter into the service of the United States, in obedience to the order of the commander in chief of the state of New York, of the 4th and 29th of August, 1814, issued in compliance with the requisition of the President, made in pursuance of the same act of Congress; and alleging that the plaintiff being a private in the militia, neglected and refused to rendezvous, &c.; and was regularly tried by the said general court martial, and duly convicted of the said delinquency: Held, that the avowry was good. Ibid.
Alien enemies, who had enrolled themselves as volunteers, and been accepted by the President, under the act of February 6th, 1812, chap. 21, arc not entitled to a discharge on the ground of such alienage; there being no law enjoining the President from accepting their services. Wilson et al. v. Izard et al., Paine’s C. C. R. 68.
It seems that the President had a right to accept volunteers to serve at a particular post, as well as for general service; the act being silent on the subject: at any rate, he had a discretion on the subject, not to be controlled by a court of justice. Ibid.
The insertion in the enrolment, of the officer’s name, under whom the volunteers were to serve, was meant merely to ascertain the post where they were to serve, by designating its commander; and not to attach them to his personal command, so that he could not be changed. Ibid.
[Expired.]
President authorized to call upon the executives Tor their quotas of militia to he equipped and armed.
Detachment of militia, how to be officered: general officers to be apportioned.
Pay and rations of the commissioned officers.
Term of service of the detachment not to exceed six months: non-commissioned officers, &c. Ac. their pay, emoluments, &c. &c.
President may call out the whole or part of the detachment into actual service.
1795, ch. 36.
No officer or soldier shall be liable to punishment by whip, ping.
Whipping abolished, &c. other punishments substituted.
Non-commissioned officers, how punishable.
Stoppage of pay and confined.
Specific appropriation.
Commencement and termination of this act.
Upon an indictment under the non-intercourse laws for putting goods on board a carriage, with intent to transport them out of the United States, contrary to the act of January 9th, 1809, the punishment of which offence is a fine of four times the value of the goods; it is not necessary that the jury should find the value of the goods. United States v. John Tyler, 7 Crunch, 285; 2 Cond. Rep. 492.
Under the non-intercourse law, a vessel, in March, 1 SI I, had no right to come into the waters of the United States, to inquire whether she might land her cargo. The Brig Penobscot v. The United States, 7 Crunch, 356; 2 Cond. Rep. 528.
Wines, the produce of France, imported into the United States before the non-intercourse act, re-exported to a Danish island, there sold to a merchant of that place, and thence exported to New Orleans during the operation of that act of Congress, were liable to forfeiture under that law. The Schooner Hoppet v. The United States, 7 Crunch, 389; 2 Cond. Rep. 542.
The non-intercourse act of March 1st, 1899, was in force between the 2d of February, and 2d of March, 181], by virtue of the President’s proclamation of November 2d, 1810. Schooner Anne v. The United States, 7 Crunch, 570; 2 Cond. Rep, 611.
The non-intercourse act of the 28th of June, 1809, which requires a vessel bound to a permitted port to give bond in double the amount of vessel and cargo not to go to a prohibited port, is applicable to a vessel sailing in ballast. The Ship Richmond v. The United States, 9 Cranch, 102; 3 Cond. Rep. 294.
Under the non-intercourse act of 1809, a vessel from Great Britain had a right to lay off the coast of the United States, to receive instructions from her owners in New York; and, if necessary, to drop anchor: and, in case of a storm, to make a harbor: and if prevented by a mutiny of her crew, from putting out to sea again, she might wait in the waters of the United States, for orders. The United States v. The Cargo of the Ship Fanny; Jennings, Master, 9 Cranch, 181; 3 Cond. Rep. 347.
Under the third section of the act of Congress of the 28th of June, 1809, every vessel bound to a foreign permitted port, was obliged to give a bond, with a condition not to proceed to any port with which commercial intercourse was not permitted, nor to trade with such port The Edward; Scott, Claimant, 1 Wheat. 261; 3 Cond. Rep. 565.
Exportation of specie and goods of foreign manufacture forbidden.
Act of April 4, 1812, ch. 49.
Proviso.
1812, ch. 49.
Any portion of the land or naval force of the United States may be employed to prevent a violation of the embargo.
Penalties, &c. &c. how to be recovered.
1812, ch. 49.
Act of Feb. 15, 1811, ch. 14.
Act of April 8, 1812, ch. 50.
Limits of the state enlarged.
Legislature to make provision for the representation of the people and territory thus incorporated at their first session.
Act of Feb, 27, 1813, ch. 38.
Further time allowed for registering claims.
Limitation of notices.
Duties of register and receiver, &c. &c.
To report to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Allowance of fees.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
A corps of artificers to be attached to the Quartermaster’s apartment.
Pay of superintendent or artificers, assistants, &c.
Regular returns to be made to the Secretary of War by the superintendent.
Term of service of the corps.
Appropriation of thirty thousand dollars.
See notes to the act of March 3, 1807, chap. 34.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 99.
Patents, to be granted to persons whose claims have been confirmed.
Proviso, that the confirmation shall be conformable to law.
Donations of vacant lands, how regulated.
Where bends of the river, an equal quantity to be granted, as, commissioners may determine.
Commissioners to give a certificate.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 34.
Heirs of Joseph Harrison may be permitted to make an entry in the land-office for the district of Detroit.
Specific grants to sundry persons.
Act of March 16, 1804, ch. 23.
Act of February 24, 1810, ch. 12.
Reservations.
Act of July 6, 1812, ch. 134.
Purchasers prior to 1st April, 1808.
Allowed three years from 1st January, 1813.
Land to be sold on failure to pay.
Act of Feb. 20, 1804, ch. 12. Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 103.
Act of Feb. 20, 1819, ch. 15.
Act of 1804 continued for three years.
Additional appropriation of $7,752 50
1812, ch. 33.
Upon the titles to lands in this country, the following decisions have been made by the Supreme Court:—
By the treaty of St. Ildefonso, made on the 1st of October, 1800, Spain ceded Louisiana to France; and France, by the treaty of Paris, signed the 30th of April, 1803, ceded it to the United States. Under this treaty, the United States claimed the countries between the Iberville and the Perdido. Spain contended that her cession to France comprehended only that territory which at the time of the cession was denominated Louisiana, consisting of the island of New Orleans, and the country which had been originally ceded to her by France, west of the Mississippi. The land claimed by the plaintiffs in error, under a grant from the crown of Spain, made after the treaty of St. Ildefonso, lies within the disputed territory; and this case presents the question, to whom did the country between the Iberville and Perdido belong after the treaty of St. Ildefonso ? Had France and Spain agreed upon the boundaries of the retroceded territory before Louisiana was acquired by the United States; that agreement would undoubtedly have ascertained its limits. But the declarations of France, made after parting with the province, cannot be admitted as conclusive. In questions of this character, political considerations have too much influence over the conduct of nations, to permit their declarations to decide the course of an independent government, in a matter vitally interesting to itself. Foster et al. v. Neilson, 2 Peters, 306.
If a Spanish grantee had obtained possession of the land in dispute so as to be the defendant, would a court of the United States maintain his title under a Spanish grant, made subsequent to the acquisition of Louisiana, singly on the principle that the Spanish construction of the treaty of St. Ildefonso was right, and the American construction wrong ? Such a decision would subvert those principles which govern the relations between the legislative and judicial departments, and mark the limits of each. Ibid. 309.
The sound construction of the 8th article of the treaty between the United States and Spain, of the 22d of February, 1829, will not enable the court to apply its provisions to the case of the plaintiff. Ibid. 314.
The article does not declare that all the grants made by his Catholic Majesty before the 24th January, 1818, shall be valid to the same extent as if the ceded territories had remained under his dominion. It does not say that those grants are hereby confirmed. Had such been its language, it would have acted directly on the subject, and it would have repealed those acts of Congress which were repugnant to it; but its language is, that those grants shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession, &c. By whom shall they be ratified and confirmed ? This seems to be the language of contract; and if it is, the ratification and confirmation which are promised must be the act of the legislature. Until such act shall be passed, the court is not at liberty to disregard the existing laws on the subject. Ibid.
Congress, in order to guard against imposition, declared, by the law of 1804, that all grants of land made by the Spanish authorities in the territory west of the Perdido, after the treaty of St. Ildefonso, should be null and void, excepting those to actual settlers, acquired before December 20, 1803. Garcia v. Lee, 12 Peters, 511.
The controversy relative to the country lying between the Mississippi and the Perdido rivers, and the validity of the grants made by Spain in the disputed territory after the cession of Louisiana to the United States, were carefully examined in the case of Foster & Elam v. Neilson. The supreme court, in that case, decided that the question of boundary between the United States and Spain was a question for the political departments of the government: that the legislative and executive branches having decided the question, the courts of the United States are bound to regard the boundary determined by them as the true one; that grants made by the Spanish authorities of lands, which, according to this boundary line, belonged to the United States, gave no title to the grantees, in opposition to those claiming under the United States; unless the Spanish grants were protected by the subsequent arrangements made between the two governments; and that no such arrangements were to be found in the treaty of 1819, by which Spain ceded the Floridas to the United States, according to the fair import of its words, and its true construction. Ibid.
In the case of Foster & Elam v. Neilson, the supreme court said that the Florida treaty of 1819, declares that all grants made before the 24th of January, 1818, by the Spanish authorities, “shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands, to the same extent that the same grants would be valid, if the territories had remained under the dominion of his Catholic Majesty:” and in deciding the case of Foster & Elam, the court held, that even if this stipulation applied to lands in the territory in question, yet the words used did not import a present confirmation by virtue of the treaty itself, but that they were words of contract: “that the ratification and confirmation which were promised, must be the act of the legislature; and until such shall be passed, the court is not at liberty to disregard the existing laws on the subject.” Afterwards, in the case of the United States v. Percheman, 7 Peters, 86, in reviewing the words of the 8th article of the treaty; the court, for the reasons there assigned, came to a different conclusion; and held, that the words were words of present confirmation, by the treaty, where the land had been rightfully granted before the cession; and that it did not need the aid of an act of Congress to ratify and confirm the grant. This language was, however, applied by the court, and was intended to apply to grants made in a territory which belonged to Spain at the time of the grant. The case then before the court was one of that description. It was in relation to a grant of land in Florida, which unquestionably belonged to Spain at the time the grant was made; and where the Spanish authorities had an undoubted right to grant, until the treaty of cession in 1819. It is of such grants that the court speak, when they declare them to be confirmed and protected by the true construction of the treaty; and that they do not need the aid of an act of Congress to ratify and confirm the title of the purchaser. The court do not apply this principle to grants made within the territory of Louisiana. The case of Foster & Elam v. Neilson must, in all other respects, be considered as affirmed by the case of Percheman; as it underwent a careful examination in that case, and as none of its principles were questioned except that referred to. Ibid.
Act of April 18, 1814, ch. 85.
Act of May 8, 1822, ch. 128.
Two land districts to be laid off.
Commissioners to be appointed.
Clerk.
Oath.
Commissioners and clerks to attend in the parishes.
Twenty days’ notice to be given.
Each Commissioner to keep an office.
Six months allowed to deliver notice and evidence.
Any French, British, or Spanish grants.
To be delivered for recording.
Recording fees.
Complete French, British or Spanish grants.
Neglect to give notice invalidates the claim.
1814, ch. 85.
And prevents proof of claim being evidence against other grants.
Duty and power of commissioners.
Clerk to enter evidence.
Surveyor of lands south of the Tennessee, powers enlarged.
Abstracts to be made out and forwarded to the Secretary of the Treasury by the commissioners.
A list of actual settlers to be made by commissioners and reported to Congress.
Rates of compensation.
Proviso.
Office established.
Commissioner to be appointed.
His duties.
Chief clerk to be appointed.
Oaths of office to be taken by all persons employed.
A seal to be provided.
Copies of records under the signature of the commissioner and the seal evidence
Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 352, sec. 7.
Commissioner to have the custody of the seal and of the books, papers and records relating to land.
Commissioner upon the requisition of the President or Congress, to make plats, &c.
Warrants to be given by Secretary of War for military lands.
Patents to be issued.
Patents how to be executed.
Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 352, sec. 10.
Returns to be made to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Accounts to be settled at the commissioner’s office.
Proviso.
No person employed in the office to be engaged, directly or indirectly in the purchase of public lands.
Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 352, sec. 14.
Commissioner of the land-office, how to be appointed.
Compensation.
Commissioner to have the privilege of franking.
1810, ch. 37, sec. 24.
Clerks to be employed.
Proviso.
An act providing for the payment of the invalid pensioners of the United States. (Expired.) September 29, 1789, chap. 24.
An act further to provide for the payment of the invalid pensioners of the United States. (Expired.) July 16, 1790, chap. 27.
An act to provide for the settlement of the claims of widows and orphans, barred by the limitations heretofore established, and to regulate the claims to invalid pensions. (Obsolete.) March 23, 1792, chap. 11.
An act to regulate the claims to invalid pensions. (Obsolete.) February 28, 1793, chap. 17.
An act concerning invalids. (Obsolete.) June 7, 1794, chap. 57.
Resolution. (Obsolete.) June 9, 1794.
Resolution. (Obsolete.) April 18, 1796.
An act to make provision for persons that have been disabled by known wounds received in the actual service of the United States, during the revolutionary war. (Repealed.) March 3, 1803, chap. 37.
An act for the relief of certain military pensioners in the state of South Carolina. Obsolete.) March 3, 1804, chap. 18.
An act in addition to “an act making provision for persons that have been disabled by known wounds received in the actual service of the United States, during the revolutionary war,” March 3, 1805, chap. 44.
