Rules concerning voting for directors.
the
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
ACTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Needwood street to be opened.
Greene and Montgomery streets to be opened and extended.
Certain parts of Wapping and Lovely streets vacated, and the ground reinvested in original proprietors.
Act of July 29, 1813, chap. 35.
Agreements with fishermen under what sanctions to be made.
Fishermen neglecting their duty.
Act of July 20, 1790, chap. 29, sec. 7.
Conditions to which they become subject.
Fishing vessels to continue liable for wages of the hands for six months after sale of fish.
Just accounts of sales to be produced, otherwise the vessel answerable.
Remedy at common law to be preserved.
[Obsolete.]
Act of January 29, 1813, ch. 15.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Five of the regiments lately authorized to be raised may be enlisted for the war.
Bounty, &c. &c. to recruits.
Repealed by act of February 27, 1815, ch. 62.
A number of barges to be built.
Specific appropriation.
[Obsolete.]
Act of June 9, 1794, ch. 62.
Act of March 21, 1808, ch. 37.
Act of Dec. 19, 1809, ch. 3.
Certain military warrants may be issued by the Secretary of War.
Prize money to the officers and crew of the Hornet, and to Lieutenant Elliott, his officers and companions.
Privilege of franking to superintendent general of military supplies.
[Obsolete.]
Claim of the United States to British goods relinquished in cases where they have been condemned for the benefit of the captors, &c.
Act of May 1, 1810, chap. 39.
Act of March 2, 1811, chap. 29.
Act of May 1, 1810, chap. 39.
Act of March 2, 1811, chap. 29.
Act of May 1, 1810, chap. 39.
Act of March 2, 1811, chap. 29.
Suits on behalf of the United States to be discontinued.
Where not condemned for the benefit of the captors, the rights of the United States to remain.
Decision of Secretary of Treasury not to affect claims of captors, &c.
Act of Jan. 2, 1813, chap. 7.
Act of June 26, 1812, chap. 107.
Commissioners appointed for receiving subscriptions, &c. &c.
Proviso.
Annual meetings for the choice of directors, officers, &c. &c.
Printed certificates of shares to be delivered to stockholders.
Such certificates made transferable.
Stockholders, delinquent, to forfeit their first payments in certain cases.
Instalments, how recoverable, &c. &c.
President and directors to have stated meetings.
Commissioners for ascertaining value of land to be appointed.
Act of April 25, 1810, chap. 21.
How they are to proceed.
Duty of the commissioners last mentioned.
Duty of commissioners.
Road, how to be constructed, &c. &c.
Tolls, rates of.
Weights which may be carried over, at what rates.
Restrictions as to weights to be carried over turnpike.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Duties of president and directors, and their powers.
Accounts of receipts to be kept, and the half yearly dividends to be declared.
Road to be kept in repair, penalties, &c. &c.
When the road shall become free of toll.
Penalty for evading payment of tolls, &c. &c.
Proviso.
Commissioners appointed for receiving subscriptions, &c. &c.
Direction of road.
Proviso.
Annual meetings of the company for the choice of directors, &c. &c.
Powers of the company, and of the board of directors.
Regulations with respect to shares.
Meetings of the directors.
Their powers.
Commissioners to be appointed by circuit court for laying out the road, and making the other preliminary arrangements.
Act of April 25, 1810, chap. 21.
Proceedings.
Tolls.
A jury to be summoned for condemning land and materials for road.
Scales may be erected for ascertaining weights to be brought over the road.
Regulations respecting weights to be brought over the road.
Correct accounts to be kept of receipts and expenditures.
Particular account of tolls received to be kept.
Corporation to keep the road in good repair.
Proviso.
Penalties for evading payment of tolls.
Proviso.
President may cause hulks to be sunk for greater security of ports and harbours.
Appropriation.
1. The cost of printing a statement of the case for the Supreme Court, was refused to be allowed as part of the plaintiff’s costs. Jennings et al. Plaintiffs in Error v. The Brig Perseverance, 3 Dall. 336; 1 Cond. Rep. 154.
2. On a writ of error to the High Court of Appeals of Maryland, the judgment of that court was reversed, and the judgment of the general court of Maryland was affirmed. The mandate of the Supreme Court was directed to the general court, and the costs of the Supreme Court and of the courts of Maryland were allowed to the plaintiff in error. Clarke, Plaintiff in Error v. Harwood, 3 Dall. 342; 1 Cond. Rep. 157.
3. Costs are not to be awarded against the United States. The United States v. Hooe et al. 3 Cranch, 73; 1 Cond. Rep. 458.
4. A judgment for costs, generally, includes all the costs belonging to the suit, whether prior or subsequent to the rendition of the judgment. If new costs accrue, the judgment opens to receive them. Peyton v. Brooke, 3 Cranch, 92; 1 Cond. Rep. 464.
5. Costs were allowed upon the dismission of a writ of error for want of jurisdiction; the original defendant being also defendant in error. Winchester v. Jackson et. al. 3 Cranch, 514; 1 Cond. Rep. 612.
6. Where there appeared some ground for the prosecution, costs were refused. The United States v. La Vengeance, 3 Dall. 297; 1 Cond. Rep. 132.
7. Where a writ of error is dismissed in the Supreme Court for want of jurisdiction, costs are not allowed. Inglee v. Coolidge, 2 Wheat. 363; 4 Cond. Rep. 155.
8. Each party is liable to the clerk of the Supreme Court for the fees due to him from each party, respectively. Caldwell v. Jackson, 7 Cranch, 276; 2 Cond. Rep. 490.
9. A copy of the record is not a part of the taxable costs of suit, to be recovered by one party against the other; but the party who requests the copy, must pay the clerk for it. Ibid.
10. It is undoubtedly a general rule, that no court can give a direct judgment against the United States for costs, in a suit to which they are a party, either on behalf of any suitor, or any officer of the government. But it by no means follows, from this, that they are not liable for their own costs. No direct suit can be maintained against the United States. But when an action is brought by the United States, to recover money in the hands of a party, who has a legal claim against them for costs, it would be a very rigid principle, to deny to him the right of setting up such claim in a court of justice, and turn him round to an application to Congress. If the right of the party is fixed by the existing law, there can be no necessity for an application to Congress, except for the purpose of remedy. And no such necessity can exist, when this right can properly be set up by way of defence to a suit by the United States. U. S. v. Ringgold et al. 8 Peters, 150.
11. The United States do not pay costs in any case. The U. S. v. Barker, 2 Wheat. 395; 4 Cond. Rep. 181.
12. No judgment or decree can be rendered directly against the United States for costs and expenses. The Antelope, 12 Wheat. 546; 6 Cond. Rep. 629.
14. The fees and compensation to the marshal, where the government is a party to the suit, and his fees or compensation are chargeable to the United States, are to be paid out of the treasury, upon a certificate of the amount, to be made by the court, or one of the judges. Ibid.
15. In cases of reversal, costs do not go of course; but in cases of affirmance they do. When a judgment is reversed for want of jurisdiction, it must be without costs. Montalet v. Murray, 4 Cranch, 46; 2 Cond. Rep. 19.
16. The court below, upon a mandamus, on reversal of its judgment, may award execution tor the costs of the appellant in that court. Riddle et al. v. Mandeville et al. 6 Cranch, 86; 2 Cond. Rep. 307.
17. Where the court ordered the costs to be paid of a former ejectment brought by the plaintiffs in the names of other persons, but for their use, before the plaintiff could prosecute a second suit in his own name for the same land; this was not a judicial decision that the right of the plaintiffs in the first suit was the same with that of the plaintiffs in the second suit. It was perfectly consistent with the justice of the case, that when the plaintiffs sued the same defendant in their own name for the same land, that they should reimburse him for the past costs to which they had subjected him, before they should be permitted to proceed further. Rules of this kind are granted by the court to meet the justice and exigencies of cases as they occur; not depending solely on the interest which those who are subjected to such rules may have in the subject matter of suits which they bring and prosecute in the names of others; but on a variety of circumstances, which, in the exercise of a sound discretion, may furnish a proper ground for their interference. Henderson and Wife v. Griffin, 5 Peters, 151.
18. Where several claims had been filed by the district attorney, and, before any further proceedings in the cause, Congress remitted the forfeiture, on the payment of duties, costs, and charges: Held, that the district attorney of Massachusetts was entitled to seventeen dollars on each claim. The Francis, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 453.
19. In taxing the costs in prize causes, where there are several claims, some of which are disposed of by a final decree of condemnation, while others are suspended by appeal, the practice is to tax the costs and expenses which have accrued, specially, upon each claim so disposed of, as a separate charge against the same, and to add thereto an average proportion of the general costs and expenses which have accrued in reference to all the claims in the cause. The Hiram and the Hero, 2 Gallis. C. C. R. 60.
20. In prize causes, the allowance or denial of costs rests in the discretion of the court; and where the capture, though made in good faith, is in law adjudged tortious, the claimant is entitled by the general practice of the court to such costs as have necessarily arisen m the prosecution of his claim, unless he has been guilty of such misconduct as amounts to a forfeiture of such costs. The Ulpiano, 1 Mason, 91.
21.When a cause is removed from a state court to the circuit court, under the act of Congress the plaintiff is entitled to recover his costs; although he obtains a verdict for less than five hundred dollars. Ellis v. Jarvis, 3 Mason, 457.
22. If a witness, recognised for the defendant, is marked on the indictment, and sent to the grand jury by the district attorney, the United States, on the acquittal of the prisoner, must pay the witness his costs. United States v. Coulter, C. C. U. S. of Pennsylvania, April, 1803.
23. It is within the discretion of the court to permit the defendant to file a new plea; but where the effect of it would be to put the plaintiff out of court, and the cause was instituted in consequence of the act of the defendant himself, and had been long at issue before the application was made, the court would not permit it to be done, unless the defendant would pay not only- the costs incurred since the filing of his first plea, but the whole costs of the action. Anonymous, 2 Wash. C. C. R. 270.
24. Where the plaintiff prevails in the action, the court will not, in the exercise of their discretion, tax the costs against him, where he might naturally and fairly suppose he was entitled to recover more than five hundred dollars. Cottle v. Payne, 3 Day, 289.
25. Costs and expenses are not matters positively limited by law, but are allowed m the exercise of a sound discretion of the court; and no appeal lies from a mere decree respecting costs and expenses. Canter v. The American and Ocean Insurance Company, 3 Peters, 319.
26. In Virginia, if the first ca. sa. be returned non est, the second may include the costs of issuing both. Peyton v. Brooke, 3 Cranch, 92; 1 Cond. Rep. 464.
27. Costs will be allowed on the dismission of a writ of error for want of jurisdiction, if the original defendant be defendant in error. Winchester v. Jackson et al. 3 Cranch, 515; 1 Cond. Rep. 612.
28. A party who obtains a continuance of a cause, must pay the costs of the term. Lessee of Patton v. Blackwell, 2 Overt. Rep. 114.
29. 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 mars a on an execution should not be reversed. Bank of the United Statesy. Green and others, 6 Peters, 26.
30. The transcript of the record had been lodged by the plaintiffs in error with the clerk of the court on the 24th of October, 1835; who refused to file it or docket the cause, until the plaintiffs had given the fee bond in pursuance of the thirty-seventh rule of the court. The counsel for the plaintiffs in error moved to have the transcript filed and docketed; alleging they had done all the law required to be done in order to bring the case before the Supreme Court. On the part of the defendant in error, h counsel filed and read in open court certified copies of the writ of error, citation and appeal bond, and of the judgment of the circuit court; and having stated that the plaintiffs m error had failed to have the case docketed according to the thirtieth rule of the court, they moved to have the case docketed and dismissed. The court overruled the motion to docket and dismiss the cause; and also the motion to have the transcript filed, and the cause docketed without the fee bond being first given. These motions were overruled on the 18th of January, 1836; and the court allowed the plaintiffs in error until the 1st day of March following to give to the clerk the fee bond: on the failure so to give the same, the writ of error to be dismissed. Owings v. Tiernan, 10 Peters, 447.
31. If the court had jurisdiction of the cause, when the action was commenced the repeal of the law which gave the jurisdiction, will not take away the plaintiff’s right to costs. Walker v. Smith, 1 Wash. C C. R. 202.
32. Where three members of the bar enter their appearance for the defendant, to suits instituted against him, and are all equally called upon, and act as the attorneys of the defendant no warrant of attorney having been given by the defendant to either - the attorneys’ fee in the bill of costs is to be equally divided among all who have acted in the case, and who have appeared to the suits. Hurst v. Durnel, 1 Wash C. C. R. 438.
33. Query. If in an action for the violation of a patent, the plaintiff recover five hundred dollars damages, or the damages when trebled amount to that sum, the plaintiff is entitled to costs. Kneas v. The Schuylkill Bank, 4 Wash. C. C. R. 106.
34. The common law gave costs in no case; and the statute of Gloucester gave them only where damages were recoverable at common law. Ibid.
35. If the defendant do not demand security for costs within a reasonable time, it shall not be a ground for a continuance, that such security has not been given when the cause is called for trial. Hawkins v. Wiltbank, 4 Wash. C. C. R. 285.
36. The clerk of the circuit court for the district of Pennsylvania cannot charge in the bill of costs any compensation for the travel and attendance of the successful party, none such being allowed in the supreme court of the state. But he ought to tax one dollar and twenty-five cents a day for the attendance of each witness, and five cents a mile for their travelling to and from the court. Sebring’s Lessee v. Ward, 4 Wash. C. C. R. 546.
37. Costs are imposed party asking for an amendment of the pleadings. But in a case where, from the irregularity of the practice in the courts of Pennsylvania, the error requiring amendment arose, costs were not allowed. Lessee of Laning v. Dolph, 4 Wash. C. C. R. 630.
38. The plaintiff having recovered at law, the court directed the costs of the bill of discovery, by which the plaintiffs at law were prevented recovering, should be paid by the defendants in the bill; they being plaintiffs at law. Lessee of Bowne v. Brown et al. 2 Wash. C. C. R. 271.
39. The clerk of the court is a competent judge of the amount of costs which can be recovered in an action; and money paid to him is in the safe keeping of the court, and subject to its disposal. Willings et al. v. Consequa, 1 Peters’ C. C. R. 301.
40. In a case of tort, several costs of travel, attendance, and attorney’s fees will be allowed to the several defendants, whether the pleadings are joint or several. Crosby v. Folger, 1 Sumner’s Rep. 514.
41. In case of a claim on proceeds in the custody of the court, where other parties are entitled, no costs can be allowed beyond those for which there is a specific lien, and the actual charges of court. No attorney’s fees can be allowed. The Jerusalem, 2 Gallis. 345.
42. Query. If a consul, who sues for a penalty, in his own name and person, but for the benefit of the United States, is liable for costs 1 Levy v. Burley, 2 Sumner’s C. C. R. 355.
43. After notice of trial, the defendant cannot move to put off the trial, until the costs of a former ejectment be paid, without notice that such a motion would be made; nor can it prevail under any circumstances, if the costs be demanded on an ejectment, which had been decided in the state court. Den v. Bacon & Sharp, 4 Wash. C. C. R. 578.
44. In an action for the violation of a patent right, the plaintiff having recovered a verdict for three cents damages, is not entitled to full costs under the 20th sec. of the judicial act of September 24th, 1789, ch. 20. Kneas v. The Schuylkill Bank, 4 Wash. C. C. R. 100.
45. Where the plaintiff, being a non-resident, has filed security for costs, conditioned to pay them, “if the plaintiff does not prosecute his suit to effect, and does not pay the costs of the suit,” in case the plaintiff succeeds, the sureties are exonerated from the payment of any costs; but the plaintiff is responsible to the officers of the court for his own costs, and the court will enforce the payment of them by attachment. Lessee of Bowne v. Arbuncle, 1 Peters’ C. C. R. 234.
In all cases, where any suit shall be dismissed in the Supreme Court, except where the dismissal shall be for want of jurisdiction, costs shall be allowed for the defendant in error, or appellee, as the case may be, unless otherwise agreed by the parties.
In all cases of affirmances of any judgment or decree in the Supreme Court, costs shall be allowed to the defendant in error, or appellee, as the case may be, unless otherwise ordered by the court.
In all cases of reversals of any judgment or decree in the Supreme Court, except where the reversal shall be for want of jurisdiction, costs shall be allowed in the Supreme Court for the plaintiff in error, or appellant, as the case may be; unless otherwise ordered by the court.
Neither of the foregoing rules shall apply to cases where the United States are a party; but in such cases no costs shall be allowed in the Supreme Court for or against the United States.
When costs are allowed in the Supreme Court, it shall be the duty of the clerk to insert the amount thereof in the body of the mandate, or other proper process, sent to the court below; and annex to the same the bill of items taxed in detail.
When several actions are brought against persons who might be legally
sued in one action, costs can only be recovered as in one.
Costs to be recovered only in one libel when that is sufficient.
No more costa than on one libel or information for the same cause of forfeiture.
Proviso.
On a claim of property libelled, if the property is restored, the claimant shall only pay his own costs.
Causes may be consolidated, to avoid unnecessary costs or delay.
Attorney or proctor to pay excess of costs if proceedings have been multiplied unreasonably.
A bond given by the collector of the internal revenue, with sureties, conditioned that the collector had accounted and would account for all taxes collected or to be collected, is not binding on the sureties as to collections previously made. Armstrong et al. v. The United States, Peters’ C. C. R. 46.
[Repealed.]
Act of January 9, 1815, ch. 21, sect. 2.
That for the purpose of assessing and collecting direct taxes and internal duties, there shall be, and are hereby designated and established the following collection districts, to wit:
Collection districts. New Hampshire.
Massachusetts.
Vermont.
The aforesaid counties, comprised in the said districts contained in the state of Vermont, shall be taken to comprehend such territory as was included in the said counties respectively, prior to the formation of the county of Jefferson in said state.
Rhode Island.
Connecticut.
New York. Collection districts.
The state of New Jersey shall contain six collection districts, as follow: New Jersey.
The state of Pennsylvania shall contain twenty-three collection districts, Pennsylvania.
The state of Delaware shall contain three collection districts, as follow Delaware.
The state of Maryland shall contain nine collection districts, as follow: Maryland.
The state of Virginia shall contain twenty-six collection districts, as Virginia. Collection districts.
North Carolina.
Ohio.
Kentucky. Collection districts.
The state of South Carolina shall consist of nine collection districts, South Carolina.
The state of Tennessee shall contain six collection districts, as follow: Tennessee.
The state of Georgia shall contain six collection districts, as follow: Georgia.
And the state of Louisiana shall contain four collection districts, as Louisiana.
The several counties and districts heretofore enumerated, shall be held in reference to this act, to be such and with the same boundaries as they had at the time of taking the third census or enumeration of the people of the United States; and where any new county or district shall have been, or hereafter may be, formed within any state, out of any one or more of the counties or districts composing any one of the said collection districts, such new county or district shall be considered as part of such collection district; and if such new county shall have been or hereafter shall be formed out of counties lying in different collection districts, then the Secretary of the Treasury shall determine to which of such collection districts it shall belong.
Collector and a principal assessor to be appointed for each.
Qualifications.
Districts to be divided by the principal assessor.
Proviso, that the Secretary of the Treasury may reduce the number of assessment districts.
Oaths and affirmation of the assessors.
Secretary of Treasury to establish necessary regulations.
Direct taxes to be laid upon the value of lands, &c. &c.
Proviso.
Lists of taxable property to be delivered to assistant assessors.
Assessors may write the lists upon the information of the persons to be taxed.
Penalties for giving in fraudulent lists.
Absentees to be required in writing to furnish lists.
Property to be valued by assessors where the parties refuse or neglect to give in lists.
Property of persons not living in the districts may be assessed by assessors.
Property may be assessed in the districts where the owners reside, though the property is situated in other districts.
Lists to be taken with reference to the day or days fixed by acts of Congress.
Appeals may be had from the valuations fixed by assessors.
Conditions.
Lists to be open for inspection.
Where counties contain more than one assessment district, then the requisite apportionments may be made.
Lists of the property taxed to be made out.
Assessors to furnish collectors with taxable lists.
Bonds to be given, and to be approved of by the Comptroller of the Treasury.
Assessed taxes to remain a lien upon the estates of persons to which they belong.
Collectors may appoint deputies, but held responsible for their conduct.
Proviso.
Public notice to be given of the times and places at which collectors will attend, &c. &c.
Tools or implements of trade and beasts of the plough and household furniture, not to be distrained.
Property in certain cases advertised for sale to satisfy taxes to be purchased by collectors on public account.
Proviso.
Redemption of lands sold for taxes.
Property of non-residents, how to be dealt with.
Proviso.
Steps to be taken with property upon which tax is unpaid for twelve months.
Collectors to deposit with the clerks of the district courts of the United States correct lists of the land, &c. &c., sold under this act.
This property redeemable.
Terms of redemption.
Collectors to make monthly reports to Secretary of the Treasury.
Proviso.
Collectors to be charged with amount of taxes receipted for, &c. &c.
Remedy against delinquent collectors.
Amount of sums committed to a collector to be a lien on his land and real estate.
Penalties upon collectors for extortion or oppression.
Compensation.
Specific appropriation.
President may appoint deputy post masters to act as collectors, &c. &c. in certain cases.
Separate accounts to be kept of the direct tax and internal duties.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78. An equivalent in money to be allowed where forage is not drawn.
Mobile shall be the sole port of entry for the district.
In an action on a bond given in pursuance of that act, it would be sufficient for the defendant to show that the sugar sent out for sale was refined before the law was passed. Ibid.
Repealed by act of February 1817, ch. 1.
Rate of duty four cents per pound.
Refiners of sugar to make entries of the houses or where the business is to be carried on.
July 22, 1813, chap. 16.
To render an account of sugar refined quarterly.
Penalties.
Oath to be taken by refiners as to accounts of quantities of sugar sent out by them.
Penalty for false oath.
Refiners to render account of buildings, pans, &c. &c.
Refined sugars upon which duties have not been paid to be forfeited.
Duties payable upon bonds in nine months.
Proviso.
Drawback allowed in certain cases.
Proviso.
Notice to be given of the intention to export to authorize the payment of drawback.
An oath also to be taken.
Bond to be given for the landing of the goods at a foreign port.
When drawback is payable.
Proviso.
Penalties for reshipment of sugars in the United States.
How to establish a claim
to the allowance of drawback.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proof of landing the goods.
Collectors to collect the duties, &c. &c.
Penalties.
Duration of this act to Feb. 17, 1816.
[Obsolete.]
Office of commissioner of revenue established for superintending the collection of internal taxes and duties.
Duty of Commissioner.
Act of November 22, 1814. ch. 7.
To superintend the collection of residue of former direct tax, &c.
Secretary of Treasury authorized to place collection of the duties on impost, &c. &c.
Compensation of the commissioner and clerks.
Specific appropriation.
Commissioner to have the privilege of franking, &c. act of 1810, ch. 37; act of 1814, ch. 91.
[Obsolete.]
Certain acts continued in force.
Act of Jan. 2, 1812, ch. 11.
Act of July 1, 1812, ch. 119.
Specific appropriation. 1813, chap. 31.
For pay, forage, &c.
For the subsistence of the officers, eleven thousand one hundred and sixty-nine dollars.
For forage, the sum of nine thousand seven hundred and ninety-two dollars. The said sums to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Repealed by act of December 23, 1817, ch. 1.
Rate of duties on carriages.
Carriages chiefly employed in husbandry, &c. not to be charged with the duty.
Upon what species of carriages duties to be paid.
Carriages to be entered.
Regulations in relation thereto.
Act of July 22, 1813, ch. 16.
Proviso.
Duties to be paid according to the proportions of the year in which they shall be used.
Penalties for making untrue and false entries.
Proviso.
In what cases certificates to be granted.
Duration of this act.
The act of Congress of 24th July, 1813, imposing a duty according to the capacity of the still, on all stills employed in distilling spirits from domestic or foreign materials, and inflicting a penalty of one hundred dollars, and double duties, for using any still or stills, or implements in distilling spirituous liquors, without first obtaining a license, does not extend to the rectification or purification of spirits already distilled. United States v. Tenbroek, 2 Wheat. 248; 4 Cond. Rep. 109.
Act of Dec. 21, 1814. ch. 15.
Repealed by act of Dec. 23, 1817, ch. 1.
Licenses to be duly taken out for using stills or implements in lieu of stills.
July 22, 1813, ch. 16.
For what periods licenses to be granted, and rates of duties. One half the duties to be paid on stills employed for the distillation of roots. Rate of duty on stills for foreign materials.
For a still or stills employed in distilling spirits from foreign materials, for a license for the employment thereof for and during the term of one month, twenty-five cents for each gallon of the capacity of every such still including the head thereof; for a license for and during the term of three months, sixty cents for each gallon of its capacity as aforesaid; for a license for and during the term of six months, one hundred and five cents for each gallon of its capacity as aforesaid; for a license for one year, one hundred and thirty-five cents for each gallon of its capacity as aforesaid.
And for every boiler, however constructed, employed for the purpose Distillation by steam.
Collectors to grant licenses.
Places of distilling and other particulars to be stated in applications for licenses.
Penalties.
Collectors may apply for admittance into distilleries, &c. &c.
Collectors authorized to collect the duties.
Continuance of this act.
Repealed by act of Dec. 23, 1817, ch. 1.
Act of Dec. 23, 1814, ch. 16.
Duties payable on sales at auction of merchandise, &c. &c.
Goods sold under execution, or in bankruptcy, &c.
No duties on cargoes of vessels wrecked.
Auctioneers to have and pay for licenses.
Proviso.
Auctioneers appointed by the states to render quarterly accounts to persons designated to receive them, of dutiable articles.
July 22, 1813, ch. 16.
Collectors to grant licenses, &c.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Auctioneers may retain in their hands such sums as are due upon the goods sold by them.
Auctioneers to settle their accounts, &c. &c. with collectors.
Books to be kept, and may be inspected.
Collectors may cause auctioneers’ bonds to be given up in certain cases.
Per centage of duties allow-
ed to auctioneers.
Penalty for false oaths under this act.
Collectors to collect the duties in their districts under this act.
And institute suits for penalties.
Continuance of this act to Feb. 17, 1816.
Repealed by act of February 27, 1815, ch. 64.
President may raise a certain number of sea fencibles.
Of whom to consist.
Compensations.
Compensations in case of disability.
Continuance of this act during the war.
President may appoint officers in recess of the Senate.
Appropriation.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation not exceeding $9,500.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation not exceeding $14,000.
Congress to meet on the first Monday of December, 1813.
Message of the President of July 12, 1813, to
be transmitted free of postage, by members of Congress, &c.
An act for registering and clearing vessels, regulating the coasting trade, and for other purposes, (obsolete,) September 1, 1789, chap. 11, sect. 22, 23, vol. i. 60, 61.
An act concerning certain fisheries of the United States, and for the regulation and government of the fishermen employed therein, (expired,) February 16, 1792, chap. 6, vol. i. 229.
An act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same, February 1793, chap. 8, vol. i. 305.
Acts respecting the bounty on the fisheries.
An act imposing duties on tonnage, July 20, 1789, (obsolete,) chap. 2, sect. 2—27.
An act to regulate the collection of the duties imposed by law on the tonnage of ships and vessels, and on goods, wares and merchandise, imported into the United States, (repealed,) July 31, 1789, chap. 5’, sect. 33—46.
An act for raising a further sum of money for the protection of the frontiers and for other purposes therein mentioned, (obsolete,) May 2, 1792, chap. 27, sect. 6, 7, vol. i. 260.
An act laying an additional duty on salt imported into the United States, (repealed,) July 8, 1797, chap. 15, sect. 2, vol. i. 533.
An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, March 2, 1799, chap. 22, sect. 83, vol. i. 692.
An act repealing the acts laying duties on salt, and continuing in force for a further time, the first section of the act entitled “An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States, against the Barbary powers,” (expired,) March 3, 1807, chap. 30, sect. 2.
An act laying a duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the fisheries, July 29, 1813, chap. 35.
An act to continue in force “An act laying a duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the fisheries,” Feb. 9, 1816, chap. 14.
An act concerning the navigation of the United States, March 1, 1817, chap. 31, sect. 3.
An act concerning the bounty or allowance to fishing vessels in certain cases, April 4, 1818, chap. 35.
An act in addition to, and alteration of, an act entitled “An act laying a duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the fisheries,” March 3, 1819, chap. 88.
Regulation of seamen engaged in the fisheries.
An act to continue in force “An act concerning certain fisheries in the United States, and for the regulation and government of fishermen employed therein,” and for other purposes, April 12, 1800, chap. 22.
An act to authorize the licensing of vessels to be employed in the mackerel fishery, 24th May, 1828, chap. 119.
An act to authorize surveyors, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to enrol and license ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade or fisheries, Feb. 11, 1830, chap. 8.
An act concerning vessels employed in the whale fishery, March 3, 1831, chap. 149.
An act for the government of persons in certain fisheries, June 19, 1813, chap. 2.
The fifth and sixth sections of the act of July 29, 1813, and the act of March 3, 1819, relating to the bounty on all such vessels or boats employed on the Bank and other cod fisheries, as shall be employed at sea for the term of four months, include within their terms all vessels engaged in the cod fisheries, without limitation or specification as to the length of their fares, or the nature of their fisheries. The Schooner Harriet, Boynton and others, claimants, 1 Story’s C. C. R. 251.
Where a vessel was enrolled and licensed for the fisheries, and without an oath having been taken by all the owners to the ownership as prescribed by the statutes of 1813 and 1819, and fraud or deceit were charged in procuring the bounty allowed by law to such vessels; it was held that it must be satisfactorily proved by the United States, that the omission by the owners who did not take the oath was through fraud and deceit, and not through mistake, in order to render the vessel liable to forfeiture. Ibid.
Where a certificate made by the agent of the owner of the particular times of the sailing and returning of a vessel engaged in the cod fisheries was discovered to be incorrect and false after the payment of the bounties, it was held that if the incorrectness and falsity were by mistake, there was no forfeiture under the acts of 1813 and 1819, but if by fraud and deceit there was. Ibid.
By the act of February 18, 1793, no registered ship or vessel can, while she remains registered, engage in the whale fishery, but she must surrender her register, and be enrolled and licensed for the fisheries. United States v. Rogers, 3 Sumner, C. C. R. 432.
The forfeiture of a fishing vessel, under the act of July 29, 1813, for fraudulently obtaining the fishing bounty, does not attach on the improvident payment of the bounty to a vessel not entitled to it, but to the act of fraud and deceit in obtaining it. The Boat Swallow, Ware’s D. C. R. 21.
If a vessel be in fact entitled to the bounty, and fraud and deceit are employed in obtaining it, she will be subject to forfeiture. Ibid.
The forfeiture provided by the act of July 29, 1813, for fraudulently obtaining the bounty allowed to fishing vessels, attaches only when there are fraud and deceit in obtaining it. The Harriet, Ware’s D. C. R. 343.
If the certificate, stating the days which the vessel was employed, and certified by the oath of the owners, is proved to be false, it is prima facie evidence, but not conclusive of fraud and deceit. The owner is not precluded from showing that the errors of the certificate arose from an innocent mistake. Ibid.
If the errors in the certificate are proved to have arisen from mistake without fraud, the owner may, to avoid a forfeiture, show that the vessel was employed on other days than those named in the certificate. Ibid.
Duty upon salt.
Proviso.
Bounty on pickled fish.
Proviso.
Inspection laws.
Oath of the exporter.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Bounty not to be paid until six months after exportation.
Proviso.
Allowance of bounty or drawback.
Penalties for falsely entering pickled fish to obtain the bounty.
Allowance to be made to owners, &c. &c. of fishing vessels.
Proviso.
Tonnage allowance to be made to owners of fishing vessels.
Allowance to be made only to vessels employed for four months at least.
Quantity of fish to be landed to entitle to bounty.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Owners of fishing vessels to exhibit certain papers before receiving allowance authorized.
No vessels entitled to the authorized allowance but upon certain conditions.
Act of June 19, 1813, ch.2.
Penalty for false oaths.
Act of September 24, 1789, ch. 20, sec.
Continuance of this act to February 17, 1816.
Persons authorized to become citizens who were resident in the United States on the 18th June, 1812, and who had made a declaration of their intention to become citizens of the United States.
Proviso.
Act of July 22, 1813, ch. 13.
That a direct tax of three millions of dollars shall be and is hereby laid upon the United States, and apportioned to the states respectively, in the manner following: Apportionment.
To the state of New Hampshire, ninety-six thousand seven hundred New Hampshire.
To the state of Massachusetts, three hundred sixteen thousand two Massachusetts.
To the state of Rhode Island, thirty-four thousand seven hundred two Rhode Island.
To the state of Connecticut, one hundred eighteen thousand one hundred Connecticut.
To the state of Vermont, ninety-eight thousand three hundred forty-three Vermont.
To the state of New York, four hundred thirty thousand one hundred New York.
To the state of New Jersey, one hundred eight thousand eight hundred New Jersey.
To the state of Pennsylvania, three hundred sixty-five thousand four Pennsylvania.
To the state of Delaware, thirty-two thousand forty-six dollars and Delaware.
To the state of Maryland, one hundred fifty-one thousand six hundred Maryland.
To the state of Virginia, three hundred sixty-nine thousand eighteen Virginia.
To the state of Kentucky, one hundred sixty-eight thousand nine hundred Kentucky.
To the state of Ohio, one hundred four thousand one hundred fifty Ohio.
To the state of North Carolina, two hundred twenty thousand two North Carolina.
To the state of Tennessee, one hundred ten thousand eighty-six dollars Tennessee.
South Carolina.
Georgia.
Louisiana.
County and district apportionment.
July 22, 1813, ch. 14.
New Hampshire.
On the county of Strafford, seventeen thousand six hundred ninety-eight dollars and sixty-six cents.
On the county of Hillsborough, twenty thousand two hundred nineteen dollars and sixteen cents.
On the county of Cheshire, nineteen thousand three hundred eighteen dollars and three cents.
On the county of Grafton, eleven thousand nine hundred ten dollars and forty-three cents.
On the county of Coos, two thousand three hundred forty-eight dollars and twenty cents.
Massachusetts.
On the county of Hancock, nine thousand one hundred ninety dollars and sixty-five cents.
On the county of Lincoln, thirteen thousand six hundred seventy-two dollars.
On the county of Kennebeck, nine thousand six hundred ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents.
On the county of Sommerset, three thousand five hundred four dollars and sixty-three cents.
On the county of Oxford, five thousand five hundred fifty-nine dollars and sixty cents.
On the county of Cumberland, fifteen thousand seven hundred eighty-seven dollars and ninety-nine cents.
On the county of York, fourteen thousand one hundred seventy-five dollars and three cents.
On the county of Essex, forty-one thousand six hundred forty-three dollars and one cent.
On the county of Middlesex, twenty-six thousand four hundred thirty-three dollars and forty-five cents.
On the county of Suffolk, forty-three thousand six hundred seventy-six dollars and eighty-three cents.
On the county of Norfolk, fifteen thousand six hundred twenty-nine dollars and eighty-eight cents.
On the county of Plymouth, fourteen thousand four hundred seventy-eight dollars and sixty-seven cents.
On the county of Bristol, fourteen thousand four hundred sixty-nine dollars and sixteen cents.
On the county of Barnstable, six thousand five hundred fifty-three dollars.
On the county of Dukes, one thousand one hundred seventy-three dollars and thirty-three cents.
On the county of Nantucket, four thousand nine hundred twenty-four dollars and thirty-one cents.
On the county of Worcester, thirty thousand one hundred seventy-one Apportionment as to counties.
On the counties of Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden, twenty-nine thousand six hundred thirty-four dollars and five cents.
And on the county of Berkshire, thirteen thousand two hundred seventy-three dollars and fifty-seven cents.
In the. State of Vermont.—-On the county of Windham, eleven thousand Vermont.
On the county of Windsor, fifteen thousand five hundred forty-two dollars and thirty-two cents.
On the county of Orange, eleven thousand seven hundred eighty-four dollars and five cents.
On the county of Caledonia, seven thousand six hundred forty-three dollars and eighty-four cents.
On the county of Orleans, two thousand one hundred twenty-eight dollars and ten cents.
On the county of Essex, one thousand one hundred ninety-seven dollars and ninety-six cents.
On the county of Bennington, eight thousand three hundred ninety dollars and twelve cents.
On the county of Rutland, fourteen thousand thirty-six dollars and eighty-nine cents.
On the county of Addison, ten thousand seventy-nine dollars and eleven cents.
On the county of Grand Isle, one thousand five hundred fifty-three dollars and thirty-seven cents.
On the county of Franklin, five thousand eight hundred ninety dollars and forty cents.
And on the county of Chittenden, eight thousand two hundred twenty-nine dollars and seventy cents.
In the State of Rhode Island.—On the county of Providence, fourteen Rhode Island.
On the county of Newport, eight thousand fifty-six dollars.
On the county of Washington, five thousand three hundred ninety-four dollars.
On the county of Kent, four thousand two hundred ninety-five dollars.
On the county of Bristol, two thousand three hundred ninety-five dollars and eighteen cents.
In the State of Connecticut.—On the county of Litchfield, nineteen Connecticut.
On the county of Fairfield, eighteen thousand eight hundred ten dollars and fifty-six cents.
On the county of New-Haven, sixteen thousand seven hundred twenty-three dollars and ten cents.
On the county of Hartford, nineteen thousand six hundred three dollars and two cents.
On the county of New London, thirteen thousand three hundred ninety-two dollars and four cents.
On the county of Middlesex, nine thousand sixty-four dollars and twenty cents.
On the county of Windham, fourteen thousand five hundred twenty-four dollars and thirty-eight cents.
And on the county of Tolland, six thousand nine hundred eighty-four dollars and sixty-nine cents.
In the State of New York.—On the county of Suffolk, nine thousand New York.
On Queens county, nine thousand two hundred fifty dollars.
On Kings county, six thousand nine hundred thirty dollars.
Apportionment as to counties.
On the county of West Chester, thirteen thousand one hundred twenty dollars.
On the county of Duchess, twenty-four thousand one hundred forty dollars.
On the county of Orange, fifteen thousand dollars.
On the county of Rockland, two thousand six hundred eighty dollars.
On the county of Ulster, ten thousand six hundred seventy dollars.
On the county of Sullivan, two thousand four hundred fifty dollars.
On the county of Scoharie, five thousand six hundred ninety dollars.
On the county of Columbia, fourteen thousand six hundred dollars.
On the county of Renselaer, fifteen thousand one hundred ninety dollars.
On the county of Washington, fifteen thousand six hundred fifty-one dollars and sixty-two cents
On the county of Saratoga, nine thousand eight hundred thirty dollars.
On the county of Essex, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
On the county of Clinton, two thousand two hundred eighty dollars.
On the county of Franklin, seven hundred seventy dollars.
On the county of Albany, nineteen thousand four hundred twenty dollars.
On the county of Schenectady, four thousand one hundred dollars.
On the county of Montgomery, sixteen thousand four hundred twenty dollars.
On the county of Herkimer, seven thousand ninety dollars.
On the county of Oneida, thirteen thousand three hundred dollars.
On the county of Lewis, one thousand nine hundred sixty dollars.
On the county of Jefferson, four thousand six hundred ten dollars.
On the county of St. Lawrence, three thousand dollars.
On the county of Otsego, eleven thousand six hundred ninety dollars.
On the county of Chenango, six thousand one hundred twenty dollars.
On the county of Madison, seven thousand four hundred thirty dollars.
On the county of Tioga, one thousand nine hundred thirty dollars.
On the county of Broome, one thousand nine hundred ninety dollars.
On the county of Steuben, one thousand seven hundred seventy dollars.
On the county of Onandago, seven thousand eight hundred sixty dollars.
On the county of Cortland, two thousand one hundred seventy dollars.
On the county of Cayuga, nine thousand two hundred ninety dollars.
On the county of Seneca, five thousand dollars.
On the county of Ontario, fourteen thousand two hundred seventy dollars.
On the county of Genessee, four thousand eighty dollars.
On the county of Niagara, three thousand one hundred ninety dollars.
On the county of Allegheny, four hundred seventy dollars.
On the county of Richmond, two thousand two hundred twenty dollars.
On the county of Greene, seven thousand eight hundred fifty dollars.
And on the county of Delaware, five thousand four hundred ninety dollars.
New Jersey.
On the county of Essex, nine thousand nine hundred nine dollars and eight cents.
On the county of Sommerset, seven thousand two hundred thirty-three dollars and twenty-eight cents.
On the county of Middlesex, nine thousand one hundred eighty-two dollars and fifty-two cents.
On the county of Sussex, eleven thousand twenty-two dollars and Apportionment as to counties.
On the county of Morris, eight thousand eight hundred eighteen dollars and twenty-nine cents.
On the county of Hunterdon, twelve thousand two hundred fifty-one dollars and seventy-eight cents.
On the county of Burlington, eleven thousand nine hundred twenty-nine dollars and thirty-six cents.
On the county of Gloucester, eight thousand eight hundred twenty-three dollars and sixty-three cents.
On the county of Monmouth, ten thousand two hundred four dollars and twelve cents.
On the county of Cumberland, four thousand three hundred fifty-seven dollars and sixteen cents.
On the county of Salem, six thousand five hundred twenty-eight dollars and seventeen cents.
On the county of Cape May, one thousand five hundred eighty-four dollars and forty-one cents.
In the State of Pennsylvania.—On the city of Philadelphia, seventy-nine Pennsylvania.
On the county of Philadelphia, thirty-eight thousand two hundred thirty dollars.
On the county of Chester, eighteen thousand two hundred seventy dollars.
On the county of Delaware, seven thousand sixty dollars.
On the county of Montgomery, fifteen thousand three hundred dollars.
On the county of Bucks, sixteen thousand six hundred dollars.
On the county of Lancaster, thirty-seven thousand four hundred dollars.
On the county of York, eleven thousand five hundred forty dollars.
On the county of Adams, five thousand four hundred fifty dollars.
On the county of Northampton, eleven thousand one hundred forty dollars.
On the county of Wayne, two thousand six hundred forty dollars.
On the county of Berks, twenty-one thousand five hundred fifty dollars.
On the county of Dauphin, seventeen thousand six hundred fifty dollars.
On the county of Cumberland, ten thousand three hundred dollars.
On the county of Franklin, nine thousand dollars.
On the county of Northumberland, seven thousand five hundred eighty dollars.
On the county of Mifflin, three thousand five hundred dollars.
On the county of Huntingdon, three thousand seventy dollars.
On the county of Bedford, two thousand six hundred ten dollars.
On the county of Sommerset, two thousand dollars.
On the county of Cambria, four hundred dollars.
On the county of Fayette, four thousand five hundred dollars.
On the county of Greene, two thousand one hundred thirty dollars.
On the county of Washington, six thousand nine hundred twenty dollars.
On the county of Allegheny, five thousand two hundred ten dollars.
On the county of Armstrong, one thousand two hundred fifty dollars.
On the county of Westmoreland, five thousand four hundred forty dollars.
On the counties of Indiana and Jefferson, one thousand three hundred twenty dollars.
On the county of Centre, three thousand one hundred fifty dollars.
On the counties of Clearfield, Potter and M‘Kean, three hundred dollars.
On the county of Luzerne, having the same limits as before the for-
Apportionment as to counties.
On the county of Lycoming, having the same limits as before the formation of the county of Bradford, two thousand five hundred dollars.
On the county of Tioga, three hundred eighty-nine dollars and sixteen cents.
On the county of Mercer, one thousand seven hundred ten dollars.
On the county of Butler, one thousand five hundred dollars.
On the county of Beaver, two thousand five hundred ten dollars.
On the county of Crawford, one thousand two hundred sixty dollars.
On the counties of Venango and Warren, eight hundred dollars.
On the county of Erie, seven hundred eighty dollars.
Delaware.
On the county of Kent, ten thousand six hundred eighty-two dollars and seven cents.
And on the county of Sussex, nine thousand one hundred fifty-six dollars and six cents.
Maryland.
On the county of Worcester, four thousand nine hundred ten dollars.
On the county of Dorchester, five thousand five hundred ten dollars.
On the county of Talbot, four thousand one hundred forty dollars.
On the county of Queen Anne, five thousand six hundred thirty dollars.
On the county of Caroline, two thousand two hundred fifty dollars.
On the county of Kent, four thousand two hundred thirteen dollars and ninety-four cents.
On the county of Cecil, five thousand nine hundred fifty dollars.
On the county of Hartford, five thousand three hundred fifty dollars.
On the city and county of Baltimore, forty-eight thousand six hundred seventy dollars.
On the county of Anne Arundle, nine thousand eight hundred ten dollars.
On the county of Prince George, seven thousand six hundred ninety dollars.
On the county of Calvert, two thousand four hundred ten dollars.
On the county of St. Mary, three thousand nine hundred fifty dollars.
On the county of Charles, six thousand seven hundred forty dollars.
On the county of Montgomery, five thousand one hundred ten dollars.
On the county of Frederick, fourteen thousand one hundred seventy dollars.
On the county of Washington, seven thousand three hundred seventy dollars.
And on the county of Allegheny, two thousand two hundred ten dollars.
Virginia.
On the county of Washington, one thousand eight hundred ninety-four dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Grayson, two hundred thirty-three dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Russell, one thousand three hundred thirty-six dollars.
On the county of Wythe, one thousand five hundred thirty-eight dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Tazewell, one thousand two hundred sixty-seven dollars.
On the county of Botetourt, three thousand one hundred fourteen dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Montgomery, one thousand three hundred twelve Apportionment as to counties.
On the county of Giles, five hundred forty dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Monroe, one thousand thirty dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Green Briar, one thousand six hundred fifty dollars and forty-four cents.
On the county of Kenhawa, two thousand one hundred sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Cabell, one thousand five hundred forty-six dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Mason, one thousand one hundred thirty dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Randolph, five thousand four hundred sixty-five dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Harrison, two thousand six hundred seventy-two dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Wood, one thousand three hundred thirty-eight dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Monongalia, two thousand nine hundred ninety-two dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Ohio, one thousand nine hundred seven dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Brooke, one thousand one hundred ninety-five dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Bath, two thousand three hundred five dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Pendleton, one thousand four hundred twenty-eight dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Hardy, two thousand one hundred twenty-six dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Hampshire, three thousand seven hundred ninety-five dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Rockbridge, three thousand three hundred ninety-one dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Augusta, six thousand seven hundred thirty-nine dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Rockingham, six thousand one hundred sixty-two dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Shenandoah, five thousand nine hundred seventy-eight dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Frederick, eleven thousand eight hundred seventy-six dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Berkley and on the county of Jefferson, thirteen thousand twenty-two dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Bedford, five thousand two hundred thirty-three dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Patrick, seven hundred seventy dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Henry, one thousand three hundred four dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Franklin, two thousand four dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Campbell, three thousand eight hundred fifty-two dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Charlotte, four thousand ninety dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Pittsylvania, four thousand three hundred sixty-three dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Halifax, six thousand seven hundred eighty-six dollars and fifty cents.
Apportionment as to counties.
On the county of Lunenberg, three thousand eight hundred twenty-one dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Brunswick, four thousand eight hundred seventy-nine dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Nottoway, four thousand three hundred twenty-two dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Prince Edward, four thousand four hundred fourteen dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Buckingham, five thousand seven hundred forty-one dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Cumberland, four thousand seven hundred fifteen dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Amelia, five thousand two dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Powhatan, three thousand eight hundred ninety-nine dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Chesterfield, six thousand four hundred forty dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Dinwiddie and town of Petersburg, eight thousand one hundred ninety-two dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Prince George, two thousand nine hundred eighty-eight dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Greenville, two thousand six hundred thirty-five dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Sussex, three thousand nine hundred forty-five dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Southampton, four thousand six hundred fifty-six dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Surry, two thousand two hundred forty-four dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Isle of Wight, two thousand six hundred eighty-eight dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Nansemond, three thousand two hundred three dollars and fifty cents.
On the county and borough of Norfolk, nine thousand eight hundred fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Princess Anne, two thousand four hundred seventeen dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Elizabeth City, eight hundred thirty-nine dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Warwick, eight hundred fifty-five dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of York, one thousand three hundred seventy-three dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of James City, one thousand five hundred twenty-five dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of New Kent, two thousand six hundred eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Charles City, two thousand one hundred fifty-four dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Henrico, eight thousand fifty dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Goochland, four thousand five hundred fifty-five dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Hanover, six thousand forty-nine dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Amherst and on the county of Nelson, nine thousand five hundred thirteen dollars.
On the county of Albemarle, nine thousand four hundred ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Fluvannah, two thousand one hundred thirty-one Apportionment as to counties.
On the county of Orange, five thousand two hundred six dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Madison, four thousand two hundred forty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Culpepper, eight thousand six hundred ninety-two dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Fauquier, eight thousand nine hundred forty dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Prince William, five thousand two hundred fifty-one dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Stafford, three thousand five hundred seventy-nine dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Loudon, eight thousand one hundred thirty dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Fairfax, six thousand three hundred fifty-four dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Spottsylvania, six thousand two hundred sixty-two dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Louisa, four thousand four hundred twenty-five dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Caroline, seven thousand one hundred four dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of King George, two thousand seven hundred thirty-six dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Westmoreland, three thousand five hundred fourteen dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Richmond, two thousand six hundred twenty-four dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Northumberland, three thousand sixteen dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Lancaster, one thousand nine hundred fifty-four dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of King William, three thousand four hundred fifty-four dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of King and Queen, two thousand eight hundred sixty dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Essex, three thousand three hundred thirty-six dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Middlesex, one thousand nine hundred forty-one dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Gloucester, three thousand three hundred ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Matthews, one thousand six hundred eleven dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Accomac, five thousand one hundred thirty-nine dollars and fifty cents.
And on the county of Northampton, three thousand one hundred seven dollars and fifty cents.
In the State of North Carolina.—On the county of Currituck, two thousand two North Carolina.
On the county of Camden, two thousand four hundred sixty-two dollars and ninety-five cents.
On the county of Pasquotank, three thousand four hundred ninety-three dollars and ninety-six cents.
On the county of Perquimans, two thousand one hundred seventy dollars and eighty-five cents.
Apportionment as to counties.
On the county of Chowan, two thousand six hundred forty-two dollars and seventy cents.
On the county of Hartford, two thousand nine hundred fifty-six dollars and thirteen cents.
On the county of Bertie, five thousand two hundred sixty-seven dollars and twenty-seven cents.
On the county of Martin, two thousand three hundred thirty-five dollars and twelve cents.
On the county of Northampton, six thousand seven hundred sixty dollars and eighty-eight cents.
On the county of Halifax, seven thousand seven hundred twenty dollars and ninety-seven cents.
On the county of Washington, one thousand eight hundred fifty dollars.
On the county of Tyrrel, one thousand three hundred ninety-one dollars and forty-eight cents.
On the county of Hyde, two thousand three hundred eighty-six dollars and sixty-five cents.
On the county of Pitt three thousand four hundred ninety-six dollars and forty-two cents.
On the county of Edgecombe, six thousand sixty-six dollars and eighty-nine cents.
On the county of Beaufort, two thousand eight hundred twenty-four dollars and sixty-five cents.
On the county of Green, one thousand six hundred forty-five dollars and ninety-four cents.
On the county of Craven, five thousand five hundred fifty-seven dollars, and sixty-five cents.
On the county of Carteret, one thousand three hundred seventy-three dollars and twelve cents.
On the county of Jones, two thousand two hundred thirty-three dollars seventy-nine cents.
On the county of Lenoir, two thousand one hundred seventy-eight dollars and ninety cents.
On the county of Johnson, three thousand two hundred sixty-three dollars and fifteen cents.
On the county of Wayne, three thousand thirty-four dollars and thirty-five cents.
On the county of Warren, five thousand five hundred twenty-five dollars and thirty-three cents.
On the county of Franklin, four thousand five hundred seventy-six dollars and ninety-five cents.
On the county of Nash, two thousand nine hundred eighty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents.
On the county of Granville, six thousand four hundred forty-four dollars and thirty-nine cents.
On the county of Onslow, two thousand two hundred thirty-four dollars and eleven cents.
On the county of New Hanover, six thousand six hundred ninety dollars and eleven cents.
On the county of Duplin, three thousand two hundred thirty-seven dollars and seventy-one cents.
On the county of Sampson, two thousand nine hundred fifty-one dollars and thirty-nine cents.
On the county of Brunswick, one thousand nine hundred eighty-three dollars and sixty-eight cents.
On the county of Bladen, two thousand seven hundred two dollars Apportionment as to counties.
On the county of Columbus, one thousand two hundred thirty-five dollars and fifteen cents.
On the county of Cumberland, five thousand six hundred thirty-eight dollars and eighty-four cents.
On the county of Robeson, three thousand three hundred twenty-three dollars and fourteen cents.
On the county of Montgomery, two thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars and three cents.
On the county of Richmond, two thousand three hundred eighty-three dollars and thirty-nine cents.
On the county of Anson, two thousand seven hundred ninety-two dollars and twenty-seven cents.
On the county of Moore, two thousand three hundred ninety-seven dollars and ninety-two cents.
On the county of Orange, seven thousand three hundred sixty-six dollars and fifty cents.
On the county of Wake, six thousand four hundred forty-three dollars and fifty-four cents.
On the county of Person, two thousand eight hundred fifty-one dollars and fifty-seven cents.
On the county of Rockingham, three thousand nine hundred sixty-two dollars and forty-seven cents.
On the county of Caswell, four thousand sixty-seven dollars and ninety-nine cents.
On the county of Guilford, four thousand four hundred ninety-one dollars and sixty-six cents.
On the county of Stokes, three thousand eight hundred forty-two dollars and thirty-eight cents.
On the county of Rowan, eight thousand eight hundred seventy-two dollars and thirteen cents.
On the county of Randolph, two thousand seven hundred sixty-four dollars and ninety-five cents.
On the county of Chatham, four thousand three hundred thirty-seven dollars and eighty-three cents.
On the county of Lincoln, five thousand six hundred fifty-two dollars and sixty-five cents.
On the county of Mecklenburg, five thousand four hundred sixty-three dollars and sixty-three cents.
On the county of Cabarrus, two thousand six hundred forty-five dollars and seventy cents.
On the county of Buncome, two thousand eight hundred sixty dollars and forty-eight cents.
On the county of Haywood, eight hundred six dollars and eighteen cents.
On the county of Burke, two thousand seven hundred sixty-four dollars and ninety-two cents.
On the county of Rutherford, three thousand nine hundred seventeen dollars and fifty-three cents.
On the county of Surry, three thousand three hundred ninety-seven dollars and eighty-one cents.
On the county of Wilkes, one thousand eight hundred seven dollars and twenty-eight cents.
On the county of Ashe, seven hundred twenty-four dollars and thirty-four cents.
And on the county of Iredell, three thousand eight hundred twelve dollars and sixty-one cents.
Apportionment as to counties. Ohio.
On the county of Highland, eight hundred seventy-five dollars and twenty-one cents.
On the county of Clinton, four hundred ninety-one dollars and thirty-one cents.
On the county of Madison, four hundred one dollars and thirty-seven cents.
On the county of Champaign, eight hundred twelve dollars and sixty-one cents.
On the county of Green, one thousand five hundred seventeen dollars and fourteen cents.
On the county of Delaware, six hundred ninety one dollars and seventy-two cents.
On the county of Franklin, one thousand five hundred seventy-three dollars and ninety cents.
On the county of Tuscarawas, four hundred five dollars and eighty-eight cents.
On the county of Knox, four hundred dollars and thirty-two cents.
On the counties of Columbiana and Stark, two thousand six hundred eighty-seven dollars and forty-two cents.
On the county of Jefferson, one thousand nine hundred eighty-eight dollars and forty-two cents.
On the county of Warren, two thousand ninety-nine dollars and fourteen cents.
On the county of Scioto, four hundred twelve dollars and twenty-seven cents.
On the county of Licking, seven hundred eighty-nine dollars and thirteen cents.
On the county of Guernsey, two hundred thirty-seven dollars and forty-four cents.
On the county of Montgomery, one thousand five hundred fifty-six dollars and one cent.
On the county of Washington, one thousand seven hundred forty-two dollars and nine cents.
On the county of Muskingum, one thousand five hundred forty-seven dollars and forty-eight cents.
On the county of Pickaway, one thousand two hundred two dollars and eighty-five cents.
On the county of Belmont, one thousand one hundred seventy-one dollars and forty-one cents.
On the county of Adams, one thousand four hundred thirty-three dollars and forty-one cents.
On the county of Clermont, one thousand six hundred ninety-seven dollars and eighty-eight cents.
On the county of Hamilton, two thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars and seventy-nine cents.
On the county of Miami, four hundred twenty-one dollars and ten cents.
On the county of Preble, three hundred twenty-six dollars and fifty-two cents.
On the county of Butler, one thousand three hundred fifty-seven dollars and twelve cents.
On the county of Athens, two hundred seventy-two dollars and three cents.
On the county of Gallia, five hundred two dollars and fifty-seven cents.
On the county of Portage, one thousand four hundred sixty-four dollars and sixty-five cents.
On the county of Geauga, eight hundred fifty-two dollars and twenty-one Apportionment as to counties.
On the county of Cayahoga, five hundred eighteen dollars and fifty-four cents.
On the county of Trumbull, including Ashtabulla, two thousand two hundred seventy dollars and four cents.
On the county of Fairfield, one thousand nine hundred twenty-four dollars and sixty-one cents.
And on the county of Fayette, two hundred eighty-three dollars and fifteen cents.
Which several quotas on the counties of the state of Ohio, are exclusively of the taxes on lands lying in the said counties respectively, and owned by persons not residing in the state.
And on lands owned by persons not residing in the state, sixty-one thousand five hundred twenty-nine dollars and ninety-one cents.
In the State of Kentucky.—On the county of Clarke, four thousand Kentucky.
On the county of Estill, three hundred fifty-four dollars and twelve cents.
On the county of Montgomery, two thousand six hundred fifty-eight dollars and ninety-five cents.
On the county of Bath, one thousand two hundred twelve dollars and ninety-two cents.
On the county of Fleming, two thousand four hundred forty-eight dollars and eighty-nine cents.
On the county of Greenup, eight hundred seventy-four dollars and ninety-six cents.
On the county of Floyd, six hundred sixty-five dollars and sixty cents.
On the county of Fayette, fourteen thousand five hundred eighty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents.
On the county of Jessamine, three thousand three hundred five dollars and ninety-seven cents.
On the county of Woodford, four thousand seven hundred seven dollars and thirty cents.
On the county of Scott, four thousand four hundred forty-nine dollars and thirty-seven cents.
On the county of Harrison, two thousand nine hundred forty-three dollars and ten cents.
On the county of Pendleton, seven hundred twenty-one dollars and sixty cents.
On the county of Campbell, one thousand three hundred fifty-nine dollars and forty-four cents.
On the county of Boone, one thousand eighty-nine dollars and thirty-one cents.
On the county of Gallatin, one thousand one hundred forty-six dollars and three cents.
On the county of Franklin, four thousand six hundred ninety-one dollars and sixteen cents.
On the county of Bourbon, seven thousand one hundred seventy-four dollars and twenty-six cents.
On the county of Nicholas, one thousand three hundred twenty-five dollars and seventy cents.
On the county of Mason, five thousand three hundred eleven dollars and nine cents.
On the county of Bracken, one thousand two hundred thirty-five dollars and three cents.
On the county of Lewis, six hundred fifty-seven dollars and sixty-four cents.
Apportionment as to counties.
On the county of Caldwell, one thousand three hundred ninety-seven dollars and fifty-eight cents.
On the county of Christian, three thousand four hundred seventy-six dollars and one cent.
On the county of Breckenridge, nine hundred seventy-two dollars and eleven cents.
On the county of Ohio, one thousand two hundred sixty-three dollars and twenty-five cents.
On the county of Grayson, five hundred twenty dollars.
On the county of Muhlenberg, one thousand two hundred thirty-six dollars and sixty cents.
On the county of Henderson, one thousand three hundred two dollars and ninety-six cents.
On the county of Hopkins, nine hundred sixteen dollars and ninety cents.
On the county of Union, seven hundred six dollars and ninety-one cents.
On the county of Barren, three thousand three hundred forty-four dollars and twelve cents.
On the county of Warren, three thousand one hundred one dollars and nine cents.
On the county of Logan, four thousand two hundred twelve dollars and ninety-one cents.
On the county of Butler, five hundred ninety-two dollars and thirty-three cents.
On the county of Cumberland, one thousand seven hundred two dollars and six cents.
On the county of Mercer, five thousand eight hundred eighty-five dollars and fifty-four cents.
On the county of Garrard, three thousand four hundred twenty-three dollars and thirty cents.
On the county of Madison, four thousand nine hundred thirty-three dollars and fifty-six cents.
On the county of Clay, five hundred twenty-two dollars and thirty-seven cents.
On the county of Bullitt, one thousand nineteen dollars and forty-three cents.
On the county of Jefferson, eight thousand six hundred thirty-five dollars and eighty-eight cents.
On the county of Henry, two thousand three dollars and seventy-one cents.
On the county of Shelby, five thousand four hundred thirty-one dollars and ten cents.
On the county of Lincoln, three thousand eight hundred fifty-two dollars and sixty-eight cents.
On the county of Rockcastle, five hundred sixty dollars and fifty-five cents.
On the county of Knox, one thousand three hundred eighteen dollars and twenty-two cents.
On the county of Pulaski, one thousand two hundred sixty-two dollars and eighty-two cents.
On the county of Wayne, one thousand three hundred forty-three dollars and six cents.
On the county of Adair, one thousand eight hundred eight dollars and sixty-eight cents.
On the county of Casey, seven hundred one dollars and twenty cents.
On the county of Hardin, two thousand three hundred eighty-three dollars and fifty-six cents.
On the county of Nelson, five thousand one hundred four dollars and Apportionment as to counties.
On the county of Washington, three thousand eight hundred fifty-eight dollars and forty cents.
And on the county of Greene, two thousand five hundred forty-four dollars and ninety-four cents.
Which several quotas on the counties of the State of Kentucky are exclusively of the taxes on lands lying in the said counties respectively, and owned by persons not residing within the state.
And on lands owned by persons not residing in the state, eighteen thousand four hundred ninety-three dollars and fifty-one cents.
The assessment on and distribution among the said lands of which sum, shall be made, any provision in any law to the contrary notwithstanding, by the assessor of that district in the said state, which includes the town of Frankfort, from the list of said lands, as entered for payment of taxes with the auditor of public accounts of the State of Kentucky, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and from such other information as he may be able to obtain; and on failure to pay the said tax in the manner provided by the laws of the United States, the sale of the said lands being previously advertised according to the said laws, shall be made by the collector of that district, which includes the said town, at the capital therein.
In the State of South Carolina.—On the district of Charleston, forty-seven South Carolina.
On the district of Colleton, twelve thousand nine hundred eighty-nine dollars and twenty-seven cents.
On the district of Beaufort, fifteen thousand four hundred twenty dollars and seventy-three cents.
On the district of Barnwell, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
On the district of Orangeburgh, four thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
On the district of Lexington, two thousand and fifty dollars.
On the district of Richland, three thousand seven hundred dollars.
On the district of Edgefield, five thousand five hundred and seventy dollars.
On the district of Abbeville, four thousand nine hundred dollars.
On the district of Pendleton, two thousand one hundred and seventy dollars.
On the district of Greenville, one thousand four hundred five dollars and forty-eight cents.
On the district of Spartanburg, two thousand two hundred and seventy dollars.
On the district of Union, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
On the district of York, one thousand five hundred and sixty dollars.
On the district of Chester, one thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars.
On the district of Laurens, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
On the district of Newberry, two thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.
On the district of Fairfield, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
On the district of Lancaster, nine hundred and eighty dollars.
On the district of Kershaw, three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
On the district of Sumter, six thousand and thirty dollars.
On the district of Chesterfield, one thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars.
On the district of Darlington, two thousand one hundred and thirty dollars.
Apportionment as to counties.
On the district of Horry, one thousand and sixty dollars.
On the district of Marion, three thousand and ten dollars.
On the district of Williamsburg, two thousand three hundred dollars.
And on the district of Marlborough, one thousand three hundred and thirty dollars.
Tennessee.
On the county of Sullivan, two thousand two hundred five dollars.
On the county of Greene, three thousand one hundred twenty-seven dollars.
On the county of Hawkins, two thousand four hundred sixty-one dollars.
On the county of Carter, one thousand three hundred forty-nine dollars.
On the county of Cooke, one thousand six hundred fifty-nine dollars.
On the county of Knox, three thousand two hundred [dollars] seventy-five cents.
On the county of Jefferson, two thousand three hundred fifty-three dollars and seventeen cents.
On the county of Sevier, one thousand four hundred eighty dollars.
On the county of Blount, two thousand eight hundred forty-six dollars.
On the county of Grainger, two thousand and sixty dollars.
On the county of Claiborne, one thousand five hundred and forty-five dollars.
On the county of Anderson, one thousand two hundred seventy-five dollars.
On the county of Campbell, eight hundred fifty-nine dollars.
On the county of Roan, one thousand seven hundred ninety-seven dollars.
On the county of Bledsoe, one thousand and forty-nine dollars.
On the county of Rhea, eight hundred and six dollars.
On the county of Smith, five thousand six hundred twenty-six dollars.
On the county of Jackson, two thousand six hundred nine dollars.
On the county of Overton, two thousand seven hundred twenty-five dollars.
On the county of White, one thousand nine hundred forty-four dollars.
On the county of Warren, two thousand seven hundred sixty-five dollars.
On the county of Franklin, two thousand seven hundred sixty-seven dollars.
On the county of Bedford, three thousand nine hundred eighty-one dollars.
On the county of Lincoln, two thousand nine hundred forty-eight dollars.
On the county of Sumner, six thousand six hundred sixty dollars.
On the county of Davidson, seven thousand five hundred thirty-nine dollars.
On the county of Williamson, six thousand three hundred fifty-three dollars.
On the county of Rutherford, four thousand nine hundred fifty-eight dollars.
On the county of Wilson, five thousand seven hundred seventy-three dollars.
On the county of Maury, five thousand and three dollars.
On the county of Giles, two thousand one hundred ninety-six dollars.
On the county of Hickman, one thousand two hundred forty-seven dollars.
On the county of Humphries, seven hundred and thirty dollars.
On the county of Stewart, two thousand fifty-eight dollars and thirty-eight Apportionment as to counties.
On the county of Dixon, two thousand one hundred eighty-one dollars.
On the county of Montgomery, three thousand eight hundred seventy-four dollars.
And on the county of Robertson, three thousand five hundred eleven dollars.
In the State of Georgia.—On the county of Chatham, nineteen thousand Georgia.
On the county of Bryan, nine hundred fifty-one dollars and seventy-five cents.
On the county of Liberty, three thousand fifty-eight dollars and fourteen cents.
On the county of M‘Intosh, one thousand six hundred seventy-eight dollars and forty-eight cents.
On the county of Glynn, one thousand seven hundred eighty-four dollars and twenty-three cents.
On the county of Camden, one thousand six hundred sixty-seven dollars and forty-one cents.
On the county of Wayne, two hundred fifty-two dollars and eight cents.
On the county of Effingham, eight hundred forty-six dollars.
On the county of Bullock, six hundred forty-one dollars and eighty-eight cents.
On the county of Tatnall, four hundred seventy dollars and ninety-six cents.
On the county of Scriven, one thousand three hundred fifty dollars and sixteen cents.
On the county of Burke, three thousand six hundred one dollars and sixty-seven cents.
On the county of Richmond, six thousand eight hundred four dollars and eighty-nine cents.
On the county of Jefferson, two thousand one hundred eighty-eight dollars and seventy-eight cents.
On the county of Washington, two thousand five hundred sixty-five dollars and five cents.
On the county of Montgomery, six hundred seventy dollars and sixteen cents.
On the county of Columbia, three thousand seven hundred sixty-six dollars and forty-two cents.
On the county of Warren, two thousand three hundred thirty-five dollars and eleven cents.
On the county of Hancock, four thousand nineteen dollars and seventy-three cents.
On the county of Green, three thousand seven hundred twelve dollars and thirty-two cents.
On the county of Lincoln, one thousand four hundred seventy-three dollars and twelve cents.
On the county of Wilkes, four thousand six hundred eighty-two dollars and fifty-one cents.
On the county of Elbert, three thousand two hundred ninety-five dollars and forty-seven cents.
On the county of Franklin, one thousand six hundred forty-seven dollars and seventy-two cents.
On the county of Ogelthorp, three thousand seven hundred eight dollars and sixty-three cents.
On the county of Jackson, one thousand nine hundred sixty-seven dollars and forty-four cents.
On the county of Clark, two thousand twenty-four dollars and one cent.
Apportionment as to counties.
On the county of Laurens, four hundred seventy-five dollars and eighty-eight cents.
On the county of Pulaski, six hundred and sixty-four dollars.
On the county of Wilkinson, including the county of Telfair, five hundred sixty-nine dollars and thirty-three cents.
On the county of Twiggs, eight hundred eighty-six dollars and fifty-eight cents.
On the county of Baldwin, three thousand ten dollars and nineteen cents.
On the county of Jones, one thousand five hundred seventy dollars and twenty-seven cents.
On the county of Putnam, two thousand seven hundred fifty dollars and seventy-three cents.
And on the county of Randolph, now called Jasper, two thousand five hundred eight dollars and forty-nine cents.
Louisiana.
On the parish of St. Bernard two hundred thirty-six dollars forty cents.
On the parish of Plaquemine, three hundred seventy-five dollars fifteen cents.
On the parish of St. Charles, one thousand one hundred sixty-seven dollars seventy-seven cents.
On the parish of St. John the Baptist, eight hundred nine dollars ninety cents.
On the parish of St. James, eight hundred nine dollars ninety cents.
On the parish of Ascension, six hundred thirty-seven dollars eighty-six cents.
On the parish of Assumption, four hundred and ninety-four dollars forty-five cents.
On the parish of La Fourche, interior, four hundred fifty-two dollars.
On the parish of Iberville, five hundred eighty dollars fifty cents.
On the parish of West Baton Rouge, three hundred eighty-five dollars fifty-one cents.
On the parish of Feliciana, one thousand three hundred eighty-three dollars forty-one cents.
On the parish of East Baton Rouge, one thousand one hundred fifty-four dollars.
On the parish of St. Helena, three hundred fifty-one dollars ten cents.
On the parish of St. Tammany, two hundred thirty-six dollars forty cents.
On the parish of Point Coupee, one thousand seven hundred ninety-nine dollars twenty-two cents.
On the parish of Concordia, five hundred eight dollars eighty-two cents.
On the parish of Warren, one hundred ninety-one dollars sixty cents.
On the parish of Ouachita, eight hundred thirty-one dollars seventy cents.
On the parish of Rapides one thousand nine dollars forty-eight cents.
On the parish of Avoyelles, two hundred fourteen dollars eighty-eight cents.
On the parish of Catahoula, one hundred forty-one dollars eighty cents.
On the parish of Natchitoches, one thousand seventy-nine dollars forty-five cents.
On the parish of St. Landrey, one thousand two hundred one dollars four cents.
On the parish of St. Martin, one thousand three dollars eighteen cents.
And on the parish of St. Mary, five hundred eighty-nine dollars fifteen cents.
Taxes on lands of nonresidents in Kentucky and Ohio.
Residents’ lands transferred by non-residents, in certain cases how to be taxed
Proviso.
How the taxes are to be assessed and collected.
Act of July 22, 1813, ch. 16.
Additional collectors in Ohio.
Principal assessors to issue precepts to their assistants to carry this act into effect—When.
States to vary, if they please, the district and county apportionments of tax.
States may pay their respective quotas and be entitled to certain deductions.
Proviso.
Act of January 17, 1814, ch. 4.
The states of Ohio and Louisiana may collect of purchasers of United States’ lands an equal propor-
tion of the tax of the states respectively.
Act of Dec. 23, 1814, chap. 16, sect. 3.
Repealed by act of Dec. 23, 1817, chap. 1.
Who are to be considered retailers under this act.
This act not to extend to physicians, &c.
Retailers to procure licenses on or before the first day of January, 1814.
Act of July 22, 1813, ch. 16.
Penalty.
Collectors to grant licenses for retailing upon payment of duty.
Proviso.
Rates of duty payable for retailers’ licenses.
On retailers of merchandise, including wines and spirits, if in cities, towns or villages, containing, within the limits of one mile square, more than one hundred families, twenty-five dollars; of wines alone, twenty dollars; of spirits alone, twenty dollars; of domestic spirits alone, fifteen dollars; of merchandise other than wines and spirits, fifteen dollars.
If any other place than cities, towns, or villages containing within the limits of one mile square more than one hundred families; on retailers of merchandise, including wines and spirits, fifteen dollars; of wines and spirits, fifteen dollars; of spirits alone, twelve dollars; of domestic spirits alone, ten dollars; of merchandise other than wines and spirits, ten dollars.
Duty of collectors to collect the duties imposed by this act.
Duration of this act—until Feb. 17, 1816.
[Obsolete.]
Representatives of volunteer or militia officers slain in actual service entitled to pen-
sion for five years.
Proviso.
Officers, noncommissioned officers, musicians, or privates disabled in actual service, placed on pension list.
April 10, 1806, chap. 25.
Limitation of the amounts of pensions.
Proviso.
Commencement of this act.
Repeal of part of a former act.
Act of February 6, 1812, ch. 21.
[Obsolete.]
Act of February 25, 1813, ch. 31, explained.
[Obsolete.]
The President to appoint officers of the five regiments in the recess of the Senate.
Act of January 29, 1813, ch. 15.
Act of July 5, 1813, ch. 4.
The President to cause lots in the borough of Pittsburg to be sold.
[Obsolete.]
Reduction of duties on prize goods.
[Obsolete.]
Act of May 14, 1812, ch. 83.
Deputy commissaries of ordnance to be appointed, not exceeding five.
[Obsolete.]
President authorized to borrow 7,500,000 dollars.
Proviso.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be constituted certificates of stock for the sum borrowed by virtue of this act.
Proviso.
No sale to be made at a less rate than eighty-eight dollars for one hundred dollars.
The Secretary of the Treasury may employ agents to receive subscriptions.
Compensation not to exceed one quarter of one per cent.
Appropriation of 8,000,000 dollars for the payment of the interest and reimbursement of this loan.
Commissioners of the sinking fund to pay the interest, and to repay the principal.
Banks in District of Colum-
bia may lend the money, or any part of it.
December 10, 1814, chap. 11.
That from and after the last day of December next, there shall be levied, collected, and paid throughout the United States, the several stamp duties following, viz: For every skin or piece of vellum, or parchment, or sheet, or piece of Duties on stamps.
On any promissory note or notes payable either to bearer or order, issued by any of the banks or companies, who issue and discount notes, bonds, or obligations, either incorporated or not incorporated, which now are or may hereafter be established in the United States, or by any banker or bankers, according to the following scale, viz:
If not exceeding one dollar, one cent.
If above one dollar, and not exceeding two dollars, two cents.
If above two and not exceeding three dollars, three cents.
If above three and not exceeding five dollars, five cents.
If above five and not exceeding ten dollars, ten cents.
If above ten and not exceeding twenty dollars, twenty cents.
If above twenty and not exceeding fifty dollars, fifty cents.
If above fifty and not exceeding one hundred dollars, one dollar.
If above one hundred and not exceeding five hundred dollars, five dollars.
If above five hundred and not exceeding one thousand dollars, ten dollars.
If above one thousand dollars, fifty dollars.
On any bond, obligation, or promissory note or notes not issued by any bank, companies, or banker as aforesaid, discounted by any such bank, companies, or banker, and on any foreign or inland bill or bills of exchange above fifty dollars, and having one or more endorsers, according to the following scale, viz:
If not exceeding one hundred dollars, five cents.
If above one hundred and not exceeding two hundred dollars, ten cents.
If above two hundred and not exceeding five hundred dollars, twenty-five cents.
If above five hundred and not exceeding one thousand dollars, fifty cents.
If above one thousand and not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, seventy-five cents.
If above fifteen hundred and not exceeding two thousand dollars, one dollar.
If above two thousand and not exceeding three thousand dollars, one dollar and fifty cents.
If above three thousand and not exceeding four thousand dollars, two dollars.
If above four thousand and not exceeding five thousand dollars, two dollars and fifty cents.
If above five thousand and not exceeding seven thousand dollars, three dollars and fifty cents.
If above seven thousand and not exceeding eight thousand dollars, four dollars.
Public notes and drafts not to be charged with duties.
Compositions may be made with banks.
How the duties are to be levied, &c. &c.
Act of July 22, 1813, ch. 16.
Commissioner of the revenue to cause marks and stamps to be provided.
Vellum, parchment, or paper to be sent to the office of commissioner of revenue and stamped.
Penalties for violating this law.
Penalties for violating this law.
All instruments of writing referred to in this act, to be available as evidence, must be stamped.
Proviso, that stamps may be put on instruments which have not been stamped, and ten dollars additional to be paid.
Penalties.
Banks which shall not have made compositions not to issue notes but upon stamped paper.
Oath to be taken by persons employed in marking or stamping.
Collectors to execute and fulfil the orders of the Treasury Department.
Collectors to furnish stamped paper, &c. &c. to persons applying with a deduction of part of duties.
Secretary of the Treasury to furnish the paper required by this act.
Collectors to receive the duties, &c. &c. in their respective districts.
Duration of this act to 17th February, 1816.
[Obsolete.]
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 thirteen, the following sums be, and they are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, in addition to the Specific appropriations.
For the relief and protection of American seamen, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated, the sum of forty thousand dollars.
For fitting up four rooms in the building purchased by the United States, where the general post office is held, for the use of the superintendent general of military supplies, two thousand thirty-nine dollars and twelve and a half cents.
For books, stationery, furniture, wood, and other contingent expenses, the sum of one thousand dollars.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 19, 1814, ch. 27.
Bounty to officers and crews of private armed vessels for prisoners taken by them, and brought into port.
Specific appropriation.
[Obsolete.]
Collectors charged with the collection of internal duties.
Act of July 22, 1813, ch. 16.
Several territories of the United States and District of Columbia, to be divided, for the collection of internal duties.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Usual regulations to be observed in the collection of internal duties in the several territories of the United States.
July 24, 1813, chap, 26.
July 24, 1813, chap. 24.
August 2, 1813, chap. 39.
August 2, 1813, chap. 33.
Collectors to give bonds, &c. &c.
August 2, 1813, ch. 57.
Penalty for not rendering and duly settling accounts.
Proviso.
Amount of debts due to the United States by collectors to be a lien upon their estate.
Commissions &c. &c. to the collectors.
Proviso.
A certain sum, by way of extra
compensation, to be distributed amongst collectors.
Proviso.
Fees for measuring stills, &c. fee.
Collectors may appoint deputies—how.
Accurate accounts to be kept by collectors of their emoluments.
President may appoint temporarily assessors during recess of Senate.
July 22, 1813, chap. 16.
President may augment within certain limits, compensation of assessors.
Repealed by act of March 3, 1815, chap. 84, sec. 3.
Penalty for using or disposing of British licenses.
Proviso.
Vessels sailing with such licenses to be considered and treated as British.
Proviso.
Vessels within the jurisdiction of the United States sailing after the promulgation of this act, and arriving in the United States from certain
latitudes, to be subject to the operation of this act.
Proviso.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Act of February 13, 1813, chap. 22.
Construction to be put upon a former act regulating pensions, &c. &c.
[Obsolete.]
Further time allowed for filing certain land claims.
Notices to be recorded.
Claims to be barred on failure, if founded on any act of Congress.
Recorder of land titles for the territory of Missouri, to have power to settle and adjust land claims, &c. &c.
Recorder to make reports to commissioner of the general land office.
Fees to recorder, which shall be in full for his services.
Where notice shall have been filed under former laws, claimants to have further time.
ACTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Repealed by act of April 14, 1814, ch. 56.
An embargo laid, with certain exceptions. President may cause the necessary instructions to be given for carrying it into effect.
Nothing in this act to prevent the departure of foreign vessels with provisions, naval and military stores, and whose officers and crews belong to nations in amity with the United States.
Foreign public armed ships not to be subject to this embargo.
Specie, &c. &c. put on board any vessel, &c. &c. to be sent without the limits of the United States and the vessels, &c. &c. with the cargoes, wholly forfeited.
Additional penalties.
Proviso, that the section shall not extend to persons, &c. who shall first inform the collector, &c.
After notice of this act, vessels loaded to be discharged of their cargoes or give bonds not to depart, &c. &c.
Collectors may take possession of the vessels in the mean time.
President may authorize collectors to permit coasting vessels to take on board articles of domestic growth, &c. &c. upon bond, &c. &c.
Bond to be given.
Proof of fact of landing to lie on the owner, factor, consignee and master of the vessel.
Penalties for taking prohibited articles on board vessels.
Who are to be reputed owners of vessels committing breaches of this law.
Proviso.
On granting new register, bond to be given.
Nothing in this act to extend to vessels sold bona fide before notice.
Proviso.
Owners of licensed fishing vessels to give bonds not to proceed to foreign places, and that they will return with their fishing fare to the United States.
