Articles of agreement.
the
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
ACTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
An abstract to be made out of military bounty lands for the territory of Arkansas.
Act of June 6, 1798, ch. 49.
Act of Jan. 6, 1800, ch. 4.
Act of April 22, 1824, ch. 39.
The oath prescribed by the act of Jan. 6, 1800, to be administered by, &c.
The acts relating to discriminating duties have been:
An act imposing duties on the tonnage of ships and vessels, July 20, 1790, ch. 30, sec. 3.
Act of July 1, 1812, ch. 112, sec. 3.
An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage, April 27, 1816, ch. 107, sec. 3.
Act of Jan. 14, 1817, ch. 3. Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 50.
An act concerning discriminating duties on tonnage and impost, Jan. 7, 1824, ch. 4.
An act to amend the several acts imposing duties on imports, May 22, 1824, ch. 136, sec. 2.
An act concerning tonnage and discriminating duties in certain cases, (obsolete,) April 20, 1818, ch. 110.
An act in addition to “An act concerning tonnage and discriminating duties incertain cases,” (obsolete,) March 3, 1819, ch. 75.
An act to exempt Swedish and Norwegian vessels, and the merchandise imported therein from the payment of discriminating duties of tonnage and impost, for a limited time, and for other purposes, Feb. 22, 1827, ch. 21.
An act to equalize the duties on vessels of the Republic of Colombia, and their cargoes, April 20, 1826, ch. 26.
An act to refund certain duties paid upon vessels belonging to citizens of Hamburg, and their cargoes, March 2, 1827, ch. 45.
An act respecting discriminating duties upon Dutch and Belgian vessels and their cargoes, March 2, 1837, ch. 19.
An act in addition to an act entitled “An act concerning discriminating duties of tonnage and impost,” and to equalize the duties on Prussian vessels and their cargoes, May 24, 1828, ch. 111.
An act to suspend the discriminating duties upon goods imported in vessels of Portugal, and to reduce the duties on wines, July 4, 1836, ch. 359.
An act giving effect to a commercial arrangement between the United States and the Republic of Colombia, May 19, 1832, ch. 79.
An act concerning tonnage duty on Spanish vessels, July 13, 1832, ch. 207.
An act relating to duties and drawbacks, Sept. 11, 1841, ch. 24, sec. 4.
An act to provide revenue from imposts, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes, Aug. 30, 1842, ch. 270, sec. 11.
For proclamations as to discriminating duties, issued under various acts, see Vol. 3, Appendix 1. and post Appendix III.
The several acts imposing discriminating duties of tonnage on foreign vessels, to be suspended as respects the kingdom of the Netherlands, &c.
Discriminating duties of impost on foreign vessels to be suspended, as respects the produce, &c., of the territories in Europe, of any of the mentioned nations.
This suspension to continue so long as the vessels of the United States and their cargoes shall be exempt from like discriminating duties in their ports.
The President to issue a proclamation of reciprocal exemption, on evidence of any foreign nation abolishing discriminating duties on vessels and goods of the United States.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation for the compensation of the Senate and House of Representatives.
[Obsolete.]
Secretary of the Treasury to refund to certain distillers, such duties as may have been paid by them, respectively, on certain stills.
[Expired.]
Act of March 4, 1814, ch. 20.
The term of half pay pensions, to the widows, &c. of officers, &c. who died in the public service, extended.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 60, repealed.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
That Commissioners of sinking fund to purchase, during the year 1824, seven per cent, stock, to an amount not exceeding 8,610,- 000 dollars.
For all such stock as they may purchase before the first day of April next, at a rate not exceeding two dollars for every sum of one hundred dollars, in addition to the interest which would have accrued on that day upon the said stock:
For all such stock which they may purchase between the first day of April and the first day of July next, at a rate not exceeding seventy-five cents on every sum of one hundred dollars, in addition to the interest which would have accrued on the day last mentioned:
For all such stock which they may purchase between the first day of July and the first day of October next, at a rate not exceeding, on every sum of one hundred dollars, the amount of interest which would have accrued on the day last mentioned: and
For all such stock which they may purchase between the first day of October next, and the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, at a rate not exceeding the principal and the interest which shall have accrued at the day of purchase.
The commissioners authorized to make such purchases under certain restrictions.
Act of March 3, 1827, ch. 96.
The President to appoint three commissioners to open a road from a point on the right bank of the Mississippi, opposite to the town of Memphis, to Little Rock, Arkansas.
United States troops to complete the same.
Compensation to the commissioners, three dollars
Assistants, one dollar fifty cents per day.
[Expired.]
Act of April 18, 1818, ch. 69.
Compensations of the secretary of the Senate, and clerk of the House of Representatives, &c.
[Obsolete.]
A public road to be opened from Pensacola to St. Augustine.
The troops of the United States to open the same.
20,000 dollars to be appropriated.
The most direct and practicable route to he surveyed from Cape Sable to where the Suwaney river will be intersected by the road from Pensacola to St. Augustine, &c.
3000 dollars to be appropriated.
Land, to be attached to the district of the surveyor, and the deputy surveyor east of the island of New Orleans, &c.
[Expired.]
The act amending, &c. the act for asecrtaining the titles to land in Florida, to be extended.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 29, 34.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 83. April 22, 1826, ch. 29.
The claimant or claimants not required to produce in evidence a deraignment of title from the original grantee or patentee, &c. 1822, ch. 129.
Proviso.
Proviso.
No person to be deemed an actual settler within the provisions of the act of March 3, 1823, ch. 29, unless he be an occupier, &c.
Part of act repealed.
Secretaries of commissioners having received 1250 dollars, required to pay over such fees as have been demanded and received by them.
So much of the acts of which this is amendatory, as makes void all claims not filed before Dec. 1, 1823, to be repealed.
Compensation of the commissioners.
So much of the act of April 18, 1814, ch. 79, as lessens the compensation of marshals, &c., to be repealed.
[Obsolete.]
That Specific appropriations tor the military service, for 1821.
For pay of the army, and subsistence of officers, nine hundred and ninety-four thousand four hundred and seven dollars and five cents, including the sum of one hundred and twenty-eight thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars, for the pay and subsistence of the officers and cadets belonging to the military academy at West Point.
For subsistence, in addition to an unexpended balance of twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars, two hundred and sixty-nine thousand three hundred and forty-seven dollars.
For forage for officers, thirty-six thousand one hundred and twenty-three dollars.
For the recruiting service, in addition to an unexpended balance of sixteen thousand dollars, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses for the recruiting service, sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the purchasing department, in addition to the amount of clothing on hand, one hundred and forty-one thousand six hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty-nine cents.
For the purchase of woollens, during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, in advance for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, twenty thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, in addition to supplies on hand, and an unexpended balance, both amounting to twenty-two thousand seven hundred dollars, ten thousand dollars.
For the quartermaster general’s department, in addition to an unexpended balance of thirty-five thousand dollars, two hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars.
For the purchase of Gridley’s farm, ten thousand dollars: Proviso.
For the contingencies of the army, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For the current expenses of the ordnance service, forty-two thousand dollars.
For pensions to the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, one
For the pensions to the invalids, to the commutation pensioners, and to the widows and orphans, three hundred and thirteen thousand one hundred and seventy-four dollars and forty-two cents.
For arrearages in the War Department, prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, twenty-six thousand dollars.
To be paid out of the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Act of April 21, 1820, ch. 47.
The state of Alabama to be divided into two districts.
District court for the southern district to be held at Mobile twice, at Cahawba once; and that of the northern district at Huntsville once in each year.
All writs and executions to be returned to the district court at Mobile and Cahawba, to be adjourned, &c. to the times appointed by this act.
All cases pending in the district courts, at Mobile and Cahawba, to be adjourned, &c. to the times appointed by this act, &c.
All cases pending in said courts, in which the defendant or defendants resided in the northern district at the time of serving the process, to be transferred to the court for the northern district, &c.
All suits hereafter to be brought, not of a local nature, to be brought only in the district where die defendant shall reside, &c.
A clerk of the district court for the northern district to be appointed.
The district attorney for the district of Alabama to be attorney for the southern, and one to be appointed for the northern district.
Adjournment in case of the non-attendance of the judge.
The country lying between the Illinois and Mississippi rivers, &c. to be attached to, &c. the land district of Edwardsville, &c.
Act of March 1, 1823, ch. 23.
The sessions of the district court of Kentucky, to be held on the first Mondays of May and November.
Motions, &c. to stand adjourned.
One draughtsman and two colourers to be appointed in the general land office for one year.
[Obsolete.]
That Sums appropriated for the service of the year 1824.
For compensation to the Senators and members of the House of Congress and their officers. 1823, ch. 3.
For expenses of fuel, stationery, printing, and all other contingent Contingent expenses of Congress.
For expenses of the library of Congress, including the salary of Library, and librarian to Congress.
For compensation to the President of the United States, twenty-five President.
For compensation to the Vice President of the United States, five thousand 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 Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For Messengers.
For Contingent expenses.
For Secretary of the Treasury.
For Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For Additional clerk. 1818, ch. 87.
For Messengers.
For First comptroller.
For Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For Messengers.
For Second comptroller.
For Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For Messenger.
For First auditor.
For Clerks.
For Messenger.
For Second auditor.
For Clerks.
For Messenger.
For Third auditor.
For Clerks.
For Messengers.
For Fourth auditor.
For Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For Messenger.
For Additional clerk.
For Fifth auditor.
For 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.
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. 40.
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 such persons as may be employed to bring up the Persons employed in the office.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, one thousand and Messengers.
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 compensation to the assistant messenger in said office, three hundred 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 Transmitting passports, translating, &c. in the treasury.
For allowance to the superintendent and four watchmen, employed Superintendent and watchmen.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, six thousand dollars. Secretary of War.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of War, Clerks.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, one thousand and Messengers.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the paymaster general, Paymaster general. Clerks.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, seven hundred Messenger.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general Commissary general.
For Messenger.
For Adjutant general’s clerks.
For Clerks of the ordnance.
For Clerks of commissary general of subsistence.
For Clerks of chief engineer.
For Surgeon general’s clerk.
For Contingent expenses of War Department.
For Secretary of the Navy.
For Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For Messengers.
For Contingent expenses.
For Commissioners of navy board.
For Secretary of board.
For Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For Other clerks, &c.
For Messenger.
For Contingent expenses.
For Superintendent and watchmen of war and navy buildings.
For Postmaster General.
For Assistant P. M. general.
For Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For Two clerks, as allowed per act of 1823. 1823, ch. 31.
For Messengers.
For Contingent expenses.
For Surveyor general.
For Clerks.
For Surveyor south of Tennessee.
For Clerks.
For Surveyor in Illinois and Missouri, &c.
For Clerks.
For Surveyor in Alabama.
For Clerks.
For Commissioner of public buildings.
For Officers and clerk of the mint.
For Persons employed in the mint.
For Contingent expenses, &c.
For Governor, &c. of Michigan.
For Contingent expenses.
For Governor, &c. of Arkansas.
For Contingent expenses.
For Governor, judges, &c. of Florida.
For Six commissioners.
For Chief justice, &c. of the United States.
For Attorney general.
For Clerk.
For Reporter of Supreme Court.
For District attorneys and marshals.
For Courts, jurors, and witnesses.
For Sundry pensions.
For Lighthouses. Buoys, &c.
For Registers, &c.
For Surveying.
For Capitol.
For Repairs in the room occupied by the Supreme Court.
For Capitol square, &c.
For Footways.
For Stationery, &c. for commissioners of loans.
For Rent, &c. of the tenement occupied by the President.
For Registers for ships, &c.
For Seamen.
For Miscellaneous claims.
For Ministers, &c. of the United States.
For Ministers, &c. appointed to the governments on the continent of America.
For Outfits.
For Secretaries of legation.
For Contingent expenses.
For Agents of claims.
For Commissioner, &c., under the first article of the treaty of Ghent, &c.
For Carrying into effect the sixth and seventh articles of the treaty of Ghent.
For Barbary powers.
For Contingent expenses of foreign intercourse.
For Extra clerks in General Post-office.
For compensation of nine members of the legislative council of the Legislative council of Michigan.
For the contingent expenses of the legislative council, including Contingent expenses, &c.
For the salaries of the secretaries of the land commissioners of East and Secretaries, &c.
For compensation and travelling expenses of the members of the Compensation, &c., of legislative council of Florida, &c.
For the completion of the medals voted by Congress to certain general Medals, &c.
For a draughtsman and two colourers, for the general land office, authorized Draughtsman, &c.
Paid out of the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
During the continuance of the act of April 21, 1808, ch. 50, the Washington and Alexandria turnpike company may demand, at the bridge over the Four Mile Creek, one cent for each foot passenger.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Acts of March 4, 1814, ch. 20, and April 18, 1818, ch. 65, extended.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 190.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Official acts of James Miller as governor of Arkansas, from March 3, 1822, to Jan. 3, 1823, declared valid.
Sessions of the circuit court for the Ohio district, and the district court.
The next fell term of the circuit court for the Kentucky district, to be held on the second Monday in October.
Proviso.
All recognisances, &c. to be proceeded in, &c.
Consent, &c. of Congress, given to the act of the legislative council of Florida.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 70.
The district court for the district of Illinois to be holden on the third Mondays in June and November.
All writs to be proceeded in &c.
Act of Jan. 6, 1800, ch. 4.
Act of Jan. 7, 1824, ch. 3.
Persons commissioned under act of Jan. 6, 1800, to have full power, &c. to issue a citation directed to the creditor, agent, or attorney, &c.
The creditor, &c., if living within 50 miles, to give fifteen days’ previous notice.
[Obsolete.]
That, Special appropriation for the Navy.
For Pay of officers and seamen.
For Provisions.
For Medicines.
For Subsistence of officers at navy yards &c.
For Contingent expenses.
For contingent expenses for objects arising in the current year, and not hereinbefore enumerated, five thousand dollars.
For repairs of vessels, and for wear and tear, three hundred and fifty Repairs of vessels.
For the improvement of navy yards, docks, and wharves, slips, enclosures, Navy yards.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, including small arms, manufacture Ordnance and ordnance stores.
For ship’s houses, to repay the amount taken from the gradual increase, Ship’s houses.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and seventy-two Marine corps.
For clothing for the same, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and Clothing.
For fuel for the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, Fuel.
For military stores, including stocking arms, armorer’s Military stores, &c.
For medicines, hospital stores, and instruments for the officers Contingent expenses.
For contingent expenses; that is to say: fuel for commissioned officers, transportation, stationery, bed sacks, straw, extra rations to officers, and postage on public letters, nine thousand dollars.
For repairing barracks at the different stations, and for building new barracks at Portsmouth, ten thousand dollars.
Paid out of the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
That Specific appropriations for certain fortifications.
For fort Jackson, at Plaquemine Turn, on the river Mississippi, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
For the fort at Chef Menteur, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the fort at Mobile Point, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For fort Monroe, ninety-five thousand dollars.
For fort Calhoun, ninety thousand dollars.
For topographical reconnoisance, repairs, and contingencies, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For the purchase of a site, and collecting materials for the projected work at New Utrecht Point, one of the works intended to defend the Narrows, in New York harbour, fifty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of a site, and collecting materials for the projected work at Brenton’s Point, Narraganset Bay, Rhode Island, fifty thousand dollars.
The acts relating to the district court of Missouri, are:
An act to provide for the duo 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, sec. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
An act to alter the time of holding the district court in the district of Missouri, April 29, 1824, ch. 45.
An act supplementary to the act entitled “An act to amend the judicial system of the United States,” March 3, 1837, ch. 34.
An act to amend the act of the third of March, 1837, entitled “An act supplementary to the act entitled ‘An act to amend the judicial system of the United States, and for other purposes,’” March 3, 1839, ch. 81.
The district court for Missouri, to be held on the first Monday in March and September yearly.
Writs, &c. to be proceeded with as though no alteration had been made.
The President to cause the necessary surveys to be made of such roads and nan ale as he may deem of national importance, &c.
Two or more skilful engineers to be employed.
3000 dollars to be distributed as prize money to Lieutenant Francis H. Gregory, &c. for the capture and destruction of a British gun-boat, in June, 1814.
Consent of Congress given to the acts of the general assembly of Alabama, of the 30th and 31st Dec., 1823.
An act concerning the orphans’ court of Alexandria county, in the District of Columbia, May 19, 1828, ch. 59.
An act to establish a criminal court in the District of Columbia, July 7, 1838, ch. 192.
Session of the circuit court of the District of Columbia.
[Obsolete.]
Where the purchaser or holder of any of the public lands, has obtained a certificate of further credit, under the act of March 2, 1821, ch. 12, he shall be allowed to file it with the register of the land office where such land is situated.
Act of April 20, 1822, ch. 30.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 57.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 176.
Proviso.
Proviso.
A deduction to be made on complete payments.
Duty of the registers and receivers.
Fees to be allowed them.
1821, ch. 12.
The provisions of this act to extend to town lots, &c.
[Repealed.]
An agent to be appointed to the Osage Indians west of the state of Missouri, and territory of Arkansas.
Said agents to reside near said tribe or tribes.
See notes to the acts imposing duties on imports, vol. i. 24.
Act of May 19, 1828, ch. 56. Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 227. Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 55. Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 58. Act of March 2, 1833. ch. 62. Act of June 30, 1834, ch. 131, 139. Act of March 3, 1835, ch. 42. Act of March 2, 1837, ch. 15. Act of May 31, 1838, ch. 93. Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 178. Act of March 3, 1839, ch. 82, sec. 2. Act of Sept. 11, 1841, ch. 24. Act of Aug. 30, 1842, ch. 270. Act of April 2, 1844, ch. 8. Act of June 4, 1844, ch. 39.
Under the Tariff act of 22d May, 1824, ch. 136, bombazines being goods in which wool is a component material, are liable to a duty of thirty per cent. The United States v. Edward Clarke and others, 5 Mason’s C. C. R. 30.
[Repealed.]
That, Specific duties on goods imported.
First. On sail-duck, osnaburgs, burlaps, and ticklenbergs, a duty Sail-duck.
On all manufactures of wool, or of which wool shall be a component part, except worsted stuff goods and blankets, which shall pay twenty-
Second. On Cotton, &c. Proviso. Proviso.
Third. On Wool unmanufactured. Proviso.
Fourth. On Leghorn hats. Proviso.
Fifth. On Japanned wares, &c.
On Bolting cloths, &c.
On Hair cloth, &c.
On Marble, &c.
On all paper hangings, forty per centum ad valorem; Paper hangings.
On coach laces, of cotton or other material, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; on all other laces, twelve and a half per centum ad valorem; Coach laces.
On lead, in pigs, bars, or sheets, two cents per pound; Lead.
On leaden shot, three and one half cents per pound; Leaden shot.
On red or while lead, dry, or ground in oil, four cents per pound; Red or white lead.
On Brussels, Turkey, and Wilton carpets and carpeting, fifty cents per square yard; Brussels, &c. carpets.
On all Venetian and ingrain carpets or carpeting, twenty-five cents per square yard; Venetian, &c. carpets.
On all other kinds of carpets and carpeting, of wool, flax, hemp, or cotton, All other kinds of carpeting.
On oil cloth carpeting, and on oil cloths, of every description, a duty Oil cloth carpeting, &c.
On all other carpets and carpeting, mats, and floor cloths, made of tow, All other carpets, &c.
On hemp, at the rate of thirty-five dollars per ton; Hemp.
On tarred cables and cordage, four cents per pound; Tarred cables.
On untarred cordage, yarns, twine, pack thread, and Untarred cordage.
On cotton bagging, three cents and three fourths of Cotton bagging.
On iron, in bars or bolts, not manufactured, in whole Iron.
On round iron, or braziers’ rods, of three sixteenths Round iron.
On iron spikes, four cents per pound; Iron spikes.
On iron nails, cut or wrought, five cents per pound; Iron nails.
On tacks, brads, and sprigs, not exceeding sixteen ounces Tacks, &c.
On iron or steel wire, not exceeding number eighteen, five Iron or steel wire.
On square wire, used in the manufacture of stretchers for Square wire.
On anvils and anchors, two cents per pound; Anvils, &c.
On iron cables or chains, or parts thereof, three cents per Iron cables, &c.
On mill cranks and mill irons, of wrought iron, four cents Mill cranks, &c.
On mill saws, one dollar each; Mill saws.
On blacksmiths’ hammers and sledges, two and Blacksmiths’ hammers, &c.
On muskets, one dollar and fifty cents per stand; Muskets.
On rifles, two dollars and filly cents each; Rifles.
On all other lire arms, and on side arms, thirty All other fire arms, &c.
On cutting knives, scythes, sickles, and reaping hooks, Cutting knives, &c.
On screws of iron, weighing twenty-five pounds, or Screws of iron.
On screws of iron, for wood, called wood-screws, thirty per centum ad valorem;
On vessels of cast iron not otherwise specified, one Vessels of cast iron.
On all other castings of iron, not specified, one All other castings of iron.
On all vessels of copper, thirty-five per centum All vessels of copper.
On quills, prepared or manufactured, twenty-five Quills.
On Slates, &c.
On Black lead pencils.
On Tallow candles.
On Sperm candles.
On Soap.
On Lard.
On Wheat.
On Oats.
On Wheat flour.
On Potatoes.
On Coal.
On Corks.
On Prunelle and other shoes.
On Lace boots, &c.
On Linseed, &c. oil.
On Castor oil, &c.
On Ale, &c.
On Beef, &c.
On Hams, &c.
On Butter.
On Vinegar.
On Alum.
On Refined saltpetre.
On Blue vitriol.
On Oil of vitriol.
On Glauber salts.
On Epsom salts.
On Camphor.
On Refined camphor.
On Copperas.
On Cayenne pepper.
On Ginger.
On Chocolate.
On Currants, &c.
On Plums, &c.
On All other raisins.
On Window glass. Proviso.
On Black glass bottles.
On Demijohns.
On Apothecaries’ vials.
On All wares of glass.
On All other articles of glass.
On Books.
On all other books, when bound, thirty cents per pound; when Books, when bound.
On folio and quarto post paper, of all kinds, twenty cents per pound; Folio and quarto post paper.
On foolscap and all drawing and writing paper, seventeen cents per pound; Foolscap, &c. paper.
On printing, copperplate, and stainers’ paper, ten cents per pound; Printing, &c. paper.
On sheathing paper, binders, and box boards, and wrapping paper, of all Sheathing paper, &c.
On all other paper, fifteen cents per pound; All other paper.
A duty of twelve and a half per centum ad valorem on all articles not 12½ cents on all articles not herein specified.
An addition of ten per centum to be made to the several rates of duties herein imposed.
Proviso.
A drawback of die duties imposed by this act, to be allowed, &c.
April 27, 1816, ch. 107.
Drawback allowed on coloured, &c. silk cloths, &c.
Proviso.
The existing laws to be in force.
The provisions of the second section of the act of April 27, 1816, ch. 107, extended to the benefit of colleges, &c. in the United States.
One quarter section of land granted to the territory of Florida for the seat of government.
The governor, &c. to adopt such measures for the sale of said land, as they may deem expedient.
Three entire quarter sections to be reserved for the United States.
Part of the 7th section of the act of March 3, 1823, ch. 29, repealed.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 98.
Any mistake which has been made by the person making the entry in relation to the correct numbers of any tract of land not exceeding one half section, on satisfactory evidence being produced to the commissioner of the general land office, he shall cause the entry to he changed, &c.
Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 12.
Proviso.
Proviso.
All oaths under this act to be administered by the register or receiver.
The register and receiver to receive 25 cents for every hundred words of the evidence transmitted to the land office.
Appropriations to improve the Ohio, Missouri and Mississippi rivers:
Toward improving the navigation of the Missouri and Ohio rivers, act of May 23, 1828, ch. 73.
For continuing to improve the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, fifty thousand dollars, act of March 3, 1829, ch. 51.
For improving the navigation of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, fifty thousand dollars, act of April 23, 1830, ch. 72.
For improving the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, to be expended under the existing laws, fifty thousand dollars, act of March 2, 1831, ch. 58.
For improving the navigation of the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers, fifty thousand dollars, July 3, 1832, ch. 153.
For improving the navigation of the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers, fifty thousand dollars, March 2, 1833, ch. 69.
For improving the navigation of the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers, fifty thousand dollars, Jan. 28, 1834, ch. 103.
For improving the navigation of the Ohio river below the falls, and the Missouri, and Mississippi rivers, fifty thousand dollars, March 3, 1835, ch. 25.
For improving the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers from Louisville to New Orleans, sixty thousand dollars, July 2, 1836, ch. 259.
For improving the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, from Pittsburg to New Orleans, under the act of second of March, 1831, seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars and four cents, July 1836, ch. 259.
For continuing the improvement of the Ohio river, between the falls and Pittsburg, sixty thousand dollars, March 3, 1837, ch. 44.
For continuing the improvement of the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, from Louisville to New Orleans, March, 1837, ch. 44.
For continuing the work for the removal of the obstructions to the navigation of the Mississippi river, at its mouth, two hundred and ten thousand dollars, March 3, 1837, ch. 44.
For continuing the improvement of the Mississippi river, above the mouth of the Ohio, and of the Missouri river, forty thousand dollars, March 3, 1837, ch. 44.
For improving the navigation of the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers, and to replace the steam snag-boat Archimedes, sunk in the Mississippi river, in November last, twenty-three thousand dollars, March 3, 1837, ch. 44.
For improving the Ohio river between the falls and Pittsburg, fifty thousand dollars, July 7, 1838, ch. 171.
For continuing the improvement of the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, from Louisville to New Orleans, seventy thousand dollars, July 7, 1838, ch. 171.
For continuing the improvement of the Mississippi river, above the mouth of the Ohio and of the Missouri river, twenty thousand dollars, July 7, 1838, ch. 171.
For the continuation of improvements on the Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, and Arkansas rivers, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, act of March 1, 1843, ch. 52.
For the improvement of the Ohio river, between Pittsburg and the Falls of Louisville, one hundred thousand dollars, June 11, 1844, ch. 44.
For the improvement of the Ohio river, below the falls of Louisville, and of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, June 11, 1844, ch. 44.
The President authorized to cause the navigation of the Ohio river to be improved.
Proviso.
The President of the United States to take effectual measures to render the navigation of the Mississippi and Ohio safe.
75,000 dollars appropriated.
The President to lay before Congress at the commencement of each session a statement of the proceedings.
[Obsolete.]
The Secretary of the Treasury authorized to create a stock to an amount not exceeding 5,000,000 dollars, &c.
Moneys received from the sale of certificates of said stuck, to be applied to the payment of the awards under the treaty with Spain.
Proviso.
Interest accruing on said stock to be paid out of the treasury.
Course to be pursued in surveying lands.
Circuit and district courts in South Carolina.
Act of September 24, 1789, (obsolete,) ch. 20, sec. 3.
An act to alter the times for holding the circuit courts of the United States, in the district of South Carolina, and Georgia, and providing that the district court of Pennsylvania shall, in future, be held at the city of Philadelphia, (obsolete,) August 11, 1790, ch. 42.
An act concerning the circuit courts of the United States, March 3, 1797, ch. 27.
An act to amend the judicial system of the United States, April 29, 1802, ch. 31.
An act for the more convenient arrangement of the times and places of holding the circuit courts of the United States, for the districts of South Carolina and Georgia, April 24, 18 16, ch. 74.
An act to divide the state of South Carolina into two judicial districts, Feb. 21, 1823, ch. 11.
An act to alter the times of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States, for the district of South Carolina, May 25, 1824, ch. 145.
An act to amend an act, entitled An act to alter the times of holding the circuit and district courts for the district of South Carolina,” March 3, 1825, ch. 79.
An act for altering the time of holding the session of the Supreme Court of the United States, and of the sessions of the circuit court of the United States, for the districts of South Carolina and Georgia, May 4, 1826, ch. 37.
An act to alter the times for holding the sixth circuit court of the United States, for the district of South Carolina, Feb. 5, 1829, ch. 19.
An act to change the times of holding the federal courts in Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana, March 1, 1845, ch. 39.
The times for holding the circuit court for the district of South Carolina, to be changed.
All suits to be proceeded with as before.
The times of holding the district courts at Laurens Courthouse, to be altered.
Appropriation for making treaties with the Indians beyond the Mississippi.
Commissioners to be appointed.
Two sub-agents to be employed.
Indian agents to designate convenient places for carrying on trade.
The power vested in the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis.
10,000 dollars appropriated for a military escort.
[Obsolete.]
That Further appropriations for the military service.
For pay of a superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, and the several Indian agents, as allowed by Jaw, twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars:
For pay of the sub-agents, as allowed by law, thirteen thousand one hundred dollars:
For 1802, ch. 13.
For contingent expenses, ninety-five thousand dollars:
For March 3, 1823, ch. 71.
For the quartermaster’s department, fuel, stationery, and contingencies of the military academy, eleven thousand five hundred dollars:
For Compensation to two clerks in the second auditor’s office. 1818, ch. 87.
20,525 dollars and 70 cents appropriated.
1822, ch. 89.
To be paid out of the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
500 dollars to be paid Benjamin Huffman.
Proviso.
To be paid out of the treasury.
That Specific appropriations for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties.
For carrying into effect so much of the fourth article of die treaty of the eighth January, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, between the United States and the Creek nation, as relates to the compensation due to the citizens of Georgia, by the Creek nation, the appropriation heretofore made for that object being exhausted, the sum of twenty-three thousand dollars.
For the payment of the annuity to the Creek nation, as provided for by the same article of said treaty, the sum of sixteen thousand dollars annually, for five years, and the sum of ten thousand dollars, annually, for six years thereafter.
For implements of husbandry and stock of cattle and hogs, agreeably to the stipulation contained in the third article of the treaty with the Florida Indians, of the eighteenth September, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, the sum of six thousand dollars.
For the payment of the annuity to the Florida Indians, as provided for by the third article of said treaty, the sum of live thousand dollars, annually, for twenty years.
For the expense of rations to be furnished to said Indians, agreeably to the fifth article of said treaty, the sum of sixty-five thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation for improvements that may be abandoned by said
For transportation of the different tribes to the land assigned them by the said treaty, as provided for by the fifth article of the same, the sum of two thousand dollars.
For the establishment of a school, and the support of a gunsmith for said Indians, as provided for by the sixth article of said treaty, the sum of two thousand dollars, annually, for twenty years.
For running the line of the land assigned to said Indians, as provided for [in] the seventh article of said treaty, the sum of five thousand dollars.
To be paid out of the treasury.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch.89.
Any vessel licensed for the cod fishery, which may be wrecked, upon satisfactory proof shall be allowed the same as if no accident had happened.
The first section of this act to be extended to vessels, which, having completed their fishing terms, were wrecked subsequent to the act of March 3, 1819, ch. 89.
[Obsolete.]
20,000 dollars appropriated for deepening the channel leading into the harbour of Presque isle; and 20,000 to repair Plymouth beach, Massachusetts.
Acts which have been passed relating to public lands in Arkansas:
An act for the final adjustment of land titles in die state of Louisiana, and territory of Missouri, April 12, 1814. ch. 52.
An act to authorize the President of the United States to appoint a receiver of the public money and register of the land office for the district of Lawrence county in the Arkansas territory, March 17, 1820, ch. 24.
An act concerning preemption rights in the territory of Arkansas, May 26, 1824, ch. 154.
An act enabling the claimants to land within the limits of the state of Missouri and territory of Arkansas to institute proceedings to try the validity of their titles, May 26, 1824, ch. 173.
An act to continue in force for a limited time, and to amend an act entitled “An act to enable claimants to land within the limits of the state of Missouri and territory of Arkansas to institute proceedings to try the validity of their titles, May 24, 1828, ch. 90,
An act restricting the location of certain land claims in the territory of Arkansas, and for other purposes, Jan. 6, 1829, ch. 2.
An act to preserve from injury and waste the school lands in the territory of Arkansas, Jan. 6, 1829, ch. 3.
An act to extend the time for locating certain donations in Arkansas, expired Jan. 13, 1830, ch. 3.
An act further to extend the powers of the judges of the superior court of the territory of Arkansas, under the act of the 26 May, 1824, and for other purposes, May 8, 1830, ch. 90.
An act to authorize the selection of certain school lands in the territory of Arkansas, May 29, 1830, ch. 180.
An act to provide for surveying certain lands in the territory of Arkansas, May 29, 1830, ch. 182.
An act to extend the time for entering certain donation claims to land in the territory of Arkansas, Jan. 27, 1831, ch. 11.
An act further to extend the time for entering certain donation claims to land in the territory of Arkansas, Feb. 20, 1833, ch. 43.
An act providing for the postponement of the trial of certain cases now pending in the superior court of Arkansas territory, and for withholding from sale or entry, certain lands in said territory, April 20, 1832, ch. 72.
An act to confirm certain claims to land in the territory of Arkansas, June, 2.5, 1832, ch. 148.
An act to settle the titles to certain tracts of land in the state of Arkansas, Aug. 4, 1842, ch. 128.
An act to perfect the titles to lands south of the Arkansas river, held under New Madrid locations, and preemption rights under the act of one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, March 1, 1813, ch. 50.
Decisions of the Supreme Court, on land titles in Arkansas.
Under the provision of the act of Congress, passed on the 26th of May, 1824, proceedings were instituted in the superior court of the territory of Arkansas, by which a confirmation was claimed of a grant of land alleged to have been made to the petitioner, Sampeyreac, by the Spanish government, prior to the cession of Louisiana to the United States by the treaty of April 3d, 1803. This claim was opposed by the district attorney of the United States; and the court after hearing evidence, decreed that the petitioner recover the land from the United States. Afterwards, the district attorney of the United States, proceeding on the authority of the net of May 8th, 1830, filed a bill of review, founded on the allegation, that the original decree was obtained by fraud and surprise, that the documents produced in support of the claim of Sampeyreac were forged, and that the witnesses who had been examined to sustain the same were perjured. At a subsequent term Stewart was allowed to become a defendant to the bill of review, and filed an answer, in which the fraud and forgery are denied, and in which he asserts, that if the same were committed, he is ignorant thereof; and asserts that he is bona fide purchaser of the land for a valuable consideration, from one John J. Bowie, who conveyed to him the claim of Sampeyreac by deed, dated about the 22d October, 182S. On a final hearing, the court, being satisfied of the forgery, perjury, and fraud, reversed the original decree. Held, that these proceedings were legal, and were authorized by the act of the 8th of May, 1830. Sampeyreac v. The United States, 7 Peters, 222.
Any person or his legal representative, who was entitled to the right of preemption in the territory of Arkansas, under the act of April 12, 1814, authorized to enter with the register of the land office in Lawrence district, any tract therein.
1814, ch. 52.
Proviso.
Every person claiming a preference in becoming a purchaser of a tract of land, in virtue of this net, shall deliver a notice in writing to the register of the land office for said district.
The register to file such notice.
Proviso.
Course of the western boundary line of the territory of Arkansas.
2,000 dollars appropriated.
The unexpended appropriation of 65,000 dollars, of March 3, 1821, ch. 35, to be expended agreeably to said act.
10,000 dollars appropriated.
7500 dollars appropriated to negotiate a treaty with the Quatipau Indians.
That Clerks to be employed in the following offices.
In the Treasury Department, one clerk, whose salary shall not exceed Clerk in Treasury Department.
In the office of the treasurer, one clerk, whose salary shall not exceed Clerks in treasurer’s office.
In the office of the fifth auditor, one clerk, whose salary shall not Clerks in 5th auditor’s office.
In the Navy Department, one clerk, whose salary shall not exceed one Clerk in navy department.
In the office of the navy commissioners, three clerks, and one draughtsman, Three clerks and draughtsman in navy commissioners office.
In the office of the Postmaster General, four clerks, whose salaries, respectively, Clerks in general post-office.
In the office of the commissary general of subsistence, two clerks, whose Clerks in commissary general’s office.
In the engineer department, two clerks, whose salaries, together, shall Clerks in engineer department.
In the office of the surgeon general, one clerk, whose salary shall Clerk in surgeon general’s office.
In the office of the commissary general of purchases, three clerks, Clerks in office of the commissary general of purchases.
Messengers, &c. to be employed.
In Messenger and assistant, Department of State.
In Machinist and messenger in the patent office.
In Messenger and assistant in treasury department.
In Messenger and assistant in first comptroller’s office.
In Messenger in second comptroller’s office.
In Messenger in first auditor’s office.
In Messenger in 2d auditor’s office.
In Messenger and assistant in third auditor’s office.
In Messenger in fourth auditor’s office.
In Messenger in fifth auditor’s office.
In Messenger in treasurer’s office.
In Messenger &c. general land office.
In Messenger and assistant in register’s office.
In Messenger and assistant in war office.
In Messenger in paymaster general’s office.
In Messenger in com. general of purchases office.
In Messenger and assistant navy department.
In Messenger navy com. office.
In Messenger and assistant general post-office.
In Messenger secretary of the Senate’s office.
In Clerks and messenger, office clerk of House of Representatives.
5,913 dollars and 25 cents appropriated.
250 dollars to be paid the collector for Nantucket, and 500 dollars to the collector for the district of Pensacola, annually.
After the 30th June next, the office of surveyor for the district of Pensacola, to be abolished.
The levy court of die county of Alexandria to have the powers which the county courts of Virginia possessed, &c. on the 27th of February, 1801, in relation to county levies.
Seven justices of the peace to constitute a quorum.
The orphans’ court of Alexandria to hold its sessions on the first Monday of each month at the courthouse.
Proviso.
The register of wills to give security for the faithful performance of the duties of his office.
Course to be pursued for the better regulation of the inspection of flour in the county of Alexandria.
Said county to be divided into two inspection districts.
Power vested in the common council.
Ships or vessels owned in, or consigned to Richmond, loaded in the district of Petersburg, may be cleared out at Richmond.
The Secretary of the Treasury to refund to certain distillers in the United States such sums as they have paid into the treasury.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 28.
The judicial power of the territory of Florida to be vested in three superior courts.
Act of March 30, 1822, ch. 13.
Act of May 15, 1826, ch. 46.
Where said courts are to be held.
Jurisdiction of each court in all criminal and capital offences.
Each judge to appoints clerk.
Same jurisdiction to be exercised by each of said superior courts, as was vested in the court of the Kentucky district.
Act of Sept. 24, 1789, ch. 20.
Act of March 2, 1793, ch. 22.
The first six days of each term to be appropriated to the trial of causes arising under the laws and constitution of the United States.
Records to be kept at the places where the courts are held.
Persons learned in the law’ to be appointed to act as attorneys, and to receive the same salary, each, as the attorney for the district of Kentucky.
A marshal to be appointed for each court.
Each judge to receive 1500 dollars per annum.
A court of appeal to be organized and composed of the judges of the superior court.
Senior judge to preside.
Court may be adjourned, by any one of its judges being present, from day to day, until a quorum be convened.
So much of the act of which this is amendatory, as requires the legislative council to commence its sessions on the first Monday in May, repealed.
Part of the former act repealed.
1823, ch. 28.
The commissioners for ascertaining titles to lands in Florida authorized and required to receive and examine all claims presented to them within their respective districts.
Duty of said commissioners.
Proviso.
A route for a canal to be surveyed and marked, by which the navigation of the Wabash and Miami of Lake Erie may be connected.
The reservation and grant to be void, if a canal be not completed in twelve years.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Each section of land through which said canal may pass, to be reserved from future sale.
[Obsolete.]
The secretary of the navy authorized to have surveyed the harbours of Charleston, South Carolina, and St. Mary’s in Georgia, for certain purposes.
Counties to compose a part of the western, instead of the eastern judicial district of Virginia.
Times and places fixed for the holding of the courts.
Courts to be adjourned should the judge not attend.
Power of the said judge.
Acts of Congress relating to circuit courts in Maryland:
An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States, September 24, 1789. ch. 20, sec. 3.
An act concerning the circuit courts of the United States, March 3, 1797, ch. 27.
An act to amend the judicial system of the United States, April 29, 1802, ch. 31, sec. 4.
An act for altering the time of holding the circuit court of the United States for the fourth circuit In the Maryland district, May 26, 1824, ch. 168.
An act to alter the time of holding the circuit court of the United States, for the district of Maryland, February 11, 1830, ch. 11.
An act supplementary to the net, entitled “An act to amend the judicial system of the United States,” March 3, 1837, ch. 34, sec. 2.
An act to change the time of holding the United States circuit court in the district of East Tennessee, and the district of Maryland, July 7, 1838, ch. 193.
Terms of the circuit court in the district of Maryland altered.
First session to be held on December the 8th, 1824.
All process which may have issued, to be held returnable to the terms appointed by this act.
The right of preemption to one quarter section of land granted to the several counties of each state end territory of the United States, where there are public lands, for certain purposes.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Parts of other acts repealed.
Certain counties to compose a part of the western, instead of the eastern judicial district of Pennsylvania.
Time and place of holding courts.
Act of Feb. 17, 1818, ch. 12.
Public lands to be formed into a new land district.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 66.
Act of May 4, 1826, ch. 32.
A register and receiver to be appointed.
All lands embraced within said district which have been offered for sale pursuant to any proclamation of the President, and now remain unsold, liable to be disposed of at private sale.
In all cases where the estates of insolvent debtors have been, or shall be, assigned to the United States under the act of June 6, 1798, ch. 49, the agent of the treasury is authorized to sell such estate, whether real or personal.
United States may become the purchaser of lands or tenements of a debtor, when sold at their suit.
Proviso.
Act to be construed so as not to impair any other remedy than the one intended.
See notes to act of May 26, 1824, ch. 154.
Act of June 13, 1812, ch. 99, and notes on page 748, vol. ii.
Persons claiming lands &c. in that part of the late province of Louisiana, now included within the state of Missouri, by virtue of any French or Spanish grant, &c. legally made, and before the 10th March, 1804, to present petitions to the district court of the state of Missouri.
Every petition presented under this act, to be conducted according to the rules of a court of equity.
Appeal.
The evidence received by the different tribunals, shall be admitted as such for or against the United States in all trials under this act, when the person testifying is dead.
Duty of the attorney in all cases in which evidence shall be offered, not received by either of the tribunals constituted for that purpose.
Any claim to lands, &c. under this act, which shall not be brought by petition before the said courts, within two years, forever barred.
Upon the final decision of any claim prosecuted under this act, in favour of the claimant, such claimant is authorized to demand and receive of the clerk of the court a copy of the decree in his favour.
And a patent.
When any claim has been decided against the claimant, or barred, the land shall belong to the United States.
The clerk of the court shall, when any petition of claim is filed under this act, require good and sufficient security to answer certain purposes.
Fees.
Duty of the attorney where the decision is against the United States.
The marshal to attend the said court while in session.
The party interested, where the lands, &c. decreed to any claimant under this act, shall have been sold by the United States or have been heretofore located, to enter a like quantity in any land office in Missouri.
To carry this act into effect, the judge of the Missouri district shall hold his sessions at the town of St. Louis, &c.
The court may take cognisance of any claim within the state.
This act shall not apply to the claims of Jacques Clamorgan.
The district judge to be allowed 800 dollars per annum, in addition to his salary.
All the provisions of this act to extend to, &c. the territory of Arkansas.
The judges of the superior court, clerk, marshal, and district attorney, to perform the same duties, and have the same powers, as in other cases.
Proviso.
Former section not to extend to claims above one league square.
Three tracts of land in the county of Tuscarawas, Ohio, to be surveyed and laid off into lots.
Proviso.
Proviso.
An agent to be appointed to reside near said land—duty of said agent.
A right of pre-emption to be allowed John Andreas, and others.
Proviso.
The usual ground for streets and alloys in said town, to be allowed for public use.
After the surveys are made, value ascertained, and the school lands designated, the agent shall give notice through certain newspapers.
Sale of the lands.
Said agent to take an oath and give security.
To receive 600 dollars per annum.
Proviso.
Any land or lots remaining unsold at public auction, shall be subject to entry and sale, at the land office in Zanesville.
Duty of the accounting officers of the treasury.
Course to be pursued by the President in case the Christian Indians feel a disposition to remove from their residence on the river Thames.
1805, ch. 26.
Claimants of lande within the limits of the land district of Saint Helena, to be allowed until the 1st January next, to present them.
April 25, 1812, ch. 67.
Act of March 3, 1813, ch. 100.
Act of May 8, 1822, ch. 128.
The register and receiver to appoint a clerk.
Compensation of the register and receiver.
Compensation of the clerk.
Proviso.
Claims to be surveyed at the expense of the claimants.
Deputy surveyor to reside where the President may think proper.
The benefits, &c. of the act of May 18, 1824, ch. 88, extended to those who have obtained certificates of further credit for any quantity of land.
All relinquishments of land executed under said act, to be filed with the register of the land office where purchased.
Act of May 6, 1812, ch. 77. Act of Dec. 10, 1814, ch. 10, sec. 4. Act of March 18, 1818, ch. 23.
Act of Feb. 24, 1819, ch. 41. Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 15.
The issuing of land warrants revived and continued in force for five years.
5000 dollars appropriated for the purchase of books.
1546 dollars for the purchase of furniture.
For furnishing the rooms in the centre building of the Capitol.
That Secretary of the Treasury empowered to provide, by contract, for building Lighthouses, &c., on the following sites or shoals.
A lighthouse at Owl’s Head, in the state of Maine.
A lighthouse at the mouth of Great Sodus bay, on Lake Ontario; and one on Verplank’s Point, in Hudson river, in the state of New York.
A lighthouse at the mouth of Grand River, in the state of Ohio.
A beacon light on Cape Henlopen, in the state of Delaware.
A lighthouse on Pool’s Island, and one on Thomas’s Point, in the Chesapeake Bay, in the state of Maryland.
A light vessel at or near the long shoal in Pamplico Sound, in the state of North Carolina.
A lighthouse on one of the Sambo Keys, and a light vessel on the Careysfort Reef, in the territory of Florida.
A beacon on Castle Island, and five buoys near Bristol Ferry, in the state of Rhode Island.
A pier and three buoys at the mouth of Saco River, and a pier at the mouth of Well’s Harbour, in the state of Maine.
Appropriation
For building a lighthouse in the state of Maine, on Owl’s Head, four thousand dollars.
A lighthouse on Great Sodus bay, on Lake Ontario, in the state of New York, four thousand five hundred dollars; and for one on Verplank’s Point, in the Huson [Hudson] River, in the same state, four thousand five hundred dollars.
A lighthouse at the mouth of Grand River, in the state of Ohio, eight thousand dollars.
For erecting a beacon light on Cape Henlopen, in the state of Delaware, three thousand dollars.
For a lighthouse on Pool’s Island, in the Chesapeake, in the state of Maryland, five thousand dollars; and for one on Thomas’s Point, in the same bay, and same state, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For a light vessel to be placed at or near the long shoals on Pamptico Sound, in the state of North Carolina, ten thousand dollars.
For a lighthouse on the Sambo Keys, in the territory of Florida, sixteen thousand dollars; for a light vessel for Careysfort Reef, twenty thousand dollars; for the lighthouses directed to be built—one on the Dry Tortugas, and one on Cape Florida, in the same territory, including the appropriations already made by law, a sum, for each, not exceeding sixteen thousand dollars.
For a beacon and buoys between the Dry Tortugas and the coast of Florida, four thousand dollars.
For placing buoys on certain shoals at the mouth of Kennebeck River, in the state of Maine, one hundred and sixty dollars.
For placing buoys on shoals in Buzzard’s Bay, and at or near the mouth of Aponeganset River, in the state of Massachusetts, one hundred and sixty dollars.
For placing buoys on Long Island Sound, near to Cornfield Point, and in Guildford Bay, one hundred and sixty dollars.
For placing a buoy at the mouth of Scuppernong River, in Albemarle Sound, in the state of North Carolina, forty dollars.
For placing a beacon on Castle Island, and five buoys near Bristol Ferry, five hundred dollars.
For a pier and three buoys at the mouth of Saco River, and a pier at the mouth of Well’s Harbour, ten thousand dollars—five thousand dollars to each of those places.
Salaries to be allowed the keepers of light vessels.
To the keeper of the Sandy Hook light vessel, seven hundred dollars; and for a mate, three hundred and fifty dollars.
To the keeper of the Smith’s Point light vessel, in the Chesapeake Bay, five hundred dollars.
To the keeper of the Wolf Trap light vessel, in the same bay, five hundred dollars.
To the keeper of the Willoughby Spit light vessel, in the same bay, five hundred dollars.
To the keeper of the Craney Island light vessel, four hundred and fifty dollars.
To the keeper of the light vessel to be placed at or near the shoals of Cape Hatteras, seven hundred dollars; and for a mate, three hundred and fifty dollars.
500 dollars appropriated to erect a light-house at the mouth of the river Teche, Louisiana.
Decisions of the Supreme Court as to the practice and principles regulating the proceedings of the courts of law, which prevail in the Federal courts of Louisiana.
As, by the laws of Louisiana, questions of fact in civil cases are tried by the court, unless either of the parties demand a jury, in an action of debt on a judgment, the interest on the original judgment may be computed, and make part of the judgment in Louisiana, without a writ of inquiry, and the intervention of a jury. Mayhew v. Thatcher, 6 Wheat. 129: 5 Cond. Rep. 34.
By the provisions of the acts of Congress, Louisiana, when she came into the Union, had organized therein a district court of the United States, having the same jurisdiction, except as to appeals and writs of error, as the circuit courts of the United States in other states; and the modes of proceeding in that court were required to be according to the principles, rules and usages which belong to courts of equity, as contradistinguished from courts of common law. And whether there were or not, in the several states, courts of equity proceeding according to such principles and usages, made no difference, according to the construction uniformly given by the Supreme Court. Livingston v. Story, 9 Peters, 632.
The provisions of the act of Congress of 1824, relative to the practice of the courts of the United States in Louisiana, contain the descriptive term “civil actions,” which embrace cases at law and in equity; and may be fairly construed as used in contradistinction to criminal causes. They apply equally to cases in equity; and if there arc any laws in Louisiana directing the mode of proceeding in equity causes, they are adopted by that act, and will govern the practice in the courts of the United States. Ibid.
If there are no equitable claims or rights cognisable in the courts of the state of Louisiana, nor any courts of equity, and no state laws regulating the practice in equity causes, the law of May 26, 1824, ch. 181, does not apply to a case of chancery jurisdiction; and the district court of Louisiana, was bound to adopt the antecedent modes, authorized under former modes of practice. Ibid.
Under the law of Louisiana, there are two kinds of pledges, the pawn and the antichresis. A thing is said to be pawned, when a movable is given as a security; the antichresis consists of immovables. Livingston v. Story, 11 Peters, 351.
L. conveyed in 1822, in fee simple, to F. and S., certain real estate in New Orleans, by deed, for a sum of money paid to him, and took from them a counter-letter, signed by them; by which it was agreed, that on the payment of a sum stated in it, on a day stated, the property should be reconveyed by them to L.; and if not so paid, the property should be sold by an auctioneer; and, after repaying, out of the proceeds, the sum mentioned in the counter-letter, the balance should be paid to L. The money was not paid on the day appointed, and a further time was given for its payment, with additional interest and charges; and if not paid at the expiration of the time, it should be sold by an auctioneer. An agreement was at the same time made by L., that the counter-letter should be delivered up to F. and S., and cancelled. The money not being paid, it was again agreed between the parties, that if on a subsequent day fixed upon, it should not, with an additional amount for interest, &c., be paid, the property should belong absolutely to F. and S. The money was not paid, and F. and S. afterwords held the property as their own. The Supreme Court held this transaction to be an antichresis, according to the Civil Code of Louisiana; and on a bill filed in the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana, in 1832, decreed that the rents and profits of the estate should be accounted for by S., who had become the sole owner of the property by purchase of F.’s moiety; and that the property should be sold by an auctioneer, unless the balance due S,, after charging the sum due at the time last agreed upon for the payment of the money, and legal interest, with all the expenses of the estate, deducting the rents and profits, should be paid to S.; and on payment of the balance due S., the residue should be paid to the legal representative of L. Ibid.
The antichresis must be reduced to writing. The creditor acquires by this contract, the right of reaping the fruits, or other rewards of the immovables given to him in pledge, on condition of deducting, annually, their proceeds from the interest, if any be due to him, and afterwards from the principal of his debt. The creditor is bound, unless the contrary is agreed on, to pay the taxes, as well as the annual charges of the property given to him in pledge. He is likewise bound, under the penalty of damages, to provide for the keeping and necessary repairs of the pledged estate; and may lay out, from the revenues of the estate, sufficient for such expenses. Ibid.
The creditor does not become proprietor of the pledged immovables, by the failure of payment at the stated time; any clause to the contrary, is null: and in that case, it is only lawful for him to sue his debtor before the court, in order to obtain a sentence against him, and to cause the objects which have been put into his bands, to be seized and sold. Ibid.
The debtor cannot, before the full payment of his debt, claim the enjoyment of the immovables which he has given in pledge; but the creditor who wishes to free himself from the obligations under the antichresis, may always, unless he has renounced this right, compel the debtor to retake the enjoyment of his immovables. Ibid.
The doctrine of prescription, under the civil law, does not apply to this case, which is one of pledge; and if it does, the time before the institution of this suit had not elapsed, in which, by the law of Louisiana, a person may sue for immovable property. Ibid.
By the contract of antichresis, the possession of the property is transferred to the person advancing the money. In case of failure to pay, the property is to be sold by judicial process: and the sum which it may bring, over the amount for which it was pledged, is to be paid to the person making the pledge. Ibid.
If any rule has been made by the district court of Louisiana, abolishing chancery practice in that court, it is a violation of those rules which the Supreme Court of the United States has passed to regulate the courts of equity of the United States. Those rules are as obligatory on the courts of the United States in Louisiana, as they are upon all other courts of the United States; and the only modifications or additions which can be made by the circuit or district courts, are such as shall not be inconsistent with the rules prescribed. When the rules prescribed by the Supreme Court do not apply, the practice of the circuit and district courts shall be regulated by the practice of the high court of chancery in England. Story v. Livingston, 13 Peters, 359.
The Supreme Court has said, upon more than one occasion, after mature deliberation upon able arguments of distinguished counsel against it, that the courts of the United States in Louisiana possess equity powers under the constitution and laws of the United States. That if there are any laws in Louisiana, directing the mode of procedure in equity causes, they are adopted by the act of 26th May, 1824, ch. 181, and will govern the practice in the courts of the United States. But if there are no laws regulating the practice in any equity causes, the rules of chancery practice in Louisiana, mean the rules prescribed by the Supreme Court, for the government of the courts of the United States, under the act of Congress of May 8, 1792, ch. 36, sec. 2. Ibid.
No court ought, unless the terms of the act of Congress render it unavoidable, to give a construction to an act, which should, however unintentionally, involve a violation of the Constitution. The terms of the act of 1824 may well be satisfied by limiting its operation to modes of practice and proceedings in the courts below, without changing the effect or conclusiveness of the verdict of a jury upon the facts litigated on the trial. The party may bring the facts into review before the appellate court, so far as they bear upon the question of law, by a bill of exceptions. If there be any mistake of the facts, the court below is competent to redress it, by giving a new trial. Parsons v. Bedford et al., 3 Peters, 433.
In the district court of Louisiana, the defendant pleaded the plea of reconvention, which is authorized by the Code of Practice in Louisiana. The district court, on motion of the plaintiffs, ordered the plea to he stricken off. The Code of Practice in Louisiana was adopted in Louisiana, by a statute of that state, passed after the act of Congress of May 26, 1824, regulating the practice of the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana, and the practice according to that code has not been adopted as a part of the rules of practice of the district court, when the plea was stricken off. Held, that the plea was properly stricken off. Wilcox et al. v. Hunt, 13 Peters, 378.
In the case of Livingston v. Story, which was before the court in 1835, (9 Peters, 655,) the court took occasion to examine the various laws of the United States establishing and organizing the district court of the eastern district of Louisiana, and to decide whether that court had equity powers; and if so, what should be the mode of proceeding in the exercise of those powers. The various cases which had been before the court, involving substantially the same question, in relation to states where there were no equity state courts, or law’s regulating the practice in equity causes, were referred to, and the uniform decisions of the court have been, that there being no equity state courts did not prevent the exercise of equity jurisdiction in the courts of the United States; and it was accordingly decided that the district court of Louisiana was bound to proceed in equity causes, according to the principles, rules and usages, which belong to courts of equity as contradistinguished from courts of law. Gaines et al. v. Relf et al., 15 Peters, 9.
When a party seeks relief, which is mainly appropriate to a court of chancery jurisdiction, in the circuit court of the United States for Louisiana, chancery practice must be followed. McCollum o. Eager, 2 Howard, 61.
It is impossible to lay down any general rule as to what constitutes multifariousness in a bill in equity. Every case must be governed by its own circumstances, and the court must exercise a sound discretion. Gaines et ux. v. Relf et al., 2 Howard, 619.
The exercise of chancery jurisdiction, in the courts of Louisiana, does not introduce any new or foreign principle. It is only a change in the mode of redressing wrongs and protecting rights. Ibid.
Mode of proceeding in all civil causes, to be conformable to the laws directing the mode of practice in the district courts of the State.
Petit jurors for the trial of all causes, civil or criminal, shall be designated, summoned, and returned in the manner that is now directed by the laws of the state.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 30.
Act of March 26, 1824, ch. 175.
The powers given to, &c., the register and receiver of the land office south of Red river, Louisiana, by the act of March 3, 1823, extended.
The register and receiver to receive each 200 dollars.
Appropriation to complete the surveying of the southern boundary line of Missouri, and so much of the western as lies south of the Missouri river.
Duty of the individual owners or claimants of village and other lots, in certain towns in Missouri and territory of Arkansas, which were confirmed by the act of June 13, 1812, ch. 99.
Duty of the surveyor general.
Proviso.
The recorder to issue a certificate of confirmation for each claim confirmed and to receive one dollar therefor.
The provisions of this act and the act aforesaid, to extend to the village of Mine à Burton.
The decisions of the Supreme Court in construction of this act have been:
A lot of ground was granted by the Spanish government of Florida, in 1802, to Forbes and Company in the city of Mobile, which was afterwards confirmed by the commissioners of the United States. The lot granted was eighty feet in front, and three hundred and four feet in depth, bounded on the east by Water street. This, while the Spanish government had possession of the territory, was known as “a water lot.” In front of the lot was a lot, which, at the time of the grant of the lot to Forbes and Company, was covered by the water of the bay and river of Mobile, the high tide flowing over it; and it was separated from Forbes and Company’s lot, by Water street. It was afterwards in part reclaimed by Lewis, who had no title to it, and who was afterwards driven off by one of the firm of Forbes and Company. A blacksmith’s shop was then put on the lot by him, and Lewis, again by proceedings at law, obtained possession of the blacksmith’s shop, it not being his improvement. The improvement was first made in 1823. The Spanish governor in 1809, after the Louisiana treaty of 1803, and before the territory west of the Perdido was out of the possession of Spain, granted the lot in front of the lot owned by Forbes and Company, to William Pollard; but the commissioners of the United States, appointed after the territory was in the full possession of the United States, refused to confirm the same “because of the want of improvement and occupation.” In 1824, Congress passed an act, the second section of which gives to those who have improved them, the lots in Mobile, known under the Spanish government as “water lots,” except where the lot so improved had been alienated, and except lots of which the Spanish government had made “new grants” or orders of survey during the time the Spanish government had “power” to grant the same, in which case the lot is to belong to the alience or the grantee. In 1836, Congress passed an act for the relief of William Pollard’s heirs, by which the lot granted by the Spanish government of 1809, was given to the heirs, saving the right of third persons; and a patent for this lot was issued to the heirs of William Pollard, by the United States, on the 2d July, 1836. Held, that the lot lying east of the Jot granted in 1802, by the Spanish government, to Forbes and Company, did not pass by that grant to Forbes and Company; that the act of Congress of 1824, did not vest the title in the lot east of the lot granted in 1802, in Forbes and Company; and that the heirs of Pollard, under the second section of the act of 1824, which excepted from the grant to the city of Mobile, &c., lots held under “new grants from the Spanish government, and under the act of Congress of 1836, were entitled to the lot granted in 1809 by the Spanish government to William Pollard. Pollard’s heirs v. Kibbs, 14 Peters, 353.
The act of Congress under which title was claimed, being a private act, and for the benefit of the city of Mobile, and certain individuals; it is fair to presume it was passed with particular reference to the claims of individuals, and the situation of the land embraced in the law at the time it was passed.
The term “new grant” in its ordinary acceptation, which applied to the same subject or object, in the opposite to “old.” But such could not be its meaning in the act of Congress of 1824. The term was doubtless used in relation to the existing condition of the territory in which such grants were made. The territory had been ceded to the United States by the Louisiana treaty, but in consequence of a dispute with Spain about the boundary line, had remained in the possession of Spain. During this time Spain continued to issue evidences of titles to lands, within the territory in dispute. The term “new” was appropriately used as applicable to grants and orders of survey of this description as contradistinguished from those issued before the cession. Ibid.
The time when the Spanish government had the” power” to grant lands in the territory, by every reasonable intendment of the act of Congress of 1824, must have been so designated with reference to the existing state of the territory, as between the United States and Spain; the right to the territory being in the United States and the possession in Spain. The language “during the time at which Spain had the power to grant the same,” was under such circumstances very appropriately applied to the case. It could with no propriety have been applied to the case, if Spain had full dominion over the territory, by the union of the right and the possession; and, in this view, it is no forced interpretation of the word “power” to consider it here used as imparting an imperfect right, and distinguished from complete lawful authority. Ibid.
The acts of Congress of March 25, 1812, appointing commissioners to ascertain the titles and claims to lands on the east side of the Mississippi, and west side of the Perdido, and falling within the cession of France, embraced all claims to this description. It extended to all claims, by virtue of any grant, order of survey, or other evidence of claim, whatsoever, derived from the French, British or Spanish governments; and the reports of the commissioners show, that evidence of claims, of various descriptions, issued by Spanish authority, down to 1810, come under their examination. And the legislation of Congress shows many laws passed, confirming incomplete titles, originating after date of the treaty between France and Spain, at St. Ildefonso. Such claims are certainly not beyond the reach of Congress to confirm; although it may require a special act of Congress for that purpose. Such is the act of Congress of July 2d, 1836, which confirms the title of William Pollard’s heirs, to the lot which is the subject of this suit. Ibid.
A lot of ground, part of the ground on which fort Charlotte had been erected, in the city of Mobile, before the territory was acquired from Spain, by the United States, had been sold under an act of Congress of 1818. The lot had been laid out according to a plan by which a street, called Water street, was run along the margin of Mobile river; and the street was extended over part of the site of fort Charlotte. The lot was situated west of Water street, but when sold by the United States, its eastern line was between high-water mark of the river. The purchaser of this lot improved the lot lying in front of it, east of Water street, having filled it up, at a heavy expense, thus reclaiming it from the river, which at high-water had covered it When the lot east of Water street was purchased, the purchaser could not pass along the street, except with the aid of logs, and other timber. Water street, was, in 1823, filled up, at the cost of the city of Mobile. Taxes and assessments for making side-walks, along Water street, were paid to the city of Mobile, by the owner of the lot. The city of Mobile had brought suit for taxes, and had advertised the lot for sale, as the property of a tenant under the purchaser of the lot. On the 26th of May, 1824, Congress passed an act, which declared in the first section, that all the right and claim of the United States to the lots known as the hospital and bake-house lots, containing about three-fourths of an acre of land in the state of Alabama; and all the right and claim of the United States, to all the lots not sold or confirmed to individuals, either by this or any former act, and to which no equitable title exists, in favour of any individual under this or any other act, between high-water mark and the channels of the river, and between Church street and North Boundary street, in front of Mobile, should be vested in the corporation of the city of Mobile for the use of the city forever. The second section provides, “that all the right and claim of the United States to so many of the lots east of Water street, and between Church street and North Boundary street, now known as water lots, as are situated between the channel of the river and the front of the lots, known under the Spanish government as water lots, in the said city of Mobile wherever improvements have been made, be, and the same arc hereby, vested in the several proprietors and occupants of each of the lots hereto-fore fronting on the river Mobile, &c.” The city of Mobile claimed from the defendant in error the lot held by him, under the purchase from the United States, and the improvements before described; asserting that the same was vested in the city by the first section of the act of 1824. Held, that under the provisions of the second section of the act, the defendant in error claiming under the purchase made under the act of 1818, and under the act of 1824, was entitled to the lot. The city of Mobile v. Eslava, 16 Peters, 261.
The right relinquished by the United States was to the water lots “lying east of Water street, and between Church street and North Boundary street, now known as water lots, as are situated between the channel of the river and the front of the lots, known under the Spanish government as water lots, in the said city of Mobile, wherever improvements have been made.” The improvements refer to the water and not to the front lots. A reasonable construction of the act requires, the improvements to have been made or owned by the proprietor of the front lot, at the time of the passage of the act. Being proprietor of the front lot, and having improved the water lot opposite and east of Water street, constitute the conditions on which the right under the statute vests, ibid.
A grant by the Spanish government confirmed by the United States, was made of a lot of ground in the city of Mobile, running from a certain boundary eastwardly to the river Mobile. The land adjacent to this lot, and extending from high-water mark to the channel of the river, in front of the lot, was held by the grantee as appurtenant to the last and above high-water mark. The city of Mobile instituted an action to recover the same, asserting a title to it under the act of Congress of May 26, 1824, granting certain lots of ground to the corporation of the city of Mobile, and to certain individuals in the said city. Held, that this lot was within the exceptions of the act of 1824; and no right to the same was vested in the city of. Mobile by the act. The city of Mobile v. Hallett, 16 Peters, 261.
Ejectment to recover possession of a lot in the city of Mobile, Alabama. The defendants, in the circuit court, claimed title to the land under Lucy Landry, who was the devisee of one Geronio; who having been in possession of the lot at the corner of St. Francis and Royal streets, occupied it until his death. On the arrival of Lucy Landry at age, she occupied the lot as her own property; and in 1818, she sold and conveyed it by deed to certain persons; stating the eastern boundary in the deed to be the Mobile river. These persons, on the same day, conveyed the premises to Oliver Holman, who entered on it and improved it, by erecting houses and a wharf upon it; and continued to occupy it as a merchant in co-partnership with one Charles Brown, who lived in Boston, until December, 1822, when he died; leaving, as his heirs, the lessors of the plaintiff. The possession of Lucy Landry, of the lot, commenced in 1800, and extended on Royal street, and on the east followed the high-water mark on the river. The land was not subject to inundation, though in many places the water ran across it. Until the improvements made by Holman, the lot was not susceptible of occupancy. There was a ridge of high land formed of shells and artificial deposits, to the east of which, to the river, the lot was situated; and the ridge was protected by the Spanish authorities, no person being permitted by them to improve on the ground or to remove the earth. It was called “The King’s Highway,” or landing place. Questions as to the title of the proprietors of the adjacent lots above Water street to the lots extending to the river, prevailed until 1824; when on the 26th May, 1824, a law was passed, which granted the lots, known as the water lots under the Spanish government, to the owners of the adjacent grounds. The improvements were made by Holman in 1819 or 1820. The defendants below gave in evidence, to maintain their title, the title to them from Lucy Landry, through her grantees to Oliver Holman: a title bond from Holman to Brown, for half of the lot in controversy, by which a deed was to be executed two years after the date of the bond; and an act of the legislature of Alabama, passed in December, 1823, after the decease of Holman, authorizing the administratrix of Holman, then residing in Boston, where administration of the estate of the deceased had been granted to her, to sell the real estate of which he died seised, in the city of Mobile, for the payment of his debts, the estate being insolvent: a deed made in pursuance of a sale of the premises, under the act of assembly and in conformity to the provisions thereof; and also the record of certain proceedings in the supreme court of Massachusetts, wherein a license was given to the administratrix to make a deed, in pursuance of the title bond to Brown, and the deed, made under this authority. The questions which arose in the case, and on which the court decided, were: First, whether the act of the legislature of Alabama, authorizing the sale of the estate of Holman, was constitutional and valid. Second, whether the proceedings in the supreme court of Massachusetts were operative, and authorized the administratrix to convey the title. Third, whether a volume of state papers, published under the authority of Congress, was evidence. Fourth, whether the lessors of the plaintiff below had established a legal title. Fifth, whether the defendants in the circuit court had not established u title in themselves, independent of and adverse to the title they had derived under Oliver Holman. The act of Congress of May 26, 1824, relinquished the rights of the United States, whatever they were, in the lot in question, to the proprietor of the front lot. Watkins Holman et al., 16 Peters, 25.
All the right and claim of the United States to the lots known as the hospital and bake-house lots in the city of Mobile, &c. vested in the mayor and aldermen of said city.
Right and claim of the United States to other lots in said city, vested in the person to whom such alienation, grant, or order of survey was made.
Proviso.
Act of March 26, 1790, ch. 3.
Conditions on which an alien, being a free white person and a minor, may become a citizen of the United States.
Proviso.
No certificate of citizenship or naturalization heretofore obtained from any court to be deemed invalid. 1816, ch. 32.
Declaration required by the first section of the former act to be valid on certain conditions.
A declaration of intention made two years before his admission shall be sufficient.
Provisions of the act of May 4, 1822, ch. 48, shall extend to the volunteer, &c. officers engaged against the Seminole Indians.
The claims of all owners of wagons to be settled.
Proviso.
To be paid oat of the treasury.
Under the reservation contained in the cession act of Virginia, and under the acts of Congress of August 10, 1790, ch. 40, and of June 9, 1794, ch. 62, the whole country between the Scioto and Little Miami rivers was subjected to the military warrants to satisfy which the reserve was made. Doddridge v. Thompson, 9 Wheaton, 469; 5 Cond. Rep. 645
The territory lying between the two rivers, is the whole country from their sources to their mouths; and if no branch of either of them has acquired the name, exclusive of another, the main branch to its source must be considered as the true river. Ibid.
The act of June 26, 1812, ch. 109, to ascertain the western boundary of the tract reserved for the military warrants, and which provisionally designates Ludlow’s line as the western boundary, did not invalidate the title to land between that line and Robert’s line, acquired under a Virginia military warrant. previous to the passage of that act. Ibid.
The land between Ludlow’s and Robert’s line was not withdrawn from the territory liable to be surveyed for military warrants, by any act of Congress passed before the act of June 26, 1812, ch. 109. Ibid.
[Obsolete.]
The President authorized to ascertain the number of acres of land lying between Ludlow’s and Robert’s lines, in Ohio.
[Obsolete.]
President to appoint three commissioners to explore, &c. the most eligible course for a road from a certain point in Ohio, to Detroit.
Troops of the United States to complete the same.
Commissioners to receive 3 dollars, and their assistants $1 50 cents per day.
Appropriation.
[Expired.]
Pensions paid out of the privateer pension fund, and the terms for their payment revived and extended.
Act of April 9, 1824, ch. 34.
That, Specific fees to the registers of wills for Washington and Alexandria.
For Probates.
For Letters testamentary.
Annexing Annexing wills.
Registering Registering.
For Letters of administration.
Every bond taken of executors, administrators, or guardians, and recording the same, one dollar and fifty cents:
For Filing, &c.
For Exemplification, &c.
For Warrants under seal.
For Notice of administrators.
For Entering caveats.
For Citations under seal.
For Oaths.
For Lists of articles appraised.
For Lists of articles sold at vendue.
For Recording the same.
For Accounts of an executor, &c.
For Examining vouchers, &c.
For Copies of same under seal.
For Subpœnas.
For Duces tecum.
For Search.
For Balance of distribution of deceased persons’ estate.
For Taxing costs.
For Writs of execution.
For Recording, &c. indentures of apprentices, &c.
For Depositions of witnesses.
For Filing all other papers.
For Appearance of party under process.
For Return of process.
For Continuance or reference, chargeable, &c.
For Commission to examine witnesses, &c. Orphans estate.
For commission to value orphans’ estate, in the hands of guardians, under seal, one dollar;
for entering every order of court, twelve cents and one half; if more Entering orders of Court.
For recording or copying any paper, for one hundred words, twelve Recording and copying papers.
For filing petition or report, and entering the same on record, (if Filing petitions or reports.
For entering judgment, or rule of court, twenty-five cents; copy of Entering judgments, &c.
For entering every motion in court, twelve and one half cents; Entering motions in court.
For entering appointment of guardian, with certificate and seal of said Entering appointment of guardian, &c.
For issuing attachment and entering motion therefor, seventy-five Issuing attachments, &c.
For taking a recognisance, twenty-five cents; Taking a recognisance.
For warrant to marshal to summon jury, under seal, seventy-five Warrant to summon jury.
For entering panel of jury, and swearing them, fifty cents; Entering panel of jury.
For taking, filing, and recording, every bond, not above provided for, Taking, filing, &c., bonds.
For passing an account against the estate of a deceased person, twelve Passing accounts, &c.
Fair tables of fees to be made out by the officers whose fees are by this act specified.
Register to pay filly dollars to any person from whom he shall take greater fees than expressed in this act.
Levy courts to allow the registers for all records, &c., furnished their respective offices.
[Obsolete.]
The President empowered to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $5,000,000.
The Bank of the United States to lend the same or any part thereof.
A subscription to the amount of 15,000,000 dollars proposed.
Credits shall he entered to subscribers who are entitled to certificates.
Proviso.
Funds pledged for interest to remain the same.
Duty of the commissioners of the sinking fund.
Not to impair the rights of those creditors of the United States who shall not subscribe to the loan.
The north quarter section numbered two, in township two and range seventeen, in the Delaware land district, Ohio, reserved for the use of the Wyandot tribe of Indians.
Notes of the acts relating to the corporation of Washington, vol. ii. 254–721.
Decisions of the Supreme Court on the provisions of the act incorporating the city of Washington and authorizing the laying of taxes, vol. ii, 721.
Part of the act of May 15, 1820, ch. 104, repealed.
Public notice of the time and place of sale of all real property for taxes due the corporation of Washington to be given.
Where sales shall not have been made according to law for taxes due the said corporation, on application of the purchaser, such sum shall be refunded him as he paid on said purchase.
Where there are a number of lots assessed to the same person, the corporation is authorized to sell one or more of them for the taxes due on the whole.
In case of the death, &c. of any commissioner of election, &c.
Proprietors allowed the right of redemption.
Public notice of the time and place of sale of any real property, chargeable with taxes, to be given.
In case the owner, &c. does not pay the amount of taxes on lots assessed, before the day of sale, so many as may be sufficient to discharge said amount shall be sold.
Proviso.
All species of property, by law taxable, to be assessed.
Course to be pursued where taxes have fallen due and remain unpaid.
Proviso.
All titles to property conveyed shall be by deed from the mayor.
Amount over the taxes, &c. due upon any lot sold for taxes, to be paid to the owner.
Where the payment of any taxes shall be enforced against any tenant, it shall not be lawful for the owner of said property to recover of him any rent therefor.
Nuisances to be removed.
That The President to communicate to the Marquis de La Fayette the attachments, for him, of this country.
And be it further resolved, That, A national ship to be sent for him, &c.
That Portrait of Columbus to be placed in the library of Congress.
Resolved, That Copies of the Declaration of Independence to be distributed.
Resolved, That The President to cause the distribution to be made.
ACTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
265,000 dollars appropriated for the Senate and House of Representatives.
1825, ch. 13.
Legislature of Ohio authorized to sell certain tracts of land.
1802, ch. 40, § 7.
The Secretary of the Treasury authorized to adopt an hydro-
meter for ascertaining the proof of liquors.
Act of Feb. 25, 1825, ch. 13, sec. 3.
Purchasers of public lands, where the purchase has been found void, to receive such sum as they may have paid therefor.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 36.
The governor, &c. of the Michigan territory, authorized to divide it into townships, &c.
Election of county officers.
Proviso.
Vol. i. 51.
The civil officers of said territory to be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the legislative council.
Additional members of the legislative council to be also chosen by ballot.
Same course to be pursued with writs of error, as in other courts.
Two of the superior judges to hold a court.
So much of any law as contravenes the provisions of this act, repealed.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 36.
Act of March 2, 1805, ch. 26.
Act of Feb. 28, 1823, ch. 15.
Report of the commissioners for adjusting the titles, &c. to land in the western district of Louisiana, confirmed.
Compensation allowed to persons who delivered to the president of the
Senate the votes for President and Vice President.
To take effect from Nov. 1, 1824.
[Obsolete.]
All duties upon books, &c. for the use of the library of Congress, to be remitted.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations for the military service for 1825.
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-five, to wit:
For pay of the army, and subsistence of officers, including the military academy, nine hundred and ninety-four thousand four hundred and seven dollars and seventy-five cents.
For subsistence, in addition to an unexpended balance on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, of twenty-nine thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and forty-five cents, two hundred and sixty thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty-five cents.
For forage for officers, thirty-five thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
For the recruiting service in addition to an unexpended balance on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, of one thousand dollars, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, in addition to an unexpended balance on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, of eight thousand five hundred dollars, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For the purchasing department, two hundred and four thousand five hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents.
For the purchase of woollens, during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, in advance for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, twenty thousand dollars.
For the expense of building a brick wall round the arsenal lot, on Schuylkill, and repairs of public buildings thereon, eight thousand dollars.
For medical and hospital department, in addition to amount on hand, on first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, of thirteen thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars.
For quartermaster general’s department, two hundred and eighty-four thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventy-five cents.
For quartermaster’s supplies, transportation, mathematical instruments, books, and stationery, for the military academy at West Point, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
For the contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.
For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For the current expenses of the ordnance service, forty thousand seven hundred dollars.
For arsenals, forty-four thousand six hundred dollars.
For the pensions to the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, one million two hundred and forty-eight thousand four hundred and fifty-two dollars and twenty-six cents.
For the half pay pensions to widows and orphans, twenty thousand dollars.
For making surveys, and carrying on the operations of the board of engineers, in relation to internal improvements, and in addition to an unexpended balance on hand, twenty-eight thousand five hundred and sixty-seven dollars.
For paying certain states the amount due on account of militia in the service of the United States, during the late war, ninety-two thousand five hundred and thirty-five dollars and seventy-seven cents, being an amount heretofore appropriated, and which has passed to the surplus fund.
To be paid out of the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Special appropriations for, the support of the navy for 1825.
That, for defraying the expenses of the navy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated:
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, Subsistence and pay.
For the pay and subsistence of officers and others, at navy yards, At navy yards, &c.
For provisions, three hundred and fifty-five thousand eight hundred Provisions.
For repairs of vessels, and for wear and tear of vessels in commission, Repairs.
Improvement, &c. of navy yards.
Ordnance.
Medicines, &c.
Sundry expenses.
Contingent expenses.
Marine corps.
For clothing for the same, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For fuel for the same, six thousand dollars.
For medicines, hospital stores, and instruments for the officers and marines stationed on shore, two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars seventy-one cents.
For contingent expenses, that is to say: fuel for commissioned officers, transportation, stationery, bed sacks, straw, extra rations to officers, and postage on public letters, fourteen thousand dollars.
For arrearages of contingent expenses for the years one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three and one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, five thousand dollars.
Proviso.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated for the year 1825.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five; that is to say:—
For compensation to the Senators, and members of the House of Representatives, Congress and their officers. 1824, ch. 1.
For expenses of fuel, stationery, printing, and all other incidental Contingent expenses thereof.
For the expenses of the library of Congress, including the salary Library and librarian of Congress.
For compensation to the President of the United States, twenty-five 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 Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messengers in said department, including the Messengers.
For compensation to one mechanist, per act of twenty-sixth of May, Mechanist for patent office. 1824, ch. 157.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of State, Incidental and contingent expenses.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, six thousand Secretary of the Treasury.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation of one clerk, per act of twenty-sixth of May, one Additional clerk. 1824, ch. 157.
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.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messengers.
Second comptroller.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
First auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
Second auditor.
Clerks.
Messenger.
Third auditor.
Clerks.
Messengers.
Fourth auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Additional clerk.
Messenger.
Fifth auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Additional clerks. 1824, ch. 157.
Messenger.
Treasurer.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Additional clerks. 1824, ch. 157.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, seven hundred Messenger.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars. Register.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the register, per act Clerks.
of twentieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, twenty-two 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger and assistant messenger in said Messengers.
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 and assistant in said office, one Messengers.
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 Contingent expenses.
For allowance to the superintendent and four watchmen, employed Superintendent and watchmen.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, six thousand dollars. Secretary of War.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of War, Clerks.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, one thousand and Messengers.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the paymaster general, Clerks in the office of paymaster general.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, seven hundred Messenger.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general Clerks in office of commissary general. 1824, ch.157.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, seven hundred Messenger.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the adjutant general, Adjutant general’s clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general Clerks of commissary general of subsistence. 1824, ch. 157.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the chief engineer, Clerks of chief engineer. 1824, ch. 157.
For compensation to the clerks in the ordnance office, per act of Clerks of the ordnance. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerk in the surgeon general’s office, per act Surgeon general’s clerk. 1824, ch. 157.
For compensation to the clerks in the quartermaster general’s office, Clerks in the quartermaster general’s office.
Contingent expenses of War Department.
Secretary of the Navy.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Additional clerk. 1824, ch. 157.
Messengers.
Contingent expenses.
Commissioners of navy board.
Secretary of the navy commissioners.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Clerks and a draftsman. 1824, ch. 157.
Messenger.