An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war, April 10, 1806, chap. 25.
An act to revive and continue in force, “an act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war,” and for other purposes. (Expired.) April 25, 1812, chap. 69.
An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war, March 18, 1818, chap. 18.
An act concerning invalid pensioners. (Expired.) March 3, 1819, chap. 97.
An act in addition to an act entitled, “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war,” passed the 18th day of March, 1818, May 1, 1820, chap. 51.
An act to revive and continue in force, “an act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war,” and for other purposes. (Expired.) May 15, 1820, ch. 108.
An act to revive and continue in force an act entitled, “An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war.” (Expired.) February 4, 1822, chap. 6.
An act supplementary to the acts providing for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, March 3, 1823, chap. 58.
An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution, May 15, 1828, chap. 53.
An act supplementary to the “act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution,” June 7, 1832, chap. 126.
An act to amend the act entitled, “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army,” July 14, 1832, chap. 237.
Resolution in relation to the execution of an act supplemental to an act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the revolution, July 14, 1832.
An act to amend an act entitled, “An act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army,” February 19, 1833, chap. 31.
Resolution in relation to the execution of the act supplemental to the act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the revolution, March 2, 1833.
An act granting half pay to widows or orphans when their husbands or fathers have died of wounds received in the military service of the United States, in certain cases, and for other purposes, July 4, 1836, chap. 362.
An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows, July 7, 1838, chap. 189.
An act to amend the act of July 18, 1836 and 1838, allowing pensions to certain widows, August 23, 1842., chap. 191.
An act to continue the pensions to certain widow’s, June 17, 1844, chap. 102.
Former act revived and continued in force.
Agents for paying invalid pensions to give bonds, &c. &c.
Vessels chartered by government, permitted to depart.
Act of April 9, 1814, ch. 49.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 94.
District court to consist of two judges.
Senior judge’s opinion to be the judgment of the court.
One judge may constitute the court, either, in the absence of the other, to assist in forming the circuit court.
Times and places of holding the district court at Utica, Geneva and Salem.
A clerk to be appointed to reside at Utica.
Act of Feb. 28, 1799, ch. 19.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
A company of bombardiers, sappers and miners to be formed.
To be officered from the corps of engineers.
The same pay and emoluments as allowed in the regiment of artillerists.
Military academy how constituted.
Act of March 16, 1802, ch. 9, sec 28.
Professor of natural philosophy.
Professor of mathematics.
Professor of engineering.
Assistant professor.
Proviso.
Number of cadets limited
to two hundred and fifty.
Regulations concerning them.
Age and qualifications of the candidates.
Term of service.
When cadets shall be considered as candidates for promotion.
Proviso.
Appropriation for military academy.
Twenty-sixth section of act of March 16, 1802, ch. 9, repealed.
In 1822, Congress passed an act authorizing the corporation of Washington to drain the ground in and near certain public reservations, and to improve and ornament certain parts of the public reservations. The corporation are empowered to make an agreement, by which parts of the location of the canal shall be changed, for the purpose of draining and drying the low grounds near the Pennsylvania avenue, &c. To effect these objects, the corporation is authorized to lay off in building lots certain parts of the public reservations, No. 10, 11, and 12, and of other squares, and also a part of B. street, as laid out and designated in the original plan of the city, which lots they may sell at auction, and apply the proceeds to those objects, and afterwards to enclosing, planting and improving other reservations, and building bridges, &c.; the surplus, if any, to be paid into the treasury of the United States. The act authorizes the heirs, &c. of the former proprietors of the land on which the city was laid out, who may consider themselves injured by the purposes of the act, to institute in the circuit court a bill in equity, in the nature of a petition of right, against the United States, setting forth the grounds of any claim they may consider themselves entitled to make, to be conducted according to the rules of a court of equity; the court to hear and determine upon the claim of the plaintiffs, and what portion, if any, of the money arising from the sale of the lots they may be entitled to, with a right of appeal to the supreme court. The plaintiffs, Van Ness and wife, filed in the circuit court their bill against the United States and the corporation of Washington, claiming title to the lots which had been thus sold, under David Burns, the original proprietor of that part of the city, and father of one of the plaintiffs, on the ground that by the agreement between the United States and the original proprietors, upon laying out the city, those reservations and streets were, for ever, to remain for public use; and, without the consent of the proprietors, could not be otherwise appropriated or sold for private use; that the act of Congress was a violation of that contract; that by such sale and appropriation for private use the right of the United States thereto was determined, or that the original proprietors re-acquired a right to have the reservations, &c. laid out in building lots for their joint and equal benefit with the United States, or that they were in equity entitled to the whole or a moiety of the proceeds of the sales of the lots. Held, by the supreme court, that no rights or claims exist in the former proprietors or their heirs, and that the proceedings of the corporation of Washington, under and in conformity with the provisions of the act, are valid and effectual for the purposes of the act. Van Ness et al. v. The City of Washington and the United States, 4 Peters, 232.
The official tax books of the corporation of Washington, made up by the register from the original returns or lists of the assessors laid before the court of appeals, he being empowered by the ordinances of the corporation to correct the valuations made by the assessors, are evidence; and it is not required that the assessor’s original lists shall be produced in evidence, to prove the assessment of the taxes on real estate in the city of Washington. Ronkendorf v. Taylor’s Lessee, 4 Peters, 349.
In an ex parte proceeding, as a sale of land for taxes under a special authority, great strictness is required. To divest an individual of his property against his consent, every substantial requisite of the law must be complied with. No presumption can be raised, in behalf of a collector who sells real estate for taxes, to cure any radical defect in his proceedings; and the proof of regularity devolves upon the person who claims under the collector’s sale. Ibid.
Proof of the regular appointment of the assessors is not necessary. They acted under the authority of the corporation, and the highest evidence of this fact is the sanction given to their returns. Ibid.
The act of Congress, under which the lot in the city of Washington in controversy was sold, required that public notice of the time and place of sale of lots, the property of non-residents, should be given, by advertising “once a week” in some newspaper in the city for three months. Notice of the sale of the lot in controversy was published for three months; but in the course of that period, eleven days at one time, at another ten days, and at another eight days transpired in succeeding weeks, between the insertions of the advertisement in the newspapers. “A week” is a definite period of time, commencing on Sunday and ending on Saturday. The notice was published Monday, January 6th, and was omitted until Saturday, January 18th, leaving an interval of eleven days. Still the publication on Saturday was within the week preceding the notice of the 6th; and this was sufficient. It would be a most rigid construction of the act of Congress, justified neither by its spirit nor its language, to say that this notice must be published on any particular day of a week. If published once a week for three months, the law is complied with, and its object effectuated. Ibid.
No doubt can exist that a part of a lot may be sold for taxes, where they have accrued on such part. Ibid.
The lot on which the taxes were assessed, belonged to two persons as tenants in common. The assessment was made by a valuation of each half of the lot. To make a sale of the interest of one tenant in common for unpaid taxes valid, it need not extend to the interest of both claimants; one having paid his tax, the interest of the other may well be sold for the balance. Ibid.
The advertisement purported to sell “half of lot No. 4, in square No. 491;” and the other half was advertised in the same manner, as belonging to the other tenant in common. This was not a sufficient advertisement; and a sale made under the same was void. It is not sufficient that in an advertisement of land for sale for unpaid taxes, such a description is given as would enable the persons desirous of purchasing, to ascertain the situation of the property by inquiry; nor, if the purchaser, at the sale, had been informed of every fact necessary to enable him to fix a value upon the property, would the sale be valid, unless the same information had been communicated to the public in the notice. Ibid.
The 10th section of the act of Congress provides that real property in Washington, on which two or more years’ taxes shall be due and unpaid, may be sold, &c. In this section a distinction is made between a general and a special tax. Property may be sold to pay the former as soon as two years’ tax shall be due; but to pay the latter, property cannot be sold until the expiration of two years after the second year’s tax becomes due. The taxes for which the property in controversy was sold, became due, by the ordinance of the corporation, on the 1st day of January, 1821 and 1822. The special tax for paving was charged against the lot in 1820, and became due on the first of January, 1821; but the ground on which it was assessed, was not liable to be sold for the tax until the 1st of January, 1823. The first notice of the sale was given on the 6th of December, 1822, nearly a month before the lot was liable to be sold for the special tax of 1820. Held, by the supreme court, that the whole period should have elapsed, which was necessary to render the lot liable to be sold for the special tax, before the advertisement was published, Ibid.
[Repealed.]
Act of May 3, 1802, ch. 53.
Act of Feb. 24, 1804, ch. 14.
Act of Feb. 27, 1819, ch. 44.
Act of Feb. 28, 1820, ch. 15.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 81.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 85.
Corporation of the city—how composed.
Proviso.
Qualifications of the elected.
And electors.
Present mayor to be continued in office till June.
Mayor thereafter to be annually appointed.
His duties, &c. &c.
Qualifications of mayor.
Times and modes of elections for the boards of aidermen and common council.
Elections.
Apportionment of taxes and expenditures
Support of the poor to be a general charge.
Powers of the corporation.
Powers of the corporation.
Power to authorize the drawing of lotteries.
It seems that the power granted in the charter, “to authorize the drawing of lotteries,” cannot be exercised so as to discharge the corporation from its liability. Ibid.
Proviso.
Remedy in case of a return of nulla bona on a writ of fieri facias.
Unimproved lots may be sold for the payment of taxes, two years due.
Proviso.
Style of the corporation.
Corporation to cause the wards to be located with a view to the elections.
Part of a former act repealed.
Act of the Maryland legislature declared to be in force.
Powers heretofore vested in commissioners under the law of Maryland transferred to the Washington Canal Company.
Proviso.
An act for completing the existing military establishment, December 24, 1811, chap. 10, sec. 2.
An act to raise an additional military force, January 11, 1812, chap. 14, sec. 12.
An act to provide for designating, surveying, and granting the military bounty lands, May 6, 1812, chap. 77.
An act making provision for military services during the late war, and for other purposes, April 16, 1816, chap. 55.
An act providing for cases of lost military land warrants, and discharges for faithful services, April 27, 1816, chap. 127.
An act to authorize the survey of two millions of acres of the public lands in lieu of that quantity heretofore authorized to be surveyed in the territory of Michigan, as military bounty lands, April 29, 1816, chap. 164.
An act to amend an act entitled, “An act making further provision for military services during the late war, and for other purposes,” March 3, 1817, chap. 107, sec. 3.
An act for extending the time for obtaining military land warrants in certain cases, March 27, 1818, chap. 22.
An act allowing further time to complete the issuing and locating military land warrants, February 24, 1819, chap. 41.
An act to allow further time to complete the issuing and locating military land warrants, May 22, 1824, chap. 177.
An act to revive an act authorizing certain soldiers in the late war to surrender the bounty lands drawn by them, and to locate others in lieu thereof, and for other purposes, May 27, 1840, chap. 9.
Lands set apart for satisfying military bounty claims not exceeding six millions of acres in Michigan, Illinois and Louisiana.
Salt springs to be excepted.
Act of Dec. 24, 1811, ch. 10, sec. 2.
1812, ch. 14.
Warrants to be issued by the Secretary of War.
Proviso.
Claims to be determined by lot.
A patent to be granted.
Claims for military land bounties not assignable as such.
Thirty thousand dollars appropriated, to be reserved out of the fund for making roads in the state of Ohio by the act of April 30, 1802, ch. 40, sec. 7.
1815, ch. 43.
1802, ch. 40.
Appropriation of fifty thousand dollars.
Post routes discontinued.
Post roads established.
In New Hampshire,—From Hopkinton, through Warner, Bradford, Fishersfield, Wendell and Newport, to Cornish in the county of Cheshire. From Concord in the county of Rockingham, through Weare, Dearing, Hancock and Packersfield, to Keene in the county of Cheshire. From Gilmanton to Meredith. From Concord, by Loudon, Gilmanton, Meredith and New Holderness, to Plymouth, thence by New Hampton, Sandbornton, Northfield and Canterbury to Concord.
Massachusetts.—From Blue Hill to Sedgwick. From Kennebunk to Arundel. From Readfield, by Fayette, to Livermore.
Rhode Island.—From Providence, through Gloucester, to Pomfret in the state of Connecticut.
Connecticut.—From Canton in Hartford county, by New Hartford and Torrington, to Goshen in Litchfield county. From Hartford, through Bristol, Plymouth, Watertown, Woodbury, Southbury and Newtown, to Danbury.
New York.—From Jamaica, through the Alley and by the head of Cowneck, to Hempstead harbor, and through Oyster bay to Huntington; this is declared to be an alteration of the existing post route. From Trip’s hill, by Montgomery Courthouse, to Sheldon’s in the county of Oneida. From Madison, by Cazenovia, to Manlius. From Rome, through Constantia and Mexico, to Oswego. From Kinderhook in New York, by Spencer town, to Weststockbridge in Massachusetts.
New Jersey.—From Morristown to Easton in Pennsylvania. From Scotch Plains to New Providence. From Salem, by Hancock’s bridge and New Canton, to Greenwich in Cumberland county.
Pennsylvania.—From Bedford, by Stoystown and Ligoniers, to Greensburg. From Pittsburg, by Baldwin’s mills, Steubenville and Cadiz, to Cambridge, in the state of Ohio. From Quakerton, by Saucona, to Northampton. From Belfont, by the counties of Clearfield and Jefferson, to Venango. From Bear Gap, by Danville, to Washington. From New Alexandria to Pittsburg. From Greensburg to New Castle in the county of Mercer.