Penalty in forfeiture of vessel, for departing from any port in the United States without regular clearance, in putting on board any prohibited articles, or in proceeding to a foreign port.
Further penalties.
Forfeiture by the master or commander of vessels violating the law.
Foreign vessels prohibited from taking on board any specie or other merchandise under forfeiture of vessel, &c. &c.
Collectors may take into their custody articles really or apparently destined for the enemy.
Discretionary powers given to the collectors under this act, to be exercised conformably with the President’s instructions.
In case of an action against any person acting under the directions of, and in pursuance of this act, the general issue may be
pleaded, and the President’s instructions, and this act be given in evidence.
President empowered to employ such part of the naval or land forces of the United States to carry this act into effect, as he may judge necessary.
The vessels of the United States may seize on vessels violating act.
Penalties and forfeitures how to be prosecuted and distributed.
Act of April 23, 1800, ch. 33.
Act of June 26, 1812, ch. 107.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 13.
Act of Feb. 11, 1800, ch. 6.
The time during which this act is to be in operation not to be computed with respect to drawbacks.
Foreign armed vessels not affected by this act, nor those of the United States.
Act of June 26, 1812, ch. 107.
Proviso.
Collectors may seize such articles as are put on board private armed vessels contrary to this act.
Made the duty of the local district attorney to institute legal proceedings accordingly.
Additional fines upon the captains or commanders of such private armed vessels.
Continuance of this act.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation of one million five hundred thousand dollars.
Compensation to the Senate and House of Representatives.
Contingent expenses of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Towards defraying the contingent expenses of the Senate, during the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, three thousand dollars:
Navy.
[Obsolete.]
Where the legislature of a state shall not meet before January 1, 1814, such state to be allowed until February to make payment of the quota of the state of the direct tax.
[Obsolete.]
Permission given to the inhabitants of Nantucket island to hold an intercourse with the main on certain conditions.
Act of December 17, 1813, ch. 1.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Sum to be paid to recruits, be $124.
When paid.
Representatives of persons killed or dying in the service of the United States, how provided for.
Act of January 20, 1813, ch. 12.
Non-commissioned officers, soldiers and citizens to be entitled to eight dollars for every recruit procured, &c.
Soldiers enlisted into the regular army of the United States, may reenlist for five years, or during the war.
Act of April 8, 1812, ch. 53.
Act of Jan. 29, 1813, ch. 15.
Such recruits entitled to the bounty allowed by this act.
[Obsolete.]
Additional judge for the Missouri territory to be appointed to reside at or near Arkansaw.
Writs of error to the court es-
tablished by this act.
By what rules judgments of the court established by this act, may be reversed by the superior court.
No writ of error to operate as a supersedeas, but upon certain conditions.
Judge to be appointed under this act, to appoint a clerk, &c. &c.
Semi-annual terms of the court to be held at Arkansaw.
Proviso.
Salary, &c. &c. of the judge.
Act of June 4, 1812, ch. 95, sect. 12.
[Obsolete.]
Fourteen regiments of infantry enlisted for one year may be enlisted for the term of five years or the war.
Bounty, pay, and emoluments, in money and land.
[Obsolete.]
Certain number of regiments of riflemen authorized.
Component parts of each regiment.
Of each company.
Bounty, pay, emoluments, &c., &c. of the officers and men.
Number of privates in each company.
Further time given to purchasers of land.
Act of March 3, 1813, ch. 25.
Conditions.
Proviso, in cases where the time for completing the payments shall have expired, or shall expire upon June 1, 1814.
The benefit of this act not to extend to purchasers of land northwest of the Ohio, prior to April 1, 1S09.
[Expired.]
Act of Feb. 25, 1813, ch. 31, continued in force for one year.
[Obsolete.]
Services of certain volunteers may be accepted by the President.
Act of Feb. 6, 1812, ch. 21.
Act of July 6, 1812, ch. 138.
Volunteers to engage to serve five years.
Their bounty, pay, and emoluments.
Act of March 30, 1814, ch. 37, sec. 21.
[Obsolete.]
President authorized to grant permission to vessels loaded in whole or in part, in certain cases, to return to the districts to which they belong.
Act of Dec. 17, 1813, ch. 1.
Act of Dec. 17, 1813, ch. 1.
Equipment of such vessels, as to seamen.
Limitation of time in which permission may be obtained.
President may permit vessels employed in the transportation of the public property, to clear out for any district in the United States, and to return to those to which they belong.
Act of Dec. 17, 1813, ch. 1.
An act authorizing the issuing of Treasury Notes for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, Feb. 25, 1813, chap. 27.
An act to authorize the issuing of Treasury Notes for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, March 4, 1814, chap.18.
An act supplemental to the acts authorizing a loan of the several sums of twenty-five millions of dollars, and three millions of dollars, December 26, 1814, chap. 17.
An act to authorize the issuing of Treasury Notes for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, February 24, 1815, chap. 56.
An act to authorize the payment in certain cases on account of Treasury Notes which have been lost or destroyed, February 4, 1819, ch. 13.
An act relating to Treasury Notes, May 3, 1822, chap. 47.
An act to authorize the issuing of Treasury Notes, October 12, 1837, chap. 2.
An act to authorize the issuing of Treasury Notes to meet the current expenses of the government, May 21, 1838, chap. 82.
An act to revise and extend “An act to authorize the issuing of Treasury Notes to meet the current expenses of the government, approved the twenty-first of May, 1838,” March 2, 1839, chap. 36.
An act to authorize an issue of Treasury Notes, January 31, 1842, chap. 2.
An act for the extension of the loan of eighteen hundred and forty-one, and for an addition of five millions thereto, and for allowing interest on Treasury Notes due, April 15, 1842, chap. 14.
An act to limit the sale of public stocks at par, and to authorize the issuing of Treasury Notes, in lieu thereof to a certain amount, August 31, 1842, chap. 287.
An act to authorize the re-issue of Treasury Notes, and for other purposes, March 3, 1843, ch. 81.
[Obsolete.]
A sum not exceeding 5,000,000 dollars in treasury notes, to be prepared, &c. &c.
Additional 5,000,000 dollars in treasury notes may be issued, but to be considered as part of the sum authorized to be borrowed.
Where, when, and terms on which to be reimbursed.
By whom to be signed.
Compensation to the persons appointed to sign them.
Notes to be countersigned.
Secretary of the Treasury may cause such treasury notes to be issued for supplies, &c. &c.
Agents to be appointed to dispose of treasury notes.
Their compensation.
How to be transferred and assigned.
Treasury notes to be taken in payment for all public dues.
Agents to have credit for all sums paid into the treasury, &c. &c. in treasury notes, &c. &c.
No charge or deduction shall be made to any bank or individuals who shall receive the
notes as specie and give credit to the treasurer of the United States.
Commissioners of sinking fund to cause treasury notes to be reimbursed and interest paid, &c. &c.
Appropriations for reimbursement of principal and payment of interest of notes.
Further appropriation for this object.
Money to be paid over to commissioners of the sinking fund.
Appropriation to defray expenses of issuing treasury notes.
Penalties for forging or passing forged treasury notes.
The defendant was indicted for receiving Treasury notes of the United States, stolen from the United States mail. A Treasury note was offered in evidence. The court, on a division of opinion from the Circuit Court of Virginia, held, that Treasury notes, issued by authority of the act of Congress of October 12, 1838, are promissory notes within the meaning of the act of Congress of March 3, 1825, regulating the Post-office department. United States v. Hardyman, 13 Peters, 176.
Treasury notes, issued under the act of Congress of 1814, ch. 18, being by their terms receivable in payment of duties, taxes, and land debts, due to the United States, for the principal and interest due thereon, are a good tender, and may be pleaded as such to such debts. Thorndike v. The United States, 2 Mason’s C. C. R. 1.
Indiana territory to be laid off into electoral districts.
Those already laid off to remain as the authorized ones till others are established.
Regulations concerning pensions to persons on board private armed vessels.
Act of Feb. 13, 1813, ch. 22.
Proviso.
Act of June 26, 1812, ch. 107.
Widows and children of seamen serving in the public vessels of the U. States provided for.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriation for building floating batteries.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations.
That for defraying the expenses 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 fourteen, for ordnance, fortifications and the Indian department, the following sums, including the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars already appropriated by the first section of Act of Jan. 11, 1814, ch. 2.
Specific appropriations.
For forage to officers, two hundred and sixty-four thousand five hundred and seventy-six dollars.
For subsistence of the army, and of volunteers and militia, four million nine hundred and seventeen thousand four hundred and seventy dollars.
For camp and field equipage, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, two hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars.
For bounties and premiums, two million five hundred and forty thousand dollars.
For clothing, two million thirty-six thousand dollars.
For the Quarter-master’s department, three million five hundred thousand dollars.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, including arsenals, magazines, and armories, seven hundred thousand dollars.
For fortifications, five hundred thousand dollars.
For contingencies, seven hundred thousand dollars.
For the Indian department, four hundred and sixty-four thousand five hundred dollars.
[Obsolete.]
That for defraying the expenses of the navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, the following sums, including the sum of one million of dollars already appropriated by the act, entitled “An act making certain partial Act of Jan. 11, 1814, ch. 2.
For pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, two Specific appropriations.
For provisions, one million four hundred and thirty-nine thousand nine hundred and two dollars and fifty-two cents.
For medicines, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For repairs of vessels, one million five hundred thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses, including freight, transportation, and recruiting expenses, five hundred thousand dollars.
For ordnance, ammunition, and military stores, three hundred thousand dollars.
For navy yards, docks and wharves, one hundred thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, two hundred and eighteen thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and fifty 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 contingent expenses for the same, forty-six thousand dollars.
[Obsolete.]
Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 55.
The sum of 100 dollars to be paid out of
the treasury to privateers-men for each prisoner taken by them.
Bounty to be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Specific appropriation of $200,000.
[Obsolete.]
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 light-houses, 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, two hundred and fifty-two thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars.
For the expense of fire-wood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, fifty-two thousand dollars.
For the expenses of the library of Congress, including the Librarian’s allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, 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 clerk on old records, and a clerk and messenger in the patent office, fifteen thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks in said department, not exceeding Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, including the expense of printing and distributing ten thousand four hundred copies of the laws of the first and second session of the thirteenth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, twenty thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, thirteen thousand two hundred and ninety-nine dollars and eighty-one cents.
For expense of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the Comptroller of the Treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine dollars for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first of April, one Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For expense of stationery and printing and 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-one dollars.
For expense of stationery and printing, and contingent expenses in 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 his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For expense of stationery and printing and contingent expenses in the Treasurer’s office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Commissioner of the General Land-office, clerks, and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of stationery and printing, and contingent expenses of the General Land-office, three thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Commissioner of the Revenue, clerks, and persons employed in his office, nine thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of stationery and printing, and contingent expenses of the revenue office, including the sum of five thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars seventy-three cents, the amount of expenditures for these objects during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, for which no appropriation has been made, nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty-six 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 on the sum allowed by the act, entitled “An act to regulate and fix the compensation of clerks, and to authorize 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 and printing, and contingent expenses of the Register’s office, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel and other contingent expenses of the Treasury department, four thousand dollars.
For the purchase of books, maps and charts for the Treasury department, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to a superintendent and two watchmen, employed to secure the buildings and records of the Treasury department during the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, including expenses and repairs of two fire engines, buckets and lanterns, one thousand one hundred dollars.
Specific appropriations.
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 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 fifteen thousand dollars for clerk-hire, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For contingent expenses in the office of the Accountant of the War department, one thousand dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks in the War Department, not exceeding fifteen per centum on the sum allowed by the act, entitled Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Paymaster of the Army, nine thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Superintendent General of Military Supplies, clerks, and persons employed in his office, ten thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the Superintendent General of Military Supplies, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand six hundred Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Accountant of the Navy, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including seven hundred and fifty dollars for a deficiency in the appropriation for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and a further sum of three thousand dollars in addition to Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
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 on the sum allowed by the act, entitled Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For compensation to the Postmaster General, Assistant Postmasters General, clerks, and persons employed in the general post office, including one thousand two hundred and three dollars and twenty-five cents, for deficiencies in the appropriations for the years one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and the sum of five thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars, in addition
Specific appropriations. Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For contingent expenses of the General Post-office, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks employed in the General Post-office, not exceeding fifteen per centum on the sum allowed by the act, entitled “An act to regulate and fix the compensation of clerks, and Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For compensation to the several loan offices, 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 expenses 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 lands south of Tennessee, and the clerks employed in his office, and for stationery and other contingencies, three thousand two 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.
One clerk at five hundred dollars.
For wages to the persons employed in the different operations of the Mint, including the sum of one thousand dollars allowed to an assistant coiner, and die forger, and six hundred dollars allowed to an assistant engraver, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs of furnaces, cost of iron and machinery, rents, and other contingent expenses of the Mint, three thousand seven hundred dollars.
For allowances 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 cost 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 cost 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 cost 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, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For cost 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 cost of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
Specific appropriations.
For compensation granted by law to the Chief Justice, the Associate Judges, and District Judges of the United States, including the Chief Justice and Associate Judges of the District of Columbia, and the Attorney General, sixty-two thousand dollars.
For like compensations granted to the several District Attorneys of the United States, including those of the several territories, four thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For like compensations granted to the several Marshals for the Districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, East and West Tennessee, and of the several territories of the United States, three 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, penalties and forfeitures, 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, eight hundred and sixty dollars.
For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, ninety-eight thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, stakeages of channels, bars and shoals, including repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, sixty-nine thousand one hundred dollars and twenty-eight cents.
For the following objects, being the balances of former appropriations, for the same purposes, carried to the surplus fund, viz:
For erecting light-houses at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and at or near the pitch of Cape Look-out, in North Carolina, twenty thousand dollars.
For building a light-house on the south point of Cumberland island, in Georgia, four thousand dollars.
For building a light-house on the south point of Sapelo island, in Georgia, and placing buoys and beacons on Dobay bar and Beach point, four thousand four hundred and ninety-four dollars and eighty-one cents.
For placing buoys and beacons at or near the entrance of Beverly harbour, in Massachusetts, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For erecting two lights on Lake Erie, viz: on or near Bird island, and on or near Presque Isle, four thousand dollars.
For placing two beacons and buoys at or near the entrance of the harbour of New Haven, in Connecticut, one hundred dollars.
For placing buoys at the entrance of the harbour of Edgartown, in Massachusetts, one thousand four hundred and forty-three dollars and forty-three cents.
For placing buoys at or near the main bar and new inlet bar off Cape Fear, in North Carolina, two thousand dollars.
For erecting a beacon on a point of land near New Inlet, in North Carolina, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For completing the fitting up of all the light-houses with Winslow Lewis’s improvements, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that purpose, forty thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of surveying the public lands within the several territories of the United States, sixty thousand dollars.
For the support and safe-keeping of prisoners of war, four hundred thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of government, twenty thousand dollars.
For the expense of printing one thousand copies of the digest of Specific appropriations.
For the support of sick and disabled seamen, in addition to the funds already appropriated by law, twenty thousand dollars.
For the salaries, allowances, and contingent expenses of ministers to foreign nations, and of secretaries of legation, eighty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, ten thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, thirty thousand dollars.
For expenses of agents at Paris and Copenhagen in relation to prize causes and captures of American vessels, 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.
Out of what fund to be paid.
Act of Aug. 4, 1790, ch. 34.
Act of Dec. 26, 1814, ch. 17.
Loan authorized.
For what purposes.
Proviso.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause certificates of stock to be issued for the sum obtained by loan.
An account to be rendered by him of this amount.
Secretary of the Treasury to employ agents for procuring subscriptions, &c.
Their commissions.
Specific appropriations.
Funds pledged for the reimbursement of principal and payment of interest.
Lawful for banks in Columbia to lend any part of sum required.
Act of March 23, 1804, ch. 31.
Time of the sessions of the court altered in the Virginia district.
This change not to affect the pleadings.
Process returnable according to the change.
[Obsolete.]
Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 26.
Condition of bonds given by auctioneers.
A town to be laid off.
Act of April 30, 1810, ch. 35.
Lots to be offered for sale.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Certain regiments composing a corps to be formed into battalions.
Component parts of companies.
Particular duties assigned to one of the lieu
tenants of each company.
Their extra pay.
Two regiments of light dragoons formed into one.
Component parts of each troop.
Officers of the corps of artillery and light dragoons, their pay.
Additional rations to subalterns of corps.
Allowances of blankets, &c. &c.
President to prescribe the kind and amount of clothing.
Regulations concerning waiters to the officers, &c.
Further regulations.
President may appoint assistant apothecaries.
Their pay, &c.
Promotions, how to be made.
Act of June 26, 1812, ch. 108.
Deficient regiments may be consolidated.
Proviso.
Pay of noncommissioned officers, &c. &c. of the army and officers of militia not affected by their captivity.
Proviso.
Five regiments now authorized may be enlisted for five years or during the war.
Act of July 5, 1813, ch. 4.
Commissary general of ordnance may employ all needful aid in his department.
Bounty and clothing to labourers in that department.
Allowance in rations to the medical staff, and increase of pay to part.
Aids-de-camp of major generals, &c. &c. from what part of the army to be drawn.
District pay and quartermasters.
Officers of volunteer corps may be promoted in the line of the army.
Act of Feb. 24, 1814, ch. 15.
Release of the title of the United States to a certain lot of ground in favour of the corporation of the city of New York authorized.
Proviso.
Supplementary act, Jan. 23, 1815, ch. 24.
Conditions of indemnification.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 27.
Commissioners to ascertain and decide upon conflicting claims.
Act of Jan. 23, 1814, ch. 24.
Certificates of stock to be issued upon report of the board of commissioners.
To the persons claiming in the name of, or under the Upper Mississippi Upper Mississippi Company.
To the persons claiming in the name of, or under the Tennessee Tennessee Company
To the persons claiming in the name of, or under the Georgia Mississippi Georgia Mississippi Company.
To the persons claiming in the name of, or under the Georgia Company, Georgia Company.
To the persons claiming under citizens’ rights, including such share Citizens’ rights. Proviso. Proviso. Proviso. Proviso.
Certificates of stock made receivable for public lands in Mississippi territory.
Proviso.
Consideration money to be paid to the state of Georgia.
Persons who withdrew money from the treasury of Georgia to be barred.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Vouchers to be obtained from the state of Georgia.
Cases of persons under age, &c. &c. provided for.
Proviso.
Persons refusing to compromise to be barred from any claim.
1815, ch. 94.
1826, ch. 38.
1833, ch. 15.
1837, ch. 32.
Two districts formed; the first to be called the southern.
The second, the northern district.
Terms of the said court, where and when holden.
Judge Tallmadge assigned for the northern and Judge Van Ness for the southern district.
Judge Van Ness to hold the court for the northern district, in certain cases.
Circuit court to be held for the southern district in New York.
Jurisdiction of northern district court.
Act of April 29, 1816, ch. 169.
Certain claimants confirmed in their titles or claims.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Certain other claims confirmed.
Proviso.
The proper registers of land offices and recorders of land titles to give the necessary certificates.
Made the duty of the principal deputy surveyor to survey the lands designated by the orders of survey.
Actual settlers entitled to the pre-emption.
Act of Feb. 5, 1813, ch. 20.
Repealing clause.
Act of Dec. 17, 1813, ch. 1.
Proviso.
Repeal of non-importation acts.
Proviso.
Assent of Congress given.
Proviso.
Principal assessor last mentioned, to give notice to other principal assessors, by publication, of time of meeting.
If all the assessors do not attend at the place appointed, those appointed to make the apportionment.
Provision in case any of the assessors appointed do not perform the duties of the office.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 65.
Marine corps authorized to be augmented.
The staff to be taken from the captains and subalterns.
Their pay.
President authorized to confer brevet rank in certain cases.
Proviso.
Act of April 16, 1818, ch. 59.
Act of June 30, 1834, ch. 132.
President may appoint the offi-
cers in the recess of the Senate.
And of the navy.
Officers to be appointed.
Their rank.
Pay and emoluments.
May be appointed during recess of the Senate.
Act of March 17, 1800, ch. 15, continued in force until March 3, 1822.
Act of Feb. 20, 1812, ch. 22.
Act of April 26, 1816, ch. 101.
Act of Feb. 27, 1815, ch. 63.
Claims transmitted by Michael Jones confirmed.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Boundaries of reservation to satisfy unlocated claims.
Actual settlers entitled to pre-emption.
Proviso.
Notice to be given by Register of Land Office at Kaskaskia, that persons claiming pre-emption rights may come forward.
After 1st October owners of unlocated confirmed claims to exhibit their claims, &c.
Certificates to be given by register of land office for Kaskaskia district, &c. &c.
Patents to be granted as for other lands.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 108.
Money to be deposited in incorporated banks.
Proviso, as to agreement of parties.
Pensions to officers and seamen on board the revenue cutters in certain cases.
Congress to meet on the last Monday of Oct. 1814.
Salary of the paymaster fixed.
Additional allowance for clerk hire.
District assisttant paymasters to be appointed.
Proviso.
Disbursements to be made by district paymasters.
District paymasters to forward accounts with vouchers to the paymaster of the army.
Proviso.
Pay of district paymasters.
District and assistant district paymasters to give bonds; made subject to
the rules and articles of war.
Continuance of this act to Feb. 17, 1816.
[Obsolete.]
Secretary of State to subscribe for 1000 copies of the edition of the laws, by Bioren, Duane, and Weightman.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Distribution of the 1000 copies regulated.
To go to the successors in
office of certain officers mentioned.
Future acts of Congress to be published in the form prescribed by this act.
[Obsolete.]
Purchase authorized.
Appropriation, to be distributed as prize money.
Specific appropriations.
Five thousand dollars in addition to his prize money awarded to Oliver H. Perry.
Allowance of one year from 1st June, 1814, to purchasers of land of the United States who have been subjected to claimants under Spanish grants for payment of interest.
Discontinuance of post-roads.
That the post-roads hereafter named be discontinued:
Maryland.
Virginia.
In North Carolina.—From Suffolk, by Gates Courthouse, to Edenton. Discontinuance of post-roads. North Carolina.
In Georgia.—From Greensborough to Washington. From Darien, Georgia.
In Kentucky.—From Lewis Courthouse, by Flemingsburg, Millersburg, Kentucky.
In Tennessee.—From Alexander’s, by White Plains, to Carthage. Tennessee.
In Ohio.—From Steubenville, by Faucettstown, to New Lisbon. Ohio.
In Louisiana.—From La Fourch, by Point Coupee, to Opeloosa. Louisiana.
In Indiana.—From Jeffersonville, by Clarksville, to Vincennes. Indiana.
Establishment of post-roads.
In New Hampshire.—The post-road from Rochester to Wakefield be New Hampshire.
In Maine.—From Waterford, by Norway, Plantation Third, Rumford, Maine.
In Massachusetts.—From Springfield to Southwick. From Stafford, Massachusetts.
In Connecticut.—From Middletown, by Hebron, to Windham. From Connecticut.
In New York.—From Bettsburg to Deposit. From Albany, by Bath, New York.
In New Jersey.—From Morristown, by Newtown, to Millford, in Pennsylvania. New Jersey.
In Pennsylvania.—From Wysor, by Orewill and Warren, to Nanticocke, Pennsylvania.
In Ohio.—From Urbanna to Springfield, in Champaign county. From Ohio.
Establishment of post-roads.
Indiana.
Illinois.
Delaware.
Maryland.
Virginia.
Kentucky.
North Carolina.
Tennessee.
South Carolina.
Georgia.
Louisiana.
Certain documents may be transmitted by Secretary of State free of postage.
Made the duty of the Secretaries of the War and Navy Departments to collect at the seat of government captured flags, &c. &c.
To be displayed in some public place, designated by the President.
Appropriation.
[Repealed.]
Act of Feb. 28, 1799, ch. 19.
Act of March 8, 1824, ch. 26.
Certain marshals, attorneys and clerks no longer to have a daily allowance for attending courts.
[Obsolete.]
Act of Feb. 28, 1795, ch. 36.
Act of May 8, 1792, ch. 33.
Act of March 2, 1803, ch. 15.
Additional officers authorized; their rank, and duties.
[Expired.]
Act of Feb. 28, 1795, ch. 36.
Courts martial for the trial of drafted militia to be composed of militia officers.
Stoppage of pay for delinquencies to refer to the pay at the time the offence was committed.
What shall be deemed a sufficient summons.
Act of Feb. 28, 1795, ch. 36.
Upon non-appearance of delinquent, he may be proceeded against.
Witnesses may be summoned by president of a court martial.
Penalty for not attending.
May be punished for contemptuous behaviour when attending.
Court may issue orders for carrying the sentence in the last mentioned case into effect.
Rules of evidence.
Deemed guilty of perjury for corrupt swearing, and punishable accordingly.
Time militia called into the service of the United States may be compelled to serve.
Pay of chaplains, &c. &c. of militia called into service of the U. States.
How militia called into service of the U.
States are to be paid, in certain cases.
Proviso.
Muster rolls to be signed by the proper officers.
Act of May 8, 1792, ch. 33.
Commissioned officers and others may be punished for acts committed while in service, after discharge.
Continuance of this act until Feb. 17, 1816.
Pay, &c. &c. of commissioned and warrant officers.
Bounty and allowance to ordinary seamen and marines.
Proviso.
President may authorize the augmentation of pay in certain cases.
See act of April 25, 1812, ch. 67.
Time extended for filing claims.
Commissioners to receive and report the evidences of claims to Commissioner of General Land- Office.
Commissioner for district east of Pearl river and west of Perdido to receive evidences and make report.
[Obsolete.]
Salaries increased.
Repealed by act of Dec. 23, 1817, ch. 1.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 39.
Physicians not obliged to take out licenses for retailing drugs, making up their own prescriptions.
Licenses for these purposes already given to be cancelled, and the money paid to be returned.
Upon the sale or transfer of a licensed still, the right of using it to accrue to the new proprietor.
In case of a licensed still being burnt, the duties to be returned.
Proviso.
Proviso.
The representatives of a person deceased, who had taken out a license to have the privilege of retailing,
or of using a licensed still.
Proviso.
Licensed retailers to exhibit their licenses on the demand of the collector.
Duties of a collector in case of sickness to be devolved on a deputy.
Proviso.
Deputy to execute the duties of the office in certain other cases.
Packets of whatever weight may be franked by commissioner.
Specific appropriations.
Building vessels on lakes Ontario and Champlain.
Expenses of clerks.
Subsistence and clothing, &c. of marine corps.
Bounty and pay of seamen.
Regulations concerning certificates of confirmation.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 36.
Surveys to be made when necessary.
Patents to be granted upon them.
Distribution of the journals of Congress and documents.
Of the gallant conduct of Capt. Oliver H. Perry, and others.
Brilliant achievement of lieutenants Burrows and M‘Call.
Brilliant achievement of lieutenants Burrows and M‘Call.
Brilliant achievement of Capt. James Lawrence.
A sword to be presented to the nearest male relation of midshipman John Clark.
ACTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Elective franchise defined.
Additional members for the legislative council to be appointed.
Act of March 16, 1810, ch. 31.
Officers and soldiers in Virginia line, on continental establishment, allowed a further time.
Proviso.
Vessels to be built.
Appropriation.
Act of Dec. 15, 1814, ch. 12.
A loan of three millions authorized.
How the proceeds to be applied.
Proviso.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause certificates of stock to be sold for the sum to be borrowed.
An account to be laid before Congress of the rate, &c.
To appoint an agent or agents for obtaining
subscriptions or selling the stock.
Commission to be paid for the service
Treasury notes due before January receivable in payment of this or any other loan.
Fund appropriated for the payment of interest and reimbursement of principal of stock created by virtue of this act.
Duty of commissioners of sinking fund, accordingly.
Permanent funds to be provided and appropriated, in addition to the sum already appropriated to the sinking fund.
An adequate sinking fund for paying the war debt to be created.
Banks in District of Columbia authorized to contribute to the loan.
Laws of the United States to be published in each and every territory of the United States.
[Obsolete.]
The Secretary of the Treasury to appoint a clerk, &c.
Secretary of State may give an additional allowance for bringing home destitute seamen.
Former claims to be adjusted and settled, as he may deem reasonable.
Continuance of this act.
[Repealed.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Recruits authorized of able bodied men between the ages of eighteen and fifty.
Four probationary days allowed to young recruits before receiving the bounty.
Part of former laws requiring the consent of parents, &c. repealed.
Act of Jan. 20, 1813, ch. 12.
Proviso.
Land bounty changed, and to be given to recruits upon their discharge.
Persons furnishing recruits for the war, exempted from militia duty.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 53.
Secretary of the Treasury may make a composition with private bankers in lieu of stamp duty.
Statements to be made by private bankers, and after verified by oath or affirmation.
Mode of ascertaining profits in order to a composition with the banks.
Duties on carriages.
That from the last day of December instant, there shall be paid the following yearly rates and duties upon every carriage, with the harness used therefor, kept for use, which shall not be exclusively employed in husbandry, or for the transportation Specific rates of duties.
If not exceeding fifty dollars, one dollar.
If above fifty and not exceeding one hundred dollars, two dollars. Specific duties.
If above one hundred and not exceeding two hundred dollars, four dollars.
If above two hundred and not exceeding three hundred, seven dollars.
If above three hundred and not exceeding four hundred, eleven dollars.
If above four hundred and not exceeding five hundred, sixteen dollars.
If above five hundred and not exceeding six hundred, twenty-two dollars.
If above six hundred dollars and not exceeding eight hundred dollars, thirty dollars.
If above eight hundred dollars and not exceeding one thousand dollars, forty dollars.
If above one thousand dollars, fifty dollars; which valuations shall be made agreeably to the existing condition of the carriage and harness at the time of making the first entry thereof, in conformity to the provisions of this act, and shall not be changed in relation to any carriage and harness, while subject to the duties imposed by this act.
Time limited for entering carriages.
Act of July 22, 1813, ch. 16.
Proviso.
Carriages to be entered for a part of the year.
Penalties for making untrue or fraudulent entries.
And for neglect.
Certificates where the duties are collected.
Proof necessary to entitle carriages to exemption from tax.
Deficient entries to be corrected.
Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 24.
Penalty.
Assessors to report lists of carriages.
Proviso.
Provisions of former acts to apply under this.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 56.
Revenues arising under this act applied to payment of expenses incurred during present war.
Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 24.
If withdrawn, other adequate revenues substituted.
Proviso.
Former acts repealed; except as they are conformable with this.
Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 24.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Proviso.
Naval officers while co-operating with landforces, to have certain supplies.
[Obsolete.]
That for defraying the expenses of the military establishment during the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated by law to that object, the following sums be, and they are hereby appropriated, that is to say:
Specific appropriations.
For the subsistence of the army, one million of dollars.
For the quartermaster’s department, five hundred thousand dollars.
For the ordnance department, five hundred thousand dollars.
For clothing, five hundred thousand dollars.
For defraying the compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, during the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that purpose, the sum of fifty thousand dollars.
For defraying the contingent expenses of the Senate of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, the sum of five thousand dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated.
For defraying the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, during the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, the sum of ten thousand dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated.
Excise duties upon spirits.
Act of April 19, 1816, ch. 58.
Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 25.
Distillers to give bonds that they will make due entries and reports of their stills and boilers, and perform certain other acts.
Conditions of the bond to be given by distillers.
Entries to be verified by the oaths of the parties making them.
Oaths of the owners of stills to be subjoined in certain cases to the entries made.
Delinquents amerced in ten per cent, damage, and their property may be distressed for the full amount.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Spirits distilled within the United States, upon which the duties have not been paid, to be forfeited.
Spirits distilled to be forfeited for violations of this law.
Proviso.
Bonds to be deemed forfeited in case their conditions are not fulfilled.
Penalties for obstructing the execution of this act, or rescuing property seized under it.
Collectors may enter distilleries at stated periods.
False swearing to be considered as amounting to wilful and corrupt perjury.
Refusing or non-complying distillers not entitled to licenses.
Receipts to be given by collectors.
Bonds in certain cases to be surrendered to the obligors.
Provisions of this and a former act to apply to stills used in the rectification of spirits.
Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 25.
Licenses to distil from foreign to extend to domestic materials.
Former act to remain in force, except as it is altered by the provisions of this.
July 24, 1813, ch. 25.
Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 56.
Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 25.
Additional licenses upon the capacity of stills. Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 25.
For a still, or stills, employed in distilling spirits from domestic materials, five cents;
For a boiler, or boilers, as defined in the said act, employed in distilling spirits from domestic materials, ten cents.
One half only of which rates of duty shall be paid for a still or stills, and boiler or boilers, employed wholly in the distillation of roots.
Which said duties shall be collected in the same manner, and subject to the same provisions, as the duties imposed by the said act.
Reduction for payment when license is obtained.
Option given to pay upon the capacity of a still or upon the spirits distilled.
Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 25.
Proviso.
Collectors of internal revenue to collect the duties, &c. under this act.
Abstracts of this and other laws to be furnished distillers.
Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 25.
Act of April 18, 1814, ch. 91.
Pledge of the revenue arising under this act.
Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 25.
Distillers may sell without license.
Secretary of the Treasury may anticipate the revenuearising under this act by pledging it for a loan.
Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 25.
A duty of 100 per cent, laid upon sales at auction.
Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 26.
Regulations with regard to the collection of the duty.
Act of March 24, 1814, ch. 32.
July 24, 1813, ch. 26.
Fifty percent, added to postage.
Fifty per cent, additional duties upon licenses to retailers of wines, &c.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 39.
Act of April 18, 1814, ch. 9.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 39.
Provisions of several acts in relation to internal duties to be in force and apamount
plied to the enforcement of this.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 56.
Faith of the United States pledged for the application of the revenue arising under this act.
Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 25.
Act of April 30, 1810, ch. 37.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 39.
[Obsolete.]
Treasury notes to be issued for sum deficient in an authorized loan.
Act of March 24, 1814, ch. 29.
Act of Nov. 15, 1814, ch. 4.
The amount of treasury notes which
may be issued shall not exceed 7,500,000 dollars.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause a further sum in treasury notes to be issued.
Regulations with respect to the reimbursement, &c. &c. of treasury notes.
Act of March 4, 1814, ch. 18.
Sum pledged for paying treasury notes, &c.
Appropriation for defraying expenses under this act.
Penalties for forging, &c. treasury notes.
Act of Feb. 13, 1813, ch. 23.
Certain locations to be entered with the register of the land office at Vincennes.
Act of Aug. 21, 1806, ch. 40.
County courts authorized to appoint agents for leasing of the sections of land for the use of schools.
The proceeds to be applied to this purpose.
Sections may be divided into convenient farms.
Lessees to be bound not to commit waste.
Trespassers may be removed by agents, who are authorized to inquire into waste, &c.
Fees to agents for leases.
Limitation of leases.
Proviso.
Decisions of the courts of the United States, on the acts of Congress laying direct taxes on lands, &c.
A collector selling land for taxes, must act in conformity with the law from which his power is derived, and the purchaser is bound to inquire whether he has so acted. It is incumbent on the vendor to prove his power to sell. Stead’s Executors v. Course, 4 Cranch, 403; 2 Cond. Rep. 151.
Under the act of Congress to lay and collect a direct tax, (July 14, 1798,) before the collector could sell the land of an unknown proprietor for non-payment of this tax, it was necessary that he should advertise the copy of the list of lands, &c. and the statement of the amount due for the tax and the notification to pay in sixty days, in four gazettes of the state, if there were so many. Parker v. Rule’s lessee, 9 Cranch, 64; 3 Cond. Rep. 271.
In the ease of a naked power not coupled with an interest, every pre-requisite to the exercise of that power, should precede it. In the case of lands sold for the non-payment of taxes, the marshal’s deed is not prima facie evidence that the pre-requisites of the law have been complied with; but the party claiming under it must show positively that the law has been complied with. Williams et al. v. Peyton’s lessor, 4 Wheat. 77; 4 Cond. Rep. 395. Thatcher v. Powell, 6 Wheat. 119; 5 Cond. Rep. 28.
[Repealed.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 90.
Direct tax of six millions imposed.
Apportionment among the states.
New Hampshire.
Massachusetts.
That a direct tax of six millions of dollars be and is hereby annually laid upon the United States, and the same shall be and is hereby apportioned to the states respectively in manner following:
To the state of New Hampshire, one hundred and ninety-three thousand five hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-four cents.
To the state of Massachusetts, six hundred and thirty-two thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars and ninety-six cents.
Rhode Island.
Connecticut.
Vermont.
New York.
New Jersey.
To the state of Pennsylvania, seven hundred and thirty thousand nine Pennsylvania.
To the state of Delaware, sixty-four thousand ninety-two dollars and Delaware.
To the state of Maryland, three hundred and three thousand two hundred Maryland.
To the state of Virginia, seven hundred and thirty-eight thousand Virginia.
To the state of Kentucky, three hundred and thirty-seven thousand Kentucky.
To the state of Ohio, two hundred and eight thousand three hundred Ohio.
To the state of North Carolina, four hundred and forty thousand four North Carolina.
To the state of Tennessee, two hundred and twenty thousand one Tennessee.
To the state of South Carolina, three hundred and three thousand South Carolina.
To the state of Georgia, one hundred and eighty-nine thousand eight Georgia.
To the state of Louisiana, fifty-six thousand five hundred and ninety Louisiana.
Repeal of part of the former act.
Act of July 22, 1813, ch. 16, with exceptions.
Proviso.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 37.
Principal assessors to divide their districts, and appoint assistants.
Number of assessment districts to be reduced.
Oaths of office.
Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe rules for carrying this act into effect, &c.
Act of July 22, 1813, ch. 16.
Tax to be assessed according to the value in money of the property.
Proviso.
Assistant assessor to proceed through their districts to obtain lists of taxable property-
Proviso.
Act of July 22, 1813, ch. 16.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 37.
Duties of principal assessors.
Lists to be made out by the officer where the owner of property shall neglect to furnish, &c.
Penalties for furnishing fraudulent lists
Absentees to be notified to furnish lists.
Penalty for refusing to furnish lists.
Non-residents’ property how to be assessed.
Property not lying within assessment district where owners reside, how to be entered.
Lists to be made with reference to the day fixed by this act.
Penalty.
Principal assessors to advertise some public place in their districts where assessment lists are to be exhibited, and may be examined.
Proviso.
Increase of valuation.
Taxes of county or state districts, containing more than one assessment district to be equalized.
Principal assessors to form a board for the despatch of business.
A clerk or clerks to be appointed by the board, who shall be sworn or affirmed.
Duties of the clerks prescribed.
Attendance of the assessors to be noted by them, &c.
Board of principal assessors to assign to certain counties and state districts such valuation as they may deem right and proper if not furnished with lists.
Board of principal assessors may equalize the rates of taxes for certain districts.
Proviso.
Taxes to be apportioned by the board of principal assessors.
Collectors to execute receipts for taxable lists received from principal assessors.
Collectors to give bonds, &c.
Proviso.
Amount of taxes as assessed to remain as a lien upon the property.
Collectors may appoint deputies, &c.
Proviso.
Collectors to give public notice of the taxes assessed.
Proceeding to sell goods distrained.
Sale of property.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 37.
Overplus received from the sale of delinquents’ property to be returned to owners.
If property will not sell for the tax, &c.
Proviso.
Redemption.
Deeds to be made for property sold under this act, by the collectors.
List of the deeds.
Non-residents’ property how to be made liable for taxes.
Designate collector to advertise.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 90, sec. 3.
Collectors to sell property of delinquent nonresident proprietors.
Collectors to purchase the property advertised and sold for the taxes.
See act of March 3, 1815, ch. 90, sec. 3.
Collectors designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit with clerks of district courts correct lists of the property sold under this act.
Deeds to be given for unredeemed land.
Lands of infants and persons insane.
Collectors to make periodical statements to Secretary of the Treasury and pay over all moneys received by them.
Collectors to be charged with amount of taxes receipted by them.
When to be credited.
Made the duty of the comptroller to bring delinquent collectors to account, &c.
Sale of the property of delinquent collectors and of their sureties.
Penalties upon collectors for extortion, &c.
Fees to assessors, &c.
Compensation provided for the principal assessors, and the assistants, as well as of the boards, to be paid at the treasury.
Appropriation.
Proviso.
President may make appointments of principal assessors, in recess of the Senate.
Separate accounts to be kept at the treasury of the proceeds of direct taxes and internal duties.
Made the duty of the principal assessors to ascertain and keep accounts of the transfers ofreal property.
Act of March 4, 1815, ch. 90, sec. 1.
States authorized to assume the payment of their respective quotas of tax and to be allowed a discount.
Proviso.
Pledge of taxes for the payment of the public debt, &c.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 37.
Loans authorized in anticipation of the taxes.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 37.
Proviso.
Repealed by act of Dec. 23, 1817, ch. 1.
Tax imposed.
That from and after the expiration of ninety days subsequent to the passing of this act, there shall be paid upon all goods, wares, and merchandise, of the following descriptions, which shall thereafter be manufactured or made for sale within the United States, or the territories thereof, the respective duties following, that is to say:
Rates of Specific articles.
Castings of iron, per ton, one dollar and fifty cents.
Bar iron, per ton, one dollar.
Rolled or slit iron, per ton, one dollar.
Nails, brads, and sprigs, other than those usually denominated wrought, per pound, one cent.
Candles of white wax, or in part of white and other wax, per pound, five cents.
Mould candles of tallow, or of wax other than white, or in part of each, per pound, three cents.
Hats and caps, in whole or in part of leather, wool or furs; bonnets, in whole or in part of wool or fur, if above two dollars in value, eight per centum ad valorem.
Hats of chip or wood covered with silk or other materials, or not covered, if above two dollars in value, eight per centum ad valorem.
Umbrellas and parasols, if above the value of two dollars, eight per centum ad valorem.
Paper, three per centum ad valorem.
Playing and visiting cards, fifty per centum ad valorem.
Saddles and bridles, six per centum ad valorem.
Boots and bootees, exceeding five dollars per pair in value, five per centum ad valorem.
Beer, ale, and porter, six per centum ad valorem.
Tobacco, manufactured segars and snuff, twenty per centum ad valorem.
Leather, including therein all hides and skins, whether tanned, tawed, dressed, or otherwise made, on the original manufacture thereof, five per centum ad valorem: which said duties shall be paid by the owner or occupier of the buildings or vessels in which, or of the machines, implements, or utensils wherewith, the said goods, wares, and merchandise, shall have been manufactured or made, or by the agent or superintendent thereof; the amount thereof payable by any one person at any one time, if not exceeding twenty dollars shall, and if exceeding twenty dollars may, be paid in money with a deduction of two per centum at the time
Owners of stills, &c. to give bonds, &c.
Conditions prescribed.
Licenses to be taken out according to entries, &c.
Entries to be verified by oaths of the parties making them.
In case the original entries are not made, the oath or affirmation of the owners to be subjoined.
Delinquents to pay an additional per centage.
Additional penalties.
Proviso.
Goods upon which duties have not been paid to be forfeited.
Proviso.
Penalties for neglecting to make entries, &c.
Proviso.
Bonds to be forfeited—in what cases.
Duties payable upon articles manufactured for sale, only.
Upon what description of goods duties to be paid.
Penalties for using stills, &c. without renewing licenses.
Form of the bond, &c. to be prescribed by Secretary of the Treasury.
Returns to be made by owners.
By what criterion the manufactures to be valued.
Penalties for obstructing officers in the execution of their duties.
At what times collectors may enter places where stills, &c. are kept.
Penalties.
Penalties for false oaths, or affirmations.
Delinquents not entitled to licenses.
Collectors to give receipts for moneys received by them.
Bonds—when to be cancelled.
Provisions of a former act to apply to this.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 56.
Collectors authorized to collect the duties imposed under this act, and to prosecute for fines, &c.
Jurisdiction of state courts.
Collectors to furnish a copy of this act to certain persons.
Taxes pledged.
The duties laid by this act to be considered as additional to those already laid.
[Repealed.]
Duty imposed.
That there shall be and hereby is imposed an annual duty on all household furniture kept for use, the value of which, in any one family, with the exception of beds, bedding, kitchen furniture, family pictures, and articles made in the family from domestic materials, shall exceed two hundred dollars in money, according to the following scale :
Specific articles taxed.
If above four hundred and not exceeding six hundred dollars, one dollar and fifty cents.
If above six hundred and not exceeding one thousand dollars, three dollars.
If above one thousand and not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, six Specific articles taxed.
If above fifteen hundred and not exceeding two thousand dollars, ten dollars.
If above two thousand and not exceeding three thousand dollars, seventeen dollars.
If above three thousand and not exceeding four thousand dollars, twenty-eight dollars.
If above four thousand and not exceeding six thousand dollars, forty-five dollars.
If above six thousand and not exceeding nine thousand dollars, seventy-five dollars.
If above nine thousand dollars, one hundred dollars: which duty shall be paid by the owner of the said household furniture.
That there shall be, and hereby is, likewise imposed an annual duty of two dollars on every gold watch kept for use, and of one dollar on every silver watch kept for use, which duty shall be paid by the owner thereof.
Lists of the value of household property, as classed by the first section of this act, to be added to lists taken under a former one.
Act of July 22, 1813, ch. 16.
Lists to be taken by assistant assessors in certain cases.
Penalties for giving in fraudulent lists.
Persons absent from home when the officers call, to furnish lists of their property, under penalties.
Lists, when perfected, to be delivered by the assistant to the principal assessors.
Act of July 22, 1813, ch. 16.
Proviso.
General lists to be made out by principal assessors.
Collectors to be furnished by principal assessors with lists.
Collectors to give public notice of taxes.
Act of July 22, 1813, ch. 16.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Owners of property, &c. to furnish lists, &c.
Act of July 22, 1813, ch. 16.
Provisions of the preceding section to apply to territories.
Lists of household furniture to be furnished by owners for their houses, separately.
What furniture is embraced by this law.
Furniture belonging to charitable literary institutions, &c. exempt.
Where there is a doubt who is the owner, the possessors to pay.
Errors how to be corrected.
Collectors to give receipts—of what tenor.
Forms to be prescribed by Treasury Department.
Obstructing officers.
Penalties on officers for neglect of duty.
Fees of office to the assessors, &c.
Proviso.
Appropriation for expenses.
Additional compensation.
Provisions of former acts to apply to the duties to be performed under this act.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 56.
Made the duty of the collectors to collect duties, and to prosecute for sums forfeited, &c.
Distribution of fines, &c.
Proceeds of the duties pledged for the payment of the principal and interest, &c. of the public debt.
Act of March 31, 1814, ch. 39.
President authorized to appoint three commissioners, to act as a board in the place of the one formerly constituted.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 96.
Board to meet at some place in the District of Columbia, and to proceed forthwith to business.
Reports to be made by it to the President.
Commissioners to take an oath of office.
Board may appoint a secretary.
His duty,
and pay—as well as the pay of the commissioners.
Further time allowed for making releases.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 27.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 96.
Board empowered to consider and determine upon releases preferred by representatives of bankrupts, &c.
Repealed by act of Feb. 27, 1815, ch. 64.
President authorized to accept the services of state troops.
Proviso.
Apportionment among the states.
Proviso.
Corps accepted to be armed and equipped at the expense of the United States.
President may accept the services of volunteers.
Proviso.
Officers of the said volunteers to be commissioned by the President.
Their pay and emoluments.
Volunteers may at their option be armed and equipped by the United States or at their own expense.
Proviso.
Proviso.
And clothed with the same option.
Non-commissioned officers, privates, &c., in certain cases entitled to lands from the United States.
Act of May 6, 1812, ch. 77.
Appointments of the officers of volunteers to be submitted to the Senate.
Deficiency of state troops to be furnished by the acceptance of the service of volunteers.
Expenses under this act, how to be defrayed.
Library of Thomas Jefferson to be purchased.
Custom-house officers authorized to enter on board vessels in adjoining districts, as well as their own, to seize dutiable articles.
And to stop, in adjoining districts, carriages, &c., destined to the dominions of the enemy.
Goods forfeited which are illegally brought from the possessions of the enemy.
Officers allowed to search in the day time only, for prohibited articles supposed to be concealed.
Forfeitures and penalties for attempting to transport goods, &c., to the enemy.
Proviso.
Collectors, &c., authorized to stop the transportation of goods, &c., destined for the enemy, &c.
Parties engaged in these illegal proceedings may be held to bail.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Collectors may employ such number of persons as they think proper as inspectors of the customs.
Their duties under this act.
Collectors to call upon naval officers, &c., to assist them in making search, seizures, &c.
In cases of resistance may demand the aid of the posse of the district.
Forfeitures and penalties, how to be sued
for and prosecuted, and distributed.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Prosecutions or suits against officers for their acts under this act, or colour of it, may be removed to circuit court in certain cases.
Proceedings on appeal or on writ of error.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Officers not to be liable to costs upon judgments against them, in certain cases.
Proviso.
No citizen allowed to pass the frontier, or hold intercourse with the enemy, but with a regular passport.
Persons coming from the enemy’s territories, &c., to report themselves forthwith.
Persons hovering near the frontier without a passport, and under other suspicious circumstances, to be held to security, &c.
President authorized to employ the land or naval force, for co-operating with officers of the customs in certain cases.
Duration of this act.
Proviso.
Act of Aug. 22, 1813, ch. 39.
Act of April 18, 1814, ch. 91.
Repealed by fourth section of Aug. 22, 1813, ch. 39.
Act of Feb. 25, 1811, ch. 25.
Lands attached to the district of Canton.
The ordinary modes of surveying public lands to be deviated from in surveying those of the Canton district.
Lands attached to the Canton district by this act to be offered for sale.
Fees to the register and receiver of public moneys.
Act of March 3, 1813, ch. 43.
Act of Feb. 19, 1814, ch. 14.
Further time allowed to purchasers of public lands.
Conditions.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 92.
Three officers of the navy to be appointed a board of commissioners for the navy.
Their powers and duties.
Board made subordinate to Secretary of the Navy.
Board of commissioners to draw up regulations for
securing uniformity in classes of vessels, &c.
The officer holding the oldest commission to preside at the navy board.
This act not to derogate from the powers of the Secretary of the Navy.
Act of May 14, 1812, ch. 83.
Ordnance department, how constituted.
Colonel may enlist for the service of that department, master armorers, &c.
And to direct the inspection and proof of ordnance, and to procure gun carriages and all needful apparatus.
Proper number of artificers to be attached to regiments, &c.
Colonel of the ordnance to execute all orders of the Secretary of War.
Keepers of magazines and arsenals to make reports to colonel, &c.
Costs of the damages of ordnance to be deducted from the pay of the officers or soldiers having charge of it.
Semi-annual reports to be made from the ordnance to the War Department.
Public armories placed under direction of the ordnance department.
Colonel to draw up a system of regulations for his department.
Pay and emoluments of the officers of the ordnance department to be the same as those in the artillery.
Of the master armorers, &c.
Officers now in service may continue in the
ordnance department or be transferred to other corps.
Allowance to the colonel for clerks, &c.
Act of May 14, 1812, ch. 83.
Former acts, so far as they interfere with this one, repealed.
A tract of land near Plattsburg to be purchased.
[Repealed.]
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 39.
Act not to extend to vine dressers who sell their wines.
Buildings in the city of Washington to be rebuilt.
Appropriation of $100,000 in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriation.
To be repaid out of the sum reserved by the act of April 30, 1802, ch. 40.
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 light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers; 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, three hundred and eighteen thousand and four dollars.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, fifty-two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the expenses of the library of Congress, including the librarian’s allowance, for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons employed in that department, including a clerk on old records, and a clerk and messenger in the patent office, fifteen thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks in said department, not exceeding fifteen per centum on the sum allowed by the act, entitled “An Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department,
Specific appropriations.
For the cost of one thousand copies of a new edition of the laws of Act of April 18, 1814, ch. 69.
For the expense of reprinting five hundred and sixteen copies of the laws of the first and second sessions of the thirteenth Congress, captured by the enemy, seven hundred and seventy-four dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including one thousand dollars for an additional clerk, authorized by the act of the eighteenth of April, one thousand Act of April 18, 1814, ch. 92.
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 five hundred 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 and printing, and 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, including the sum of one thousand dollars, for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For expense of stationery and printing, and contingent expenses in 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 his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first 1806, ch. 41.
For expense of stationery and printing, and contingent expenses in the treasurer’s office, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the commissioner of the general land office, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of three thousand dollars, for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum Act of April 25, 1812, ch. 68
For expense of stationery and printing, and contingent expenses of the general land office, three thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the commissioner of the revenue, clerks, and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of stationery and printing, and contingent expenses of the revenue office, six thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand dollars for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of
Specific appropriations. 1806, ch. 41.
For additional compensation to the clerks in the Treasury Department, not exceeding fifteen per centum on the sum allowed by the act, entitled Act of April 21, 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 and printing, and contingent expenses of the register’s office, three thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel and other contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, including rent of the houses occupied by the said department during a part of the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and the whole of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and compensation of a superintendent and two watchmen, employed for the security of the Treasury buildings, six thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of a fire engine and fire buckets for the Treasury Department, one thousand dollars.
For the purchase of books, maps, and charts for the Treasury Department, four 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 compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum Act of April 21, 1806, ch.41.
For expense of stationery, printing, fuel, and other contingencies, in the office of the Secretary of War, including office rent, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the War Department, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including the sum of fourteen thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars, for compensation of his clerks, Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the War Department, one thousand dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks in the War Department, not exceeding fifteen per centum on the sum allowed by the act, entitled Act of April 21, 806, ch. 41.
For compensation to the paymaster of the army, clerks, and persons employed in his office, fifteen thousand seven hundred and ten dollars. For contingent expenses in the office of the paymaster of the army, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the superintendent general of military supplies, clerks, and persons employed in his office, ten thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the superintendent general of military supplies, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the adjutant and inspector general’s office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the commissary general of purchases and clerks in his office, ten thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the commissary general of Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand six hundred dollars for compensation of his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, including office rent, three thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the navy, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including the sum of three thousand dollars for compensation of his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the navy, including office rent, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks in the Navy Department, not exceeding fifteen per centum on the sum allowed by the act, entitled “An act to regulate and fix the compensation of clerks, and to authorize Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For compensation to the. Postmaster General, assistant postmasters general, clerks and persons employed in the general post-office, including the sum of five thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars, for compensation of the clerks in the general post-office, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For contingent expenses of the general post-office, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks in the general post-office, not exceeding fifteen per centum on the sum allowed by the act, entitled “An act to regulate and fix the compensation of clerks, and to authorize Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.
For compensation to the several commissioners of loans, and for allowance to certain commissioners of loans in lieu of clerk hire, fourteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of sundry commissioners of loans, including a sum of three thousand dollars in addition to the amount heretofore allowed by law, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan offices, thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor general and his clerks, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of lands south of Tennessee, and his clerks, and for the contingent expenses of his office, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the officers and clerks of the mint, ten thousand one hundred dollars.
For wages to the persons employed in the different operations of the mint, including the sum of six hundred dollars allowed to an assistant engraver, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs of furnaces, cost of iron and machinery, rents, and other contingent expenses of the mint, three thousand eight hundred dollars.
For allowances 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 stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
Specific appropriations.
For 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, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For 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 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 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 compensation granted by law to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district judges, of the United States, including the chief justice and associate judges of the district of Columbia, and the attorney general; and also including the sum of one thousand dollars, short, appropriated in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen for the salary of the district judge of Louisiana, sixty-four thousand dollars.
For the compensations of sundry district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, seven thousand eight 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, penalties, and forfeitures, 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, eight hundred and sixty dollars.
For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, ninety-eight thousand dollars.
For the relief and support of sick and disabled seamen, in addition to the funds already appropriated by law, twenty thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, stakeages of channels, bars, and shoals, including repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, twenty-four thousand two hundred and ninety-nine dollars and eleven cents.
For the support and safe keeping of prisoners of war, five hundred thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses of ascertaining land titles in Louisiana, eight thousand dollars.
For the salaries, allowances, and contingent expenses, of ministers to foreign nations, and of secretaries of legation, one hundred and nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, fifty thousand dollars.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, ten thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, in foreign countries, fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses of agents at Paris and Copenhagen, in relation to prize causes and captures of American vessels, four thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United Specific appropriations.
For paying to Augustus McKinney and Layzal Bancroft the amount 1814, ch. 63.
For compensation to the board of commissioners appointed to carry into effect the act of the thirty-first of March, one thousand eight hundred 1814, ch. 39.
For stationery, office rent and other contingent expenses of the last mentioned board of commissioners, a sum not exceeding twelve hundred dollars.
For the discharge of the claim of Farrington Barkelow granted him 1815, ch. 88.
For the compensation of the commissioners of the navy board, ten thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the navy board, two thousand dollars.
Act of Aug. 4, 1790, ch. 34.
Act of April 26, 1822, ch. 40.
Lands granted to persons having lands in the county of New Madrid, which were injured by earthquakes, on the 10th Nov., 1812.
Manner in which lands shall be located.
A report of his proceedings shall be made to the land office by the recorder.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 31.
Act of April 11, 1818, ch. 43.
Act of Feb. 9, 1821, ch. 11.
Act of March 1, 1823, ch. 38.
Further time allowed to complete surveys, &c.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 31.
Secretary of Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives to give bond, &c.
To deposit in the banks of the District of Columbia the public moneys in their hands.
Courts in the Indiana territory.
An issue of treasury notes authorized.
By whom to be signed.
Their compensation for signing them.
Denominations of the notes.
How holders of the treasury notes bearing an interest, and not bearing an interest, may fund them.
Faith of the United States pledged for the payment of the certificates, principal and interest.
Treasury notes howsoever redeemed may be re-issued.
Treasury notes made everywhere receivable for public dues.
Interest to be included in officer’s receipts, up to the period of payment.
Notes received by public officers.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Notes not to be paid by the United States under their par value.
Money may be borrowed on treasury notes.
Holders of treasury notes received from the treasury, may convert them into funded stock.
Appropriation for defraying expenses.
Penalties for forging, counterfeiting, &c.
Direct tax laid upon the District of Columbia.
Act of Jan. 9, 1815, ch. 21.
Principal assessor, &c., to be appointed.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Duties of the assessors.
Act of Jan. 18, 1815, ch. 23.
Duty upon gold, silver, and plated ware.
Regulations concerning the tax.
Act of Jan. 18, 1815, ch. 23.
Repeal of certain acts concerning the flotilla service.
Act of July 5, 1813, ch. 6.
Act of April 16, 1814, ch. 59.
Vessels of the flotilla establishment to be sold or laid up.
Commissioned and warrant officers, and privates, entitled to receive four months’ additional pay when discharged.
Armed vessels on the Lakes to be sold or laid up, except what are necessary for the public service.
Repeal of an act of Nov. 15, 1814, ch. 3.
President authorized to sell certain vessels acquired under it.
President authorized to cause to be sold the gun-boats unnecessary for public service, and warrant officers and privates in consequence entitled to four months’ pay, &c.
Act of April 16, 1814, ch. 61.
Western boundary of the Illinois territory to include all islands in the Mississippi, between the middle and eastern margin.
Proviso of a former act repealed so far as it regards settlers on fractions of sections, &c.
Proviso.
Settlers on lands reserved for the use of schools, entitled to the preemption of the like quantity of other land, on the same terms and within the proper boundary-
Persons who failed to locate their claims, entitled to preemption upon other unappro-
priated lands within the boundary.
Act of April 16, 1814, ch. 61.
Persons entitled to pre-emption to be governed by certain rules.
Act of April 16, 1841, ch. 61.
Public notice to be given that purchase may be made, &c.
Persons failing to enter lands with the register, lose their right.
Locations of any claim by authorized commissioners confirmed.
Proviso.
Commission on confirmed claims, to the commissioner of Kaskaskia.
Ann Gilham may locate any unappropriated quarter section.
Repeal of acts of July 26, 1813, ch. 27, and of Jan. 27, 1815, ch. 25.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 65.
Postmaster General authorized to allow a commission adequate to the services, &c., of postmasters.
Proviso.
That the Postmaster General be, and [he] is hereby authorized to allow to the postmasters respectively, such commission on the moneys arising from the postage of letters, newspapers, and packets, as shall be adequate to their respective services and expenses.
Rates of commissions.
On a sum not exceeding four hundred and fifty dollars, seventeen per cent.
On a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars, thirteen per cent.
On any sum over three thousand six hundred dollars, five per cent.
Further allowances to postmasters.
He may also allow to such postmasters as receive and despatch foreign mails, a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars per quarter year, for that service; and he may augment the commission of those postmasters who receive the mail regularly between the hours of nine o’clock in the evening and five o’clock in the morning, from twenty to thirty-three and one third per cent, on one hundred and fifty dollars received in each quarter.
He may also allow to each postmaster one cent for each free letter delivered out of his office, and one cent for each free letter originally received by him and forwarded by mail.
He may also allow to each postmaster ten cents for every monthly register of the arrival and departure of the mail, returned to the general post-office. The Postmaster General may also allow to the postmasters, respectively, a commission of thirty-three and one third per cent, on the amount of postages which they shall collect on newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets; but no allowance for distribution, or for free letters, shall be made to any postmaster, who shall collect postages to the amount of five thousand dollars in one quarter.
Other acts granting compensation to postmasters, repealed.
Proviso.
Act of April 30, 1810, ch. 37.
Postmaster General authorized to employ any steamboat, &c., to carry the mail.
Proviso.
Masters of steamboats, &c. to duly deliver the mail to the post-office.
Compensation.
Penalty for neglect.
Persons employed on board steamboats, &c. to faithfully deliver letters to the master which may be entrusted to them.
Penalty for neglect.
Post-roads discontinued.
Post-roads established.
In New Hampshire.—From Concord to Fryeburgh, in Maine. From New Hampshire.
In Vermont.—From Chester South village, by Andover, Weston, Land Vermont.
In Maine.—From Kennebunk to Alfred. From Prospect, by Mount Maine.
In Massachusetts.—From Hosack, New York, by Pawnal, Vermont, Massachusetts.
In Connecticut.—That the post-road from Norwalk, by Reading, to Connecticut.
In New York.—From Hadley Landing, in Saratoga, to Luzern, in New York.
In New Jersey.—From Newark, by Orange Dale and Hanover, to New Jersey. Post-roads established.
Pennsylvania.
Ohio.
Maryland.
Virginia.
Kentucky.
North Carolina.
Tennessee.
South Carolina.
Miss. Territory.
Ill. Territory.
Appropriations authorized to defray the expenses of the
That for defraying the expenses of the military establishment of the United States, for the year one
military establishment, &c.
For the pay of the army of the United States, including the private Appropriations.
For forage to officers, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For subsistence of the army, seven hundred thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, fifty thousand dollars.
For clothing, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the quartermaster’s department, two hundred thousand dollars.
For purchasing horses for artillery, one hundred thousand dollars.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, including arsenals, magazines, and armories, nine hundred and thirty-eight thousand three hundred thirty-eight dollars.
For fortifications, four hundred thousand dollars.
For contingencies, two hundred thousand dollars.
For the Indian department, two hundred thousand dollars.
For advancing three months’ pay to the officers deranged and noncommissioned officers and privates discharged, one million two hundred thousand dollars.
Act of July 5, 1790, ch. 26.
Act of Jan. 22, 1811, ch. 7.
Act of Jan. 5, 1813, ch. 8.
Act of July 5, 1838, ch. 162, sec. 28, 29, 30.
Appropriations authorized for defraying the expense of the navy.
That for defraying the expenses of the navy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, the following sums be, and are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, one million five hundred thirty-eight thousand three hundred sixty-four dollars and fifty cents.
For provisions, six hundred and seventy-three thousand, nine hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty cents.
For medicine, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, forty thousand dollars.
For repairs of vessels, five hundred thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses, including freight, transportation and recruiting expenses, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Appropriations.
For navy yards, docks, and wharves, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and ninety thousand and twenty dollars.
For clothing for the same, sixty thousand three hundred and fifty-seven dollars.
For military stores for the same, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses for the same, eighteen thousand seven hundred and eight dollars.
For the purchase of the vessels captured by Commodore Macdonough on lake Champlain, such sum as shall be agreed upon, with the approbation of the President, not exceeding four hundred thousand dollars.
Act of Jan. 7, 1824, ch. 4. and notes to the act.
Act of Feb. 5, 1816, ch. 10.
Repeal of certain parts of acts imposing discriminating duties.
Foreign nations only, who reciprocate, can enjoy such advantage.
Military peace establishment fixed.
Act of April 12, 1808, ch. 43.
Act of March 30, 1814, ch. 37.
Act of April 24, 1816, ch. 69.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 35.
Organization.
Regiments.
Number and grade of officers.
Compensation of officers, &c.
Act of March 16, 1802, ch. 9.
Act of April 12, 1808, ch. 43.
Act of Jan. 11, 1812, ch. 14.
How the corps are to be arranged and completed.
Three months’ pay allowed to commissioned officers who shall be deranged.
Rules and regulations.
Act of March 16, 1802, ch. 9.
Act of April 12, 1808, ch. 43.
The President to cause a library room to be prepared, and the library of Thomas Jefferson to be placed in it.
Act of Jan. 30, 1815, ch. 27.
Appropriation of $200,000 annually for three years to purchase stock for ship building.
Repeal of all acts and parts of acts which prohibit the entrance of foreign vessels into the waters of the United States.
Act of July 6, 1812, ch. 129.
Repealed.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 57.
Repealed.
Penalties to be recovered as if acts had not been repealed.
Additional compensation allowed.
A loan authorized to defray expenses.
Proviso.
Certificates of stock to be constituted, &c.
Agents for obtaining subscriptions to be employed.
Their commission.
Appropriations for defraying expenses.
Pledge for the payment of the interest and principal.
Duty of the commissioners.
Revenues to be established for making good any deficiency.
Banks of the District of Columbia authorized to lend.
Treasury notes issued previous to this act, may be received.
Interest on treasury notes due, to be paid, &c.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 88.
Boundary line of the Creeks to be ascertained and surveyed.
Commissioners to be appointed.
Their compensation.
Surveyors, &c., to be employed.
Their allowance.
Three plats to be made out.
Public lands where the Indian title is extinct to be formed into a land district.
A land office to be established, &c.
Powers and compensation of the surveyor, same as other public lands in Mississippi territory.
Sale of the lands authorized, with certain exceptions.
Sales to remain open three weeks; their conditions, &c.
Unsold lands maybe disposed of at private sale.
Patents obtained in the usual manner.
Appointment of commissioners.
Appropriation for defraying expenses.
[Obsolete.]
The British vessels captured on Lake Champlain to be purchased, and the value distributed among the captors as prize money.
[Obsolete.]
Armed vessels authorized to be employed against the Algerines.
Vessels, &c. of the Algerines to be lawful prizes.
Private armed vessels may be commissioned to make reprisal, &c.
Proviso, that bond be given.
Captures by private armed vessels to be lawful prizes, &c.
[Repealed.]
Act of Jan. 9, 1815, ch. 21.
Act of Jan. 18, 1815, ch. 23.
First of April instead of the first of February fixed for notifying the collectors of the direct tax.
And May instead of February fixed for collection.
Act of Jan. 18, 1815, ch. 23.
The several acts required to be performed in February relative to duties on household furniture, are in every instance to be performed in May.
Duty of the principal assessor.
Collectors to publish once a week for eight weeks in succession instead of sixty days.
Terms.
[Obsolete.]
Act of Feb. 7, 1815, ch. 35.
Clerks to be appointed.
Appropriation.
[Expired.]
Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 110.
Collectors, &c. to search for goods to prevent fraud or unlawful importation.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 109.
And to stop and examine any vehicle or person on foot, &c., where they suspect unlawful trade, and make seizure.
Officers authorized to search dwelling houses in the day time, where goods are supposed to be concealed.
Proviso.
Collectors may employ such number of inspectors as they may deem necessary.
Their duties.
Oaths or affirmations.
Collectors authorized to command any person to aid and assist in searching, &c.
Penalty for refusing.
In cases of resistance, the posse of the district may be demanded.
Forfeitures and penalties how to be sued for, and prosecuted.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Prosecutions or suits, against officers, for their acts under this act, or colour of it, may be removed to circuit court in certain cases.
Removal of prosecutions from state courts to the circuit court of the United States.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Officers not to be liable to costs, upon judgments against them, in certain cases.
Proviso.
Duration of this act.
Proviso.
Act of April 9, 1814, ch. 49.
The President to appoint a marshal and district attorney.
Compensation.
Appropriation for certificates of registry of ships.
Act of March 31, 1814, ch. 39.
Commissioners authorized to decide upon the quantity of
land, contained in any deed, without further survey.
Act of Jan. 23, 1815, ch. 24.
Instruments executed by the parties or their attorneys shall be considered legal by the commissioners.
A further time allowed where releases, &c. are defectively drawn.
Commissioners authorized to finally settle all claims.
On reports of the commissioners certificates of stock to be issued.
Secretary to record releases, &c., and return them to the Secretary of State’s office.
Terms of recording.
On the dissolution of the board of commissioners, the President may grant additional compensation.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Act of April 29, 1816, ch. 154.
Illinois territory to be divided into three circuits.
Counties composing each circuit.
Allotment of circuits.
Two terms to be held annually in each county.
Where courts are to be holden.
Extent of jurisdiction.
Authority of the judges.
Circuit courts empowered to try felonies, &c.
Suits to be tried in counties where they originate.
Circuitjudges not attending, &c., courts to be adjourned.
Undetermined causes may stand continued until next term.
Temporary impediments after the courts are opened, not to prevent sittings to the end of the term.
Term to consist of six days.
Clerk to be appointed by the circuit court.
Duties.
Cases depending in the courts of common pleas to proceed in the usual legal manner.
The judges, or a majority of them, to constitute a court.
Court of appeals to appoint a clerk.
Cases depending in the general court to be decided in the usual manner.
Appeals may be prayed, &c., to the court of appeals.
Legislature empowered to alter the time specified in this act.
Territorial judges not to be associated with the United States’ judges.
Act of March 2, 1811, ch. 30, continued in force until March 4, 1817.
[Obsolete.]
Act of Dec. 23, 1817, ch. 1.
Collectors entitled to the commission now allowed by law until 1st July, 1815.
Additional allowance to certain collectors.
Collectors allowed five per cent, additional on property not owned, &c., by some resident.
President authorized to appoint and distribute additional compensation to certain collectors.
Commission to collectors in case of death, removal, &c.
Allowance to the successor.
Proviso.
Yearly statements to be drawn out, exhibiting the names of persons paid, during the preceding year, &c.
Collectors’ letters relative to official duties to be free of postage.
Offices to be kept open every day for the transaction of business except established holy-days.
Taxes received by deputy collectors, to be a lien upon their property,
&c., until paid to the collector.
Proviso.
Collectors suspecting concealment of goods, may search, &c.
Goods seized to remain in the custody of the collector until legal proceedings are had thereon.
Penalty for concealing goods, &c.
Seizures may be made in other districts.
Officers sued for their acts under this act, may plead the general issue, &c.
Penalties accruing under this act to be sued for, &c.
Goods to be delivered to claimants on appraisement.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Limitation.
Goods, &c., condemned under this act, for which bonds are not given, to be sold at auction, &c.
Proceeds of sales to be paid over.
Provisions of this act to apply to all acts relative to internal duties.
Collectors subjectto a penalty for bribery.
Penalty for persons offering a bribe.
Bonds for internal duties to bear an interest of six per cent.
Persons after receiving a license, who shall increase the capacity of their stills, to give notice to the collector who will authorize the same, on certain conditions.
Stills employed beyond the boundary line subject the owners to a penalty, &c.
Act of March 30, 1802, ch. 13.
Proviso.
Duty of the collectors to prosecute, &c.
Duties on sales at auction, &c., shall only apply to sales of merchandise.
State or county courts in or adjoining a collection district, authorized to take cognisance of suits for taxes, &c.
And to have jurisdiction over any sum in controversy, &c.
Proviso.
Act of Sep. 24, 1789, ch.20, sec. 26, vol. i. p. 83.
State or county courts and principal judge authorized to exercise their full powers for obtaining mitigation of any fines, as might be exercised by the United States’ judges in similar cases.
Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 13.
District court of the United States to have cognisance, in conjunction with the state courts, and circuit courts of the United States.
Thanks of Congress to Captain Macdonough, his officers, &c.
Medals to be presented.
A silver medal to the representatives of Lieutenants Gamble and Stansbury.
A gold medal to Captain Warrington, &c.
Purchase of the library of Mr. Jefferson.
Captain Blakely and others.
Major General Brown.
Major General Scott.
Brigadier Generals Ripley, Miller and Porter.
Major General Gaines.
Major General Macomb.
A day of fasting and prayer requested.
People of Louisiana and New Orleans.
Commodore D. T. Patterson.
Major Daniel Carmick.
Major General Jackson.
A gold medal to be struck and presented to Major General Jackson.
Stationery and printing for Congress.
Distribution of the laws of the United States.
ACTS OF THE FOURTEENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
President authorized to lease a house on Capitol hill, for the use of Congress.
Proviso
A sum to be paid for fixtures, &c.
Appropriation of $5000.
That for defraying the expenses of the military establishment, and those incurred by calling out the militia, during the late war with Great Britain, in addition to the
For the quarter master’s department, nine hundred and fifty thousand Specific appropriations.
For the pay of the army and militia, five million six hundred and seventeen thousand dollars.
For the subsistence of the army and militia, two millions three hundred and ten thousand three hundred and seventy-two dollars.
For forage, sixty thousand dollars.
For clothing, one hundred and eight thousand dollars.
For bounties and premiums, four hundred thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, one hundred thousand dollars.
For fortifications, two hundred thousand dollars.
For the ordnance department, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Further time allowed to principal assessors for ascertaining transfers and changes of property.
Further time also allowed for notifying collectors to proceed to the collection, &c.
Change of times to be applicable to furniture tax, &c.
Repeal of postage imposed by the act of Dec. 23, 1814, ch. 16, sect. 2.
[Obsolete.]
Duties on stamps of bank notes, and on refined sugars, continued.
Act of 1813, ch. 53.
Act of 1814, ch. 11.
Act of 1813, ch. 21.
[Expired.]
Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 107.
Additional duties imposed by a former act upon merchandise, goods, &c. to be continued until June.
Act of July 1, 1812, ch. 112.
Additional duty of forty-two per cent. after June 30, 1816.
This act not to be so construed, as to affect or contravene any commercial treaty or stipulation with a foreign state.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 76.
Act of 1813, ch. 35, continued.
No effect on the proceedings of the court of the northern district of New York shall take place by the terms of the court not having been held at Utica and Canandaigua.
Repeal of laws laying certain duties.
Acts repealed Jan. 18, 1815, ch. 22.
Feb. 27, 1815, ch. 61.
The duties payable under the acts which are repealed to be collected.
Captain Biddle and the officers and crew of the Hornet rewarded for the destruction of the Penguin.
Act imposing higher duties on articles imported in British vessels no longer in force.
1815, ch. 60.
The act of Jan. 9, 1815, ch. 21, which imposed a direct tax of six millions of dollars, repealed.
A direct tax of three millions of dollars imposed.
Act of August 2, 1813, ch. 37.
Re-enacted in a reduced form.
Act of Jan. 9, 1815, ch. 21.
Direct tax on the district of Columbia.
Act of Feb. 27, 1815, ch. 60.
A direct tax of $9,999, &c. on the District of Columbia.
1815, ch. 60.
Secretary of the Treasury may give directions for suspending the execution of this law in those states which assume the payment of their quotas of direct tax.
Purchasers of public lands in Ohio and Louisiana made eventually liable for their proportions of taxes assumed by these states.
Act of Jan. 9, 1815, ch. 21.
Donations to citizens of the United States inhabitants of Canada at the commencement of hostilities who suffered by taking a part on the side of the United States in the war.
Act of April 26, 1816, ch. 76.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 106.
Land warrants to be issued bt the Secretary of War.
Three months’ additional pay to be made to them by the Treasury of the United States.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations.
Appropriation for ordnance and ordnance stores.
Repealed by act of Feb. 6, 1817, ch. 9. See act of Jan. 22, 1818, ch. 5.
Compensation to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives. Three thousand dollars to the Vice-President of the Senate and to the speaker of the House of Representatives. Fifteen hundred dollars to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Act relating to the Circuit and District Courts of Vermont.—An act to give effect to the laws of the United States within the state of Vermont. March 2, 1791, ch. 12, sec. 2, 3, 4.
An act to alter the times and places of holding the Circuit Courts for the Eastern District, and in North Carolina, and for other purposes. March 2, 1793, ch. 23, sec. 1.
An act altering the sessions of the Circuit Courts in the district of Vermont and Rhode Island, and for other purposes. May 27, 1796, ch. 34, sec. 3, 1797, ch. 27, sec. 1.
An act concerning the Circuit Courts of the United States. March 3, 1797, ch. 27, sect. 1.
An act to amend the judicial system of the United States. April 29, 1802, ch. 31, sec. 4.
An act to alter the times of holding the Circuit and District Courts of the United States for the state of Vermont. March 22, 1816, ch. 31.
An act to alter the times of holding the District Court of the United States for the district of Vermont. March 3, 1823, ch. 44.
Time altered for holding the Courts in the District of Vermont. Circuit Courts in Vermont, vol. i. pp. 74, 217, 475, 517.
Proceedings in said court not to be affected by this change.
Process made returnable in same way as it would have been without the change.
Terms to commence next day if they should happen on a Sunday.
Act relating to naturalization, March 25, 1790, ch. 3.
January 29, 1795, vo. 1. 414.
Evidence to be exhibited by aliens to become citizens of the United States.
Act of April 14, 1802, ch. 28.
Admissions without a recital of the proceeding, of no validity.
Rights of persons heretofore settled in the United States between the 18th June, 1798, and 14th April, 1802.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 47.
Residence of the applicant to be naturalized.
Certificate of naturalization.
[Obsolete.]
Secretary of State to subscribe for a certain number of copies of Wait & Son’s state papers, object and price.
For the continuation of the volumes as they come out.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 111.
[Expired.]
Persons occupying lands ceded to the United States allowed, on application to a register, recorder, or marshal, to remain thereon, &c.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 105.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 90.
Applicant for permits of settlement to give description of the land.
Permits to be given.
Quantity not exceeding 320 acres for each applicant, &c.
The applicant to give quiet possession when required, &c.
Proviso: the applicant previously to sign a declaration that he lays no claim, &c.
Proviso; as to lead mines and salt springs.
Applications and permission to be entered on books, &c.
Fees, &c.
Limitation of this act to the 25th March, 1817.
No appeal unless the matter in dispute is of the value of $1,000, &c.
Appeals may be allowed in particular and important cases where the matter in dispute is $100 in value on petition to a judge of the Supreme Court, &c.
When appeals on petition, &c. have been directed, and the order of the judge has been filed, &c. the writ of error is to operate as a supersedeas.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 110.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 67.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 119.
Horses killed in battle, or dying from wounds, or from failure of forage, &c. to be paid for.
Horses lost by the owner being dismounted, or detached, &c. by order, &c. or by the rider’s being killed, &c. to be paid for.
Horses, mules, oxen, wagons, carts, boats, sleighs, or harness, lost in military service, except, &c. to be paid for.
Persons who furnished themselves with arms, &c. and have sustained damage by their capture, &c. to be paid the value of them.
Property impressed, &c., and destroyed, lost or consumed, to be paid for, deducting, &c.
No compensation where the owner, &c., has received satisfaction, &c.
Persons claiming compensation to release all claims against the person who impressed, &c.
Where the owner of the property has recovered from individuals, the latter to be entitled to the compensation.
At the rate of 40 cents per day for each horse furnished themselves by officers of volunteer cavalry, &c.
40 cents per day for each horse on which officers or privates in the cavalry service, &c. may have been re-mounted by the United States after the loss of their own, &c.
Houses occupied as military deposites, &c., and destroyed by the enemy in consequence of such occupation to be paid for.
The loss, destruction and value of property, to be ascertained by the best evidence, &c.
The President, &c. to appoint a commissioner.
His duty.
2,000 dollars compensation to the commissioner, &c.
Official communications free of postage.
Commissioner to take an oath.
Form of the oath.
The commissioner to appoint a clerk, and establish rules, &c.
Rules, &c. to be published in the newspapers.
Where the claim exceeds 200 dollars a commission is to be awarded, &c. for examination of witnesses.
Adjudications of the commissioner to be entered in a book by the clerk.
Payments to be made upon certified copies of judgments, &c.
Claims barred unless presented within two years.
So much of the act of Jan. 18, 1815, as lays duties on household furniture, and on watches, &c. repealed.
Act of Jan. 18, 1815, ch. 23.
[Repealed.]
That, from and after the first 1810, ch. 37.
For every letter composed of a single sheet of paper, conveyed not Rates of postage after the 1st May, 1816. Proviso.
No postmaster shall be obliged to receive, to be conveyed by the mail, Weight of packets restricted: evidence of lawful postage, &c.
Every four folio pages, or eight quarto pages, Pamphlets, magazines, &c. Memorandums written on newspapers, &c. to be charged letter postage, &c.
That the Postmaster General be, The Postmaster General to allow commissions to postmasters, &c.
On a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, thirty per cent.
On any sum over and above the first hundred dollars, and not exceeding four hundred dollars, twenty-five per cent.