Contingent expenses.
Superintendent and watchmen of war and navy buildings.
Postmaster General.
Assistant P. M. general.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Additional clerks. 1824, ch.157.
Messengers.
Contingent expenses.
Repairing building, &c.
Extra clerks.
Surveyor general.
Clerks.
Surveyor south of Tennessee.
Clerks.
Additional Clerks.
Surveyor in Illinois and Missouri.
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 surveyor in Florida, including part of the year Surveyor in Florida.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the said surveyor, two Clerks.
For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings in Commissioner of public buildings.
For compensation to the officers and clerk of the mint, nine thousand Officers and clerk of mint.
For furnishing the President’s house, under the direction of the President Furnishing the President’s house.
For compensation to persons employed in the different operations of Persons 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 Michigan Governor, &c. of Michigan.
For the contingent expenses of the Michigan territory, three hundred Contingent expenses.
For compensation of nine members of the legislative council of the Members of the legislative council.
For defraying the expenses of the approaching session of the legislative For expenses of the session of said council.
For the contingent expenses of the legislative council, including the Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Governor, &c. of Arkansas territory.
For the contingent expenses of the Arkansas territory, three hundred Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Florida Governor, judges, members of the council of Florida.
For compensation of thirteen members of the legislative council of the territory of Florida, estimating twenty-eight days, at three dollars per day, each, one thousand one hundred and seventy dollars.
For contingent expenses of the legislative council, including travelling Contingent expenses of said council.
For the contingent expenses of the Florida territory, three hundred Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and Chief justice, the associate judges, &c.
For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, three Attorney general.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the attorney general, Clerk.
For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Reporter of the Supreme Court.
For compensation to sundry district attorneys and marshals, as granted District attorneys, &c.
For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, circuit, and district courts Expenses of the Supreme Court, &c.
Pensions.
Lighthouses, &c.
Buoys.
Lighthouse on Baker’s island.
Buoy at the mouth of Scuppernong river.
Buoy at the entrance of Beaufort.
Balances due officers of internal revenue, &c.
Public buildings.
Fire engine and hose.
Capitol square.
Paving footways on south side of Pennsylvania avenue.
President’s square.
Stationery, &c. for commissioners of loans.
Votes for President, &c.
Discharge of miscellaneous claims.
Surveying public lands.
Registers, &c.
Ministers, &c. of the United States.
Outfits.
For the salaries of ministers or charge d’affaires who have been, Salaries of ministers, &c., appointed to the governments on the continent of America.
For outfits of a minister to Mexico, and to charge d’affaires at Guatemala, Outfits of ministers.
For the salaries of the secretaries of legation, fourteen thousand dollars. Secretaries of legation.
For the contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, twenty thousand Contingent expenses.
For the salaries of agents of claims at Paris and London, four thousand Salaries of agents, &c.
For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, forty thousand Contingent expenses, &c.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen in foreign Seamen.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, thirty thousand Intercourse with the Barbary powers.
For the salaries of the commissioner and arbitrator under the first article Commissioner, &c., under treaty of Ghent.
For expenses of carrying into effect the sixth and seventh articles of Carrying into effect the 6th and 7th articles of treaty.
Paid out of the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
The Secretary of the Treasury to refund moneys paid for lands erroneously sold by the United States.
Act of Jan. 12, 1825, ch. 5
[Obsolete.]
5000 dollars appropriated to purchase books for the library of Congress.
339 dollars for furniture for the new library.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations for certain fortifications.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit: For fortifications, to each specifically, as follows:
Brenton’s point.
Utrecht point.
Fort Delaware.
Fort Monroe.
Fort Calhoun.
Mobile Point.
At Chef Menteur.
Fort Jackson.
At Beaufort.
Cape Fear.
Repairs and contingencies.
For the preservation of the islands in Boston harbour. Proviso.
Armament of new fortifications.
[Obsolete.]
Further appropriations for the military service.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit:
Superintendent of Indian affairs, &c.
Sub-agents, &c.
Presents to Indians, &c.
Contingent expenses.
For payment of the amount of the annuity due to the Cherokee nations, Annuity due to the Cherokee nations, &c.
For payment of said annuity for the year one thousand eight hundred Payment of said annuity for 1825.
For carrying into effect so much of the fourth article of the treaty of Compensation due to the citizens of Georgia by Creek nation.
For defraying the expenses of holding treaties with the Sioux, Chippeways, For defraying the expenses of holding treaties with the Sioux, Chippeways, &c.
For arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred Arrearages prior to July 15, 1S18.
For arrearages from first July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, For the same, from July 1, 1815, to Jan. 1, 1818.
For the payment of claims against the Osages by citizens of the United Claims against the Osages, &c.
For payment of the annuity to the Sauk and Fox tribes, as provided Annuity to the Sauk and Fox tribes of Indians.
For payment of the annuity to the Ioway tribe of Indians, as provided Annuity to the Ioway Indians.
For payment of five hundred dollars to each of the four head chiefs 500 dollars to each of the four heads of the Quapaw tribe.
For payment of the annuity provided for by the same article of the For payment of an annuity.
For the purchase of provisions for six months, as provided for by the For the purchase of provisions.
For furnishing facilities for the transportation of said Indians as provided For transporting Indians.
For the pay of a sub-agent, or interpreter, to reside among said Indians, For pay of a sub-agent and interpreter, &c.
For the payment of the annuities provided for by the second and third For payment of annuities to the Choctaw nation, &c.
For the payment of the claims of the Choctaw nation, for services on Claims of said nation for services on the Pensacola campaign, &c.
For the salary of the agent, provided for by the ninth article of said For the salary of an agent.
For carrying into effect the provisions of the ninth article of said
For carrying into effect the provisions of art. 9, of the treaty with the Choctaws.
Towards the execution of any treaty ratified by the United States.
Act of April 23, 1808, ch. 55, making provision for arming the militia, extended to the District of Columbia.
Assent of Congress given to the act of Dec. 8, 1824.
Navigation of the Appomattox.
Adjournment of the circuit court, for the District of Columbia, by one judge, valid.
[Obsolete.]
8000 dollars appropriated
for the completion of the public road to be opened from Pensacola to St. Augustine.
Course to be pursued by the Secretary of the Treasury where the exporter or exporters entering any goods, &c. for the benefit of drawback, shall not have completed such entry within the period prescribed by law.
Mail-routes established, and discontinued.
That the following post-roads be established:
In Maine.—From Camden to Vinalhaven. From Portland, by Cumberland, Maine. The present road from Freeport to Bowdoin discontinued.
In New Hampshire.—From Andover and Grafton turnpike, by Andover, New Hampshire.
In Vermont.—From Manchester, by Arlington, to Cambridge, in New Vermont.
Connecticut.
Massachusetts. The road from Springfield, Mass., to Stafford, Conn., discontinued.
New York.
In Pennsylvania.—From Wellsborough, by Cowdersport and Smithport, Pennsylvania.
In Maryland.—From Newtown Trap, by Burkittsville and Crampton, Maryland.
Virginia.
North Carolina.
South Carolina.
Georgia.
Tennessee.
In Kentucky.—From Frankfort, by Gist’s, Stennet’s, Yeocum’s and Kentucky.
In Ohio.—From Chillicothe, by Greenfield, Leesburg, and Wilmington, Ohio.
In Indiana.—From Rushville by Connersville, Brownsville, Liberty, Indiana.
In Mississippi.—From Columbus, by the Choctaw Agency, Jackson, Mississippi. All other postroutes in Mississippi to be discontinued.
Illinois.
Missouri.
Alabama. The postroute from Augusta to Coosawda discontinued.
Arkansas. Route from Clark courthouse to Natchitoches, discontinued.
All routes failing within three years to yield one fourth of the expense, unless necessary, discontinued.
Proviso.
Routes to be discontinued.
Places to and from which the mail may be transported, if the Postmaster General deem it necessary.
The President of the United States to appoint commissioners to mark out a road from the western frontier of Missouri to the confines of New Mexico.
Proviso.
Continuation of said road.
10,000 dollars appropriated to defray the expenses of said road; and 20,000 dollars to treat with the Indians.
Act of April 3, 1818, ch. 32.
The circuit and district courts of the United States, for the southern district of New York to be holden in the City Hall.
Proviso.
Proviso.
The act of the legislature of Virginia incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, ratified, &c. to a certain extent.
Should the state of Virginia or Maryland desire, at any time, to avail itself of the right secured to it by the twenty-first section of the act aforesaid, the President is to depute three skilful commissioners of the United States’ corps of engineers to
examine the route of said canal.
3386 dollars five cents appropriated to satisfy certain balances due to the commissioners of land claims in Florida and their secretaries, prior to Dec. 31, 1824.
Notes of the acts relative to the Post-office Department, vol. ii. 592.
Notes of the acts of Congress relative to the franking privilege, vol. ii. 599.
Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 61.
Act of July 2, 1836, ch. 270, ch. 352.sec. 12.
Resolution of March 2, 1837.
Act of Jan. 25, 1839, ch. 4.
Act of March 3, 1845, ch. 43.
A general post-office to be established at the seat of government, under the direction of a Postmaster General, who shall appoint two assistants and such clerks as he may deem necessary to complete the business of the office, &c. &c.
Duties of the postmaster.
Proviso.
Proviso.
All persons employed in the post-office, and others attached to it in any way to take an oath before entering upon the duties of their office.
Oath.
The Postmaster General, on appointing any postmaster, to receive from him bond with good security.
Proviso.
Authority given the Postmaster General.
The mail to be carried in any steamboat or other vessel used as a packet.
Proviso.
Course to be pursued by the master or manager of every steamboat carrying the mail; with his duties enjoined.
None but a free white person to carry the mail.
The Postmaster General, when any established post-road is out of repair, &c. to report to Congress to such effect.
Any person wilfully stopping the mail, shall, upon conviction, be fined.
Driving a carriage through a populous and crowded street in the city, at such a rate or in such a manner as to endanger the inhabitants, is an indictable offence at common law, and amounts to a breach of the peace; a constable is authorized, without warrant, to prevent the peace being so broken. Ibid.
The act of Congress prohibiting the stoppage of the mail, is not to be so construed as to prevent the arrest of the driver of a carriage in which the mail is carried, when he is driving through a crowded city at such a rate as to endanger the lives of the inhabitants. Ibid.
Before the Postmaster General shall enter into a contract for carrying the mail, twelve weeks’ public notice must be given.
Proviso.
Every postmaster to keep an office, &c.
No fees &c., in the post-office.
Rates of postage. Act of March 3, 1845, ch. 43.
And for every double letter, or letter composed of two pieces of paper double those rates; and for every triple letter, or letter composed of three pieces of paper, triple those rates; and for every packet composed of four or more pieces of paper, or one or more other articles, and weighing one ounce avoirdupois, quadruple those rates; and in that proportion for all greater weights: Proviso.
Any memorandum, which shall be written on a newspaper, or other printed paper, pamphlet or magazine, and transmitted by mail, shall be charged with letter postage: Proviso.
Each postmaster to receive such commission on the postage of letters as may be adequate to his services. Proviso. Rates.
On a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, thirty per cent.
On any sumover 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, 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.
Exceptions. Allowances to postmasters on newspapers, &c. Postmaster at New Orleans. Postmaster at Washington. Proviso.
Every letter or packet carried from one port to another, in any private vessel, charged with six cents, &c.
Any person receiving, through fraud, more than the postage of a letter, &c. to be fined for every offence $100.
No ship or vessel arriving at any port of the United States, where a post-office is established, shall be permitted to report, &c.
Duties of the collector.
Master or commander of vessels delivering packets to be paid.
No stage or other vehicle which regularly performs trips on post-roads, &c. to convey letters, &c.
Proviso.
Accountability of the deputy postmaster, &c.
Persons employed in the post-office, when they detain, &c. letters, &c., shall on conviction be fined or imprisoned.
Persons robbing the mail &c., to suffer death.
The offence charged in this indictment is a misdemeanor, where all are principals; and the doctrine applicable to the principal and accessary in cases of felony does not apply. The offence, however charged against the defendant, is secondary in its character; and there can be no doubt that it must sufficiently appear upon the indictment, that the offence alleged against the chief actor had been committed. Ibid.
Upon an indictment for robbing the mail, and putting the life of the person having the custody of it in jeopardy, under the 19th section of the act of April 30th, 1810, ch. 262, a sword, &c. in the hand of the robber, by terror of which the robbery is effected, is a dangerous weapon within the act, putting the life in jeopardy; though it be not drawn or pointed at the carrier. So a pistol in his hands, by means of which the robbery is effected, is a dangerous weapon; and it is not necessary to prove that it was charged; it is presumed to be so until the contrary is proved. The United States v. Wood, 3 Wash. C. CR. 440.
It is not necessary to a conviction, under the 22d section, that the carrier of the mail should have taken the oath prescribed by the 2d section of the act of 1825, or that the whole mail be taken. The United States v. Wilson et al. 1 Baldwin’s C. C. R. 102.
All persons present at the commission of a crime, consenting thereto, aiding, or assisting and abetting therein, or in doing any act which is a constituent of the offence, are principals. Ibid.
The word “rob,” in the act of Congress of 1825, sec. 22, is used in the common law sense. Ibid. 93.
“Jeopardy,” as used in the section, means a well-grounded apprehension of danger to life, in case of refusal to yield to threats, or resistance. Ibid.
A mail carrier is within the 18th section of the “Act regulating the post-office establishment,” subjecting to a penalty in certain cases, “persons employed in any of the departments of the general post-office.” United States v. Belew, 2 Brock. 280.
The stealing or taking a letter, within the 22d section of the act of 1825, means a clandestine taking. The United States v. Pearce, 2 M’Lean’s C. C. R. 14.
Punishment ordained where any person shall injure, in any way, the portmanteau, &c., in which the mail is carried.
Persons, who shall in any way be accessary, or engage in any of the crimes forbidden by this act, &c.
Persons imprisoned by a judgment of court under this. act, &c.
Postmasters to publish for three successive weeks, in one of the newspapers nearest to the place of
their residence, a list of all the letters remaining in their respective offices.
Unreclaimed letters to be sent to the General Post-office and there opened.
Public officers by whom letters, &c. are to be received free of postage.
Proviso.
Liability of persons franking letters not written by themselves.
Proviso.
Printers to send one newspaper to each
other free of postage.
All newspapers conveyed in the mail to be under cover, &c. Proviso. Proviso.
The Postmaster General, in any contract he may enter into for the conveyance of the mail, may authorize the person with whom such contract is to be made, to carry newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets, other than those conveyed in the mail: Proviso. Act of March 3, 1845, ch. 43, sec. 2.
Where any postmaster shall neglect or refuse to render his accounts and pay over to the Postmaster General the balance by him due quarter yearly, suit shall be commenced against him.
Forfeiture by a postmaster neglecting to render his accounts for one month after the time, and in the form, &c., prescribed by this law.
All pecuniary penalties, &c., be one half for the informer and the other half for the United States.
Provision to be made for the reception of all letters,&c. to be conveyed from any port of the United States beyond the sea, &c.
Postmasters, &c., exempted from militia duties.
Letter-carrier to be employed at such postoffices as the Postmaster General shall direct.
Proviso.
All causes of action arising under this act, may be sued, and offenders prosecuted before competent tribunals.
All suits, &c. arising under this act, shall proceed to trial, &c.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
The Postmaster General to report annually to Congress, every post-road, &c.
The adjutant general of the militia of each state, &c. to receive from any major or brigadier general of the same, letters, &c. relating thereto, free of postage.
Proviso.
Act of March 3, 1845, ch. 43.
Whenever the annual emoluments of a postmaster, after certain deductions, are more than 2000 dollars, the surplus to be returned.
No postmaster or assistant postmaster to be a contractor.
No additional allowance shall be made by the Postmaster General to the contractor or carrier of any mail.
No additional allowance shall be made by the Postmaster General to the contractor or carrier of any mail.
Exceptions.
Penalties for not executing contracts.
Any person buying, &c. any article mentioned in the 21st sec. of this act, knowing the same to be stolen, &c. shall be fined and imprisoned.
All acts, &c. passed for the establishment of the postoffice, repealed.
Act of April 21, 1808, ch. 48.
Proviso.
Act of April 30, 1790, ch. 9.
Any person within any fort, &c., who shall maliciously burn any dwelling-house, &c. to suffer death.
Act of April 2, 1792, ch. 16, sec. 16.
Act of Jan. 30, ch. 1, 1799.
Act of April 24, 1800, ch. 35.
Any person wilfully setting fire to, &c. any arsenal, &c., to be fined and imprisoned.
Any offence committed in any of the aforesaid places, &c., to be dealt with according to the laws of the state.
Murder on the high seas, &c. punishable with death.
Act of April 30, 1790, ch. 9, sec. 12.
Any offence committed on board any ship or vessel belonging to a citizen of the United States, within the juristion of any foreign state, by any person belonging thereto, to be cognisa-
ble, &c., by the proper court of the United States.
Punishment of any person who, &c., shall, &c., attack any ship or vessel, &c., with an intent to plunder.
Act of April 30, 1790, ch. 9, sec. 12.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 77.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 113.
Of any person who shall attempt to kill, rob, &c.
Act of April 30, 1790, ch. 9, sec. 10.
Of any person buying, &c. any goods, &c., knowing the same to be the subject of larceny.
Act of April 30, 1790, ch. 9, sec. 11.
Of any person who shall plunder, steal, or destroy any money, goods, &c. belonging to any ship or vessel &c. in distress.
Act of April 30, 1790, ch. 9, sec. 16.
In cases purely dependent on the locality of the act done, the admiralty jurisdiction is limited to the sea, and to the tide water, as far as the tide flows. Mixed cases may arise, and often do arise, where the act and services done are of a mixed nature, as when salvage services are performed, partly on tidewater and partly on shore, for the preservation of the property; in which case the admiralty jurisdiction has been constantly exercised, to the extent of decreeing salvage. Ibid.
The offence of larceny is not punishable under the act 1790, ch. 9, unless committed in a place under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States; and to bring the case within the statute, there must be an averment of such sole and exclusive jurisdiction in the indictment. The United States v. Edmond Davis, 5 Mason’s C. C. R. 356.
“Personal goods” in that statute does not include choses in action, the latter not being the subject of larceny at common law. Ibid.
Where larceny is committed in a place not under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, it may be yet punishable under the third section of the act of 1825, ch. 66. Ibid.
Offences are punishable under that section according to the state laws, where they are committed under circumstances, or in places, in which, before that act, no court of the United States had authority to punish them. Ibid.
It seems, that a reservation in a cession of “concurrent jurisdiction” to serve state process, civil and criminal in the ceded place, does not exclude the exclusive legislation, or exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, over the ceded place. It merely operates as a condition of the grant. Ibid.
See United States v. Kessler, Baldwin’s C. C. R. 15.
Of any master, &c., of any ship or vessel belonging in whole or in part to a citizen or citizens of the United States, while abroad, who shall force any officer, &c., on shore to leave him behind in any foreign port or place.
Where a mariner applied for a discharge, which was refused by the master, and he thereupon used abusive language to the master, for which he was imprisoned by the master, so that he was unable to return, and the ship sailed without him, it was held, that the leaving him behind was an offence under the crimes act of 1825, ch. 66, sec. 10. Ibid.
Indictment for maliciously, and without justifiable cause, forcing a seaman on shore, in a foreign port, against the crimes act of 1825, ch. 66, sec. 10. “Maliciously,” in the statute, means wilfully, against a knowledge of duty; “justifiable cause” does not mean such a cause as the known policy of the American laws on the subject contemplates as a cause of moral necessity, for the safety of the ship and crew, or the due performance of the voyage. The United States v. Thaddeus Coffin, 1 Sumner’s C. C. R. 394.
Under the 10th section of the act of 1825, ch. 66, the forcing a mariner on shore must be done, not only without justifiable cause, but also maliciously, to justify a conviction. If done under a mistaken sense of duty, it is not a case for conviction. The United States v. Spencer Ruggles, 5 Mason’s C. C. R. 192.
“Maliciously,” in the statute, means with a wilful disregard of right and duty, or doing the act, against a man’s own conviction of duty. Ibid.
A master of a ship has authority to confine his seamen in a common jail in a foreign port, for offences and misconduct in extreme cases; and when the proper correction and punishment cannot be effected on ship-board. Ibid.
Of any person wilfully, &c. setting on fire any ship or vessel of the United States afloat on the high seas, or any arm of the sea, within
the admiralty jurisdiction of the United States.
Proviso.
No officer of the government has a right, by colour of his office, to require from any subordinate officer, as a condition for his holding his office, that he should execute a bond with a condition different from that prescribed by law. That would be, not to execute, but to supersede the requisites of the law. It would be very different, when such bond was, by mistake or otherwise, voluntarily, substituted by the parties for the statute bond, without any coercion, or extortion by colour of office. Ibid.
Of any person in any case, matter, &c., who when on oath or affirmation, shall be required to be taken or administered, under any law of the United States, shall wilfully swear falsely.
Act of April 30, 1790, ch. 9, sec. 19.
When any person is arraigned for any offence, not capital, and refuse to answer to such indictment, judgment shall be rendered accordingly.
Act of April 30, 1790, sec. 29.
In every case where a criminal is convicted, the court which shall pass the sentence shall order the same to be executed in any state prison, &c.
Act of April 30, 1790, ch. 9, sec. 23.
Punishment of any person employed in the Bank of the
United States taking, &c. any money, &c. belonging to said bank.
Act of April 10, 1816, ch. 44.
Forgery of treasury notes, or other public security of the United States.
Act of April 30, 1790, ch. 9, sec. 14.
In an indictment for forgery, it is in general necessary to set forth the tenor of the instrument, and it must be proved as set forth. Ibid.
The party accused of passing or uttering counterfeit paper, must be present when the act is done, privy to it, or aiding, consenting, or procuring it to be done. If done by consent, all are equally guilty. Ibid.
Passing a counterfeit note in the name of a fictitious person, an assumed name, or on a bank which never existed, is within the law. It is not necessary that the note, if genuine should be valid, if on its face it purports to be good. The want of validity must appear on its face. Ibid.
The possession of other counterfeit papers, by the defendant, or a confederate, at the time of passing counterfeit notes, is evidence of the scienter. Ibid.
The law presumes the intention of passing counterfeit paper, to be to defraud any person who may suffer a loss by receiving it as genuine. The United States v. Shellmire, Baldwin’s C. C. R. 370.
Intoxication is no defence to a charge of passing counterfeit bank notes, if the defendant was possessed of his reason, and was capable of knowing whether the note so passed was good or bad. Ibid.
Forgery of letters of attorney, certificates of stock of the United States, or certificates of stock of the Bank of the United States.
The policy of the act extends to such a case. The object is to guard the public from false and counterfeit paper; purporting on its face to be issued by the bank. It could not be presumed that persons in general could be cognisant of the fact, who, at particular periods, were the president and cashier of the bank. They were officers liable to be removed at the pleasure of the directors, and the times of their appointment or removal, or even their names, could not ordinarily be within the knowledge of the body of the citizens. The public mischief would be equally great, whether the names were those of the genuine officers, or of fictitious or unauthorized persons, and ordinary diligence would not protect them against imposition. Ibid.
Forging an abstract or official copy, &c. or certificate of the recording, &c. of any ship or vessel in the office of any
collector of the customs.
Act of April 30, 1790, sec. 14.
Forging of gold or silver coin.
Forgery of copper coin.
Of a person, on the high seas &c. using a dangerous weapon with an intent to kill, &c.
The state courts have jurisdiction of offences committed on arms of the sea, havens, basins or bays, within the ebb and flow of the tide, when these places are within the body of the county; and in such cases the circuit court of the United States has no jurisdiction. Ibid.
Where an arm of the sea or creeks, haven, basin or bay, is so narrow that a person standing on one shore can reasonably discern, and distinctly see by the naked eye, what is doing on the opposite shore, the waters are within the body of a county. Ibid.
In such waters, it seems, that the admiralty and common law courts have concurrent jurisdiction. Ibid.
The county of Suffolk, in which the city of Boston is included, extends to all waters between the circumjacent islands, down to the Great Brewster and Point Allerton. Ibid.
Of any person guilty of conspiracy, &c.
Of any person employed by the mint, who shall debase, &c. any gold or silver coin struck by said mint, for the purpose of gain.
All acts, &c. inconsistent with this, repealed.
Proviso.
Act of April 30, 1790, ch. 9.
Nothing in this act to be
construed so as to deprive the courts of individual states of jurisdiction.
Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 110.
Course to be pursued by those having claims for buildings destroyed during the late war.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Amount paid for the use thereof, deducted.
When the claimants to receive a rateable proportion.
[Obsolete.]
Section numbered 34, of the eleventh township and third range of townships to be offered for sale in Ohio.
[Obsolete.]
Act of Feb. 11, 1825, ch. 10.
Additional appropriation for bringing to the seat of government the votes for President and Vice President.
Secretary of the Treasury authorized to subscribe, for 1500 shares of the capital stock of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company.
The Secretary of the Treasury to vote for the president and directors of said company.
The circuit court for the district of South Carolina, at Columbia, to commence on the 4th Tuesday of Nov. annually.
Same course to be pursued with suits, &c., as before.
Time of holding the district court of United States, for the cast district of Louisiana, changed.
All suits, &c., to be proceeded with as before.
Act of April 22, 1826, ch. 29.
The Secretary of the Treasury, when satisfied that John Johnson, of Indiana, did enter, through mistake, certain half quarter sections of land, shall issue to him a patent for two others.
The commissioners of land claims in east Florida, to continue their session.
Part of the act extending the time for the settlement of private land claims in Florida, repealed.
Act of Feb. 24, 1824, ch. 25.
Two additional clerks for the board of commissioners of East Florida.
Compensation of the commissioners.
Proviso.
Duty of the late commissioners and their clerk.
Duty of the register and receiver.
Claimants, where their claims have not heretofore been decided on, permitted to file them, &c., with the register and receiver, before Nov. 1.
The register and receiver empowered to appoint their clerk.
The President to appoint two keepers of the public archives in Florida.
Officers to give bond and security for the faithful performance of their duties.
Officers to cause a complete translation, &c., of the Spanish records having relation to the land claims.
Officers to deliver copies
or translations to individuals applicants.
Appropriations,
[Obsolete.]
The President of the United States to cause to be sold any ordnance, &c., damaged to such a degree, as renders them useless to the public service.
The inspection or survey to be made by an inspector general.
The President of the United States authorized to select a site for a navy yard and depot, on the coast of Florida.
The cities of Hudson and Troy, in New York, &c. made ports of delivery.
The port of delivery at Topsham, in Maine, abolished.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 123.
150,000 dollars appropriated for opening a road from the town of Canton in Ohio, on the right bank of the Ohio river, to the Muskingum river, at Zanesville, in said state.
Some fit person to be appointed as superintendent of said road.
The superintendent not to be interested, directly or indirectly, in the avails of any contracts made by him as aforesaid, and to hold his office during the pleasure of the President.
A commissioner to be appointed.
Act of May 25, 1820, ch. 123.
Proviso.
Enrolments and licenses for steamboats, &c. owned by any incorporated company.
Register for steamboats.
Upon the death, &c. of the president, a new license shall be taken out.
That previously to granting a register, the oath as to the ownership of the steamboat, to be taken.
Before granting a register, oath that no part of such steamboat, &c. is owned by any foreigner.
[Obsolete.]
The president authorized to borrow a sum not exceeding twelve millions of dollars.
The Bank of the United States to lend said sum or any part thereof.
A subscription to the amount of twelve millions of dollars of the six per cent, stock of 1813, proposed.
Proviso.
Credits to be entered to the respective subscribers.
Proviso.
Funds heretofore pledged by law for the payment of the interest, &c. still remain pledged.
Nothing in this act to impair the right of certain creditors of the United States.
The President to cause to be built a number of sloops of war not exceeding ten.
Certain public vessels to be sold.
Act of Dec. 20, 1822, ch. 1.
Proceeds of such sales, &c.
Act of Feb. 10, 1820, ch. 9.
Terms of the district court for the western district of Virginia, changed.
Recognisances, &c., to be proceeded with as before.
A road to be opened in the territory of Florida, commencing at the bay of Tampa, to Wantons, in said territory.
The troops of the United States to be employed.
12,000 dollars appropriated.
The Treasury Department to liquidate the claim of the state of Virginia against the United States.
Rules applicable when the amount of interest on said claim is ascertained.
Amount of interest to be paid from the treasury.
Any ship or vessel, after the passing of this act, to be forfeited, if engaged in carrying any property, whatever,
aken from a wreck, on the coast of Florida, &c.
Property taken from a wreck to be brought to some port of entry, &c.
Distribution of forfeitures.
Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 13.
Act of Feb. 11, 1800, ch. 6.
[Expired.]
The time limited by the act of Feb. 24th, 1819, ch. 41, for issuing military land warrants, extended.
Castine, in the state of Maine, made a port of entry.
Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the building of lighthouses, &c.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, empowered to provide by contract, for building lighthouses and light vessels, erecting beacons and monuments, and placing buoys, on the following sites or shoals, to wit:
A lighthouse on a proper site on Moose Peak Islands, in the state of A lighthouse on Moose Peak islands, &c.
A lighthouse on a proper site, at or near the mouth of Burlington At the mouth of Burlington harbour.
A house at Nantucket harbour.
A lighthouse on Dutch island.
Beacons at Mill river harbour.
A lighthouse near Fire Island inlet, &c.
At Cedar Point, &c.
A light vessel for Albermarle Sound.
On Point Defer.
Appropriations.
For a lighthouse on the Moose Peak Islands, in the state of Maine, four thousand dollars; for a monument on Stage Island, one thousand five hundred dollars; and for placing a buoy in Winter Harbour, in the same state, fifty dollars.
For a lighthouse at the mouth of Burlington harbour, in the state of Vermont, four thousand dollars.
For the keeper’s house at the entrance of Nantucket harbour, with a tower on the same, in the state of Massachusetts, sixteen hundred dollars.
For a lighthouse on Dutch Island, in Narraganset Bay, in the state of Rhode Island, three thousand dollars; and for a small beacon light on Warwick Neck, in the same state, one thousand dollars.
For three small beacons at the entrance of Mill river harbour, in the state of Connecticut, two thousand six hundred dollars.
For a lighthouse near Fire Island inlet, in the state of New York, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars; and for the lighthouse heretofore directed to be built on Throg’s Neck, and for the site thereof, in the same state, seven thousand dollars.
For a lighthouse on Cedar Point, in the state of Maryland, six thousand dollars; and for a small beacon light on Point Look Out, in the same state, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the light vessel to be placed in Albemarle Sound, in the state of North Carolina, a sum not exceeding five thousand five hundred dollars.
For replacing the buoy at Ocracocke Inlet, and for two buoys to be placed, one at Fulcher’s Point, and one at Cross Rock, Croaton Sound, in the same state, one hundred and eighty dollars.
For three buoys to be anchored at proper places, at the entrance of the harbour of Pensacola, in the territory of Florida, one hundred and eighty dollars.
For the lighthouse on Point Defer, in the state of Louisiana, ten thousand dollars.
For completing the work to secure Plymouth Beach, in the state of Massachusetts, five thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars.
For erecting a pier at the mouth of Cayahoga River, in the state of Ohio, five thousand dollars; and for completing the pier at the mouth of Grand River, in the same state, one thousand dollars.
And for surveys to be made under the direction of the President of the United States, for the following purposes, to wit: to ascertain the practicability and necessity of constructing a pier, at the mouth of the
The President to appoint three commissioners to explore, &c. in the most eligible course, a road from Little Rock to Cantonment Gibson, in Arkansas.
Troops of the United States to assist in completing said road.
Commisioners to receive three dollars, and their assistants one dollar and fifty cents per day.
The President of the United States to appoint three commissioners who shall explore, &c., in the most eligible course, a road from Detroit in Michigan to Chicago in Illinois.
Commissioners to receive three dollars, and their assistants one dollar and fifty cents per day.
One copy of Seybert’s Statistical Annals, &c., to be furnished the Gardiner Lyceum.
An inventory of the furniture of the President’s house to be taken.
ACTS OF THE NINETEENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
Compensation to the Senators and members of the House of Representatives, &c., for fuel, &c.
1826, ch. 13.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for the military service of the year 1826, &c.
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively appropriated towards the military service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and for the objects following; that is to say:
For the pensions to the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, For pensions to revolutionary pensioners.
For the invalid and half pay pensioners, in addition to an unexpended For the invalid and half pay pensioners.
For pensions to the widows and orphans, twelve thousand dollars. For pensions to the widows and orphans. To be paid from the treasury.
Act of April 3, 1818, ch. 32.
In the district court for the northern district of N. Y., said court is to hold its sessions on the third Tuesday of January.
Act of April 18, 1818, ch. 69, revived, and to continue in force for three years.
Act of the legislative council of Florida, of July 4th, 1823, declared null and void.
[Obsolete.]
Legislature of Ohio authorized to sell, &c., all or any part of the lands appropriated by Congress for the use of schools in said state, and invest the money in some productive fund.
Proviso.
Proviso.
If the proceeds accruing to any township or district be insufficient for the support of schools therein, the legislature is to invest, &c.
[Obsolete.]
5000 dollars appropriated for the purchase of books for the library of Congress.
Purchasing of two stoves, &c.
Repeal of part of the act of March 3, 1821, ch. 33.
The President of the United States authorized to cause to be made an accurate and minute examination south of the St. Mary’s river, with a view to ascertain the most eligible route for a canal, to connect the Atlantic with the Gulf of Mexico.
Appropriation.
Act of March 3, 1809, ch. 30.
Limits of Georgetown extended westwardly, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Expenses of the navy, for the year 1826.
That, for defraying the expenses of the navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated:
For pay and subsistence of officers, &c., at navy yards, &c.
Of officers, &c., at navy yards, &c.
Naval constructors, &c.
For provisions.
Repairs of vessels.
Navy yards.
Survey of harbours.
Medicines, &c.
For defraying certain expenses for 1826.
For freight and transportation, &c., &c.
For contingent expenses, for objects arising during the year one thousand Contingent expenses.
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, non-commissioned officers, Pay, &c., of officers, &c., of the marine corps.
For clothing for the same, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and Clothing.
For fuel for the same, six thousand dollars. Fuel.
For contingencies, that is to say: for travelling expenses for officers, Contingent expenses.
For sundry expenses arising in the current year, not hereinbefore mentioned, For defraying sundry expenses.
For medicines, hospital stores, and instruments for the officers and Medicines, &c.
For barracks, nine thousand dollars. Barracks.
For the agency on the coast of Africa, for receiving the negroes, Agency to the coast of Africa.
Money to be paid from the treasury.
Proviso.
Provided nothing in this section be construed so as to extend to balances arising solely from the depreciation of treasury notes.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated for the year 1826.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six; that is to say:—
Congress and their officers. Act of Dec. 23, 1825, ch. 1.
Library and librarian of Congress.
President.
Vice President.
Secretary of State.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Machinist for patent office. 1824, ch. 157.
Messengers.
Incidental and contingent expenses.
Secretary of the Treasury.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Additional clerk. 1824, ch. 157.
Messengers.
First comptroller.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, one thousand and Messengers.
For compensation to the second comptroller of the treasury, three Second 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 dollars, Messenger.
For compensation to the first auditor of the treasury, three thousand First auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the first auditor of 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 Second auditor.
For compensation to clerks in the office of the second auditor of the 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 Third auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the third auditor of 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 Fourth auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the fourth auditor of Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For one additional clerk, employed per acts of appropriations, of one Additional clerk.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, seven hundred Messenger.
For compensation to the fifth auditor of the treasury, three thousand Fifth auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the fifth auditor of the Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of the twenty-sixth Additional clerks. 1824,ch. 157.
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 of the Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to clerks in said office, per act of the twenty-sixth of Additional sclerks. 1824, ch. 157.
Messenger.
Register.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messengers.
Commissioner of general land office.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messengers.
Secretary to sinking fund.
Translation and contingent expenses.
Superintendent and watchmen.
Secretary of War.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Arrearage to one clerk, from Aug. to Dec.
Messengers.
Contingent expenses thereof.
Books, &c.
Clerks in the office of paymaster general.
Messenger.
Clerks in office of commissary general. 1824, ch. 157.
Messengers.
Contingent expenses. Adjutant general’s clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general Clerks of commissary general of subsistence. 1824, ch. 157.
For contingent expenses of said office, two thousand six hundred dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the chief engineer, Clerks of chief engineer. 1824, ch. 157.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the ordnance office, per act of the Clerks of the ordnance. 1818, ch. 87.
For contingent expenses of said office, seven hundred and sixty dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the surgeon general, per Surgeon general’s clerk. 1824, ch. 157.
For contingent expenses of said office, two hundred and thirty dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the quartermaster general, Clerks.
For contingent expenses of said office, six hundred and ninety 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 the clerk in said office, per act of twenty-sixth Additional clerk. 1824, ch. 157.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, one thousand and Messengers.
For contingent expenses of 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 to the commissioners of the navy Secretary of the navy commissioners.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissioners of Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks, and a draftsman, in said office, per act Additional clerks, &c. 1824, ch. 157.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, seven hundred dollars, Messenger.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand eight hundred Contingent expenses.
For allowance to the superintendent, and four watchmen, employed for Superintendent and watchmen of war and navy buildings.
For compensation to the Postmaster General, four thousand dollars. Postmaster General.
For compensation to the 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 clerks in said office, per act of the twenty-sixth Additional clerks. 1824, ch. 157.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, one thousand Messengers.
Contingent expenses.
Surveyor general.
Clerks.
Surveyor south of Tennessee.
Clerks.
Surveyor in Illinois, &c.
Clerks.
Surveyor in Alabama.
Clerks.
Surveyor in Florida.
Clerks.
Commissioner of public buildings.
Officers and clerk of mint.
Persons in the mint.
Contingent expenses, &c.
Assistant engraver.
Governor, &c., of Michigan.
Contingent expenses.
Members of the legislative council, &c.
Governor, &c., of Arkansas territory. 1824, ch. 157.
Contingent expenses.
Governor, judges, &c., of Florida.
Contingent expenses.
Compensation, mileage, &c.
Salaries of the keepers of archives in Florida.
Chief justice, the associate judges, &c.
For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, three Attorney general.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the attorney general, Clerk.
For compensation to sundry district attorneys and marshals, as granted District attorneys, &c.
For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, circuit, and district courts Expenses of the Supreme Court, &c.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present Pensions.
For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating lights, beacons, Lighthouses, &c.
For procuring and placing three buoys on the bar near the port of Buoys.
For building a lighthouse on Baker’s Island, on Mount Desert, in the Lighthouse on Baker’s Island, &c.
For building a lighthouse on Dutch Island, in Narraganset Bay, For building a lighthouse on Dutch Island. 1825, ch. 113.
For building a small beacon light on Warwick Neck, in Rhode Island, A beacon on Warwick Neck, in Rhode Island. 1825, ch. 113.
For building a light vessel for Albemarle Sound, in North Carolina, For building a light vessel for Albemarle Sound, N. C. 1825, ch. 113.
For building a lighthouse on Point Defer, in the state of Louisiana, For building a lighthouse on Point Defer, Louisiana. 1825, ch. 113.
For surveying the public lands of the United States, seventy-four For surveying public lands.
For the salaries of the registers and receivers of land offices, in Registers and receivers of land offices.
For stationery and books, for the offices of commissioners of loans, Stationery, &c.
For the salary of the late governor of the Michigan territory, (William Salary of the late governor of the Michigan territory.
For the salary of the secretary to the land commissioners in East Salary of the secretary to the land commissioners in East Florida.
Balance due superintendent of the Cumberland road.
Assistant superintendent.
Amount due to a contractor, &c.
Compensation to clerk of land commissioners. 1823, ch. 10. Registers for ships, &c.
For registers for ships and vessels, and lists of crews, four thousand dollars.
Discharge of miscellaneous claims.
Compensation to a commissioner, &c. 1823, ch. 30. 1824, ch. 175.
To the ministers at London, Paris, &c.
Salaries of ministers, &c., appointed to the governments on the continent of America.
Outfits.
Secretaries of legation.
Contingent expenses.
Agents of claims at London and Paris.
Expense of foreign intercourse.
Seamen.
Intercourse with the Barbary powers.
Commissioner, &c., under treaty of Ghent.
Carrying into effect the 6th and 7th articles thereof.
Compensation to Thomas H. Gillis for extra services in the office of fourth auditor.
Money to be paid from the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations for certain fortifications.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit: For fortifications, to each specifically, as follows:
For fort Adams, at Brenton’s Point, one hundred thousand dollars. Fort Adams.
For fort Hamilton, at New’ Utrect [Utrecht] Point, seventy-five thousand Fort Hamilton.
For fort Monroe, at Old Point Comfort, one hundred and fifteen thousand Fort Monroe.
For fort Calhoun, at the Rip Rap Shoal, eighty thousand dollars. Fort Calhoun.
For the fort at Bogue Point, North Carolina, twenty-five thousand Fort at Bogue point.
For the fort at Oak Island, North Carolina, thirty thousand dollars. Oak island.
For the fort at Mobile Point, ninety thousand dollars. Mobile Point.
For the fort at Chef Menteur, eighty-five thousand dollars. Chef Menteur.
For fort Jackson, at Plaquemine Bend, ninety thousand dollars. Fort Jackson.
For the fort to be commenced at Bayou Bienvenu, Louisiana, ninety Fort at Bayou Bienvenu.
For repairs and contingencies, fifteen thousand dollars. Repairs, &c.
For repair of fort Constitution, in Portsmouth Harbour, two thousand Fort Constitution.
For the purchase of land, and the right of way on Throg’s Point, in For the purchase of land, &c., on Throg’s point.
[Obsolete.]
Three fifths of the five per
cent, fund, arising from the sale of public lands, to the making of roads and canals, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations for the Indian department.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit:
Superintendent of Indian affairs, &c.
Sub-agents, &c.
Presents to Indians, &c.
Contingent expenses.
Money to be paid from the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriation for the year 1826.
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-six, to wit:
Army, &c. and military academy.
Subsistence.
Forage for officers.
Recruiting service.
Contingent expenses.
For the purchasing department, in addition to materials on hand, of Purchasing department.
For one thousand complete suits of extra clothing to be put in depot, Extra clothing, &c.
For the purchase of woollens, during the year one thousand eight Purchase of woollens.
For medical and hospital department, twenty-five thousand and seventy-seven Medical and hospital department.
For the quartermaster general’s department, two hundred and eighty-four Quartermaster general’s department.
For quartermaster’s supplies, transportation, stationery, outstanding Quartermaster’s supplies, &c.
For articles required for the mathematical, drawing, chemical, and Mathematical instruments, &c.
For the contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars. Contingencies.
For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Armories.
For the current expenses of the ordnance service, sixty-five thousand Ordnance service.
For arsenals, twenty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars. Arsenals.
For arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred Arrearages.
For arrearages from the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and Arrearages from July 1, 1815.
For building an arsenal at Vergennes, Vermont, fifteen thousand Building an arsenal, &c.
For completing the repair of Plymouth beach, thirteen thousand one Repair of Plymouth beach.
For the continuation of the Cumberland road, one hundred and ten Continuation of the Cumberland road.
For repairs made on the Cumberland road during the year one thousand Repairs on the Cumberland road. Harbour of Presque isle.
For completing the works for deepening the channel of entrance into the harbour of Presque Isle, seven thousand dollars.
For the defraying the expenses incidental to making examinations, Surveys, &c., of roads and canals.
For the armament of new fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars. Armament of new fortifications.
To be paid from the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Certain claims described in the supplementary report of the commissioners of the western district of Louisiana, confirmed.
1816, ch. 159.
[Obsolete.]
Sums respectively appropriated for the navy, for 1826.
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively appropriated, for defraying the expenses of the navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated by law for that object, that is to say:
Pay and subsistence of petty officers and seamen, &c.
Provisions.
Medicines, &c.
Repairs, &c. of vessels.
To be paid from the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Tract of country attached to the land district in Arkansas.
Proviso.
Term of court held in Pittsburg altered.
All actions, suits, &c., to remain the same as if no change had taken place.
Consent of Congress given to lay out and make a canal through the United States’ public ground.
Proviso.
Bridges to be erected and kept in repair fit for the passage of carts and wagons.
Secretary of the treasury to return all duties assessed since Jan. 29, 1826, on vessels of Colombia, and their cargoes being the growth, &c., of said republic.
This act to continue in force during the time that the equality for which it provides be reciprocated in the ports of Colombia, &c.
Appropriation for the repair of the post-road between Jackson and Columbus, Miss.
Any person, &c., who, on or before Jan. 1, 1825, cultivated, &c. a tract of land in Florida, &c., shall be entitled to the pre-emption in the purchase thereof, under the act of Feb. 5, 1813, ch. 20.
Act of Feb. 5, 1813, ch. 20.
Proviso.
Any person, &c., settled on a fractional quarter section, to have the privi lege of purchasing an adjoining one.
Where two or more persons have the right or pre-emption.
Proviso.
Any person settled on, &c., any of the school lands, shall have the right of preemption, &c.
Right of preemption, &c., to certain persons.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 99.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Decisions made by the commissioners appointed to ascertain claims, &c., to lands in West Florida, confirmed.
Reports recognised as valid, &c.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 83.
The Spanish claims contained in special reports, act of May 8, 1822, ch. 129, confirmed.
Claims to lots in report, &c., with the exception, confirmed, &c.
Claims contained in the report of the register, &c., confirmed.
Location of the claim of Francisco and Fernando Moreno.
Claims to lands in report L. with the exception of that on the square Ferdinand seventh, confirmed, &c.
Proviso.
Proviso—As to certain claims.
Confirmation of all claims to amount, &c.
Lands fronting Pensacola bay, &c., be reserved from sale for the use of the United States.
Accounts of the commissioners of East and West Florida.
Presidents, professors, &c., exempt from militia duty, except in case of war.
The President of the United States to cause to be run and marked, the line dividing the territory of Florida from the state of Georgia.
A commissioner to be appointed.
Proviso.
Compensation.
Two fair drafts or maps to be made and certified, &c.
Appropriation.
Boundaries of the districts.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated for carrying into effect the appointment of a mission to Panama, viz.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for carrying into effect the appointment of a mission at the Congress of Panama; that is to say:
For the outfits of two envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary, eighteen thousand dollars.
For the salaries for the same at the rate of nine thousand dollars per year, eighteen thousand dollars:
For the secretary to said mission.
For contingent expenses.
The provisions of the act of May 18, 1824, ch. 88, and the act explanatory thereof, May 26, 1824, ch. 176, revived and continued in force until July 4, 1827.
Lands forfeited under the acts of March 2, 1821, ch. 12, April 20, 1822, ch. 30, and May 10, 1800,ch. 55, sec. 5, may be redeemed.
If the legal holder of any certificate shall, prior to July 1, 1827, discharge the amount due thereon, he is entitled to a remission of interest due at the day of such discharge, &c.
1821, ch. 12.
Act of April 12, 1814, ch. 52.
Claims to land in land district of St. Helena Courthouse, of Jan. 19, 1825, &c., confirmed.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 175.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 99.
Register and receiver of said district to possess the same powers as are given them by the act of Congress, of May 8, 1822, ch. 128.
Proviso.
Register, receiver, &c., to receive the same salary as is now allowed by law.
[Obsolete.]
On application of a consul or vice consul of France, made in writing, stating that the person therein named has deserted from a public or private vessel of France while in any port of the United States, he shall be delivered up.
Proviso.
Act to be in force so long as the convention of June 24, 1822, be obligatory.
After the year 1826, the session of the Supreme Court, changed.
Courts to be held on the second Monday in January.
Sessions of the sixth circuit court of the United States for Georgia district, and the sixth circuit court for South Carolina district, changed.
Act of April 3, 1818, ch. 32.
Act of May 22, 1826, ch. 150.
Times of holding the circuit courts for the district of New York and Connecticut, changed.
All indictments &c., to remain as if no change had taken place.
All writs, &c., to be proceeded with as before.
[Obsolete.]
Accounting officers of the treasury directed to liquidate the claim of the state of Maryland against the United States.
Rules to govern the case.
To be paid from the treasury.
Secretary of the Treasury to subscribe for, in the name of the United States, 1000 shares of the capital stock of the Louisville and Portland Canal Company.
Proviso.
Secretary of the Treasury to vote for the president, &c., of said company.
[Obsolete.]
Compensation and mileage granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, &c.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 195.
Tenements and lots of ground on which taxes, &c., remain unpaid, &c., to be sold.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso: The purchaser or purchasers shall not be obliged to pay, at the time of such sale, more than the taxes, assessments, or charges due, and expenses of sale.
Power given to the common council of Alexandria.
Common council to have power to subscribe to the stock of the turnpike road, authorized by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, of Feb. 14, 1818.
Part of the act of May 26, 1824, ch. 195, repealed.
Act of March 30, 1822, ch. 13.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 163.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 28.
Superior courts of Florida, to exercise original jurisdiction in maritime causes, and equity, &c. &c.
Power given to the superior courts in term, and the judges
in vacation, to issue writs of habeas corpus, &c.
Superior courts to be held as occasion may require.
Superior courts, in cases where there has been a trial by jury, to have power to grant new trials.
Proviso.
Writs of error and appeal shall lie, and may be taken on all final decisions of said superior courts, where the matter in dispute shall amount to the sum or value of one hundred dollars, exclusive of costs to the court of appeals of said territory.
Regulations to be observed in respect to all writs of error and appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Act of Sept. 24, 1789, ch. 20.
Act of Dec. 12, 1794, ch. 3.
Clerks of the superior courts shall keep correct, particular, and regular minutes and records of every day’s
proceeding, &c. &c.
Fees.
Judges of the superior courts required to hold a court in one other place in their respective districts.
Marshals of each district shall reside within the same.
Bond to be given.
Thirteen persons shall be annually electby the people of said territory, to compose the legislative council, &c., &c.
Members of the legislative council not to be eligible to any office, &c.
Taxes.
So much of the several acts of which this is an amendment, &c., repealed.
Acts by the legislative council, &c., disapproved and annulled.
Secretary of the Treasury authorized to sell a house and lot, public property, in Royal street in the city of New Orleans.
Boundaries of the southern land district, in Michigan, established by the act of March 3, 1823, ch. 52, to be altered.
Time allowed for the redemption of lands sold for nonpayment of taxes, under several acts extended.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 37.
Act of Jan. 9, 1815, ch. 21.
Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 24.
Interest to be paid, &c.
Claims to lands recommended for confirmation in the report of the register of the land office at Opelousas, in Louisiana, of Oct. 1, 1825, confirmed.
Confirmation to operate only as a relinquishment of the claims of the United States.
Act of April 29, 1816, ch. 138.
The President to cause
the building of one of the ships authorized by the act for the gradual increase of the navy to be suspended, &c.
Secretary of the Treasury to subscribe, for 600 shares of the capital stock of the Dismal Swamp Canal.
This act not to go into effect until the board of engineers shall examine said canal, and make a report, in writing, to the Secretary of War.
150,000 dollars appropriated to carry this act into effect.
The money subscribed on behalf of the United States to be actually expended wholly in the completion of the canal.
[Obsolete.]
President to cause to be sold and conveyed, the house and lot belonging to the
United States at the Hague.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations.
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects following, that is to say:
For ten sloops of war. 1825, ch. 101.
For pay of labourers and teams employed in loading and unloading vessels, &c. &c.
For the inclined plane at the navy yard in Washington. 1823, ch. 32.
For shiphouses. 1823, ch. 32.
For contingent expenses of the naval service prior to 1824. 1823, ch. 32.
For pay to superintendents, naval constructors, &c. 1823, ch. 32.
For the suppression of piracy. 1822, ch. 2.
For rewarding captors of Algerine vessels as authorized by law.
The Secretary of the Treasury empowered to
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, empowered to provide by contract for
build lighthouses, &c.
In the state of Maine, a lighthouse on Mantinicus rock, and one on Maine.
In the state of Massachusetts, a light vessel to be anchored at Massachusetts.
A lighthouse at or near the end of Long Point, Provincetown harbour.
In the state of Connecticut, a lighthouse at or near the mouth of Norwalk Connecticut.
In the state of New York, a lighthouse at or near Dunkirk, on Lake New York.
In the states of New York and New Jersey, a lighthouse upon the New York and New Jersey.
In Delaware bay, a lighthouse on the Brandywine Shoals. Delaware.
In the state of Maryland, a lighthouse on Cove point, instead of Maryland.
In the state of Virginia, a lighthouse on Smith’s island, near Cape Virginia.
In the state of North Carolina, a light vessel, not to be under fifty, nor North Carolina.
In the state of South Carolina, a lighthouse on Cape Romaine or its South Carolina.
In the state of Georgia, a beacon on Grass island, at the entrance of Georgia.
In the state of Mississippi, a lighthouse on the Mississippi river, at the Mississippi.
Sums appropriated.
In the state of Maine, four thousand dollars for a lighthouse on Mantinicus Maine.
In the state of Massachusetts, two thousand five hundred dollars for a Massachusetts.
Rhode Island.
Connecticut.
New York.
New York and New Jersey.
New Jersey.
Delaware.
Maryland.
Maryland and Virginia.
Virginia.
North Carolina.
South Carolina.
In the state of Alabama, three hundred and twenty dollars for buoys, Alabama.
In the state of Louisiana, one thousand one hundred dollars, for placing Louisiana.
In the state of Georgia, fifty thousand dollars, to be applied under Georgia. Mississippi.
Addition to the salary of the keeper of Quaddy Head lighthouse, Maine.
When the lighthouse on the Highlands of Neversink is built and lighted, the light vessel, at present anchored at the Hook, shall be removed, &c.
Lighthouse to be built near Buffalo Creek.
Lighthouse at Throgg’s Neck.
Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.
Duties of the quartermaster’s department in addition to its present duties.
Every captain or commander of a company, &c., at the expiration of every quarter, to make returns of supplies.
Duty of all officers charged with the issue of clothing, &c.
Two additional quartermasters, and ten assistant quartermasters, to be appointed.
Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 13.
Proviso.
Each officer appointed, to give bond and security.
The marshals to allow compensation to persons imprisoned on account of inability to give security, &c.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Statue of Washington, and of Alexander Hamilton, authorized to be imported free of duty.
[Obsolete.]
The claims of Delaware against the United States, to be settled.
Rules adopted to govern the case.
Amount of interest, when ascertained, to be paid from the treasury.
[Obsolete.]
Specific appropriations.
That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, to accomplish the purposes hereinafter mentioned, to wit:
In the state of Maine, one thousand two hundred dollars, for building Maine.
In the state of Massachusetts, three thousand five hundred dollars, for Massachusetts.
In the state of New York, fifteen thousand dollars, for building a New York.
Delaware.
Ohio.
Maine.
Massachusetts.
The bar at the mouth of Merrimack river, and the practicability of deepening the channel over the same, and the harbour of Hyannis, in the Vineyard Sound, to ascertain what improvements can be made in the same for the safe anchorage of vessels, and the expense of effecting, severally, these objects.
Connecticut.
New York.
Pennsylvania.
North Carolina.
Alabama.
Michigan.
Sums herein appropriated to be paid from the treasury.
Accounting officers of the Treasury Department to liquidate the claims of the city of Baltimore, &c.
Rules to be adhered to in ascertaining the amount of interest due said city.
Amount of interest, when ascertained, to be paid from the treasury.
Act of July 13, 1813, ch. 12.
Preamble.
Commissioners to be appointed.
Rates of toll.
Proviso.
If the road become free under said act, the levy court of Alexandria shall keep it in repair.
President of the United States to appoint the commissioners.
When the commissioners shall have selected the site, it must be approved by the President.
Penitentiary to be erected.
40,000 dollars appropriated for defraying the expenses thereof.
Duty of the commissioner of the public buildings.
Commissioners to select a site in the county of Alexandria, for a county jail.
Secretary of War to cause to be purchased in the vicinity of
Augusta, a site for an arsenal.
Proviso.
A sum riot exceeding 70,000 dollars appropriated, &c.
Following quantities of land where none is appropriated for the use of schools in certain townships or fractional townships, to be reserved for such purpose.
Aforesaid tracts of land to be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Land to be selected in the French grant in Ohio.
Secretary of War to purchase a site for an arsenal at or
in the vicinity of St. Louis.
[Obsolete.]
Judge for the western district of Virginia to hold the district court of the western district of Pennsylvania, for the trial of certain cases.
Compensation.
A quantity of land not exceeding two entire townships, to be reserved for the use and support of an university in Michigan.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 35.
Washington Canal Company authorized to increase the width of the
Washington canal.
Duty of the canal company.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated for the objects hereinafter mentioned.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter mentioned, that is to say:
To carry into effect sundry stipulations of treaties with the Cherokees, Sundry stipulations.
For payment of the annuity provided for by the second article of the The annuity under the Cherokee treaty, Oct. 24, 1804.
For payment of the fifth and last instalment, due in the present year, Claims of citizens of Georgia against the Creek nation.
For the annuity of the Sock and Fox Indians, provided for by the For the annuity of the Sock and Fox Indians.
For the annuity of the loways, provided for by the second article of For the annuity of the Ioways.
For the expense, annually, of supporting blacksmiths, furnishing For supporting blacksmiths, &c.
For the annuity of the Quapaws, provided for by the second article For the annuity of the Quapaws.
For the annuities provided for by the second and third articles of the For the annuities to the Choctaws, of Jan. 20, 1825, &c.
For the payment of the annuity due to the Chickasaw nation, for the For the annuity to the Chickasaws for 1821.
To carry into effect the treaties with the Osages, of the second, and To carry into effect the treaties with the Osages and Kansas.
For surveying the lands reserved to said Indians by said treaties, ten Surveying.
For payment of the annuities to the Osages and Kanzas.
For the purchase of cattle, &c.
For houses for Osage chiefs, and one for the principal Kanzas chief.
Agents, &c.
Debts due by the Kanzas and Osages to Francis G. Chouteau, &c.
Claims of citizens for depredations.
For expenses incurred under the 9th and 12th articles.
Treaty with the Shawnees.
For surveying the lands granted to them.
For the payment of the sums stipulated for, &c.
The claims of the Shawnees.
For carrying into effect the 4th article relative to a blacksmith, &c.
For expenses incurred in negotiation.
To carry into effect the treaty concluded at Prairie du Chien with certain Indian tribes.
The stipulations of the 4th article of the treaty with the Miamies.
To carry into effect the provision of the same article of said treaty,
To carry into effect the provision of the 3d article of the treaty with the Delawares, &c.
For arrearages of salt due to the Indians, under the provisions of For arrearages of salt.
For the payment of the annuity secured to the Christian Indians, For payment of the annuity secured to the Christian Indians. Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 174, sec. 7.
Levy court of Washington county, District of Columbia, shall not possess the power of assessing any tax on real or personal property within the limits of Georgetown, &c.
Proviso.
Proviso.
The corporation to lay a tax on all real and personal property, not exceeding 70 cents in the 100 dollars.
The act to take immediate effect.
A pension agency in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
Secretary of the Treasury to make arrangements with the Bank of the United States for paying pensioners therein.
Times for holding the courts of the United States in the western district of Virginia, changed.
Writs of execution, where the district or circuit courts in any one state have been, or may be, divided into two judicial districts, may be executed in any part of such state.
State of Illinois to sell in fee simple, to the county of
Gallatin, a tract of land.
Act of April 1818, ch. 67.
Appropriation to defray the expenses of holding treaties with the Miami and Potawatami Indians, &c.
A fee of six dollars to be allowed the attorney for the district of Missouri.
Proviso.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 173.
250 dollars to be allowed and paid him, from the treasury.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 174.
The provisions of the act to be carried into effect.
Act of Feb. 4, 1807, ch. 5.
Act of March 9, 1808, ch. 29.
Act of May 20, 1812, ch. 17.
Time of holding the district courts of the United States for the district of North Carolina, changed.
All suits, &c., &c., to be proceeded with, as if no change had taken place.
15th sec. of the act of May 15, 1820, ch. 104, extended.
Time of holding the circuit court, for the county of Washington and Alexandria counties, in the District of Columbia, changed.
The time of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States, for the district of Ohio, changed, &c.
[Obsolete.]
United States to give to each warrior of the Creek nation, who shall within two years remove to the west of the Mississippi according to article 6 of the treaty of Jan. 26, 1826, one rifle gun, &c.
Agent appointed to accompany them, to receive 1500 dollars per annum.
There is to be delivered to the said agent, annually, fair and full proportion of annuities heretofore stipulated to be paid to the Creek Indians.
The agent is to reside with the emigrating Creeks, &c.
60,000 dollars appropriated to carry this act into effect.
Any goods, &c., which lawfully might be transported to or from Philadelphia, &c., by the way of Elkton, &c., shall be entitled to all the benefits, &c., existing in the case of goods, &c., transported by any of the routes above mentioned.
Appropriation to defray the expenses of a treaty with the Choctaw and Chicasaw nations of Indians.
Commissioners to be appointed.
The clerks of the district courts are not to summon a grand jury,
unless by order of the judge.
Lands lying in Monroe county, Mississippi, which have been sold since Oct., 1822, legalized, &c.
Act of March 1, 1823, ch. 39
Officers, &c., of the Virginia line, on the continental establishment, entitled to bounty lands, to be allowed until 1st June, 1829, to obtain warrants, &c.
Proviso.
Proviso.
No patent to be issued by virtue of the preceding section, for a greater quantity of land than the rank or term of service of the officer, &c., to whose heirs or assignees such warrant has been granted, would have entitled him to, &c.
No holder of any warrant to be permitted to withdraw or remove the same, and locate it in any other land, except in cases of eviction.
Proviso.
Repairs of the post-road in the Indian country between Chatahoochie and Line Creek.
Duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, where sales have been made to satisfy any direct taxes imposed thereon by virtue of the laws of the United States.
To cause evidence of proceeding to be preserved.
Soldiers, or their heirs, to whom bounty lands have been patented, in Arkansas, unfit for cultivation, to receive in exchange, a like quantity on any
of the unappropriated lands in the military district in said territory.
Duty of the register.
Duty of the commissioner of the general land office.
Proviso.
Such surrender, &c., to be made on or before the 1st Jan. 1830, &c.
Appropriation to carry into effect the treaty between the United States and the Creek nation.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, to carry into effect the treaty concluded between the United States and the Creek nation, on the twenty-fourth of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and ratified on the twenty-second of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, that is to say: For the payment Payment of the sum to the chiefs and warriors of said nation. March 3, 1825, ch. 16.
For the payment of the permanent annuity to the Creek nation, provided Annuity to the Creek nation.
For the payment of the sum to the friends and followers of General For the payment of the sum to the friends of Gen. M’Intosh.
For the payment of the sum to the Creek nation, stipulated for by the Payment to Creek nation.
For carrying into effect the stipulations of the sixth, seventh, eighth, For carrying into effect the stipulations of the treaty.
The times of holding the district courts in the district of Alabama, changed.
Proviso.
All causes, &c., to remain and be proceeded with as before.
[Obsolete.]
Appeals and writs of error from the decisions of the district court for the northerndistrict of New York.
Accounting officers of the treasury to settle the claim of New York against the United States, for moneys expended by her.
Rules applicable to, and governing the case.
Amount of interest to be paid from the treasury.
Additional fees to the registers and receivers of land offices, for extra services.
Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 12.
Proviso.
Compensation to the receivers of public money, in the several land offices, for transporting and depositing moneys.
A like compensation to be made to them for similar services performed by them since the act of 30th of April, 1818, ch. 123.
Sums respectively appropriated for the following purposes:
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated, to be paid out of any money in [the] treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes; that is to say:
For the President’s house, for the purchase of furniture, &c.
All furniture to be of American manufacture.
Commissioner of public buildings hereafter to receive a salary of 2000 dollars.
Appropriation for the relief of the Florida Indians.
Postmaster General authorized, &c., to cause to be made an examination of the various routes between Baltimore, and Philadelphia, and report to Congress, &c.
Resolutions expressive of the sense of Congress of the gallant conduct of Capt. Thomas McDonough, &c., extended to Lt. Duncan.
Secretary of War to have prepared a complete system of cavalry tactics, &c.
President of the United States to cause to be delivered to certain persons, for their gallantry at Plattsburg, in 1814, each, one rifle.
President of the United States to cause an examination, &c., to be made, for
a site for a dry dock at certain navy yards.
ACTS OF THE NINETEENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Depositions taken under a commission issued at the instance of the defendant, may be read in evidence by the plaintiff, although the plaintiff had no notice of the time and place of taking them. Yeaton v. Fry, 5 Cranch, 335; 2 Cond. Rep. 273.
The court will not award a commission to take the testimony of absent witnesses until the commissioners are named. Van Stephorst v. The state of Maryland, 2 Dall. 401; 1 Cond. Rep. 2.
Under particular circumstances the court allowed a special commission, to take the depositions of witnesses, with instructions: 1. That the interrogatories should be filed in the court here by both parties previous to the issuing of the commission. 2. That the commissioners should be directed not to admit any additional interrogatories. 3. That neither parties nor counsel should be allowed to appear before the commissioners. Cunningham v. Otis, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 166.
Commissioners to take depositions of witnesses, act under a special authority derived from the court, which must be strictly pursued; and, therefore, where a commission had issued to four commissioners jointly to take depositions, and it was executed and returned by three only, although both of the commissioners nominated by the defendant, had acted; yet he may object to the reading of the depositions, and the objections will be sustained. Armstrong v. Brown, 1 Wash. C. C. R. 34.
A commission to take testimony, which had issued in a case in which the United States was a party, was set aside, because it had been opened by an officer of the government before it came into the hands of the clerk, and a new commission was ordered, to which the original papers, which had been annexed to the first commission, were attached. The United States v. Price’s Adm’rs, 2 Wash. C. C. R. 356.
A commission to take evidence in an enemy’s country, in a prize cause, is contrary to the established practice in a prize court. The Diana, 2 Gallis. C. C. R. 93.
Each interrogatory, annexed to the commission, should be substantially answered, at least; and the omission, so to answer, is fatal to the whole testimony of the witness: although, in his answer to the general interrogatory, the witness has said he knows nothing material to either party. Zetland v. Bissett, I Wash. C. C. R. 144.
Where a commission to take evidence was executed in a foreign country, the government of which refused to let the commissioners act, considering it an assumption of the sovereign power, but the commission was executed by a judge of the court in the presence of the commissioners; the depositions were permitted to be read, as otherwise the course of justice might be impeded. In such a case the evidence must be fairly taken; all the evidence on each side must be put and answered. If, however, the interrogatories have been substantially put and answered, it is sufficient. Winthrop v. The Union Ins. Co., 2 Wash. C. C. R. 7.
It is no objection to the reading of a deposition, taken under a commission to a foreign country, that the same witness had been previously examined and cross-examined in the United States. Ibid.
A joint commission to take the depositions of witnesses, must be executed by all the commissioners, to make the depositions evidence, although the commissioners named by the party making the objection, after proceeding some length in the examination of the witnesses, withdrew. Muns v. Dupont, 2 Wash. C. C. R. 563.
The provision of the judiciary act of 1789, ch. 20, sec. 30, as to taking depositions, de bene esse, does not apply to cases pending in the Supreme Court of the United States, but only to cases in the district and circuit courts. Testimony, by depositions, can only be regularly taken for the Supreme Court, under a commission issuing according to the rules of the court. The Argo, 2 Wheat. 287; 4 Cond. Rep. 119.
Depositions taken according to the proviso in the 13th section of the judiciary act of 1789, ch. 20, under a “ dedimus potestatem,” “ according to common usage, where it may be necessary to prevent a failure or delay of justice,” are, under no circumstances, to be considered as taken de bene esse, whether the witness reside beyond the process of the court, or within it: the provision of the act relative to depositions, de bene esse, being confined to those taken under the enacting part of the section. Sergeant’s Lessee v. Biddle et al. 4 Wheat. 508; 4 Cond. Rep. 522.
A commission was issued in the name of Richard M. Meade, the name of the party being Richard W. Meade. This is a clerical error in making out the commission, and does not affect the execution of the commission. Keene v. Meade, 3 Peters, 1.
It is not known that there is any practice in the execution or return of a commission, requiring a certificate, in whose handwriting the depositions returned with the commission were set down. All that the commission requires, is, that the commissioners, having reduced the depositions taken by them to writing, should send them with the commission, under their hands and seals, to the judges of the court out of which the commission issued. But it is immaterial in whose handwriting the depositions are; and it cannot be required that they should certify any immaterial fact. Ibid. 8.
A certificate by the commissioners, that A. B., whom they were going to employ as a clerk, had been sworn, admits of no other reasonable interpretation than that A. B. was the person appointed by them as clerk. Ibid. 9.
It is not necessary to return with the commission the form of the oath administered by the commissioners to the witnesses. When the commissioners certify the witnesses were sworn, and the interrogatories annexed to the commission were all put to them, it is presumed that they were sworn and examined as to all their knowledge of the facts. Ibid. 10.
The plaintiffs issued a commission to take testimony abroad, and the defendant joined in the same, by filing cross-interrogatories, but the plaintiffs afterwards found a witness to prove the facts they desired to establish by the commission; and they abandoned it. The court said a trial under those circumstances, would be a surprise on the defendant. Le Roy v. The Delaware Ins. Co., 2 Wash. C. C. R. 223.
If the cross-interrogatories are not put to a witness examined under a commission to take testimony, the examination of the witness cannot be read on the trial. Gilpins v. Consequa, Peters’ C. C. R. 86.
It is no objection to a deposition taken under a commission to Holland, that it is in the English language, the commissioners before whom it was taken being Dutchmen, and not stating that they had the assistance of an interpreter. Ibid.
It is not an objection to the evidence taken under a commission, that the cross-interrogatories were not put to each witness, immediately after he had answered the chief interrogatories, but were put to him after all the chief interrogatories had been answered by all the witnesses. Ibid.
A commission is not defectively executed, because the commissioners and their clerk were not sworn. Ibid.
Those who execute a commission are appointed by the court, and although they may be nominated by the parties, they are not their agents. Ibid.
If all the interrogatories, which accompany a commission, are substantially, although not severally answered, it is sufficient; and this principle applies as well to the answers given to the interrogatories annexed to letters rogatory, as to answers under a commission. Nelson v. The United States, Peters’ C. C. R. 235.
The circuit court of the United States will issue letters rogatory, for the purpose of obtaining the testimony of witnesses, when the government of the place where the evidence is to be obtained will not permit a commission to be executed. Ibid.
The testimony of a witness, taken under a commission, directed to five persons, or any one of them, cannot be read in evidence if another person than the commissioner, and who was not named in the commission, assisted in taking the examinations of the witnesses. Willings v. Consequa, Peters’ C. C.R. 301.
A commission directed to A. to be executed in one county, cannot be executed by him in another. The commissioner ought to state when and where the commission was executed. He acts under a special authority. The depositions were rejected, being obnoxious to this principle. Bourdereau et al. v. Montgomery et al., 4 Wash. C. C. R. 186.
If the general interrogatory, under a commission, is not answered, it is a fatal objection to the whole deposition; all the interrogatories must be substantially answered. Dodge v. Israel, 4 Wash. C. C. R. 323.
Query, If it is not an objection to a deposition, that it was committed to writing by the witness before he was sworn; and whether exhibits, referred to in a deposition, ought not to be annexed by the commissioners to the deposition, or so designated by them as to leave no reasonable doubt of their identity. Ibid.
If reasonable notice of formal objections to the depositions taken under a commission, be not given, the court may be induced to set aside a verdict or nonsuit rendered in consequence of this objection, without costs. Ibid.
Depositions taken, under a commission, to another state, cannot be read, unless proof be given that a copy of the interrogatories, and a written notice of the rule for a commission, and the names of the commissioners, were served on the opposite party or his attorney, according to one of the rules of the circuit court of Pennsylvania. Lessee of Rhoads and Snyder v. Selin, 4 Wash. C. C. R. 715.
It is no objection to a deposition, that a material part of the evidence comes out under the general interrogatory. Ibid.
A commission was issued under a rule to take depositions at Selinsgrove, and was endorsed “ commission to Selinsgrove.” It should appear, by the certificate of the commissioners, or otherwise, that the depositions were taken at the place indicated, or they cannot be read. Ibid.
Affidavits to be used as further proof, in causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction in the Supreme Court, must be taken by commission. The London Packet, 2 Wheat. 371; 4 Cond. Rep. 162.
A deposition taken under a commission is fatally defective, if the general interrogatory, “Do you know any thing further,” &c., is not answered. Richardson v. Golden, 3 Wash. C. C. R. 109.
If a commission issue to A. & B., or either of them, to take the depositions of witnesses, the depositions of A. may be taken before B. Lonsdale v. Brown, 3 Wash. C. C. R. 404.
Evidence to establish heirship and pedigree, had been obtained under a commission issued for that purpose to France, in an action of ejectment, in which the plaintiffs had recovered the lots of ground for which the suit was instituted. In the course of that trial, a bill of exceptions was tendered by the plaintiffs and sealed by the court, in which the evidence contained in the commission was inserted. The commission, and the testimony obtained under it, were afterwards lost. In an action for mesne profits brought by the plaintiffs in the ejectment, against the landlord of the defendant in the suit, who had employed counsel to oppose the claims of the plaintiffs, but who was not a party to the suit on record; it was held, by the Supreme Court, that the testimony, as copied into the bill of exceptions, was legal and competent evidence of pedigree. Chirac v. Reinecker, 2 Peters, 613.
Whenever a commission shall be issued,
That, whenever a commission shall be issued, by any court of the United States, for taking the
by any court of the United States, for taking the testimony of a witness or witnesses, at any place within the United States, or the territories thereof, it shall be lawful for the clerk of any court of the United States, for the district or territory within which such place may be, to issue a subpoena, or subpoenas, for such witness or witnesses named in said commission. Proviso.
Any judge of the United States to issue a subpoena duces tecum, in certain cases.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Certain lands to be selected for seminaries of learning.
[Obsolete.]
Members of the legislative council to be hereafter chosen by the people.
Act of Feb. 16, 1819, ch. 22.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 36.
Act of Feb. 5, 1825, ch. 6.
One or more judges of the supreme court, to hold, annually, a court or
courts in each county eastward of Lake Michigan, &c.
Clerk of said court to be appointed by the judges.
No member of the legislative council to be eligible to any office, &c.
All laws, &c. inconsistent with this, repealed.
[Obsolete.]
Sums respectively appropriated towards the payment of revolutionary pensioners.
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively appropriated towards the military service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and for the objects following; that is to say:
For the pensions to the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, Revolutionary pensioners.
For the invalid and half pay pensioners, three hundred and one thousand Invalid pensioners.
For pensions to the widows and orphans, twelve thousand dollars. Widows and orphans.
Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.
[Obsolete.]
The, township of land reserved for a seminary of learning, in the district of East Florida, by act of March 3d, 1823, ch. 28, sec. 11, to be located east of Appalachicola river, &c.
April 22, 1826, ch. 29.
Power given to the governor to lease the same,
Location of the grant to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum of Kentucky.
1826, ch. 24.
Decisions made by the commissioners appointed to ascertain claims, &c., to land in East Florida, contained in their reports, &c., transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, confirmed.
Certain conflicting Spanish claims confirmed.
Act of May 8, 1822, ch. 129, sec. 4.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Commons in the city of St. Augustine confirmed to the corporation.
Parochial church, &c., confirmed, &c.
Old Episcopal church lot relinquished.
Proviso.
Duty of the secretary of the late commissioners.
Duty of the register and receiver.
Claimants to lands whose claims have not been heretofore decided on, or filed, to file them at any time before the 1st of November next.
Receiver and register to receive each, as an annual compensation, 1500 dollars, and to appoint a clerk whose salary shall be 1000 dollars.
Keepers of the public archives to furnish to the surveyors of public lands in Florida, a description of each claim to land confirmed, which shall specially designate the quantity, &c., of such claim.
Duty of the register to issue certificates in favour of claimants.
Duty of the surveyor.
Expense of surveying to be paid by the United States.
Proviso.
Patents.
Course to be pursued by the holders of claims over three thousand five hundred acres.
Duty of the register and receiver.
The governor and legislative council to sell one of the reserved quarter sections of land near Tallahassee, and apply the proceeds to the erection of public buildings.
Persons whose improvements were included in the reserve made to certain Indian chiefs in the treaty of Sept. 18th, 1823, entitled to a pre-emption to the same quantity of land.
[Obsolete.]
Act of May 3, 1802, ch. 53.
Corporation to introduce into their lotteries certain land prizes.
[Expired.]
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 63.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 34. Act of Aug. 29, 1842, ch. 264.
A reporter of the decisions to be appointed by the Supreme Court with an annual compensation of 1000 dollars.
Proviso.
Proviso.
The President to remove the land office in the Choctaw district, and to
exestablish the same at any other convenient place within the same land district.
Lawful to make entry, &c., of any foreign ships at the port of Fairfield.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 110.
Act of March 3, 1619, ch. 75.
Norwegian vessels, after the date of this act, until the termination of the next session of Congress, to be exempt from the payment of discriminating duties of tonnage and impost.
Secretary of the Treasury directed to cause to be repaid all alien or discriminating duties of tonnage or impost, received on such vessels since the 25th Sept. last.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated to de-
That, for defraying the ex-
fray the expenses of the navy, for the year 1827.
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, For pay and subsistence of officers, &c., other than those at navy yards, &c.
For the pay, subsistence, and allowances of officers, and pay of seamen, Of officers, &c., at navy yards, &c.
For the pay of naval constructors, superintendents, and all the civil Naval constructors, &c.
For provisions, five hundred and seventy-nine thousand one hundred Provisions.
For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and for the wear and tear of vessels Repairs of vessels.
For medicines, surgical instruments, hospital stores, and all other expenses Medicines, &c.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, thirty-five thousand dollars. Ordnance, &c.
For repairs and improvements of navy yards, two hundred and Repairs, &c. of navy yards.
For defraying the expenses which may accrue during the year one For defraying certain expenses for 1827.
For freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; For freight and transportation, &c., &c.
For contingent expenses for objects arising in the year one thousand Contingent expenses arising in 1827.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and twenty Pay, &c., of officers, &c., of marine corps.
For clothing for the same, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and Clothing.
For fuel for the same, six thousand dollars. Fuel.
For contingencies for the same, fourteen thousand dollars. Contingencies.
For medicines for the same, two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine Medicine.
For barracks for the same, forty-one thousand dollars. Barracks.
To carry into effect a resolution of Congress, of May 22, 1826.
Agency on the coast of Africa. Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 101, sec. 2.
Balance of the appropriation to be carried to the surplus fund 1st January, 1827, re-appropriated.
Money to be paid from the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated for the year 1827.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven; that is to say:
Congress and their officers.
Library and librarian of Congress.
President.
Vice President.
Secretary of State. Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Machinist for patent office. 1824, ch. 157.
Messengers.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of State, Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, six thousand dollars. Secretary of the Treasury. Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, per act of twentieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, ten thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation to one clerk in said office, per act of twenty-sixth Additional clerk. 1824, ch. 157.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, and assistant, in full Messengers. 1818, ch. 87.
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 messengers in said office, in full of all allowances, Messengers.
For compensation to the second comptroller of the treasury, three Second 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, in full of all allowances, Messenger.
For compensation to the first auditor of the treasury, three thousand First 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, in full of all allowances, Messenger.
For compensation to the second auditor of the treasury, three thousand Second 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, in full of all allowances, Messenger.
For compensation to the third auditor of the treasury, three thousand Third auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the third auditor, per Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, and assistant, in full Messengers.
For compensation to the fourth auditor of the treasury, three thousand Fourth auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the fourth auditor, per Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to one additional clerk, employed per acts of appropriations, Additional clerk.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, in full of all allowances, Messenger.
For compensation to the fifth auditor of the treasury, three thousand Fifth auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Additional clerks. 1824, ch. 157.
Messenger.
Treasurer.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Additional clerks. 1824, ch. 157.
Messenger.
Register.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messengers.
Commissioner of general land office.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messengers.
Secretary to sinking fund.
Translating and contingent expenses.
Superintendent and watchmen.
Secretary of War.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messengers.
Contingent expenses.
Books, &c.
Clerks in the office of paymaster general. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, in full of all allowances, Messenger.
For contingent expenses of said office, five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general Clerks in office of commissary general. 1824, ch.157.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, in full of all allowances, Messenger.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred and thirty dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the adjutant general, Adjutant general’s clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For contingent expenses of said office, including arrearages for eighteen Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general Clerks of commissary general of subsistence. 1824, ch. 157.
For contingent expenses of said office, including printing advertisements, Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the chief engineer, per Clerks of chief engineer. 1824, ch. 157.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the ordnance office, per act of Clerks of the ordnance. 1818, ch. 87.
For contingent expenses of said office, seven hundred and sixty Contingent, expenses.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the surgeon general, per Surgeon general’s clerk. 1824, ch. 157.
For contingent expenses of said office, two hundred and twenty-five Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the quartermaster general, Quartermaster general’s clerks.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred and thirty 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 the clerk in said office, per act of twenty-sixth Additional clerk. 1824, ch. 157.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, in full of all allowances, Messengers.
For contingent expenses of said office, including arrearages of, and Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, ten thousand Commissioners of navy board.