Ohio.—From New Lisbon, by Wayne Courthouse, Richland Courthouse and Knox Courthouse; returning by Coshocton Courthouse and Canton, to New Lisbon. From Chilicothe, by Fayette Courthouse, Green Courthouse and Dayton, to Eaton; returning from Green Courthouse, by Clinton Courthouse and Greenfield, to Chilicothe. From Urbana to Springfield. From Galliopolis to Athens in Ohio. From Huron to Danbury.
Maryland.—From Princess Ann to the corner where the roads from the Point and Pocomoke intersect. From Annapolis, by Broad Creek in Kent Island and Queen’s town, to Centreville.
Virginia.—From Dunkirk to New Kent Courthouse. From Front Royal to Waynesborough. The post road from Stannardsville, in Orange county, to Port Republican, in Rockingham, is declared to be altered so as to pass over the South Mountain at Brown’s turnpike on the same. From Paris in Fauquier county to Gibson’s store. From Staunton, by Pendleton Courthouse, to Beverly. From Hallifax Courthouse to Danville, and from Beverly to Clarksburg.
Kentucky.—From Washington, by Flemingsburg, to Mount Sterling. From Grayson to Butler Courthouse. From Russellville to Isbellville in Christian county. From Nicholasville, by the mouth of Hickman and Bellises mill, to Danville, Kentucky.
Tennessee.—From Carthage to New Glasgow in Kentucky. From Hopkinsville in Kentucky, to Clarksville in Tennessee; and from thence, by Dickson Courthouse and M’Allister’s cross-roads, to Columbia in Tennessee.
Post roads established.
South Carolina.—From Charleston, by Giveham’s ferry, on Edisto river; and from thence to Barnwell Courthouse, and by the White Ponds, to Edgefield Courthouse. From Wellington to Beckley’s store, being an alteration of the present route past Vienna. From Cooswhatchie, by Lower Three Runs, to Augusta in Georgia. From Darlington Courthouse to Sumpter Courthouse, by Carter’s crossing.
Georgia.—From Savannah to Louisville. From Milledgeville, by Twigs Courthouse, to Pulaski Courthouse. From Augusta to Campbeltown. From Louisville to Saundersville.
Mississippi Territory.—From Fort Stoddert, by Amite Courthouse, to Pinckneyville. From Natchez, by Wilkinson Courthouse, to Lake Ponchartrain.
Indiana Territory.—From Laurenceburg, by Madison and Charlestown, to Jeffersonville. From Laurenceburg, by Franklin Courthouse, to Wayne Courthouse.
Survey of the main post route from Maine to Georgia to be made.
Proviso.
Limitation of expense.
An act for the better regulation of the ordnance, May 14, 1812, chap. 83.
Act of August 2, 1813, chap. 49.
An act for the better organizing, paying, and supplying the army of the United States, March 30, 1814, chap. 37, sec. 16.
An act for the better regulation of the ordnance department, February 8, 1815, chap. 38.
An act for organizing the general staff, and making further provision for the army of the United States, April 24, 1816, chap. 69, sec. 11.
An act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment of the United States, March 2, 1821, chap. 12, sec. 4.
An act providing for the organization of the ordnance department, April 5, 1832, chap. 67.
An act to increase the present military establishment of the United States, and for other purposes, July 5, 1838, chap. 16, sec. 13, 14.
An act respecting the organization of the army, and for other purposes, August 23, 1842, ch. 186. sec. 5.
Of what officers the department to be formed.
Repealed by act of February 8, 1815, ch. 128.
Commissary general may employ workmen.
Act of August 2, 1813, ch. 36.
Rank and pay of commissary general, &c.
Pay of the workmen.
Duties of commissary general of ordnance.
To execute such orders as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War.
Commissary general of ordnance to make returns to the department of war.
Superintendents of military stores to make returns to the commissary general, &c. &c.
Commissary to make a correct
report of artificers, &c. &c.
Appropriation.
Act of April 7, 1798, ch. 28. vol. i. 549.
Boundaries of the Mississippi territory enlarged.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations.
That in addition to the sums appropriated by the act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, the following sums be, and same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For defraying the expenses of printing the subscription certificates, and issuing the same to the subscribers to the loan of eleven millions of dollars, authorized by the act of Congress passed on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, including cost of paper and other expenses incident to the receiving of the subscriptions; also for cost of paper and printing of the certificates of funded six per cent, stock to be issued for the amount of the said loan, and other expenses attending the funding of the same, five thousand dollars.
For the expenses of making a digest of the manufactures of the United States, under the joint resolution of both houses of Congress, passed at the present session, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the marshals and assistant marshals for taking an account of the manufactures of the United States, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that purpose, forty thousand dollars.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing and other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that purpose, eight thousand eight hundred dollars.
“For paying Aaron Greely, assistant surveyor in the district of Detroit for surveying private claims in the Michigan territory, pursuant to an act of Congress, passed the twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand 1812, ch. 65.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Paymasters to be appointed by the President.
Their compensation.
Proviso.
Paymasters to each regiment on peace establishment may be appointed.
Proviso.
Sub-inspectors from the captains and subalterns of the line.
Compensation of brigade majors.
Commanding general allowed a secretary to be taken from the line of the army.
Drivers to the artillery allowed.
Proviso.
Corporeal punishment by whipping, done away.
Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 20.
Corporation established.
Capital.
Proviso.
Commissioners for receiving subscriptions.
Proviso.
Real estate, what may be held by the bank.
Directors to be appointed.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Directors to have no emolument but what is given by stockholders.
Board of directors may make by-laws.
Majority of whole number of directors necessary to a choice of president, &c. &c.
Limitation of discounts to the directors.
President and directors may appoint the necessary officers.
Punishment of the directors, &c. &c. for frauds.
Votes regulated.
Regulations relative to suffrage, &c.
Stockholders not to be answerable for losses, &c.
Exceptions with respect to directors.
Absent directors may exonerate themselves.
Stockholders eventually liable.
President or director must be a citizen.
Notice to be given of election.
Oath of president and directors.
President to give bond.
Cashier and others to take an oath and give bond.
President and cashier to sign and countersign notes.
Smallest notes to be five dollars.
Officers of the bank not to purchase bills at more than lawful discount.
Supply of vacancies.
Not lawful to receive more than one per cent, for sixty days.
Shares transferable, &c.
Forty stockholders may call a general meeting.
Six weeks’ notice to be given.
May loan to the U. States;
Notes negotiable at bank assimilated to bills of exchange.
Forging or counterfeiting notes felony.
Stockholders failing to pay.
Dividends to be declared.
Not to impair capital stock.
Secretary of the Treasury to have certain powers.
Corporation to continue till 1st January, 1822, but may be sooner dissolved.
On dissolution of the corporation the concerns to be closed, &c.
No discount allowed after the 1st January, 1822.
A public act.
President to cause the surveyor-general to designate the western and northern boundaries of Ohio, &c.
Act of April 30, 1802, ch. 40.
A plat to be made of the boundary which runs southeasterly of Lake Michigan.
Expense limited, &c.
An act for dividing the Indiana territory into two separate governments, February 3, 1809, chap. 13.
An act to extend the right of suffrage in the Illinois territory, and for other purposes, May 20, 1812, chap. 90.
An act supplemental to an act entitled, “An act for dividing the Indiana territory into two governments, June 10, 1812, chap. 98.
An act regulating and defining the duties of the United States judges for the territory of Illinois, March 3, 1815, chap. 97.
An act supplemental to the act entitled, “An act regulating and defining the duties of the United States judges for the territory of Illinois, and for vesting in the courts of Indiana a jurisdiction in chancery cases arising in the said territory, April 29, 1816, chap. 154.
An act to authorize the surveying and making a road in the territory of Illinois, April 27, 1816, chap. 131.
An act to provide for the appointment of a surveyor of the public lands, in the territories of Illinois and Missouri, April 29, 1816, chap. 151.
Act of Feb. 3, 1809, ch. 13, vol. ii. 514.
Persons allowed to vote for members of the legislative council and house of representatives.
Time of electing members of
legislative council, &c.
Time of electing a delegate to Congress, and his powers.
Duty of sheriffs and of the governor in relation to election of delegates.
Penalty on the sheriff for neglect.
General assembly empowered to apportion representatives, &c.
Vol. i. 51.
Act of March 28, 1812, ch. 46.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Private trade forbidden to the commissary general, &c.
Barrack-master and deputies.
Their pay.
Contingent expenses to be allowed by Secretary of War.
Bond and security, &c.
Act of March 28, 1812, ch. 46.
Act of April 8, 1812, ch. 50.
Judicial proceedings transferred, &c.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 38.
Dockets, records, &c. transferred.
Eighth section, &c. of act of March 26, 1804, ch. 38, repealed.
An act further to regulate the territories of the United States, and their electing delegates to Congress, March 3, 1817, chap. 42.
[Obsolete.]
Louisiana to be called Missouri.
Governor,—tenure of office, general powers, &c.
Secretary.
His duty.
Legislative power, &c.
Governor’s assent to bills indispensable.
Number ofthe legislative council, &c.
Mode of choosing members of the legislative council, &c.
House of representatives.
Ratio of representation, &c.
Qualification of representatives.
Supply of vacancies.
Qualification of electors.
Governor in the first instance to cause elections and to lay out counties.
Subsequent elections, &c.
Meeting of general assembly, &c.
Mode of proceeding of each branch.
Privilege from arrest, &c.
Persons entitled to vote for delegate to Congress, and for members of the general assembly, &c.
Judicial power.
Superior court.
Act of Jan. 27, 1814, ch. 8.
Sessions.
Clerks.
Grand and petit jurors.
Governor, &c. to be appointed by the President.
How paid.
To take an oath.
Before whom.
Time of electing a delegate to Congress.
His privileges and pay.
Rights secured to the people.
Education.
Limitation of the powers of the general assembly.
Mississippi and Missouri rivers, &c. to be free.
Laws to continue in force, &c.
This act not to vacate commissions.
Repugnant provisions of act of March 3, 1805, ch. 31, and of act of March 26, 1804, ch. 38, repealed.
This act to commence first Monday of December, 1812.
[Obsolete.]
Time of embargo not to be computed as part of the time during which goods may be exported.
Act of April 4, 1812, ch. 49.
Act of Feb. 3, 1809, ch. 13.
Execution to issue as usual.
The state of Missouri was formerly part of the territory, first of France, next of Spain, then of France, who ceded it to the United States by the treaty of 1803, in full propriety, sovereignty and dominion, as she had acquired and held it; by which this government put itself in place of the former sovereigns, and became invested with all their rights, subject to their concomitant obligations to the inhabitants. Both were regulated by the law of nations, according to which the rights of property are protected, even in the case of a conquered country, and held sacred and inviolable when it is ceded by treaty, with or without any stipulation to such effect; and the laws, whether in writing, or evidenced by the usage and customs of the conquered or ceded country, continue in force, until altered by the new sovereign. Strother v. Lucas, 12 Peters, 410.
No principle can be better established by the authority of the supreme court, than “that the acts of an officer, to whom a public duty is assigned by his king, within the sphere of that duty, are prima facie taken to be within his power.” The principles on which it rests, are believed to be too deeply founded in law and reason, ever to be successfully assailed. He who would controvert a grant executed by the lawful authority, with all the solemnities required by law, takes on himself the burthen of showing that the officer has transcended the powers conferred upon him; or that the transaction is tainted with fraud. Ibid.
Where the act of an officer to pass the title to land according to the Spanish law, is done contrary to the written order of the king, produced at the trial, without any explanation, it shall be presumed that the power has not been exceeded: that the act was done on the motive set out therein ; and according to some order known to the king and his officers, though not to his subjects: and courts ought to require very full proof, that he had transcended his powers, before they so determine it. Ibid.
In favour of long possession and ancient appropriation, every thing which was done shall be presumed to have been rightfully done ; and though it does not appear to have been done, the law will presume that whatever was necessary has been done. Ibid.
The stipulations of the treaty ceding Louisiana to the United States, affording that protection or security to claims under the French or Spanish government to which the act of Congress refers, are in the first, second and third articles. They extended to all property until Louisiana became a member of the Union; into which the inhabitants were to be incorporated as soon as possible, “and admitted to all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States.” The perfect inviolability and security of property is among these rights. Delassus v. The United States, 9 Peters, 117.
The right of property is protected and secured by the treaty, and no principle is better settled in this country, than that an inchoate title to lands is property. This right would have been sacred, independent of the treaty. The sovereign who acquires an inhabited country, acquires full dominion over it; but this dominion is never supposed to divest the vested rights of individuals to property. The language of the treaty ceding Louisiana, excludes any idea of interfering with private property. Ibid.
On the 18th of April, 1802, the lieutenant-governor of Upper Louisiana granted sixteen hundred arpents of land near certain rivers named in the grant, with directions to survey the same in a vacant place of the royal domain ; but no survey was made before the cession of Louisiana to the United States. By the Court—As the grant contained no description of the land granted, and was not located within the time prescribed by the act’ of Congress of the 10th of March, 1804, it comes directly within the point decided by the supreme court in the case of John Smith, T., and cannot be confirmed. Wherry v. The United States, 10 Peters, 338.
In repeated decisions, the supreme court have affirmed the authority of local governors, under the crown of Spain, to grant land in Louisiana, before the same was ceded by Spain to France: and the court have also affirmed the validity of descriptive grants, though not surveyed before the 11th of March, 1804, in Missouri, and the 24th of January, 1818, in Florida. Mackey v. The United States, 10 Peters, 340.
