For compensation to clerks in the office of said Survey. or, 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 hundred and thirty-one, per act of third March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, per act of third March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, fifteen hundred dollars.

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 no appropriation was made by the act of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, three 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.

For compensation to the Commissioner of the public buildings in Washington city, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the officers and clerks of the Mint, ten thousand six hundred dollars.

For compensation to assistants in the several departments of the Mint, and wages of laborers employed in the various operations of the establishment, nineteen thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars.

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, eightyone thousand four hundred dollars.

For the salaries of the 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 dolla s. 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, eleven thousand three hundred dollars.

For compensation to assistant Counsel and District Attorneys, under the act of the twenty-third of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, supplementą. ry to the several acts providing for the settlement of private land claims in Florida, including contingencies, seven thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as lo authorize the payment of a salary to the Law Agent in Florida.

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 thir

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, stationary, 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 a deficiency in appropriation of last year, for pay and mileage to the members of the Legislature of Arkansas, one thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Governor, Judges, and Secre. tary, of the Florida Territory, including additional compensation to the Judges, under the act of twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, at eight hundred dollars each, and arrearages of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, thirteen thousand four hun dred and ninety-five dollars and nine cents.

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, stationary, 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

ing the expenses of suits in which the United States ate concerned, and of prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars.

For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present Governments, one thousand five hun dred and fifty dollars.

For the expense of lighting the lamps in the Capitol square, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

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 light houses, floating light, beacons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of oil, keepers' salaries, repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, two hundred and five thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight dollars.

For building a light house on or near one of the isl ands called The Brothers, at the Narrows, in Long Island Soun, New York, being the amount of an appropriation for that object, carried to the surplus fund on the thirtyfirst of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-one,five thousand dollars.

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 appropriation for that object, carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, five hun dred dollars.

For erecting a beacon near the Charleston lighthouse, in order to mark the entrance into the chaunel commonly known as Lawford's channel, South Carolina, being the amount of an appropriation for that object, carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, eigh teen hundred and thirty-one, six hundred dollars.

For the salaries of Registers and Receivers of Land Offices where there are no sales, two thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, viz: For the survey of the Choctaw cession in Mississippi, eight thousand dollars; and for the survey of other public lands, eighty thousand dollars; and a further sum for the survey of the lands ceded by the Creeks to the United States, fifty thousand dollars. For the salaries of two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars.

For the revision of all former statements of the enu. meration of the inhabitants of the United States and their Territories, being a balance due D. Green for printing the abstract of said revision, two hundred and twentynine 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 stationary and books for the offices of Commissioners of Loans, five hundred dollars.

For registers for ships and vessels, and lists of crews, four thousand dollars.

For the fourth 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-five thousand dollars.

For the salaries of the Secretaries of Legation to the same places, ten 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 Naples, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of the drogoman, and for contingencies of the Legation of the United States to Turkey, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For outfits of the Ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, and Russia, sixty-six thousand dollars.

For outfits of the Chargés 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 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, twenty thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars.

To enable the President of the United States to procure copies of the documents relative to the history of the United States, from the public offices in Great Britain, two thousand dollars.

For the purchase of the Bust of Thomas Jefferson, executed by Ceracci, now in the possession of Mr. Jefferson's Executor, four thousand dollars, if so much should be deemed necessary by the Committee on the Library.

For the purpose of enabling the Secretary of State to discharge a balance due to the Marshal of the Territory of Michigan, beyond the existing appropriation for his services in taking a census of the persons in the said Territory, who are not freeholders, one hundred and twenty dollars and forty-four cents

For account of printing and binding, and for selecting, editing, and preparing indexes for the compilation of documents, for which a subscription was authorized by the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, fifty-five thousand dollars; the printing to

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be paid for by the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House, according to the terms of the subscription; and the selecting, editing, and making indexes, to be paid for in like manner, and at such rate of compensation as shall be judged reasonable and proper by the Committee of Accounts of the two Houses.