For compensation to the secretary to the commissioners of the navy Secretary of the navy commissioners.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissioners of Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks and draftsmen in said office, per act of Additional clerks, &c. 1824, ch. 157.
Messenger.
Contingent expenses.
Superintendent and watchmen of war and navy buildings.
Postmaster General.
Assistant P. M. general.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Additional clerks. 1824, ch. 157.
Messengers.
Contingent expenses.
Surveyor general.
Clerks.
Surveyor south of Tennessee.
Clerks.
Surveyor in Illinois, &c.
Clerks.
Surveyor in Alabama.
Clerks.
Surveyor in Florida.
Clerks.
Public lands.
Surveys in Florida. 1827, ch. 9.
Commissioner of public buildings.
Officers and clerk of mint.
Persons in the mint.
Contingent expenses, &c.
Governor, &c., of Michigan.
Contingent expenses.
Members of the legislative council, &c.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Governor, &c. of Arkansas territory.
For the contingent expenses of the Arkansas territory, three hundred Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Florida Governor, judges, &c., of Florida.
For the contingent expenses of the Florida territory, three hundred Contingent expenses.
For compensation and mileage to the members of the legislative Compensation, mileage, &c.
For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and Chief justice, the associate judges, &c.
For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court.
For compensation to the Attorney General of the United States, three Attorney general.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the Attorney General, Clerk.
For compensation to sundry district attorneys and marshals, as granted District attorneys, &c.
For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, circuit, and district Expenses of the Supreme Court, &c.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present Pensions.
For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating lights, beacons, Lighthouses, &c.
For building a light vessel, to be anchored at or near Hooper’s Straits, Light vessel at or near Hooper’s Straits. 1826, ch. 73.
For building a lighthouse on Concord Point, at or near the Susquehannah Lighthouse on Concord Point. 1826, ch. 73.
For stationery and books for the offices of commissioners of loans, Stationery, &c.
For the salaries of the keepers of the public archives in Florida, one Keepers of public archives.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims of the United States, Miscellaneous claims against the United States.
For the salaries of the ministers at London, Paris, St. Petersburg, Ministers at London, &c.
Chargé des affaires at Stockholm, &c.
Outfits of a minister to Colombia, &c.
Chargé des affaires to Denmark.
Secretaries of legation.
Contingent expenses.
Agents of claims at London and Paris.
Expense of foreign intercourse.
Seamen.
Intercourse with the Barbary powers.
Commissioner, &c., under treaty of Ghent.
Carrying into effect the 6th and 7th articles thereof.
Money to be paid from the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Sums respectively appropriated for the military service, for 1827.
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- seven, to wit:
Pay of the army.
Subsistence.
Forage for officers.
For the recruiting service, twenty-six thousand six hundred dollars. Recruiting service.
For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, thirteen thousand Contingent expenses of same.
For the purchasing department, in addition to materials on hand, Purchasing department.
For the purchase of woollens during the year one thousand eight hundred Purchase of woollens.
For the medical and hospital department, twenty-five thousand five Medical and hospital department.
For medical supplies for the posts on the Red river, the Arkansas, Medicine, &c.
For the quartermaster general’s department, two hundred and eighty-seven Quartermaster general’s department.
For arrearages in the quartermaster general’s department, thirty-five Arrearages.
For quartermaster’s supplies, transportation and stationery for the Quartermaster’s supplies, &c.
For articles required for the mathematical, drawing, chemical, and mineralogical Mathematical instruments, &c.
For the contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars. Contingencies.
For the current expenses of the ordnance service, sixty-five thousand Ordnance service.
For national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Armories.
For defraying the expenses of the officers of the militia who were employed Defraying the expenses of militia officers.
For the settlement of the claims of the militia of Georgia, for services rendered Settlement of the claims of the Georgia militia.
For arsenals, forty-four thousand four hundred dollars. Arsenals.
For arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred Arrearages prior to July 1, 1815.
For constructing the road from Canton to Zanesville, in the state of Road from Canton to Zanesville, &c. Cumberland road.
For paying a balance due to John McClure, as superintendent of the Balance due John McClure.
For completing the works and deepening the channel of entrance Completing works, &c., of Presque Isle.
For defraying the expense of an expedition fitted out, consisting of Expedition for the suppres- sion of Indian aggressions. 1824, ch. 46.
For defraying the expenses incidental to making examinations and surveys, authorized by act of thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, thirty thousand dollars.
Examinations and surveys.
Re-appropriations.
Road from Memphis to Little Rock.
Navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
Treaty with the Choctaws.
Rations to the Florida Indians.
Running the line of the land assigned them.
Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit: For fortifications, to each specifically, as follows:
Forts. Repairs and contingencies.
Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit:
For the completion of barracks, store-houses, and hospital, at the Military For completion of military barracks, &c.
For the completion of quarters, barracks, and hospital, at fort St. For completion of military quarters, &c.
For the erection of new barracks and hospital at Michilimackinac, six Barracks, &c., at Michilimackinac.
For the erection of a wharf at fort Wolcott, Rhode Island, five hundred Wharf at fort Wolcott.
For the purchase of a house and lot of land at Eastport, Maine, required House, &c. at Eastport, Maine.
For the purchase of lots adjoining the barracks at St. Augustine, Florida, Barracks at St. Augustine.
For the completion of the barracks at Savannah, fourteen thousand Barracks at Savannah.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated for the Indian dept., for 1827.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit:
For the pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, and Pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, &c.
For the pay of sub-agents, as established by law, fifteen thousand one Pay of subagents.
For presents to Indians, as authorized by act of one thousand eight Presents. 1802, ch. 13.
For defraying the expenses of holding a treaty with the Cherokee Indians, For defraying the expenses of holding treaty with the Cherokee Indians, &c.
For the contingent expenses, ninety-five thousand dollars. Contingencies.
Pay for rations delivered to the Florida Indians.
Provision, heretofore made, for carrying into effect the treaty of the 2d and 3d June, 1825, with the Osage and Kansas Indians, to be modified.
Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Sums respectively appropriated for the public buildings, &c.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes: that is to say—
Capitol, Capitol square, &c. Proviso.
Repairs, cases for records, &c.
Completion of the penitentiary.
Appropriation by an act, approved May 22, 1826, ch. 154.
for finishing the large room in the President’s house, &c.
Act of April 26, 1822, ch. 40.
The location of lands for the relief of the inhabitants of the late county of New Madrid, to be perfected into grants.
Act of Feb. 17, 1815, ch. 45.
Act of July 9, 1832, ch. 180, and notes.
[Expired.]
Act of Feb. 24, 1819, ch. 41.
Time of issuing and locating military land warrants, extended.
President to appoint three commissioners and one clerk.
Records, &c., constituting the mixed commission under the treaty of Ghent, to be delivered to them.
Said commissioners and clerk to con-
vene at the city of Washington, on the 10th July next.
Claims to be arranged and docketed with all convenient despatch.
And determined.
Power given said commissioners.
Compensation.
Oath required of them.
Continuance of the commission.
Payment of claims admitted by them, to an amount not exceeding 1,204,960 dollars, to be paid from the treasury.
Proviso.
All moneys already received, under the convention of 13th November, 1826, to be paid into the treasury.
Records, documents, &c.
Claims deposited by mistake in the Department of State.
Post-roads established.
That the following be established as post-roads:
In Maine.—From Bangor, by Dutton, Kirkland, and Blakesburg, to Maine.
In New Hampshire.—From Littleton to Stephen’s Ferry, in Lyman. New Hampshire.
In Vermont.—From Peacham, by Bradley’s Mills and Stevens’ Mills, Vermont.
In Massachusetts.—From West Middleborough to Rochester. From Massachusetts.
In Rhode Island.—From Providence, by the way of Slade’s ferry, to Rhode Island.
Connecticut.
New York.
New Jersey.
In Pennsylvania.—The mail from Smithport, to return by N. C. Gallup’s, Pennsylvania.
In Delaivare.—From St. George’s, by Delaware city, to Port Penn. Delaware.
In Maryland.—From Allen’s Fresh to the Lott. From Annapolis, by Maryland.
In Virginia.—From Lynchburg, by Ward’s Bridge, Dejernett’s, and Virginia.
North Carolina.
South Carolina.
Georgia.
Ohio.
Kentucky.
In Tennessee.—From Winchester, to Bellefonte, in Alabama. From Tennessee.
In Alabama.—From Clayborne, by Rocky Mount, and Hawell’s Ferry, Alabama.
In Mississippi.—From Covington Courthouse to Winchester. From Mississippi.
In Louisiana.—From West Baton Rouge, along the west bank of Louisiana.
In Indiana.—From Lawrenceburg, by Georgetown, Harrison, New Indiana.
Illinois.
Missouri.
Michigan territory.
Arkansas territory.
Florida territory.
[Obsolete.]
3000 dollars appropriated for the purchase of books.
400 dollars as compensation to an assistant librarian.
Time of holding said court changed to the 2d Monday in December instead of that of October, &c.
Records, &c., belonging to said court, heretofore holden at Cahawba, except such as may be necessary in any criminal prosecution, pending in said court, to be transferred to the district court, holden at Mobile, &c.
Causes of a criminal nature now pending in the district court, holden at Cahawba, to be proceeded in by the said court to final judgment, &c.
After the passage of this act, each captain, &c., to be allowed an additional ration.
Every officer, in actual command of a company, in the army of the United States, to receive 10 dollars per month, additional pay.
Proviso.
President to cause to be opened a public road from the Georgia line, by St. Augustine.
Troops of the United States in Florida to assist in opening and repairing the same.
Additional sum of 5000 dollars appropriated for the completion of United States’ military road from Pensacola to St. Augustine by the construction of a bridge across the St. Sebastian’s river.
Communication between Moscheto or Halifax and Indian rivers.
30,000 dollars appropriated.
A suitable person to superintend the repairs to be made on said road to be appointed.
Secretary of the Treasury to refund the discriminating duties paid between the 3d of March, 1815, and the 13th November of the same year.
Sums, respectively, appropriated.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, to accomplish the objects hereinafter mentioned; that is to say:
Improving Hyannis harbour.
Building two piers at the mouth of Oswego harbour. 1826, ch. 78.
For improving Cleaveland harbour, in the State of Ohio, ten thousand Cleaveland, harbour.
For improving the harbour at the mouth of Pascagoula river, in the Harbour at the mouth of Pascagoula river.
For removing obstructions to the navigation of Saugatuck river, and Navigation of the Saugatuck harbour, &c.
For completing a pier at the entrance of La Plaisance bay, in the territory Completing a pier at the entrance of La Plaisance bay. 1826, ch. 78.
For making a survey and examination to ascertain the expediency and Improvement of the harbour of Churches Cove.
For making a survey and examination to ascertain the expediency Erecting a pier in Stonington harbour.
For defraying the expense of an examination of the public piers at Expense of an examination of the public piers at Port Penn, &c.
For a survey of the Colbert Shoals, in the Tennessee river, to ascertain Survey of the Colbert Shoals.
For removing the obstructions to the navigation of the Kennebec river, Removing the obstructions to the navigation of the Kennebec river.
For the erection of piers, placing beacons or buoys, and removing obstructions Erection of piers, &c.
Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.
[Obsolete.]
Building of lighthouses, &c.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to provide, by contract, for building lighthouses and beacons, and placing buoys on the sites hereinafter mentioned, to wit:
A lighthouse at or near the mouth of Portsmouth harbour, in the state A lighthouse near the mouth of Portsmouth harbour.
A lighthouse at the point of Marsh near the mouth of Neuse river, in A lighthouse at the Point of Marsh.
A beacon, in the harbour, at the mouth of Bass river, between the A beacon, in the harbour at the mouth of Bass river, &c.
A buoy on Cheppinaxet Point, &c.
A beacon on Well’s Point, &c.
Buoys at the entrance of Mobile bay.
Buoys on the bar at the entrance of St. Augustine harbour.
Secretary of the Treasury to accept from the state of Pennsylvania, the cession of the public piers, &c.
A column to be erected on Little Mark Island.
Sums appropriated.
Lighthouse at Portsmouth harbour.
Lighthouse near the mouth of Neuse river.
Beacon at Bass river, &c.
Buoys in Greenwich harbour.
Beacon on Well’s Point.
Beacon on Patrick’s reef.
Public piers, &c., at Chester.
Column on Little Mark Island.
Pier adjacent to the one at Buffalo, &c. 1826, ch. 73.
For altering and repairing the Newport lighthouse, at the entrance of Repairing the Newport lighthouse.
For erecting a lighthouse at Natchez, in the state of Mississippi, in Lighthouse at Natchez. 1826, ch. 73.
For placing four buoys at the entrance of Mobile Bay, and one at the Buoys at the entrance of Mobile Bay.
For placing three buoys on the bar at the entrance of St. Augustine Buoys on the bar at St. Augustine harbour.
For the erection of a light vessel of between one hundred and thirty Light vessel, for the southwest point of the Royal Shoal.
For a lighthouse at Cat Island, in the Gulf of Mexico, five thousand Lighthouse at Cat Island.
For the erection of two lighthouses on Cape Elizabeth, in Maine, three Two lighthouses on Cape Elizabeth.
Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.
The President to cause to be laid out, a road commencing at Detroit, and pursuing the most direct and practicable route to the Saganaw river and bay, &c.
Each commissioner to be a surveyor, and to receive 3 dollars, and their assistants, 1 dollar 50 cents per day.
12,000 dollars appropriated, for the purpose of connecting the Detroit and
the river Raisin with the Maumee and Sandusky roads.
20,000 dollars for the opening of the Detroit and Chicago road.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Sums, respectively, appropriated.
That the following sums be, and they hereby are, respectively appropriated, for the purpose of carrying into effect treaties made with Chippewa, Pottawatamie, and Miami tribe of Indians, to wit:
Treaty with the Chippewas.
Annuity to be paid the Pottawatamies.
To carry into effect the same article.
Schoolmaster, &c., &c.
Goods to be delivered under the 4th article.
Payment of certain claims.
Payment of goods delivered to the Miamies.
Payment of annuities.
Provisions of the same article.
Delivery of iron, steel, and tobacco, &c.
Payment of certain claims.
Support of poor and infirm persons.
The sum of twenty-five thousand seven hundred dollars, as provided
Purchase of certain lands.
Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 87.
Secretary of State authorized to employ additional clerks.
Secretary of the Treasury to employ an additional clerk.
Secretary of the Navy to employ an additional clerk.
Secretary of War, to employ additional clerks, for certain departments.
Postmaster General to employ five additional clerks.
Secretary of the Treasury to allow four clerks in the office of the register of the treasury, &c.
Clerk in the bureau of Indian affairs.
After the 31st March, 1827, a portion of the section of the act of 20th April, 1818, ch. 87, repealed.
Sum of 18,400 dollars, appropriated.
An act to amend an act entitled “An act to grant a quantity of land to the state of Illinois for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of the Illinois river with those of Lake Michigan and to allow further time to the state of Ohio, for commencing the Miami canal from Dayton, to Lake Erie,” March 2, 1833, ch. 87.
Michigan, by the way of Indianapolis to some convenient point on the Ohio river.
Secretary of the Treasury to set apart a certain quantity of land, out of the public lands, for the use of an university.
1818, ch. 12.
[Expired.]
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22, sec. 108.
Brandy, after the passage of this act, to be imported into the United States in casks not less than 15 gallons.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 129.
Where the same is imported in casks not less than fifteen gallons.
Act to continue in force for three years.
A certain quantity of land granted to said state, for opening a canal to unite, at navigable points, the waters of the Wabash river, with those of Lake Erie.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Duty of the governor of said state, when the canal is located, &c.
Power given to the legislature to sell.
April 19, 1816, ch. 57.
Surveyor general, under the direction of the President, authorized and required to cause to be surveyed, &c.,
the northern boundary line of said state, dividing said state from the territory of Michigan.
Act of April 19, 1816, ch. 57
Proviso.
Town of Marshfield, and Rhinebeck Landing, made ports of delivery.
Authorized to sell, &c., in fee simple, all, or any part of the lands heretofore reserved by Congress for the use of schools, within said state.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Where the proceeds accruing to any one township or district, is insufficient for the use of schools therein.
Certain lots lying in the Salem, Gnadenhutten, and Shoenbrun
tracts of land, to be offered at public sale.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 64.
Act of March 3, 1845, ch. 43.
Postmaster General to allow postmasters a certain commission.
Proviso.
One cent to be allowed to each postmaster, for every letter received from any ship, &c.
Proviso.
No person other than the Postmaster General, or his authorized agents, to set up any foot or horse post.
Authority of franking given to the commissioners of the navy board, &c.
Act of March 3, 1845, ch. 43. 1825, ch. 64.
One or more pieces of paper, mailed as a letter, and weighing one ounce, to be charged with quadruple postage, &c.
Act of March 3, 1845, ch. 43.
No postmaster or assistant postmaster, to act as agent for lottery offices.
2,000 dollars to be paid him, annually, in addition to his present pay.
Terms of the district court for the eastern district, changed.
It is the settled doctrine of the judicial department of the government, that the treaty of 1819, with Spain, ceded to the United States no territory west of the Perdido. It had already been acquired by the Louisiana treaty. Pollard et al. v. Files, 2 Howard, 591.
In the interval between the Louisiana treaty and the time when the United States took possession of the country west of the Perdido, the Spanish government had the right to grant permits to settle and improve by cultivation or to authorize the erection of establishments for mercantile purposes. Ibid.
These incipient concessions are not disregarded by Congress, but are recognised in the acts of 1804 1812, 1819, and as claims are within the act of 1824. Ibid.
The act of 1824 gives a title to the owners of old water lots in Mobile, only where an improvement was made east of Water street, and made by the proprietor of the lot on the west side of that street such person could not claim as riparian proprietor, or where his lot had a definite limit on the east. Ibid.
See the case of Foster and Elam v. Neilson, 2 Peters, 253.
See notes to the act of May 26, 1824, ch. 185, “An act granting certain lots of ground to the corporation of the city of Mobile, and to certain individuals of said city.”
Course to be pursued by claimants of lands, &c. within a certain part of the former land district of Jackson Courthouse.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 99.
Act of May 8, 1822, ch. 128.
Power given to the register and receiver.
Proviso.
Duty of the register and receiver of the land office at Augusta, in Mississippi.
[Obsolete.]
Accounting officers of the Treasury Department to liquidate the claims of the state of Pennsylvania against the U. S.
Rules, applicable to the case, when the amount of interest is ascertained.
First.
Second.
Third.
Amount of interest to be paid from the treasury.
Secretary of War to purchase a site for an arsenal in Augusta, state of Maine.
[Obsolete.]
Additional terms of the superior courts to be held.
Snags, &c., to be removed.
30,000 dollars appropriated.
Land granted.
Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 67.
Act of May 31, 1838, ch. 92, sec. 2.
President authorized to cause to be procured ship timber, suitable for the construction of vessels of different classes.
Measures to be adopted to preserve the live oak timber, growing on the lands of the United States.
An act making reservation of certain public land, to supply timber for naval purposes, March 1, 1817, ch. 22.
Two dry docks.
Marine railway for the repairs of sloops of war, &c., at Pensacola.
Navy yards to be thoroughly examined.
Money appropriated to be paid from the treasury.
Register and receiver at St. Stephen’s to receive from the corporation of the city of Mobile, 1 dollar 25 cents, per acre, for a certain quantity of land.
In consideration of the sum paid as aforesaid, the United States relinquish their title.
Proviso.
An act for the preservation of the timber of the United States in Florida, Feb. 23, 1822, ch. 9.
An act to provide for the punishment of offences committed in cutting, destroying, or removing, live oak and other timber or trees, reserved for naval purposes, March 2, 1831, ch. 66.
Patents shall issue.
9065 dollars appropriated.
Act of Jan. 31, 1824, ch. 17.
Road from fort Smith on the Arkansas river to fort Towson, on the Red river, &c.
Troops of the United States to be employed.
Secretary of the Treasury to locate a certain quantity of l and, for a seminary of learning.
Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 39, sec. 11.
Act of March 3, 1811, ch. 46, sec. 7.
When the location is made, the title is to be invested in said state.
State of Pennsylvania to cede to the United States certain lands.
ACTS OF THE TWENTIETH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations.
Act of Feb. 12, 1828, ch. 6.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated towards the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, viz:
Compensation to senators and representatives.
Expenses of fire-wood, &c.
Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.
No money appropriated to be paid to persons in arrears to the United States.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated for the year 1828.
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively, appropriated towards the military service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and for the objects following; that is to say:
For the pensions of the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, Pensions to revolutionary pensioners.
For the invalid and half-pay pensioners, in addition to a balance of Invalid and half pay pensioners.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight; that is to say:
For compensation to the President of the United States, twenty-five President.
For compensation to the Vice President of the United States, five thousand 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 one machinist in the patent office, per act of Machinist patent office. 1824. ch, 157
For compensation to the messengers in the Department of State, including Messengers.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of State, Incidental and contingent expenses, &c.
For compensation to clerks in said department, by virtue of the act Clerks. March 2, 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, six thousand Secretary of the Treasury.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to one clerk in said office, per act of twenty-sixth Clerks. 1824, ch. 157.
1827, ch. 50.
Messengers.
First comptroller.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87. 1827, ch. 50.
Messengers.
Second comptroller.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
First auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
Second auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
Third auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
Fourth auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Two additional clerks. 1827, ch. 50.
Messenger.
Fifth auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Clerks. 1824, ch. 157. 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, in full of all allowances, Messenger.
For compensation to the treasurer of the United States, three thousand Treasurer.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the treasurer of the Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of twenty-sixth Clerks. 1824, ch. 157.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, in full of all allowances, Messenger.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars. Register.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the register of the Clerks. 1818, ch. 87. 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, including the allowance Messengers.
For compensation to the commissioner of the general land office, Commissioner of general land office.
For compensation to the clerks in the general land office, per act of Clerks. 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, in full of all allowances, Messengers.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking Secretary to sinking fund.
For allowances to the person employed in transmitting passports and Translating and contingent expenses.
For allowance to the superintendent and four watchmen, employed Allowance to the superintendent and four watchmen.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, six thousand dollars. Secretary of War.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of War, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For one clerk in the bureau of Indian affairs, per act of second March, Clerks in the bureau of Indian affairs. 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, in full of all allowances, Messengers.
For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, three Contingent expenses.
For books, maps, and plans, for the War Department, one thousand Books, &c.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the paymaster general, Clerks in the office of the paymaster general.
Messenger.
Contingent expenses.
Clerks in office of commissary general. 1824, ch. 157.
Messenger.
Contingent expenses.
Adjutant general’s clerks. 1818, ch. 87. 1827, ch. 50.
Contingent expenses.
Clerks of commissary general of subsistence. 1824, ch. 157. 1827, ch. 50.
Contingent expenses.
Clerks of chief engineer. 1824, ch. 157. 1827, ch. 50.
Contingent expenses.
Clerks of the ordnance. 1818, ch. 87.
Contingent expenses.
Surgeon general’s clerks. 1824, ch. 157.
Contingent expenses.
Quartermaster general’s clerks.
Contingent expenses.
Secretary of the Navy.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Clerks. 1824, ch. 157. 1827, ch. 50.
Messengers.
Contingent expenses.
Commissioners of navy board.
Secretary of navy board.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87. Additional clerk, &c. 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the clerks and draftsmen in said office, per act Clerks and draftsmen. 1824, ch. 157.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, in full of all allowances, Messenger.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand eight hundred Contingent expenses.
For allowance to the superintendent and four watchmen, employed Superintendent and four watchmen, &c.
For compensation to the Postmaster General, six thousand dollars. Postmaster General.
For deficiency in the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred Deficiency in appropriation for 1827.
For compensation to the two assistant postmasters general, five thousand Two assistant P.M. General.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Postmaster General, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of the twenty-sixth Clerks. 1824, ch. 157. 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, in full of all allowances, Messengers.
For contingent expenses of said office, five thousand dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the surveyor general in Ohio, Indiana, and Surveyor general in Ohio, &c.
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 Clerks.
For compensation to the surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, Surveyor in Illinois, &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 said surveyor, one thousand Clerks.
For compensation to the surveyor in Florida, two thousand dollars. Surveyor in Florida.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand Clerks.
For surveying the public lands of the United States, thirty-three thousand Surveying public lands.
For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings in Washington Commissioner public buildings.
For compensation to the officers and clerk of the mint, nine thousand Officers and clerk of mint.
For compensation to the persons employed in the different operations Persons employed, in the mint.
For incidental and contingent expenses and repairs; cost of machinery;
Incidental and contingent expenses, &c.
Governor, &c. of the Michigan territory.
Contingent expenses.
Compensation, &c. to the legislative council, &c.
Governor, &c. of the Arkansas territory.
Contingent expenses.
Governor, &c. of the Florida territory.
Contingent expenses.
Compensation, &c. of the legislative council, &c.
Chief justice, &c. of the United States.
Reporter of decisions of Supreme Court.
Attorney general.
Clerk.
Sundry district attorneys and marshals.
Expenses of the Supreme, &c. Courts of the United States.
Payment of pensions.
Maintenance of lighthouses, &c.
Completing a lighthouse on Baker’s Island.
Six buoys in the Vineyard Sound.
For building a lighthouse on Cove Point, instead of Cedar Point, as Lighthouse on Cove Point.
For the erection of two lighthouses on Cape Elizabeth, in Maine, in Two lighthouses on Cape Elizabeth. 1827, ch. 47.
For placing three buoys on the bar at the entrance of St. Augustine Three buoys at the entrance of St. Augustine harbour. 1827, ch. 47.
For placing three buoys in St. Mark’s harbour, in Florida, in addition Three buoys in St. Mark’s harbour. 1827, ch. 47.
For stationery and books for the offices of commissioners of loans, Stationery, &c.
For the salaries of the keepers of the public archives in Florida, one Salaries.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims of the United States, Discharge of miscellaneous claims.
For the salaries of the ministers to London, Paris, St. Petersburg, Salaries of the ministers to London, &c., and charges d’affaires at Stockholm, &c.
For the salaries of the agents of claims at London and Paris, four Agents of claims, London and Paris.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen in foreign Relief, &c., of distressed American seamen.
For registers for ships and vessels, and lists of crews, four thousand Registers for ships, &c.
For expense of bringing the votes for President and Vice President Expenses of bringing the votes for President, &c.
To be paid from the treasury.
Secretary of the Treasury to pass to the credit of the Postmaster General.
[Obsolete.]
Act of March 17, 1800, ch. 15. continued in force untill March 3, 1838.
Proviso.
District courts for the North Carolina district, after the passing of this act, to be held, &c.
All suits to be proceeded with, in the same manner as if no change had taken place.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for the navy for 1828.
That, for defraying the expenses of the navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated:
For pay and subsistence of officers, &c.
Pay of officers, and pay of seamen, &c.
Pay, &c., of naval constructors, &c.
Provisions.
For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and for wear and tear of vessels in Repairs of vessels.
For medicines, surgical instruments and hospital stores, twenty-seven Medicines, &c.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, fifty thousand dollars. Ordnance, &c.
For repairs and improvements of navy yards, one hundred and five Repairs, &c., of navy yards.
For arrearages prior to first of January, one thousand eight hundred Arrearages prior to Jan. 1st, 1828.
For completing the construction and equipment of the sloops of war, For the sloops of war authorized by act of 1825, ch. 101.
For defraying the expenses that may accrue during the year one For defraying certain expenses during the year 1828. Wharfage, &c. Travelling expenses of officers, &c. For premiums, &c. For printing, &c. For taxes on navy yards, and public property, &c. For candles, oil, &c.
For contingent expenses for objects arising in the year one thousand Contingent expenses arising in 1828.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and twenty-two Pay, &c., of marine corps.
For clothing for the same, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and Clothing for same.
For fuel for the same, twelve thousand one hundred and ninety-six Fuel for the same.
For contingent expenses, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses.
For additional contingencies not enumerated for the same, five hundred Additional contingencies.
For military stores for the same; that is to say; for keeping the arms Military stores for same.
For medicines, hospital stores and instruments for the use of the officers Medicines, &c., for officers, &c., on shore.
For the compensation of Colonel Samuel Miller, for certain extra Compensation to Col. Samuel Miller.
For the following items which have been carried to the surplus fund on the first of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, viz:
For contingent expenses prior to 1824.
For contingent expenses for 1824.
For contingent expenses for 1825.
Contingent expenses not enumerated.
Navy yards.
Navy yard at Penascola.
Swords, &c.
Five schooners.
For building barges.
A sum not exceeding 10,000 dollars appropriated, &c.
1827, ch. 94.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated for fortifications.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated; to wit: for fortifications, to each specifically, as follows:
Forts. Preservation of islands in Boston harbour.
To be paid from the treasury.
Every person, &c., comprised
in the list of actual settlers, reported to the commissioner of the general land office, under act of March 3d, 1819, ch. 99, shall be entitled to the right of preference, on becoming the purchaser from the United States, of such tract of land.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation for military service for the year 1828.
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-eight, to wit:
For pay to the army and subsistence of officers, including the military Pay, &c., of officers and the military academy.
For subsistence, in addition to an unexpended balance in the treasury, For subsistence.
For forage for officers, forty thousand one hundred and twenty-eight For forage for officers.
For clothing for servants of officers of the army, and of the military For clothing for servants of officers, &c.
For the recruiting service, in addition to an unexpended balance in For the recruiting service.
For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, in addition to For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service.
For arrearages of the year eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, being For arrearages of the year 1827. 1827, ch. 29
For the purchasing department, in addition to materials on hand, For the purchasing department.
For the purchase of woollens for the year 1828.
Medical and hospital department.
Quartermaster general’s department.
Arrearages in the same.
For quartermaster general’s department, viz: barracks for two additional companies and quarters for the graduates from West Point.
Fuel, stationery, transportation, &c., repairs, and for improving barracks, &c.
Board of visiters.
Contingencies.
Arrearages.
National armories.
Ordnance department.
Arsenals.
Arsenal at Augusta, in Maine.
To be paid from treasury.
Secretary of War authorized and required to establish, &c., the pay of the militia, &c., called into actual service in Illinois and Michigan under act of Jan. 2, 1795, ch. 9.
Appropriation.
Part of appropriation for the relief of Colonel Wm. Lawrence, &c., carried to the surplus fund, re-appropriated.
1816, ch. 23.
Unexpended balances of appropriations reappropriated.
For balances due certain states on account of militia in the service of For balances due certain states, &c.
For a road from Little Rock to Cantonment Gibson, five thousand five Road from Little Rock, &c.
For extinguishing the Creek title to lands in Georgia, four thousand Extinguishing the Creek title.
For claims against the Osages, by citizens of the United States, eight Claims against the Osages.
An act to extend the time for making payment for the public lands of the United States, March 2, 1809, ch. 26.
An act to extend the time for making payment for the public lands of the United States in certain cases, April 30, 1810, ch. 36.
An act allowing further time for completing the payments on certain lands held by right of pre-emption in the Mississippi territory, December 12, 1811, ch. 6.
An act directing the terms on which lands sold at public sale, and that revert for failure in payment, shall be again sold, January 14, 1812, ch. 15.
An act giving further time to the purchasers of public lands north-west of the river Ohio, to complete their payments, April 23, 1812, ch. 64.
An act supplementary to the act entitled “An act giving further time to the purchasers of public lands north-west of the river Ohio, to complete their payments,” July 6, 1812, ch. 134.
An act giving further time to the purchasers of public lands to complete their payments, March 3, 1813,
An act giving further time to the purchasers of public lands, to complete their payments, February 19, 1814, ch. 14.
An act giving further time to purchasers of public lands, to complete their payments, February 4, 1815, ch. 34.
An act for the relief of certain purchasers of public lands in the Mississippi territory, April 24, 1816, ch. 75.
An act to suspend for a limited time the sale or forfeiture of lands for failure in completing the payment thereon, April 18, 1818, ch. 75.
An act to suspend for a limited time the sale or forfeiture of lands for failure in completing the payment thereon, March 3, 1819, ch. 74.
An act further to suspend, for a limited time, the sale or forfeiture of lands for failure in completing the payment thereon, March 30, 1820, ch. 28.
An act for the relief of the purchasers of public lands prior to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and twenty, March 2, 1821, ch. 12.
An act supplementary to the act entitled “An act for the relief of the purchasers of public lands prior to the 1st day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty,” April 20, 1822, ch. 30.
An act further to extend the provisions of the act entitled “An act supplementary to an act, entitled ‘An act for the relief of the purchasers of public lands prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty,’” March 3, 1823, ch. 57.
An act to provide for the extinguishment of the debt due the United States by the purchasers of public lands, May 18, 1824, ch. 88.
An act explanatory of an act entitled “An act to provide for the extinguishment of the debt due to the United States by the purchasers of public lands,” approved on the eighteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, May 26, 1824, ch. 176.
An act making further provision for the extinguishment of the debt due to the United States, by the purchasers of public lands, May 4, 1826, ch. 34.
An act for the relief of purchasers of the public lands, that have reverted for non-payment of the purchase money, May 23, 1828, ch. 71.
An act to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of purchasers of the public lands that have reverted for non-payment of the purchase money,” passed the twenty-third of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, July 9, 1832, ch. 181.
[Expired.]
Act of May 18, 1824, ch. 88, and expla-
natory act of May 26, 1824, ch. 176, an act making further provision for the extinguishment of the debt due to the United States by the purchasers of public lands, continued until July 4, 1829. 1826, ch. 34.
The provisions of this act extended to all lands.
[Obsolete.]
Six hundred copies of the statistical tables, to be published by Watterston and Van Zandt, to be purchased, &c.
1500 dollars appropriated.
Claims purporting to be confirmed, &c., or recommended for confirmation, under the act of May 11, 1820, ch. 85, confirmed.
Claims purporting to be confirmed, or recommended for confirmation under the act of Feb. 21, 1823, ch. 10, confirmed.
Secretary of the Treasury authorized, &c. to give full effect to the reports of the commissioners enumerated in the 1st and 2d sections of this act.
Proviso.
Register of the land office at Detroit, to issue certificates to claimants.
Secretary of the Treasury to pay John J. Deming 30 dollars.
Same compensation per mile, as is allowed by the 10th section of the act of Feb. 8, 1827, ch. 9, to be paid for surveying the donation rights or back concessions in said territory.
An act to extend the jurisdiction of the district court of the United States, in the district of Arkansas, March 1, 1837, ch. 16.
An act supplementary to the act entitled “ An act to amend the judicial system of the United States, March 3, 1837, ch. 34, sec. 2.
An act to amend the act of the third of March, 1837, entitled “An act supplementary to the act entitled ‘An act to amend the judicial system of the United States,’ ” and for other purposes, March 3, 1839, ch. 81.
An act supplementary to the act entitled “An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes and to preserve peace on the frontiers,” passed thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, June 17, 1844, ch. 103.
An additional judge of the superior court to be appointed for the territory of Arkansas.
Legislature of Arkansas authorized to organize the counties of said territory into
four judicial districts, &c.
Additional duties.
A clerk in each county of their respective districts.
Compensation of said clerks.
Appeal.
Salary as the other judges.
Writs of error, &c., to be made to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Act of the legislature, in relation to the courts of said territory, confirmed.
Acts coming within the purview of this act repealed.
An agent or agents, to be employed in prosecuting the designation, &c., of the line forming the north-eastern
boundary of the United States, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Forty-nine sections of land to be located in the Delaware land district in lieu of lands designated in the act of March 3, 1827, ch. 93.
Act of Dec. 12, 1811, ch. 8.
An act supplementary to the several acts relating to direct taxes, April 20, 1818, ch. 83, sec. 3, 4.
An act extending the time allowed for the redemption of land sold for direct taxes, in certain cases, May 11, 1820, ch. 88.
An act reviving and extending the time allowed for the redemption of land sold for direct taxes, in certain cases, Feb. 4, 1822, ch. 4.
An act extending the time allowed for the redemption of land sold for direct taxes, in certain cases, March 3, 1823, ch. 47.
An act to extend the time allowed for the redemption of land sold for direct taxes, in certain cases, May 16, 1826, ch. 59.
An act extending the time allowed for the redemption of land sold for direct taxes, in certain cases. April 28, 1828, ch. 39.
[Expired.]
Time allowed for the redemption of lands which have been sold for the non-payment of taxes, under acts of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 37, Jan. 9, 1815, ch. 21, and March 5, 1816, ch. 24, revived and extended for three years.
Proviso.
Lands lying east of the second principal meridian and north of the southern boundary of fort Wayne district, attached to the land district.
Second principal meridian to be extended to the northern boundary.
Proviso.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 172.
In all cases where lands have been sold, or conveyed to, or for, the United States, for forts, &c., not used, &c., to be sold.
The President authorized to procure the assent of the legislature of any state within which any purchase of land has been made for the erection of forts, &c.
Where lands have been conveyed for the United States, to individuals, a release of their interest to be obtained.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 28.
Sessions of the legislative council.
Proviso in the 6th section of the act of March 3, 1823, ch.28, repealed.
Proviso.
Division of the territory into thirteen election districts.
Judges of the superior courts to have power to order extra terms of said courts, &c.
[Obsolete.]
100,000 dollars appropriated for the armament of fortifications.
Quartermaster general authorized to apply 1800 dollars of the money heretofore appropriated, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated.
That the following sums of money be, and the same hereby are appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes; that is to say—
For completing the work remaining to be done, on and about the For completing work, &c.
For a building lot, &c., for a jail at Alexandria.
For completing penitentiary, District of Columbia.
For a building near the Navy Department.
For an entrance, &c. into the Capitol.
Commissioner of public buildings to cause an engine house to be built.
After March 4, 1829, office of architect of the Capitol to cease and determine, &c.
Regulations of the city of Washington for the preservation of the public peace, &c., extended to the Capitol and Capitol square, whenever application be made by the presiding officer of either house of Congress, or the commissioner of the public buildings, &c.
A reasonable compensation to be paid the necessary assistants of the commissioner, &c.
An act for the more general promulgation of the laws of the United States, March 3, 1795, ch. 50.
An act to amend the act, entitled “An act for the more general promulgation of the laws of the United States,” Dec. 21, 1796, ch. 1.
An act in addition to an act entitled “An act for the more general promulgation of the laws of the United States,” March 2, 1799, ch. 30.
An act to provide for the more extensive distribution of the laws of the United States, March 27, 1804, ch. 60.
An act for the disposal of certain copies of the laws of the United States, Jan. 2, 1805, ch. 3.
An act authorizing a subscription for the laws of the United States, and for the distribution thereof, April 18, 1814, ch. 69.
An act to authorize the publication of the laws of the United States, within the territories of the United States, Nov. 21, 1814, ch. 6.
An act to provide for the publication of the laws of the United States, and for other purposes, April 20, 1818, ch. 80.
An act to amend the act, entitled “An act to provide for the publication of the laws of the United States, and for other purposes,” May 11, 1820, ch. 92.
An act to authorize the purchase of a number of copies of the sixth volume of the laws of the United States, March 3, 1823, ch. 67.
An act to authorize the purchase and distribution of the seventh volume of the laws of the United States, May 9, 1828, ch. 46.
An act to provide for the purchase and distribution of certain copies of the digest of the laws of the United States by Thomas F. Gordon, Feb. 24, 1829, ch. 18.
By the act making appropriations for the support of government, March 18, 1830, ch. 33, seven hundred and fifty dollars were appropriated “for completing the sets of the laws on hand in the Department of State.”
Regulation of the publication of the laws of the United States in newspapers, Act of August 26, 1842, ch. 202, sec. 21.
A resolution to authorize the attorney general to contract for copies of a proposed edition of the laws of the United States, March 3, 1845.
[Obsolete.]
Secretary of state authorized, &c., to subscribe for, &c., for use and disposal of Congress, 550 copies of the seventh volume of the laws of the United States.
2200 dollars appropriated.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit:
For pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, and the Superintendent of Indian affairs.
For the pay of sub-agents as established by law, fifteen thousand one Sub-agents.
Presents to Indians.
Houses for sub-agents, &c.
Expenses of intercourse with the Indians within the Michigan territory, &c.
Additional expenses for the removal of the Quapaws, &c.
Treaty with the Creek nation. Act of May 20, 1826, ch. 110,
For aiding emigration of the Creek Indians.
For carrying into effect articles of agreement and cession entered into on April 24, 1802, between the United States and the state of Georgia.
Indian department.
Refunding to the state of North Carolina the amount expended by her, in extinguishing the title of certain Indians.
Sums appropriated, to be paid from the treasury.
Assent of Congress given to the constructing a railroad.
[Obsolete.]
French vessels coining directly from the islands of Martinique and Gaudaloupe, and laden with articles, the growth, &c., of either of said islands, admitted into the ports of the United States, on certain conditions.
Proviso.
Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 36.
Eighth section repealed.
Commission not to continue after Sept. 1, 1828.
Each of the surviving officers of the revolutionary army in the continental line, to receive pay according to his rank in the line.
Proviso.
Money received since March 3, 1826, to be deducted.
Every surviving non-commissioned officer, &c., who enlisted in said line during the war, and continued in its service until its termination, to receive full pay.
Proviso.
How to be paid.
said pay as accrued by the provisions of this act before March 3, 1828, to be paid to officers, &c.
An act to modify the act of the fourteenth of July, 1832, and other acts imposing duties on imports, March 2, 1833, ch. 55.
An act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify the laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes, Aug. 30, 1842, ch. 270.
[Repealed.]
After Sept. 1, 1828, there shall be levied the following duties:
On iron, in bars, or bolts, not manufactured.
On bar and bolt iron, made wholly, or in part, by rolling.
Proviso.
On iron in pigs.
On iron, or steel wire.
On round iron, or brazier’s rods.
On axes, adzes, &c.
On steel.
On lead, in pigs or sheets.
After June 30, 1828, there be collected, &c. the following duties:
On wool unmanufactured.
Wool imported.
On manufactures of wool, or of which wool shall be a component part, except carpetings, &c.
Proviso: on all manufactures of wool, except, &c.
On all manufactures of wool, or of which wool shall be a component part, except as aforesaid, to exceed fifty cents the square yard.
On all manufactures of wool, or of which wool shall be a component part, except as aforesaid, not to exceed 2 dollars and 50 cents the square yard, shall be deemed, &c.
Fifth.
Sixth.
Seventh,
Eighth.
After June 30, 1828, there shall be collected, &c., on the importation of the following articles, certain duties.
On unmanufactured hemp.
On unmanufactured flax.
On sail duck.
On molasses.
On all imported distilled liquors.
On all manufactures of silk, &c.
On all manufactures of silk, or of which silk shall be a component material, coming from beyond the Cape of Good Hope, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem; the additional duty of five per centum to take effect from and after the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine; and on all other manufactures of silk, or of which silk shall be a component material, twenty per centum ad valorem.
On indigo.
After June 30, 1828, no
drawback of duty shall be allowed on the exportation of any spirits, &c.
After June, 30, 1828, on window glasses of certain sizes.
Proviso: all window glass imported.
On all imported roofing slates.
On ciphering slates.
On cotton cloths, excepting nankeens, imported direct from China, &c.
In all cases where the duty now is, or hereafter may be, imposed on any goods, &c.
Appraisement.
Proviso.
In cases where the actual value to be appraised of any goods, &c. imported into the United States, and subject to ad valorem duty.
Proviso.
1799, ch. 22.
1823, ch. 21.
Duty of the Secretary of the Treasury.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit:
For the completion of the Cumberland road, continued to Zanesville, Completion of Cumberland road, &c.
To complete the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Grand river, Removal of obstructions from Grand river.
To complete the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Huron river, Removal of obstructions from Huron river.
To complete the erection of piers, at the mouth of Dunkirk harbour, Piers at Dunkirk harbour.
To complete the construction of the road from Detroit to Maumee, A road from Detroit to Maumee.
To continue the road from Detroit to Chicago, as far as the boundary Road from Detroit to Chicago.
To pay a balance due the commissioners for laying out a road from A balance due for laying out a road, &c.
To complete the building of two piers at the mouth of Oswego harbour, Two piers at the mouth of Oswego harbour. Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 46.
For deepening the channel of entrance, into the harbour of Presque Deepening the channel near Presque Isle.
For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Ashtabula Removal of obstructions in Ashtabula creek, Ohio.
For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Cunningham Removal of obstructions in Cunningham creek, Ohio.
For removing obstructions to the navigation of Kennebec river, at Removing obstructions in Kennebec river.
For preserving and securing the lighthouse on the Brandywine Shoal, Lighthouse on Brandywine shoal.
For defraying the expenses incidental to making examinations and Incidental expenses, &c. Act of April 30, 1824, ch. 46. Proviso.
Complete a pier at Buffalo.
To be paid out of any money in the treasury.
Any one, a citizen of the United States or trading under their authority by virtue of 5th article of treaty with Russia, of April 17, 1824, not permitted to sell to the natives on the north-west coast of America, &c., spirituous liquors.
Superior jurisdiction extended to the superior and circuit courts, in each of the territorial districts, in criminal cases.
President of United States to cause to be run, &c., the line dividing the territory of Arkansas, from the state of Louisiana.
Commissioner to be appointed.
Proviso.
Person appointed to make two fair certified drafts, one of which shall be deposited in the Secretary of State’s office, and the other with the governor of Louisiana.
1000 dollars appropriated.
Judge authorized to hold extra sessions.
To receive in lieu of per diem allowance of six dollars, a fixed salary of 500 dollars per annum.
Law to be in force after the passing of the same.
Duty on Greek and Latin books printed previous to 1775, not to be imposed in certain cases.
Act of May 22, 1824, ch. 136.
Act of March, 3 1801, ch. 21.
For purpose of securing a due conformity, the brass troy weight procured in 1827 shall be the standard troy pound.
1792, ch. 16.
A series of weights corresponding to the aforesaid troy pound weight, to be procured.
When silver bullion is found to require the operation of the test.
Silver bullion found to contain a proportion of gold.
Proviso.
Director of the mint may employ the requisite number of clerks.
Director of the mint to receive and cause to be assayed bullion not intended for coinage, &c.
Act of Jan. 18, 1837, ch. 3, sec. 14.
The legislature of a state cannot suspend process in the courts of the United States, as to its citizens. Babcock v. Weston, 1 Gallis. C. C. R. 168.
It is not a contempt of court to serve a person with a summons, while attending at the place where the court is held, as a party in a cause, or as a witness. It is a contempt of court to serve process, either of summons or capias, in the actual or constructive presence of the court. Blight’s Ex’rs v. Ashley, 1 Peters’ C. C. R. 41.
Attachments for the non-attendance of a witness, on a subpoena, must be served by the marshal of the court; although the persons against whom the process is issued, reside in a distant county. United States v. Montgomery, circuit court of the United States, 2 Dall. 33.
An attachment is the usual process to bring a party into court, where he has not made a true return: and if he is present in court, no such process is necessary; but the court may pass an order directing him, immediately, to answer interrogatories. United States v. Greene, 3 Mason’s C. C. R. 482.
Attachments may issue out of the admiralty courts of the United States, against the goods or debts of an absent person, so as to make him a party to the suit. Bouysson et al. v. Miller et al., Bee’s Adm. Decis. 186.
The admiralty may issue process of attachment to compel an appearance in cases of maritime torts, as well as in cases of contract. Manro v. Almeida, 10 Wheat. 473; 6 Cond. Rep. 190.
An admiralty court has jurisdiction to proceed by attachment in rem for a tort. The Candalero, Bee’s Adm. Decis. 60.
The process of attachment may issue whenever the defendant has concealed himself, or has absconded from the country, and the goods to be attached are within the jurisdiction of the court of admiralty. It may issue against his goods and chattels, and against his credits and effects, in the hands of third persons. Manro v. Almeida, 10 Wheat. 473; 6 Cond. Rep. 190.
It seems that an attachment cannot issue without an express order of the judge, but it may be issued simultaneously with the monition; and where the attachment issued in this manner, and in pursuance of the prayer of the libel, the Supreme Court will presume that it was regularly issued. Ibid.
The act for regulating processes in the courts of the United States, provides that the forms and modes of proceeding in courts of equity, and in those of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, shall be according to the principles, rules and usages which belong to courts of equity, and to courts of admiralty, respectively, as contradistinguished from courts of common law, subject, however, to alterations by the courts, &c. This act has been generally understood to adopt the principles, rules and usages of the court of chancery of England. Hinde v. Vattier. 5 Peters, 398.
Process of foreign attachment cannot be properly issued by the circuit courts of the United States, in cases where the defendant is domiciled abroad, or not found within the district in which the process issues, so that it cannot be served upon him. Toland v. Sprague, 12 Peters, 300.
By the general provisions of the laws of the United States: 1. The circuit courts can issue no process beyond the limits of their districts. 2. Independently of positive legislation, the process can only be served upon persons within the same districts. 3. The acts of Congress adopting the state process, adopt the form and modes of service only, so far as the persons are rightfully within the reach of such process; and did not intend to enlarge the sphere of the jurisdiction of the circuit courts. 4. The right to attach property to compel the appearance of persons, can properly be used only in cases in which such persons are amenable to the process of the circuit court, in personam; that is, where they are inhabitants, or found within the United States; and not where they are aliens, or citizens resident abroad, at the commencement of the suit, and have no inhabitancy here. Ibid.
In the case of a person being amenable to process, in personam, an attachment against his property cannot be issued against him, except as a part of, or together with process to be served upon his person. Ibid.
The circuit and district courts of the United States cannot, either in suits at common law or equity, send their process into another district, except where specially authorized so to do, by some act of Congress. Ex parte Graham, 3 Wash. C. C. R. 456.
The marshal may have an attachment to enforce the payment of his fees of office, against suitors in the court. Anonymous, 2 Gallis. C. C. R. 101.
The court will not dictate to the marshal, what return he shall make to process in his hands. He must make his return at his peril, and any person injured by it, may have his legal remedy for such return. Wortman v. Conyngham, Peters’ C. C. R. 241.
Congress has, by the constitution, exclusive authority to regulate proceedings in the courts of the United States; and the states have no authority to control those proceedings; except so far as the state process acts are adopted by Congress, or by the courts of the United States, under the authority of Congress. Wayman v. Southard, 10 Wheat. 1; 6 Cond. Rep. 1.
The 14th section of the judiciary act of 1789, ch. 20, authorizes the courts of the United States to issue writs of execution, as well as other writs. Ibid.
The 34th section of the judiciary act of 1789, ch. 20, does not apply to the process and practice of the courts. It merely furnishes a rule of decision, and is not intended to regulate the remedy. Ibid.
The process act of 1792, ch. 137, is the law which regulates executions issuing from the courts of the United States: and it adopts the practice of the supreme courts of the states, in 1789, as the rule for governing proceedings on such executions, subject to such alterations as the courts of the United States may make, but not subject to the alterations which have since taken place in the state laws and practice. Ibid.
The statutes of Kentucky concerning executions, which require the plaintiff to endorse on the execution, that bank notes of the Bank of Kentucky, or notes of the Bank of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, will be received in payment, and on his refusal, authorize the defendant to give a replevin bond for the debt, payable in two years, are not applicable to executions issued on judgments rendered by the courts of the United States. Ibid.
The laws of the United States authorize the courts of the Union so to alter the form of the process of execution used in the supreme courts of the states in 1789, as to subject to execution, issuing out of the federal courts, lands and other property not thus subject by the state laws in force at that time. Bank of the United States v. Halstead, 10 Wheat. 51; 6 Cond. Rep. 22.
A subpoena duces tecum may issue to the President of the United States. 1 Burr’s Trial, 183.
A party cannot be arrested in Pennsylvania, on an attachment from the circuit court in Rhode Island, for contempt, in not appearing in that court after a monition served upon him in Pennsylvania, to answer in a prize cause depending in the court in Rhode Island. Ex parte Graham, 3 Wash. C. C. R. 456.
A writ of error does not lie to an order of the court below to stay the proceedings finally, upon suggestion of the attorney of the United States, in a case to which the United States are not parties; but the court will award a mandamus nisi, in the nature of a procedendo. Livingston v. Dorgenois, 7 Cranch, 577; 2 Cond. Rep. 618.
The marshal of the District of Columbia is bound to serve a subpoena in chancery, as soon as he reasonably can; and he will, in case of neglect, be answerable to the plaintiff, who has, in consequence of such neglect, sustained any loss. Kennedy v. Brent, 6 Cranch, 187; 2 Cond. Rep. 345.
On a capias, in assumpsit against three, and one arrested, who gives bail, and non est inventus as to the others, if the party files his declaration and proceeds against the one arrested, he cannot afterwards bring in the others by alias capias, and make them parties to the suit. United States v. Parker, 2 Dall. 373.
An alias capias must be tested, as of the term to which the original writ was returned. Ibid.
A term cannot intervene between the teste and return of a writ of error. Hamilton v. Moore, 3 Dall. 371; 1 Cond. Rep. 168.
If the defendant below intermarries after the judgment, and before the service of the writ of error, the service of the citation upon the husband will be sufficient. Fairfax’s Ex’rs v. Fairfax, 5 Cranch, 19; 2 Cond. Rep. 178.
There is no act of Congress which authorizes a circuit court to issue a compulsory process to the district court for the removal of a cause from that jurisdiction before a final judgment or decree is pronounced. If a certiorari should issue in such a case, the district court may and ought to refuse obedience to the writ: and after the cause is thus removed, either party may move for a procedendo, or pursue the cause in the district court, in like manner as if the record had not been removed. But, if instead of taking advantage of this irregularity, the defendant enter his appearance in the circuit court, take defence and plead to issue, it is too late after verdict to object to the irregularity. The cause will be considered as an original one in the circuit court, made so by consent of parties, even though no declaration de novo should be filed in the circuit court. Patterson v. The United States, 2 Wheat. 221; 4 Cond. Rep. 98.
Whenever, by the state laws in force in 1789, a capias might issue from a state court, the acts of 1789 and 1792, extending, in terms, to that species of writ, must be understood to have adopted its use permanently in the federal courts. United States v. January, 10 Wheat. 66. In a note.
At an early period after the organization of the federal courts, the rules of practice in force in the state courts, which were similar to the English practice, were adopted by the judges of the circuit court. A subsequent change in the practice of the state courts, will not authorize a departure from the rules adopted in the circuit court. Anonymous, Peters’ C. C. R. 1.
Whenever, by the laws of the United States, a defendant is to be arrested, the process of arrest employed in the state, shall be pursued. 2 Burr’s Trial, 481.
Upon executing a writ of inquiry, in Virginia, in an action of assumpsit upon a promissory note, it is necessary to produce a note, corresponding with that stated in the declaration; but it is not necessary to prove the note. Sheehy v. Mandeville, 7 Cranch, 208; 2 Cond. Rep. 476.
A party charged with a crime, even before indictment found, may have compulsory process for his witnesses. But his omitting to avail himself of this right is not such negligence as will deprive him of the benefit of having his cause postponed, if his witnesses be absent; but it will justify the court in imposing terms on him. United States v. Moore, Wallace’s C. C. R. 23.
The process act of Congress, of 1828, was passed shortly after the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Wayman v. Southard, and the Bank of the United States v. Halsted, and was intended as a legislative sanction of the opinions of the court in those cases. The power given to the courts of the United States, by this act, to make rules and regulations on final process, so as to conform the same to the laws of the states on the same subject, extends to future legislation; and as well to the modes of proceedings on executions, as to the forms of writs. Ross & King v. Duval et al., 13 Peters, 45.
All proceedings for attachments are on the civil side of the courts, and are to be entitled with the names of the parties, until an attachment issues; after which they are on the criminal side. United States v. Wayne, Wallace’s C. C. R. 134.
The courts of chancery of the United States will, under circumstances, order a commission of rebellion, to be returnable forthwith. Ibid.
The judiciary act of 1789, ch. 20, does not contemplate compulsive process against any person in any district, unless he be an inhabitant of, or found within, the same district at the time of serving the writ. Picquet v. Swan, 5 Mason’s C. C. R. 35.
The act of Massachusetts of 1797, ch. 50, prescribing the modes of serving process, does not apply to a case where the defendant has been an inhabitant, but at the time of the suit brought has his actual domicil in another state or country. Ibid.
Under the statute of Massachusetts of 1823, ch. 142, giving relief against fraud to secure attaching creditors, it is not necessary that the second attachment should be returnable to the same term of the court as the first attachment. Query, If the plaintiff must, in all cases under that act, sign and make oath to his petition to be admitted to defend against the first attachment, or if he is abroad, it may be done by his agent. Lodge v. Lodge, 5 Mason’s C. C. R. 407.
Pennsylvania. Levy and condemnation, under an execution, keep a judgment alive, and preserve the lien without a scire facias. United States v. The Mechanics’ Bank, Gilpin’s D. C. R. 54.
Where there is a scire facias to revive a judgment, the defendant cannot avail himself of matters of defence which occurred previous to the original judgment. United States v. Thompson, Gilpin’s D. C. R. 622.
Laws which relate to practice, process, or modes of proceeding before or after judgment, are exceptions to the 34th section of the judiciary act of 1789, as Congress have legislated on the subject. The Supreme Court of the United States have established the distinction to be this: State laws, which furnish the court a rule for forming a judgment, are binding on the federal courts, not laws for carrying that judgment into execution; that is governed by the acts of Congress, and the rules of practice adopted in pursuance thereto. Thompson v. Phillips, Baldwin’s C. C. R. 274.
The act of the legislature of Ohio, of February, 1820, relative to proceedings against parties to promissory notes, by which all the parties to a note might be proceeded against in one suit, was a very wise and benevolent law, and its salutary effects produced its immediate adoption into the practice of the courts of the United States, and the suits have, in many instances, been prosecuted under it. Fullerton v. The Bank of the United States, 1 Peters, 604.
Although the act of the legislature of Ohio, regulating the mode of proceeding in actions on promissory notes, was passed after the making of the note upon which this action was brought, yet the circuit court of the United States for the district of Ohio, having incorporated the action under that statute, with all its incidents, into its course of practice, and having full power by law to adopt it, there does not appear any legal objection to its doing so, in the prosecution of the system under which it has always acted. Yeaton v. Lenox, 8 Peters, 123.
The process act of 1828 expressly adopts the mesne process, and modes of proceeding in suits at common law, then existing in the highest state court, under the state laws; which of course included all the regulations of the state laws as to bail, and exemptions of the party from arrest and imprisonment. In regard, also, to writs of execution, and other final process, and “the proceedings thereupon;” it adopts an equally comprehensive language, and declares they shall be the same as were then used in the courts of the state. Beers v. Haughton, 9 Peters, 329.
The circuit court of each district, sit within and for that district, and are bounded by its local limits. Whatever may be the extent of the jurisdiction of the circuit court over the subject matter of suits, in respect to persons and property, it can only be exercised within the limits of the district. Congress might have authorized civil process from any circuit court to have run into any state of the Union. It has not done so. It has not, in terms, authorized any civil process to run into any other district; with the single exception of subpoenas to witnesses within a limited distance. In regard to final process, there are two cases, and only two, in which writs of execution can now by law be served in any other district than that in which the judgment was rendered; one in favour of private persons in another district of the same state; and the other in favour of the United States, in any part of the United States. Toland v. Sprague, 12 Peters, 300.
Act of March 3, 1821, ch. 51.
Forms of
mesne process, except the style, and the forms and modes of pro-
ceeding in suits in courts of United States admitted into the Union
since 29th Sept. 1829.
Subject, however, to such alterations, &c.
Where judgments are a lien upon the property of the defendant.
When writs of execution and other final process issued on judgments, &c., rendered in any of the courts of the United States, &c.
Proviso.
Nothing in this act to be construed to extend to any court, &c.
Secretary of the Treasury empowered to provide for building lighthouses, &c.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, empowered to provide, by contract, for building lighthouses and light vessels, and erecting beacons, and placing buoys, on the following sites and shoals, to wit:
At Dice’s Head.
On Nobsque point.
On Nayat point, &c.
Beacon light on Spindle Rock.
Two lighthouses north of Kinder Hook, &c.
Two lighthouses on Little Watt’s Island, &c.
Lighthouse on Smith’s point.
Light vessel to be substituted, &c.
Beacon lighthouse on Pamptico Sound, &c.
Lighthouse in Mobile bay, &c.
Two lighthouses, one at Otter creek point, &c.
Lighthouse, St. John’s river.
Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.
Lighthouse on Dice’s Head.
Lighthouse on Nobsque Rock, &c.
Lighthouse, Dumpling rock.
For a lighthouse on Nayat point, three thousand five hundred dollars; Lighthouse on Nayat point.
For a beacon-light on or near Spindle rock, at the mouth of Black Beacon-light on or near Spindle rock.
For two small lighthouses in Hudson river, eight thousand dollars. Two lighthouses in Hudson river.
For a lighthouse at or near Portland, on Lake Erie, five thousand dollars; Lighthouse near Portland.
For erecting a tower and placing a bell thereon with machinery, near A tower, &c., near the lighthouse on Pool’s island, &c.
For the lighthouse on Little Watt’s island, six thousand five hundred Lighthouse on Little Watt’s Island, &c.
For the lighthouse on Smith’s point, seven thousand five hundred On Smith’s point.
For a beacon-light or lighthouse on Pamptico point, five thousand dollars Beacon-light or lighthouse on Pamptico point, &c. 1827, ch. 47.
For a lighthouse at Otter Creek point, five thousand dollars. Otter Creek point.
For one on Bois Blanc, five thousand dollars. On Bois Blanc.
For one at St. John’s river, six thousand five hundred dollars; and for St. John’s river.
For placing four buoys in Hudson river, on the following sites: One Four buoys in the Hudson river.
For placing two buoys near the channel, to the eastward of the Two buoys near the Pea Patch in the river Delaware.
For spindles or monuments, and buoys, to render the navigation of Spindles, &c. Kennebec bay.
For placing a buoy on Killpond bar, in Buzzard’s bay, sixty dollars. Buoy on Killpond bar.
For placing twenty buoys, at proper sites, in the river Teche, in the Twenty buoys in Louisiana.
For an iron spindle on Sand Island, on the bar of Mobile bay, six hundred Iron spindle on Sand Island,
For five buoys, in the channel, between Key West and the islands to Five buoys in the channel between Key West.
For two buoys at the mouth of St. John’s river, territory of Florida, Two buoys at the mouth of St. John’s river.
To build a lighthouse, at a proper site, near St. Mark’s harbour, in Lighthouse near St. Mark’s harbour.
To build a lighthouse on a ledge of rocks, called the Whale’s Back, in the Lighthouse at Portsmouth. 1827, ch. 47.
Lighthouse near the mouth of Duck creek.
Salaries of the respective keepers of lighthouses.
Proviso.
Appropriation.
Act of May 8, 1822, ch. 129.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 29.
The three claims to land in the district of West Florida, contained in the reports of the commissioners, numbered 4, 8, and 10, excluding from the latter the land contained in certificate, and in the plats A. and C., &c., confirmed.
No more than the quantity of acres contained in a league square shall be confirmed within the bounds of any one grant, &c.
All the decisions made by the register, &c., of the district of East Florida, as commissioners under act of Feb. 8, 1827, ch. 9, recommended for confirmation, confirmed.
Register and receiver to examine and decide the remaining claims in East Florida, &c.
Proviso.
Accounting officers of the treasury to adjust, &c., the accounts of the register and receiver, &c.
Claims not decided and finally settled by the commissioners to be decided by the judge of the superior court of the district.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 173.
Proviso.
Claimant may appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States within four months after the decision shall be pronounced, &c.
Costs.
Repeal of certain provisions.
Attorney general of the United States, for the district in which the suits authorized by this act shall be instituted, in every case where the decision is against the United States, to make out and transmit to the attorney general a statement containing the facts of the case, &c.
The President of the United States to appoint a law agent, to superintend, &c.
Duty of the agent.
The President to appoint assistant counsel.
Claims to lands, &c., within the purview of this act, forever barred after the passage of this act, if, &c.
Decrees rendered by said district or Supreme Court United States to be conclusive, &c.
Where public lands have
been purchased, on which a further credit has not been taken under the provision of act of March 2, 1821, ch. 12, and have reverted, or are liable to revert, to the United States, for failure to pay the purchase money.
Fees.
Duty of the commissioner of the general land office to prescribe the form of such certificates.
Fees.
Certificates, when received in payment for lands, shall be entered in the books of the land office where received, and transmitted to the general land office.
Lands sold at New York or Pittsburg, &c.
Certificates not to be issued to any person, except, &c.
Where any tract of land returned as sold to the general land office shall have been paid for in forged or altered certificates.
Where two or more persons become the purchaser or purchasers of a section or fractional section.
Proviso.
Where provision has been made by law, for half pay to the widows, &c., of officers, &c., killed in battle, &c., the term of certain pensions to be extended.
Pensions of all widows, who are now, or who may within one year last past be in receipt thereof under provision of the following laws or either of them, continued.
Act of March 4, 1814, ch. 20.
Act of April 16, 1818, ch. 65.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Sums respectively appropriated.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated, to be applied under
For removing the sand bar at or near the mouth of Merimack river For removing the sand bar, &c.
For the preservation of Deer island, in Boston harbour, in the state of Preservation of Deer island.
Towards erecting piers, or other works, at or near Stonington harbour, Piers near Stonington harbour.
For repairing the public piers at Port Penn, Marcus Hook, and fort Repairing piers at Port Penn, &c.
For purchasing a dredging machine, to be worked by steam, and employing Purchasing a dredging machine, &c.
Towards removing the sand bar at or near the mouth of Black river, Removing the sand bar in Black river.
For removing obstructions in the Apalachicola river, in the territory of Obstructions in Apalachicola river.
For improving the navigation of Red river, through, or around, that Improving the navigation of Red river, &c.
For making a survey of the harbour of Nantucket, and the passage A survey of the harbour of Nantucket, &c.
For making a survey of Genessee river and harbour, in the state of Survey of Genessee river, &c.
For surveying the mouth of Sandy creek, which discharges itself into Surveying the mouth of Sandy Creek, &c.
For making a survey and examination of the southern shore of Lake A survey of the southern shore of Lake Ontario, &c.
For deepening the channel through the pass au Heron, near the Bay Deepening the pass au Heron.
For deepening the channel at the mouth of Pascagoula river, seventeen Deepening Pascagoula river.
For surveying the obstructions to the navigation of the Wabash river, Obstructions in the Wabash river.
Towards improving the navigation of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
For removing obstructions in the Berwick branch of the Piscataqua Removing obstructions.
For deepening the inland passage, or present channel, for navigation Deepening the channel in St. Mary’s harbour, &c.
For a survey of the river and harbour of St. Marks, in Florida, with a Survey of the river St. Marks.
For erecting a pier and a beacon thereon, at or near a ledge of rocks Erecting a pier, &c. at Alien’s rocks.
400,000 acres of relinquished lands in certain counties in Alabama granted to said state, to be applied to navigation.
Price at which the land shall be sold.
Improvement.
Grant of all lands to become null and void, if applied to any other object whatever.
Improvements of said navigation shall be commenced, &c.
Proviso.
Surplus of said grant, to be applied, &c.
Rivers, when improved, to be ever free from toll for all property belonging to the United States, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Breakwater to be made near the mouth of Delaware bay.
250,000 dollars appropriated.
The following case, which originated in the courts established by the act of May 23, 1826, contains decisions upon principles of admiralty law, of great general interest.
The schooner North Carolina, bound from Appalachicola to Charleston, with a cargo of cotton, part on account of the consignees, and part the property of the shipper, struck on a reef about ninety-five miles from Key West; and the next morning one hundred and ten bales of cotton were taken from her by the wrecking schooner Hyder Ally, when she floated, and she sailed with the Hyder Ally to Indian Key, and arrived there the same evening. The Hyder Ally was one of those wrecking schooners in the profits of which Houseman was a participator. He became the consignee of the North Carolina; and salvage being claimed by the master of the Hyder Ally, a reference was made by the master of the North Carolina, and the master of the wrecker, and by an award thirty-five per cent. was allowed as salvage; and one hundred and two bales of cotton were put into the stores of Houseman, in part payment of the salvage; and one hundred dollars was paid in cash, and a draft for six hundred dollars was given by the captain of the North Carolina, in further satisfaction of the salvage, and the commissions of Houseman, with the vessel’s expenses. Afterwards, the consignees of the cotton sent an agent to Key West, who proceeded, by a libel in his name, as agent in the superior court of the United States of Monroe county in Florida, alleging the facts, and by process issued by the court, seventy-two bales of the cotton of the North Carolina were attached in the hands of Houseman. The court decreed that the libellant should recover the seventy-two bales of cotton, and Houseman appealed to the court of appeals. In that court, a supplemental libel was filed by the appellee, claiming damages for the taking and the detention of fifty other bales of cotton, making the whole number of one hundred and twenty-two bales, which had gone into the possession of Houseman. The court of appeals gave a decree in favour of the appellee for the value of one hundred and twenty-two bales. The Supreme Court affirmed the decree as to the seventy-two bales, and set aside that part of the decree which allowed the value of the fifty bales; leaving the consignees or owners of the fifty bales to proceed in the superior court of East Florida by a new libel for the recovery of the same or the value thereof. Houseman v. The Schooner North Carolina, 15 Peters, 41.
There are many cases in which the contract of the captain, in relation to the amount of salvage to be paid to the salvors, or his agreement to refer the question to arbitrators, would bind the owners. In times of disaster, it is always his duty to exercise his best judgment, and to use his best exertions for the benefit of both the vessel and cargo: and when, from his situation, he is unable to consult them or their agent, without an inconvenient and injurious delay, it is in his power to compromise a question of salvage and he is not bound in all cases to wait for the decision of a court of admiralty. Ibid.
So, too, when the salvage service has not been important, and the compensation demanded is a small one, it may often be the interest of the owners, that the amount should be settled at once by the captain and the vessel proceed on her voyage, without waiting even a day for the purpose of consulting them. But in all such cases, unless the acts of the captain are ratified by the owners, his conduct will be carefully watched and scrutinized by the court; and his contracts will not be regarded as binding on the parties concerned, unless they appear to have been bona fide, and such as a discreet owner, placed in the same circumstances, would probably have made. If he settles the amount by agreement, those who claim under it must show that the salvage allowed was reasonable and just. If he refers it to arbitrators those who claim the benefit of the award, must show that the proceedings were fair, and the referees worthy of the trust. Ibid.
The case is within the jurisdiction of a court of admiralty. It is a question of salvage of a vessel which had been stranded on a reef in the ocean. The points in controversy are whether salvage is due and if due, how much. The admiralty is the only court in which such a question can be tried. Ibid.
It is well settled in admiralty proceedings, that the agent of absent owners may libel either in his own name, as agent, or in the name of his principals, as he thinks best. That a power of attorney given subsequent to the libel is a sufficient ratification of what he had before done in their behalf and that the consignees of a cargo have a sufficient interest in the cargo that they may proceed in the admiralty for the recovery not only of their own property, but for that part of it which may be consigned to them. Ibid.
Another judicial district to be established in Florida, to be called the southern district, &c.
Judge to be appointed, who may appoint a
clerk for said court.
Attorney and marshal’s salaries, &c.
Stated sessions of said courts.
Where in any case concerning wrecked property, &c., the judge shall have determined the rate of salvage, to be allowed to salvors.
Articles in the cargo of a perishable nature, a sale of them to be directed.
Property remaining after the portion adjusted to the salvors, not to be removed from such stores as may be used for public purposes.
No vessel to be employed as a wrecker, unless under the authority of the judge of said court, &c.
Assent already given by the United States to the charter of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal by an act of Congress incorporating, and of
Maryland confirming, the same not to be impaired by any change, &c.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 52.
To obviate any possible ambiguity, that might arise in the construction of the 2d section of the act of Congress aforesaid, the authority given to the states of Maryland and Virginia, &c. shall be as full &c.
Proviso.
Act of the legislature of Maryland of Dec. 1837, confirmed.
Secretary of the Treasury in the name of the United States, to subscribe for 10,000 shares of the capital stock of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Secretary of the Treasury to vote for president, &c., of said company, according to the number of shares purchased for the United States.
Corporation of Washington, Georgetown, and Alexandria, to have severally, full power, &c., to subscribe, &c.
Corporations, severally authorized to borrow money, at any rate of interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum.
Certificates of stock for the sums borrowed to be constituted.
Form.
Mayor’s Office.
Be it known, That there is due from the corporation of the city or town of [here insert the title of the city or town of] unto [here insert the name of the creditor,] or
A list of such certificates denoting their respective numbers, &c., to be deposited with the Secretary of the Treasury.
The said certificate shall not be issued, in any case, for a less sum
Forgery of certificates.
An agent or agents to be employed for the purpose of obtaining subscriptions to the loan or loans authorized by this act.
A tax at the rate of one per centum per annum and thirteen hundredths of one per centum levied on the assessed value of the real, &c. estates within the cities of Washington, Georgetown.
Tax on property in Alexandria.
President authorized to appoint a collector or collectors.
Proviso.
Collector or collectors to be appointed, to give bond, with good and sufficient securities, for the faithful performance of the duties required by this act, &c.
Act of Feb. 27, 1815, ch. 60.
Tax to be continued, &c., according to the provisions of this act.
Proviso.
Where any loan or loans shall be negotiated by the corporation or any one of them,
[Obsolete.]
Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be purchased a suitable site for a custom-house and warehouse, at Newport, Rhode Island.
A sum not exceeding 10,000 dollars appropriated.
Also a suitable site for a custom-house and warehouse in the city of Mobile, Ala.
A sum not exceeding 8500 dollars appropriated.
A certain brick store in Newburyport, Mass., to be put in repair and used as a custom-house.
A sum not exceeding 300 dollars appropriated.
A suitable site to be selected, &c., for a custom-house and warehouse at Portland, Maine.
A sum not exceeding $20,000 appropriated.
Act of May 26th 1824, ch. 173, continued in force.
Claims to be decided upon.
To be ratified.
So much of the said act, as subjects the claimants to the payment of costs, in any case where the decision may be in favour of their claims, repealed.
Where any claim, founded on concession, &c., shall be adjudged against and rejected.
Legislature of the state of
Indiana authorized to sell, &c., in fee simple, all, or any part, of the lands heretofore reserved by Congress for the use of schools within said state.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Where proceeds are insufficient for the support of schools in any township.
Claimants of lands within that part of the limits of the land district of Jackson Courthouse lying below the 31st degree of north lat. whose claims have been presented by the commissioners under act of March 3, 1819, ch. 100. whose claims have not been acted upon, allowed until Jan. 1st, 1829, to present their titles, &c.
Act of May 8, 1822, ch. 128.
Register and receiver to hold their sessions at Jackson Courthouse, and the town of Shieldsborough, &c.
Register and receiver to appoint a clerk.
Their compensation each.
Payment of the whole of the aforesaid compensation to be withheld by the Secretary of the Treasury, until, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated, &c.
That the following sums be appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects following, viz:
For payment of sum by art. 6, of treaty with the Chippewas of Aug. 5, 1826.
For annuity, &c. by article 3 of treaty with the Patawatima ofOct. 16, 1826.
For supporting a blacksmith, &c.
For payment of annuity by treaty with the Miamies of Oct. 23, 1826.
For delivery of two thousand pounds of iron, &c.
For support of the poor and infirm.
For carrying into effect treaty with Creek nation of Nov. 15, 1827.
To the Thornton party of Miami Indians by treaty of Feb. 11, 1828.
For building twelve houses, &c.
For payment &c., to Peter Langlois.
For the following sums, &c. necessary to carry into effect the treaty with the Cherokees.
In consideration of the inconvenience and trouble of removing, as provided for in the fifth article of said treaty, fifty thousand dollars.
For three years annuity, as provided for in the same article, six thousand dollars.
For spoliations committed on them, as provided for in the same article, Spoliations committed on them.
For the use of Thomas Graves, same article, one thousand two hundred Use of Thomas Graves.
For the use of George Guess, same article, five hundred dollars. Use of George Guess.
For two thousand dollars, for ten years, for the education of their children, Education of their children.
Towards the purchase of a printing press, and types, same article, one Printing press.
For the compensation proposed to be paid to emigrating Cherokees Compensation to Cherokees for 1828.
For rifles, six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For rifles.
For five hundred blankets, two thousand five hundred dollars. For blankets.
For five hundred kettles, one thousand dollars. For kettles.
For two thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco, two hundred and For tobacco.
For property that may be abandoned, upon the estimate that, of the For abandoned property.
For cost of emigration of five hundred, at ten dollars each, five thousand For cost of emigration.
For provisions for a year, fifteen thousand dollars. Provisions for a year.
For ten dollars for each emigrant, as provided for by the eighth article Ten dollars for each emigrant.
For Captain James Rogers, as provided for by the tenth article, five For Captain James Rogers.
For the expense, in part, of running the boundary lines, as provided for For expense of running boundary lines.
[Obsolete.]
5000 dollars appropriated for the purchase of books for the library of Congress.
Librarian authorized to employ an assistant.
Provisions of act of March 3,
1819, ch. 98, to extend to cases where patents have issued or shall hereafter issue.
[Obsolete.]
15,000 dollars appropriated to defray the expenses of treating with the Chippewas, &c.
Commissioners appointed to negotiate said treaty.
30,000 dollars appropriated for the suppression of the slave trade.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 101.
Secretary of the Navy to satisfy the claim of Taliaferro Livingston.
Proviso.
An additional building to be erected, and five clerks to be appointed.
Appropriation for the erection of the building, &c.
Compensation of the members of the legislature of the territory of Arkansas for attendance.
Proviso.
720 dollars to be paid the governor biennially for certain purposes.
480 dollars appropriated to the district judge of the state of Missouri, &c.
15,000 dollars appropriated for contingent expenses of the Senate for 1828.
President to cause a military road to be opened.
Troops of the United States to be employed to carry into effect the provisions of this act.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation.
Vol. ii. 53, 293.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
37th section of act of 1st March, 1823, ch. 21, repealed.
Secretary of War authorized, &c. to procure on reasonable terms, a site for an arsenal on the
waters of Mobile or Pensacola bays.
Legislature of the state of Illinois authorized, &c., to cause to be sold, &c., a part or parts of the tract of land reserved and granted to said state for the use of salt works.
Proviso.
Act of June 30, 1834, ch. 137.
A quantity of land to be granted to the state of Ohio, for the purpose of aiding said state in extending the Miami canal from Dayton to Lake Erie by the Maumee route.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 87.
Duty of the governor when the route of said canal is located.
Legislature to have power to sell, &c., after the selection be made.
State of Indiana authorized to convey, &c., to the state of Ohio, all the right, &c., granted to said state by an act of March 2, 1827, ch. 56.
Act of March 3, 1845, ch. 42.
500,000 acres of the lands owned by the United States, within said state, to be selected as hereinafter directed, for the purpose of aiding the state of Ohio in the payment of the debt, &c.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 87.
The selection of the land granted by 5th section of this act to be made by the governor of Ohio.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Act to take effect, provided the legislature of Ohio shall express the assent of the state to the several provisions and conditions hereof, &c.
Each head of a
family, &c., over the age of 21 years, actually settled, which, by 1st article of treaty between the United States and the Cherokees west of the Mississippi, ratified by treaty of May 23, 1828, authorized to enter with the proper register a quantity not exceeding two quarter sections of land.
Register, &c., to take the proper testimony of such actual settlement and subsequent removal, &c.
[Expired.]
Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25, continued in force for the term of six years.
Act of April 25, 1812, ch. 69.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 109.
Act of Feb. 4, 1822, ch. 6.
Proviso.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 109.
Proviso.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 99.
Right of any person to receive a pension, in virtue of any law of the United States, shall be construed, &c.
Agents for the payment of pensions required to give bonds.
Assent of Congress given to act of Alabama of Jan. 10, 1827.
Appendix No. 2.
Act of Jan. 7, 1824, ch. 4.
Where no discriminating duties of tonnage or impost are levied in the ports of said nation, upon vessels, &c. of the U. S., the President to issue his proclamation, declaring, &c.
Duties collected on vessels of Prussia, &c.
All duties assessed since April 15, 1826, on Prussian vessels, &c., beyond the amount which would have been payable, &c.
So much of this act as relates to Prussian vessels, &c. to continue in force on certain conditions, &c.
Act of 1816, ch. 107, sec. 3. Act of Jan. 14, 1817, ch. 50. Act of 1818, ch. 110. Act of 1832, ch. 207. Act of 1832, ch. 227, sec. 10. Act of 1824, ch. 4. Act of 1828, ch. 111. Act of 1842, ch. 270, sec. 11.
After Jan. 1, 1829, duties now imposed on wines imported into the United States, altered.
That, from and after the first day of January next, the duties now imposed on wines imported into the United States, shall cease, and that, in lieu thereof, the following duties shall be levied and collected on all wines so imported; that is to say:
On the wines of France, Germany, Spain and the Mediterranean, when On wines of France, &c. imported in casks.
On wines of all countries, when imported in bottles or cases, unless On wines of all countries when imported in bottles or cases.
On Sherry and Madeira wines, whether imported in bottles, cases or On Sherry and Madeira wines, &c.
Duties imposed by this act, on wines imported, &c.
A drawback of the duties shall be allowed on exportation, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit; For fortifications, to each, specifically, as follows—
Forts. For repairs, &c.
Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.
Banks in the District of Columbia in calculating their discount to be guided, &c.