A grant or concession made by an officer who is by law authorized to make it, carries with it prima facie evidence that it is within his powers. .No excess of them, or departure from them, is to be presumed. He violates his duty by such excess, and is responsible for it. He who alleges that an officer entrusted with an important duty has violated his instructions, must show it. Delassus v. The United States, 9 Peters, 117.
The instructions of governor O’Reilly, relative to granting lands in Louisiana, were considered by the court, in 8 Peters, 455. These regulations were intended for the general government of subordinate officers, and not to control and limit the power of the person from whose will they emanated. The Baron De Carondelet must be supposed to have had all the powers which had been vested in Don O’Reilly; and a concession ordered by him is as valid as a similar concession directed by governor O’Reilly would have been. Ibid.
A concession of land was made by the lieutenant-governor of Upper Louisiana, at the time when the power of granting lands was vested in the governors of provinces. This power was, in 1799, after the concession, transferred to the intendant-general; and after this transfer, in January, 1800, the order of survey of the land was made by the lieutenant-governor. The validity of the order of survey depends on the authority of the lieutenant-governor to make it. The lieutenant-governor was also a sub-delegate, and as such was empowered to make inchoate grants. The grant was confirmed. Chouteau’s heirs v. The United States, 9 Peters, 137.
The transfer of the power to make concessions of lands belonging to the royal domain of Spain, from the governor-general to the intendant-general, did not affect the power of the sub-delegate, who made this concession. The order in this case is the foundation of title, and is, according to the act of Congress on the subject of confirming titles to lands in Missouri, &c., and the general understanding and usage of Louisiana and Missouri, capable of being perfected into a complete title. It is property, capable of being alienated, of being subjected to debts: and is, as such, to be held as sacred and inviolate as other property. Ibid.
A concession of one league square of land, in Upper Louisiana, was made by Don Zenon Trudeau, the lieutenant-governor of that province, to Auguste Chouteau, and a decree made by him directing the surveyor-general of the province to put him in possession of the land, and to survey the same, in order to enable Chouteau to solicit a complete title thereto from the governor-general, who by the said decree was informed that the circumstances of Chouteau were such as entitled him to a grant of the land. The land was surveyed, and the grantee put in full possession of it on the 20th of December, 1803. He retained possession of it until his death. The objection to the validity of the concession was, that the petitioner had not as many tame cattle as the eighth regulation of governor O’Reilly, governor-general of Louisiana, required.
That regulation required that the applicant for a grant of a league square of land should make it appear that he is possessed of one hundred head of tame cattle, some horses and sheep, and two slaves to look after them, a proportion which shall always be observed for the grants, &c. By the Court—“In the spirit of the decisions which have been heretofore made by the supreme court, and of the acts of confirmation passed by Congress, the fact that the applicant possessed the requisite amount of property to entitle him to the land he solicited, was submitted to the officer who decided on the application ; and he is not bound to prove it to the court, which passes on the validity of the grant. These incomplete titles were transferable, and the assignee might not possess the means of proving the exact number of cattle in possession of the petitioner when the concession was made.” The grant was confirmed. Ibid. 147.
If the court can trust the information received on this subject, neither the governor nor the intendantgeneral has ever refused to perfect an incomplete title granted by a deputy governor or a sub-delegate. Ibid.
The regulation made by Don O’Reilly, as to the quantity of land to be granted to an individual, is not that no individual shall receive grants for more than one league square, but that no grant shall exceed a league square. The words of the regulation do not forbid different grants to the same person ; and, so far as the court are informed, it has never been so construed. Ibid.
The act of Congress passed 13th June, 1812, confirming the titles and claims of certain towns and villages to village lots and commons, gave a title which is paramount to a title held under an old Spanish concession confirmed by Congress in 1836. Chouteau v. Eckhart, 2 Howard, 344.
Rights to certain lots adjoining to certain towns, confirmed.
But not to affect rights of others, confirmed.
Deputy surveyor to mark boundary lines, &c.
And make out plats.
Expense not to exceed three dollars per mile.
Lots to be reserved for support of schools.
Proviso.
Claims to donation lands, under certain circumstances, confirmed.
Subject to certain limitations.
Other claims to be confirmed.
Recorder to make extract of claims from books.
To transmit a copy to general land-office, and furnish deputy surveyor with descriptions, &c.
Recorder to issue certificates.
Patents to be granted.
Deputy surveyor to survey.
Townships to be laid off.
Plat to be made.
Expense not to exceed three dollars per mile.
Recorder to furnish descrip, tions.
Access to be allowed to books and papers in recorder’s office.
Recorder’s fee.
Actual settlers allowed till first December, 1812, to furnish evidence of claims, &c.
Act of March 3, 1813, ch. 44.
Barred forever after.
Power and duty of recorder.
Additional fee to the recorder.
Further allowance.
President authorized to remit forfeitures, &c. in the District of Columbia.
Common council of Alexandria empowered to appoint agents to layout and superintend cutting of canal, &c.
May levy a tax.
Agents may agree with owners of land.
In case of disagreement a judge may issue his warrant to the marshal to summon a jury.
Notice to be given to proprietors or tenants.
Juror’s oath.
Inquisition to be signed and returned by the marshal.
Valuation to be conclusive and paid to the owner, &c.
Land and canal to become an open highway.
Only used for navigation.
Commencement of the canal.
Width.
Depth.
To be walled.
To be paved at bottom.
Wing walls and puddle.
Guard gates
Lock.
Freshes.
Always to be kept in repair.
Common council of Alexandria liable, &c.
Damages to be assessed.
Stone bridge.
Good bridges to be erected over highways cut by the canal.
Limitation of time.
Common council to supply vacancies of agents.
Boats not to pass the western end of the causeway before the canal is completed.
President to appoint commissioners to inspect the work.
Commissioners to be paid by the common council.
Owners of land not to be injured, &c.
[Obsolete.]
War declared.
President authorized to employ the land and naval forces to carry on the war.
Promissory notes subject to same laws in Alexandria and Washington, &c.
Creditors of insolvent debtors may make allegations before oath of insolvency.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 31.
One judge may examine the debtor.
Debtors under certain circumstances precluded from the benefit of the insolvent act.
False swearing declared to be wilful and corrupt perjury, &c.
Benefit of prison walls not allowed to any debtor for more than one year.
Marshal to recommit to close confinement.
Real estate in the county of Alexandria subject to the payment of debts.
Writs to run from one county to another.
But returnable to the court whence they issued.
Interest to be allowed on judgments.
Damages payable on dissolution of injunction, &c.
Proviso.
Suit or action may be removed from one county to another.
Prosecution by information or indictment may also be removed, on suggestion of the district attorney.
Slaves may be removed from one county to another.
The plaintiffs in error filed a petition for freedom in the circuit court of the United States for the county of Washington, and they proved that they were born in the state of Virginia, as slaves of Richard B. Lee, now deceased, who moved with his family into the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, about the year 1816, leaving the petitioners residing in Virginia as his slaves, until the year 1820, when the petitioner Barbara was removed to the county of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, where she was hired to Mrs. Muir, and continued with her thus hired for the period of one year. That the petitioner, Sam, was in like manner removed to the county of Alexandria, and was hired to General Walter Jones, for a period of about five or six months. That after the expiration of the said periods of hiring, the petitioners were removed to the said county of Washington, where they continued to reside as the slaves of the said Richard B. Lee until his death, and since, as the slaves of his widow, the defendant. On the part of the defendant in error, a preliminary objection was made to the jurisdiction of the supreme court, growing out of the act of Congress of the 2d of April, 1816, which declares that no cause shall be removed from the circuit court for the District of Columbia, to the supreme court, by appeal or writ of error, unless the matter in dispute shall be of the value of one thousand dollars, or upwards. By the Court—The matter in dispute in this case, is the freedom of the petitioners. The judgment of the court below is against their claims to freedom ; the matter in dispute, is, therefore, to the plaintiffs in error, the value of their freedom, and this is not susceptible of a pecuniary valuation. Had the judgment been in favour of the petitioners, and the writ of error brought by the party claiming to be the owner, the value of the slaves as property, would have been the matter in dispute, and affidavits might be admitted to ascertain such value. But affidavits, estimating the value of freedom, are entirely inadmissible, and no doubt is entertained of the jurisdiction of the court. Lee v. Lee, 8 Peters, 44.
The circuit court refused to instruct the jury that if they should believe, from the evidence, that bringing the petitioners from Virginia to Alexandria, by their owner, and hiring them there, was merely colourable, with intent to evade the law, that then the petitioners are entitled to their freedom. By the Maryland law, of 1796, it was declared, that it shall not be lawful to import or bring into this state, by land or water, any negro, mulatto, or other slave, for sale, or to reside within this state; and any person brought into this state as a slave, contrary to this act, if a slave before, shall thereupon cease to be the property of the person so importing, and shall be free. And by the act of Congress of the 27th of February, 1801, it is provided, that the laws of the state of Maryland, as they then existed, should be, and continue in force in that part of the district which was ceded by that state to the United States. The Maryland law of 1796 is, therefore, in force in the county of Washington ; and the petitioners, if brought directly from the state of Virginia into the county of Washington, would, under the provisions of that law, be entitled to their freedom. By the act of Congress of the 24th of June, 1812, it was declared, “ that hereafter it shall be lawful for any inhabitant or inhabitants, in either of the said counties, (Washington and Alexandria,) owning and possessing any slave or slaves therein, to remove the same from one county into the other, and to exercise, freely and fully, all the rights of property, in and over the said slave or slaves therein, which would be exercised over him, her, or them, in the county from whence the removal was made.” Ibid.
The court erred in refusing to give the fourth instruction prayed on the part of the petitioner, which asked that it should be submitted to the jury whether, from the evidence, the bringing of the petitioners from Virginia to Alexandria, and the hiring them there, was not merely colourable, with intent to evade the law. Ibid.
A wife having separated herself from her husband, for ill-treatment by him, applied to the county court of Prince George, Maryland, for alimony, which was allowed to her, pendente lite. The husband gave the wife a female negro slave, and some other property, in discharge of the alimony. She removed to Washington, hired out the slave, and afterwards, in consideration of a sum of money, and for other considerations, she manumitted, by deed, the slave, and her two infant children, the eldest not three years old. Some time after the arrangement between the husband and wife, a final separation took place between them, by a verbal agreement; each to retain “the property each had, and to be quits for ever,” and the wife relinquished all further claim for alimony. After the death of the wife, the husband claimed the female and her children as his slaves. Held, that they were free by virtue of the deed of manumission executed by the wife. Wallingsford v. Allen, 10 Peters, 583.
Rules for paying the debts of deceased persons.
Persons obtaining letters testamentary, or of administration out of the district of Columbia, may prosecute claims within it.
Certified copies of letters testamentary, &c. to be evidence.
Sessions of the courts of Alexandria, to be held in April and November.
Act of May 27, 1801, ch. 79.
Debtors may be imprisoned for small debts.
Marshal entitled to fee.
And be it further enacted,
Act to com. mence September 1st, 1812.
[Obsolete.]
Act of Jan. 27, 1813, ch. 13.
President authorized to revoke letters of marque, &c.
1812, ch. 102.
Formalities required from persons applying for letters of marque, &c.
Bonds to be given with surety.
Condition.
Captured pro. perty to be forfeited.
Distribution of prize money, &c.
1800, ch. 33.
Recaptures of property of citizens, &c. to be restored on payment of salvage.
of all property rightfully captured by commissioned privateers, as prize of war. The Sally, 8 Cranch, 382; 3 Cond. Rep. 177.
Prize money must be distributed according to some written agreement of the parties, otherwise it is distributable according to the 4th sec. of the prize act of the 26th of June, 1812, chap. 107. A parol agreement as to distribution is void. The Dash, 1 Mason’s C. C. R. 4.
If the shipping articles omit to state the shares, to which some of the officers and crew are entitled, they are still entitled to claim their shares under the prize act. Ibid.
A parol assignment of a share in prizes is void. Ibid.
All captures, made by non-commissioned captors, are made for the government: and since the provisions in the prize acts as to the distribution of prize proceeds, are confined to public and private armed vessels, cruising under regular commissions; the only claim which can be sustained by such non-commissioned captors must be in the nature of salvage, for bringing in and preserving the property. The Dos Hermanos, 10 Wheat. 306 ; 6 Cond. Rep. 109.
The commander of a squadron, to whose command a ship of war is attached, and under whose orders she sails, is entitled to the flag-twentieth of all prizes made by such ship, although the other part of the squadron may never have sailed on the cruise, in consequence of a blockade by a superior force. Decatur v. Chew, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 506.
To deprive such commander of his flag-twentieth, on account of his having left his station, under the sixth section of the act of April 23d, 1800, chap. 33, it is indispensable that some local station should have been assigned him. Ibid.
Where no grant is made, all captures made under the authority of the executive, inure to the use of the government. The Emulous, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 563.
As between public ships, the rule for the distribution of prizes is settled by the seventh article of the sixth section in the act of April 23d, 1800, chap. 33, which provides that, in cases of joint capture, the capturing ships shall share “according to the number of men and guns on board each ship in sight.” The Despatch, 2 Gallis. C. C. R. 1.
As to privateers, no statute regulation exists, and therefore their claims are settled by the general law of relative strength, which is to be measured by the number of men on board each ship. Ibid.
Distribution of salvage.
When a belligerent permits her cruisers to capture neutral vessels, and carry them in for adjudication, and thus subjects such vessels to perils, almost equal to those of absolute capture, salvage for a recapture of such a neutral vessel will be allowed. Ibid.
American property recaptured, was restored on payment of salvage ; the libel having prayed a condemnation as prize, and no salvage having been claimed. The question of salvage is incident to the question of prize. The Adeline, 9 Cranch, 244; 3 Cond. Rep. 397.