On any sum over and above the first four hundred dollars, and not exceeding two thousand four hundred dollars, twenty per cent.
On any sum over and above the first two thousand four hundred dollars, eight per cent.
Except to the postmasters who may be employed in receiving and despatching foreign mails, whose compensation may be augmented not exceeding twenty-five dollars in one quarter; and excepting to the postmasters at offices where the mail is regularly to arrive between the hours of nine o’clock at night and five o’clock in the morning, whose commission, on the first hundred dollars collected in one quarter, may be increased to a sum not exceeding fifty per cent.
The Postmaster General may allow to the postmasters, respectively, a commission of fifty per cent. on the moneys arising from the postage of newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets; and to the postmaster whose compensation shall not exceed five hundred dollars in one quarter, two cents for every free letter delivered out of the office, excepting such as are for the postmaster himself; and each postmaster who shall be required to keep a register of the arrival and departure of the mails, shall be allowed ten cents for each monthly return which he makes thereof to the general post-office.
The Postmaster General may allow to the postmaster at New Orleans, at the rate of eight hundred dollars, and to the postmaster at Warrenton, in North Carolina, at the rate of two hundred dollars, and to the postmaster at Wheeling, in Virginia, at the rate of two hundred dollars a year, in addition to their ordinary commissions. The Postmaster General is hereby authorized to allow to the postmaster at the city of Washington, in addition to the allowance made by this act for postage collected, and for free letters received by him for delivery, a commission of five per centum on the amount of mails distributed at his office: Act of April 30, 1810, ch. 37, sec. 40.
Members of Congress, &c., may frank letters, &c. for thirty days before and after a session, &c.
Proviso : as to weight of letters, &c.
Certain sections of former acts repealed.
Act of April 30, 1810, ch. 37.
Act of February 27, 1815, ch. 65.
This act in force from 31st March, 1816.
[Expired.]
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 73.
A bank of the United States, with a capital of 35,000,000 dollars, &c.
Places, &c. for receiving subscriptions.
Places, &c. for receiving subscriptions, &c.
Regulations concerning subscriptions and payments on them, &c.
April 10, 1806, ch. 22.
Regulations concerning subscriptions and payments on them, &c.
Reasonable compensation to the commissioners.
The United States may redeem the funded debt, &c. and the bank may sell for gold and silver, &c.
The Secretary of the Treasury to subscribe on behalf of the United States, &c.
The subscribers to the bank incorporated, &c.
Twenty-five directors; five to be appointed by the President, &c.
Regulations concerning the direction of the bank,&c.
Manner and time of the banks going into operation, &c.
The directors empowered to appoint officers, clerks, servants, &c.
Fundamental articles, &c.
A part of the directors appointed by the stockholders and president, alone eligible a second year, successively. President always eligible.
Stockholders, citizens, may be only appointed directors. Directors to have no compensation, other than the president.
Seven directors, including the president, may constitute a board.
How his place is supplied in case of absence or sickness.
General meetings of the stockholders—how to be called.
Cashier to give bonds and security.
Limitation concerning, and a description of the real estate which may be held by the corporation.
The total amount of debts which the said corporation shall Maximum of debts which the corporation may at one time contract. Remedy against the directors under whose administration an excess of debt shall be created.
Such of the said directors, who may have been absent when the said Directors absent or dissenting exempted.
In what the corporation may transact business and trade.
Loans exceeding certain sums not to be made the U. S. or particular states, or foreign states, but by acts of Congress.
Rules to be prescribed for making the stock assignable.
The bills, obligatory and of credit, under the seal of the corporation; how assignable.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Half yearly dividends to be made.
A statement of the affairs of the company to be laid before the stockholders.
Delinquent subscribers to lose the benefit of dividends.
Offices to be established in the District of Columbia and the several states when authorized and required by law.
Proviso.
Secretary of the Treasury authorized to call upon the bank for a statement, not exceeding a weekly one, of its concerns.
Proviso.
No stockholder but a citizen of the United States may vote in choice of directors.
No smaller notes than five dollars to be issued.
Penalties for dealing in a way or in articles interdicted.
Penalties for making unlawful loans to the United States or particular states or to foreign governments.
Notes of the bank, unless specially prohibited by law, receivable in payments of all dues to United States.
The bank to give the necessary facilities without any charge, for transferring the funds of the United States to different quarters.
Deposits of the public moneys to be made in the bank or its branches, or the reasons to be laid before Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury for its not being done.
Corporation prohibited from suspending payments in specie, by being made chargeable with the payment of interest at the rate of 12 per centum per annum.
Proviso.
Penalties for forging, counterfeiting, &c.
Proviso.
For engraving after the similitude of the plates used for the bank, any plates, &c.
Punishment.
Bonus to be paid to the United States for this charter.
Congress to establish no other bank except in the District of Columbia.
Authority to use the name of the corporation, &c., for two years after the charter shall expire.
Limitation of time prescribed for the bank’s going into operation.
Committees of either house of Congress may inspect the books, &c. of the bank.
For what purpose.
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 expenses of intercourse with foreign nations; for the support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers; for surveying the coast of the United States; for making the Cumberland Road; for ascertaining the titles to lands in Louisiana; for providing certificates of registry and lists of crews; 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. Senate and House of Representatives.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, forty-seven thousand dollars.
For the expenses of the library of Congress, including the librarian’s Library of Congress.
For compensation to the President of the United States, twenty-five President of the United States.
For rent and repairs of the tenement occupied by the President of the United States since August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the Department of State, Compensation to officers of the departments.
For compensation to the messenger in said department and in the patent office, six hundred and sixty dollars.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, including the expense of printing and distributing ten thousand four hundred copies of the laws of the first session of the fourteenth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, sixteen thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, ten thousand four hundred and thirty-three dollars and twenty-eight cents.
For compensation to the messenger and assistant messenger in the 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 one hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses of issuing treasury notes, a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars.
For stating and printing the public accounts, for the years one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, two thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the comptroller of the treasury, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, thirteen thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars and five cents.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For compensation to additional clerks to be employed in the office of the comptroller of the treasury, two thousand two hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and contingent expenses in the comptroller’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the auditor’s office, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, ten thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars and sixty-five cents, and the further sum of two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For compensation to additional clerks to be employed in the office of the auditor, four thousand dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and contingent expenses in the auditor’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the treasurer’s office, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, four thousand two hundred and forty dollars and four cents.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For compensation to additional clerks to be employed in the treasurer’s office, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For expenses of stationery, printing, and contingent expenses in the treasurer’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, ten thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office four hundred and ten dollars.
For stationery, printing, and contingent expenses in the General Land Office, including vellum for land patents, three thousand seven hundred dollars.
For arrears of compensation due to the chief clerk in the office of the said commissioner, three hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents.
For compensation to the Commissioner of the Revenue, three thousand Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Commissioner of the Revenue, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, nine thousand dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For stationery, printing, and contingent expenses, including the paper, printing and stamping of licenses, in the office of said commissioner, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, two thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the register of the treasury, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, sixteen thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For compensation to additional clerks to be employed in the office of the register of the treasury, eight hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, including books for the public stocks, printing the public accounts, and other contingent expenses of the register’s office, two thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.
For fuel and other contingent expenses of the treasury department, including rent of the buildings now occupied by the department, expense of removing the records during the late war, transporting the same to the building preparing for them, cost of furniture for the offices, cases for the fire proof, and compensation to a superintendent and two watchmen employed for the security of the treasury buildings, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the purchase of books, maps, and charts for the treasury department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the secretary to the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For cost of vellum for patents for military bounty lands, printing them, and record books and wheels for military bounty lottery, in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, seventeen thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation to two clerks to be employed in the said office, to write and record the patents, seventeen hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Secretary of War, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, fifteen thousand two hundred and thirty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger and his assistants in said office, seven hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of War, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the accountant of the war department, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, fourteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For compensation for additional clerks to be employed in the office Specific appropriations.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in said office, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the paymaster of the army, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the paymaster’s office, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, thirteen thousand three hundred dollars.
For additional compensation of fifteen per cent. to the clerks employed in said office, on the sum hereinbefore appropriated, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses of the office of the paymaster, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the superintendent general of military supplies, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the superintendent general of military supplies, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, seven thousand dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expenses of fuel, stationery, printing and other contingent expenses in the office of the superintendent general of military supplies, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the commissary general of purchases, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the said commissary, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses in the said office of commissary general of purchases, nine hundred and thirty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the adjutant and inspector general’s office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, seven thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing and other contingent expenses in said office, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the navy, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the accountant of the navy, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, twelve thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For compensation to additional clerks to be employed in the office of said accountant, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of the office of said accountant, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation of the commissioners of the navy board, ten thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the navy board, two thousand Specific appropriations.
For compensation of the clerks employed in the office of the navy board, including the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for the service of the preceding year, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation of the messenger, including the sum of three hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents for the service of the preceding year, seven hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents.
For the contingent expenses of the navy board, including the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars for the service of the preceding year, four thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster General, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the assistant postmaster general one thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the second assistant postmaster general, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the General Post-office, being the amount appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, fifteen thousand one hundred dollars.
For compensation to additional clerks, four thousand two hundred and five dollars.
For deficiency in appropriation for clerk hire for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, nine hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For compensation to the messenger and assistant messenger, six hundred and sixty dollars.
For contingent expenses of the General Post-office, three thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the several commissioners of loans, and for allowance to certain commissioners of loans in lieu of clerk hire, fourteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of sundry commissioners of loans, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan officers, thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor general and his clerks, four thousand one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of lands south of Tennessee, and his clerks, and for the contingent expenses of his office, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the officers and clerks of the mint, nine thousand six hundred dollars.
For wages to persons employed in the different operations of the mint, including the sum of six hundred dollars allowed to an assistant engraver, five thousand dollars.
For repairs of furnaces, cost of iron and machinery, rents and other contingent expenses of the mint, two thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.
For allowance for wastage in the gold and silver coinage, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of copper to coin into cents, fifteen thousand dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Indiana territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For 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 Mississippi territory, nine thousand dollars.
For 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, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, Specific appropriations.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Michigan territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of Illinois territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For defraying the expenses incurred by printing the laws of said territory, one thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars and twenty-five cents.
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 compensation granted by law to the chief justice, the associate judges and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice and associate judges of the District of Columbia, sixty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, three thousand dollars.
For the compensation of sundry district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, seven thousand eight 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, penalties and forfeitures, 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, eight hundred and sixty dollars.
For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For making the road from Cumberland, in the state of Maryland, to the state of Ohio, three hundred thousand dollars, to be repaid out of the fund reserved for laying out and making roads to the state of Ohio, by virtue of the seventh section of an act, passed on the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, entitled “An act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory north-west of the river 1802, ch. 40.
For the maintenance and support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, stakeages of channels, bars and shoals, including the purchase and transportation of oil, keepers’ salaries, repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, ninety-seven thousand four hundred and sixty-four dollars.
To replace the amount heretofore appropriated for defraying the expense of surveying the coasts of the United States, which was carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars and fifty-seven cents.
For defraying the expense of ascertaining and adjusting land titles in Louisiana, five thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of surveying the public lands within the several territories of the United States, including the expense of surveys Specific appropriations.
For defraying the expense of printing certificates of registry and other documents for vessels, five thousand seven hundred and fifty 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.
For the salaries, allowances and contingent expenses of ministers to foreign nations, and of secretaries of legation, one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, fifty thousand dollars.
For the expenses necessary during the present year for carrying into effect the fourth, sixth and seventh articles of the treaty of peace concluded with his Britannic Majesty at Ghent, on the twenty-fourth December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, including the compensation of the commissioners appointed under those articles, twenty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-two dollars.
For the salaries of the agents of claims on account of captures at London, Paris, and Copenhagen, at two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars.
For replacing the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, heretofore appropriated and carried to the surplus fund in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, for objects in relation to the intercourse with the Barbary states, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For making good a deficiency in the appropriation of last year for the intercourse with foreign nations, arising from the difference in the exchange in transmitting the money to Europe, and in the drafts of ministers and agents there upon bankers, and to meet similar expenses the present year, fifty thousand dollars.
To replace the sum of two thousand dollars, being part of an appropriation of five thousand dollars, appropriated by an act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, to discharge claims on account of depredations committed by the Osage Indians, and since carried to the surplus fund, two thousand dollars.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, forty-seven thousand dollars.
For the relief of distressed American seamen for the present year, and to make good a deficiency in the preceding year, fifty thousand dollars.
Act of Aug. 4, 1790, ch. 39.
[Obsolete.]
Certain accounts against library to be adjusted and settled.
Librarian’s salary fixed.
Repealed by act April 18, 1818, ch. 69.
Attorney general to have the use of the books in the library.
The company incorporated by the act of April 20, 1810, ch. 26, may extend the road.
Tolls.
1810, ch. 27.
Certain military land warrants to be issued by the Secretary of War.
Act of March 9, 1818, ch. 15.
Act of Feb. 24, 1819, ch. 41.
Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 15.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 38.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 111.
At the expiration of the term limited by this act, the surveyor general to be furnished by commissioner of general land office with a list of lots there unlocated.
Unlocated lots to be sold.
[Obsolete.]
Claims to lands in the district of Vincennes, confirmed by act of March 3, 1807, ch. 47.
Act of Feb. 13, 1813, ch. 23.
Act of April 16, 1816, ch. 52.
Act of March 13, 1818, ch. 18.
[Obsolete.]
Alteration authorized of a road laid out by act of Dec. 12, 1811, ch. 8, in the state of Ohio.
Expenses to be paid.
[Obsolete.]
See act of March 3, 1817, ch. 107.
Representatives of officers and soldiers of militia, &c., provided for.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 40.
Guardians of children of deceased officers may take the half pay for five years in lieu of their land.
See act of March 3, 1819, ch. 94.
Bounty in land to be given to soldiers, &c.
Land appropriated for satisfying this act. 1812, ch. 77.
Transfer of the land not valid until patents shall be issued.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 24, sect. 9, 10.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 48.
Proceeds of the sales of prize vessels—how to be paid over and disposed of.
Marshals and clerks duly prescribed with respect to prize accounts.
District attorney’s duty also prescribed.
Clerks may be compelled to fulfil the directions prescribed.
Extra allowance to accountant of navy department.
Marshals to make payments for proceeds of prize vessels into the registry of the court.
Commissioners of navy pension fund may increase the allowance to invalids.
Inhabitants authorized to form a government with such name as they please—to be admitted into the union.
Limits.
Proviso.
Qualifications of electors of members of the convention.
Apportionment among the counties of the members.
Time and place of the meeting of the convention.
Proviso.
Vol. i. 51.
Representative until another census.
Propositions on the part of the United States, offered to the convention of the territory. If accepted, to be obligatory upon the United States.
Grant of land for schools.
Salt springs.
Five percent of the proceeds of the public lands reserved for roads and canals.
Act of April 11, 1818, ch. 49.
An additional township for a seminary of learning.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 83.
Four sections for the seat of government.
Proviso.
Proviso.
[Repealed.]
Act of Dec. 23, 1817, ch. 1.
Act of Dec. 21, 1814, ch. 15, cease after June 30, 1816.
Exceptions.
Repeal of a former act.
Proviso as to spirits distilled.
Licenses to be obtained for using stills, &c.
Owners of stills or superintendents to obtain licenses.
Act of July 22, 1813, ch. 16.
These duties are to be paid or secured.
Penalties and forfeitures.
Penalties and forfeitures.
Penalties for keeping prepared materials for distillation in cases in which licenses have not been granted.
That the licenses aforesaid shall and Periods for which licenses may be granted.
For a still or stills employed in distilling spirits from domestic materials, for a license for the employment thereof, for and during the term of one week, four and a half cents for each gallon of the capacity of every such still, including the head thereof; for a license for and during the term of two weeks, nine cents for each gallon of its capacity as aforesaid; for a license for and during the term of one month, eighteen cents for each gallon of its capacity as aforesaid; for a license for and during the term of two months, thirty-six cents for each gallon of its capacity as aforesaid; for a license for and during the term of three months, fifty-four cents for each gallon of its capacity as aforesaid; for a license for and during the term of four months, seventy-two cents for each gallon of its capacity as aforesaid; for a license for five months, ninety cents for each gallon of its capacity as aforesaid; for a license for and during the term of six months, one hundred and eight cents for each gallon of its capacity as aforesaid; for a license for one year, two hundred and sixteen cents for each gallon of its capacity as aforesaid:
For a still or stills employed in distilling spirits from foreign materials, for a license for the employment thereof for and during the term of one month, twenty-three cents for each gallon of the capacity of every such still, including the head thereof; for a license for and during the term of two months, forty-six cents for each gallon of its capacity as aforesaid; for a license for and during the term of three months, sixty-eight cents for each gallon of its capacity as aforesaid; for a license for and during the term of four months, ninety cents for each gallon of its capacity as aforesaid; for a license for and during the term of six months, one hundred and thirty-five cents for each gallon of its capacity as aforesaid; for
And for every boiler, however constructed, employed for the purpose of generating steam in those distilleries where wooden or other vessels are used instead of metal stills, and the action of steam is substituted for the immediate application of fire to the materials from which the spirituous liquors are distilled, for a license for the employment thereof, double the amount on each gallon of the capacity of the said boiler, including the head thereof, which would be payable for the said license, if granted for the same term, and for the employment on the same materials of a still or stills to the contents of which, being the materials from whence the spirituous liquors are drawn, an immediate application of fire, during the process of distillation, is made.
Licenses for distilling to be marked with a mark denoting the rate of duty.
Particulars to be stated in applications for licenses.
Collectors may enter distilleries, &c., to inspect, &c.
Additional duties to be paid in certain cases.
Licenses for distilling from domestic, extended to foreign materials.
Discount allowed for paying the duty upon obtaining license.
Distillers authorized to sell in quantities not less than a gallon, without license.
Provisions of a former act adopted by this.
Act of Aug. 3, 1813, ch. 56.
Duty of the collectors to make collections, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 31, 1814, ch. 39.
Further time allowed to claimants.
1814, ch. 39.
1815, ch. 24, 96.
Commissioners authorized to send to the counsel employed by them original papers and documents.
Additional compensation to commissioners and their secretary.
Officers of the militia after May 1, 1816.
Act of May 8, 1792, ch. 33.
[Obsolete.]
Fifty thousand dollars to be distributed as prize money.
Fifty thousand dollars to be distributed as prize money.
How the distribution is to be made.
Shares not called for to go into the navy pension fund.
Proviso.
Prize agent to be appointed under this act.
The President authorized to lease the United States’ saline.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 64.
Acts of March 3, 1819, ch. 81, 91, 94.
Rates of pensions apportioned by disabilities.
Persons provided for by the first section to be put on the pension bill according to the rates therein prescribed.
Laws and regulations relating to the regular army to extend to the militia.
Secretary of War may appoint persons in lieu of the commissioners of loans, where there are no commissioners.
Repealed by act of April 14, 1818, ch. 61.
See act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Act of March 3, 1813, ch. 52.
Provisions of a former act reenacted—some supplemental provisions established.
Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 13.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Act of May 8, 1820, ch. 75.
Medical staff.
Judge advocates and chaplain.
Pay department.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Duty of the regimental and battalion paymasters in making returns, &c.
Purchasing department.
Proviso.
All officers of the pay, commissary, and quartermaster’s departments to give bonds and security, and to be subject to the rules and articles of war.
Proviso.
President may prescribe the quantity and kind of clothing.
Proviso.
Proviso.
At what rate soldiers discharged are to be paid for deficient articles of clothing.
Pay and emoluments of the several officers of the staff.
1813, ch. 52.
Certain officers of the staff, provisionally retained in service, to be continued permanently under this act.
Ordnance department to be continued as at present organized.
Act of Feb. 8, 1815, ch. 38.
Rate of forage when not received in kind.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Entry of vessels at Middletown and Plymouth.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations.
That for defraying the expenses of the navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, the following sums be, and they are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, one million, one hundred and forty-two thousand and fifteen dollars.
For provisions, three hundred and fifty-six thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars.
For medicine, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, including those of the marine corps, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For repairs of vessels, three hundred thousand dollars.
For ordnance, ammunition and military stores, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.
For navy yards, docks, and wharves, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses, including freight, transportation and recruiting expenses, three hundred thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and forty-one thousand one hundred and seventy-two dollars.
For clothing for the same, thirty-four thousand one hundred and sixty-six Specific appropriations.
For military stores for the same, one thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars.
For contingent expenses for the same, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Circuit courts in Georgia, vol. i. 74, 184, 252.
Circuit courts in South Carolina, vol. i. 74, 184.
Further time allowed to certain purchasers of land.
Proviso.
Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 25.
Further allowance of pay.
Assent of Congress to a law of Virginia relative to the navigation of James River.
Reward for capturing the sloop of war Levant.
Bayou St. John a port of entry.
Act of Feb. 24, 1804, ch. 13.
[Obsolete.]
Valuations and assessments formerly made to remain unchanged, with same qualification.
Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 24.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 103.
Act of Jan. 9, 1815, ch. 21.
Times to which the changes that are made have reference.
Proviso.
Duty of the principal assessors to attend at certain places in person or by deputy, to perform certain duties, &c.
General lists of taxable property, with a view to their noting changes and transfers, to be revised by principal assessors.
Proviso.
Principal assessors to attend at certain places in their district to receive appeals, &c.
That the changes aforesaid shall be made in the following manner, and according to the following principles, in addition to those hereinbefore stated, that is to say:
In all cases that relate to real estate, and to the transfer of slaves, other Principles in regard to changes in the property of real estate and slaves. 1815, ch. 21.
In all other cases relative to slaves the valuation shall be made according to their existing value.
In cases in which real property shall have been once sold for taxes, and purchased on behalf of the United States, such property shall, notwithstanding, continue to be entered on the general lists, and the tax lists, in the name of the original proprietor, until the period allowed for Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 88.
Any person becoming the owner of a slave by transfer to him from a district other than that in which he resides, shall at the time and place prescribed by the third section of this act, furnish the principal assessor with a statement, specifying the sex and age of such slave, who shall be valued according to his or her existing value; and any such person who shall neglect so to furnish a statement shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding ten dollars: one half thereof for the use of the United States and the other half for the use of the informer. And where a transfer of a slave shall be made by a person residing within one district to a person residing in another, which shall become known to the principal assessor of the former district, he shall forthwith advise, through the mail, the principal assessor of the latter district thereof, who shall, in case the statement aforesaid shall not have been rendered as aforesaid, institute a prosecution against the person to whom the transfer has been made for the said penalty.
In all cases the individual statements of changes shall be made out in such a manner as may be directed by the principal assessor, and shall, in their form, be as similar as practicable to the lists taken at the preceding assessment.
Principal assessors may examine records, for the correct execution of their duties.
Enumerations and valuations subject to revisions and alterations by principal assessors.
1815, ch. 21.
Part of former act repealed.
1815, ch. 21, sec. 32.
Certain measures prescribed by this act may be executed after the time particularly limited for their execution.
Limitation of the duties.
Penalties upon principal assessors for not performing duties required by this act.
Letters to and from principal assessors on official subjects exempt from postage. Penalties imposed for infringing this provision.
Compensations of principal assessors.
President in his discretion may augment them.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Commencement of the collection of direct tax.
Lands made liable for tax upon slaves.
In no instance are slaves to be bought on account of the United States.
Secretary of Treasury may assign to commissioner of the revenue the superintendence of assessors’ valuations, &c.
Provisions of this act extended to the District of Columbia.
Proviso—the board of principal assessors for the state of Delaware to convene in general meeting to equalize and apportion the direct tax upon that state.
1815, ch. 21.
1816, ch. 24.
[Obsolete.]
Increase of inspectors’ compensation.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 23.
[Obsolete.]
Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.
Payments to be made for the destruction of the courthouse.
Further time allowed to certain settlers on the public lands of the United States for making good their pre-emption right.
Act of April 16, 1814, ch.61.
Act of Feb. 27, 1815, ch. 63.
Register and receiver of public lands authorized to select other lands than those settled upon and reserved for the use of schools, &c., for satisfying the preemption.
Proviso.
Provisions of second section of act of 1815, ch. 63, to extend to settlers on a fractional section within the Kaskaskia district.
Claims reported by Michael Jones, register, and S. Bond, receiver, confirmed.
Proviso.
Further time allowed to claimants to register their claims.
1814, ch. 61.
Further time allowed for making entries with the register of land office.
1814, ch. 61.
Persons whose claims are perfected to receive certificates to that effect.
Fee of office to the register.
Part of a tract to be laid off into town and out-lots.
Proviso.
Surveyor general to lay off the tract of land directed to be sold by this act.
1805, ch. 43.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Lands to be sold with certain reservations, at public sale.
Act of Feb. 20, 1804, ch. 12.
Act of Feb. 20, 1819, ch. 27.
Act of April 30, 1816, ch. 172.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 51.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. l03.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 98.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 75.
Act of April 18, 1820, ch. 44.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 126.
Time fixed for the abolition of the present duties upon goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States.
Substitution of other ad valorem and specific duties.
Ad valorem and specific duties.
Ad valorem and specific duties.
The revenue or tariff act of 1816, ch. 107, lays a duty on “loaf sugar,” of twelve cents a pound. Held that the words “loaf sugar,” must be understood according to their general meaning in trade and commerce, and buying and selling; and if upon evidence it appeared that loaf sugar meant sugar in leaves, then crushed loaf sugar was not loaf sugar within the act. The United States v. Ebenezer Breed and others, 1 Sumner’s C. C. R. 159.
To constitute an evasion of a revenue act, which shall be deemed, in point of law, a fraudulent evasion, it is not sufficient that the party introduces another article perfectly lawful, which defeats the policy contemplated by the act, or which supersedes or diminishes the use of the article taxed by the act. There must be substantially an introduction of the very thing taxed, under a false denomination or cover, with the intent to evade or defraud the act. Ibid. 166.
Specific duties.
Articles exempt from duties.
Regulations as to drawback.
Time allowed for giving exportation bonds.
Duties on tonnage, &c. to remain as they are.
Proviso.
Provisions of existing laws adopted with respect to this.
Parts of former laws also to apply.
Discriminating duties.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 76.
1815, ch. 93.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 99.
Act of Dec. 23, 1817, ch. 1.
Compensation to collectors.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Provisions of a former act continued in force.
1815, ch. 99.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 93.
Repairs of certain roads.
[Obsolete.]
Distribution of appropriation for the capture of the Algerine vessels.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations for rebuilding light-houses, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Certain light-houses to be built.
Specific appropriations.
Light of Scituate light-house may be extinguished.
[Obsolete.]
Sale of lands in the district of Jeffersonville.
Cases of lost military land warrants provided for.
Cases of omissions as to discharges of “faithful services,” provided for.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Additional compensation to the district judge of New York.
A tax to be laid on the county of Alexandria for building a jail and courthouse in Alexandria.
Commissioners to be appointed for laying off the road.
Road to be opened under direction of the President.
Compensation payable to commissioners, &c.
Tract of land to be laid off into lots by the surveyor general.
Proviso.
Surveyor general to cause the exterior lines of said tract to be run before the land is disposed of.
1805, ch. 43.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Lands to be sold; when and where.
[Obsolete.]
Annual appropriation for the militia.
Act of April 23, 1808, ch. 55.
Appropriation.
1809, March 3, ch. 28.
[Repealed.]
Act of Dec. 23, 1817, ch. 1.
Reduction of duties.
Act of Dec. 23, 1814, ch. 16.
1813, ch. 39.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
First section repealed by act of March 3, 1821, ch. 47.
Increase of the navy provided for, 1815, ch. 81.
Ships to be built.
Act of May 17, 1826, ch. 64.
1813, ch. 6.
Three steam batteries to be procured for harbour defence.
The block ship at New Orleans to be completed.
Appropriation.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 97.
Regulations as to the currency.
Act of March 3, 1821, ch. 53.
Assays of gold and silver currency to be made.
Act of March 3, 1817. ch. 45.
Additional accountant of War Department to be appointed.
His duties and compensation.
His salary and provision for clerks.
Act limited to the end of the first Congress after the passage of it.
New land district created.
Terms upon which lands are to be disposed of.
Compensation increased.
Code of laws to be digested and formed for District of Columbia.
Appropriation.
Bounty to officers and crew of private armed vessels.
Appropriation.
[Obsolete.]
Compensation of the commissioners, &c. &c. fixed.
Sum appropriated for enclosing and improving the capitol square.
Board of commissioners abolished, and one commissioner appointed.
Compensation to the commissioner.
Plans, &c. to be delivered to the commissioner.
Office of superintendent abolished on the 3d March, 1817.
Its duties to devolve on commissioner of public buildings.
Act of May 1, 1802, ch. 41.
President authorized to make alterations in the plans of the public buildings.
Surveyor of public lands in the territories of Illinois and Missouri to be appointed—his duties.
Duties.
Proviso.
His compensation, annual, and fees of office.
His plats and surveys made evidence.
Part of the act of Feb. 28, 1806, ch. 11.
Repealed.
Appropriation.
Certain lands set apart for Canadian and Nova Scotia refugees, not yet located, made a part of the land district of Chillicothe.
Act of Feb. 18, 1801, ch. 5.
To be exposed to sale, and sold to the highest bidder.
Lands, undisposed of this way, to be sold by private bargains.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 97.
To what judicial circuits new counties are attached.
Provision in case of the inability of the regular judges to hold the prescribed courts.
Judges to appoint clerks of courts.
Courts of oyer and terminer for the trial of persons charged with felonies to be held upon the order of the governor.
Limitation of this act, and of the one to which it is supplemental.
Legislative power—how to be exercised.
Chancery jurisdiction conferred upon the general court of Indians.
Act of June 4, 1812, ch. 95.
Act of March 2, 1819, ch. 49.
Electors to choose members of legislative council.
Act of June 4, 1812, ch. 95.
Biennial meetings of the general assembly to be held at St. Louis.
Proviso.
Judges of the superior court may be required by the general assembly to hold superior and circuit courts at the times and under rules to be prescribed by it.
Proviso.
Repeal of parts of former acts.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 36.
Preamble.
Act of March 10, 1812, ch. 38.
Act of Feb. 27, 1813, ch. 38.
Act of April 12, 1814, ch. 52.
Confirmation of certain claims.
Proviso.
Certain other claims confirmed.
1812, ch. 99.
Act of March 3, 1813, ch. 44. sect. 3.
In cases not provided for by law, if claim is confirmed a patent to issue.
Fees.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriation for defraying the expenses of the military establishment.
Pre-emption right secured.
Act of Feb. 5, 1813, ch. 20.
Act of April 12, 1814, ch. 52.
How the claims of several persons settlers upon land are to be adjusted.
Act of May 7, 1822, ch. 61.
Consent of Congress given to act of South Carolina.
Collector of Charleston to receive the duties.
Consent of Congress given to act of the state of Georgia.
Proviso.
Act limited to five years.
Act of May 6, 1812, ch. 77.
Repeal of part of a former act.
Act of Dec. 24, 1811, ch. 10.
Act of Jan. 4, 1812, ch. 14.
Sections to be drawn by lot, and patents to be issued.
Act of March 30, 1802, ch. 13.
Licenses to trade to be given only to citizens of the United States.
Forfeiture of articles carried to the Indians contrary to this act.
Foreigners going to Indian settlements within the territorial limits of the U.S. to have passports.
Penalties.
When trials under this act are to take place.
Penalties for violations of the second section.
Military force of the U. S. may be used for enforcing provisions of this act.
Salary increased.
[Expired.]
Act of April 18, 1818, ch. 69.
Salaries of the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives altered and established.
Repeal of former acts.
Increase of salaries of the principal and engrossing clerks.
Salary of chaplains of Congress.
That the following post-roads Post-roads discontinued. Act of April 30, 1810, ch. 37.
From Portland, by Windham, Raymond, Bridgeton, Lovell, Waterford, Norway, Paris, Buckfield, Sumner, Hartford, Livermore, Turner, Poland, New Gloucester, and Hebron Academy, to Paris, in Maine.
From Waterford, by Norway, Rumford and Bethel, in Maine.
From Maryland to Milford, in New York.
From Delhi to Meredith, in New York.
From Onondaga, by Tully, Preble and Homer, to Courtland Courthouse in New York.
From Montgomery Courthouse, by Tatnall Courthouse and Barrington, to Darien in Georgia.
From Abington, by Russell Courthouse, and Mockinson Gap to Abington, in Virginia.
From Rogersville, Tennessee, by Lee Courthouse, Virginia, to Cumberland Gap, in Tennessee.
From Huntington, by the north road, to Smithtown, in New York.
From Buckstown, by Frankfort, Hampden, Bangor, and No. I. to Orrington; also the route from Prospect, by Mount Ephraim, to Frankfort in Maine.
From Plymouth, by New Hampton, Meredith, Gilmanton, Northwood, Nottingham and Durham, to Portsmouth in New Hampshire.
From Greersburgh, Pennsylvania, to New Lisbon, in Ohio.
From Barfields, by Port’s Ferry, to Johnson’s Ferry, on Lynch’s Creek, Post-roads discontinued.
From Port’s Ferry to Conwayborough, South Carolina.
From Carthage to Lebanon, in Tennessee.
From Windsor to Williamston, in North Carolina.
From Triadelphia to Ellicott’s Mills.
From Galway to Broadalbin.
From Centreville to Leesburg.
From Taunton to Weymouth, in Massachusetts.
From Canton to Goshen, in Connecticut.
That the following be established Post-roads established.
In Maine.—From Lovell to Fryburg. Maine.
From Portland, by Poland, Hebron, Norway, Paris, Buckfield, Sumner, Hartford, Livermore, Turner, Minot, New Gloucester, and Hebron Academy, to Paris.
From Portland, by Windham, Raymond, Bridgeton, Lovell, Waterford, Norway, Paris, Rumford, Bethel and Albany, to Waterford.
From Norridgewalk, by Starks and Industry, to Farmington.
From Machias to Hagg’s Point, in Lubeck.
From Belfast, by Mount Ephraim, Frankfort, Hampden and Bangor, to Edington.
From Augusta, by Brown’s Corner and Harlem, to Palermo.
From Orrington to Brewer.
From Canaan by Palmyra, New Port, Crosley town and Carmel, to Hampden.
In New Hampshire.—From Plymouth, by Campion, Thornton, Peeling New Hampshire.
From Portsmouth, by Dover, Madberry, Barrington, Barnstead, Gilmanton, Meredith and New Hampton, to Plymouth.
In Vermont.—From Grand Isle to Alburgh. Vermont.
From Hyde Park, by Morristown and Stow, to Waterbury.
From Rutland, by Parkerstown, Pittsfield, to Stockbridge.
From Newbury, on the Passumpsie turnpike, by Barnet, St. Johnsberry, Lynden, Sheffield and Barton, to Derby.
From Colraine, Massachusetts, by Halifax and Whitingham, to Wilmington.
That the post-road from Monkton to Hinesburg, pass through Starkesborough.
In Massachusetts.—From Northampton, by Williamsburgh, Goshen, Massachusetts.
From Worcester, by Milbury, Northbridge and Uxbridge, to Smithfield, in Rhode Island.
From New Bedford, by Bridgewater, to Boston.
That the mail from Northampton to Worcester, pass through Paxton.
From the south parish of Bridgewater, by the west and north parishes of Bridgewater, Randolph and Milton, to Boston.
In Connecticut.—From Middletown to Killingworth. Connecticut.
From Hartford, through Canton, Torringford, Torrington, Goshen and Cornwall, to Sharon.
In New York.—From Essex, by Westport, Moriah, Crown Point, Ticonderoga, New York.
From Williamstown, Oneida county, by Richland, Ellisbury, and Henderson’s, to Sackett’s harbour in Jefferson county.
From Richfield, by Plainfield, Brookfield and Hamilton, to Skaneatlas.
From Catherinetown, by Reading, to Benton.
From Manlius, by Pompey east, and Pompey west, Hill, Tully, Preble and Homer, to Cortlandt Courthouse.
From Whitehall, (to intersect the post-road from Albany to Middlebury, Post-roads established.
From Sullivan, by Camillus, Brutus and Meniz, to Junius.
From Auburn, by Meniz, Cato and Walcott, to Sodus bay.
From Stamford, by Roseville, to Delhi.
From Maryland, by Otego and Milford, to Hamburg Post-office in Unadilla.
From Genoa to Auburn.
From Oswego, by Hannibal and Sterling, to Cato.
From Whitesborough along the new road to the east end of Oneida lake, to Camden.
From Brownsville to Cape Vincent.
From Saratoga Springs, by Palmertown and Moreau, to Sandy Hill.
From Canandaigua, by Rochester, and thence along the ridge road, to Lewistown.
From Owego, by Spencer Courthouse, in Tioga county, Dutch and Johnson’s settlements, to Catharinetown.
From Geneva, by Phelps and Lyons, to Sodus.
From Westport, by Elizabeth and Keene, to Jay.
From Newburgh, by Pleasant Valley, to New Paltz.
From Batavia, by Middlebury, to Warsaw.
From Goshen, by Minisink and Amity, to Warwick.
From Goshen, by Philipsburg, Middletown, Mount Hope, Deer Park and Carpenter’s Point, to Post-office in Montague, in New Jersey.
From Huntington, by Dixhill’s, to Smithtown.
From Hudson, by Kinderhook Landing, Castleton, and Schodack Landing, to Greenbush.
From Hudson to Lebanon.
From Sagg Harbour to Easthampton.
In New Jersey.—From New Brunswick, by Boundbrook, Middlebrook, New Jersey.
From Pittstown, in the county of Hunterdon, by Bloomsbury and Stewartsville, to Harmony, in the county of Sussex.
From Jobstown, in the county of Burlington, to Egypt, in the county of Monmouth.
In Pennsylvania.—From Meadville, by forks of Oil Creek, Warren, Pennsylvania.
From Seller’s tavern to Doylestown.
From Sunbury, by New Berlin, Union county, and Middleburg, to Lewistown.
From Lewisburg, by Loyal-sock Gap, to Williamsport.
From Bellefont, by Birmingham and Burgoes Gap, to Ebensburg.
From Downingstown, by Brandywine Manor, Waynesburg, Carnarvon, Ephrata, Elizabeth, Cornwall and Humelstown, to Harrisburg.
From Beavertown to New Lisbon, in Ohio.
From Gettysburg, by Oxford and Berwick, to York.
From Bedford, by Johnstown, to Indiana.
In Ohio.—From Waynesville, by Bellebrook, to Xenia. Ohio.
From Hamilton, by Oxford, to Bath, in Franklin county, Indiana territory.
From Gallipolis to Aurora; from West Union to Ripley.
From Salem, by Canfield, Austintown, Warren, Braceville, Sharon, Nelson, Hiram, Mantua, and Aurora, to Newberry.
From West Union, by Hillsborough and Wilmington, to Xenia.
From Steubenville, by Salem, Millersburg, and Hamburg, to Canton.
From Gallipolis, by Sciota Salt Works, to Chillicothe.
From Avery, by Jessup, to Ridgerville, to intersect the post-route from Cleveland to Detroit at Rocky river.
In Indiana Territory.—From Brookville, by Bath, to Salisbury. Post-roads established. Indiana Territory.
From Valonia, by Brownstown, to New Natchez, in Jackson county.
From Vincennes to Emmerson’s mills, in Knox county.
That the post-road from Vincennes to Shawnestown pass through Harmony, in Gibson county.
In Illinois Territory.—From Shawnestown, by White Courthouse, and Illinois Territory.
In Missouri Territory.—From St. Louis, by Potosi and Lawrence Missouri Territory.
From St. Charles, by Murphey’s in St. John’s settlement, to fort Cooper or Howard Courthouse.
In Maryland.—From Triadephia, by Damascus, to New Market. Maryland.
From Hagerstown to McConnelstown, in Pennsylvania.
From Upper Marlborough to McGruder’s tavern, in Prince George’s county.
In Virginia.—From Cabin Point, by J. Edmund’s, Baileyburg, Urquarhart’s Virginia.
From Wythe Courthouse, by Tazewell Courthouse, Russell Courthouse, Scott Courthouse, and Lee Courthouse, to Cumberland Gap, in Tennessee.
From Brown’s store, to Dickenson’s store, Franklin county.
From Winchester, by Cedar Creek, Trout Run, and Lost River, to Moorefields.
From Pittsylvania Courthouse, by B. Wadkin’s store, and Island Ford, Smith’s River, to Rockingham Courthouse, in North Carolina.
From Wythe Courthouse, to Giles Courthouse.
From New Canton, to Columbia.
From Aldie to Leesburg.
From Aldie to Battletown.
In Kentucky.—From Washington, by Maysville, to Xenia in Ohio. Kentucky.
From Columbia to Greensburg.
From Great Crossings, by Sanders’ mills, and New Fredericksburg, to Vevey, in Indiana territory.
From Washington, by Newton, Marysville, and Cynthiana, to Georgetown.
From Middletown to Brunerstown.
From Glasgow, by Hartsville, to Lebanon, in Tennessee.
In North Carolina.—From Tarborough, by Staunton’s Bridge, Snow North Carolina.
From Charlotte, by Harrisburg, Pine Hill, Alexander’s, Lanford and Lewisville, to Chester Courthouse in South Carolina.
From Murfreesborough, by Windsor, to Plymouth.
In South Carolina.—From Chesterfield Courthouse, by Lawry’s mills, South Carolina.
From Greenville Courthouse to Spartanburg.
From Barfield’s, by Marion Courthouse, or Gilesborough, and Godfrey’s ferry, to Johnson’s ferry, on Lynch creek.
From Conwayborough, by Gallivant’s ferry, to Marion Courthouse.
From Conwayborough to Smithfield, in North Carolina.
From Chester Courthouse to Louisville.
In Georgia.—From Jefferson to Hurricane Shoals. Georgia.
From Montgomery Courthouse, by Blackmore’s and Hardin’s, to Riceborough.
In Tennessee.—From Nashville by Murfreesborough, Stone Fort, and Tennessee.
From Lebanon, by Williamsburg, and Hilham, to Monroe.
From Sparta, by Liberty and Lebanon, to Nashville.
From Bean’s station, by Stiffey’s mill, to Iron works of Mossy creek, thence to Danbridge.
From Maryville, by Morgantown, to Tellico block house.
From Port Royal to John Hunt’s, in Robertson’s county.
That the post road from Jonesborough to Greenville pass through Leesburg and Brownsburg.
In Mississippi Territory.—From Franklin Courthouse, to Liberty, Mississippi Territory.
Regulations of drawback upon spirits distilled within the United States.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch.79.
Proviso.
That in order to entitle the exporter Further regulations.
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And the said collector shall, in writing, direct the surveyor or other inspecting officer to inspect, or cause to be inspected, the spirits so no-
Regulations concerning debentures and debenture bonds given for the drawback of duties upon domestic distilled spirits.
Proviso.
Form and effect of the bonds.
Drawback on spirits made out of molasses.
Further allowance of drawback on sugar refined in the United States.
Penalties upon officers for not fulfilling the duties required by this act.
Appropriation for custom and warehouses, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations.
1816, ch. 40.
Documents to be transmitted to the judges of the Supreme Court.
Medals to Captain Stewart and the officers of the Constitution.
Medals to Captain Biddle, and the officers of the Hornet.
Four thousand copies of the laws relating to naturalization of the United States to be printed and distributed.
Register of the officers and agents, civil, military and naval, to be compiled every two years by the Secretary of State.
List of the ships and vessels of the United States.
Distribution.
An assistant in the corps of engineers to be employed.
Collection of the revenue.
ACTS OF THE FOURTEENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Tonnage duties to be the same as by the act of 20th July, 1790, ch. 30, except, &c.
Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 107.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 109.
Proviso: as to treaty rights, &c.
Two dollars per ton on vessels from ports where, &c.
The duties to be collected as prescribed by law.
[Obsolete.]
The collection of land laws to be revised, &c.
Act of April 27, 1810, ch. 33.
The acts to be digested, &c. and 1500 copies to be printed, &c.
[Obsolete.]
40,000 dolls, appropriated.
The act of the 19th March, 1816, ch. 30, repealed.
Proviso: no other act revived.
Act of May 3, 1798, ch. 36
The chairman of any standing committee empowered to administer oaths to witnesses, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Second section of the act of 18th April, 1814, ch. 84, repealed.
The sections designated to be offered for sale in quarter or half quarter sections, &c.
Manner of surveying the land.
[Obsolete.]
The superintendent to lay off that part of the public reservation of ground described.
To sell half the lots, &c.
Condition of sale.
Appropriation of the moneys arising from the sales.
[Obsolete.]
Vessels departing for foreign ports from Bayou St. John permitted to clear out at New Orleans, &c.
The Secretary of the Navy enjoined to cause lands producing live oak and red cedar timbers to be explored and selections to be made of tracts, &c.
The tracts selected to be reserved, unless, &c.
Proviso: rights of persons claiming not to be prejudiced, &c.
Persons cutting timber on the lands reserved, or any live oak or red cedar on other public lands, &c. subject to fine and imprisonment.
Vessels taking on board timber from lands reserved, &c. forfeited.
Exportation of timber contrary to this act, subjects the vessel to forfeiture and the master to a fine.
Recovery of penalties, &c. and mitigation thereof, according to the acts mentioned.
1799, ch. 22.
1797, ch. 13.
Act of April 3, 1818, ch. 29.
Act of May 3, 1822, ch. 46.
Inhabitants of the western part of the Mississippi to form a state government, be admitted into the union, &c.
Boundaries of the state.
Qualifications of persons authorized to choose representatives, to form a convention.
Apportionment of representatives to form a convention.
Time and manner of holding the election.
Convention to meet at Washington in July, 1817, and to determine, &c.
Proviso: the government to be republican, and not repugnant to the ordinance of 13th July, 1787.
Vol. i. 51.
Proviso: Reservations and conditions of admission to the union.
Reservation of five per cent, on lands sold for making roads and canals.
Proviso: prior obligations to Georgia, &c., to be first discharged.
Act of March 31, 1814, ch. 39.
Proviso: the five per cent, not to be calculated on certain proceeds.
1811, ch. 39.
The state entitled to one representative in Congress.
Act of March 30, 1812, ch. 47, sec. 6.
Pursers to enter into bond in the penalty of 25,000 dollars.
Exception in favour of pursers on distant service.
[Obsolete.]
Letters and packets to and from James Madison free during life.
[Obsolete.]
Persons redeeming and purchasing citizens from captivity to be allowed not exceeding 150 dollars for each.
Powers of the commissioners appointed for the more convenient taking of affidavits and bail in civil causes extended.
Act of Feb. 20, 1812, ch. 25.
Act of 1789, ch. 20.
Restriction of importations to vessels of a particular character.
Proviso: the regulation not to extend to foreign vessels of a certain description.
Merchandise imported contrary to this act, vessel, &c., forfeited.
Bounties on vessels employed in the fisheries restricted to such whose officers and 3–4ths of the crews are citizens, &c.
Regulations with respect to importation of goods from one port of the United States to another, &c.
Regulations in relation to tonnage duty on vessels entering from a district in one to a district in another state.
Proviso: as to licensed vessels.
Proviso: as to diminution of duty where 3–4ths of the crew are citizens, &c.
Act of May 1, 1802, ch. 45.
50 cents per ton on vessels, whose officers and 2–3ds of the crews are not citizens.
Proviso; exception in favour of vessels on foreign voyages, &c.
The proportion of citizen seamen to exist during the whole voyage, unless, &c.
Sums appropriated for the expenditure of the civil list, &c. for the year 1817.
That 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 For Congress.
For the expenses of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, forty-two thousand dollars.
For the expenses of the library of Congress, including the librarian’s allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the President of the United States, twenty-five For President and Vice President.
For compensation to the Vice President of the United States, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars. For the Department of State.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the Department of State, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said department, and for the patent office, six hundred and sixty dollars.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, including the expense of printing and distributing copies of the laws of the second session of the fourteenth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and two dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, five thousand For the Treasury Department.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten thousand four hundred and thirty-three dollars.
For compensation to the messenger and assistant messenger in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, seven hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of translating foreign languages, allowed 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 one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, three thousand Comptroller.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the said comptroller, fifteen thousand five hundred and sixteen dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing and contingent expenses in the comptroller’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, three thousand Auditor.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the auditor’s office, sixteen thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing and contingent expenses in said office, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer of the United States, three thousand Treasurer.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the treasurer, five thousand four hundred and forty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger of said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and contingent expenses in said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the commissioner of the general land office, Commissioner of general land office.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of said commissioner, eleven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing and contingent expenses of said office, including vellum for land patents, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the commissioner of the revenue, three thousand Commissioner of the revenue.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of said commissioner, nine thousand dollars.
For compensation to the messenger of said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For stationery, printing, and contingent expenses, including the paper, printing, and stamping of licenses, in said office, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars. Register.
For an additional sum which was allowed him for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the said register, seventeen thousand and twenty-eight dollars.
For compensation to the messenger of said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of stationery, including books for the public stocks, printing the public accounts, and other contingent expenses of the register’s office, three thousand six hundred dollars.
For fuel and other contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, five thousand dollars.
To make good the deficiency in the sum appropriated last year for the general expenses of the several offices of the Treasury Department, and
For compensation to a superintendent and two watchmen, employed for the security of the treasury buildings; and for the expenses of rebuilding two fire engine houses; for repairs of two engines and hose; and for an additional number of buckets, and to keep the same in repair, one thousand seven 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, four thousand five hundred For the War Department.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Secretary of War, fifteen thousand two hundred and thirty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger and his assistants in said office, seven hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of War, four thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the War Department, two Accountant.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of said accountant, sixteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in said office, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the additional accountant of the War Department, Additional accountant.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of said additional accountant, seventeen thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of said additional accountant, including a sum of seven hundred dollars for which no appropriation was made for contingent expenses of last year, one thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the paymaster general of the army, two thousand Paymaster.
For an additional compensation allowed him for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, three hundred and forty-six dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the paymaster general of the army, ten thousand dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in said office, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the superintendent general of military supplies, Superintendent general of military supplies.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of said superintendent, seven thousand dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in said office, including a deficiency of two hundred dollars for the contingent expenses of the last year, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the commissary general of purchases, three thousand Commissary general of purchases.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the commissary general of purchases, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, three hundred and sixty dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of said commissary, nine hundred and thirty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the adjutant Adjutant and inspector general.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the ordnance office, one Ordnance.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, four thousand five For the Navy Department.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the said secretary, seven thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense, of fuel, stationery, printing and other contingent expenses in said office, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the Navy Department, two thousand Accountant.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the accountant of the Navy Department, fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, and other contingent expenses in said office, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, ten thousand Commissioners of the navy board.
For compensation to the secretary of the navy board, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the navy board, three thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the navy board, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster General, three thousand dollars. For the general post office.
For compensation to the assistant postmaster general, one thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the second assistant postmaster general, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the general post office, nineteen thousand three hundred and five dollars.
For compensation to the messenger and his assistants in said office, six hundred and sixty dollars.
For contingent expenses in said office, three thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the several commissioners of loans, and allowance For the Commissioners of loans.
For compensation to the clerks of sundry commissioners of loans, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan offices, thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
For the salary of the late commissioner of loans of South Carolina, from the first of April to the twenty-fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, being the amount carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, three hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty-two cents.
For compensation to the surveyor general and his clerks, four thousand For the surveyor general.
For compensation to the surveyor of lands south of Tennessee, and for
For compensation to the commissioner of the public building in For the commissioner of the public buildings.
For compensation to the officers and clerks of the mint, nine thousand six hundred dollars. For the mint.
For wages to persons employed in the different operations of the mint, including the sum of six hundred dollars allowed to an assistant engraver, five thousand dollars.
For repairs, cost of iron and machinery, rents, and other contingent expenses of the mint, three thousand dollars.
For allowance for wastage in the gold and silver coinage, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of copper to coin into cents, fifteen thousand dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Mississippi For territorial officers.
For 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 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, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For 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 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 For demands admitted at the treasury.
For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, the associate For the judiciary.
For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, three thousand dollars.
For compensation of sundry district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, seven thousand eight 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, penalties and forfeitures, 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, Pensions.
For the payment of the annual allowance to the pensioners of the United States, two hundred thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and Light-houses, &c.
For an appropriation in addition to the appropriation for building a light-house Light-houses, &c.
For rebuilding the Bald Head light-house, in North Carolina, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that purpose, one thousand dollars.
For rebuilding the light-house at Nantucket, recently destroyed by fire, seven thousand five hundred dollars; beacon-lights on Sandy Hook, one thousand two hundred dollars; erection of a beacon and placing buoys at the entrance of the harbour of Bristol, in Rhode Island, one thousand dollars.
For a light on the beacon on Tybee, and for erecting six beacons, and placing four buoys on such sites, and at such points, as the commissioners of pilotage, residing at Savannah, shall fix on, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For an additional appropriation for building a light-house at Tarpaulin cove, three thousand seven hundred and forty-six dollars.
For the following objects, being the balances of former appropriations, carried to the surplus fund, viz:
For erecting light-houses at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and at or near the pitch of cape Lookout, in North Carolina, twenty thousand dollars.
For building a light-house on the south point of Cumberland island, in Georgia, ten thousand dollars.
For erecting a light-house on the south point of Sapelo Island, in Georgia, fourteen thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars.
For placing buoys and beacons at or near the entrance of the harbour of Beverly, in Massachusetts, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For placing buoys, as deemed necessary, at the entrance of the harbour of Edgartown, in Massachusetts, one thousand four hundred and forty-three dollars and forty-three cents.
For erecting two light-houses on Lake Erie, viz: On or near Bird Island, and on or near Presque Isle, seventeen thousand dollars.
For building a light-house on Petite Manan, six thousand dollars.
For fitting up light-houses heretofore authorized to be erected, with the apparatus for lighting the same, five thousand dollars.
For fitting up the light-houses with Winslow Lewis’s improvements, agreeably to his contract of the 26th day of March, 1812, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that purpose, six thousand dollars.
For erecting a beacon on a point of land near New Inlet, in North Carolina, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the commissioner for settling claims for property For the commissioner for settling claims, &c.
For compensation to the clerk in said commissioner’s office, one thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of publishing certain notices by the commissioner, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For defraying the expense of printing various forms for the said commissioner, two hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents.
For office furniture, stationery, wood, and other contingencies, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the hire of an additional clerk, from the eighteenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, to the first of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, at nine hundred dollars per annum, three hundred and thirty dollars.
For the hire of a messenger, from the first of July to the first of February following, one hundred and twenty dollars.
For defraying the expenses of printing certificates of registry and For printing certificates of registry.
To provide for the payment of the sums directed to be paid by an act For defraying expenses incident to lands. 1816, ch. 149.
For defraying the expense of surveying the public lands within the several states and territories of the United States, one hundred and eighty thousand and eighty-eight dollars.
For bringing the votes for President and Vice President of the United For bringing votes for President and Vice President.
For the salaries, allowances, and contingent expenses of ministers to foreign nations, and of secretaries of legation, eighty-seven thousand dollars. For objects of foreign intercourse.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, seventy thousand dollars.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, forty-seven thousand dollars.
For the expenses necessary during the present year for carrying into effect the fourth, sixth, and seventh articles of the treaty of peace, concluded with his Britannic majesty on the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, including the compensation of the commissioners appointed under those articles, thirty-four thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-two cents.
For the salaries of the agents for claims on account of spoliations, and for seamen at London, Paris, Copenhagen, and the Hague, eight thousand dollars.
For the relief of distressed American seamen, for the present year, and to make good a deficiency in the preceding year, fifty thousand dollars.
On account of the paintings authorized by the resolution of Congress, eight thousand dollars.
For purchasing or erecting, for the use of the United States, suitable For erecting custom-houses, &c.
1790, ch. 34.
[Obsolete.]
Act of July 6, 1812, ch. 128.
The act for the safe keeping of prisoners, &c. repealed.
An account to be rendered.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated for specific objects, connected with the military establishment, for 1817.
That, for defraying the expenses of the military establishment of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen; for the Indian department; for fortifications; for the ordnance department; for armories; for arsenals and magazines; for the expenses of the public buildings at West Point; and for the purchase of maps, plans, books, and instruments, for the military academy at said place, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated; that is to say:
For the pay of the army of the United States, one million four hundred and thirty-three thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars.
For subsistence, including the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, already appropriated to that object by an act of this session, one million one hundred and twenty-three thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight dollars.
For forage for officers, sixty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars.
For bounties and premiums, thirty-two thousand dollars.
For clothing, six hundred and seventy thousand eight hundred and eighty-one dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the ordnance department, one hundred and ninety-one thousand seven hundred and thirty-eight dollars.
For fulfilling contracts already entered into for cannon and shot, sixty thousand dollars.
For completing arsenals already commenced, including that at Pittsburg, and not including that at Frankford, one hundred and thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars.
For purchasing materials for carriages for cannon and caissons, thirty-nine thousand dollars.
For fulfilling a contract for saltpetre with John P. Boyd, a sum not exceeding forty-three thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
For armories, three hundred and seventy-seven thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars.
For the quartermaster’s department, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For fortifications, eight hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars.
For contingencies of the army, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the Indian department, two hundred thousand dollars.
For the purchase of maps, plans, books, and instruments for the war office, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of maps, plans, books, instruments, fuel and stationery, for the military academy; repairing buildings at West Point, and for transportation and two boats, sixteen thousand five hundred and seventy dollars.
[Obsolete.]
A sum to be paid to the state of Georgia equal to the amount of Mississippi stock received in payment of public lands in Mississippi territory, until, &c.
Proviso: amount of payments limited, and repayment to be made to the treasury before, &c.
A lighthouse to be built on the west chop of Holmes’s Hole, as soon as Massachusetts cedes jurisdiction, &c.
Superintendent, &c.
5,000 dolls. appropriated.
The Bank of the United States, &c. to perform the duties of commissioners of loans.
The Secretary of the Treasury to notify the President of the Bank of the United States, &c.
Proviso; as to the time, &c.
Proviso; as to states where no banks are established by law.
Office of commissioner of loans abolished, &c.
An act for the prompt settlement of public accounts in force from the 3d of March, 1817.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 45.
[Obsolete.]
Importation of plaster prohibited in foreign vessels from countries whence vessels of the United States are not allowed to bring it.
This act to be in force for five years.
Proviso; a foreign nation discontinuing prohibitory regulations, the restrictions imposed by the act to cease with respect to that nation.
Act of Feb. 26, 1803, ch. 9.
Ships’ papers to be produced to the collector before entry.
The papers to be deposited with the consul of the nation within forty-eight hours.
Fine in case of non-compliance. Proviso; as to foreign nations in whose ports American consuls are not allowed to have custody of papers according to the act mentioned.
1803, ch. 9.
Consul not to deliver the papers to the master until he produces a clearance.
Consuls offending to be fined.
[Obsolete.]
Decayed furniture to be sold, and the proceeds and 20,000 dolls. additional appropriated for furnishing the President’s house anew.
Delegates to Congress to be elected every second year.
vol. i, 51.
The citizens of Missouri to elect a delegate to Congress.
Act of June 4, 1812, ch. 95.
Provision to be made for the meeting of the general assembly.
Act of March 2, 1811, ch. 30.
The act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes continued until the 1st of May, 1818.
Act of May 6, 1822, ch. 54.
[Obsolete.]
That the post-roads hereafter Post-roads discontinued.
In Pennsylvania.—From Wysoxby, Orville and Warren to Nanticoke. Pennsylvania.
From Silver Lake or Montrose to Binghampton.
From Williamsport to Jersey Shore.
In Virginia.—From Liberty to Fincastle. Virginia.
In Indiana.—From Brookville, by Bath and Lewistown, to Salisbury. Indiana.
In Kentucky.—From Isbellville to Ewingville. Kentucky.
From Greenup c. h. to Little Sandy Salt works.
From Danville, by Casey c. h., Pulaski c. h., Wayne c. h., Burksville and Columbia, to Danville.
That the following be established Post-roads established.
In Maine.—From Jay, by Jaypoint, Dixfield and Holmantown, to Maine.
From Anson to Solon.
In New Hampshire.—From Dunstable, by Nottingham West, to Pelham. New Hampshire.
From Ackworth, Lempster and Unity, to Newport.
From Ossippe, by Effingham, to Parsonfield.
In Vermont.—From Craftsborough, by Kelyvale, and Montgomery, to Vermont.
In Massachusetts.—From Groton, by Pepperel and Holles, to Amherst, Massachusetts.
In Connecticut.—From Bridgeport, by Weston, Reading and Bethel, Connecticut.
From Stanford, by way of New Canaan, and North Ridgefield, to Danbury.
From Colchester, by Chatham, to Middletown.
In New York.—From Canandaigua, by Bristol, Richmond, Livonia, New York.
From Oswego Falls, by Port Glasgow and Portland, and along the ridge road by Carthage, to Rochester.
From Moscow, by the state road, to Buffalo.
From Oswego, by Montrose, Pa. and the turnpike to Milford, thence by Hamburg, in New Jersey, to Jersey City.
From Poughkeepsie, through Beekmantown, to New Milford.
From Bath, by Angelica, Hamilton, Ceresdown, Pa. Coudersport and Jersey Shore, to Williamsport.
From Bath to Naples.
From Angelica, by Nunda and Leicester, to Batavia.
From Salem, by Hebron, Argyle and Fort Edwards, to Sandy Hill.
From Kingston, by Hurley, Marbletown, Rochester, Warwarsink, Mamakoting, to Milford, Pa.
From Madison, by Peterboro, to the Sullivan Post-office at the Chittenengo creek.
In New Jersey.—From Trenton, by Birmingham, Lambertsville, Prattsville, New Jersey.
From Baskingridge, by New Providence, to Springfield, in Essex county.
In Pennsylvania.—From Newtown on the Somerset great road, by Pennsylvania.
From Greensburgh, by the Great Salt works, to Indiana.
From Connelsville to Mount Pleasant.
From Kittaning to Roseburg.
From Franklin, by Oil Creek Town, Centreville, Bloomfield and Union, to Waterford.
From Lewistown, by Bellville, M’Aleavy’s, Henry’s and Petersburgh, to Alexandria; or, from Lewistown, by Bellville, Kisharvyville’s valley, Wilson’s mills, and Huntingdon, to Alexandria.
From Womelsdorf, by Rohrersburg, Pine Grove, Klingerstown, and Georgetown, to Sunbury.
From Meansville, by Wysox, Pike, Head of Wyalusing creek and Windham, to Montrose.
From Meansville, by Sugar creek, and Smith’s, to Putnamville.
From Putnamville, by Columbia, Springfield, Athens and Old Sheshiquin, to Meansville.
From Montrose, by Orwell and Warren, to Athens. Post-roads established.
From Shickshenny, by Huntington, Jackson and Evernvills, to Jerseytown.
In Maryland.—From Westminster, by Taneytown and Emmittsburg, Maryland.
From Baltimore, by Randalstown, Freedom and New Windsor, to Uniontown.
In Ohio.—From St. Clairsville, by Harrisville, Cadiz, Flushing, Morristown, Ohio.
From Dayton to Monroe.
From Columbus to Granville.
From London, by Springfield, to Dayton.
From Newark, by New Lebanon, to Lancaster.
From Cincinnati, by Carson’s, Ingersoll’s ferry, or town of Miami, Clarke’s store, and Harrison, to Brookville, Ind.
In Virginia.—From Charlottesville, by Grayham’s store, to Brown’s Virginia.
From Liberty to Salem.
From Clarksburg, by Lewis c. h., to Point Pleasant.
From Hull’s store, in Pendleton county, to Bath c. h.
In Kentucky.—From Cattelsburg, by Little Sandy Salt works, Isle’s Kentucky.
From Louisville, by Middletown, New Castle, Twin meeting house, to Boone c. h.
From Russelville, by Elkton and Ewingville, to Hopkinsville.
From Hopkinsville, by Greenville, Madisonville, Bellville and Morganfield, to Shawneetown, (Indiana.)
From Elizabethtown, by Philadelphia, to Corydon (Indiana.)
From Danville, by Liberty and Somerset, to Monticello.
From Monticello, by Burksville, to Glasgow.
From Burksville to Columbia.
From Upper Blue-lick, by Moorfield, to Owingsville.
From Port William, by Bedford, to New Castle.
In North Carolina.—From Morgantown, by Rutherfordton, to Greenville, North Carolina.
In Tennessee.—From Boat-yard to Scott c. h. Tennessee.
From Dandridge, by Seviersville, to Maryville.
From Knoxville, by Loysborough and Speedville Iron Works, to Cumberland Gap.
From Shelbyville to Winchester.
From Nashville, by John Hunts, to Clarksville.
From Morganton, by Russel’s ferry, Chota, Tellico Plains, Beaver Dams and Griffins, to Carnesville, Ga.
In South Carolina.—From Pocotaligo, by Hickory Hill, in Prince South Carolina.
From Cambridge, by Scuffletown, to Pickensville.
In Georgia.—From Washington, by Elberton c. h. and Danielsville, Georgia.
In Indiana.—From Corydon, by Shoemaker’s, Troy, Mount Pleasant, Indiana.
From Corydon, by Fredericksburg, to Salem.
From Lexington, by Salem, to Peola.
From Vincennes, by Emmersonville, Carlisle, and Terre Haut, to fort Harrison.
From Madison to New Castle, Ky.
From Madison to Vernon.
From Lawrenceburg, by Decatur, to Wilmington.
From Hamilton, O., by Bath, Brookville, Connersville, Waterloo, Centreville, Salisbury, Dunlapsville and Fairfield, to Brookville.
From Princeton to Hendersonon, Ky.
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. United States v. Giles, 9 Cranch, 212; 3 Cond. Rep. 377.
No debtor to the United States can at the trial set off a claim for a debt due to him by the United States, unless such claim shall have been submitted to the accounting officers of the treasury, and by them rejected, except in cases provided for by the statute. Ibid.
The rules prescribed by the Treasury Department for the adjustment of claims against the government, will, if reasonable, be respected; but if these rules go to a complete denial of justice, the court, if it have jurisdiction of the subject, cannot disregard the rights of parties. United States v. Mann, 2 Brockenb. C. C. R. 96.
A transcript from the treasury which contains sums charged in gross as balances, is not evidence as to such balances. The United States v. Edwards, 1 M’Lean’s C. C. R. 467.
By the act of 1817, ch. 38, § 5, the above act is made to take effect from its date.
Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 20.
Act of Feb. 24, 1819, ch. 43.
Act of May 7, 1822, ch. 90.
Act of March 1, 1823, ch. 20.
Accountants’ offices of the War and Navy Departments, and office of superintendent general of military supplies, abolished.
All accounts to be settled in the Treasury Department.
Four auditors and one comptroller additional, in the Treasury Department.
Duty of the first auditor.
Duty of the second auditor.
Duty of the third auditor.
Duty of the fourth auditor.
Duty of the fifth auditor.
Proviso; as to the accounts of the additional accountant.
Further duties of the auditors.
Auditors to report to the Secretary of the Treasury.
The treasurer to disburse all moneys ordered for the use of the War and Navy Departments, &c.
Duty of the first comptroller.
Duty of the second comptroller.
First comptroller to superintend the recovery of all debts, &c.
Act of May 7, 1822, ch. 90.
The provision contained in the second section of the act of March 3, 1797, ch. 20, extended, in regard to the accounts of the War and Navy Departments, &c.
Act 1797, ch. 20.
Auditors empowered to administer oaths, &c.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause all accounts of the expenditure of public money to be settled within the year, &c.
The comptroller to distinguish between balances, &c.
Salary of the second comptroller and auditors $3000.
Letters, &c. to and from the second comptroller and auditors, free.
[Obsolete.]
Additional annual allowance to the collector of the customs at Edgartown.
And to the collector of the customs, Plymouth.
Per centum allowance to the collectors of Middletown and Newburyport.
[Obsolete.]
Act of Jan. 14, 1817, ch. 3.
Two dolls, per ton on foreign vessels from foreign ports with which vessels of the United States are not permitted to enter and trade.
[Obsolete.]
Act of July 20, 1790, ch. 30.
Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 107.
Act of Jan. 14, 1817, ch. 3.
Ad valorem duty to be on the net cost of the article whence imported.
[Obsolete.]
The widows and orphans of officers and men lost in the Epervier, to receive six months’ pay additional, &c.
[Obsolete.]
The Secretary of the Treasury authorized to remit proportion of duties to persons discontinuing the use of the stills, &c.
Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 25.
The Secretary of the Treasury authorized to pay to the order of the governor of Georgia an abatement of 15 per cent, on the quota of direct tax, &c.
Act of Jan. 9, 1815, ch. 21.
Repealed by act of April 20, 1818, ch. 88, sec. 12.
Persons fitting out and arming, &c. vessels intended to be employed to commit hostilities against a friendly power, liable to fine and imprisonment, &c.
Vessel, &c. forfeited.
Half to the informer.
Owners of armed vessels sailing from ports of the United States, the owners being wholly or in part citizens, to give bond, &c.
The collectors of the customs authorized to detain vessels built for warlike purposes, the cargoes of which consist principally of arms, &c., when circumstances render it probable they are intended to commit hostilities against friendly powers, &c.
Persons increasing or augmenting the force of armed vessels in the service of a foreign power engaged in hostilities with a nation at peace with the United States, &c., subject to fine and imprisonment.
[Obsolete.]
That part of the Mississippi territory described, to form a territory to be called Alabama.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 126.
Laws in force to continue until otherwise provided.
Governor and secretary, &c.
Act of March 2, 1810, ch. 16.
An additional judge, &c.
Act of March 27, 1804, ch. 59.
A general court, &c.
1805, ch. 38.
Legislative council.
A delegate to Congress.
Time at which this act shall commence and be in force, &c.
Persons in office to continue, &c.
Judicial process as heretofore, &c.
Act of March 1, 1817, ch. 23.
St. Stephens the seat of government.
Balance in the treasury to be divided between the new state, and territory.
Act of March 4, 1814, ch. 20.
Widows, &c. of officers and men in the navy entitled to half pay for five years, &c.
If the widow dies or marries, the half pay goes to the children.
Proviso; as to the cessation of the half pay.
The provisions of this act extended.
March 3, 1819, ch. 81.
Four contiguous townships, each six miles square, in the Mississippi territory, to be set apart and reserved, &c.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 88.
The Secretary of the Treasury to contract for the sale of the townships at two dolls, per acre, &c.
Proviso; as to the agents of French emigrants being duly authorized to form a contract, &c.
The secretary empowered to make allotment of the lands among individuals, and to stipulate for the cultivation of the vine, &c.
Proviso; no patent or title until complete payment for the whole, &c.
A surveyor of the lands of the United States to be appointed for that part of the Mississippi territory described; his duties, compensation, &c.
Lands to be attached to Madison district.
Lands attached to Madison district with the exception of section No. 16, to be offered for sale, &c.
Lands not to be sold for less than two dollars per acre.
Lands remaining unsold may be disposed of at private sale, &c.
Five dollars per day to the register and receiver.
The sections reserved to be laid off into lots, &c.
Plats, &c.
To be sold on the same terms as other lands, except, &c.
Proviso; as to the price of each lot, &c.
The acts in relation to the reporter, and reports of decisions of the Supreme Court, have been—
An act to provide for reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court, expired, March 3, 1817, ch. 63.
An act to continue in force “An act to provide for reports of decisions of the Supreme Court,” May 15, 1820, expired, ch. 131.
An act to continue in force the act entitled “An act to provide for reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court,” passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, March 3, 1823, expired, ch. 34.
An act to provide for reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court, expired, Feb. 22, 1827, ch. 18.
An act to provide for the reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, Aug. 29, 1842, ch. 264.
Reporter to receive 1,000 dolls. per annum.
Proviso; decisions to be printed and published within six months, &c.
Eighty copies to be delivered to the Secretary of State.
Distribution of the eighty copies, &c.
Copies distributed to be delivered up to successors, &c.
This act in force for three years.
[Obsolete.]
Number of officers and men.
Act of April 16, 1814, ch. 58.
Supernumerary officers to be discharged, &c.
The President may appoint any of the officers in the recess.
[Obsolete.]
4,000 dolls. appropriated for cutting out a road agreeably to the survey, &c. of Johnson and Dickson.
Under direction of the Secretary of War.
[Obsolete.]
Discriminating duties paid on British vessels, from the 17th Aug. to 22d Dec. 1815, to be repaid, &c.
Exception.
[Obsolete.]
Acts authorizing loans, &c. repealed.
Proviso; as to securities for money heretofore borrowed.
Acts authorizing treasury notes to be issued, repealed.
Proviso; as to right of holders, &c.
So much of the act mentioned, as authorizes a reissue of the treasury notes, repealed.
Feb. 24, 1815, ch. 56.
Treasury notes now, or which may become, the property of the United States, to be cancelled.
[Obsolete.]
Additional appropriation for defraying the expenses of the military establishment, and those incurred by calling out the militia.
That, for defraying the expenses of the military establishment, and those incurred by calling out the militia during the late war with Great Britain, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated by law for these objects, the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, viz:
For pay of the army and militia, including the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of interest, advanced by the state of Pennsylvania for defraying the expenses of the militia of said state, during the late war, seven hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For subsistence, two hundred thousand dollars.
For the quarter[master’s] department, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the ordnance department, one hundred and forty-four thousand dollars.
For the payment of balances due to certain states, on account of disbursements for militia employed in the service of the United States, during the late war, seven hundred and seventeen thousand dollars.
For paying the expenses incurred in ascertaining and surveying the 15,000 dolls. for ascertaining Indian boundary line, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Acts making appropriation for the purchase, &c. of the funded debt, &c. repealed.
An annual sum of 10,000,000 dolls. appropriated to the sinking fund.
Application of the money.
The Secretary of the Treasury to pay the 10,000,000 dolls. to the commissioners of the sinking fund.
Proviso; as to the time of payment.
Proviso; as to payments made to the commissioners heretofore.
9,000,000 dolls. additional appropriated to the sinking fund for the year 1817, &c.
A further sum of 4,000,000 dolls. during 1817, in advance, if, &c.
Purchase of the debt holden by the bank &c.
Any surplus in the treasury, above appropriations, and leaving two millions there, appropriated to the sinking fund.
When there is a surplus in the sinking fund, the commissioners may purchase the debt at the market price.
The price not to exceed the rates specified.
Certificates of the public debt which become the property of the United States, to be cancelled.
No interest to accrue on certificates cancelled, &c.
Nothing in this act to prevent Congress from applying surplus to other objects in case of war, &c.
Nor to affect pledges of former acts, &c.
Exception.
Act of Feb. 20, 1819, ch. 28.
Chiefs and warriors of the Creek nation authorized to locate their reservations of land.
That the chiefs and warriors of the Creek nation, who, by virtue of the first article of the treaty of the ninth of August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, between the United States and that nation of Indians, are entitled to a reservation of land, which shall include their improvements, shall be authorized to locate said reservation in the following manner, viz:
Every such chief, or warrior, shall and may select such four quarter Manner of location. Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 88. Proviso; as to the title vested.
Widows and children to have the right of selection as the original claimant, &c.
Proviso; as to the power of alienation in the children.
Descendants of native Creeks who continue friendly, &c. entitled to a reservation, &c.
The children of any Creek warrior who resides within the limits, &c. and who was killed, &c. entitled to a reservation, &c.
The agent of the United States for the Creek nation to take evidence, &c.
The Secretary of the Treasury to decide finally, &c.
The agent to transmit to the register of the land office, the names of claimants and numbers of quarter sections, &c.
Three dollars per day to the agent in addition to salary, &c.
The agent may employ a surveyor.
Appropriations for defraying the expenses of the navy for 1817.
That, for defraying the expenses of the navy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively, appropriated, that is to say:
For pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of seamen, one million ninety-two thousand seven hundred and thirty-two dollars.
For provisions, four hundred and ninety-six thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For medicine, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of sick, including those of the marine corps, ten thousand dollars.
For repairs of vessels, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For ordnance, ammunition, and military stores, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the purchase of saltpetre and sulphur, twenty thousand dollars.
For navy yards, docks, and wharves, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses, including freight, transportation, and recruiting expenses, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses in procuring gold and silver medals and swords, in conformity with sundry resolutions of Congress, fifteen thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand three hundred and eight dollars.
For clothing for the same, thirty-four thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars.
For military stores for the same, one thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars.
For contingent expenses for the same, fourteen thousand dollars.
Congress have power to regulate commerce among the Indian tribes, which affords a wide scope for legislation. Under a similar power as regards foreign relations, Congress have passed non intercourse acts, acts laying embargoes, and other acts which are admitted to be constitutional. United States v. Baily, 1 McLean’s C. C. R. 234.
Congress have a right to select the means which have a direct relation to the object, in the regulation of commerce with the Indians. Such are the provisions of the act of 1802. Ibid.
But Congress cannot under this investor of power exercise a general jurisdiction over an Indian territory within a state. In a territory of the United States, in which Congress possesses legislative power, there can be no objection to the exercise of the power. Ibid.
Congress cannot punish for an offence, within the Indian territory, in a state, which has no relation to the Indians, and which cannot affect their commerce. Ibid.
The act of March 3, 1817, ch. 92, which assumes to exercise a general jurisdiction over Indian countries, within a state, is unconstitutional and of no effect. Ibid.
The crime of murder, charged against a white man for killing another white man in the Cherokee country, within the State of Tennessee, cannot be punished in the courts of the United States. Ibid.
Indians or other persons committing offences in Indian towns, &c. which, if committed within the sole jurisdiction of the United States, would be punished with death, or other punishment, to suffer in like manner.
Superior territorial, and circuit, and other courts authorized to try offences against this act.
The President, and the governors of territories, invested with the same powers for the punishment of offences against this act as by the sections of the act referred to.
Act of March 30, 1802, ch. 13, sec. 14, 15.
Farmers and Mechanics’ Bank of Georgetown incorporated.
Capital.
To transact business in Georgetown.
The president and directors.
Votes according to shares.
Proviso; this section may be altered by Congress.
Annual election of directors.
Powers of the president and directors.
Six per cent, per annum for discounts.
Effect of bank notes, &c.
Books, &c. subject to inspection of directors.
Cashier and other officers of the banks, &c.
No compensation to a director, except, &c.
The president and directors empowered to call general meetings of stockholders.
Shares transferable.
Debts of stockholders to be paid before transfer of stock.
Half yearly dividends.
Dividends not to impair capital stock.
Directors knowingly declaring dividends that impair the capital stock liable in their individual capacities.
Restrictions on the bank as to buying, selling, trading, &c.
Proviso; as to the funded debt now held by the bank.
The bank not to purchase or hold lands, except for the convenient transaction of business, or by way of security, &c.
The directors to fill vacancies in that body.
Number of stockholders who may call a general meeting.
Corporation not dissolved by a failure to choose directors on the day appointed, &c.
The president and directors bound to exhibit a statement of debts, credits, and funds of the bank, to the Secretary of the Treasury, &c.
Penalty in case of refusal by the bank to pay in lawful currency, &c.
President and directors to file a declaration accepting the charter, &c.
Capital limited to the amount of stock paid in on the first of Jan., 1819, &c.
Central Bank of Georgetown and Washington incorporated.
Bank of the Metropolis incorporated.
Patriotic Bank of Washington incorporated.
Real Estate Bank of the United States incorporated.
Union Bank of Alexandria incorporated.
Nothing in this act to exonerate the members of the associations incorporated, &c. from liability to creditors under existing contracts.
Unchartered banking companies prohibited after the 4th of April, 1817.
Penalty for signing, &c., notes of unchartered banking companies.
Drafts, bills, &c., discounted contrary to this act declared utterly void.
Penalty for issuing prohibited bills or notes after the 4th day of April, 1817.
[Obsolete.]
100,000 dolls. appropriated for repairing the public buildings.
38,658 dolls. appropriated for completing the enclosure, &c. of the public square.
The enclosure to extend round the semi-circular area.
Act of March 3, 1809, ch. 28.
The President restrained from making transfers of appropriations for specified objects to any other objects.
The claimants to certain donation rights of land in the district of Detroit allowed until the 1st of Dec. 1818, to file their claims.
Act of April 23, 1812, ch. 62.
Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 84.
Resolution of Dec. 11, 1816.
All the laws of the United States, not locally inapplicable, to be in force in Indiana.
The state to be a judicial district ; a district court to be held therein, &c.
Act of Sep. 24, 1789, ch. 20.
1000 dollars a year to the judge.
Attorney for the district, &c.
A marshal, &c.
The company authorized to extend the road from the line of the District to Rock Creek, &c.
Tolls.
Proviso; the road to be extended within five years, &c.
[Expired.]
The court for the northern district to be holden by the judges thereof and judge of the southern district.
Altered by act of April 3, 1818, ch. 32.
Times and places of holding the court for the northern district.
Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 32.
1000 dollars annually additional to the judge of the southern district.
This act in force for a year only.
Where appeals have been taken and not legally acted on, &c., the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct the appeals to be acted on by the principal assessor, &c.
Act of Jan. 9, 1815, ch. 21.
Act of April 26, 1816, ch. 82.
Deeds to be acknowledged by collectors, &c.
5000 dollars appropriated.
Specific appropriations for carrying into effect, treaties made with various Indian nations.