Second section of the act of April 14, 1802, ch. 28, and March 22, 1816, ch. 32, repealed.
Any alien, being a free white person, who was residing within the limits, &c., of the United States, between April 14, 1802, and June 18, 1812, to become a citizen.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
For defraying the expenses of the navy for 1st quarter of 1829.
That, for defraying the expenses of the navy for the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated, to wit:
For pay and subsistence of officers, and pay of seamen employed in Pay and subsistence of officers, &c.
For pay, subsistence, and allowances of officers, and pay of seamen, Pay, &c. of officers and seamen.
For pay of superintendents, naval constructor, and all the civil establishment Pay of superintendents, &c.
For provisions, one hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and Provisions.
For repairs of vessels, one hundred and eighteen thousand seven hundred Repairs of vessels.
For medicines, surgical instruments, and hospital stores, six thousand Medicines.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, twelve thousand five hundred Ordnance.
For repairing and improvements of navy yards, twenty-six thousand Repairing, &c. of navy yards, &c.
For arrearages prior to one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, Arrearages prior to 1829.
For contingent expenses for one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, Contingent expenses for 1829, &c. Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 22.
For contingent expenses, not enumerated, for one thousand eight hundred Contingent expenses not enumerated.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, thirty thousand five Pay, &c. of marine corps.
For clothing for the same, seven thousand one hundred and ninety-one Clothing for same.
For fuel for the same, three thousand and forty-nine dollars. Fuel.
Contingencies for same.
Additional contingencies for same.
Military stores. Medicines, &c.
For medicines and hospital stores for the same, five hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-five cents.
Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.
[Obsolete.]
Sums respectively appropriated.
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively appropriated, for the objects following, to wit:
To revolutionary pensioners.
Widows, &c.
Invalids, &c.
Sums appropriated to be paid from treasury.
Duty of collectors after the passage of this act.
Act of Feb. 18, 1793, ch. 8.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
1828, ch. 117.
Sums appropriated.
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, viz:
For pay, subsistence, and provisions, thirty-five thousand one hundred Pay, &c.
For medicines and hospital stores, one thousand two hundred dollars. Medicines.
For outfits, twenty-five thousand dollars. Outfits.
For repairs, and for wear and tear, ten thousand dollars. Repairs, &c.
An act to regulate the medical establishment, March 2, 1799, ch. 27.
An act further to regulate the medical department of the army, May 8, 1820, ch. 75.
An act for the better organization of the medical department of the navy of the United States May 24, 1828, ch. 121.
An act to amend an act entitled “An act for the better organization of the medical department of the navy, approved May 24, 1828,” Jan. 21, 1829, ch. 7.
An act to re-organize the navy department of the United States, Aug. 31, 1842, ch. 286, sec. 3.
After the passing of this act, no person to receive the appointment of assistant surgeon, unless examined, &c.
President of the United States may designate, &c. to every fleet or squadron an intelligent surgeon, then in the naval service of the United States.
Assistant surgeons who have been commissioned less than five years, to receive each 30 dollars a month, and two rations per day, &c.
Every surgeon who shall have received his appointment as herein provided for, to receive 50 dollars per month and two rations a day, &c.
Every assistant surgeon, &c.
to receive five dollars per month in addition to the usual compensation.
Governor, &c. to make such laws, &c. as they may deem expedient, to protect from injury, &c., section 16, reserved in each township for the support of schools, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated for the military service for the 1st quarter of 1829.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the military service of the United States, for the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, to wit:
Pay of the army, &c.
Forage.
Clothing of officers’ servants.
Recruiting service.
Contingent expenses.
Subsistence department.
Purchasing department.
Medical department.
Quartermaster general’s department.
Military academy.
Contingencies of the army.
National armories.
For armament of new fortifications, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Ordnance department.
New fortifications.
[Obsolete.]
Delegations of the Choctaw, Creek, &c., Indians west of the Mississippi, to explore the unoccupied lands of the United States.
Amount of expenses not to exceed $15,000.
That the following be established as post-roads:
In Maine.—From Damariscotta Mills, by West Jefferson and Windsor, In Maine.
In New Hampshire.—From Milford, through Dunstable, to Derry. New Hampshire.
In Massachusetts.—From Taunton to Providence, by Rehoboth village. Massachusetts.
In Connecticut.—From Springfield, Massachusetts, by Somers, Connecticut, Connecticut.
Vermont.
New York.
New Jersey.
In Pennsylvania.—From Buckwaiters, by Charleston, to West Chester. Pennsylvania.
From West Chester, by Goshen, Paoli, and King of Prussia, to Norristown. From Montrose, the most direct route to Binghampton, in the state of New York.
Maryland.
Virginia.
North Carolina.
South Carolina.
Georgia.
Indiana.
Kentucky.
In Ohio.—From Palmyra, by Paris, to Parkman. From Canton, in Ohio.
In Tennessee.—That the mail-route already established from McMinnville, Tennessee.
In Illinois.—From McClanesborough by Carmi, to New Harmony, in Illinois.
In Missouri.—From New Madrid, in the state of Missouri, to Hickman, Missouri.
Mississippi.
Alabama.
Louisiana.
Florida.
Michigan.
Routes discontinued.
New Hampshire.
New York.
Pennsylvania.
Speaker of the house of representatives to frank letters, &
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, &c.
Public documents in the library of Congress to be distributed.
Census.
Journal of the Federal Convention, &c.
Proviso.
A set to West Point Academy.
Proviso.
Copies of the laws to library of House of Representatives.
Journals furnished to library of House of Representatives.
Clerk of House of Representatives to deliver to Department of State, &c.
Ten sets only of the journals of Congress, well bound, shall be deposited hereafter.
Joint committee to dispose of any duplicate or works not wanted for the use of the library.
Duty of the Secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives after the termination of Congress, to regulate, &c. the printing of the respective houses, &c.
Also to regulate the printing of the executive documents, &c.
Postmaster General to cause to be examined the route from Mobile to Pascagoula.
The Madison barracks, at Sackett’s Harbour, to be loaned to the scientific school, &c.
Proviso.
ACTS OF THE TWENTIETH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation for service of first quarter, &c.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated, for the service of the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine; that is to say:
For compensation to the senators and members of the House of Representatives, Compensation to members of Senate, &c.
For expenses of the library of Congress, including the salary of the Expenses of library and Librarian, &c.
For compensation to the President of the United States, six thousand President.
For compensation to the Vice President of the United States, one Vice President.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, one thousand five hundred Vice President.
For compensation to the clerks in the Department of State, per act of Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to clerks in said Department, per act of second 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the messengers in the Department of State, including Messengers.
For compensation to one machinist in the patent office, per act of Machinist in patent office. 1824, ch. 157.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of Contingent expenses.
Secretary of the Treasury.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
1824, ch. 157.
1827, ch. 50.
Messengers.
First comptroller.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
1827, ch. 50.
Messengers.
Second comptroller.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
First auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
Second auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
Third auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
Fourth auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
1827, ch. 50.
Messenger.
For compensation to the fifth auditor of the treasury, seven hundred Fifth auditor.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the fifth auditor, per Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of twenty-sixth 1824, ch. 157.
For additional salary of one clerk, per act of second of March, one 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, in full of all allowances, Messenger.
For compensation to the treasurer of the United States, seven hundred Treasurer.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the treasurer of the Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of twenty-sixth 1824, ch. 157.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, in full of all allowances, Messenger.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, seven hundred and Register.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the register of the Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For additional salary of four clerks, per act of second of March, one 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to messengers in said office, including the allowance Messengers.
For compensation to the commissioner of the general land office, Commissioner of general land office.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissioner of Clerks. 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, in full of all allowances, Messengers.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking Secretary to sinking fund.
For allowances to the person employed in transmitting passports and Incidental and contingent expenses, &c.
For allowance to the superintendent and four watchmen, employed for Allowance to the superintendent and four watchmen.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, one thousand five hundred Secretary of War.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of War, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Clerk in the bureau of Indian affairs. 1827, ch. 50.
Messengers.
Contingent expenses.
Books, &c.
Clerks in the office of the paymaster general. 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
Contingent expenses.
Clerks in office of commissary general, &c. 1824, ch. 157.
Messenger.
Contingent expenses.
Adjutant general’s clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
1827, ch. 50.
Contingent expenses.
Clerks of commissary general of subsistence. 1824, ch. 157.
1827, ch. 50.
Contingent expenses.
Clerks of chief engineer. 1824, ch. 157.
1827, ch. 50.
Contingent expenses.
Clerks in ordnance office. 1818, ch. 87.
Contingent expenses.
Surgeon general’s clerk. 1824, ch. 157.
Quartermaster general’s clerks.
Contingent expenses.
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 clerk in said office, per act of twenty-sixth 1824, ch. 157.
For compensation to the clerk in said office, per act of the second of 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, in full of all allowances, Messengers.
For contingent expenses of said office, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, two thousand Commissioners of navy board.
For compensation to the secretary to the commissioners of the navy Secretary of navy board.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissioners of Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks and draftsman in said office, per act 1824, ch. 157.
For additional compensation to one clerk in said office, per act of 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, in full of all allowances, Messenger.
For contingent expenses of said office, four hundred and fifty dollars. Contingent expenses.
For allowance to the superintendent and four watchmen, employed for Superintendent and watchmen, &c.
For compensation to the Postmaster General, one thousand five hundred Postmaster General.
For compensation to the two assistant postmasters general, one thousand Assistant Postmasters General.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Postmaster General, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of the twenty-sixth 1824, ch. 157.
For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of the second of 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, in full of all allowances, Messengers.
For compensation to one additional assistant messenger, eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand two hundred and Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the surveyor general, in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, Surveyor general in Ohio, &c.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, five hundred Clerks.
For compensation to the surveyor south of Tennessee, five hundred Surveyor south of Tennessee.
Clerks.
Surveyor in Illinois, &c.
Clerks.
Surveyor in Alabama.
Clerks.
Surveyor in Florida.
Clerks.
Commissioner public buildings.
Officers and clerk of mint.
Persons employed in the mint.
Incidental and contingent expenses, &c.
Governor, &c. of the Michigan territory.
Contingent expenses.
Compensation, &c. to the legislative council, &c.
Governor, &c. of the Arkansas territory.
Contingent expenses.
Governor, &c. of the Florida territory.
Contingent expenses.
Compensation, &c. of the legislative council, &c.
Chief justice, &c. of the United States.
Attorney general.
Clerk.
Reporter of Supreme Court.
Sundry district attorneys and marshals.
Expenses of the Supreme, &c. Courts of the United States.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present Payment of pensions.
For the support of lighthouses, floating lights, and other objects, for Maintenance of lighthouses, &c.
For surveying the public lands of the United States, ten thousand Surveying public lands.
For stationery and books for the offices of commissioners of loans, Stationery, &c.
For the salaries of the two keepers of the public archives in Florida Keepers of public archives in Florida.
For the salaries of the ministers of the United States at London, Salaries of ministers, &c. abroad.
For the salaries of the agents of claims at London and Paris, one Agents of claims, London and Paris.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen in foreign Relief, &c. of distressed American seamen.
Persons entitled to a donation of land in Arkansas, by virtue of an act entitled, &c., not allowed to enter the improvement of actual settlers, &c.
Act of May 24, 1828, ch. 108.
Residents south of Arkansas river, &c. west of territorial line, not entitled to donation given by said act, unless, &c.
Governor and general assembly of Arkansas, autho-
rized to protect the lands, &c.
Rents to be applied to the support of common schools.
All merchandise now entitled to debenture, or which may be hereafter imported, to be allowed the benefit of drawback, &c.
That from and after the passage of this act, all goods, wares, and merchandise which are now entitled to debenture, or which may be hereafter imported, may be exported with the benefit of drawback, and without any deduction from the amount of the duty on the same, at any time within three years from the date when Proviso.
Proviso.
Salary of two hundred dollars allowed to the marshal of Connecticut.
Exemption of certain surgeons in the navy from certain requisites to the allowance of pay and rations provided for by act of May 1828, ch. 121.
Circuit court of the United States, for Georgia district, to be holden at Milledgeville in November, and at Savannah in May.
Salary of 200 dollars allowed to marshal of eastern district of Virginia.
Collection district established in Florida, by name of St. Mark’s, &c.
Provision for collector.
Certain portion of Florida annexed to St. Augustine district.
[Obsolete.]
A drawback on sugar refined in United States, and ex-
ported, changed to five cents.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Act of April 29, 1802, ch. 31.
Authority to adjourn the Supreme Court from day to day, in case of nonattendance of quorum, extended.
Court not to be adjourned, &c.
After quorum once formed and subsequent non-attendance of quorum, authority given to adjourn, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Qualified voters in Arkansas, to elect their officers, except those appointed by President of United States, and certain others.
Term of service, duties, powers, fees, &c.
To take effect Dec. 1, 1829.
Bills to be presented to the
governor for approval.
Proceedings in case of nonapproval.
Provisions contained in two first sections, extended to voters of Florida.
Apportionment of representation in the legislative council of Florida.
Governor and legislative council authorized to alter this apportionment.
Act of governor and legislative council, fixing seat of justice in Jackson county, annulled, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Acts extending time for issuing and locating land warrants, continued.
1824, ch. 177.
1819, ch. 41.
Town to be laid off at Galena, in Illinois.
Size of town and of lots.
Lots to be offered to highest bidder.
Minimum price.
Reservation along margin of river.
Lots to be classed.
Right of preemption.
[Obsolete.]
500 copies to be purchased.
Price.
Distribution.
Depository for residue.
Appropriation of 3000 dollars.
Hereafter to be holden 4th Monday in November.
Surveyor to be appointed.
Office at Chilicothe.
Powers, authority, duties, emoluments, &c.
To receive all books, records, &c. relating to lands
within the district.
Fair copies thereof to be made,
And used as original records, in taking copies for use in United States courts.
Surveyor appointed to give bond, &c. in penal sum of 10,000 dollars.
Condition.
To give sixty days’ notice of day on which he will begin to receive locations, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for the last three quarters of the year 1829.
1829, ch. 1.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, in addition to the several sums appropriated for the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, by the act of the seventh January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, that is to say:
For the expenses of the library of Congress, including the salaries of Expense of library of Congress and salaries of librarian, &c.
For the purchase of books and maps, for the library of Congress, Books, &c.
For compensation to the President of the United States, eighteen Compensation to President.
For compensation to the Vice President of the United States, three Vice President.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, four thousand five hundred Secretary of State.
For compensation to the clerks in the Department of State, per act of Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in said department, per act of second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, three thousand 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the machinist in the patent office, per act of Machinist in patent office. 1824, ch. 157. Clerk.
For procuring cases and fixtures, &c., for the models in the patent Cases, &c.
For compensation to the messengers in the Department of State, including Messengers.
For expenses of procuring statements of fines and forfeitures, under Expenses.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of State, Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, four thousand Secretary of the Treasury.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to one clerk in said office, per act of twenty-sixth 1824, ch. 157. 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, in full of all allowances, Messengers.
For compensation to one additional clerk on revolutionary claims, Clerk on revolutionary claims.
For compensation to the first comptroller of the treasury, two thousand First comptroller.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the first comptroller, per Clerks. 1818, ch. 87. 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, in full of all allowances, Messengers.
Second comptroller.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
First auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
Second auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messenger.
Third auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
Messengers.
Fourth auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
1827, ch. 50.
Messenger.
Fifth auditor.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
1824, ch. 157. 1827, ch. 50.
Messenger.
Treasurer of the United States.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
1824, ch. 157.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, in full of all allowances, Messenger.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, two thousand two Register of the treasury.
For compensation to clerks in the office of the register of the treasury, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87. 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, including the allowance Messengers and stamps.
For compensation to the commissioner of the general land office, two Commissioner of general land office.
For compensation to the clerks in the general land office, per act of Clerks. 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, in full of all allowances, Messengers.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking Secretary of commissioners sinking fund.
For allowance to the person employed in transmitting passports and Incidental expenses, Treasury Department. 1828, ch. 53.
For allowance to the superintendent and four watchmen, employed for Superintendent and watchmen of state and treasury buildings.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, four thousand five hundred Secretary of War.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of War, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For one clerk in the bureau of Indian affairs, per act of second of Clerk in bureau of Indian affairs. 1827, ch. 50.
For compensation to the messengers in said office, in full of all allowances, Messengers.
For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, two Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the paymaster general, Clerks in office of paymaster general. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, in full of all allowances, Messenger.
For contingent expenses of said office, two hundred and twenty-five Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general Clerks in office commissary general of purchases. 1824, ch. 157.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, in full of all allowances, Messenger.
Contingent expenses.
Clerks in office of adjutant general. 1818, ch. 87. 1827, ch. 50.
Contingent expenses.
Clerks in office of commissary general of subsistence. 1824, ch. 157. 1827, ch. 50.
Contingent expenses.
Clerk in office of chief engineer. 1824, ch. 157. 1827, ch. 50.
Contingent expenses.
Clerks in ordnance office. 1818, ch. 87.
Contingent expenses.
Clerk in office of surgeon general. 1824, ch. 157.
Contingent expenses.
Quartermaster’s clerks.
Contingent expenses.
Secretary of the Navy.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerk in said office, per act of twenty-sixth of 1824, ch. 157. 1827, ch. 50.
Messengers.
Contingent expenses.
Commissioners of navy board.
Secretary.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87. 1827, ch. 50.
Clerks and draftsman. 1824, ch. 157.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, in full of all allowances, Messenger.
For the contingent expenses of said office, one thousand three hundred Contingent expenses.
For allowance to the superintendent and four watchmen employed for Superintendent and watchmen of war and navy buildings.
For compensation to the Postmaster General, four thousand five hundred Postmaster General.
For compensation to the two assistant postmasters general, three thousand Assistants.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Postmaster General, Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.
For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of the twenty-sixth 1824, ch. 157. 1827, ch. 50. 1828, ch. 99.
For compensation to the messenger and two assistants in said office, Messenger and assistants.
For the completion of the new building for the patent office and Completion of patent office and post-office.
For contingent expenses of said office, four thousand seven hundred Contingent expenses.
For repairs of the post-office, one thousand and thirty-seven dollars Repairs of post-office.
For compensation to the surveyor general in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, Surveyor general of Ohio, &c.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, one Clerks.
For compensation to the surveyor south of Tennessee, one 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, &c.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, one Clerks.
For compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, one thousand five Surveyor in Alabama.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, one Clerks.
For compensation to the surveyor in Florida, one thousand five hundred Surveyor in Florida.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, one Clerks.
For extra clerk hire in the office of the surveyor south of Tennessee, Extra clerk hire.
For extra clerk hire in the office of the surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, Extra clerk hire.
For copying the township plats and field notes, in the office of the Copying in office of commissioner of general land office.
Commissioner of public buildings.
Officers and clerk of mint.
Agents in mint.
Contingent expenses of mint.
Extension and improvement of mint establishment.
Governor, judges, &c. of Michigan territory.
Contingent expenses.
Compensation, &c. legislative council.
Governor, &c. of Arkansas territory. 1824, ch. 157. 1828, ch. 29.
Contingent expenses.
Pay, &c. of legislature. 1828, ch. 100.
Governor, &c. of Florida territory. 1828, ch. 77.
Contingent expenses.
Compensation, &c., legislative council.
Chief justice, &c. of United States. 1824, ch. 173.
For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, two Attorney general.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the attorney general, Clerk.
For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Reporter Supreme Court.
For compensation to the district attorneys and marshals as granted by District attorneys and marshals.
For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, circuit, and district courts Expenses, Supreme, circuit, and district courts, &c.
For the salary of the marshal of the northern district of the state of Marshal, northern district, Alabama.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present Pensions.
For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating-lights, beacons, Lighthouses, &c.
For buoys to be placed on proper sites on the north and south sides Buoys at New Inlet, North Carolina.
For placing eleven buoys on proper sites at the entrance of the Buoys at mouth of Mississippi.
For the repair of Provincetown harbour, three thousand five hundred Repair of Provincetown harbour.
For erecting a beacon near the mouth of Bass river, between the Beacon at mouth of Bass river.
For surveying the public lands of the United States, in addition to the Surveying public lands of United States.
For surveying private land claims in Florida, ten thousand dollars. Surveying land claims in Florida.
For stationery and books for the offices of commissioners of loans, Stationery, &c.
For the salaries of the keepers of the public archives in Florida, seven Keepers of archives in Florida.
For the payment of balances due to officers of the old internal revenue Balance due officers of the old internal revenue and direct tax.
For the salaries of registers and receivers of land offices where there Registers and receivers of land offices.
For allowance to the law agent, assistant counsel, and district attorney, Law agent, &c., land claims in Florida. 1828, ch. 70.
Discharge of miscellaneous claims.
Salaries of the ministers to London, &c., and charge d’affaires at Stockholm, &c.
Fifth census.
Distressed American seamen.
Intercourse with Barbary powers.
Agents of claims at London & Paris.
Agents under act April 17, 1828, ch. 30.
Marshals of Ohio, for making returns of non-freeholders.
Certain citizens of Louisiana or Mississippi.
1814, ch. 68.
Members of Senate and House of Representatives, &c.
1829, ch. 1.
Appropriation to be paid out of treasury.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for building lighthouses, beacons, buoys.
That the following appropriations be, and the same are hereby, made, and directed to be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to provide by contract for building lighthouses, erecting beacons, and placing buoys, on the following sites and shoals, to wit.
State of Maine: Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse on the most Maine. Lighthouses.
Five thousand dollars for one on Hendrick’s Head, a point of land near the mouth of Sheepscot river, or some place in the vicinity thereof; and
Two thousand dollars for a tower and bell at Whitehead Point. Tower and bell.
State of New Hampshire: Ten thousand five hundred dollars, in addition to appropriations heretofore made for building a lighthouse on a New Hampshire. Lighthouse.
Three hundred dollars, for placing two buoys, one on Kitt’s Rock, and Buoys.
State of Massachusetts: Two thousand dollars for the erection of a Massachusetts. Monument.
One hundred dollars for placing two buoys at or near the same harbour; Buoys.
Four hundred dollars for a spindle to be placed on Minot’s Ledge, Spindle.
Twelve hundred dollars for erecting a monument on a ledge of rocks Monument.
Five hundred dollars for placing buoys and monuments on rocks and Buoys and monuments.
State of Rhode Island: Six hundred dollars for six buoys and a spindle Rhode Island. Buoys and spindles.
One hundred and fifty dollars for placing a buoy at the end of the Buoy.
Five thousand five hundred dollars for a lighthouse at a proper site on Lighthouse.
And two thousand five hundred dollars for fixing two bells, viz: one to Bells to lighthouses.
State of Connecticut: That the appropriation of six thousand two Connecticut. Beacon instead of beacon light. 1828, ch. 69.
Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse on Great Captain’s Island, or Lighthouse.
State of New York: Four thousand dollars for a lighthouse in Hudson New York. Lighthouse.
Lighthouse.
Buoys.
New Jersey. Buoys.
Pennsylvania. Buoys.
Delaware. Lighthouse.
Virginia. Lighthouse.
South Carolina. Beacon and buoys.
Georgia. Buoy.
Ohio. Buoys.
Lighthouse.
Michigan. Lighthouses. 1828, ch. 69.
Eight thousand dollars for a lighthouse at a suitable place near Fort Gratiot, at the entrance of Lake Huron.
Florida. Lighthouses.
Eight thousand dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, for building a lighthouse near St. Mark’s harbour.
Mississippi. Lighthouse.
Sums to be placed at the disposition of the President.
Purposes.
Maine. Kennebunk river, &c.
Penobscot.
New Hampshire. Piscataqua river, &c.
Massachusetts. North river, &c.
One hundred and fifty dollars for examining the piers erected at Sandy Sandy Bay.
Thirty thousand dollars for removing the bar at the mouth of the Nantucket.
Two thousand five hundred dollars for extending the pier on which Edgartown harbour.
One hundred and fifty dollars to survey the harbour at Bass river, Bass river.
State of Connecticut: Six thousand and ninety-seven dollars for improving Connecticut. Mill river, &c.
One hundred and fifty dollars for making a survey of the river Thames, Thames.
One hundred and thirty dollars for making a survey of the harbour of Westbrook harbour.
Eighty dollars for making a survey of the harbour of Norwalk, with a Norwalk harbour.
One hundred dollars for making a survey of the harbour of Stamford, Stamford harbour.
One hundred and fifty dollars to place a buoy on a rock in Long Island Buoy at Lloyd’s neck.
State of New York: One hundred and fifty dollars for surveying the New York. Sag Harbour.
Thirty thousand dollars for extending the pier of Black Rock harbour, Black Rock harbour.
For removing obstructions at the entrance of the harbour at Big Sodus Big Sodus Bay.
For the improvement of the navigation of the Gennessee river, in the Gennessee river.
State of New Jersey: One hundred dollars for surveying Flatbeach, New Jersey. Flatbeach.
State of Pennsylvania: Five thousand dollars for repairing the piers at Pennsylvania. Marcus Hook.
State of Virginia: Eighty dollars for making a survey of Deep creek, Virginia. Deep creek.
State of North Carolina: Eighty dollars for making a survey of Pascotank North Carolina. Pascotank river.
Twenty-one thousand dollars, being an additional appropriation, for Ocracock inlet.
Twenty thousand dollars for improving the navigation of Cape Fear Cape Fear river.
Two hundred and fifty dollars for placing buoys at the new channel Buoys.
Ohio. Conneaut creek.
Louisiana. River Teche.
Mississippi river.
Mississippi. Pass Christian.
Pass Marianne.
Lake Ponchartrain, &c.
Alabama. Mobile harbour.
Florida. St. Augustine harbour.
St. Mark’s harbour.
[Obsolete.]
Additional appropriations for military service for the year 1828.
May 24, 1828, ch. 123.
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-nine, in addition to the several sums appropriated by the act of the twenty-fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to wit:
Pay, &c., of officers and the military academy.
For subsistence.
For forage for officers.
For clothing for servants of officers, &c. Supernumerary lieutenants.
For the recruiting service.
For the recruiting service, in addition to the unexpended balance in the treasury on the thirty-first of December last, of eleven thousand eight hundred and thirty-two dollars, seventeen thousand two hundred and sixtytwo dollars.
For the purchasing department.
For the purchase of woollens during the year one thousand eight hundred For the purchase of woollens.
For the medical and hospital department, in addition to the probable Medical and hospital department.
For the quartermaster’s department, two hundred and fifty-eight thousand Quartermaster’s department.
For completing the military road from the mouth of Matanawcook Military road to Mars Hill.
For repairing the military road between Pensacola and Tallahassee, Military road, Pensacola and Tallahassee.
For repairing the same road between St. Augustine and Tallahassee, Military road, St. Augustine and Tallahassee.
For fuel, transportation, stationery, &c., repairs, and for improving Fuel, transportation, stationery, &c., for military academy at West Point.
For deficit of the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and Board of visiters.
For expenses of the board of visiters in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the contingencies of the army, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Contingencies of army.
For national armories, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars. National armories.
For armament of fortifications, seventy-five thousand dollars. Armament of fortifications.
For the current expenses of the ordnance service, fifty thousand nine Ordnance service.
For arsenals, ninety-eight thousand dollars. Arsenals.
For arrearages between the first of July, one thousand eight hundred Arrearages.
The following sums, transferred to the surplus fund, on the thirty-first Transfers to surplus fund re-appropriated:
For the preservation of the point of land forming Provincetown harbour, Provincetown harbour. 1826, ch. 78.
For removing obstructions in the harbour of Mobile, appropriated by Mobile harbour. 1826, ch. 78.
For piers at Newcastle, appropriated by act of the twentieth of May, Newcastle. 1826, ch. 78.
Creek treaty, appropriated by act of the twenty-second of May, one Creek treaty. 1826, ch. 148.
For the purchase of provisions for the Quapaws, by act of the third of Quapaws. 1825, ch. 16.
And for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties, per act of twentieth Indian treaties. 1826, ch. 110.
Pay of company of Illinois militia.
1828, ch. 21.
1828, ch. 21.
Appropriations to be paid out of the treasury.
[Obsolete.]
Secretary of Treasury to subscribe for 750 shares Chesapeake and Delaware canal.
For 200 shares Dismal Swamp canal.
Secretary to vote for president and directors.
To receive dividends.
[Obsolete.]
Entitles representatives of deceased invalid pensioner to arrears of pension.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 81.
Arrears due to deceased revolutionary pensioner, to be paid to his widow, &c.
Testimony regarding wounds received in revolutionary war.
Road from Detroit to Chicago.
Surveys, &c. under act of April 30, 1824, ch. 46.
Road from Detroit to Saganaw and fort Gratiot; and between Pensacola and Mobile Point.
Opening and making Cumberland road, west of Zanesville.
Appropriation to be replaced from road fund, &c.
Appointment of superintendent.
1825, ch. 98.
His duties and compensation.
Cumberland road through Indiana, to be opened from Indianapolis to the east and west boundary of the state. 1820, ch. 123. 1825, ch. 98.
Appropriation.
To be replaced from road fund, &c.
Two superintendents to be appointed.
Duties.
To give bond.
Salary.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit:
Superintendent of Indian af fairs at St. Louis, &c. Sub-agents.
For pay of sub-agents, as allowed by law, fifteen thousand one hundred dollars.
Presents. 1802, ch. 13.
Interpreters.
Gun and blacksmiths.
Iron, steel, &c.
Transports and distribution of annuities.
Support of Indians on certain occasions.
Expense of Indian deputations, &c.
For expenses incurred by the marshal of the Michigan territory, and Expenses prosecuting Winnebagoes, at Prairie du Chien.
For contingencies of Indian department, twenty-two thousand five Contingencies, Indian Department.
For expenses incurred by the exploring party of Indians under the Kennedy’s exploring party. 1828, ch. 124.
For the purpose of purchasing such reservations of land as are yet Purchase of Indian reservations in North Carolina.
To enable the President of the United States to extinguish the title To extinguish title of Delawares in Ohio, &c.
For compensation to the Indians in Ohio, for depredations committed Compensation for depredations committed on Indians in Ohio.
[Obsolete.]
Forfeited stock in Louisville and Portland canal, to be purchased by United States.
Secretary of the Treasury to vote, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Additional appropriation for support of navy.
That for defraying the expenses of the navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appro-
1828, ch. 117.
Pay and subsistence of officers.
For pay, subsistence, and allowances of officers, and pay of the seamen at navy yards, shore stations, hospitals and in ordinary, one hundred and sixty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty-three dollars.
Superintendents, naval constructors, &c.
Provisions.
Repairs of vessels, &c.
Medicines, &c.
Ordnance, &c.
Repairs, &c., at navy yards.
Miscellaneous expenditures.
Other contingent expenses.
Reimbursement of marshal of Florida, expenses of certain Africans,
The following sums transferred to the surplus fund:
Gradual increase of navy.
For survey of Savannah, by act of fourteenth March, eighteen hundred Survey of Savannah. 1826, ch. 12.
For captors of Algerine vessels, by acts of twenty-seventh April, one Captors of Algerine vessels. 1816, ch. 119. 1826, ch. 67.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, ninety-one thousand Pay and subsistence marine corps.
For clothing for the same, twenty-five thousand one hundred and Clothing.
For fuel for the same, six thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine Fuel.
For contingencies for the same, twelve thousand two hundred and Contingencies.
For military stores for the same, two thousand two hundred and fifty Military stores.
For medicines for the same, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven Medicines.
Appropriations to be paid out of treasury.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations.
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively appropriated towards the military service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, in addition to the several sums appropriated by the act of the twenty-fourth of May, Act of May 24, 1828, ch. 118.
For invalid and half-pay pensioners, exclusive of a balance on hand Invalid and half-pay pensioners.
For revolutionary pensioners, exclusive of a balance on hand of one Revolutionary pensioners.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit:
For the erection of a tower at Bayou Dupre, Louisiana, sixteen thousand Tower at Bayou Dupre, La.
For the erection of barracks for one company at fort Sullivan, Eastport, Maine.
Connecticut.
Maryland.
Fort Winnebago.
Prairie du Chien.
Washington.
Wharf, fort McHenry.
Wharf, fort Constitution.
Wharf, Delaware bay.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for fortifications.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, in addition to the several sums appropriated by the act of the twenty-fourth of May, one thousand eight 1828, ch. 114.
Newport, R.I.
New York.
For fort Monroe, eighty-five thousand dollars.
For fort Calhoun, ninety thousand dollars.
N. Carolina.
For fort at Oak island, North Carolina, forty-seven thousand eight hundred and thirty-four dollars.
Charleston, S. C.
Savannah, Ga.
Pensacola, W. F.
Mobile Point, Ala.
Bayou Bienvenu, La.
Boston harbour.
Fort La Fayette.
Fort Delaware.
For repairs and contingencies of fortifications, eleven thousand two Repairs and contingencies.
[Obsolete.]
Secretary of War to contract for 60,000 copies of Infantry Tactics, &c.
Also, 3000 copies exercise of field artillery.
To be distributed among the states, territories and District of Columbia, through their chief magistrates, &c.
Appropriation.
[Obsolete.]
Certain voters in Jackson county, Florida, to elect commissioners to Jay off a town on school lands, &c.
To sell half the lots, &c.
For benefit of schools.
Commissioners to give bond and security.
Certain reserved lands granted to Florida.
Governor and council to select two quarter sections, &c.
Act of Feb. 8, 1827, ch. 9.
Residue to be sold, &c.
Proceeds applied to public buildings in Tallahassee.
Certain land claims in Alabama confirmed.
Act of March 3, 1827, ch. 78.
Others confirmed.
Certain claims to be filed with register and receiver at St. Stephens.
Register and receiver to record evidence in support of claims.
If sufficient evidence, claims to be recommended for confirmation.
Proviso.
Operation of confirmation.
Register and receiver to direct mode of locating and surveying confirmed claims.
Act of March 3, 1803, cb. 27.
Act of May 8, 1822, ch. 128.
Certificates and patents to be granted.
Compensation to receiver at St. Stephens, for certain services.
Act of March 3, 1827, ch. 78.
On applica- of consul or vice-consul of nation entitled to the privilege,
seamen deserting to be arrested and delivered up.
Or detained.
Proviso: detention not to be longer than two months.
Proviso: this act not to release seaman from custody as an offender against laws of United States.
Sections 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, of act of April 14, 1818, ch. 61, and section 8, of March 2, 1821, ch. 13, continued for five years.
Two commissaries created.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation to navy hospital fund.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, viz:
For the annual support of a school for the education of Indian youth, Education under treatv, Aug. 1826.
For the payment of the annuity to the Pattawatimas, under the treaty Annuity to Pattawatimas, under treaty, Oct. 1826.
For fulfilling the stipulations of the same treaty in regard to education, Education under same.
For the annual support of a blacksmith and miller, and for furnishing Blacksmith, miller, and salt.
For the payment of the permanent annuity under the fourth article of Permanent annuity, under treaty with Miamies, Oct. 1826.
For the delivery of iron, steel, and tobacco, under the same treaty, Iron, steel, &c. under same.
For the annual support of the poor and infirm Miamies, and the education Poor and infirm Miamies, and education, under same.
For making good a deficiency in the appropriation to carry into effect Appropriation for treaty, June, 1825, with Osages and Kansas.
For the payment of the sum stipulated in the second article of the agreement Treaty, Aug. 1828, with Winnebagoes.
For the payment of the permanent annuity stipulated in the second Permanent annuity to Pattawatimas, under treaty, September, 1828.
For the payment of the limited annuity stipulated in the same article, Annuity, under same.
For the purchase of goods and the payment in specie stipulated in said Goods, &c. under same.
For the expense of farming, and for utensils, specified in said article, Farming, &c. under same.
For tobacco, iron, steel, education, annuity to principal chief, employment Tobacco, &c., education, annuity, &c.
For the payment of claims against the Pattawatimas, stipulated in the Claims against Pattawatimas, under same.
For expenses of ascertaining the value of property belonging to the Appraising property of missionary establishment.
For compensation to Cherokee Indians emigrating from within the Compensation to Cherokees emigrating from Georgia, under treaty, May, 1828.
Transportation.
Property of emigrants.
Expense of emigration.
Provisions for emigrants.
Gratuity to emigrants.
Appraisers of property abandoned.
Improvements abandoned by Cherokees of Arkansas.
Appraisers of property, and expenses of removal of aged, infirm Indians.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be appropriated and paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes, respectively, to wit:
Repairs, &c. of capitol.
Lamps, capitol square.
Maintaining lamps.
Fence and gate.
Portico to President’s house.
Work on and about President’s house.
Furnishing President’s house.
Purchase of square 249.
Engine companies.
Statues, front of capitol.
Sculpture in capitol.
Architect of capitol continued, &c.
Commissioner public buildings to make annual report, &c.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit:
For repairing the damages sustained by the piers under construction Piers at Oswego river.
For closing the breach made in the peninsula at Presque Isle bay, Repairs at Presque Isle bay.
For completing the erection of piers at the mouth of Dunkirk harbour, Dunkirk harbour.
For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Ashtabula Ashtabula creek.
For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Cunningham Cunningham creek.
For improving Cleveland harbour, Ohio, twelve thousand one hundred Cleveland harbour.
For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Huron Huron river.
For completing a pier at La Plaisance bay, Michigan territory, two La Plaisance bay.
For continuing to improve the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
For removing obstructions in the Savannah river, below the city of Savannah river.
Cumberland road, east of
Wheeling, to be repaired.
Appointment and compensation of superintendent.
President of United States authorized to sell salt springs.
Act of June 26, 1834, ch. 76.
President U. S. authorized to sell lead mines.
Six months’ notice to be given, &c.
Confirmations or sales of lead mines to be the same as of other lands.
United States commissionerto
be appointed to assess, with S. Carolina commissioner, the value of Mount Dearborn, &c.
South Carolina to pay the valuation, and the land to be retroceded to her.
Appropriation for the penitentiary.
Act of May 20, 1826, ch. 81.
Annual inspectors to be appointed.
Warden.
First meeting of inspectors.
Secretary.
Quorum.
Regular meetings.
Inspections.
Labour of convicts.
System of rules for discipline, &c.
Promulgation thereof, &c.
Maintenance of cleanliness.
Appointment and removal of keepers, &c.
Inspection of accounts.
Annual report to Congress.
Economy enjoined.
Convicts to labour for United States.
Excess of expenditure to be explained.
Salary of warden and other officers.
Warden’s functions:
Keep accounts;
Make contracts;
Let out labour of convicts;
General superintendence and responsibility ;
Monthly account to inspectors;
Quarterly account to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Warden to give bond.
Limitation of action thereon.
Warden prohibited from interest in any contract, &c.
Penalty.
Same prohibition to inspectors.
Consequence of infraction.
Suits to be brought in name of United States.
Males and females to be kept separate.
Solitary confinement.
Infirmary.
Purification and shaving.
Precautions against introduction of disease.
Descriptive list of convicts.
Clothing.
Bedding, &c.
Food.
Labour.
Conversation prohibited, &c.
Warden’s power of punishment.
Solitary confinement, diet, irons, stocks.
Cases of punishment to be reported.
Inspectors to regulate punishments, &c.
Physician and surgeon to be appointed.
Duties.
Infirmary.
Removal to infirmary.
Return.
Inspectors to make rules for governing the infirmary.
Discretionary power in favour of the sick.
Separation and instruction of convicts under fourteen.
Religious worship, and religious and moral instruction.
Admission of visitors.
Privileged visitors.
Acts prohibited to the keeper, assistant, &c.
Penalty.
Inspectors to prescribe rules for protection of convicts, &c.
Death, &c. of warden.
Appropriation, 27,000 dollars.
Election of printer to each house to commence within 30 days before adjournment of Congress.
Portion of resolution of 1819 rescinded.
President authorized, under certain restrictions, to cause a military road to be laid out in Maine.
ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation for repairing and fitting out the frigate Brandywine.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for repairing and fitting out the frigate Brandywine, viz:
Repairs.
Wear and tear.
Pay and subsistence, &c.
Provisions.
Medicines.
Contingent expenses.
Trustees of the university of Michigan authorized to exchange with Martin Baum certain land, for certain other land.
Act of May 20, 1826, ch. 90.
President of United States to issue requisite patents.
[Expired.]
Time limited by act of May 24, 1828, ch. 108.
And by act of Jan. 6, 1829, ch. 2, for locating certain donations, extended one year from May 24, 1830.
Proviso: locations restricted to actual settlements prior to May 24, 1830.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for arrearages in naval service, for 1829.
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for certain arrearages in the naval service, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, viz:
For pay and subsistence of officers, and pay of seamen, other than Pay and subsistence, &c.
For repair of vessels in ordinary, and for wear and tear of vessels in Repairs, and wear and tear.
For contingent expenses in the naval service, thirty thousand three Contingent expenses.
For pay of superintendents, naval constructor, and all the civil establishment Superintendents, naval constructors, &c.
For medicines, surgical instruments, and hospital stores, two thousand Medicines, &c.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, sixteen thousand seven Marine corps.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for revolu-
That the following sums be,
tionary and invalid pensioners.
Arrearages.
Revolutionary pensioners.
Invalid pensioners.
Terms United States circuit court, in Maryland district, to be held April 8, and Nov. 1.
Process, &c. made returnable to the terms as fixed by this act.
[Obsolete.]
Secretary of the Treasury to pay to state of Penn. $13,795, 54 cents, due for militia services in the year 1794.
Secretary of the Treasury
authorized to empower surveyors of ports of delivery to enrol and license coasting and fishing vessels, &c.
Surveyors thus empowered, entitled to same fees, &c. as collectors.
Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 55.
Act authorizing importation of brandy in casks of 15 gallons, &c. continued in force.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation for Indian department.
That the following sums be appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for the Indian department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, viz:
For pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, and the Pay of superintendent at St. Louis, and Indian agents.
For pay of sub-agents, as authorized by law, nineteen thousand and Pay of subagents.
For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of one thousand Presents to Indians. 1802, ch. 13.
For pay of Indian interpreters and translators employed at the several Pay of interpreters and translators.
For pay of gun and blacksmiths and their assistants, employed within Pay of gun and blacksmiths and assistants.
For iron, steel, coal, and other expenses attending the gun and blacksmith’s Iron, steel, coal, &c.
For expense of transportation and distribution of Indian annuities, Transportation and distribution of annuities.
For expense of provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuities Provisions for Indians at distribution of annuities, &c.
For contingencies of the Indian department, twenty thousand dollars. Contingencies.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for fortifications.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for certain fortifications, viz:
Fort Adams.
Ft. Hamilton.
Fort Monroe.
Fort Calhoun.
Fort Macon.
Fort at Oak Island.
Fortifications at Charleston.
Fort at Mobile Point.
Fort Jackson.
Fortifications at Pensacola.
Contingencies.
Site for fort at Cockspurlsland.
[Obsolete.]
Sums appropriated for the military service of 1830.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for the service of the military establishment, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, viz:
Pay of the army, &c.
Forage.
Clothing for servants.
Subsistence.
Clothing army, camp equipage, &c.
Medical department.
Quartermaster department.
Military academy.
Repairs, &c. of hospital.
Expenses board visiters.
Clerks and assistants.
For the increase of the library, subscription to military and scientific Purchase of books.
For philosophical apparatus, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six Philosophical apparatus.
For models and modeller, and books on architecture, for department Models, &c.
For repairing mathematical instruments, and for models for drawing Repairing mathematical instruments, &c.
For apparatus pertaining to the chemical and mineralogical department, Chemical apparatus, &c.
For miscellaneous items, one thousand six hundred and thirty-six dollars. Miscellaneous items.
For incidental expenses, four hundred dollars. Incidental expenses.
For arrearages of clerk hire for one thousand eight hundred and Arrearages.
For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars. Contingencies.
For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Armories.
For the armament of the fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars. Armament.
For the current expenses of the ordnance service, fifty-six thousand Ordnance service.
For arsenals, ninety thousand two hundred dollars. Arsenals.
For the recruiting service, five thousand two hundred and ninety-two Recruiting service.
For contingent expenses of the recruiting service, nine thousand seven Contingent expenses of recruiting service.
For arrearages prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred Arrearages, &c.
For arrearages between the first of July, one thousand eight hundred Arrearages, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for naval service.
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:
For pay and subsistence of the officers of the navy, and pay of seamen, Pay of officers, &c.
For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishment Pay of Supts., naval constructors, &c.
For provisions, four hundred and fifty-seven thousand five hundred and Provisions.
For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the wear and tear of vessels in Repairs, and wear and tear.
For medicines, surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses Medicines, &c.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, thirty thousand dollars. Ordnance, &c.
For timber sheds, viz: one at Portsmouth, two at Boston, two at New Timber sheds.
Timber docks.
Wharves.
Repairs storehouses, &c.
Covering, &c.
For replacing same sum taken from fund for increase of navy.
Miscellaneous items.
For freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; for wharfage and dockage, storage and rent, travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen, house rent, chamber money, and fuel and candles to officers, other than those attached to navy yards and stations, and for officers in sick quarters, where there is no hospital, and for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire, and office rent; stationery and fuel to navy agents; for premiums, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for compensation to judge advocates; for per diem allowances for persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry, and for officers engaged in extra service beyond the limits of their stations; for printing and stationery of every description, and for books, maps, charts, and mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for purchase and repair of steam and fire engines, and for machinery; for purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, timber wheels, and workmen’s tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage; for cabin furniture of vessels in commission, and for furniture of officers’ houses at navy yards; for taxes on navy yards and public property; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labour at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel for forges, foundries, and steam engines; for candles, oil, and fuel; for vessels in commission and in ordinary; for repairs of magazines and powder houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built; and for no other object or purpose whatever, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.
Pay, &c. marine corps.
Subsistence, &c.
Arrearages.
Clothing.
Fuel.
Contingent expenses.
Military stores.
Medicines.
Officers’ quarters.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for support of government in 1830.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, viz:
For pay and mileage of the members of Congress and delegates, and Pay, &c. Congress.
For contingent expenses of both houses of Congress, one hundred Contingent expenses of Congress. Proviso. Printing for Congress.
For the library of Congress, five thousand dollars. Library of Congress.
For salary of the principal and assistant librarians, two thousand three Librarians.
For contingent expenses of the library, four hundred and fifty dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United Compensation to President, Vice President, &c.
For clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of State, Clerks, &c. Dept. of State.
For clerks, machinist, and messenger, in the patent office, five thousand Clerks, &c. patent office.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of State, Contingent expenses of Dept. State.
For contingent expenses of the patent office, including books and binding, Contingent expenses, of patent office.
For compensation to the marshals of certain states and territories, for Compensation to certain marshals. 1829, ch. 24.
To repay the state of Maine for expenses paid in collecting evidence Collecting evidence, &c.
For publishing the laws of the second session of the nineteenth Congress, Publishing laws.
For publishing the laws of the second session of the twentieth Congress, Publishing laws.
For completing the sets of the laws of the United States on hand in Completing sets of laws.
For completing the fixtures in the patent office, four thousand six hundred Fixtures in patent office.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Clerks, &c. Secretary of the Treasury.
For compensation to the first comptroller of the treasury, three thousand First comptroller.
Clerks, &c.
Second comptroller.
Clerks, &c.
First auditor.
Clerks, &c.
Second auditor.
Clerks, &c.
Third auditor.
Clerks, &c.
Fourth auditor.
Clerks, &c.
Fifth auditor.
Clerks, &c.
Treasurer.
Clerks, &c.
Register.
Clerks, &c.
Commissioner of general land office.
Clerks, &c.
Secretary to sinking fund.
Contingent expenses, &c.
Buildings for State, &c. Depts.
Superintendents.
Clerks, &c. Sec. of War.
Contingent expenses.
Maps, &c.
Clerks in the paymaster general’s office.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Clerks, &c., in com. gen. office.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the adjutant general, Adjutant general’s clerks.
For contingent expenses of said office, including arrearages of six Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general Clerks of com. gen. sub.
For contingent expenses of said office, two thousand six hundred Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the chief engineer, two Clerks of chief engineer.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the ordnance office, two thousand Clerks in ordnance office.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the surgeon general, Surgeon general’s clerk.
For contingent expenses of said office, two hundred and twenty Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the quartermaster general, Q. M. Gen. clerks.
For contingent expenses of said office, five hundred and ninety-seven Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Clerks, &c. Secretary Navy.
For deficiency in the appropriations of one thousand eight hundred and Arrearages, clerks’ salaries.
For contingent expenses of said office, three thousand dollars. Contingent expenses.
For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, ten thousand Navy board.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the navy Secretary.
For compensation to the clerks, draftsman and messenger, in the office Clerks, &c.
For contingent expenses of the office of the commissioners of the Contingent expenses.
For allowance to the superintendents and four watchmen, employed for Superintendents, &c. War and Navy Departments.
For erecting a building for the use of the War and Navy Departments, Building, &c.
For compensation to the two assistant postmasters general, five thousand Assistant P. General.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Clerks, &c.
For contingent expenses of said office, seven thousand five hundred Contingent expenses.
For superintendency of the buildings, making up blanks, and compensation Superintendents, &c.
For compensation to the surveyor general in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, Surveyor general in Ohio, &c.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two Clerks.
Surveyor south of Tennessee.
Clerks.
Surveyor in Illinois, &c.
Clerks.
Surveyor in Alabama.
Clerks.
Surveyor in Florida.
Clerks.
Commissioner public buildings.
Officers and clerk of mint.
Assistants.
Contingent expenses.
Governor, &c. of the Michigan territory.
Contingent expenses.
Legislative council, &c.
Governor, &c. of the Arkansas territory.
Contingent expenses.
Governor, &c. of Florida.
Contingent expenses.
Legislative council.
Legislative council.
Judiciary.
Atty Gen.
Clerk.
For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Reporter of Supreme Court.
For compensation to the district attorneys and marshals, as granted District attorneys and marshals.
For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, circuit, and district courts Expenses of the Supreme, &c. Courts of the United States.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present Pensions.
For the support and maintenance, of lighthouses, floating lights, beacons, Support of lighthouses.
For building a lighthouse on a ledge of rocks called the Whale’s Back, Lighthouse on Whale’s Back.
For building a lighthouse at Cat Island, in the Gulf of Mexico, being Lighthouse on Cat Island.
For erecting a beacon in the harbour at the mouth of Bass river, Beacon on Bass river.
For erecting a pier adjacent to the pier at Buffalo, in New York, and Pier at Buffalo, &c. Act of May 18, 1826, ch. 73.
For building a lighthouse at the south entrance of Roanoke Marshes, Lighthouse, Roanoke Marshes. Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 47.
For rebuilding the lighthouse at West Passamaquoddy Head, in Maine, L. H. Passamaquoddy.
For building a light-vessel, to be placed on Carysfort reef, in the Light-vessel, Carysfort reef.
For surveying private land claims in East Florida, eight thousand Surveying East Florida.
For the salaries of registers and receivers of land offices, where there Registers and receivers.
For the salaries of two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one Keepers archives, Florida.
For stationery and books for the offices of commissioners of loans, Stationery.
For allowance to the law agent, assistant counsel, and district attorney, Law agent, &c. Act of May 23, 1828, ch. 70.
Luigi Persico.
Custom-house, &c. Portland.
Miscellaneous claims.
Diplomatic salaries and outfits; and contingent expenses.
Agents for claims.
Barbary intercourse.
Relief, &c., Amer. seamen.
Contingent expenses.
Surveying, &c. N. E. boundary.
Fifth census. 1829, ch. 24.
Publishing foreign correspondence of old Congress.
Vessels bound up James river exempted from stopping in HamptonRoads.
Master revenue cutter to board all such vessels, &c.
In certain cases, captain of vessel may deposit copy of manifest with surveyor at Hampton.
Act of May 22, 1826, ch. 147, authorizing, &c. continued for 5 years, and its provisions extended to, &c.
Marshals of United States to cause inhabitants to be enumerated, &c.
Act of Feb. 3, 1831, ch. 17.
Act of May 5, 1832, ch. 74, sec. 2.
Act of May 22, 1832, ch. 91.
All free white persons enumerated to be classed according to sex and age.
Enumeration to state number of deaf and dumb between certain ages.
Also, number of blind.
All coloured persons enumerated to be classed according to sex and age.
Enumeration to state number of deaf and dumb, and of blind.
Marshals to appoint assistants, &c.
Assistants to be residents,&c.
Portion of territory assigned to each not to exceed, &c.; to be distinctly defined.
Enumeration to be made by actual inquiry, &c.
Marshals,&c., to take oath, &c.
Oath or affirmation of marshal;
Of assistants.
Enumeration to commence June 1st, 1830.
Close within six months.
Assistants on or before Dec. 1, 1830, to deliver two copies of returns, &c.
Returns to be made in certain form, &c.
Penalty on assistants, for failing, &c.
Marshals to file one copy of returns, &c. with the clerks of district or superior courts.
Marshals on or before Feb. 1, 1831, to transmit to Secretary of State, one copy of each return from every assistant, and also, &c.
Penalty on marshals for neglecting to perform the requirements of this act.
United States judges to give this act in charge to grand juries, &c.
Clerks of courts to transmit to Dept. of State, the returns, &c.
Compensation of assistants. Extraordinary compensation of assistants. Proviso. Proviso: Oath to be taken by assistants, before receiving compensation.
Compensation of marshals.
The marshal of the district of New Hampshire, three hundred dollars.
The marshal of the district of Massachusetts, three hundred and fifty dollars.
The marshal of the district of Rhode Island, two hundred dollars.
The marshal of the district of Vermont, three hundred dollars.
The marshal of the district of Connecticut, two hundred and fifty dollars.
The marshal of the southern district of New York, three hundred dollars.
The marshal of the northern district of New York, three hundred dollars.
The marshal of the district of New Jersey, two hundred and fifty dollars.
The marshal of the eastern district of Pennsylvania, three hundred dollars.
The marshal of the western district of Pennsylvania, three hundred dollars.
The marshal of the district of Delaware, one hundred and fifty dollars.
The marshal of the district of Maryland, three hundred and fifty dollars.
The marshal of the eastern district of Virginia, three hundred dollars.
The marshal of the western district of Virginia, three hundred dollars.
The marshal of the district of Kentucky, three hundred and fifty dollars.
The marshal of the district of North Carolina, three hundred and fifty dollars.
The marshal of the district of South Carolina, three hundred and fifty dollars.
The marshal of the district of Georgia, three hundred and fifty dollars.
The marshal of the district of east Tennessee, two hundred dollars.
The marshal of the district of west Tennessee, two hundred dollars.
The marshal of the district of Ohio, four hundred dollars.
The marshal of the district of Indiana, two hundred and fifty dollars.
The marshal of the district of Illinois, two hundred dollars.
The marshal of the district of Mississippi, two hundred dollars.
The marshals of the districts of Louisiana, one hundred and twenty-five dollars each.
The marshal of the district of Alabama, two hundred and fifty dollars.
The marshal of the district of Missouri, two hundred dollars.
The marshal of the district of Columbia, one hundred dollars.
The marshal of the Michigan Territory, one hundred and fifty dollars.
The marshal of the Arkansas Territory, one hundred and fifty dollars.
The marshals of the territory of Florida, respectively, one hundred dollars.
Mode of returning certain descriptions of persons.
Every free person over sixteen to render to assistant a true statement of, &c.
Penalty.
Assistants to set up copies of schedule, &c.
Compensation.
Proviso: Setting up of schedule to be proved, &c.
Penalty.
Secretary of State to transmit instructions, &c.
Provision regarding states composing two districts.
Compensation of marshal and assistants, in certain cases.
Proviso: Compensation not to exceed, &c.
3000 copies of the aggregate returns to be printed for use of Congress.
Proviso: Marshals shall not receive any consideration for appointment of assistant, &c.
Penalty.
Remuneration to marshals for postage.
Former statements of population to be revised.
Abstract of the aggregate in each state, &c. to be printed, and distributed as Congress shall direct.
2,000 dollars appropriated for this work.
| Slaves and coloured persons included in foregoing | Who are blind. | |
| Who are deaf and dumb of the age of twenty-five years and upwards. | ||
| Who are deaf and dumb of the age of fourteen and under twenty-five. | ||
| Who are deaf and dumb under fourteen years of age. | ||
| White persons included in the foregoing. | ALIENS—Foreigners not naturalized. | |
| Who are blind. | ||
| Who are deaf and dumb of twenty-five years and upwards. | ||
| Who are deaf and dumb of the age of fourteen and under twenty-five. | ||
| Who are deaf and dumb under fourteen years of age. | ||
| TOTAL. | ||
| FREE COLOURED PERSONS. | FEMALES. | Of one hundred and upwards. |
| Of fifty-five and under one hundred. | ||
| Of thirty-six and under fifty-five. | ||
| Of twenty-four and under thirty-six. | ||
| Of ten and under twenty-four. | ||
| Under ten years of age. | ||
| MALES. | Of one hundred and upwards. | |
| Of fifty-five and under one hundred. | ||
| Of thirty-six and under fifty-five. | ||
| Of twenty-four and under thirty-six. | ||
| Of ten and under twenty-four. | ||
| Under ten years of age. | ||
| SLAVES. | FEMALES. | Of one hundred and upwards. |
| Of fifty-five and under one hundred. | ||
| Of thirty-six and under fifty-five. | ||
| Of twenty-four and under thirty-six. | ||
| Of ten and under twenty-four. | ||
| Under ten years of age. | ||
| MALES. | Of one hundred and upwards. | |
| Of fifty-five and under one hundred. | ||
| Of thirty-six and under fifty-five. | ||
| Of twenty-four and under thirty-six. | ||
| Of ten and under twenty-four. | ||
| Under ten years of age. | ||
| FREE WHITE PERSONS, (INCLUDING HEADS OF FAMILIES.) | FEMALES. | Of one hundred and upwards. |
| Of ninety and under one hundred. | ||
| Of eighty and under ninety. | ||
| Of seventy and under eighty. | ||
| Of sixty and under seventy. | ||
| Of fifty and under sixty. | ||
| Of forty and under fifty. | ||
| Of thirty and under forty. | ||
| Of twenty and under thirty. | ||
| Of fifteen and under twenty. | ||
| Of ten and under fifteen. | ||
| Of five and under ten. | ||
| Under five years of age. | ||
| MALES. | Of one hundred and upwards. | |
| Of ninety and under one hundred. | ||
| Of eighty and under ninety. | ||
| Of seventy and under eighty. | ||
| Of sixty and under seventy. | ||
| Of fifty and under sixty. | ||
| Of forty and under fifty. | ||
| Of thirty and under forty. | ||
| Of twenty and under thirty. | ||
| Of fifteen and under twenty. | ||
| Of ten and under fifteen. | ||
| Of five and under ten. | ||
| Under five years of age. | ||
| Names of Heads of Families. | ||
| Name of County, City, Ward, Town, Township, Parish. Precinct, Hundred, or District. | ||
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, viz:
Permanent annuity under treaty of July, 1829.
Goods.
Salt.
Transportation.
Claims.
Surveying boundaries.
Limited annuity under treaty August, 1829.
Goods.
Tobacco.
Transportation.
Salt.
Transportation.
Blacksmith shops.
Oxen and cart, &c.
Claims against Winnebagoes.
Survey of boundaries.
Lands which have reverted to U. S. under relief laws,
may be redeemed in either of the three following ways:
1. Pre-emption until July 30, 1831, at minimum price of public lands, in addition to amount already paid.
Proviso: entire price not to exceed 3 dolls. and 50 c.
2. Payment before July 4, 1831, of 62½ per cent. on the balance due.
3. Where the price did not exceed 2 dolls and 50 c. purchasers may, within nine months, draw scrip for the amount paid, in manner prescribed in act of May 23, 1828, ch. 71.
Where lands relinquished under relief laws (the sum paid having been applied in payment of other lands) remain in possession of the relinquishers; or where such relinquished lands remain in possession of persons (or of persons holding under these) who transferred the certificate of purchase and part payment of those lands, to another person by whom said part payment was applied in payment of land held in his own name: in either case, the persons so in possession shall have a right of pre-emption, &c.
Provisoes.
On failure to comply with provisions of this act, lands to be offered for sale.
All agreements or acts having for object to prevent any one from bidding upon or purchasing public lands, prohibited.
Penalty.
All agreements to the effect that one person shall pay to another, a premium of any kind upon the price at which lands of the U. S. may be bid off by the latter, to be null and void.
Any premium paid in consequence of such agreement may be recovered.
Discovery may be enforced by bill in equity.
Proviso: suit to be commenced within six years.
Port of entry changed from Nova Iberia to Franklin.
Collector of Burlington.
Time and place of holding a court in Michigan changed from 2d Monday in May, at Prairie du Chien, to 1st Monday in October, at Mineral Point.
Provision of Act of May 24, 1828, ch. 108, repealed.
Proviso: State of Ohio not to apply the land to, &c.
Penalty.
Proviso.
When line of said canal passes over land sold by the U. States, governor ofOhio may locate other lands.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for holding Indian treaties.
That the following sums be appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the objects herein specified, viz:
Expenses of commissioners.
Reimbursement ofcompensation to commissioners.
Compensation to commissioners.
Compensation to secretary.
Presents.
Services of, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for continuance of certain works.
That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for carrying on and completing certain works heretofore commenced, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, viz:
Huron river.
Grand river.
Cleaveland harbour.
Black river.
For improving the navigation of Conneaut creek, Ohio, six. thousand Conneaut creek.
For completing piers at the mouth of Dunkirk harbour, New York, Dunkirk harbour.
For completing piers at Buffalo harbour, New York, fifteen thousand Buffalo harbour.
For extending the pier at Black Rock, three thousand one hundred Black Rock.
For improving the navigation of Genesee river, New York, thirteen Genesee river.
For removing obstructions at the mouth of Big Sodus bay, New York, Big Sodus bay.
For completing the removal of the sand bar at or near the mouth of Merrimack river.
For the preservation of Plymouth beach, Massachusetts, one thousand Plymouth beach.
For erecting piers or other works at or near Stonington harbour, Connecticut, Stonington harbour.
For deepening an inland passage between St. John’s and St. Mary’s St. John’s, &c.
For improving the navigation of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, fifty Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
For removing obstructions to the navigation of the Kennebec river, at Kennebeck river.
For improving the harbours of New Castle, Marcus Hook, Chester, Harbour of N. Castle, &c.
For improving the Cape Fear river, below Wilmington, North Carolina, Cape Fear river.
For completing the removal of obstructions in the Appalachicola river, Appalachicola river.
For completing the removal of obstructions in the river and harbour St. Mark’s river.
For completing the breakwater at Hyannis harbour, in Massachusetts, Breakwater at Hyannis.
For carrying on the works of the Delaware breakwater, for the year Delaware breakwater.
[Expired.]
Act of May 20, 1826, ch. 138.
Officers and soldiers of the Virginia line, &c., allowed, &c.
No location to be made, &c.
Certain proviso in part repealed.
Secretary of State authorized to employ certain clerks, &c.
All former acts, inconsistent, &c. repealed.
Secretary of Treasury authorized, under certain circumstances, to appropriate more than $10,000,000, annually, to the sinking fund.
Comm’rs sinking fund authorized to apply any surplus of that fund to the extinguishment of the public debt.
Secs. 4 & 5, of act of March 3, 1817, ch. 87, repealed.
$200,000, of sums appropriated for taking census, to be passed to surplus fund.
[Expired.]
Time for commencing, &c. extended to 1st Dec. 1830.
Act of May 23, 1828, ch. 75.
[Obsolete.]
Certain balances of 1829, re-appropriated.
That the following sums, being unexpended balances of former appropriations for sundry objects of the service of the War Department, and in relation to Indian affairs, which remained in the treasury on the last day of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and are now subject to the provisions of the law directing such balances to be carried to the account of the surplus fund, be, and the same are hereby re-appropriated to the several objects, respectively, of their original appropriation.
For the materials for a fort on the right bank of the Mississippi, one Fort on Mississippi.
For the Georgia militia claims for one thousand seven hundred and Georgia militia claims, for 1792, &c. 1827, ch. 29.
For the expenses of the militia of Georgia and Florida, for the suppression Georgia and Florida militia expenses. 1827, ch. 29.
For the remaining purchase money of a house and lot at Eastport, in House, &c. at Eastport.
For the removing obstructions in the Saugatuck river, twenty-eight Saugatuck river.
For the building of piers at the entrance of La Plaisance bay, eighty-nine La Plaisance bay.
For the road from fort Towson to fort Smith, three hundred and Road from fort Towson.
Road from Pensacola, &c.
Road in Florida.
The Choctaw treaty, Oct. 11, 1820. 1821, ch. 35. 1824, ch. 155. 1827, ch. 29.
Cherokee treaty.
Choctaw and Chickasaw treaty.
Purchase land in Georgia. 1823, ch. 27.
Gratuity to disbanded officers.
Custom and warehouse, Mobile. 1828, ch. 89.
[Obsolete.]
Certain purchasers of land in Louisiana authorized to enter them.
Proviso: This privilege restricted to lands which have not been paid for and entered by any other persons, &c.
Marshal created for North Alabama.
Salary, fees.
Sessions of district court to begin 4th Monday in Jan. and 4th Monday in June.
Vol. iii. 611.
Process returnable, &c.
Causes continued, &c.
Circuit court in Ohio to be held 2d Monday in July and 3d Monday in Dec.
District court to be held, &c.
Vol. ii. 568.
Process, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 173, continued.
Court in Arkansas authorized to revise certain decrees, &c. and to reverse them.
Mode of proceeding.
No entries of land to be made until, &c.
Requisites to the issuing of patents under decrees of said court: 1st. Original warrant, &c. to be produced, &c.
2d. Genuineness of this warrant, &c. to be established to satisfaction of commissioner of general land office, or of said court upon review.
Entries, patents, &c. not to be made, except, &c.
In case of reversal, &c. lands to be subject to sale, &c.
President of U. S. authorized to employ additional counsel.
Appeal to the Supreme Court United States.
Grounds of appeal.
Extra compensation to judges, $800 dollars per annum.
Appropriation.
[Obsolete.]
Certain vacancies to be filled by governor till next general election.
Act of Jan. 21, 1829, ch. 13.
Others till meeting of legislature.
President of United States authorized to reconvey North Battery to the city of New York, &c.
Draw to be made, &c.
$6000 appropriated.
Lamps to be kept, &c.
Width may be reduced to 24 feet, &c.
Form of warps.
Sec. of War to be the inspector of this work.
Appropriation made conditionally.
Passage over bridge not to be interrupted for more than sixty days.
Penalty.
Consequences of refusal of Corporation to, &c.
Another draw to be made.
$2,000 appropriated, under same stipulations, &c.
This act not to be considered as construing, &c.
Times for sessions to commence.
Vol. iii. 654.
Certain enactments of the legislative council annulled.
Port of Delivery established.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for treaty with Chippewas, &c.
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, to carry into effect a treaty with the Chippewa, Menomonie, and Winnebago Indians, ratified the twenty-third February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, viz:
For the expense of distributing goods among the Indians at said treaty, Distributing goods.
For purposes of education, as provided by the fifth article, for three Education.
For compensation of commissioners, and other expenses attending the Boundary commissioners, &c.
Duty on coffee.
Cocoa.
Teas imported from China, &c.
Teas imported from any other place, or in foreign bottoms, &c.
These duties applied to tea, &c., remaining in custom-house stores, &c.
Proviso.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 181.
Mode of drawing and empanneling juries to conform to that of the state courts.
Duties of marshal and judge, &c., to conform to those of the state sheriff and judges.
Appropriation of $62,515 25, to pay Virginia military claimants.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 188.
Proviso: Titles to be relinquished.
Payment to be made according to valuation.
Where the Supreme Court has affirmed the title to lands in Florida, and referred in its decree to a particular survey, it would not be proper in the court below to open the case for a rehearing, for the purpose of adopting another survey. Chaires v. The United States, 3 Howard, 611.
The court below can only execute the mandate of the Supreme Court; it has no authority to disturb the decree, and can only settle what remains to be done. Ib.
The act of 26th May, 1830, ch. 106, providing for the final settlement of land claims in Florida, must be construed to contain the same limitation of time, within which claims were to be presented as that provided by the act of May 23, 1828, ch. 70. United States v. Marvin, 3 Howard, 620.
The limitation was one year. The courts of Florida, therefore, had no right to receive a petition for the confirmation of an incomplete concession, after the 26th May, 1831. Ib.
Under the Florida treaty, the United States did not succeed to those rights which the king of Spain had held by virtue of his royal prerogative, but possessed the territory, subject to the institutions and laws of its own government. Pollard’s Lessee v. Hagan, 3 Howard, 212.
Certain claims confirmed, except, &c.
Report to be laid before Congress.
Conflicting Spanish claims confirmed as to United States.
Act of May 8, 1822, ch. 122, sec. 4.
Certain other claims confirmed.
Remaining claims to be settled.
Act of May 23, 1828, ch.70.
Disposition of papers relative to claims.
Operation of confirmation.
Act of May 23, 1828, ch. 70, explained.
Time for relinquishment extended.
Title-deeds.
Distribution of diplomatic correspondence.
Resolution of March 27, 1818.
That the copies of the diplomatic correspondence of the American revolution, published in pursuance of a resolution of Congress of twenty-seventh March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, which have been or may hereafter be received at the Department of State, be distributed and disposed of in manner following, to wit:
To the President and Vice President of the United States, one copy each; to the heads of department, five copies each; to the Postmaster General, the commissioner of the general land office, and the superintendent of the patent office, one copy each; to each member and delegate of the present Congress, one copy; to the library of the Senate, five copies; to the library of the House of Representatives, ten copies; to the attorney general, the judges of the Supreme Court, and of the other courts of the United States, each one copy; to each governor of a state or territory, for the public library of the state or territory, one copy; to the military academy at West Point, and to each incorporated university, college, historical or antiquarian society and athenaeum, one copy; to the Secretary of State, one copy for each American legation in foreign countries; to the Secretary of the Navy, five copies for the naval commanders on different stations; and to each person who has been President of the United States, one copy.
Distribution of the journals of the House.
To the President and Vice President of the United States, one copy each; to the heads of department, five copies each; to each member and delegate of the present Congress, one copy; to the library of the Senate, five copies; to the library of the House of Representatives, ten copies; to the Attorney and Postmaster General, one copy each; to each governor of a state or territory, for the public library of the state or territory, one copy; to the military academy at West Point, and to each incorporated university, college, historical, or antiquarian society, and athenaeum, one copy; and to each person who has been President of the United States, one copy; and that the residue remain in the custody of the clerk of the House of Representatives, till otherwise ordered by the House.
To be made by clerk of House of Representatives.
Further distribution of diplomatic corre. spomlence.
Certain claims confirmed.
Act of May 24, 1828, ch. 93.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Lands inhabited before April 15, 1813.
Proviso.
Pre-emption granted to certain persons.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Act of April 22, 1826, ch. 28.
Powers, &c. of register and receiver.
Act of May 8, 1822, ch. 128.
Act of 1799, ch. 22.
Additional appraiser to be appointed.
Eight assistant appraisers.
Oath and duties of assistants.
Of principals.
Collector to order re-appraisement.
Rules as to average value.
Appeal.
Number of packages to be examined.
Consequences of discrepancy.
1799, ch. 22.
1823, ch. 21.
Goods, when to be delivered.
Proviso.
Goods for reexportation.
Compensation of assistant appraiser, &c.
Forfeitures.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Proviso.
Additional bond.
Iron—duty.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Districts to be laid off.
President to exchange, &c.
Title secured to Indians.
Proviso.
Improvements to be appraised, and paid for.
Aid in moving, &c.
Protection.
500,000 dollars appropriated.
Certain claims to be examined.
March 3, 1819, ch. 92.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 35.
Examination of land-office books discontinued.
Report to be made.
Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 43.
Proviso of act of May 26, 1824, ch. 161, repealed.
Solicitor of treasury.
Powers and duties.
Charge of lands, &c.
Release of lands, &c.
Papers of treasury agent to be transferred.
Direct taxes, &c.
Returns and reports.
Statements by collectors of bonds delivered for suit.
Statements by district attorneys, of suits pending and decided.
Comparison of statements, and of reports thereon.
Collector to send accounts of bonds in suit.
Statements of suits for fines, seizure, &c.
Instructions of attorneys, marshals, and clerks.
Report of moneys recovered.
Rules for the government of collectors, &c.
Accounts of suits.
Abstract of the same.
Clerk to be transferred.
Attorney general to advise, &c.
Additional salary, 500 dolls.
Salary of solicitor, $3500.
Clerk, $1150.
Messenger, 500 dollars.
Postage free.
3500 dollars appropriated.
Certain lands vested, &c.
Act of Feb. 27, 1841, ch. 12.
Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 56.
Judge’s salary, 800 dollars.
1,000 dollars. appropriated.
A misdemeanor to interrupt surveys, &c.
Punishment.
Force to be repelled.
Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 20.
Courts martial in certain cases to be appointed by President of United States.
Repeal of part of the 65th article of the first section of the act of April 10, 1806, ch. 20.
In certain case, other lands than the 16th sections may be selected.
Allowance of four dollars per mile for certain surveys.
Desertion in time of peace not to be punished with death.
Duty on molasses five cents.
Drawback on distilled spirits four cents.
Duty on salt reduced.
President of United States, on the adoption of certain measures by the British Government, authorized to open ports of United States on reciprocal terms.
Act of April 18, 1818, ch. 70.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 122.
Act of March 1, 1823, ch. 22.
Purchasers under John Cleves Symmes. Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 34. Act of March 3, 1801, ch. 23. Act of May 1, 1802, ch. 44. Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 21, sec. 4, 5.
Pre-emption of lands granted to persons erecting grist or saw-mills. Act of May 10, 1800, ch. 55, sec. 16.
Mississippi. Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 27, sec. 3. Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 39, sec. 2, 7. Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 36, sec. 8. Act of April 22, 1826, ch. 28, sec. 5. Act of May 28, 1830, ch. 146, sec. 3.
Tennessee. Act of April 18, 1806, ch. 31.
Ohio. Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 39. Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 135.
Michigan. Act of April 25, 1808, ch. 67, sec. 3.
Louisiana. Act of February 15, 1811, ch. 14, sec. 5. Act of April 29, 1816, ch. 162. Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 86, sec. 4. Act of June 15, 1832, ch. 140. Act of June 28, 1834, ch. 125. Act of February 24, 1835, ch. 24.
Illinois. Act of February 5, 1813, ch. 20. Act of April 26, 1816, ch. 101, sec. 6. Act of April 16, 1814, ch. 61, sec. 4. Act of February 27, 1815, ch. 63, sec. 3, 4.
Missouri. Act of April 12, 1814, ch. 52, sec. 5. Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 86, sec. 2, 3. Act of April 29, 1816, ch. 162. Act of July 9, 1832, ch. 180, sec. 3.
Arkansas. Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 154.
Further time given for filing of claims to pre-emption rights. Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 246.
Alabama. Act of April 22, 3 826, ch. 28.
Florida. Act of April 22, 1826, ch. 28.
Settlers on public land. Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208. Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 246. Act of March 2; 1833, ch. 92. June 22, 1838, ch. 119.
Settlers in the Salt Lick reservation in Tennessee. Act of March 3, 1839, ch. 178.
Supplement to the act of June 22, 1838, ch. 119, to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on public lands. June 1, 1840, ch. 32.
An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights. September 4, 1841, ch. 16.
An act to perfect the titles to lands south of the Arkansas river, held under New Madrid locations, and pre-emption rights, under the act of one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. March 1, 1843, ch. 50.
An act to authorize the investigation of alleged frauds under the pre-emption laws, and for other purposes. March 3, 1843, ch. 86.
An act granting a section of land for the improvement of Grant river, at the town of Potosi, in Wisconsin territory. June 15, 1844, ch. 50.
An act to confirm certain entries of land in the St. Augustine land district, in the territory of Florida, made under the pre-emption law of 22d June, 1838. June 15, 1844, ch. 74.
An act for the relief of the citizens of towns upon the lands of the United States, under certain circumstances. May 23, 1844, ch. 17.
Act of June 22, 1838, ch. 119.
Certain settlers may enter quarter section.
Proviso.
Where two or more settlers.
Proof of settlement.
Act of April 18, 1818, ch. 69, revived.
Monthly sessions of district court.
Vol. iii. 120, 774.
Two additional sessions of circuit court.
Special sessions.
Salaries.
District judges of New York.
District judge of Connecticut.
Massachusetts.
South Carolina.
Georgia.
Alabama.
Eastern district of Penn.
North Carolina.
Maine.
Rhode Island.
Delaware.
Maryland.
New Jersey.
Vermont.
Western district of Penn.
Certain troops of Virginia authorized to draw scrip, &c.
Statement to be obtained from executive of Virginia.
Certificate of non-location.
Scrip receivable, &c.
Proviso.
Persons contemplated by this act.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Owners of United States military warrants.
Virginia troops on continental establishment.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit:
Barracks.
Barracks.
Barracks.
Barracks.
Barracks.
Storehouse.
Barracks.
Road.
Road.
Barracks.
National armory.
Arsenal.
Arsenal, &c.
For the purchase of five acres of land adjoining the arsenal at Watertown, Arsenal, &c.
For the erection of a military laboratory and workshop at West Point, West Point.
For the purchase of a lithographic press, of paper and ink, and for the Lithography.
For barracks at Fort Gratiot, five thousand dollars. Barracks.
For the security of the Pea Patch island; for the construction of a Fort Delaware.
[Obsolete.]
Act of May 24, 1828, ch. 98.
Tonnage duties abolished as to American vessels:
And as to foreign vessels on certain conditions.
Sales, &c.
Appropriation, 50,000 dollars.
Act of May 15, 1828, ch. 53.
Invalid pensioners not to be subject to certain deductions.
Mode of advertising property for taxes.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 195, sec. 7.
Election of Mayor.
Mayor pro tem.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, viz:
For defraying the expenses incidental to making examinations and surveys Examinations and surveys. April 30, 1824, ch. 46.
For continuing the road from Detroit to fort Gratiot, seven thousand For road from Detroit.
For continuing the road from Detroit to Saginaw bay, seven thousand For road from Detroit.
For continuing the road from Detroit to Chicago, eight thousand For road to Chicago.
For completing repairs on the road between Alachua courthouse, and For road in Florida.
For completing the road from Alagua to Mariana, two thousand For road in Florida.
For completing the survey and estimate of a canal to connect the Canal between the waters of the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
Cumberland road, westward of Zanesville.
Cumberland road.
Cumberland road.
Appropriation.
I approve this bill, and ask a reference to my communication to Congress of this date, in relation thereto.
Marine corps. Appropriations.
Resolution of May 29, 1830.
Claims to be settled.
Proviso.
Appropriation.
Certain claims to be settled, &c.
Act of March 30, 1802, ch. 13.
Proviso.
Clerk of House of Representatives to purchase 50 copies 6th vol. Laws of United States.
Papers relating to 5th census.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 64.
Returns to be transmitted to Department of State.
Act of March 1, 1790, ch. 2.
Act of Feb. 28, 1800, ch. 12.
Act of March 26, 1810, ch.17.
Act of March 14, 1820, ch. 24.
Proceedings to be suspended, &c.
Compensation of the officers of marine corps.
Returns of applicants, for pensions to be made to Congress, &c.
ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS
UNITED STATES,
District judge of Tennessee to hold term of circuit court at Nashville, first Monday in March.
Powers.
Proviso: No final judgment except by consent.
[Obsolete.]
Act of Dec. 12, 1820, ch. 2.
State of Illi-
nois exonerated from obligation to render an annual account of the application of the three per cent.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty:
Chippewa school.
Pattawatamie annuity and education.
Blacksmith, &c.
Pattawatamie annuities.
Tobacco, &c.
Miamie annuity.
Iron, &c.
Support of poor.
[Obsolete.]
Act of May 3, 1822, c. 46.
States of Missouri, Mississippi and Alabama exonerated from obligation to render annual account of, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Arrearages.
Transfers of balances.
Other transfers.
Proviso.
To Mark and R. H. Bean.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, Appropriations.
For payment of revolutionary pensioners, for the year one thousand Revolutionary pensions.
For paying the invalid pensioners, in the year one thousand eight Invalid pensions.
Widows and orphans.
District court of Maine, vol. ii. pp. 667, 829; vol. iii, p. 413. Act of February 15, 1843, ch. 32.
District court of Illinois, vol. iii, p. 237. Act of April 22, 1824, ch, 38. Act of February 19, 1831, ch. 28. Act of July 9, 1832, ch. 182. Act of March 10, 1838, ch. 33.
District court of Alabama, vol. iii, p. 662. Act of April 17, 1822, ch. 23. Act of March 10, 1824, ch. 28. Act of May 22, 1826, ch. 149. Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 41. Act of March 31, 1832, ch. 58. An act to re-organize the district courts of the United States in Alabama, February 6, 1839, ch. 20. Act of August 4, 1842, ch. 123.
District court of Alabama.
District court of Maine.
District court of Illinois.
[Expired.]
Certain provisions continued in force for two years from May 24, 1831.
Act of May 24, 1828, ch. 108.
Act of Jan. 6, 1829, ch. 2.
Act of Jan. 13, 1830, ch. 3.
Proviso.
See notes of decisions of the Supreme Court on land titles in Missouri, vol. ii, pp. 748, 812.
Notes of acts passed relative to lands in Missouri, vol. ii, p. 812.