A merchant ship, the property of subjects of the king of Great Britain, was captured on the high seas by a French squadron, a prize master and crew put on board of her, and she remained in company with the captors upwards of twenty-four hours, when she was loft by the prize master and the crew; frequent ineffectual attempts having been made to set her on fire. She was found deserted and abandoned, by an American vessel, bound on a European voyage, and by the mate and part of the crew brought into Boston. A claim was made to her by the British consul for the original owners, and by the French consul for the captors. Salvage, amounting to one third of the gross proceeds of the sales of the ship and cargo, were decreed to the owners, masters and crew of the American ship; and the residue of the proceeds were ordered to be paid to the French republic, or those concerned in the capture. M’Donough v. Danery, and the Ship Mary Ford, 3 Dall. 188; 1 Cond. Rep. 94.
One half of the whole value of an American vessel and cargo, recaptured by a vessel of war of the United States, after she had been captured by a French privateer, on the 31st of March, 1799, was allowed as salvage. Bas, Plaintiff in Error v. Tingy, 4 Dall. 37 ; 1 Cond. Rep. 221.
An American vessel was captured by the enemy, and after condemnation and sale to a subject of the enemy, was recaptured by an American privateer. Held, that the original owner was not entitled to restitution on payment of salvage, under the salvage act of the 3d of March, 1800, chap. 14, and the prize act of 26th June, 1812, chap. 107. The Star, 3 Wheat. 78; 4 Cond. Rep. 198.
In order to entitle to salvage, as upon a recapture or rescue, the property must have been in the possession, either actual or constructive, of the enemy. The Ann Green, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 274, 289.
Salvage allowed upon a recapture of a ransomed ship, the ransom bill declaring that the sum agreed upon therein, should be payable only upon the arrival of the vessel at her port of destination, which she never reached. The Harriet, Bee’s D. C. R. 128.
In case of a recapture by a public vessel of war, the salvage can be ascertained only by a sale of the property, unless both parties consent to an appraisement. The Dolphin, Bee’s D. C. R. 152, Salvage is not due for rescuing the vessel of a neutral out of the hands of a belligerent, who has taken possession for a supposed violation of a treaty or of the law of nations. The Antelope, Bee’s D. C. R. 233.
Prizes to be brought in for adjudication.
Into ports of the U. States or a friendly nation.
District courts of the United States to have original exclusive jurisdiction of prizes brought into the United States.
Regulations concerning prisoners found on board prize vessels.
President to prescribe instructions for privateers.
Bounty for destroying enemy vessels.
Act of August 2, 1813, ch. 55.
Act of March 19, 1814, ch. 27.
Commanding officers of pri-
vateers to keep journals.
Journals to be reported to the collectors, &c.
Commanding officers of privateers to exhibit their journals, &c. &c. to public vessels of the U. States.
Penalties for neglecting to keep journals, or keeping untrue ones.
Owners of privateers, how punishable for violating revenue laws of the United States.
Non-importation law, so far as it concerns prize goods, dispensed with.
Act of August 2, 1813, ch. 49.
Offences on board private armed vessels, how punishable.
Proviso.
Parts of embargo and nonexportation laws repealed, so far as they relate to private armed vessels.
Act of April 4, 1812, ch. 49.
Act of April 14, 1812, ch. 06.
Commissions to the collectors and consuls upon prize goods: to what uses to be applied.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Organization of the army.
Infantry to consist of twenty-five regiments.
What each company is to consist of.
Act of Jan. 11, 1812, ch. 14.
Riding master.
Act of April 12, 1808, ch. 43.
Surgeon’s mate.
What each troop of cavalry, &c. shall consist of, &c.
Several military establishments incorporated.
Act of April 12, 1808, ch. 43.
President of the U. States and the state of Virginia to appoint commissioners, &c.
Commissioners to meet at Xenia.
Duty of commissioners.
A plat to be made and returned to the commissioners of the general land-office.
Surveyor, &c. to be engaged.
Pay of the commissioners.
Temporary boundary line.
March 23, 1804, ch. 33.
A copy of this act to be transmitted to the governor of Virginia.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 27.
Certain claims confirmed.
Act of March 31, 1808, ch. 40.
Register and receiver to make out certificates of confirmation.
Patents to be granted on such certificates.
Proviso.
Proviso.
This act not to affect judicial decisions of a certain kind.
An act to authorize the issuing of treasury notes, June 30, 1812, chap. 111.
An act authorizing the issuing of treasury notes for the service of the year 1813, February 25, 1813, chap. 27.
An act to authorize the issuing of treasury notes for the service of the year 1814, March 4, 1814, chap. 18.
An act supplemental to the act authorizing a loan for the several sums of twenty-five millions of dollars, and three millions of dollars, December 26, 1814, chap. 17.
An act to authorize a loan for a sum not exceeding eighteen million five hundred and fifty-two dollars, March 3, 1815, chap. 86, sec. 7.
An act to authorize the payment in certain cases on account of treasury notes which have been lost or destroyed, February 4, 1819, chap. 13.
An act to authorize the issuing of treasury notes, October 12, 1837, chap. 2.
An act additional to the act on the subject of treasury notes, March 31, 1840, chap. 5.
An act to authorize the issuing of treasury notes, February 15, 1841, chap. 4.
An act to authorize an issue of treasury notes, January 31, 1842, chap. 2.
An act for the extension of the loan of one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and for an addition of five million of dollars on treasury notes due, April 15, 1842, chap. 14.
An act to limit the sale of public stock at par, and to authorize the issue of treasury notes in lieu thereof, August 31, 1842, chap. 287.
An act authorizing the re-issuing of treasury notes, and for other purposes, March 3, 1843, chap. 81. Civil and diplomatic appropriation act of June 17, 1844.
[Obsolete.]
President to cause treasury notes to issue.
Said notes to be reimbursed.
Notes to be signed.
To be countersigned.
Secretary of the Treasury, under the direction of the President, to cause a portion of said notes to be issued, &c.
The notes transferable by delivery and assignment.
To be received in payment of duties and taxes.
Payment of treasury notes to collectors, &c. or into banks to the credit of the United States.
Commissioners of sinking fund to reimburse principal and interest of said notes.
Appropriation for said reimbursement.
Appropriation for expenses.
Punishment for counterfeiting, &c.
[Expired.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 99.
Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 107.
Additional duty of 100 per cent, on foreign goods.
Additional duty of ten per cent, on goods imported in foreign vessels.
Additional duty on tonnage.
Collection of duties.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Continuance of this act.
Proviso.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 20.
Legionary musters.
Part of former act repealed.
Ante, page 218.
Battalion courts of inquiry.
Ante, page 218.
Collection of fines.
Collection of fines.
Squadron courts of inquiry.
Cavalry to be subject to legionary courts, &c.
Proviso.
Orders in relation to uniform issued through the brigadier general to be obeyed.
Ante, page 224.
Arms exempt from taxation or execution.
Act of Nov. 10, 1803, ch. 2.
Stock transferable as other stock, from the books of the treasury to those of any commissioner, and from the books of one commissioner to those of another &c.
Empowered to erect a penitentiary.
Vested with power to lay out, straighten, and repair public roads.
Proviso.
Formalities to be observed in exercising the power of laying out roads.
Jury to assess damages.
Oath.
Marshal and seven or more of the jury to sign the inquisition, &c.
Valuation to be paid by the levy court, &c.
Courses, bounds and plat of the road to be returned to the county clerks, &c.
Stone, gravel, or other materials for making or repairing a road, may be condemned on valuation.
Ante, sec. 3.
Growing crops not to be injured.
Persons altering, obstructing, or injuring a public road, liable to indictment, fine, or imprisonment.
Levy court may lay taxes, except within the limits of the city of Washington, &c.
Levy court released from any obligation to provide for a certain part of the poor.
Board of commissioners or levy court, how composed and designated.
How the general and particular expenses of the county are to be defrayed.
Bridges over Rock creek to be rebuilt and kept in repair at the joint expense of the city of Washington and Georgetown.
The two corporations authorized to erect a permanent bridge.
The two corporations authorized to erect a permanent bridge.
Proceedings to pay for property taken for the bridge.
Sales of lands in the month of January, 1812, made valid.
Purchasers on complying with the terms of sale to have patents.
[Obsolete.]
Act of Jan. 2, 1812, ch. 11.
President authorized to raise an additional company of rangers.
Appropriation.
[Obsolete.]
President to take possession of the public grounds and lease the same.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations.
Appropriation to pay the expenses of certain Italian sculptors.
Contract for the completion of the sculpture.
Galleries of the Senate.
[Obsolete.]
Certain claims to land in Mississippi territory confirmed which have been derived from the British government.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Vessels from India in certain cases to be admitted to entry.
Proviso.
See act of April 14, 1814, ch. 56.
Specific appropriations.
[Obsolete.]
Navy.
Frigates.
Vessels damaged in action.
Purchasing and equipping vessels captured. Specific appropriations.
Secretary of the Treasury may suspend the payment of certain bills under Louisiana convention drawn by John Armstrong.
President pro tempore of the Senate to have the same compensation as the speaker of the House of Representatives during the period of his services.
Repealed by act of March 3, 1817, ch. 34.
Specific appropriations.
Action of assumpsit to recover the balance of an account current for merchandise purchased in England by order of the defendants. The defence was, that the contract was made during the war, and therefore void. By the Court. The doctrine is not to be questioned at this day, that, during a state of hostility, the citizens of the hostile states are incapable of contracting with each other. Scholefield v. Eichelberger, 7 Peters, 586.
To say that this rule is without exception, would be assuming too great latitude. The question has never yet been examined whether a contract for necessaries, or even for money to enable the individual to get home, could not be enforced; and analogies familiar to the law, as well as the influence of the general rule, in international law, that the severities of war are to be diminished by all safe and practical means, might be appealed to in support of such an exception. But at present, it may be safely affirmed that there is no recognized exception, but permission of a state to its own citizens; which is also implied in any treaty stipulation to that effect, entered into with a belligerent. Ibid.
Property engaged in illicit trade with the enemy, must be condemned to the captors, not to the United States. The Sally, Porter, Master, 8 Cranch, 382; 3 Cond. Rep. 177.
A vessel owned by citizens of the United States, sailed from Naples in the year 1812, for the United States, with a cargo, and a British license to carry the same to England. On her passage, hearing of the war, she altered her course for England, was captured by the British, carried into Ireland, libelled and acquitted, sold her cargo, and after a detention of seven months in Ireland, purchased a return cargo in England, sailed for the United States, and was captured by an American privateer. The vessel and cargo were condemned as prize to the captors. The Alexander, 8 Cranch, 169 ; 3 Cond. Rep. 72.
If a citizen of the United States establishes his domicil in a foreign country, between which and the United States hostilities afterwards break out, any property shipped by him before knowledge of the war, and captured by an American cruiser after the declaration of war, will be condemned as prize. The Venus, 8 Cranch, 253; 3 Cond. Rep. 109.
Illegal traffic stamps a hostile character on the property, and attaches to it all the penal consequences of enemy ownership. The Sally, 8 Cranch, 382; 3 Cond. Rep. 177.
The property of a citizen does not become divested, ipso facto, by the mere act of illicit intercourse with the enemy; the property is only liable to be condemned as enemy’s property, or as adhering to the enemy, if rightfully captured during the voyage. The Thomas Gibbons, 8 Cranch, 421 ; 3 Cond. Rep. 193.
A vessel sailing to an enemy port, after knowledge of the war, and captured, bringing thence a cargo consisting chiefly of enemy goods, is liable to confiscation as prize of war. The St. Lawrence, 8 Cranch, 434; 3 Cond. Rep. 202.
Trading with the enemy is not excused by the necessity of obtaining funds to pay the expenses of the ship; nor by the opinion of an American minister expressed to the master, that by undertaking the voyage he would violate no law of the United States. The Joseph, 8 Cranch, 451 ; 3 Cond. Rep. 212.
If, upon the breaking out of a war, a citizen has a right to withdraw his property from the enemy’s country, it is necessary it should be exercised with due diligence, and within a reasonable time after the knowledge of hostilities. The St. Lawrence, 9 Cranch, 120; 3 Cond. Rep. 301.
If a cargo be innocently put on board in an enemy’s country, if at that time the importation be lawful, it cannot be rendered unlawful by a detention, occasioned in the course of the voyage, either by the perils of the sea or the act of the enemy ; unless this effect be produced by some positive act of the legislature. The Mary, 9 Cranch, 126 ; 3 Cond. Rep. 306.
An American citizen is equally guilty of trading with the enemy, whether that trade is carried on between a hostile port and the United States, or between such port and any foreign nation. The Rugen, 1 Wheat. 62 ; 3 Cond. Rep. 485.
The offence of trading with the enemy is complete, the moment a vessel sails with intention to carry her cargo to a hostile port. Ibid.
A subject of a state at war cannot, under cover of neutral muniments, however regularly procured, or formal, violate with impunity his duty and allegiance to his own country. Ibid.
All trade with the enemy, unless with the permission of the sovereign, is interdicted ; and subjects the property engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. The Rapid, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 295.
All communication and intercourse with the enemy is prohibited, and it is in nowise important, whether the property engaged in the inimical communication be bought and sold, or merely transported and shipped. Ibid.
A citizen of the United States cannot lawfully withdraw his property, acquired before the war, from the enemy’s country, after he has knowledge of the war, without permission of government. The St. Lawrence, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 467.