Other sums appropriated to carry into effect other stipulations.
Salary of second comptroller, auditors, &c.
[Expired.]
Act of March 25, 1816, ch. 35.
The act mentioned continued by act of April 20, 1818, ch. 90.
[Expired.]
1816, ch. 25.
1816, ch. 25.
Six months’ service, and name on the muster roll a condition of bounty.
Provided, &c.
Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 25.
Warrants to be located on lands offered at public sale.
Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 25.
Rates of land to grades specified.
Contrary provisions of former act repealed.
This and former act in force for a year.
[Obsolete.]
Act of April 16, 1816, ch. 55.
1819, ch. 94.
Widows and children of soldiers, of militia, volunteers, rangers, and sea-fencibles, &c., placed on an equality.
Rate of annual allowance.
Provisions of the act referred to concerning additional pay extended to wagon-masters, &c.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 79.
Further time to guardians for relinquishment of bounty lands, &c.
Act of April 16, 1816, ch. 55.
Widows and children of non-commissioned officers of the rangers.
Provisions of the second section of the act referred to extended, &c.
Proviso; as to the assent of other heirs.
Relinquishment of title to bounty land entitles children of regular soldiers to four dollars per month.
Act of April 18, 1814, ch. 62.
Money to be deposited in the branch banks of the United States, &c.
Moneys hereafter received to be also deposited, &c.
No money to be drawn from the banks except by order, &c.
Clerks, &c. refusing to obey the order of the court to be proceeded against, &c.
Account of moneys to be given to the court, &c.
Proviso; as to there being no bank, &c.
Act of 1815, ch. 94, continued in force, except as to §§ 5, and 6.
Collectors, naval officers, &c. empowered to remove causes from state to circuit courts, &c.
Proviso; as to corporal punishment.
As to the delivery of manifests by steamboats to Canada on lake Champlain.
As to landing goods brought in steamboats from Canada on lake Champlain.
General issue, this act, &c. in evidence, &c.
This act in force for four years, &c.
Collectors may employ deputies, &c.
Form of the oath to be taken by deputies.
Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.
Restriction as to ninth section of the act referred to.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 124.
Commissioner to investigate, &c. report facts to Congress, &c.
Commissions to be awarded in cases above 200 dolls., &c.
Proviso; as to new commission where facts may not be sufficiently disclosed, &c.
Compensation for horses, mules, wagons, &c.
Provisions of this and former act extended to property lost, &c. in war with Indian tribes, &c.
Claims of 200 dolls. and upwards to be revised by the Secretary of War, &c.
500 copies of the 10th volume of public documents to be subscribed for.
Two dollars twenty-five cents for each 500 pages.
1500 dollars appropriated.
Relief of officers of Illinois territory.
Act of June 6, 1798, ch. 49.
Relief of persons imprisoned for debts due United States.
On conditions such as the President may deem proper.
Indiana admitted into the union as a state.
Act of April 19, 1816, ch. 57.
Four paintings to be placed in the capitol.
Public documents printed in royal octavo page.
ACTS OF THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Duties abolished after the 31st Dec. 1817.
Proviso; acts to remain in force for the collection, &c. of duties accrued, &c.
Offices of collectors to continue until collection is completed, unless, &c.
President empowered to discontinue collectors, unite collection districts, &c.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 78, sec. 6.
Proviso; as to additional allowances to collectors.
Act of March 2, 1816, ch. 100.
Office of commissioner of the revenue to cease whenever, &c.
Proviso; as to the endorsing unstamped bonds, notes, &c.
Proportion ate deduction of duties for unexpired terms, &c.
Proviso; as to duties on sales at auction and on sugar removed.
Value of stamps on hand to be refunded, &c.
If presented within four months.
Six per cent, to collectors, on sums refunded.
Collectors not having sufficient sums in their hands to refund, &c., the money to be paid out of the treasury.
Adjustment of balances on collectors’ accounts.
The 5th section of the act mentioned, to cease.
Act of March 2, 1815, ch. 100.
Act to continue the mint at Philadelphia, continued for five years.
The collector of the port to perform the duties enjoined on the commissioner of loans.
Act of March 3, 1801, ch. 21.
An act for allowing compensation to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, and to the officers of both houses. (Obsolete.) September 22, 1789, ch. 17.
An act for allowing full mileage to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives. July 6, 1797, ch. 13.
An act to change the mode of compensation to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, and the delegates from the territories. March 19, 1816, ch. 30.
An act to repeal, after the close of the present session of Congress, the act, entitled “An act to change the mode of compensation to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States and the delegates from the territories.” Feb. 6, 1817, ch. 9.
An act allowing compensation to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, and to the delegates of territories, and to repeal all other laws on that subject. Jan. 22, 1818, ch. 5.
Eight dollars a day and eight dollars for every twenty miles’ travel, to each senator, &c.
In case of sickness.
Eight dollars a day additional for the President of the Senate pro tempore.
Proviso; limitation of per diem.
Proviso; as to the pay of senators for past travelling.
Eight dollars a day, and eight dollars for every twenty miles’ travel, to each representative and delegate.
In case of sickness.
Speaker entitled to eight dollars a day additional.
Proviso; limitation of per diem.
Compensation to be certified by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House.
All acts and parts of acts repealed.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 91.
200,000 dollars appropriated, to be applied by the commissioner of public buildings under the direction of the President of the United States.
Merchandise transported from Bristol to Boston, &c., entitled to drawback, &c., as if transported coastwise.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
500,000 dollars appropriated for the purposes mentioned.
The President may make transfers of appropriations, &c.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 96.
Act of March 3, 1809, ch. 28.
Act of March 2, 1819, ch. 49.
A land office at the seat of justice in the county of Howard.
A land office in the county of Arkansas.
A land office at the seat of justice in the county of Lawrence.
Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 25.
A land office at the town of Jackson.
District of the land office at St. Louis.
Time of opening the land offices, &c.
Register and receiver to be appointed.
Whenever a land office shall have been established, &c. the President to direct lands to be offered for sale, &c.
Act of March 3, 1811, ch. 46.
Two townships for the support of a seminary of learning; provided, &c.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated, viz:
For the pay of the army of the United States, one million three hundred Pay.
For subsistence, one million twenty-five thousand nine hundred and Subsistence.
For forage for officers, three thousand one hundred and sixty-eight Forage.
Bounties, &c.
For bounties and premiums, forty-four thousand dollars:
Clothing.
For clothing, six hundred and eighteen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars:
Hospital department.
For the medical and hospital department, fifteen thousand dollars:
Ordnance.
For the ordnance department, one hundred and fifty-four thousand two hundred dollars:
Contracts for cannon, &c.
For fulfilling contracts already entered into for cannon and shot, seventy thousand three hundred dollars:
For arsenals, &c.
For completing the arsenals, and other works, at Watertown, near Boston, thirty-nine thousand dollars:
For an arsenal near Augusta, in Georgia, forty thousand dollars:
For an arsenal at Baton Rouge, fifteen thousand dollars:
For an arsenal at Detroit, ten thousand dollars:
For completing the arsenal and other works, at Watervliet, near Albany, ten thousand dollars.
For completing the arsenal and other works, at Pittsburg, five thousand dollars:
Armories.
For armories, three hundred thousand dollars:
Quartermaster.
For the quartermaster’s department, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars:
Contingencies.
For contingencies of the army, sixty thousand dollars:
Indian department.
For the Indian department, two hundred thousand dollars:
Maps, &c.
For the purchase of maps, plans, books, and instruments, for the war office, one thousand dollars:
Gratuities, &c.
For gratuities and travelling expenses to soldiers discharged, seventy thousand dollars:
Fuel, &c. for West Point.
For fuel, transportation, class books, repairs of barracks, and other buildings, and for contingent expenses for the military academy at West Point, twelve thousand and seventy-five dollars:
Medals.
For the expense of medals for the officers of the army, ten thousand dollars:
Running lines, &c.
For marking and running the lines of the several cessions of land made by the Indians in the Illinois territory, five thousand dollars:
For defraying the expense, which may have been incurred, for running and marking the boundary lines of the several cessions of land made by the Indians in the Missouri territory, five thousand dollars:
For expense of a brigade of militia.
To defray the expense of employing a brigade of militia, three hundred and six thousand seven hundred and forty-three dollars.
Collector to reside at Darien.
Darien sole port of entry.
One surveyor for Brunswick, instead, &c.
Act of April 16, 1816, ch. 49.
Time for issuing military land warrants extended.
Act of Feb. 24, 1819, ch. 41.
Time for locating unlocated warrants extended.
The surveyor general to require Rufus Putman, &c., to make a report of lands conveyed, &c.
Act of April 21, 1792, ch. 25.
Copy of field notes, and plat of surveys.
Surveyor general to cause the residue of the lands to be surveyed, &c.
Return of surveys to the general land office, &c.
Confirmed claims to land in the district of Vincennes, may be located on the tract set apart, &c.
Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 40.
Proviso; locations to be made before 1st Sept. 1818.
Act of April 16, 1816, ch. 52.
Residue of tract to be surveyed.
Return of surveys, &c.
Part of one tract to be sold at Marietta; and part of the other at Vincennes—
to the highest bidder, &c.
Days of sale.
Sales open six days.
Price.
Patents.
4 dollars a day to superintendents.
Act of March 3, 1810, ch. 81.
Act of May 1, 1820, ch. 51.
Act of March 1, 1823, ch. 59.
Officers and privates who served in the army or navy during the revolutionary war entitled to pensions.
Officers, 20 dollars per month:
Non-commissioned officers, &c. 8 dolls, per month.
Proviso: claims to previous pensions to be relinquished.
A declaration under oath, and other evidence necessary to the obtaining the benefit of this act.
Testimony, &c. to be transmitted to the Secretary of War, &c.
Payment to be made as in case of other pensions.
Pension to commence on the day of oath.
Sale, transfer, or mortgage, of pension, not valid.
False swearing, perjury.
Act of April 30, 1790, ch. 9, sec. 18.
Sums appropriated for the expenses of the navy, for 1818.
For pay and subsistence.
For provisions.
For medicine, &c.
For repairs of vessels.
For contingent expenses.
For repairs of navy yards, &c.
For pay, &c. of marine corps.
For clothing marine corps.
For military stores
For medals and swords.
The terms holden on the 12th, shall be holden on the 2d of April, in each year, except, &c.
The 2nd section of the act referred to not to apply to the heirs, &c. of persons killed, &c.
Act of May 6, 1812, ch. 77.
The heirs, &c. of such persons may make applications until 1st May, 1820.
Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 112.
5000 dollars for repairing, &c. the road between fort Hawkins and fort Stoddard.
5000 dollars for repairing, &c. the road leading from Columbia to Madisonville, &c.
Sums to be expended under direction of the Secretary of War.
Surveyor of lands in Illinois and Missouri allowed two thousand dollars per annum, in lieu, &c.
Three clerks, &c.
Accounting officers of the treasury to settle the accounts of William Rector, and allow him the fees specified, in addition to salary.
Proviso; no allowance where he has received similar fees from individuals.
Laws of the United States to have the same effect in Mississippi as elsewhere.
Mississippi to be a judicial district, with a district court, and a district judge to reside therein.
Altered by act of Jan. 11, 1821, ch. 6.
Two sessions of the court annually, &c.
Powers of the judge.
Act of Sep. 24, 1789, ch. 20, sect. 10.
Act of Feb. 28, 1799, ch. 19.
Salary of the judge 2000 dolls, per ann.
A district attorney with a compensation of 200 dollars per annum besides fees.
A marshal with a compensation of 200 dollars per annum besides fees.
The district court for Maine to be hereafter holden at Portland on the first Tuesday of June in each year.
The courts for the northern district to be holden by the judge thereof.
In case of his inability, by the judge of the southern district.
The judge of the northern district to give timely notice to the judge of the southern district.
Three terms of the northern district court.
At Albany.
At Utica.
Suits, &c. to be revived and to continue, &c.
Process issued, &c. to be returnable, &c.
Courts may be holden in the northern district at other times, &c. at discretion.
The northern district enlarged.
Proceedings had in suits, &c. in the former district court declared valid.
The jurisdiction of causes, within the limits of the present northern district vested in the court for that district, whether they have or have not been instituted in the former district court.
Pleadings, &c. to be transferred to the clerk’s office for the northern district.
The northern district court to have full power, &c.
Jurisdiction of causes in the southern district vested in the court for that district, whether they have or have not been instituted in the former district court.
Original jurisdiction of the circuit court of the southern district, confined to causes arising within that district.
The levy court of Alexandria may erect a jail for that county.
The marshal to remove prisoners when certified the jail is in a condition to receive them.
The levy court may erect a court-house and fire-proof office for records at the expense of the county, &c.
The levy court may purchase a lot in Alexandria for the erection of the buildings, &c.
The court to levy the money necessary, &c. from time to time.
After the 4th July, 1818, the flag to be 13 stripes and 20 stars.
A star to be added for every new state.
Act of April 18, 1806, ch. 31.
The state of Tennessee may issue grants, &c. on all entries, &c. made, pursuant to the laws of North Carolina, before the 25th Feb. 1790, which were valid, and lie west and south of the line described, &c.
And to issue grants, on warrants of survey, &c. which might be removed by tire cession act, &c.
And all interfering grants, &c. under the same rules, &c.
Previous to issuing a grant, &c., the warrant, &c., must be laid before the commissioner of land claims for West Tennessee, &c.
The warrant, &c. being declared valid, the land to be laid off by the surveyor, &c.
Grant to be executed by the governor, &c.
Proviso.
Persons who have had grants from North Carolina since Dec. 23d, 1811, for lands in Tennessee, on surrendering them to be cancelled, may obtain grants from Tennessee.
The assent of Congress granted to an act of North Carolina for the relief of sick and disabled American seamen.
This act in force for five years.
Where fishing vessels, since the 18th Feb., 1815, have been prevented by illegal capture, &c., from fishing at sea for any part of the four months required, &c., the time to be computed, and the bounty, &c., to be paid.
Proviso: the other requisites must have been complied with.
The public notaries of Washington county to receive the same fees as public notaries in Maryland.
Act of Feb. 17, 1815, ch. 45.
Persons claiming lands, in virtue of the act mentioned, to make application, &c., on or before the 1st Jan., 1819.
Recorder not to issue certificate where the evidence has not been produced within the time.
Persons who purchase a quarter section or more of land in Alabama, and who have paid one fourth, &c., shall be competent to hold any office of honour or profit in that territory, &c.
That the following sums be, Sums appropriated for the support of government. and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated; that is to say:
Compensation of members of Congress, &c.
For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, two hundred thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses of Congress.
For the expenses of fire wood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses, of the two houses of Congress, thirty-seven thousand dollars.
Library and librarian of Congress.
For the expenses of the library of Congress, including the librarian’s allowance, for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
President.
For compensation to the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Vice President.
For compensation to the Vice President of the United States, five thousand dollars.
Rent, &c., of a house occupied by the President.
For rent and repairs of a house occupied by the President of the United States, eight hundred and ninety dollars.
Secretary of State.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars.
Clerks in Department of State.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the Department of State, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Messenger.
For compensation to the messenger in said department, and for the patent office, six hundred and sixty dollars.
Contingent expenses of Department of State.
For the contingent and incidental expenses of the said department, including the expenses of printing and distributing copies of the laws of the first session of the fifteenth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, and to provide for a deficiency in the appropriation for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, nineteen thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars.
Secretary of the Treasury.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, five thousand dollars.
Clerks.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten thousand four hundred and thirty-three dollars.
Messenger.
For compensation to the messenger and assistant messenger in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, seven hundred and ten dollars.
First comptroller.
For compensation to the first comptroller of the treasury, three thou sand five hundred dollars.
First comptroller’s clerks, and messenger.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the first comptroller of the treasury, fifteen thousand five hundred and sixteen dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
Second comptroller.
For compensation to the second comptroller of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
Second comptroller’s clerks.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the second comptroller of the treasury, eight thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Second comptroller’s messenger.
For compensation to the first auditor of the treasury, three thousand First auditor, and his clerks and messenger.
For compensation to the second auditor of the treasury, three thousand Second auditor.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the second auditor’s office, Second auditor’s clerks and messenger.
For compensation to the third auditor of the treasury, three thousand Third auditor, and his clerks and messenger.
For compensation to the fourth auditor of the treasury, three thousand Fourth auditor, and his clerks and messenger.
For compensation to the fifth auditor of the treasury, three thousand Fifth auditor, and his clerks and messenger.
For compensation to the treasurer of the United States, three thousand Treasurer, and his clerks.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the commissioner of the general land office, Commissioner of general land office, and his clerks, additional clerks, and messenger.
For compensation to the commissioner of the revenue, three thousand Commissioner of the revenue, and his clerks and messenger.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, three thousand Register, his clerks and messenger.
For stating and printing the public accounts for the years one thousand For stating and printing public accounts.
For the expense of translating foreign languages, allowed to the person For translating foreign languages, and other contingent expenses.
For compensation to a superintendent and two watchmen, employed Superintendent and watchmen of the treasury.
Secretary of sinking fund.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and filly dollars.
Secretary of War.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Clerks.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Secretary of War, fifteen thousand two hundred and thirty dollars.
Messenger.
For compensation to the messenger and his assistants in said office, seven hundred and ten dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in said office, four thousand dollars.
Paymaster general.
For compensation to the paymaster general of the army, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Clerks.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the paymaster general of the army, ten thousand dollars.
Messenger.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in said office, two thousand dollars.
Commissary general of purchases.
For compensation to the commissary general of purchases, three thousand dollars.
Clerks.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the commissary general of purchases, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
Messenger.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, three hundred and sixty dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, office rent, and other contingent expenses, in said office, nine hundred and thirty dollars.
Clerks.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the adjutant and inspector general, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
Clerks in the ordnance office.
For compensation to clerks employed in the ordnance office, one thousand dollars.
Secretary of the Navy.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Clerks.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, seven thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars.
Messenger.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in said office, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Commissioners of navy board.
For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, ten thou sand five hundred dollars.
Completing surveys of ports and harbours.
For completing the surveys of certain ports and harbours, for the purpose of selecting two stations for the establishment of arsenal ports, twenty-five thousand dollars.
The Creek Indians.
For discharging the sum to be paid to the Creek nation of Indians, during the present year, pursuant to the treaty with them of the twenty- second January, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, twenty thou sand dollars.
Printing, &c. of journal and proceedings of the convention, &c.
For defraying the expenses of printing done pursuant to the resolution directing the publication and distribution of the journal and proceedings of the convention which formed the constitution of the United States, ten thousand dollars.
Digesting and printing laws, &c.
For defraying the expenses of digesting and printing certain laws and regulations relative to the navigation and trade of the United States in foreign countries, pursuant to a resolution of the Senate of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, five thousand dollars.
Secretary of the navy board.
For compensation to the secretary of the navy board, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the navy Clerks.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For the contingent expenses of the navy board, two thousand Contingent expenses.
For compensation to a superintendent and two watchmen, and for Superintendent and watchmen of State, War, and Navy Departments.
For compensation to the Postmaster General, three thousand dollars.
Postmaster general.
For compensation to the Assistant Postmaster General, one thousand Assistant postmaster general.
For compensation to the second Assistant Postmaster General, one Second assistant postmaster general.
For compensation to clerks employed in the general post-office, nineteen thousand three hundred and five dollars.
For compensation to the messenger and his assistants in said office, six hundred and sixty dollars.
Messenger.
For the contingent expenses of the general post-office, three thousand Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the surveyor general and his clerks, four thousand Surveyor general and clerks.
For compensation to the surveyor south of Tennessee, his clerks, and for Surveyor south of Tennessee and clerks, &c.
For compensation to the surveyor in tire Illinois and Missouri territories, Surveyor in Illinois and Missouri.
For compensation to the surveyor in the northern part of the Alabama Surveyor in northern part of Alabama.
For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings in Washington, two thousand dollars.
Commissioner of public buildings.
For compensation to the officers and clerks of the mint, nine thousand six hundred dollars.
For wages of persons employed in the different operations of the mint, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
Officers and clerks of the mint.
For repairs, costs of iron, and machinery, rents, and other contingent Persons employed in the mint. Contingent expenses of the mint.
For allowance for wasteage in the gold and silver coin, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Illinois Wasteage. Illinois Illinois Governor, &c. of Missouri.
For 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, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses, of said Contingent expenses. Governor, &c. of Michigan.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Alabama Governor, &c. of Alabama.
For stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district Judges.
Attorney general.
For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, three thousand dollars.
District attorneys and marshals.
For compensation of sundry district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, eight thousand three hundred dollars.
Reporter of decisions of Supreme Court.
For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, for the years eighteen hundred and seventeen and eighteen hundred and eighteen, two thousand dollars.
Sundry pensions.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present governments, sixteen hundred and forty dollars.
Annual allowance to pensioners.
For the payment of the annual allowance to the pensioners of the United States to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Support of lighthouses, &c.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, stake ages of channels, bars, and shoals, including the purchase and transportation of oil, keepers’ salaries, repairs, and improvements, and contingent expenses, sixty thousand two hundred and thirty-six dollars.
Claims of inhabitants of West Florida.
For discharging the claims of the inhabitants of the late province of West Florida, for advances made for the use of the United States prior to, and since the taking possession of the said territory, as liquidated by the Department of State, including principal and interest, forty-one thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars and seventy cents.
Commissioner of claims.
For compensation to the commissioner for settling claims for property lost, five hundred and fifty dollars.
Clerk of commissioner of claims.
For compensation to the clerk employed in the office of said commissioner, two hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For stationery, fuel, printing, and other contingent expenses in said office, including a deficiency in the appropriation of last year, six hundred and sixty-five dollars.
Additional clerks.
For the salary of additional clerks, from the first of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, to ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, fourteen hundred and thirty-nine dollars.
Hire of a messenger.
For the hire of a messenger for the same period, four hundred and eighty-four dollars.
Surveying public lands.
For defraying the expense of surveying the public lands, within the several states and territories of the United States, one hundred and sixty thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Salaries of public ministers, &c.
For salaries of the ministers of the United States to London, Paris, St. Petersburg, Rio Janeiro, Stockholm, Madrid, and the Hague, and their several secretaries of legation, seventy-seven thousand dollars.
Outfits, &c.
For outfits of ministers of the United States at London and St. Peters burg, eighteen thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For the contingent expenses of the missions aforesaid, ten thousand dollars.
Deficiency in foreign intercourse fund.
To provide for a deficiency in the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, for intercourse with foreign nations, twenty thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses of foreign intercourse.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, eighty thousand dollars.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, forty-two Intercourse with Barbary powers.
For the expenses necessary during the present year for carrying into For carrying into effect the treaty of Ghent.
For the salaries of the agents for claims on account of spoliations, and Agents at Paris and London.
For nine months’ salary of the agent at Copenhagen, one thousand Agent at Copenhagen. Relief of American seamen.
For the relief of distressed American seamen for the present year, and to make good a deficiency in the preceding year, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
To provide for the payment of the sums directed to be paid by an act For payment of sums under the act mentioned. 1816, ch. 119. For discharging claims not otherwise provided for, admitted at the Treasury.
For the discharge of such claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, six thousand dollars.
For custom-houses and warehouses.
For discharging the judgment obtained by Gould Hoyt against D. Gelston and P. Schenk, &c.
For the purchase or erection of custom-houses and public warehouses, two hundred thousand dollars.
For discharging the judgment obtained by Gould Hoyt against David Gelston and Peter Schenk, in an action of trespass for seizing the ship American Eagle under instructions from the Treasury Department, a sum not exceeding one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
To indemnify the owners of the British ship Venus, taken by the For indemnifying the owners of the British ship Venus, &c.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 31.
Act of Feb. 9, 1821, ch. 11.
Act of March 1, 1823, ch. 39.
Officers and soldiers of the Virginia line entitled to bounty lands, allowed two years from the ratification of any treaty extinguishing Indian titles, &c. to obtain warrants, &c.
And three years to return their surveys, &c.
The act authorizing patents to issue for lands surveyed in virtue of Virginia resolution warrants, revived, &c. except, &c.
Proviso: no location on tracts for which patents had previously issued or which had been surveyed, &c.
Proviso: no locations or surveys within that part of the military tract, &c.
The line designated by the act of the 23d of March, 1804, ch. 33, to remain the westerly boundary line of the Virginia tract, until otherwise directed by Jaw.
The line run by Charles Roberts, to be considered the westerly boundary.
Patents for locations.
The Secretary of the Treasury, from time to time, to pay 3 per cent, of the net proceeds of public lands in Indiana, to persons authorized by the legislature of that state to receive it.
The sums to be applied to making public roads, &c.
Act of April 19, 1816, ch. 57.
An annual account of the application of the money to be sent to the Secretary of the Treasury, &c.
The district of Erie to be called the district of Cuyahoga.
So much of the acts as bars loan office and final settlement certificates, and indents of interest, from settlement, suspended for two years.
1795, ch. 45.
1798, ch. 51.
A notification of the suspension to be published by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Outstanding loan office and final settlement certificates and indents of interest to be paid, with interest, at six per cent, at the treasury.
80,000 dolls, appropriated for carrying this act into effect.
None but persons belonging to army and navy to be employed in surveying the coasts.
Act of Feb. 10, 1807, ch. 8.
Instruments, surveys, draffs, charts, &c. to be deposited as the President directs.
[Obsolete.]
52,984 dolls. 60 cents appropriated for claims due on account of the Cumberland road, &c.
260,000 dolls, appropriated to meet demands under existing contracts.
Part of the acts of 3d March, 1815, and of 24th April, 1816, repealed.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 79.
1816, ch. 69.
Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 13.
Part of the acts of 3d March, 1815, and of 24th April, 1816, repealed.
A surgeon general.
Assistant surgeon general.
Judge advocate.
Chaplain, &c. Eight post surgeons to a division.
Another part of the act of 24th April, 1816, repealed.
Quartermaster’s department.
Assistant deputies.
Additional pay and emoluments to deranged commissioned officers.
This act to go into effect on or before 1st June, 1818.
A commissary general to be appointed.
Assistant commissaries, from the subalterns of the line.
Duties of commissary general, &c.
Supplies to be purchased by contract.
Act of Jan. 23, 1823, ch. 5.
The President may make alterations in the ration.
Commissary general and assistants not to be concerned in trade, &c.
Continuance of part of this act.
Commissary general’s letters free of postage.
Continuance of part of this act.
Brevet officers to receive pay, &c.
Brevet commissions with consent of the Senate.
1814, ch. 20.
Act of March 18, 1818, ch. 18.
Act of April 9, 1824, ch. 34.
Persons put on the pension list in virtue of the 1st section of the act of March 4, 1814, to be allowed full monthly pension for the further term of five years.
The term extended by act of March 3, 1819, ch. 60.
Pension to cease on death of the widow, &c.
Widows and children of officers, seamen, &c.
Proviso; the money to be paid out of the privateer fund.
Act of March 2, 1811, ch. 30.
Superintendent of Indian trade, agents, &c.
After 18th April, 1818, no person to act without the consent of the Senate.
Agents to give bond in 10,000 dollars.
The act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes continued until 1st March, 1819.
Act of 1811, ch. 30.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 43.
Act of March 3, 1821, ch. 45.
An act to extend the right of suffrage to the Illinois territory, and for other purposes. May 20, 1812, ch. 90.
An act supplementary to the act, entitled “
An act to enable the people of the Illinois 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 18, 1818, ch. 67.
An act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the state of Illinois. March 3, 1819, ch. 70.
An act to ascertain and mark the line between the state of Alabama and the territory of Florida, and the northern boundary of the state of Illinois, and for other purposes. March 2, 1831, ch. 86.
Resolution of Dec. 3, 1818.
The inhabitants of Illinois authorized to form a constitution, &c.
The state to be admitted into the Union, &c.
Boundaries of the state.
Proviso: the convention to ratify the boundaries, or they will remain as by ordinance.
Proviso: concurrent jurisdiction on the Wabash.
And also on the Mississippi.
That all white male citizens of Qualifications of electors of representatives to form a convention. Apportionment of representatives.
Bond county.
Madison.
St. Clair.
Monroe.
Randolph.
Jackson.
Johnson.
Pope.
Gallatin.
White.
Edwards.
Crawford.
Union.
Washington.
Franklin.
And the election for the representatives aforesaid shall be holden on Election to be holden on the first Monday of July, 1818, &c.
Members to meet in convention at the territorial seat of government the first Monday of August, 1818, and determine, &c.
The convention may form a constitution &c.
Proviso.
Proviso.
The state to have one representative until next census.
Propositions offered to the convention of Illinois.
1. Section No. 16, in every township, &c., for schools.
2. Salt Springs and land reserved, &c. granted to the state, &c.
Proviso.
3. Five per cent, net proceeds of sales of public lands within the stale reserved.
Two-fifths for roads.
The residue to encourage learning, &c.
4. Thirty-six sections to be for the use of a seminary of learning.
Proviso.
Lands sold by the United States shall be free from taxes for five years.
And military bounty lands whilst held by the patentees or their heirs to be free from taxes for three years.
Non-resident citizens’ lands not to be taxed higher than those of residents.
Additional territory added to Michigan after Illinois is formed into a state, subject to the disposition of Congress, &c.
The port of delivery at the mouth of Slade’s creek to cease after the 30th April, 1818.
Act of Feb. 20, 1824, ch. 20.
Feb. 1, 1826, ch. 4.
Secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House to receive 3000 dollars each, annually.
Their clerks, &c.
1500 dollars to the librarian annually, payable quarterly.
Former acts repealed.
Revived by act of March 3, 1821, ch. 54.
The ports of the United States closed, after 30th Sept. 1818, against vessels owned by British subjects, arriving from a colony which, by the ordinary laws, is closed against vessels owned by citizens of the United States.
Touching at a port, which, by the ordinary laws is open to vessels, owned by citizens of the United States, does not vary the restriction.
Vessels and cargoes entering in violation of this act forfeited to the United States.
After the 30th Sept. 1818, the owner, consignee, &c. of British vessels taking on board productions of the United States, in the ports thereof, except sea stores, &c. to give bond not to land them in a British colony or territory from which, by the ordinary laws, vessels of the United Slates are excluded.
Vessels sailing without bond, &c. and the articles on board, forfeited to the United States.
Proviso.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22, sec. 81.
Form of the bond to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
The bond may be discharged by producing within a year, a certificate like that required by the 81st section of the act to regulate the collection of duties, &c.
Congress to meet on the third Monday of November.
[Obsolete.]
Act of May 10, 1800, ch. 55.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 74.
The President may establish another port of entry, &c. on lake Ontario, at Cape Vincent—and appoint a collector.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Act of April 18, 1820, ch. 44.
Act of March 1, 1823, ch. 20.
Imported goods subject to ad valorem duty, &c. not to be admitted to entry, unless the owner, &c. produces the original invoice to the collector.
The goods to remain in the public warehouse, &c.
Proviso.
Proviso.
The Secretary of the Treasury, if he deems it expedient, may direct the collector to admit the goods to entry on appraisement, &c.
Proviso.
The person making entry of goods subject to ad valorem duty to declare the owner.
The ad valorem rates of duty how estimated.
The owner, &c. of goods subject to an ad valorem duty, to declare on oath that the invoice exhibits the true value, &c.
When goods subject to an ad valorem duty are consigned to a person to be entered, &c. they shall remain in the public warehouse, &c.
Imported goods subject to ad valorem duty, reshipped and transported coastwise, &c. to be produced, &c.
If the invoice and oath are not produced.
Goods subject to ad valorem duty may be transported coastwise.
The owner to declare on oath whether he is the manufacturer, &c.
Proviso.
Two persons in the ports of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, and New Orleans, to be appointed.
Appraisement to be made by the appraisers and a resident merchant.
Appraisements in other ports.
Proviso.
The President may appoint in the recess of the Senate, &c.
Merchants chosen to make appraisement declining or neglecting to assist subject to a fine of fifty dollars, &c.
Whenever the collector suspects that imported goods subject to ad valorem duty have been invoiced below the true value, &c. he shall direct them to be appraised.
The appraised, to be considered the true value, where it exceeds the invoice value by less than 25 per cent. &c.
Goods subject to ad valorem duty belonging to nonresidents.
Division of forfeitures.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Goods taken from a wreck to be appraised.
Goods damaged on the voyage.
Expenses of appraisement to be borne by owners, except, &c.
Exception.
Compensation of appraisers.
Collectors to pay appraisers the amount to official appraisers in part of salary.
Two dollars to a consul for every verification.
The collector to certify invoice, and no other to be admitted in evidence.
Persons counterfeiting certificates, &c.
No discount on goods unless the duty has been actually paid.
One package of every invoice, and one out of every fifty packages of goods, to be examined.
Proviso.
A bond executed by one partner in trade to bind the whole firm, if in its name.
Twenty days allowed for giving the exportation bonds.
Proviso.
Drawback.
Penalties and forfeitures.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
And may be mitigated, &c., as prescribed by the act of March 3, 1797, ch. 13.
Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 92.
The Secretary of State to publish the laws and resolutions and treaties.
Amendments of the constitution to be published also with a certificate of the Secretary of State, &c.
Compensation for publication.
In case of wilful omission or unreasonable delay in publishing the laws.
The Secretary of State to cause 11,000 copies of the acts, resolutions, treaties, &c., of every session of Congress to be published: to correspond with the revised edition.
Distribution of the 11,000 copies.
State.
300 copies to the library of Congress.
100 copies to the Secretary of War, and 50 copies to the Secretary of the Navy, &c.
400 copies to be reserved by the Secretary of State, for ministers and consuls.
The residue of the copies to be distributed among the states and territories.
Contracts for publishing the laws in the pamphlet form.
Former and contravening acts repealed.
Proviso.
Money necessary to carry this act into effect appropriated.
Buildings for executive departments under direction of the President.
Appropriation under the direction of the President.
The Secretary of the Treasury authorized to cause omissions or defects in assessment of direct tax of 1815–16, in the 5th district of Virginia, to be supplied or corrected, &c.
Proviso, corrections to conform to principles applicable to other districts.
Taxes due when the lists are delivered, &c.
5000 dolls, appropriated for making corrections.
Expenses of publication.
1815, ch. 21.
Property belonging to infants, &c. sold for direct taxes may be redeemed two years after disability, &c.
Value of improvements to be ascertained.
The clerk to receive compensation, &c.
The time for redemption of lands sold for taxes, extended three years beyond the time allowed.
Proviso.
President authorized to abolish all existing offices of collectors of direct tax and internal duties; and duties to be performed to devolve as he designates.
Officer to whom duties are transferred to give bond, &c.
Receipt for purchase money before deed, &c.
Regulations.
Statements to designate the names of the persons taxed, &c.
Collectors, &c. to pay the moneys received to the clerk, &c.
Clerk to grant deeds, &c.
Proviso.
Clerks of district courts to render to the Secretary of the Treasury statements of proceedings, &c.
Abatement on bonds for internal duties if paid before duo.
Deeds for property sold for the direct tax imposed in 1798.
Proviso.
Defective deeds to be recited at length.
Property liable for claims subsequent to defective deed.
In suits instituted by the United States, debtors of a corporation may be summoned as garnishees.
If persons summoned as garnishees depose they are not indebted, issue may be tendered, and on judgment against them they are liable for costs.
Persons summoned as garnishees, and failing to attend, are subject to attachment for contempt.
Certain parts of the act of 30th April, 1816, ch. 172, declared to be in full force and virtue.
Act of Feb. 28, 1795, ch.36, vol. i. 424.
Expenses incurred by marching militia to places of rendezvous to be adjusted and paid in the same manner as expenses incurred after arrival.
Proviso.
Officers and privates who served in the volunteer cavalry during the late war.
Clerks in the Department of State.
Patent office.
Clerks in Treasury Department.
Clerks in the Secretary’s office.
Clerks in the first comptroller’s office.
Clerks in the second comptroller’s office.
Clerks in the first auditor’s office.
Clerks in the second auditor’s office.
Clerks in the third auditor’s office.
Clerks in the fourth auditor’s office.
Clerks in the fifth auditor’s office.
Clerks in the treasurer’s office.
Clerks in the register’s office.
Clerks in the general land office.
Clerks in the War Department.
Clerks in the paymaster general’s office.
Clerks in the adjutant and inspector general’s office.
Clerks in the ordnance department.
Clerks in the office of superintendent of Indian trade.
Clerks in the Navy Department.
Clerks in the office of the commissioners of the navy.
Clerk to the attorney general.
Clerk to the attorney general.
Additional clerks in the office of the third auditor, until 1st Jan., 1820.
Additional clerks in the office of the second comptroller, until 1st Jan. 1820.
Compensation to commence 1st April, 1818.
Report to Congress the names of clerks, the time each was employed, and sums paid each.
No higher or other allowance.
Fine of 2000 dolls, and imprisonment, for any citizen’s exercising a commission within the United States, &c. to serve a foreign state, &c.
Fine and imprisonment for any person within the jurisdiction of the United States enlisting, or procuring others to enlist, &c. to serve a foreign state, &c.
Proviso.
Fine and imprisonment for fitting out, &c.
The vessel, &c. to be forfeited.
Half to the informer.
Fine and imprisonment for citizens fitting out or arming, &c.
If committed out of the limits of the United States, to be tried where apprehended, &c.
Fine and imprisonment for augmenting, within the jurisdiction of the United States, the force of foreign armed vessels.
Fine and imprisonment for any person’s setting on foot within the jurisdiction of the United States, any military expedition against a friendly power.
District courts to take cognisance of complaints.
The President, or such person as he may authorize, in the cases mentioned, may employ the land or naval forces, or the militia, for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into effect.
The President, &c. may employ the land or naval forces, or the militia, to compel the departure of a vessel which ought not to remain, &c.
Owners, &c. of armed vessels sailing out of the United States to give bond, &c. not to commit hostilities, &c. against a friendly power.
Collectors required to detain vessels built for warlike purposes, and about to depart, when circumstances render it probable that they are intended to commit hostilities against a friendly power.
The acts of 5th June, 1794, ch. 50, of 14th June, 1797, ch. 1, of April 24, 1800, ch. 35, and of 3d March, 1817, ch. 58, repealed.
Proviso.
Offenders against repealed acts punished.
Nothing in the foregoing act to prevent the punishment of treason, &c.
Act of March 25, 1816, ch. 35.
The act continued until 3d March, 1819.
Act of March, 2, 1807, ch. 22.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 77.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 113.
Negroes not to be imported, with intent to hold them as slaves.
No person to equip vessels for the slave trade in the ports of the United States.
Vessels equipped for the slave trade forfeited, &c.
Half to the person suing, &c.
Persons concerned in fitting out vessels for the slave trade, &c. subject to a fine.
Imprisonment, &c.
Citizens or residents liable to a fine and to imprisonment, for transporting persons not held to service, &c. by the laws of the United States, &c.
Vessel, &c. forfeited.
Slaves imported in violation of this act, to be disposed of as the territorial authorities may prescribe, &c.
Persons bringing in any negro, &c. from a foreign place, &c. or holding, selling, such negro, &c. when brought in, as a slave, forfeit not more than ten, nor less than one, thousand dolls, and are subject to imprisonment.
Persons holding, buying, or selling, &c. any negro, &c. brought as a slave, in any way, from a foreign place, or from adjoining foreign dominions.
Proviso; the forfeiture not to extend to the seller or purchaser of any negro, &c. under the lawful regulations of a state, &c.
Onus probandi on the defendant.
In failure of proof the defendant to be guilty.
Prosecutions may be sustained within five years.
The first six sections of the act of 2d March, 1807, repealed.
Act of March 2, 1807, ch. 22.
That the post roads hereafter Post-roads discontinued.
In New Hampshire.—From Concord, by Loudon, Gilmanton Middleton, New Hampshire.
In Massachusetts.—From Kingston to Halifax.
Massachusetts.
From Northampton, by Hadley, to Montague.
In Connecticut.—From Hartford, by Springfield, to Northampton, Mass.
Connecticut.
In Virginia.—From Clarksburg, by Lewis Courthouse, to Point Pleasant.
Virginia.
From Clarksburg, by Buchanan, to Beverly.
In Kentucky.—From Glasgow to Lebanon, Tennessee.
Kentucky.
In Georgia.—From Madison to Monticello.
Georgia.
From Montgomery Courthouse, by Blackmore’s and Hardin’s, to Riceboroug.
In Pennsylvania;—From Montrose, by Orwell and Warren, to Athens.
Pennsylvania.
From Middleton to York Haven.
In Alabama.—From Fort Stoddert to Ford’s, on Pearl river.
Alabama.
In Missouri.—From St. Louis to St. Charles.
Missouri.
In New York.—From Esperanza, by Schoharie Courthouse, to Middleburg.
New York.
From Albany, by Spencertown, to Sheffield, Massachusetts.
Post-roads established.
In Maine.—From Augusta, by Belgrade and Dearborn, to Mercer.
Maine.
From Canaan, by Cornville, Athens, Harmony, Ripley, Dexter, Garland and Corinth, to Bangor.
From North Yarmouth, by Pownal, Durham, Lisbon, and Litchfield, to Gardiner.
From Alfred, by Sanford and Lebanon, to Shapleigh.
From Warren, by Thomaston, to Camden.
From Belfast, by Brooks and Jackson, to Dixmont.
From Norridgewalk, by Stark’s and Mercer, to New Sharon.
From Bath to Phippsburg.
From Anson, in Somerset county, by New Portland, Freeman, Phillips, Avon, and Strong, to Farmington.
In New Hampshire.—From Walpole, by Alstead, to Ackworth.
New Hampshire.
From Washington, by Newport, to Claremont.
From Concord, by Canterbury, Northfield, Meredith, Moultonborough, Sandwich, Tamworth, on the North road, by Gilman’s Mills, Eaton, and Conway, to Fryeburgh.
From Amherst, by Goffstown, West Meeting House, Dunbarton, Hop-
From Fitzwilliam, by Rindge and Ashby, to Townsend.
From Keene, by Swansea, to Richmond.
From Dunstable, by Merrimack, to Piscataquog Bridge, in Bedford.
Vermont.
In Vermont.—From Burlington, by Craftsbury and Irasburgh, to Brownington.
From Norwich, by Stafford, Chelsea, Washington, Orange, and Barre, to Montpelier.
From Chester, by Springfield and Cheshire Bridge, to Charleston, New Hampshire.
From Bellows Falls, by Grafton, Windham, and Londonderry, to Peru.
From Guildhall, by Maidstone, Brunswick, Minehead, and Lemington, to Canaan.
From Montpelier, by Waterbury, Waitfield, and Warren, to Hancock.
From Brattleboro’, by Newfane, to Townsend.
Massachusetts.
In Massachusetts.—From East Bridgewater, by Halifax, Plympton, and Kingston, to Plymouth.
From Boston, by Malden and South Reading, to Reading.
From Haverhill, by Mathuen, to Windham, New Hampshire.
From South Hadley, by Amherst, West Parish, to Sunderland.
From Springfield, by West Springfield and Southampton, to Northampton.
From Northfield to Warwick.
Connecticut.
In Connecticut.—From Hartford, by East Hartford, East Windsor, Enfield, Long Meadow, Springfield, South Hadley, Hadley, Sunderland, Montague, Northfield, Chesterfield, New Hampshire, Westmoreland, Walpole, Charlestown, Claremont, Cornish, Plainfield, and Lebanon, to Hanover.
New York.
In New York.—From Hamilton, by Lebanon and Georgetown, to Cooley’s Inn, in Otselick, in the county of Chenango.
From Hamilton, by Hartshorn’s Tavern, in Lebanon, to Sherburn.
From Utica, by Clinton, Chandler’s store, Augusta, and Madison, to Hamilton village.
From Hampton to Utica.
From Vernon to Sconandoa.
From Bloomfield, by Pittsford, to Charlotte.
From Great Barrington, Massa, by West Stockbridge, Canaan, Chat ham, and Nassau, to Albany.
From Geneva, by Seneca, Phelps, Farmington, Palmyra, and Perrinton, to Pittsford.
From Batavia to Bergen.
From Batavia to Attica.
From Essex Courthouse, by Bosworth’s Tavern, to Chesterfield.
From Denmark, by Leraysville, to Wilna.
From Naples, by Gorham, to Canandaigua.
From Troy to Schenectady, on the turnpike road.
From Rhinebeck, by North East and Amenia, to Sharon.
From West North East to Attleborough.
From Lisle to Caroline.
From Binghampton, by Lisle, to Homer.
From Lenox, by Clockvill, Peterborough, Morris’ Flats, and Eaton, to Log City.
From Albany, by Bethlehem, Rensellearville, Blenheim, to Maryland or Susquehannah Bridge, on the turnpike road.
From Catskill, by Greenville, Broome, Middleburg, Cobleskill, and Sharon, to Cherry Valley.
From Jericho to Musqueto Cove, in Oyster Bay.
From Leicester, by Perry, East Nunda and West Nunda, to Oleon or Hamilton Village.
In New Jersey.—From Freehold, by Squancum, Manasquan, Tom’s New Jersey.
In Pennsylvania.—From Philadelphia to West Chester.
Pennsylvania.
From Quakertown, by Springtown, to Durham.
From Harrisburg, by Cumberland, to York Haven.
From York, by M’Calls Ferry, to Mount Pleasant.
From Carlisle to Newville.
From Columbia to Marietta.
From Tunckhannock, by Springfield, Four Corners, to Montrose.
From Montrose to Binghamston.
From Athens, by the turnpike road, to Ithaca.
From York, by Lower Chanceford, to Bellair.
From Lititz to Emaus.
From Somerset, by Jones’ Mills, Mount Pleasant, and Stewart’s, to Pittsburg.
From Pittsburg, by Elizabethtown, Freeport, Perryopolis, and Middle town, to Union town.
From Beavertown, by Brighton, to Greersburg.
From Beavertown to Butler.
From Butler, by Lawrenceburg, to Kittaning.
From Meadville to Kinsman, Ohio.
From Mount Pleasant, in Wayne county, to Schohockting post-office, New York.
In the District of Columbia.—From Georgetown, by Captain John’s Columbia.
In Virginia.—From Norfolk, by the Falls of Roanoake, Warrenton, Virginia.
From Danville to the Lead Mines.
From South Quay, by Isle of White Courthouse, to Smithfield.
From Richmond, by the United States’ Arsenal and Jefferson, to Cartersville.
From Richmond, along the turnpike, and Three Notched Road, to Milton.
From Fauquier Courthouse, by Thornton’s Gap, to New Market.
From Blacksburg, in Montgomery county, by Christiansburg, to Franklin Courthouse.
From New London, by Clayton’s Store, Staunton River, Anthony’s Ford, Newbill’s and John Smith’s, to Pittsylvania Courthouse.
From Lilly Point to Halcyonville.
From Abingdon to Russell Courthouse.
From Clarksburg, by Preston, Bulltown, Salt Works, and Lewis Courthouse, to Charleston.
From Tyler Courthouse to Sistersville.
From Preston, by Buckhanon’s, to Booth’s Ferry.
From Morgantown, by Crab Orchard, to Kingwood.
From Kingwood, by the Swamps, Harden’s Cove, Glady Creek, Hunter’s Fork, and Leading Creek, to Beverly.
From Clarksburg, by Booth’s Ferry, and Leading Creek, to Beverly.
From Middleburg, by Rectortown, Oak Hill, along Manassah road, by Front Royal, to Stoverstown.
From Wheeling, by Alexandria, to Washington, Pennsylvania.
In North Carolina.—From Salem to Mount Pizgah.
North Carolina.
From Raleigh, by Delk’s and Alston’s, to Hillsborough.
From Mason Hall, by Cannon’s Mills and the Shallow Ford, on Haw River, to Greensborough.
From Snow Hill, by Hookerstown, to Kingston.
From Currituck Courthouse, to Knot’s Island.
From Currituck Courthouse to Powell’s Point.
From Lewisburg, by William’s Store, Ransom’s Bridge, and Moon’s Store, to Enfield.
From Duplin Courthouse to Newberne.
South Carolina.
In South Carolina.—From York Courthouse, by Harmony, George Caruth’s and Rutherfordton, to Asheville, North Carolina.
From Cambridge to Hickory Grove.
From Andersonville, by Beaver Dam, to Houstonville.
From Pendleton Courthouse to Socony.
Georgia.
In Georgia.—From Milledgeville, by Eatonton, and Gardner’s Ferry, to Greensborough.
From Milledgeville to Monticello.
From Montgomery C. H. by Tatnall C. H. to Darien.
Ohio.
In Ohio.—From Marietta, by Brown’s Mills and Oliver’s Settlement, to Lancaster.
From Lancaster, by Royaltown, Circleville, to Washington.
From Marietta, by Bellepre, Wilkesville, Jackson Courthouse and Piketown, to West Union.
From New Salem, by Rumley, New Hagerstown, Leesburgh, New Philadelphia, and Paintville, to Wooster.
From Columbus, by Mount Vernon, Loudenville, Wooster, and Harrisville, to Granger.
From Delaware, by Oxford, Florida, and Lexington, to Mansfield.
From Hamilton, by Jacksonborough, to New Lexington.
From Coshocton to Newark.
From Troy to Dark Courthouse.
From Granville, by Johnstown, Simsbury, and Berkshire, to Worthington.
From Warren, by Parkman, Burton, and Chardon, to Painesville.
From Warren, by Newton, to Canton, in Starke county.
From Youngstown to New Bedford, Pennsylvania.
From Ravenna to Burton.
From Stow by Medina Courthouse, to Huron Courthouse.
From Brookfield to Mercer, Pennsylvania.
From Marietta, by Toulman’s and Lexington, to Woodfield.
From West Union, by the mouth of Brush Creek and Sandy Spring, to Vanceburgh, in the state of Kentucky.
Indiana.
In Indiana.—From Hartford to Rising Sun.
From Lawrenceburg, by the Rising Sun, to Vevay.
From Corydon, by Elizabeth and Liconia, to Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
From Fort Harrison, through Monroe county and Lawrence county, to Brownstown.
From Peola, by Orleans, to Lawrence Courthouse.
From Salem, by Bono, to Monroe Courthouse.
From Madison, by Graham’s, to Brownstown.
From Vevay, by Edenborough, Ripley Courthouse, to Brookville.
From Centerville to Jacksonborough.
From Lexington, by Provine’s, New Washington, Bethlehem, and New London, to Lexington.
From Ripley Courthouse, by Vernon, to Brownstown.
From Jeffersonville to New Albany.
Missouri Territory.
In Missouri Territory.—From St. Genevieve to St. Michael.
From Jackson to Betts’ Ferry.
From St. Genevieve, by Potosi, to Franklin, Howard county.
From Franklin, Howard county, to Chariton.
From St Louis, by Florisant, to St. Charles.
In Kentucky.—From Hopkinsville, by Williams’s and Boyd’s Landing, Kentucky.
From Columbia to Hazle Patch.
From Danville, by Lancaster, to Somerset.
From Bowling Green to Sparta.
From Lewisville, by Woodsonville, Glasgow, Burksville, and Seventy-six, to Monticello.
From Lewisville to Hardensburgh.
From Elizabethtown to Bowling Green.
From Newburgh, by Ewingsville, to Clarkesville.
From Port Royal, by Ewingsville, to Hopkinsville.
From Glasgow, by Tompkinsville, to Burksville.
From Barbourville, by Whitley Courthouse, to Somerset.
From Flemingsburg, by the mouth of Fleming and Carlisle, to Millersburgh.
From Paris, by North Middleton, to Owensville.
In Tennessee.—From Murfreesborough, by Labanon and Gallatin, to Tennessee.
From Lebanon, by Trowsdale’s Ferry, to Mount Richardson.
From Lebanon, by Marysville, in Wilson county, to Liberty.
From Greenville, by Newport, Dandridge, and Hill’s, to Knoxville.
From Winchester, by Marion Courthouse, to Pikeville.
From Rogersville, by M’Cann’s store, and Black Water Salt Works, to Lee Courthouse, Virginia.
From Blountville to Paperville, on Sinking Creek.
In Mississippi.—From Natchez, by Sweazy’s Ferry, Woodville, and Mississippi.
In Alabama.—From Fort Claiborne, by Fort Montgomery, to Blakely.
Alabama.
From Huntsville, by Milton’s Bluff, Falls of Black Warrior, and French Settlement on Black Warrior, to St. Stephens.
From Huntsville to Cotton Port, in Limestone county, by Pulasky, to Columbia, in Tennessee.
From Fort Mitchell, by Fort Bainbridge, Fort Jackson, Burnt Corn Springs, Fort Claiborne, and the town of Jackson, to St. Stephens.
From Fort Jackson, by Cahaba Valley, to the Falls of Black Warrior.
From St. Stephens, by Winchester, to Ford, on Pearl river, in Mississippi.
From Mobile to Blakely.
In Illinois.—From Bellville, by William Padfield’s and the seat of justice Illinois.
From Edwardsville to the seat of justice of Bond county.
From Kaskaskia, by Wideman’s, on Kaskaskia river, to Bellville, St. Clair county.
Act of March 3, 1811, ch. 40.
500 dolls, additional to each of the judges of the circuit court for the district of Columbia.
That there be appropriated, Appropriations. For the capitol.
Centre building of the Capitol.
For procuring materials, laying the foundation, and other preparations, for the centre building of the Capitol, one hundred thousand dollars.
Finishing President’s house.
For finishing the President’s house, fifteen thousand two hundred and fourteen dollars.
Offices to President’s house.
For offices to the President’s house, seven thousand dollars.
Walls, gates, and iron railing.
For the wall north of the President’s house, with gates and iron railing the width of the house, three thousand five hundred and eighteen dollars.
Contingencies.
For contingencies, four hundred and thirty-seven dollars.
President’s square.
For graduating and improving the President’s square, ten thousand dollars.
Committee rooms.
For erecting a temporary building for committee rooms near the capitol, three thousand six hundred and thirty-four dollars.
Representative chamber, &c.
For furnishing the representative chamber and committee rooms, thirty thousand dollars.
Senate chamber, &c.
For furnishing the Senate chamber and committee rooms, twenty thousand dollars.
Furnishing President’s house.
For furnishing the President’s house, twenty thousand dollars.
For deficiency of appropriation, &c.
For making good a deficiency in the appropriation of the past year for furnishing the President’s house, ten thousand dollars.
Which said several sums of money, hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 107.
Act of May 22, 1824, ch. 136.
Duties now in force upon the articles described to cease after the 30th June, 1818.
Duties in lieu, &c.
Articles from copper.
Silver plated saddlery, &c.
Cut glass, &c.
Addition of 10 per cent, if the articles are imported in foreign vessels.
Proviso.
1816, ch. 107, sec. 3.
1818, ch. 107.
1832, ch. 207.
1832, ch.227, sec. 10.
1824, ch. 4.
1828, ch.111.
1842, ch.270, sec. 11.
Drawback of the duties if the goods are exported within the time, &c. prescribed, &c.
April 27, 1816, ch. 107.
The existing laws in force for the collection of the duties imposed, &c. and for the allowance of drawbacks.
Acts, &c. contrary to this act repealed.
The pay of militia called into the service of the United States against the Seminole Indians, to be the highest allowed by law during the late war, &c.
Widows and orphans of militia called into service against the Seminole Indians, &c. entitled to halfpay and pensions, &c.
Act of March 22, 1821, ch. 13.
Company officers of artillery.
Company officers or light artillery.
Conductor of artillery, &c.
Extra pay to conductors of artillery.
One armorer to each regiment of infantry, riflemen, and to the artillery, &c.
Where, in cases, &c. the pay, &c. of officers and soldiers has been delayed, &c. it is, on evidence, to be adjusted.
Act of May 22, 1824, ch. 136.
The existing duties on the articles enumerated to cease after 30th June, 1818.
Duties in lieu, &c.
Iron in pigs, iron castings, nails, spikes, iron in bars and bolts, anchors, and alum.
Addition of 10 per cent, on the rates of duties if the articles are imported in vessels not of the United States.
Proviso.
Drawback of the duties, if the goods are exported within the time, &c. prescribed.
Act of 1816, ch. 107.
The existing laws in force for the collection of the duties imposed, &c.
Indian agents and factors to receive the salaries specified.
Creeks.
Choctaws.
Cherokees, on Tennessee river.
Cherokees, on Arkansas river.
Chickasaws.
In Illinois.
At Prairie du Chien.
Natchitoches.
At Chicago.
At Green Bay.
At Mackinac.
At Vincennes.
At Fort Wayne, &c.
To the Lakes.
In Missouri.
Sub-agents.
Factors and assistant factors.
The sums allowed to be in full, &c.
Rations, &c. to be deducted.
Act of 1816, ch. 107.
The 4th paragraph of the 1st section of the act to regulate duties on imports and tonnage continued until 30th June, 1826.
Pennsylvania divided into two districts.
Western district.
Eastern district.
Terms of the eastern district.
Terms of the circuit court for the western district.
See act of May 15, 1820 ch. 111.
Richard Peters to hold the courts in the eastern district, &c.
The President, with consent of Senate, to appoint a judge for the western district, with a salary of 1600 dolls, per annum.
Circuit court for the eastern district to be held as directed by law, &c.
Western district court to have jurisdiction as a circuit court.
Writs of error to the circuit court in the eastern district, &c.
The President, with the consent of the Senate, to appoint an attorney and a marshal for the western district, &c.
Actions, suits, process, &c. continued over to the western district court.
The district and circuit courts of the eastern district invested with powers for the removal of papers, &c.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be Sums appropriated.
For the payment of balances due several states, on an adjustment of For balances due several states.
Towards erecting barracks at Baton Rouge, forty thousand dollars.
Barracks at Baton Rouge.
For carrying into effect the treaty with the Cherokee Indians, eighty thousand dollars.
Treaty with Cherokees.
For defraying the expenses of holding Indian treaties in the year one Expenses of holding Indian treaties in 1818.
For arrearages in tire Indian department, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Arrearages.
For additional pay to the militia, fifty thousand dollars.
Pay of militia.
For expenses of mounted volunteers, ninety thousand dollars.
Mounted volunteers.
For pensions for one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, in addition Pensions under act of 1818, ch. 19.
For pensions to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army, under Pensions to revolutionary officers and soldiers.
For deficiency in the appropriation for clerk hire, in the office of the Clerk hire in War Department.
For rent of offices for the above department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, five hundred dollars.
For office rent for the above department, for one thousand eight hundred Rent of offices for War Department.
For additional clerk hire, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars.
Act of May 3, 1815, ch. 77.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 75.
Acts respecting discriminating between foreign vessels and those of the United States, repealed so far as respects vessels belonging to subjects of the Netherlands, &c.
Discriminating duties on goods, &c. repealed in favour of produce, &c. of the Netherlands, &c.
[Obsolete.]
The Secretary of State directed to subscribe for and receive, &c. 500 copies of Seybert’s Statistical Annals, and 250 copies of Pitkin’s Statistics.
The subscription and purchase money 5750 dolls., &c.
A collection district established.
A collector to reside at Belfast, &c.
Alien duties to be repaid or remitted, in respect to British vessels which have entered between 3d July and 18th Aug., 1815, paid, &c. contrary to the provisions of the convention, &c.
Proviso; the British must have made a similar provision, &c.
The President may abandon the use of the navy, arsenal, military hospital and barracks in New Orleans, and of Fort Charlotte, at Mobile, and cause the ground whereon they stand to be laid off into lots, &c.
A plat thereof to the Secretary of the Treasury, &c.
The lots to be offered at public sale, &c.
The President may cause Fort St. Charles to be demolished, and navy yard to be discontinued.
Instead of present compensation, receivers to be paid an annual salary of 500 dolls, each, and commission of one per cent. &c.
Proviso.
Registers to receive, each, 500 dolls, per annum and commission of one per cent. &c.
Proviso.
All claims under the act authorizing payment of property lost, &c. not finally acted on &c., transferred to the office of the third auditor.
Act of 1816, ch. 40.
Act of 1817, ch. 110.
The third auditor to be governed by the same rules, &c.
500 dolls, for performing the duties under this act.
The powers of the surveyor of the northern part of Mississippi, limited to Alabama.
Lands to be surveyed.
Compensation.
Lands excepted from sale on which to build towns.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 62.
An entire township to be located for the support of a seminary of learning, and a section for the seat of government.
Lands attached to the district east of Pearl river.
The lands after having been surveyed to be sold, except No. 16, and other reservations, &c.
The President to designate the time of sale.
Lands offered, and not sold, may be disposed of at private sale, &c.
Patents, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Judicial power of judges in Alabama extended to all the counties in the territory.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 59.
Superior court to be holden in all counties alike.
Powers of general court to extend to admiralty jurisdiction.
Subject to appeals to the supreme court, &c.
Act of April 21, 1820, ch. 45.
The legislature may regulate the holding the superior courts, &c. not exceeding two terms annually.
Part of sec. 3, of act of 1817, ch. 59, repealed.
Officers to take an oath or affirmation to support the constitution before the governor or person appointed by him.
The trustees of Vincennes authorized to adjust claims to lots in that town.
If lots are found within the precincts to which individual claims cannot be substantiated, they are granted to the inhabitants, and may be sold, &c.
The trustees empowered to dispose of a tract of land, which, by act of March 3d, 1791, ch. 27, was appropriated as a common.
The tract to be divided into lots and sold, &c.
Proceeds to be applied to the draining of a pond.
Residue to Vincennes University.
Trustees to report to Congress.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 82.
Any importer of wines or distilled spirits, may either secure the duties, as usual, or give bond in double the amount, without surety, &c.
Upon bond without surety the wines or spirits must be deposited.
No permit to be given for the removal of the wines or spirits, unless the duties are first paid or secured, &c.
Proviso: that the credit shall not be extended beyond twelve months.
If the duties arc not paid within twelve months, part of the wines and spirits may be sold, and the amount of duties, &c. retained, &c.
Overplus to the owner, &c.
Amount of the bonds, &c. to be endorsed on the original.
No drawback on wines or spirits, unless they have been deposited, &c.
Wines or spirits embezzled, or fraudulently hid or removed, forfeited, &c.
Bonds for duties on articles from foreign places, when to be payable.
The following resolution and acts, passed in 1811 and 1812, were not promulgated until their publication in “the sessions acts” of the Fifteenth Congress, ending April 20, 1818. They are altogether omitted in Mr. Justice Story’s edition of the laws of the United States, and they are also omitted in Davis’ and Force’s edition of the laws, from 1816 to 1827, published under the authority of Congress, in 1822 and 1827. They were passed in the secret sessions of the Eleventh and the Twelfth Congress.
The editor has not considered it proper to insert these laws in this edition, before their promulgation under the authority of the Secretary of State; under whose directions the laws of each session of Congress are published. Act of 1818, ch. 75, sec. 1.
RESOLUTION AND ACTS
relative to the occupation of the floridas by the united states of america.
RESOLUTION.
3d session 11th Congress.
The United States cannot, without inquietude, see the Floridas pass into the hands of a foreign power, &c.
In case of an arrangement with the local authority, or an attempt by any foreign government to occupy it, the President authorized to take possession of the territory east of the Perdido, &c.
100,000 dolls, appropriated to defray the expenses of taking possession, &c.
In case of taking possession, the President may establish a temporary government.
This act, and the act referred to, not to be published until the end of the next session of Congress, unless, &c.
2d session, 12th Congress.
The President authorized to occupy West Florida west of the Perdido, &c.
The President may employ the military and naval force for holding the country, &c.
20,000 dolls, appropriated to defray the expenses incident to the occupation, &c.
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolution for the admission of Mississippi into the Union.
Act of March 1, 1817, ch. 23.Resolution for the admission of Mississippi into the Union.
Act ofDistribution of T. B. Wait and Sons edition of public documents.
Distribution of Bioren & Co. laws.
Laws of Fourteenth Congress to be procured.
Jan. 20, 1817. ch. 4.
Distribution of land laws.
Fifty copies in the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury, for distribution.
250 copies in the library, &c.
Remainder in the library for members of Congress, as elected.
One set of Wait’s edition of state papers to be distributed to each of the judges of the Supreme Court.
Members of Congress, &c. authorized to transmit the President's message of 14th March, 1818.
Journal, &c. of the convention which formed the constitution of the United States, to be published under the direction of the President.
Secret journals of acts and proceedings, and foreign correspondence, of Congress, prior to the peace of 1783, to be also published.
Distribution.
Distribution.
An alphabetical index of the acts and resolutions to be prepared, printed, and distributed, therewith.
The President requested to present Col. Richard M. Johnson with a sword.
Thanks of Congress to General Harrison and Governor Shelby, &c.
Gold medals to them.
Surveys preparatory to the establishment of two naval arsenals to be resumed and completed, &c.
Plans of fortifications and estimate of expense.
Survey of the Chesapeake Bay, &c.
Report, with a plan, &c.
ACTS OF THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
Suitable apartments to be fitted up for the library in the north wing of the capitol.
Accounts to be settled at the treasury.
2000 dollars further for books.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 134.
The Secretary of War authorized to employ additional clerks.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums Sums appropriated for the support of the army.
200,000 dolls, for subsistence.
For subsistence of the army of the United States, two hundred thousand dollars.
Deficit for holding treaties with Indians, 50,000 dolls.
For holding treaties with Indian tribes, being a deficit in the appropriations for that object in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, fifty thousand dollars.
No suit, action, &c. depending and undetermined on the 20th April, 1818, to be discontinued or abated, on account of the court not having been holden on the first Monday of June, 1818. Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 108.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 170.
The court authorized to make rules and orders touching such suits, us if it had been holden.
Suits, &c., hereafter transferred to be deemed depending as if they had been entered, and the court holden on the 20th of June last.
[Obsolete.]
Limits of the district.
A district court.
One judge to reside in the district.
Six sessions annually, &c.
Jurisdiction of the court.
Writs of error to the Supreme Court.
A clerk, district attorney and marshal.
Yearly compensation to the judge.
Compensation of the district attorney.
Of the marshal.
On proof, &c. of the loss of a treasury note, the Secretary, upon bond, &c. to pay the amount due.
On proof of the loss or destruction of any certificate of Mississippi stock, a new certificate may be issued.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation as prize money among the representatives of Commodore Preble, Capt. Stewart, officers, and crew, of the Syren, &c.; their proportion of the appraised value of the brig Transfer, captured by the Syren, &c.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, Sums appropriated for the Pay of the army. Subsistence.
For the pay of the army of the United States, one million of dollars.
For subsistence, in addition to two hundred thousand dollars already appropriated, seven hundred and eighty-nine thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars.
Forage.
For forage for officers, twenty-six thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars.
Clothing.
For clothing, four hundred thousand dollars.
Bounties, &c.
For bounties and premiums, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Medical and hospital department.
For the medical and hospital department, fifty thousand dollars.
Quartermaster’s department.
For the quartermaster’s department, five hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Arrearages.
For arrearages, arising from a deficiency in the appropriation for the quartermaster’s department, during the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, twenty-six thousand dollars.
Extra pay for construction, &c. of military roads.
For extra pay to non-commissioned officers and soldiers employed in the construction and repairs of military roads, ten thousand dollars.
Contingencies of the army.
For contingencies of the army, sixty thousand dollars.
Arrearages.
For arrearages arising from a deficiency in the appropriation to pay outstanding claims, one hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and seven dollars.
Fortifications.
For fortifications, five hundred thousand dollars.
Survey of water courses.
For making a survey of the water courses tributary to, and west of, the Mississippi; also those tributary to the same river, and north-west of the Ohio; six thousand five hundred dollars.
Ordnance department.
For the current expenses of the ordnance department, one hundred thousand dollars.
Armories.
For the armories at Springfield and Harper’s Ferry, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Arsenals, &c.
For the erection and completion of arsenals, to wit: for completing the arsenal at Augusta, in Georgia, fifty thousand dollars; for erecting a powder magazine at Frankford, near Philadelphia, fifteen thousand dol-
For cannon, powder, and shot, to fulfil existing contracts, for mounting Cannon, powder, &c.
To provide for the payment of the retained bounty, and the per diem Payment of retained bounty per diem, travelling allowance, &c.
For the purchase of maps, plans, books, and instruments, for the War Maps, &c. for the War Department.
For fuel, maps, plans, books, erection of quarters, and other buildings, Maps, &c. for the academy at West Point.
For marking and running the boundary line of the several cessions of Marking, &c. Indian boundary lines.
For the payment of the half-pay pensions to widows and orphans, two Payment of half pay pensions to widows and orphans. hundred thousand dollars.
For the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, three hundred and sixty-eight thousand and thirty-nine dollars.
For the annual allowance to the revolutionary pensioners, under the Invalid pensioners. Revolutionary pensioners. 1818, ch. 19.
For arrearages arising from a deficiency in the appropriation for paying Arrearages for paying revolutionary pensions in 1818.
For the Indian department, including arrearages incurred by holding Indian department.
For annuity to the Creek nation, under the treaty of one thousand Annuity to the Creek nation.
The circuit courts to have original cognisance, in equity and at law, in controversies respecting the right to inventions and writings.
Act of Feb. 21, 1793, ch. 11.
Act of May 31, 1790, ch. 15.
Proviso.
That part of the law of Maryland applicable to the Rockville and Washington Turnpike Road Company, in full force in the district of Columbia.
The road may be made from the boundary of the district to the boundary of the city.
The powers and obligations of the Company of the Turnpike Roads, transferred to the Rockville and Washington Turnpike Road Company.
Act of April 25, 1810, ch. 21.
Proviso.
The corporation of Washington may purchase out the road, on paying the capital expended, and 6 per cent, thereon.
An act to divide the Indiana territory into two separate governments. Jan. 11, 1805, ch. 5.
An act authorizing the election of a delegate from the Michigan territory to the Congress of the United States, and extending the right of suffrage to the citizens of that territory. Feb. 16, 1819, ch. 22.
An act to provide for the apportionment of an additional judge for the Michigan territory and for other purposes. Jan. 30, 1823, ch. 8.
An act to amend the ordinance and acts of Congress for the government of the territory of Michigan and for other purposes. March 3, 1823, ch. 35.
An act in addition to an act entitled “
An act to allow the citizens of the territory of Michigan to elect the members of their legislative council, and for other purposes. Jan. 29, 1827, ch. 6.
An act authorizing the legislative council of the territory of Michigan to take charge of the school lands in said territory. May 21, 1828, ch. 122.
An act relative to the plan of Detroit in Michigan territory. May 28, 1830, ch. 151.
An act for improving the navigation of certain rivers in the territories of Florida and Michigan. March 2, 1833, ch. 64.
An act prolonging the second session of the fifth legislative council of the territory of Michigan. March 2, 1833, ch. 72.
An act authorizing an alteration in the election districts for members of the legislative council of the territory of Michigan. March 2, 1833, ch. 82.
An act to attach the territory of the United States west of the Mississippi river and north of the state of Missouri, to the territory of Michigan. June 28, 1834, ch. 98.
An act authorizing an extra session of the legislative council of Michigan. June 30, 1834, ch. 151.
An act to establish the northern boundary line of the state of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the state of Michigan into the Union upon the conditions therein expressed. June 15, 1836, ch. 99.
An act to settle and establish the northern boundary line of the state of Ohio. June 23, 1836, ch. 117.
An act supplementary to the act entitled “An act to establish the northern boundary line of the state of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the state of Michigan into the Union on certain conditions. June 23, 1836, ch. 121.
An act to admit the state of Michigan into the Union on an equal footing with the original states. Jan. 26, 1837, ch. 6.
The citizens of Michigan authorized to elect a delegate to Congress, &c.
Qualifications of the electors.
The governor to certify the election of the delegate.
The certificate entitles the delegate to his seat in the House of Representatives.
That, for defraying the expenses Sums appropriated for the expenses of the navy.
For pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, nine Pay of officers and pay of seamen.
For provisions, four hundred and five thousand five hundred and fifteen Provisions.
For medicines, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, Medicines, hospital stores, &c.
For repairs of vessels, three hundred and seventy-five thousand Repairs of vessels.
Contingent expenses.
For contingent expenses, three hundred thousand dollars.
Repairs of navy yards.
For repairs of navy yards, docks, and wharves, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Medals and swords.
For completing medals and swords, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Pay and subsistence of marine corps.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and twenty-two thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight dollars.
Clothing.
For clothing the same, two thousand and thirty dollars and ten cents.
Military stores.
For military stores for the same, one thousand and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
Contingent expenses.
For contingent expenses for the same, eighteen thousand six hundred dollars.
To be paid out of the treasury.
6000 dolls, per annum to the Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, and Navy, in lieu of former salaries. Attorney General, 3,500 dolls.
P. M. General, 4000.
Chief Justice, 5000, and each judge of the Supreme Court, 4,500.
Assistants to P. M. G. 2,500 each.
From 1st Jan., 1819.
The President may purchase any tract of land reserved, by act of March, 1817, to the Creeks.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 88.
Lands acquired by virtue of this act to be offered for sale upon such days as the President may designate.
Two sections of land for a seat of government.
To be located in one entire tract.
Another township for the support of a seminary of learning.
To be located by the Secretary of the Treasury, whenever, &c.
This grant in lieu of a township reserved by the act of 3d March, 1815, ch. 87.
Act of May 4, 1812, ch. 76.
Lots sold for taxes in the city of Washington may be redeemed within two years, on payment of the purchase money and ten percent, per ann. interest.
And if the purchaser cannot be found, or refuses to accept the redemption money, may be paid to the clerk of the circuit court for Washington county.
The clerk to make report, and deposit the money, &c.
Proviso.
Vested legal right to hold clear of redemption at less than two years, not affected.
The court may require higher or other premium, in any case where, &c.
The officer charged with selling real estate for taxes to make report in writing to the clerk of the court within ten days, certified, &c.
The clerk to record the report.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
A sum equal to the value of the articles, forfeited by persons making false entry for benefit of drawback or bounty, in addition to former penalties.
The authority granted to the Secretary of War, by the acts of 6th May, 1812, and 10th Dec. 1814, to issue military bounty land warrants, continued until 4th March, 1824.
1814, ch. 10, 1812, ch.77.
Act of Dec. 10, 1814, ch. 10.
The time limited for issuing and locating military land extended.
Act of March 9, 1818, ch. 15.
Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 15.
Act of March 1, 1823, ch. 38.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 111.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 45.
Act of Feb. 24, 1819, ch. 43.
The 2d auditor to receive unsettled accounts of Indian affairs.
Proviso.
Duty of the auditor.
The treasurer to disburse moneys for Indian department.
Countersigned, &c.
Extra allowance to noncommissioned officers and privates, when employed on fortifications, &c.
Persons are not the subject of commerce; and not being imported goods they do not fall within the reasoning founded upon the construction of a power given to Congress to regulate commerce, and the prohibition of the states from imposing a duty on foreign goods. Ibid.
In estimating the number of passengers in a vessel, no deduction is to be made for children or persons not paying; but those employed in navigating the vessel arc not to be included. United States v. The Louisa Barbara, Gilpin’s D. C. R. 331.
In estimating the tonnage of a vessel bringing passengers from a foreign country, the measurement of the custom-house, in the port of the United States, where the vessel arrives, is to be taken. Ibid.
Forfeitures for every passenger over and above two for every five tons, custom-house measurement.
Proviso.
If the number exceeds two for every five tons, by 20, the vessel is forfeited, and may be prosecuted, distributed, &c.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22, sec. 91.
60 gallons of water, 100 lbs. of salted provisions, one gallon of vinegar, and 100 lbs. of wholesome ship-bread, for every passenger to Europe, over and above, &c.
In case of short allowance, to pay three dolls, a day to every passenger, &c.
A list or manifest of all the passengers to be delivered to the collector, &c.
Age, sex, and occupation, of passengers, to be designated and also the country to which they belong, and that where they mean to reside; together with what number have died on the voyage.
Statements to be laid before Congress.
An act to alter and amend the act approved the third day of March, 1817, entitled “
An act to enable the people of the Alabama 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, March 2, 1819, ch. 47.
An act to establish a district court in the state of Alabama, April 21, 1820, ch. 45.
An act concerning the apportionment of representatives in the state of Alabama, Jan. 14, 1823, ch. 2.
An act to ascertain and mark the line between the state of Alabama, and the territory of Florida, and the northern boundary of the state of Illinois, and for other purposes, March 2, 1831, ch. 86.
An act to add a part of the southern to the northern district of Alabama, March 31, 1832, ch. 58.
An act to carry into effect in the states of Alabama and Mississippi the existing compacts with those states in regard to the five per cent, fund and the school reservations, July 4, 1836, ch. 355.
Resolution of Dec. 14, 1819.
The inhabitants of Alabama authorized to form a constitution and state government.
To be admitted into the Union.
Boundaries of the state.
Including islands within six leagues of the shore.
The line of demarcation between Mississippi and the state to be formed, to be run and cut by the surveyors of lands south of Tennessee and of Alabama.
Qualified voters to choose representatives to form a convention.
Appointment of representatives.
Madison.
Monroe.
Blount.
Limestone.
Shelby.
Montgomery.
Washington.
Tuskaloosa.
Lawrence.
Franklin.
Cotaco.
Clark.
Baldwin.
Cawhauba.
Conecah.
Dallas.
Marengo.
Marion.
Mobile.
Lauderdale.
St. Clair.
Autauga.
And the election for the representatives aforesaid, shall be holden on Elections to be holden on the first Monday and Tuesday in May, 1819, &c.
Members of the convention to meet at Huntsville, on the first Monday in July, 1819, and to determine, &c.
Convention authorized to form a constitution, &c.
The government to be republican and not repugnant to the ordinance of 13th July, 1787.
Propositions offered to the convention.
Section No. 16, in every township, for the use of schools.
Salt springs and lands for working them granted to the state, for the use of the people.
Five per cent, of net proceeds of land, sold after let September, 1819, to be reserved for making public roads canals, &c.
An entire township for a seminary of learning.
To be reserved in small tracts.
Proviso: irrevocable ordinance disclaiming right to waste lands.
Waste land at the sole disposal of the United States.
Tracts of land sold by the United States to be exempt from taxes for five years.
Lands of nonresident citizens not to be taxed higher, &c.
No tax on United States’ lands.
Land for a seat of government, in lieu, &c.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 121, sec. 2.
A true copy of the constitution to be transmitted to Congress, &c.
An act for registering and clearing vessels, regulating the coasting trade, and for other purposes, (obsolete.) Sept. 1, 1789, ch. 11.
An act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same, Feb. 18, 1793, ch. 8.
An act relative to the passing of coasting vessels between Long Island and Rhode Island, March 2, 1795 ch. 41.
An act for enrolling and licensing of steamboats, March 12, 1812, ch. 40.
An act to continue in force “
An act concerning the navigation of the United States, March 1, 1817, ch. 31, sect. 4, 5.
An act supplementary to the acts concerning the coasting trade, March 2, 1819, ch. 48.
An act to provide for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage in Florida, and for other purposes, May 7, 1822, ch. 62, sec. 11.
An act to authorize the licensing of vessels to be employed in the mackerel fisheries, May 24, 1828, ch. 119.
An act to authorize surveyors, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to enrol and license ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, Feb. 11, 1830, ch. 14.
An act concerning vessels employed in the whale fishery, March 3, 1831, ch. 115.
An act to regulate the foreign and coasting trade on the northern, north-eastern and north-western frontiers of the United States, and for other purposes. Act of March 2, 1831, ch. 98.
An act of Dec. 22, 1837, ch. 1.
Act of May 7, 1822, ch. 62, sec. 11.
The seacoast and navigable rivers of the United States divided into two great districts, for the convenience of the coasting trade.
Licensed vessels, of 20 tons and upwards, may carry on trade between the districts within the great districts, and between a state in one, and an adjoining state in another, great district, &c.
Regulations to be observed.
Trade between districts not included, &c. to be carried on as already provided.
This act to be in force from 30th June, 1819.
An act providing for the government of the territory of Missouri, June 4, 1812, ch. 95.
An act establishing a separate territorial government in the southern part of the territory of Missouri, March 2, 1819, ch. 49.
An act relative to the Arkansas territory, April 21, 1820, ch. 46.
An act to fix the western boundary line of the territory of Arkansas, and for other purposes, May 26, 1824, ch. 155.
An act to authorize the President of the United States to run and mark a line dividing the territory of Arkansas from the state of Louisiana, May 19, 1828, ch. 58.
An act for the admission of the state of Arkansas into the Union, and to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the same, and for other purposes, June 15, 1836, ch. 100.
An act supplementary to the act, entitled “
An act supplementary to an act, entitled “
Part of the Missouri territory after July 4, 1819, to form a separate territory to be called Arkansaw.
A temporary government to be established.
Executive power in a governor.
Powers of the governor.
A secretary.
Duties of the secretary.
Act of June 4, 1812, ch. 95.
Legislative power in the governor and judges of the superior court.
Proviso: legislative power to be exercised by the general assembly, when organized.
So much of the act of 4th June, 1812, ch. 95, as relates to the organization of a general assembly, &c. to be in force when a majority of freeholders desire it.
Representatives not to exceed nine.
Judicial power to be vested in a superior and inferior courts.
Superior court composed of three judges, &c.
Jurisdiction of the superior court.
Times and places of holding the superior court.
Appellate and court of original jurisdiction.
Governor, secretary, judges, &c. to take an oath.
Before whom.
Governor, &c. to be appointed by the President, with consent of senate.