Act of June 13, 1812, ch. 99.
The United States to relinquish certain rights.
United States to relinquish all right, &c. in Missouri.
[Obsolete.]
Witnesses, four dollars per diem, and twenty cents per mile.
Secretary of the Senate to certify.
Marshal of the District of Columbia, five dollars per diem.
Marshal of Missouri, fifty dollars.
Marshal of Arkansas, five dollars.
13,500 dollars appropriated.
87,360 dollars appropriated.
See notes of the acts which have been passed relating to copyrights, vol. ii, p. 171.
Notes of the decisions of the courts of the United States on the law of copyrights, vol. i, p. 124.
Authors of books, &c. and their executors, &c. to have sole right for twenty-eight years.
Renewal of privilege for fourteen years.
Conditions.
Publication of renewal.
Copy of title to be deposited.
To be recorded.
Form of record.
Fee.
Copy of work to be deposited.
List of works and copies to be transmitted to the Secretary of State.
Notice of copyright to be printed, &c.
Infringement of copyright to books.
Penalty.
Infringement of copyright to prints, maps, &c.
Penalty.
Privilege restricted to citizens or residents.
Publication of manuscripts without consent, &c.
Remedy.
Injunction to prevent.
General issue, &c.
False entry of Penalty.
Penalty.
Costs.
Limitation of action.
Repeal of act of May 31, 1790, ch. 15.
Act of April 29, 1802, ch. 36.
Provisions of this act for security of copyrights, &c. to extend to existing copyrights.
Extension of existing copyrights.
Proviso.
An act for the apportionment of representatives among the several states, according to the fifth census, May 23, 1832, ch. 91.
Resolution for the distribution of the returns of the fifth census, July 3, 1832.
Act of March 23, 1830, ch. 40.
Time extended for assistant marshal’s returns, &c.
Marshals returns.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Certain copies to be retained by clerks of courts.
Errors to be noted and printed.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 188.
Act of May 26, 1830, ch. 105.
President of United States to pay the claim of Philip Doddridge.
Act of June 1, 1796, ch. 45.
Act of May 23, 1828, ch. 75.
State of Alabama authorized to contract, &c.
United States engineers to furnish plan.
Plan prescribed
The benefit of drawback extended to merchandise which has passed into two districts besides the first.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Secretary of War authorized to pay 6,000 dollars annually, &c.
Land district established in Michigan.
President to locate the office.
Monroe land office removed.
Detroit district extended.
Lands to be entered and sold at their appropriate offices.
Land district established in Illinois.
Offices.
Another district established.
Offices.
Residence, security, &c. of registers and receivers.
Sale of lands.
Fort Wayne district, in Indiana, extended.
Jurisdiction of district courts in New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, extended.
Persons entitled to lands under, &c.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 61.
Who appear, &c. to have emption right.
Other persons to have same right.
Widows and children.
[Obsolete.]
Additional appropriation of 36,360 dollars.
Proviso.
Inspectors to certify, &c.
Warden.
Sub-officers.
Inspectors.
Salary of warden.
Sub-agent to be allowed to the Winnebago Indians.
Act of March 31, 1830, ch. 48.
Certain purchasers entitled, in certain cases, to patents.
In other cases to pre-emption.
Certain occupants to have pre-emption until July 4, 1831.
Prices.
Proof of possession.
Proviso.
Town property.
Commissioners to meet, &c.
Claims to be decided on within two years.
Documents.
Day of first meeting.
Notice thereof.
Claims to be examined, &c.
Time for producing evidence.
Powers to make rules.
Secretary.
Oath.
Compensation.
Contingent expenses.
Money received from the Danish government.
Postage.
Offences.
Punishment.
Manslaughter, &c.
Arson.
Assault and battery to commit rape.
Burglary.
Horse theft, mayhem, bigamy.
Perjury, subornation of perjury.
Theft.
Receiving stolen goods.
Forgery.
Obtaining by false pretences.
Keeping gaming table.
Larceny.
Capital crimes not specially provided for.
Other offences.
Former provisions, &c. to remain in force.
Abduction of free negroes, &c.
This law not applicable to slaves.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for certain fortifications, viz:
George’s Island.
Fort Adams.
Ft. Hamilton.
Ft. Columbus.
Fort Monroe.
Fort Calhoun.
Fort Macon.
Oak Island.
For fortifications at Charleston, South Carolina, forty-five thousand Charleston.
For fortifications at Pensacola, Florida, one hundred thousand dollars. Pensacola.
For a fort at Mobile point, ninety thousand dollars. Mobile point.
For repairs of the battery at Bienvenu, Louisiana, three thousand four Bienvenu.
For repairs of fort Wood, Louisiana, three thousand six hundred Fort Wood.
For contingencies of fortifications, ten thousand dollars. Contingencies.
The Secretary of the Treasury authorized to refund certain duties.
Act of May 28, 1830, ch. 147, sec. 3.
Proviso.
Proviso.
State of Illinois authorized to sell certain lands.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Certain purchasers entitled to re-enter certain lots.
Conditions.
Grant to trustees, of all vacant grounds, &c.
Purchase of land authorized.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Release of judgment.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, viz:
Congress.
Clerks and officers of Congress.
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent Fuel, &c.
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent Stationery and printing.
For salary of the principal and assistant librarians, two thousand three Librarians.
For contingent expenses of the library, and pay of messenger, eight Library.
For the purchase of books for the library of Congress, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United President and Vice President, and heads of departments.
For clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of State, nineteen State Department.
For clerks, machinist, and messenger, in the patent office, five thousand Patent office.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of Contingent expenses.
For compiling, printing, and binding the biennial register, to the Biennial register.
For storage of laws and documents, three hundred and forty dollars. Storage.
For contingent expenses of the patent office, to wit: books, parchment, Expenses of patent office.
For repairs and improvements of grounds and buildings of the patent Improvement of grounds.
For the compensation of the superintendent and watchmen of the N. E. executive building.
For satisfying the claim of John Marshall, late superintendent of the John Marshall.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, N. E. executive building.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Treasury Department.
For compensation to the first comptroller of the treasury, three thousand First comptroller.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Clerks, &c.
For compensation to the second comptroller of the treasury, three Second comptroller.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Clerks, &c. second comptroller, ten thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the first auditor of the treasury, three thousand First auditor.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Clerks, &c.
For compensation to the second auditor of the treasury, three thousand Second auditor.
Clerks, &c.
Third auditor.
Clerks, &c.
Fourth auditor.
Clerks, &c.
Fifth auditor.
Clerks, &c.
Treasurer.
Clerks, &c.
Register.
Clerks, &c.
Commissioner of general land office.
Clerks, &c.
M. Bailey.
Solicitor of the treasury.
Clerks, &c.
Secretary to sinking fund.
Contingent expenses, &c.
Office of Treasury.
1st compter.
2d compter.
1st auditor.
2d auditor.
3d auditor.
4th auditor.
5th auditor.
Treasurer.
Register.
Commissioner of general land office.
Military land scrip.
For the office of the solicitor of the treasury, including purchase of Solicitor of the treasury.
For translations, and for transmitting passports and sea letters, three Translating.
For stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand Printing public accounts.
For compensation of superintendent and watchmen of the south-east S.E. executive building.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, repairs of building, engines and buckets, and improvement of adjoining ground, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the War Department.
For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, three thousand dollars.
For books, maps, and plans for the War Department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Paymaster general.
For contingent expenses of said office, two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Commissary general’s office.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the adjutant general, Adjutant general’s office.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general Commissary general’s office.
For contingent expenses of said office, including expenses of advertising, two thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the chief engineer, two Chief engineer.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand two hundred and seventy dollars.
For drawing instruments, repairing instruments, purchase and repair of books and maps, one thousand one hundred and ninety dollars.
For the service of a lithographer, and for materials and repairs for the lithographic press, six hundred and thirty-six dollars.
For arrears of the same, one hundred and twenty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the ordnance office, two thousand Ordnance office.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the surgeon general, Surgeon general’s office.
For contingent expenses of said office, two hundred and twenty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the quartermaster general, Quartermaster general’s office.
For contingent expenses of said office, six hundred dollars.
For the salary of the superintendent and watchmen of the north-west N. W. executive building.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, repairs of building, and engines, and improvement of adjoining ground, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Navy Department.
For contingent expenses of said office, three thousand dollars.
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 board, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks, draughtsman, and messenger, in the office of the commissioners of the navy board, eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of the office of the commissioners of the navy board, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
S. W. executive building.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, repairs of building, engines, and improvement of ground, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Post-office Department.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the postmaster general, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For superintendency of the buildings, making up blanks, and compensation to two watchmen and one labourer, sixteen hundred and forty dollars.
For compensation to the extra clerks employed in the Post-office Department, by the late postmaster general, from the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to the first of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, four thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars, twenty-seven cents.
For compensation to the temporary and extra clerks employed in the Post-office Department, since the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, to the thirty-first December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, fifteen thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine dollars, eight cents.
For completing the new post-office building, four hundred and eighty-four dollars, three cents.
Surveyors.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, 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, including two hundred dollars of arrears, one thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Elinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to clerks in the office of said surveyor, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Florida, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand dollars.
Commissioner of public buildings.
Mint.
For compensation to assistants in the several departments of the mint,
For incidental and contingent expenses and repairs, cost of machinery, for allowance for wastage in gold and silver coinage, of the mint, thirteen thousand five hundred and ninety dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan Territories.
For contingent expenses of the Michigan territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council, pay of the officers of the council, fuel, stationery, and printing, and repairs of the legislative hall, including arrearages, eight thousand two hundred and ninety dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Arkansas territory, including additional compensation to each judge, to thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, nine thousand four hundred dollars.
For pay and mileage of the legislative council of said territory, five thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Arkansas territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For incidental expenses of the legislature of Arkansas, by act of 1828, ch. 100.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Florida territory, including additional compensation for the judges for extra duty under the act of twenty-third May, one thousand eight hundred and 1828, ch. 70.
For contingent expenses of the Florida territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council of Florida, pay of officers and servants of the council, fuel, stationery, printing, and distribution of the laws, including two hundred and forty-eight dollars for arrears, seven thousand six hundred and forty dollars.
For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district Judiciary. 1830, ch. 213.
For the salaries of chief justice and associate judges of the District of Columbia, and of the judges of the orphans’ courts of the said district, nine thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to William Cranch, chief justice of the circuit William Cranch, for code of jurisprudence. 1816, ch. 143.
For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, four Attorney general.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the attorney general, eight hundred dollars.
For contingencies to the office of the attorney general, five hundred dollars.
For a messenger in said office, five hundred dollars.
For purchase of books for office of attorney general, five hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses already incurred in fitting up the office of the attorney genera), seven hundred and thirty-three dollars.
Reporter Supreme Court.
District attorneys and marshals.
Expenses of United States courts, &c.
Pensions.
Lighthouses, &c.
Lighthouses.
Registers and receivers.
Keepers of archives.
Commissioners of loans.
Assistant counsel, &c. for Florida land claims. 1828, ch. 70.
Luigi Persico.
Executive buildings.
Surveying of public lands.
Diplomatic expenses.
For the salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places, twelve thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the chargé des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru, Mexico, and Guatemala, forty thousand five hundred dollars.
For outfit of the present minister to Russia, nine thousand dollars.
For outfits of the charge des affaires at Peru, Chili, Brazil, and Guatemala, eighteen thousand dollars.
For the outfit and salary of a chargé d’affaires, for the salary of a drogoman at Constantinople; and for the contingent expenses of the legation, thirty-six thousand five hundred dollars, to wit: For the outfit of a chargé d’affaires, four thousand five hundred dollars; for salary of
For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, in addition to the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars hereinafter appropriated, the sura of fifteen thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, twenty thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the agents for claims at London and Paris, four thousand dollars.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, thirty thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of American seamen, in foreign countries, twenty thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For carrying into effect the act of May twenty-ninth, one thousand 1830, ch. 154.
For the payment of claims for property lost, captured or destroyed by Property lost, &c. 1825, ch. 66.
For the compensation due to James Parker for investigating the James Parker.
For the designating and marking the boundary line between the state Boundary of Louisiana and Arkansas.
For preparing a revision of the former estimates of the population of Revision of estimates.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums of money be and the same are hereby, appropriated, for carrying on and completing certain works heretofore commenced, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, viz:
For removing obstructions at the mouth of Huron river, Ohio, three Huron river.
For removing sand bar at or near the mouth of Black river, Ohio, nine Black river.
For completing the improvement of Cleaveland harbour, Ohio, three Cleaveland harbour.
For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Grand Grand river.
For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Ashtabula Ashtabula creek.
For improving the navigation of Conneaut creek, Ohio, six thousand Conneaut creek.
For completing the improvement of the harbour of Presque isle, Pennsylvania, Presque isle.
For improving the navigation of Genesee river, New York, sixteen Genesee river
Sodus bay.
Oswego.
Contractors.
For balance due contractors for said piers, eighty-four dollars and ninety-two cents.
Oswego.
Buffalo.
Dunkirk.
Provincetown.
Merrimack breakwater.
Kennebunk.
Deer island.
Plymouth beach.
Hyannis breakwater.
Nantucket.
New Castle.
Cape Fear river.
Ocracock.
St. Mark’s.
Appalachicola.
Red river.
Black Rock.
Dunkirk.
Delaware breakwater.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:
Officers, &c.
For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishment Superintendents.
For provisions, one hundred seventy-three thousand four hundred and Provisions.
For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the wear and tear of vessels in Repairs, &c.
For medicines, surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses Medicines, &c.
For repairs and improvements of navy yards, two hundred and forty-four Navy yards.
For the erection of a wharf at the navy yard at Pensacola, twenty-eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For defraying expenses that may accrue during the year one thousand Miscellaneous.
For freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; for wharfage and dockage, storage and rent, travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen, house rent, chamber money, and fuel and candles to officers, other than those attached to navy yards and stations, and for officers in sick quarters, where there is no hospital, and for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire, and office rent, stationery and fuel to navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for compensation to judge advocates; for per diem allowances for persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry, and for officers engaged in extra service beyond the limits of their stations; for printing and stationery of every description, and for books, maps, charts, and mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models and drawings; for purchase and repair of steam and fire engines, and for machinery; for purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, timber wheels, and workmen’s tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage; for cabin furniture of vessels in commission; and for furniture of officers’ houses at navy yards; for taxes on navy yards and public property; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labour at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel for forges, foundries, and steam engines; for candles, oil, and fuel for vessels in commission and in ordinary; for repairs of magazines and powder houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built; and for no other object or purpose whatever, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses for objects arising during the year one thousand Contingencies.
For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, and Marine corps.
For subsistence for four hundred and sixty-one non-commissioned Subsistence.
For clothing, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five Clothing.
For fuel, nine thousand and ninety-eight dollars. Fuel.
For contingent expenses, fourteen thousand dollars. Contingencies.
For military stores, two thousand dollars. Stores.
For medicines, two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars. Medicines.
Suppress slave trade.
Balances.
Support of Africans.
Captain William B. Finch.
Benjamin Pendleton.
Monument at navy yard.
Marine barracks.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to die several objects respectively herein named, to be applied during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the same to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, viz:
Detroit, &c.
For continuing the road from Detroit to fort Gratiot, Michigan, eight thousand dollars.
For continuing the road from Detroit to Saganaw bay, eight thousand dollars.
T. S. Knapp.
Surveys, &c. 1824, ch. 46.
Navigation of Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
That the sum of one hundred and fitly thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the improvement of the navigation of the Sum expended under direction of the President of United States.
To open a road from Washington, in Arkansas territory, to Jackson, Road in Arkansas.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one:
For the annual support of a school for the education of Indian youth, School.
For the payment of the annuity of two thousand dollars, and also the Annuity of Pattawatamies.
For the annual support of a blacksmith and miller, and for furnishing, A blacksmith, &c.
For the payment of the permanent and limited annuities provided for Annuity.
For tobacco, iron, steel, education, annuity to the principal chief, and Tobacco, &c.
For payment of permanent annuity tinder the fourth article of the Annuity.
For iron, steel, tobacco and labourers, by same article, one thousand Iron, &c.
For support of the poor and infirm, and for education, under the Poor, &c.
For payment of the expenses incurred in the erection of buildings Dwight mission, &c. Cherokee improvements. March 2, 1829, ch. 50. Rifles.
[Obsolete.]
Prairie du Chien treaty.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to pay the expenses incurred in negotiating and for carrying into effect the treaty of peace and friendship, and the treaty of cession, entered into at Prairie du Chien on the fifteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty, with the Mississippi and Missouri bands of Sioux, the Sacs and Foxes, Winnebagoes and Menomonies, Ottoes, Omahas, Missouries, and Ioways tribes of Indians, viz:
Presents, &c.
Annuities.
Blacksmiths, &c.
Agricultural implements.
Transportation.
Education.
Running lines.
Treaty with the Delawares.
For furnishing forty horses for the Delawares, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of six wagons and ox teams to assist them in removing, one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
For expense of farming utensils, and tools for building houses, four thousand dollars.
For provisions on their journey, and one year after their removal to their new country, forty-five thousand dollars.
For building a grist and saw mill, three thousand dollars.
For the payment of the permanent annuity to the Delawares, one thousand dollars.
For expenses of surveying the lines of the land assigned to the Delawares by said article, four thousand one hundred and nine dollars and eighty-one cents.
Choctaw treaty.
For salaries to chiefs and others, and suits of clothes and broadswords for ninety-nine captains, as stipulated by fifteenth article, nine thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars.
For expenses of fulfilling the sixteenth article in relation to cattle, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For education, as stipulated by the twentieth article, ten thousand dollars.
For building council houses, houses for chiefs, and churches, as stipulated by the same article, ten thousand dollars.
For expenses of teachers, blacksmiths and shops, and a mill-wright, by the same article, five thousand five hundred dollars.
For blankets, rifles, ammunition, axes, hoes, ploughs, spinning wheels, cards, looms, iron and steel, twenty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars.
For transportation and contingencies, five thousand dollars: which said appropriation, to carry into effect the said treaty with the Choctaw tribe of Indians, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for the service of the military establishment for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, viz:
For pay of the army and subsistence of the officers, one million one Pay, &c.
For forage for officers, forty-eight thousand six hundred and nineteen Forage.
For clothing for the servants of officers, twenty-two thousand two hundred Clothing.
For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, in addition to an unex- Subsistence.
Clothing, &c.
Medical department.
Quartermaster’s department. 1819, ch. 45.
Transportation.
For transportation of clothing, subsistence, ordnance, and of lead from the mines, and for transportation of the army, and funds for pay of the army, including the several contingencies and items of expenditure at the several stations and garrisons, usually estimated under the head of transportation of the army, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Barracks. 1830, ch. 217.
Arkansas volunteers.
Missouri militia. Proviso. Constitution of United States, sec. 10, art. 1.
West Point.
For fuel, forage, stationery, printing, transportation, and postage for the military academy, eight thousand four hundred dollars.
For repairs and improvements of buildings and grounds at West Point, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For pay of adjutant’s clerk and quartermaster’s clerk, nine hundred dollars.
For increase and expenses of the library, fourteen hundred dollars.
For philosophical apparatus, two thousand dollars.
For models for fortifications, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For models for drawing, for repairing instruments, for chemical and mineralogical apparatus, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For miscellaneous items and incidental expenses of the academy, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For fuel for the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, two thousand three hundred dollars.
For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars. Contingencies.
For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Armories.
For the armament of the fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars. Fortifications.
For the current expenses of the ordnance service, sixty-eight thousand dollars. Ordnance service.
For arsenals, ninety-four thousand four hundred dollars. Arsenals.
For the recruiting service, thirty-five thousand six hundred and ninety-six Recruiting service.
For contingent expenses of the recruiting service, fifteen thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of five thousand dollars.
To Thomas Fitzgerald, an invalid pensioner, two hundred and eighty-four Thomas Fitzgerald.
For arrearages prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred Arrearages.
To enable the Secretary of War to pay for medals to be distributed Medals.
For completing the Mars hill road in Maine, and making bridges on Road in Maine.
For the further extension, and the completion of the walls and embankments Harper’s Ferry.
An act in addition to an act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States,” July 14, 1832, ch. 230.
An act to revive and amend “An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States,” passed on the 2d day of March, 1831, and an act in addition thereto, passed on the 14th of July, 1832, June 7, 1834, ch. 45.
An act to extend for a longer period the several acts now in force for the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States, March 2, 1837, ch. 23.
An act to extend for a longer period the several acts now in force for the relief of insolvent debtors of the United States, May 27, 1840, ch. 26.
An act to re-enact and continue in operation the several acts now in force for the relief of insolvent debtors of the United States, January 28, 1843, ch. 20.
[Expired.]
Certain insolvents to apply for discharge.
Nature of application.
Proceedings thereon.
Commissioners to be appointed.
Duties.
Proceedings on report of commissioners.
Proviso.
False oath made perjury.
Compensation of commissioners.
Compensation of district attorneys.
Annual report of Secretary of Treasury.
5,000 dollars appropriated.
be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act.Act limited.
Cumberland road.
Repairs.
Arrearages.
Sum to be replaced, &c.
To be disbursed by, &c.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for the Indian department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, viz:
Superintendent of Indian affairs.
For pay of sub-agents, as authorized by law, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of one thousand 1302, ch. 13.
Interpreters, &c.
Gun-smiths, &c.
Iron, &c.
Transportation, &c.
Provisions.
Contingencies.
Boundary lines.
For surveying and dividing the reservation granted to the half-breed Sacs and Foxes by the treaty of fourth August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, two thousand dollars.
Depredations.
Emigration, &c. Act of May 9, 1828, ch. 47.
For provisions and other assistance to Indians removing to the west from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, required in one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, five thousand dollars.
For building houses for Indian agents, sub-agents, blacksmith’s shops Houses, &c.
And be it further enacted, That the following sums, carried to the surplus fund, at the commencement of the present year, be, and the same are hereby appropriated, viz;
For additional expense at the Red river agency, per act of ninth May, Red river agency. 1828, ch. 47. Creek title. 1924, ch. 151. 1828, ch. 21.
For extinguishment of the title of the Creeks to laud in Georgia, per act twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, balance re-appropriated twenty-first March, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, four thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifty-seven cents.
For claims against the Osages, by citizens of the United States, per Osage claims. 1828, ch. 21.
For extinguishment of the claims of the Cherokees to their lands in Cherokee title. 1828, ch. 47.
For carrying into effect the treaty concluded with the Creeks, fifteenth Creek treaty. 1828, ch. 94. 1819, ch. 87.
For carrying into effect the treaty of sixth May, eighteen hundred and Cherokee treaty. 1828, ch. 94.
For expense of Indian delegations to explore the country west of the Exploration. 1828, ch.94.
For running the Indian boundary line in Florida, per act twenty-sixth Boundary line. 1824, ch. 151.
For purchase of Creek and Cherokee reservations, per act second [third] Creek and Cherokee reservations. 1823, ch. 26. Treating with Choc. and Chic. 1826, ch. 110.
For expense of treating with the Choctaws and Chickasaws, for extinguishment of their title to lands within the limits of Mississippi, per act twentieth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, six hundred and fifty-eight dollars.
[Obsolete.]
Subscription to congressional documents.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Act of Feb. 23, 1822, ch. 9.
Act of Mar. 2, 1831, ch. 66.
Act of Mar. 2, 1833, ch. 67, sec. 3.(a)
Any person cutting, &c. live oak, or, &c.
Any person removing, &c.
Any person cutting or, &c. to pay a fine, &c.
Vessels employed in taking away, &c. to be forfeited.
Captain to be fined.
Penalties, how to be sued for, &c.
Mitigation of penalty.
[Obsolete.]
Ten sections granted.
Authority to sell.
[Obsolete.]
Certain locations confirmed.
[Expired.]
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 173.
Act of May 8, 1830, ch. 90, extended.
Compensation to judge.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes, that is to say:
Capitol.
For planting and improving the ground within the enclosure of the Capitol square, including the gardener’s salary for one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and pay of labourers, three thousand dollars.
To make good the deficiency in the estimates of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, for finishing gates and fences, five thousand nine hundred and eighty-four dollars.
For lighting lamps in and round the square, and erecting twenty-four new lamps, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For alterations and repairs, five hundred dollars.
For new stoves for warming and ventilating the hall of the House of Representatives, eight hundred dollars.
For purchasing Seneca stone flagging for the terrace and walks adjoining the Capitol, three thousand dollars.
Bust of John Jay.
President’s house.
For planting and improving the grounds about the President’s house, including the gardener’s salary, four thousand dollars.
For alterations and repairs of the President’s house, five hundred dollars.
For furniture, and repairs of furniture, five thousand dollars.
Charles Bulfinch.
Canal route granted.
Condition.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Adjacent lands.
Other canal route granted.
Land granted may be relinquished and other land located.
Port Pontchartrain.
Delaware city.
St. John’s.
Prospect.
Kennebunk and Middletown.
Authority for lateral road.
Powers, rights, &c.
Restriction.
Proviso : proceedings for appropriation of lands, &c.
Proviso : other roads not to be obstructed.
Wagon ways to be provided.
City lots, &c.
Proviso: level.
Proviso: limit.
Proviso: Canals protected.
Proviso: Rate of toll, &c.
Proviso.
Contracts for use of cars.
Proviso: the charges to be restricted.
Conveyance of mail, &c.
Passengers.
Condition.
Saving of right to authorize other roads, &c.
Proviso.
Same rights, &c. to state of Maryland.
Boundary.
Certain patents to issue.
Commissioners of northern boundary of Illinois.
Act of April 18, 1818, ch. 67.
Surveyors, &c.
Compensation.
Proviso.
Expenses of Florida and Alabama line.
Proceedings at the several places.
Proceedings at New Orleans.
Infractions end penalties.
Proceedings at second port.
Condition of entry at New Orleans.
Surveyors to be appointed.
Proviso.
Suits, &c. for penalties.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
1797, ch. 13.
Repeal of act of April 17, 1822, ch. 27.
Additional compensation.
Owners of, &c. authorized.
Barry v. Gamble, 3 Howard, 32.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Act of April 26, 1822, ch. 40.
Under the acts of Congress, and of the state of Ohio, relating to the surrender and acceptance of the Cumberland road, a toll charged upon passengers travelling in mail carriages, without being charged, also, on passengers travelling in other carriages, is against the contract, and void. Neil, Moore & Co. v. The State of Ohio, 3 Howard, 720.
It rests altogether in the discretion of the Postmaster General, to determine at what hours the mail shall leave particular places, and arrive at others, and to determine whether it shall leave the same place only once a day, or more frequently. Ibid.
It is not, therefore, the mere frequency of the departure of the carriages, carrying the mail, that constitutes no abuse of the privilege of the United States, but the unnecessary division of the mail-bags among a number of carriages, to evade the payment of tolls. Ibid.
Cumberland road.
“ Toll gates.
Superintendent.
Toll-collectors.
Toll rates.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proceeds of tolls, how disposed of.
Caution boards, &c.
Unreasonable delay, &c.
Injuries to road.
Obstruction of drains, &c.
Stopping on road.
Locking of wheels.
Culverts, &c. at cross roads.
Appropriation.
Fines, &c. how to be recovered.
Alteration of this law.
Proviso.
Mode of paying tolls.
Proviso.
Custom-house fees on United States vessels.
Tonnage duties, &c. on British vessels.
License, &c. to United States vessels.
Proviso.
Compensation to collector.
The decisions of the courts of the United States on the law applicable to contempts of courts are,
The courts of the United States have no common law jurisdiction of crimes against the United States. But, independent of statutes, the courts of the United States have power to fine for contempts, and imprison for contumacy, and to enforce obedience to their orders, &c. The United States v. Hudson et al., 7 Cranch, 32; 2 Cond. Rep. 405.
The Supreme Court will not grant a habeas corpus, to bring before it the body of a person confined for a contempt of a circuit court of the United States. Nor, in such a case, will the court inquire into the cause of the commitment of such person. Ex parte Kearney, 7 Wheat. 38; 5 Cond. Rep. 225.
Where a court commits a person for a contempt, their adjudication is a conviction; and their commitment, in consequence, is execution. Ibid.
One who was not a Quaker, who refused to be sworn as a witness, on the ground of conscientious scruples, arising from a declaration formerly made, was committed, by the circuit court of Massachusetts for a contempt of the court; the liberty to affirm being strictly confined to Quakers, by the law and practice of Massachusetts. The United States v. Coolidge, 2 Gallis. C. C. R. 364.
That a counsellor, practising in the highest court of the state of New York, in which he resides, had been struck off from the roll of counsellors of the district court of the United States for the northern district of New York, by the order of the judge of that court tor a contempt, does not authorize the Supreme Court to refuse his admission as a counsellor of the Supreme Court. Ex parte Tillinghast, 4 Peters, 108.
The Supreme Court does not consider the circumstances upon which the order of the district judge was given within its cognisance; or, that it is authorized to punish for a contempt, which may have been committed in the district court of the northern district of New York. Ibid.
If, from any collateral evidence, it should appear that there is reason to believe the respondent has perjured himself, the circuit court will recognise him to answer at the next term of the court, to such matters as may be found against him. United States v. Dodge, 2 Gallis. C. C. R. 313.
Unfair practices towards a witness who is to give testimony in court, or oppression under colour of its process, although those practices and that oppression were acted out of the district in which the court is sitting, may be punished by attachment, provided the person who has thus demeaned himself comes within the jurisdiction of the court. But, it is also believed that this mode of punishment ought not to be adopted, unless the deviation from law could be clearly attached to the person against whom the motion was made; and unless the deviation were intentional; or unless the course of judicial proceeding were or might be so affected by it as tn to make a punishment in this mode obviously conducive to a fair administration of justice. 1 Burr’s Trial, 355.
Any publication, pending a suit, reflecting upon the court, the jury, the parties, the officers of the court, the counsel, &c., in reference to the suit, or tending to influence the decision of the controversy, is a contempt of the court, and punishable by attachment. Hollingsworth v. Duane, Wallace’s C. C. R. 77.
For contempts to inferior jurisdictions, not of record, nor having a general power to fine and imprison, unless committed in presence of the officer, and punished instanter, there is no other mode of punishment than by indictment. Ibid.
It is not a contempt to serve a party, while attending at the court as a party in the cause, or as a witness, with a summons. The privilege extends to exemption from arrest, but no further. Blight’s Ex’rs v. Fisher et al., Peters’ C. C. R. 41.
It is a contempt of court to serve process, either of summons or capias, in the actual or constructive presence of the court. Ibid.
Cases for summary proceedings.
Cases for indictment.
[Obsolete.]
That the following appropriations be, and the same are hereby, made, and directed to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to provide, by contract, for building lighthouses, lightboats, beacons, and monuments, and placing buoys, to wit:
State of Maine.—Four thousand dollars for a lighthouse at the western Maine.
Six thousand dollars for a lighthouse at or near Cape Porpoise.
Four thousand dollars for increasing the height of the lighthouse on Boon island.
Four thousand dollars for a lighthouse at or near Marshal’s Point, in the town of St. George.
Six thousand dollars for re-building the lighthouse at Whitehead.
Six thousand dollars for re-building the lighthouse on Franklin island.
Five hundred and ten dollars for spindles and buoys in Penobscot river.
State of Massachusetts.—Five thousand dollars for building a lighthouse Massachusetts.
One thousand dollars for erecting a monument on or near Cohasset Rocks.
Two hundred and fifty dollars in addition to an unexpended balance of a former appropriation, for erecting a spindle-beacon on Minot’s Ledge, and placing a buoy on Hospital Island Ledge near George’s island.
Twelve hundred dollars for erecting a monument upon a ledge of rocks situated at the outer part of the harbour of Swampscut.
One thousand dollars for two monuments, one on Sunken island, and the other on Pig Rocks, in Braintree bay.
Five hundred dollars for placing ten buoys in the northern channel through the Vineyard Sound, at the following places: one on Point Rips; one on the Shovel Shoals, near Monomoy Point; three on The Handkerchief, north-east, south-east, and south-west parts; one on a rock near Hyannis harbour, in the channel; and two on the Broad Shoal to the eastward of Falmouth, east and west parts.
Five thousand dollars for re-building a lighthouse on Cape Cod, should it be deemed expedient by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Four hundred dollars for placing six buoys on ledges and rocks at a place called Wood’s Hole, near Falmouth; and a spindle on Lone Rock, near that place.
Stale of Rhode Island.—For a beacon-light at or near the entrance Rhode Island.
Fifty dollars for a spindle on the Halfway Rock between the islands of Rhode Island and Connecticut.
State of Connecticut.—Five thousand dollars for building a lighthouse Connecticut.
Four hundred dollars for a spindle to be erected on the Whale Rock, at the entrance of Mystic river, and for one on Turner’s Reef, situated about one-third of the distance from the main land to Fisher’s island.
Three thousand dollars for erecting a beacon on the beach near the west side of New Haven harbour; and two hundred and fifty dollars for buoys on Pardee’s bar, Black Rock Bar, and the Shag Banks in said harbour.
Six thousand and two hundred dollars for erecting a monument or beacon on Brandford Reef, in Long Island Sound.
Two hundred and fifty dollars for placing buoys, viz: one on the north end of Hatchet’s Reef, in the Sound; one on tire south end of said reef; one on the south-east tail of Saybrook Bar, at the mouth of Connecticut river; and one on the south end of Crane Reef, west of Saybrook.
State of New York.—Three thousand one hundred and ninety dollars New York.
Four thousand dollars for erecting a beacon-light on a proper site near Sackett’s Harbour, in Lake Ontario.
Three thousand dollars for erecting a beacon-light at the junction of Rondout creek and Hudson river, or on or near the Esopus Meadows, as may be deemed most expedient by the Secretary of the Treasury.
One thousand dollars for erecting a beacon on the middle ground between Stratford and Crane Neck, in Long Island Sound.
Twelve thousand five hundred and twelve dollars, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations for erecting a lighthouse, and forming the foundation for the same, in the harbour of Buffalo.
Pennsylvania.
Delaware.
Ten thousand dollars for building a lighthouse at Mahon’s ditch, 1828, ch. 69.
Maryland.
For erecting a beacon-light on Lazaretto Point, at the entrance of the harbour of Baltimore, or on the point of land upon which fort McHenry is situated, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, two thousand five hundred dollars. For a floating-light at the Wolf Trap, in the Chesapeake bay, twelve thousand dollars.
Four hundred dollars for placing buoys at the entrance of the harbour of Annapolis.
Virginia.
Five hundred dollars for placing in the Potomac river three buoys on the Kettle Bottoms, one on Port Tobacco shoals, one in Nanjemoy Reach, one on Ragged Point bar, and one on Parsimmon bar.
North Carolina.
For a buoy to be placed on the bar near Harbour island, two hundred dollars.
For three buoys to be placed in the river and inlets of Cape Fear, twelve hundred dollars.
South Carolina.
A sum not exceeding one thousand dollars for purchasing land and removing a wind-mill on Cape Roman.
Georgia.
Ohio.
One thousand dollars for erecting a beacon-light on the pier at Grand river.
Louisiana.
Seven thousand dollars for a lighthouse at the Rigolets.
Mississippi.
Seven thousand dollars for a lighthouse at Pass Christian near the bay of St. Louis.
For buoys to be placed at the south pass, and the pass at Dauphin island, four hundred dollars.
State of Alabama.—Five hundred dollars for placing buoys in Mobile Alabama.
State of Illinois.—Five thousand dollars for building a lighthouse at Illinois.
Michigan Territory.—Five thousand dollars for building a lighthouse Michigan.
Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse on the Outerthunder bay island in Lake Huron.
A sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars for building a light-boat to be stationed in the strait connecting Lakes Huron and Michigan; and three hundred and fifty dollars for buoys and placing the same on the flats at the head of Lake St. Clair.
Florida Territory.—Eleven thousand four hundred dollars for building Florida.
Four hundred dollars for placing buoys in the said bay between St. George’s island, and the entrance of the Appalachicola river.
Two hundred dollars for placing buoys in the bay and river of St. Mark’s.
One hundred and sixty dollars for placing buoys at St. Augustine, and in St. John’s river.
Five thousand dollars for building a lighthouse on a suitable site at or near Port Clinton.
Certain lands secured to her.
Proviso.
Value of certain improvements, &c.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Seneca treaty.
Payment to John Culbertson.
Interpreter created.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 99.
Vessels employed in the whale fishery.
Surveyor general created.
April 21, 1806, ch. 39.
Disposition of certain documents.
Other documents.
Deputy surveyors to be appointed.
Location of office of surveyor general.
Salary, &c.
Settlement of conflicting claims.
Proviso.
Survey of certain lands.
School lands in Missouri.
Salt springs.
Transmission of public documents.
1835, ch. 64.
Peters’ Condensed Reports.
ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS
UNITED STATES,
State authorized to sell.
Proceeds, how to be applied.
Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208.
Purchasers under the act may assign their certificates of purchase, &c.
Patents may be issued to the present owner.
Term to be held on the 1st Monday of April.
1839, ch. 81.
[Obsolete.]
$80,000 appropriated.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be appropriated for the pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two:
For the revolutionary pensioners, nine hundred and eighty-seven Revolutionary pensioners.
For the invalid pensioners, in addition to the sum of one hundred Invalid pensioners.
For pensions to widows and orphans, three thousand dollars. Widows and orphans.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, for fortifications for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, viz:
Forts.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be appropriated for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, viz:
Pay and subsistence, &c. Pay at navy yards.
Provisions.
Repairs.
Medicines, &c.
Repairs, &c. at navy yards. Portsmouth. Boston. New York. Philadelphia. Washington. Norfolk. Pensacola.
Ordnance, &c.
Miscellaneous.
For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, five Contingencies.
For the pay of the officers and non-commissioned officers and privates, Marine corps.
For subsistence for non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, Subsistence.
For clothing, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five Clothing.
For fuel, nine thousand and ninety-eight dollars. Fuel.
For contingent expenses, fourteen thousand dollars. Contingencies.
For military stores, two thousand dollars. Stores.
For medicines, hospital stores, and surgical instruments, two thousand Medicines, &c.
Claim for interest to be settled.
Upon what sums.
Other claims to be allowed.
For cannon-balls.
Transportation.
Pay to certain staff officers.
Blankets.
Muskets.
Additional members of the legislative council.
Act of March 30, 1822, ch. 13.
[Expired.]
Act of May 30, ch. 1830, 215.
The provisions of the act limited.
The act of May 20, 1826, ch. 138, continued in force to June 1, 1832.
The country in the limits of Alabama occupied by the Cherokees and Chicasaws, a part of the northern judicial district.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for the army.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, viz:
For pay of the army and subsistence of officers, one million one hundred Pay of army, &c.
For arrearages in the pay department, fifteen thousand dollars. Arrearages.
For forage of officers, forty-eight thousand four hundred and twenty-seven Forage of officers.
For clothing for servants of officers, twenty-two thousand eight hundred Clothing for servants.
For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, in addition to an unexpended Subsistence.
For clothing of the army, camp equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital Clothing of army, &c.
For medical and hospital department, twenty thousand dollars, in Medical department.
For various expenses of the quartermaster’s department, viz: For Expenses of quartermaster’s department. 1819, ch. 45.
For transportation of officers’ baggage, and allowance for travel in lieu Transportation of baggage, &c.
For transportation of clothing, subsistence, ordnance, and of lead from Transportation of clothing, &c.
Expenses of visitors at West Point.
Fuel, &c.
Out-buildings at West Point.
Repairs of barracks, &c.
Fire-grates.
Pay of clerk.
Library.
Apparatus.
Models for engineering dep’t.
Models for the drawing department, &c.
Expenses, &c., of academy.
Contingencies.
Armories.
Fortifications.
Ordnance service.
Arsenals.
Arsenals in Florida.
Recruiting service.
Contingencies.
Arrearages.
Close of accounts. 1821, ch. 36.
Claims of the militia called out in 1831.
Act of March 21, 1828, ch. 21, sec. 3.
All public lands offered at private sale may be purchased in fractions of sections, &c.
Act of Feb. 11, 1805, ch. 14.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Judge authorized, &c. to deliver vessel, &c. to claimant.
Bond to be executed before clerk, &c.
Proviso.
Ordnance department to consist of, &c.
Ordnance sergeants.
Act of Feb. 8, 1815, ch. 38.
Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 13.
Proviso.
Government and pay.
Time of holding the district court for the western district of Virginia, altered.
{Obsolete.]
Salt springs, &c. reserved from sale.
Governor authorized to lease.
Hot springs reserved.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for payment of annuities, &c., to certain Indian tribes.
That the sum of thirty-nine thousand and seventy-five dollars be appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be applied for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, to the several following objects specifically, namely:
For payment of the permanent annuity to the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pattawatamie Indians, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, sixteen thousand dollars.
For the expense of salt for the same tribes, according to the treaty with them, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For payment of the annuity to the Winnebago Indians, eighteen thousand dollars.
For tobacco and salt for the same tribe, four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For the support of blacksmiths’ shops, iron, and steel, three thousand dollars.
For the purchase of oxen, cart, and services of a man, at the portage of Ouisconson and Fox river, according to treaty, three hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For the transportation and other expenses of the annuities aforesaid, one thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.
For the payment of the missionary property, held by the Baptist denomination, Payment of missionary property.
Payment of the claims of the Cherokees for improvements.
District attorney authorized to suspend proceedings, &c.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 173.
Act of May 8, 1830, ch. 90.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Lands to be withheld from sale.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations.
That the following sums be,
For pay and mileage of the members of Congress and delegates, four Congress.
For pay of the officers and clerks of both Houses, thirty-four thousand four hundred dollars.
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred thousand dollars. The said two sums last named to be applied to the payment of the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives, severally, and to no other purpose.
For the library of Congress, five thousand dollars: and also for repairs Library.
For salary of the principal and assistant librarians, two thousand three hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of the library, and pay of messenger, eight hundred dollars.
For alterations and repairs of the Capitol, five hundred dollars. Capitol.
For improving the grounds, including the gardener’s salary, two thousand Public grounds.
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United President, &c.
For clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of State, Department of State.
For clerks, machinist, and messenger, in the patent office, five thousand four hundred dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of State, Contingent expenses.
For contingent and incidental expenses of the patent office, fifteen hundred dollars.
For the superintendent and watchmen of the north-east executive building, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, repairs of the building, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Treasury Department.
For a clerk employed on revolutionary bounty-land scrip, eleven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the first comptroller of the treasury, three thousand Comptrollers.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in tire office of the first comptroller, nineteen thousand one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the second comptroller of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the second comptroller, ten thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the first auditor of the treasury, three thousand Auditors.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of tire first auditor, thirteen thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the second auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the second auditor, sixteen thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the third auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the third auditor, twenty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the fourth auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the fourth auditor, seventeen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the fifth auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the fifth auditor, twelve thousand eight hundred dollars.
Treasurer.
Clerks, &c.
Register.
Clerks, &c.
Commissioner of general land office.
Clerks, &c.
Solicitor of the treasury.
Clerks, &c.
Secretary to sinking fund.
Expenses, contingent, &c., of the Treasury Department.
For the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, including advertising and extra copying, and the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars applied from this fund for clerk hire and other expenses incident to the issuing of revolutionary bounty land scrip, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For the office of the first comptroller, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the second comptroller, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the first auditor, eight hundred dollars.
For the office of the second auditor, eight hundred dollars.
For the office of the third auditor, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the fourth auditor, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For the office of the fifth auditor, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the treasurer of the United States, seven hundred dollars.
For the office of the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For the office of the commissioner of the general land office, nine thousand dollars.
For compensation for extra aid, during one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, in the issuing military land scrip, and patents founded on Virginia military surveys, and on private claims, making indexes, and writing and recording patents for lands sold, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For the office of the solicitor of the treasury, twelve hundred dollars.
For translations, and for expenses of passports and sea letters, three hundred dollars.
For stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, one thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation of superintendent and watchmen of the south-east executive building, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, including two thousand dollars for repairs of building, and also the sum of one thousand three hundred dollars, applied out of the appropriation for the contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, for clerk hire in the general land office, in relation to revolutionary land scrip, six thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For defraying the expenses of enclosing lite grounds attached to the Treasury Department, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the War Department.
For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, three thousand dollars.
For books, maps, and plans for the War Department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Paymaster general’s office.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Commissary general’s office.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the adjutant general, Adjutant general’s office.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general Commissary general’s office.
For contingent expenses of said office, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the chief engineer, two Chief engineer’s office.
For contingencies of the topographical bureau, including the purchase Topographical bureau.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars.
For the services of a lithographer, and the expenses of the lithographic Lithographer.
For compensation to the clerks in the ordnance office, two thousand Ordnance office.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the surgeon general, Surgeon general’s office.
For contingent expenses of said office, four hundred and twenty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the quartermaster general, Quartermaster general’s office.
For contingent expenses of said office, six hundred dollars.
For the salary of the superintendent and watchmen of the north-west N. W. executive building.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, furniture, repairs of building, and improvement of adjoining ground, three thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of Navy Department.
For contingent expenses of said office, three thousand dollars.
Navy board.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the navy board, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks, draughtsman, and messenger, in the office of the commissioners of the navy board, eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the commissioners of the navy board, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
S. W. executive building.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, repairs of building, engines, and improvement of the grounds, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Post-office Department.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Postmaster General, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For superintendency of the buildings, making up blanks, and compensation to two watchmen and one labourer, sixteen hundred and forty dollars.
Surveyors.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, 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, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to clerks in the office of said surveyor, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Louisiana, including one thousand dollars, from first July to thirty-first December, one thousand eight 1831, ch. 116.
1831, ch. 116.
For an additional clerk for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, to bring up arrearages of recording, and including compensation to clerks in one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, for which 1831, ch. 116.
For compensation to the surveyor in Florida, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand dollars.
Commissioner of public buildings.
Mint.
For compensation to assistants in the several departments of the mint, and wages of labourers employed in the various operations of the establishment, nineteen thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses and repairs, cost of machinery, for allowance for wastage in gold and silver coinage of the mint, twenty-one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan Territories.
For contingent expenses of tire Michigan territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council, pay of the officers of the council, fuel, stationery, and printing, seven thousand three hundred and ninety-two dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Arkansas territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For pay and mileage of the legislative council of said territory, five thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Arkansas territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
To pay deficiency in appropriation of last year for pay and mileage, to the members of the legislature of Arkansas, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to tire governor, judges, and secretary of the Florida territory, including additional compensation to the judges, under the act 1830, ch. 106.
For contingent expenses of the Florida territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council of Florida, pay of officers and servants of the council, fuel, stationery, printing, and distribution of the laws, including two thousand dollars to defray the expenses of the publication of the statutes of the territory, as directed by a law of the territory, and a deficiency in the appropriation for one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, of two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and ninety-one cents, nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars and ninety-one cents.
For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district Judges of the United States.
For the salaries of the chief justice and judges of the District of Columbia, Judges of the District of Columbia.
For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, four Attorney-general.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the attorney general, Attorney-general’s office.
For a messenger in said office, five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Reporter Supreme Court.
For compensation to the district attorneys and marshals, as granted District attorneys and marshals.
For compensation to assistant counsel and district attorneys under the act of the twenty-third of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, 1828, ch. 70.
For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, circuit, and district courts Expenses of United States courts, &c.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present Pensions.
For expense of lighting the lamps in the Capitol square, seven hundred Lighting public grounds, &c.
For improving the grounds round the President’s house, including the gardener’s salary, three thousand dollars.
For alterations and repairs in the President’s house, three hundred dollars.
For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating lights, Lighthouses, &c.
For building a lighthouse on or near one of the islands called The Brothers at the Narrows, in Long Island Sound, New York, being the 1829, ch. 25.
For placing eight buoys at proper sites between the city of Albany and a point opposite Red Hook, New York, being the amount of an 1829, ch. 25.
For erecting a beacon near the Charleston lighthouse, in order to mark the entrance into the channel commonly known as Law ford’s channel, South Carolina, being the amount of an appropriation for that object, 1829, ch. 25.
Registers and receivers.
Survey of public lands.
Keepers of archives.
Census.
Miscellaneous claims.
Commissioners of loans.
Ships’ registers.
Luigi Persico.
Ministers.
Secretaries of legation.
Chargés.
For salary of the drogoman, and for contingencies of the legation Legation to Turkey.
For outfits of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, Outfits.
For outfits of the charges des affaires of the United States to Holland, Belgium, Central America, Buenos Ayres, and Naples, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand Contingent expenses.
For the salaries of the agents for claims at London and Paris, four thousand Agents of claims.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Mediterranean powers, twenty-four Mediterranean powers.
For the relief and protection of American seamen, in foreign countries, Relief of American seamen.
For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand Contingent expenses.
To enable the President of the United States to procure copies of Historical documents.
For the purchase of die bust of Thomas Jefferson, executed by Ceracci, Bust of Thomas Jefferson.
For the purpose of enabling the Secretary of State to discharge a Marshal of Michigan.
For account of printing and binding, and for selecting, editing, and Compilation of documents. 1831, ch. 65.
To enable the Secretary of State to cause to be printed, under Diplomatic correspondence.
To enable the Secretary of State to carry into effect the resolution of Recording patents.
To enable the Secretary of State to pay for seventy copies of Peters’ Peters’ Condensed Reports.
For the payment of a balance due to Walter Smith, on the books of Walter Smith.
Marine hospital. 1830, ch. 100.
Marine barracks.
Surveyor of Narraganaett bay.
Norfolk bridge.
Assistant marshals to be paid out of census appropriation.
Tribes to be convened for vaccination.
Physicians or surgeons to be employed, &c.
Supply of vaccine matter.
Monthly returns and general report.
Acts relating to the courts of the United States in the territory and state of Indiana.
An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers. March 30, 1802, ch. 13, sec. 15.
An act for the regulation of the courts of justice of Indiana. February 24, 1815, ch. 54.
An act supplementary to an act, entitled “An act regulating and defining the duties of the judges of the territory of Illinois, and for vesting in the courts of Indiana a jurisdiction in chancery cases arising in the said territory,” April 29, 1816, ch. 154.
An act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the state of Indiana, March 3, 1817, ch. 100.
An act respecting the jurisdiction of certain district courts, February 19, 1831, ch. 28.
An act for altering the time of holding the district court of the United States for the district of Indiana, May 19, 1832, ch. 77.
An act supplementary to an act, entitled, “An act to amend the judicial system of the United States, March 3, 1837, ch. 34, sec. 3, 4.
An act to change the time of holding the circuit and district courts in the seventh circuit, March 10, 1838, ch. 33.
Court to be held on last Monday in May and November.
Colombian vessels coming direct, &c. to pay same duties, &c. as American vessels.
President to remove restriction, &c.
President authorized to suspend operation of this act.
Board to be constituted, &c.
| Maine, | 8 |
| New Hamp. | 5 |
| Mass. | 12 |
| R. Island, | 2 |
| Conn. | 6 |
| Vermont, | 5 |
| New York, | 40 |
| New Jersey, | 6 |
| Penn’a. | 28 |
| Delaware, | 1 |
| Maryland, | 8 |
| Virginia, | 21 |
| N. Carolina, | 13 |
| S. Carolina, | 9 |
| Georgia, | 9 |
| Kentucky, | 13 |
| Tennessee, | 13 |
| Ohio, | 19 |
| Indiana, | 7 |
| Mississippi, | 2 |
| Illinois, | 3 |
| Louisiana, | 3 |
| Missouri, | 2 |
| Alabama, | 5 |
Court to be held 2d Monday in June.
Land offices to be removed.
No tonnage duties to be levied.
Proviso.
Limits extended.
Powers of corporation extended.
Contract to be made.
President to determine mode of improvement.
Appropriations.
For supply of water.
For bringing water in pipes to the Capitol, and the construction of reservoirs and hydrants, and the purchase of the rights of individuals to the water, forty thousand dollars.
Flagging.
Act of May 26, 1828, ch. 87.
Power to collect tax of one and thirteen hundredths of one per cent.
In default of corporation, President may exercise powers reposed in, &c.
Inspectors of tobacco in Alexandria.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated for the Indian department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, viz:
For the pay of the superintendent, of Indian affairs at St. Louis, and Superintendent and agents.
For the pay of sub-agents, as established by law, nineteen thousand Sub-agents.
For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of one thousand eight Presents.
For the pay of Indian interpreters and translators, employed in the several Interpreters.
For the pay of gunsmiths and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed Gunsmiths, &c.
For iron, steel, coal, and other expenses attending the gunsmiths Iron, &c.
For expense of transportation and distribution of Indian annuities, Transportation.
For expense of provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuities, Provisions, &c.
For expense of building houses for Indian agents, blacksmiths’ shops, Houses, &c.
For contingencies of the Indian department, twenty thousand dollars: Contingencies. Proviso.
Expenses of Indian deputation.
Proviso.
Corn, &c. for Seminoles.
Appropriations for burial ground.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for penitentiary.
Deeds, &c. of land in the District of Columbia.
Before whom to be acknowledged.
Certificate.
Deeds by persons in foreign countries.
Where and when to be recorded.
Deeds to which feme covert is a party.
Examination of feme.
Certificate.
Record.
Clerks authorized to record.
Right vested in mayor, &c.
Proviso.
Dimensions of canal: width, depth.
Basins:
At west end.
At eastern branch.
At Virginia avenue.
Sides of canal to be walled, &c.
Time for completion.
Draining of grounds along canal.
Mayor, &c. authorized to collect wharfage.
Proviso.
Tolls.
Wharfage.
Exclusive right to establish packet boats.
United States property, toll free.
Bridges.
Annual statement of costs and profits.
No tolls or wharfage to be collected, till completion of canal.
Collection to cease, &c.
Title of the United States in Mall vested in the mayor, &c.
Width of landing.
street on south side of canal.
Map of De Krafft.
Owners of lots on B. street, entilled to exchange them, &c.
Proviso.
Mall to be laid out in lots, and sold.
Proceeds, how to be applied.
All other rights saved.
Former acts repealed.
Court to be held on fourth Monday in March and November and first Monday in May and October.
Qualification of voters.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for payment of annuities due to Indians and Indian tribes.
That the sum of three hundred and thirty-six thousand four hundred and five dollars be, and die same is hereby, appropriated, one of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the annuities due to the various Indians and Indian tribes hereinafter mentioned, including the sum of twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars, stipulated for education of Indian youths; twenty-five thousand four hundred and seventy dollars, stipulated for the expenses of blacksmiths, gunsmiths, millers, millwrights, agriculturists, and labourers employed on Indian service, and for furnishing salt, tobacco, iron, and steel, et cetera; and four thousand three hundred and sixty dollars for expenses of transportation and distribution of certain annuities and agricultural implements, not otherwise provided for, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, that is to say;
To the Wyandot tribe, five thousand nine hundred dollars.
To the Wyandot, Munsee, and Delaware tribes, one thousand dollars.
To the Shawanee tribe, three thousand dollars, and sixty dollars for furnishing salt.
To the Shawanee and Seneca tribes, of Lewistown, one thousand dollars.
To the Delaware tribe, six thousand five hundred dollars, and one hundred dollars for furnishing salt.
To the Wea tribe, three thousand dollars.
To the Piankeshaw tribe, eight hundred dollars.
To the Kaskaskias tribe, one thousand dollars.
To the Ottowa tribe, five thousand three hundred dollars.
To the Ottowa and Missouri tribes, two thousand five hundred dollars, and fifteen hundred dollars for the expenses of blacksmiths’ tools and agricultural implements.
To the Chippewa tribe, three thousand eight hundred dollars; also, one thousand dollars for purposes of education, and two thousand dollars for the purchase of farming utensils and cattle, and the employment of persons to aid them in agriculture.
To the Chippewa, Ottowa, and Pattawatamie tribes, sixteen thousand dollars, and one hundred and twenty-five dollars for furnishing salt.
To the Pattawatamie tribe, sixteen thousand three hundred dollars, and one hundred dollars to Topenibe, principal chief; also, three thousand dollars for purposes of education, and two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars, for expenses of blacksmiths, millers, and agriculturists, and for furnishing salt, tobacco, iron, and steel.
To the Pattawatamie tribe of Huron, four hundred dollars.
To the Choctaw tribe, fifty thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Mushulatubbe, a chief, one hundred and fifty dollars, and to Robert Cole, a chief, one hundred and fifty dollars; also, twelve thousand five hundred dollars for purposes of education, and two thousand nine hundred and fifty-five dollars for expenses of blacksmiths and millwrights, and for furnishing iron and steel.
To the Eel river tribe, one thousand one hundred dollars.
To the Six Nations, New York, four thousand five hundred dollars, and two hundred dollars to the Young King, a chief of the Seneca nation.
To the Seneca tribe, New York, six thousand dollars.
To the Creek tribe, thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars.
To the Cherokee tribe, ten thousand dollars, also two thousand dollars for purposes of education.
To the Chickasaw tribe, twenty-three thousand dollars.
To the Sac tribe, three thousand dollars.
To the Sac and Fox tribes, two thousand dollars.
To the Sac, Fox, and Io way tribes, three thousand dollars, for expenses of blacksmiths and agriculturists, and furnishing farming utensils and cattle.
To the Fox tribe, three thousand dollars.
To the Ioway tribe, three thousand dollars; also nine hundred dollars for expenses of blacksmiths, and furnishing agricultural tools.
To the Osage tribe, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
To the Seneca tribe, of Lewistown, one thousand dollars.
To the Quapaw tribe, two thousand dollars.
To the Kickapoo tribe, of Illinois, two thousand dollars.
To the Florida Indians, five thousand dollars; also one thousand dollars for purposes of education, and one thousand dollars for the expenses of a gun and blacksmith.
To the Miami tribe, twenty-five thousand dollars; also two thousand dollars for the support of the poor and infirm, and education of youth; and two thousand and twenty dollars for expenses of blacksmith, and for furnishing salt, iron, and steel and tobacco.
To the Winnebago tribe, eighteen thousand dollars; also three thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars for expenses of blacksmiths and agriculturists, and for furnishing salt and tobacco.
To the Kanza tribe, three thousand five hundred dollars.
To the Christian Indians, four hundred dollars.
To the Sioux tribe, of Mississippi, two thousand dollars; also, one thousand seven hundred dollars for expenses of blacksmith, and furnishing agricultural tools.
To the Yancton and Santie bands, three thousand dollars; also one thousand four hundred dollars for expenses of blacksmith and furnishing agricultural tools.
To the Omaha tribe, two thousand five hundred dollars; also, one thousand five hundred dollars for expenses of blacksmith, and furnishing agricultural tools.
To the Sac tribe of Missouri river, five hundred dollars; also, nine hundred dollars for expenses of blacksmith, and furnishing agricultural tools.
For purposes of education of Sacs, Foxes, and others, as stipulated for by the treaty of fifteenth July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, three thousand dollars; and to Little Billy of the Seneca tribe, of New York, for the term of his natural life, an annuity of fifty dollars.
To Anderson, three hundred and sixty dollars, and to Lapahnilhe, one hundred and forty dollars, chiefs of the Delaware nation, agreeably to an understanding of the commissioners who negotiated the treaty of one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
For expenses of transportation and distribution of annuities to the Winnebagoes, Chippewas, Otto was, and Pattawatamies, Sacs, Foxes, and others, and of salt, tobacco, agricultural implements, and tools, not otherwise provided for, the sum of four thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
Other acts repealed.
Appropriations.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby severally appropriated to the several objects hereinafter specifically enumerated, according to the stipulations of certain Indian treaties, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:
Creek treaty, Debts.
Delegation.
Payment of claims for ferries, &c.
Rifles, &c.
Census, &c.
Persons to certify, &c.
Removal of intruders.
Education.
Shawnee treaty.
Houses, &c.
Presents.
Selling property.
For carrying into effect the treaty with the Ottoways, of Ohio, concluded Ottoway treaty.
For the payment of certain articles as stipulated for in the tenth article of the said treaty, twelve hundred and fifty-four dollars.
For expenses attending the sale of Indian property, according to the sixth article, three hundred dollars.
For carrying into effect the treaty with the mixed bands of the Senecas Seneca and Shawnee treaty.
For an advance to said Indians, in lieu of compensation for improvements, according to the fifth article of the said treaty, six thousand dollars.
For the payment for sundry articles stipulated for as presents in the tenth article of said treaty, thirteen hundred and fifteen dollars.
For the expense of selling the property of said Indians, according Io the sixth article of the said treaty, three hundred dollars.
For carrying into effect the treaty with the Wyandots, of Ohio, concluded Wyandot treaty.
For payment for the reservation of sixteen thousand acres, as stipulated for in the second article of the treaty, twenty thousand dollars.
For payment for improvements on the ceded reservations, and expense of appraising the same, according to the third article of said treaty, four thousand dollars.
For transportation and contingencies under the provisions of the several treaties above mentioned, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the payment of improvements within the limits of Georgia and Improvements in Georgia and Arkansas.
For gratuities of fifty dollars for every five emigrants from within the Gratuities.
For carrying into effect the treaty with the Choctaws, of fifteenth Choctaw treaty.
For the blankets, rifles, axes, ploughs, hoes, wheels, cards, looms, iron, and steel, stipulated for in the twentieth article of the said treaty, thirty-five thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
For fulfilling the stipulation of the sixteenth article in relation to cattle, in addition to former appropriations, ten thousand dollars.
For the payment of Choctaw Indians who have relinquished lands, according to the provisions of the nineteenth article of said treaty, the sum of thirty thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
For expenses of transportation, and other incidental expenses, in relation to the treaties above named, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Act of May 16, 1828, ch. 53.
All who have served two years, to receive full pay according to their rank, not to exceed captain’s pay.
Post, p. 608.
Post, p. 612.
All who have served not less than six months, to receive an annuity proportioned to term of service.
No one already a pensioner to receive benefits of this act, until he relinquishes former pension.
Where to be paid.
Post, p. 605.
No foreign officer entitled, &c.
Evidence of title.
Pay not transferable, &c.
Payments when to be made.
In case of death to widow or children.
Service in navy to entitle to benefits of this act.
A wharf may be built.
Duties.
Maps, papers, &c. relating to lands in Arkansas to be delivered.
Location of office.
Salary of draughtsman and clerks.
Land to be selected by governor.
[Obsolete.]
Certain unexpended balances re-appropriated.
That the following sums, being unexpended balances of former appropriations, be, and the same are hereby, re-appropriated to the original objects of their appropriation, specifically, namely:
For the expense of visits of Indian deputations to the seat of government, three hundred and ninety-four dollars and forty-two cents.
For expenses incurred by the marshal of Michigan territory, in prosecuting Winnebago prisoners, one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty-eight cents.
For carrying into effect the treaty with the Florida Indians, according 1824, ch. 151.
For carrying into effect the Creek treaty, according to the appropriation 1825, ch. 148.
For compensation to Cherokee emigrants from Georgia, according to 1829, ch. 50.
For carrying into effect the treaty with the Pattawatamies, by act of 1829, ch. 50.
For compensation for improvements abandoned by the Cherokees of 1829, ch. 50.
1829, ch. 50.
1828, ch. 47.
For extinguishment of the title of the Delaware Indians to their reservation 1829, ch. 50.
Ante, p. 506.
That the following sum be, and the same is hereby appropriated:
For defraying the expenses of the Wyandott delegation to the city of Washington, in January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, four hundred dollars; and for defraying the expenses of the Cherokee delegation, west of the Mississippi, now in the city of Washington, seven hundred and seventy-two dollars.
Illinois militia, &c.
Relief of friendly Indians.
How armed, &c.
Organization.
Privates, &c. to arm and equip themselves.
Officers’ pay and emoluments.
Provision in case of disability.
Corps subject to rules and articles of war.
Officers, how to be appointed.
Owners of tracts on a river, &c. not exceeding 40 arpens in depth, entitled to pre-emption of back tract, &c.
Surveys of such back tracts and division in certain cases.
Proviso: pre-emption not to embrace, &c.
Time for using pre-emption right.
Time extended by act of Feb. 24, 1835, ch. 24.
Re-surveys, at whose expense.
On the failure of notice, &c. pre-emption right to be void.
Post-roads to be established.
That the following be established as post-roads:
In Maine.—From East Machias, by Whiting, to Little River harbour, Post-roads as etablished. Maine.
In New Hampshire.—From Derry, Chester, and Candia, to South N. Hampshire. Post-roads established.
In Vermont.— Vermont.
In Massachusetts.— Massachusetts. Post-roads established.
In Rhode Island.—From Newport to Block Island. From Providence, Rhode Island.
In Connecticut.—From Tolland to Bolton, in the county of Tolland. Connecticut.
In New York.—From Madison, in Madison county, by Augusta, Vernon New York. Post-roads established. Post-roads established.
In New Jersey.—From Salem, in Salem county, by Craven’s ferry, to New Jersey.
In Pennsylvania.— Pennsylvania. Post-roads established. Post-roads established.
In Delaware.—From Milford, by Bridgeville, to Seaford. From Delaware.
In Maryland.—From Wiseburgh, in Baltimore county, to Dixon Stanbury’s Maryland. Post-roads established.
In Virginia.— Virginia.
In North Carolina.— North Carolina. Post-roads established.
In South Carolina.—From Unionville to Cowpen furnace, in South South Carolina.
In Georgia—From Sparta, in Hancock county, by Bennett’s store, Georgia. Post-roads established.
In Ohio.— Ohio. Post-roads established.
In Indiana.—From Martinsville, Spencer, Fairplay, and Bruceville, to Indiana.
In Illinois.—From Salem, in Marion county, near the old Vincennes Illinois.
In Missouri.— Post-roads established. Missouri.
In Kentucky.— Kentucky.
In Tennessee.— Tennessee. Post-roads established.
In Alabama.—From Bellefonte, in Jackson county, by Larkinsville, Alabama.
In Michigan territory.—From Tecumseh, in the territory of Michigan, Michigan territory. Post-roads established.
In Louisiana.— Louisiana.
In Florida territory.— Florida territory.
In Mississippi.— Mississippi.
In Arkansas.— Arkansas.
Post-roads discontinued.
In New Hampshire.— New Hampshire.
In New York.— New York.
In Kentucky.—From Williams to Madisonville. From Smithport to Post-roads discontinued. Kentucky.
In Tennessee.—That part of the route from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Tennessee.
In Ohio.—From Cadiz, by New Rumley, to New Hagerstown. From Ohio.
In Mississippi.—From Gallatin to Port Gibson. From Greenville to Mississippi.
Four land districts established in the terriritory of Arkansas.
Name and boundaries.
Land-offices for the respective districts.
Plats of surveys to be deposited, &c.
Registers and receivers to be appointed.
Four surgeons and ten surgeon’s mates.
[Expired.]
Pensions heretofore granted to be continued to the widows of certain persons for an additional term of five years.
To commence, &c.
Shall cease for the causes, &c.
Provisions of this act to be extended to, &c.
Lots and buildings to be selected for the use of the United States.
Public and private lots, &c.
Copies of survey.
Sale of certain lots, buildings, and commons authorized.
Proviso.
Grant of lot whereon to erect buildings for the purposes of education.
Buildings selected for public purposes to be repaired, &c.
Appropriation.
Part of certain military reservations to be sold, and the proceeds to be vested in the purchase or erection of a store-house, wharf, and arsenal.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations.
That the following sums be appropriated for the purpose of making the improvements hereinafter enumerated, viz;
For removing obstructions to the navigation of Kennebeck river, at Maine.
For repairing Plymouth Beach, Massachusetts, two thousand five hundred Massachusetts.
For further protection and preservation of the Beach at Provincetown, Massachusetts, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For deepening the channel through the Pass au Heron, Alabama, Alabama. 1828, ch. 73.
For deepening the channel at Pascagoula river, being the balance of the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, carried to the surplus fund the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars.
For improving the navigation of the Red river, Louisiana, and Arkansas, Louisiana. Arkansas. 1828, ch. 73.
For carrying on the work of the Delaware breakwater, two hundred Delaware.
To enable the Secretary of War to pay Lucius W. Stockton the Cumberland road.
Florida.
For completing the same from St. Augustine to Tallahassee, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the completion of the improvement of the harbour and river Saint Marks, in Florida, as recommended by the chief engineer, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Maine.
For removing obstructions in the Berwick branch of the Piscataqua river, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Massachusetts.
For completing the breakwater at Hyannis harbour, Massachusetts, seven thousand six hundred dollars.
For removing the bar at the mouth of Nantucket harbour, six thousand dollars.
Connecticut.
New York.
For removing obstructions at the mouth of Big Sodus bay, New York, seventeen thousand dollars.
For improving the entrance of Genessee river, sixteen thousand dollars.
For completing the pier at the mouth of Buffalo harbour, ten thousand three hundred dollars.
For the work at Black Rock harbour, New York, five thousand one hundred dollars.
For securing and completing the work at Dunkirk harbour, New York, ten thousand two hundred dollars.
Pennsylvania.
For improving the harbours of New Castle, Marcus Hook, Chester, and Port Penn, on the Delaware, ten thousand dollars.
North Carolina.
For improving Cape Fear river, below Wilmington, North Carolina, twenty-eight thousand dollars.
For improving the navigation of the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers, fifty thousand dollars.
The President of the United States authorized to improve the steamboat navigation front Pittsburg to Brownsville, and to extend the provisions of the net of 24th May, 1824, ch. 139, so as to embrace certain parts of the rivers Missouri and Mississippi.
For improving the navigation of the Arkansas river, fifteen thousand Arkansas. Proviso. Proviso. Compensation to the superintendent not to exceed $3000.
For improving the mouth of Conneaut creek, Ohio, seven thousand Ohio.
For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Ashtabula creek, Ohio, three thousand eight hundred dollars.
For a pier head at Cunningham creek, Ohio, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Grand river, Ohio, two thousand six hundred dollars.
For completing the improvement of Cleveland harbour, Ohio, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For removing a sand bar at the mouth of Black river, Ohio, eight thousand dollars.
For removing obstructions at the mouth of Huron river, Ohio, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For piers at La Plaisance bay, Michigan, eight thousand dollars. Michigan.
For the improvement of the navigation of the Cumberland river, thirty Cumberland, Tennessee.
For the removal of the obstructions to the navigation of the Savannah Georgia.
For defraying the expenses incidental to making examinations and Surveys. Act of April 30, 1824, ch. 46.
For repairs of the Cumberland road east of the Ohio river, and other Cumberland road. Act of March 2, 1831, ch. 97. The acts passed by the legislatures of Pennsylvania and Maryland are, Under the act of Congress, ceding to Pennsylvania that part of the Cumberland road which is within the state, and the act of Pennsylvania accepting the surrender, a carriage, whenever it is carrying the mail, must be held to be laden with the property of the United States, within the true meaning of the compact; and consequently exempted from payment of toll. Searight v. Stokes, 3 Howard, 151. But this exemption does not apply to any other property conveyed in the same vehicle; nor to any person travelling in it; unless he is in the service of the United States, and passing along in pursuance of orders from the proper authority. Ibid. Nor can the United States claim an exemption for more carriages than are necessary for the safe, speedy, and convenient carriage of the mail. Ibid. Assent tn acts of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Acts to be appended to laws of present session.
For repairing and building bridges on the military road leading from Maine.
Michigan.
For continuing the road from Detroit to fort Gratiot in Michigan, Secretary of War authorised to change direction of road.
For continuing the road from Detroit to Saganaw, ten thousand dollars.
For the repair of the Little Rock and Memphis road, from Little Arkansas.
To complete the Washington and Jackson road, at the two extremes thereof, in the territory of Arkansas, in addition to the unexpended balance, two thousand dollars.
For continuing the Cumberland road in the state of Ohio, west of Ohio.
For continuing the Cumberland road in the state of Indiana, including Indiana.
For continuing the Cumberland road in the state of Illinois, seventy Illinois.
Which sums shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise To be paid from the treasury.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 98.
Cumberland road.
Office of superintendent discontinued.
Work to be prosecuted, &c.
[Expired.]
Transfers of appropriations in the naval service authorized.
That upon the application of the Secretary of the Navy, the President of the United States shall have authority, whenever in his opinion the unforeseen contingencies of the public service may require it, to direct that a part of the money appropriated for a particular branch of the naval service be applied to another Special accounts of the moneys transferred, and of their application, to be laid before Congress.
This act shall continue in force until the close of the next session of Congress and no longer.
[Obsolete.]
Legislature authorized to sell and convey certain tracts of land.
Proceeds applied to education.
Commissioner, surveyor, and clerk to be appointed.
That the commissioner and surveyor to be appointed on the part of the United States, according to the third article of the treaty of limits between the United States of America and the United Mexican States, of January twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and April fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, be severally appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the consent of the Senate; together with a clerk to the said commissioner to be appointed in the same manner; and that for the purpose of carrying into effect the second and third articles of the treaty aforesaid, there be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums;
Salaries.
For the salary of the surveyor, two thousand dollars.
For the salary of the clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars: Proviso.
For other expenses of the survey of boundary required by the said Contingencies.
For a note of the acts relating to patents for useful inventions, see vol. i. p. 109.
For the decisions of the courts of the United States relative to the law of patents, see vol. i. p. 318.
Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 357.
List of expired patents to be annually reported to Congress.
Form of application to prolong or renew patent.
Patent to be invalid in case of inventor not having complied with terms, &c.
1793, ch. 11.
Secretary of State, upon surrender, &c., to grant a new patent.
In case of death, &c., right to vest in executors, &c.
Proviso.
Unlocated lots in military district, in Ohio, made liable to private sale.
Act of Feb. 11, 1800, ch. 8.
Commissioners to be appointed to survey and lay out road.
Plats of surveys to be certified and transmitted to President; if approved, to be deposited, &c.
Proviso.
Pay of commissioners and assistants.
Proviso.
Appropriation.
Survey to ascertain practicability of canals to connect bays and rivers in Florida.
Estimates to be made.
Appropriation.
Commissioners to be appointed to survey and lay out road.
Plats of surveys to be certified, and transmitted to the President, if approved to be deposited, &c.
Proviso.
Pay of commissioners and assistants.
Proviso.
Appropriation.
Proviso.
Decisions of the Supreme Court on land titles in Louisiana, in addition to the cases stated in notes to vol. ii, 288, 713.
The treaty by which Louisiana was ceded to the United States, recognised complete grants, issued anterior to the cession, and a decision of a state court against the validity of a title set up under such a grant, would be subject to revisal by the Supreme Court, under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary act. M’Donougn v. Millaudon, 3 Howard, 693.
But, if the state court only applies the local laws of the state to the construction of the grant, it is not a decision against its validity, and the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction. Ibid.
Congress, in acting upon complete grants, recognised them as they stood; and the act of 11th of May, 1820, confirming such as were recommended for confirmation by the register and receiver, had no reference to any particular surveys. Ibid.
A decision of a state court, therefore, which may be in opposition to one of these surveys, is not against the validity of a title existing under an act of Congress; and this court has no jurisdiction in such a case. Ibid.
The certificate of survey alleged to have been given by Trudeau, on the 14th of June, 1797, and brought forward to sustain a grant to the Marquis de Maison Rouge, declared ante-dated and fraudulent. United States v. King et al., 3 Howard, 773.
The circumstance that a copy of this paper was delivered by the Spanish authorities in 1803, is not sufficient to prevent its authenticity from being impeached. Ibid.
Leaving this certificate out of the case, the instruments executed by the Baron de Carondelet, in 1795 and 1797, have not the aid of any authentic survey to ascertain and fix the limits of the land, and to determine its location. Ibid.
The Supreme Court has repeatedly decided, and in cases, too, where the instrument contained clear words of grant, that if the descriptions were vague and indefinite, and there was no official survey to give it a certain location, it could create no right of private property, in any particular parcel of land, which could be maintained in a court of justice. Ibid.
An equitable title is no defence in a suit brought by the United States. An imperfect title derived from Spain, before the cession, cannot be supported against a party claiming under a grant from the United States. Ibid.
The act of Congress of the 29th April, 1816, confirming the grant to the extent of a league square, restricted it to that quantity, and cannot be construed as confirming the residue. Ibid.
Query: Whether the acceptance by the claimant of this league square affected his title to the residue. Ibid.
Claims to lands in Louisiana to be presented to register and receiver at New Orleans, prior to 1st July, 1833.
Notice of claim to be recorded.
Fees.
Claims to be reported to the Secretary of the Treasury, and to be laid before Congress.
Proviso.
Sales of land suspended until after 1st July, 1833.
Persons who held lands by claims unconfirmed, &c., may avail themselves of the benefits of this act.
Separate report of cases of this class to be made to the Secretary of the Treasury, &c.
Purchasers to be reimbursed.
Additional compensation.
Governor to select land.
1831, ch. 67.
United States not liable for expense in selecting, &c.
Accounts of Virginia for payments to officers of Virginia line in revolutionary war, &c., authorized to be paid.
Secretary of the Treasury to pay Virginia the amount of judgments rendered against her in favour of certain revolutionary officers.
Secretary of the Treasury to settle claims for half-pay to revolutionary officers.
Notes of the acts for the preservation of peace with the Indian tribes, vol. ii. p. 6.
Notes of regulations of intercourse and trade with the Indian tribes, vol. ii. p. 139.
Notes of the decisions of the Supreme Court on the laws and treaties with the Indians, vol. ii. p. 141.
Notes of obsolete acts relating to trading houses with the Indians, vol. ii. p. 652.
Commissioner of Indian affairs to be appointed.
Salary.
Clerks.
Pay of commissioner for the year 1832.
Accounts, &c., to be transmitted to commissioner, &c.
Communications to be free of postage.
March 3, 1845, ch. 43, sec. 1.
Ardent spirits prohibited.
Unnecessary agencies, &c., to be discontinued.
Appropriation.
Notes of the decisions of the Supreme Court on land titles in Missouri.
The state of Missouri was formerly part of the territory, first of France, next of Spain, then of France, who ceded it to the United States by the treaty of 1803, in full propriety, sovereignty and dominion, as she had acquired and held it; by which this government put itself in place of the former sovereigns, and became invested with all their rights, subject to their concomitant obligations to the inhabitants. Both were regulated by the law of nations, according to which the rights of property are protected, even in the case of a conquered country; and held sacred and inviolable when it is ceded by treaty, with or without any stipulation to such effect: and the laws, whether in writing, or evidenced by the usage and customs of the conquered or ceded country, continue in force, until altered by the new sovereign. Strother v. Lucas, 12 Peters, 410.
No principle can be better established by the authority of the Supreme Court, than “that the acts of an officer, to whom a public duty is assigned by his king, within the sphere of that duty, are prima facie taken to be within his power.” The principles on which it rests, are believed to be loo deeply founded in law and reason, ever to be successfully assailed. He who would controvert a grant executed by the lawful authority, with all the solemnities required by law, takes on himself the burden of showing that the officer has transcended the powers conferred upon him; or that the transaction is tainted with fraud. Ibid.
Where the act of an officer to pass the title to land according to the Spanish law, is done contrary to the written order of the king, produced at the trial, without any explanation; it shall be presumed that the power has not been exceeded; that the act was done on the motive set out therein; and according to some order known to the king and his officers, though not to his subjects; and courts ought to require very full proof, that he had transcended his powers, before they so determine it. Ibid.
In favour of long possession and ancient appropriation, every thing which was done shall be presumed to have been rightfully done; and though it does not appear to have been done, the law will presume that whatever was necessary has been done. Ibid.
The stipulations of the treaty ceding Louisiana to the United States affording that protection or security to claims under the French or Spanish government to which the act of Congress refers, are in the first, second, and third articles. They extended to all property until Louisiana became a member of the Union; into which the inhabitants were to be incorporated as soon as possible, “and admitted to all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States.” The perfect inviolability and security of property is among these rights. Delasus v. The United States, 9 Peters, 117.
The right of property is protected and secured by the treaty, and no principle is better settled in this country, than that an inchoate title to lands is property. This right would have been sacred, independent of the treaty. The sovereign who acquires an inhabited country, acquires full dominion over it; but this dominion is never supposed to divest the vested rights of individuals to property. The language of the treaty ceding Louisiana, excludes any idea of interfering with private property. Ibid.
On the 18th of April, 1802, the lieutenant-governor of Upper Louisiana granted sixteen hundred arpents of land near certain rivers named in the grant, with directions to survey the same in a vacant place of the royal domain; but no survey was made before the cession of Louisiana to the United States. By the court—As the grant contained no description of the land granted, and was not located within the time prescribed by the act of Congress of the 10th of March, 1804, it comes directly within the point decided by the Supreme Court in the case of John Smith, T., and cannot be confirmed. Wherry v. The United States, 10 Peters, 338.
In repeated decisions the Supremo Court have affirmed the authority of local governors, under the crown of Spain, to grant land in Louisiana, before the same was ceded by Spain to France: and the Court have also affirmed the validity of descriptive grants, though not surveyed before the 11th of March, 1804, in Missouri, and the 24th of January, 1818, in Florida. Mackey v. The United States, 10 Peters, 340.
A grant or concession made by an officer who is by law authorized to make it, carries with it prima facie evidence that it is within his powers. No excess of them, or departure from them, is to be presumed. He violates his duty by such excess, and is responsible for it. He who alleges that an officer intrusted with an important duty han violated his instructions, must show it. Delassus v. The United States, 9 Peters, 117.