If a vessel be sent from the United States, after knowledge of the war, to the enemy’s country to withdraw such property, the vessel and cargo are subject to capture and condemnation, jure belli. 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 295.
The property of citizens taken trading with the enemy, is considered as quasi enemy’s property. Ibid.
A trade to a neutral port, during war, is not rendered illegal from the mere circumstance that the interests of the enemy are thereby aided, or his policy enforced: it must, before it can be liable to condemnation on that ground, be carried on, on account of the enemy, under contract with him, destined for his use, or voluntarily incorporated into his service by licenses. The Liverpool Packet, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 513.
The circumstance that a neutral is engaged in enemy navigation does not subject all his trade from the neutral country, on neutral voyages, to the enemy character. Ibid.
Every voyage from an enemy port, especially with a cargo on board, and without the license of the government, carries with it a presumption of illegal traffic and hostile interests, from which nothing but the most explicit proofs by the claimants can relieve the cause. The presumption of illegal traffic arises, notwithstanding any papers or any explanation of the persons found on board: the captors have a right to bring the property in, and subject the whole to the adjudication of a competent tribunal. In such case, damages and costs are never to be adjudged as against the captors. Ibid.
If, after a knowledge of the war, an American vessel go to an enemy port, and take in a cargo there, the vessel and cargo are liable to confiscation for trading with the enemy. The Alexander, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 532.
If an American vessel, after knowledge of the war, proceed from a neutral to a hostile port on freight, it is a trading with the enemy, which subjects the vessel to forfeiture; and she is liable therefore on her return voyage to the United States. The Joseph, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 545.
In cases of trading With the enemy, the property is deemed quasi enemy’s property, and it is condemned to the captors and not to the United States. Ibid.
No principle of national or municipal law is better settled than that all contracts with an enemy, made during war, are utterly void. The Emulous, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 563.
A shipment made from the enemy’s country, after a knowledge of the war, by an American citizen, subjects the property to condemnation as prize of war. The Mary, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 620.
A shipment made, after a known war, by an American citizen, subjects the property to condemnation as prize of war. The Diana, 2 Gallis. C. C. R. 93.
If an American vessel take on board a cargo from an enemy’s ship, under the pretence that it is ransomed,
it is an illegal traffic, for which, by the law of war, she is liable to condemnation as prize of war; and may be seized on the return voyage. The Lord Wellington, 2 Gallis. C. C. R. 103.
A citizen of the United States may lawfully draw a bill on a subject of a foreign power, with whom we are at war; such an act not leading to any injurious intercourse, nor amounting to a trading with the enemy. United States v. Barker, Paine’s C. C. R. 156.
An American vessel, after the commencement of hostilities with Great Britain, sailed, having on board a messenger from the British minister in the United States, with despatches for his government, and a letter of protection from British capture ; this is a sufficient cause of condemnation. The Tulip, 3 Wash. C. C. R. 181.
All contracts with an enemy are not necessarily void. Cases of extreme necessity, form exceptions to the rule. Contracts made under license of the government, whether they arise directly or collaterally, out of the licensed trade; or if the enemy, with whom the contract is made, be in the hostile country, by license of that government, (cases of ransom bonds,) so contracts made by prisoners of war, for their subsistence, are also exceptions. The William Penn, 3 Wash. C. C. R. 484.
A voyage from an enemy port with a cargo on board, without the license of the government, is of itself a probable cause for capture. The Liverpool Packet, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 513.
A trade to a neutral port is not illegal, although the public enemy derive benefit thereby, unless such trade be considered in connexion with, or subservient to, hostile interests and policy. Ibid.
The United States may proceed against property found engaged in trade with the enemy, as prize of war. The Eliza, 2 Gallis. C. C. R. 4.
At common law, any individual might seize for the king; and upon this ground it has been held, that public or private armed ships may seize for violation of a statute. But, in such case, it is at the peril of the party making the seizure. The Rover, 2 Gallis. C. C. R. 240.
Owners of vessels to give bonds, upon clearing out, not to trade with the enemy.
Penalty for so doing.
Trade with the enemy by land interdicted.
forfeitures and penalties.
The sending of armed vessels, or munitions of war from a neutral country to a belligerent port, for sale as articles of commerce, is unlawful only as it subjects the property to capture by other belligerents. The Santissima Trinidad, 7 Wheat. 283 ; 5 Cond. Rep. 284.
Collectors authorized to seize naval and military stores, &c.
None but vessels belonging to citizens of the United States or inhabitants of countries in amity with them, to be admitted to entry.
Exceptions.
British packets, &c. &c. may enter till September.
Cartels and flags of truce.
Passports may be given for six months for British property.
Penalties for taking licenses to trade with British ports.
Proviso in the act of July 6, 1798, ch. 66, sec. 1, not to extend to any treaty which has expired, or is not in force.
Specific appropriations.
That for defraying the expenses incurred and to be incurred under the several acts, entitled “An act to Act of March 28, 1812, ch. 46. Act of May 22, 1812, ch. 92. Act of April 29, 1812, ch. 72. May 16, 1812, ch. 86.
For the pay of the army, seventy-two thousand five hundred and ninety-six dollars.
For forage, four thousand seven hundred and twenty-two dollars.
For subsistence, six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For clothing, three thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars.
For clerk hire and stationery, in the offices of the quartermaster general and commissary general of purchases, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For the salary of the commissary general of purchases and compensations of the deputy commissaries, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Indian department, comprising the employment of temporary agents, presents to the Indians, and transportation, twenty thousand dollars.
For the payment of such balances as have been or may be ascertained from actual settlements made by the accountant of the department of war, and which cannot be discharged out of any existing appropriations, five thousand dollars.
Congress to meet first Mon-
day in November, 1812.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Pay of the army fixed.
Act of April 12, 1808, ch. 43.
[Obsolete.]
Act of April 23, 1812, ch. 64.
Provisions of the act to which this is a supplement extended to purchasers of certain fractional townships, without reservation.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 35.
Act of April 12, 1808, ch. 43.
Assignee or assignees of original purchasers of land from the United States entitled to the benefits of this act.
Original purchasers or their assignees may in certain cases where their lands have reverted to the
United States re-enter upon the same.
Books to be opened at the treasury for a subscription to the old six per cent, stock of the U. States.
Terms upon which subscriptions may be made.
Proviso.
Funds to be pledged.
[Obsolete.]
Agents may be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury for the sale of stock of the United States.
Act of March 14, 1812, ch. 41.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Two additional brigadier generals may be appointed by the President.
1812, ch. 14.
Additional deputy adjutant generals, &c. may be appointed from the line of the army.
President may appoint during the recess of the Senate.
Brevet rank may be conferred by the President in certain cases.
No additional pay, &c., to be allowed, unless commanding separate posts, &c.
Officers may have private waiters.
[Repealed.]
Act of Feb. 6, 1812, ch. 21.
Act of January 29, 1813, ch. 15, sec. 13.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
President may appoint officers to volunteer corps.
Proviso.
Corps of volunteers to be formed into battalions, &c.
President may appoint the officers in the recess of the Senate.
Volunteers to be paid for delivering up their arms at the ex-
piration of their term of service.
Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States to be allowed to use books in the library of Congress.
Information obtained under the act of May 1, 1810, ch. 38, to be digested.
Legislature of Georgia requested to consent to the formation of two states in the territory of Mississippi.
Resolution requesting the President to recommend a day of public humiliation and prayer.
ACTS OF THE TWELFTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
The message of the President and documents to be transmitted free of postage.
[Obsolete.]
The mint continued in Philadelphia until March 4, 1813.
Act of March 3, 1801, ch. 21, revived.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriation.
Act of April 10, 1812, ch. 56.
Act of Feb. 28, 1795, ch. 36.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Monthly pay after Dec. 31, 1812.
Non-commissioned officers, soldiers, &c. &c. free from arrest for debt.
Recruits to have an option to serve till the end of the war, or for five years.
District and territorial judges to reside within their districts and not to exercise the profession of counsel or attorney, or to be engaged in the practice of the law.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1813, ch. 54.
Act of Feb. 27, 1815, ch. 62.
Ships of war to be built.
Complement of officers on board the seventy-fours.
Warrant officers on board the seventy-fours.
Petty officers.
One schoolmaster.
Complements of men on board the seventy-four gun ships.
Pay of the schoolmaster.
Specific appropriation of 2,500,000 dollars.
Secretary of the Treasury authorized to remit certain fines in. curred upon the importation of goods from Great Britain.
Act of March 1, 1809, ch. 24.
Act of May 1, 1810, ch. 39.
1811, ch. 29.
Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 13.
Conditions.
Costs and charges and duties to be paid.
Proviso as to goods purchased after the war was known to exist.
Act of Jan. 22, 1811, ch. 7.
Report of the commissioners adopted and approved of.
[Obsolete.]
President may direct a mail to be carried from the head quarters of any army of the United States to the nearest post.
[Obsolete.]
Officers of the navy and ma-
rines to be placed, in certain cases, on the navy pension list.
Act of March 4, 1814, ch. 20.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations.
Towards defraying the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, ten thousand dollars.
[Obsolete.]
One additional major to be appointed for each regiment of the army of the United States.
Act of June 26, 1812, ch. 108.
A third lieutenant to each company.
An additional sergeant to be also allowed.
An additional advance to be made to recruits.
Bounty of 160 acres.
Additional premium to recruiting officers.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Persons performing a tour of militia duty may be absolved from the balance of their term of service by enlisting in the army.
Prize made by private armed ships to be sold by marshals of the districts wherein they are condemn, ed.
Proviso.
Marshals to pay over the proceeds, &c. &c.
If no written agreement, how proceeds of prizes are to be paid over by the marshal.
Proviso.
Commission to the marshals for this service.
Proviso.
Marshals to file accounts of sales, &c. &c. in the clerk’s office.
Penalties for not doing so.
Captured vessels before libels filed may be removed.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Goods imported into the United States from British ports beyond the Cape of Good Hope exempt from fine.
See act of April 14, 1814, ch. 56.
1797, ch. 13.
When to be released.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Additional regiments to be raised.
Act of January 11, 1812, ch. 14.
Act of January 14, 1812, ch. 16.
Constituent parts of the regiments.
Of companies.
President may appoint the officers during the recess.
Pay, &c. &c. of the officers, &c. &c.
To be governed by the rules and articles of war.
Premium to the officers for enlisting men.
Proviso.
No person under twenty-one to be enlisted, without consent of parent, &c.
Sixteen dollars bounty to each man.
Arrears never to exceed two months.
Disabled officers, musicians, and privates, to be placed on the list of invalids.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Widows or children of commissioned officers dying from wounds received in actual service, entitled to half the monthly pay for five years.
Proviso.
Non-commissioned officers, musicians, or privates, deserting the service, to make good the time of enlistment, &c.
Oath to be taken by officers, musicians, and privates.
Form of the oath.
Extra expenses incurred by commissioned officers to be allowed, &c.
Officers and soldiers discharged from service to be allowed travelling expenses.
A chaplain to be appointed to each brigade, &c.
No field or staff officer entitled to receive pay or emolument till called into actual service.
Certain acts relating to volunteer military corps repealed.
Act of Feb. 6, 1812, ch. 21.
Act of July 6, 1812, ch.138.
Proviso.
Act of Feb. 28, 1795, ch. 36.
Fines imposed by courts martial to be certified to the comptroller of the treasury.
Act of April 18, 1806, ch. 32.
Act of April 10, 1812, ch. 55.
Marshals to pay fines within two months after collection into the treasury, deducting five per cent.
Non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of volunteer and militia corps entitled to the same monthly pay, rations, and forage, &c. as those of the army of the United States.
Act of April 29, 1816, ch. 162.
Inhabitants and cultivators of land lying in districts established for the sale thereof, entitled to prefer, ence in purchasing.
No more than one quarter section to be sold to any individual.
No lands to be sold which were reserved by former acts.
Persons claiming a preference in purchasing to deliver notice in writing to the register of the land-office, &c.
If a person is entitled to a preference he may enter the same.
Proviso.
How the preference may be forfeited.
President authorized to borrow, on the credit of the United States, a sum not exceeding sixteen millions of dollars.
Reimbursable in twelve years from the first of January, 1814.
Sale of the certificates of stock a good execution of power to borrow.
President to cause to be laid before Congress an account of all the monies obtained by sale of certificates, &c.
Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President, to employ agents to obtain subscriptions to the loan.
Commission to agents.
Forty thousand dollars appropriated to pay commissions and defray other expenses.
Surplus funds of the annual appropriation of eight millions of dollars for the payment of the public debt, pledged for the redemption of the present loan.
Commissioners of the sinking fund to act accordingly.
The faith of the U. States pledged to establish sufficient revenues to make up deficiencies.
Banks in the District of Columbia authorized to lend money under this act.
1812, ch. 107.
1813, ch. 58.
Act of March 4, 1814. ch. 20.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 60.
Act of April 16, 1818, ch. 60.
Act of Jan. 22, 1824, ch. 15. Act of June 30, 1834, ch. 134.
Act of March 3, 1837, ch. 40.
The two per cent, reserved in the hands of the collectors and consuls, to be paid into the treasury, to constitute a fund, &c.
Secretary of the Navy to place certain persons on the pension list.
Commanding officers to enter the names, &c. of wounded persons in a journal.
Collectors to transmit a transcript of such journals to the Secretary of the Navy, &c.
Act of April 21, 1806, ch 40.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 47.
Act of Feb. 19, 1814, ch. 14.
Act of April 16, 1816, ch. 52.
Certain decisions of the register and receiver of public monies confirmed.
1810, ch. 35.
Claims of certain persons confirmed.
Locations to be entered accordingly.