Proviso: the President may commission during the recess.
Compensation of the governor, &c.
Laws in force in Missouri, on 4th July, 1819, not inconsistent &c. to be in force in Arkansaw.
Military bounty lands exempt from taxes for three years from date of patents, while, &c.
Members of the House of Representatives, and delegate to Congress, &c.
Seat of government.
The line between certain land offices altered.
Act of Feb.
17, 1818, ch.11.
The Postmaster general authorized to contract for carrying the mail in steamboats, from New Orleans to Louisville, &c.
Expense not to exceed that of transmitting by land.
That the following sums Sums appropriated, for—
Members of Congress, &c.
For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, three hundred and sixty thousand and ten dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses, of the two Houses of Congress, forty-two thousand dollars.
Library of Congress.
For the expense of the library of Congress, including the librarian’s allowance, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
The President.
For compensation to the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Vice President.
For compensation to the Vice President of the United States, five thousand dollars.
Secretary of State.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, six thousand dollars.
Clerks.
1818, ch. 82.
For compensation to the clerks in the Department of State, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars.
Extra copying.
For additional clerk hire, to cover expenses of extra copying, in the Department of State, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For the contingent and incidental expenses of the said department, including expenses of printing and distributing copies of the laws of the second section of the fifteenth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, twenty-four thousand one hundred and thirty dollars.
Messengers.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, including the messenger to the patent office, six hundred and sixty dollars.
Secretary of the Treasury.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, six thousand dollars.
Clerks.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messengers in said office seven hundred and Messengers.
For compensation to the first comptroller of the treasury, three thousand 1st Comptroller.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the first comptroller, per Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the second comptroller of the treasury, three 2d Comptroller.
For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of twentieth Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the first auditor of the treasury, three thousand 1st Auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the first auditor, per Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the second auditor, three thousand dollars.
2d Auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the second auditor, per Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the third auditor, three thousand dollars.
3d Auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the third auditor’s office, per act of Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, seven hundred and Messengers.
For compensation to the fourth auditor, three thousand dollars.
4th Auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the fourth auditor’s office, per act Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the fifth auditor, three thousand dollars.
5th Auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the fifth auditor’s office, per act Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the treasurer of the United States, three thousand Treasurer.
For compensation to the clerks in the treasurer’s office, per act of Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For additional clerk hire, being for an arrearage of pay to an assistant Additional clerk.
For a further allowance for clerk hire, being for the salary of said assistant, Further clerk hire.
Additional clerk to treasurer.
For compensation to an additional clerk in said office, eight hundred dollars.
Messenger.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
Commissioner of general land office.
For compensation to the commissioner of the general land office, three thousand dollars.
Clerks in land office.
1818, ch. 87.
Land office messenger.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said commissioner, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, twenty-two thou sand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
Commissioner of revenue.
For compensation to the commissioner of the revenue, three thousand dollars.
Clerks.
1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in said commissioner’s office, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Messenger.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
Register of Treasury.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
Clerks.
1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in the register’s office, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, twenty-two thousand one hundred and fitly dollars.
Messengers.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, including the sum of ninety dollars for stamping ships’ registers, five hundred dollars.
Secretary to sinking fund.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Transmitting passports, translating, &c. in the Treasury Department.
For allowance to the person employed in transmitting passports and sea-letters, for expense of translating foreign languages in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, for printing, fuel, and other contingent expenses, in the Treasury Department, and in the several offices therein, forty thousand and fifty dollars.
Security of the Treasury Department.
For compensation to a superintendent and two watchmen, employed for the security of the treasury buildings, and for repairs of engines, hose, and fire buckets, one thousand one hundred dollars.
Secretary of War.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, six thousand dollars.
Clerks.
1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of War, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses, in said office, five thousand dollars.
Arrearages.
For arrearages of contingent expenses in said office, prior to the year eighteen hundred and nineteen, one thousand dollars.
Messengers.
For compensation to the messenger and his assistants in said office, seven hundred and ten dollars.
Paymaster general.
For compensation to the paymaster general, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Clerks.
1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in the paymaster general’s office, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, nine thousand two hundred dollars.
Arrearages.
For arrearages to the clerks in said office, for the year eighteen hundred and seventeen, nine hundred and forty dollars and forty cents.
Messenger.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in said office, two thousand dollars.
Clerks.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the adjutant general, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Clerks.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the ordnance depart- 1818, ch. 87.
For the contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred and seventy Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the engineer department, Clerks.
For fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses of said Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the surgeon Clerks.
For the contingent expenses of said office, three hundred and seventy-four Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, six thousand dollars.
Secretary of the Navy.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For expense of fuel, stationery, and other contingent expenses, in said Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten Messenger.
For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, ten thousand Commissioners of navy board.
For compensation to their secretary, two thousand dollars.
Secretary of navy board.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said commissioners, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For an addition to the allowance for clerk hire in said office, four thousand Additional clerk hire, &c.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For the contingent expenses of said office, two thousand dollars.
Contingencies.
For compensation to a superintendent, and two watchmen, and for State, War, and Navy Departments.
For compensation to the Postmaster General, four thousand dollars.
Postmaster General.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Postmaster General, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messengers in the general post-office, six Messengers.
For compensation to the assistant postmaster general, two thousand Assistant postmaster general.
For compensation to the second assistant postmaster general, two Second assistant.
For the contingent expenses of the general post-office, four thousand Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the surveyor general, two thousand dollars.
Surveyor general.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the surveyor general, Clerks.
For compensation to the surveyor south of Tennessee, two thousand Surveyor south of Tennessee.
For compensation to the clerks in his office, and for contingent expenses, His clerks, &c.
For compensation to the surveyor in the state of Illinois and the Missouri Surveyor in Illinois and Missouri.
For compensation to his clerks, per act of third April, eighteen hundred Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the surveyor in the Alabama territory, two thousand Surveyor in Alabama.
His clerks.
For compensation to his clerks, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Commissioner of public buildings.
For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings at Washington, two thousand dollars.
Officers and clerks of the mint.
For compensation to the officers and clerks of the mint, nine thousand six hundred dollars.
Persons employed in the mint.
For wages of the persons employed in the different operations of the mint, ten thousand and seventy-five dollars.
For repairs, cost of iron and machinery, rents, and other contingent Contingent expenses of the mint.
Wasteage.
For allowance of wasteage in the gold and silver coinage of the mint, three thousand dollars.
Civil government of Missouri.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Missouri territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses of Missouri.
For the contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
Civil government of Alabama.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Alabama territory, seven thousand one hundred and thirty-three dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For the contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
Civil government of Michigan.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Michigan territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For the contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the discharge of such claims against the United States, on account
Claims not otherwise provided for, admitted at the Treasury.
For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district Chief justice, associate judges, &c.
Attorney General.
For compensation to the Attorney General of the United States, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Clerk.
1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to his clerk, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, one thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For the contingent expenses of his office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to sundry district attorneys and marshals, as granted District attorneys and marshals.
Reporter of decisions of supreme court.
For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and nineteen, one thousand dollars.
Pensions, by late and present governments.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present governments, two thousand and ninety dollars.
Collectors of old internal revenue.
1815, ch. 42.
For the payment of balances due to certain collectors of the old internal revenue pursuant to the provisions of the act of thirteenth of February, eighteen hundred and fifteen, fifteen thousand dollars.
Lighthouses, beacons, buoys, &c.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, stakeage of channels, bars, and shoals, including the purchase and transportation of oil, keepers’ salaries, repairs, and improvements, and contingent expenses, and including, also, balances of former appropriations for Savannah river, lake Erie and Little Gull Island, which were carried to the surplus fund the thirty-first of December last, seventy-four thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars twenty-seven cents.
Custom-houses.
For the purchase or erection of custom-houses and public warehouses, one hundred thousand dollars.
Cumberland road.
For claims due and becoming due, under existing contracts for constructing the United States’ Road from Cumberland to the Ohio river, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and for completing the said road, the sum of
For surveying the public lands of the United States, one hundred Surveying public lands.
For expenses attending the occupancy of the new executive buildings, New executive buildings.
For covering with s t ate the two executive buildings now occupied by the State, Treasury, War, and Navy, Departments, ten thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United Miscellaneous claims, &c.
For additional compensation allowed to the clerks in the office of the Clerks in office of superintendent of Indian trade.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general 1818, ch. 87. Clerks of commissary general of purchases. Messenger. Clerks. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, three hundred and sixty dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses, in said office, nine hundred and thirty dollars.
For allowance to the clerks in the office of the commissary general of subsistence, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For the contingent expenses of said office, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
For salaries to the ministers of the United States to London, Paris, Salaries to ministers, &c. of the United States at foreign courts, &c.
For outfit for a minister plenipotentiary at Rio Janeiro, and Madrid, Outfit of minister to Rio Janeiro, Madrid, &c.
For the contingent expenses of the missions aforesaid, ten thousand Contingent expenses.
For a deficiency in the appropriations of former years, for the payment Deficiency of former appropriation tor foreign intercourse, &c.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, thirty thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses of foreign intercourse.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, forty-two thousand dollars.
For the expenses, during the present year, for carrying into effect the Intercourse with Barbary powers. Expenses under the articles of the treaty of Ghent, including, &c. Agents of claims at Paris and London. Distressed American seamen.
For the salaries of the agents for claims on account of spoliations, and for seamen at London and at Paris, four thousand dollars.
For the relief of distressed American seamen in foreign countries, eighty thousand dollars.
For cost of paper, engraving, and printing certificates of registry, and Cost of certificates of registry, &c. 1813, ch. 50. Insurers of British ship Brio de Mar.
To indemnify the insurers of the British ship Brio de Mar, taken and burnt by the Peacock, alter the period fixed by the treaty of Ghent for the termination of hostilities between the United States and Great Britain and her dependencies, fifteen thousand dollars.
J. Trumbull, for paintings.
For the second payment to John Trumbull, for paintings agreeably to his contract with the Secretary of State, made in pursuance of a resolution Ante, p. 400.
Owners and underwriters of the British ship Union.
To indemnify the owners and underwriters of the British ship Union, Captain Robert Hall, taken and burnt by the American ship of war Peacock, after the period fixed by the treaty of Ghent, for the termination of hostilities between the United States and Great Britain and her dependencies, sixty-one thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars.
To repay John G. Brown, of New Brunswick.
For enabling the Secretary of the Treasury to repay to John G. Brown, of New Brunswick, the amount of a forfeiture remitted by Mr. Dallas, while Secretary of the Treasury, a sum not exceeding two hundred and twenty-eight dollars, shall be, and the same is hereby, appropriated.
Survey of certain parts of coast of North Carolina.
For carrying into effect a resolution directing a survey of certain parts of the coast of North Carolina, passed December the twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, the sum of five thousand dollars shall be, and the same is hereby, appropriated.
These appropriations to be paid out of the fund reserved, &c.
Act of Aug. 4, 1790, ch. 34.
Act of March 4, 1814, ch. 20.
Act of April 16, 1818, ch. 65.
Act of April 9, 1824, ch. 34.
Five years’ additional half pay to the widows and children of officers, seamen, and marines, killed in battle, &c. or who died in service.
Laws of the United States not inapplicable, in force in Illinois.
Illinois a district.
District court, one judge.
Two sessions of the court annually.
Act of Sept. 24, 1789, ch. 20.
A clerk.
Clerk’s fees.
1000 dolls, yearly compensation to the judge.
Payable quarterly.
District attorney.
200 dolls, per ann. for his extra services.
A marshal.
200 dolls, annually for his extra services.
The law of Maryland in force in the District of Columbia.
Post-roads established.
That the following be established post-roads, that is to say:
New Hampshire.
In New Hampshire.—From Sanborntown bridge, through Gilmanton; by the house of judge Badger, and New Durham bridge, to the post-office in Farmington.
From Boston, in Massachusetts, on the Medford, Andover, and Londonderry turnpike roads, and over Isle of Hookset bridge, to Concord, in New Hampshire.
From Bartlett, in New Hampshire, to Fryeburg, in Maine.
From Warner, by Sutton and New London, to Stickney’s inn, in Springfield.
From Washington, by Leinster and Unity, to Claremont.
From Concord, in Rockingham county, by Loudon, Pittsfield, Gilmonton iron works, Alton, and Wolfsborough, to Tuftonborough.
From Franconia, by Littleton village, to Littleton bridge.
Vermont.
In Vermont.—That the post-road from Danville to Lancaster, pass by Littleton bridge.
From Barnet, by Waterford village, at Mann’s store, to Concord.
From Jamaica, by Winhall, to Manchester.
From Richford to Berkshire, in the county of Franklin.
Maine.
In Maine.—From Freeport, by Little river village, in Lisbon, to Starbird’s corner, in Bowdoin.
That the post-road from Parsonsfield to Effingham, pass by Porter bridge.
That the post-road from Portland to Fryeburg, pass by Bridgetown and Denmark.
Massachusetts.
In Massachusetts.—From the south parish of Bridge water, by the Four Corners, in Middleborough, to New Bedford.
From Williamstown to Hancock.
From the house of Thomas B. Harrub, in Plympton, by Carver, to Wareham.
From Worcester, by West Boylston, Westminster, and Gardner, to Templeton.
From Falley’s cross roads, in Chester, by Norwich and Westhampton, to Northampton.
From Concord, by Havard, Shirley, Lunenburg, Fitchburg, and Ashburnham, to Winchendon.
From Worcester, by West Boylston, Princeton, Westminster and Gardner, to Templeton.
From the head of Accushnet river, to the village of Fairhaven.
Connecticut.
In Connecticut.—From Winstead, by Colebrook central meeting house, Sandisfield and Otis west meeting house, and Tyringham, to Stockbridge, in Massachusetts.
From Colchester, by Hebron, Andover, and Coventry, to Tolland.
From Lebanon, by Windham and Hampton, to Woodstock.
From Litchfield, by Goshen, East street , to Norfolk.
New York.
In New York.—From Albany, by Spencertown, to Sheffield, in Massachusetts.
From Troy, on the Hoosick road, by Brunswick, Grafton, and Petersburg, to Williamstown, in Massachusetts.
From the city of Schenectady to Utica, on the south side of the Mohawk river.
From Cherry valley, by Long Patent, Westford, and Decatur, to Worcester.
From Great Bend, Pa. by Harmony and Windsor, to Deposit.
From Troy, by Brunswick and Greenbush, to Sand Lake.
From Cambridge, by Hoosick, Petersburg, Berlin, and Stephentown, to Lebanon.
From Waterford, by Orange, to Ballston.
From Pine Plains, on the Ulster and Delaware turnpike, to North Post-roads established.
From Waterloo to Port Glasgow, by Clyde village, town of Galen.
From the village of Peekskill, by Crumpond, to Somerstown, in the county of West Chester.
From South Nunda, by M’Clure’s, to Ellicottville, in the county of Cataraugus.
In New Jersey.—From Newtown, in Sussex county , by Stillwater, New Jersey
From Baskenridge, by Liberty Corner, to Doughty’s mills, in Morris county.
From the city of New York, across Staten Island, by the Richmond and Woodbridge turnpike roads, to New Brunswick.
In Pennsylvania.—From Fannetsburg, in Franklin county, by Mifflintown, Pennsylvania.
From New Bedford to New Castle.
That the mail from Chambersburg to Huntington, return by Trough Creek, Three Springs Valley, and Fort Littleton, to the Burnt Cabins.
From Allentown, by M’Leansburg, Orwigsburg, and Hamburg, to Cootstown.
That the mail from Washington to New Lisbon, pass on from Bricelands, by Manchester, and from thence by Hookstown, Georgetown, and Little Beaver Bridge.
From the Yellow Springs, in Huntingdon county, by Williamsburg and Martinsburg, to Bloody Run.
That the post-road from Womelsdorf to Sunbury, pass by Gratz.
From Easton, by the Wind Gap, Hamilton, Pocono, Sterling, Salem, Canaan, and Mount Republic, to Mount Pleasant.
From Mount Republic to the Courthouse in Bethany.
From Halifax, in Dauphin county, to Sunbury, in Northumberland county, on the east side of the Susquehannah river.
From Greensburg, by Salem cross roads, Crawford’s mills, Freeport, Kittaning Courthouse, Woodward’s mills, Indiana Courthouse, Conomaugh salt works and New Alexandria, to Greensburg.
From Chester, in Delaware county, by Newtown, Spread Eagle, and King of Prussia, to Norristown, in Montgomery.
From Philadelphia, by Merion, Mill Creek, Gulf Mills, Lowry, Elliott’s and Mason’s Tavern, to Kimberton.
In Maryland.—From Hancock to Bath, in Berkley county in Virginia.
Maryland.
From Port Tobacco, by Bryantown, to Benedict.
That the mail pass on the turnpike road between Hagerstown and Cumberland.
From Bladensburg to Magruder’s tavern, in Maryland.
From Fredericksburg, by Cartersville, Cumberland c. h., Prince Edward c. h., Charlotte c. h., and Halifax c. h., in Virginia, by Milton, Salisbury, and Charlotte, in North Carolina, by York c. h., Pinckneyville, Union c. h., Lawrence c. h., and Abbeville c. h., in South Carolina; and by Petersburg, Washington, Powelton, and Sparta, to Milledgeville, in Georgia.
In Virginia.—From Bowling Green, in Carolina county, by Golansville, Virginia.
That the post-road called the Three Notched Road, from Richmond to Milton, shall pass by Price’s store, N. J. Poindexter & Co’s, store, and Dobb’s store.
From Morgantown, by Barnes’ mills, and Shinston, to Clarksburg.
From Moorfield’s, by Smith’s, and the German settlement, to Kingwood.
From Preston to Howell’s mill, on the Little Kenhawa.
Post-roads established.
From Petersburg, by Moody’s, Bevil’s bridge, Amelia Courthouse, Painesville, and Jameston, to Farmville, in the county of Prince Edward.
From York to Warwick.
From Kempsville to London bridge.
From Great bridge, by Blackwater, to Knott’s island , North Carolina.
From Lewisburg, by Nicholas Courthouse, to Charleston, in Kenhawa county.
From Perkinsonville, in Amelia county, by Jenning’s ordinary, in Nottoway, Miller’s tavern, and Moore’s ordinary, in Prince Edward county, and Key’s tavern, in Charlotte county, to Charlotte Courthouse.
From Hanover Courthouse to Taylorsville, in the county of Hanover.
From Lynchburg to the store of Richard Davis, in Bedford county.
North Carolina.
In North Carolina.—From Rutherfordton, by Mumford’s Cove, and Harmonville, to Mackeysville, in Burk county.
From Lumberton, by Philadelphus, M’Phaulsville, Montpelier, M’Eachin’s bridge, Cowper Hill, Stewartsville, Queensdale, and Alfordsville, to Lumberton.
From Haywood Courthouse, at Waynesville, to Houghstonsville, in South Carolina.
From Newbern, by Tilman’s mill, to Bay river.
From Tarboro’ to Williamstown.
From Louisburg, by Haysville and Healthseat, to Oxford.
From Ashville, North Carolina, to Pendleton Courthouse, in South Carolina.
From Knott’s island, by Kempsville, to Norfolk, in Virginia.
From Statesville, by Campbell’s Grove, to Morgantown.
From Salem, North Carolina, by Perkins, Good Spur, and Poplar Camp, to Wythe Courthouse, Virginia.
From Oxford, in Granville county, to Louisburg, in the county of Franklin.
From Chapel Hill, in Orange county, to Lexington, in the county of Rowan.
South Carolina.
In South Carolina.—From Parker’s Ferry, by Walterboro’, to Barnwell Courthouse.
From Columbia, by Lexington, Edgefield, Newbury, and Laurens, to Greenville Courthouse.
From Adam Eifert’s, by Mount Willing, R. Coleman’s, William Wilson’s, Charles Chappel’s, on Saluda river, J. Cook’s store, and H. Gray’s, to Greenville.
From John Thompson’s, junr., in Marion District, by Richard Howard’s, to Godfrey’s Ferry, on Big Pee-Dee river.
From York Courthouse by Fullenwider’s store, at Gordan’s Old Place, to Lincolnton, in North Carolina; and from thence to Morganton.
Georgia.
In Georgia.—From Milledgeville, by Bollin’s ferry, Devereaux, Baxter’s bridge, and Greensboro’, to Athens.
From Fort Hawkins, by Clinton and Monticello, to Madison.
Ohio.
In Ohio.—From Dresden, by Washington cross roads, West Bedford, and Darling’s, to Mansfield.
From Berkshire, by Delaware, to Urbana.
From Ravenna, by Rootstown, and Randolph, to Canton.
From Newark to Mount Vernon.
From Urbana to the county seat in Logan county.
From Columbus, by Urbana, and Piqua, to Greenville.
From Troy, by Piqua, St. Mary’s, Fort Wayne, and Fort Defiance, to Fort Meigs.
From Zanesville, by Plainfield, to White Eyes Plains, on the east side of the Muskingum.
From Wellsburg, Va., by Philipsburg and Smithfield, to Cadiz.
Post-roads established.
From New Lexington to Greenville.
From Coshocton, by Mechanicstown and Millersburg, to Wooster.
From Piqua to Hardin, in Shelby county.
From Hamilton, by Oxford, Dover, Eaton, and New Paris, to Greenville.
From Cadiz to Rumby.
In Kentucky.—From Catletsburg, by the mouth of Blaine creek, and Kentucky.
From Lexington, by the way of the Burnt Tavern, to Lancaster.
From Princeton, by Bellsford, to Madisonville.
From Falmouth to Neville, in Ohio.
From Millersburg, by Ruddle’s Mill, to Cynthiana.
From Louisville, by Mount Vernon, Fairfield, and Bloomfield, to Springfield.
From Greensburg, by Monroesville, to Glasgow.
From Newburg, by Ewingsville and Trenton, to Port Royal, in Tennessee.
From Trenton, in Christian county, to Clarkesville.
That the mail from Glasgow to Berksville shall pass by Martinsburg.
From Tompkinsville, by Martinsburg, to Burksville.
In Tennessee.—From Clinton, by Morgan Courthouse, to Burkesville, Tennessee.
From Columbia, in Maury county, to Waynesboro’, in Wayne county.
From the Boat Yard, by Embree’s iron works, to Jonesborough.
In Indiana.—From Princeton, by Columbia, Petersburg, and the seat Indiana.
From Vincennes, by Palestine, to York, in Illinois.
From Lexington to Vernon.
From Jeffersonville, by Greenville, Fredericksburg, Paoli, and Washington, to Vincennes.
From Vincennes, by Carlisle and Belville, in Illinois, to St. Louis, in the Missouri territory.
From Jacksonborough, in the county of Wayne, to the county seat for Randolph county.
From Lawrenceburg, in Indiana, to Petersburg and Burlington, in Kentucky.
From Brookville to Vernon; thence, by Brownstown and Salem, to Geneva.
From Corydon, by Mount Sterling, Portersville, Petersburg, and Columbia, to Princeton.
From Elizabeth, Hardin county, Kentucky, by Fredonia, and Mount Sterling, to Paoli, in Indiana.
In Illinois.—From Edwardsville, by Alton, to St. Charles, in the Illinois.
That the post-road from Vincennes to Shawneetown, pass by the English Prairie, or section No. 10, of township No. 2, range 10, east.
From Vincennes, by Palestine, to York, in Illinois.
In Mississippi.—From Winchester, by Green Courthouse, Fords on Mississippi.
From Port Gibson, by Franklin Courthouse and Liberty, to Madisonville, in the state of Louisiana.
In the Missouri Territory.—From St. Charles, by Clark’s Fort, Stouts’ Missouri Territory.
From St. Charles, by Montgomery Courthouse, to Howard Courthouse.
Post-roads established.
From St. Louis, by Franklin Courthouse, Cooper Courthouse, to Howard Courthouse.
From Cadron, by Pulaski Courthouse, Little Rock, Clark Courthouse and Hempstead Courthouse, to Washita Courthouse, in Louisiana.
From Franklin Courthouse to Montgomery Courthouse.
From St. Michael, by the seat of justice in Wayne county, to Hix’s Ferry.
From Jackson to the seat of justice in Wayne county.
From St. Louis, by Belle Fontain, and Portage de Sioux, to the seat of justice in Lincoln county.
From Potosi, by Belleview, to Murphy’s Settlement.
Alabama Territory.
In the Alabama Territory.—From Huntsville, to Moorsville, in Limestone county.
From Cahaba to St. Stephens.
From Burnt Corn Spring, Monroe county, by Blakely, to Mobile in Mobile county.
From Cahaba to Tuskaloosa.
From Huntsville, in Alabama territory, by Shelbyville and Fayetteville, to Murfreesborough in Tennessee.
The military road from Huntsville to Madisonville to be established a post-road.
That in all elections of directors Act of April 10, 1816, ch. 44. Persons offering more than 30 votes, may be compelled to make oath. 1816, ch. 44.
Form of the oath.
I, Any judge of elections may administer the oath, &c.
Proxies.
Form of the oath to be endorsed.
Oath may be taken before a notary, &c.
Judges of elections permitting persons to give more than thirty votes without making oath, or suffering any person to vote as proxy without a power, as proscribed, to be deemed guilty, &c.
Persons swearing falsely, subject to the penalties of perjury.
The person giving, and the president or director accepting, any money, or bribe, &c., to be fined and imprisoned, and for ever disqualified, &c.
The operation of the 6th condition of the 5th section of the act for the sale of lands, &c., suspended until March 31, 1820, in favour of purchasers.
Act of May 10, 1800, ch. 55.
See act of March 30, 1820, ch. 26.
Act of May 10, 1800, ch. 55.
See act of March 30, 1820, ch. 26.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 112.
The act of 20th April, 1818, extended to the vessels of Prussia, Hamburg and Bremen.
The act of 3d March, 1815, ch. 76, the act April 20, 1818, ch. 112, and this act to cease on 1st Jan., 1824.
Piracy.—A robbery committed on the high seas, although such robbery, if committed on land, would not by the laws of the United States, be punishable with death, is piracy, under the act of Congress of 1790; and the circuit courts have jurisdiction thereof. United States v. Palmer, 3 Wheat. 610; 4 Cond. Rep. 352.
The crime of robbery, as mentioned in the act, is the crime of robbery as recognised and defined at common law. Ibid.
The crime of robbery, committed by a person who is not a citizen of the United States, on the high seas, on board of a ship belonging exclusively to subjects of a foreign state, or on persons in a foreign vessel, is not piracy under the act, and is not punishable in the courts of the United States. Ibid.
When a civil war rages in a foreign nation, one part of which separates itself from the old established government, and erects itself into a distinct government, the courts of the United States must view such newly constituted government as it is viewed by the legislative and executive departments of the government of the United States. If that government remains neutral, but recognises the existence of a civil war the courts of the Union cannot consider as criminal, those acts of hostility which war authorizes, and which the new government may direct against its enemy. Ibid.
The same testimony which would be sufficient to prove that a vessel or person is in the service of an acknowledged state, is admissible to prove that they are in the service of such newly created government. Its seal cannot be allowed to prove itself, but may be proved by such testimony as the nature of the case admits; and the fact that a vessel or person is in the service of such government may be established otherwise, should it be impracticable to prove the seal. Ibid.
A commission issued by Aury, as “brigadier of the Mexican republic,” (a republic whose existence is unknown and unacknowledged,) or as “generalissimo of the Floridas,” (a province in the possession of Spain.) will not authorize armed vessels to make captures at sea. United States v. Klintock, 5 Wheat. 144; 4 Cond. Rep. 614.
Query, Whether a person, acting with good faith under such a commission, may be guilty of piracy? Ibid.
However this may be, in general, under the particular circumstances of this case, showing that the seizure was made not jure belli, but animo furandi, the commission was held not to exempt the prisoner from the charge of piracy. Ibid.
The act of the 30th of April, 1790, ch. 9, extends to all persons, on board all vessels, which throw off their national character by cruising piratically, and committing piracy on other vessels. Ibid.
The act of the 3rd March, 1819, ch. 77, sec. 5, referring to the law of nations for a definition of the crime of piracy, is a constitutional exercise of the power of Congress to define and punish that crime. United States v. Smith, 5 Wheat. 153; 4 Cond. Rep. 619.
The crime of piracy is defined by the law of nations with reasonable certainty. Ibid.
Robbery, or forcible depredation, upon the sea, animo furandi, is piracy by the law of nations, and by the act of Congress. Ibid.
The eighth section of the act of the 30th of April, 1790, ch. 9, for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, is not repealed by the act of the 3d of March, 1819, ch. 77, to protect the commerce of the United States, and to punish the crime of piracy. United States v. Furlong, alias Hobson et al., 5 Wheat. 184; 4 Cond. Rep. 623.
In an indictment for a piratical murder (under the act of the 30th of April, 1790, ch. 9, sec. 8), it is not necessary that it should allege the prisoner to be a citizen of the United States, nor that the crime was committed on board a vessel belonging to citizens of the United States; but it is sufficient to charge it as committed from on board such a vessel, by a mariner sailing on board such a vessel. Ibid.
The words “out of the jurisdiction of any particular state,” in the act of the 30th of April, 1790, ch. 9, sec. 8, are construed to mean, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state of the Union. Ibid.
A vessel lying in an open roadstead of a foreign country, is “upon the high seas” within the act of 1790, ch. 9, sec. 8. Ibid.
A citizen of the United States fitting out a vessel in a port of the United States, to cruise against a power in amity with the United States, is not protected by a foreign commission from punishment for any offence committed against the property of citizens of the United States. Ibid.
The courts of the United States have jurisdiction of a murder committed on the high seas from a vessel belonging to the United States, by a foreigner being on board such vessel, upon another foreigner being on board of a foreign vessel. It is not necessary to produce documentary evidence, in order to prove the national character of a vessel, on an indictment for piracy. Ibid.
The courts of the United States have not jurisdiction of a murder committed by one foreigner on another foreigner, both being on board a foreign vessel. Ibid.
It is competent in an indictment for piracy, for the jury to find that a vessel within a marine league of the shore, at anchor, in an open roadstead, where vessels only ride under shelter of the land at a season when the course of the winds is invariable, is upon the high seas. Ibid.
The act of the 3d of March, 1819, ch. 77, sec. 5, furnishes a sufficient definition of piracy; and it is defined to be “robbery on the seas.” Ibid.
A vessel loses her national character by assuming a piratical character; and a piracy committed by a foreigner from on board such a vessel, upon any other vessel whatever, is punishable under the eighth section of the act of the 30th of April, 1790, ch. 9. Ibid.
On an indictment for piracy, the jury may find the national character of a vessel upon such evidence as will satisfy their minds; without the certificate of registry, or other documentary evidence, being produced; and without proof of their having been seen on board. Ibid.
On an indictment for piracy, the national character of a merchant vessel of the United States may be proved without evidence of her certificate of registry. Ibid.
The courts of the United States have jurisdiction under the act of the 30th of April, 1790, ch. 9, of murder or robbery committed on the high seas; although not committed on board a vessel belonging to citizens of the United States, as if she had no national character; but was held by pirates, or persons not lawfully sailing under the flag of any foreign nation. United States v. Holmes, 5 Wheat. 412; 4 Cond. Rep. 708.
In the same case, and under the same act, if the offence be committed on board of a foreign vessel by a citizen of the United States; or on board a vessel of the United States by a foreigner; or by a citizen or foreigner on board of a piratical vessel; the offence is equally cognisable by the courts of the United States. Ibid.
It makes no difference in such a case, and under the same act, whether the offence was committed on board of a vessel, or on the sea; as by throwing the deceased overboard and drowning him, or by shooting him when in the sea though he was not thrown overboard. Ibid.
In such a case, and under the same act, where the vessel from on board of which the offence was committed, sailed from Buenos Ayres, where she had enlisted her crew; but it did not appear by legal proof that she had a commission from the government of Buenos Ayres, or any ships’ papers or documents from that government, or that she was ever recognized as a ship of that nation, or of its subjects, or who were the owners, where they resided, or when or where the vessel was armed and equipped; but it did appear in proof, that the captain and crew were chiefly Englishmen, Frenchmen, and citizens of the United States; that the captain was by birth a citizen of the United States, domiciled at Baltimore, where the privateer was built: Held, that the burthen of proof of the national character of the vessel, was on the prisoners. Ibid.
General piracy, or murder, or robbery, committed by persons on board a vessel, not at the time belonging to the subjects of any foreign power, but in possession of a crew, acting in defiance of all law, and acknowledging obedience to no government whatever, is within the 8th section of the act of Congress of April 30th, 1790, ch. 9, and is punishable in the courts of the United States. United States v. Furlong, 5 Wheat. 185; 4 Cond. Rep. 623.
There is a distinction between the crimes of murder and piracy. The latter is an offence within the criminal jurisdiction of all nations: not so with murder, it is punishable under the laws of each state. Ibid.
It is not necessary to produce documentary evidence, to prove the national character of a vessel, on an indictment for piracy. Ibid.
Upon a piratical capture, the property of the original owners cannot be forfeited for the misconduct of the captors, in violating the municipal laws of the country where the captors have carried the property. The Josefa Segunda, 5 Wheat. 338; 4 Cond. Rep. 672.
Pirates may be lawfully captured by the public or private ships of any nation, in peace or in war; for they are hostes humani generis. The Marianna Flora, 11 Wheat. 1; 6 Cond. Rep. 201.
On a question of probable cause of seizure, under the piracy acts of 3d of March, 1819, ch. 77, and of the 15th of May, 1820, ch. 113; although the crew may be protected by a commission bona fide received, and acted under, from the consequences attaching to the offence of piracy by the general law of nations; although such commission was irregularly issued ; yet if the defects in the commission be such as, connected with the insubordination and predatory spirit of the crew, to excite a justly founded suspicion, it is sufficient, under the act of Congress, to justify the captors for bringing in the vessel for adjudication, and to exempt them from costs and damages. The Palmyra, 12 Wheat. 1; 6 Cond. Rep. 397.
Whatever difficulty there may be, under our municipal institutions, in punishing as pirates, citizens of the United States who take from a state at war with Spain, a commission to cruise against that power, contrary to the 14th article of the Spanish treaty: yet there is no doubt that such acts are to be considered as piratical acts for all civil purposes, and the offending parties cannot appear, and claim in our courts the property thus taken. The Bello Corrunes, 6 Wheat. 152; 5 Cond. Rep. 45.
To constitute the offence of piracy, within the act of 1790, ch. 9, by “piratically and feloniously” running away with a vessel, personal force and violence is not necessary. United States v. Tully, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 247.
The “piratically and feloniously” running away with a vessel, within the act, is the running away with a vessel, with an intent to convert the same to the taker’s own use, against the will of the owner. The intent must be animo furandi. Ibid.
The circuit court has cognisance, under the act of 1790, ch. 9, sec. 8, of piracy on board an American ship, although committed in an open roadstead, adjacent to a foreign territory, and within half a mile of the shore. United States v. Ross, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 524.
Where the defendant was indicted for robbery and piracy, on the high seas, on board a brig called L’Eclair, a foreign vessel, belonging exclusively to French owners, and sailing under the French flag: Held, that under the acts of Congress, the circuit court had no jurisdiction to try and punish the offence. United States v. Kessler, 1 Baldwin’s C. C. R. 25.
Whether the offence was committed within or without a marine league of the coast of the United States, makes no difference. Ibid.
The defendant who was the first lieutenant of an American privateer, the Revenge, was indicted for piracy committed on a Portuguese vessel, and for assaulting the crew, and putting them in bodily fear, &c. The defendant was charged with boarding the vessel, and by force and intimidation, taking from her money and other articles, not claiming the vessel as prize; but pretending that the Revenge was an English vessel, and that the articles would be paid for by an order on the English consul. Held, that the eighth section of the act for the punishment of certain crimes, makes murder and robbery on the high seas acts of piracy. The words, “which if committed in the body of a county,” do not relate to “murder and robbery,” but to the words immediately preceding them, or any other offence. United States v. Jones, 3 Wash. C. C. R. 209.
To define the meaning of “robbery,” the common law must be resorted to: wherever a statute of the United States uses a technical term, which is known, and its meaning clearly ascertained by the common law or civil law, from one or other of which it is obviously borrowed, it is proper to refer for its meaning to the source from which it is taken. Ibid.
The act of Congress of 1812, for the government of the navy of the United States, does not repeal the provisions of the law relating to piracy, contained in the act of Congress passed 30th April, 1790. The general rule of law, that robbery on the high seas is piracy, has no exception or qualification in favour of commissioned privateers, in any act of Congress, in the common law, or in the law of nations. Robbery is the felonious taking of goods from the person of another; or in his presence by violence; or by putting him in fear, and against his will. Ibid.
As there was no proof under the indictment, that in the first instance any unlawful acts were meditated by the commander of the Revenge, and his officers; it was held to be insufficient to charge the defendants, who were part of the crew, with piracy, by proving acts of robbery committed by the crew in general. It must be proved that the defendants, who were part of the crew, participated in the taking; and that they did it feloniously. The captain of the Revenge may have been guilty of robbery, and those who executed his orders may have been innocent. Ibid.
The crimes of piracy mentioned in the 8th section of the act for the punishment of certain crimes, passed 30th April, 1790, are such as are committed by citizens of the United States, or on board of vessels of the United States; and the 10th and 11th sections of the act, which refer to accessories, refer to acts of piracy mentioned in the 8th section. United States v. Howard et al., 3 Wash. C. C. R. 340 An endeavour by a mariner to corrupt the master of a vessel, and to induce him to go over to pirates, is within the provisions of the eighth section of the law. Ibid.
To establish the crime of confederacy, there must be some proof of criminal intentions in the persons charged. Ibid.
The language of the 12th section of the law, implies compact and association with pirates, as well in relation to the past as to the future. Any intercourse with them which is calculated to promote their views, is within the provisions of the law. Ibid.
In order to affect all the officers and crew of a piratical vessel with guilt, the original voyage must have been undertaken with a piratical design; and the officers and crew have acted upon such design; otherwise those only are guilty who co-operated actively in the piracy. United States v. Gibert, 2 Sumner's C. C. R. 19.
It would not be sufficient to affect them with such, if they had known the voyage was to be an illegal one, as in the slave trade, contrary to the laws of Spain. Ibid.
The simple fact of presence on board the piratical vessel, where there was no original piratical design, is not of itself sufficient to affect a party with the crime. All who are present, acting and assisting in the piracy, are to be deemed principals. Ibid.
The act of 1790, ch. 9, sec. 8, for the punishment of certain crimes, passed by Congress, as well as the act of 1820, ch. 113, applies to all murders and robberies committed on board of, or upon American ships on the high seas. Ibid.
The indictment charged the piracy to have been committed “on the high seas within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, and out of the jurisdiction of a particular state.” Held, that this was a sufficient statement of the venue, without a further specification of the place. Ibid.
Under the act of Congress of 1819, ch. 77, any armed vessel may be seized which shall have attempted or committed any piratical aggression, &c., and the proceeds of the vessel when sold divided between the United States and the captors at the discretion of the court. Harmony et al. v. The United States, 2 Howard, 210.
It is no matter whether the vessel be armed for offence or defence, provided she commits the unlawful acts specified. Ibid.v To bring a vessel within the act, it is not necessary that there should be actual plunder or intent to plunder; if the act be committed from hatred or an abuse of power, or a spirit of mischief, it is sufficient. Ibid.
The word “piratical” in the act is not to be limited in its construction to such acts as by the laws of nations are denominated piracy, but includes such as pirates are in the habit of committing. Ibid.
A piratical aggression, search, restraint or seizure, is as much within the act, as a piratical depredation. Ibid.
The innocence or ignorance on the part of the owner of the vessel, of these prohibited acts, will not exempt the vessel from condemnation. Ibid.
The condemnation of the cargo is not authorized by the act of 1819. Neither does the law of nations require the condemnation of the cargo for petty offences, unless the owner thereof co-operates in and authorizes the unlawful act. An exception exists in the enforcement of belligerent rights. Ibid.
Where the innocence of the owners was established, it was proper to throw the costs on the vessel which was condemned, to the exception of the cargo which was liberated. Ibid.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 100.
Act of May 10, 1800, ch. 51. The President authorized to employ the public armed vessels to protect merchant vessels.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 100.
Act of May 10, 1800, ch. 51.
The President authorized to employ the public armed vessels to protect merchant vessels.
The President authorized to instruct commanders of public armed vessels to take and send into port armed vessels, &c. which have attempted or committed piratical aggression, &c.
Merchant vessels may defend against aggression, &c. by any armed vessel other than a public armed vessel of a nation in amity.
Vessels from which piratical aggression, &c. has been attempted or made, when taken may be condemned.
Sale and distribution.
Persons committing the crime of piracy on the high seas, to be punished with death.
Act of March 2, 1811, ch. 30.
The act continued until 1st March, 1820.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 104.
The President may transfer Indian agents.
Indian agent for Upper Missouri with a salary of $1800.
Affidavit of two credible surgeons, &c., stating the continuance and rate of disability, &c., to accompany the application for payment.
Proviso; affidavit not necessary in case of total disability, &c.
Act of March 18, 1818, ch. 19.
[Obsolete.]
The duties on wines not enumerated in the act of 1816, when imported in bottles or cases, &c., to cease after 30th June, 1819.
Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 107.
Specific duties in lieu, &c.
Addition of ten per cent, to the rates specified, upon importations in vessels not of the United States.
Proviso.
Drawback of the duties imposed on exportation, &c.
1816, ch. 107.
Existing laws in force for the collection of the duties imposed by this act.
Wines may be transported coastwise.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 129.
[Obsolete.]
Act of April 19, 1816, ch. 57.
Instead of four sections, &c., any contiguous quarter sections, fractions, &c., may be located under direction of the legislature.
[Obsolete.]
That there be appropriated Appropriations for finishing the wings of the Capitol.
Centre building.
For erecting the centre building of the Capitol, one hundred and thirty-six thousand six hundred and forty-four dollars.
Gates, iron railing, &c.,
For finishing the gates, the iron railing, and the enclosure north of the President’s house, five thousand three hundred and forty-four dollars.
Enlarging offices west of President’s house.
For enlarging the offices west of the President’s house, eight thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars.
Purchasing a lot of land, and supplying the executive offices with water.
To be paid out of money in the treasury.
For purchasing a lot of land, and for constructing pipes, for supplying the executive offices and President’s house with water, nine thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Which said several sums of money, hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
The President authorized to employ capable persons to instruct Indians in agriculture, and to teach Indian children reading, writing and arithmetic, &c.
Account of expenditure and proceedings to be laid before Congress.
Act of April 12, 1814, ch. 52.
The provisions of the 5th section of the act of 12th April, 1814, to be construed to extend to citizens of Howard county.
The right of pre-emption.
Persons who would have had the right of pre-emption had not the lands been reserved for schools, to have the right of preemption, &c.
That for the purpose of carrying Appropriations for carrying into effect treaties with the Wyandots, Senecas, Delawares, Shawanees, Pattawatimas, Ottawas, and Chippewas.
The sum of thirteen thousand three hundred dollars, for the payment Annuities.
Wyandots.
To the Wyandot tribe, annually, for ever , at Upper Sandusky, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Senecas.
To the Seneca tribe, annually, for ever, at Lower Sandusky, one thou sand dollars.
Shawanees at Wapaghkonetta.
To the Shawanee tribe, annually, for ever, at Wapaghkonetta, two thousand dollars.
Shawanees and Senecas of Lewistown.
To the Shawanees and Senecas of Lewistown, annually, for ever , one thousand dollars.
Pattawatimas.
To the Pattawatimas, annually, for fifteen years, at Detroit, one thou sand three hundred dollars.
Ottawas.
To the Ottowas, annually, for fifteen years, at Detroit, one thousand dollars; and the further annual sum of one thousand five hundred dollars forever.
Chippewas.
To the Chippewa tribe, annually, for fifteen years, at Detroit, one thousand dollars.
Delawares and Wyandots in 1818.
And the sum of three thousand dollars, to be paid in the course of the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, to tire Delaware and Wyandot tribes, to wit:
To the Delaware tribe at Wapaghkonetta, five hundred dollars.
To the Wyandot tribe, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For damages assessed by authority of the Secretary of War.
For the payment of the amount of damages, assessed by authority of the Secretary of War, in favour of several tribes and individuals of Indians, whose property was injured or destroyed during the late war, fourteen thousand four hundred and eighty dollars thirteen cents; to be paid in tire manner following:
To the Wyandots.
To the Wyandots, at Upper Sandusky, four thousand three hundred and nineteen dollars thirty-nine cents.
To the Senecas.
To the Senecas, at Lower Sandusky, three thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine dollars twenty-four cents.
Indians at Lewis and Scoutash towns.
To the Indians at Lewis and Scoutash towns, one thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars fifty cents.
To Delawares for Indian losses at Greentown, &c.
To the Delawares, for the use of the Indians who suffered losses at Greentown, and at Jeromestown, at Wapaghkonetta, three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars and fifty cents.
Representatives of Hembis.
To the representatives of Hembis, a Delaware Indian, at Wapaghkonetta, three hundred and forty-eight dollars and fifty cents.
Additional to the Shawanees.
To the Shawanees, an additional sum, at Wapaghkonetta, of four hundred and twenty dollars.
Additional to the Senecas.
To the Senecas, an additional sum, at Wapaghkonetta, of two hundred and nineteen dollars.
For carrying into effect the Chickasaw treaty.
That for the purpose of carrying into effect the treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw nation of Indians, concluded on the nineteenth of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, the following sum be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, in conformity with the stipulations contained in said treaty: that is to say:
20,000 dolls, annually, for 15 years.
To the Chickasaw nation, annually, for fifteen successive years, twenty thousand dollars.
For carrying into effect treaties with the Weas, Pattawatimas, Delawares, and Miamis.
That for the purpose of carrying into effect the treaties concluded at St. Mary’s in the state of Ohio, with the Wea tribe, on the second of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen; the Pattawatima tribe, on the second of October eighteen hundred and eighteen; the Delaware tribe, on the third of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen; and with the Miami tribe, on the sixth of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen; the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, in conformity with the stipulations contained in said treaties; that is to say:
To the Wea tribe, the annual sum of one thousand eight hundred and Weas.
To the Pattawatima tribe, the annual sum of two thousand five hundred Pattawatimas.
To the Delaware tribe, the annual sum of four thousand dollars.
Delawares.
And a sum, not exceeding thirteen thousand three hundred and twelve To satisfy claims against the Delawares at Piqua and Fort Wayne, &c.
To the Miami tribe, the annual sum of fifteen thousand dollars.
Miamies.
That for the purpose of carrying For carrying into effect treaties with the Quapaws, and Peorias, Kaskaskias, &c.
To the Quapaw tribe, the sum of four thousand dollars, and the Quapaws.
To the Peoria, Kaskaskia, the Michigania, Cahokia, and Tamarois tribes Peorias, Kaskaskias, &c.
For carrying into effect the treaty with the Great and Little Osages, to satisfy claims of citizens, &c.
For annuity, granted by treaty of 16th June, 1802, to the Creeks.
For carrying into effect the treaty with the Creeks of 22d Jan., 1818.
For carrying into effect certain other stipulations in Indian treaties.
An agent to be appointed to reside among the Wyandots, &c.
An agent to reside among the Shawanees.
1200 dollars per annum for each agent.
Sums to be paid, &c.
President, authorized to sell certain useless military sites.
The Secretary on payment to make a deed in fee.
Jurisdiction of the United States to cease.
The fifth and 6th sections of the act of July 29, 1813, and the act of March 3, 1819, relating to the bounty upon all vessels and boats employed in the bank and other cod fisheries as shall be employed at sea for the term of four months, include within their terms all vessels engaged in the cod fisheries, without limitation or specification as to the length of their fares, or the nature of their fisheries. Ibid.
A vessel is “at sea” within the intent of the acts ofl813 and 1819, when she is without the limits of any ports or harbours on the seacoast. Ibid.
Where a vessel was enrolled and licensed for the fisheries, and without an oath having been taken by all the owners to the ownership, as prescribed by the statutes of 1813 and 1819, and fraud and deceit were charged in procuring the bounty allowed by law to such vessels, it was held that it must be satisfactorily proved on the part of the United States, that the omission by the owners, who did not take the oath, was through fraud and deceit, and not through mistake, in order to render the vessel liable to forfeiture. Ibid.
Where a certificate made by the agent of the owner, of the particular time of sailing and returning of the vessel engaged in the cod fisheries, was discovered to be incorrect and false, after the bounty was received, it was held, that if the incorrectness and falsity were by mistake, there was no forfeiture under the acts of 1813 and 1819; but if by fraud and deceit, there was. Ibid.
Act of July 29, 1813, ch. 35.
Owners of boats and vessels qualified to carry on the cod fishery, and employed four months at sea to be allowed—
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 152.
If more than 5, and not exceeding 30 tons, &c.
If above 30 tons, &c.
If above 30, with a crew of 10, &c.
Proviso: allowance for one season not to exceed 360 dolls.
Parts of the act amended, contrary, &c. repealed.
The Secretary of War authorized to convey Keep-Tryst Furnace, &c. upon terms conducive to the interest of the United States.
The money to be deposited in the Treasury.
Act of April 24, 1816, ch. 68.
The Secretary of War to appoint an additional agent, to pay pensions in E. Tennessee.
His duties the same, &c.
Act of April 24, 1820, ch.49.
Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 12.
Act of May 8, 1822, ch. 124.
Districts and offices for the sale of lands to which the Indian title is extinguished, in Ohio.
District and land office at Piqua.
District and land office at Delaware.
Districts and offices for the sale of lands to which the Indian title is extinguished, in Indiana.
A district, and land office at Brookville; and at Terre Haute.
Lands attached to the district of Jeffersonville.
Lands to be offered for sale on the same terms, &c.
The President, &c. authorized to appoint a register and receiver for each district.
All the public lands to which the Indian title has been extinguished, to be offered for sale.
Under the direction of the register and receiver.
Sales open for three weeks.
Not less than two dollars an acre.
Lands remaining unsold may be sold at private sale.
Patents, in the same manner, &c.
The President may remove any of the land offices, &c.
Compensation to each register and receiver.
An act to authorize the President of the United States to take possession of east and west Florida, and establish a temporary government therein, March 3, 1819, ch. 92.
An act for carrying into execution the treaty between the United States and Spain, concluded at Washington on the 22d day of February, 1819, March 3, 1821, ch. 39.
An act for establishing a territorial government in the territory of Florida, March 30, 1822, ch. 13.
An act to amend an act entitled “
An Act to amend an act entitled “
An act granting donation lands to certain actual settlers in the territory of Florida, May 26, 1821, ch. 164.
An act authorizing the President of the United States to run and mark a line dividing the territory of Florida from the state of Georgia, May 4, 1826, ch. 31.
An act to amend the several acts for the establishment of a territorial government in Florida, May 15, 1826, ch. 46.
An act to carry into effect the ninth article of the treaty concluded between the United States and Spain on the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, March 3, 1823, ch. 35.
An act for ascertaining claims and titles to lands within the territory of Florida, May 8, 1822, ch. 129.
An act amending and supplementary to “
An act to extend the time limited for the settlement of private land claims in Florida, Feb. 28, 1824, ch. 25.
An act to extend the time for the settlement of private land claims in the territory of Florida and to provide for the preservation of the public archives in said territory, and for the relief of John Johnson, March 3, 1825, ch. 83.
An act giving the right of pre-emption in the purchase of lands to certain settlers in the states of Alabama, Mississippi, and the territory of Florida, April 22, 1826, ch. 28.
An act to provide for the confirmation and settlement of private land claims in East Florida, and for other purposes, Feb. 8, 1827, ch. 9.
An act confirming claims to lots in the town of Mobile, and to lands in the former province of West Florida, which claims have been reported favourably on by the commissioners appointed by the United States, May 9, 1822, ch. 122.
An act for ascertaining the claims to lands within the territory of Florida, May 8, 1822, ch. 129.
An act to confirm the reports of the commissioners for ascertaining claims and titles to land in West Florida, and for other purposes, April 22, 1826, ch. 29.
An act supplementary to the several acts providing for the settlement and confirmation of land claims in Florida, May 23, 1828, ch. 70.
An act to provide for the settlement of land claims in Florida, May 26, 1830, ch. 106.
An act to ascertain and mark the line between the state of Alabama and the territory of Florida, and the northern boundary of the state of Illinois, and for other purposes, March 2, 1831, ch. 86.
An act to equalize the representation in the territory of Florida, and for other purposes, June 18, 1834, ch. 46.
Resolution authorizing the President to furnish rations to certain volunteers of Florida, Feb. 1, 1836.
An act to re-organize the legislative council of Florida, and for other purposes, July 7, 1838, ch. 168.
An act to provide for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the peninsula of East Florida, August 4, 1842, ch. 122.
An act to establish an additional land district in Florida, April 30, 1842, ch. 271.
An act to amend an act to provide for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled parts of East Florida, June 15, 1844, ch. 71.
An act for the admission of the States of Iowa and Florida into the Union, March 3, 1845, ch. 48.
An act supplemental to the act for the admission of Florida and Iowa into the Union, and for other purposes, March 3, 1845, ch. 75.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1821, ch. 39
.The President authorized to take possession of East and West Florida, &c.
He may employ the army, navy, and militia.
The President to appoint officers, and prescribe the manner of government of the territories.
Revenue laws, and laws concerning the slave trade, extended to the territories.
President to establish districts and appoint officers of the customs.
Appropriation.
When this act shall take effect.
The 2d section of the act of 16th April, 1816, ch. 55, &c. continued in force.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 107.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 17.
Four sections granted to Illinois for a seat of government.
To be selected as provided, &c.
Proviso.
The President to cause two fire engines to be purchased, with suction pipes and hose, &c., for protecting buildings in Washington.
Engine houses to be built, &c.
4500 dollars appropriated.
Act of March 3, 1821, ch. 53.
Gold coins of Great Britain and Portugal.
Of France.
Of Spain.
Current until first Nov., 1819; then to cease.
So much of the act of 29th April, 1816, as relates to foreign silver coins, in force until 29th April, 1821.
Act of April 29, 1816, ch. 139.
Act of May 24, 1824, ch. 138.
Purchasers making entries different from what they intended, may make application to the register of the land office.
The Secretary of the Treasury may allow the entries to be withdrawn, and the moneys paid to be applied to other purchases of land.
That the Secretary of War be, and The Secretary of War to place the persons named, on the pension list, &c.
Benijah Abro, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
Robert Craighead, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the thirty-first of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Solomon Van Ranssallaer, at the rate of thirty dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of October, in eighteen hundred and twelve, and the sum of two thousand five hundred and eighty dollars, the amount of pension to him at the rate of twenty dollars per month, commencing on the thirtieth of January, one thousand eight hundred and two, and ending on the thirteenth of October, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, in consequence of wounds received while serving as a captain of dragoons under General Wayne, in a battle with the Indians, on the twentieth of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four.
Thomas Bailey, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the ninth December, one thousand Sight hundred and seventeen.
Benjamin Pincin, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Caleb J. Whaley, at the rate of six dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the thirtieth of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
William Earnest, whose father died of wounds received in battle during the late war, to be applied, under the direction of the Secretary for
John Low, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
Jeremiah Burnham, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
John Sargent, of Vermont, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Peter Francisco, of Virginia, at the rate of eight dollars a month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
That the pensions of the following Pensions increased to the persons named.
Benjamin Merrill, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
Timothy Mix, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
William Lackin, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
John Wright, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on tire fourth of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Samuel Key Kendall, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the tenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
James Campbell, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
Philip Krugh, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fifth of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
George Pierson, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the tenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
John Long, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
Thomas M’Barney, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
William Simpson, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fifth of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
James C. Wingard, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
William Arnold, at the rate of seven dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Joseph S. Van Driesen, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the tenth of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
John Tilton, at the rate of thirteen dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Joseph Westcott, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
Aaron Stafford, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Officers, soldiers, &c. who served in the revolutionary war, on availing themselves of the act of 1818, ch. 19, not entitled to pensions under this, or other future acts.
Persons entitled may be placed on the pension list without report.
1806, ch. 25.
1808, ch. 58.
An act erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof, March 26, 1804, ch. 38, sec. 14.
An act for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to land within the territory of Orleans, and the district of Louisiana, March 2, 1805, ch. 26.
An act supplementary to an act, entitled “
An act respecting claims to lands, in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, March 3, 1807, ch. 36.
An act for the final adjustment of claims to lands, and for the sale of the public lands in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, [repealed,] February 15, 1811, ch. 14.
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 act passed for the same purposes, approved Feb. 16, [15] 1811, March 3, 1811, ch. 46.
An act giving further time for registering claims to lands in the western district of the territory of Orleans, March 10, 1812, ch. 38.
An act for ascertaining the titles and claims to lands in that part of Louisiana which lies east of the river Mississippi, and the island of New Orleans, April 25, 1812, ch. 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 state of Louisiana, July 1, 1812, ch. 118.
An act giving further time for registering claims to lands in the eastern and western districts of the territory of Orleans, now state of Louisiana, Feb. 27, 1813, ch. 38.
An act for the final adjustment of land titles, in the state of Louisiana, and territory of Missouri, April 12, 1814, ch. 52.
An act supplemental to an act, entitled “An act for ascertaining the titles and claims to lands in that, part of Louisiana, which lies east of the Mississippi and island of New Orleans, April 18, 1814 ch. 85.
An act concerning certificates of confirmation of claims to lands in the state of Louisiana, April 18, 1814. ch. 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, ch. 151, sec. 3.
An act for the confirmation of certain claims to land in the western district of the state of Louisiana, and in the territory of Missouri, April 29, 1816, ch. 159.
An act explanatory of the act, entitled “
An act for the adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices in the district east of the island of New Orleans, March 3, 1819, ch. 99.
An act confirming claims to lots in the town of Mobile, and to land in the former province of west Florida, which claims have been reported favourably on by the commissioners appointed by the United States, May 8, 1822, ch. 122.
An act supplementary to the several acts for adjusting claims to land, and establishing land offices in the district east of the island of New Orleans, May 8, 1822, ch. 128.
An act supplementary to the several acts for the adjustment of land claims in the state of Louisiana, Feb. 28, 1823, ch. 15.
An act to revive and continue in force the seventh section of an act, entitled “
An act to provide for the examination of titles to land in that part of the state of Louisiana, situate between the river Hondo and the Sabine river, March 3, 1823, ch. 30.
An act supplementary to the several acts providing for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to land in the St. Helena, and Jackson Courthouse districts, May 26, 1824, ch. 175.
An act supplementary to an act providing for the examination of titles to land in that part of the state of Louisiana, situated between the Rio Hondo and the Sabine rivers, May 26, 1824, ch. 182.
An act confirming certain claims to lands in the western district of Louisiana, Feb. 5, 1825, ch. 7.
An act to confirm the supplementary report of the commissioners of the western district of Louisiana, March 31, 1826, ch. 18.
An act to confirm certain claims to lands in the district of Opelousas in Louisiana, May 16, 1826, ch. 62.
An act granting the right of preference in the purchase of certain lands to certain settlers, in St. Helena land district, in the state of Louisiana, March 19, 1828, ch. 19.
An act to confirm the claims to lands in the district between Rio Hondo and Sabine rivers, founded on habitation and cultivation, May 24, 1828, ch. 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 the purchasers thereof, certificates for the same, May 5, 1830, ch. 86.
An act for the final adjustment of claims to lands in the south-eastern land district, of the state of Louisiana, July 4, 1832, ch. 166.
An act in reference to pre-emption rights in the south-eastern district of Louisiana, June 28, 1834, ch. 125.
An act for the final adjustment of claims to land in the state of Louisiana, February 6, 1835, Ch. 17.
An act supplementary to the act of the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled “
An act confirming claims to lands in the state of Louisiana, July 4, 1836, ch. 358.
An act to authorize the inhabitants of the state of Louisiana to enter the back lands, June 15, 1832, ch. 140.
An act supplementary to the act, entitled “
An act for the relief of the inhabitants of Terre aux Beufs, June 25, 1832, ch. 149.
An act to confirm certain entries of lands, in the state of Louisiana, and to authorize the issuing of patents for the same, April 14, 1842, ch. 21.
An act confirming certain land claims in Louisiana, July 6, 1842, ch. 50.
An act relating to lands sold in the Greensburgh, late St. Helena land district, in the state of Louisiana, and authorizing the resurvey of certain lands in that district, August 29, 1842, ch. 258.
An act to provide for the adjustment of land claims within the states of Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and in those parts of the states of Mississippi and Alabama south of the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and between the Mississippi and the Perdido rivers. June 17, 1844, ch. 95.
Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 87.
Claims founded on Spanish grants, favourably reported to the Secretary of the Treasury by the commissioners from the districts east and west of Pearl river, confirmed, &c.
Act of April 25, 1812, ch. 67.
Act of May 8, 1822, ch. 122.
And on British grants.
Claims under Spanish orders of survey, requeue, &c. prior to 20th Dec., 1803, &c. reported favourably, confirmed.
Proviso.
Grants as donations, for other claims.
Proviso.
Confirmation of incomplete titles only a relinquishment forever of the title of the United States.
Proviso.
Grants, as donations, in the case of claims in right of settlers, &c. on or before 15th April, 1813, if comprised in the lists, &c.
Proviso.
No grant for lands recognised by preceding sections.
Pre-emption rights to inhabitants and cultivators on the 12th April, 1814, in the case of lands not claimed by preceding sections.
Proviso.
A land office at St. Helena Courthouse, and at Jackson Courthouse.
A register and receiver of public moneys fur each, &c.
Claimants allowed till 1st July, 1820, to deliver notices, evidences, &c. to the registers at Jackson and St. Helena Courthouses.
Notices, &c. delivered in time, to be recorded.
Persons who had filed notices with the commissioner of the land office, &c. whose claims have not been recommended, &c., allowed till first of July, 1820, to deliver written evidence and other testimony, &c.
Evidence delivered in time, to be recorded.
The registers and receivers at Jackson and St. Helena Courthouses to have the same powers, perform the same duties, &c. as the commissioners for the districts east and west of Pearl river would have had, &c.
The register of each of the land offices to report to the commissioner of the general land office.
The commissioner to lay the report, &c. before Congress.
Registers and receivers may appoint clerks.
1500 dollars a year to each register and receiver.
1000 dollars per annum to clerk.
Proviso; not more than eighteen months’ compensation, &c.
Surveyor of the lands south of Tennessee to appoint a principal deputy, with a salary of 500 dollars and fees.
Amount of fees.
Duty of deputy surveyor.
Expense of surveying paid by the United States.
Proviso.
Books of former commissioners to be lodged with the registers, &c.
Register and receiver empowered to examine claims, &c.
A certificate to each claimant, entitled, &c.
The certificate having been fairly obtained, a patent to issue.
The President may appoint the registers and receivers in the recess, &c.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 77.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 113.
The President may employ the armed vessels of the United States on the coasts of the United States and of Africa, &c.
Vessels unlawfully engaged in the transportation of negroes, &c. may be seized and brought into port, &c.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 91.
The proceeds of offending vessels, &c. to be divided between the United States and the captors, whether armed vessels or revenue cutters.
To be distributed as prizes.
Officers and men to keep every negro, &c.
A descriptive list to be transmitted to the President.
Proviso.
The President authorized to make regulations for the safe keeping, &c., and removal out of the United States of negroes, &c., and may appoint agents on the coast of Africa to receive them, &c.
Bounty of twenty-five dollars for every negro, &c.
Secretary, &c. to cause bounty to be paid.
District attorney to prosecute by information, in the case of persons holding negroes, &c., unlawfully imported.
Upon the verdict of a jury, the court to direct the marshal to take the negroes into custody, subject to the orders of the President.
Informer entitled to a bounty of 50 dollars.
The Secretary of the Treasury to cause the bounty to be paid.
Vessels captured to be sent into a port of the state or territory where they belong, if, &c.
Repugnant acts, and parts of acts, repealed.
100,000 dollars appropriated to carry this law into effect.
That it shall be the duty of The Secretary of the Treasury to provide, by contract, to be approved by the President, for building lighthouses, &c. Lighthouses, &c.
A lighthouse on Long-Island Head, and a beacon or land mark on Halt-Way Rock, in Boston Bay; and also a lighthouse on Bird’s Island, in Buzzard’s Bay, in the state of Massachusetts.
A lighthouse on Galloo Island, near the outlet of Lake Ontario, in the state of New York.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 112, sec. 5.
A lighthouse, at a proper place, at or between the [mouth] of Grand River, in the state of Ohio, and the mouth of Detroit River, in the territory of Michigan.
Three lighthouses, on the following sites: one on the Bodkin, one on North Point, and one on Sparrow’s Point, in the state of Maryland.
A lighthouse on Windmill Point, at the mouth of Rappahannock River, or a light vessel or boat on the Wolf-Trap Shoals, if the latter shall be deemed preferable to a lighthouse on Windmill Point; a lighthouse on Craney Island, at the mouth of Elizabeth River, and a light vessel, or boat, on Willoughby’s Spit, between Lynnhaven Bay and Hampton Roads in the state of Virginia: And a beacon or land mark, on Wolf Island, near the port of Darien, in the state of Georgia.
Buoys and spindles.
A pier at the mouth of the Mississippi.
Stone, instead of wood, tower, at Seguin lighthouse.
Appropriations to accomplish the purposes enumerated in this act.
To make up deficiencies of former appropriations.
Additional appropriations to pay the salaries of lighthouse keepers.
Salary of each keeper fixed at 350 dollars per ann.
Lighthouse authorized on south point of Sapelo, may be placed on Wolfe’s Island.
Act of Feb. 27, 1813, ch. 34.
The clause of act of Feb. 27, 1813, for securing the regular transportation of the mail throughout the year, repealed.
RESOLUTIONS.
Act of 18th April, 1818, ch. 67.
Vol. i. 51.
Illinois a state of the Union, on an equal footing.
Documents transmitted by the President, or heads of Departments, and printed, may be franked by members of Congress, &c.
The President requested to cause surveys to be made of the points of Cape Hatteras, &c.
Latitude and longitude to be ascertained.
Result to be reported to Congress.
The Secretary of State to cause copies of Seybert’s Statistics to be delivered to the President, Vice President, &c.
Residue, with Pitkin’s, to be deposited in the library.
Members of Congress, secretary of the Senate, and the clerk of the House, empowered to frank the documents.
That the printing of Congress, unless when otherwise specially ordered, shall be done in the following form and manner, viz:
Form and manner of printing.
Bills, as heretofore, with english type, on foolscap paper. Rule or table-work, in royal octavo size, where it can be brought into that size, by any type not smaller than brevier; and where it cannot, in such form as to fold conveniently into the volume. All other printing with a small pica type, on royal paper, in pages of the same size as those of the last edition of the laws of the United States, including the marginal notes.
And the following prices shall be allowed and paid for the above described Prices allowed. Composition.
For the press-work of bills, including paper, folding, and stitching—for Press-work.
Each house to ballot for a printer.
Printer to give bond, with sureties.
That as soon as this resolution shall have been approved by the President of the United States, each House shall proceed to ballot for a printer to execute its work during the next Congress; and the person having the greatest number of votes shall be considered duly elected; and shall give bond, with sureties, to the satisfaction of the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively, for the In case of delay, &c. Proviso.
Ships of the navy to be named by the Secretary, under direction of the President.
First class after states.
Second after rivers.
Third after principal cities and towns.
No two of the same name.
ACTS OF THE SIXTEENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Members, delegates, secretary, and clerk of House may transmit any document.
Appropriations.
That the following sums be, and are hereby, appropriated to the objects herein specified, to wit:
For subsistence of the army of the United States, two hundred and For subsistence.
For the national armories, fifty-six thousand dollars. For armories.
For arrearages, on the settlement of outstanding claims, fifty thousand For arrearages.
Act of Feb. 16, 1819, ch.25.
That the following sums, in addition to those appropriated by the act to which this is a supplement, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated: Appropriations.
For pay and subsistence of the officers and pay of the seamen, two For pay and subsistence of officers, and pay of seamen.
For provisions, forty-one thousand four hundred dollars. For provisions.
For medicines, hospital stores, and expenses on account of the sick, including those of the marine corps, eight thousand eight hundred and For medicines, hospital stores, &c.
For repairs of vessels, one hundred and one thousand two hundred For repairs of vessels.
For contingent expenses, eleven thousand dollars. For contingent expenses.
For the salaries of two agents, and a surveyor, appointed under the For salaries of agents. 1817, ch. 22.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 87.
Additional clerks in the office of the third auditor, and in the office of the second comptroller.
Appropriations.
The sessions of the court to be held.
At Wythe.
Lewisburg.
Clarksburg.
Process to be returnable accordingly.
Appropriations for supplying deficiencies of former appropriations.
That for the purpose of supplying the deficiency in the appropriations heretofore made for completing the repairs of the north and south wings of the Capitol, for finishing the President’s house, and the erection of two new executive offices, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated, that is to say:
For completing the repairs of the north and south wings of the Capitol, North and south wings of Capitol.
For finishing the President’s house, the sum of thirteen thousand one President’s house.
For erecting two new executive offices, the sum of eleven thousand Two new executive offices.
Out of moneys in the treasury.
The register of the treasury to prepare statistical accounts of the commerce of the United States.
To be laid before Congress.
Of goods, &c. exported.
Of goods, &c. imported.
Of all navigation employed in foreign trade.
Principles and manner of stating the exports and imports.
Exports, &c. to and from each country, and values, to be stated.
Country of the exported productor manufacture, and values, to be stated.
Manner of stating the navigation.
Manner of ascertaining the kinds and quantities of imported articles free from duty.
And their values.
Manner of ascertaining the values of articles subject to specific duties.
Collectors to keep separate accounts as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct.
Articles exported to be valued at actual cost.
Articles imported to be valued at actual cost.
Manifests to be delivered and verified on oath or affirmation.
Manifests to specify kinds, quantities, and value.
Tenor of the oath or affirmation.
Where the cargo is to be landed to be stated on oath or affirmation.
Accounts of national characters and tonnage of vessels departing and arriving to be kept.
Quarterly returns to the register.
Secretary of the Treasury to give directions and prescribe rules and forms.
Secretary of Treasury to determine the forms of the statements.
Act in force from 30th Sept. 1820.
Duties on a statue of George Washington remitted to North Carolina.
Act incorporating the inhabitants of Washington, &c. continued till 3d March, 1821.
Act of May 3, 1802, ch. 53.
Act of Feb. 24, 1804, ch. 14
Act of May 4, 1812, ch. 75.
The acts of Congress relating to the state of Maine, in addition to this act, are:
An act establishing a circuit court within and for the district of Maine, March 30, 1820, ch. 27.
An act apportioning the representatives in the seventeenth Congress to be elected in the state of Massachusetts and Maine, and for other purposes, April 7, 1820, ch. 39.
Act of April 7, 1820, ch. 39.
The people of Maine, with the consent of the legislature of Massachusetts, have formed themselves into an independent state, &c.
Maine admitted into the Union from 15th March, 1820.
Act of March 2, 1811, ch. 30.
The act establishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes, continued until 3d March, 1821.
Act of March 3, 1821, ch. 45.
Act of April 22, 1824, ch. 36, Act of May 20, 1826, ch. 132, Act of May 5, 1830, ch. 89, sec. 3.
By the act of March 10, 1838, ch. 33, the circuit and district courts are to be holden on the first Monday of July, and the third Monday in December.
By the act of June 1, 1842, ch. 31, the term of the circuit and district courts of Ohio, required to be holden on the first Monday of July, annually, at Columbus, shall be held at Cincinnati.
Circuit court to be held at Columbus, the first Mondays of Sept, and Jan.
Causes, &c. to be continued over, &c.
District court to be held at Columbus, the second Mondays of Sept. and January.
Causes to be continued over.
Acts relating to the territory of Missouri:
An act providing for the government of the territory of Missouri, June 4, 1812, ch. 95.
An act for the appointment of an additional judge for the Missouri territory, and for other purposes, Jan. 27, 1814, ch. 8.
An act to alter certain parts of the act providing for the government of the territory of Missouri, April 29, 1816, ch. 155.
An act further to regulate the territories of the United States, and their sending delegates to Congress, March 3, 1817, ch. 42, sec. 2.
State of Missouri.—An act to authorize the people of the Missouri 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, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories, March 6, 1820, ch. 22.
Resolution providing for the admission of the state of Missouri into the Union, on a certain condition, March 2, 1821.
An act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the state of Missouri, and for the establishment of a district court therein, March 16, 1822, ch. 12.
An act respecting the jurisdiction of certain district courts, Feb. 19, 1831, ch. 28.
An act to extend the western boundary of the state of Missouri to the Missouri river, June 7, 1836, ch. 86.
An act to authorize the President of the United States to cause the southern boundary line of Iowa, to be ascertained and marked, June 18, 1838, ch. 116.
An act to provide for the adjustment of land claims within the state of Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana, and in those parts of the states of Mississippi and Alabama, south of the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and between the Mississippi and the Perdido river, June 17, 1844, ch. 95.
The inhabitants of Missouri authorized to form a constitution and state government, to be admitted into the Union.
Boundaries.
Proviso: the state to ratify the boundaries, and have concurrent jurisdiction of rivers.
Rivers, &c. to be common highways and free.
That all free white male citizens Qualifications of electors elected, to form a convention.
From the county of Howard, five representatives. From the county Apportionment of representatives to form a convention.
And the election for the representatives aforesaid shall be holden on Election on the first Monday of May and two days following, &c.
Members of convention to meet at the seat of government on the second Monday of June, &c.
Convention to determine on the formation of a consitution, or otherwise
Proviso; constitution to be republican.
Conditions.
The state entitled to one representative in Congress.
Propositions offered to the convention for acceptance or rejection.
1st proposition—
Section No. 16 for schools.
2d proposition—
Salt springs and lands adjacent, for the use of the state.
Proviso; salt springs confirmed to individuals, &c.
3d proposition—5 per centum net proceeds of sales of lands for public roads and canals.
4th proposition—
4 sections of land for a seat of government.
Proviso: location before sale of surrounding lands.
5th proposition—
36 sections of land for a seminary of learning.
Proviso.
A true and attested copy of the constitution to be transmitted to Congress.
Slavery, &c. forever prohibited in the territory north of 36 deg. 30 minutes north latitude, except in Missouri,
Proviso: fugitives may be reclaimed.
Act of April 3, 1810, ch. 37.
The President of the Senate pro tem. and speaker of the House of Representatives, entitled to frank as the Vice President of the United States.
Act of March 3, 1821, ch. 49.
Marshals of districts and territories to cause the number of inhabitants to be taken, under the direction of the Secretary of State.
Classes to be enumerated.
Marshals may appoint assistants.
A division to each assistant.
Enumeration by actual inquiry
Marshals and assistants to take an oath.
Form of marshal’s oath.
Form of assistant’s oath.
Beginning and close of the enumeration.
Assistants to transmit accurate returns.
Form of the schedule of return.
| Name of the county, parish, township, town, or city, where the family resides. | |
| Names of heads of families. | |
| Free white males under ten years. | |
| Free white males of ten and under sixteen. | |
| Free white males between sixteen and eighteen. | |
| 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 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. | |
| Foreigners not naturalized. | |
| SLAVES. | |
| Males under fourteen. | |
| Male of fourteen and under twenty-six. | |
| Males of twenty-six and under forty-five. | |
| Males of forty-five and upwards. | |
| Females of fourteen. | |
| Females of fourteen and under twenty-six. | |
| Females of twenty-six and under forty-five. | |
| Females of forty-five and upwards. | |
| FREE COLOURED PERSONS. | |
| Males under fourteen years. | |
| Males of fourteen and under twenty-six. | |
| Males of twenty-six and under forty-five. | |
| Males of forty-five and upwards. | |
| Females under fourteen years. | |
| Females of fourteen and under twenty-six. | |
| Females of twenty-six and under forty-five. | |
| Females of forty-five and upwards. | |
| All other persons, except Indians not taxed. | |
200 dolls. forfeit for neglect or false returns.
Marshals to file returns, &c. with clerks of courts.
Marshals to transmit aggregate amounts to the Secretary of State.
Marshal failing forfeits 1000 dolls.
Forfeitures recoverable where the offences are committed, &c.
Half to the informer; unless, &c.
Judges to give this act in charge to grand juries—
And cause returns and aggregate amount to be laid before them.
Compensation of assistants.
Proviso: limit of compensation.
Proviso: assistant to take and subscribe an oath before compensation.
Form of the oath.
Compensation of the marshals.
Abode, family, or habitation of persons enumerated.
Obligation of every free person above 16, to give information.
Or forfeit 20 dolls.
Half to the assistant.
Assistant to set a correct copy or schedule up at two public places.
Proviso: proof of setting up schedule.
Or forfeiture of compensation.
Secretary of State to transmit instructions, forms, and interrogatories, to the marshals.
States with two districts, &c.
Account of manufacturing establishments and manufactures to be taken.
Assistants to make returns, and marshals to transmit returns, &c. to the Secretary of State.
Additional compensation.
Further compensation with approbation of the judges.
Proviso.
1500 copies to be printed for the use of Congress.
Appropriations.
That for defraying the expenses of the navy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated.
For pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, Pay of officers and pay of seamen.
For provisions, four hundred and fifteen thousand one hundred and Provisions.
For medicines, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, Medicines, hospital stores, &c.
For repairs of vessels, four hundred and eighty-four thousand Repairs of vessels.
For store rent, freight, transportation, enlistment of seamen, and Contingent expenses.
For improvement of navy yards, docks, and wharves, pay of superintendents, Repairs of navy yards.
For payment of contracts made for shells and shot, and for military Contracts for shells and shot.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and seventy-seven Marine corps.
For clothing the same, twenty-seven thousand two hundred and five Clothing.
For contingent expenses of the same, twenty thousand dollars. Contingent expenses.
For military stores, one thousand dollars. Military stores
To be paid out of the treasury.
The President authorized to appoint a receiver and register for Lawrence county.
Persons having claim to pre-emption, &c. to make it known to the register six weeks before issuing patents to soldiers of the late army.
Act of March 3, 1801, ch. 32.
Act of March 8, 1802, ch. 8.
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, the 1st circuit.
Two courts in Maine.
At Portland.
At Wiscasset.
Court may be held by the judge attending.
Circuit court powers of district court repealed.
Circuit court of Maine may decide upon actions, &c. originated in the district court.
Causes depending in the circuit court of Massachusetts, may be transferred to the circuit court of Maine.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 71.
Act of May 10, 1800, ch. 55.
Forfeiture of lands for nonpayment suspended till 31st March, 1821.
Proviso; benefit limited to purchasers within 640 acres.
Act of March 3, 1820, ch. 19.
Massachusetts to choose only 13 representatives in the 17th Congress.
And Maine, 7 representatives.
In case of the vacation of the seat of a representative in the 16th Congress, elected for Massachusetts, being an inhabitant of Maine, his successor to be an inhabitant of Maine also.
Sums appropriated, for—
That 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 Members of Congress, &c.
For the expenses of stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent Contingent expenses.
For the expenses of the library of Congress, including the librarian’s Library of Congress
For the purchase of books, maps, and charts, for the library of Congress, Books, &c. for the library.
For compensation to the President of the United States, twenty-five The President.
For compensation to the Vice President of the United States, five Vice President.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, six thousand dollars. Secretary of State.
For compensation to the clerks in the Department of State, per act of Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messengers in said department, including the Messengers.
For the contingent and incidental expenses of said department, including Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, six thousand dollars. Secretary of the Treasury.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, seven hundred and Messengers.
For compensation to the first comptroller of the treasury, three thousand 1st comptroller.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the first comptroller, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the second comptroller of the treasury, three 2d comptroller.
For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of twentieth Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the first auditor of the treasury, three thousand 1st auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said auditor, per act Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the second auditor of the treasury, three thousand 2d auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said auditor, per act of Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the third auditor of the treasury, three thousand 3d auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said auditor, per act of Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, seven hundred and Messengers.
For compensation to the fourth auditor of the treasury, three thousand 4th auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said auditor, per act of Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the fifth auditor of the treasury, three thousand 5th auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said auditor, per act of Clerke. 1818, ch. 87.
For three clerks to complete the duties of the commissioner of the Clerks.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the treasurer of the United States, three thousand Treasurer.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said treasurer, per act Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the two additional clerks in the office of the Additional clerk to treasurer.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the commissioner of the general land office, three Commissioner of general land office.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said commissioner, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, three thousand Register of treasury.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the said register, per Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, including the Messenger.
For compensation to the secretary to the commissioners of the sinking Secretary to sinking fund.
For allowance to the person employed in transmitting passports and sea-letters, Transmitting passports, translating, &c. in the Treasury Department.
For compensation to a superintendent, and four watchmen, employed Superintendent and watchmen of State and Treasury Departments; fire engine, &c.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, six thousand dollars. Secretary of War.
For compensation to the clerks in the War Department, per act of Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses, Contingent expenses.
For maps, plans, books, and instruments, one thousand dollars. Maps, &c.
For compensation to the messengers in said department, seven hundred Messengers.
For compensation to the paymaster general, two thousand five hundred Paymaster general.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the said paymaster, per Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the commissary general of purchases, three thousand Commissary general of purchases.
For his compensation for the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, no appropriation having been made for that year, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said commissary, two Clerks.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, three hundred and Messenger.