To enable the Secretary of State to cause to be printed, under his direction, a selection from the Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, between the peace of one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, and the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, remaining unpublished in the Department of State, twelve thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of State to carry into effect the resolution of Congress of the seventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, in relation to recording patents, fourteen thousand six hundred and twelve dollars.

To enable the Secretary of State to pay for seventy copies of Peters' Condensed Reports of Decisions of the Supreme Court, subscribed for under the resolution of Congress of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, two thousand one hundred dollars.

For the payment of a balance due to Walter Smith, on the books of the Fourth Auditor, to be applied, first, to the discharge of any balance standing against said Smith on the books of the Treasury, and the residue to be paid to the legal representatives of Walter Smith, the sum of three thousand three hundred and thirty dollars and sixty. one cents.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to complete the Marine Hospital at Charleston, South Carolina, authorized by the act of twentieth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyfour thousand three hundred and sixty dollars: Provided, nothing herein contained shall be construed to enlarge the said contract, or to release the contractor from his lia. bility thereunder.

For the erection of Marine Barracks and Officers' quarters at the Navy Yard, Philadelphia, nine thousand dollars. For the purpose of defraying the expenses of a survey of the waters of Narragansett Bay, to be made under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, with a view to ascertain the practicability and expediency of establishing a Naval depot therein, five thousand dollars.

For enabling the President of the United States to ob tain from the Norfolk Bridge Company a release and conveyance to the United States, of the Bridge over the Southern branch of Elizabeth river, between the Navy Yard and the Dry Dock, and of the road leading from the same to the South-western side of said Yard, the sum of sixteen thousand dollars: Provided, The Secretary of the Navy shall be satisfied that the said sum does not exceed the value of the same: And provided, That the Attorney General of the United States shall be satisfied of the validity of the title, and that the right thus ac quired will authorize the United States to remove the Bridge, and to enclose the road within the Navy Yard.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of State be authorized, out of the sums appropriated to defray the expenses of taking the late Census, to pay those assistant Marshals for their services, who have failed to receive compensation from the delinquency of the principal Marshals.

Approved: May 5, 1822.

AN ACT making appropriations for the Indian Department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.

Be it enacted, &c. 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 :

terment of members of Congres, and other officers of the

General Government.

Approved: May 31, 1832.

AN ACT in relation to the Penitentiary for the District

teen thousand dollars.

of Columbia.

lars.

For the pay of gunsmiths and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed within the several superintendencies and agencies, under treaty provisions and the orders of the War Department, eighteen thousand three hundred | and forty dollars.

For iron, steel, coal, and other expenses attending the gunsmiths' and blacksmiths' shops, five thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars.

For expense of transportation and distribution of Indian annuities, nine thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars.

For expense of provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuities, while on visits of business with the different superintendents and agents, and when assembled on pub. lic business, eleven thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.

For expense of building houses for Indian agents, blacksmiths' shops, and for repairs of the same, when required, in the several agencies, seven thousand dollars. For contingencies of the Indian Department, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, in no case shall any money hereby appropriated be used for the purpose of rewarding Indians for settling disputes among themselves. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, for defraying the expenses of conducting a deputation of Indians from the head waters of the Missouri to Washington City, and from thence to their own country: Provided, That no compensation beyond their actual expenses for extra services, shall be allowed any Indian Agent or Sub-agent for services when doing duty under the order of their Government, detached from their agency and boundary of the tribe to which they are Agents.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be, and hereby is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the purchase and delivery of corn, or other provisions, for the use of the Seminole Indians, who are likely to suffer on account of the failure of their crops from a severe drought the last year. Approved: May 31, 1832.

AN ACT to aid the vestry of Washington parish in the erection of a keeper's house, and the improvement and security of the ground allotted for the interment of members of Congress, and other public officers.

Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby,appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of the Public Buildings, for the purpose of aid. ing the vestry of Washington parish in the erection of a keeper's house, for planting trees, boundary stones, and otherwise improving the burial ground, allotted to the in

AN ACT for quieting possessions, enrolling conveyances, and securing the estates of purchasers within the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted, &c. That if any person or persons, seized or possessed of, or holding any estate or interest in any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, lying and being within the District of Columbia, shall execute and acknow. ledge a deed for the conveyance of such estate or inte. rest, or for declaring or limiting any use or trust in and of the same, before any judge of a Court of Record, and of law of the State and County in which such person or persons may be, or before any chancellor of any such State, or before any Judge of the Supreme, Circuit, District, or Territorial Courts of the United States, or before any two Justices of the Peace of the State, District or Territory and County in which such person or persons may be; and such Judge, Chancellor, or Justices, shall annex to such deed a certificate, under his or their hands, of the execution and acknowledgement thereof, and that the gran tor or grantors was or were known to him or them, or that his, her, or their identity, had been satisfactorily proved, and the Register, Clerk, or Prothonotary, of such Court or County, shall also certify under his hand and the seal of his office, that the Judge, Chancellor, or Justices, is or are, was or were such, at the time of the execution and acknowledgment thereof; or if any such person or persons, seized or possessed as aforesaid, shall be in some foreign country, and shall execute and acknowledge any such deed before any Judge or Chancellor of any Court, master or master extraordinary, in chancery, or notary public, in such foreign country; and such execution and acknow. ledgment, and, also, the identity of the grantor or grantors shall be certified upon, or annexed to, such deed, under the hand and seal of any such judge, chancellor, master, or master extraordinary, or notary public, and such deed, so executed, acknowledged and certified, in the several and respective modes aforesaid, shall be recorded amongst the land records of the county of Washington,or the County of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, within six calendar months from the day of its date, if executed and acknowledged within the United States, or the Territories thereof, or within twelve calendar months

from the day of its date, if executed and acknowledged in fectual for the purpose or purposes therein mentioned. some foreign country; such deed shall be good and ef

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any femme couvert in whom such estate or interest may be, shall be a party with her husband, executing such deed, or shall only be relinquishing her right of dower, in or to such estate or interest, and the judge, chancellor, justices, master or master extraordinary in chancery or notary pub lic, aforesaid, before whom the same may be executed and acknowledged, shall make the contents thereof known to her, and shall examine her, out of the presence and hearing of her husband, whether she doth make her

acknowledgment of the same voluntarily,and without being induced to do so by fear or threats of, or ill usage by, her husband, or fear of his displeasure; and such examination and acknowledgment, and also the identity of the party, shall be certified in the mode prescribed in the first section of this act, according to the place or country where such femme couvert shall be at the time of such examination and acknowledgment, and such deed shall be recorded within the several and respective periods herein before mentioned; the same shall be good and available for the purposes therein mentioned, and thereby intended.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Clerks of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the counties of Washington and Alexandria, respectively, are hereby authorized to record any deed or conveyance, executed and authenticated agreeably to the provisions

of this act.

Approved: May 31, 1832.

AN ACT vesting in the Corporation of the City of Washington all the rights of the Washington Canal Company, and for other purposes.

Whereas it is represented that the Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Common Council, of the city of Washington, have purchased, and are now exclusive own ers of, all the stock of the Washington Canal Company, and are desirous that the entire property, rights, privileges, and immunities, of the said Company, be vested in them for the use and benefit of the said city:

