Laws of the United States. AN ACT to change the port of entry from New Iberia to Be it enacted, &c. That hereafter, the port of entry in the district of Teche, in the State of Louisiana, shall be at Franklin, instead of New Iberia, in said district; and the Collector thereof shall hereafter reside at said Frank lin. Approved, March 31, 1830. AN ACT changing the residence of the Collector in the district of Burlington, in the State of New Jersey. Be it enacted, &c. That, hereafter, the Collector of the district of Burlington, in the State of New Jersey, shall reside at Lamberton, instead of Burlington, in said dis trict. Approved, March 31, 1830. [21ST CONG. 1ST SESS. | titled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved the 15th May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, be, and the same are hereby, extended to the said Daniel McDuff, as Captain in the Continental Line, in the same manner, and to the like effect, as if he had been placed on the pension list, as Captain under said act. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Daniel McDuff shall be entitled to demand and receive a warrant for the like quantity of land, for which warrants have been issued to other Captains of the Continental Line, in the war of the Revolution. Approved, April 2, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of fourteen hundred AN ACT to change the time and place of holding the and twenty-eight dollars and fifty-seven cents be, and the Court for the county of Crawford, in the Territory of same is hereby, appropriated to the legal representatives Michigan. of Francis Tennille, late of the County of Washington, and Be it enacted, &c. That the term of the Court appoint-State of Georgia, payable out of any money in the Treaed to be held, annually, on the second Monday in May, sury, not otherwise appropriated, being an indemnification at the village of Prairie du Chien, by the additional for the claim of said Francis, for one four hundred and Judge of the United States for the Territory of Michi- twentieth part of the Tennessee Company's pretended gan, shall be held on the first Monday in October, annu- purchase of land from the State of Georgia: Provided, ally, at Mineral Point, in the county of Iowa in the said That the said legal representatives shall previously take Territory; and the cases which shall be pending in the the oath required by the third section of the act, passed on said Court on the second Monday in May next, shall be the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred tried and determined at the time and place above desig- and fourteen, providing for the indemnification of claimants nated, in the county of Iowa; and the Clerk and Sheriff of lands in the Mississippi Territory, which affidavit, and of said county shall be the Clerk and Sheriff of this the transfer of the interest and claim of the representataCourt; and its jurisdiction shall be and continue the tives and heirs of Francis Tennille, to the United States, same as if said county of Crawford had not been divided. shall be filed in the Department of State, with the Approved, April 2, 1830. transfers, conveyances, and records, returned to that Department by the Commissioners appointed under the act supplementary to the act aforesaid, passed on the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. Approved, April 2, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Richard Taylor, of Kentucky Be it enacted, &c. That nothing in the provisions of the act, entitled "An act to prevent defalcations on the part of disbursing agents of the Government, and for other purposes," approved the twenty-fifth of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, shall be so construed as to prevent the payment of the pension now due, or which may hereafter become due, and pay able to Richard Taylor, of Kentucky, an invalid pensioner; but the same shall be paid to him as though the act had never passed. Approved, March 31, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of Be it enacted, &c. That the Postmaster General is hereby authorized and directed to discharge and release, to the legal representatives of Erastus Granger, late of Buf falo, in the State of New York, a judgment rendered against the said Erastus Granger, in the District Court of the Northern District of New York, in favor of the Postmaster General of the United States, for the sum of one 1 AN ACT for the relief of Marigny D'Auterive. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to to Marigny D'Auterive, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight hundred and fifty-five dollars, for ninety-five cords of wood, taken by the troops, during the late war, under the command of General Carroll, near New Orleans, and for the use of a cart, horse, and driver, from the seventeenth of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, to the twenty-fourth of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. Approved, April 2, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury thousand one hundred and fifty-three dollars and fifty-timore, or to their authorized agent, the sum of seven cause to be paid unto the Mayor and City Council of Bal two cents and costs, at the August term of said Court, in thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fiftythe year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six. Approved, April 2, 1830. three cents, in full for their claim against the United States, for money borrowed and expended by them, in defence of said city, during the late war. AN ACT to increase the pension of Charles Larrabee. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That said Secretary Be it enacted, &c. That Charles Larrabee, an invalid cause to be paid, as aforesaid, interest on the sum menpensioner, be, and he is hereby entitled to receive twenty-tioned in the preceding section, according to the provisions five dollars per month, in lieu of the pension to which he is now entitled. Approved, April 2, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Captain Daniel McDuff. and regulations of "the act to authorize the payment of interest due to the city of Baltimore," passed May the twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and that said sum be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 2, 1830. * Laws of the United States. AN ACT amendatory and supplementary to the act to aid the State of Ohio in extending the Miami Canal from Dayton to Lake Erie, and to grant a quantity of land to said State, to aid in the construction of the Canals authorized by law, and for making donations of land to eertain persons in Arkansas Territory. * [21ST CONG. 1ST SESS. John H. Kenzie, and Henry Gratiot, for services rendered AN ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of occupied, and in consequence thereof, were destroyed by Be it enacted, &c. That so much of the act approved May twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and twen- Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury ty-eight, entitled "An act to aid the State of Ohio in ex-pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise aptending the Miami Canal from Dayton to Lake Erie, and to propriated, to the legal representatives of Jean Baptiste grant a quantity of land to said State, to aid in the con- Couture, the sum of two thousand dollars, the value of a struction of the Canals authorized by law, and for making dwelling house, store, and lumber house, stable, bake, and donations of land to certain persons in Arkansas Terri-wash house, situate at Frenchtown, on the river Raisin, tory," as provides that the extension of the Miami Canal which were in the military occupation of the United States, shall be completed within twenty years, or that the State by the command of an officer in the service, and while so shall be bound to pay the United States the amount of any land previously sold, be, and the same is hereby repealed: Provided, That if the State of Ohio shall apply the said lands, or the proceeds of the sales, or any part thereof, to any other use whatever, than in the extension of the Miami Canal, before the same shall have been completed, the said grant, for all lands unsold, shall thereby become null and void, and the said State of Ohio shall become liable and bound to pay to the U. States, the amount for which said land, or any part thereof, may have been sold, deducting the expenses incurred in selling the same: And provided also, That it shall be lawful for the Legislature of said State to appropriate the proceeds of the land so granted, either in extending the said Miami Canal from Dayton to Lake Erie, or in the construction of a rail-road from the termination of the said Canal, at Dayton, towards the said Lake. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever the line of the said Canal to be extended as aforesaid from Dayton to the Maumee River, at the mouth of Auglaize, shall pass over land sold by the United States, it shall be lawful for the Governor of the State of Ohio to locate other lands in lieu of the lands so sold: Provided, such locations shall pot exceed the number of acres necessary to complete an aggregate quantity, equal to one-half of five sections in width, on each side of said extended Canal. Approved, April 2, 1830. AN ACT making appropriations to pay the expenses in- For payment of the expenses incurred by the Commissioners, in preparing for and holding treaties with the Winnebago Indians, and, also, with the Chippewas, Ottawas, and Potawatamies, and the council held with the Sacs and Foxes, at Prairie du Chien, in July and August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, eight thousand nine hundred and ninety-four dollars and fourteen cents, AN ACT for the relief of J. W. Hollister and Company, and George Anderson. Be it enacted, &c. That the Collector of the port of Portland, in the State of Ohio, District of Sandusky, be, and he is hereby, authorized to refund to J. W. Hollister and Company, and George Anderson, of Sandusky, the sum of four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty cents, being the amount of duties paid by them on certain goods imported by them in the schooner Governor Cass, B. W. Miller, master, in the month of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. Approved: April 7, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Captain John Burnham. Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of one thousand six hundred and three dollars and seventy-five cents be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Captain John Burnham, being the balance of the sum paid by him to the Government of Algiers, to effect his ransom. Approved: April 7, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of John Rodriguez. Be it enacted, &c. That there be paid to John Rodriguez, or to his legal representatives, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight hundred and eighty-three dollars, for damages done to his plantation by digging or using earth for works of defence during the late war, and for materials and labor to repair said plantation. Approved: April 7, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Thomas Shiverick. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay to Thomas Shiverick, of Dennis, in Massachusetts, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty dollars, being the amount of a penalty incurred and paid by him for not reFor reimbursing the "contingencies of the Indian De-newing, before the expiration of a legal term, the coasting partment," this amount paid from said contingencies to license of the schooner Adeline. General M'Neil and Mr. Atwater, on account of their Approved: April 7, 1830. compensation, two thousand three hundred and ninetyfour dollars and sixty cents. For payment of compensation yet due to one of the Commissioners, seven hundred and fifty-three dollars and forty-three cents. For payment of the compensation and all other services of the Secretary of the Commission, four hundred and thirty dollars. For payment of a draft drawn by the Commissioners on the Secretary of War, on account of presents to the Sacs and Foxes, eight hundred and fifty dollars. For paying Dr. Alexander Walcott, Gen. H. Dodge, AN ACT for the relief of Hubert La Croix. Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of eleven hundred and fifty dollars be paid, out of the Treasury, out of jany mo neys not otherwise appropriated, to Hubert La Croix, of the Territory of Michigan, in full satisfaction for the destruction of a dwelling house, the property of said La Croix, by the British and Indians, at Frenchtown, on the river Raisin, the twenty-third of January, eighteen hundred and thirteen; and, at the time of its destruction, in the military occupation of the United States. Approved: April 7, 1880. AN ACT for the relief of Andrew Wilson. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in like manner Be it enacted, &c. That the Collector of the Customs the Collector of the port of New Orleans, be directed to for the district of Newburyport, in Massachusetts, is here- permit the firm of Currell Kilshaw and Company, as the by authorized to pay to Andrew Wilson, late owner of a lawful Attorneys of Allen Reynolds, of Matamoras, to com fishing schooner, lost at sea, called the Betsey, of sixty-plete the entries made by the said Allen Reynolds, in the five tons and sixteen ninety-fifths of a ton burthen, and to month of June, one thousand eight hundred and twentythe persons composing her late crew, such allowance, to nine, for the benefit of drawback, on two cases of calicoes be disbursed according to law, as they would have been exported on board the sloop Washington, Sawyer, master, entitled to receive, had the said schooner completed her for Rio Grande, and that in like manner, the benefit of fishing term and returned into port. Drawback shall be extended to the said entries. Approved: April 7, 1830. Approved: April 15, 1880, AN ACT authorizing the appointment of an additional Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United AN ACT making additional appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors, and for removing obstructions at the mouths of certain rivers, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty. fod llant Be it enacted, &c. 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 other AN ACT authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to re-wise appropriated, viz: Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to refund Charles Henry Hall the sum of two thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars, being the nett proceeds, after paying the duties, of four hundred and twenty-two casks of wine, imported into New Orleans in the brig Sarah, by Hazard and Williams, and improperly condemned for an alleged breach of the revenue laws: Provided, The said Hall shall produce satisfactory evidence to show that the said wines in fact belonged to him, and that he is the person entitled to receive such part of the proceeds as now remain in the Treasury. Approved: April 15, 1830. alde bou bol AN ACT for the relief of the Mercantile Insurance Company, in Salem, Massachusetts. The Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to repay to the President and Directors of the Mercantile Insurance Company, in Salem, Massachusetts, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and thirty dollars and ninety-two cents, being the amount paid to the Collector of the Customs for the District of Belfast, in the State of Maine, for duties on sails, rigging, and other materials, saved from the American Brig Lydia, which was wrecked at Martinique, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and which materials were subsequently brought back, and landed in said District. Provided, it shall be satisfactorily shown to the Secretary of the Treasury, that the articles upon which said duty has been paid, were a part of the materials of said brig Lydia. Approved: April 15, 1830. For removing obstructions at the mouth of Huron river, Ohio, one thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars, and thirty-six cents. For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Grand river, Ohio, five thousand five hundred and sixty-three dollars and eighteen cents.b For completing the improvements of Cleaveland harbor, Ohio, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty-six cents. For removing sand bar at or near the mouth of Black river, Ohio, eight thousand five hundred and fifty-nine dollars and seventy-seven cents. For improving the navigation of Conneaut Creek, Ohio, six thousand one hundred and thirty-five dollars and sixtyfive cents. For completing piers at the mouth of Dunkirk harbor, New York, one thousand three hundred and forty-two dollars and seventy-five cents. For completing piers at Buffalo harbor, New York, fifteen thousand four hundred and eighty-eight dollars. For extending the pier at Black Rock, three thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars. Adey For improving the navigation of Genesee river, New York, thirteen thousand three hundred and thirty-five dollars. For removing obstructions at the mouth of Big Sodus Bay, New York, fifteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. For completing the removal of the sand bar at or near the mouth of Merrimack river, Massachusetts, three thousand five hundred and six dollars and seventy-two cents. For the preservation of Plymonth Beach, Massachu setts, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For erecting piers or other works at or near Stonington harbor, Connecticut, aixteen thousand four hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty-seven cents. For deepening an inland passage between St. John's and St. Mary's rivers, fifteen hundred dollars. For improving the navigation of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, fifty thousand dollars. For removing obstructions to the navigation of the Kennebec river, at Lovejoy's Narrows, Maine, five thou sand dollars. AN ACT for the relief of Peter and John S. Crary and Company, of New York, and of Allen Reynolds. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to extend the provision of an act, entitled "An act, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to direct the completion of entries for the benefit of drawback after the period of twenty days," to the entries made by Manuel Velez, of Colombia, in the months of September and October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, of five bales of merchandize, exported on board the brig Athenian, Sullivan master, for Carthagena, and to direct the Collector of the port of New York, to permit Peter Crary, John S. Crary, Henry Todd, and Oliver E. Cobb, trading under the firm of Peter and John S. Crary and Company, to complete the said en For completing the removal of obstructions in the Ap tries, as the lawful Attorneys of the said Manuel Velez.palachicola river, in Florida, two thousand dollars, 4 For improving the harbors of New Castle, Marcus Hook, Chester, and Port Peun, in the Delaware river, ten thousand dollars. For improving the Cape Fear river, below Wilmington, North Carolina, twenty-five thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars. For completing the removal of obstructions in the river be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue a patent to Gaand harbor of St. Marks, in Florida, ten thousand dollars. briel Godfroy and John Baptiste Beaugrand, for a tract of For completing the Breakwater at Hyannis harbor, in two hundred and twenty-five acres, surveyed for them Massachusetts, six thousand five hundred and seventeen under an act, entitled "An act regulating the grants of dollars and eighty-two cents. land in the Territory of Michigan," and designated on the plat of survey of the United States reserve, of twelve miles square, on the Maumee of the Lake, as number five hundred and ninety-five, on their paying to the Re For carrying on the works of the Delaware Breakwater, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, one hundred thousand dollars; and for carrying on the same works during the first quarter of one thousand eight hun-ceiver of Public Moneys in the Land Office at Detroit, dred and thirty-one, sixty-two thousand dollars. Approved: April 28, 1880. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled, "An Act to extend the time for locating Virginia Military Land Warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office," approved the twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six. Be it enacted, &c. That the officers and soldiers of the Virginia Line, on the Continental Establishment, their heirs or assignees, entitled to bounty land within the tract of country reserved by the State of Virginia, between the Little Miami and Sciota rivers, shall be allowed until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, to obtain warrants, subject, however, to the conditions, restrictions, and limitations, relating to locations, surveys, and patents contained in the act of which this is an amendment. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no location shall be made by virtue of any warrant obtained after the said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; and no patent shall issue in consequence of any warrant obtained after that time. And that the second proviso, inserted in the first section of the above recited act, except only that part thereof which requires "a certificate from the Register of the Land Office of Virginia, that no warrant has issued from the said Land Office for the same services," be, and the same is hereby repealed. Approved: April 23, 1830. AN ACT to regulate and fix the compensation of Clerks in the Department of State. the balance of the purchase money due thereon, without interest, and with the usual discount, at any time within one year after the passage of this act: Provided, The said tract of land shall not have been sold to any other person. Approved: April 23, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Arund Rutgers, of Missouri, Be it enacted, &c. That Arund Rutgers be, and is hereby, authorized to locate five hundred arpents of land, upon any of the public lands in the State of Missouri, that are subject to private entry, upon relinquishing to John Welden, his heirs or assigns, before the Recorder of land titles at St. Louis, all his right and claim to the like quantity of land, confirmed to the said John Welden, within the boundaries of his original grant; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon a duly certified copy of such relinquishment being presented to him, together with a plat and survey of said land, duly and regularly made, shall issue a patent therefor. Approved: April 23, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Luther Chapin. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to Luther Chapin the sum of two thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for his vessel, called the Cuyahoga Packet, captured by the enemy, on Lake Erie, during the late war, while in the military service of the United States. Approved: April 23, 1830. cause such surplus to be placed at the disposal of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, and the same shall be applied by them to the reimbursement or purchase of the principal of the public debt, at such times as the state of the Treasury will best admit. AN ACT to authorize the Commissioners of the Sinking Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of State be, and Fund to redeem the public debt of the United States. he is hereby, authorized to employ one Chief Clerk, e it enacted, &c. That whenever, in the opinion of the whose compensation shall not exceed two thousand dol- Secretary of the Treasury, the state of the Treasury will lars per annum: one Clerk, whose compensation shall admit of the application of a greater sum than ten millions not exceed one thousand six hundred dollars per annum; of dollars in any one year, to the payment of interest and one Clerk whose compensation shall not exceed one thou-charges, and to the reimbursement or purchase of the prinsand five hundred dollars per annum; six Clerks, whose cipal of the public debt, it shall be lawful for him, with compensation shall not exceed one thousand four hun- the approbation of the President of the United States, to dred dollars each per annum; one Clerk, whose salary shall not exceed one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars per annum; one Clerk, whose salary shall not exeeed one thousand dollars, to be charged with the duty of translating foreign languages, in addition to other duties; one Clerk, whose salary shall not exceed one thousand dollars per annum; one Clerk, whose salary shall not exceed nine hundred dollars per annum; one Clerk, whose compensation shall not exceed eight hundred dollars per annum; one Superintendent in the Patent Office, whose salary shall not exceed one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; two Clerks in the Patent Office, whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand dollars each, per annum; one Clerk, whose compensation shall not exceed eight hundred dollars per annum. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all acts, and parts of acts, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved: April 23, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of Gabriel Godfroy and John Bap- Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the U. States Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever, in any year, there shall be a surplus in the Sinking Fund beyond the amount of interest and principal of the debt which may be actually due and payable by the United States, in such year, in conformity with their engagements, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to apply such surplus to the purchase of any portion of the public debt, at such rates as, in their opinion, may be advantageous to the United States; any thing in any act of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the fourth and fifth sections of the act, entitled "An act to provide for the redemption of the public debt, approved on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, are hereby repealed. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, being the balance of the sums heretofore appropriated for the expenses of taking the AN ACT to extend the time for commencing the improve- Approved: April 24, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of the widows and orphans of the Be it enacted, &c. That the widows, if any such there be, and in case there be no widow, the child or children; and, if there be no child, then the parent or parents; and if there be no parent, then the brothers and sisters of the officers, seamen, and marines, who were in the service of the United States, and lost in the United States' Bloop of war Hornet, shall be entitled to, and receive, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to six months pay of their respective deceased relatives, aforesaid, in addition to the pay due to the said deceased, on the tenth day of September last, up to which day the arrears of pay due the deceased, shall be allowed and paid by the accounting officers of the Navy Department. Approved: April 24, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of the President, Directors, and with said warrant, to the Commissioner of the General AN ACT to refund the moiety of the forfeiture upon the Be it enacted, &c. That there shall be paid to John Burton, Dunbar Henderson, E. Hale, Charles Holmenhouser, Benjamin Burton, and Thomas Burton, the amount paid by them into the Treasury of the United States, as a moiety of the forfeiture decreed against the schooner Volant: and that the same be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 24, 1830. AN ACT for the re-appropriation of certain unexpended balances of former appropriations. Be it enacted, &c. 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 hundred and ninety-two dollars. For the Georgia militia claims for one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, appropriated by act of March 2d, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, forty-one thousand and five dollars and forty-four cents. For the expenses.of the militia of Georgia and Florida, for the suppression of Indian aggressions on their frontiers, by act of March second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, five thousand dollars. For the remaining purchase money of a house and lot at Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to the President, Directors, and Company, of the Bank of Chillicothe, the sum of two thousand three For the building of piers at the entrance of La Plai hundred and sixty-two dollars eighty-five cents, the in-sance bay, eighty-nine dollars and eleven cents. terest on certain bills, drawn on the Paymaster General, conformable to a contract, and on the Secretary of War, which were duly accepted, and protested for non-payment; and for advances made on the requisition of the Commanding General of the eigth military district, for money to pay the troops under his command, on their march to the frontier, Approved: April 24, 1830. AN ACT for the benefit of Daniel McDuff. Be it enacted, &c. That Daniel McDuff be, and he is hereby authorized to locate his warrant for military bounty land, in the county of Jackson, and State of Alabama, so as to include his improvement in Ashburn's cove, by legal subdivisions, in adjoining tracts, not to exceed in the whole three hundred and twenty acres, or half a section. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Daniel McDuff, upon surrendering to the Register of the Land Office, at Huntsville, his said warrant for military bounty land, paying one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, for the excess over and above three hundred acres of land, expressed in said warrant, and making proof before said Register of the quarter section in which said improvement lies, to enter one half section of land as aforesaid; and thereupon it shall be the duty of said Register to issue to said Daniel McDuff a final certificate of purchase; and to forward the same, together For the road from Fort Towson to Fort Smith, three hundred and ninety dollars and eighty-five cents. For the road from Pensacola to St. Augustine, five thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars and seventytwo cents. For the road, called the King's road in Florida, two thousand dollars. For carrying into effect a treaty with the Choctaw Indians, dated eleventh of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, the balance of the sum appropriated by the act of March third, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, re-appropriated by the act of May twentysix, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and again by an act of March the second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, being twenty-one thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars. For carrying into effect the treaty with the Cherokee Indians, and extinguishing their claim to lands within the State of North Carolina, two thousand four hundred and fifty-nine dollars nineteen cents. For defraying the expenses of treating with the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, for extinguishing their title to lands within the limits of the State of Mississippi, one thousand two hundred and fifty-three dollars seventy-nine cents. For purchasing certain tracts of land within the State of Georgia, reserved by treaties, in fee to the Creeks, and |