1S06, ch. 40.
1814, ch. 18.
Persons entitled to land to receive certificates authorizing the granting of patents.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Six major generals to be appointed.
Two aids-decamp allowed to each.
Six brigadier generals to be also appointed.
Aids, &c. &c.
Their pay, &c. &c.
[Obsolete.]
Act of May 3, 1822, ch. 47.
Treasury notes for five millions of dollars to be prepared and issued.
Additional sum of five millions of dollars to be borrowed upon treasury notes.
Proviso.
1813, ch. 21.
Terms and places of reimbursement.
By whom the notes are to be signed.
Their compensation.
Secretary of the Treasury may pay the notes for supplies, &c. &c.
Sums may be borrowed on the credit of the notes.
Secretary of the Treasury may employ agents for selling the stock.
At what commission.
How transferable.
Treasury notes receivable for all public dues.
Interest to be computed upon treasury notes received in payment for public dues and charged to and credited in the accounts of the officers so paying.
No charge of interest to be made against any bank which shall receive the notes as agent, &c.
Commissioners of the sinking fund may cause the reimbursement to be made, and purchases of the treasury notes to be effected.
Specific appropriation.
Penalties for counterfeiting or forging treasury notes, &c.
[Repealed.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 76.
Act of Feb. 5, 1816, ch. 10.
Duties upon iron wire.
Additional duty imposed on wire imported in vessels of the United States.
How collected, &c. &c.
[Obsolete.]
Act of Jan. 2, 1812, ch. 11.
Act of Jan. 29, 1813, ch. 15.
Congress to meet on the fourth Monday in May, 1813.
[Obsolete.]
Remission of certain fines, &c. &c. authorized.
Act of March 1, 1809, ch. 24.
1810, ch. 39.
Act of March 2, 1811, ch. 29.
Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 13.
Duties to be paid, and also all costs, &c.
Time of paying duties upon goods imported from beyond the Cape of Good Hope not altered.
Act of Jan. 27, 1813, ch. 14.
Act of Feb. 27, 1815, ch. 65, sec. 3, 4.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 106.
Steamboats may carry the mail.
Terms.
Proviso.
Attorneys and marshals to be appointed in the territories.
Post roads.
Repealed by Act of May 4, 1822, ch. 50.
Agent to be appointed for preserving the genuine vaccine matter.
It may be sent through the medium of the post-office.
Oath or affirmation to be taken by agent.
He must write to the postmasters and send a copy of this act.
Packets not exceeding half an ounce and relating to vaccination, to go free of postage to and from the agent.
Proviso.
Removal from office to be at the discretion of the President.
Actual settlers allowed a further time for filing their claims to the register of the land-office at New Orleans and Opelousas.
Claims forfeited that are not thus entered.
Claims barred, if not entered.
Same powers given to the register and receiver of public monies at the land-offices of New Orleans and Opelousas as if the claims had been filed before first July, one thousand
eight hundred and eight.
Register, &c. &c. to report to the commissioner of the general land office, &c. &c.
Register and receiver may appoint a clerk.
Compensation.
Law of the state of Maryland declared to be in force.
Turnpike road in what route to be made.
Turnpike gate where to be erected in District of Columbia.
[Obsolete.]
March 26, 1804, ch. 46.
First section of the act continued in force.
1812, ch. 18.
Proviso.
After the war citizens of the United States only to be employed in the public or private vessels of the United States.
Naturalized citizens when they may be employed.
Lists of the crews to be furnished and certified previously to the sailing of vessels on foreign voyages.
Supplemental directions may
be given by the President with respect to the seamen employed in the United States.
Proviso.
Seamen or seafaring persons not citizens of the U. States only admitted as passengers in American vessels upon certain conditions.
Interference of consuls and commercial agents admissible in certain cases,
Penalty for admitting persons not qualified according to this act into the service of the United States.
Commanders or owners of private armed vessels subjected to penalties for admitting persons contrary to this act.
Recovery of penalties.
Foreign seamen maybe employed in American vessels in foreign ports.
Conditions.
Provisions of this act not to be extended to the citizens or subjects of nations which have
not adopted its principles.
Not to be a bar to any treaty.
Residence of five years in the United States necessary to qualify a person to become a citizen.
Penalty for forging certificates of citizenship or protections.
Suits for for. feitures must be commenced within three years.
Act of Feb. 19, 1814, ch. 14.
Further time allowed for purchasers prior to April, 1809.
Act of April 23, 1812, ch. 64.
Conditions.
Proviso.
Limitation of the act.
An act allowing further time for delivering the evidence in support of the claims to land in the territory of Missouri, and for regulating the donation of grants therein, March 3, 1813, chap. 44.
An act giving further time for registering claims to lands in the late district of Arkansas, in the territory of Missouri, and for other purposes, August 2, 1813, chap. 59.
An act for the final adjustment of land titles in the state of Louisiana, and territory of Missouri, April 12, 1814, chap. 52.
An act for the confirmation of certain claims to land in the western district of the state of Louisiana, and in the territory of Michigan, April 29, 1816, chap. 159.
An act explanatory of an act entitled, “An act for the final adjustment of land titles in the state of Louisiana, and territory of Missouri, March 3, 1819, chap. 85.
An act to perfect certain locations and sales of public lands in Missouri, April 26, 1822, chap. 40.
An act enabling the claimants to lands within the limits of the state of Missouri, and the territory of Arkansas, to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims, May 26, 1824, chap. 173.
An act supplementary to the act passed on the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, entitled, “An act making further provision for settling claims to land in the territory of Missouri,” May 26, 1824, chap. 184.
An act to continue in force for a limited time, and to amend an act entitled, “An act to enable claimants to lands within the limits of the state of Missouri, and territory of Arkansas, to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims,” May 24, 1828, chap. 90.
An act further supplemental to the act entitled, “An act making further provision for settling the claims to land in the territory of Missouri, passed the thirteenth of June, eighteen hundred and twelve,” January 27, 1831, chap. 12.
An act for the relief of certain holders of certificates issued in lieu of lands injured by earthquakes in Missouri, March 2, 1831, chap. 92.
An act for the final adjustment of private land claims in Missouri, July 9, 1832, chap. 180.
An act supplemental to the act entitled, “An act for the final adjustment of land claims in Missouri,” March 2, 1833, chap. 84.
An act confirming the claims to land in the state of Missouri, and for other purposes, July 4, 1836, chap. 358.
An act authorizing the issuing of a patent to the heirs and legal representatives of Francis Rivard, deceased, and for other purposes, August 29, 1842, chap. 229, sec. 2. Land titles in Missouri:—
The state of Missouri was formerly part of the territory, first of France, next of Spain, then of France, who ceded it to the United States by the treaty of 1803, in full propriety, sovereignty and dominion, as she had acquired and held it; by which this government put itself in place of the former sovereigns, and became invested with all their rights, subject to their concomitant obligations to the inhabitants. Both were regulated by the law of nations, according to which the rights of property are protected, even in the case of a conquered country, and held sacred and inviolable when it is ceded by treaty, with or without any stipulation to such effect; and the laws, whether in writing, or evidenced by the usage and customs of the conquered or ceded country, continue in force, until altered by the new sovereign. Strother v. Lucas, 12 Peters, 410.
No principle can be better established by the authority of the supreme court, than “that the acts of an officer, to whom a public duty is assigned by his king, within the sphere of that duty, are prima facie taken to be within his power.” The principles on which it rests, are believed to be too deeply founded in law and reason, ever to be successfully assailed. He who would controvert a grant executed by the lawful authority, with all the solemnities required by law, takes on himself the burthen of showing that the officer has transcended the powers conferred upon him ; or that the transaction is tainted with fraud. Ibid.
Where the act of an officer to pass the title to land according to the Spanish law, is done contrary to the written order of the king, is produced at the trial, without any explanation, it shall be presumed that the power has not been exceeded : that the act was done on the motive set out therein ; and according to some order known to the king and his officers, though not to his subjects : and courts ought to require very full proof, that he had transcended his powers, before they so determine it. Ibid.
In favour of long possession and ancient appropriation, every thing which was done shall be presumed to have been rightfully done; and though it does not appear to have been done, the law will presume that whatever was necessary has been done. Ibid.
The stipulations of the treaty ceding Louisiana to the United States, affording that protection or security to claims under the French or Spanish government to which the act of Congress refers, are in the first, second and third articles. They extended to all property until Louisiana became a member of the Union; into which the inhabitants were to be incorporated as soon as possible, “and admitted to all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States.” The perfect inviolability and security of property is among these rights. Delassus v. The United States, 9 Peters, 117.
The right of property is protected and secured by the treaty, and no principle is better settled in this country, than that an inchoate title to lands is property. This right would have been sacred, independent of the treaty. The sovereign who acquires an inhabited country, acquires full dominion over it; but this dominion is never supposed to divest the vested rights of individuals to property. The language of the treaty ceding Louisiana, excludes any idea of interfering with private property. Ibid.
On the 18th of April, 1802, the lieutenant-governor of Upper Louisiana granted sixteen hundred arpents of land near certain rivers named in the grant, with directions to survey the same in a vacant place of the royal domain; but no survey was made before the cession of Louisiana to the United States. By the Court—As the grant contained no description of the land granted, and was not located within the time prescribed by the act of Congress of the 10th of March, 1804, it comes directly within the point decided by the supreme court in the case of John Smith, T., and cannot be confirmed. Wherry v. The United States, 10 Peters, 338.
In repeated decisions, the supreme court have affirmed the authority of local governors, under the crown of Spain, to grant land in Louisiana, before the same was ceded by Spain to France: and the court have also affirmed the validity of descriptive grants, though not surveyed before the 11th of March, 1804, in Missouri, and the 24th of January, 1818, in Florida. Mackey v. The United States, 10 Peters, 340.
A grant or concession made by an officer who is by law authorized to make it, carries with it prima facie evidence that it is within his powers. No excess of them, or departure from them, is to be presumed. He violates his duty by such excess, and is responsible for it. He who alleges that an officer entrusted with an important duty has violated his instructions, must show it. Delassus v. The United States, 9 Peters, 117.
The instructions of governor O’Reilly, relative to granting lands in Louisiana, were considered by the court, in 8 Peters, 455. These regulations, were intended for the general government of subordinate officers, and not to control and limit the power of the person from whose will they emanated. The Baron De Carondelet must be supposed to have had all the powers which had been vested in Don O’Reilly; and a concession ordered by him is as valid as a similar concession directed by governor O’Reilly would have been. Ibid.
A concession of land was made by the lieutenant-governor of Upper Louisiana, at the time when the power of granting lands was vested in the governors of provinces. This power was, in 1799, after the concession, transferred to the intendant-general; and after this transfer, in January, 1800, the order of survey of the land was made by the lieutenant-governor. The validity of the order of survey depends on the authority of the lieutenant-governor to make it. The lieutenant-governor was also a sub-delegate, and as such was empowered to make inchoate grants. The grant was confirmed. Chouteau’s heirs v. The United States, 9 Peters, 137.
The transfer of the power to make concessions of lands belonging to the royal domain of Spain, from the governor-general to the intendant-general, did not affect the power of the sub-delegate, who made this concession. The order in this case is the foundation of title, and is, according to the act of Congress on the subject of confirming titles to lands in Missouri, &c., and the general understanding and usage of Louisiana and Missouri, capable of being perfected into a complete title. It is property, capable of being alienated, of being subjected to debts : and is, as such, to be held as sacred and inviolate as other property. Ibid.
A concession of one league square of land, in Upper Louisiana, was made by Don Zenon Trudeau, the lieutenant-governor of that province, to Auguste Chouteau, and a decree made by him directing the surveyor- general of the province to put him in possession of the land, and to survey the same, in order to enable Chouteau to solicit a complete title thereto from the governor-general, who by the said decree was informed that the circumstances of Chouteau were such as entitled him to a grant of the land. The land was surveyed, and the grantee put in full possession of it on the 20th of December, 1803. He retained possession of it until his death. The objection to the validity of the concession was, that the petitioner had not as many tame cattle as the eighth regulation of governor O’Reilly, governor-general of Louisiana, required. That regulation required that the applicant for a grant of a league square of land should make it appear that he is possessed of one hundred head of tame cattle, some horses and sheep, and two slaves to look after them, a proportion which shall always be observed for the grants, &c. By the Court—In the spirit of the decisions which have been heretofore made by the supreme court, and of the acts of confirmation passed by Congress, the fact that the applicant possessed the requisite amount of property to entitle him to the land he solicited, was submitted to the officer who decided on the application ; and he is not bound to prove it to the court, which passes on the validity of the grant. These incomplete titles were transferable, and the assignee might not possess the means of proving the exact number of cattle in possession of the petitioner when the concession was made. The grant was confirmed. Ibid. 147.
If the court can trust the information received on this subject, neither the governor nor the intendant-general has ever refused to perfect an incomplete title granted by a deputy governor or a sub-delegate. Ibid.
The regulation made by Don O’Reilly, as to the quantity of land to be granted to an individual, is not that no individual shall receive grants for more than one league square, but that no grant shall exceed a league square. The words of the regulation do not forbid different grants to the same person ; and, so far as the court are informed, it has never been so construed. Ibid.
Further time allowed to claimants within the district of Missouri.
Written evidence to be given.
Duties and powers of recorder.
Duties of recorder to report to the commissioners.
Claimants when to receive their grants in full.
Act of June 13, 1812, ch. 99, sec. 3.
Limitations of grants.
Survey to be made.
Grants and patents when to be issued.
Salary of the recorder augmented.
Fees and allowance of five hundred dollars on the completion of the business.