Therefore, Be it enacted, &c. That all the right, title, interest, property, and estate, either in law or equity, of the Washington Canal Company, be, and the same are hereby, vested in the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, for the use aforesaid; and that the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Councilmen, shall have full power and authority to take possession of the Canal and works of the said Company, and to hold, use, occupy, and repair the same, from time to time, as occasion may require, and as to them shall seem expedient: Provided, That sail canal shall be finished and completed, of the breadth and depth, and in the manner and within the time, hereinafter prescribed, and not otherwise.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said canal shall be finished in such manner that the width thereof, from Seventeenth street west to Sixth street west, at the water line, shall be one hundred and fifty feet; from Sixth street west to B street south, eighty feet, at the water line; from B street south to the basin at the Virginia Avenue, sixty feet, at the water line; from said basin to L street south, forty-five feet at the water line; from L street south to N street south, forty feet, at the water line; and from L street south to the channel of the Eastern branch, one hundred and twenty feet, at the water line and the said canal, throughout its whole length and breadth aforesaid, shall have a depth of at least four feet water at all times. There shall also be made by the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Coun cilmen, three basins attached to the said canal, which shall be by them kept in repair, of the following dimensions, that is to say: one at the western termination of the said canal, at least one hundred and fifty feet wide and five thousand five hundred and forty-five feet long; one at the Eastern branch, at the eastern termination of the said canal, of at least one hundred and twenty feet in width, and six hundred and ninety feet in length; and one at the Virginia Avenue, of at least eighty feet in width, and one hundred feet in length; each of which basins shall, at all times, have, throughout its length and width, a depth of water equal to that hereby required in the said canal. And the sides of the said canal and basins shall be secured by walls of stone or other materials, where

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necessary, of sufficient strength and height to allow the use of steam vessels therein; all which work hereby required to be done to complete the said canal and basins, shall be done and finished in the manner aforesaid by the first day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, or, in default thereof, this act, and all the rights and privileges thereby granted, shall cease and determine.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all such provi sions, in any former law, as required the Washington Canal Company to raise, drain, or improve, the low or wet grounds along or near the said canal, shall remain in full force, and be obligatory on the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council: Provided, That no funds for that purpose shall be raised by lottery.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That, for and in consi deration of the expenses which have been, and will be, incurred in finishing the said canal and basins, and of securing the sides thereof, and of the expenses of erecting and maintaining locks, and of completing the whole work according to the provisions of this act, and of keeping the otherwise improving or drying the low and wet grounds same in repair, including the expense of draining, or along and near the said canal, the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, are hereby authorized to collect, on all articles and materials landed on each side of the canal and basins, from on board any boat, scow, or other vessel, or water craft, or placed on either side of the said canal or basins for the purpose of being taken therefrom by any boat, scow, or other vessel, or water craft, wharfage, according to such rates as they, by any by-laws or regulations, may from time to time ordain and establish : Provided, That the said rates shall, at no time hereafter, and in no particular, exceed those charged on the same articles by the owners of private wharves in the said city. And it shall and may be lawful for the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, to demand and receive, at the most convenient place or places, for all articles carried along the said canal, tolls not exceeding the following rates; that is to say: for each unloaded boat, scow, or other vessel or water craft, twenty-five cents; for each' barrel of flour, beef, or pork, two cents; for each barrel of whiskey, brandy, or spirituous liquors, of any description, three cents; for each hogshead or pipe, six cents; and upon all other articles, packages, or commodities, not exceeding six cents for each ton; and after that rate for any article or quantity weighing less than one ton. And said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, shall also have the exclusive right to establish a packet boat or boats on the said canal, for the conveyance of gers; and no other boat or boats for that purpose, except such as are established or permitted by them, shall be allowed to convey passengers on the said canal for hire. The tolls hereby granted shall be demandable on any boat, scow, vessel, or other water craft, on any of the articles aforesaid, for a passage through either of the locks, or along any part of the said canal, but the public property of the United States shall be landed and pass free of wharfage and tolls.

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Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, shall, from time to time, erect and keep in repair, all such bridge or bridges over the said canal, in each and every street crossing the same, as the convenience of the inhabitants of the city may re quire; which bridges shall be erected at least eight feet above high water, and of not less width than twenty-four feet, and be safe for the passage of footmen, horses, cattle, carriages, and loaded wagons.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, shall, annually, in the month of January, lay before Congress a true statement of the capital invested by them in the purchase, comple│tion, and improvement of the said canal and works, with