For the contingent expenses of said office, nine hundred and thirty Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the adjutant and inspector Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For the contingent expenses of said office, one thousand two hundred Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the ordnance department, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For the contingent expenses of said office, seven hundred and sixty Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For the contingent expenses of said office, one thousand three hundred Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the engineer department, Clerks.
For expenses of maps, books, and stationery, two thousand five hundred Maps, &c.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the surgeon general, Clerk of the surgeon general.
For contingent expenses of said office, five hundred and five dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, six thousand dollars. Secretary of the Navy.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to an extra clerk in the navy department, during Extra clerk in Navy Department.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For contingent expenses of said office, two thousand five hundred Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, ten thousand Commissioner of the navy board.
For compensation to the secretary to said commissioners, two thousand Secretary of the navy board.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said commissioners, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For additional clerks, for the year one thousand eight hundred and Additional clerk hire, &c.
For compensation to the messenger, four hundred and ten dollars. Messenger.
For the contingent expenses, two thousand dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the superintendent, and four watchmen, employed Superintendent of war and navy buildings.
For compensation to the Postmaster General, four thousand dollars. Postmaster general.
For compensation to two assistant postmasters general, five thousand Assistant postmaster general.
For compensation to the clerks in the general postoffice, per act of twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, twenty-two Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, six hundred and Messenger.
For the contingent expenses of said office, four thousand dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the surveyor general, two thousand dollars. Surveyor general.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two Clerks.
For compensation to the surveyor south of Tennessee, two thousand Surveyor south of Tennessee.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, one His clerks, &c.
For compensation to the surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, Surveyor in Illinois and Missouri.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand Clerks.
For compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, two thousand dollars. Surveyor in Alabama.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, one His clerks.
For compensation to the commissioner of public buildings, at Washington Commissioner of public buildings.
For compensation to the officers and clerks of the mint, nine thousand Officers and clerks of the mint.
For wages of persons employed in the different operations of the mint, Persons employed in the mint.
For incidental and contingent expenses, and repairs, cost of machinery, Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Missouri Governor, &c. of Missouri.
For the contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Governor, &c of Arkansas.
For the contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Michigan Governor, &c of Michigan.
For the contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty Contingent expenses.
For printing and distributing the laws of the Michigan territory, twelve Printing, &c.
For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and Judges of the United States.
For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, three Attorney general.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of said attorney general, Clerk. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to sundry district attorneys and marshals, as granted District attorneys and marshals.
For compensation to the marshal of western district of Pennsylvania, Marshal of western district of Pennsylvania.
And district attorney. For compensation to the district attorney of the same district, for the And district attorney.
For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Reporter of decisions of Supreme Court. 1817, ch. 63.
For the payment of sundry pensions, granted by the late and present Sundry pensions.
For a deficiency in the fund for the relief and protection of sick and Disabled seamen. 1802, ch. 51.
For completing contracts for the road from Washington, For completing contracts for the road from Washington to Wheeling.
For surveying the public lands of the United States, one hundred and Surveying public lands.
For additional compensation to the clerks in the office of the superintendent Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For payment of balances due to sundry individuals, relative to prisoners Balances due relative to prisoners of war.
For defraying the expense of the fourth enumeration of the inhabitants Expense of fourth census.
For discharging the claims of the inhabitants of the late province of Claims of in habitants of West Florida.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and Lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and piers, &c.
For the payment of outstanding debentures for internal duties, twenty Outstanding debentures.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United Miscellaneous. claims.
For the third payment to John Trumbull, for paintings, agreeably to John Trumbull, for paintings.
For salaries to the ministers of the United States, at London, Paris, Salaries to Ministers of the United States at foreign courts, &c.
For outfits to a minister to St. Petersburg, nine thousand dollars. Minister to St. Petersburg.
For contingent expenses of those missions, ten thousand dollars. Contingent expenses of missions to foreign courts and of foreign intercourse.
For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, forty-two thousand dollars.
For the expenses, during the present year, for carrying into effect the For carrying into effect treaty of Ghent.
For the purpose of holding treaties with the Creek and Cherokee For extinguishing Indian title within the state of Georgia. And in Michigan.
For the purpose of negotiating a treaty or treaties with the Indians in For extinguishing Indian titles to lands in Mississippi.
For salaries of the agents for claims, on account of spoliations, and for Agents of claims at Paris and London.
For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, Distressed American seamen.
For the payment of a balance due to M. Poirey, ascertained and For a balance due M. Poirey. 1819, ch. 40.
For the payment of a balance due M. De Vienne, ascertained and For a balance due M. de Vienne. 1819, ch. 42.
Sums appropriated for—
That, for continuing the work of the centre building of the Capitol, and other public buildings in the city of Washington, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, viz:
For continuing the work of the centre building of the Capitol, one The centre building of the Capitol.
For painting the inside of the north and south wings of the Capitol, Painting.
For graduating the ground round the Capitol, and supplying the deficiency Graduating ground round the Capitol, &c.
For making necessary repairs and alterations in the President’s house, Repairs, &c. in the President’s house.
For making alterations and improvements in the Senate chamber, Alterations and improvements in the Senate chamber.
Sums appropriated for—
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated:
For the pay of the army of the United States, in addition to an unexpended Pay of the army.
For subsistence, in addition to the sum of two hundred and twenty Subsistence.
For bounties and premiums for fifteen hundred recruits, twenty-one Bounties and premiums.
For quarters, fuel, straw, and all other expenses for recruits, until organized Other expenses for recruits.
For clothing, three hundred thousand dollars. Clothing.
For the medical and hospital department, forty-two thousand one Medical and hospital department.
For the quartermaster’s department, four hundred and fifty thousand Quartermaster.
For the contingencies of the army, forty thousand dollars. Contingencies.
For forage for officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of twenty Forage.
For fortifications, eight hundred thousand dollars. Fortifications.
For the military academy at West Point, for fuel, maps, plans, books, Military academy at West Point.
For arrearages, prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and Arrearages.
For cannon and shot, to fulfil existing contracts, and for the purchase Cannon and shot, &c.
For the national armories, in addition to the sum of fifty-six thousand National armories.
For the current expenses of the ordnance department, one hundred Ordnance department.
For the completion of arsenals, to wit: for completing the arsenal at Completion of arsenals.
For balances due to certain states, in addition to an unexpended balance Balances due certain states.
For arrearages, in addition to fifty thousand dollars already appropriated, Arrearages.
For the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United Invalid pensioners.
For the annual allowance to the revolutionary pensioners, under the Revolutionary pensioners.
For the half-pay pensions of widows and orphans, one hundred thousand Widows and orphans.
For the current expenses of the Indian Department during the present Indian department.
For surveying and marking boundary lines of Indian cessions, fifteen Indian boundary lines.
For making a survey of the water-courses tributary to, and west of, Survey of water-courses.
For making a survey, maps, and charts, of the Ohio and Mississippi Survey, maps, and charts of the Ohio and Mississippi.
For completing the public road through the Creek nation, between Public road through the Creek nation.
Out of money in the treasury.
Act of 20th April, 1818, continued in force until 4th March, 1823.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 74.
Twenty days from date of clearance for completing entry, &c. in cases of draw back.
Proviso.
The acts which have been passed relating to the district court of Alabama are:
An act to establish a district court in the state of Alabama, April 21, 1820, ch. 47.
An act to alter the terms of the district court of Alabama, Nov. 27, 1820, ch. 1.
An act for the better organization of the district courts of the United States in the state of Alabama, March 10, 1824, ch. 28.
An act fixing the times and places of holding the district courts of the United States in the district of Alabama, May 22, 1826, ch. 149.
An act to alter the times of holding the district courts of the United States for the districts of Maine, Illinois, and Alabama, Jan. 27, 1831, ch. 10.
An act to alter the time of holding the district courts of the United States for the southern district of Alabama, March 2, 1827, ch. 41.
An act respecting the jurisdiction of certain district courts, Feb. 19, 1831, ch. 28.
An act supplementary to an act, entitled “An act to amend the judicial system of the United States, March 3, 1837, ch. 32, sec. 3, 4.
An act to re-organize the district courts of the United States in the state of Alabama, Feb. 6, 1839, ch. 20.
Laws of the United States extended to Alabama.
Alabama a district.
A district court of one judge.
Four stated sessions annually, at Mobile and Cahawba.
Powers of the Judge.
Act of 1789, ch. 20.
1793, ch. 22.
Clerks of the court.
Causes, &c. in the territorial general court transferred to the district court.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 59.
Dockets, &c. of the general territorial court to become the dockets, &c. of the district court.
Compensation of the judge 1500 dollars per annum.
A district attorney.
Compensation.
A marshal.
Compensation.
Act of 4th June, 1812, providing for the government of Missouri, &c. in force in the territory of Arkansas, &c.
Act of June 4, 1812, ch. 95.
Act of April 29, 1816, ch. 155.
Act of March 2, 1819, ch. 49.
The laws of Michigan in force, to be printed under the direction of the Secretary of State, &c.
Proviso.
Fifteen sets of the laws of the United States to be transmitted to Michigan, &c.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 92.
Act of March 24, 1821, ch. 12.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 57.
Public sale of lands in half quarter sections, after 1st July, 1820.
At private sale, in entire, half, quarter, or half quarter, sections.
Act of Feb. 11, 1805, ch. 14.
Fractional sections, less than 160 acres, to be sold entire.
Proviso.
No credit sales of public lands, after 1st July, 1820.
Purchasers at private sale to produce a receipt for the money before entry.
Price of lands 1 dollar 25 cts. per acre after 1st July, 1820.
No sales for less than 1 dol lar 25 cts. per acre.
Lands offered at public sales, and unsold, subject to private sale, at 1 dollar 25 cts. per acre.
Exceptions.
Lands reverted, &c. to be offered at public, before private sales.
Sale of lands reverted, &c. before the 1st July, 1820, and reserved sections.
Sale of lands reverting, &c. after 1st July, 1820.
All lands unsold at public, may be entered at private sale.
Public sales for two weeks.
Preference to be given to the highest bidder.
Act of March 2, 1809, ch. 28.
Unexpended moneys to be carried to the surplus fund.
Balances of moneys drawn, after the object has been effected, to be repaid to the treasury, &c.
Secretaries of War and Navy to lay before Congress, annually, a statement of appropriations, &c.
Secretaries to estimate the probable demands, and the balance to he deducted, &c.
Accounts to be annually rendered.
Unexpended moneys in the hands of the treasurer, as agent of War and Navy Departments, for more than two years, &c. to be carried to the surplus fund.
Proviso.
Expenditures for services, &c. under the War Department, and balances to be returned and carried to the surplus fund.
Appropriations for the service of one year not to be transferred to another branch of expenditure in a different year, under act of 3d March, 1809.
Act of 3d March, 1809, ch. 28. amended.
Branches of expenditure in the War Department.
Branches of expenditure in the Navy Department.
No contracts to be made except under authority of a law, or an adequate appropriation.
Exceptions.
No land to be purchased for the United States except under authority of a law.
Secretary of the Treasury to annex to annual estimates, a statement of appropriations for the service of the year, &c.
Secretary of the Treasury to annex to annual estimates, a statement of appropriations for the service of the year, &c.
The 2d section of the appropriation act for military arrearages of the 16th Feb. ch. 10, 1818, repealed.
Act of March 18, 1818, ch. 19.
No person to receive a pension after payment of that due on 4th March, 1820, unless he exhibits a schedule of his whole estate and income.
Oath or affirmation to be taken and subscribed.
Form of the oath, &c.
A certified copy of schedule and oath, and opinion of the court, to be delivered to the Secretary of War.
Proviso.
Original schedule, &c. to be filed in the office of the clerk of the court, &c.
Persons swearing falsely.
The Secretary of War may strike from the pension list the names of persons, who, in his opinion, are not in indigent circumstances, &c.
Proviso.
Each judge of the orphans’ court in the District of Columbia, allowed 6 dollars for each day he attends, &c.
Charters of the banks in the District paying specie, and as long as they pay specie continued until 1st June, 1822.
Charter of Bank of Columbia limited to 1st June, 1822.
Proviso.
Act of April 24, 1816, ch. 69, sec. 1.
Apothecary and assistant apothecaries general to give bonds, with security, &c.
District and land office at Tuscaloosa.
District and land office at Conecuh Courthouse.
Part of Shawneetown district to form a separate land district.
Land office at Vandalia.
Another land district at Illinois.
Land office at Palestine.
A register and receiver for each of the land offices, with compensation, &c. as in other cases.
2d, 3d and 5th sections of the act of 3d March, 1819, ch. 92, applicable, &c., so far as they have not been changed, &c.
Powers of the commissioners for deciding on claims to lands in the district of Detroit, under act of 23d April, 1812, ch. 62, revived.
Commissioners to perforin the duties prescribed.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 99.
And to examine and decide on claims filed, &c.
Report and transcripts to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, &c.
An agent capable of translating the French language.
Agent to give notice, and attend, &c.
Claimants to produce evidence, &c.
Agent tore port to the commissioners, &c.
Commissioners to transmit report and transcripts to the Secretary of the Treasury, &c.
Agent to take an oath.
500 dollars for each commissioner and agent, with fees to agent and register.
[Obsolete.]
Persons who would have been entitled to right of pre-emption, to be entitled to certificate for the excess paid above 2 dollars per acre, &c.
Act of Feb. 5, 1813, ch. 20.
Certificate receivable in payment of debt to United States for land.
Proviso.
Persons who would have been entitled, &c. who were not purchasers, allowed till 1st Sept., 1820, to prove, &c.
Register, on satisfaction, to grant a certificate, &c.
Every person, upon certificate allowed to enter a quarter section, at minimum price, &c.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 99.
Claims for lands in the eastern district of Louisiana, confirmed.
Persons claim inglands west of the Mississippi, founded upon Spanish grants, &c.
Notices, &c. to be recorded.
Twenty-five cents for every hundred words recorded.
Persons neglecting forfeit their rights, &c.
Registers to report to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Persons claiming lands under Spanish grants, &c.
Evidence to be recorded.
Rights of persons neglecting, barred, &c.
Registers, on the 1st of Jan., 1821, to report claims in which additional evidence has been filed, &c.
Secretary of the Treasury to examine, and report to Congress.
Proviso.
The 5th section of the act of 3d March, 1811, ch. 46, revived and continued until 11th May, 1822.
Additional compensation to the registers, in full, &c.
Act of May 16, 1826, ch. 59.
The time allowed for redemption under acts of 9th Jan, 1815, and 5th March, 1816, extended three years.
Act of Jan. 9, 1815, ch. 21.
Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 24.
Proviso.
Rights to redeem equitable and reversionary interests.
Where the collector is dead or has been removed, on petition to the district judge, he is required to direct the marshal to make a deed, &c.
Land in the district of Canton, reserved by act of March 3d, 1807, and subsequently ceded, &c. to beo offered for sale at Wooster, &c.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 49, sec, 2.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 80.
The Secretary of State to cause orders, resolutions, and laws, except those of a private nature, to be published.
And public treaties.
Indian treaties only, in states, &c. to which they relate.
First section of the act of 20th April, 1818, ch. 80, repealed.
Proviso.
Session of circuit court.
For Washington county, 1st Monday in Oct. and 2d Monday in April.
For Alexandria, 1st Mondays in Nov. and May.
District court to be held on the first Mondays of Dec. and June.
Public lands, to which the Indian title was extinguished by the treaty of Saguina, at tached to the district of Detroit.
The lands not reserved or appropriated, to be surveyed and offered for sale, &c.
Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 13, sec. 14.
The system of discipline and field exercise observed by the regular army to be observed by the militia.
The Baron de Steuben’s rules and discipline.
Act of May 8, 1792, ch. 33, sec. 7.
Post-roads discontinued.
That the following post-roads be, and the same are hereby, discontinued, that is to say:
From Lilly Point to Halcyonville, in Virginia.
From Dublin to Jacksonville, in Georgia.
From Westport to Brunerstown, in Kentucky.
From Whitfield to Jefferson, in Maine.
From Chickasaw Agency to St. Stephens, in Mississippi.
From Choctaw Agency to Monticello; and from Natchez to Lake Pontchartrain, in the same state.
From Rhea Courthouse, Tennessee, to Fort Jackson, in Alabama.
From Haysville to Oxford, in North Carolina.
From Walterborough to Barnwell Courthouse, in South Carolina.
From St. Charles, by Montgomery Courthouse, to Howard Courthouse.
From Franklin, Howard county, to Chariton.
From St. Charles, by Murphey’s, in St. John’s settlement, to Howard Courthouse, in the Missouri territory.
From Vassalborough to Harlem, in Maine.
From Alna to Parlermo. Post-roads discontinued.
From Dunstable to Piscataguog bridge, in New Hampshire.
From Cahaba to St. Stephens.
That the following be established Post-roads established.
In New Hampshire.—From Amherst, by Lyndborough, and Greenfield, New Hampshire.
That the post-road from Keene to Richmond pass by Winchester.
From Keene, by Surry, Drewsville, and Langdon, to Charlestown.
From Dunstable, through Merrimack, by Bedford Meeting-house and Piscataguog bridge, to Isle Hookset.
In Vermont.—From Danville to Montpelier, by Cabot, Marshfield, and Vermont.
From Vergennes, by Panton, to Westport, in the state of New York.
From Stockbridge to Randolph.
In Maine.—From Alna, by East Pittston, to Whitfield. Maine.
From Alna to Gardiner.
From Sedgwick to Deer Island.
From Ellsworth, by Jordon’s River School-house, in Trenton, to the towns of Eden and Mount Desert.
From Waldoborough, by Union, Hope, Searsmont, and Belmont, to Belfast.
From Gardiner, by Pittston, Whitfield; Malta, and Jefferson, to Waldoborough.
From New Portland, by Kingfield, to Freeman.
From Hallowell, by Malta, to Harlem.
In Massachusetts.—From Springfield, by Wilbraham, to Massachusetts.
From Sandwick, by Coatuit village, in West Barnstable, Thomas D. Scudder’s, Yarmouth, and Dennis, to Harwick, on the south side of Cape Cod.
From Gloucester, by Essex, to Ipswich.
From Hanover, by Hanson, to East Bridgewater.
From Northfield, by Vernon, to Brattleborough, in Vermont.
From Salisbury to Amesbury.
From Taunton, by Raynham, to East Bridgewater.
In Connecticut.—From Derby, by Huntington, to Newtown. Connecticut.
From Woodbury, by Roxbury, to Warren.
From Hartford, by East Windsor, Ellington, Somers, Wilbraham, and Ludlow, to Belchertown, in Massachusetts.
From New Haven, by Oxford, Southbury, Woodbury, and Washington, to Warren.
From Norwick to Colchester.
In New York.—From Batavia to Ridgeway. New York.
From Windham, by Roxbury, to Stamford.
From Hopkinton to Keene.
From Mount Hope to Bloomingsburg.
From Moscow, by York, Caledonia, and Scottville, to Rochester.
From Dover to Sharon, in Connecticut.
From Porter, by Twelve Mile creek, to Eighteen Mile creek.
From Skeneatelas, on the east side of Skeneatelas lake, by Spafford, and Scott, to Courtland village.
From Luzerne, by Edinburg to Galway.
From Newton, by Catharine, and Cayuta, to Ithica.
From Bath, by Upper Addison, Troupsburgh, Deerfield, and Elkland, to Batchelorville, in Pennsylvania.
From Constantia, by Cicero, and Salina, to Onondago.
From Reading to Dresden, on Seneca lake, thence, along the lake, by Benton, to Geneva.
From Goshen, by Scotchtown, to Bloomingsburgh. Post-roads established.
From Poughkeepsie, by New Paltz, and Bruynville, to Bloomingsburgh.
From Sullivan, by Cazenovia, and Woodstock, to De Ruyter.
In Pennsylvania.—That the post route from Philadelphia to Athens, Pennsylvania.
From Bedford to Somerset.
From Harrisburg, by Corbert’s Mills, Jonestown, and Rohrersburg, to Hamburg.
From Catawissee, by Mifflinburg, to Nescopeck.
From Liverpool, by Mount Pleasant Mills, Freeburg, Middleburg, and New Berlin, to Mifflinburg.
From Reading, by Morgantown, to Downington.
From Emaus to Millerstown.
From White Horse, by Berlin, Connelsville, Middletown, Merritstown, Jefferson, Waynesburg, and Morrisville, to Grave Creek Flatts, in Virginia.
From Stroudsburg to Orwigsburg.
From New Hope, by Lumberville, and Erwinna, to Romig’s Ferry, near the mouth of Durham Creek.
From Kutztown, by Martztown, New Goshenhoppen, Seemanytown, Joseph Williams’, and Centre Square, to White Marsh.
In Maryland.—From Chesapeake, by Port Deposite, to Conewingo. Maryland.
From Charlotte Hall, by the Three Notched Road, to Fenwick’s tavern.
From Havre de Grace to Woodlawn.
In Virginia.—From Bath Courthouse, by M‘Clintock’s, and Anthony’s Virginia.
From Staunton, by Greenville, and Fairfield, to Lexington.
From Shepherdstown, by Leetown, and Smithfield, to Winchester.
From West Liberty to Wellsburg.
From Lexington, by the Calf Pasture, to Faucett’s, in Bath county.
From Timber Ridge, by North river, to Moorfield.
From Petersburg, by Southerland’s Tavern, Lombardy, and Dennis’s Tavern, to Jenning’s Old Ordinary.
In North Carolina.—From Williamsborough, by Lynnsville, to Clarksville, North Carolina.
From Fayetteville, by Waynesborough, to Stantonburg.
From Wadesborough, by Edward Winfield’s, Culpepper’s store, Jacob Austin’s, Charles T. Alexander’s, and Maxwell’s store, to Charlotte.
From Charlotte, by Azrai Cookburn’s, and William Taylor’s, to Wadesborough.
From Newbern, by Streets’ Bridge, Croom’s Ferry, Hookerstown, Snowhill, and Stantonburgh, to Smithfield.
From Lawrenceville, by M’Neill’s store, and Nicholas Nall’s, to Pittsborough.
From Pittsborough, by D. Moffitt’s, to Lawrenceville.
From Oxford, by Cannon and Young’s store, to Clarksville, in Virginia.
From Danville, by William Rawling’s, and Troublesome Iron Works, to Salem.
From Haysville, by Hawkins’ Mills, and Chalk Level, to Williamsborough.
In South Carolina.—From Columbia, by Richard Harrison’s store, to South Carolina.
From Georgetown, by Black river, Bull creek, and Pee Dee Ferries, to Conwayborough.
From Conwayborough, by Little river, and Smithville, to Wilmington, in North Carolina.
From Chester Courthouse, by Cedar Shoals, and M‘Donald’s Ferry, to Post-roads established.
From John Thompson, junr’s, by Richard Howard’s, to Godfrey’s Ferry, on Big Pee Dee river, or near the same.
That the mail from Lumberton, to Marion Courthouse, pass by the most eligible route, omitting Barfield’s if necessary.
In Georgia.—From Hartford, by Jacksonville, to Perry’s Mills, in Georgia.
That the mail route from Augusta to Savannah shall pass by Waynesborough.
From Powelton, by Mount Zion and Eatonton, to Monticello.
In Ohio.—From Coshocton to Wooster. Ohio.
From Neville to Bethel.
That the mail from Marietta to Woodfield, go by Regnier’s Mills, in the town of Aurelius.
From Feestown, by Bethel, Williamsburg, Lebanon, and Ridgeville, to Dayton.
From Lebanon, by Springsborough and Ridgeville, to Xenia.
From West Union, by Decatur, Ripley, Bridgewater, Bethel, and Newtown, to Cincinnati.
From Greenville to Winchester, in Indiana.
From Irville to Mount Vernon.
From Piketon, by Robert Bennett’s and Asa Boynton’s, to Burlington, on the north side of the Ohio river.
From Norwalk, in the county of Huron, to Lower Sandusky, in the state of Ohio.
In Kentucky.—From Falmouth, by Theobald’s, to Fredericksburg. Kentucky.
From Whitley Courthouse, by Col. Ross’s, to Monticello.
That the post-road from Mount Sterling to Prestonburg, pass by the Olympian Springs, and Bearer Iron Works, in Bath county.
That the post-road from the Great Crossings to the mouth of Cedar, pass by Hesslersville, in Owen county.
From Richmond to Estill Courthouse.
From Smithland, by America, in Illinois, to Cypress, in Kentucky.
From Richmond, by Big Hill, to Hazle Patch.
From Estill Courthouse, to Patrick’s Salt Works, on the north fork of Kentucky river.
From Newcastle, by Westport, and Bethlehem, to Charlestown in Indiana.
From Stamping Grounds to Heslersville.
From Frankford, by Heslersville, to Port William.
From Shelbyville to New Castle.
In Tennessee.—From Knoxville, by Morgan Courthouse, to Overton Tennessee.
From Morgantown, by Pumpkintown, by the town of Calhoun, to Ross’s, on the south side of Tennessee river.
From Murfreesborough to Shelbyville.
From Carthage, by Lancaster, and Harmony Grove, to Statesville.
From Kingston, by William White’s on Popular Creek, to Clinton.
From Monroe, by Gainesborough, Wiliamsburg, and Beech Hill, to Carthage.
From Reynoldsburg to the Lower Chickasaw Bluffs.
From Nashville, by Harpeth, and New Hope, to Fayetteville.
From Greenville to Greenville College, in the county of Greene.
From Sparta, by Allen’s Ferry, and Liberty, to Statesville.
From Chickasaw Lower Bluff to the post of Arkansas.
In Indiana.—From Palestine, by Hindostan, to Portersville. Indiana.
From Madison to Versailles.
From Lawrenceburg, by Aurora, Hanover, and Rising Sun to Vevay.
In Illinois.—From Kaskaskias, by the Irish Settlement, Covington, Illinois.
From Illinois Saline, in Gallatin, to Golconda.
From York by Aurora, by Terre Haute.
From Montgomery, by Brownsville, and Gill’s Ferry, to Jackson, in Missouri territory.
The mail from Cape Girardeau to Salem, Kentucky, shall pass by America.
From Carmi, by Mount Vernon, to Carlisle.
From Carmi to Wayne Courthouse and Jefferson Courthouse.
From Palmyra, by Wayne Courthouse, Jefferson Courthouse, and Covington, to Belleville.
From America to Jonesborough.
In Mississippi.—From Natchez, by Franklin, Monticello, Covington, Mississippi.
From Fordsville to Shieldsborough.
In Alabama.—From Tuscaloosa, by Marion County Courthouse, to Alabama.
From Burnt Corn Spring, by Conecuh Courthouse, to Fort Crawford.
From Huntsville, by Jackson Courthouse, and Lawrie’s Ferry, to Ross’s and Washington, in Tennessee.
From Cahawba, by Portland, Canton, Prairie Bluff, Black’s Bluff, and Foster’s, to Fort Claiborne.
From Mooresville, by Milton’s Bluff, Courtland, Bainbridge, and Big Spring, to Russellville, in Franklin county.
From Cahawba, by Joseph Britton’s, Old Town, Falls of Cahawba, King and Smith’s store, Shelby Courthouse, David M‘Laughlin’s, St. Clair Courthouse, Vincent Bennett’s, the Cherokee Nation, by Ross’s and James Patterson’s, to Washington, in Tennessee.
From the town of Cahawba to the Falls of Cahawba, and to Tuscaloosa.
From Courtland to Moulton.
From St. Clair Courthouse to Carolswille.
In the Missouri Territory.—From New Madrid to Point Pleasant. Missouri.
From Louisiana, by Hannibal, to Palmyra.
From Louisiana to New London.
That the post-road from Cape Girardeau to Winchester pass by Edward Tanner’s.
From St. Charles, by Marthasville, Montgomery Courthouse, Loutre Island, Cote Sans Dessein, Nashville, Smithton, John Grayum’s, Franklin, Spanish Needle Prairie, Chareton, William W. Monroe’s, Grand River, Bloomfield, Missouriton, and Bluffton, to Fort Osage.
From Fort Osage, by Mount Vernon, Tabbo, Little Osage Bottom, and Jefferson, to Chareton.
In Michigan Territory.—From Detroit, by Pontiac, to Mount Clements. Michigan.
The next meeting of Congress to be on the 2d Monday of Nov., 1820.
District attorneys, collectors of customs, naval officers, &c. to be appointed for four years, removable at pleasure.
Commissions of officers, when to cease.
If dated before Sept. 30, 1814, at their dates ensuing Sept. 30, 1820.
If after 30th Sept. 1814, and before 1st Oct., 1816, at their dates ensuing 30th Sept., 1821.
All others, four years from their dates.
The President authorized, from time to time, to regulate and increase the sums in bonds required.
Commissions of officers employed in collecting revenue recorded at the Treasury Department.
Proviso.
The President empowered to borrow 3,000,000 dollars on the credit of the United States.
Rates of interest.
Stock transferable.
The bank of the United States may lend the money.
The Secretary of the Treasury may cause certificates of stock to be constituted at 5 per cent.
Secretary of the Treasury may employ an agent, &c.
One eighth of one per cent, to the agent.
4000 dollars appropriated for the expenses of the loan.
So much of the annual appropriation of 10,000,000 dollars as may be sufficient, appropriated for redemption of stock, and interest, of this loan.
Commissioners of the sinking fund to apply the sums necessary out of the fund, &c.
And to purchase at a price not above par, &c.
Former acts of incorporation &c. inconsistent with this act repealed.
Act of May 3, 1802, ch. 53.
Act of Feb. 24, 1804, ch. 14.
May 4, 1812, ch. 75.
Proviso.
Mayor and aldermen to continue.
And their acts, not inconsistent with this act, to be valid.
Inhabitants of Washington to continue to be a body politic and corporate.
A city seal, &c.
Election of mayor, on the first Monday of June every second year, after June, 1820.
Certificates of the result of the election, &c.
In case of an equal number of votes for mayor, the boards to determine.
Mayor to take an oath, before a justice of the peace.
Powers and duties of the mayor.
Compensation of the mayor to be fixed.
Qualifications necessary for mayor.
In case of refusal, death, &c. the boards to elect another mayor.
Board of aldermen to consist of two members from each ward, to be elected for two years, &c. and board of common council of three members from each ward, for one year, &c.
Meetings of the boards.
Organization, proceedings, and compensation of the boards.
Ordinances, &c. to be sent to the mayor for approbation.
If he does not approve, &c.
Qualifications of the members of the board of aldermen and board of common council.
Qualifications for voters.
City register to furnish commissioners of election with a list of persons having a right to vote.
Elections for members of the two boards.
Commissioners of election.
Notice of elections.
Commissioners to take an oath.
Opening and closing the polls.
Counting the ballots.
Return of members.
In case of equality of votes, commissioners to decide by lot.
Result of the election to be published.
Duplicate return to the city register.
Members elect to be notified.
Each board to judge of the legality of elections, and to supply vacancies by new elections.
Each member of the board to take an oath.
Specific powers of the corporation.
Specific powers of the corporation.
Further specific powers of the corporation.
Proviso.
Marshal to summon a jury to ascertain damages.
Further specific powers of the corporation.
Limitation of the sum to be raised by lottery annually.
Proviso.
General power to pass all necessary laws.
Marshal to keep persons in jail committed under the act, &c.
Execution for city fines.
Real property, the taxes on which have remained unpaid for two years, may be sold.
Proviso.
Roukendorf v. Taylor, 4 Peters’ Reports, 340.
Purchaser to pay the amount of taxes, &c. at the time of sale:
And the residue in ten days after two years, &c.
Amount of residue to be deposited in the city treasury subject to the order of the proprietor, &c.
Title in fee to the purchaser.
Proviso.
Notice to purchaser in case of redemption.
Purchaser failing to pay residue, to pay ten per cent. per annum, &c.
Proviso.
A year allowed to minors and mortgagees and others with equitable interest to redeem.
Proviso
The collector may postpone sale for want of bidders, &c.
Collector may proceed by distress and sale, on ten days’ notice, &c.
Acts of Maryland, relative to personal property taken by distress for taxes, &c.
Levy court of Washington county.
Expenditures by levy court, to which the corporation must contribute.
The clerk of the circuit court and register of wills to furnish the city register with lists of the transfers of real property semi-annually.
Commissioner of public buildings, &c. to reimburse to the corporation a just proportion of expense in opening and improving streets, passing through or between public squares, &c.
Proportion to be determined by comparison, &c.
Expenses to be defrayed by commissioner out of money from sale of public lots.
The boards may divide the city into wards, &c.
Proviso.
Proviso.
First ward.
Second ward.
Third ward.
Fourth ward.
Fifth ward.
Sixth ward.
Expenses of improving streets bounding wards, to be defrayed out taxes raised in the wards adjoining, &c
Board of aldermen to be divided into two classes.
First class.
Second class.
Others by lot.
Vacation of aldermen’s seats.
Aldermen are, ex officio, justices of the peace unless holding military or naval commissions.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 45.
Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 20.
An officer to be designated by the President, as agent of the treasury.
Officers receiving public money before it is paid into the treasury, failing to account—
The 1st comptroller to state and certify the amount due—
The agent to issue a warrant of distress against delinquent and sureties to the marshal.
Marshal or deputy to proceed to levy and collect by distress and sale of goods and chattels of delinquent.
Ten days’ notice of sale, at two or more public places, &c.
Goods, &c. being insufficient, the person of the officer is liable, &c.
Warrants remaining unsatisfied by proceedings against delinquent.
Ten days’ notice of sale, at two or more public places, &c.
Amount due by delinquent officer, a lien upon lands, &c. of himself and sureties.
for want of goods, &c. lands, &c. may be sold.
Three weeks’ notice of sale of lands, &c.
Conveyance of the marshal to give a valid title to lands sold, &c.
The cases decided upon the provisions of this section are:
The Treasury Department of the United States, on the 14th of July, 1829, issued a warrant of distress, directed to the marshal of the District of Columbia, commanding him to levy and collect, by distress and sale of his goods and chattels, a sum of money alleged to be due to the United States, on a treasury transcript, by Joseph Nourse late register of the treasury. This warrant was issued in pursuance of the 2d, 3d, and 4th sections of the act of May 15th, 1820, “providing for the better organization of the Treasury Department.” Under the provisions of the 4th section of the act, Mr. Nourse obtained an injunction from the chief justice of the District of Columbia to stay all further proceedings on the said warrant. The bill presented by Mr. Nourse to the chief justice of the District of Columbia asserted that the United States was indebted to him for compensation for extra services he had rendered to the United States, in a sum exceeding the amount claimed by the United States: which claim was denied in the answer filed by the district attorney of the United States, both as to the legality and the amount of the claim.
The court determined that Mr. Joseph Nourse was entitled to compensation for the extra services he had rendered to the government, in the agencies mentioned in the bill; and appointed auditors to ascertain the value of his services and compensation, and to report thereon without delay. The report of the auditors allowed to the complainant a commission of two and a half per cent. on the sum of nine hundred and forty-three thousand three hundred and eight dollars, and eighty-three cents, disbursed by him in the several agencies in which he had been employed, leaving a balance due to him from the United States. The report was confirmed, and the injunction made perpetual.
The United States then instituted their suit against Joseph Nourse in the circuit court for the District of Columbia, in the county of Washington, on an account authenticated according to law, by the proper accounting officers, being the same account, and claiming the same amount as in the warrant of distress, and on which the decree of the Chief Justice was pronounced. It was agreed that the defendant should have the benefit of the proceedings in that case, as if the same had been pleaded and given in evidence. The circuit court adjudged the proceedings in the former action a bar to this action.
By the Court. It is a rule to which no exception is recollected, that the judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, while unreversed, concludes the subject-matter as between the same parties. They cannot again bring it into litigation. The United States v. Nourse, 9 Peters’ Rep. 8.
An execution is the end of the law. It gives the successful party the fruits of his judgment, and the distress warrant is a most effective execution. It may act on the body and estate of the individual against whom it is directed. Ibid.
It would excite some surprise if, in a government of laws and of principle, furnished with a department whose appropriate duty is to decide questions of right, not only between individuals, but between the government and individuals, a ministerial officer might, at his discretion, issue this power, and levy on the person, lands, and chattels of the debtor, any sum he might believe to be due, leaving to that debtor no remedy, no appeal to the laws of his country, if he should believe the claim to be unjust. But this anomaly does not exist; this imputation cannot be cast on the legislature of the United States. Ibid.
Under the act of Congress the chief justice of the District of Columbia had full jurisdiction over the case. Ibid.
After a reference to auditors, according to the course of courts of chancery in matters of account, a final decree was pronounced against the United States, and a perpetual injunction awarded. This decree is now in full force, and was in force when this suit was instituted. The act of Congress gave jurisdiction in the specific case to the district judge. He might have enjoined the whole or a part of the warrant. His decree might have been for or against the United States for the whole or a part of the claim. On the sum which he found to be due, he is directed to assess the lawful interest; he may add such damages, as with the interest, shall not exceed the rate of ten per cent. per annum on the principal sum. Had the district judge finally enjoined a part of the sum claimed by the United States, and decreed that the residue should be paid with interest, all would perceive the unfitness of asserting a claim in a new action to that portion of the debt which had been enjoined by the decree of the court. And, yet between the obligation of a decree, against the whole claim, and against a part of it, no distinction is perceived. Ibid.
The relief which is given by the act of Congress on which the warrant of distress may be issued, by application to any district judge of the United States for an injunction to stay proceedings on such warrant, is not confined to an officer employed in the civil, military, or naval departments of the government, to disburse the public money appropriated for the service of those departments respectively, who shall fail to render his account, or pay over in the manner required by law, any sum of money remaining in the hands of such officer. Ibid.
When the legislature turns its attention to the individual against whom the warrant may issue, the language of the law is immediately changed. The word person is substituted for officer; and it declares, “that if any person should consider himself aggrieved by a warrant issued under this act, he may prefer a bill of complaint, &c.,” and thereupon the judge may grant an injunction, &c. Ibid.
The character of the individual against whom the warrant may be issued is entirely disregarded by that part of the law. Be he whom he may, an officer or not an officer, a debtor or not a debtor; if the warrant be levied on his person or property, he is permitted to appeal to the laws of his country, and to bring his case before the district judge, to be adjudicated by him. Ibid.
The district judge had full jurisdiction over the case, and his decision is final. The judgment on the warrant of distress, and the proceedings upon it are, consequently, a bar to any subsequent action for the same cause. Ibid.
A party was arrested and held in custody, by virtue of distress warrant, issued from the Treasury Department, under an act of Congress passed the 15th of May, 1820, “to provide for the better organization of the Treasury Department.” The act provides, in substance, for the issuing of this warrant by the agent of the treasury, against all military and naval officers, &c., charged with the disbursement of the public money, who shall fail to pay and settle their accounts at the Treasury Department. The party in custody was a lieutenant in the navy of the United States, and had officiated as acting purser of a national ship, supplying a vacancy occasioned by the death of the regularly commissioned purser of the ship, on the Mediterranean station, and had executed no official bond as purser. On his return to the United States, he had settled his account at the proper department, viz., in 1828; and in 1833, the then fourth auditor, opened and re-stated his account, on the ground that it had been erroneously settled in the first instance, and the account as re-stated, exhibited a large balance against the party, due to the United States. Upon the re-stated account, the distress warrant was issued, by virtue whereof the party was arrested and was brought before the circuit court under a writ of habeas corpus, directed to the officer, who executed the warrant, and held the petitioner in custody. Held, That the account of the petitioner as acting purser, having been once stated, and settled at the Treasury Department, the law invests the auditor with no power to open and re-settle it, of his own mere authority. The act creates a special and limited jurisdiction; and after the accounts of any class of officers, on whom it was intended to act, have been adjusted, however erroneously, that special jurisdiction is functus officio, and any process issued upon a re-establishment of such accounts, is absolutely null and void.
Officers employed to disburse public moneys, being delinquent, in rendering account or paying over, &c., the 1st or 2d comptroller to state and certify the accounts, and the agent of the treasury to proceed against them by warrant of distress, &c.
Proviso.
Persons aggrieved may prefer a bill of complaint to a district judge, &c.
The judge may grant an injunction.
No injunction until bond and security.
Injunction not to impair the lien of the warrant.
Damages, if application for the injunction was merely for delay.
Injunction, &c., either in or out of court.
Persons aggrieved by the district judge, may apply to a judge of the Supreme Court, who may grant relief.
Attorneys of the United States to conform to instructions from the agent of the treasury.
Attorneys, at the end of every term, to forward a statement of cases decided, &c. and information, to the agent, &c.
Clerks of circuit and district courts, within 30 days after term, to forward a list of judgments and decrees entered, to the agent, showing the amount, &c.
Marshals, within 30 days before terms, to make return a, to the agent, of proceedings on writs of execution, &c.
Nothing in this act to impair any right or remedy, under preceding laws.
[Obsolete.]
The President authorized to cause to be built, &c. not exceeding five vessels of war, of not more than 12 guns each.
60,000 dolls. appropriated for the object.
[Expired.]
Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25, continued in force to 15th May, 1821.
Act of April 25, 1812, ch. 69.
Proviso; this act not to make void the 4th section of the act of 3d March, 1819, ch. 99.
The right to receive a pension to commence at the time of completing the testimony.
Agents for paying pensions to give bond, in not exceeding 5000 dollars.
[Expired.]
After 1st July, 1820, foreign armed vessels to enter certain ports only, unless forced in by distress, dangers of the seas, or an enemy, &c.
The President may employ land and naval forces and militia, to enforce this act.
This act in force until 1st July, 1822.
Acts relating to the courts of the United States in the western district of Pennsylvania:
An act to divide the state of Pennsylvania into two judicial districts, April 20, 1818, ch. 108.
An act concerning the western district court of Pennsylvania, Dec. 16, 1818, ch. 4.
An act for altering the times for holding the court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, May 15, 1820, ch. 111.
An act to alter the judicial districts of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes, May 26, 1824, ch. 170.
An act supplementary to an act entitled “An act to amend the judicial system of the United States,” March 3, 1837, ch. 34, sec. 4.
An act respecting the jurisdiction of certain district courts, Feb. 19, 1831, ch. 28.
An act altering the time of holding the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, May 8, 1840, ch. 23.
An act to authorize the judge of the district court for the western district of Pennsylvania, to hold a special session of said court, March 19, 1842, ch. 6.
An act to amend “An act for altering the time of holding the district court of the United States, for the western district of Pennsylvania at Williamsport,” approved May 8, one thousand eight hundred and forty, July 27, 1842, ch. 68.
The terms to be hereafter holden on the first Monday in May and second Monday in October.
Suits, &c. commenced and pending, made valid to the times fixed.
Appeals and writs of error to the Supreme Court, as from circuit courts.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 103.
Salaries to the district attorneys and marshals of the western district of Pennsylvania and northern district of New York.
The Secretary of the Treasury to provide, by contract, for a lighthouse on the Isles of Shoals, as soon as the jurisdiction has been ceded, &c.
And to agree for salaries, &c. of superintendents.
Appropriation for the lighthouse on the Isles of Shoals.
The Secretary of the Treasury to provide, by contract, for building other lighthouses, piers, &c.
Kennebunk river.
Tenpound Island.
Baker’s Island.
Genessee river.
South-west Ledge.
Adams’ Fall.
Smith’s Point.
Shell Castle Island.
Charleston.
Mobile bay.
Mouth of the Mississippi.
Sums appropriated for objects of this act.
The lighthouse directed on Sparrow’s Point may be built on North Point.
A light vessel may be substituted for a lighthouse on Craney Island.
Additional sums appropriated, for lighthouses and light vessels heretofore directed.
No lighthouse, &c. previous to cession of jurisdiction.
First, 2d, 3d and 4th sections of act of 3d March, 1819, ch. 7, continued for two years, &c.
Fifth section of the act of 3d March, 1819, continued as to crimes heretofore committed.
Persons committing robbery, on any ship or vessel, or ship’s company, &c. or on the high seas, in a roadstead, &c.
Conviction in circuit court where brought or found.
Persons engaged in any piratical enterprise, &c. and committing robbery on shore, declared pirates, and to suffer death.
Persons landing on a foreign shore, and seizing negroes or mulattoes, not held to service, &c. with intent to make them slaves, or decoying, forcibly bringing or carrying, &c. them on board, &c. declared pirates, and to suffer death.
Persons forcibly confining, detaining, or aiding to confine or detain negroes, &c. on board vessels, &c. declared pirates, and to suffer death.
Persons holding confirmed unlocated claims for land within the tract reserved by 3d section of act of 16th April, 1814, &c.
Act of 1814, ch. 120.
Claims to be receivable, &c.
Act of 1816, ch. 101.
Act of April 11, 1820, ch. 38.
Sums appropriated—
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, that is to say:
For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and For compensation of members of Congress.
For rebuilding the public wharf, and repairing the public warehouses, For public wharf, &c. on Staten Island.
For graduating the Capitol square, putting the grounds in order, and For graduating Capitol square, planting trees, &c.
Arrearages.
Act of May 1, 1820, ch. 50.
An addition to be built to the custom-house at New Orleans.
When the new building is completed, the present house and lot, &c. are to be sold, &c.
The register of the land office at Vincennes to furnish a complete abstract of lands purchased and lying in Illinois, &c.
Ten cents to the register for each entry.
Proviso.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause a complete abstract to be made out, of military bounty lands patented to soldiers, lying in Illinois,
Act of April 18, 1818, ch. 65.
After 30th Sept., 1820, ports of United States closed against British vessels coming from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, &c.
Vessel and cargo forfeited on attempting to enter.
Bonds to be given by the owner, &c. of British vessels, after 30th Sept., 1820, laden with articles of the growth, &c. of the United States for exportation, not to land them in the prohibited places.
Vessels and articles forfeited for attempting to sail before bond given.
Proviso.
No goods, wares, or merchandise, to be imported from the prohibited places, except they are wholly of the growth, &c. of the colony where laden and whence directly imported.
Vessel and goods forfeited in case of importations contrary to this act.
This act to be carried into effect as act of 18th April, 1818, ch. 65.
The President to appoint three commissioners, not citizens of Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois, to examine the country between Wheeling and a point on the Mississippi, &c. and lay out a road.
Surveyors, chain-bearers, &c.
Lands for the road reserved from sales.
Road to be 80 feet wide, &c.
A plan of the road to be made out.
Roads to be divided into sections, with notice of materials for making each, and expense.
Commissioners, &c. to take an oath.
Compensation.
Proviso.
10,000 dolls. appropriated for laying out the road.
Persons claiming lots in Peoria to deliver notice in Writing to the register at Edwardsville, before Oct. 1, 1820.
Register to report to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Report, &c. to be laid before Congress.
[Repealed.]
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 76.
Act of March 3, 1821, ch. 46.
Act of May 6, 1822, ch. 56.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 24.
Eighteen dollars per ton on French ships or vessels, in lieu of present duty,
The duty to be collected according to act of 2d March, 1799, ch. 22.
This act in force from 1st July, 1820.
5000 dollars appropriated for surveying certain parts of the coast of North Carolina.
Appropriation of sums to pay persons who paid duties on goods at Castine, and for relief of W. Channing.
1820, ch. 40.
Act of 3d March, 1817, ch. 63, continued for three years.
Act of Feb. 22, 1827, ch. 18.
Act of August 29, 1842, ch. 264.
Second sec. of the act of 31st Jan., 1809, ch. 11, amended—
So as to authorize enlistments for the service or the cruise.
The Postmaster General to cause the roof of the building to be repaired and slated, and to procure a bro engine.
6020 dollars appropriated for the objects, out of postages.
[Expired.]
The Secretary of War authorized to employ six additional clerks.
6000 dollars appropriated for their compensation.
This act in force for a year.
Right of pre-emption at minimum price, to one quarter section, in the centre of each county, in the purchase by the Indian treaty of St. Mary’s granted to Ohio, for a seat of justice.
Proviso.
Act of 1st March, 1817, ch. 22.
Power of the Secretary of the Navy to appoint agents and surveyor, repealed.
Duties to be performed by surveyors of public lands.
Appropriation for carrying into effect the 4th article of the treaty with the Chippewas of Sept. 24th, 1819.
Further appropriation.
For carrying into effect the 3d article of the treaty with the Kickapoos, of Aug. 30th, 1819.
2000 dollars appropriated annually, for ten years.
Act of March 2, 1819, ch, 47.
The people of Alabama have formed a constitution and state government, &c.
Vol. i. 61.
Alabama admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states.
The Secretary of State to furnish each member of Congress, not entitled by resolution of 27th March, 1818, the President, Vice President, &c. with copies of the journal, &c. of the Federal convention.
The secret journal, papers, &c. of the old Congress, heretofore considered confidential, from the year 1783 to the year 1789, to be published, under the direction of the President, and 1000 copies printed, &c.
The Secretary of State to transmit a copy of the Journal to each of the surviving members of the Convention.
The consent of Congress given to the compact between Kentucky and Tennessee.
ACTS OF THE SIXTEENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
First session to be holden at Mobile, 3d Monday of Feb. 1821.
Stated sessions at Mobile and Cahawba.
Process returnable accordingly.
But one clerk and one set of records.
The Secretary of the Treasury to pay three per cent. of the net proceeds of public lands sold in Illinois after 1st Jan., 1819, to the agent of the state.
To be applied for the encouragement of learning.
Act of April 18, 1818, ch. 67.
Annual account of the application of the moneys to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, or payment may be withheld.
Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 93.
The act of 11th May, 1820, to have full effect from the date of this act.
Writs and process to be returned and continued accordingly.
An act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States, within the state of Mississippi, April 3, 1818, ch. 29.
An act to alter the time of holding the district court in the state of Mississippi, Jan. 11, 1821, ch. 6.
An act to change the time of holding the court of the United States for the district of Mississippi, and the circuit court of the United States in the district of Ohio, May 5, 1830, ch. 89.
An act to change the place of holding the district court of the United States for the district of Mississippi, March 3, 1835, ch. 35.
An act to reorganize the district courts of the United States, in the state of Mississippi, June 18, 1838, ch. 115.
The regular terms to be holden only on the 1st Monday in January and July.
Writs, process, &c., to be returned accordingly.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, Sums appropriated,—
For subsistence.
For subsistence of the army of the United States, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Arrearages.
For arrearages on the settlement of outstanding claims, twenty thousand dollars.
Quartermaster’s department.
For the quartermaster’s department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
[Obsolete.]
Time allowed until 4th Jan., 1823, to obtain warrants and complete locations; and until 4th Jan., 1826, to return surveys and warrants to procure patents.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 31.
The provisions of the act of 3d March, 1807, revived, with limitation, as to time, as in the preceding section, &c.
Proviso; no location on tracts previously patented or surveyed.
Lands purchased prior to 1st July, 1820, and not wholly paid for, may be relinquished by the legal holder of the certificate filing a notice, in writing, with the register, &c.
Sums paid on account of the part relinquished to be applied to discharge instalments due on lands not relinquished.
1820, ch. 51.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Interest remitted.
Debtors divided into three classes.
1st class.
2d class.
Payment of the debts by the respective classes, in instalments.
Times of paying the first instalment.
Debt to bear an interest of 6 per cent per annum.
Proviso.
Deduction of 37 per cent. on payment of the whole sum due Sept. 30, 1822.
Proviso.
Those who have laid off towns, part or the whole of the lots whereof have been sold, are entitled to the benefits of this act.
Proviso.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 61.
The lands arc forfeited on failure to pay, &c.
No person is entitled to the benefit of this act who does not file his written consent before Sept. 30, 1821.
Duty of registers and receivers.
Report to be made to the treasury department three months after the 30th Sept., 1821.
Fees to the register and receiver.
No lands purchased prior to 1st of July, 1820, not already forfeited, to be forfeited before Sept. 30, 1821.
Lands relinquished to be deemed forfeited.
Act of April 24, 1820, ch. 51.
Lands surrendered not to be sold for two years after surrender.
Act of April 14, 1818, ch. 61.
Act of May 12, 1820, ch. 97.
Military peace establishment.
Artillery.
Light artillery.
A supernumerary captain for ordnance duty.
Infantry.
Adjutant to each regiment.
Engineers retained, except bombardiers.
Ordnance department to be merged in the artillery.
One major general with two aids, and two brigadiers with an aid each.
One adjutant and two inspectors general, &c.
A quartermaster general.
Two quartermasters.
Ten assistant quartermasters, &c.
A commissary general of subsistence.
Assistant commissaries.
A paymaster general and fourteen paymasters.
Commissary of purchases.
Military store keepers.
A surgeon general.
Eight surgeons.
Forty-five assistant surgeons.
Rank, pay, &c.
The force subject to rules and articles of war.
The President to cause the force retained to be formed and completed out of the corps now in service.
Three months’ additional pay, on discharge.
General regulations, &c. of General Scott.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 58.
Persons coming into the United States from adjacent foreign territory with merchandise subject to duty, are to deliver manifests, of the cargo or loading, at the office of the nearest collector, &c.
Manifests to be verified by oath before the collector, &c.
Merchandise, vessel, carriage, &c. forfeited.
Master conductor, &c. subject to penalty.
Deputy collector authorized to require the payment of the duties, &c.
Bond or deposit to be cancelled or delivered up, &c.
Penalties and forfeitures to be recovered, &c. according to the act of 2d March, 1799, ch. 22.
And may be mitigated or remitted according to act of 3d March, 1797.
Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 13.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 36.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 177.
Act of May 20, 1826, ch. 138.
Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 35.
Act of Feb. 24, 1819, ch. 41.
Bays, shores, &c. on Lake Borgne, &c. to be a collection district, after July 1, 1821.
A port of entry near the mouth of Pearl river.
A collector for the district.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 95.
Four sections of land, &c., selected by commissioners for the seat of government of Illinois, confirmed to the state.
The governor authorized to select a section in lieu of No. 16.
[Obsolete.]
The charters of the Bank of Alexandria, the Farmers’ Bank of Alexandria, Bank of Washington, Bank of the Metropolis, the Patriotic Bank, the Farmers’ Bank of Georgetown, the Bank of Columbia extended.
Interest at the rate of 12 per cent. per annum, for failure or refusal of the banks to pay their notes in lawful currency.
And Congress may revoke their charters.
Officers and directors of the banks liable to prosecution, by indictment, for fraudulent practices:
And to be adjudged felons on conviction, and suffer fine and imprisonment.
Right to extension of charter forfeited.
Assent in writing in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Citizen stockholders in the bank of Alexandria, Farmers’ Bank of Alexandria, and Bank of Washington may vote by agent or proxy.
Annual meeting of the stockholders of the Bank of Alexandria in January.
Ten citizen directors, by ballot, for a year.
Remaining directors to fill vacancies.
Election of a President.
No note under five dollars after Jan. 1, 1822.
The 14th section of the act incorporating the Bank of Columbia, repealed.
Proviso.
Central Bank of Georgetown and Washington authorized to liquidate and close its concerns.
For which purpose only the corporation is continued.
The stockholders of the Central Bank may reduce, &c.
The corporation of the Bank of Potomac continued to March 3, 1836.
Act of Feb. 16, 1811, ch. 18.
Election of directors of the Bank of Potomac annually in November, on notice in the newspapers.
Thirteen directors, by ballot, for a year.
Directors may fill vacancies.
Election of a President.
Citizen stockholders may vote according to shares.
Proviso; shares pledged confer no right to vote.
Consolidation of the Union Bank of Alexandria and the Bank of Potomac.
The union being effected, the Bank of Potomac becomes bound by the legal contracts of the Union Bank of Alexandria.
And the Bank of Potomac may enforce the payment of debts due, &c.
Bonds, bills, notes, &c., falling due at the Union Bank of Alexandria, made payable at the Bank of Potomac.
Upon the union of the two banks, the 27th section of the act of March 3, 1817, is repealed.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 93.
Proviso.
Suits not to abate.
Proceedings in the name of the Union Bank.
Dissatisfied stockholders may file a declaration within three months.
If the parties cannot agree, circuit court on petition may appoint three commissioners to ascertain the value, of the stockholders’ interest, &c.
Decree of the commissioners may be enforced by execution.
Any two or more of the banks whose charters arc extended may unite and form a bank, &c.
This act declared a public act.
Repugnant parts of former acts repealed.
The President may establish the office at any suitable place.
From the 23d of Aug., 1819, the sums mentioned are to be settled on the persons named, &c.
On the widow of the late O. H. Perry, 400 dollars during her natural life, continuing a widow.
Sons and daughter of Oliver H. Perry.
Any child dying before the times specified, his annuity ceases.
District court to be hereafter holden at Utica on the last Tuesday of August, and the court at Albany on the last Tuesday of January.
Proceedings, &c., continued accordingly.
That the following post-roads Post-roads discontinued.
From Concord, in Rockingham county, by Salisbury, Andover, New Chester, Bridgewater, and Plymouth, thence by New Holderness, New Hampton, Sanbornton, and Salisbury, to Concord, and
From Farmington to Middleton, in New Hampshire.
From Carver to Wareham.
Post-roads discontinued.
From Northampton, by Southampton, to Springfield, in Massachusetts.
From Herkimer, by Woodworth’s, Columbia, by Underwood’s, Litchfield, to Laghwaite.
From Vernon to Delhi.
From Little Falls, by Fairfield, Newport, and Russia, to Remsen, in New York.
From Liberty Corner, by Doughty’s Mills, and New Providence, to Springfield, in New Jersey.
From Morgantown, by Crab Orchard, to Kingwood, in Virginia.
From Milledgeville, to Greensborough, in Georgia.
From Pocataligo, by Hickory Hill, to Augusta, in South Carolina.
From Clinton, in Tennessee, to Pulaski, in Kentucky.
From Washington to Cincinnati; and
From Lancaster to Washington, in Ohio.
From Falmouth to Grant’s Lick, on the east side of the river in Kentucky.
From Smithton to John Graham’s, in Missouri.
Post-roads established.
That the following be established post-roads, that is to say:—
Maine.
In Maine.—From Brunswick, by Topsham, Lisbon, Wales, Monmouth, Leeds, Wayne, and Fayette, to Jay; and thence, by Livermore, Turner, and Durham, to Brunswick.
From Green, by Leeds and Wayne, to Winthrop.
From Bangor, by Levant, Corinth, New Charleston, Atkinson, Sebec, Brownsville, Williamsburg, Foxcroft, Guilford, and Sangerville, to Bangor.
From Warsaw, by Hartland, and St. Albin’s, to Palmyra.
From Bethel, by Gilead, Shelburne, Durand, Kilkenny, and Jefferson, to Lancaster, in New Hampshire.
New Hampshire.
In New Hampshire.—From Concord, in Rockingham county, by the M’Crillis tavern, in Canterbury, Northfield meeting house, Sanbornton, Smith’s village on the turnpike, across the river near Pine Hill, and Bridgewater, to Plymouth.
From Smith’s village on the turnpike, by New Hampton meeting house, and the paper mill in Holderness, to Plymouth.
From Concord, by Boscowan, Salisbury village, Andover, New Chester, Bristol, and the Mayhew turnpike, to Rumney.
From Rochester, by Chesnut Hill, in Farmington, to Middleton.
That the post-route from Centre Harbour to Plymouth, and the post-route from Portsmouth, by Meredith, and New Hampton to Plymouth, shall be by the post-office in Holderness.
Massachusetts.
In Massachusetts.—From Greenfield, by Bernardstown, Northfield, Warwick, Orange, New Salem, Shutesbury, Leverett, Sunderland, and Montague, to Greenfield.
From Richmond to West Stockbridge.
From North Hampton, by East Hampton, South Hampton, Westfield, Southwick, and East Granby, to Hartford, in Connecticut.
From Worcester to Groton.
From Boston, by a turnpike road, to Taunton; and thence by Wellington, Dighton, Swanzey, Warren, Bristol, Portsmouth, and Middleton, to Newport, in Rhode Island.
From South Hadley, by Granby, to Belchertown.
Connecticut.
In Connecticut.—From Mansfield to Willington.
From Stafford, by Union, to Woodstock.
From Brooklyn, by South Killingly, to Thompson.
From Bridgeport, by Long Hill, Trumbull, Levi Edwards’, in Huntington, Newtown, and Brookfield, to New Milford.
In New York.—From Utica, by Whitesborough, Floyd, Steuben, and Post-roads established. New York.
From Cayuga to Montezuma.
From Turin, by Harrisburg, Copenhagen, Tylersville, Pinkney, and Rodman, to Adams.
From Newburgh, by Middletown, Marlborough, Milton, and New Paltz, to Poughkeepsie.
From Upper Red Hook Landing, to the present post-road from New York, to Albany.
From Watertown, by Le Raysville, to Antwerp.
From Mooresville, by Bovina, in Delaware county, to Delhi.
From Bergen, by Riga and East Riga, to Rochesterville.
From Ellicottville, by Little Valley, Conewongo Creek, and Gerry, to Mayville.
From Caledonia to Riga.
From Whitehall, in Washington county, by Putnam, to Ticonderoga.
From Southold, in Suffolk, to the village of Oysterponds.
From Utica, in the county of Oneida, to Bainbridge, in the county of Chenango, by New Hartford, Paris Furnace, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Columbus, New Berlin, Norwich, and Guilford.
From Lisle, in the county of Broome, through the towns of Berkshire and Caroline, on the Susquehannah, and Bath turnpike road, to Ithica, in the county of Tompkins.
From Manlius, by Oran, Delhi, Fabius, Pompey, and thence to Manlius.
From Utica, by Rome, to Montezuma, and thence to Rochester, upon and near the Great Canal.
From Bennington, Vermont, by White Creek, Cambridge, Easton and Greenwich, to Saratoga Springs, New York.
From Ritchfield by Peltrie’s, in Columbia, by Underwood’s, in Litchfield, to Utica.
From Peltrie’s, in Columbia, by Elie Palmer’s, to Herkimer.
From Little Falls, Herkimer county, by Eaton’s Bush, Middleville, Newport, Naham Daniel’s, Russia post-office, to Trentoh, with a side mail from Middleville to Fairfield post-office.
From Canandaigua, in the state of New York, by Manchester, to Palmyra; from thence by South Williamson and Williamson, to Pultneyville.
In New Jersey.—From Chester to Flanders.
New Jersey.
From Liberty Corner to Somerville.
From Trenton, by Croswick’s tavern, Rickle’s Town, Julius, and Amy’s, to New Egypt.
Tn Pennsylvania.—From Easton, by Stockertown, to Roscommon.
Pennsylvania.
From Chester, by Village Green, Wilcoxe’s mills, Concord meeting house, and Dilworthtown, to West Chester.
From Clark’s Ferry, by Landisburg, Douglas’s Mills, and Concord, to Fannellsburg.
From Somerset, by Connelsville, Union, Smithfield, Germantown, and Geneva, to Morgantown, in Virginia.
From Hanover, by Berlin, to Dillstown.
From Lambpeter square to Cochransville.
From Gettysburg, by Petersburg, and Dillstown, to Harrisburg.
From Berwick, on the Tioga and Susquehanna turnpike, to Meansville.
From Lancaster, by New London Cross Roads, Newark, and Christiana Bridge, to New Castle, in Delaware.
From Gettysburg, by Lughtersburg, to Hagerstown, in Maryland.
From Leditz, in Lancaster county, by Elizabeth Furnace, and Shuefferston, to Lebanon.
From Beavertown, by Jeffriestown and Noblestown, to Cannonsburg.
Post-roads established.
Delaware.
In Delaware.—From Milford to the village of Milton; a new route.
Maryland.
In Maryland.—That the mail-route from Easton to Princess Anne, shall pass over Dover Bridge, and by New Market and Cambridge; the route from Easton, by the Trappe, to Cambridge, shall nevertheless be continued.
From Easton to the Trappe, in Talbot county.
From Harford to Michael’s store.
Virginia.
In Virginia.—From Kingwood, by Crab Orchard, Hagan’s store, to Smithfield, in Pennsylvania.
From Lewis Courthouse, by French Creek Settlement, Flatwood’s, and Elk river, to Nicholas Courthouse.
From Woodring’s mill, in Preston county, by Goff’s Ferry, on Cheat river, to Leading Creek, in Randolph county.
From the mouth of Fishing Creek, on Ohio river, by Buffalo, Barnes’ mills, Prickett’s Settlement, and Smithfield, to Kingwood.
From Springfield to Romney, in Hampshire county.
From Morgantown, by Jackson’s Iron Works, Carlisle’s Furnace, to Sandy Creek Glades.
From Charlottesville, by Warren, to Buckingham Courthouse.
From Culpepper Courthouse, by State mills, to Woodville.
From Staunton, by Little River, to the Panther Gap.
From Jacksonville, in Wood county, by Murphy’s Settlement, to Lewis Courthouse.
That the mail-route from Marietta to Wheeling, pass by Sisterville and the mouth of Fishing Creek.
That the mail-route from the Warm Springs, in Bath county, by Anthony’s creek, to Lewisburg, shall, in returning, pass by Frankford, Locust creek, Barnes’ Mill, Cackley’s, Bradshaw’s, and Gatewood’s, to the Warm Springs.
North Carolina.
In North Carolina.—From Salisbury to Fayetteville.
From Wilkesborough, by Mock’s old fields, Salisbury, Skeen’s Ferry, Lawrenceville, Wadesborough, and Sneedsborough, to Cheraw, formerly Chatham, in South Carolina.
From Charlotte, by Chester Courthouse, and Newberry Courthouse, to Edgefield Courthouse, in South Carolina.
That the mail-route from Fayetteville to Wilmington, pass by David Wright’s store, in Duplin county.
From Salisbury, by Fulton, to Huntsville.
South Carolina.
In South Carolina.—From Columbia, by Ashville and Wann Springs, in North Carolina, to Lexington, in Kentucky.
From Coosawatchie, by Robertsville and King creek, to Augusta.
Georgia.
In Georgia.—From Monticello, by Monroe in Walton county, and Lawrenceville, in Gwinnett county, to Hall Courthouse.
From Jefferson to Fairfield, in Camden county.
From Carnesville, by Habersham Courthouse, to Rabun Courthouse.
From Powelton, in Hancock county, by Greensborough, to Madison, in Morgan county.
From Carnesville, by Bushville, to Hall Courthouse.
Kentucky.
In Kentucky.—From Franklin to Nashville, in Tennessee.
From Eddyville, by Iron banks, to New Madrid, in Missouri.
That the post-route from Burkesville to Monticello shall pass by Robert Poage’s, in Stockton’s Valley.
That the post-route from Columbia to Glasgow shall pass by Edmonton, in Barren county.
From Scottsville to Cairo, in Tennessee.
From Falmouth, in Pendleton county, passing the three forks of Grassy creek and Gains’s, to Burlington, in Boone county.
From Bowling Green, by Litchfield and Hardinsburg, to Corydon in Post-roads established.
In Tennessee.—From Clinton to Burkesville, in Kentucky.
Tennessee.
From Washington, in Rhea county, by Hamilton Courthouse, and the new turnpike road, to Morganton, at the mouth of Sequatchee, by Marion Courthouse, and Jackson Courthouse, to Huntsville, in Alabama.
From McMinville, by Shelbyville, to Columbia.
From Sparta, by Cookeville, Gainesborough, and Meigsville, to Tompkinsville, in Kentucky.
From Kingston, by Washington, to Huntsville, in Alabama.
That the route from Springfield to Russelville, in Kentucky, shall pass Fort’s mills, on Red river.
From Murfreesborough to Statesville.
From Vernon, by Perry Courthouse, to Reynoldsburg.
In Ohio.—From Lebanon, by Monroe, to Hamilton.
Ohio.
From Washington, in Pennsylvania, by Wellsburg, in Virginia, Steubenville, New Salem, New Philadelphia, Wooster, and Norwalk, to Lower Sandusky.
From Canton, in Stark county, by New Portage, Norton, and Wads worth, to Medina, in Medina county.
From Lancaster, by Circleville, to Chillicothe.
From Granville, in Licking county, by Worthington, to Dublin, in Franklin county.
From Urbana, by Troy, to Granville, in Dark county.
From Dover, in Tuscarawas county, by Shanesville and Berlin, to Millersburg, in Coshocton county.
From Dresden, in the county of Muskingum, to Mansfield, in the county of Richland, by the way of West Carlisle, in Coshocton county.
From Aurelius, by Duck creek salt works, in Morgan county, by Senecaville, to Guernsey salt works, and to Washington, Guernsey county.
In Indiana.—From Brownstown to Indianapolis.
Indiana.
From Vernon to Indianapolis.
From Connersville to Indianapolis.
From Lawrenceburg, by Aurora, Hanover, and the Rising Sun, to Versailles; and to return by the way of Vaughan’s, in Manchester township.
From Richmond, by Salisbury and Centreville, to Indianapolis.
From Brookville to Indianapolis.
In Illinois.—From Golconda, by Franklin Courthouse, and Hinds’, to Illinois.
From Golconda to Belgrade.
From Shawneetown to Golconda.
The mail from Vincennes, Indiana, to St Louis, Missouri, shall pass by Vandalia.
From Vandalia, by the seats of justice of such counties as may be established by the legislature prior to the next session of Congress, north of Madison county, to Edwardsville.
From Fairfield, by John G. Fitch’s, to Vandalia.
From Palestine to Vandalia.
The mail from Golconda, by Bloomfield, to Jonesborough, to pass by Vienna.
Mississippi.
In Mississippi.—From Columbia, by Fort Alford’s, to Monticello.
From Green Courthouse, by New Augusta and Monroe, to Covington Courthouse.
Alabama.
In Alabama.—From Blakely to Mobile Point.
From Fort Hawkins, by Fort Gaines and Butler Courthouse, to Conecuh Courthouse.
In Missouri.—From Shawneetown, by Road’s, Jonesborough, in Illinois, Missouri.
From St. Charles, by James Journey’s, John Biven’s, Isaac Vanbibber’s, John Grayum’s, and Augustus Thrall’s, to Franklin.
From Franklin, by the mouth of Arrow Rock and Mount Vernon, to Fort Osage.
From St. Genevieve, by the Saline, Amos Bird’s, John F. Henry’s, and Bainbridge, to Cape Girardeau.
From Franklin to Boonsville.
From Smithton to Augustus Thrall’s.
From Alton, by the house of Levi Roberts, John Shaw, and Leonard Ross, to Louisianaville, in Missouri.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, Sums appropriated, for—
Congress and their officers.
For compensation, granted by law to the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, three hundred fourteen thousand eight hundred and sixty-six dollars.
Senators, &c. of Missouri.
For the compensation of the senators and representatives, elected by Missouri, six thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For the expenses of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses, of the two Houses of Congress, forty-nine thousand dollars.
Library of Congress.
For the expenses of the library of Congress, including the librarian’s allowance for the year, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
Books, &c. for the library.
For the purchase of books for the library of Congress, comprehending the statutes and the reports of the decisions of the courts of law and chancery of the different states, with the latest maps of the several states and territories of the United States, one thousand dollars.
The President.
For compensation to the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Vice President.
For compensation to the Vice President of the United States, five thousand dollars.
Secretary of State.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, six thousand dollars.
Clerks.
1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in the Department of State, by the act of twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars.
Messengers.
For compensation to the messengers in said Department, including the messenger to the patent office, nine hundred and sixty dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For the contingent and incidental expenses of the department of State, including expenses of distributing copies of the laws of the second session of the sixteenth Congress, twenty-two thousand seven hundred dollars.
Secretary of the Treasury.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, six thousand dollars.
Clerks.
1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, per act of twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, ten thousand four hundred dollars.
Messengers.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, seven hundred and ten dollars.
1st comptroller.
For compensation to the first comptroller of the treasury, three thou sand five hundred dollars.
Clerks.
1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the first comptroller, per act of twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, seventeen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the second comptroller, three thousand dollars.
2d comptroller.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the second comptroller, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the first auditor of the treasury, three thousand Messenger.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the first auditor, per act Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the second auditor of the treasury, three thousand 2d auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the second auditor, per Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the third auditor of the treasury, three thousand 3d auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the third auditor, per act Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, seven hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the fourth auditor of the treasury, three thousand 4th auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the fourth auditor, per Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the fifth auditor of the treasury, three thousand 5th auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the fifth auditor, per Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For three clerks to complete the duties of the commissioner of the Clerks.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger.
For compensation to the treasurer of the United States, three thousand Treasurer.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the treasurer, per act Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to an additional clerk, as allowed by act of appropriation Additional clerk to treasurer, 1819, ch. 54.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and 1820, ch. 40. Messenger.
Commissioner of general land office.
For compensation to the commissioner of the general land office, three thousand dollars.
Clerks.
1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said commissioner, per act of twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, twenty-two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Messenger.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
Register of treasury.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
Clerks.
1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the register, per act of twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, twenty-two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Messenger.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, including the allowance for stamping ships’ registers, five hundred dollars.
Secretary to sinking fund.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Transmitting passports, translating, &c. in the treasury.
For allowance to the person employed in transmitting passports and sea-letters, for expense of translating foreign languages in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, for stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent and incidental expenses, in the Treasury Department, and the several offices therein, forty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
Superintendent and watchmen of State and Treasury Departments.
For allowance to the superintendent, and four watchmen, employ ed for the security of the state and treasury buildings, one thousand nine hundred dollars.
Secretary of War.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, six thousand dollars.
Clerks.
1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in the War Department, per act of twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, twenty-three thousand four hundred dollars.
Messenger.
For compensation to the messengers in said department, seven hundred and ten dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses, in said department, five thousand dollars.
Maps, books, &c.
For maps, plans, books, and instruments, one thousand dollars.
Paymaster general.
For compensation to the paymaster general, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Clerks.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the paymaster general, 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
Commissary general.
For compensation to the commissary general of purchases, three thou sand dollars.
Clerks.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said commissary, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
Messenger.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, three hundred and sixty dollars.
Adjutant general’s clerks.
1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the adjutant and inspector general, per act of twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Clerks of the Ordnance.
1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the ordnance, per act of twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
Clerks of commissary general of subsistence.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general of subsistence, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Clerks in the engineer office.
For compensation to the clerks in the engineer office, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Clerks.
For compensation to the clerks in the surgeon general’s office, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the said office, five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, six thousand dollars.
Secretary of the Navy.
Clerks.
1818, ch. 87.
Messengers.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, per act of twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, eight thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, seven hundred and ten dollars.
For the contingent expenses of said office, two thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.
Commissioners of navy board.
For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, ten thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the navy Secretary of navy board.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissioners of the navy board, per act of twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to three clerks, and a draftsman, as allowed by acts of Other clerks, &c. 1819, ch. 54. 1820, ch. 40.
For the contingent expenses of said office, two thousand dollars.
Messenger.
Contingent expenses.
Security of war and navy buildings.
For allowance to the superintendent, and four watchmen, for the security of the war and navy buildings, and for the repairs of engine, hose, and buckets, one thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster General, four thousand dollars.
Postmaster general.
Assistant P. M. general.
For compensation to two assistant postmasters general, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the general post-office, per act of Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, six hundred and Messengers.
For contingent expenses of said office, four thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.
Surveyor general.
Clerks.
Surveyor south of Tennessee.
Clerks.
For compensation to the surveyor general, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the surveyor general, two thousand one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor south of Tennessee, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, one thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, Surveyor in Illinois and Missouri. Clerks.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, two thousand dollars.
Surveyor in Alabama.
Clerks.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the surveyor, in Alabama, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the commissioner of public buildings, at Washington Commissioner of public buildings.
For compensation to the officers and clerks in the mint, nine thousand Officers and clerks in the mint.
For wages of persons employed in the different operations of the mint, Persons employed in the mint. Contingent expenses.
For incidental and contingent expenses, and repairs, cost of machinery, and for allowance of waste age in the gold and silver coinage of the mint, eight thousand one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Governor, &c. of Arkansas. Contingent expenses.
For the contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
Governor, &c. of Michigan.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Michigan territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For the contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
Judges of the United States.
For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district judges, of the United States, including the chief justice and associate judges of the district of Columbia, seventy-eight thousand two hundred dollars.
Attorney general.
For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Clerks.
1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the attorney general, per act of twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, eight hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For contingent expenses of said office, including compensation to the messenger, five hundred dollars.
Reporter of decisions of Supreme Court.
For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand dollars.
District attorneys and marshals.
For compensation to sundry district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, eight thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
Sundry pensions.
For the payment of sundry pensions, granted by the late and present governments, one thousand five hundred and ninety dollars.
Disabled seamen.
For making good a deficiency in the fund for the relief and protection of sick and disabled seamen, fifty thousand dollars.
Lighthouses.
For the support of lighthouses, and other establishments for the protection of navigation, one hundred and two thousand three hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-eight cents.
Surveying public lands.
For surveying the public lands of the United States, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Clerks in the office of superintendent of Indian trade.
For additional compensation allowed by the act of the twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, to the clerks in the office of the superintendent general of Indian trade, four hundred and fifty dollars.
Bringing votes, &c.
For bringing on the votes of President and Vice President, three thousand one hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifty cents.
Ships’ registers.
For expenses of ships’ registers, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Miscellaneous claims.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, six thousand dollars.
Salaries of ministers of the United States in foreign places.
Outfit for minister at Paris.
For the salaries of the ministers of the United States to London, Paris, St. Petersburg, and Madrid, with the salaries of their several secretaries of legation, and the salaries of the charge d’affaires at the Hague, Rio Janeiro, and at Stockholm, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For an outfit to a minister at Paris, nine thousand dollars.
Contingencies of foreign missions.
For the contingent expenses of those missions, ten thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars.
Foreign intercourse.
Barbary powers.
Agents for claims and seamen.
Relief of seamen.
Opening a road in the Indian country.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, forty-two thousand dollars.
For salaries of the agents for claims on account of spoliations and for seamen, at London and Paris, four thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, forty thousand dollars.
For opening, under the direction of the Secretary of War, within the Indian country, a road from a point at or near Turner Brashears’ stand, on the old Natchez road, to a point at or near Columbus, on the military road, the sum of five thousand dollars, which, by an act of the twenty seventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, was appro- 1818, ch. 21.
Out of moneys in the treasury.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, Sums appropriated, for—
For the pay of the army and subsistence of the officers, nine hundred Pay and subsistence of officers.
For three months’ gratuitous pay for disbanded officers and soldiers, Pay of disbanded officers.
For subsistence, one hundred and four thousand six hundred and fifty-four Subsistence.
For forage for officers, forty-one thousand five hundred and forty-one Forage.
For clothing, two hundred and seventy-six thousand five hundred and Clothing.
For the medical and hospital department, twenty-four thousand five Medical and hospital department.
For the quartermaster general’s department, two hundred and two Quartermaster general’s department.
For regular supplies, transportation, rents, and repairs, postage and Supplies, transportation, rents, &c.
To complete the barracks at Baton Rouge, twenty thousand dollars; Barracks at Baton Rouge.
For arrearages in the quartermaster general’s department, twenty thousand Arrearages.
For the military academy, seventeen thousand and thirty-six dollars and Military academy.
For fortifications, two hundred and two thousand dollars, in addition Fortifications.
Fort Delaware, fifty-five thousand dollars, to complete the same.
Fort Delaware.
Fort Washington.
Fort Monroe.
Fort Calhoun.
Rigolets.
Mobile Point.
Fort Washington, twenty-two thousand dollars.
Fort Monroe, sixty-five thousand dollars.
Fort Calhoun, fifty thousand dollars.
Rigolets, sixty thousand dollars.
Mobile Point, thirty thousand dollars.
Repairs, &c.
Contingencies.
National armories.
Ordnance service.
Repairs and contingencies, twenty thousand dollars.
For the contingencies of the army, forty thousand dollars.
For the national armories, three hundred and forty thousand dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of twenty thousand dollars.
For the current expenses of the ordnance service, an unexpended balance of twenty-three thousand six hundred and sixty-three dollars and seven cents.
Contracts, &c.
For the fulfilment of existing contracts for cannon, shot, and shells, and for the purchase of one thousand sword belts, and of timber for gun carriages, fifty-three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Invalid pensioners.
For the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, two hundred and thirteen thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of one hundred and one thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars and seventy-five cents.
Widows and orphans.
For the half-pay pensions of widows and orphans, thirty thousand dollars.
Arrearages.
For arrearages, prior to the first of January, eighteen hundred and seventeen, fifty thousand dollars, in addition to a former appropriation of twenty thousand dollars.
Arrearages in Indian department.
Indian department.
For arrearages in the Indian department, one hundred and thirty thousand two hundred and five dollars and forty-four cents.
For the current expenses of the Indian department, one hundred thousand dollars.
Revolutionary pensioners.
For the annual allowance to the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, one million two hundred thousand dollars, being part of the unexpended balance of a former appropriation.
Creek treaty.
For carrying into effect the treaty concluded with the Creek nation, on the eighth of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-[one,] and ratified by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, on the twenty-fourth of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
Choctaw treaty.
For carrying into effect the treaty concluded with the Choctaw nation of Indians, on the eleventh of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, sixty-five thousand dollars; and for payment of one year’s annuity to Mushulatubba, a Choctaw chief, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Road in the state of Georgia.
1816, ch. 112.
1818, ch. 24.
1820, ch. 45.
For completing the road in the state of Georgia, through the Creek nation, under the acts of the twenty-seventh April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, twenty-seventh March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and fourteenth April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, one thousand dollars.
Arsenal at Augusta.
For discharging arrearages incurred in building the arsenal at Augusta, in Georgia, forty thousand dollars.