The instructions of governor O’Reilly, relative to granting lands in Louisiana, were considered by the court in 8 Peters, 455. These regulations were intended for the general government of subordinate officers, and not to control and limit the power of the person from whose will they emanated. The Baron De Carondelet must be supposed to have had all the powers which had been vested in Don O’Reilly, and a concession ordered by him is as valid as a similar concession directed by governor O’Reilly would have been. Ibid.
A concession of land was made by the lieutenant-governor of Upper Louisiana, at the time when the power of granting lands was vested in the governors of provinces. This power was, in 1799, after the concession, transferred to the intendant-general: and after this transfer, in January, 1800, the order of survey of the land was made by the lieutenant-governor. The validity of the order of survey depends on the authority of the lieutenant-governor to make it. The lieutenant-governor was also a sub-delegate, and as such was empowered to make inchoate grants. The grant was confirmed. Chouteau’s heirs v. the United States, 9 Peters, 137.
The transfer of the power to make concessions of lands belonging to the royal domain of Spain, from the governor-general to the intendant-general, did not affect the power of the sub-delegate, who made this concession. The order in this case is the foundation of title, and is, according to the act of Congress on the subject of confirming titles to lands in Missouri, &c., and the general understanding and usage of Louisiana and Missouri, capable of being perfected into a complete title. It is property, capable of being alienated, of being subjected to debts: and is, as such, to be held as sacred and inviolate as other property. Ibid.
A concession of one league square of land, in Upper Louisiana, was made by Don Zenon Trudeau, the lieu ten ant-governor of that province, to Auguste Chouteau, and a decree made by him directing the surveyor-general of the province to put him in possession of the land, and to survey the same, in order to enable Chouteau to solicit a complete title thereto from the governor-general, who by the said decree was informed that the circumstances of Chouteau were such as entitled him to a grant of the land. The land was surveyed, and the grantee put in full possession of it on the 20th of December, 1803. He retained possession of it until his death. The objection to the validity of the concession was, that the petitioner had not as many tame cattle as the eighth regulation of governor O’Reilly, governor-general of Louisiana, required. That regulation required that the applicant for a grant of a league square of land should make it appear that he is possessed of one hundred head of tame cattle, some horses and sheep, and two slaves to look after them, a proportion which shall always be observed for the grants, &c. By the Court-In the spirit of the decisions which have been heretofore made by the Supreme Court, and of the acts of confirmation passed by Congress, the fact that the applicant possessed the requisite amount of property to entitle him to the land he solicited, was submitted to the officer who decided on the application; and he is not bound to prove it to the court, which passes on the validity of the grant. These incomplete titles were transferable, and the assignee might not possess the means of proving the exact number of cattle in possession of the petitioner when the concession was made. The grant was confirmed. Ibid. 147.
If the court can trust the information received on this subject, neither the governor nor the intendant-general has ever refused to perfect an incomplete title granted by a deputy-governor or a sub-delegate. Ibid.
The regulation made by Don O’Reilly, as to the quantity of land to be granted to an individual, is not that no individual shall receive grants for more than one league square, but that no grant shall exceed a league square. The words of the regulation do not forbid different grants to the same person, and, so far as the court are informed, it has never been so construed. Ibid.
Under the act of February 17, 1815, ch. 45, a New Madrid certificate could be located upon lands before they were offered for sale under a proclamation of the President, or even surveyed by the public surveyor. Barry v. Gamble, 3 Howard, 32.
The act of April 26, 1822, ch. 40, recognised locations of this kind, although they disregarded the sectional lines by which the surveys were afterwards made. Ibid.
Under the acts of 1805, 1806, and 1807, it was necessary to file the evidence of an incomplete claim under French and Spanish authority, which bore date anterior to 1800, as well as those which were dated subsequent to that day; and in case of neglect, the bar provided applied to both of these classes. Ibid.
A title, resting on a permit and warrant of survey, dated before the 1st of October, 1800, without any settlement or survey having been made, was an incomplete title, and Within those acts. Ibid.
And although the acts of 1824 and 1828 remove the bar as it respected the United States, yet having excepted such lands as have been sold, or otherwise disposed of by the United States, and saved the right or tide of adverse claimants, these acts protected a New Madrid claim, which had been located while this bar continued. Ibid.
1833, ch. 84.
All unconfirmed land claims to be examined.
Claim, to be classed; &c.
Time for taking testimony.
Office of recorder to remain open for two years.
Recorder, &c., to proceed, &c.
A report of claims to be laid before commissioner, and presented to Congress.
Provisions relating to sale of certain lands.
Proviso.
Pay of recorder and commissioners.
Interpreter may be employed.
Heirs of Carlos de Villemont may submit evidence of claim.
Report thereon.
Act of May 23, 1828, ch. 71.
Register to issue certificates to purchasers of public lands for amount paid, &c.
1821, ch. 12.
Certificates to be as cash in payment of public lands.
Commissioner and registers to be governed by provisions of act of May 23, 1828, ch. 71.
Excess paid on lands relinquished, when it exceeds $10, to be certified, and received in payment for public lands.
Duplicate of lost or destroyed certificate.
1828, ch. 71.
Acts relating to the district court of the United States in the territory and state of Illinois.
An act regulating and defining the duties of the United States’ judges for the territory of Illinois. March 3, 1815, ch. 98.
An act supplemental to “An act regulating and defining the duties of the United States’ judges for the territory of Illinois,” &c. April 29, 1816, ch. 154.
An act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the state of Indiana. March 3, 1817, ch. 100.
An act respecting the jurisdiction of certain district courts. February 19, 1831, ch. 28.
An act supplementary to the act entitled “An act to amend the judicial system of the United States.” March 3, 1837, ch. 34, sec. 3.
An act to change the times of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States in the seventh circuit March 10, 1838, ch. 33.
District court to be held on the fourth Monday of May, annually.
Claim to be compromised and settled.
Appropriation.
Appropriation for expenses of naval officers surveying coasts and harbours.
Appropriation to pay balance due Lieutenant Charles Wilkes.
Commander of navy yard at Washington to cease to act as navy agent.
1804, ch. 53.
Permanent agent for Navy Department.
Appropriation.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation.
That there be paid to the commissioners of the navy hospital fund, and for the use thereof, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
For completing the navy hospital at Norfolk, thirty-one thousand dollars.
For providing fixtures, furniture, and apparatus therefor, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For completing the navy asylum at Philadelphia, twenty-seven thousand three hundred dollars.
For providing fixtures, furniture, and apparatus for one wing thereof, six thousand six hundred dollars.
Naval hospitals to be constructed.
Appropriation.
Act of February 10, 1807, vol. ii. p. 413.
Notes of acts relating to the surrey of the coasts of the United States, vol, ii. p. 414.
Appropriation for surveying coasts.
President authorized to use maps, &c., and to employ persons.
Proviso.
Appropriation.
Two land districts established.
Land office for Talapoosa district.
For the Coosa district.
Proviso.
Registers and receivers to be appointed.
Plats of surveys to be deposited.
Pay of register and receiver to begin when surveys are completed.
Country acquired by Choctaw treaty, attached to separate district.
Acts relating to the navy pension fund:—
An act for the government of the navy of the United States, March 2, 1799, ch. 24, sec. 9, 10.
An act for the better government of the navy of the United States, April 23, 1800, ch. 33, sec. 9, 10.
An act in relation to the navy pension fund, March 26, 1804, ch. 48.
An act providing navy pensions in certain cases, Jan. 20, 1813, ch. 10.
An act in addition to an act, entitled “An act in relation to the navy pension fund,” April 16, 1816, ch. 56.
An act for the regulation of the navy and privateer pension fund and navy hospital fund, July 10, 1832, ch. 194.
An act to continue the office of commissioner of pensions, and to transfer the business heretofore transacted in the Navy Department to that office, March 4, 1840, ch. 4.
Commissioners to close all their accounts of certain funds, and pay the balance to the Treasurer for the use of the Secretary of the Navy, &c.
Release of commissioners.
Secretary of the Navy made trustee.
Applications for pensions.
Moneys to be invested.
Secretary of the Treasury to sell stock, and receive navy pension funds in payment.
Accounts to be kept of certain funds, &c.
Abstract to be reported to Congress, annually.
Clerk.
Salary.
Powers and duties of commissioners transferred to the Secretary of the Navy.
Privileges of act of May 9, 1828, ch. 49, extended to vessels in ballast.
Tonnage duty on the Victorina to be refunded.
Assent of Congress to acts of North Carolina.
Assent extended to any act to revive, &c., the aforesaid acts.
Purchase of site, and erection of building for a custom-house in the port of New York.
Appropriation.
Custom-house Square, at New Haven.
Appropriation.
Custom-house, &c., at
Middletown;
New London;
New Bedford;
Kennebunk;
Newport.
[Obsolete.]
Commissioners to be appointed to examine all claims under the convention with France.
Secretary and clerk.
Rules and regulations.
Time of meeting and termination of duties.
Notice of meeting.
Records, &c. to be delivered to commission.
Pay of commissioners, secretary, and clerk.
Contingent expenses of commission.
List of awards to be reported to Secretary of State, and certified copy to Secretary of Treasury, who shall distribute, &c.
Certificates to be issued.
Instalments to be transferred to United States, and net proceeds paid into the treasury.
Sum to be set apart, &c.
Appropriation.
Communications free.
Records, &c. to be deposited in State Department.
Rates of duties on French wines for ten years.
Appropriation for expenses of emigrating Indians.
John Drew to be paid.
J. W. Flowers to be paid.
Unsatisfied claims of Cherokee Indians to be paid.
Act of March 30, 1802, ch.13.
Certain vessels admitted to
make entry at Key West.
Collection district of KeyWest extended.
Proviso of 3d section of act of May 7, 1822, ch. 62, repealed.
Certain vessels admitted to entry at Edgartown.
The privileges granted to aliens extended.
Act of April 17, 1800, ch. 25.
Proviso.
[Expired.]
Act of May 27, 1796, ch. 31.
Secretary of the Treasury to employ aid to enforce quarantine regulations.
Act of Feb. 25, 1799, ch. 12.
Act limited to March 4, 1833.
Time extended to January 1, 1835.
Land appropriated, to be applied in the manner provided by the act of May 30, 1830, ch, 215.
Last paragraph of the first section of said act repealed.
Appropriation.
No higher duties of tonnage to be levied on Spanish vessels than are paid by Amer. vessels.
Spanish colonial vessels to pay same tonnage duty as American vessels in Spanish colonial ports.
The President, in case any foreign nation shall abolish discriminating tonnage duties on Amer. vessels, may direct duties on vessels of such nation to cease, &c.
2d and 3d sections to take effect Jan. 1, 1833.
Librarian to prepare an apartment for a law library, &c.
Justices of the Supreme Court to have access, and make rules and regulations.
Proviso.
Law library to be part of library of Congress, &c.
Incidental expenses.
Appropriations.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation.
Allowance to officers of the marine corps.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the following objects specifically, namely:
For the pay and mileage of members of both Houses of Congress and delegates, and of the joint committee directed to prepare a code of laws for the District of Columbia, one hundred thousand dollars.
For alterations in the hall of the House of Representatives, and other expenditures on the Capitol, nine hundred and sixty dollars.
For changing the course of Tiber Creek, three thousand two hundred and two dollars.
For planting trees and improving the walk on Pennsylvania avenue, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight dollars.
For completing the building now erecting in the city of Philadelphia for the mint establishment of the United States, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars.
For the employment of temporary clerks to enable the commissioner of the general land office to bring up the business of his office, five thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of removing from the burying ground of Rock Creek church to the Congressional cemetery the remains of James Jackson, and James Jones, formerly members of Congress from the Appropriations.
For defraying the increased expenses of the quartermaster’s department, incurred in the Indian war, one hundred thousand dollars.
For completing barracks, quarters, hospital and storehouses, at Key West, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the expenses incurred by the Secretary of the Treasury in collecting information of the extent and condition of the manufactures of the United States, in compliance with certain resolutions of the House of Representatives, eighteen thousand dollars.
To enable the President of the United States to contract with a skilful artist to execute, in marble, a pedestrian statue of George Washington, to be placed in the centre of the Rotmido of the Capitol, the sum of five thousand dollars.
For the construction, under the superintendence of the commissioner of the public buildings, of a substantial brick or stone vault in the Washington parish burial-ground, for the temporary interment of members of Congress, one thousand dollars.
For arrearages arising from a deficiency of appropriation for printing the laws of the territory of Florida and for the payment of C. C. Greenup, remaining unpaid as estimated by the Treasury Department, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars and thirteen cents.
For deficiency of appropriation for the salary of the governor of Florida, five hundred dollars.
In addition to the contingent fund of the House of Representatives, five thousand dollars.
For the salary of the surveyor of public lands in the territory of Arkansas, and compensation to draughtsman, and clerks in his office, during the remainder of the current year, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For the pay, subsistence, and forage of surgeons, assistant surgeons, 1832, ch. 150.
For the pay, subsistence, and other expenses of the mounted rangers, 1832, ch. 131.
For the expenses of militia and volunteers called into the service of the United States, in addition to the appropriation of three hundred thousand dollars heretofore made for that object, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the transportation of the army, ordnance, subsistence, and other objects connected with the quartermaster’s department, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For the subsistence of militia called into service to suppress Indian hostilities, fifty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the payment of pensions to widows and orphans granted during the present session, three thousand dollars.
In order to carry into effect the act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution, the following sums, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War;
For the compensation of temporary clerks, three thousand dollars.
For rent, printing of forms and regulations, six hundred and fifty dollars.
Appropriation to defray ex-
penses of a delegation of the Seminole Indians to explore country west of the Mississippi.
Ante, p. 519.
Transfer of appropriation.
Payment to be made to troops in the service of the United States.
Act of June 30, 1834, ch. 155.
Secretary of the Treasury to pay Washington Bridge Company $20,000, upon conveyance, &c.
Bridge to be erected across the Potomac.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Appropriation.
Application and distribution of sum to be paid.
Act to be void, unless valuers appraise company’s property at $20,000; or if appraised at a less sum, company accept such valuation.
Parts of the act of May 19, 1828, ch. 55, repealed.
Duties to be levied on certain articles, after 3d of March, 1833.
Coarse unmanufactured wool free.
Unmanufactured wool, valued at more than eight cents per pound.
Proviso.
On manufactures of wool, or of which wool is a component part.
Under the act of Congress passed July 14, 1832, ch. 227, entitled “An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports,” worsted shawls with cotton borders, and worsted suspenders with cotton straps or ends, are not subjected to a duty of fifty per cent, ad valorem. Elliott v. Swartwout, 10 Peters, 137.
Laws imposing duties on goods are intended for practical use and application by men engaged in commerce, and hence it has become a settled rule in the interpretation of statutes of this description to construe the language adopted by the legislature, and particularly in the denomination of articles, according to the commercial understanding of the terms used. Ibid.
Construction of statutes:
The principles applied in the courts of the United States, in relation to the construction of statutes of the United States, and of statutes in general.
The suspension of a statute for a limited time, is not a repeal of it. Brown, plaintiff in error, v. Barry, 3 Dall. 365; 1 Cond. Rep. 165.
The intention of the legislature, when discovered, must prevail; any rule of construction, declared by previous acts, to the contrary notwithstanding. Ibid.
The presumption must always be in favour of the validity of a law if the contrary is not clearly demonstrated. Cooper v. Telfair, 4 Dall. 14; 1 Cond. Rep. 211.
A legislative act founded on a mistaken opinion of what was law, docs not change the actual state of the law, as to pre-existing cases. Talbot v. Seeman, 1 Cranch 1; I Cond. Rep. 229.
It is true, that in more private cases between individuals, a court will and ought to struggle hard against, a construction, which will, by a retrospective operation, affect the rights of parties; but in great national concerns, where individual rights acquired by war are sacrificed for national purposes, the contract making the sacrifice ought always to receive a construction conforming to its manifest import; and if the nation has given up the vested rights of its citizens, it is not for the court, but for the government, to consider whether it be a case proper for compensation. United States v. The Schooner Peggy. 1 Cranch, 103; 1 Cond. Rep. 256.
If courts are to regard the constitution, and the constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature; the constitution, and not such ordinary act, must govern the case to which they both apply. Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137; 1 Cond. Rep. 267.
In the construction of a statute, positive and explicit provisions, comprehending in terms a whole class of cases, are nut to be restrained by applying to those cases an implication drawn from subsequent words; unless that implication be very clear, necessary, and irresistible. Faw v. Marsteller, 2 Cranch, 10; 1 Cond. Rep. 337.
Where a case is shown to be out of the mischief intended to be guarded against, or out of the spirit of the law; the letter of the statute will not be deemed so unequivocal as absolutely to exclude another construction. Ibid.
It is said the case ought to be an extraordinary one, that the circumstances ought to be uncommon, which would warrant a departure from the general principles established for the government of contracts. This is true, and the Supreme Court would certainly not feel itself at liberty to exercise, on a common occasion, a discretionary power, limited only by the opinion entertained of the naked justice of the case. Ibid.
That a law is the best expositor of itself; that every part of an act is to be taken into view for the purpose of discovering the mind of the legislature; and that the details of one part may contain regulations restricting the extent of general expressions used in another part of the same act; are among those plain rules laid down by common sense for the exposition of statutes, which have been uniformly acknowledged. Pennington v. Coxe, 2 Cranch, 33; 1 Cond. Rep. 346.
It is undoubtedly a well-established principle in the exposition of statutes, that every part is to be considered, and the intention of the legislature to be extracted from the whole. It is also true that where great inconvenience will result from a particular construction, that construction is to be avoided; unless the meaning of the legislature be plain; in which case it must be obeyed. United States y. Fisher et al., Assignees of Blight, 2 Cranch, 358; 1 Cond. Rep. 421.
That the consequences are to be considered in expounding laws, where the intent is doubtful, is a principle not to be contradicted; but it is also true, that it is a principle which must be applied with caution; and which has a degree of influence dependent on the nature of the case to which it is applied, when rights are infringed. Ibid.
Where fundamental principles are overthrown, where the general system of the laws is departed from, the legislative intention must be expressed with irresistible clearness, to induce a court of justice to suppose a design to effect such objects. But when only a political regulation is made which is inconvenient; if the intention of the legislature be expressed in terms which are sufficiently intelligible to leave no doubt in the mind, when die words are taken in their ordinary sense; it would be going a great way to say that a constrained interpretation must be put upon them, to avoid an inconvenience which ought to have been contemplated in the legislature, when the net was passed; and which, in their opinion, was probably overbalanced by the particular advantages it was calculated to produce. Ibid.
In cases depending on the statutes of a state, the settled construction of these statutes, by the state courts, is to be regarded. Polk’s Lessee v. Wendal, 9 Cranch, 87; 3 Cond. Rep. 286.
In the construction of the statutes or local laws of a slate, it is frequently necessary to recur to the history and situation of the country, in order to ascertain the reason as well as the meaning of many of them, to enable a court to apply with propriety the different rules for construing statutes. Preston v. Browder, 1 Wheat. 115; 3 Cond. Rep. 508.
The best judges in England have been of opinion, that relaxing the construction of the statute of frauds ought not to be extended further than it has al ready been curried; and the Supreme Court entirely concurs in that opinion. Grant v. Naylor, 4 Crunch, 224; 2 Cond. Rep. 95.
An act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations, if any other possible construction remains; and consequently can never be construed to violate neutral rights, or to affect neutral commerce, further than is warranted by the law of nations, as understood in this country. Murray v. The Charming Betsey, 2 Cranch, 61; 1 Cond. Rep. 358.
When an act of Congress is revived by a subsequent act, it is revived precisely in that form, and with that effect, which it had at the moment when it expired. The cargo of the Brig Aurora v. The United States, 7 Cranch, 382; 2 Cond. Rep. 540.
It is a general rule, in the construction of public statutes, that the word “may” is to be construed “must,” in all cases where the legislature mean to impose a positive and absolute duty, and not merely to give a discretionary power. And in all cases, the construction should be such as carries into effect the true intent and meaning of the legislature in the enactment. Minor et al. v. The Mechanics’ Bank of Alexandria, 1 Peters, 46.
Where English statutes, such for instance as the statute of frauds, and the statute of limitations, have been adopted into our own legislation; the known and settled construction of those statutes by English courts of law has been considered as silently incorporated into the acts; or has been received with all the weight-of authority. Pennock v. Dialogue et al., 2 Peters, 1.
Where the question upon the construction of the statute of a state relative to real property has been settled by any judicial decision in the state where the land lies; the Supreme Court, upon the uniform principles adopted by it, would recognise that decision as a part of the local law. Gardner v. Collins, 2 Peters, 58.
A legislative act is to be interpreted according to the intention of the legislature, apparent upon its face. Every technical rule as to the construction or force of particular terms, must yield to the clear expression of the paramount will of the legislature. Wilkinson to Leland et al., 2 Peters, 627.
In cases not absolutely closed by authority, the Supreme Court has always expressed a strong inclination not to extend the operation of the statute of frauds so as to embrace original and distinct promises, made by different persons at the same time, upon the same general consideration. Townsley v. Sumrall, 2 Peters, 182.
The Supreme Court has been often called upon to consider the sixteenth section of the judiciary act of 1789, and as often, either expressly or by the course of its decisions, has held that it is merely declaratory; making no alteration whatever in the rules of equity on the subject of legal remedy. Boyce’s Executors v. Grundy, 3 Peters, 210.
The rule which has uniformly been observed by the Supreme Court in construing statutes, is to adopt the construction made by courts of the country, by whose legislature the statute was enacted. This rule may be susceptible of some modification, when applied to British statutes which are adopted in any of the states. By adopting them they become our own, as entirely as if they had been enacted by the legislature of the state. Cathcart et al. v. Robinson, 5 Peters, 264.
The construction which British statutes had received in England at the time of their adoption in this country, indeed to the time of the separation of this country from the British empire, may very properly be considered as accompanying the statutes themselves, and forming an integral part of them. But however subsequent decisions may be respected, and certainly they are entitled to great respect, their absolute authority is not admitted. If the English courts vary their construction of a statute which is common to both countries, we do not hold ourselves bound to fluctuate with them. Ibid.
Generally statutes are to be construed to operate in future, unless a retrospective effect be clearly intended. Prince v. The United States, 2 Gallis. C. C. R. 204.
The word ‘or’ has sometimes been construed to mean ‘and.’ Such construction has been clearly necessary to give effect to a clause in a will, or to some legislative provision, but never to change a contract at pleasure, Douglass v. Eyre, Gilpin’s D. C. R. 148.
Where a British statute is re-enacted in this country, it is reasonable to suppose that the legislature designed to adopt, as well the settled construction which had been given to the act by the British courts, as the act itself. Kirkpatrick et al.. Gibson’s Executors, 2 Brockenb. C. C. R. 388.
In doubtful cases, a court should compare all the parts of a statute, and different statutes in pari materia, to ascertain the intention of the legislature. The Sloop Elizabeth, Paines’s C. C. R. 11.
Semble: That in questions of commercial law the courts of the United States are not concluded by the local construction proceeding from slate courts. Donnell v. The American Ins. Co., 2 Sumner’s C. C. R. 366.
In the construction of statutes, one part must be construed by another. In order to attest the legislative intention, the whole statute must be inspected. Strode V. Stafford Justices, 1 Brockenb. C. C. R. 162.
It is a rule of law that a statute applicable in its terms to particular notions, cannot be applied by construction to other actions standing on the same reasons. Jacob v. The United States, 1 Brockenb. C. C. R. 620.
Penal laws must be construed strictly to bring the case within the definition of the law, but not so as to exclude a case within their ordinary acceptation. The United States v. Wilson and Porter, 1 Baldwin’s C. C. R. 78.
Laws are construed strictly to save a right, or avoid a penalty; and liberally to give a remedy, or effect an object declared in the law. Whitney et al. v. Emmett et al., 1 Baldwin’s C. C. R. 316.
The provisions of a law which are merely directory, are not to be construed into conditions precedent. Ibid.
The mercantile terms arc to be taken in the sense intended, which is to be ascertained by the laws in pari materia. The United States v. Twenty-four Coils of Cordage, 1 Baldwin’s C. C. R. 505.
The words of a law imposing a forfeiture or penalty, should not be construed to embrace a case not within the parts of the law which prohibits the act done, or direct the performance of an act, by the omission or which the penalty or forfeiture is incurred. Ibid. 508.
If a section of an act of Congress admits of two interpretations, one of which brings it within, and the other pushes it beyond the constitutional authority of Congress; it is the duty of the Supreme Court to adopt the former construction; because a presumption never ought to be indulged, that Congress meant to exercise or usurp any unconstitutional authority; unless that construction is forced on the court by language altogether incongruous. The United States v. Combe, 12 Peters, 72.
Upon the general principles of interpreting statutes, when the words are general, the court are not at liberty to insert limitations not called for by the sense, or the objects, or the mischiefs of the enactment. Ibid.
The office of a proviso, generally, is either to except something from the enacting clause, or to qualify or restrain its generality, or to exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of its extending to cases not intended by the legislature to be brought within its purview. Ibid.
The court in construing an act will not consider the motives, or reasons, or opinions, expressed by individual members of Congress in debate, but will look, if necessary, to the public history of the times in which it was passed. Aldridge et al. v. Williams, 3 Howard, 1.
An act of Congress imposing a duty upon imports, must be construed to describe the article upon which the duty is imposed according to the commercial understanding of the terms used in the law, in our own markets, at the Lime when the law was passed. Curtis v. Martin, 3 Howard, 106.
Revenue laws for the prevention of fraud, for the suppression of a public wrong, or to effect a public good, are not in a strict sense penal statutes, although they impose a penalty. But they ought to he so construed as most effectually to accomplish the intention of the legislature, in passing them, instead of being construed with great strictness in favour of the defendant. Taylor et al. v. The United States, 3 Howard, 197.
A clause of forfeiture in a law is to be construed differently from a similar clause in an engagement between individuals. A legislature may impose it as a punishment, but individuals can only make it a matter of contract. The State of Maryland v. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, 3 Howard, 534.
Statutes in pari materia, should be taken into consideration in construing a law. If a thing contained in a subsequent statute be within the reason of a former statute, it shall be taken to be within the meaning of that statute. The United States v. Freeman, 3 Howard, 556.
If it can be gathered from a subsequent statute in pari materia, what meaning the legislature attached to the words of a former statute, this will amount to a legislative declaration of its meaning, and will govern the construction of the first statute. Ibid.
The meaning of the legislature may be extended beyond the precise words used in the law, from the reason or motive on which the legislature proceeded, from the end in view, or the purpose which was designed; the limitation of the rule being that to extend the meaning in any case not included within the words, the case must be shown to come within the same reason upon which the law-maker proceeded, and not a like reason. Ibid.
In affirmative statutes, such part of a prior as may be incorporated into the subsequent statute, as consistent with it, must be considered in force. Davies v. Fairbairn, 3 Howard, 636.
If a subsequent statute be not repugnant in all its provisions to a prior one, yet if the latter statute clearly intended to prescribe the only rules which should govern, it repeals the prior one. Ibid.
In the construction of penal statutes, the proper course is to search out and follow the true intent of the legislature and to adopt that sense which harmonizes best with the context, and promotes, in the fullest manner, the apparent policy and objects of the legislature. The United States v. Weaver, 3 Sumner’s C. C. R, 208.
In construing an act of Congress, if there be a mistake apparent on the face of the act, which may be corrected by other language in the act itself, the mistake is not fatal. Blanchard n. Sprague, 3 Sumtier’s C. C. R. 279.
But where the descriptive words constitute the very essence of the act, unless the description is so clear and accurate us to refer to the particular subject intended, and be incapable of being applied to any other, the mistake is fatal. Ibid.
There is no case where the court in the construction of a statute has substituted other words and other dates, in order to maintain an act making erroneous references to things aliunde. Ibid.
The judiciary act of 1789, ch. 20, sec. 32, gives no authority to the courts of the United States to make any amendments in judgments except as to defects in want of form. Albers v. Whitney, 1 Story C. C. R. 310.
Although penal statutes are to be construed strictly, yet all the provisions thereof must be taken together, and interpreted according to the import of the words, and not by the mere division into sections, so as to give effect to the object and intent of the statute, and all statutes relating to the same subject matter are to be interpreted together, and such a construction is to be given to them, consistent with the words, as will avoid the mischief, and promote the objects and policy contemplated by the statutes. The Schooner Harriet, 1 Story C. C. R. 251.
The tariff, being a statute regulating commerce, the terms of it must be construed according to commercial usage. Bacon v. Bancroft, 1 Story C. C. R, 341.
Manufactures of cotton, or of part cotton.
1824, ch. 136.
Proviso.
Floor cloths, oil cloths, and floor matting.
Iron, in bars or bolts, not manufactured.
Bar or bolt iron made wholly or in part by rolling.
Proviso.
Iron in pigs.
Iron or steel wire, &c.
Round iron or braziers’ rods, &c.
Iron spikes, nails, &c.
Anvils, anchors, iron cables, &c.
No drawback allowed on iron cables.
Firearms.
Axes, &c.
Proviso.
Steel.
Japanned and plated wares, &c.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Scrap and old iron, &c.
Hemp, sail duck, cotton bagging, &c.
An act of Congress imposing a duty on imports, must be construed to describe the article upon which the duty is imposed according to the commercial understanding of the, terms used in the law, in our own markets, at the time when the law was passed. Curtis v. Martin et al., 3 Howard, 106.
The duty, therefore, imposed by the act of 1832, upon cotton bagging, cannot properly be levied upon an article which was not known in the market as cotton bagging in 1832, although it may subsequently be called so. Ibid.
Manufactures of silk, &c.
Sugars.
Salt.
Old and scrap lead.
Teas.
Slates.
Window glass.
Proviso.
Vials, bottles, &c.
Black glass bottles, &c.
Leghorn bonnets, &c.
Whalebone, &c.
Boards, planks, &c.
Cabinet wares, &c.
Olive oil.
Wines.
Proviso.
Baskets, beads, indigo, &c.
Articles not specified.
Certain articles imported from and after March 3, 1833, to be exempted from duty.
Proviso.
Parts of acts repealed.
Duty not exceeding $200 to be paid in cash; if it exceed $200 to be paid or secured to be paid.
So much of the 62d section of the act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22, vol. i. p. 627, as authorizes deposit of teas in bond, to be repealed.
Any law requiring teas to be weighed, &c. repealed.
Duties on wool to be paid in cash, or placed under bond, in public stores.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Actual value of goods, &c. in certain cases, to be appraised, estimated, and ascertained by collector and appraiser.
Proviso.
Appraisers may examine owners, &c., touching true value of merchandise imported, and require the production of letters, &c.
Duty of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Additional duty of ten per cent, on all goods,&c. imported in foreign vessels, where a specific discrimination has not been already made.
Proviso.
Vol. iv. p. 2.
Drawback.
Proviso.
Existing laws for the collection of duties to continue in fores after March 3, 1833, as fully as if re-enacted in this act.
Value of best article in package, being all or part wool or cotton, to be adopted as average value of the whole.
Goods found not to correspond with entry, &c., to be forfeited.
Ad valorem duties, how to be estimated.
Pound sterling to be valued at $4.80.
Syrup.
Sugar.
Mineral salt.
Articles enumerated in this
bill may be put in custom-house stores under the bond of the importer, &c.; and such as remain after March 3, 1833, to be subject to no other duty than if imported after that day; if the duties were previously paid, to be refunded.
Proviso.
Appropriation for extinguishment of Indian title to lands in Missouri and Illinois.
Annuity to the Shawnees, &c.
Legal representatives of John and James Pettigrew.
Legatees of A. McKnight.
To be paid from the treasury.
Appropriation.
Act of March 2, 1831, ch 62.
Provisions of former act extended to every person who was on the 1st of January, 1831, indebted tn the United States, &c.
Secretary of Treasury to execute releases in certain cases.
Debtor not to be discharged until it appear that sureties are unable to pay the debt, &c.
Appropriation.
[Expired.]
Commissioners to be appointed to examine the country set apart for emigrating Indians, &c. and to report proper locations, &c.
Commissioners to convene hostile tribes, and endeavour to arrange their difficulties.
Act of May 23, 1830, ch. 148.
To report a plan for the improvement of the Indians.
To report relative to mode of emigrating.
To receive instructions from the War Department.
Appropriation.
Act limited to two years.
[Obsolete.]
Observations to be made preparatory to the adjustment of the boundary line of Ohio.
Result to be returned within one year.
Acts which have been passed relating to the mitigation and remission of forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities.
Remission of fines, penalties, forfeitures, and disabilities:
An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures and penalties accruing under the revenue laws in certain cases, May 26, 1790, ch. 12. (Expired.)
An act to continue in force “An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures and penalties accruing under the revenue Jaws, in certain cases,” &c., May 8, 1792, ch. 35. (Obsolete.)
An act to continue in force for a limited time the acts therein mentioned, March 2, 1795, ch. 37. (Expired.)
An act directing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit fines, forfeitures and penalties, in certain cases, Jan. 2, 1813, ch. 7. (Obsolete.)
An act authorizing the admission, under certain circumstances, of vessels owned by citizens of the United States of America, with their cargoes, from British ports beyond the Cape of Good Hope, Jan. 27, 1813, ch. 14. (Obsolete.)
An act directing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit certain fines, penalties, and forfeitures therein mentioned, Feb. 27, 1813, ch. 33. (Obsolete.)
An act to provide for mitigating and remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities accruing in certain cases therein mentioned, March 3, 1797, ch. 13.
[By the fourth section of this act, it was to continue in force for two years, and thence to the end of the next session of Congress. This section was afterwards repealed by act of Feb. 11, 1800, ch. 6.]
An act to repeal part of “An act to provide for mitigating and remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities accruing in certain cases therein mentioned,” and to continue in force the residue of the same, Feb. 11, 1800, ch. 6.
An act further to regulate the entry of merchandise imported into the United States, from any adjacent territory, March 2, 1821, ch. 14, sec. 3.
An act supplementary to and to amend an act, entitled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” passed second March, 1799, and for other purposes, March 1, 1823, ch. 21, sec. 35.
An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities therein mentioned,” July 14, 1832, ch. 233.
Suits for fines, penalties, and forfeitures:
An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, March 2, 1799, ch. 22, sec. 89.
An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, March 3, 1815, ch. 93, sec. 5.
An act further to regulate the entry of merchandise imported into the United States from any adjacent territory, March 2, 1821, ch. 14, sec. 3.
An act supplementary to and to amend an act, entitled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” passed March 2, 1799, and for other purposes, March 1, 1823, ch. 20, sec. 35.
An act for the more effectual collection of the impost duties, May 28, 1830, ch. 147, sec. 7.
Limitation of suits for fines, penalties, and forfeitures:
An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, April 30, 1790, ch. 9, sec. 31.
An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, March 2, 1799, ch. 22, sec. 89.
An act in addition to an act entitled “An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, March 26, 1804, ch. 40, sec. 3.
An act for the regulation of seamen on board the public and private armed vessels of the United States, March 3, 1813, ch. 42, sec. 14.
Distribution of fines, penalties, and forfeitures:
An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, 1799, ch. 22, sec. 91.
An act to prohibit intercourse with the enemy, and for other purposes, Feb. 4, 1815, ch. 31, sec. 7.
An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, March 3, 1815, ch. 93, sec. 5.
An act further to regulate the entry of merchandise imported into the United States from any adjacent territory, March 2, 1821, ch. 14, sec. 3.
An act supplementary to and to amend an act entitled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” passed March 2, 1799, and for other purposes, March 1, 1823, ch. 20, sec. 35.
Decisions of the courts of the United States on the remission and distribution of the proceeds of penalties and forfeitures:
Action of indebitatus assumpsit, was brought by the officers of the revenue cutter of the district of Delaware, for one half of the forfeiture incurred for a violation of the non-intercourse law, by a vessel seized by the collector of Delaware, on the information of the plaintiffs, and sent by him to the district of Pennsylvania for trial, where she was condemned, and the amount of the forfeiture was received by the defendant, the collector of the port of Philadelphia. Held, 1st. The information to induce a seizure need not be as full as the evidence in the case would authorize to condemn. It is sufficient if it induced the prosecution. 2d. It is not necessary that the officers of the revenue cutter should, where they gave the information, make a claim for a part of the forfeiture; or that they should take any part in the prosecution of the case, to entitle them to a portion of the proceeds. 3d. The consent of the plaintiffs that the vessel should be sent from the district of Delaware, to the district of Pennsylvania; or a disavowal by them, of having instituted this suit, does not constitute a waiver of their right to their share of the forfeiture. 4th. The defendant is not liable to the plaintiffs for such parts of the proceeds of the forfeiture as he had paid over to other officers of the custom-house for their shares, before notice of the claims of the plaintiffs. Sawyer et al. v. Steele, 3 Wash. C. C. R. 464.
A bond was given to T. S., the collector of the district of Petersburg, under the second section of the embargo act of the 22d of December, 1807, and a suit was afterwards brought by him on the same bond in the district court; and pending the proceedings, to wit, on the 30th of October, 1811, J. S., the collector, died; and judgment was recovered in favour of the United States, on the 30th of November, 1811. On the 26th of the same November, J. J. was appointed collector of the same district, and entered on the duties of his office on the 14th of December, 1811; until which time T. S., who was deputy collector under J. S., at his decease, continued as such to discharge the duties of the office. The judgment of the district court was subsequently affirmed by the circuit court. When the bond was taken, A. T. was surveyor of the district, and continued in that office until his death, which was after the commencement of the suit oh the bond, and before judgment thereon, and was succeeded by J. H. P., who was appointed on the 30th of March, 1811, and entered on the duties of his office on the 16th of the same month. It was held, that the personal representatives of the deceased collector and surveyor, and not their successors in office, were entitled to that portion of the penalty which is, by Jaw, to be distributed among the revenue officers of the district where it was incurred. There being no naval officer in the district, the division was adjudged to be made in equal proportions between the collector and surveyor. Jones and others v. Shore’s Executors and others, 1 Wheat. 462; 3 Cond. Rep. 624.
The Secretary of the Treasury has authority, under the remission act of the 3d of March, 1797, ch. 13, to remit a forfeiture or penalty accruing under the revenue law’s, at any time, before or after a final sentence of condemnation or judgment for the penalty, until the money is actually paid over to the collector for distribution. United States v. Morris, 10 Wheat. 246; 6 Cond. Rep. 90.
Such remission extends to the shares of the forfeiture or penalty to which the officers of the customs are entitled, as well as to the interest of the United States. Ibid.
The ship Good Friends, and her cargo of British merchandise, owned by Stephen Girard, a citizen of the United States, was seized by the collector of the Delaware district, on the 19th of April, 1812, for a violation of the non-intercourse laws of the United States then in force. The ship and cargo were condemned as forfeited, in the district and circuit court of the Delaware district. On the 29th July, 1813, Congress passed “An act for the relief of the owners of the Good Friends,” &c., and a remission of the forfeiture was granted by the Secretary of the Treasury, under the authority of that act, with the exception of a sum equal to the double duties imposed by an act of Congress passed on the 1st of July, 1812. The collector was entitled to one moiety of the whole amount reserved by the Secretary of the Treasury, as the condition of the remission. M’ Lane v. The United States, 6 Peters, 404.
Where a sentence of condemnation has been finally pronounced in a case of seizure, the Supreme Court, as an incident to the possession of the principal cause, has a right to proceed to decree a distribution of the proceeds, according to the terms proscribed bylaw. And it is a familiar practice to institute proceedings for the purpose of such distribution, whenever a doubt occurs as to the rights of the parties, who are entitled to share in the distribution. Ibid.
The duty of the collector in superintending the collection of the revenue, and of making seizures for supposed violations of law, is onerous and full of perplexity. If he seizes any goods, it is at his own peril; and he is condemnable in damages and costs, if it should turn out upon the final adjudication, that there was no probable cause for the seizure. As a just reward for his diligence, and a compensation for his risks; at once to stimulate his vigilance and secure his activity, the laws of the United States have awarded to him a large share of the proceeds of the forfeiture. But his right by the seizure is but inchoate; and although the forfeiture may have been justly incurred, yet the government has reserved to itself the right to release it, either in whole or in part, until the proceeds have been actually received for distribution; and in that event, and to that extent, it displaces the right of the collector. Such was the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of the United States v. Morris, 10 Wheat. 246. Ibid.
But whatever is reserved to the government out of the forfeiture, is reserved as well for the seizing officer, as for itself; and is distributable accordingly. The government has no authority, under its existing laws, to release the collectors share, as such, and yet to retain to itself the other part of the forfeiture. Ibid.
In point of law, no duties, as such, can legally accrue upon the importation of prohibited goods. They are not entitled to entry at the custom-house, or to be bonded. They are, ipso facto, forfeited by the mere act of importation. Ibid.
The Secretary of the Treasury may remit not only the interest of the United States, but of individuals, in penalties and forfeitures in certain cases, after suit brought, and before judgment. United States v. Lancaster, 4 Wash. C. C. R. 64.
A pardon of the President of the United States, after condemnation, as to all the interest of the United States, in the penalty incurred by a violation of the embargo laws, and directing all further proceedings on behalf of the United States to be discontinued, does not remit the interest of the customhouse officers in a moiety. Ibid.
Under the 91st section of the duty act of March 2d, 1799, ch. 22, the share of a forfeiture to which the collector, &c., of the district is entitled, is to be paid to the person who was the collector, &c., in the office at the time the seizure was made; and not to his successor in office at the time of condemnation, and the receipt of the money. Buel v. Van Ness, 8 Wheat. 312; 5 Cond. Rep. 445.
Until final judgment, no port of the forfeiture vests absolutely in the collector; but after final judgment, his share vests absolutely, and cannot be remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury. The Hollen, 1 Mason’s C. C. R. 431.
If, pending the proceedings, a remission be made of the whole property forfeited, the whole title of the collector is gone; if of a part only, bis title attaches to the remainder, and, by a judgment of condemnation, becomes fixed and indissoluble. The Margaretta, 2 Gallis. C. C. R. 515.
If there is no informer, the United States have one-half, and the officers of the customs the other. If there is an informer, the informer has a fourth, and the custom-house officers a fourth. If the informer is an officer of a revenue cutter, the United States have a fourth, one-fourth to the custom-house officers, and the officer of the revenue cutter one-half. Sawyer et al. v. Steele, 3 Wash. C. C. R. 464.
The consent of the claimants that the vessel should be sent into another district for adjudication, or a disavowal by them of having instituted the suit, does not amount to a waiver by them, of their right to a share of the forfeiture. Ibid.
But the collector is not responsible for such part of the forfeiture as he may have paid over, bona fide, to other officers, for their shares, before notice of the plaintiff’s claim. Ibid.
The Secretary of the Treasury has no power to remit penalties, unless in cases provided for by law. If he recites his authority under a special act, and remits in pursuance of that act, the remission, if unsupported by that act, cannot be supported under the general act of March 3, 1797, ch. 13. Under the act of February 27, 1813, eh. 33, the Secretary of the Treasury had no authority to remit penalties for goods subsequently imported, contrary to the non-importation act. Under the net of March 3, 1797, ch. 13, the district judge is bound, upon a petition for remission, to state the facts, and not merely the evidence of the facts; and the Secretary of the Treasury is bound by this statement of facts, and cannot legally act upon any other evidence. The Margaretta, 2 Gallis. C. C. R. 515.
The district judge, in stating such facts, acts judicially; and the proof before him must be made by competent, as well as credible testimony. A statement by the district judge that the claimant only swore to the facts before him, is no legal proof under the act of 1797, upon which the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to remit. Under the act of February 27, 1813, ch. 33, the Secretary of the Treasury had no authority to make a remission of part only of the property forfeited; if he remitted at all, he was bound to remit the whole penalty or forfeiture. Neither under the act of 1797, nor the net of 1813, had the Secretary of the Treasury any authority to remit the collector’s share of the forfeiture, nor any part of it, eo nomine. Ibid.
Fines imposed by the act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22, for obstructing officers of the customs, as well as penalties, are to be received by the collector of the customs, and distributed by him. Ex parte Marquand, 2 Gallia. C. C. R. 552.
Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe rules.
Secretary to exercise power conferred by said act, &c.
Appropriation for distribution among the owners, officers, and crew of the Spanish brig Leon.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 81, repealed.
Third section of May 15, 1828, ch. 53, not to embrace invalid pensioners, &c.
Act of March 3, 1831, ch. 76, repealed.
Office of surveyor discontinued.
Court of appeals to be composed of judges of the superior courts.
Majority to constitute a quorum, &c.
Writs of error and appeals authorized to be taken and prosecuted from the highest court of law or equity, &c., in the same manner, &c.
Act of Sept. 24, 1789, ch. 20.
The regulations prescribed, &c., shall be observed, &c.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 40.
Appeals and writs of error to be allowed only where the amount in controversy exceeds $1000.
Certain public lands to be attached to the land districts in which they are respectively situate, &c.
Commissioners authorized to rest money arising from sale of certain land in some productive fund.
March 2, 1829, ch. 39.
Proceeds to be applied to common schools.
Commissioners authorized to sell remainder of lots, &c.
Proviso.
Act of May 23, 1828, ch. 85.
Assent of the United States given to act of Maryland.
Proviso.
Appropriation.
Act of Congress of May 7, 1822, ch. 112, revived and continued in force for four years.
Appropriation.
Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208.
Act of Jan. 23, 1832, ch. 9.
Occupants and settlers on public lands, entitled to pre-emption, &c.
Occupants upon fractions to be permitted to enter in like manner, &c.
Sale of land authorized.
Settlers on said lands, who, prior to 1830, cultivated, &c. allowed to enter, &c.
Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208.
Grant of city lots to the value of $25,000.
Sale authorized, &c.
Commissioner of public buildings to make return of the numbers, &c.
Proceeds of sales to be used by trustees only as capital, to be vested, &c.
Secretary of the Treasury to allow drawback on rail iron, &c.
Proviso.
Time for payment of bonds extended in certain cases.
Proviso.
Act of May 23, 1828, ch. 75.
Plan for improvement of Tennessee river authorized to be altered.
Proviso.
Contracts to be settled.
Outstanding contracts to be fulfilled.
Patents to be recorded.
The pay of the marines to continue as previous to April 1, 1829.
Duties transferred from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Secretary of War.
Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.
Distribution of the returns of the fifth census.
Distribution of the compilation of congressional documents.
That the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, directed to distribute, by mail or otherwise, the compilation of documents Act of March 2, 1831, ch. 65.
To the President of the United States, and to each person who has been President, one copy.
To the Vice President of the United States, one copy.
To the Department of State, four copies, viz: one for the use of the secretary, one to be deposited in the patent office, and the two other to remain in the library of that department.
For the ministers of the United States, in foreign countries, fifty copies, to be deposited in and distributed under such regulations as may be made by the Department of State.
To the Treasury Department, twelve copies, namely: for the use of the secretary, one copy; and for the use of the first and second comptrollers, the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth auditors; the treasurer, register, solicitor, and commissioner of the general land office; one copy each.
To the War Department, thirteen copies, namely: for the use of the Secretary, one copy; for the use of the commanding general of the army of the United States, the paymaster general, the adjutant general, the commissary general of purchases, the ordnance department, commissary general of subsistence, quartermaster general, engineer department, topographical bureau, one copy each; and for the use of the military academy, three copies.
To the Navy Department, fifty-four copies; namely: for the use of the Secretary, one copy; for the use of the commissioners of the navy board, one copy; and to enable the Secretary of the Navy to place one copy in every public armed vessel of the United States, when in commission, under such regulations as the said secretary shall prescribe, fifty-two copies.
To the general post-office, three copies; namely: for the use of the Postmaster General, one copy, and for the use of each of the assistants postmaster general, one copy.
To the library of Congress, five copies.
To the library of the Senate, ten copies.
To the library of the House of Representatives, twenty copies.
To each member of the Senate and House of Representatives, and delegates of the twenty-first and twenty-second Congress, one copy.
To the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, each, one copy.
To Mr. O. Rich; agent for the Congress Library, in London, one copy, to be disposed of by him in some suitable manner, in return for a donation made by authority of the British government, to the library of Congress, of the volumes of the record commission publications.
To supply the several states and territories of the United States, eighty-one copies, viz: for the use of the governor and each branch of the legislature of every state, one copy; for the use of the governor of each of the territories, one copy; and two copies to be deposited in tire archives of each of said territories, for the use of the legislature thereof.
To each incorporated college and athenaeum in the United States, not exceeding sixty-nine, one copy.
Further distribution of Secret Journals of old Congress.
Documents of the two houses.
Distribution of Journal of the Convention for forming the Constitution.
Binding printed returns of fifth census.
Act of March 23, 1830, ch. 40.
Joint resolution of April 29, 1816, repealed.
Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.
Documents of fifth census free of postage.
List of printers of laws of the United States, &c. with the compensation allowed, to be published in the Biennial Register.
That, in addition to the matter heretofore contained in the Biennial Register, published by direction of a joint resolution passed on the twenty-seventh of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, there shall be included a correct list in the next Register, of all printers of the laws of the United Slates subsequent to the thirtieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, to the thirtieth September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, with the compensation allowed to each; and of all printers within the period aforesaid, in any way employed by Congress, or by any department or officer of the government, with the compensation allowed to each, designating the department or officer causing the printing to be executed; Statement of allowances made to mail contractors. Lists to be sent to the State Department.
List of officers of United States Bank and its branches.
ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for government.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, viz:
For pay and mileage of the members of Congress and delegates, three hundred and seven thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars.
For pay of the officers and clerks of both houses, thirty-four thousand three hundred dollars.
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, twenty-five thousand six hundred dollars.
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred thousand dollars.
The said two sums last named to be applied to the payment of Application of last two sums.
For defraying the expenses of the several courts of the United States; Expenses of courts, &c.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for pensioners.
That the following sums be appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Revolutionary pensioners. 1832, ch. 126.
Invalid pensions.
Pensions to widows and orphans.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for fortifications.
That the following sums Ire appropriated to tire several objects hereinafter named specifically, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
For the preservation of Castle Island, and repair of fort Independence, Massachusetts, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, seventeen thousand dollars.
For fort Adams, Newport harbour, one hundred thousand dollars.
For repairing fort Columbus and Castle Williams, New York, fifty thousand dollars.
For fort Monroe, Virginia, forty-six thousand dollars.
For fort Calhoun, Virginia, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For completing the works at Oak Island, North Carolina, twenty-two thousand nine hundred dollars.
For the fortifications in the harbour of Charleston, South Carolina, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For the fort at Cockspur Island, Georgia, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For the completion of the fortifications at Pensacola, Florida, one hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars.
For completing the fort at Mobile Point, Alabama, fifty thousand dollars.
For contingencies of fortifications, ten thousand dollars.
Land district established.
Boundaries.
Land-office.
Register and receiver.
Act of May 20, 1830, ch. 101.
Coffee and cocoa in store Dec. 31, 1830, put on same footing as coffee and cocoa imported after same date.
Coffee, tea, and cocoa, in store Dec. 31, 1831, put on same footing as coffee, tea, and cocoa imported after same date.
Act of Feb. 19, 1831, ch. 30, expired.
Occupants prior to October 31,
1832, authorized to purchase.
Occupants prior to October 31, 1831, authorized to purchase.
Proviso.
Term of payment extended.
Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.
Invalid pensioners not embraced in 2d section of the former act.
Commissioner authorized to alter plan.
Appropriation.
Horses owned by militiamen or volunteers, and lost whilst in the service of the United States, to be paid for.
Value of arms and military accoutrements to be paid.
How claims shall be examined.
Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 110.
Purchase of two hundred copies authorized.
Proviso.
Subscription for the proposed continuation.
Resolution of May 24, 1828.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for naval service.
That the following sums be appropriated for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations for similar objects, viz:
Officers, &c.
Superintendents, &c.
Provisions.
Repairs, &c.
Medicines, &c.
Navy yards at
Portsmouth;
Boston;
New York;
Philadelphia;
Washington;
Norfolk;
Pensacola.
Ordnance, &c.
Miscellaneous.
For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, five Contingencies.
For pay of the officers and non-commissioned officers, musicians, and Marine corps.
For subsistence of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, Subsistence.
For clothing, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five Clothing.
For fuel, nine thousand and ninety-eight dollars. Fuel.
For contingent expenses, fourteen thousand dollars. Contingencies.
For military stores, two thousand dollars. Stores.
For medicines, hospital stores, and surgical instruments, two thousand Medicines, &c.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to discharge an outstanding Claim for prize money.
For the payment of claims arising under the act of eleventh of July, Claims under act of July 11, [14.] 1832, ch. 223.
Compensation to Board authorized by act of May 19, 1832, ch. 80.
Salary of clerk.
1832, ch. 194.
Suppression of slave trade.
John D. Sloat.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for the payment of Indian annuities, &c.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, severally, appropriated, for the payment of annuities due to various Indians, and Indian tribes, and other objects hereinafter enumerated, according to the stipulations of certain Indian treaties: to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:
To the Wyandot tribe, five thousand nine hundred dollars.
To the Wyandot, Munsee, and Delaware tribes, one thousand dollars.
To the Shawanee tribe, three thousand dollars, and eight hundred and forty dollars for expenses of a blacksmith, and furnishing salt.
To the Shawanee and Seneca tribes of Lewistown, one thousand dollars, and seven hundred and eighty dollars for expenses of a blacksmith.
To the Delaware tribe, six thousand five hundred dollars, and one hundred dollars for furnishing salt.
To the Wea tribe, three thousand dollars.
To the Piankeshaw tribe, eight hundred dollars.
To the Kaskaskias tribe, one thousand dollars.
To the Ottaway tribe, five thousand three hundred dollars.
To the Ottaway and Missouri tribes, two thousand five hundred dollars, and fifteen hundred dollars for the expenses of blacksmiths and tools, and agricultural implements.
To the Chippeway tribe, three thousand eight hundred dollars; also, one thousand dollars for purposes of education, and two thousand dollars for the purchase of farming utensils and cattle, and the employment of persons to aid them in their agriculture.
To the Chippeways, Ottaways, and Pattawatamie tribes, sixteen thousand dollars, and one hundred and twenty-five dollars for furnishing salt.
To the Pattawatamie tribe, sixteen thousand three hundred dollars, and one hundred dollars to To-pe-ni-be, principal chief; also, three thousand dollars for purposes of education, and two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars for expenses of blacksmiths, millers, and agriculturists, and for furnishing salt, tobacco, iron, and steel.
To the Pattawatamie tribe of Huron, four hundred dollars.
To the Choctaw tribe, fifty thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Mushulatubbe, a chief, one hundred and fifty dollars, and to Robert Cole, a chief, one hundred and fifty dollars; also, twelve thousand five hundred dollars for purposes of education, and two thousand nine hundred and fifty-five dollars for expenses of blacksmiths and millwrights, and for furnishing iron and steel.
To the Eel river tribe, one thousand one hundred dollars.
To the Six Nations, New York, four thousand five hundred dollars; also, two hundred dollars to the Young King, a chief, and fifty dollars to Little Billey, of the Seneca tribe.
To the Seneca tribe, New York, six thousand dollars.
To the Creek tribe, forty-six thousand five hundred dollars; also, three thousand dollars for purposes of education, and nine hundred and fifty-five dollars for expenses of a blacksmith, and for furnishing iron and steel.
To the Cherokee tribe, ten thousand dollars; also, two thousand dollars for purposes of education.
To the Chickasaw tribe, twenty-three thousand dollars. Indian annuities, &c.
To the Sac tribe, three thousand dollars.
To the Sac and Fox tribes, two thousand dollars.
To the Sac, Fox, and Io way tribes, three thousand dollars for the expenses of blacksmiths and agriculturists, and for furnishing farming utensils and cattle.
To the Fox tribe, three thousand dollars.
To the Ioway tribe, three thousand dollars; also, nine hundred dollars for expenses of a blacksmith and furnishing agricultural tools.
To the Osage tribe, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
To the Seneca tribe of Lewistown, one thousand dollars, and thirteen hundred and fifty dollars for expenses of a blacksmith and miller, and for furnishing iron and steel.
To the Quapaw tribe, two thousand dollars.
To the Kickapoo tribe of Illinois, two thousand dollars.
To the Florida Indians, five thousand dollars; also, one thousand dollars for purposes of education, and one thousand dollars for the expenses of a gun and blacksmith.
To the Miami tribe, twenty-five thousand dollars: also, two thousand dollars for the support of poor and infirm, and education of youth, and two thousand and twenty dollars for expenses of a blacksmith, and for furnishing salt, iron, steel, and tobacco.
To the Winnebago tribe, eighteen thousand dollars; also, three thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars for expenses of blacksmiths and agriculturists, and for furnishing salt and tobacco.
To the Kansa tribe, three thousand five hundred dollars.
To the Christian Indians, four hundred dollars.
To the Sioux tribe of Mississippi, two thousand dollars; also, one thousand seven hundred dollars for expenses of blacksmith, and furnishing agricultural tools.
To the Yancton and Santie bands, three thousand dollars; also, one thousand four hundred dollars for expenses of a blacksmith, and furnishing agricultural tools.
To the Omaha tribe, two thousand five hundred dollars; also, one thousand five hundred dollars for expenses of a blacksmith, and furnishing agricultural tools.
To the Sac tribe, of Missouri river, five hundred dollars: also, nine hundred dollars for expenses of a blacksmith, and furnishing agricultural tools.
For purposes of education of Sacs, Foxes, and others, as stipulated for in the treaty of July fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, three thousand dollars.
For purposes of education of Chippeways, Menomonies, and Winnebagoes, as stipulated in fifth article of the treaty of Butte des Mortes, of eleventh August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven; for the years one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, three thousand dollars.
For expenses of transportation and distribution of annuities to the Winnebagoes, Chippeways, Ottaways, Pattawatamies, Sacs, Foxes, and others, and of salt, tobacco, agricultural implements and tools, not otherwise provided for, five thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.
For expense of removing and keeping off intruders from Choctaw lands, by the twelfth article of the treaty of twenty-seventh September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, five hundred dollars.
For expense of bounding, by sectional lines, the reservation to Choctaw heads of families, by the fourteenth article of said treaty, fifteen hundred dollars.
For an advance to the Ottaways, after their removal, for erecting houses and opening farms, to be reimbursed out of the sales of their Indian annuities, &c.
For the payment of claims of sundry individuals against the Ottaways, guarantied by the seventh article, and enumerated in the sixteenth of the same treaty, also to be reimbursed out of the sales of their lands, twenty-one thousand two hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-five cents.
For the services of a person to certify contracts for the sale of Creek lauds, by the third article of the treaty of twenty-fourth March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, one thousand dollars.
For expenses of defending suits, and so forth, instituted by intruders against Creek Indians, and keeping off intruders, by the fifth article of the same treaty, three thousand dollars.
For incidental expenses attending the aforesaid treaties, not otherwise enumerated, five thousand dollars.
Appropriation for post-road.
Superintendent to be appointed.
Salary.
Repairs.
[Obsolete.]
Sale of reserved land.
Vol. i. 251.
Act of April 21, 1792, ch. 25. [Private act.]
Application of proceeds.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Time for entering donation claims to land extended.
Act of May 24, 1828, ch. 108.
Act of January 6, 1829, ch. 2.
Act of January 13, 1830, ch. 3.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, Appropriations.
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United President and Vice President, &c.
For clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of State, Office of Secretary of State.
For clerks, machinist, and messenger, in the patent office, five thousand four hundred dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of State, including the expense of publishing and distributing the laws, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For compiling and printing the Biennial Register, eighteen hundred dollars.
To enable the Secretary of State to settle the accounts for preparing and superintending the printing of the revision of the former estimates of the population of the United States, three hundred dollars.
For completing the publication of the diplomatic correspondence of the United States to the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent and incidental expenses of the patent office, two thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For the superintendent and watchmen of the north-east executive building, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, repairs of the buildings, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Treasury Department.
For compensation to the first comptroller of the treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the first comptroller, nineteen thousand one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the second comptroller of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the second comptroller, ten thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the first auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the first auditor, thirteen thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the second auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the second auditor, seventeen thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the third auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the third auditor, twenty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the fourth auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the fourth auditor, seventeen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the fifth auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the fifth auditor, twelve thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer of the United States, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the treasurer of the United States, six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the register of the treasury, twenty-four thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the commissioner of the general land office, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the commissioner of the general land office, twenty thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the solicitor of the treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the solicitor of the treasury, three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the secretary to the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the expenses of stationery, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the several offices of the Treasury Department, the following several sums, viz;
For the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, including advertising and extra copying, and the sum of one thousand dollars applied from this fund for clerk hire and other expenses incident to the issuing of revolutionary bounty land scrip, six thousand dollars.
For the office of the first comptroller, including expenses for printing, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the office of the second comptroller, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the first auditor, eight hundred dollars.
For the office of the second auditor, eight hundred dollars.
For the office of the third auditor, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the fourth auditor, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the fifth auditor, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the treasurer of the United States seven hundred dollars.
For the office of the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For the office of the commissioner of the general land office, ten thousand dollars.
For printing, parchment, and other expenses of the land office during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, expended above the amount of the appropriation for such expenditures in that year, three thousand one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and forty cents.
For compensation for extra aid, during one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, in the issuing military land scrip and patents founded on Virginia military surveys and on private claims, examining and adjusting the accounts of surveyors general, and writing and recording patents for lands sold, four thousand dollars.
For compensation to seven clerks employed in writing and recording patents for land sold, by the United States, in continuation of the appropriation made for the same object last year, seven thousand dollars.
For a deficit of last year’s appropriation for the same object for the month of December, four hundred and eighty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents;
For the office of the solicitor of the treasury, twelve hundred dollars.
For translations, and transmitting passports and sea letters, three hundred dollars.
For stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, one thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation of superintendent and watchmen of the south-east executive building, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Department of War.
For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, three thousand dollars.
For books, maps, and plans, for the War Department, one thousand dollars.
For additional or temporary clerk hire during the years eighteen hundred and thirty-two and eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in order to carry 1832, ch. 126.
For printing, stationery, rent, and expenses of procuring revolutionary records, arising under the act aforesaid, five thousand dollars.
For additional clerk hire, messengers, stationery, printing, and other contingencies of the pension office for the present year, four thousand dollars. And a commissioner of pensions shall be appointed by the President and Senate, who shall receive a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars, which is hereby appropriated. He shall execute, under the direction of the Secretary of War, such duties in relation to the various pension laws, as may be prescribed by the President of the United States; and he shall also have the privilege of franking; but this provision shall only continue until the expiration of the next Congress.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the paymaster general, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the commissary general of purchases, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the adjutant general, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general of subsistence, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, including advertising, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the chief engineer, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the topographical bureau, including the purchase of books, repair of instruments, one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.
For the services of a lithographer, and the expenses of the lithographic press of the War Department, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the ordnance office, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the surgeon general, eleven hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the quartermaster general, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, six hundred dollars.
For the salary of the superintendent and watchmen of the north-west executive building, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, furniture, repairs of buildings, and improvement of adjoining ground, three thousand one hundred dollars.
For completing the fence on the Pennsylvania Avenue, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For the fitting up the basement rooms of the executive building occu-
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary Navy Department.
For contingent expenses of said office, three thousand dollars.
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 board, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks, draughtsman, and messenger in the office of the commissioners of the navy board, eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of the office of the commissioners of the navy board, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the salary of the superintendent of the south-west executive building, and the watchmen, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, repairs of building, engines, and improvement of the grounds, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the two assistant postmasters general, five thousand Post-office.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Postmaster General, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars.
For additional clerk hire in the Post-office Department, during the years one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one and one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, beyond the annual appropriation, thirty-four thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For superintendency of the buildings, making up blanks, and compensation to two watchmen and one labourer, sixteen hundred and forty dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor general in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, Miscellaneous.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, 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, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Illinois and Missouri, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to clerks in the office of said surveyor, four thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor general in Arkansas, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to clerks in said office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to clerks in the office of said surveyor, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Louisiana, including fifty-four 1831, ch. 116.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, by act of third March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, fifteen hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings in Washington city, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the officers and clerk of the mint, ten thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to assistants in the several departments of the mint, and wages of labourers employed in the various operations of the establishment, fifteen thousand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses and repairs, cost of machinery, for allowance for wastage in gold and silver coinage of the mint, thirteen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For completing the building for the mint at Philadelphia, and machinery thereof, eleven thousand dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Michigan territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council, pay of the officers of the council, fuel, stationery, and printing, seven thousand three hundred and ninety-two dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Arkansas territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For pay and mileage of the legislative council of said territory, six thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Arkansas territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Florida territory, including additional compensation to two of the judges, under 1830, ch. 106.
For contingent expenses of the Florida territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council of Florida, pay of officers and servants of the council, fuel, stationery, printing, and distribution of the laws, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district judges of the United States, eighty-one thousand four hundred dollars.
For the salaries of chief justice and judges of the District of Columbia, and of the judges of the orphans’ courts of the said district, nine thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, four thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the attorney general, eight hundred dollars.
For a messenger in said office, five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, twelve thousand seven hundred dollars.
Judiciary.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present Pension.
For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating lights, beacons, Lighthouses.
For the salaries of registers and receivers of land offices where there Miscellaneous.
For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, seventy thousand dollars.
For completing the survey of the Choctaw cession in Mississippi and Alabama, sixty-five thousand five hundred dollars.
For surveys of private land claims in Florida, eight thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the district attorney, agent, and assistant council, and contingent expenses in Florida, five thousand dollars.
For the salaries of two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall be ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, twelve thousand dollars.
For stationery and books for the offices of commissioners of loans, twelve hundred dollars.
For the fifth payment to Luigi Persico, for two colossal statues for the Capitol, four thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Spain, Russia, and Colombia, forty-two thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For the salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places, nine thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the chargés des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Turkey, Belgium, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru, Mexico, Central America, Naples, and Colombia, sixty thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For salary of the drogoman to the legation of the United States to Turkey, and for contingent expenses of that legation, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For outfits of the chargés des affaires of the United States to Great Britain, Central America, and Colombia, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the agents for claims at London and Paris, four thousand dollars.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Mediterranean powers, twenty-four thousand four hundred dollars.
For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, thirty thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars.
To satisfy a claim presented by his majesty, the king of Sweden, on account of injuries sustained by subjects of the said government in the island of St. Bartholomews, by an illegal act of the commanding officer of the United States’ sloop of war Erie, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, five thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents.
Miscellaneous.
To George W. Slacum, consul of the United States at Buenos Ayres, on account of diplomatic services at that place, from the death of John M. Forbes, till the arrival of Francis Baylies, chargé d’affaires of the United States, from the fourteenth June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, to the fifth of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, four thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars.
To John Randolph Clay, secretary of legation at St. Petersburg, as an outfit, and on account of his services as chargé d’affaires one year seven months and six days, seven thousand two hundred dollars.
To Cyrehius Hall, a resident of Upper Canada, the sum of five thousand three hundred dollars, (being the value of a schooner, the property of the said Hall, seized and libelled by the collector of the port of Venice, in Sandusky bay, in the year eighteen hundred and seventeen, which was ordered by a decree of the district court of Ohio to be restored, but which, previously to said decree had been lost,) with interest on the said sum of live thousand three hundred dollars from the tenth day of August, in the year eighteen hundred and seventeen, till the eighth day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-one; and with further interest on the said sum from the twenty-eighth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, till paid.
To the clerk employed in the Department of State as a translator of foreign languages, in addition to the salary now provided by law, six hundred dollars per annum.
To the clerk employed in the Department of State as agent of accounts, in addition to the salary now provided by law, three hundred dollars per annum.
To indemnify Captain Daniel Turner, of the United States’ navy, for the expense of conveying the Netherlands’ minister, and his suite, from New York to Curacao, by order of the Secretary of the Navy, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, eleven hundred and eighty-two dollars seventy-eight cents.
To indemnify Captain George Washington Storer, of the United States navy, for the expenses of acommodating Commodore David Porter, chargé d’affaires of the United States at Constantinople, on board of the United States ship Boston; and for the expenses of conveying George Porter, consul of the United States at Tangiers, from Port Mahon to Tangiers; and of conveying Lieutenant Ebenezer Ridgway, consul of the United Stales at Tripoli, and his family, from Port Mahon to Tripoli, in all five hundred dollars.
To Michael Hogan, the sum of eighteen thousand one hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents, in full, for diplomatic services rendered the United States in Chili, from the eighteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, to twenty-sixth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and from the twenty-ninth of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, to second of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
To George F. Brown, consular agent at Algiers, three thousand three hundred and sixty-six dollars for his services to the twentieth February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
For purchase of books for the library of Congress, five thousand dollars.
For payment of preparing and printing the documents ordered to be printed by Gales and Seaton, fifty thousand dollars, under the same restrictions and reservations as were contained in the appropriation for the same object at the last session.
For the payment to Jonathan Elliott for two hundred and fifty copies of the debates on the federal constitution, purchased by order of the House of Representatives [of the] United States, by their resolution of eighteenth February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, three thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For two thousand copies of Cobb’s Manual, purchased by virtue of a resolution of the House of Representatives of twenty-fifth of February last, one thousand dollars.
For the erection of a custom-house at Middletown, Connecticut, four thousand eight hundred dollars.
For salary of the principal and assistant librarians, contingent expenses of the library, and pay of messenger, three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For alteration and repairs of the Capitol, five hundred dollars.
For the survey of the coast of the United States, twenty thousand dollars. Coast survey.
For the purchase of ground occupied by the custom-house at Key Miscellaneous.
For defraying the expenses of repairing a building at Sandy Hook, belonging to the United States, three hundred and nineteen dollars thirty-one cents.
For the purchase of a building for the custom-house at Castine, Maine, and repairing the same, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For the erection of a custom-house at New York, three hundred thousand dollars.
For compensation to the recorder, two commissioners, and translator, for the adjustment of private land claims in Missouri, according to the act of ninth July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, eight thousand and fifty-five dollars seventy cents.
For contingent expenses and office rent, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the expense of bringing to the seat of government the votes for President and Vice President, seven thousand five hundred and twenty-one dollars and seventy-five cents.
For the payment of balances to officers of the old direct tax and internal revenue, being the balance of an appropriation carried to the surplus fund, six thousand seven hundred dollars twenty-three cents.
For making good a deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For removing obstructions in the Savannah river, being part of the balance of an appropriation carried to the surplus fund, forty-three dollars six cents.
For preserving and enclosing the marine hospital at Norfolk, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For hospital furniture, beds and bedding, of the new hospital, one thousand dollars.
For paying certain inhabitants of the late province of West Florida, now citizens of Louisiana and Mississippi, the claims that have been passed by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven dollars forty-five cents, being the balance of a former appropriation, carried to the surplus fund, which is hereby re-appropriated.
For the purpose of carrying into effect the act entitled “An act for the Ante, p. 613.
To Hilliard Gray and Company, being a balance of a sum due them on their contract for printing a Manual of Infantry Tactics, four hundred and Miscellaneous.
For refunding any discriminating duties of tonnage which may hare been collected on the vessels of Spain, France, or Portugal, subsequent to the abolition of such duties by either of those nations on vessels of the United States, two thousand dollars.
For compensation and expense of an agent to Havana to procure the archives of Florida, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For completing the custom-house at New London, Connecticut, four thousand dollars.
For surveying the lands in Illinois to which the Indian title has been extinguished by the late treaty with the Pattawatamies, twenty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of a site and the erection of a public warehouse in the city of Baltimore, fifty thousand dollars.
For the salaries of registers and receivers of the land offices established in the late Choctaw purchase, Mississippi, and for furnishing the offices with the necessary books and stationery, three thousand dollars.
For Thomas Douglass, attorney of East Florida, for professional services, three hundred dollars.
For the purchase of a site and erection of a custom-house in Newburyport, in the state of Massachusetts, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the expenses of printing the records in the Supreme Court of the United States, for the term of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, the sum of three thousand dollars; and for the same accounts at the term in one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, the like sum of three thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands recently purchased from the Indians in the state of Indiana, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Instalments under treaty of indemnity with France to be loaned.
Pay of collectors, naval officers, &c.
1832, ch. 227.
Chickasaw treaty.
Northern boundary of Ohio.
1832, ch. 232.
Franking privilege extended.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 43, sec. 6.
The act of Congress of March 2, 1833, ch. 55, commonly called “The compromise act,” did not, prospectively, repeal all duties upon imports after 30th June, 1842. Repealing only such parts of previous acts as were inconsistent with itself, it left in force, after June 1842, the same duties which were in force on the first of June, 1842. Aldridge and others v. Williams, 3 Howard, 1.
The provisions of the act of 1833, by which duties were to be levied, after June 1, 1842, on the home valuation, “under such regulations as may be prescribed by law,” comprehended all the regulations existing under the law at the time when the duties, according to the home valuation, accrued. The regulations established by the 7th and 8th sections of the act of 1832, were, after the compromise act expired, in force, and were sufficient for the collection of duties after June 1, 1842. Ibid.
The 9th section of the act of 1832, makes it the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, under the direction of the President, to establish, when necessary, rules and regulations to secure a just, faithful, and impartial appraisal of merchandise, and just and proper entries of them. It is very clear that any regulations within the authority thus given, are regulations prescribed by law. Ibid.
In expounding this law, the judgment of the court cannot, in any degree, be influenced by the construction placed upon it by individual members of Congress, in the debate which took place on its passage; nor by the motives or reasons assigned by them for supporting or opposing amendments offered. The law, as it passed, is the will of a majority of both houses, and the only mode in which this will is spoken, is in the act itself; and we must gather their intention from the language there used, comparing it, where any ambiguity exists, with laws upon the same subject; and looking, if necessary, to the public history of the times in which it was passed. Ibid. 24.
Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 227.
Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 57.
Act of Aug. 30, 1822, ch. 270.
After Dec. 31, 1833, all duties exceeding twenty per cent, to be reduced by biennially striking off one-tenth of the excess, &c.
Duty on plains, kerseys, &c. raised to fifty per cent.
Existing laws continued until June 30, 1842.
Duties to be paid in cash, &c.
Goods to be valued at ports of entry.
Articles free after Dec. 31, 1833.
Articles free after June 30, 1842.
Duties on certain classes of articles after June 30, 1842.
Conflicting acts repealed.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for the Indian department.
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Indian department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, viz:
For the salary of the commissioner of Indian affairs, three thousand dollars.
For the pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, and the several Indian agents, as established by law, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For the pay of sub-agents, as established by law, seventeen thousand dollars.
For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of one thousand eight hundred and two, fifteen thousand dollars.
For pay of Indian interpreters and translators employed in the several superintendencies and agencies, twenty thousand dollars.
For the pay of gunsmiths and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed within the several superintendencies and agencies, under treaty provisions, and the orders of tire War Department, sixteen thousand dollars.
For iron, steel, coal, and other expenses attending the gunsmiths and blacksmiths’ shops, five thousand dollars.
For expenses of transportation and distribution of Indian annuities, nine thousand five hundred dollars.
For expenses of provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuities, while on visits of business with the different superintendents and agents, and when assembled on public business, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For expense of building houses for Indian agents, blacksmiths’ shops, and for repairs of the same, when required, in the several agencies, two thousand dollars.
For contingencies of die Indian Department, twenty thousand dollars.
For supplying the deficiency in the appropriation for the compensation of commissioners, and other expenses attending the adjustment of boundaries under the treaty of Butte des Morts, contained in the act of 1830, ch. 99.
For defraying the expenses of an expedition fitted out, consisting of the militia of Georgia and Florida, for the suppression of aggressions by the Indians on their frontiers, three thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents.
For carrying into effect a treaty with the Winnebagoes, by act of
For payment of claims provided for by [the] fourth article, one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and seventy-two cents.
For expense of surveying the boundaries, nine hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-six cents.
For carrying into effect the treaty of twenty-ninth July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, with the Chippeways, Ottoways, and Pattawatamies, by act of twenty-fifth March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, for the expense of surveying the boundaries, six hundred and seventeen dollars and ten cents.
For carrying into effect a treaty with the Choctaw Indians, of eleventh October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, by act of second March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, the balance re-appropriated thirtieth April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, sixteen thousand and three dollars and forty-three cents.
For defraying the expenses of holding a treaty with the Cherokees for the purpose of extinguishing their claim to as much land as will be necessary for a canal to connect the Highwassee and Canasaga with each other, by act of second March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, the balance re-appropriated thirtieth April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, two thousand four hundred and fifty-nine dollars and nineteen cents.
President authorized to direct site of custom-house to be changed.
Vessels to be detained, &c.
Custody of detained vessels, &c.
Jurisdiction of circuit courts.
Property in custody irrepleviable, &c.
Actions in state courts against revenue officers to be removed, on petition, &c. of defendant, to circuit court.
Stay of proceedings in the state court.
Marshal to take defendant into custody.
State process of attachment, &c., to continue in force.
De novo proceeding.
Record to be supplied where copy of record cannot be had from the state court.
President to issue proclamation and to suppress obstructions to the laws by military force or other means, within any state.
Act of Feb. 28, 1795, ch. 36.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 39.
Places of confinement.
Judges to issue writs of habeas corpus.
Penalty for neglect or refusal to obey the name.
Provisions of the first and fifth sections limited.
Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 227.
Certain articles imported before or after July 14, 1832, may be deposited in the public stores.
Wines entitled to the benefit of the act.
Proviso.
Proviso
When goods may remain in warehouse of owner, &c.
Proviso.
Articles under custody of officer of customs, as aforesaid, to
be subject to no higher duty than levied under act of July 14, 1832.
Higher duties paid to be refunded, &c.
Excess of duties to be refunded, &c. and articles to be examined, &c.
Relief to be extended.
Section seventeen of act of July 14, 1832, ch. 227, to take effect March 4, 1833.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations to effect Indian treaties, &c.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter mentioned, Winnebagoes.
For payment of the annuity provided for by the third article, ten thousand dollars.
For the purposes of education provided for by the fourth article, three thousand dollars.
For support of agriculturists, for oxen, and ploughs, and other agricultural implements per fifth article, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For expense of removing blacksmiths’ shop, per sixth article, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For expense of rations, per seventh article, six thousand dollars.
For payment of claims to certain individuals, per eighth article, one thousand and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents.
For the purchase of tobacco, and for services of two physicians, per fifth article, five hundred and fifty dollars.
To carry into effect the stipulations of the treaty with the Sacs and Sacs and Foxes.
For fulfilling the stipulations for a blacksmith and gunsmith, establishing a shop, and for purchase of tobacco and salt, per fourth article, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For payment of Farnham and Davenport’s claim for goods, acknowledged to be due, per fifth article, forty thousand dollars.
For fulfilling the stipulations in regard to subsistence, per tenth article, seven thousand seven hundred and twenty-four dollars.
To carry into effect the stipulations of the treaty with the Shawanoes Shawanoes and Delawares.
For the purchase of cattle, hogs, and other stock, for tire Delawares, and for assistance in agriculture, per second article, three thousand dollars.
For expense of a person to attend their mill, and for repairs, per same article, five hundred dollars.
For the support of a school, per same article, five hundred dollars.
For fulfilling the stipulations for payment of certain debts, and for merchandise and cash, per third article, eighteen thousand dollars.
For fulfilling the stipulations to the Shawanoes for cash, clothing and horses, and towards their expenses, after removal, per fifth article, one thousand seven hundred dollars.
For cost of provisions for one year after removal, per same article, the sum of eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For annuities to Patterson, Tawhee-lalen and Natcoming, during their natural lives, the sum of one hundred dollars each, three hundred dollars.
To carry into effect the stipulations of the treaty with the Kaskaskias Kaskaskias and Peorias.
For payment of the limited annuity, per fifth article, three thousand dollars.
For fulfilling the stipulations in the sixth article of said treaty, to wit: for payment to the Peorias in common with the Kaskaskias, sixteen hundred dollars.
To the Kaskaskias, for lost horses and salt annuities, three hundred and fifty dollars.
To the Peorias, for improvements on their lands, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the purchase of stock for Peorias and Kaskaskias, four hundred dollars.
For carts, oxen and ploughs, for same, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For building four log houses, five hundred and thirty dollars.
For assistance in agriculture, three hundred dollars.
For agricultural implements, and for iron and steel, fifty dollars.
For the payment for goods delivered at treaty, eight hundred dollars.
For assistance to Kaskaskias in removing, and for one year’s provisions, one thousand dollars.
To carry into effect the stipulations of the treaty with the Appalachicola Appalachicolas.
For payment to the Appalachicola tribe of Indians, to be in full compensation for all expenses of emigration and subsistence, per second article of the treaty, thirteen thousand dollars.
Pattawatamies of the Prairie.
For payment of the limited annuity, per third article, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the payment of the annuities stipulated for in the same article, to wit: to Billy Caldwell, six hundred dollars. To Alexander Robinson, two hundred dollars. To Pierre Leclere, two hundred dollars.
For payment of claims per schedule annexed to the treaty, per fourth article, the sum of thirty thousand seven hundred and forty-six dollars.
For payment for goods and horses purchased and delivered, per same article, the sum of forty-five thousand dollars.
For the purchase of goods to be delivered, thirty thousand dollars.
For payment to certain named Indians, for lost horses, same article, fourteen hundred dollars.
Kickapoos.
For payment of the annuity for one year, per third article, eighteen thousand dollars.