Act of April 9, 1814, ch. 49.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 94.
Terms of the courts changed to second Tuesday in May and fourth Tuesday of September, at Utica.
Process returnable accordingly.
Boston substituted for Salem, for the sessions of the court.
Writs and process returnable to the court at Salem, to be returned to the court at Boston.
[Obsolete.]
During the war any person may burn, sink, or destroy any vessel of war, except vessels under cartels.
Compensation therefor.
Third section of act of April 2, 1794, ch. 14, repealed.
Superintendent general to be appointed to reside at the seat of government.
Salary three thousand dollars.
His duties.
Exempted from postage by act of 1813, ch. 9.
Commissary general of purchases, &c. &c. to make reports to him, &c. &c.
Proviso that the accounts and returns shall relate to articles of supply only.
Accounts for supplies to be returned and settled quarterly-
Species and amount of supplies to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, &c. &c.
Allowances for store rent, &c.
Superintendent, how appointed.
Clerks to be employed by him.
Proviso.
President may appoint a special commissary for supplying and issuing pro. visions, &c. &c.
Compensation.
Assistant commissaries to be appointed.
Compensation.
[Obsolete.]
Act of Dec. 31, 1792, ch. 1, sec. 9.
New certificates of registry to be provided.
Old certificates of registry to be exchanged for new certificates.
Specific appropriation.
[Obsolete.]
Reward to the officers and crew of the Constitution for the destruction of the Java, and Wasp.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Act of April 24, 1816, ch.69.
Act of April 16, 1818, ch. 56.
Of what officers composed.
Their rank and pay.
Brigadier general may be assigned to principal army to act as adjutant, &c. &c.
Rank, pay, and emoluments of officers of the staff.
Assistant adjutant generals, &c. &c. to be taken from the line.
General regulations to be prepared by the Secretary of War, for regulating the staff.
To be laid before Congress.
Number of assistant deputy commissaries of ordnance not to exceed sixteen.
Physician or surgeon general to be appointed.
Forage, wagon, and barrack masters to be appointed as heretofore.
Assistant deputy quartermasters general, how appointed, &c. &c.
Repealing clause.
Letters to certain agents and from them free of postage.
President may appoint certain officers in recess of Senate.
Act of February 24, 1813, ch. 24.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 2, 1811, ch. 36.
Act continued until March 3, 1815.
Act of Feb. 27, 1815, ch. 62.
Sloops of war to be built, manned, and equipped for service, &c.
Vessels to be prepared for the lakes.
Officers to be appointed, &c. &c.
Specific appropriation for the purposes of this act.
Appropriation for a dock yard.
President may contract for building any of the forty-four gun ships.
Sale of gun boats authorized.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations.
That for defraying the expenses of the navy, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, one million six hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars, and for pay due to the officers and crews of the public ships and other vessels in commission for the year one thousand eight [hundred] and twelve, three hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.
For provisions, seven hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
For medicines, instruments, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, one hundred thousand dollars.
For repair of vessels, six hundred and forty thousand dollars.
For freight, store rent, and all other contingent expenses, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses of navy yards, comprising docks and other improvements, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks, and labourers, ninety thousand dollars.
Specific appropriations.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, two hundred and forty-five thousand three hundred and ninety-one dollars and seventy cents.
For clothing for the same, seventy-one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight dollars and ten cents.
For military stores for the same, twenty-seven thousand six hundred and eight dollars and seventy-five cents.
For medicines, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick belonging to the marine corps, twenty thousand dollars.
For quartermasters and barrack masters’ stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorers and carpenters’ bills, fuel, premiums for enlisting men, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses of the marine corps, forty-six thousand dollars.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations.
Repairs of the chamber of the house of representatives.
Repairs of the roof of the capitol.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations for the military establishment.
That for defraying the expense: of the military establishment of the United States, including the volunteers and militia, in their actual service, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, for the Indian department, and for the expense of fortifications, arsenals, and armories, the following sums, including the sum of one million of dollars already appropriated by the first section Act of January 20, 1813, ch. 11.
For the pay of the army of the United States, including the pay of the artificers and labourers in the quartermaster general’s and ordnance departments, and of the private servants kept by officers, and for the pay of the volunteers and militia in the actual service of the United States five million one hundred and sixty-eight thousand eight hundred and three dollars.
For forage to officers, one hundred and nine thousand two hundred Specific appropriations.
For the subsistence of the army, and volunteers and militia, two million nine hundred and seventy-seven thousand five hundred and thirty-one dollars.
For clothing, two million fifteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-four dollars.
For bounties and premiums, five hundred and fifty-seven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
For camp and field equipage, two hundred and Seventy thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, two hundred thousand dollars.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, nine hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars.
For fortifications, four hundred and ninety-seven thousand dollars.
For arsenals, magazines, and armories, three hundred and fifty-two thousand two hundred and eight dollars.
For the quartermaster general’s department, including fuel, straw, barrels, quarters, tools, and all the expenses incident to transportation, two million three hundred thousand dollars.
For contingencies, three hundred and five thousand three hundred and seventeen dollars.
For purchasing books, maps, and plans, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the salary of the commissary general of purchases, three thousand dollars.
For the salary of the clerks employed in the offices of the adjutant general, of the commissary general, and of the quartermaster general, eight thousand dollars.
For the purchase of books and apparatus for the military academy, twelve thousand dollars,
For the Indian department, one hundred and sixty-four thousand five hundred dollars.
For the repayment of the sum of five hundred and twenty-seven dollars, being a balance due the state of Maryland, of monies paid by that state to the United States, as the purchase money of public arms, which have not been fully supplied.
Specific appropriations for the civil lists, &c.
That for the expenditure of the civil list in the present year, including the contingent expenses of the several departments and offices, for the compensation of the several loan officers and their clerks, and for books and stationery for the same; for the payment of annuities and grants; for the support of the mint establishment; for the expense cf intercourse with foreign nations; for the support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers; for defraying the expenses of surveying the public lands; and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims, the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say;
For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and Specific appropriations.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, fifty-two thousand dollars.
For all contingent expenses of the library of Congress, and for the librarian’s allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks, and persons employed in that department, including a deficiency of one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars, in last year’s appropriation, fifteen thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars.
For compensation to a clerk on old records in the said department, for the year eighteen hundred and thirteen, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to a messenger to the patent office, two hundred dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks in the said department, not exceeding fifteen per centum, in addition to the sum allowed by the act, Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For printing and distributing the laws of the second session of the twelfth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, including the sum of six thousand two hundred and eighty-two dollars, to make good a deficiency in the appropriation for this object in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, thirteen thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including a deficiency of ten dollars in last year’s appropriation, thirteen thousand three hundred and nine dollars and eighty-one cents.
For expense of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in transmitting passports and sea letters, and for stationery and printing in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including the sum of two thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine dollars for compensation to his clerks, in addition Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses of the comptroller’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses of the auditor’s office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand dollars, for compensation to Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For expenses of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the commissioner of the general land-office, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including the sum of five hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty-four cents for extra services of clerks, and for the service of a messenger during the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, ten thousand nine hundred and ninety- five dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses of the commissioner’s office, including four hundred and seventy-four dollars and twenty cents, to defray those expenses in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, seven hundred and twenty- four dollars and twenty cents.
For the expense of vellum, and printing land patents, including the sum of fifteen hundred and six dollars and twenty-five cents for defraying the expense incurred for that object, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, four thousand three hundred and six dollars and twenty-five cents.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty-two dollars and two cents.
For additional compensation to the clerks in the treasury department, not exceeding fifteen per centum, in addition to the sum allowed by the act, entitled “An act to regulate and fix the compensation of clerks, Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For compensation to the messenger of the register’s office, for stamping and arranging ships’ registers, ninety dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses in the register’s office, including books for the public stocks, and for the arrangement of the marine records, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel and other contingent and incidental expenses of the treasury department, four thousand dollars.
For the purchase of books, maps, and charts, for the use of the treasury department, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to a superintendent, employed to secure the buildings and records of the treasury department, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, including the expense of two watchmen, the repairs of two fire engines, buckets, lanterns, and other incidental and contingent expenses, one thousand one hundred dollars.
For defraying the expense of stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including the sum of three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars for clerk hire, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of April twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and six, fifteen Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including the sum of five thousand dollars for clerk hire, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, fifteen thousand Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For additional compensation to the clerks in the war department, not Specific appropriations. Chap. 41.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the war department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the paymaster’s office, nine thousand and ninety dollars.
For compensation to a messenger for the paymaster’s office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the said office, five hundred dollars.
To Doyle Sweeny, for compensation for his services as clerk in the office of purveyor of public supplies, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand six hundred dollars’ clerk hire, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first Chap. 41.
For expenses of stationery, fuel, printing, and other contingent expenses in the said office, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the navy, one thousand dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks in the navy department, not exceeding fifteen per centum in addition to the sum allowed by the Act of April 21, 1806, ch.41.
For compensation to the postmaster general, assistant postmasters general, clerks and persons employed in the postmaster general’s office, including the sum of three thousand five hundred and twelve dollars for compensation to clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the Chap. 41.
For the expense of fuel, house rent for the messenger, candles, stationery, chests, &c. incident to the postmaster general’s office, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks employed in the postmaster general’s office, not exceeding fifteen per centum in addition to the sum Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For .compensation to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of the commissioners of loans, including a sum of two thousand dollars in addition to the amount heretofore allowed by law, and for allowance to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expense of the several loan offices, seventeen thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor general, and his clerks, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of the lands south of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, and for stationery and other contingencies, including the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars for clerk hire in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that object, four thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the officers of the mint, viz: Specific appropriations.
The director, two thousand dollars.
The treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars.
The assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The chief coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The meker and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars.
One clerk, at seven hundred dollars, and
One clerk, at five hundred dollars.
For wages to the persons employed in melting, coining, carpenters’, millwrights’, and smiths’ work, including the sum of one thousand dollars allowed to an assistant coiner and die forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, and of six hundred dollars allowed to an assistant engraver, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs of furnaces, cost of rollers and screws, timber, bar iron, lead, steel, potash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, five thousand three hundred and four dollars and sixty-two cents.
For an allowance for wastage in the gold and silver coinage, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Mississippi territory, nine thousand dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Indiana territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Missouri territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Illinois territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on ac- count of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, two thousand dollars.
For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice and two associate judges of the District of Columbia, and. to the attorney-general, including the sum of nine hundred and fifty-three dollars and eighty-four cents, for the salary of the additional district judge of the state of New York, for the year eighteen hundred and twelve, and a further sum of one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars, to make good a deficiency in the appropriation for the year eighteen hundred and twelve, for the compensation of the attorney-general, and of the district judge of Louisiana, sixty-five thousand four hundred and three dollars and eighty-four cents.
For the like compensation granted to the several district attornies of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation granted to the several marshals for the districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ken- Specific appropriations.
For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures, and penalties, and for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present government, eight hundred and sixty dollars.
For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, ninety-eight thousand dollars.
For expenses incident to the receiving the subscriptions to the loan of eleven millions of dollars, authorized by the act of the [fourteenth] of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, two thousand dollars in addition to the sum already for that purpose appropriated.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers, stakeages of channels, bars and shoals, and certain contingent expenses including twenty-four thousand dollars for completing the fitting up of all the lighthouses with Winslow Lewis’s improvements, ninety-nine thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifteen cents.
For erecting lighthouses at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and at or near the pitch of Cape Lookout in North Carolina; being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, thirty-four thousand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifty cents.
For building a lighthouse al Nawshawn island, near Tarpaulin Cove in Massachusetts, being the amount of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, two thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For erecting a beacon, and placing buoys near the entrance of Savannah 1798, ch. 78.
For erecting two lights on Lake Erie, viz. on or near Bird Island, and on or near Presque Isle, being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, one thousand five hundred and ninety dollars.
For placing buoys and beacons at or near the entrance of the harbor of Beverly in Massachusetts, being the balance of a former appropriation carried into the surplus fund, three hundred and forty-one dollars and ninety-five cents.
For rebuilding the Baldhead lighthouse in North Carolina, fifteen thousand dollars.
For placing a buoy at the entrance of Barnstable harbor, one hundred dollars.
For the support of sick and disabled seamen in addition to the funds already appropriated by law, twenty thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of surveying the public land within the several territories of the United States, sixty-one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.
For the payment of a claim for taking the second census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, the sum appropriated for that object having been heretofore carried to the surplus fund, two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twelve cents.
For the support and safe keeping of prisoners of war, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For bringing the votes for President and Vice President of the United Specific appropriations.
For paying the bounties which may become payable to the owners of private armed vessels, in conformity with the ninth section of the act of Act of June 26, 1812, ch. 107.
For making the road from Cumberland in the state of Maryland, to Act of April 30, 1802, ch. 40.
For pensions to the widows or children of officers and soldiers killed in the campaign of one thousand eight hundred and eleven, on the Wabash, from the seventh of November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, to the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, five thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-seven cents.
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, thirty-five thousand four hundred dollars.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, fifteen thousand dollars.
For expenses of prosecuting claims and appeals in the courts of France and Denmark, in relation to captures of American vessels, and defending causes elsewhere, four thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of-settlement at the treasury, four thousand dollars.
Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.
District Court of Maine.
Act of November 28, 1811, ch. 2.
The President may cause retaliation to be made.
President may retaliate upon the British for injuries done by the Indians.
Brilliant achievements of Captains Hull, Decatur, Jones, and Lieutenant Elliott.
A system of discipline for the army and militia to be passed.