Out of money in the treasury.
[Obsolete.]
That, for defraying the expenses Sums appropriated, for—
Pay and subsistence of officers
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, nine hundred and eighty-three thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars and twenty-five cents.
For provisions, three hundred and thirty-seven thousand eight hundred Provisions.
For medicines, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, Medicines.
For repairs of vessels, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Repairs of vessels.
Navy yards, &c.
Ordnance, &c.
Contingent expenses.
Marine corps.
For improvement of navy yards, docks, and wharves, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks, and labourers, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses, two hundred thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and sixty-nine thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars.
For clothing the same, thirty thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars and thirty-one cents.
For fuel for the same, six thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For contingent expenses of the same, fourteen thousand dollars.
For completing the equipment of the vessels constructed in pursuance Equipment of small vessels of war.
For the purpose of enabling the Secretary of the Navy to remove obstructions Removing obstructions in river Thames.
Out of moneys in the treasury.
[Obsolete.]
That, for continuing the work Sums appropriated, for—
For continuing the work on the centre building, the sum of eighty Centre building.
For covering the roof of the President’s house with copper, seven President’s house.
For graduating and improving the ground around the Capitol, two Ground round the Capitol.
For improvements in the Senate chamber, and in the hall of the House Senate chamber, hall, and library.
Unexpended balance to the centre building.
Out of moneys in the treasury.
[Obsolete.]
The President empowered to borrow not more than 5,000,000 dollars at not exceeding five per centum.
Reimbursable after 1st Jan., 1835.
Stock transferable.
The Bank of the United States may lend the money.
Certificates of stock may be constituted and sold.
Proviso.
The Secretary of Treasury may employ agents to obtain subscriptions, or to sell the stock.
Commissions to agents.
Surplus of the annual appropriation of 10,000,000 dollars pledged for the payment of the principal of the stock of the loan.
Commissioners of the sinking fund authorized to apply the sums necessary.
Faith of the United States pledged
The decisions of the Supreme Court upon the treaty between the United States and Spain of 22d of February, 1819, by which Florida was ceded to the United States, and upon the act of March 3, 1821, have been:
By the stipulations of a treaty, are to be understood its language and apparent intentions, manifested in the instrument; with a reference to the contracting parties, the subject matter and persons on whom it is to operate. United States v. Arredondo et al., 6 Peters, 710.
The judiciary is not that department of the government to which the assertion of its interest against foreign powers is confided; and its duty, commonly, is to decide upon individual rights according to those principles which the political departments of the nation have established. If the course of the nation has been a plain one, its courts would hesitate to pronounce it erroneous. However individual judges might construe the treaty of St. Ildefonso, it is the province of the Supreme Court of the United States to confine its decisions to the will of the legislature, if that will has been clearly expressed. Foster and Elam v. Neilson, 2 Peters, 307. United States v. Arredondo, 6 Peters, 710.
A treaty of cession is a deed of the ceded territory; the sovereign is the grantor, and the act is his; so far as relates to the cession the treaty is his act and deed, and all courts must so consider it; and deeds are construed in equity by the rules of law. Ibid. 738.
The Spanish version of the Florida treaty was in the words of the king, and expressed his intention; and though the American version showed the intention of the American government to be different, the Supreme Court cannot adopt it to decide what was granted by the king of Spain, what accepted and what reserved: the rules of law are loo imperative to be disregarded or mistaken. The true interpretation of the Spanish language of the treaty is, that the grants of lands in Florida, made before the treaty, except those specially excepted, is that these grants remain confirmed.—The proprietors of such grants could bring suits to recover them without any action of Congress; and any question arising would be purely a judicial question. Ibid. 711.
The object of five treaty with Spain, which ceded Florida to the United States, dated 22d May, 1819, was to invest the commissioners with full power and authority to receive, examine, and decide upon the amount and validity of asserted claims upon Spain, for damages and injuries. Their decision, within the scope of this authority, is conclusive and final, and is not re-examinable. The parties must abide by it, as the decree of a competent tribunal of exclusive jurisdiction. A rejected claim cannot be brought again under review in any judicial tribunal. But it does not naturally follow that this authority extends to adjust all conflicting rights, of different citizens, to the fund so awarded. The commissioners are to look to the original claim for damages and injuries against Spain itself; and it is wholly immaterial, who is the legal or equitable owner of the claim, provided he is an American citizen. Comegys et al. v. Vasse, 1 Peters, 212.
After the validity and amount of the claim has been ascertained by the award of the commissioners, the rights of the claimant to the fund, which has passed into his hands and those of others, are left to the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, in the established courts of justice. Ibid. 212.
The treaty with Spain recognised an existing right in the aggrieved parties to compensation; and did not, in the most remote degree, turn upon the notion of donation or gratuity. It was demanded by our government as matter of right, and as such was granted by Spain. Ibid. 217.
Even in cases of conquest, it is very unusual for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated; that sense of justice and of right, which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world, would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights annulled on a change in the sovereignty of the country, by the Florida treaty. The people change their allegiance, their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved; but their relations to each other and their rights of property remain undisturbed. Had Florida changed its sovereign by an act containing no stipulation respecting the property of individuals, the right of property in all those who became subjects or citizens of the new government would have been unaffected by the change. It would have remained the same as under the ancient sovereign. United States v. Percheman, 7 Peters 51.
The language of the second article of the treaty between the United States and Spain, of 22d February, 1819, by which Florida was ceded to the United States, conforms to this general principle. Ibid.
The eighth article of the treaty must be intended to stipulate expressly for the security to private property, which the laws and usages of nations would, without express stipulation, have conferred. No construction which would impair that security, further than its positive words require, would seem to be admissible. Without it, the titles of individuals would remain as valid under the new government as they were under the old. And those titles, so far at least as they were consummated, might be asserted in the courts of the United States, independently of this article. Ibid.
The treaty was drawn up in the Spanish as well as in the English languages. Both arc original, and were unquestionably intended by the parties to be identical. The Spanish has been translated; and it is now understood that the article expressed in that language is, that “the grants shall remain ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of them, to the same extent,” &c.; thus conforming exactly to the universally received law of nations. Ibid.
If the English and Spanish part can, without violence, be made to agree, that construction which establishes this conformity ought to prevail. Ibid.
No violence is done to the language of the treaty by construction which conforms the English and Spanish to each other. Although the words “shall be ratified and confirmed,” are properly words of contract, stipulating for some future legislation, they are not necessarily so. They may import that “they shall be ratified and confirmed” by force of the instrument itself. When it is observed that in the counterpart of the same treaty, executed at the same time, by the same parties, they are used in this sense, the construction is proper, if not unavoidable. Ibid.
In the case of Foster and Elam v. Neilson, 2 Peters, 253, the Supreme Court considered those words importing a contract. The Spanish part of the treaty was not then brought into view, and it was then supposed there was no variance between them. It was not supposed that there was even a formal difference of expression in the same instrument, drawn up in the language of each party. Had this circumstance been known, it is believed it would have produced the construction which is now given to the article. Ibid.
By the law of nations, the inhabitants, citizens, or subjects of a conquered or ceded country, territory, or province, retain all the rights of property which have not been taken from them by the orders of the conqueror; and this is the rule by which we must test its efficacy according to the act of Congress, which we must consider as of binding authority. United States v. Clarke, 9 Peters, 168.
A treaty of cession is a deed or grant by one sovereign to another, which transferred nothing to which he had no right of properly; and only such right as he owned, and could convey to the grantee. By the treaty with Spain, the United States acquired no lands in Florida to which any person had lawfully obtained such a right, by a perfect or inchoate title, that this court could consider it as property under the second article; or which had, according to the stipulations of the eighth article of the treaty, been granted by the lawful authorities of the king; which words, grants, or concessions, were to be construed in their broadest sense, so as to comprehend all lawful acts which operated to transfer a right of property, perfect or imperfect. Ibid.
The effect of the clauses of the confirmation of grants made was, that they confirmed them presently on the ratification of the treaty, to those in possession of the lands; which was declared to be, that legal seisin and possession which follows title, is co-extensive with the right, and continues till it is ousted by an actual adverse possession, as contradistinguished from residence and occupation. Ibid.
The United States, by accepting the cession under the terms of the eighth article, and the ratification by the king, with an exception of the three annulled grants to Allegon, Punon Rostro, and Vargas, can make no other exceptions of grants made by the lawful authorities of the king. Ibid.
The meaning of the words lawful authorities, in the eighth article, or competent authorities in the ratification, must be taken to be, “by those persons who exercised the granting power by the authority of the crown.” The eighth article expressly recognises the existence of these lawful authorities in the ceded territories, designating the governor or intendant, as the case might be, as invested with such authority: which is to be deemed competent till the contrary is made to appear. Ibid.
By “the laws of Spain” is to be understood the will of the king expressed in his orders, or by his authority, evidenced by the acts themselves; or by such usage and customs in the province as may be presumed to have emanated from the king, or to have been sanctioned by him, as existing authorized local laws. Ibid.
In addition to the established principles heretofore laid down by this court as the legal effect of an usage or custom, there is one which is peculiarly appropriate to this case. The act of Congress giving jurisdiction to this court to adjudicate on these causes, contains this clause in reference to grants, &c., “which was protected and secured by the treaty, and which might have been perfected into a complete title, under and in conformity to the laws, usages and customs of the government under which the same originated.” This is an express recognition of any known and established usage or custom in the Spanish provinces, in relation to the grants of land, and the title thereto, which brings them within a well established rule of law: that a custom or usage, saved and preserved by a statute, has the force of an express statute, and shall control all affirmative statutes in opposition, though it must yield to the authority of negative ones, which forbid an act authorized by a custom or usage thus saved and protected; and this is the rule by which its efficacy must be tested, according to the act of Congress, which must be considered of binding authority. Ibid.
By the eighth article of the treaty ceding Florida to the United States, the same time is allowed to the owners of land granted under the authority of Spain, to fulfil the conditions of their grants, after the date of the treaty as was limited in the grants. It has been decided by this court, in the case of Arredondo, that as to individual rights, the treaty is to be considered as dated at its ratification. United States v. Sibbald, 10 Peters, 313.
It has been decided, in Arredondo’s case, that that provision of the treaty as to the performance of the conditions in grants, is not confined to owners of land by occupancy or residence; but extends to persons who have a legal seisin and possession of land, in virtue of a grant; and that, in the situation of the province, and the claimants to land at the time of the cession, it was enough that they should show a performance of the condition cy pres. Ibid.
In the construction of the Florida treaty, it is admitted that the United States succeeds to all those equitable obligations which we are to suppose would have influenced his Catholic majesty, to secure their property to his subjects, and which would have been applied by him in the construction of a conditional grant, to make it absolute; and further, that the United States must maintain the rights of property under it, by applying the laws and customs by which those rights were secured, before Florida was ceded ; or by which an inchoate right of property would, by those laws and customs, have been adjudicated by the Spanish authority to have become a perfect right. United States v. Mills’ Heirs, 12 Peters, 215.
President authorized to take possession of east and west Florida.
And remove Spanish troops, according to treaty.
May employ the army, navy, and militia.
Organization of government, as the President may direct.
Revenue laws, and laws prohibiting the importation of persons of colour, to be in force.
President may take all other measures necessary, &c.
Board of three commissioners, according to 11th article of the treaty.
President may organize the board.
Secretary.
Clerk.
Compensation.
Of commissioner under the 4th article.
Of surveyor.
Of the commissioners under the 11th article.
Of the secretary.
Clerk.
100,000 dollars for carrying this act into execution.
[Obsolete.]
2500 dolls, per annum to each commissioner.
2500 dolls, per annum to each agent.
In full.
Proviso.
Commissioners and agents not entitled, before Jan. 1, 1821, to more than 4444 dollars per annum in full, &c.
25,000 dollars for payment of salaries, &c., during 1821.
[Obsolete.]
Debentures issued upon the exportation of spirits distilled from molasses, or refined sugar, to be payable within thirty days, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Vessels exceeding 300 tons allowed 20 days for unlading.
[Obsolete.]
The Secretary of the Treasury authorized to sell the right of the United States to a piece of land formerly owned by Presly Thornton, in Virginia.
Appropriation of the moneys arising from the sale.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 25.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 106.
Assignees of warrants issued to Canadian volunteers, may, locate them, &c.
Proviso.
[Repealed.]
The act of March 2, 1811, ch. 30, continued until June 3, 1822.
[Repealed.]
The act of March 2, 1811, ch. 30, continued until June 3, 1822.
[Obsolete.]
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 126.
The provisions of the act of May 15th, 1820, not to extend to French vessels, &c.
The Secretary of the Treasury to refund the extra duties to vessels, &c.
1820, ch. 126.
In case of a convention of navigation or commerce, the President may suspend the act to impose a new tonnage duty on French vessels, &c.
1820, ch. 126.
Act of April 29, 1816, ch. 138.
First section of the act of 29th April, 1816, repealed.
500,000 dollars per annum for six years, for the gradual increase of the
navy.
Portland to be the port of entry after 1st May, 1821.
Act of March 14, 1820, ch. 24.
Time enlarged till Sept. 1, 1821.
The clerk of the district court of Louisiana authorized to appoint a deputy, &c.
Act of May 8, 1792, ch. 36, vol. i. 275.
In suits in a district court, where the judge may be interested, &c. be must enter the fact on record, &c.
Proceedings to be certified to the next circuit court, &c.
Circuit court to take cognisance and proceed, &c.
The Secretary of the Treasury to provide for building the lighthouses and placing the buoys mentioned.
Appropriations for the lighthouses and buoys.
No lighthouse previous to cession of jurisdiction.
President requested to cause a survey of the Isles of Shoals, &c.
President authorized to cause the seawall to be repaired, if, &c.
Result to be communicated to Congress.
Proviso.
2500 dollars appropriated, &c.
Act of April 29, 1816, ch. 139.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 97.
The act of April 29, 1816, ch. 139, as far as relates to the crowns and five franc pieces of France, continued in force.
[Obsolete.]
Act of April 18, 1818, ch. 69.
The act of April 18, 1818, ch. 69, revived and continued until Jan. 1, 1824.
RESOLUTIONS.
Missouri admitted into the Union on a certain condition, &c.
Proviso; the legislature of the state to declare its assent, &c.
Resolution of September 23, 1789, vol. i. 96. Resolution of March 3, 1821. An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt, Jan. 6, 1800, ch. 4. Act of May 19, 1828, ch. 68.
The cases decided within the courts of the United States on the laws of “escapes” are,
A discharge from the prison rules, by the insolvent law of Virginia, although obtained by fraud, is a discharge in due course of law: and upon such discharge, no action can be sustained upon the prison bound bond for an escape. Simms and Wise v. Slacum, 3 Cranch, 300; 1 Cond. Rep. 539.
The obligors in a bond for the prison limits, are not discharged from their liability for an escape, by the subsequent assent of the plaintiff. Such assent, to have any effect, must be given prior to the escape. Slocum et al. v. Hathaway, 1 Paine, 290.
The condition of a bond, that a prisoner “shall faithfully and absolutely remain within the limits of the jail, and not depart therefrom,” &c. is not broken by the escape of the prisoner, while in a state of insanity. Hazard v. Hazard et al. 1 Paine, 295.
The liability of the sureties in a prison bounds bond, for an escape, is not co-extensive with that of the sheriff: as it regards the latter, the prisoner on the limits is supposed to be in his immediate custody, and the escape of an insane prisoner, therefore, is as much a negligent escape as any other; and he is not allowed to excuse himself, when he might so easily collude, or be imposed upon. But there is no analogy, in these respects, between a sheriff and the sureties. Ibid.
Under the act of Congress of January 6, 1800, ch. 4, 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 lie, on his refusal. Such a bond has, in all respects, the same incidents, and the like legal effect with a bond taken under the state laws. It is assignable; and an assignment discharges the sheriff from liability for a subsequent escape. The United States v. Noah, 1 Paine, 368.
The United States are expressly named in the act, and bound by it; and an assignment of the bond to them, when they are plaintiffs, is valid. Ibid.
The Secretary of the Treasury having accepted such an assignment, will be presumed to be authorized; and the United States are bound by such acceptance. Ibid.
The term “process,” includes executions as well as mesne process. Ibid.
After a prisoner has been enlarged upon a limit bond, the sheriff can confine him again only on the bail’s becoming insufficient; he cannot accept a surrender of him; at all events, not after the assignment of the bond. Ibid.
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.
Under the laws of Rhode Island, a discharge according to the act for the relief of poor prisoners for debt, although obtained by fraud and perjury, is a lawful discharge, and not an escape; and upon such a discharge, no action can be maintained upon a bond for the liberty of the prison limits. Ammidon v. Smith et al. 1 Wheat. 447; 3 Cond. Rep. 619.
At common law, it is not an escape for a jailer to allow prisoners, confined for debt, the liberty of all the apartments within the jail wall; for confinement within the walls, is salva et arcta custodia. Steere v. Field, 2 Mason’s C. C. R. 486.
It is an escape, in the jailer, to make a prisoner for debt, a turnkey; and to intrust him with the keys of the outer doors, as well as inner doors, at all times by night and by day. Ibid.
If the jailer be committed to his own jail, on execution by the sheriff, and no new keeper is appointed, it is an escape of the jailer, for which the sheriff is answerable; but it is not an escape of the other prisoners, if they are in fact kept in custody, under the authority of the jailer or his agents. Ibid.
In Rhode Island, the doctrine as to escapes is the same as at common law; and the statutes giving the liberty of the limits to prisoners, on giving bonds not to escape, &c. have not altered the common law. In Rhode Island, an action of debt for an escape, is a legal remedy; that action being incorporated into the laws, by implication, by the adoption of the laws of England. Ibid.
Where the conditions of a bond for the jail limits, in Rhode Island, required the party to remain a true prisoner in the custody of the keeper of the prison, and within the limits of the prison, “until he shall be lawfully discharged, without committing any manner of escape or escapes, during the time of restraint, then this obligation to be void, or else to remain in full force and virtue:” Held, that a discharge under the insolvent laws of the state, obtained from the proper court, in pursuance of a resolution of the legislature, and discharging the party from all his debts, &c. and “from all imprisonment, arrest, and restraint of his person therefor,” was a lawful discharge; and that his going at large under it, was no breach of the condition of the bond. Mason v. Haile, 12 Wheat. 370; 6 Cond. Rep. 535.
After judgment obtained in the circuit court of the United States against the drawer of a note, a capias ad satisfaciendum was issued against him by the holder, and he was put in prison. Two justices of the peace ordered his discharge, claiming to proceed according to the law of Kentucky, in the case of insolvent debtors; and the jailer permitted him to leave the prison. The jailer made himself and his securities liable for an escape, by permitting the prisoner to leave the prison. Bank of the United States v. Tyler, 4 Peters, 366.
The act of Congress of 1800, ch. 4, is not that by which the liberties of the jail-yard allowed to debtors imprisoned on execution issuing from the courts of the United States, are now regulated. The United States v. Knight et al., 3 Sumners’ C. C. R. 358.
The act of 1828, ch. 68, has adopted the state laws on the subject of jail liberties then existing in the states, under the words “that writs of execution and other final process issued on judgment and decrees rendered in any of the courts of the United States and the proceedings thereon shall be the same, &c., as are now used in such states,” &c. Ibid.
Action on a bond given to the United States for liberty of the jail-yard, in Portland, in the state of Maine. The condition of the bond was that J. K. and B. K. should continue true prisoners, in the custody of the jailer, within the limits of the jail-yard. It was agreed by the counsel of the plaintiff and defendant that J. K. and B. K. had remained within “the limits of the jail-yard” as established under the laws of Massachusetts of 1787, then prevailing in Maine, the limits of the jail-yard having, in October, 1798, been extended over the whole county; but had not remained within the limits established on the 28th of May, 1787, and existing when the act of Congress was passed, 4th January, 1800, authorizing persons under process from the United States, to have “the jail limits,” as established by the laws of the states. Held, that the act of Congress of May 19, 1828, gives the debtor imprisoned under execution from the courts of the United States, at the suit of the United States, the privilege of the jail limits, in the several states, as they were fixed by laws of the several states at the date of that act. The United States v. Knight et al. 14 Peters, 301.
Whatever might be the liability of the officer who took the bond from the defendants, if the jail limits continued to be such as were established under the law of Massachusetts of 1787, the bond not having been taken under that law, and the condition being different from the requirements of those regulations, the parties to the bond, the suit being upon the bond, are bound for nothing whatever, but what is contained in the condition, whether it be or be not conformable to the law. Ibid.
The statute of May 19, 1828, entitled “
Action for an escape against the sheriff of Madison, Mississippi, he having received into his custody as a prisoner, the defendant in an action in the circuit court of Mississippi, taken under execution, and having permitted and suffered him to escape. The declaration set out the judgment obtained by the plaintiffs against Scott, the defendant in the circuit court, the execution, the arrest of Scott, and his delivery to Long, the sheriff, who received him into his custody under the execution, and detained him, until, without leave or license of the plaintiffs in the execution, and against their will, he permitted him to escape and go at large, &c., &c. To this declaration the defendant pleaded that he does not owe the sum of money demanded in the declaration “in the manner and form as complained against him,” and the jury found that the defendant Long “doth owe the debt in the declaration mentioned as therein alleged,” and assessed damages for the detention thereof, at one thousand and sixteen dollars and ninety-six cents, upon which the court gave judgment for six thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars, and one thousand and sixteen dollars and ninety-six cents damages. Held, that the judgment of the circuit court is correct under the provisions of the statute of Mississippi of 7th June, 1822. The jury were not required in the action to find specially that the prisoner escaped with the consent, and through the negligence of the sheriff. The plea alleged that the defendant did not owe the sum of money demanded, “in the manner and form as the plaintiff complained against him.” This plea put in issue every material averment in the declaration; on this issue, on the most strict and rigid construction, the jury have expressly found all that is required to be found by the requirements of the act. Long v. Palmer et al. 16 Peters, 65.
If the sheriff suffers or permits a prisoner to escape, this, both in common parlance, and legal intendment, is an escape with the consent of the sheriff. Ibid.
The object of the act is to make the sheriff liable for a voluntary or negligent escape; and that this shall be found by the jury; and if this appear from the record by express finding, or by the necessary conclusion of law, it is sufficient. Ibid.
Vol. i. 96.
Any state having granted and withdrawing the use of a jail, the marshal, under direction of the judge, may hire a place, &c.
The President authorized to cause astronomical observations to be made to insure a determination of the longitude of the Capitol.
ACTS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
Members, delegates, &c., authorized to transmit documents to any post-office, free, &c.
[Expired.]
The time allowed for redemption of lands sold for direct taxes, revived and extended, &c.
Proviso.
Act of April 10, 1806, ch.25.
Act of April 25, 1812, ch. 69.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 109, revived and continued until Feb. 4, 1828, &c.
Proviso.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 109.
Proviso.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 99.
Pensions to commence at the time of completing testimony.
Pension agents to give bonds with two or more sureties. &c.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated for pay, subsistence, provisions, repairs and contingent expenses.
Out of money in the treasury.
[Obsolete.]
Certificates of the funded debt, issued to creditor states upon the assumption of their debts, made transferable.
Act of March 1, 1817, ch.22.
The President may employ the land and naval forces to prevent the destruction of, or carrying away, public timber, &c.
After the 3d of March, 1823, the House of Representatives to be composed of members elected agreeably to a ratio of one for every 40,000 persons, &c.
Number of members to which each state is entitled.
Alabama to have three members, if it is made to appear, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated for the military service of the United States of the year 1822.
Pay and subsistence of officers.
Subsistence in addition to an unexpended balance.
Forage.
Medical and hospital department.
Purchasing department.
Quartermaster general’s department.
Contingencies.
Quartermaster’s supplies, &c.
Pensions to invalids and others.
Revolutionary pensioners.
For the payment of a balance due the state of Maryland, of moneys Balance due the state of Maryland.
Out of any money in the treasury.
Laws not locally inapplicable are of force and effect in Missouri.
The state of Missouri a judicial district.
Act of Sep. 24, 1789, ch. 20. vol. i. 79.
Act of March 2, 1793, ch. 22.
The judge to appoint a clerk.
Clerk’s fees.
Proviso.
Salary of the judge.
District attorney to receive 200 dollars annually besides fees.
A marshal for the district to
receive 200 dollars besides fees.
Causes pending in the state courts transferable, &c., may be removed.
The acts relating to the territory of Florida are:
An act to authorize the President of the United States to take possession of East and West Florida, and establish a temporary government therein, March 3, 1819, ch. 93.
An act for carrying into execution the treaty between the United States and Spain, concluded at Washington, on the twenty-second day of February, 1818, March 3, 1821, ch. 39.
An act for establishing a territorial government in Florida, March 30, 1822, ch. 13.
An act to provide for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage in Florida, and for other purposes, May 7, 1822, ch. 62.
An act concerning the commerce and navigation of Florida, March 30, 1822, ch. 10.
An act to amend “An act for establishing a territorial government in Florida,” and tor other purposes, March 3, 1823, ch. 28.
An act to carry into effect the ninth article of the treaty concluded between the United States and Spain, on the 22d day of February 1819, March 3, 1823, ch. 35.
An act to amend an act, entitled “Act to amend an act for the establishment of a territorial government in Florida, and for other purposes,” May 26, 1824, ch. 163.
An act to amend the several acts for the establishment of a territorial government in Florida, May 15, 1826, ch. 46.
An act to authorize the governor and legislative council of Honda to provide for holding additional terms of the superior courts therein, March 3, 1827, ch. 91.
An act authorizing the legislative council of Florida to meet in October instead of December, and repealing the proviso in the sixth section of the act entitled “An act to amend an act tor the establishment of a territorial government in Florida, and for other purposes,” approved March the third, one thousand eight hundred and three, April 28, 1828, ch. 42.
An act to authorize the citizens of the territories of Arkansas and Florida to elect their officers, and for other purposes, Jan. 21, 1829, ch. 13.
An act to amend the several acts establishing a territorial government in Florida, March 22, 1832,
An act to ascertain and mark the line between the state of Alabama, and the territory of Florida, and the northern boundary of Illinois, and for other purposes, March 2, 1831, ch. 86.
An act to authorize the territory of Florida to open a canal through the public lands between Chipola river and Saint Andrew’s bay, in West Florida, March 2, 1831, ch. 73.
An act making provision for the sale and disposition of the public grounds in the cities of St. Augustine and Pensacola, and to reserve certain lots and buildings for public purposes, and to provide for their repair and preservation, June 28, 1832, ch. 152.
An act to authorize the surveying and laying out a road from Detroit to the mouth of Grand river, in late Michigan territory, and for the survey of canal routes in the territory of Florida, July 4, 1832,
An act to amend the several acts for the establishment of a territorial government in Florida, July
An act to establish a court at St. Mark’s, in Florida, March 2, 1833, ch. 93.
An act to equalize representation in the territory of Florida, and for other purposes, June 18, 1834, ch. 46.
An act repealing certain acts of the legislative council of the territory of Florida, June 30, 1834, ch. 166.
An act for the relief of the inhabitants of East Florida, Juno 26, 1834, ch. 87.
An act to disapprove and annul certain acts, of the territorial legislature of Florida, and for other purposes, July 1, 1836, ch. 231.
An act regulating the terms of the Superior Court of the district of Florida, and for other purposes, July 2, 1836, ch. 261.
An act authorizing a special term of the court of appeals for the territory of Florida, and for other purposes, Feb. 25, 1836, ch. 41.
Resolution authorizing the President to furnish rations to certain inhabitants of Honda, February 1, 1836.
An act to re-organize the legislative council of Florida, and for other purposes, July 7, 1838, ch. 168.
An act to establish a new judicial district in the territory of Florida, July 7, 1838, ch. 181.
An act to provide for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the peninsula of East Florida, August 4, 1842, ch. 122.
An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to provide for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled parts of the peninsula of Florida,” June 15, 1844, ch. 71.
An act to confirm certain sections of land in St. Augustine land district in the territory of Florida, made under the pre-emption law of June 22, 1838, June 15, 1844, ch. 74.
An act for the admission of the states of Iowa and Florida into the Union, March 3, 1845, ch. 48.
An act supplemental to the act for the admission of the states of Iowa and Florida into the Union, March 3, 1845, ch. 75.
East and west Florida, as
ceded by Spain, to constitute the territory of Florida.
Executive power vested in a governor, to be appointed for three years, &c.
Powers and duties of the governor.
A secretary of the territory to be appointed for four years, &c.
Duties of the secretary.
The secretary to act as governor, in case of a vacancy.
Legislative power vested in the governor and a legislative council of thirteen, to be appointed, &c.
Powers of the legislature.
Restriction of the powers of legislation.
The governor to publish the laws and report them to the President, &c.
The governor and council have no power over, &c.
Sessions of the legislative council.
The governor to obtain information and communicate it to the President.
Judicial power vested in two superior courts, &c.
A superior court for East Florida, with sessions at St. Augustine, &c.
A superior court for West Florida, with sessions at Pensacola, &c.
Jurisdiction of the superior courts.
Each judge to appoint a clerk to reside where the court is held.
Established fees to the clerks.
The superior courts to nave the same jurisdiction as the court of Kentucky district, &c.
Act of 1789, ch. 20.
Act of March 2, 1793, ch. 22, vol. i. 333.
Writs of error and appeal to the Supreme Court, &c.
Clerks to keep the records, &c.
Clerks’ fees as in the Kentucky district, &c.
Two attorneys for the territory.
Attorneys’ additional fees.
A marshal for each superior court.
200 dollars annually, be-
sides fees, to each marshal.
Governor, secretary, judges, &c., to be appointed by the President and Senate.
Term of judicial offices.
Governor, secretary, judges, &c., to take an oath.
The governor to take the oath before the President or judge, &c.
The secretary, &c., before the governor.
Salaries to the governor, &c.
The members of the legislative council privileged from arrest, &c.
The acts mentioned in force in Florida.
1790, ch. 9.
“An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States,” approved April thirtieth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and all acts in addition or supplementary thereto, which are now in force:
“An act to provide for the punishment of [certain] crimes and offences 1817, ch. 92.
“An act in addition to the act for the punishment of certain crimes 1818, ch. 88.
“An act for the punishment of [certain] crimes therein specified,” 1799, ch. 1.
“An act respecting fugitives from justice and persons escaping from 1793, ch. 7.
“An act to prohibit the carrying on the slave trade from the United 1794, ch. 11.
“An act in addition to the act entitled ‘An act to prohibit the carrying 1800, ch. 51.
“The act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place 1807, ch. 22.
“An act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the 1807, ch. 40.
“An act in addition to ‘An act to prohibit the importation of slaves 1818, ch. 91.
1819, ch, 101.
1810, ch. 37.
1802, ch. 48.
1804, ch. 60.
“An act in addition to an act, entitled ‘An act for the more general promulgation of the laws of the United States:’”
1818, ch. 80.
1793, ch. 11.
1800, ch. 25.
1790, ch. 15.
1802, ch. 36.
1790, ch. 11.
1804, ch. 56.
1811, ch. 30.
1800, ch. 68.
And all laws relating to the revenue and its collection subject to the modification stipulated by the fifteenth article of the treaty with Spain, &c.
The inhabitants protected in their liberty, property, and the exercise of religion.
Contracts not to be impaired, &c.
Qualification of grand and petit jurors, and
selection of them.
Importation of slaves prohibited.
Under a penalty of 300 dollars from each person, for every slave.
Present territorial laws in force till altered.
Citizens of the territory entitled to a delegate, &c.
The persons by whom, and the times at which, &c., the delegate may be elected.
Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 51.
Illinois authorized to survey and mark through public lands, the route of a canal, connecting Illinois river with the southern bend of Lake Michigan, and 90 feet on each side reserved and vested in the state for a canal on condition, &c.
Proviso; no obligation on the part of the United States to appropriate money, &c.
Proviso; canal always a public highway, free of toll to
the United States.
Sections through which the canal passes reserved until, &c.
The state may use necessary adjacent materials without waste.
Vessels having Spanish registers on the 10th July, 1821, belonging wholly to resident citizens or to inhabitants on the 10th July, 1821, the master being a citizen or inhabitant, may be registered, &c. and then deemed a ship or vessel of the United States, &c.
Proviso : as to collectors varying forms of oaths of registry, &c.
Proviso: former register, &c. to be first surrendered, and oath of allegiance taken.
Form of the oath.
Inhabitants on July 10, 1821, taking the oath, &c., entitled to own ships, &c.
For 12 years from the 22d of May, 1821, Spanish vessels
laden with Spanish productions, and from Spanish ports, entitled to entry as American vessels under like circumstances.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 115.
Corporation of New Orleans may sell so much of the ground on which Fort Charles stood, as may be necessary for continuing Esplanade street.
Act of May 8, 1792, ch. 36.
Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 27.
Act of May 19, 1828, ch.68.
Duplicate writs may be issued, from the circuit courts where defendants reside, in East and West Tennessee, &c.
Where judgment has been recovered in either circuit court, the plaintiff may issue his execution, and the marshal of either East or West Tennessee must do the execution thereof, &c.
The 3d section of the act of Nov. 27, 1820, ch. 1, repealed ; and part of another act revived.
Act of April 21, 1820, ch. 47.
Causes, actions, &c. commenced and made returnable at Cahawba and Mobile, &c.
Philadelphia hereafter, the sole port of entry and delivery for the district.
Bounds of the port of entry.
Act of Feb. 25, 1801, ch.7.
After the 30th Sept. 1822, the district of Bristol to be known as the district of Bristol and Warren, and Bristol and Warren to be one port of entry.
Duty remitted on sword presented to Capt. Thomas Macdonough.
From and after June 30, 1822, a district, &c. called the district of Blakely, of which the port of Blakely to be the sole port of entry &c.
Subscription proposed, to amount of twelve million dollars, &c.
Books to be opened at the treasury and loan offices May 1, till July 1, 1822.
Subscription to be effected by a transfer of credits and surrender of certificates.
Credits to be entered and certificates bearing an interest of five per cent, to be issued, for amount of six per cent, stock subscribed, transferable, &c.
Periods of redemption of the new stock.
Credits and certificates in like manner, for the seven per cent, stock subscribed, redeemable after Dec. 31, 1833.
Proviso.
Secretary of the Treasury to re-transfer the excess of stock subscribed.
If the amount authorized should not be subscribed by July 1, 1822, the remainder may be subscribed be-tween that day and the 1st of October following, on the books of the treasury.
Proviso; no reimbursement, except, &c.
Funds pledged for the payment of interest and redemption of the prin-
cipal of the new stock.
Commissioners of the sinking fund to cause to be applied the sums necessary to pay the interest and redeem the principal, &c.
The part of the $10,000,000 vested, &c., continued appropriated to pay the interest, &c.
Rights of non-subscribers neither altered nor abridged.
[Expired.]
Act of March 17, 1800, ch. 15.
The act of March 17, 1800, declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the states of Maryland and Georgia, revived and continued.
Proviso.
[Expired.]
Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 12.
Those who did not avail themselves of the provisions of the act of March 2, 1821, allowed until Sept. 30, 1822, to surrender certificates, &c.
Act of April 3, 1828, ch. 28, and notes.
Purchasers, &c.
who did not accept the provisions of the act of March 2, 1821, and who did not avail themselves of the provisions of the 1st section, may file their acceptances, and be entitled to all the benefits, &c.
Purchasers, &c., who have filed their acceptances, &c., under the act of March 2, 1821, relative to payments by instalments, permitted to make complete payment, with discount, &c.
Registers and receivers of land offices are to perform the duties under this act, as under the act of March 2, 1821.
Lands that would have been forfeited, &c., exempted until Sept. 30, 1822.
Courts to be held annually hereafter at the times and places designated.
If the judge fails to attend on the first day
the court to stand adjourned, &c.
The district court heretofore holden,&c. to be hold at Natchez at the courthouse of Adams county, on the first Mondays in April and October, &c.
Writs, process, &c., returnable accordingly.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 61.
When any in-dividual of the association, his heirs, or devisees shall have complied with the conditions of settlement, and cultivation in proportion to his interest, and paid the amount of purchase money, &c. the Secretary of the Treasury to cause a patent to issue for the proportionate interest of the individual in the lands set apart.
Saving to the widow her right of dower, according to the laws of Alabama.
[Obsolete.]
Locations of warrants made under the act of Feb. 15, 1815, if made in pursuance of that act in other respects, shall be perfected into grants, &c.
Act of Feb. 17, 1815, ch. 45.
The sales of fractions from such locations, valid, &c.
Hereafter holders, &c., of such warrants, are to conform, &c., and such warrants to be located within a year, or they will be null.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated for the year 1822.
Congress and their officers.
Contingent expenses of Congress.
Library and librarian of Congress.
Books for library.
President.
Vice President.
Secretary of State.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messengers.
Contingent expenses.
Secretary of the Treasury.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Clerks.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, one thousand and Messengers.
For compensation to the first comptroller of the treasury, three thousand First comptroller.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the first comptroller, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, seven hundred dollars, Messenger.
For compensation to the second comptroller of the treasury, three thousand 2d comptroller.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the second comptroller, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, seven hundred Messenger.
For compensation to the first auditor of the treasury, three thousand 1st auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the first auditor, per act Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, seven hundred Messenger.
For compensation to the second auditor of the treasury, three thousand 2d auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the second auditor, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, seven hundred Messenger.
For compensation to the third auditor of the treasury, three thousand 3d auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the third auditor, per act Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, one thousand and Messengers.
For compensation to the fourth auditor of the treasury, three thousand 4th auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the fourth auditor, per Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, seven hundred Messenger.
For compensation to the fifth auditor of the treasury, three thousand 5th auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the fifth auditor, per Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For two clerks to complete the duties of the commissioner of the Clerks to commissioner of revenue.
For one clerk on the business of the agent of the treasury, transferred Clerk on business of agent of the treasury.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, seven hundred dollars, Messenger.
For compensation to the treasurer of the United States, three thousand Treasurer.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Additional clerk to treasurer, 1819, ch. 53. 1820, ch. 38.
Messenger.
Commissioner of general land office.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
Register of treasury.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
Secretary to sinking fund.
Transmitting passports, translating, &c. in the treasury.
Superintendent and watchmen.
Secretary of War.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messengers.
Paymaster general.
Clerks.
Messenger.
Commissary general.
Clerks.
Messenger.
Adjutant general’s clerks.
Clerks of the Ordnance.
Clerks of commissary general of subsistence.
For compensation to the clerks in the engineer office, two thousand Clerks in the engineer office.
For compensation to the clerk in the office, of the surgeon general, Surgeon general’s clerk.
For the contingent expenses of the War Department, including fuel, Contingent expenses of War Department.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, six thousand dollars. Secretary of the Navy.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, one thousand and Messengers.
For the contingent expenses of the said office, two thousand dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, ten thousand Commissioners of navy board.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the navy Secretary of board.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissioners Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation of three clerks, and a draftsman, as allowed by acts Other clerks, &c. 1819, ch. 54. 1820, ch. 38.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, seven hundred dollars, Messenger.
For the contingent expenses of said office, two thousand dollars. Contingent expenses.
For allowance to the superintendent, and four watchmen, employed for Security of war and navy buildings.
For compensation to the Postmaster General, four thousand dollars. Postmaster general.
For compensation to two assistant postmasters general, five thousand Assistant P. M. general.
For compensation to the clerks in the general post-office, per act of Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, one thousand Messengers.
For contingent expenses of said office, four thousand dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the surveyor general, two thousand dollars. Surveyor general.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the surveyor general, two thousand Clerks.
For compensation to the surveyor south of Tennessee, two thousand Surveyor south of Tennessee.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, one Clerks.
For compensation to the surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, Surveyor in Illinois and Missouri, &c.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand Clerks.
For compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, two thousand dollars. Surveyor in Alabama.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the surveyor in Clerks.
For compensation to the late commissioner of the public buildings, at Commissioner of public buildings.
For compensation to the officers and clerks in the mint, nine thousand Officers and clerks in the mint.
Persons employed in the mint.
Contingent expenses, &c.
Governor, &c. of Arkansas.
Contingent expenses.
Governor, &c. of Michigan.
Contingent expenses.
Judges of the United States.
Attorney general.
Clerk.
Reporter of decisions of Supreme Court.
District attorneys and marshals.
Courts, jurors, and witnesses.
Sundry pensions.
Disabled seamen.
Lighthouses.
Re-building lighthouse on Fayerweather.
Building light-house on the Bodkin, &c.
Placing buoys near Cape Hatteras, &c.
Stationery, &c. for commissioners of loans.
Surveying public lands.
John Trumbull for paintings.
For the prohibition of the slave trade, being the amount carried to the Prohibition of the slave trade.
For the payment of balances due to officers of the old internal revenue Balances due to officers of the old internal revenue. Miscellaneous claims.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, six thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the ministers of the United States to London, Salaries of ministers of the United States in foreign places.
For an outfit to a minister at Lisbon, nine thousand dollars. Outfit for minister at Lisbon. Contingencies of foreign missions. Carrying into effect the articles of the treaty of Ghent, &c. Salaries of the commissioners, secretary, clerk, &c. under the treaty with Spain. Ascertaining the longitude of the Capitol.
For the contingent expenses of those missions, ten thousand dollars.
For expenses of carrying into effect the fifth, sixth, and seventh, articles of the treaty of Ghent, concluded on the twenty-fourth of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, including the compensation of the commissioners, agents, and surveyors, and their contingent expenses, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For the salaries of the commissioners, secretary, clerk, and messenger, together with the contingent expenses of the two commissions under the treaty with Spain, of the twenty-second of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, thirty thousand dollars.
For the expense of ascertaining the longitude of the Capitol, to wit: For the compensation to William Lambert, two thousand dollars; to William Elliott, five hundred dollars; to Oswald Dunn, one hundred dollars; and for contingent expenses, three hundred and sixty dollars and ninety-two cents.
Out of any money in the Treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Where the pay or salary is withheld, the accounting officer to report balance, &c.
Agent to order suit within sixty days, &c.
Expense of postage incurred by marshals to be paid, &c.
[Obsolete.]
That, for continuing the work on the centre building of the Capitol, and other improvements on the Sums appropriated for—
Work on the centre building.
Culvert to the President’s house, &c.
Grounds around the Capitol.
Out of moneys in the treasury.
Proviso.
Provided, however, That no money appropriated by this act shall be paid to any person for his compensation or perquisites, who is in arrears to the United States, until such person shall have accounted for, and paid into the treasury, all sums for which he may be liable.
The Secretary of the Treasury from time to time, to pay 3 per cent, of the net proceeds of the sales of public lands in the state of Missouri since January 1, 1821, deducting expenses, &c.
Act of March 6, 1820, ch. 22.
The sums to be applied to the making of roads and canals in Missouri, under direction of the legislature, &c.
Account of the application of the money to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury.
The Secretary of the Treasury to pay 3 per cent, of the net proceeds of the sales of public lands within the state of Mississippi, deducting expenses, to any person authorized to receive it.
The sums thus paid to be applied to the
making of roads and canals in Mississippi, &c.
1817, ch. 23.
Annual account to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury.
The Secretary of the Treasury to pay three per cent, of the net proceeds of the sales of public lands within the state of Alabama, since Sept. 1, 1819, deducting expenses, to any person authorized to receive it.
The sums thus paid to be applied to the making roads, canals, &c., in Alabama.
1819, ch. 47.
Annual account of the application of the money to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Proviso.
Act of Jan. 23, 1815, ch. 24.
No treasury notes to be received in payment, or paid, or funded, except at the Treasury.
See the act of May 26, 1824, ch. 187.
Persons engaged in the campaign of 1818, who lost horses in consequence of the United States failing to supply forage, to be paid the value of them.
To be paid also, for loss of necessary horse equipage, or guns lost or left in possession of the United States.
Out of money in the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
The President to prescribe the rules and regulations of auditing and settling the claims.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated for the support of the navy for the year 1822.
Pay and subsistence of officers and pay of seamen, &c.
Provisions, in addition, &c.
Medicines, &c.
Repairs of vessels, in addition, &c.
For improvements of navy yards, docks, and wharves, fourteen thousand Improvement of navy-yards, &c.
For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, store-keepers, inspectors Pay of superintendents, &c.
For labourers and teams employed in loading and unloading vessels, Labourers and teams, &c.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, twenty-five thousand dollars. Ordnance, &c.
For contingent expenses, in addition to the sum of twenty thousand Contingent expenses.
For the pay and subsistence of the marine corps, in addition to an unexpended Pay, &c. of marine corps.
For clothing the same, in addition to an unexpended balance of six Clothing marine corps.
For fuel for nine hundred and thirty-eight non-commissioned officers, Fuel for marine corps.
For military stores for the same, the unexpended balance of the year Military stores for marine corps.
For contingent expenses for the same: that is to say: fuel for commissioned Contingent expenses.
To make good a deficit in the contingent expenses of the marine To make good a deficit in the contingent expenses.
Out of money in the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Where pay is withheld, the accounting officer, on demand, to report to the agent of the treasury, &c.
The Act of Feb. 27, 1813, ch. 37, to encourage vaccination, repealed.
Acts relating to the district courts in New Jersey:
An act to establish the judicial system of the United State, Sept. 24, 1789, ch. 20, sec. 3.
An act for altering the times and places of holding certain courts therein mentioned, March 3, 1801, ch. 32, sec. 5.
An act to repeal certain acts respecting the organization of the courts of the United States, and for the other purposes, March 2, 1802, ch. 8, sec. 2.
An act to alter the times of holding the district court in the district of New Jersey, May 4, 1822, ch. 51.
District court to be hereafter held at New Brunswick and at Burlington.
Appropriation for missions to such independent nations on the American continent as the President may deem proper.
All the right of the United States to fines assessed on citizens of Pennsylvania for non-performance of militia duty, &c., vested in that state.
Moneys in the hands of marshals, &c., to be paid to treasurer of the state.
Fines to be recovered as the state legislature may prescribe.
If Pennsylvania accepts of the provisions of this act, that state is to account, &c.
Act of March 2, 1811, ch. 30.
Act of May 6, 1822, ch. 58.
The President authorized and required to cause the Indian tradinghouses to be closed, and the accounts to be settled, &c.
Agents to be appointed.
Agents to be furnished with documents from the Treasury Department, &c.
The agents to enter into bond with security for the faithful discharge of their duties.
After June 3, 1822, the act of March 2, 1811, to continue in force only, &c.
Act of March 2, 1811, ch. 30.
The goods, &c., delivered over to the agents, placed at the disposition of the President, &c.
The surplus, if any, to be sold.
Furs, &c., to be sold and money paid into the treasury as fast as received.
Proviso.
The President to communicate at the next session of Congress, the manner in which this act has been executed, &c.
The tract of country ceded by the Choctaws, on the 18th October, 1820, formed into a land district.
Land office.
A register and receiver to be appointed, who are to give bond with security, to receive similar compensation, and perform like duties, as other registers and receivers, &c.
Proviso.
Proviso.
District of Pearl river.
The President may cause so much of the land, &c., surveyed, to be sold as other public lands.
Except section No. 16, for the use of schools in each township, &c.
Patents to issue as in other cases.
The lands lying east of the Tombigbee, in Mississippi, to which the Indian title has been extinguished,
attached after October 30, 1822, to the district established by this act, and to be sold, except section No. 16, &c.
The register of the district of Madison county to transfer books, &c.
Part of the district east of Pearl river, attached to the district of Jackson county.
The President to cause the land office to be removed, &c.
Part of the district of Jackson county attached to the district east of Pearl river.
The President being satisfied that the ports of the British West India Islands or colonies have been opened, &c., he may declare the ports of the United States open, &c.
Act of April 18, 1818, ch. 70.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 122.
In the event of a signature of a treaty, &c., concerning the navigation or commerce between the United States and France, the President may, &c.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 126.
1st and 2d sections of this act in force, until, &c.
The 3d, 4th,
and 7th sections of the act of March 3, 1817, ch. 109, continuing in force an act, &c. revived and made perpetual.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 31.
The provisions in the act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the District of Columbia, which requires a year’s residence, repealed.
Proviso.
This act in force from its passing.
The seventh section of the act of March 30, 1802, ch. 13, repealed.
Superintendents and agents may grant licenses.
Licenses to be granted only to citizens who are to give bond with securities, &c.
Licenses for 7 years for trade with remote tribes, and 2 years with others.
Superintendents and agents to return abstract of licenses to be laid before Congress.
The President may direct Indian agents, &c. to cause the stores and packages of goods of traders to be searched for ardent spirits, &c.
If ardent spirits are found, the goods are forfeited.
All purchases of annuities, &c. for Indians, to be made by agents and governors of territories acting, &c.
Accounts annually settled at the War Department, &c.
Trials about the right of property, where Indians are parties, &c.
Additional security, &c. from persons intrusted with the disbursement of money, &c.
A superintendent of Indian affairs, to reside at St. Louis, &c.
And an agent in East and West Florida.
The act of April 29, 1816, ch. 163, declaring the assent of Congress to acts of South Carolina and Georgia, continued for three years, &c.
Proviso.
Part of Florida annexed to the collection district of Saint Mary’s, in Georgia.
District of St. Augustine.
District of Key West.
Proviso; Key West annexed to the district of Apalachicola, &c.
District of Apalachicola.
District of Pensacola.
The President authorized to establish ports of delivery, &c.
The President to appoint a collector for each district.
The President may make appointments in the recess, &c.
Collectors and surveyors to give bond, &c.
Collector of Pensacola to receive only three per cent, commissions in addition to fees and emoluments.
Each other collector 500 dollars per annum and three per cent, commissions, &c.
Each surveyor 300 dollars per annum.
Powers of the collectors and surveyors.
Ships, &c., arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, &c. to enter at Pensacola only.
All laws imposing duties, &c., or allowing drawback, other than such as are paid or allowed in other territories, &c. repealed.
Proviso.
No drawback on goods, &c., imported prior to July 10, 1821.
The 1st section of an act of March 2, 1819, ch. 48, altered so far as to divide the sea coast, &c., into three great districts.
An ordinance of July 18, 1821, providing for the naturalization of the inhabitants of the ceded territory, and an ordinance of Oct. 17, 1821, imposing certain taxes, &c. repealed, &c.
Any person attempting to enforce any of the ordinances repealed, &c. to
be punished by fine and imprisonment.
The President to cause moneys paid under the repealed ordinances, &c. to be refunded.
This act in force from June 1, 1822.
[Obsolete.]
The register at Brookville authorized to select school lands, &c.
The register at Terre Haute authorized to select school lands.
The registers, in their selections, to be confined to section No. 20.
The 14th section of the act of March 2, 1821, ch. 13, repealed.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated—
Fortifications.
Fort Delaware.
Fort Washington.
Fort Monroe.
Fort Calhoun.
Mobile Point.
Rigolets and Chef Menteur.
For collecting materials for a fort on the right bank of the Mississippi, Collecting materials, &c.
For contingencies and repairs of fortifications, twenty thousand Repairs of fortifications, &c.
For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. National armories.
For current expenses of the ordnance service, viz:
For the preservation of the arms and other public property in store, Current expenses of ordnance service, army, &c.
To meet ordinary requisitions for army supplies, viz: Army supplies.
For paint and oil for the preservation of the guns and carriages in the fortifications, and for artificers’ and intrenching tools, six thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
For the miscellaneous expenses at arsenals, forage for public Miscellaneous expenses at arsenals.
For the reparation of defective arms, including the wages of armorers, Reparation of defective arms.
For repairs of arsenals, one thousand dollars. Repairs of arsenals.
For the preservation of ammunition, five thousand dollars. Preservation of ammunition.
For the payment of outstanding claims which accrued in one thousand eight hundred and Payment of outstanding claims, &c.
For arrearages in the War Department prior to the first of July, one Arrearages in War Department.
For pay allowed by law to Indian agents, twenty-two thousand three Pay to Indian agents, &c.
For sub-agents, eleven thousand three hundred and thirty-eight dollars.
For presents to Indians, allowed by the law of eighteen hundred and Presents to Indians.
For contingent expenses of the Indian department, seventy-five thousand Contingent expenses.
For making good a deficit of the appropriation of the last year, in the Deficit in the appropriation of 1821.
For payment of a deficit in the appropriation for the quartermaster Quartermaster general’s department.
For completing the barracks at Baton Rouge, twelve thousand dollars. Barracks at Baton Rouge.
For constructing new roofs for the barracks at Carlisle, three thousand Barracks at Carlisle.
For the payment of the expenses of the militia court martial in Pennsylvania, Expenses of militia courts martial in Pennsylvania.
For the payment of the expenses of the militia court martial Court martial in Pennsylvania.
For the payment of the expenses of the militia court martial in Pennsylvania, Court martial in Pennsylvania.
For the payment of the balance of the expenses of the militia court Balances of expenses of militia court martial in New York.
Balance of appropriation made Feb. 19, 1818, &c.
For survey of certain ports, &c.
For medals for officers of the army, &c.
For relief of Col. William Lawrence, &c.
For carrying into effect the treaty concluded at Chicago, &c.
For carrying into effect the treaty with the Creeks, in relation to compensation of citizens of Georgia. For holding treaties with the Cherokees and Creeks.
For the purpose of holding treaties with the Cherokee and Creek tribes of Indians, for the extinguishment of the Indian title to all the lands within the state of Georgia, pursuant to the fourth section of the first article of the agreement and cession, concluded between the United States and the state of Georgia, on the twenty-fourth of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, the sum of thirty thousand dollars.
Out of money in the treasury.
No money to be advanced or paid on any contract, or to any officer in arrears until he has accounted and paid, &c.
1822, ch. 11.
In general, the official duties of one of the executive departments, whether imposed by acts of Congress, or by resolutions, are not merely ministerial duties. The head of an executive department of the government, in the administration of the various and important concerns of his office, is continually required to exercise judgment and discretion. He must exercise his judgment in expounding the laws and resolutions of Congress, under which he is required, from tune to tune, to act. It he doubts, he has a right to call on the attorney general to assist him with his counsel; and it would be difficult to imagine why a legal adviser was provided by law for the heads of departments, as well as for the President, unless their duties were regarded as executive, in which judgment and discretion were to be exercised. Decatur v. Paulding, Secretary of the Navy, 14 Peters, 497.
If a suit should come before the Supreme Court of the United States, which involved the construction of any of the laws imposing duties on the heads of the executive departments, the court would not certainly be bound to adopt the construction given by the head of a department; and if they supposed the decision to be wrong, they would, of course, so pronounce their judgment. But the judgment of the court upon the construction of a law, must be given in a case in which they have jurisdiction, and in which it is their duty to interpret the act of Congress, in order to ascertain the rights of the parties in the cause before them. The court could not entertain an appeal from the decision of one of the secretaries, nor revise his judgment in any case where the law authorized him to exercise his discretion or judgment. Nor can it, by mandamus, act directly upon the officer, or guide and control his judgment or discretion in the matters committed to his care, in the ordinary discharge of his official duties. The interference of the court with the performance of the ordinary duties of the executive departments of the government, would be productive of nothing but mischief; and this power was never intended to be given to them. Ibid.
The second section of act
of May 8, 1792, ch. 37.
Second section of act of July 16, 1798, ch. 85:
And seventh section of act of March 3, 1817, ch. 45, repealed after June 30, 1822.
All moneys remaining in the hands of the treasurer as agent of the War and Navy Departments, to be repaid into the treasury.
All moneys for the use of the War and Navy Departments, to be drawn by warrant of the Secretary of the Treasury, &c.
So much of the act of March 3, 1817, ch. 45, as is repugnant, &c., repealed.
By the act of May 2, 1828, “An act making appropriations for the public buildings, and for other purposes,” passed May 2, 1828, ch. 45, sec. 3, the commissioner of public buildings is required to reside near the Capitol; and by the third section of the act making appropriations for public buildings, passed March 3, 1829, ch. 51, the commissioner is required to report annually to Congress the manner in which all appropriations for the public buildings and grounds have been expended.
By the act of 1843, ch. 75, an act to fix the compensation of the commissioner of public buildings, the compensation of the commissioner was fixed at two thousand dollars per annum, and no portion of the appropriation for public buildings and grounds to be applied to the payment of clerks, unless the same be expressly provided for in the act.
The salary of the commissioner of the public buildings, to be hereafter 1500 dollars per annum to be paid quarterly, &c.
The commis-
sioner to give bond with one or more sureties.
Proviso.
The 3d section of act of April 29, 1816, ch. 150, fixing the salary of the commissioner at 2000 dollars, repealed.
Sums appropriated for carrying into effect the treaty of Chicago, of Aug. 29, 1821.
That, for carrying into effect a treaty concluded at Chicago, on the twenty-ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, the following sums to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the payment of the annuity stipulated in said treaty, to be paid to the following Indian tribes: that is to To the Ottawas. To the Pattawatimas. To the Kickapoos.
To the Choctaws.
Annuity to Mushalatubbee, &c.
Annuity to the Kaskaskias.
The treaty of Saginaw, relative to employment of a blacksmith, &c.
The corporation of Washington, under direction of the President, authorized to contract with the Washington Canal Company, and to change the location, &c.
The corporation empowered, after having extended the public reservation, and caused the public reservations, &c. to be divided into building lots, to sell the right of the United States to such lots, at public sale, &c.
The corporation further authorized to lay off four squares, divide them into building lots, and to dispose of the right of the United States to such lots, at public sale, &c.
No change in the direction of the canal, without the written consent, &c.
The change to be made out of moneys paid by the corporation, &c.
No landing for wharfage between Third and Sixth streets.
The mayor empowered to execute a deed in fee, &c.
The deeds to be recorded, &c.
The corporation may apply balances to improving the public reservation between Capitol square and Sixth street west, &c.
No improvements, &c., unless out of the funds created by this act, &c.
Corporation to have the control, &c., of the public reservation, &c.
The residue of the fund to be paid into the treasury of the United States.
Legal representatives of former proprietors, &c. permitted within a year, &c., to institute a bill in equity, &c. against the United States.
A copy of the bill to be served on the attorney general, &c.
The suits to be conducted according to the rules of a court of equity, &c.
The plaintiff or the attorney general entitled to an appeal to the Supreme Court, &c.
The acts relating to the compensation of collectors and other officers of the customs are:
An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels, August 4, 1790, (obsolete,) ch. 35, sec. 52, vol. i. 171.
An act making further provision relative to revenue cutters, (obsolete,) May 6, 1796, ch. 22, sec. 2.
An act in addition to an act, entitled “An act supplementary to the act entitled an ‘Act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties on goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels,’” (obsolete,) May 27, 1796, ch. 35.
An act establishing an annual salary for the surveyor of the port of Gloucester, (obsolete,) July 14, 1798, ch. 73.
An act to increase the compensation now allowed by law to inspectors, measurers, weighers, and gaugers, employed in the collection of the customs, (obsolete,) April 26, 1816, ch. 95.
An act respecting the compensation of the collectors therein named, (obsolete,) March 3, 1817, ch. 49.
An act further to establish the compensation of officers of the customs and to alter certain collection districts, and for other purposes, (obsolete,) May 7, 1822, ch. 107.
An act to establish the compensation of the officers employed in the collection of the duties on imports and tonnage, and for other purposes, March, 1799, ch. 23.
An act supplementary to an act, entitled an “Act to establish the compensation of officers employed in the collection of the duties on imports and tonnage,” May 10, 1800, ch. 54.
An act to amend an act to establish the compensation of the officers employed in the collection of the duties, imports, and tonnage, and for other purposes, April 30, 1802, ch. 37.
An act relative to the compensation of certain officers of the customs, and to provide for the appointing a surveyor in the district therein mentioned, March 27, 1804, ch. 58.
An act to annex a part of the state of New Jersey to the collection district of New York, and to remove the office of collector of Niagara to Lewistown, &c., March 2, 1811, ch. 33, sec. 9.
An act to allow a salary to the collectors of the districts of Nantucket and Pensacola, and to abolish the office of surveyor of the district of Pensacola, May 26, 1824, ch. 158.
An act to regulate the foreign and coasting trade on the northern, north-eastern and north-western frontiers of the United States, and for other purposes, March 2, 1831, ch. 98.
An act making appropriation for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, June 27, 1834, ch. 92, sec. 2.
An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, March 3, 1835, ch. 28, sec. 3.
An act to amend an act entitled “An act to annex part of the state of New Jersey to the collection district of New York, and to remove the office of collector of Niagara to Lewistown,&c.” June 30, 1834, ch. 128.
An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, March 3, 1837, ch. 33, sec. 2.
An act to provide for the support of the military academy of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for other purposes, July 7, 1838, ch. 169, sec. 3.
[Obsolete.]
Certain collection districts annexed to others.
Districts annexed abolished, &c.
Certain other districts annexed to those mentioned.
The districts annexed estab-
lished as ports of delivery, &c.
The offices of surveyor, in the places specified, abolished.
Certain ports of delivery discontinued.
The President &c. to appoint a surveyor to each port of delivery established by this act, &c.
Each surveyor to have the same powers, &c. as others.
The salaries of the collectors mentioned, to cease.
Commissions to the collectors mentioned, in lieu, &c.
Salaries, in addition to emoluments, and in lieu of former salaries to the officers mentioned.
Collectors.
Surveyors.
Naval officers.
Limitation of emoluments of collectors of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, Savannah, and New Orleans.
Naval officers.
Surveyors.
Limitation of the emoluments of other collectors, naval officers, and surveyors.
The act of Congress of May 7, 1822, ch. 107, sec. 10, provides that whenever the emoluments of certain collectors of the customs shall exceed three thousand dollars in any one year, &c. the excess shall in every such case be paid into the treasury of the United States. The defendant was collector of the port of Gloucester, and was removed from office July 29, 1S29. From January first in the same year, to the day of his removal, he received for salary,fees and commissions, $3457 S3; the excess of this over $3000, after deducting certain legal expenses, he paid into the treasury of the United States. Held, that all the fees and commissions received by the collector are to be deemed to be received for his own use, until they exceed the maximum amount of $3000; that the defendant was therefore absolutely entitled, in his own right to the fees and emoluments of office, not exceeding $3000, received during the seven months preceding his removal, although he did not continue in office a whole year from January first; and that the year of his successor in office commenced on the day of his appointment, and ended with the same day in the succeeding year.
The United States in error v. William Pearce, Jun., and another, 2 Sumner’s C. C. R. 575.
The preceding provisions not to extend to fines, forfeitures, &c.
Collectors, naval officers, and surveyors, to render an account of emoluments, &c.
Officers and surveyors to render a list of clerks employed by them, their compensation, and an account of sums paid for stationery, &c.
In the ports of Boston, &c., no person to be an inspector who holds any other office in the collection of the customs.
Salary to deputy collector, &c.
No account for compensation to be allowed until be has certified, on oath or affirmation, that he has performed the services and received the full sum charged, &c.
If any person employed in the collection of the revenue accepts any fee, &c. not allowed by law, for any service performed, &c. he is to be removed from office, pay a fine, &c.
No collector, &c. to receive more than 400 dollars annually, exclusive, &c.
Collector of Cape Vincent.
This act in force from 30th June, 1822.
Unsold town lots, &c. in Perrysburg, &c.
Unsold town lots, &c. in Croghansville, &c.
So much of the act of
March 3, 1795, ch. 45, and of act of June 12, 1798, ch. 61, as bars loan office and final settlement certificates, &c. suspended for two years, &c.
Notification of suspension to be published.
Outstanding loan office certificates, &c. may be presented at the treasury; and, being liquidated, &c. to be paid to the holders, with interest, &c.
Appropriation.
Every surveyor general to give bond with security in the penal sum of 30,000 dollars, for the faithful disbursement of public money, and performance of his official duties.
The commissions of surveyors general now in office, &c., on Feb. 1, 1823.
Commissions of surveyors general to expire in four years from the dates.
Surveyor general to give new bond and additional security, &c.
As soon as the jurisdiction has been ceded &c., the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for building light-houses on the islands and places mentioned, and to agree for salaries or wages of superintendents.
The floating light at the port of Ocracoke to be removed to the Narrows in the Potomak.
Buoys at the places mentioned.
Appropriation for carrying this act into effect.
The Secretary of the Treasury to provide by contract, &c., for building a sea wall, &c., at the Isles of Shoals, &c.
1821, ch. 52.
Two piers to be erected by contract, at a place called the Shears, near Cape Henlopen, &c., if, &c.
The jurisdiction of the state to be first ceded.
The light on Cross Island to be built on the south point of Libby Island.
Appropriation.
Appropriations for purchasing and placing the patent lamp of D. Melville and others.
Appropriation for completing the survey of the coast of Florida.
Claims to lots in Mobile, founded on complete grants from the French, British, or Spanish authorities, reported, &c. recognised as valid.
Act of April 25, 1812, ch. 67.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 100.
Certain claims to lots in Mobile confirmed.
All claims to lota in Mobile, reported by the commissioner, &c. founded on private conveyances, &c. confirmed, &c.
Proviso.
For all other claims to lots in Mobile, contained in the report of the register and re-ceiver, built upon, &c. on or before April 15, 1813, grants to issue as donations.
Proviso.
Registers and receivers of the land offices at St. Helena and Jackson Courthouses, to have the same powers, &c. as are given by the act supplementary, &c.
Act of May 8, 1822, ch. 128.
So much of the public lands within the bounds described, in Illinois, to form a land district, &c.
A land office as the President may designate.
A register and receiver for the land office, &c. to reside at the place established, give security, &c.
Proviso.
The provisions of the 2d, 3d and 5th sections of the act of March 3, 1819, and of April 24, 1820, made applicable, &c.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 92.
Act of April 24, 1820. ch. 51.
A district and land office for the sale of unappropriated public lands in Indiana, &c.
Boundaries of the district.
A land office at Fort Wayne.
The President to appoint a register and receiver when a sufficient quantity of public land shall have been surveyed, &c.
Register and receiver to give security, &c.
All the public lands in the
district, not granted or reserved, &c. except section No. 16, &c., to be offered for sale to the highest bidder.
The lands to be sold in tracts &c. as provided by act of April 24, 1820, ch. 51.
The President may remove the land office to a suitable place whenever he judges it expedient.
Five dollars a day to the register and receiver.
Mail-routes discontinued.
That the following mail-routes be discontinued; that is to say:
In Vermont.— Vermont.
In New York.— New York.
From Chitteningo, alias Sullivan, to Madison; and that part of the route from Leicester to Olean, which is situated between Oil Creek and Olean.
In New Jersey.— New Jersey.
In Maryland.— Maryland.
In Pennsylvania.— Pennsylvania.
From Londontown to Messenburg.
In Virginia.— Virginia.
In North Carolina.— North Carolina.
From Winton, by Gale’s Courthouse, to Sunbury.
From Waynesville, in North Carolina, to Houstonville, in South Carolina.
In Kentucky.— Kentucky.
From Manchester to the Hazelpatch, and from thence to Columbia.
In Ohio.— Ohio.
In Arkansas.— Arkansas.
Post-roads established.
That the following post-roads be established; to wit:
In Maine.—From Hallowell, by Silas Piper’s, in Harlem, Jonathan Post-roads established.
In Vermont.—From Poultney, through Middletown, Tinmouth, and Maine. Vermont.
From Montpelier, through Barre, Orange, and Topsham, to Newbury.
From Lynden, through Sutton, to Barton, in the county of Orleans.
In Massachusetts.—From Plymouth to Carver and Rochester. Massachusetts.
From Holmes’s Hole, in Tisbury, to Chilmark, in the island called Martha’s Vineyard.
From Mendon, through Milford, Holiston, Sherburne, Natick, Needham, Newton, and Brighton, over the Mildam, to Boston.
From Milbury, in Worcester county, to the town of Providence, in Rhode Island, to pass through the towns of Sutton and Douglass, in Massachusetts, and the town of Burrellville and village of Chepackett, in Rhode Island.
From Belchertown, by Enfield, to Greenwich.
From Worcester to Providence, in Rhode Island, passing through Grafton, Upton, Mendon, Bellingham, Cumberland, and Pawtucket.
From Amesbury to Southampton, in New Hampshire, and thence to Kingston.
In Connecticut.—That the post-road from Hartford to New London, Connecticut.
From New London, along the new turnpike road, to the town of Providence, in Rhode Island.
In New Hampshire.—The post-road from Walpole to Newport shall New Hampshire.
In New York.—From Deposit to Stockport, in Pennsylvania. New York.
From Jay to Danville, thence, down the Ausable river, by Bullen’s mills, to Keesville, in the town of Chesterfield.
From Schenectady, by Charlton, Galway, Providence, and Northampton, to Edinburgh, and from Edinburgh, back by Northampton, West Galway Church, and Glenville, to Schenectady.
From the Post-office in Luzerne, on the west side of the Hudson river, to the Post-office in Chester.
From Green, in the county of Chenango, to Ithaca, in Tompkins county.
From Cherry Valley, in the county of Otsego, to the village of Canajoharie, in the county of Montgomery.
From Champion, in the county of Jefferson, to Alexandria, by Felt’s mills, Le Raysville, Evans’s mills, Theresa, and Plessis.
From the village of Canandaigua to the village of Penn Yan, in the county of Ontario.
From Batavia, by the village of Lockport, to intersect the ridge road at William Molyneaux’s, in the town of Gambia.
From Howard, in the county of Steuben, by Rathbun’s settlement and Loon Lake settlement, to Conhocton.
From Bath to Catherine’s, by Mount Washington and Bartle’s mills, and, returning, by Mead’s creek, to the mouth of Mud creek.
From South Danville to Goff’s mills.
From Champlain to the town of Moores, thence, by Lawrence’s mill’s, and Beekmantown, to Plattsburg.
From Ithaca to Burdett, near the head of Seneca lake.
From Poughkeepsie, by Pleasant Valley, Salt Point, James Thorn’s in Clinton Friends’ meeting house in Stanford, the Federal store, and from thence to the Pine Plains’ Post-office, in the town of North East.
Post-roads established.
From Cincinnatus, through Willet and Freetown, to Harrison.
From Canastota, at Perkins’s Basin, on the Great Erie canal, through Lenox, Clarkville, Perryville, Peterborough, and Morrisville, to Eaton.
The mail-route from Bath, by Angelica, Hamilton, Cerestown, Pennsylvania, Coudersport, and Jersey Shore, to Williamsport, shall pass by Smithport, in M’Kean county, Pennsylvania, either in going or returning.
From Esperance to Middleburg, by the way of Schoharie, in Scoharie county.
In New Jersey.— New Jersey.
From Somerville, by New Germantown, through Paipack Valley, to Mandham and Morristown.
From Hackensack, in the county of Bergen, by Patterson’s landing and Belleville, to Newark, in Essex county.
From Beasley’s, at the mouth of Great Egg Harbour river, by Etna Furnace, on Tuckahoe river, Cumberland Furnace, Malligo, Glasborough, and Woodbury, to Philadelphia.
From Princeton, by Harlingen, to Flagtown.
In Maryland.— Maryland.
From Annapolis, by Baltimore, to Queenstown, and from thence to Centreville and Kent island.
In Pennsylvania.— Pennsylvania.
From Swamp churches, in Montgomery county, by Boyerstown, to Reading.
From Doylestown, by Sorrel Horse, Bustleton and Byberry, to Andalusia, and to return by the Buck Tavern and Hartville, to Doylestown.
From Easton, Northampton county, to Hellerstown, Quakertown, and Bursonsville, Bucks county.
From Emaus, by Millerstown, to Trexlerstown, in Lehigh county.
From Chambersburg to Waynesburg, by Samuel Fisher’s store, in Franklin county.
From M’Call’s Ferry, in Lancaster, to the borough of Westchester, in Chester county.
From Meadville to Salem, at the mouth of Big Conneatt, Ohio.
From the village of Blearsville, by Youngstown, to Mount Pleasant.
From Newville, in Cumberland county, to Roxbury and Strasburg, in Franklin county.
From Landisburg, in Perry county, to Waterford, m Mifflin county.
From Selinsgrove to New Berlin.
From Ebensburg to Indiana.
From Uniontown, by Connelsville, to Perryopolis.
From the city of Lancaster, through Millerstown, Washington, and Charlestown, to the borough of Columbia.
In Virginia.— Virginia.
From Lewisburg, by Huttonsville, Beverly, Leadesville, Meigsville, Swamp, and Kingwood, to Morgantown.
From Salem to Botetourt, through the Bent Mountain, by Simpson’s and Thomas Goodson’s, to Boon’s, on the west fork of Little river, in Montgomery county.
From the city of Richmond, by Piping Tree, in King William county, to King and Queen Courthouse, Gloucester, Middlesex, and Matthews.
From Halifax Courthouse to Person Courthouse, North Carolina.
From Franklin Courthouse to Henry Courthouse, to go by Dickerson’s store in Franklin county.
From Lynchburg, by Pittsylvania Courthouse, to Danville, and from Post-roads established.
From Parkersburg to Kanawha Courthouse.
From Richmond to Chesterfield Courthouse, to go by Mechanick’s Inn, instead of the route now established.
That the route from Stanton, by Greenbrier Courthouse, and Charleston, to Catletsburg, in Kentucky, be changed, so as to go by the Sulphur Springs, on Muddy creek, in Greenbrier.
From Bath Courthouse to Alleghany Courthouse.
In North Carolina.—From Haysville, in Franklin county, by Glasgow’s North Carolina.
From Ashe Courthouse to Jordan Councils, in same county.
From Stokesville, by Gates’ Courthouse, to Sunbury.
That the route from Fayetteville to Salisbury be changed, so as to go by Carthage, M’Neil’s, Hill’s, and Skean’s Ferry, and to return by Forrest’s, Blakely, Lawrenceville, Allentown, and M’Auley’s store.
From Fayetteville, by Graham’s bridge, Rockingham, to Wadesborough.
From Tyson’s store to Waddle’s Ferry, Brower’s mill, Hugh Moffitt’s mill, then to Richard Kennon’s and to Haywood.
From Waynesville, Haywood Courthouse, by Lovesville, on Scott’s creek, to Franklin, in the Cherokee Purchase, and from thence to Rabun Courthouse, in Georgia.
In South Carolina.— South Carolina.
From Fayetteville, in North Carolina, leaving the road to Camden at or near Laurel Hill, by Cheraw, to Camden.
From Cheraw, by Society Hill and Darlington Courthouse, to intersect the great southern route at Godfrey’s ferry, on the Pedee river.
From Cheraw, by Chesterfield Courthouse, to Lancaster Courthouse.
In Georgia.—From Lawrenceville, in Guinett county, to the Standing Georgia.
From Jefferson, by Coleraine, by Crawford in Florida, and to St. Augustine, and the route at present used discontinued.
From Elberton to Ruckersville, in Elbert county.
In Alabama.—From Huntsville, by Triana, Mooresville, Athens, Eastport, Alabama.
From Cahawba by Portland, Prairie Bluff, the Standing Peach Tree, through the populous settlement on Bassett’s creek and by Clark Courthouse, to St. Stephen’s, so as to reinstate the old route from Cahawba to St. Stephen’s, and the present route from Cahawba to St. Stephen’s to be discontinued.
From Ashville to Huntsville, by the way of Robertsville and Bennett’s store.
From Augusta, on the Tallapoosa, by Coosanda, passing through the settlement in the upper end of Autago county, and the settlement of Mulberry creek, in Bibb county, by the falls of Cahawba, to the town of Tuscaloosa.
In Mississippi.—From Winchester, by Perry Courthouse and Columbia, Mississippi.
From Picken’s Courthouse, in Alabama, by Monroe Courthouse, the Cotton Gin Port, and the Chickasaw Agency, in the state of Mississippi, to the Chickasaw Bluffs, in the state of Tennessee.
From the Choctaw Agency, by Jackson, to Monticello.
In Tennessee.—From Campbell’s station, by Blair’s Ferry, to Pumpkintown. Tennessee.
From Sparta, in White county, to Pikeville, in Bledsoe county.
The post-road from Morgantown to Mount Pleasant, alias Pumpkintown, to go by Monroe Courthouse.
Post-roads established.
In Kentucky.— Kentucky.
From Morganfield, crossing the Ohio at Francisburg, to Harmony, in Indiana.
From Monticello, by Beatty’s Saltworks, and Ross’ Post-office, to Jacksborough, in Tennessee.
From Williamsburg, in Whitby county, by Ross’s post-office, to Somerset, in Pulaski county.
From Richmond to the Hazel Patch, hereafter to go by Manchester, to Barbourville.
In Ohio.— Ohio.
From Columbus, by Maysville, the seat of justice of Union county, thence, through Zanesfield, to Belle Fontaine, in the county of Logan.
From Norton, in the county of Delaware, by Claredon Buayners, to the city of Sandusky.
From the mouth of Little Scioto to Portsmouth.
From Cleveland, through Newburg, Hudson, Ravenna, Palmyra, Ellsworth, Canfield, Boardman, Poland, Petersburg, and Greensburg, to Beavertown in Pennsylvania.
From Columbus to Sunbury, through Harrison and Ravenna townships.
From Columbus, by Springfield, Dayton, and Eaton; then to Indianapolis, in the state of Indiana; thence by Vandalia, in Illinois; thence to St. Louis, in Missouri.
From West Union to Cincinnati, to pass through Georgetown, the seat of justice of Brown county, instead of the present route.
From Augusta, Kentucky, by Lewis, Felicity, Chilo, Neville, Pointopolis, New Richmond, and Newtown, to Cincinnati, in Ohio.
In Indiana.— Indiana.
From Washington, by Burlington, and Blooming, to Indianapolis.
From Lawrenceburg, by Napoleon, to Indianapolis.
In Illinois.— Illinois.
From Shawneetown, by Bellgrade, to America.
From Peoria, on Illinois river, to Sangama county.
From Edwardsville to Sangama Courthouse.
In Missouri.— Missouri.
From Herculaneum to Potosi.
From Jackson to Fredericktown.
From Potosi to New Bowling Green.
From St. Charles to Cote Sans Dessein, shall hereafter go by the seat of justice for Calloway county.
From Fishing river to Fort Osage, shall hereafter pass by the seat of justice in Clay county.
In Arkansas.— Arkansas.
From Little Rock, by Clark Courthouse, to Natchitoches.
From Clark Courthouse, by Hempstead Courthouse, to Miller Courthouse.
In Louisiana.— Louisiana.
From Pinkneyville, Mississippi, by Avoyelles, to Alexandria in Louisiana.
From Baton Rouge, by Bayou Placquemine and Duplesses’s Landing in the Attacapas, to Opelousa Courthouse.
From New Orleans to Pensacola.
In Florida.—From Pensacola to St. Marks, thence to Vollusia at Florida.
From Pensacola to Fort Hawkins, in Alabama.
Allowance to the postmaster at Salem, Mass.
Claims to land derived from British or Spanish authorities, reported to the commissioner of the general land office, &c. which, in their opinion, are valid, &c., recognised as complete titles, &c.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 100.
All claims reported, &c. founded on orders of survey, requeues, &c. derived from the Spanish authorities, &c. confirmed.
Proviso.
Every person, &c. whose claim is comprised in the lists, &c., if actually inhabiting, &c. on or before April 15, 1813, entitled to a grant, &c.
Proviso.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 100.
Proviso.
Registers and receivers, except in relation to perfect titles, as recognised, &c. empowered to direct the manner in which the lands shall be located.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 100.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 27.
The registers and receivers may decide on conflicting claims, &c.
Proviso.
Patents for lands to be granted as for lands confirmed under former acts.
Persons entitled to tracts to be furnished with certificates.
Fees.
The President authorized to remove the and office from St. Helena Courthouse, &c.
The decisions of the courts of the United States upon claims and titles to land in the territory of Florida, have been:
After the acquisition of Florida by the United States, in virtue of the treaty with Spain, of 22d of February, 1819, various acts of Congress wore passed for the adjustment of private land claims, within the ceded territory. The tribunals authorized to decide on them, were not authorized to settle any which exceeded a league square; on those exceeding that quantity, they were directed to report, especially, their opinion, for the future action of Congress. The lands embraced in the larger claims were defined by surveys, and plats retained; these were reserved from sale, and remained unsettled until some resolution should be adopted for a final adjudication of them, which was done by the passage of the law of the 22d of May, 1828. By the sixth section it was provided, “that all claims to land within the territory of Florida, embraced by the treaty, which shall not be finally decided and settled under the provisions of the same law, containing a greater quantity of land than the commissioners were authorized to decide, and above the amount confirmed by the act, and which have not been reported as antedated, or forged, shall be received and adjudicated by the judges of the superior court of the district in which the land lies, upon the petition of the claimant, according to the forms, rules and regulations, conditions, restrictions and regulations prescribed to the district judge, and to the claimants, by the act of 26th May, 1824. By a proviso, all claims annulled by the treaty, and all claims not presented to the commissioners, &c., according to the acts of Congress were excluded. United States r. Arredondo et al. 6 Peters, 706.
The grant of the king of Spain to F. M. Arredondo and Son, for land at Alachua, in Florida, gave a valid title to these claimants under the grant, according to the stipulations under the treaty between the United States and Spain, of 1819. By the laws of nations, of the United States, and of Spain, a concession or condition becomes absolute, where the condition is performed. Ibid. 691.