For erecting a mill and church, per sixth article, three thousand seven hundred dollars.
For support of a blacksmith and assistant, and for iron, steel and tools, . per fifth article, one thousand dollars.
For the support of a school, and purchase of books, per seventh article, five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of farming utensils, per eighth article, three thousand dollars.
For expense of agricultural labour and improvements, per ninth article, four thousand dollars.
For payment in merchandise and cash, per eleventh article, six thousand dollars.
For expense of transportation and subsistence, and one year’s supply of provisions, per eleventh article, twenty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars.
For expense of running and marking boundaries, per twelfth article, eight hundred dollars.
For the expenses of a deputation to view the lands ceded, per fourteenth article, five hundred dollars.
For furnishing cattle, hogs, and other stock, per tenth article, four thousand dollars.
Pattawatamies of the Wabash.
For payment of the limited annuity, per third article, twenty thousand dollars.
For the payment of goods and horses purchased and delivered, per same article, foe sum of one hundred thousand dollars.
For the purchase of goods to be delivered, per same article, thirty thousand dollars.
For the payment of claims, per schedule attached to the treaty, per fourth article, the sum of sixty-two thousand, three hundred and eighty-two dollars.
For fulfilling the stipulations in the fifth article, to wit: For rifles and ammunition, two thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars.
For blankets, two thousand nine hundred and sixteen dollars.
For expenses of transportation and subsistence, thirty-three thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
For one year’s supply of provisions, sixty thousand eight hundred and nine dollars.
For expense of erecting a saw mill, per sixth article, two thousand dollars.
To carry into effect the stipulations of the treaty with the Pattawatamies Pattawatamiea of Indiana.
For the payment of the limited annuity, per fourth article, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the payment for goods and horses purchased and delivered, per same article, the sum of thirty-two thousand dollars.
For the purchase of goods to be delivered, per same article, ten thousand dollars.
For the payment of claims, per schedule attached to the treaty, per same article, the sum of twenty-one thousand seven hundred and twenty-one dollars.
For the purchase of the section of land granted by the treaty of Saint Joseph’s to To-pe-naw-koung, wife of Peter Langlois, per same article, the sum of eight hundred dollars.
For the education of Indian youths of the Pattawatamie tribes, during the pleasure of Congress, per same article, two thousand dollars.
To carry into effect the stipulations of the treaty with the Piankashaws Piankashaws and Weas.
For the purchase of cattle, hogs, and farming utensils, as an equivalent for salt annuities, and lost horses, for the Piankashaws, per third article, five hundred dollars.
For expense of agricultural assistance and improvements, per same article, the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For payment in merchandise and cash, per same article, two hundred dollars.
For the purchase of cattle, hogs, and farming utensils, as an equivalent for improvements and lost horses, for the Weas, per fourth article, five hundred dollars.
For payment in merchandise and cash, per same article, two hundred dollars.
For assistance to the Weas of Indiana, to enable them to join the rest of their tribe, and for one year’s supply of provisions, per same article, the sum of four thousand six hundred and twelve dollars.
For the support of a blacksmith’s shop, for the benefit of the Piankashaws, Weas, Peorias and Kaskaskias, per fifth article, one thousand dollars.
For cost of transporting the annuities, agricultural implements and stock, and for other incidental expenses in fulfilment of the aforesaid treaties, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars.
To enable the President to extinguish Indian titles within the states of Indiana and Illinois and territory of Michigan, in addition to the sum 1832, ch. 175.
For expenses incurred in one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, Boundary under the treaty of Butte des Morts. 1830, ch. 99.
Creeks.
For payment of improvements on ceded lands, as stipulated in the eleventh article of said treaty, as settled by the second auditor, in addition to former appropriations, nine thousand three hundred dollars and seventy-five cents.
Ioway prisoners.
Choctaw reservations.
Chickasaw agent.
Delegation of New York Indians.
Shawanoes.
Sac and Fox prisoners.
Chippewas.
Negroes of Broom.
Removing of Choctaws, &c. Pattawatamies.
Menominees.
Chickasaws.
For carrying into effect the stipulations of the treaty with the Senecas Senecas.
For payment to the Senecas for lost horses and other property, as stipulated for by fourth article of same treaty, one thousand dollars.
For carrying into effect the stipulations of the treaty with the Ottawas Ottawas.
Property of American Board of Foreign Missions.
Repression of Indian hostilities.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for engineer and ordnance department.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:
For collecting the materials, and making the preliminary arrangements, for the construction of a fort on George’s island, Boston harbour, Massachusetts, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the erection of a building for military and other exercises, at the United States’ military academy, West Point, six thousand dollars.
For the erection of a chapel at the United States’ military academy, West Point, ten thousand dollars.
For the erection of two new dwelling-houses at the national armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, for the use of the master armorer and paymaster, seven thousand dollars.
For building a pay office and store at the same armory, for the preservation of models and patterns, two thousand dollars.
For building a workshop for grinding and polishing, at the same armory, six thousand dollars.
For enlarging and repairing the shop, for welding and boring musket barrels, at the same armory, fifteen hundred dollars.
For additional machinery at the same armory, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For one steam-engine of fifteen horsepower, at the same armory, fifteen hundred dollars.
For thirty-six double racks for placing arms in the new arsenal, at the same armory, five thousand one hundred dollars.
For the erection of twelve additional dwelling-houses for the workmen, at the national armory at Harpers’ Ferry, Virginia, eight thousand six hundred dollars.
For the repair and extension of the public dam, on the Potomac river,
For the enlargement of the canal, supplying the water power of the public works of the said armory, from the Potomac dam, thirteen thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars.
For repairing the walls of four workshops at the same armory, fifteen hundred dollars.
For constructing three new water-wheels, and the machinery in the boring, turning, and stocking shops, and sinking flumes, at the said armory, eight thousand four hundred dollars.
For completing the forging-shop tilt-hammer, and new workshop, at the same armory, thirteen thousand three hundred dollars.
For the purchase of one square acre of land, with the improvements, adjoining the arsenal near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of forty-five acres of land adjoining the Watervliet arsenal, New York, nine thousand dollars.
For the purchase of the right to the water power on the Shenandoah river, for the use of the United States’ rifle factory, which is established on that river, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For the repairs of the Spanish fort Marion, at St. Augustine, and for re-constructing the sea wall, to prevent the encroachments of the sea, at and near the same, twenty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of a site, and for erecting quarters and barracks for the United States’ troops at Savannah, Georgia, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Purchase of lands.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 48.
Appropriations for pay of army, &c.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, viz:
For pay of the army and subsistence of officers, one million three hundred and thirty-six thousand six hundred and ninety-seven dollars.
For forage of officers, fifty-four thousand three hundred and thirty-one dollars.
For clothing for servants of officers, twenty-four thousand dollars.
For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of fifteen thousand dollars, three hundred and eighty-seven thousand dollars.
For clothing of the army, camp equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, in addition to material and clothing on hand, amounting to twenty thousand dollars, two hundred and fifty-six thousand seven hundred and sixty-three dollars.
For medical and hospital department, thirty-one thousand dollars.
For arrearages in the same department during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, three thousand dollars.
For various expenses of the quartermaster’s department, viz: for fuel, Pay of army, &c. Act of March 2, 1819, ch. 45.
For transportation of officers’ baggage, and allowance for travel in lieu of transportation, and for per diem allowance to officers on topographical duty, fifty-three thousand dollars.
For transportation of clothing, subsistence, ordnance, and of lead from the mines, and for transportation of the army and funds for pay of the army, including the several contingencies and items of expenditure at the several stations and garrisons usually estimated under the head of transportation of the army, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the board of visiters at West Point, two thousand dollars.
For fuel, forage, stationery, printing, transportation and postage, for the military academy, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs, improvements, and expenses of buildings, grounds, roads, wharf, and boat, at West Point, four thousand dollars.
For pay of adjutant’s and quartermaster’s clerk, nine hundred dollars.
For increase and expenses of the library, fourteen hundred dollars.
For philosophical apparatus, eight hundred and ninety dollars.
For models of department of engineering, six hundred dollars.
For models for the drawing department, repairs of instruments for the mathematical department, apparatus and contingencies for the department of chemistry, nine hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses of the academy, one thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.
For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For the armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the current expenses of the ordnance service, sixty-nine thousand three hundred dollars.
For arsenals, ninety-six thousand five hundred dollars.
For the recruiting service, thirty thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of twelve thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, sixteen thousand and forty-four dollars, including an unexpended balance of eight thousand five hundred dollars on hand.
For the purchase of accoutrements and swords, sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For the purchase of cannon, fourteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For payment of arms for mounted rangers, two thousand five hundred and ninety-eight dollars.
For the purchase of arms for South Carolina, six thousand one hundred and thirty-one dollars.
For arrearages prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, payable through the third auditor’s office, five thousand dollars.
To enable the second auditor to close the accounts, under the act of 1821, ch. 35.
Pay of army, &c.
For the pay of the militia of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Michigan, ordered into the service of the United States during the last year, six hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated for the same purpose.
For completing barracks, quarters, and store-houses, at fort Crawford, eight thousand dollars.
For completing barracks, quarters, and store-houses, at fort Howard, ten thousand dollars.
For completing barracks, and erecting an hospital at Baton Rouge, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For making good a deficiency of appropriation for the erection of barracks at fort Severn, Annapolis, three hundred dollars.
For the construction of a wharf at fort Preble, Portland, including the purchase of a site, three thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars.
For repairing the wharf at fort Independence, Boston, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairing the wharf at fort Washington, on the Potomac, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairing the wharf at fort Moultrie, Charleston, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of ground adjoining fort Trumbull, New London, four hundred dollars.
For the erection of a store-house and stable on the public lot at Pittsburgh, five thousand dollars.
For the purchase of the ground at Key West, on which the barracks and quarters are erected, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For the purchase of land at fort Gratiot, one thousand six hundred dollars.
To make good a deficiency of a former appropriation for the building of a wharf at fort McHenry, ninety dollars and forty cents.
For repairing and extending the levees, securing the works at fort Jackson, Mississippi, and for improving the store rooms and magazine, four thousand dollars.
Commission to paymasters.
Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 227.
Certain provisoes suspended till June 1, 1834.
Repeal of duties on copper bottoms, &c. repealed.
Duty on sheet and rolled brass.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations for erection of fortifications.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:
For a fort on Throg’s Neck, East river, New York, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For rebuilding fort Delaware, Delaware river, fifty thousand dollars.
For a fort on Foster’s Bank, Pensacola harbour, Florida, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For a fort on Grande Terre, Barataria, Louisiana, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Appropriations for the improvement of rivers in Florida and Michigan.
That, for the purpose of removing obstructions, and improving the navigation of certain rivers in the territories of Florida and Michigan, the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury; to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States.
For removing obstructions in, and improving the navigation of, the Escambia river, five thousand dollars.
For improving the navigation of the Ochlochney river, five thousand dollars.
For improving the navigation of the Choctawhachie river, as recommended by the Postmaster General, for the transportation of the mail from Pensacola to Tallahassee, five thousand dollars.
For improving the harbour at Chicago on lake Michigan, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For a survey of White and Saint Francis rivers, in the territory of Arkansas, five hundred dollars.
Contracts to be advertised for.
Appropriation for construction of bridge.
Appropriation to citizens of Georgetown to improve navigation of Potomac, &c.
How to be paid.
Condition.
1827, ch. 94.
Five hundred thousand dollars annually appropriated.
To be applied as directed by act of March 3, 1827, ch. 94.
Provisions for preservation of live oak.
Term of enlistment in the army, and pay.
Term of enlistment in the marine corps, and pay.
One dollar of monthly pay to be retained, &c.
Bounty for re-enlistment.
Pay of re-enlisted men.
Premiums and bounties not to be allowed.
No convict to be enlisted.
Seventh section
of act of May 16, 1812, ch. 86, repealed.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations.
That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for carrying on or completing certain works and roads heretofore commenced, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Delaware breakwater.
Black river.
Cunningham creek.
Ashtabula creek.
Presque Isle.
Buffalo harbour.
Gennesee river.
Big Sodus bay.
Oswego.
Merrimack river.
Plymouth beach.
Breakwater at Hyannis.
New Castle, Marcus Hook, and Port Penn.
Ocracoke inlet.
Capo Fear river.
Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi.
Detroit road to Saganaw bay.
St. Mark’s.
Detroit road to Grand river.
Detroit road to Chicago.
For paying the balance due the commissioner for surveying and marking Road to Chicago.
For making the said road, fifteen thousand dollars.
For completing the improvement of the inland channel between St. Channel between St. Mary’s and St, John’s.
For the completion of the removal of obstructions in the harbour and Harbour and river Appilachicola.
For repairing the Cumberland road east of the Ohio, one hundred and Cumberland road.
For continuing the Cumberland road in Ohio, west of Zanesville, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For continuing the Cumberland road in the state of Indiana, one hundred thousand dollars.
For continuing the Cumberland road in Illinois, seventy thousand dollars.
For repairs of the Cumberland road in Virginia, thirty-four thousand four hundred and forty dollars.
For payment of a balance due the commissioner under the act of third Road to New Mexico.
For defraying the expenses incidental to making examinations and Examinations and surveys.
For payment of balance due Joseph C. Brown, for running the western boundary of the state of Missouri, one hundred and forty dollars.
President to alter route of the Cumberland road.
Appropriation for penitentiary.
Appropriations for Capitol, President’s house, &c.
For dressing and laying the stone, procured for paving the terrace of the Capitol, seven thousand dollars.
For enclosing and improving the public ground north of the Capitol, two thousand dollars.
For a pedestal wall, coping, railing, and foot way at the north front of the President’s house, ten thousand dollars.
For improving the Capitol square, including the gardener’s salary, and lighting the lamps, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For completing the regulation of the ground and planting, south of the President’s house, four thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
For alterations and repairs in the Capitol, one thousand dollars.
For alterations and repairs in the President’s house, five hundred dollars.
For constructing reservoirs and fountains at the public offices, and President’s house, and enclosing and planting the fountain square, six thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars.
For keeping in repair the fire engines belonging to the public buildings, two hundred dollars.
For furnishing the President’s house, to be expended under the direction of the President, in addition to the proceeds of such decayed furniture, as he may direct to be sold, twenty thousand dollars.
For an additional pavement for the statue of Washington, five thousand dollars.
For alterations in the Representatives Hall, to accommodate the twenty-third Congress, according to a plan recommended by a select committee of the House of Representatives, of thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, thirteen thousand dollars.
For completing the public vault, and railing thereon, one thousand six hundred dollars.
Appropriation for construction of road in Arkansas.
Route.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Authority to prolong session thirty days.
Appropriation to defray the expenses, &c.
Secretary of the Treasury to pay $150,000 to city of Washington.
Act of May 31, 1832, ch. 113.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Public walks to be enclosed and improved.
Proviso.
Appropriation.
Port to be established.
Office discontinued.
President to execute conveyance.
Condition.
Regiment of dragoons established.
Act of June 15, 1832, ch. 131.
Organization.
Act of Aug. 23, 1842, ch. 186.
Act of April 4, 1844, ch. II.
Pay when mounted.
Pay when on foot.
To serve on horse or foot, and subject to rules of war, &c.
President to carry act into effect.
Appropriation.
Choctaw lands to form north-western land district.
Bounds.
Choctaw district, by act of May 7, 1822, ch. 93, extended.
North-eastern district.
Bounds.
Lands in Monroe, &c. to be subject to sale.
Transfer of books, &c.
Augusts district: addition thereto.
Land offices of north-eastern and north-western district.
Quincy district: part of Edwardsville district attached thereto.
Vandalia district: addition thereto.
Demopolis district.
Lands in Green and Marengo counties to be subject to sale at Demopolis land office.
Register and receiver for Demopolis district.
New land district in Indiana.
Office at Laporte.
President may remove office.
Secretary of State authorized to contract.
Limitation of expense.
Ante, p. 606.
Assent of the United States.
That the assent of the United States be, and tire same is hereby, given to an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, entitled “An act concerning the Cumberland road,” passed February the seventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two: such assent to remain in force during the pleasure of Congress: Proviso.
“ Act of Virginia. Toll-gates.
“ Superintendent of road. Duties. Toll-collectors. Accounts of superintendent. Oath. Bond. Deposit for tolls, &c. Failure to render account. Judgment in actions for failure. Accounts of collectors. Proviso. Receipts to collectors. Bonds. Fines and forfeitures. Compensation of superintendent and collectors. Proviso. Instructions.
“That, as soon as the said gates and toll-houses shall be erected, it shall Tolls to be collected. Rates, if one gate. Persons exempt from tolls. United States mail, &c., exempt. Commutation of tolls. Rates, if two gates. Site for gates.
“ Application of the Cumberland road fund.
Power of the Assembly to alter or amend. Proviso.
Directors to be set up on the road, &c. Delay of passengers, &c.
Wilful injuries to road, &c. Penalty. Obstructing side drains, &c. Penalties. Standing wagons, &c. Locking wheels. Penalty.
“ Recovery of fines, &c. Appeal.
“ Tolls may be paid at one gate.
“
“
“I, George W. Mumford, Clerk of the House of Delegates, and keeper of the rolls of Virginia, do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of an act concerning the Cumberland road, passed February the seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.
“Given under my hand this thirteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.”
Buildings subject to debts for work, &c.
If buildings be under contract, no lien to attach for work or materials, unless notice be given.
If sale of building do not satis-
fy all demands, to be distributed pro rata.
Limitation of lien.
Creditors paid, to enter satisfaction.
Penalty for not so doing.
Mode of recovering lien.
Proviso.
Council to provide for alteration of election districts.
Governor to district territory in case council shall have adjourned.
Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 53.
Governor to select twenty sections, and to sell the same for cash.
Quantities and price.
Certificates of purchase, &c.
Application of proceeds, &c.
Proceeds to be paid into the office of the treasurer of the territory.
1827, ch. 53.
Governor to lease remainder of lands.
See notes of the acts passed relative to lands in Missouri, vol. ii, p. 812.
Notes of decisions of the Supreme Court on Missouri land titles, vol. ii. pp. 748 and 812.
1822, ch. 180.
Provisions of act extended.
Testimony to be taken.
Public land-office removed to Jackson.
Presentation of accounts for surveys.
An act to authorize the state of Illinois to open a canal through the public lands to connect the Illinois river with Lake Michigan, March 30, 1822, ch. 14.
An act to authorize the selection of certain Wabash and Erie Canal lands in the state of Ohio, June 30, 1834, ch. 137.
An act to grant certain lands to the state of Indiana, the better to enable the said state to extend and complete the Wabash and Erie Canal from Terre Haute to the Ohio river, March 3, 1845, ch. 42.
Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 56.
Lands granted to Illinois.
Ohio canal.
Lands to be surveyed.
Compensation.
Commissioners to suspend improvement of Tennessee river.
Act of May 23, 1828, ch. 75.
Secretary to be appointed.
Limitation of the act.
Settlers prior to May 1, 1832, permitted to enter, &c.
Act of April 5, 1832, ch. 60.
Lands to be laid off into town lots, &c.
Plan.
Public sale of lots.
Private entry.
Prices limited.
Improvements to be paid for.
Payment on day of sale, &c.
Lots not to be offered for sale, until, &c.
Further appropriation of land.
Act of May 30, 1830, ch. 215.
1832, ch. 205.
Application of it.
Proviso.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 46.
Offences cognisable in the district court of United States, &c.
Offences committed on lands acquired from Sac and Fox Indians.
[Obsolete.]
Board of commissioners to be created.
Duties.
Secretary and clerk.
Oath.
Rules and regulations.
Board to meet within thirty days after exchange of ratifications &c.
Notice of meeting.
Records, &c. to be delivered to the board.
Compensation.
Contingent expenses.
Appropriation.
Awards to be reported.
Distribution of moneys received.
Certificates.
Payments to holders.
Instalments to be received, &c.
Appropriation.
Postage.
Deposit for records, &c.
Act of June 15, 1832, ch. 129.
Patent for one thousand acres of land to issue.
Part of land to be laid off in town lots, and to be sold.
Residue to be disposed of in lots or parcels, after public notice of sale.
Squares for the statehouse, and courthouse and jail.
Deeds for lots sold.
Proceeds to be applied to erection of a courthouse and jail, and surplus to erection of governor’s house.
Secretary of State to deliver evidence of certain claims.
Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.
Revolutionary pensioners.
Act of March 2, 1831, ch. 85.
ACTS OF THE TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Appropriations for the naval service.
That the following sums be appropriated for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations for similar objects, viz:
For pay and subsistence of the officers of the navy, and pay of seamen, Officers, &c.
For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments Superintendents, &c.
For provisions, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Provisions.
For the repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and Repairs, &c.
For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores and other expenses Medicines, &c.
For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, Navy yards at Portsmouth;
For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Charlestown;
For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn;
For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, Philadelphia;
For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Washington, Washington;
For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport, Gosport;
For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Pensacola, Pensacola.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, ten thousand dollars. Ordnance, &c.
For defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, Miscellaneous.
For freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description: for wharfage and dockage, storage and rent, travelling expenses of officers and transportation of seamen, house rent, chamber money, and fuel and candles, to officers other than those attached to navy yards and stations, and for officers in sick quarters where there is no hospital, and for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire and office rent, stationery and fuel, to navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting, for apprehending deserters; for compensation to judge advocates; for per diem allowances to persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry, and to officers engaged in extra service beyond the limits of their stations; for printing and stationery of every description, and for books, maps, charts and mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models and drawings; for purchase and repair of fire and steam engines, and for machinery; for purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, timber wheels, and workmen’s tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage and towing ships of war; for cabin furniture of vessels in commission, and for furniture of officers’ houses at navy yards; for taxes on navy yards and public property; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labour at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel for forges, foundries, and steam engines; for candles, oil, and fuel for vessels in commission and in ordinary; for repairs of magazines and powder houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built, and for no other purpose whatsoever, two hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses for objects not herein-before enumerated, Contingencies.
For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, Marine corps. March 2, 1833, ch. 68.
For subsistence of non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, Subsistence.
For clothing, twenty-nine thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars. Clothing.
For fuel, nine thousand and ninety-eight dollars. Fuel.
For contingent expenses, including arrearages, nineteen thousand dollars. Contingencies.
For transportation and recruiting, five thousand dollars. Transportation.
For medicines, hospital stores, and surgical instruments, for officers Medicines, &c.
For balance due Lieutenant Colonel Anderson, nine hundred and Balance to Col. Anderson.
For the erection of barracks for the marines stationed at the navy Barracks at Brooklyn.
For carrying into effect the acts for the suppression of the slave trade, Suppression of the slave trade.
That so much of the sums appropriated by the act of the twenty-eighth Re-appropriation to Alexander Claxton. 1830, ch. 140.
Appropriations for support of government.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, viz:
For pay and mileage of the members of Congress, and delegates, five Congress.
For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, thirty-two thousand nine hundred dollars.
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, thirty-two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent and incidental expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The said two sums last mentioned, to be applied to the payment of the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives, severally, and to no other purpose.
Act of March 2, 1831, ch. 85.
Period of construction extended.
Proviso.
Appropriations for pensioners.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four:
For the revolutionary pensioners under the several acts prior to that of the seventh of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, in addition to an unexpended balance of one hundred and forty-four thousand June 7, 1832, ch. 126.
For the invalid pensioners under the various laws, in addition to the unexpended balance of one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine dol-
For pensions to widows and orphans, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
1789, ch. 20, sec. 3.
Sessions of the circuit court to commence at
Newcastle, on Tuesday after 4th Monday in May;
Dover, on the Tuesday after 3d Monday in Oct.
District court, at Newcastle, on 3d Tuesday in June and the 2d Tuesday in Dec.
Dover, Tuesday after the 3d Monday, March, and after 4th in September.
Return of process, &c.
Appropriations for pay of army, &c.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, that is to say:
For pay of the army and subsistence of officers, one million three hundred and eighty-one thousand seven hundred and seventy-two dollars, including the sum of ninety-four thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars, arrearages of pay and subsistence for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
For forage of officers, fifty-nine thousand one hundred and seventy-nine dollars.
For clothing for servants of officers, twenty-four thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For subsistence exclusive of that of officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of fifty-five thousand dollars, the sum of three hundred and sixty-one thousand nine hundred dollars.
For clothing of the army, camp, and garrison equipage, cooking utensils and hospital furniture, two hundred and eighty thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars.
For payments in lieu of clothing for discharged soldiers for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, including an arrearage in eighteen Pay of army, &c.
For the medical and hospital department, thirty-six thousand five hundred dollars.
For various expenses in the quartermaster’s department, viz: fuel, forage, straw, stationery, blanks and printing; repairing and enlarging barracks, quarters, store-houses, and hospitals at the various posts in the Union; erecting temporary cantonments at such posts as shall be occupied during the year, including huts for the dragoons; materials for the authorized furniture of the rooms of non-commissioned officers and soldiers, rent of quarters, barracks, and store-houses; postage on public letters; expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the compensation of judge advocates, members, and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers employed in the erection of barracks and quarters, and the construction of roads and other constant labour, under an act of Congress of the March 2, 1819, ch. 45.
For transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase and the points of delivery under contract, to the posts where they are required to be used; of ordnance from the founderies and arsenals to the fortifications and frontier posts, and lead from the western mines to the several arsenals; for transportation of the army, including officers when removing with troops either by land or water; freights and ferriages: the purchase or hire of horses, oxen, mules, carts, wagons, and boats, for transportation of troops and supplies, and for garrison purposes: drayage and cartage at the several posts, hire of teamsters, transportation of funds for the pay department, and the expenses of sailing a public transport between the several posts on the Gulf of Mexico, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.
For the allowance to officers for the transportation of their baggage when travelling on duty without troops, and for the per diem to officers on topographical duty, fifty-three thousand dollars.
For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.
For carrying on the works in the city of Savannah, Georgia, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For continuing the repairs and alterations of the barracks and quarters at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, ten thousand dollars.
For erecting officers’ quarters at Fort Severn, Annapolis, Maryland, five thousand dollars.
For carrying on the works at Green Bay, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
For temporary repairs of the barracks at Fort Gibson, Arkansas, five thousand dollars.
For the purchase of land adjoining Fort Sullivan, Eastport, Maine, three thousand three hundred dollars.
For national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For the armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the current expenses of the ordnance service, sixty-eight thousand four hundred dollars.
For arsenals, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the arsenal at St. Louis, in addition to the sum embraced in the general appropriation for arsenals, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of five thousand sets of accoutrements for the Pay of army, &c.
For the recruiting service, in addition to twenty-nine thousand three hundred and eighty-eight dollars unexpended of a former appropriation, six thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the recruiting service, in addition to six thousand and forty-three dollars unexpended of a former appropriation, fourteen thousand dollars.
For arrearages prior to the first of July, eighteen hundred and fifteen, payable through the office of the third auditor, in addition to an unexpended balance in the treasury, three thousand dollars.
To enable the second auditor to close the accounts under the act of third March 2, 1821, ch. 13.
For the payment of the general and staff officers and six companies of Missouri militia, ordered into service by the governor of that state, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For paying any balance which may be due for militia services, in the territory of Michigan, in the late war against Black Hawk and his followers, two thousand dollars.
For the payment of Captain McGeorge’s company of Indiana militia, for services performed in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two,
For finishing gun-racks, and making window shutters to the new arsenal, rebuilding middle water shop, one hundred and ten by fifty feet, and for building a house for steam engine, including a store-room for iron, fifty-two by forty-six feet, at the national armory, Springfield, Massachusetts, twelve thousand two hundred dollars.
For additional machinery and fixtures at the same armory, viz: three water-wheels for grinding musket barrels, six water-wheels and twenty-two forges required in the middle water shop, blast machinery for eleven double forges, and for the purchase of new and improved labour saving machinery, seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars.
For slating roof and rebuilding water-wheel of upper work-shop, renewing and repairing fences on the public ground, and for painting public buildings at the same armory, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairing dam, (and removing obstructions in way of,) supplying the water to the rifle factory on the Shenandoah river, at the national armory, Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, two thousand dollars.
For the completion of the machinery in the three shops for turning, boring, and stocking muskets; the completion of the canal, furnishing the water power; erecting an annealing shop and proof house; erecting two shops for tempering springs and polishing barrels; erecting two engine houses, and making addition to stocking shops; and for erecting a carpenter’s and machine shop, at the same armory, thirty-six thousand one hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty-six cents.
For erecting store-houses for iron and pit coal; repairing paymasters’ and clerks’ quarters; constructing a river wall, sinking three wells on Camp hill, grading and paving the open spaces between the public shops, and for painting some of the public buildings at the same armory, eight thousand five hundred and eighty-nine dollars and eighty-seven cents.
For the payment of the taxes assessed by the state of Pennsylvania on the United States arsenal on the Schuylkill river, five hundred and sixty-eight dollars and fifty-nine cents.
For the purchase of three acres of land on the Alabama river, and building a warehouse and dock at the Mount Vernon arsenal, in the state of Alabama, one thousand eight hundred dollars and fifty cents.
Act of March 2, 1831, ch. 62, and of July 14, 1832, ch. 230, revived.
Consent of legal representative of deceased surety or co-surety to entitle applicant to relief, &c.
1832, ch. 230.
All discharges heretofore granted declared valid.
Secretary of Treasury may cause satisfaction to be entered, &c.
Proviso.
Certain counties to elect two, and others one member of the council.
Employment of clerks and printing of laws restricted.
Part of former act annulled.
Secretary of the territory to superintend the printing and revision of laws, &c.
Appropriation not to exceed $7000 annually.
Act relating to superior court approved.
Twenty-first section of act of Feb. 15, 1834, [act of Florida,] annulled.
Appropriations for the Indian department.
That the following sums be, and they are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Indian department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, viz:
For the salary of the commissioner of Indian affairs, three thousand Commissioner.
For the salary of the clerks in the office of the commissioner, five Clerks.
For compensation to the messenger, seven hundred dollars. Messenger.
For office contingencies, eight hundred dollars. Contingencies.
For pay of the superintendent of Indians affairs at St. Louis, and the Superintendent and agents.
For clerk in the office of superintendent of Indian affairs, one thousand Clerk.
For pay of sub-agents, as allowed by law, sixteen thousand five hundred Sub-agents.
For pay of interpreters and translators, employed at the several superintendencies Interpreters, &c.
For pay of gun and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed within Gun and blacksmiths, &c.
For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of eighteen hundred Presents. Act of 1802, ch. 13, sec. 13.
For the purchase of iron, steel, and coal, and for other expenses attending Iron, &c.
For provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuities while on Provisions.
For the necessary buildings required at the several agencies, and repairs Buildings.
For contingencies of the Indian department, twenty thousand dollars. Contingencies.
For holding a treaty with the Wyandot tribe of Indians, one thousand Holding treaty.
Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208, revived, and extended to those who settled and cultivated land in 1833.
Choice of quarter sections allowed.
Settlers on the public lands before 1829 may enter a quarter section at the minimum price.
Pensions given under acts of March 4, 1814, ch. 20, and of April 16, 1818, ch. 65, continued for five years longer.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Land equal to one thirty-sixth of Western Reserve, including that heretofore granted, to be reserved from sale, and to vest in the state.
Commission extended to three years from first Monday in August, 1832.
Act of July 13, 1832, ch. 199.
Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 96.
Six months to be added to the time allowed by said act.
Re-appropriation for payment of the Georgia militia.
1830, ch. 84.
Appropriation for completing canal to Harper’s Ferry.
Appropriations for continuing the road in the state of
Ohio;
Indiana;
Illinois.
Officer of engineer corps to superintend the road in Indiana and Illinois.
Proviso.
Appropriation to carry into effect Pennsylvania act of April 4, 1831; Maryland act of January 23, 1832; and Virginia act of February 7, 1832.
Vol. iv. 553.
Vol. iv. 655.
Road to be surrendered to the states through which it passes.
Act of June 28, 1834, ch. 96.
Certain silver coin to pass by tale.
Assays of such coin to be made at the mint once in every year.
Certain lands to form part of the western, and others of south-eastern land district.
Appropriations for Indian annuities, &c.
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, for the payment of annuities due to various Indians and Indian tribes, and other objects hereinafter enumerated, according to the stipulations of certain Indian treaties, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; that is to say:
To the Six Nations of Indians in New York, four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
To the Senecas of New York, six thousand dollars.
To the Ottawas, four thousand three hundred dollars.
To the Wyandot, six thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars.
To the Wyandots, Munsees, and Delawares, one thousand dollars.
To the Christian Indians, four hundred dollars.
To the Miamies, twenty-nine thousand and twenty dollars.
To the Eel Rivers, one thousand one hundred dollars.
To the Pattawatamies, twenty thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
To the Pattawatamies of Huron, four hundred dollars.
To the Pattawatamies of the Prairie, sixteen thousand dollars.
To the Pattawatamies of the Wabash, twenty thousand dollars.
To the Pattawatamies of Indiana, seventeen thousand dollars.
To the Chippewas, Ottawas, and Pattawatamies, sixteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars.
To the Winnebagoes, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
To the Menomonies, twenty thousand and forty dollars.
To the Chippewas, five thousand eight hundred dollars.
To the Chippewas, Menomonies, and New York Indians, one thousand five hundred dollars.
To the Sioux of Mississippi, three thousand seven hundred dollars. Indian annuities, &c.
To the Yancton, and Santie bands of Sioux, four thousand four hundred dollars.
To the Omahas, four thousand dollars.
To the Sacs of Missouri, one thousand four hundred dollars.
To the Sacs, three thousand dollars.
To the Foxes, three thousand dollars.
To the Ioways, five thousand three hundred and thirty dollars.
To the Sacs and Foxes, twenty-five thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
To the Sacs, Foxes, and Ioways, three thousand dollars.
To the Ottos and Missourias, four thousand dollars.
To the Kanzas, five thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars.
To the Osages, eleven thousand and seventy dollars.
To the Kickapoos, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
To the Kaskaskias and Peorias, two thousand and fifty dollars, in addition to the sum of one thousand dollars in the hands of the superintendent at St. Louis.
To the Kaskaskias and Peorias, Weas, and Piankeshaws, one thousand dollars.
To the Piankeshaws, eight hundred dollars.
To the Weas, three thousand dollars.
To the Piankeshaws, five hundred dollars.
To the Delawares, seven thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars.
To the Shawanees, three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
To the Shawanees and Delawares, one thousand dollars.
To the Shawanees and Senecas of Lewistown, one thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
To the Senecas of Lewistown, two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
To the Choctaws, sixty-six thousand five hundred and thirty dollars.
To the Chickasaws, three thousand dollars.
To the Creeks, fifty-four thousand four hundred and fifty-five dollars.
To the Cherokees, twelve thousand dollars.
To the Quapaws, two thousand dollars.
To the Florida Indians, seven thousand dollars.
For to carry into effect the fourth article of the treaty with the Apalachicola band of Indians in Florida, approved thirteenth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, three thousand five hundred and ten dollars.
To the Menomonies, five thousand dollars, for the annuity for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two.
For the expenses of transportation and distribution of annuities, salt, agricultural implements, and tobacco, tools, &c.; and other incidental expenses not otherwise enumerated, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, viz:
For running the lines and marking out the reservations for the Sacs Running lines for the Sacs and Foxes.
For expenses of locating reservations and certifying contracts under Creek treaty.
For payment to the Stockbridge and Munsees Indians, for improvements Improvements of Stockbridge and Munsee Indians.
For payment to the Brothertown Indians for improvements on the Improvements of Brothertown Indians.
For expenses of running the lines provided for by said treaty, and for For running lines.
For expenses of selecting and locating reservations under the several Treaty with Pattawatamies.
For expenses of running the dividing line between the Choctaws and Running Choctaw and Chickasaw line.
For expenses of running the lines between the Chippewas and Running Chippewa and Sioux line.
For to run the lines between the Sacs and Foxes, and to complete the Running lines between Sacs and Foxes.
For expenses of the commission heretofore appointed to visit and Commission to examine lands for emigrating Indians.
For the payment of claims due by the Pattawatamie Indians to white Claims due by Pattawatamies.
For payment of claims to Cherokees of Arkansas, in addition to eight Cherokees of Arkansas. 1828, ch. 94.
For compensation to Isaac McCoy for expenses of surveying the lands Isaac McCoy for surveying.
For surveying Indian reservations in the neighbourhood of Michilimackinac, Survey in territory of Michigan.
For the payment of claims ascertained upon settlement to be due, for Emigrating Indians under the Creek treaty.
For removing five thousand Creeks from the Creek country east of Removing the Creeks east of the Mississippi.
For rifles, moulds, wipers, ammunition, and blankets, and transportation Rifles, &c. furnished Creeks.
For removing such portion of the Cherokees as may emigrate during Removing the Cherokees from country east of the Mississippi.
Money in the treasury under act of February 19, 1831, ch. 26, to be subject to payment of Indian annuities.
Proviso.
Creek followers of General McIntosh, who emigrated under treaty of January 24, 1826.
Cherokee annuities to be paid to chiefs, &c.
School lands to be set apart in lieu of section sixteen
Lands granted in trust for the county.
Appropriation of proceeds to erection of a courthouse and jail.
The act of Congress, entitled “An act to create additional land districts in the states of Illinois and Missouri,” approved June 26, 1834, ch. 76, does not require the President of the United States to cause to be offered for sale the public lands containing lead mines, situated in the land districts created by that act. The United States v. Gear, 3 Howard, 120.
The act does not require the President to cause the land containing lead mines to be sold, as the fifth section of the act of March 3, 1807, entitled “An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands, situated between the United States’ tract and the Connecticut reserve, and for other purposes,” is in full force. Ibid.
The lands containing lead mines, in the Indiana territory, or that part of it made into the new land districts, by the act of June 26th, 1834, are not subject to a pre-emption by settlers upon the public lands, under any of the pre-emption laws which have been passed by Congress. Ibid.
The fourth section of the act of 1834 does in no way repeal any part of the fifth section of the act of March 3, 1807, ch. 49, by which the lands containing lead mines were reserved for the future disposal of the United States, in which section it is declared that grants for lead mine tracts, discovered to be such before they may be bought from the United States, are declared to be fraudulent and null; and which authorized the President to lease any lead mine which had been, or might be discovered in the Indiana territory, for a term not exceeding five years. Ibid.
The land containing lead mines, in the districts made by the act of 1834, are not subject to pre-emption and sale under any of the existing acts of Congress. Ibid.
Digging lead ore from the lead mines upon the public land of the United States, is such a waste as entitles the United States to a writ of injunction to restrain it. Ibid.
Four new land districts created.
President to designate place for office.
Registers and receivers to be appointed.
Land to be reserved for military posts.
Land office.
Register and receiver.
Lands not disposed of at public sale may be entered and sold at private sale.
Proviso.
Land office to be established at Helena.
Register and receiver to reside at Helena.
Land not sold at public, may be entered and sold at private sale.
Register’s decision of March 7, 1832, confirmed.
Act of March 2, 1829, ch. 40.
Secretary of War to establish an agency at Decatur.
Secretary of the Treasury to make arrangements for payment of pensioners.
Act to take effect August 1.
Appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, viz:
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Postmaster General, sixty thousand dollars.
For clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of State, twenty thousand three hundred dollars.
For clerks, machinist, and messenger in the patent office, five thousand four hundred dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of State, including the expense of publishing and distributing the laws, and for carrying into effect the resolutions of the Senate of the twenty-sixth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and thirty-first of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, in conjunction with the statistical inquiries set on foot by the late Secretary of State, Edward Livingston, and to reimburse the contingent fund the sum taken therefrom, in prosecution of the same, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent and incidental expenses of the patent office, two thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For the superintendent and watchmen of the north-east executive building, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, repairs of the buildings, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For completing the publication of the diplomatic correspondence of the United States, from the peace of seventeen hundred and eighty-three to the fourth of March, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, thirteen hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty-two cents.
For the documentary history of the revolution, per act of March second, Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 78.
For the erection of a fence of wood corresponding with that already enclosing the war and navy buildings, to complete the enclosure of the north-east executive building, sixteen hundred dollars.
For compensation of an additional watchman of the north-east executive building, three hundred dollars.
For reimbursing the fund for the contingent expenses of the north-east Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars, including one hundred and fifty dollars additional compensation to the assistant messenger for extra labour.
For compensation to the first comptroller of the treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the first comptroller, nineteen thousand three hundred dollars, including two hundred dollars additional compensation to the assistant messenger for extra labour.
For compensation to the second comptroller of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the second comptroller, ten thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the first auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the first auditor, thirteen thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the second auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the second auditor, seventeen thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the third auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the third auditor, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the fourth auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the fourth auditor, seventeen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the fifth auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the fifth auditor, twelve thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer of the United States, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the treasurer of the United States, six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the register of the treasury, twenty-four thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the commissioner of the general land office, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the commissioner of the general land office, twenty thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the solicitor of the treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of solicitor of the treasury, three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the secretary to the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the expenses of stationery, printing, and all other incidental and Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
For the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, including the expenses incurred in consequence of the burning of the treasury building, ten thousand dollars.
For the office of the first comptroller, including the sum necessary to supply books and stationery lost in the conflagration, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For the office of the second comptroller, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the office of the first auditor, eight hundred dollars.
For the office of the second auditor, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the third auditor, eight hundred dollars.
For the office of the fifth auditor, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the treasurer of the United States, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For the office of the solicitor of the treasury, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the commissioner of the general land office, including eighty thousand parchments, and cost of printing patents, eighteen thousand dollars.
For compensation to the legal representatives of the late William Wirt, Esq., in full for professional services rendered the United States in suits relative to lands lying in Missouri, in Alabama, and in Florida, the sum of one thousand dollars.
For additional clerk hire in the issuing of military land scrip, making out of patents for Virginia military surveys, and for private land claims, and in adjusting the accounts of the surveyors general, four thousand dollars.
For additional clerk hire in writing and recording not less than forty thousand patents, at a price not exceeding fifteen cents each, six thousand dollars.
For compensation to six additional clerks, one year, to aid in registering sales of lands and adjusting the accounts of receivers of public moneys for districts recently created, and for opening tract books, making indexes, and bringing up other arrears, six thousand dollars.
For translations, and for expense of passports and sea letters, three hundred dollars.
For stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation of superintendent and watchmen of the buildings occupied by the Treasury Department, two thousand one hundred dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses of said buildings, fuel, labour, oil, and repairs, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of War, twelve thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, three thousand dollars.
For books, maps and plans for the War Department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the paymaster general, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the commissary general of purchases, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the adjutant general, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars. Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the quartermaster general, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general of subsistence, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, including printing advertisements, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the chief engineer, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars.
For the services of a lithographer, and the expenses of the lithographic press of the War Department, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the ordnance office, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the surgeon general, eleven hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, four hundred dollars.
For the salary of a clerk in the topographical bureau, one thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the topographical bureau, one thousand three hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents.
For the salary of a clerk in the clothing bureau, seven hundred dollars.
For the salary of the commissioner of pensions, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For salaries of clerks transferred from the office of the Secretary of War, four thousand eight hundred dollars.
For salaries of additional clerks, ten thousand six hundred dollars.
For additional or temporary clerk hire for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, in order to carry into effect the act of the seventh of 1832, ch. 126.
For arrearages for salaries and clerk hire, printing, stationery, rent, expenses of procuring revolutionary records, and other contingencies, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, five thousand dollars.
For printing, stationery, rent, expenses of procuring revolutionary records, and other contingencies in the office of the commissioner of pensions, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For the salary of the superintendent and watchmen of the north-west executive building, twelve hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, furniture, repairs of building and improvements of adjoining ground, including arrearages for eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and the sum of one hundred and four dollars and seventeen cents for the rent of rooms occupied by the bounty land bureau, three thousand two hundred and four dollars and seventeen cents.
For fitting up the basement rooms of the executive building occupied by the War Department, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, twelve thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
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 board, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks, draughtsmen, and messenger in Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
For contingent expenses of the office of the commissioners of the navy board, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For salary of the superintendent of the south-west executive building, and the watchmen, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, repairs of building, engine, and improvement of the grounds, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the two assistant postmasters general, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Postmaster General, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For superintendency of the buildings, making up blanks, and compensation to two watchmen and one labourer, sixteen hundred and forty dollars.
For additional clerk hire for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, thirty-one thousand seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and forty-four cents.
For the repairs of the buildings occupied by the general post-office, three thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars and thirty-one cents.
For compensation to the surveyor general in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand one hundred dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and transcribing field notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Illinois and Missouri, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, four thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor general in Arkansas, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to clerks in said office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Louisiana, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, fifteen hundred dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Mississippi, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, two thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerk and draughtsman in the office of the Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Florida, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, three thousand dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For enabling the respective surveyors general to furnish the several land offices, commencing under the credit system, with renewed township plats, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in cases where those previously furnished have been defaced, or become materially injured by use, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the secretary appointed by the President to sign all patents for lands sold or granted under the authority of the United States, per act of second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, including Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 91.
For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings in Washington city, two thousand dollars.
For purchase of books for the library of Congress, five thousand dollars.
For salary of the principal and assistant librarians, and for contingent expenses of the library and pay of messenger, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the officers and clerk of the mint, ten thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to assistants in the several departments of the mint, and wages of labourers employed in the various operations of the establishment, including one thousand dollars for the salary of an assistant assayer, and one thousand five hundred dollars for his services and expenses during a visit to Europe on behalf of the mint, in order to examine certain processes in the treatment of the precious metals, twenty thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses and repairs, cost of machinery, for allowance for wastage in gold and silver coinage of the mint, twenty thousand and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Michigan territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Michigan territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council, pay of the officers of the council, fuel, stationery, and printing, of the territory of Michigan, eleven thousand four hundred and forty-eight dollars.
For arrearages for compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council of Michigan territory, pay of officers of the council, fuel, stationery, and printing, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, four thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty-five cents.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Arkansas territory, including additional compensation to the judges, under the act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, at eight Act of April 20, 1832, ch. 72.
For incidental expenses of the legislative council of said territory, per Civil and diplomatic expenses of government. 1828, ch. 100.
To defray the expenses of compiling and printing the laws of the territory of Arkansas, under the direction and superintendence of the governor of said territory, three thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of Arkansas territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Florida territory, including additional compensation per act of twenty-sixth May, 1830, ch. 106.
For additional compensation for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, to the judges of the superior courts of the eastern and southern districts of the Florida territory, one thousand six hundred dollars, in lieu of an appropriation of last year of one thousand six hundred dollars, for 1833, ch. 54.
For contingent expenses of the Florida territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council of Florida, pay of officers and servants of the council, fuel, stationery, and printing, nine thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars and twenty-four cents.
For arrearages for the compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council of Florida, pay of officers and servants of the council, fuel, stationery, printing, and the distribution of the laws for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, two thousand seven hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty cents.
For allowances to the law agent and assistant counsel, under the acts for the settlement of private land claims in Florida, including arrearages, nine thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district judges of the United States, eighty-one thousand four hundred dollars.
For the expenses of printing the records of the Supreme Court of the United States for the term of eighteen hundred and thirty-four, three thousand dollars.
For the salaries of chief justice and associate judges of the District of Columbia, and of the judges of the orphans’ courts of the said district, nine thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, four thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the attorney general, eight hundred dollars.
For a messenger in said office, five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the district attorneys and marshals as granted by law, including those in the several territories, twelve thousand seven hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures, incurred in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and preceding years; and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offences com- Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by special acts of Congress, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating-lights, beacons, buoys and stakeages, including the purchase of lamps, oil, keepers’ salaries, repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, two hundred and fifty-one thousand seven hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy-nine cents.
For the salaries of registers and receivers of land offices where there are no sales, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For surveying the public lands, and for establishing a permanent and conspicuous land-mark on the line dividing the states of Indiana and Illinois at some suitable point near Lake Michigan, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, sixty thousand dollars.
For surveying a portion of the public lands in the south-western part of the state of Missouri, to which the Indian title was extinguished in eighteen hundred and thirty-two, twenty thousand dollars.
For the salaries of two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the recorder, two commissioners, and translators, for the final adjustment of private land claims in Missouri, per act of ninth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, which act, and a supplemental 1832, ch. 180. 1833, ch. 84.
For contingent expenses and office rent of said board, five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said board for eighteen hundred and thirty-four, including compensation to the agent employed to convey annual report of the board to the seat of government, including also expenses incurred by commissioners in taking testimony, and for payment of balances of claims admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars and sixty-two cents.
For stationery and books for the offices of commissioners of loans, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For registers for ships and vessels, and lists of crews, two thousand three hundred dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall be ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, twelve thousand dollars.
For salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Spain, and Russia, thirty-six thousand dollars.
For salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places, eight thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the chargés des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Turkey, Belgium, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru, Mexico, Central America, and New Granada, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For the salary of the drogoman to the legation of the United States to Turkey, and for contingent expenses of that legation, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For outfits of a minister of the United States to Russia, and a chargé des affaires to Buenos Ayres, eighteen thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
For the salaries of the agents for claims at London and Paris, four thousand dollars.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Mediterranean powers, twenty-four thousand four hundred dollars.
For the relief and protection of American seamen, in foreign countries, thirty thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation and expenses of an agent to Havana, to procure the archives of Florida, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the judges of the western and middle districts of Florida, under the act of eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, for the 1828, ch. 70.
To defray the costs of certain suits decided against the United States, as directed in the act of May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, one thousand dollars.
For balance due to Lucius Lyon, commissioner appointed to ascertain and survey the northern boundary of the state of Illinois, per act of second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, one thousand and sixty-eight 1831, ch. 86.
For additional payment for the statue of Washington, five thousand dollars.
For payment of the balance found to be due on settlement, at the treasury, to the legal representatives of John W. Smith, deceased, late special agent in relation to the sale of property in New Orleans, formerly belonging to Edward Livingston, nine hundred and ten dollars and twenty-four cents.
For survey of the coasts of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For the erection of the custom-house at New London, in the state of Connecticut, in addition to an unexpended balance of former appropriations, nine thousand dollars.
For the erection of the custom-house at Middletown, in the state of Connecticut, in addition to an unexpended balance of former appropriations, six thousand dollars.
For the erection of a custom-house at New Bedford, in the state of Massachusetts, in addition to an unexpended balance of former appropriations, eight thousand two hundred dollars.
For the erection of a custom-house at Newburryport, in the state of Massachusetts, in addition to an unexpended balance of former appropriations, eight thousand two hundred dollars.
For the erection of a public warehouse at Baltimore, in addition to an unexpended balance of former appropriations, twenty-three thousand dollars.
To construct a cistern on the custom-house lot at Key West, five hundred dollars.
To construct a brick wall to enclose the custom-house lot, and a small building connected with the wall, and for repairs to the custom-house at Providence, Rhode Island, one thousand dollars.
To construct a brick wall to enclose the custom-house lot at New Orleans, five thousand five hundred dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the contingent fund of the House of Representatives, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For completing the compilation of the laws of the territory of Florida, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to Robert Mills, the architect employed by order of the House of Representatives to superintend the alterations in the Representatives Hall, according to the plan of said Mills, one thousand dollars.
For the repair and completion of the United States’ marine hospital Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
For pay and mileage of members of Congress and delegates, seventy thousand and eighty dollars, in addition to the appropriation made by act of the eleventh day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-four. 1834, ch. 10.
To enable the directors of the mint to procure the requisite apparatus for parting gold and silver by the sulphuric acid, and to establish a refinery for that purpose on the most approved principles under the control of the institution, seven thousand dollars.
For payment of preparing, printing and binding the documents ordered to be printed by Gales and Seaton, forty thousand dollars, under the same restrictions and reservations as were contained in the appropriation for the same object by the act of the fifth day of May, eighteen hundred and 1832, ch. 74.
For payment for printing the documents relating to the public lands, ordered to be printed by the Senate of the United States, and for binding and engraving the necessary maps, forty-two thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars, to be disbursed by the secretary of the Senate, whose accounts for the same shall be settled and adjusted at the treasury in the usual manner.
For the contingent expenses of the Senate, in addition to the appropriation contained in the act of the eleventh day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, forty-six thousand two hundred and ninety-four 1834, ch. 70.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry into effect the act entitled “An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors,” approved the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, five thousand 1834, ch. 45.
For payment of balance due the representatives of Samuel Babcock on settlement of his accounts, one hundred and forty-six dollars twenty-three cents.
For payment of balance due Gordon Trombull, superintendent of the public works at Stonington harbour, two hundred and sixty-two dollars sixteen cents.
For payment of Major P. H. Perrault, balance due on account of the survey of the harbour of St. Augustine, two dollars and eighty-four cents.
For payment of balances due Joseph D. Selden, superintendent of the erection of a lighthouse at Buffalo and Erie, one thousand six hundred and ninety-seven dollars and sixty-two cents.
For payment of the arrearages due contractors on the Cumberland road in Ohio, one thousand six hundred and nine dollars thirty-six cents.
For the expenses of a “Digest of the existing commercial regulations of foreign countries” now in preparation under a resolution of the House of Representatives of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, the sum of five thousand and one hundred dollars.
Compensation to be allowed to collectors and other officers of the customs.
1832, ch. 227.
Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 54.
Proviso.
Payments not to be made in bank notes below par at place of payment.
Elisha R. Potter to be paid for mileage and attendance.
Standard and weight of coins.
Vol. ii. 54.
Vol. ii. 111.
Gold and silver deposited for coinage to be paid for within five days.
Proviso.
Rate at which gold coin shall be receivable.
Gold coins to be set apart for assay.
Proviso.
Act to be in force after July 31, 1834.
Act of June 25, 1834, ch. 71.
Rates at which gold coins shall be receivable after July 31, 1834.
Coins of Great Britain, Portugal, and Brazil.
France.
Spain, Mexico, and Colombia.
Annual assays to be made.
President to cause custom-house to be removed.
Territory made part of Michigan, and the inhabitants subjected to its laws, &c.
Appropriation to extinguish interest on public debt of Washington city.
Arrangement to be made with France for payment of double pensions to persons wounded and relatives of those killed.
Appropriation.
Indiana to select lands in lieu of those formerly selected.
Sales to be advertised not less than three, nor more than six months.
Appropriations for harbours and rivers.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for carrying on and completing certain works heretofore commenced, viz:
For piers at the entrance of Kennebunk river, ten thousand three hundred Kennebunk river.
For the breakwater at the mouth of Merrimack river, three thousand Merrimack river.
For the preservation of Plymouth beach, two thousand dollars. Plymouth beach.
For the preservation of the beach at Provincetown harbour, Massachusetts, Beach at Provincetown.
For the breakwater at Hyannis harbour, Massachusetts, ten thousand Breakwater at Hyannis.
For improving the harbours of Newcastle, Marcus Hook, Chester, and New Castle, Marcus Hook, and Port Penn.
For carrying on the improvement of Ocracok inlet, North Carolina, Ocracok inlet.
For improving Cape Fear river below Wilmington, North Carolina, Cape Fear river.
For improving the navigation of the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi.
For completing the improvement of St. Mark’s river and harbour, St. Mark’s.
For improving the harbour of Chicago, Illinois, thirty-two thousand Chicago harbour.
For the piers at La Plaisance bay, Michigan, four thousand eight hundred La Plaisance piers.
For improving the navigation of Red river, fifty thousand dollars. Red river.
For carrying on the Delaware breakwater, two hundred and seventy Delaware breakwater.
For filling up and securing a breach in the south embankment at Presque Isle.
For improving the harbour at Mobile, in removing the bar at the Mobile harbour.
For improving the navigation of the river Savannah, in removing the Savannah river.
For continuing and securing the works at Oswego harbour, New Oswego harbour.
For continuing the improvements at Big Sodus bay, New York, on Big Sodus bay.
For completing the works at Gennessee river, New York, on the present Gennessee river.
For continuing the improvements of Black Rock harbour, New York, Black Rock harbour.
For completing the works at Buffalo, New York, twenty thousand Buffalo.
For continuing the improvements at Dunkirk harbour, New York, four Dunkirk harbour.
For securing the works at Presque Isle, Pennsylvania, twenty thousand Presque Isle.
For completing and securing the works at Cleveland harbour, Ohio, Cleveland harbour.
For repairing and securing the works at Grand river, Ohio, ten thousand Grand river.
For securing the works at Black river, Ohio, five thousand dollars. Black river.
For extending and securing the works at Huron river, Ohio, six thousand Huron river.
For continuing the improvements at Ashtabula creek, Ohio, five thousand Ashtabula creek.
And for defraying the expense of surveys pursuant to the act of the Surveys under act of April 30, 1824, ch. 46, &c.
To rebuild the monument on Steele’s ledge, in Penobscot bay, four Steele’s ledge.
For the continuation of the improvement of the navigation of the Cumberland river.
Appropriations for the military academy.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury:
For defraying the expenses of the board of visitors at West Point, two thousand dollars.
For fuel, forage, stationery, printing, transportation, and postage, eight thousand four hundred and eighty-six dollars and thirty cents.
For repairs, improvements, and expenses of buildings, grounds, roads, wharves, boats, carts and fences, nine thousand six hundred and ten dollars and ninety-six cents.
For pay of adjutant’s and quartermaster’s clerks, nine hundred dollars.
For philosophical apparatus and repairs of the same, six hundred and ninety-eight dollars.
For models for the department of engineering, eight hundred dollars.
For models for the drawing department, apparatus, and contingencies for the department of chemistry, and repairs of instruments for the mathematical department, one thousand one hundred and seventeen dollars.
For the departments of mineralogy, artillery, and sword exercises, one thousand one hundred and thirty dollars.
For increase and expenses of the library, one thousand two hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-two cents.
For completing the out-buildings and culvert attached to the cadet barracks, one thousand and eighty-one dollars and fifty cents.
For miscellaneous items, and incidental expenses of the military academy, one thousand six hundred and seventy-one dollars and forty-seven cents.
For the erection of a building for military and other exercises, in winter, in addition to six thousand dollars appropriated last session, fourteen thousand dollars.
For pay of the officers, cadets, and musicians, and subsistence of officers and cadets, ninety-five thousand six hundred and ninety-eight dollars.
For forage of officers, one thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For clothing for servants of officers, three hundred and thirty dollars.
Secretary of War to cause transfers to be made to settle accounts of Col. Thayer.
Appropriations to effect certain Indian treaties.
That the following sums be, and are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter mentioned, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, viz:
To carry into effect the stipulations of the treaty with the Seminoles, Seminoles.
To pay for improvements relinquished to the United States by the first article, fifteen thousand four hundred dollars.
To defray the expense of investigating claims against the Seminoles for property alleged to have been stolen or destroyed by them, and of liquidating such as may be satisfactorily established, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
To carry into effect the treaty with the Western Cherokees, of fourteenth Western Cherokees.
For support of blacksmiths, of a wheelwright and wagon maker and their establishments, and the purchase of corn mills, under the fourth article, eight thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
To carry into effect the treaty with the Western Creeks, of fourteenth Western Creeks.
For support of a blacksmith, wheelwright, or wagon maker, and their establishments, and for the purchase of saws and corn mills, under the fifth article, three thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars.
For education, one thousand dollars.
To pay for improvements abandoned, under the sixth article, three thousand eight hundred and one dollars and fifty-eight cents.
To pay the expense of appraising these improvements, five hundred dollars.
To carry into effect the treaty with the Quapaws, of thirteenth May, Quapaws.
To pay for stock, implements of agriculture, rifles, blankets, and other articles stipulated to be furnished in the third article, five thousand and eighty-eight dollars and fifty cents.
For support of a farmer, six hundred dollars.
For education, one thousand dollars.
For support of a blacksmith and his establishment, one thousand and seventy-five dollars.
For payment of debts of the Quapaws, under the fourth article, four thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
For pay of labourers, one thousand dollars.
For payment of the limited annuity, two thousand dollars.
For pay of an interpreter, by the sixth article, three hundred dollars.
To carry into effect the treaties with the Appalachicolas, of eighteenth Appalachicolas.
For payment of reservations to be surrendered, under the fourth article of each of the treaties, six thousand dollars.
To carry into effect the treaty with the Otoes and Missourias, of twenty-first Otoes and Missourias.
For education, under the fourth article, five hundred dollars.
For support of farmers, and the erection of a mill, under the fifth article, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For purchase of stock, under the sixth article, one thousand dollars.
For payment for merchandise, under the ninth article, four hundred dollars.
To carry into effect the treaty with the Pawnees, of ninth October, Pawnees.
For payment of the annuity provided for in the third article, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For purchase of agricultural implements, under the fourth article, two thousand dollars.
For education, under the fifth article, one thousand dollars.
For support of blacksmiths, and their establishments, under the sixth article, two thousand dollars.
For the support of farmers, under the seventh article, two thousand four hundred dollars.
For the purchase of stock, four thousand dollars.
For the erection of mills under the eighth article, one thousand dollars.
For the purchase of guns, and ammunition under the twelfth article, one thousand four hundred and twenty-two dollars.
For payment for merchandise under the thirteenth article, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For payment of transportation and other incidental expenses, under the above treaties, two thousand dollars.
To survey and lay off the lands of the Senecas and Shawnees, under Senecas and Shawnees, and Quapaws.
To survey and lay off the reservation provided for in the second article Sacs and Foxes.
To lay off and divide the lands of the Sac and Fox half-breeds, under Sac and Fox half-breeds.
To complete the surveys of the Kickapoo reservations, under the Kickapoos.
To complete the north line of the Osage reservation, under the second Osages.
To complete the north line of the Kanzas reservation, under the Kanzas.
To cover the excess of expenditure over the appropriation for running Sacs and Foxes.
To locate reservations under the fifth article of the treaty with the Winnebagoes.
To defray the expense of locating reservations, under the treaty with Choctaws.
To pay for improvements relinquished by the Chippewas, under the Chippewas.
To pay for improvements relinquished by the Cherokees who have Cherokees.
For the balance of expenses of the Chickasaws, who explored the Chickasaws.
To pay expenses incurred by the Indian agent at Prairie du Chien, in Capture of Black Hawk.
To pay the expenses of a delegation of New York Indians in exploring New York Indians.
To pay for three thousand and fifty bushels of corn for the Choctaws, Choctaws.
To pay for one thousand bushels of corn, purchased for the relief of Osages.
To pay balances ascertained to be due by the second auditor for capitation Creeks.
To compensate the Western Cherokees for stock and other property Western Cherokees.
To remunerate the Western Cherokees for spoliations on their property under the fifth article of the treaty of sixth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, one thousand and forty-three dollars.
To defray expenses incurred in holding treaties with the Pawnees, Pawnees, &c.
That the Secretary of War ascertain the amount paid by Joseph M. Fees paid by J. M. Street and S. W. Kearney.
For expense of surveys and marking certain lines in the Creek and Creeks and Cherokees.
For improvements abandoned on ceded lands under the treaty with Cherokees.
For refunding to Colonel Pierre Minard, six hundred and eighty-one Colonel Pierre Minard.
For expenses of thirteen delegates from the Eastern Cherokees, five Eastern Cherokees.
For the expenses of five delegates from the Western Cherokees, two Western Cherokees.
For the purchase of a house and lot at Prairie du Chien, for the use House at Prairie du Chien.
Proviso of act of January 13, 1830, ch. 3, repealed.
Register of land office to issue patents in conformity with acts of April 5, 1832, ch. 65, and June 15, 1832, ch. 140.
Re-survey on Bayou St. Vincent confirmed.
1832, ch. 65.
The decisions of the Supreme Court upon the compacts between states have been:—
The compact in 1789, between Virginia and Kentucky, was valid under that provision of the constitution which declares, that “no state shall, without the consent of Congress, enter into agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power:” no particular mode, in which that consent must be given, having been prescribed by the constitution; and Congress having consented to the admission of Kentucky into the Union, as a sovereign state, upon the conditions in the compact. Green v. Biddle, 8 Wheat. 1; 5 Cond. Rep. 369.
The compact is not invalid upon the ground of its surrendering rights of sovereignty, which are in-alienable. Ibid.
To bring a case within the protection of the seventh article in the compact between Virginia and Kentucky, it must be shown that the title to the land asserted, is derived from the laws of Virginia, prior to the separation of the two states. Lessee of Fisher v. Cockerell, 5 Peters, 247.
The construction of a compact between the states of Virginia and Pennsylvania, is not to be settled by the laws or decisions of either of those states, but by the compact itself. Marlatt v. Silk et al., 11 Peters, 1.
The decision of a question of the construction of such a compact, is not to be attested from the decisions of either state, but is one of an international character. Ibid.
It is a part of the general right of sovereignty, belonging to independent nations, to establish and fix the disputed boundaries between the respective limits; and the boundaries so established and fixed by compact between nations, become conclusive upon all the subjects and citizens thereof, and bind their rights; and are to be treated, to all intents and purposes, as the real boundaries. This right is expressly recognised to exist in the states of the Union, by the constitution of the United States; and is guarded in its exercise by a single limitation or restriction, only, requiring the consent of Congress. Ibid.
The compact between New Jersey and Pennsylvania, recognises the right of fishery in riparian owners on the Delaware. Bennett v. Boggs, Baldwin’s C. C. R. 60.
The plaintiffs, in the circuit court of West Tennessee, instituted an ejectment for a tract of land held under a Virginia military land warrant, situate south of a line called Mathews’ line, and south of Walker’s line; the latter being the established boundaries between the states of Kentucky and Tennessee, as fixed by a compact between those states, made in 1820; by which compact, although the jurisdiction over the territory to the south of Walker’s line, was acknowledged to belong to Tennessee, the titles to lands held under Virginia military land warrant, &c.; and grants from Kentucky, as far south as “Mathews’ line,” were declared to be confirmed: the state of Kentucky having, before the compact, claimed the right to the soil, as well as the jurisdiction over the territory, and having granted lands in the same. The compact of 1820 was confirmed by Congress. The defendants in the ejectment claimed the lands under titles emanating from the state of North Carolina, in 1786, 1794, 1795; before the formation of the state of Tennessee; and grants from the state of Tennessee, in 1809, 1811, 1812, 1814, in which the lands claimed by the defendants were situated, according to the boundary of the state of Tennessee, declared and established at a time when the state of Tennessee became one of the states of the United States. The circuit court instructed the jury that the state of Tennessee, by sanctioning the compact, admitted, in the most solemn form, that the lands in dispute were not within her jurisdiction, nor within the jurisdiction of North Carolina; at the time they were granted; and that, consequently, the titles are subject to the compact: Held, by the Supreme Court, that the instructions of the circuit court were entirely correct. Poole v. Fleeger, 11 Peters, 185.
The seventh article of the compact between Virginia and Kentucky declares “all private rights and interests of lands within the said district (Kentucky) derived from the laws of Virginia, prior to such separation, shall remain valid and secure under the laws of the proposed state, and shall be determined by the laws now existing in this state (Virginia).” Whatever course of legislation, by Kentucky, would be sanctioned by the principles and practices of Virginia, should be regarded as an unaffected compliance with the compact. Such are all reasonable quieting statutes. Hawkins v. Barney’s Lessee, 5 Peters, 457.
From as early a date as the year 1705, Virginia has never been without an act of limitation; and no class of laws is more universally sanctioned by the practice of nations, and the consent of mankind, than those laws which give peace and confidence to the actual possessor and tiller of the soil. Such laws have frequently passed in review before the Supreme Court; and occasions have occurred in which they have been particularly noticed, as laws not to be impeached on the ground of violating private rights. It is impossible to take any reasonable exception to the course of legislation pursued by Kentucky on this subject. She has in fact literally complied with the compact in its most rigid construction. For she adopted the very statute of Virginia in the first instance, and literally gave her citizens the full benefit of twenty years to prosecute their suits, before she enacted the law now under consideration. As to the exceptions and provisoes, and savings in such statutes, they must necessarily be left, in all cases, to the wisdom or discretion of the legislative power. Ibid.
It is not to be questioned, that laws limiting the time of bringing suits constitute a part of the lex fori of every country; the laws for administering justice, one of the most sacred and important of sovereign rights and duties, and a restriction upon which must materially affect both legislative and judicial independence. It can scarcely be supposed that Kentucky would have consented to accept a limited and crippled sovereignty; nor is it doing justice to Virginia to believe that she would have wished to reduce Kentucky to a state of vassalage. Yet it would be difficult, if the literal and rigid construction necessary to exclude her from passing the limitation act were adopted, to assign her a position higher than that of a dependent on Virginia. Ibid.
The limitation act of the state of Kentucky, commonly known by the epithet of “the seven years law,” does not violate the compact between the state of Virginia and the state of Kentucky. Ibid.
Articles of agreement.
Articles of agreement.
This agreement shall become binding on the two states when confirmed by the legislatures thereof, respectively, and when approved by the Congress of the United States.
Done in four parts (two of which are retained by the commissioners of New York, to be delivered to the governor of that state, and the other two of which are retained by the commissioners of New Jersey, to be delivered to the governor of that state,) at the city of New York this sixteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three and of the independence of the United States the fifty-eighth.
Consent of Congress given to the agreement.
Proviso.
Vol. ii. 657.
Annual pay of the collector of the district of Teche.
Appropriation for papers and books of Washington.
Appropriations for
Roads from Helena to the mouth of Cache river;
From Jackson to fort Smith, and
From Strong’s to Batesville.
Part of act of July 14, 1832, ch. 227, suspended.
Secretary of Treasury to report to Congress.
Marine Corps. (Notes to act of July 11, 1798, vol. i. p. 594.)
A brevet field officer of the marine corps is not entitled by law to brevet pay and rations by reason of his commanding a separate post or station, if the force under his command would not entitle a brevet field officer of infantry of similar grade to brevet pay and rations. United States v. Freeman, 3 Howard, 556.
The act of 1834, ch. 132, does not repeal the first section of the act of 1818, ch. 64, regulating the pay and emoluments of brevet officers. Ibid.
The fifth section of the act of June 30, 1834, ch. 132, is a repeal of the joint resolution of the two houses of Congress of May 25, 1832, respecting the pay and emoluments of the marine corps. Ibid.
By force of the army regulation No. 1125, authorizing the issue of double rations to officers commanding departments, posts, and arsenals, a brevet field officer of marine is entitled to double rations. But the fact must be shown that he had such a command of a post or arsenal at which double rations had been allowed according to the army regulations. Ibid.
The fact of appropriations having been made by Congress for double rations does not determine what officers are entitled to them. Ibid.
A brevet field officer of the marine corps, commanding a separate post, without a command equal to his brevet rank, is not entitled to his brevet pay and emoluments. But if such brevet officer is a captain in the line of his corps, and in the actual command of a company, whether he is in the command of a post or not, he is entitled to the compensation given by the act of March 2, 1827, ch. 42. Ibid.
Of what the corps shall consist.
Subject to the laws of navy, except when on service with the army.
Enlistments to be for four years and marines exempt from arrest for debt.
Rank of officers as in the army.
Proviso.
Pay and emoluments.
Staff.
Existing commissions not to be vacated.
President to prescribe regulations.
Parts of former acts repealed.
July 6, 1812, ch. 137.
Act of July 6, 1812, ch. 137.
Act of April 16, 1818, ch. 64.
Proviso.
Conflicting acts repealed.
Appointment of surgeons and assistants.
Pay and emoluments.
Increase of rations after ten years’ service.
Act of June 28, 1832, ch. 151, prolonged for five years.
Proviso.
Cost of stock of the Bank of Columbia to be reimbursed.
Port of entry at Natchez.
Vessels bound for Natchez to report at New Orleans.
Owners to pay expenses of custom-house officer.
Dorchester, in Massachusetts, a port of entry.
Port of entry at Philadelphia extended.
Camden, New Jersey, a port of delivery.
Surveyor of Camden to enrol and license fishing and coasting vessels.
Act of Feb. 11, 1830, ch. 14.
Detroit collection district extended.
Port of entry and district of Newark, New Jersey.
Appointment and duties of collector.
Custom-house at Frenchman’s bay to be removed to Ellsworth.
Appropriation for the repair of road.
Proviso.
Commissioners to select lands.
Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 51.
Act of March 2, 1845, ch. 42.
Former selections, if sold, to be paid for to commissioners.
Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 51.
Lands reserved from sale until selections are made.
Commissioners to be furnished with maps.
American artist to be employed to execute bust.
Appropriation.
Duty on lead in pigs, &c., extended to lead in other forms.
Proviso.
Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 55.
Appropriations for roads in Michigan territory.
That there be, and hereby are appropriated, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the territory of Michigan, the following sums of money, and for the following purposes, to wit:
To aid in opening and constructing the territorial road, between Sheldon’s on the Chicago road, and the mouth of the river St. Joseph’s, of Lake Michigan, the sum of twenty thousand dollars.
To aid in opening and constructing the territorial road between Port Lawrence and Adrian, the sum of ten thousand dollars.
To aid in opening and constructing the territorial road between Niles and the mouth of the river Saint Josephs, the sum of ten thousand dollars.
To aid in opening the territorial road from the village of Clinton, on the Chicago road, through the county of Jackson, to the rapids of Grand river, the sum of eight thousand dollars.
To aid in opening, bridging, and constructing a territorial road from Vistula, westwardly, to the Indiana state line, in the direction of Chicago, ten thousand dollars:
Appropriation for road.
Act of July 3, 1832, ch. 163.
Act of March, 1827, ch. 42, extended to marine corps.
Arrearages of pay to be allowed.
Appropriations for fortifications of the United States.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for certain fortifications, viz:
For the preservation of Castle Island, and repair of fort Independence, seventeen thousand five hundred and ninety-four dollars.
For a fort on George’s Island, one hundred thousand dollars.
For fort Adams, one hundred thousand dollars.
For repairing fort Columbus and Castle Williams, fifty thousand dollars.
For a fort on Throg’s neck, East river, New York, one hundred thousand dollars.
For rebuilding fort Delaware, seventy-nine thousand dollars.
For fort Monroe, fifteen thousand dollars.
For fort Calhoun, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For fortifications in Charleston harbour, fifty thousand dollars.
For the fort at Cockspur island, Georgia, eighty-two thousand dollars.
For completing a fort at Pensacola, forty thousand dollars.
For a fort on Foster’s bank, Florida, fifty thousand dollars.
For a fort at Grand Terre, Louisiana, fifty thousand dollars.
For contingencies of fortifications, ten thousand dollars.
For completing fort Macon, repairing the wharf and dyke, and for the protection of the site of that work, seven thousand dollars.
In satisfaction of a contract made with John Urquhart for attending the troops of the United States, as surgeon from fort Mitchell to Charlestown and thence to Point Comfort, four hundred and fifty dollars.
Appropriations for lighthouses, &c.
That the following appropriations be, and the same are hereby made and directed to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to provide by contract, for building lighthouses, lightboats, beacons and monuments, to wit:
State of Maine.—For a lighthouse to be erected on a proper site Maine.
For a lighthouse to be erected on a proper site on Negro Island, at the entrance of Camden harbour, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For the erection of a beacon on the end of a shoal in George’s river, round which is formed what is called the Great Bend, three thousand dollars.
For a fog-bell to be placed on a proper site on Cape Elizabeth, near the eastern lighthouse, seven hundred dollars.
State of Massachusetts.—For the erection of a lighthouse on the Massachusetts.
For building a lighthouse at the entrance of the harbour of Marblehead, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For a beacon at the harbour in the mouth of Bass river, between the towns of Dennis and Yarmouth, at or near the site where the former beacon was erected, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For a beacon or monument on Deer Island Point, Boston harbour, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For a monument of stone on the Island of Nixe’s Mate, in the harbour of Boston, one thousand dollars.
State of Rhode Island.—For the removal of the lighthouse now on Rhode Island.
State of New York.—For a lighthouse on a proper site at or near New York.
For beacon lights on the piers at the mouth of Genesee river and Sodus bay, four thousand dollars.
For a lighthouse or beacon-light on one of the piers at the harbour of Oswego, on Lake Ontario, three thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars. For placing four lights on the following points in Hudson’s river, viz: one near Van Wie’s point; one near Castleton; one on the island near New Baltimore; and one at Kinderhook, six hundred dollars. For a lighthouse on a proper site at the mouth of Oswegatchie, a tributary stream of the St. Lawrence, five thousand dollars.
For a lighthouse on the flats in Hudson’s river, above Suyvesant’s Landing, in the place of the one carried away by the ice, five thousand dollars.
State of New Jersey.—For a lighthouse on or near the shoals of New Jersey.
State of Delaware.—For rebuilding the lighthouse on Brandywine Delaware.
For building a lighthouse at the mouth of Christiana river, six thousand dollars.
State of Maryland.—For a bell, and fixing the same on the lighthouse Maryland.
For building a lighthouse on Love point, the sum of five thousand five hundred dollars.
State of Virginia.—For a light-boat to be anchored in a proper Virginia.
State of North Carolina.—For a light-boat to be anchored in a proper North Carolina.
State of Georgia.—For two small beacon-lights on Cockspur island, Georgia.
State of Ohio.—For a beacon-light on a proper site for Huron river, Ohio.
For a beacon-light on the pier at Conneant river, two thousand dollars. For a beacon-light on a proper site for Ashtabula creek, two thousand dollars.
For completing the beacon-light on the pier at Grand river, one thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars. For a beacon-light on the pier at Cunningham harbour, two thousand dollars.
State of Louisiana.—For the erection of a lighthouse on a proper Louisiana.
For a lighthouse at a proper site at the mouth of Chifuncté river, five thousand dollars.
State of Mississippi.—For a lighthouse at the mouth of Pearl river, Mississippi.
State of Indiana.—For a lighthouse on a proper site at or near Indiana.
Territory of Michigan.—For a lighthouse on a proper site at Pottawatamie Michigan.
Territory of Florida.—For a lighthouse on a proper site at Musquito Florida.
For rebuilding the lighthouse at St. John’s river, ten thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Certain claims to be allowed and paid.
1802, ch. 13.
Six per cent. interest allowed.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Apportionment to be made, if whole amount of the adjusted claims exceed $250,000.
Proviso.
Appropriations for the public buildings and grounds.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes, that is to say:
For alterations and repairs of the Capitol, including the repairs of the roof, six thousand two hundred and ninety-two dollars.
For laying pipes for the purpose of draining the east and west reservoirs, two thousand six hundred and thirty-three dollars.
For salary of the gardener employed in superintending the Capitol square, and other public grounds, one thousand dollars.
For lighting lamps, keeping the grounds and walks in order, and planting in the Capitol square, and adjacent public grounds, four thousand eight hundred and twenty-six dollars.
For alterations and repairs of the President’s house, flooring the terraces, and erecting stables, six thousand six hundred and seventy dollars.
For the gardener’s salary, and for labourers employed upon the grounds and walks at the President’s house, and for planting, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For paving foot-ways at the north front of the President’s house, and making a gravel carriage way, thirteen thousand seven hundred and forty-four dollars.
For planting trees and repairing the fence in Lafayette square, north of the President’s house, one thousand dollars.
For purchasing and planting trees and shrubs for the Pennsylvania Avenue, and the public grounds, three thousand dollars.
For keeping in repair the public fire engines, two hundred dollars.
For rebuilding the wall and constructing a culvert and drain at the burying-ground, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six dollars.
For the actual deficiency in the appropriation made during the last year for the enclosure of the public vault and the improvement of the public burying-ground, one hundred and ninety-three dollars and eighty-nine cents.
For completing the water-works at the President’s house, the executive buildings, and the Capitol, one thousand and fifty-two dollars.
For completing the furniture of the President’s house, six thousand dollars.
For excess of expenditures beyond the appropriations made by the late commissioner of the public buildings during the last year, twenty-two thousand nine hundred and thirteen dollars and eighty-four cents.
For erecting a monument over the remains of the late Major General Jacob Brown, one thousand dollars; the work to be done under the direction of the Secretary of War.
For the construction of an ornamental hydrant of marble of the west fountain in front of the Capitol, one thousand and twenty-two dollars.
City regulations for preserving order extended to public buildings and grounds on request of commissioner.
Appropriations for Pennsylvania Avenue.
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes:
To pay outstanding claims for work done on Pennsylvania Avenue, three thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.
To finish foot pavements, entrances of tunnels or sewers, and side drains, three thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars.
To repair the north end of Tiber bridge, by casting a stone arch over the broken part, and protecting it by a stone wall, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For expenses already incurred in removing the dust and mud from the surface of Pennsylvania Avenue, one hundred and forty-three dollars and seventy-three cents.
To keep Pennsylvania Avenue in repair, four hundred dollars.
Appropriations for roads and harbour in the territory of Florida.
That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be surveyed, marked, and located, a route for a road from the line which divides the state of Alabama from the territory of Florida, by Marianna, in the county of Jackson, to the town of Appalachicola, on the bay of Appalachicola, in said territory, and when said survey, and the final location of the said road, shall be made, if he approve the same, he is hereby authorized to cause it to be cut out; and for that purpose the sum of twelve thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:
For the survey of a road from Tallahassee to Cape Florida, five hundred dollars.
For a survey of the east pass into Appalachicola bay and river, to ascertain the practicability and cost of removing obstructions and improving the harbour, five hundred dollars.
Appropriation for a road from Columbia to Little Rock in Arkansas.
Appropriation for the improvement of Hudson river.
Council of Michigan to hold an extra session.
Appropriation for expenses.
Appropriation for purchase of live oak frames for a frigate and sloop of war.