The original concession by governor Coppinger, on the petition of George J. F. Clarke, was made on the 17th of December, 1817, of twenty-six thousand acres of land, in the places he solicited in his petition, and a complete title was made of twenty-two thousand acres, part of the same, in December, 1817. Twenty thousand acres, part of the whole concession, were sold by the appellee. The other four thousand were surveyed in conformity with the decree of 17th December, 1817, and a complete title to the same was made by governor Coppinger, on the 4th of May, 1818. By the court—The claimant cannot avail himself of the grant of the 4th of May, 1818, made after the 24th of January, 1818, the lime limited by the Florida treaty. He must rest his claim on the concession made on the 17th of December, 1817, United States V. Clarke, 8 Peters, 436.
The validity of concessions of land, by the authorities of Spain, in East Florida, is expressly recognised in the Florida treaty, and in the several acts of Congress. Ibid.
The eighth article allows the owners of land the same time for fulfilling the conditions of their grants from the date of the treaty, as is allowed in the grant from the date of the instrument. And the act of the 8th of May, 1822, requires every person claiming title to lands under any patent, grant, concession, or order of survey dated previous to the 24th of January, 1818, to file his claim before the commissioners, appointed in pursuance of that act. All the subsequent acts on the subject, observe the same language; and the titles under these concessions have been uniformly confirmed, when the tract did not exceed a league square. Ibid.
A claim to lands in East Florida, the title to which was derived from grants by the Creek and Seminole Indians, ratified by the local authorities of Spain, before the cession of Florida by Spain to the United States, confirmed. Mitchel et al. v. The United States, 9 Peters, 711.
It was objected to the title claimed in this case, which had been presented to the superior court of Middle Florida, under the provisions of the acts of Congress for the settlement of land claims in Florida, that the grantees did not acquire, under the Indian grants, a legal title to the land. Held: that the acts of Congress submit these claims to the adjudication of this court as a court of equity; and those acts, as often and uniformly construed in its repeated decisions, confer the same jurisdiction over imperfect, inchoate and inceptive titles, as legal and perfect ones; and require the court to decide by the same rules on all claims submitted to it, whether legal or equitable. Ibid.
In the case of the United States v. Arredondo, 6 Peters, 691, the lands granted had been in the possession and occupation of the Alachua Indians, and the centre of the tract was an Indian town of that name. But the land had been abandoned, and before any grant was made by the intendant, a report was made by the attorney and surveyor general on a reference to them, finding the fact of abandonment; on which it was decreed that the lands had reverted to, and become annexed to the royal domain. Ibid.
By the common law, the king has no right of entry on lands which is not common to his subjects; the king is put to his inquest of office, or information of intrusion, in all cases where a subject is put to his action ; their right is the same, though the king has more convenient remedies in enforcing his. If the king has no original right of possession to lands, he cannot acquire it without office found, so as to annex it to his domain. Ibid.
The United States have acted on the same principle in the various laws which Congress have passed in relation to private claims to lands in the Floridas ; they have not undertaken to decide for themselves, on the validity of such claims, without the previous action of some tribunal, special or judicial. They have not authorized an entry to be made on the possession of any person in possession, by colour of a Spanish grant or title; nor the sale of any lands as part of the national domain; with any intention to impair private rights. The laws which give jurisdiction to the district courts of the territories to decide in the first instance, and to this court on appeal, prescribe the mode by which lands which have been possessed or claimed to have been granted pursuant to the laws of Spain, shall become a part of the national domain ; which, as declared in the seventh section of the act of 1824, is a “final decision against any claimant pursuant to any of the provisions of the law.” 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. Ibid.
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 purchases from the Indians. Such was the tenure of Indian lands by the laws of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, 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 the 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 die treaty, without any patent to the purchasers from the United States. This rule in die colonies was founded on a settled rule of die 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 diem 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 die fundamental law of Indian rights, acknowledged by royal orders, and municipal regulations of the provinces, as the law sand 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 province; 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 province 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 of the rejection of an Indian sale.” Ibid.
In the present case the Indian sale has been confirmed with more than usual solemnity and publicity; it has been done at a public council and convention of the Indians conformably to treaties, to which the king was a party, and which the United States adopted ; and the grant was known to both parties to the treaty of cession. The United States were not deceived by the purchase, which they knew was subject to die claim of the petitioner, or those from whom he purchased ; and they made no stipulation which should put it to a severer test than any other; and it was made to a house which, in consideration of its great and continued services to the king and his predecessor, had deservedly given them high claims as well on his justice as his faith. But if there could be a doubt that the evidence in the record did not establish the fact of a royal license or assent to this purchase, as a matter of specific and judicial belief, it would be presumed as a matter of law arising from the facts and circumstances of the case, which are admitted or unquestioned. Ibid.
As decided by the Supreme Court, the law presumes the existence in the provinces of an officer authorized to make valid grants; a fortiori, to give license to purchase and to confirm ; and the treaty designates the governor of West Florida as the proper officer to make grants of Indian lands by confirmation ; as plainly as it does the governor of East Florida to make original grants, or the intendant of West Florida to grant royal lands. A direct grant from the crown, of lands in a royal haven may be presumed on an uninterrupted possession of sixty years; on a prescriptive possession of crown lands for forty years. Ibid.
The length of time which brings a given case within the legal presumption of a grant, charter or license, to validate a right long enjoyed, is not definite, depending on its peculiar circumstances. Ibid.
Juan Percheman claimed two thousand acres of land lying in the territory of Florida, by virtue of a grant from the Spanish governor, made in 1815. His title consisted of a petition presented by himself to the governor of East Florida, praying for a grant of two thousand acres, at a designated place, in pursuance of the royal order of the 29th of March, 1815, granting lands to the military who were in St. Augustine during the invasion of 1812 and 1813; a decree by the governor, made 12th December, 1815, in conformity to the petition, in absolute property, under the authority of the royal order, a certified copy of which decree and of the petition was directed to be issued to him from the secretary’s office, in order that it may be to him in all events an equivalent of a title in form ; a petition to the governor, dated 31st December, 1815, for an order of survey, and a certificate of a survey having been made on the 20th of August, 1819, in obedience to the same. This claim was presented, according to law, to the register and receiver of East Florida, while acting as a board of commissioners to ascertain claims and titles to lands in East Florida. The claim was rejected by the board, and the following entry made of the same. “In the memorial of the claimant to this board, he speaks of a survey made by authority in 1829. If this had been produced, it would have furnished some support for the certificate of Aguilar. As it is, we reject the claim.” Held, that this was not a final action on the claim, in the sense those words are used in the act of the 26th of May, 1830, entitled “An act supplementary to,” &c. United States v. Percheman, 7 Peters, 51.
A grant of land in Florida within the Indian boundary, by the governor, acting under the crown of Spain before the cession of Florida to the United States, was confirmed to the grantee, by the decree of the judge of the eastern district of Florida. The decree was affirmed on appeal. The United States v. Fernandez, 10 Peters, 303.
The subject of grants of land within the Indian boundary, which had not by any official act been declared a part of the royal domain, was fully and ably considered in the case of Johnson v. M’Intosh, 8 Wheat. 543 ; 5 Cond. Rep. 515. Every European government claimed and exercised the right of granting lands, while in the occupation of the Indians. Ibid.
The grants of lands in the possession of the Indians by the governor of Florida, under the crown of Spain, were good to pass the right of the crown. The grants severed them from the royal domain, so that they became private property ; which was not ceded to the United States by the treaty with Spain. Ibid.
The Supreme Court cannot attach any condition to a grant of absolute property in the whole of the land. This grant was made by the governor of East Florida in absolute property, with a promise of a title in form. He was the exclusive judge of the conditions to be imposed on his grant, and of their performance. The United States v. Segui, 10 Peters, 306.
A grant of land by the governor of East Florida, in consideration of services to the Spanish government, made before the cession of the territory of Florida to the United States, confirmed. The United States v. Chaires, 10 Peters, 308.
Under a grant of the governor of Florida, prior to the cession of the same to the United States, of sixteen thousand acres of land, for the purpose of erecting a water-mill, a survey of five hundred and twenty acres was made ; and at another place, a survey of fifteen thousand six hundred and thirty acres was also made. The Supreme Court held, that the first survey of five hundred and twenty acres was valid, and that the survey of fifteen thousand four hundred and eighty acres was invalid ; but that the grantee has a title to fifteen thousand four hundred and eighty acres of vacant land ; which he has a right to have surveyed, adjoining the survey of five hundred and twenty acres. The United States v. Seton, 10 Peters, 309.
Under a Spanish grant of five miles square, ten thousand acres were surveyed at one place, and six thousand acres were surveyed at another place, as the whole quantity of ungranted land could not be found together. The grant was confirmed. The United States v. Sibbald, 10 Peters, 313.
A grant of land was made by governor Coppinger, in June, 1828. The grant was made to the appellee, on his stating his intention to build a saw-mill. The decree grants to the petitioner “license to construct a water-saw mill, on the creek known by the name of Pottsburg, bounded by the lands of Strawberry Hill, and this tract not being sufficient, I grant him the equivalent quantity in Cedar Swamp about a mile east of M’Queen’s mill, but with the precise condition that, as long as he does not erect said machinery, this grant will be considered null, and without value nor effect until that event takes place ; and then in order that he may not receive any prejudice from the expensive expenditures which he is preparing, he will have the facility of using the pines and other trees comprehended in the square of five miles, or the equivalent thereof, which five miles are granted to him in the mentioned place, the avails of which he will enjoy without any defalcation whatever.” By the Court—The judge of the superior court construed this concession to be a grant of land, and we concur With him. United States v. Richard, 8 Peters, 470.
A grant of land in East Florida was made by the governor, before the cession of Florida by Spain to the United States, on conditions which were not performed by the grantee within the time limited in the grant; or any exertions made by him to perform them. No sufficient cause for the non-performance of the conditions having been shown, the decree of the Supreme Court of East Florida, which confirmed the grant, was reversed. United States v. Mills Heirs, 12 Peters, 215.
A grant for land in Florida by governor Coppinger, on condition that the grantee build a mill, within a period fixed in the grant, was declared to be void ; the grantee not having performed the condition, or shown sufficient cause for its non-performance. United States v. Kingsley, 12 Peters, 476.
Under the Florida treaty, grants of land made before the 24th January, 1818, by his Catholic majesty, or by his lawful authorities, stand ratified and confirmed to the same extent that the same grants would be valid if Florida had remained under the dominion of Spain ; and the owners of conditional grants who have been prevented from fulfilling all the conditions of their grants, have time by the treaty extended to them to complete such conditions. That time as was declared by the Supreme Court in Arredondo’s case, 6 Peters, 691, began to run in regard to individual rights, from the ratification of the treaty; and the treaty declares, if the conditions are not complied with, within the terms limited in the grant, that the grants shall be null and void. Ibid.
A grant by governor Coppinger of fourteen thousand five hundred acres of land, in East Florida, part of thirty thousand acres granted in consideration of services to the crown of Spain, and the officers of Spain, which had been surveyed by the appointed officer, confirmed. United States v. Levy, 12 Peters, 218.
The court refused to allow a survey of land to be made to make up for a deficiency in the survey of fourteen thousand five hundred acres, in consequence of part of the land included therein being covered with water, and being marshes. Even if a survey had not been made under the concession, it would not be competent for the superior court of East Florida, or for the Supreme Court, to designate a new location varying from the original concession, as any such variation would be equivalent to a new grant.
A concession was made by the governor of Florida, before the cession of Florida to the United States, on condition that the grantee should erect a waler saw-mill, “and with the precise condition, that until he executes the said machinery, the grant to be considered void, and without effect, until that event takes place.” The mill was never erected, and no sufficient reason shown tor its non-erection. The court held that the concession gave no title to the land. United States v. Drummond, 13 Peters, 84.
A grant of land in East Florida, by the Spanish governor, on the condition that a water saw-mill should be erected on the land, declared void; the condition of the grant not having been performed according to the terms of the grant. United States v. Burgevin, 13 Peters, 85.
A grant by governor Coppinger of fourteen thousand five hundred acres of land, in East Florida, part of the thirty thousand acres, granted in consideration of services to the crown of Spain and the officers of Spain, which had been surveyed by the appointed officer, confirmed, The United States v. Moses E. Levy, 13 Peters, 81.
The court refused to allow a survey of land to be made, to make up for a deficiency in the survey of fourteen thousand five hundred acres, in consequence of part of the land included therein being covered with water, and being marshes. Even if a survey had not been made under the concession, it would not be competent for the superior court of East Florida, or for the Supreme Court, to designate a new location varying from the original concession, as any such variation would be equivalent to a new grant. Ibid.
A grant of land by Estrada, the governor of East Florida, was made on the 1st of August, 1815, to Elizabeth Wiggins, on a petition, stating, that" owing to the diminution of trade, she will have to devote herself to the pursuits of the country." The grant was made for the quantity of land apportioned by the regulations of East Florida to the number of the family of the grantee. It was regularly surveyed by the surveyor general, according to the petition and grant. No settlement or improvement was ever made by the grantee, or by any one acting for her, on the property. In 1831, Elizabeth Wiggins presented a petition to the superior court of East Florida, praying for a confirmation of the grant; and in July, 1838, the court gave a decree in favour of the claimant. On an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, the decree of the superior court of East Florida was reversed. The court held, that by the regulations established on the 25th November, 1818, by governor Coppinger, the grant had become void, because of the non-improvement, and the neglect to settle the land granted. The United States v. Elizabeth Wiggins, 14 Peters, 334.
The existence of a foreign law, especially unwritten, is a fact to be proved like any other fact, by appropriate evidence. Ibid.
A copy of the decree by the governor of East Florida, granting land to a petitioner while Spain had possession of the territory, certified by the secretary of the government to have been faithfully made from the original in the secretary’s office, is evidence in the courts of the United States. By the laws of Spain, prevailing in the province at that time, the secretary was the proper officer to give copies; and the law trusted him for this particular purpose, so far as he acted under its authority. The original was confined to the public office. Ibid.
The eighth article of the Florida treaty stipulates, that “grants of land made by Spain, in Florida, after the 24th of January, 1818, shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the land, to the same extent that the same grants would be valid, if the government of the territory had remained under the dominion of Spain.” The government of the United States may take advantage of the nonperformance of the conditions prescribed by the law relative to grants of land, if the treaty does not provide for the omission. Ibid.
In the cases of Arredondo, 6 Peters, 691, and Percheman, 7 Peters, 54, it was held, that the words in the Florida treaty, “shall be ratified and confirmed;” in reference to perfect titles, should be construed, “are ratified and confirmed.” The object of the court in these cases was to exempt them from the operation of the eighth article, for that they were perfect titles by the laws of Spain, when the treaty was made; and that when the soil and sovereignty of Florida were ceded by the second article, private rights of property were, by implication, protected. By the law of nations, the rights to property are secured when territories are ceded; and to reconcile the eighth article if the treaty with the law of nations, the Spanish side of the article was referred to in aid of the American side. The court held, that perfect titles “stood confirmed” by the treaty; and must be so recognised by the United States, in our courts. Ibid.
Perfect titles to lands, made by Spain in the territory of Florida before the 24th January, 1818, were intrinsically valid, and exempt from the provision of the eighth article of the treaty; and they need no sanction from the legislative or judicial departments of the United States. Ibid.
The eighth article of the Florida treaty was intended to apply to claims to land whose validity depended on the performance of conditions, in consideration of which the concessions had been made; and which must have been performed before Spain was bound to perfect the titles. The United States were bound after the cession of the country, to the same extent that Spain had been bound before the ratification of the treaty, to perfect them by legislation and adjudication. Ibid.
A grant of land by the government of Florida, made before the cession of Florida to the United States by Spain, confirmed: every point involved in the case having been conclusively settled by the court in their former adjudications in similar cases. The United States v. Waterman, 14 Peters, 478.
The Supreme Court, in the case of the United States v. Clark, 8 Peters, 48, say “that if the validity of the grant depends upon its being in conformity with the royal order of Spain of 1790, it cannot be supported ;” but immediately proceeds to show, “though the royal order is recited in the grant, that it was, in fact, founded on the meritorious consideration of the petitioner having constructed a machine of great value for sawing timber; the recital of the royal order of 1790, in this grant, is entirely immaterial, and does not affect the instrument.” Held, the recital of the royal order, in this case, is quite immaterial. Ibid.
The case of the United States v. Wiggins, 14 Peters, 325, which decided that certain proof of the certificate of Aguilar, secretary of East Florida, was sufficient, cited; and the decision on that point affirmed. Ibid.
The Spanish governors of Florida had, by the laws of the Indies, power to make large grants to the subjects of the crown of Spain. The royal order of Spain of 1790, applied to grants to foreigners. These grants, before the cession of Florida to the United States, had been sanctioned for many years by the king of Spain, and the authorities representing him in Cuba, the Floridas, and Louisiana. This authority has been frequently affirmed by the Supreme Court. Ibid.
An application was made to the governor of Florida, in 1814, stating services performed by the petitioner for the government of Spain, and the intention of the petitioner to invest his means in the erection of a water saw-mill, and marking the place where the lands were situated which were asked for. The governor granted the land, referring to the merits and services of the applicant, and in consideration of the advantages which would result to the home and foreign trade by the use proposed to be made of the land. Held, that this was not a conditional grant; and that no evidence of the erection of a water saw-mill was required to be given to maintain its validity, or induce its confirmation. Ibid.
John Forbes by memorial to governor Kindelan, the governor of East Florida, set forth, that in 1799, there had been granted to Panton Leslie and company, for the purpose of pasturage, fifteen thousand acres of land, which they were obliged to abandon, as being of inferior quality. Forbes, as the successor to these grantees, asked to be permitted to abandon these fifteen thousand acres, and in lieu, to have granted to him ten thousand acres, as an equivalent, on Nassau river. The petition avers that the object was to establish a rice plantation. The petition was referred to the “Comptroller,” who gave it as his opinion that the culture of rice should be promoted. Governor Kindelan permitted the abandonment of the fifteen thousand acres granted before, and in lieu thereof, granted to John Forbes, for the purpose of cultivating rice, ten thousand acres in the district, on banks of the river Nassau. Surveys of seven thousand acres of land, at the head of the river “Little St. Mary” or “St. Mary,” and three thousand acres in “Cabbage Swamp,” were made under this grant. No description of the locality of the land other than that in the certificate of the survey was given ; nor do the surveys prove that the land surveyed lay in the district of the river Nassau. No evidence was given of the situation of “Cabbage Swamp.” Held, that these surveys were not made of the land granted by governor Kindclan; and according to the decisions of this court on all occasions, the surveys, to give them validity, must be in conformity with the grants on which they are founded; and to make them the origin of title, they must be of the land described in the grant of the Spanish government. The United States v. Forbes, 15 Peters, 173.
The courts of justice can only adjudge what had been granted; and declare that the lands granted by the lawful authorities of Spain, are separated from the public domain: but where the land is expressly granted at one place, they have no power, by a decree, to grant an equivalent at another place, and thereby sanction an abandonment of the grant made by the Spanish authorities. The courts of the United States have no authority to divest the title of the United States in the public lands, and vest it in claimants; however just the claim may be to an equal value for land, the previous grant of which has failed. Ibid.
The decree of the superior court of East Florida, by which a grant for fifty thousand acres of land, made by governor White, the Spanish governor of East Florida, dated July 29, 1802, was rejected, affirmed. Buyck v. The United States, 15 Peters, 215.
The land had been granted by governor White, on a petition from the grantee stating his intention to occupy and improve the same with Bengal negroes, and native citizens of the United States; and stating that other grants of the same lands had been made, on condition of settlement, which conditions had not been performed, and such grants were therefore void. The petitioner promised to make the settlement within an early period after the grant. The governor granted the land, referring to the petition, also, with the condition that the grantee should not cede any part of the land, without the consent of the government. No endorsement or settlement was at anytime made on the land by the grantee. Held, that the government of the United States were not bound under the Florida treaty, to confirm the grant. Ibid.
The description of the portion of the land asked for from the Spanish governor, “lands at Musquito to fifty thousand acres, south and north of said place,” is not sufficiently definite : and from such a description no exception could be made from the public lands acquired by the United States under the Florida treaty The regulations for granting lands in Florida by the Spanish authorities, required that grants should be made in a certain place : and there were no floating rights of survey out of the place designated in the grant; unless when the land granted could not be got there in its exact quantity, and an equivalent was provided for. Ibid.
The laws and ordinances of the government of Spain in relation to grants of land by the Spanish government, must be of universal application in the construction of grants. It is essential to the validity of such grants, that the land granted shall be described so as to be capable of being distinguished from other things of the same kind, or capable of being ascertained by extraneous testimony. Ibid.
The certificate of Don Tomas de Aguilar, secretary of the government and province, of the copy of the grant of the governor, stating the same “to be faithfully drawn from the original in the secretary’s office under his charge,” was legal evidence of the grant; and was properly admitted as such in support of the same. The United States v. Delespine, 15 Peters, 226.
A grant of ten thousand two hundred and forty acres of land by the Spanish governor of Florida, which recited among other things, that it was made under a royal order of the king of Spain, of 29th March, 1815, and which was not in conformity with the grant, but which was made in the exercise of other powers to grant lands which had been vested in the governor, was not made invalid by the recital of the royal order as the authority for the grant. The grant recited also, that it was made in consideration of military services, and was also in consideration of the surrender of another grant previously made, which surrender had been accepted by the governor. These were sufficient inducements to the grant. Ibid.
A claim for land in East Florida, granted by governor White to Daniel O’Hara, rejected by die superior court of East Florida, and the decree of that court affirmed. O’Hara v. The United States, 15 Peters, 275.
Governor White, on the petition of Daniel O’Hara, soliciting a grant of fifteen thousand acres, made a decree granting “the lands solicited,” “at the place indicated,” “in conformity with the number of workers which he may have to cultivate them, the corresponding number of acres may be surveyed to him” “and that he will take possession of the said lands in six months from the date of said grant.” Held that this is a decree nut granting fifteen thousand acres as asked for; but so much of the place where it is asked for as shall be surveyed in conformity with the number of workers the grantee may have to cultivate the land ; the quantity could be determined by the regulation of the governor, made the month after the grant, and determining the quantity of land to be surveyed according to the number of persons in the family of the grantee, slaves included. That the grant was made before the date of the regulation, makes no difference. Ibid.
No settlement was made on the lands claimed under the grant. The building of a house on the land is but evidence of an intention to make a settlement, but was not a settlement; which required the removal of persons or workers to the land, and cultivating it. Ibid.
No claim for the land can be sustained under a grant, or confirmation of a prior grant, made by a decree of governor Coppinger in 1819, as the same was substantially a violation of the treaty with Spam, which confirms only grants made before the 24th January, 1818. The prior grant to O’Hara having become void by the non-performance of the conditions annexed to it, the decree of governor Coppinger, in 1819, was an attempt to make a new grant. Ibid.
If the grant were not void from the non-performance of the conditions of settlement annexed to it, the omission to have the land surveyed, and returned to the proper office, would make it void, unless the grantee had made a settlement; in which event, a survey would be Presumed. The grant was made in the “district of Nassau,” &c. This was an indefinite description of the land, as was held in Buyck v. The United States, decided at this term. Ibid.
A concession of lands, by the council at St. Augustine, was not authorized by the laws of Spain, relative to the granting and confirming land titles. The United States v. Delespine, 15 Peters, 319.
When a graft of land is indefinite as to its location, or so uncertain as to the place where the lands granted are intended to be surveyed, as to make it impossible to make a survey under the terms of the grant with certainty the grant will not be confirmed. Ibid.
The act of Congress of 26th May, 1830, requires that all claims to lands which have been presented to the commissioners, or to the register and receiver of East Florida, and had not been “finally acted upon,” should be adjudicated and settled, as prescribed by the act of 1828. There was no direct limitation as to the time in which a claim should be presented. Ibid.
When a petition for the confirmation of a claim to lands in Florida was presented, and was defective, and the court allowed an amended petition to be filed, it would be too strict to say the original petition was not the commencement of the proceeding, but that the amendment allowed by the superior court should be taken as the date when the claim was first preferred. Ibid.
When certain testimonials of title under a Spanish grant had been admitted, without exception, before the commissioners of the United States for the adjustment of claims to lands in Florida, and before the superior court in Middle Florida, without objection as to the mode and form of their proof; the Supreme Court, on an appeal, will not interfere with the question as to the sufficiency of the proof, or the authenticity of the act, relating to the title which had been admitted by the authorities in Florida, which was the tribunal to judge of the evidence. Ibid.
Breward petitioned the governor of East Florida, intending to establish a saw-mill to saw timber in St. John’s river, for a grant of five miles square of land, or its equivalent; ten thousand acres to be in the neighbourhood of the place designated, and the remaining six thousand acres in Cedar Swamp, on the west side of St. John’s river, and in Cabbage Hammock on the east side of the river. The governor granted the land asked for, on the condition that the mill should be built; and the condition was complied with. On the 27th of May, 1817, the surveyor general surveyed seven thousand acres under the grant, including Little Cedar Creek, and bounded on three sides by Big Cedar Creek, including the mill. This grant and survey were confirmed. The United States v. Breward, 16 Peters, 143.
Three thousand acres were laid off on the northern part of the river St. John’s, and east of the royal road, leading from the river to St. Mary’s, four or five miles from the first survey. This survey having been made at a place not within the grant, was void : but the court held that the grantee is to be allowed to survey under the grant, three thousand acres adjoining the survey of seven thousand acres, if so much vacant land can be found ; and patents for the same shall issue for the land, if laid out in conformity with the decree of the court in this case. Ibid.
In 1819, two thousand acres were surveyed in Cedar Swamp, west of the river St. John’s, at a place known by the name of Sugartown. This survey was confirmed. Ibid.
Four thousand acres, by survey, dated April, 1819, in Cabbage Hammock, were laid out by the surveyor general. This survey was confirmed. Ibid.
By the eighth article of the Florida treaty, all grants of lands made before the 24th of January, 1824, by his Catholic majesty, were confirmed; but all grants made since the time when the first proposal by his majesty for the cession of the country was made, are declared and agreed by the treaty to be void. The survey of five thousand acres having been made at a different place from the land granted, would if confirmed be a new appropriation of so much land, and void if it had been ordered by the governor of Florida; and of course it is void, having nothing to uphold it but the act of the surveyor general. Ibid.
In the superior court of East Florida, the counsel for the claimant offered to introduce testimony in regard to the survey of three thousand acres; and the counsel of the United States withdrew his objection to the testimony. The admission of the evidence did not prove the survey to have been made. Proof of the signature of the surveyor general to the return of survey made the survey prima facie evidence. Ibid.
The proof of the signature of Aguilar to the certificate of a copy of the grant by the governor of East Florida, authorizes its admission in evidence; but this does not establish the validity of the concession. To test the validity of the survey, it was necessary to give it in evidence; but the survey did not give a good title to the land. Ibid.
The United States have a right to disprove a survey made by the surveyor general, if the survey on the ground does not correspond to the land granted. Ibid.
On a petition from Pedro Miranda, stating services performed by him for Spain, governor White, the governor of East Florida, on the 26th November, 1810, made a grant to him of eight leagues square, or three hundred and sixty-eight thousand six hundred and forty acres of land on the waters of Hillsborough and Tampa Bay, in the eastern district of Florida. No survey was made under this grant while Florida remained a province of Spain, nor was any attempt made to occupy or survey the land, until after the cession of Florida to the United States. In 1821, it was alleged that a survey was made by a surveyor of East Florida. Held, that the grant was void ; no land having been severed from the public domain previous to the 24th January, 1818, and because the calls of the grant are too indefinite for locality to be given to them. The United States v. Miranda, 16 Peters, 153.
The settled doctrine of the Supreme Court, in respect to Florida grants, is, that grants embracing a wide extent of country, or with a large area of natural or artificial boundaries, and which granted lands were not surveyed before the 24th of January, 1818, and which are without such designation as will give a place of beginning for a survey, are not lands withdrawn from the maps of vacant lands, ceded to the United States in Florida, and are void; as well on that account as for being so uncertain that locality cannot be given to them. Ibid.
On the 6th of April, 1816, a grant was made by the governor of Florida, of five miles square, or sixteen thousand acres of land, on condition that a mill should be built. The grant of six thousand acres was for land on Doctor’s branch, where the mill was intended to be erected. The ten thousand acres were granted on the north-east side on the lagoon and of India river. The six thousand acres were surveyed in 1819, on Doctor’s branch, and the mill was built. The survey under this grant was confirmed. The United States v. Low et al. 162.
According to the strict ideas of conforming a survey to a location, in the United States, the survey of ten thousand acres should be located adjoining the natural object called for, there being no other to aid and control the general call ; and therefore, the head of the lagoon would necessarily have formed one boundary. But it is obvious, more latitude was allowed in the province of Florida, under the government of Spain. The surveyor general having returned that the survey was made according to the grant, and in the absence of other contradictory proof, the claim was confirmed. Ibid.
A grant of five miles square, or sixteen thousand acres of land, was made by the Spanish governor of East Florida, at the mouth of the river Santa Lucia. The petition for the grant stated various merits and losses of the petitioner, and asked the grant of five miles square, for the construction of a water saw-mill. The grant was given for the purpose mentioned, “and also paying attention to the services and other matters set forth in the petition.” No survey under the grant was made by the surveyor general of Florida; but a survey was made by a private surveyor. The survey did not follow the calls of the grant, and no proof was given that it was made at the place mentioned in the grant. The survey and plat were not made according to the established rules relative to surveys to be made by the surveyor general under such grants. Nor was the plat made with the proportion of land on the river required by the regulations. The superior court of Florida held that the grant having been made in consideration of services rendered by the grantee, as well as for a water saw-mill, it was valid without the erection of the mill; but the survey was altogether void, and of no effect. The decree of the superior court of Florida, by which the grant and survey were confirmed, was remanded to the superior court of Florida; that court to order the sixteen thousand acres granted, to be surveyed according to the principles stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. It has often been held that the authorities of Spain had the power to grant the public domain in accordance with their own ideas of the merits and considerations presented by the grantee; and that the powers of the Supreme Court of the United States extend only to the inquiry, whether, in fact, the grant had been made, and its legal effect when made, in cases where the law by implication introduced a condition, or it was peculiar in its provisions. No special ordinance of Spain introduces conditions into mill grants. The United States v. Hanson, 16 Peters, 196.
The certificate of a private surveyor, that he had permission from the governor of the territory to make a survey of the land granted, is no evidence of the fact. There is a marked and wide difference in the effect of the certificate of the surveyor general and of a private individual, who assumes to certify without authority. Ibid.
A grant by a Spanish governor of Florida meant not, as in the states of the United States, a perfect title ; but an incipient right, which, when surveyed, required confirmation by the governor. The duty of confirmation by the acts of Congress is deputed to the courts of justice of the United States, in execution of the treaty with Spain. Ibid.
The same credence that was accorded to the return of the surveyor general by the Spanish government, is due to it by the courts of the United States. Plats and certificates, because of the official character of the surveyor general, have accorded to them the force and character of a deposition. Ibid.
A grant of fifteen thousand acres by the Spanish governor of East Florida, in consideration of important services performed in behalf of the government of Spain, to George Atkinson, confirmed by the Supreme Court. By the eighth article of the Florida treaty, no grants of land made after the 24th of January, 1818, were valid; nor could a survey be valid on lands other than those authorized by the grant. Still the power to survey in conformity to the concessions existed up to the change of flags. The United States v. Clarke, 16 Peters, 228.
Spain had the power to make grants founded on any consideration and subject to any restrictions within her dominions. If a grant was binding on that government, it is so on the United States, the successor of Spain. All the grants of land made by the lawful authorities of the king of Spain, before the 24th of January, 1818, were by the treaty ratified and confirmed to the owners of the lands. Ibid.
The grant to Atkinson was for the land he mentioned in his petition, or for any other lands that were vacant. Three surveys were made of the lands within the quantity granted, not at the place specially mentioned in the grant, but at other places. Held, that these surveys were valid, notwithstanding that they were made at different places. Ibid.
A claim for eight thousand acres of land in East Florida, founded on a petition of Domingo Acosta to governor Coppinger, made on the 20th of May, 1816. The petition stated that services had been performed by the claimant for the defence, support and advancement of the town of Fernandina, which had never been rewarded. Governor Coppinger gave a decree in favour of the petitioner, “it being the will of the sovereign that the merits of his subjects should be rewarded.” The originals of the petition and decree were not produced, they having been lost; but a certificate signed by Don Thomas Aguilar, the secretary of the government, was exhibited, which stated that the copies of the petition and decree, which were given in evidence, had been faithfully drawn from the originals in his office. Four plats and certificates of survey, made by Clarke, surveyor of the province ; two of which surveys were made before the 24th January, 1818, and one on the 14th February, 1818; another on the 20th January, 1820; were given in evidence without objection, in the court below, to show the location of the land claimed. The decree of the superior court of Florida, in favour of the claimant, was affirmed. The United States v. Acosta, 17 Peters, 16.
The official certificates of the secretary of the government of Florida, during the dominion of Spain over the territory, after evidence that no originals could be found in the proper office, was sufficient evidence of the copies of the petition and decree of the governor; no proof having been given to contradict or impair the force of the same. Ibid.
The governor of the territory of Florida, as the deputy of the king of Spain, was the sole judge of the merits on which the claim stated in the petition was founded; and he had undoubted power to reward the merits of the grantee. This has been so decided in many cases. Ibid.
Although in the governor’s decree, there may be no description of any place where the land granted should be located, still it is binding as far as it went. The surveyor general having been ordered to survey the land solicited, on places vacant, and without injury to third persons, the acts of this officer came in aid of the decree. Ibid.
The surveyor general having executed the governor’s decree before the flags of the United States and Spain were exchanged, all the surveys became valid. That there were several surveys, is no objection to their validity. Ibid.
The plats of the surveys having been read in the court below, without objection, the proofs authorized the decree. Ibid.
The President, &c. to appoint three com-
missioners for ascertaining claims and titles to lands in Florida.
Their pay.
To open an office at Pensacola.
To appoint a secretary.
Duties of the secretary.
His compensation.
Secretary must be acquainted with the Spanish language: and take an oath.
Commissioners to take an oath, &c.
Time of the sessions of commissioners, &c.
Notice to be given of the time of the sessions, &c.
Session at St. Augustine to terminate on June 30, 1823.
Commissioners to forward a detail of their proceedings, &c.
Persons, &c. claiming title to lands under any patent, &c. dated previously to Jan. 24, 1818, valid, &c. and not rejected by the treaty ceding the Floridas, to file their claims, &c.
Claims to be recorded.
Fees.
Proviso.
Claims not filed prior to May 31, 1823, void.
Proviso.
Powers of the commissioners.
Proviso.
Proviso; as to claims to be confirmed.
Fees to witnesses, &c.
Commissioners not to act on, &c. any British grant, &c., but those claimed and owned by citizens of the United States, &c.
The President and Senate to appoint a surveyor, &c.
Surveyor’s duties.
Surveys at the expense of the claimants, &c.
Surveyor to appoint deputies.
None other than township lines to be run; and surveyor to reside, &c. as the President may direct.
Surveyor’s fees for recording, &c.
The President requested to cause each member and delegate of the present Congress, not entitled under resolution of March
27, 1818, the Vice President, executive of each state and territory, &c., to be furnished with copies of the secret journals, &c.
A copy of the journal of the convention, &c. to each member of the present Congress, &c.
The Secretary of State to furnish each member and delegate of the present Congress, &c., with copies of the marshals’ returns of the fourth census, &c.
The Secretary of State to cause to be classified and re-duced to form, &c., the accounts of manufacturing establishments and their manufactures, &c.
Act of March 14, 1820, ch. 24.
The Postmaster General to introduce, &c. R. Imlay’s plan of copper cases, &c., to test, &c.
Proviso.
ACTS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
President authorized to purchase or construct vessels, to fit, equip, and man them for immediate service, for repressing piracy, &c.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 101, sec. 2.
Appropriation for such expenditure.
[Obsolete.]
From the 3d day of March next, the state of Alabama to have three members in the House of Representatives, agreeably to the act of March 7, 1822, ch. 10.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation for the compensation of the Senate and House of Representatives.
The 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th sections of act of April 14, 1818, ch. 61, continued in force for five years, and to the end of the next session of Congress.
The Secretary of the Treasury to cause authentic copies of papers filed, &c., to be made &c., and these copies to be equal evidence as the original papers.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 113.
The 1st, 2d, 3d, and 4th sections of act of March 3, 1819, ch. 77, made perpetual.
[Obsolete.]
An additional judge to be appointed for the territory of Michigan, within the counties of Michilimackinac, Brown and Crawford, having the power of the supreme court of the territory, and of the county courts.
Appeals allowed from the county courts to this court.
Proviso.
Proviso.
The supreme court of the territory authorized, upon the reversal of a judgment of this court, &c.
A writ of error shall be no stay of proceedings in the court to which it issues, unless the plaintiff in error, his agent, or attorney, give security that the plaintiff in error shall prosecute his writ to effect.
No cause, except suits in equity, to be removed from this court, but by writ of error. Suits in equity may be removed by appeal.
This court to hold one term in each of the counties yearly.
The clerks of the county court to be clerks of the court in their
respective counties.
This court shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the supreme court, in all actions under laws regulating trade, &c. with the Indians.
The judge to be appointed in virtue of this act, to reside in one of the counties.
Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 20.
No advance of public money to be made.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Officers or agents of the United States to account quarter yearly.
Proviso.
Officers or agents offending against the preceding sections, to be promptly reported to the President, and dismissed from the public service.
Proviso.
No security
given to, or obligation entered into with, the government, to be impaired.
An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes, March 26, 1804, ch. 35.
An act supplementary to the act, entitled “An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes,” March 3, 1805, ch. 43.
An act to provide for the adjustment of titles to land in the town of Detroit and territory of Michigan, and for other purposes,” April 21, 1806, ch. 43.
An act relating to grants of land in the territory of Michigan, March 3, 1807, ch. 34.
An act supplemental to “An act regulating the grants of land in the territory of Michigan,” April 23, 1808, ch. 67.
An act to authorize the granting of patents for land according to 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, ch. 62.
An act allowing further time for entering donation rights to lands in the district of Detroit, March 3, 1817, ch. 99.
An act to revive the powers of the commissioners for ascertaining and deciding claims to land in the district of Detroit, and for settling the claims to land at Green Bay and Prairie du Chien, in the territory of Michigan, May 11, 1820, ch. 85.
An act to annex certain lands within the territory of Michigan to the district of Detroit, May 11, 1820, ch. 94.
An act to revive and continue in force certain acts for the adjustment of land claims in the territory of Michigan, February 21, 1823, ch. 10.
An act to alter the lines between the land districts in the territory of Michigan, May 16, 1826, ch. 56.
An act to confirm claims to land in the territory of Michigan, April 17, 1828, ch. 28.
An act to establish a land office in the territory of Michigan, and for other purposes, February 19, 1831, ch. 27.
An act change the boundary between the south-eastern and western land district in the territory of Michigan, June 25, 1834, ch. 72.
An act to divide Green Bay land district in Michigan, and for other purposes, June 15, 1836, ch. 98.
An act to establish a land office in the territory of Michigan, January 30, 1833, ch. 12.
An act supplementary to “An act to provide for the adjustment of the titles to land in the town of Detroit, and territory of Michigan, and for other purposes,” passed April 21, 1806. August 29, 1842, ch. 260.
[Expired.]
Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 85, revived, and continued in force till 1st Nov. next.
Report of the commissioners to be laid before Congress.
Second section of the act of April 23, 1812, ch. 62, to embrace certain claims.
Patents to be issued to persons whose claims have been filed under the act of May 11, 1820, ch. 85.
Proviso.
Claimants have been removed by any officer of the United States’ army, to have certificates for any tract of land, &c. which they have occupied after such removal.
Occupants of land in Green bay, Prairie du Chien, or Michilimackinaw, on July 1, 1812, who have continued to submit to the authority of the United States, or their legal representatives, to be confirmed in said land.
Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 85.
Proviso.
An additional sum to be allowed to persons carrying this law into effect.
State of South Carolina divided into two districts, the eastern and western.
Eastern district court to be held in Charleston, as usual.
Western district court to have one annual session at Laurens Courthouse.
[Expired.]
Charter of Mechanics’ Bank of Alexandria extended to March 3, 1836.
March 2, 1821, ch. 18.
Stockholders disagreeing from renewal, may compel the bank to refund their stock.
This act declared to be a public act.
Mechanics’ Bank of Alexandria.
Road from the lower rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie, to Connecticut western reserve.
Land granted for the road, and expenses.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Lands sold to be paid for at a minimum price.
When the governor of Ohio shall produce a survey, and an act of the state shall accept the trust, the President shall stop the sale of land.
Proviso.
Appropriation for Cumberland road.
Superintendent to be appointed by the President.
Superintendent to give bond.
[Expired.]
Seventh section of Louisiana land claim law continued in force for eighteen months.
Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 87.
Part of navy store-house lot in New Orleans, granted to the corporation of that city.
Part of a land law of Tennessee of April 18, 1806, ch. 31, repealed.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
From March 2, the true invoice of goods subject to ad valorem duty to be produced.
Proviso.
Owner, importer, &c., to make oath of not having re-
ceived invoice, when the goods will be admitted to an entry upon appraisement.
Proviso.
When goods have not been entered, they shall be deposited in the public warehouses until the invoice be produced.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22, sec. 56.
Proviso.
Oath of consignee, importer, or agent, at time of entry.
Owner’s oath, where goods, &c. have been purchased.
The cases in which a living witness to a corpus delicti of the defendant, in a prosecution for perjury, may be dispensed with, are: all such where a person charged with a perjury by falsely swearing to a fact directly disproved by documentary or written testimony, springing from himself, with circumstances showing the corrupt intent: In cases where the perjury charged is contradicted by a public record, proved to have been well known to the defendant when he took the oath, the oath only proved to have been taken; in cases where the party is charged with taking an oath contrary to what he must necessarily have known to be the truth, and the false swearing can be proved by his own letters relating to the fact sworn to, or by other written testimony existing and being found in the possession of the defendant, and which has been treated by him as containing the evidence of the fact recited in it. Ibid.
The letters of the defendant, showing his knowledge of the actual cost of the goods which had been falsely entered by him, are the best evidence which can be given. This evidence is good under the general principle that a man’s own acts, conduct, and declarations, when voluntary, are always admissible in evidence against him. If the letters of the defendant showed that the invoice book of the vendor of the goods, containing an invoice of the goods enumerated in the invoice to which the defendant had sworn the owner’s oath, in which book the goods were priced higher in the sale of them to the defendant, recognised the book as containing the true invoice, his admission supersedes the necessity of other proof to establish the real price given by him for the goods; and the letters and invoice book in connection preponderate against the oath taken by the defendant, making a living witness to the corpus delicti charged in the indictment, unnecessary. Ibid. See also Taylor et al. v. The United States, 3 Howard, 197.
Manufacturer’s or owner’s oath, where goods, &c. have not been purchased.
Mode of estimating ad valorem duty.
Proviso.
Goods, &c., subject to ad valorem duty, belonging to citizens absent at the time, to be admitted to entry, upon bond of the importer, &c., to produce the invoice.
Goods, &c. not to be admitted to entry unless the invoice be verified by owner’s oath.
Oath to be administered by a consul or commercial agent.
Proviso.
No goods, &c., subject to ad valorem duty to be admitted to entry, unless the invoice be verified by the owner’s oath.
Oath to be administered to executors, &c.
Secretary of the Treasury may admit to entry goods, &c., of persons not residing in the United States.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Goods, &c., belonging partly to persons in the United States may be admitted to entry by their oath.
Proviso.
Invoices not verified, and an entry refused, the goods, &c., to be deemed suspected.
Goods, &c., suspected, to be appraised, and fifty per cent, on the apprais-
ed value to be added, over and above the ad valorem duty.
Proviso.
Appraised value of goods, &c., within 25 per cent, higher than the invoice value, to be considered as the true value.
Proviso.
Packages not corresponding with the invoice to be appraised; any package containing an article not in the invoice to be forfeited.
Proviso.
President to appoint appraisers in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, Savannah, and New Orleans.
Appraiser’s oath.
In other ports collector to appoint appraisers
Appraisers’ salaries.
Owner, &c., dissatisfied with the appraisement, may employ two merchants to examine the goods with the appraisers.
Owners, &c. dissatisfied with second appraisement may refer the case to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Merchants chosen and declining to assist subject to a penalty.
One half the excess of duty from 50 per cent, to be divided among the customhouse officers.
1799, ch. 22.
Proviso.
Goods, &c. taken from a wreck to be appraised.
Consular fee.
Proviso.
Certificate of entry.
No other evidence admissible.
To counterfeit certificate, felony.
Punishment.
Bond for duties binding on all the partners of a company.
Clerk cannot become surety for his employer.
Principal to be a resident, and sureties citizens of the United States.
Duty of 50 dollars or upwards paid in cash, entitled to a discount at the rate of four per cent, per ann.
Goods on which duties have been paid may be transported into two other districts with benefit of drawback.
Proviso.
Regulations.
Goods so transported to be accompanied by a copy from the invoice certified.
Inspection.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Twenty days allowed for taking the oaths, &c.
Proviso.
Goods reshipped coastwise, allowed to enter for debenture.
Proviso.
Goods entitled to debenture may be permitted to be transferred into other packages.
Proviso.
The numbers upon packages, not necessary to be inserted in an entry.
Proviso.
Spirits entititled to debenture, may be laden without being warehoused when shipped coastwise.
Proviso.
Penalties and forfeitures.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 13.
Fines, &c., in virtue of the act of April 20, 1818, to be recovered as before.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 79.
Goods transported coastwise in the same packages as imported, to have a certified invoice, and shall be inspected at the port to which they are transported.
Proviso.
It seems that notwithstanding those statutes, open British boats may visit the United States, if not destined for trade. Ibid.
British for ships or vessels, excluded from the ports of the United States by those statutes, are such as are owned by British subjects having a British domicil, and sailing under the British flag, and not British ships or vessels owned by British subjects domiciled in the United States. Ibid.
First, second, and third sections of the act concerning navigation, act of April 18, 1818, ch. 65, and the act of May 15, 1820, ch. 122, suspended as to certain British colonial ports.
That, from and after the third day of March next, the first, second, and third, sections of the “Act concerning navigation,” approved on the eighteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and the “Act supplementary to an act concerning navigation,” approved on the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, shall be, and the same are hereby, suspended, for and during the continuance of this act, so far as any of the restrictions or prohibitions therein contained, limit or interdict the intercourse of navigation or commerce between the ports of the United States and the British colonial ports hereinafter mentioned, to wit:
Kingston, in Jamaica. Savannah Le Mar, do. Montego Bay, do. Santa Lucia, do. Antonia, do. Saint Ann, do. Falmouth, do. Maria, do. Morant Bay and Annotto Bay, do. Saint George, in Grenada. Roseau, in Dominica. Saint John’s, in Antigua. San Josef, in Trinidad. Scarborough, in Tobago. Road Harbour, in Tortola. Nassau, in New Providence. Pitt’s town, in Crooked Island. Kingston, in Saint Vincent. Port Saint George and Port Hamilton, in Bermuda. Any port where there is a custom-house, in Bahamas. Bridgetown, in Barbadoes. Saint John’s and Saint Andrew’s, in New Brunswick. Halifax, in Nova Scotia. Quebec, in Canada. Saint John’s, in Newfoundland. Georgetown, in Demarara. New Amsterdam, in Berbice. Castries, in Saint Lucia. Basseterre, in Saint Kitts. Charlestown, in Nevis. Plymouth, in Montserrat.
The ports of the United States to be open to British vessels directly from such ports.
The President may, by proclamation, declare no higher duty to be levied upon British vessels and goods from these ports than upon United States vessels, on certain conditions.
Proviso.
April 27, 1816, ch. 107.
Articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the British colonies only to be so imported in British vessels.
And said vessels to come directly from said ports.
Goods of the United States may be exported to any of said ports in British vessels.
Proviso.
This act to continue in force so long as the said ports are open to ves-
sels of the United States.
Act of April 18, 1818, ch. 70.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 122.
Any other British colonial port being open to vessels of the United States, shall have the benefit of this act.
Bond to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Mitigation and remission of forfeitures, &c.
An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States, September 24, 1789, ch. 20, sec. 2.
An act making certain alterations in the act for establishing the judicial courts, and altering the time and place of holding certain courts, June 9, 1794, ch. 64, sec. 8.
An act concerning the circuit courts of the United States, March 3, 1797, ch. 27, sec. 6.
An act for altering the time for holding the circuit court in the district of North Carolina, and for abolishing the July term of the Kentucky district court, Feb. 28, 1806, ch. 13, sec. 2.
An act establishing the circuit courts, and abridging the jurisdiction of the district courts of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio, Feb. 24, 1807, ch. 16, sec. 4.
An act supplementary to the act entitled “An act to amend the act entitled ‘An act establishing circuit courts and abridging the jurisdiction of the district courts of the districts of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio,’” Feb. 4, 1809, ch. 14.
An act to alter the time of holding the district court of the United States for the district of Kentucky, March 1, 1823 ch. 22.
An act to change the terms of the district courts of the United States for the Kentucky district, March 24, 1824, ch. 30.
Terms of the district court of Kentucky altered.
From and after June 1st, 1823, justices of the peace may try and determine causes when the debt and damages do not exceed 50 dollars, exclusive of costs.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Defendant may supersede within sixty days.
Proviso.
Justices of the peace to keep a docket.
Justices of the peace omitting to keep a docket, liable for the proceeds of any debt, &c., lost in consequence.
Justices of the peace, upon
resignation or removal, or their executors, &c., upon demise, to deliver their dockets to the clerk of the circuit court under penalty of 500 dollars.
Judges of circuit court not to hold plea of any debt which shall not exceed 50 dollars.
Proviso.
In all cases over five dollars parties aggrieved may appeal to the circuit court.
Proviso.
Judgment or supersedeas not to be returned to the clerk of the circuit court.
Justices to issue execution.
Constables may serve and levy executions. &c.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Justices may revive judgments by scire facias.
Constables to serve scire facias.
Constables to deliver persons committed, at the jail to the marshal or jailer, &c.
Justices authorized to issue capias ad satisfaciendum.
Proviso.
Justices’ fees.
Parties may demand a trial by jury.
Jurors to be sworn, and to deliver their verdict publicly to the justice, who shall give judgment thereon and issue execution.
Additional fees of justices and jurors.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 126, respecting tonnage duty on French vessels, repealed.
From and after Sep. 30, 1822, French goods imported in French vessels to pay an additional duty of $3,75 per ton.
Proviso.
At the expiration of two years, extra duties to be diminished one-fourth of the whole amount, and so from year to year.
Tonnage duty, light-money, &c., for French vessels not to exceed 94 cents per ton of the vessel’s French passport.
Extra duties levied before June 24 last to be refunded.
Upon ratification of second separate article of the convention, the extra duties to be levied only on the excess of value of imports over that of exports.
Acts incompatible with the convention repealed.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations for the military service for 1823.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, to wit:
For the pay of the army, and subsistence of the officers, nine hundred and eighty-eight thousand nine hundred and seven dollars and seventy-five cents.
For subsistence, two hundred and seventy-six thousand one hundred dollars.
For forage for officers, thirty-five thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, fifteen thousand six hundred and thirty-eight dollars.
For the purchasing department, one hundred and thirty-six thousand three hundred and fifty-one dollars.
For the quartermaster general’s department, two hundred and ninety-seven thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars.
For the contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.
For quartermaster’s supplies, transportation, mathematical instruments, books, and stationery, for the military academy, twelve thousand dollars.
For the pensions to the invalids, to the commutation pensioners, and to the widows and orphans, three hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
For pensions to the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, one million five hundred and thirty-eight thousand eight hundred and fifteen dollars.
For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For the current expenses of the ordnance, forty-eight thousand dollars.
For arsenals, thirty-three thousand four hundred dollars.
For arrearages in the War Department, prior to the first of July,
one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For the payment of the balance of the expenses of the militia court martial in the state of New York, of which brigadier general Gerard Steddiford was president, including the sum of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars eighty-nine cents, to make up the deficiency in the sum appropriated last year for the payment of brigadier general Beckman, M. Van Bueren [Buren,] a member of said court, one thousand six hundred and twenty-six dollars and eighty-nine cents.
For the annuity to the Creek Indians, under the treaty of the eighth of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, with that tribe, five thousand dollars.
For the employment of teams, and for extra pay and rations to soldiers to be employed for the completion of the military road from Plattsburg to Sackett’s Harbour, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to Captain Terry Runnels, due him for the transportation of baggage in the late Seminole war, forty-eight dollars.
To be paid from the Treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Further appropriations for the military service.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit:
For pay allowed by law to the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, and the several Indian agents, twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars.
For pay allowed by law to sub-agents, eleven thousand dollars.
For presents to Indians, as authorized by the law of one thousand Act of March 30, 1802, ch. 13, sec. 13.
For contingent expenses of the Indian Department, ninety thousand dollars.
To enable the President of the United States to take such measures as may be necessary to purchase the right, title, and interest, which cer-
To purchase certain tracts of land, in the state of Georgia, reserved to the Indians, in fee, by the treaties with the Creek Indians, of the ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and of the eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one; and by the treaties with the Cherokee Indians, of the eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and of the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, fifty thousand dollars.
To be paid out of the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Unexpended appropriation for the Choctaw treaty to be employed for a modification of said treaty.
East and West Florida to constitute a territory under the name of the territory of Florida.
Governor and his duties.
Secretary and his duties.
In case of death, &c., of the governor, the secretary to act in his place.
Legislative powers vested in the governor and legislative council, which latter shall be appointed annually by the President.
Powers of the legislature.
Bills which have passed the legislative council, to be presented to the governor.
Proviso.
Judiciary.
Jurisdiction of the courts.
Clerks of court.
Writs of error and appeal.
Courts to exercise the same jurisdiction as those in Kentucky under the acts of Sept. 24, 1789, ch. 20, and March 2, 1793, ch. 22.
Clerks to keep records.
Attorneys to be appointed for East and
West Florida, and to receive each 200 dollars.
A marshal for each of the courts with a salary of 200 dollars for extra services.
Governor, secretary, judges, &c., to be appointed by the President.
Judicial officers to hold their offices for four years..
Salaries.
Privileges of the legislative council.
Revenue laws of the United States to have effect in the territory.
Privileges of the inhabitants.
Jurors.
No slave to be imported from places out of the United States, under a penalty of 300 dollars, and the freedom of the slave.
Territory entitled to one delegate to Congress.
Proviso.
Former act for the government of the territory repealed, when inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
Act of March 30, 1822, ch. 13.
Proviso.
Powers of the present commissioners of claims to be confined to West Florida.
Three commissioners to be appointed for East Florida.
Act of May 8, 1822, ch. 129.
Commissioners to make return to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Claims in favour of actual settlers at the time of cession to be confirmed.
Compensation of commissioners.
District attorneys to attend the commissioners when required.
Claims not filed on or before 1st Dec. next, to be void.
Marshal to execute and make return of process.
Surveyor to be appointed.
His salary.
Land offices to be established.
When land offices are to be opened.
The President to offer the lands for sale, and when.
An entire township in each of the districts to be reserved for a seminary of learning.
Rivers and waters of the territory to be public highways.
Part of the former act of May 8, 1822, ch. 129, repealed.
See act of May 26, 1824, ch. 182.
Land between the Rio Hondo and Sabine river, in the state of Louisiana, at-
tached to the district south of Red river.
Register and receiver to receive and record evidences of claims.
Register and receiver to transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury a record of all claims, and the evidence.
Classes of claims.
Proviso.
Register and receiver to hold their session at Natchitoches.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated for the year 1823.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three; that is to say:
Officers and attendants of Congress.
Contingent expenses of Congress.
Library, and librarian of Congress.
For the gradual increase of the library, two thousand dollars.
President.
Vice President.
Secretary of State.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messengers.
Contingent expenses.
Additional commercial digest. Jan. 21, 1823.
Secretary of the Treasury.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Additional clerk
Messengers.
First comptroller.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messengers.
2d comptroler.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
1st auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
2d auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the second auditor, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, seven hundred Messenger.
For compensation to the third auditor of the treasury, three thousand 3d auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the third auditor, Clerks.
For compensation to the messenger and assistant in said office, one Messengers.
For compensation to the fourth auditor of the treasury, three thousand 4th auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the fourth auditor, per Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, seven hundred Messenger.
For compensation to the fifth auditor of the treasury, three thousand 5th auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the fifth auditor, per Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For two clerks to complete the duties of the commissioner of the Clerks to commissioner of revenue. Clerk on business of agent of the treasury.
For one clerk on the business of the agent of the treasury, transferred to the office of the fifth auditor, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, seven hundred dollars, Messenger.
For compensation to the treasurer of the United States, three thousand Treasurer.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the treasurer, per act Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to an additional clerk, and also for an assistant to Additional clerk. 1820, ch. 38.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, seven hundred Messenger.
For compensation to the commissioner of the general land office, three Commissioner of general land office.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said commissioner, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, and pay of a labourer, Messenger.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars. Register of treasury.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the register, per act Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger, including the allowance for stamping Messenger, &c.
For an assistant messenger in said office, three hundred and fifty dollars, Assistant messenger.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking Secretary to sinking fund.
For allowance to the person employed in transmitting passports and Translator and contingent expenses.
Superintendent and watchmen.
Secretary of War.
Clerks.
Messengers.
Paymaster general.
Clerks.
Messenger.
Commissary general.
Clerks.
Messenger.
Adjutant general’s clerks.
Clerks of the Ordnance.
Clerks of commissary general of subsistence.
Clerks of chief engineer.
Surgeon general’s clerk.
Contingent expenses of War Department.
Secretary of the Navy.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messengers.
Contingent expenses.
Commissioners of navy board.
Secretary of commissioners.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Other clerks, &c.
Messenger.
Contingent expenses.
For allowance to the superintendent, and four watchmen, employed for
Security of war and navy buildings.
For compensation to the Postmaster General, four thousand dollars. Postmaster general.
For compensation to two assistant postmasters general, five thousand Assistant P. M. general.
For compensation to the clerks in the general post-office, per act of Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For additional clerk hire, and other expenses in the general postoffice, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, three thousand four hundred and eighty-one dollars and ninety-eight cents.
For the salaries of two additional clerks in the general post-office, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, one thousand Messengers.
For contingent expenses of said office, four thousand dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the surveyor general, two thousand dollars. Surveyor general.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the surveyor general, Clerks.
For compensation to the surveyor south of Tennessee, two thousand Surveyor south of Tennessee.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, one Clerks.
For compensation to the surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, Surveyor in Illinois and Missouri, &c.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the said surveyor, two Clerks.
For compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, two thousand dollars. Surveyor in Alabama.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the said surveyor, Clerks.
For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings, at Commissioner of public buildings.
For compensation to the late commissioner of loans in Georgia, from Late commissioner of loans in Georgia, &c.
For compensation to the officers and clerk of the mint, nine thousand Officers and clerk of the mint.
For persons employed in the different operations of the mint, ten Persons employed in the mint.
For incidental and contingent expenses, and repairs, cost of machinery, Contingent expenses, &c.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Governor, &c. of Arkansas.
For the contingent expenses of the Arkansas territory, three hundred and Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Michigan Governor, &c. of Michigan.
For the contingent expenses of the Michigan territory, three hundred Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Florida Governor, judges, &c. of Florida.
For compensation and travelling expenses of the members of the Legislative council.
Commissioners of land claims in Florida, &c.
Chief justice, &c. of the United States.
Attorney general.
Clerk.
Reporter of Supreme Court.
District attorneys and marshals.
Courts, jurors, and witnesses.
Sundry pensions.
Lighthouses.
Buoys.
Surveying.
Capitol.
John Trumbull for paintings.
Stationery, &c. for commissioners of loans.
Miscellaneous claims.
Ministers, &c. of the United States.
Contingent expenses.
Agents of claims.
Commissioners, &c. under 11th article of Spanish treaty.
Treaty of Ghent.
For the corporation of the city of Washington, to re-imburse the said Corporation, of the city of Washington.
For carrying into execution the convention recently ratified, relating Convention of St. Petersburg.
For surveying and marking the boundary line between the state of Boundary line of Missouri.
Proviso.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Special appropriations for the navy.
That, for defraying the expenses of the navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated:
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, nine hundred and twenty-nine thousand five hundred and three dollars and twelve cents, including the sum of twenty-six thousand eight hundred and eighty-six dollars for six months’ pay for the petty officers, able seamen, ordinary seamen, and boys, required for a frigate of forty-four guns.
For provisions, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For medicines, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, twenty thousand dollars.
For the repairs of vessels, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the improvement of navy yards, docks and wharves, eighty-two thousand dollars.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, including small arms, manufacture of powder, &c. twenty thousand dollars.
For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, store-keepers, inspectors of timber, clerks of the yards, and artificers, forty-four thousand six hundred and fifty dollars, including the sum of four thousand one
For labourers and teams employed in loading and unloading vessels, piling, docking, and removing timbers, stores, &c and fuel for the engine, thirty thousand dollars, including the sum of ten thousand dollars to cover a deficiency in the appropriation of the year eighteen hundred and twenty-two.
For contingent expenses, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For erecting and completing houses over ships in ordinary, for their preservation from the weather, eighty thousand dollars.
For the construction of a dock and wharves, in connection with the inclined plane erected at the navy yard in Washington, fifty thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and seventy-six thousand four hundred and seventy-four dollars.
For clothing for the same, twenty-nine thousand dollars.
For fuel for the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, six thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For contingent expenses for the same, that is to say, fuel for the commissioned officers, bed sacks, repairing barracks, transportation, and travelling expenses to officers, postage of letters, armorers, and armorers’ tools, and stationery with extra rations to officers, fourteen thousand dollars.
To enable the President of the United States to carry into effect the act entitled “An act in addition to the acts prohibiting the slave trade,” 1819, ch. 101.
For shot, shells, and military stores, being the amount of the unexpected [unexpended] balance of appropriations for previous years, four thousand and thirty-five dollars and ninety-five cents.
For military stores of the marine corps, being the amount of the unexpended balance of appropriations for previous years, ten thousand five hundred dollars and thirty-five cents.
To be paid out of the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Post-routes discontinued.
That the following post-routes be discontinued, to wit:
Massachusetts.
In Rhode Island.—From Providence to Chepachet, in Glocester. Post-roads established. Rhode Island.
In Pennsylvania.—From Greersburg, in Beaver county, through Pennsylvania.
In North Carolina.—So much of the route from Warrenton, North North Carolina.
The route from Tarborough to Scotland Neck, and from Stantonsburg to Fayetteville.
In Kentucky.—From Bowling Green to Corydon, in Indiana. Kentucky.
In Tennessee.—From Lebanon to Mount Richardson. Tennessee.
In Ohio.—From Chillicothe, through Wilmington, in Clinton county, Ohio.
In the Floridas.—From Pensacola to St. Marks, thence to Vollutia Florida.
Mail-routes established.
In Maine.—From Scowhegan Bridge, in Canaan, Somersett county, Maine.
From the town of Harmony, in the county of Somersett, through Ripley, Parkman, Sangerville, Guilford, Foxcraft, and Dover, to Sebee, in the county of Penobscott.
From Belfast to Frankfort, through Swanville and Monroe, in lieu of the present route, which is hereby repealed.
In Massachusetts.—-From Springfield through Wilbraham, Monson, Massachusetts.
In Connecticut.—From Spencer’s corner, in Northeast, Dutchess Connecticut.
In New Hampshire.—From Hancock, through Stoddart, to Marlow. New Hampshire.
In Vermont.—From Poultney to Whitehall, in New York. Vermont.
In New York.—From Almond, by Alfred, to Independence in Allegany New York.
From Wayne, Steuben county, to Trumansburgh, in Tompkins county.
From Buffaloe, in Erie, to Olean, in the county of Cataragus, passing through the towns of Hamburg, Boston, Concord, and Ellicottsville.
From Elliott’s, by Royalton, to Hartland post-office.
From the village of Greene, in Chenango county, to Cincinnatus, in Courtland county, passing through the Big Flats, in the town of Smithfield, and Livermore’s tavern, in Germantown.
From Morgansville, at the mouth of the Tonnewonta creek, in Niagara county, to Lockport.
From Potsdam, on the turnpike, by Canton, to Ogdenburgh on the mail-route from Plattsburgh, by Malone, to Ogdensburgh.
From Albany to Ranslaerville, [Rensselaerville,] through the towns of Bethlehem and Burn, to intersect the post-road from Albany to Susquehanna, by the way of the Delaware turnpike, to Milfordville.
In Pennsylvania.—From the city of Lancaster, along the White Pennsylvania.
From Kimberton to the Yellow Springs.
From Greersburgh, in Beaver county, through Mount Jackson and NewCastle, to Harlemburg.
From Warren, in the county of Warren, to Olean, in New York; to pass by the mouth of Great Valley and Kinkum Creeks.
Post-roads established.
From the South Branch of Towanda creek, in Bradford county, by way of the Susquehanna and Tioga turnpike, to Elmira, in the state of New York.
From Allentown, Lehigh county, through Heidelburgh township, to Mauchchunk, in Northampton county.
New Jersey.
From Trenton, by Allentown and Crosswick, to Bordentown.
Virginia.
That the route from Lombardy Grove, in Mecklenburg county, do pass by Hakinton and Langley’s old store, to St. Tammany, in said county.
That the route from Richmond to King and Queen Courthouse, do pass through Walkerton and Stevensville.
From Giles’ Courthouse, by Charles Dingess’s, Samuel Park’s and Shoemate’s, the Falls of Guyandotte, to Barbersville in Cabell county.
From Boon’s, in Montgomery, to Grayson Courthouse.
From Hull’s store, in Pendleton, to the Courthouse of Pocahontas.
From New London, to Calland’s store, in Pittsylvania, to pass through Leesville, in Campbell county.
From Richmond, along the road called Le Pradt’s, by Powhatan Courthouse, to Farmsville, instead of the route now established.
From Richmond, by Chesterfield Courthouse, Mechanics’ Inn, Colesville, Wilkinsonville, Genits Bridge, Tunstilville, Cassell’s store, Amelia Courthouse, Paineville, and James Town, to Farmville, instead of the route now established.
North Carolina.
That the route from Fayetteville to Wadesborough, be so altered as to pass from Rockingham, by Snudsborough, to Wadesborough, and return by Beard’s store, Allenton, Steel’s mills, and Morris’s Store to Fayetteville.
From Salisbury to Lincolnton and Wilksborough, now established, do return to Salisbury by Sherrell’s Ford, Lincoln county, and Mrs. Stewart’s, in Iredell county.
South Carolina.
From Spartansburg Courthouse to York, by Hancockville, Gandy’s store, Hopewell, and Thompson’s tan-yard.
Georgia.
Tennessee.
From Athens, formerly Mount Pleasant, in the county of McMin, by the way of Columbus, to the Spring place, on the Georgia road, in the Cherokee nation.
Kentucky.
From Burksville to Knoxville, in Tennessee
From Prestonsburg, in Floyd county, to the Courthouse in Pike Post-roads established.
From Perry Courthouse to Mount Pleasant, in Harlan county.
From Bowling Green to Louisville, by Woodsonville, Monfordsville, Elizabeth, and the mouth of Salt river; and that the present route from Louisville to Woodsonville be discontinued, as soon as the route now established is carried into operation.
From Hopkinsville to Eddyville, to go and return by Cadiz instead of by the Rockey Ridge [Rocky Ridge.]
In Ohio.—That the route heretofore established from Dayton direct Ohio.
That the route from Williamsburg, the seat of justice of Clermont county, to Lebanon, in Warren county, shall be so altered as to pass through the towns of Goshen, Hopkinsville, and Deerfield.
From Lancaster, through Circleville, in Pickaway county, Washington, in Fayette county, Wilmington, in Clinton county, and Lebanon, in Warren county, to Cincinnati.
From Lebanon, in Warren county, to Hamilton, in Butler county, be continued from Indianapolis, in Indiana, to Anderson’s town, by way of William Conner’s, once in two weeks.
In Illinois.—From Green Courthouse, by George Cadwell’s, in Morgan Illinois.
From Shawneetown to Hamilton Courthouse.
From Harrisonville, by Converse’s mill, Columbia, and Cahokia, to St. Louis, in lieu of the present route from Harrisonville to St. Louis, which is hereby discontinued.
From Carrolton, by the mouth of Apple creek, Ross’ settlement in Pike county, in Illinois, to Louisianaville, in Missouri, and from Coles’ Grove, in Pike county, to Carrolton; and the route from Alton to Louisianaville is hereby discontinued.
In Alabama.—From Claiborne, by the Tensaw, to Blakely. Alabama.
From Tuscaloosa to Columbus, by Pickins’ Courthouse, in lieu of the present route, which is hereby discontinued.
From Greensborough, by Erie, through what is called the Forks of the Tombigbee and Black Warrior rivers, by the Garden spot, to the Courthouse of Pickens’ county.
From Cahaba to Greensborough.
From St. Steven’s, by the way of Fort Stoddart, to Mobile.
From Fort Dale, by Emmett’s store, in Butler county, to Cahaba.
From Hartford, in the state of Georgia, by Early Courthouse, Attawa’s store, in Henry county, Alabama, Pike and Covington Courthouses, to Sparta, and that the route heretofore established, from Fort Hawkins, by Fort Ganes [Gaines] to Conicu Courthouse, to be discontinued.
In Missouri.—From St. Louis, to Boonville, by Winchester, Ninian Missouri.
In Michigan Territory.—From Detroit, by Pontiac, to the Military Michigan.
In the Floridas.—From Pensacola, Preolata, on the river St. John’s, to Florida.
Steamboat routes consid
ered as postroads.
[Expired.]
Compensation to reporter of Supreme Court decisions.
Proviso.
Distribution of reports.
Copies, in case of decease, to be delivered to successors in office.
Act to continue three years.
Judges of the superior courts of Florida to adjust the claims under the ninth article of the Florida treaty.
Decision with evidence to be reported to the Secretary of the Treasury.
[Obsolete.]
Citizens qualified by the act of February 16, 1819, ch. 22, entitled to vote, and eligible to any office, in the territory of Michigan.
Powers of the governor and legislative council of Michigan.
Vol. i. 51.
Act of Jan. 11, 1805, ch. 5.
Council to consist of nine persons.
Mode of election.
Session of the legislative council not to exceed sixty days.
Compensation.
Proviso.
Powers of the judges.
Judges to hold office for four years.
Proviso.
Legislature empowered to submit the question for a general assembly.
Organization, &c. of a general assembly.
Powers of the governor.
Laws of the United States inconsistent with this act repealed as to Michigan.
There shall be only one clerk of the Supreme Court.
Officers of the treasury to settle the accounts of John J. Deming.
An act providing for the better organization of the Treasury Department, May 15, 1820, ch. 107. See notes to act of May 15, 1820, ch. 107.
Accounting officers of the
treasury to admit expenditures in certain cases, and under certain restrictions.
Proviso.
In a difference of opinion, the case shall be referred to the Secretary of War.
Any person swearing falsely, shall suffer as for wilful and corrupt perjury.
The Secretary of the Treasury, in order to carry into effect the authority given to him, to liquidate and pay the claims referred to in the act of 1832, had established a regulation authorizing affidavits made before any justice of the peace of a state, to be received and considered in proof of claims under the act. By implication, he possessed the power to make such a regulation, and to allow such affidavits in proof of claims under the act of 1832. It was incidental to his duty and authority in settling claims under the act. When the oath is taken before a state or national magistrate, authorized to administer oaths in pursuance of any regulations prescribed by the Treasury Department, or in conformity with the practice of the Treasury Department, so that the affidavit would be admissible evidence at the Department in support of any claim against the United States, and the party swears falsely, the case is within the purview of the act of 1823. Ibid.
If a state magistrate shall administer an oath, under an act of Congress expressly giving him the power to do so, it would be a lawful oath, before one having competent authority, and as much so as if he had been specially appointed a commissioner under a law of the United States for that purpose, and such an oath, administered under such circumstances, would be within the purview of the act of 1823. Ibid.
The act of 1823 does not create or punish the crime of perjury, technically considered. But it creates a new and substantial offence of false swearing, and punishes it in the same manner as perjury. The oath, therefore, need not be administered in a judicial proceeding, or in a case in which the state magistrate, under the state laws, had jurisdiction, so as to make the false swearing perjury. It would be sufficient, that it might be lawfully administered by the magistrate, and was not in violation of his official duty. Ibid.
[Obsolete.]
Persons guilty of certain frauds
on the government of the United States to be considered guilty of felony.
To be punished by imprisonment.
Persons knowingly having fraudulent papers, &c. to be fined and imprisoned.
The courts of the several states not to be deprived of jurisdiction over the offences punishable by this law.
Act of April 11, 1818, ch. 47.
Two years allowed to officers and soldiers of the Virginia line for obtaining warrants.
Provisions of the act of March 3, 1807, ch. 31, revived.
Proviso.
Holders of warrants not permitted to remove location.
Alabama allowed the right of pre-emption of lands for seats of justice.
Proviso.
Proviso.
An act for altering the times and places of holding the circuit courts therein mentioned, and for other purposes, Act of March 3, 1801, ch. 32, sec. 1.
An act to repeal certain acts respecting the organization of the courts of the United States, and for other purposes, March 8, 1802, ch. 8.
An act establishing a circuit court within and for the district of Maine, March 30, 1820, ch. 25.
An act providing compensation for the officers of the judicial courts of the United States, and for jurors and witnesses, and for other purposes, March 3, 1791, ch. 22, sec. 2.
An act altering the time of holding the circuit courts in certain districts of the United States, and for other purposes, April 3, 1792, ch. 21, sec. 2.
An act to alter the times and places of holding the circuit courts in the eastern district and in North Carolina, and for other purposes, March 2, 1793, ch. 23.
An act concerning the circuit courts of the United States, March 3, 1797, ch. 27.
An act for altering the times and places of holding the circuit courts therein mentioned, and for other purposes, Act of March 3, 1801, ch. 32, sec. 1.
An act to repeal certain acts respecting the organization of the courts of the United States, and for other purposes, March 8, 1802, ch. 8.
An act to alter the times of holding the circuit court in the first district, March 26, 1812, ch. 45.
Days of holding the terms of the circuit court of Maine and New Hampshire changed.
Act of April 3, 1818, ch. 32.
An appeal to be from the northern district court of New York, to the circuit court in the southern district.
[Expired.]
Act of March 3, 1801, ch. 21, concerning the mint, revived for five years.
Duty of commissioner of Ioans to be performed by the collector of Philadelphia.
Expense of materials used in refining, and other deductions, to be made from the deposit, and accounted for to treasury of the United States.
An act for the admission of the state of Louisiana into the Union, and to extend the laws of the United States to the said state, April 8, 1812, ch. 50.
An act for the better organization of the district court of the United States within the state of Louisiana, March 3, 1823, ch. 44.
An act to change the time of holding the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana, March 3, 1825, ch. 80.
An act to alter the time of holding the district court of the United States for the western district of Louisiana, May 22, 1832, ch. 92.
An act for changing the terms of the district court for the western district of Louisiana, June 30, 1834, ch. 173.
An act respecting the jurisdiction of certain district courts, Feb. 19, 1831, ch. 28.
State of Louisiana divided into two districts, the western and eastern.
Three stated sessions to be held annually for the eastern district at New Orleans, and one for the western at Opelousas Courthouse.
Judge to appoint a clerk for the western district court.
President to appoint a marshal and district attorney for the western district.
Time of holding the district court of Vermont altered.
Proviso.
Causes to be proceeded in as if no alteration had been made.
[Expired.]
Time of issuing and locating military land warrants to revolutionary officers and soldiers extended.
1819, ch. 41.
Act of January 9, 1815, ch. 21.
Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 24.
[Expired.]
Time for redemption of lands sold for direct tax revived and extended for two years.
Proviso.
Right of the United States to militia fines in Virginia vested in that state.
Moneys that are or have been collected to be paid to treasurer of the state.
Fines to be recovered by the state as prescribed by the legislature.
Proviso.
Superintendent of the public buildings to erect a monument over the tomb of Elbridge Gerry.
Appropriation therefor.
[Expired.]
Act of April 29, 1816, ch. 139.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 52.
Act of April 29, 1816, regulating currency,
to be in force for four years, as regards French crowns and five franc pieces.
Instalments due on certain lots in Shawneetown remitted.
The President to designate a place for an additional land office in the territory of Michigan.
President to appoint a register and receiver.
Provisions of the act of March 3, 1819, made applicable to this office.
1819, ch. 92.
Proviso.
Act to take effect 1st May next.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 50.
Gold coins of Great Britain, Portugal, France, and Spain, to be received in payment on account of lands.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause assays to be made annually at the mint.
President to cause certain mail-roads to be cleared, repaired, and improved.
Proviso.
[Expired.]
April 23, 1800, ch. 31.
Deeds, &c. not stamped by act of April 23, 1800, on payment of the duty and ten dollars, rendered valid as if stamped.
Act to continue in force for one year.
Secretary of the Treasury empowered to contract for building lighthouses, &c. on certain sites and shoals.
Proviso.
Appropriations.
1822, ch. 119.
President to cause an examination and survey to be made of the obstruction between the harbour of Gloucester, and that of Squam, in Mass.
Appropriation.
Appropriation for examination and survey of Port Presque Isle.
The act of April 20, 1822, ch. 30, for the relief of the purchasers of public lands, extended to 30th Sept. next.
Penalty of the act of March 2, 1821, ch. 14, for regulating the entry of merchandise from any foreign territory, altered.
Persons receiving, &c. goods illegally imported and liable to seizure., to forfeit double the amount.
Persons forcibly resisting, &c. an officer of the customs, to be fined.
Provisions of the 46th section of the act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22, sec. 46, extended.
Penalties to be sued for, &c.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22, sec. 89.
Act of March 11, 1818, ch. 19.
Secretary of War authorized to restore to the list such pensioners as have or shall be struck off by the act of May 1, 1820, ch. 53, upon certain conditions.
A judge may attend at the dwelling of such person as shall be unable to attend in court to make his schedule.
No pension to commence previous to the passing of this act, &c.
1819, ch. 92.
Lands ceded by the Wea Indians to be attached to the Terre Haute district.
Lands to be sold at the land office of the Terre Haute district, on such day or days as shall be designated by the President.
Act of April 24, 1820, ch. 51.
Register and receiver to receive five dollars a day each.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations for fortifications.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit:
For fortifications, to each specifically, as follows, viz :
For Fort Delaware, fifty-eight thousand dollars:
For Fort Washington, forty-six thousand dollars:
For Fort Monroe, one hundred thousand dollars :
For Fort Calhoun, eighty thousand dollars :
For collecting materials for a fortification at Mobile Point, in the state of Alabama, fifty thousand dollars :
Appropriations.
For collecting materials for, and progressing with, a fort on the right bank of the Mississippi, opposite Fort St. Philip, forty thousand dollars:
For repairing Fort Jackson, in the harbour of Savannah, eight thousand dollars:
For contingencies and repairs of fortifications, twenty-six thousand dollars:
For the purchase of small arms for arming the whole body of the militia, in addition to the annual appropriation of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three for arming the militia, twenty thousand dollars:
For completing the barracks and other public buildings, at Baton Rouge, twenty-nine thousand one hundred seventy-eight dollars seventy-seven cents.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations for the public buildings.
That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit:
For improving the grounds around the Capitol, one thousand dollars:
For making the necessary alteration in the Representatives’ Hall, for the accommodation of the eighteenth Congress, the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars:
For finishing the south portico to the President’s house, the sum of nineteen thousand dollars.
For an allegorical ornament for a clock for the use of the Senate, two thousand dollars.
To be paid from the treasury.
Postmaster General to pay certain balances.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 133.
To pay for repairs from the contingent fund.
[Obsolete.]
Officers of the treasury to set-
tie the accounts of the surveyor of Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, for extra clerk hire.
Act of April 3, 1818, ch. 26.
Circuit court of Washington county in the District of Columbia, to be accommodated with apartments in the City Hall.
Appropriation.
To be expended under the superintendence of the commissioner of public buildings.
When apartments are finished, court to be removed, and no allowance admitted afterwards for rent.
A new land district to be formed, to be called the western district, for which a land office is to be established.
A register and
receiver to be appointed.
From 1st April next there shall be a new township line between the townships No. 37 and 38.
The Secretary of State authorized to subscribe for 550 copies of the 6th volume of the laws of the United States.
Distribution.
Appropriation.
Certain claims to lots in the village of Peoria confirmed.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 117.
Proviso.
The several lots to be surveyed.
Certain lands to be granted to the state of Missouri for schools.
Certain lands granted to salt springs.
Act of March 6, 1820, ch. 22.
March 1, 1817, ch. 29.
Provisions of the act of March 1, 1817, respecting the ransom of American captives, extended.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Accounting officer authorized to adjust and settle accounts for clothing furnished.
Proviso.
Sums to be paid out of the Treasury.
President authorized to employ an engineer to examine a site for a national armory on the western waters.
Appropriation.
May 15, 1820. ch. 113.
District courts to take cognisance of piracy.
Secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives required to furnish a detailed statement of their expenditures under different heads.
Compensation to be withheld from certain prize agents.