District attorney of Massachusetts and solicitor of treasury to defend suit of heirs of John Harris.
Appropriations for
Furnishing hospitals at naval stations;
Two new naval magazines at Charlestown and Brooklyn.
Naval store ship.
Two vessels of war.
Repair of navy yard at Brooklyn, New York
Attorney of eastern district of Virginia and solicitor of the treasury to defend suit of John Harper.
Appropriation for repairs of marine barracks and erection of hospital.
Balance of appropriation for Macedonia not to be carried to surplus, &c.
Appropriation for building a wharf at Pensacola.
Appropriation for site to erect marine barracks near the navy yard, Brooklyn.
Proviso.
Compensation to Lieut. Thomas Dornin.
Officers and other persons to be paid the value of property lost.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Volunteers or draughted militiamen to be allowed for arms, &c.
Parent or guardian to receive compensation on account of deceased minors.
Third auditor to adjudicate claims.
Proviso.
Amount allowed by auditor to be paid, if not exceeding $200.
Former acts repealed, except so much as authorized a purchase from the Washington Bridge Comp.
Act of 1832, ch. 225.
Act of 1833, ch. 65.
Secretary of Treasury to contract for bridge similar to that formerly built.
Size of draws.
Appropriation.
Claims of O. H. Dibble to be ascertained and actual loss paid, if not exceeding $20,000.
Register and receiver to sell.
Deeds of transfer to be recorded, &c.
Fees of clerk of district court.
Appropriation for rebuilding the frigate Congress.
Secretary of Navy to test engine devised by B. Phillips.
Other improvements to be tested, and result reported to Congress.
Appropriation to carry act into execution.
Notes of the acts for the preservation of peace with the Indian tribes, vol. ii. p. 6.
Notes of the regulations of intercourse with the Indian tribes, vol. ii. p. 139.
Notes of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States on the subject of the Indians, vol. ii. p. 146.
Note of obsolete acts relating to trading houses with the Indians, vol. ii. p. 652.
Parts of territory of United States to be deemed Indian country.
Persons trading with Indians to be licensed.
License may be refused, or, if granted, may be revoked.
Forfeiture of goods and fine for trading without license.
Citizens only to be licensed.
Proviso.
Foreigners to obtain passports to go into the Indian country.
Indians only to barter with Indians.
No other persons than Indians to trap in their limits.
Cattle not to be driven for forage on Indian lands.
Intruders may be removed.
Settlers may be driven off by military force.
Purchases or grants from Indians invalid.
Proviso.
Penalty for sending any talk, &c. to disturb the peace.
Persons carrying such talk, &c. fined.
Persons corresponding with foreign powers, with similar intent, to be fined.
Property of friendly Indians injured or destroyed to be paid for in twice its value.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Indemnification to be made for property taken or destroyed in certain cases.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Superintendents, &c., may take depositions.
Arrest and trial of accused Indians.
Penalty for disposing of spirituous liquors to Indians.
Search may be made for such liquors.
Liquors may be destroyed.
Penalty for setting up a distillery.
In trials about property, burden of proof to rest on the white person.
Apprehension of persons violating the provisions of this act.
Proviso.
Indian country annexed, for legal purposes, to the district of Missouri, &c.
Laws of the United States in force in certain cases.
Proviso.
Offenders against this act may be arrested in any state or territory.
How penalties shall be sued for.
Proceedings against goods or other property.
Certain acts and parts of acts repealed.
Act of May 13, 1800, ch. 68.
Act of March 30, 1802, ch. 13.
Act of April 29, 1816, ch. 165.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 43.
1817, ch. 92.
Act of April 16, 1818, ch. 66.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 104.
Act of Feb. 24, 1819, ch. 43.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 87.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 79.
Act of May 6, 1822, ch. 58.
Act of May 18, 1824, ch. 89.
Act of May 25, 1824, ch. 146.
Act of May 20, 1826, ch. 126.
Act of Feb. 25, 1831, ch. 32.
Proviso.
1802, ch. 13.
Proviso.
Agents for the Western territory to execute duties, &c.
Acts relating to the Indians, passed subsequent to June 30, 1834.
An act to regulate, in certain cases, the disposition of the proceeds of land ceded by the Indian tribes, January 9, 1837, ch. 1.
An act to extend the jurisdiction of the district court for the district of Arkansas, March 1, 1837, ch. 16.
Provision for the removal of the Creeks, act of March 3, 1837, ch. 31.
An act for the appointment of commissioners to adjust the claims to reservations of land under the fourteenth article of the treaty of 1830, with the Choctaw Indians, March 3, 1837, ch. 39.
An act to authorize and sanction the sales of reserves provided for the Creek Indians in the treaty of March 24, 1832, in certain cases, and for other purposes, March 3, 1837, ch. 41.
An act to provide for the payment of the annuities which will become due and payable to the Great and Little Osages, in the year 1838, and for other purposes, January 16, 1838, ch. 3.
An act to amend an act entitled ”An act for the appointment of commissioners to adjust the claims to reservations of land under the fourteenth article of the treaty of 1830, with the Choctaw Indians,” February 22, 1838, ch. 13.
Choctaw lands reserved from sale or pre-emption, June 22, 1838, ch. 119, sec. 1.
An act to authorize the issuing of patents to the last bona fide transferee of reservations under the treaty between the United States and the Creek tribe of Indians, which was concluded on the 24th March, 1832. July 5, 1838, ch. 161.
An act to provide for the location and temporary support of the Seminole Indians removed from Florida, February 13, 1839, ch. 24.
Brothertown Indians, March 3, 1839, ch. 83. Act of June 15, 1844, ch. 54.
An act to provide for the satisfaction of claims arising under the fourteenth and nineteenth articles of the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, concluded in September, 1830. August 23, 1842, ch. 187.
An act supplementary to the act entitled “An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers,” passed 30th June, 1834. June 17, 1844, ch. 103.
Duties of governors of Florida and Arkansas as superintendents to cease.
Duties of governor of Michigan to cease.
Salary.
A superintendent to reside at St. Louis.
Duties of superintendents.
That the following Indian agents shall Indian agents to be appointed.
Two agents for the Western territory.
An agent for the Chickasaws.
An agent for the eastern Cherokees.
An agent for the Florida Indians.
An agent for the Indians in the state of Indiana.
An agent at Chicago.
An agent at Rock Island.
An agent at Prairie du Chien.
An agent for Michilimackinac and the Sault Sainte Marie.
An agent for the Saint Peter’s.
An agent for the Upper Missouri.
And the following agencies shall be discontinued at the periods herein Agencies discontinued.
The Florida agency, from and after the thirty-first day of December next.
The Cherokee agency, from and after the thirty-first day of December next.
The Indiana agency, from and after the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.
The Chicago agency, from and after the thirty-first day of December next.
The Rock Island agency, from and after the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.
And all other agencies, not provided for in this act, from and after the passing thereof: Proviso.
Sub-agents to be appointed by the President.
Persons in office to hold for their terms.
Limits of the agencies, and duties of agents.
Additional security may be required of persons intrusted with disbursements.
Interpreters.
Proviso.
Blacksmiths, &c.
Compensation prescribed to be in full.
Provisoes.
Annuities to be paid to chiefs or other persons appointed by the tribe.
Annuities, if requested, to be paid in goods.
Purchase of merchandise.
Persons employed in the Indian department not to be concerned in trade.
Domestic animals and implements to be furnished Indians west of the Mississippi.
Rations to Indians visiting military posts.
President to prescribe rules and regulations.
Conflicting acts repealed.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 66.
Persons convicted of a criminal offence against United States to be treated as convicts of the state or territory.
Additional salary to judges of Michigan, Arkansas, and Florida.
Act to take effect from January 1, 1834.
To be paid only to such as are not allowed extra compensation under act of May, 1828, ch. 70.
Deficiency in former appropriation to be paid to W. H. D. C. Wright.
That there be allowed and paid to W. H. D. C. Wright, to supply the deficiency of a former appropriation, in payment of the balance found due to him in the adjustment of his accounts, and for his diplomatic services at the court of Brazil, after the death of Mr. Tudor, and before the arrival of Mr. Brown, the sum of five thousand and thirty-seven dollars.
Also, to the state of Maine, to reimburse the expense of supporting State of Maine to be reimbursed for supporting prisoners.
Also, to John Adams Smith, Nathaniel Niles, and J. C. Pickett, secretaries J. A. Smith, N. Niles, and J. C. Pickett to receive compensation.
To James C. Pickett, secretary of legation, left in charge of the affairs Salary of J. C. Pickett.
Acts imposing higher duties on slaves belonging to non-residents repealed.
Punishment for enforcing such acts.
County of Leon to elect two additional members of council.
Lands relinquished, and to be vested in certain half-breeds of Sacs and Fox Indians.
State papers, &c. to be free of postage.
Character of books, &c. to be endorsed.
Spanish vessels from Cuba or Porto Rico, after March, to pay a tonnage duty equal to discriminating duty on American bottoms.
Spanish vessels clearing out, excepting for Cuba or Porto Rico, to give bond that no part of the cargo shall be landed in those islands.
Secretary of the Treasury to estimate the additional tonnage duty, and direct officers of the customs.
Act to cease, if Spain abolish her discriminating duties on American vessels in Cuba and Porto Rico.
President may direct transfers between close of year and the passage of new naval appropriation bill.
Account to be laid before Congress.
Term to commence on the third Monday of March.
Process, &c. continued to the March term.
Notes of a less denomination than ten dollars not to be issued after March 1, 1839.
Proviso.
One-fifth of the small notes to be taken, annually, from circulation.
Notes less than ten dollars not to be issued, if 2d section of act be not complied with.
Thirty-six sections of land in Illinois or Michigan granted to Polish exiles.
Names of the grantees to be recorded in the general land office.
Land to be divided by lot, in equal portions.
Ten years’ occupancy to entitle to patent.
Proviso.
Library committee to distribute copies of Diplomatic Correspondence.
That the copies of the “Selection of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, between the peace of seventeen hundred and eighty-three, and the fourth of March, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine,” published in virtue of an act of the fifth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, in continuation of the Diplomatic 1832, ch. 74.
To each person who received a copy of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the Revolution, and who shall apply to the clerk of the House of Representatives, for the continuation of the same, one copy;
To the library of each institution, to which a copy of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the Revolution was sent, one copy;
To Jared Sparks, editor of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the Revolution, one copy;
To Edward Livingston, under whose direction, as Secretary of State, the selection aforesaid was made, one copy.
Librarian to deliver two copies of census to each member of the present, who was not a member of last Congress.
Grant of the right of way, and restriction of its use.
Post, p. 792.
Proviso.
Death of General La Fayette.
ACTS OF THE TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, Appropriation for the Indian department.
Superintendent and agents.
1834, ch. 162.
For the pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs, and the several Indian agents, as provided for by the act of thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, fifteen thousand dollars.
Sub-agents.
For the pay of sub-agents, allowed by the same act, ten thousand five hundred dollars.
Interpreters.
For the pay of interpreters allowed by the same act, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Presents.
For presents to Indians, authorized by the same act, five thousand dollars.
Provisions.
For the purchase of provisions for Indians, at the distribution of annuities, while on visits of business with the superintendents and agents, and when assembled on public business, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars.
Buildings.
For the necessary buildings required at the several agencies and repairs thereof, two thousand dollars.
Postage, &c. 1834, ch. 162.
For postage, stationery, and rent and fuel for offices, as authorized by the act of June thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, three thousand dollars.
Contingencies.
For contingencies of the Indian department, four thousand dollars.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, and Appropriation for support of the army.
For the pay of the army, nine hundred and eighty-seven thousand and Pay.
For subsistence of officers, three hundred and fourteen thousand eight Subsistence of officers.
For forage of officers, sixty thousand three hundred and thirty-one Forage.
For clothing for officers’ servants, twenty-four thousand eight hundred Clothing.
For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, in addition to an unexpended Subsistence.
For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cooking utensils, Clothing, &c.
For the medical and hospital department, thirty-one thousand five hundred Medical department.
For various expenses in the quartermaster’s department, viz: fuel, Department of quartermaster.
For the allowance made to the officers for the transportation of their Transportation of baggage, &c.
For transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the Transportation of clothing, &c.
Contingencies.
For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.
Armories.
For the national armories, three hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
Fortifications.
For armament of new fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars.
Arsenals.
For arsenals, ninety-four thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars.
Ordnance.
For the current expenses of the ordnance service, sixty-eight thousand four hundred dollars.
Arrearages.
For arrearages prior to the first of July, eighteen hundred and fifteen, payable through the office of the third auditor, in addition to an unexpended balance of three thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and seventy-four cents, the sum of two thousand dollars.
For arrearages between the first of July, eighteen hundred and fifteen, and the first of January, eighteen hundred and seventeen, payable through the office of the second auditor, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Discharged soldiers.
For payments in lieu of clothing to discharged soldiers, thirty thousand dollars.
Appropriation of unexpended balance.
1833, ch. 68.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, Appropriations for pensioners.
Revolutionary pensioners.
1832, ch. 126.
For the revolutionary pensioners, under the several acts prior to that of the seventh of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, in addition to an unexpended balance of two hundred and seventy-three thousand and five dollars and fifty-three cents, the sum of four hundred and fifty-eight thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and forty-seven cents.
For the invalid pensioners, under various laws, in addition to an unexpended Invalid pensioners.
For pensions to widows and orphans, in addition to an unexpended Widows and orphans.
Acts of May 26, 1824, ch. 177, and of February 24, 1819, ch. 41, revived.
Time extended to January 1, 1840.
Valid claims to be presented to register and receiver within two years.
Report or the claims, with testimony and opinions on validity of each, to be made, and laid before Congress.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be Appropriations for the naval service.
Pay and subsistence.
For pay and subsistence of the officers of the navy and pay of seamen, one million five hundred and one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and forty-two cents.
Pay of superintendents, &c.
For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishment at the several yards, sixty-one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
Provisions.
For provisions, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Repairs.
For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission, nine hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars.
Medicines, &c.
For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, forty thousand dollars.
Repairs, &c. of navy yards at Portsmouth;
For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, thirty-nine thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Charlestown;
For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, ninety-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
Brooklyn;
For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York, forty-six thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
Philadelphia;
For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
Washington;
For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Washington, ten thousand dollars.
Gosport;
For improvement and necessary repairs of (he navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, one hundred thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
Pensacola.
For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard al Pensacola, forty-four thousand six hundred dollars.
Repairs, &c. at Sackett’s harbour.
For repairs of building and preservation of a vessel at Sackett’s Harbour, five hundred dollars.
Ordnance, &c.
For ordnance, and ordnance stores, fifteen thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz:
Miscellaneous.
For the freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description, for wharfage and dockage, storage and rent, travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen, house-rent, chamber-
For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, three Contingencies.
For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and Marine corps.
For the subsistence of the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and Marine corps, &c. on shore.
For clothing, thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and eleven dollars Clothing.
For fuel, fifteen thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars.
Fuel.
For transportation and recruiting, six thousand dollars.
Transportation.
For medicines, hospital stores, surgical instruments, pay of matron and Medicines, &c.
For contingent expenses, seventeen thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven Contingencies.
For military stores, pay of armorers, keeping arms in repair, drums, Stores, &c.
For repairs of barracks, three thousand dollars.
Barracks.
For completing the naval magazines authorized to be built near Boston, Magazines at Boston and New York.
For completing the naval hospitals near Boston, New York, and Pensacola, Hospitals at Boston, New York, and Pensacola. building the necessary out-houses and appendages, and for enclosing them, twenty thousand seven hundred dollars.
For repair of the hospital near Norfolk, and its enclosures and dependencies, Hospital near Norfolk.
For repairing enclosures and graduating the ground about the navy Asylum near Philadelphia. asylum, near Philadelphia, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For completing the payments which will be due on contracts for iron Iron tanks. 1833, ch. 193.
For continuing the survey of the coast of the United States, thirty Coast survey.
Extra services, &c. in the coast survey for 1830.
For arrearages for defraying the extra services and expenses of the officers of the navy engaged in the survey of the coasts and harbours of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Lithographic press.
For the purchase of a lithographic press, for the Navy Department, and for expenses of the same for one year, one thousand dollars.
Unexpended balances re-appropriated.
That the following sums—being the unexpended balances of former appropriations, which have been carried to the account of the surplus fund—be, and the same are hereby re-appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, viz:
Frigate Java and sloop Cyanne.
1832, ch. 188.
For the purchase of timber to rebuild the frigate Java, and the sloop Cyanne, authorized by the act of July the tenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the sum of forty-six thousand, three hundred and thirty-two dollars and three, cents.
Iron tanks.
1832, ch. 192.
For the purchase of iron tanks for the use of the navy, as authorized by the act of tenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the sum of three hundred and fifty-one dollars and sixty-five cents.
Furniture, &c. for asylum at Philadelphia.
1832, ch. 189.
For providing fixtures, furniture, and apparatus, for the navy asylum at Philadelphia, as authorized by the act of July tenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, one thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars and thirty-three cents.
Ships in ordinary.
1830, ch. 32.
For covering and preserving ships in ordinary, as authorized by the act of March eleventh, eighteen hundred and thirty, two thousand six hundred and fifty-three dollars and eighty-eight cents.
Appropriation for a new entrance into harbour at mouth of river Raisin.
Proviso.
That for the purpose of executing Appropriations for internal improvements in Florida.
Clearing Ochlawaha river.
For clearing out the Ochlawaha river from the St. John’s to Glassall’s Spring, near Camp King, for the transportation of provisions and military stores to the garrison at that place, as estimated in the report of the quartermaster general, ten thousand dollars:
For opening a road from the head of Pensacola bay, by Pittman’s Opening road to Webbville.
For continuing the improvement of the navigation of Chatahawchie Improving navigation of Chattahoochie river.
For removing obstructions in the Chipola river, in Florida, five thousand Clearing Chipola river.
Additional salary to marshal of the district of Delaware.
Act of June 15, 1832, ch. 140.
Time for entering lands on rivers, &c. extended one year from June 15.
Appropriations for
Road from the southern line of Missouri to Red river.
Road from fort Towson to the northern line of Louisiana.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, Appropriations for harbours and rivers.
Chicago harbour.
For improving the harbour of Chicago, in addition to the balance of former appropriations, thirty-two thousand eight hundred dollars.
Black river.
For securing the works at Black river, four thousand four hundred dollars.
Ashtabula creek.
For continuing the improvement at Ashtabula creek, in addition to the balance of former appropriations, seven thousand five hundred and ninety-one dollars.
Presqu’ Isle.
For securing the works at Presqu’ Isle in addition to the balance of former appropriations, five thousand dollars.
Genesee river.
For completing the works at Genesee river, two thousand three hundred and ninety dollars.
Big Sodus bay.
For continuing the improvement of Big Sodus bay, eleven thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars.
Provincetown harbour.
For the preservation of the beach at Provincetown harbour, in addition to the balance of former appropriation, four thousand four hundred dollars.
Plymouth beach.
For the preservation of Plymouth beach, seven hundred dollars.
Breakwater at Hyannis.For the breakwater at Hyannis harbour, in addition to the balance of former appropriation, nine thousand dollars.
Harbours in the Delaware.
For improving the harbours of New Castle, Marcus Hook, Chester, and Port Penn, in the Delaware river, in addition to the balance of former appropriation, six thousand dollars.
Savannah river.
For improving the navigation of the Savannah river, in removing the obstructions in said river from the city of Savannah to its mouth, in addition to the balance of former appropriations, twenty thousand dollars.
Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi.
For improving the navigation of the Ohio river below the falls, and the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, fifty thousand dollars.
Ohio river between Pittsburg and the falls.
For the improvement of the navigation of the Ohio river, between Pittsburg and the falls of the Ohio, fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the War Department, and under the care of a superintendent for that part of the Ohio.
Delaware breakwater.
For the Delaware breakwater, one hundred thousand dollars,
Mobile harbour.
Ante, p. 703.
For completing the improvement at the harbour of Mobile, in removing the bar at the entrance of the harbour, called the Choctaw Pass, in addition to the appropriation of ten thousand dollars, made at the last session, seventeen thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven dollars and sixty cents.
Red river.
Ante, p. 703.
For completing the removal of the obstructions to the navigation of Red river, in addition to the appropriation of fifty thousand dollars, made at the last session of Congress, the sum of fifty thousand dollars.
Arkansas river, and an iron boat.
For improving the navigation of the Arkansas river, and for constructing a boat with an iron hull, forty thousand dollars.
Cape Fear river.
For completing the improvement in the navigation of the Cape Fear river, below the town of Wilmington, North Carolina, twenty thousand dollars.
Dredging machine, &c. for Florida.
For constructing a dredging machine, and for completing the inland channel between St. Mary’s and St. John’s, in the territory of Florida, according to the estimate of the engineer department, fifteen thousand dollars.
Dunkirk harbour.
For filling up with stone, three hundred and fifty-two yards of the outer pier or breakwater at Dunkirk harbour, New York, one thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars and twenty-seven cents.
Extension of pier at Dunkirk harbour.
For extending and completing the pier or breakwater in front of said harbour, nine thousand five hundred and seventy dollars and sixteen cents.
Proviso.
Annual pay of navy officers.
At all times when in service, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Senior captain.
When on leave of absence, or waiting orders, three thousand five hundred dollars.
When in command of squadrons on foreign stations, four thousand dollars.
Captains.
When on other duty, three thousand five hundred dollars.
When off duty, two thousand five hundred dollars.
When attached to vessels for sea service, two thousand five hundred Commanders, or masters commandant.
When attached to navy yards, or on other duly, two thousand one hundred dollars.
When on leave of absence, or waiting orders, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
Commanding, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
Lieutenants.
On other duty, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Waiting orders, one thousand two hundred dollars.
Waiting orders, six hundred and fifty dollars.
Assistant surgeons.
At sea, nine hundred and fifty dollars.
After passing and found qualified for promotion to surgeon, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
At sea, one thousand two hundred dollars.
When stationed at navy yards, hospitals, rendezvous, and receiving ships, nine hundred and fifty dollars.
After being passed and stationed as above, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For the first five years after the date of his commission, one thousand dollars.
Surgeons.
For the second five years, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For the third five years, one thousand four hundred dollars.
For the fourth five years, one thousand six hundred dollars.
After he shall have been commissioned as a surgeon twenty years and upwards, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
All surgeons of the navy under orders for duty, at navy yards, receiving vessels, rendezvous, or naval hospitals, shall have an increase of one-fourth of the foregoing amount of their respective annual pay, from the date of their acceptance of such orders.
All surgeons of the navy ordered to any of the ships or vessels of the United States, commissioned for sea service, shall have an increase of
All surgeons of the navy, ordered as fleet surgeons, shall have an increase of one half of their respective annual pay, from the date of their acceptance of such orders.
Chaplains.
When attached to vessels for sea service, or at navy yards, one thousand two hundred dollars.
When on leave of absence, or waiting orders, eight hundred dollars.
Professor of mathematics.
To commanders of squadrons, when commanding in chief, one thousand dollars.
To commanders of squadrons, when not commanding in chief, nine hundred dollars.
Sailing masters.
Of a ship of the line, for sea service, one thousand one hundred dollars.
When on other duty, one thousand dollars.
When on leave of absence, or waiting orders, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Second masters.
When attached to vessels for sea service, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
When on other duty, fire hundred dollars.
When on leave of absence, or waiting orders, four hundred dollars.
Passed midshipmen.
On duty, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Waiting orders, six hundred dollars.
Warranted masters’ mates.
When attached to vessels for sea service, or at navy yards, four hundred and fifty dollars.
When on leave of absence, or waiting orders, three hundred dollars.
Midshipmen.
When attached to vessels for sea service, four hundred dollars.
When on other duty, three hundred and fifty dollars.
When on leave of absence, or waiting orders, three hundred dollars.
Clerks.
Of a yard, nine hundred dollars.
First clerk to a commandant of a navy yard, nine hundred dollars.
Second clerk to a commandant of a navy yard, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
To commanders of squadrons, captains of fleets, and commanders of vessels, five hundred dollars.
Boatswains, gunners, sailmakers, and carpenters.
Of a ship of the line, for sea service, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Of a frigate for sea service, six hundred dollars.
When on other duty, five hundred dollars.
When on leave of absence, or waiting orders, three hundred and sixty dollars.
Officers temporarily on duty of higher grade.
Officers temporarily performing the duties belonging to those of a higher grade, shall receive the compensation allowed to such higher grade, while actually so employed.
On furlough.
No officer shall be put on furlough but at his own request, and all
If any assistant surgeon shall have been absent from the United States, Rank of assistant surgeons under certain circumstances. Rations.
No allowance to be made for drawing bills, &c.
The state of Maryland, in 1836, passed a law directing a subscription of three millions of dollars to be made to the capital stock of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, with the following proviso, “that if the said company shall not locate the said road in the manner provided in this act, then and in that case, they shall forfeit one million of dollars to the state of Maryland, for the use of Washington county.” In March, 1810, the state passed another act, repealing so much of the prior act as made it the duty of the company to construct the road by the route therein prescribed, remitting and releasing the penalty, and directing the discontinuance of any suit brought to recover the same. Heid, that the proviso was a measure of state policy, which it bad a right to change, if that policy was afterwards discovered to be erroneous; and neither the commissioners, nor the county, nor any one of its citizens, acquired any separate or private interest under it, which could be maintained in a court of justice. State of Maryland v. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, 3 Howard, 534.
It was a penalty, intended to be imposed on the company for disobeying the law; and the assent of the company to it, as a supplemental charter, wag not sufficient to deprive it of the character of a penalty. Ibid.
A clause of forfeiture in a law is to be construed differently from a similar clause in an engagement between individuals. A legislature can impose it as a punishment; but individuals can only make it a matter of contract. Being a penalty, imposed by law, the legislature had a right to remit it. Ibid.
1831, ch. 85.
Construction of road within the District of Columbia.
Extension of the road.
Road may pass through unimproved lots or squares.
Proviso.
Company may obtain, hold, and improve lots.
Proviso.
[Obsolete.]
That the following appropriations Appropriations for light-boats, &c.
Maine.
State of Maine.—For placing buoys in St. George’s river, to wit: on Jenk’s, Colmel’s, Gay’s cove, and Fullerton’s ledges and Point of Rocks, seven hundred dollars.
For placing buoys in Passamaquoddy bay, and for substituting for the
For placing buoys or spindles on ledges of rocks called Fishing rocks, and Old Prince, at the entrance of Kennebunk and Cape Porpoise harbour, five hundred dollars.
For the erection of three beacons, on the following sites, in the harbour of Castine, viz: one on Otter rock, one on Homer’s ledge, and one on Stubb’s Point ledge, three thousand dollars.
For the erection of buoys on Alden’s ledge, at the mouth of Port land harbour, fifteen hundred dollars.
For placing buoys on Heron Island ledge, at the mouth of Damariscotta river, and on Western rock, Eastern rock, and Kellsa’s ledge, in said river, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.
State of Massachusetts.—For placing buoys, to wit, on West Island Massachusetts.
For completing the erection of a spindle on Minot’s ledge, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For a stone beacon on Collier’s ledge, Vineyard sound, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For placing buoys at or near the following sites, in or near the harbour of Lynn: one on Lobster’s rock, near the west side of Nahant, one on the Western rocks, one on the sand bar at the mouth of Sauger’s river, and upon such other sites as may be necessary for safe navigation, five hundred dollars.
For two boat buoys, to be placed at or near the harbour of Nan tucket, six hundred dollars.
For placing buoys in the harbour of New Bedford on the following sites, to wit: on Fort Flat, near Fairhaven, on Egg island, on Butler’s flat, on Bartholomew’s rocks, on Sandspit shoal, south-east of Dumpling rocks, on the Sunken rocks, south of Dumpling rocks, and on the ledge between Dumpling rocks, and Mishone point, one thousand and fifty dollars.
For erecting beacons and placing buoys on proper sites in Buzzard’s bay, two thousand dollars.
For buoy, beacon or spindle on a sunken rock near the mouth of Green Bay, Plymouth, Massachusetts, one hundred and fifty dollars.
State of Connecticut.—For a spindle on the point of rocks near the Connecticut.
For making a foundation, and rebuilding thereon a beacon, near the 1831, ch. 103.
State, of Rhode Island.—For the erection of iron spindles on the Rhode Island.
State of New Jersey.—For placing four buoys on Absecum and New Jersey.
State of Maryland.—For placing buoys at proper sites in the following Maryland.
Virginia.
State of Virginia.—For a light-boat to be placed on Boler’s rock, in the Rappahannock river, five thousand dollars.
For three buoys to be placed on proper sites in the channel of Chincoteague Inlet, four hundred and fifty dollars.
For three buoys to be placed on proper sites in the channel of Mattapungo Inlet, four hundred and fifty dollars.
For a light-boat to be anchored at or near Ragged Point in the Potomac river, in the state of Virginia, or the erection of a light-house at Piney Point, in the State of Maryland, which of the two lights above mentioned as best adapted for the security of navigation, to be decided on by the Secretary of the Treasury, five thousand dollars.
North Carolina.
State of North Carolina.—For a light-boat to be placed on a proper site between Albemarle and Pamlico sound, five thousand dollars.
For building a light-boat to be stationed at or near Harbor Island, five thousand dollars.
South Carolina.
State of South Carolina.—For placing three buoys at the bar of the port of Georgetown, on proper sites, four hundred and fifty dollars.
For placing three buoys on proper sites in the north channel of Charleston harbour, four hundred and fifty dollars.
For one buoy on North Edisto bar, one in the Swash channel, on Combahee, two on South Edisto bar, two on the Bird Key channel, and one in Calibago sound, one thousand and fifty dollars.
For five beacon-lights at Charleston bar, five thousand dollars, if so much be necessary; one light to be so placed as to range precisely with the main light, when a vessel shall be crossing the bar at the Ship channel and in the deepest water; two to be placed on Morris’ Island, to range with each other when a vessel shall be crossing the Overall channel and in the deepest water; one to be placed on Sullivan’s Island, to the eastward of fort Moultrie; and another to be placed on the back of Sullivan’s Island, or on the main, to range when a vessel shall have crossed the bar, and is steering northward.
Ohio.
State of Ohio.—For placing not less than five buoys at the entrance of Sandusky harbour, five hundred dollars. For placing two buoys at Port Clinton, at the mouth of Portage river, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Louisiana.
State of Louisiana.—For the purpose of replacing the twenty buoys that were on the coast of Louisiana, to mark out the channel from the vicinity of the lighthouse on Point au Fer, into the Atchafayala bay, or so many of them as may be sunk or have been destroyed, a sum not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars.
Florida.
Territory of Florida.—For placing eight buoys in St. Mark’s harbour, at proper sites, eight hundred dollars.
For placing four buoys at proper sites in the channel at the east end of St. George’s island, Appalachicola bay, six hundred dollars.
For placing buoys to mark the channel through the east pass of Appalachicola bay and river, one thousand dollars.
Michigan.
Territory of Michigan.—For placing ten buoys to mark the channel at the mouth of the Miami of Lake Erie, and in Maumee bay, seven hundred dollars. For erecting a lighthouse at Mobile Point, eight thousand dollars; and for placing buoys in Mobile bay, five hundred dollars. For the preservation of Fairweather Island, and the lighthouse and other public buildings thereon, and securing Black Rock harbour, two thousand six hundred dollars.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, Appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
For pay and mileage of the members of Congress and delegates, Congress.
For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, thirty-three thousand seven hundred dollars.
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, including twenty thousand dollars deficiency of appropriation for the same objects for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, the sum of eighty-five thousand five hundred dollars.
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, two hundred thousand dollars. The two sums last-mentioned to be applied to the payment of the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives severally, and to no other purpose.
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United President and Vice President, &c.
For clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of State, Department of State.
For clerks, machinist, and messenger in the patent office, five thousand four hundred dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of State, including the expense of publishing and distributing the laws, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For contingent and incidental expenses of the patent office, two thousand dollars.
For compiling and printing the Biennial Register, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the superintendent and watchmen of the north-east executive building, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, repairs of the buildings, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Treasury Department.
For compensation to the first comptroller of the treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the first comptroller, nineteen thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the second comptroller of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the second comptroller, ten thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the first auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the first auditor, fourteen thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the second auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the second auditor, seventeen thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the third auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the third auditor, twenty-four thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the fourth auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the fourth auditor, seventeen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the fifth auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the fifth auditor, twelve thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer of the United States, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the treasurer of the United States, seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the register of the treasury, twenty-four thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the commissioner of the general land office, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the commissioner of the general land office, twenty thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the solicitor of the treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the solicitor of the treasury, three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the secretary to the commissioners of the sinking fund, to the seventh of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, twenty-six dollars and thirty-nine cents.
For the expenses of stationery, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the several offices of the Treasury Department, the following several sums, viz:
For the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, including the copying and expenses incurred in consequence of the burning of the treasury building, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For the office of the first comptroller, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the office of the second comptroller, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the office of the first auditor, eight hundred dollars.
For the office of the second auditor, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the third auditor, eight hundred dollars.
For the office of the fourth auditor, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the fifth auditor, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the treasury of the United States, seven hundred dollars.
For the office of the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For the office of the solicitor of the treasury, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the commissioner of the general land office, including one hundred thousand parchments, and cost of printing patents, twenty-two thousand dollars.
For additional clerk hire in the issuing of military land scrip, making out of patents for Virginia military surveys, and for private land claims, and in adjusting the accounts of the surveyors general, four thousand dollars.
For compensation to six additional clerks, one year, to aid in registering sales of lands, and adjusting the accounts of receivers of public moneys, and for opening tract books, making indexes, and bringing up other arrears, six thousand dollars.
For renewing the old war office index of Virginia military warrants, Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
For the preparation of maps to examine and check the quantities and technical designation of parts of fractional sections sold preparatory to the issuing of patents, and in comparing the charges made by surveyors general with the lines exhibited on the return of surveys, one thousand dollars.
For writing, recording, examining, making out lists, and transmitting eighty thousand patents, fifteen thousand dollars.
For additional clerk hire in the bureau of private land claims, to aid in the investigation of land titles; and writing and recording patents for private land claims; and recording deeds of transfer of lands reserved to individual Indians under treaties after conveyances by them, two thousand dollars.
For translations, and for expense of passports and sea letters, three hundred dollars.
For stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, one thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation of superintendent and watchmen of the buildings occupied by the Treasury Department, including arrearages for one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, the sum of two thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, repairs, furniture, and for rent, amounting to three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, eight thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Department of War.
For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, three thousand dollars.
For books, maps, and plans for the War Department, one thousand dollars.
For messenger in the bounty land bureau, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the commissioner of Indian affairs, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of Indian affairs, five thousand seven hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the paymaster general, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the commissary general of purchases, and for a clerk employed at the seat of government, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of [the]adjutant general, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the quartermaster general, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general of subsistence, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, including printing advertisements, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the chief engineer, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars.
For expenses of the lithographic press of the War Department, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
For compensation to the clerks in the ordnance office, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the surgeon general, eleven hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, four hundred dollars.
For salary of the clerk in the topographical bureau, one thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the topographical bureau, one thousand two hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents.
For the salary of the commissioner of pensions, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For salaries of clerks transferred from the office of the Secretary of War, four thousand eight hundred dollars.
For salaries of additional clerks, ten thousand six hundred dollars.
For additional or temporary clerk hire, to assist in the re-examination Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.
For messengers in the pension office, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the pay of temporary clerks employed for five months to prepare a statement under the resolutions of the Senate of the sixth and thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, required to be made during the recess of Congress, al an average of eighty dollars per month for each clerk, nine thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
For printing, stationery, rent, expenses of procuring revolutionary records, and other contingencies in the office of the commissioner of pensions, six thousand five hundred dollars.
War office building.
For the salary of the superintendent and watchmen of the north-west executive building, twelve hundred and fifty dollars.
For the contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, furniture, repairs of building, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars for the rent of rooms occupied by the bounty land bureau, and a deficiency of sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Department of the Navy.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, twelve thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
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 board, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks, draughtsman, and messenger, in the office of the commissioners of the navy board, eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of the office of the commissioners of the navy board, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the salary of the superintendent of the south-west executive building, and the watchmen, twelve hundred and fifty dollars.
Post-office.
For compensation to the two assistant postmasters general, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Postmaster General, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For superintendency of the buildings, making up blanks, and compensation to two watchmen and one labourer, sixteen hundred and forty dollars.
For additional clerk hire for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
For the services of a topographer and map-maker for obtaining materials and drawing maps of the several states and territories, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor general in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the said surveyor, two thousand one hundred dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and transcribing the field-notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Illinois and Missouri, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to clerks in the office of said surveyor, four thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and transcribing the field-notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor general in Arkansas, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to clerks in said office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field-notes of said office, for the purpose of having them pre-served at the seat of government, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Louisiana, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, fifteen hundred dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field-notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Mississippi, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field-notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, two thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerk and draughtsman in the office of the said surveyor, one thousand dollars each.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field-notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Florida, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, three thousand dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field-notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary appointed by the President to sign all patents for lands sold or granted under the authority of the United States, per act of second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, one 1833, ch. 91.
For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings in Washington city, two thousand dollars.
For the purchase of books for the library of Congress, five thousand Library.
For salary of the principal and assistant librarians, and for contingent Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
For new articles of furniture for the library of Congress, fifteen hundred dollars.
Mint.
For compensation to the officers and clerk of the mint, ten thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to assistants in the several departments of the mint, and wages of labourers employed in the various operations of the establishment, including one thousand dollars for the salary of an assistant assayer, twenty-three thousand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses and repairs, cost of machinery, for allowance for wastage in gold and silver coinage of the mint, thirty-nine thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For defraying the excess of expenditure in the several departments of the mint for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, beyond the appropriation for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, arising 1834, ch. 96.
Michigan.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan territory, including five hundred dollars arrearages of compensation to the governor of said territory, from thirtieth of June to thirty-first December, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, per act of thirtieth June, 1834, ch. 164.
For contingent expenses of the Michigan territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council, pay of the officers of the council, fuel, stationery, and printing, nine thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
For pay and mileage of the members of the legislative council, pay of the officers of the council, and the incidental expenses of an extra session of said council, held at Detroit in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, four thousand two hundred and sixty-eight dollars and eighty-one cents.
Arkansas.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Arkansas territory, nine thousand dollars.
For incidental expenses, per act of twenty-fourth of May, 1828, ch. 100.
For contingent expenses of the Arkansas territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislature of the territory of Arkansas, including fuel, stationery, printing and distribution of the laws, in addition to an unexpended balance of former appropriations of six thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty-six cents, the sum of two thousand five hundred and two dollars and forty-four cents.
Florida.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Florida territory, eleven thousand seven hundred dollars.
For the contingent expense of the Florida territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council of Florida, pay of officers and servants of the council, fuel, 1834, ch. 46, 164.
For the printing and distribution of the laws and journals, and publication of the laws of said territory, in three newspapers, as required by law, one thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.
For allowances to the law agent, assistant counsel, and district attorney, Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
For expenses of clerk hire, interpreter, office rent, and stationery, rendered necessary to the judge of the superior court of East Florida, at St. Augustine, in the performance of the services required of him under the act for the relief of inhabitants of East Florida, of June twenty-six, 1834, ch. 87.
For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district Judiciary.
For the expenses of printing the records of the Supreme Court of the United States, for the term of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, three thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the chief justice and associate judges of the District of Columbia, and of the judges of the orphans’ courts of the said District, nine thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, four thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the attorney general, eight hundred dollars.
For a messenger in said office, five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, and including the sum of three thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars, being a deficiency in the appropriation to meet the expenditure for the fourth quarter of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, fifteen thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also, for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures incurred in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and preceding years: and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, three hundred thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions, granted by special acts of Congress, Miscellaneous.
For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating lights, beacons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of lamps, oil, keepers’ salaries, repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, two hundred and sixty-eight thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty-nine cents.
To make good a deficiency in the funds for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, as established by the acts of sixteenth July, seventeen 1798, ch. 77. 1803, ch. 61.
For repairs of the marine hospital wharf at Chelsea, Massachusetts, five hundred dollars.
For enclosing the custom-house lot at Norfolk with a brick wall, and for repairs of the custom-house buildings, three thousand and four hundred and fifty dollars.
For repairs and for building an addition to the house occupied by the revenue officer having charge of the public property at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, four hundred dollars.
For expense in relation to the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States, under the act of seventh June, eighteen hundred and 1834, ch. 45.
Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
1834, ch. 144.
For a beacon on the piers at the mouth of Genesee river and Sodus bay, as authorized by the act of the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, in addition to a former appropriation of four thousand dollars, the sum of three thousand seven hundred and fitly dollars.
For a lighthouse or beacon-light on one of the piers at the harbour of Oswego, on Lake Ontario, as authorized by the act of the thirtieth of 1834, ch. 144.
For the removal of the lighthouse now on the north end of Goat island, near the harbour of Newport, Rhode Island, as authorized by the act of 1834, ch. 144.
For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, seventy thousand dollars.
For surveying the lots in the town of Peoria, in the state of Illinois, as 1823, ch. 68.
For the salaries of two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the recorder, two commissioners, and translator, for the final adjustment of private land claims in Missouri, from the first January to the first of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, per act 1834, ch. 92.
For contingent expenses and office rent of said board, including five hundred dollars for conveying the final report to the seat of government, one thousand dollars.
For stationery and books for the office of commissioners of loans, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For additional payment for the statue of Washington, five thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall be ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, twelve thousand dollars.
Diplomatic expenses.
For the salaries of the ministers of the United States to France, Spain, and Russia, twenty-seven thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the chargés des affaires to Portugal, Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Turkey, Belgium, Brazil, Chili, Peru, Mexico, Central America, New Grenada, Prussia, and Venezuela, sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For the salary of the drogoman to the legation of the United States to Turkey, and for contingent expenses of that legation, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For outfit of a minister of the United States to Spain, nine thousand dollars.
For outfits to the chargés des affaires to Venezuela and Portugal, nine thousand dollars.
For outfit of a chargé d’affaires to Denmark or to Prussia, as may be required, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand dollars.
For a balance due John Randolph Clay, chargé des affaires at Russia, thirteen hundred dollars.
For a balance due to Nathaniel Niles, late chargé des affaires at France, five thousand and fifteen dollars and sixty-two cents, in addition to the sum appropriated for his services as chargé des affaires aforesaid, by the 1834, ch. 165.
To Captain John Downes the sum of one thousand and eighty dollars, Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
For the salaries of the agents for claims at London and Paris, four thousand dollars.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, seventeen thousand four hundred dollars.
For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, thirty thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation and expenses of an agent to Havana, to procure the archives of Florida, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For completing a “Digest of Commercial Regulations of Foreign Miscellaneous.
For compensation to Lemuel Slater, for services in collecting information, in the state of Rhode Island, upon the extent and condition of manufactures of that state, under the appointment of the Secretary of the Treasury, in eighteen hundred and thirty-two; eight hundred and ten dollars, and twenty-seven cents.
For completing the public warehouse, in Baltimore, sixty thousand dollars.
For the payment of the balance of the salary of Valentine Giesy, late superintendent of the Cumberland road, east of the Ohio river, eight hundred sixty-two dollars and eighty-seven cents.
For the purchase of a site and building a custom-house in the city of Boston, fifty thousand dollars, in addition to what may be obtained by a sale of the present custom-house, provided a suitable site can be obtained and a custom-house satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury can be built to cost not exceeding these appropriations for that purpose.
For the repair of the pier and wharves connected with the public stores on Staten Island, in consequence of the damage done to them by a late gale, for the rebuilding of the store thrown down in consequence of the breaking up of the foundation on which it stood by the same gale: and for putting on of a new roof and other repairs to the remaining store, the sum of thirty-eight thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the work to be done upon contract in the ordinary mode of letting contracts for public works.
For payment for preparing, printing and binding the documents ordered to be printed, by Gales and Seaton, under the same restrictions and reservations as were contained in the appropriation for the same object, in the act of May the fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, forty thousand 1832, ch. 74.
For payment for printing the documents relating to the public lands, and for binding, and for engraving the necessary maps, ordered to be printed by the Senate, ten thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.
And the following sums for the military academy at West Point:
For defraying the expenses of the board of visitors at West Point, two thousand dollars.
For fuel, forage, stationery, printing, transportation and postage, nine thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For repairs, improvements, and expenses of buildings, grounds, roads, wharves, boats, carts, and fences, six thousand five hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
For pay of adjutant’s and quartermaster’s clerks, nine hundred dollars.
Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
For philosophical apparatus and repairs of the same, five hundred and eighty-five dollars.
For models for the department of engineering, six hundred dollars.
For completing the custom-house building and enclosing the lot, six thousand eight hundred dollars.
For models for the drawing department, apparatus and contingencies for the department of chemistry, and repairs of instruments for the mathematical department, one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
For the departments of mineralogy, artillery, and sword exercises, one thousand four hundred dollars.
For increase and expenses of the library, eight hundred and seventy-three dollars.
For miscellaneous items, and incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred and fifty-eight dollars.
For pay of the officers, cadets and musicians, fifty-six thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars.
For subsistence of officers and cadets, thirty-nine thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars.
For forage of officers, one thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For clothing of officers’ servants, three hundred and thirty dollars.
For recording the opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, two hundred and fifty dollars; which recording shall be done by the clerk of said court presently after the delivery of such opinions.
For the publication of the new System of Discipline and Tactics for the use of the army of the United States, two thousand six hundred dollars; and for compensation to Winfield Scott, the author and compiler, and for superintending the printing of the same, five thousand dollars.
For additional pay to the officers of the navy and the civil establishment
For alterations and repairs in the Capitol, including the domes of the chambers of the Senate and House of Representatives, replacing and renewing the copper of the same, and painting the ceiling of the Rolundo, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For salary of the gardener employed in superintending the Capitol square and other public grounds, one thousand dollars.
For lighting lamps and keeping the grounds and walks in order, including cost of trees and shrubs, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For protection of the waste water pipes and air pipe of the aqueduct of the Capitol and repairs of the pipes, five hundred dollars.
For alterations and repairs of the President’s house, for gardener’s salary, and for keeping the grounds and walks in order, including the cost of trees and shrubs, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For laying a line of iron water pipes from the State to the Navy Department, seventeen hundred dollars.
For improving Lafayette square, three hundred dollars.
For the annual expense of two fire engines, two hundred dollars.
For preparing the niches for the reception of the statues at the east front of the Capitol, four hundred and sixty dollars.
For repairing the culvert, at the west front of the Capitol, three hundred and eighty dollars.
For completing the work of repairing and putting in order the Congressional burial ground, six hundred dollars.
Land appropriated for unsatisfied warrants and certificates, &c.
1830, ch. 215.
1832, ch. 205.
1833, ch. 94.
Proviso.
Second section of the act making appropriations for 1834, ch. 92, repealed, and Secretary of the Treasury to pay certain amounts to officers of the customs.
1832, ch. 227.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Payments not to be made in bank notes below par at place of payment.
Appropriation for continuing the road in the state of
Ohio;
Indiana.
Appropriation to complete the road east of the Ohio river, and to carry into effect the acts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia.
Money appropriated not to be expended until the states accept the road.
Line of road between Springfield, Ohio, and Richmond, Indiana, to be re-examined, &c.
Fine and imprisonment for giving false certificates.
Court to be held at Jackson.
Solid embankment across the Swash channel, &c.
Act of June 30, 1834, ch. 155.
Proviso.
Court to be held on the first Mondays of June and November.
Wapaughkoneta land office removed to Lima.
An act to amend an act entitled “
An act to provide for the collection, safe keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue, July 4, 1840, ch. 41, sec. 4.
An act amendatory of an act establishing the branch mint at Dahlohnega, Georgia, and defining the duties of assayers and coiners, February 27, 1843, ch. 46.
An act to amend the act entitled “
Appropriation for a building in the place of the one destroyed by fire, at Charlotte, North Carolina, act of March 3, 1845, ch. 72.
Branches of the mint to be established at
New Orleans;
Charlotte;
Dahlohnega.
Appropriation for purchasing sites, &c.
Officers to be appointed when the buildings are erected.
That, so soon as the necessary buildings are erected for the purpose of well conducting the business of each of the said branches, the following officers shall be appointed upon the nomination of the President, and with the advice and consent of the Senate : one superintendent, one treasurer, one assayer, one chief coiner, one melter, and one refiner. And the superintendent of each mint shall engage and employ as many clerks and as many subordinate workmen and servants as shall be provided for by law; and the salaries of the said officers and clerks shaft be as follows:
Salaries.
For the branch at New Orleans, to the superintendent, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars; to the treasurer, the sum of two thousand dollars; to the chief coiner, the sum of two thousand dollars: to the assayer, melter, and refiner, the sum of two thousand dollars each; to two clerks, the sum of twelve hundred dollars each; to the subordinate workmen, and servants, not exceeding twenty in number, such wages and allowances as are customary and reasonable, according to their respective stations and occupations. For the branches at Charlotte and Dahlohnega, to the superintendents, each the sum of two thousand dollars, who shaft respectively discharge the duty of treasurers; to the chief coiners, each the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars; to the assayers, melters, and refiners, each the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars; to the clerks, not exceeding one at each branch, the sum of one thousand dollars; and to the subordinate workmen and servants, not Appropriation for salaries, &c.
Oath or affirmation of officers.
General direction of branches to be under the director of the mint at Philadelphia.
Laws for regulation of mint extended to the branches.
Where there is a deviation from the voyage in the shipping articles, a refusal of the seamen, subsequently, to do duty on that account, does not amount in Jaw to an endeavour to commit a revolt, under the act of Congress of 1835, ch. 40, sec. 2. United States v. John Mathews, 2 Sumner’s C. C. R. 470.
To sustain an indictment for an endeavour to make a revolt, under the act of Congress of 1835, ch. 40, sec. 2, a confederacy or combination must be shown, between two or more of the seamen, to refuse to do further duty on board of the ship, and to resist the lawful commands of the officers. The United States v. Alfred Cassedy et al., 2 Sumner’s C. C. R. 582.
The contract of seamen for the voyage is not suspended or extinguished by the death, removal, or resignation of the original master; but they are bound to perform the voyage under any person who is lawfully substituted in his place. Ibid.
If a person substituted as master be grossly incompetent to the duties of his station, from wont of skill or bad habits, or profligate and cruel behaviour, the seamen may be justified in refusing to do duty or to remain by the ship. Ibid.
The act of 1835, ch. 40, provides, “That if any one or more of the crew of an American ship or vessel on the high seas, &c., shall endeavour to make a revolt, &c., he and they shall be punished as provided in the act.” Held, that a ship engaged in a whaling voyage, without having surrendered her register, or taken out an enrolment and license pursuant to the act of 1793, ch. 8, was not an American ship, within the purview of the act of 1835, ch. 40, and that an indictment would not hold, under this act, against the crew, for an endeavour to make a revolt. The United States v. Rogers, 3 Sumner’s C. C. R. 342.
Revolt and mutiny on board a vessel to be punished by fine and imprisonment, and not as a capital offence.
1790, ch. 9.
Punishment for an endeavour to make a revolt or mutiny, &c.
Punishment of master or other officer for maltreating one or more of the crew.
The master, when on board, has generally the sole authority to authorize punishment to be inflicted on any of the crew, and if he is present when punishment is inflicted by a subordinate officer, and can prevent it, and does not, he is personally responsible for the act; and neither the mate nor any subordinate officer has authority to punish any seaman, even for improper behaviour to himself personally, when the master is on board, except by authority, express or implied, by the master, or when the necessities of the service require instantaneous punishment, as by blows or otherwise, to compel a seaman to his duty. Ibid.
In the absence of the master, the next highest officer on board succeeds to his right and authority, pro tempore, so far as they are necessary for the due performance of the ship’s duties. Ibid.
Procedure in case a person arraigned shall stand mute, &c.
Challenge.
Court may order sentence to be executed in house of correction, &c.
[Obsolete.]
That the following sums be, Appropriations for roads from
For the road from Detroit to fort Gratiot, three thousand dollars.
Detroit to fort Gratiot;
For the road from Detroit to Saganaw bay, ten thousand dollars.
Detroit to Saganaw;
For the road from Detroit to Grand river of Lake Michigan, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Detroit to Grand river;
For the road from Detroit towards Chicago, in the territory of Michigan, Detroit towards Chicago;
For the road from La Plaisance bay to intersect the road to Chicago, La Plaisance bay to Chicago road;
For the construction of a road from a point opposite to Memphis, Memphis to St. Francis river.
For defraying the expenses incidental to making examinations and Examinations and surveys. 1824, ch. 46.
For repairing the military road in Florida, from Pensacola to Tallahassee, Road from Pensacola to Tallahassee.
For the payment of Isaiah Frost, for work heretofore done by him, on Payment of Isaiah Frost.
Act of July 13, 1832, ch. 199.
Time extended to January 1, 1836.
Act of July 13, 1832, ch. 199.
Time extended to January 1, 1836.
Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 227.
Certain clauses of the second section suspended.
Authority to construct road.
Land and limber granted to the company.
Ten acres of land granted, at terminus of the road.
Proviso.
Provisions to extend to two companies authorized by acts of Alabama and Florida.
That the foregoing provisions shall extend to two companies organized under the authority of acts of the legislature of Alabama, and of the governor and legislative council of the territory of Florida, for a railroad from Pensacola to the Chatahoochee river near Columbus in Georgia, and to such other point designated in the act of the legislature of Alabama, in said state.
And also, another railroad authorized by acts of the legislature of the Provisions to extend to two companies authorized by acts of Alabama and Florida.
And all the rights, privileges and authority conferred in the first and second sections of this act shall extend to the said companies mentioned in this section; and subject to the proviso of the third section, as to the time within which the railroads shall be commenced and completed.
Office continued for two years.
Commissioner to be appointed.
Salary, and the franking privilege.
Duties transferred from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Secretary of War.
1828, ch. 53.
Appropriation for the purchase of a site and the construction of a dry-dock in the harbour of New York.
That the claims for lands within Act of July 4, 1832, ch. 166. Claims confirmed.
In class B, of said report, the following numbers, twenty-six, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, nineteen, twenty-three, forty-seven, thirteen, thirty-five, forty-two, and forty-three.
In class C, of said report, the following numbers: six, one hundred and eighty-six, two hundred and twenty, two hundred and twenty-one, and eighty-six, eighty-four and eighty-five, forty, one hundred and seventy-six, one hundred and seventy-seven, one hundred and seventy-eight, one hundred and seventy-nine, one hundred and ninety-one, one hundred and ninety-eight.
Transcript of title-papers, &c. to be reported to Secretary of Treasury, and laid before Congress.
Sections of the act of April 14, 1818, ch. 61.
Compensation to officers.
That the following sums be, Appropriations for Indian annuities, &c.
Six Nations in New York.
To the Six Nations of Indians in New York, for the permanent annuity stipulated in the sixth article of the treaty with them, of the eleventh of Indian annuities, &c.
For the annuity to the young king, a chief, for life, as provided for by the act of the twenty-sixth of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, two hundred dollars.
To the Senecas of New York, for the permanent annuity, in lieu of Senecas of New York. 1831, ch. 26.
To the Ottawas, for the permanent annuity, stipulated in the fourth Ottawas.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the second article of the treaty of the seventeenth of November, eighteen hundred and seven, eight hundred dollars.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty of the seventeenth of September, eighteen hundred and eighteen, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty of the twenty-ninth of August, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, one thousand dollars.
To the Wyandots, for the permanent annuity, stipulated in the fourth Wyandots.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the second article of the treaty of the seventeenth of November, eighteen hundred and seven, four hundred dollars.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaties of the twenty-ninth of September, eighteen hundred and seventeen, and the seventeenth of September, eighteen hundred and eighteen, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in the tenth article of the treaty of the twenty-ninth of September, eighteen hundred [and] seventeen, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron, steel, &c., for shop, two hundred and twenty dollars.
To the Wyandots, Munsees, and Delawares, for the permanent annuity, Wyandots, Munsees, and Delawares.
To the Christian Indians, for the permanent annuity per act of Christian Indians. 1826, ch. 109.
To the Miamies, for the permanent annuity, stipulated in the fourth Miamies.
For the purposes of education, during the pleasure of Congress, stipulated in the sixth article of same treaty, two thousand dollars.
For the pay of eight labourers, stipulated in the fourth article of same treaty, four hundred and eighty dollars.
For the purchase of two thousand pounds of iron, two hundred and fifty pounds of steel, and one thousand pounds of tobacco, stipulated in the same, six hundred and twenty dollars.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in the fifth article of the treaty of the sixth of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the support of a miller, in lieu of a gunsmith, stipulated in[the] same, six hundred dollars.
For the purchase of one hundred and sixty bushels of salt, stipulated in[the]same, three hundred and twenty dollars.
To the Eel Rivers, for the permanent annuity, stipulated in the fourth Eel Rivers. Indian annuities, &c.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the third article of the treaty of the twenty-first of August, eighteen hundred and five, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the third and separate article of the treaty of the thirtieth of September, eighteen hundred and nine, three hundred and fifty dollars.
Pattawatamies.
To the Pattawatamies, for the permanent annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty with them of the third of August, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand dollars.
For the purchase of salt, stipulated in the third article of the treaty of the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and three, one hundred and forty dollars.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the third article of the treaty of the thirtieth of September, eighteen hundred and nine, five hundred dollars.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the third article of the treaty of the second of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the limited annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty of the twenty-ninth of August, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, five thousand dollars.
For the limited annuity, stipulated in the third article of the treaty of the sixteenth of October, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, two thousand dollars.
For the purposes of education, during the pleasure of Congress, stipulated in same, two thousand dollars.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in same, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., stipulated in same, two hundred and twenty dollars.
For the support of a miller, stipulated in the third article of the treaty of the sixteenth of October, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, six hundred dollars.
For the purchase of one hundred and sixty bushels of salt, stipulated in same, three hundred and twenty dollars.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the second article of the treaty of the twentieth of September, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, two thousand dollars.
For the limited annuities stipulated in same, one thousand dollars.
For the purposes of education during the pleasure of Congress, stipulated in same, one thousand dollars.
For the annuity to the principal chief, for life, stipulated in same, one hundred dollars.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in same, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of two thousand pounds of tobacco, stipulated in same, two hundred and forty dollars.
For the pay of three labourers, stipulated in same, three hundred and sixty dollars.
Pattawatamies of Huron.
To the Pattawatamies of Huron, for the permanent annuity stipulated in the second article of the treaty with them of the seventeenth of November, eighteen hundred and seven, four hundred dollars.
Pattawatamies of the Prairie.
To the Pattawatamies of the Prairie, for the limited annuity, stipulated in the third article of the treaty with them of the twentieth of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the annuity to three chiefs, for hie, stipulated in same, one thousand Indian annuities, &c.
To the Pattawatamies of the Wabash, for the limited annuity stipulated Pattawatamies of the Wabash.
To the Pattawatamies of Indiana, for the limited annuity stipulated in Pattawatamies of Indiana.
For the purpose of education, during the pleasure of Congress, stipulated in same, two thousand dollars.
To the Chippewas, Ottawas, and Pattawatamies, for the support of a Chippewas, Ottawas, and Pattawatamies.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the second article of the treaty of the twenty-ninth of July, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, sixteen thousand dollars.
For the purchase of fifty barrels of salt, stipulated in same, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
To the Winnebagoes, for the limited annuities, stipulated in the second Winnebagoes.
For the purchase of fifty barrels of salt, stipulated in same, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For the purchase of three thousand pounds of tobacco, stipulated in same, three hundred dollars.
For the support of three blacksmiths and assistant, stipulated in the third article, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.
For iron and steel, &c., six hundred and sixty dollars.
For pay of labourers, and for oxen, stipulated in same, three hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For the limited annuity, stipulated in the third article of the treaty of the fifteenth of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, ten thousand dollars.
For the purpose of education, stipulated in the fourth article of same, three thousand dollars.
For the support of six agriculturists, and purchase of oxen, ploughs, and agricultural implements, stipulated in the fifth article of same, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of one thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco, stipulated in same, one hundred and fifty dollars.
For the services of two physicians, stipulated in same, four hundred dollars.
To the Menomonees, for the support of five farmers, and five females, Menomonees.
For the support of a miller, stipulated in same, six hundred dollars.
For the support of three blacksmiths and assistant, stipulated in same, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., six hundred and sixty dollars.
For the limited annuity, stipulated in same, six thousand dollars.
For the purposes of education, stipulated in the fifth article of same, five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of provisions, stipulated in the sixth article of same, one thousand dollars.
To the Chippewas, for the permanent annuity, stipulated in the fourth Chippewas. Indian annuities, &c.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant at Michilimackinack, seven hundred dollars.
For the purchase of iron, steel [steel], &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the second article of the treaty of the seventeenth of November, eighteen hundred and seven, eight hundred dollars.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty of the twenty-fourth of September, eighteen hundred and nineteen, one thousand dollars.
For the support of a blacksmith at Saginaw, and for farming utensils and cattle, and for the employment of persons to aid them in agriculture, fixed by the act of the fifteenth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty, two thousand dollars.
For the purposes of education, during the pleasure of Congress, stipulated in the sixth article of the treaty of the fifth of August, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, one thousand dollars.
Chippewas, Menomonees, Winnebagoes, and New York Indians.
To the Chippewas, Menomonees, Winnebagoes, and New York Indians, for the purposes of education, during the pleasure of Congress, stipulated in the fifth article of the treaty with them of the eleventh of August, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Sioux of Mississippi.
To the Sioux of Mississippi, for the limited annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty with them of the fifteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty, two thousand dollars.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in same, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For agricultural implements, stipulated in same, seven hundred dollars.
Yancton and Santie bands.
To the Yancton and Santie bands, for the limited annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty with them of the fifteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty, three thousand dollars.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in same, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For agricultural implements, stipulated in same, four hundred dollars.
Omahas.
To the Omahas, for the limited annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty with them of the fifteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in same, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For agricultural implements, stipulated in same, five hundred dollars.
Sacs of Missouri.
To the Sacs of Missouri, for the limited annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty with them of the fifteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty, five hundred dollars.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in same, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For agricultural implements, stipulated in same, two hundred dollars.
Sacs.
To the Sacs, for the limited annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty with them of the fifteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty, three thousand dollars.
Foxes.
To the Foxes, for the limited annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty with them of the fifteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty, three thousand dollars.
To the Ioways, for the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated Indian annuities, &c. Ioways.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For agricultural implements, stipulated in same, four hundred dollars.
For the limited annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty of the fifteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the support of an assistant blacksmith, stipulated in same, four hundred and eighty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For agricultural implements, stipulated in same, six hundred dollars.
To the Sacs and Foxes, for the permanent annuity, stipulated in the Sacs and Foxes.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in the fourth article of the same, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For agricultural implements, stipulated in same, sixty dollars.
For the limited annuity, stipulated in the third article of the treaty of the twenty-first of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, twenty thousand dollars.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of forty barrels of salt, stipulated in same, two hundred dollars.
For the purchase of forty kegs of tobacco, stipulated in same, four hundred dollars.
To the Sacs, Foxes, and Ioways, for the purposes of education, stipulated Sacs, Foxes, and Ioways.
To the Ottoes and Missourias, for the limited annuity, stipulated in Ottoes and Missourias.
For the support of blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in same, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For agricultural implements, stipulated in same, five hundred dollars.
For the purposes of education, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty of the twenty-first of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, five hundred dollars.
For the support of two farmers, stipulated in the fifth article of the same, one thousand two hundred dollars.
To the Kanzas, for the limited annuity, stipulated in the third article Kanzas.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in the fourth article of the same, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For agricultural assistance, stipulated in same, one thousand and six hundred dollars.
To the Osages, for the permanent annuity, stipulated in the fifth article Osages.
For the limited annuity, stipulated in the third article of the treaty of the second of June, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, seven thousand dollars.
Indian annuities, &c.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in the fourth article of the same, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For agricultural assistance, stipulated in same, one thousand six hundred dollars.
Kickapoos.
To the Kickapoos, for the limited annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty with them of the twenty-fourth of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, five thousand dollars.
For the support of a blacksmith’s establishment, stipulated in the fifth article of the same, one thousand dollars.
For the purposes of education, stipulated in the seventh article of the same, five hundred dollars.
Kaskaskias and Peorias.
To the Kaskaskias and Peorias, for the limited annuity, stipulated in the fifth article of the treaty with them of the twenty-seventh of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, three thousand dollars.
For agricultural implements, stipulated in the sixth article of the same, fifty dollars.
Kaskaskias, Peorias, Weas, and Piankeshaws.
To the Kaskaskias, Peorias, Weas, and Piankeshaws, for the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in the fifth article of the treaty with them of the twenty-ninth of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
Piankeshaws.
To the Piankeshaws, for the permanent annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty with them of the third of August, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, five hundred dollars.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the third article of the treaty of the thirtieth of December, eighteen hundred and five, three hundred dollars.
For agricultural implements, stipulated in the third article of the treaty of the twenty-ninth of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, five hundred dollars.
Weas.
To the Weas, for the permanent annuity, stipulated in the fifth article of the treaty with them of the second of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, three thousand dollars.
Delawares.
To the Delawares, for the permanent annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty with them of the third of August, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand dollars.
For the purchase of salt, stipulated in the third article of the treaty of the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and three, one hundred dollars.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the third article of the treaty of the thirtieth of September, eighteen hundred and nine, five hundred dollars.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the fifth article of the treaty of the third of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, four thousand dollars.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in the sixth article of the same, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the supplemental treaty of the fourteenth of September, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand dollars.
For the annuity to three chiefs, stipulated in the supplemental treaty of the twenty-sixth of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, three hundred dollars.
Shawanees.
To the Shawanees, for the permanent annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty with them of the third of August, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand dollars.
For the purchase of salt, stipulated in the third article of the treaty of Indian annuities, &c.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty of the twenty-ninth of September, eighteen hundred and seventeen, two thousand dollars.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty of the seventh of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty of the eighth of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
To the Shawanees and Delawares, for [the] purposes of education, Shawanees and Delawares.
For the support of a miller, stipulated in the same, five hundred dollars.
To the Shawanees and Senecas of Lewistown, for the permanent Shawanees and Senecas of Lewistown.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty of the twentieth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
To the Senecas of Lewistown, for the permanent annuity, stipulated Senecas of Lewistown.
For support of a blacksmith and assistant stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty of the twenty-eighth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For the support of a miller, stipulated in same, six hundred dollars.
To the Choctaws, for the annuity, during the pleasure of the United Choctaws.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the second article of the treaty of the sixteenth of November, eighteen hundred and five, three thousand dollars.
For the limited annuity, stipulated in the second article of the treaty of the twenty-fourth of October, eighteen hundred and sixteen, six thousand dollars.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the thirteenth article of the treaty of the eighteenth of October, eighteen hundred and twenty, six hundred dollars.
For annuity to a chief, stipulated in the fourteenth article of same, one hundred and fifty dollars.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the second article of the treaty of the twentieth of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, six thousand dollars.
For the limited annuity, stipulated in the third article of same, six thousand dollars.
Indian annuities, &c.
For annuity to a chief, stipulated in the tenth article of same, one hundred and fifty dollars.
For the limited annuity, stipulated in the seventeenth article of the treaty of the twenty-seventh of September, eighteen hundred and thirty, twenty thousand dollars.
For the purposes of education, stipulated in the twentieth article of same, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For the support of three blacksmiths and assistants, stipulated in same, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., six hundred and sixty dollars.
For the support of a millwright, stipulated in same, six hundred dollars.
For the annuity to the chief, stipulated in the fifteenth article of same, one thousand one hundred dollars.
For the annuity to the speakers, secretaries, and captains, stipulated in same, five thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For annuity to warriors, stipulated in same, five hundred dollars.
Chickasaws.
To the Chickasaws, for the permanent annuity, as provided for by the act of the twenty-fifth of February, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, three thousand dollars.
For the purposes of education, stipulated in the second article of the 1799, ch. 11.
For the purposes of education for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, as authorized by the second supplemental article of the treaty with the Chickasaws of the twenty-fourth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, three thousand dollars.
Creeks.
To the Creeks, for the permanent annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty with them of the seventh of August, seventeen hundred and ninty, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the second article of the treaty of the sixteenth of June, eighteen hundred and two, three thousand dollars.
Creeks, east.
To the Creeks, east, for the limited annuity stipulated in the eighth article of the treaty with them of the twenty-fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, twelve thousand dollars.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in the thirteenth article of the same, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purposes of education, stipulated in the thirteenth article of the same, three thousand dollars.
For the annuity to three chiefs, stipulated in the eleventh article of the same, four hundred dollars.
Creeks, west.
To the Creeks, west, for the limited annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty with them of the twenty-fourth of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, twenty thousand dollars.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in the eighth article of the same, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For the support of a wheelwright, stipulated in same, six hundred dollars.
For agricultural implements, stipulated in the eighth article of the same, two thousand dollars.
For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in the fifth article of the treaty of the fourteenth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For the support of a wheelwright, or wagon-maker, stipulated in same, Indian annuities, &c.
For the purposes of education, during the pleasure of the President, stipulated in same, one thousand dollars.
To the Cherokees, for the permanent annuity, stipulated in the third Cherokees.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the second article of the treaty of the twenty-fourth of October, eighteen hundred and four, one thousand dollars.
For the permanent annuity, stipulated in the third article of the treaty of the twenty-fifth of October, eighteen hundred and five, three thousand dollars.
To the Quapaws, for the purposes of education, during the pleasure Quapaws.
For the limited annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty of the thirteenth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, two thousand dollars.
For support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in the third article of same, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., two hundred and twenty dollars.
For the support of a farmer, stipulated in same, six hundred dollars.
For the pay of an interpreter, stipulated in the sixth article of same, three hundred dollars.
To the Florida Indians, for the limited annuity, stipulated in the third Florida Indians.
For the support of a blacksmith’s establishment, stipulated in the sixth article of same, one thousand dollars.
For the purposes of education, stipulated in same, one thousand dollars.
To the Pawnees, for the limited annuity, stipulated in the third article Pawnees.
For agricultural implements, stipulated in the fourth article of same, two thousand dollars.
For the purposes of education, stipulated in the fifth article of same, one thousand dollars.
For the support of two blacksmiths’ establishments, stipulated in the sixth article of same, two thousand dollars.
For support of four farmers, stipulated in the seventh article of same, two thousand four hundred dollars.
To the Cherokees, west, for the purposes of education, stipulated in Cherokees, west.
For support of four blacksmiths and assistants, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty of the fourteenth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.
For the purchase of iron and steel, &c., eight hundred and eighty dollars.
For support of a wagon-maker and a wheelwright, stipulated in same, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For the expenses of transportation and distribution of annuities, salt, agricultural implements, tobacco, tools, &c., and other incidental expenses, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
For the removal of five thousand Seminoles to their lands west of the Removal of Seminoles. Indian anunities, &c.
For the subsistence of the same for twelve months after their arrival west of the Mississippi, stipulated in the same, forty-eight thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For a blanket and homespun frock to each individual of the same, stipulated in the third article of the same treaty, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For the difference in value of cattle abandoned by them on the east, and of those to be delivered to them west of the Mississippi, stipulated in the fifth article of the same treaty, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Removal of Quapaws from Arkansas, &c.
For the removal of five hundred Quapaws from the Arkansas territory to their lands west of the Mississippi, stipulated in the third article of the treaty with them of the thirteenth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the subsistence of the same for twelve months after their arrival west of the Mississippi, stipulated in same, fourteen thousand six hundred dollars.
Subsistence of Choctaws west of the Mississippi, &c.
For the subsistence of one thousand five hundred Choctaws, west of the Mississippi, from April, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, to April, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, under the provisions of the sixteenth article of the treaty of Dancing Rabbit creek, of the twenty-seventh September, eighteen hundred and thirty, forty-three thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the purchase of looms and wheels, &c., &c., stipulated in the twentieth article of the same treaty, in addition to appropriations hereto fore made, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars.
Removal of Cherokees west of the Mississippi, &c.
For the removal of one thousand Cherokees to the west of the Mississippi, under the provisions of the eighth article of the treaty of the sixth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, twenty thousand dollars.
For the subsistence of same for twelve months after their arrival west of the Mississippi, stipulated in the same treaty, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars.
Certifying contracts for Creek reservations.
For the expense of certifying contracts for Creek reservations under the provisions of the treaty of the twenty-fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
Locating reservations under treaty with Choctaws.
For the expense of locating reservations under the provisions of the treaty with the Choctaws, of the twenty-seventh of September, eighteen hundred and thirty, two thousand dollars.
Portion of annuity of Chickasaws for 1832.
To replace a portion of the annuity of the Chickasaws for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, stolen from the agent, in conformity with the provisions of the fourth article of the treaty with them of the twenty-fourth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, one thousand dollars.
Holding treaties.
For holding treaties with the Caddo and Cammouche, and other wandering tribes of Indians, west of the state of Missouri and the territory of Arkansas, ten thousand dollars.
Fulfilling fifth article of treaty with Pattawatamies of Wabash.
For fulfilling the fifth article of the treaty with the Pattawatamies of the Wabash, dated October twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, seven thousand three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
Treaty with Pattawatamies of Indiana.
For carrying into effect the treaties recently ratified with the Pattawatamies of Indiana, and for negotiating the same, five thousand four hundred and sixty-nine dollars.
Treaty with Chippewas, Ottoways, and Pattawatamies, &c.
For carrying into effect the treaty with the Chippewas, Ottoways, and Pattawatamies, concluded at Chicago, September twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, one million, thirty-two thousand six hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifty-three cents.
For defraying the expenses of conducting said treaty, two thousand Indian annuities, &c.
For the expense of an exploring party, of fifty Pattawatamies, from Exploring party from Chicago.
To defray the expenses which have been incurred, or may be incurred Negotiation with Cherokees for cession of their claims in Georgia, &c.
To defray the expenses of holding a treaty with the Caddo Indians, in Holding treaty with Caddos.
To repay William Marshall, this sum which he advanced by order of Repayment of William Marshall.
For refunding to Captain William R. Jouett, the expenses incurred in Expenses incurred by Capt. W. R. Jouett.
Adjustment of claims of missionary board for property in Choctaw purchase.
Payment to Mrs. Mitchell.
Pension agency to be established at Jackson.
Proviso.
Secretary of Treasury to make the arrangements.
To take effect June 1, 1835.
Ante, p. 744.
Road to be completed under the approval of the President.
Proviso.
Gold medal to be presented to Col. Croghan.
Swords to be presented other officers.
President to cause the horses to be sold, and to present the lion to some institution.
ACTS of the states of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, and of the Congress of the United States, incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company—the Proceedings of the General Special Meeting of the Potowmac Company, declaring their assent thereto, made necessary by said acts, to which are added, extracts from the Charter of the Potowmac Company, [See Act of May 23, 1828, ch. 85, cited page 292.]
ACT OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.
Preamble.
Commissioners to be appointed.
Subscriptions.
Regulations as to subscriptions.
Act of Virginia.
Incorporation of the company.
Name.
Act of Virginia.
Powers of the president and directors.
Their compensation.
How subscriptions shall be paid.
Election of president and directors.
Act of Virginia.
Oath.
General meeting.
Improvements vested in the stockholders.
To be exempt from taxation.
Toll to be received.
Commissioners.
Collection of tolls, &c.
Act of Virginia.
Dividends.
Creditors of the Potowmac Company.
Act of Virginia.
The Potowmac Company to surrender charter.
Canal declared a public highway.
Jury to assess damages for the land cut through.
Act of Virginia.
Construction of looks.
Wastes.
Towing-path.
Transfer of shares.
President and directors empowered to increase capital.
Act of Virginia.
Legal proceedings under this act.
Eastern section.
Western section.
Time for construction.
Rights reserved to states.
Act of Virginia.
When act shall take effect.
Assent of Congress.
Other acts repealed.
The foregoing is a true copy of an Act of the General Assembly of Virginia.
ACT OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND.
Act of Maryland.
Act of Virginia accepted with a condition.
We hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true copy of the original act, as passed both branches of the legislature at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-four.
ACT OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
1852, ch. 25.
Act of Congress.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL MEETING OF THE POTOWMAC COMPANY.
Proceedings of the general meeting of Potowmac Company.
The following resolutions were unanimously adopted:
That this meeting having duly considered the act of the General Assembly of the state of Virginia, passed at the December session thereof, in the year 1823, entitled “An act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company,” and the acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, and of the Congress of the United States, confirming the same, and being willing and desirous that the charter shall be granted and confirmed to the said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, do hereby declare the full and free assent of the Potowmac Company, to the said act incorporating the said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, and to all the provisions thereof.
That the President of the Potowmac Company be, and he is hereby, required to deliver to the executives of the states of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, respectively, and to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, copies of the aforegoing declaration of assent and corporate act of the Potowmac Company, as required by the first section of the act of the General Assembly of Virginia, entitled “An act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.”
That the president and directors of the Potowmac Company be, and they Surrender of charter by the Potowmac Company.
In testimony whereof, as the corporate act of the Potowmac Company, &c.
I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true and faithful extract from the records of the proceedings of the Potowmac Company.
Extracts from the Charier of the Potowmac Company, granted November, 1784.
Nov., 1784.
Charter of the Potowmac Company.
Extracts from the act of the state of Maryland, for the promotion of internal improvement, passed March 8, 1826.
Act of Maryland.
ACT OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND.
Act of Maryland.
We certify the foregoing is a true copy of the original act, passed the legislature of Maryland, at their present session.
Witness our respective signatures, this sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.
ACT OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Act of Pennsylvania giving assent to act of Virginia.
Act of Pennsylvania.
Act of Pennsylvania.
AN ACT OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.
See ante, p. 795.
Act of Virginia.
ACT OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND.
Act of Maryland.
Act of Maryland.
We hereby certify the aforegoing to be a true copy from the original act, which passed both branches of the legislature of Maryland at their December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven.
Given under our hands, at the city of Annapolis, this third day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.
ACT OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA.
Act of Alabama.
Subscriptions.
Appointment of agents.
Payments.
Election of president and directors.
Re-opening of subscriptions.
Incorporation of the company.
Name.
Act of Alabama.
Organization of directors.
Power of the directors.
To enforce the payment of stock,
To receive loll when completed as far as Maybury’s landing;
Oldtown, Perry county;
Centreville;
Act of Alabama.
When they shall not receive toll.
Semi-annual dividends.
Stock, how transferable.
Construction.
Dividends not to exceed twenty-five per cent.
APPENDIX, No. III
Proclamation.
Ante, p. 308.
Discriminating duties suspended upon Austrian vessels.
Now, therefore, I, Andrew Jackson, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim, that so much of the several acts imposing discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States, are, and shall be, suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of Austria, and the produce, manufactures, and merchandise, imported into the United States in the same, from the dominions of Austria, and from any other foreign country whatever, the said suspension to take effect from the day above mentioned, and to continue thenceforward, so long as the reciprocal exemption of the vessels of the United States, and the produce, manufactures, and merchandise imported into the dominions of Austria, in the same as aforesaid, shall be continued on the part of the government of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Austria.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, this third day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and the fifty-third of the Independence of the United States.
Proclamation.
Proclamation.
Ante, p. 308.
Now, therefore, I, Andrew Jackson, President of the United States of Discriminating duties suspended upon vessels of Oldenburg.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the eighteenth day of September, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eighteen hundred and thirty, and the fifty-fifth of the Independence of the United States.
Proclamation.
Ante, p. 2.
Discriminating duties suspended on Hanoverian vessels.
Now, therefore, I, John Quincy Adams, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim, that so much of the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage of ships and vessels, and on goods, wares and merchandise, imported into the United States as imposed a discriminating duty of tonnage, between the vessels of the Kingdom of Hanover, and vessels of the United States, between goods imported into the United States, in vessels of the Kingdom of Hanover, and vessels of the United States, are suspended and discontinued, so far as the same respect the produce or manufacture of the said Kingdom of Hanover; the said suspension to take effect this day, and to continue henceforward so long as the reciprocal exemption of the vessels of the United States and the merchandise laden therein as aforesaid shall be continued in the ports of the Kingdom of Hanover.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, this first day of July, 1828, and the fifty-second of the Independence of the United States.
Proclamation.
Ante, p. 2.
Discriminating duties suspended upon Austrian vessels.
Now, therefore, I, Andrew Jackson, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim, that so much of the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage of ships arriving in the United States, as imposed a dis criminating duty between the vessels of the Empire of Austria and vessels of the United States, are suspended and discontinued; the said suspension to take effect from the day above mentioned, and to continue henceforward, so long as the reciprocal exemption of the vessels of the United States shall be continued in the ports of the imperial dominions of Austria.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, this eleventh day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and the fifty-second*
Recital.
1830, ch. 207.
1818, ch. 70.
1820, ch. 122.
1823, ch. 22.
Now, therefore, I, Andrew Jackson, President of the United States of America, Ports of the United States opened to vessels from British islands and provinces, and certain acts repealed. 1830, ch. 207. 1818, ch. 70. 1820, ch. 122. 1823, ch. 22.
Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, the fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and fifty-fifth of the Independence of the United States.