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to the Cherokee Indians, the balance of the appropriation | other cases: Provided, however, That if in the interme of fifty thousand dollars, made for those objects by an act diate time between the purchase and presentation of the of March the third, one thousand eight hundred and said receipt, any of the said lands shall have been paid twenty-three, being nine thousand one hundred and eigh-for and entered by any other persons, ignorant of the forty-three dollars.

For gratuitous pay for disbanded officers and soldiers, including travelling allowances for the same, five hundred and forty dollars and ten cents, being the unexpended balance of appropriations for those objects carried to the surplus fund on the last day of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.

For the purpose hereinafter stated, to wit: the sum of eight thousand dollars, appropriated for the erection of a Custom and Warehouse at Mobile, by act of May twentyfourth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, be, and the same is hereby re-appropriated, and an additional appropriation of eight thousand dollars to complete the same on an enlarged plan, be, and the same is hereby made, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury.

Approved, April 30, 1830.

mer purchase, the said Register shall not enter the same lands, but may permit the party to enter other lands in lieu thereof, of equal quality, within the same district, which may be subject to entry, and shall give him, her, or them, a certificate therefor, upon which a patent shall issue as in other cases.

Approved: May 5, 1830.

AN ACT to authorize the appointment of a Marshal for
the Northern District of the State of Alabama.
Be it enacted, &c. That a Marshal shall be appointed
for the Northern District of the State of Alabama, whose
duties shall be the same, in every respect, within said
District, as those required by law to be performed by the
present Marshal.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That when a Marshal shall be appointed for said Northern District, he shall be entitled to a salary of two hundred dollars per A RESOLUTION authorizing the transmission of papers, annum, besides the fees of office fixed by law, and the by mail, relating to the fifth census. salary of the present Marshal be two hundred dollars Resolved, &c. That so much of the thirteenth sec- per annum, instead of the sum heretofore allowed. The tion of the act of the third of March, one thousand eight sum allowed, by law, to the Marshal of Alabama, for tak hundred and twenty-five, as restricts the weight of packa-ing the fifth census, shall be divided between the Marshals ges by mail, shall not apply to the transmission of papers relating to the fifth census, or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States.

Approved, April 30, 1830.

An ACT for the relief of Charles Wilkes, Jun. Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officer of the Treasury allow to Charles Wilkes, Junior, a Lieutenant in the Naval Service of the United States, and to any other person or persons with whom he may have contracted for the same, all such sums of money as he shall have paid, or, in the case of such other person or persons, he shall have contracted to pay them, for such astronomical and mathematical instruments, as, by the letter of the Secretary of the Navy to him, dated the eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, he was directed to procure for the exploring expedition to the Pacific Ocean and South Seas, on said accounting officer being furnished with satis factory evidence that the respective articles are of the value and quality specified in the contract therefor, and have been delivered to such person or persons as the Secretary of the Navy shall have directed: Provided, The amount to be allowed and paid for the said instruments, exclusive of the sums already paid by the Navy Department and Navy Agent at New York, shall not exceed the sum of three thousand three hundred dollars; which sum is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved: May 5, 1830.

AN ACT to authorize the Registers of the several Land Offices in Louisiana, to receive entries of lands in certain cases, and give to the purchasers thereof certificates for the same.

Be it enacted, &c. That, in all cases where persons have purchased lands of the United States within the State of Louisiana, and have paid in full therefor, and who have failed or omitted to enter the same, the Register of the Land Office of the district in which the land was purchased shall, on presentation of the original receipt of the Receiver of said district by the original purchaser or purchasers of land, his, her, or their heirs, cause an entry thereof to be made, and give to him, her, or them, a certificate for the same, specifying the time when the land was purchased, upon which a patent shall be issued as in

of South and North Alabama, according to the number of souls enumerated in each district; and so soon as the Marshal for the Northern District shall be appointed under this act, the duties of the present Marshal shall cease and determine in said district.

Approved: May 5, 1830.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act for the benefit of the incorporated Kentucky Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb," and to extend the time for selling the land granted by said act.

Be it enacted, &c. That the further time of five years, from and after the fifth of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, be, and the same is hereby, allowed the Trustees of the Centre College of Kentucky, who are also Trustees of the Kentucky Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb, to sell the land granted to said Trustees for the use and benefit of said Asylum, by an act, entitled “ An act, for the benefit of the incorporated Kentucky Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb," passed on the fifth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twentysix; and all sales under the provisions of this act, by the Trustees aforesaid, or their successors in office, for the use of said Asylum, shall be good and valid to pass the title, any thing in any former law to the contrary not. withstanding.

Approved: May 5, 1830.

AN ACT to change the time of holding the Court of the
United States for the District of Mississippi, and the
Circuit Court of the United States in the District of
Ohio.

Be it enacted, &c. That, instead of the times now prescribed by law for holding the Court of the United States for the District of Mississippi, the said Court shall commence its sessions on the fourth Monday in January, and the fourth Monday in June, in each and every year.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all process which may have issued from said Court, at the passage of this act, and which may issue previous to the fourth Monday of June next, shall, by virtue of this act, be returnable before the said Court on that day; and all causes pending in the said Court, and which may have been continued by order thereof, to the term heretofore directed to be held on the first Monday in October next, shall, by virtue of this act, stand continued to, and be

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triable at, the term hereby directed to be held on the fourth | survey, on which any lands are claimed, under any deMonday in June next.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Circuit Court of the United States, within and for the District of Ohio, instead of the time now fixed by law, shall hereafter be held on the second Monday of July, and the third Monday of December, in each year; and the District Court of the United States, in and for said District, shall hereafter be held on the Mondays next succeeding the times herein fixed for holding the Circuit Court. And the Circuit Court for the District of West Tennessee, shall hereafter be held on the first Monday in September in each year, instead of the time now fixed by law. And all suits and matters of every kind returnable to, or proceeding in, either of said Courts, shall be held to be returnable, and continued, to the terms of said Courts herein provided for.

Approved: May 5, 1830.

AN ACT for further extending the powers of the Judges of the Superior Court of the Territory of Arkansas, under the act of the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and for other purposes.

cree of the said Court, was in fact, made or issued by or under the authority of the person or persons purporting to have made or issued the same, or unless the said warrant, concession, grant, or order of survey, shall have been de termined by the said Court, on the hearing of a bill of review to be genuine.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That no entry, survey, or patent, shall, at any time hereafter, be made or issued under the said act, except in the name of the original party to any such decree, and on proof to the satisfaction of the officers respectively, that the party applying is such original party, or is duly authorized by such original party, or his heirs, to make, receive, or require such entry, patent, or survey.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That, in all cases in which the said Court shall, by decree or adjudication, under this act, review and annul any prior decree or adjudication therein, any lands which may have been heretofore entered, under any such prior decree or adjudication, shall, thereafter, be subject to sale or entry as other public lands of the United States may be.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to employ, on Be it enacted, &c. That the act approved on the behalf of the United States, such council on their part in twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred the Territory of Arkansas, or elsewhere, to be associated and twenty-four, entitled "An act to enable claimants to for that purpose with the District Attorney of the same lands within the limits of the State of Missouri and Terri Territory, as he may deem the interests of the United tory of Arkansas, to institute proceedings to try the vali-States may require, in the prosecution of such bills of redity of their claims,” shall be, and hereby is, continued view before the said Court. in force, so far as the said act relates to the claims within Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That, in all cases, the the Territory of Arkansas, until the first day of July, one party against whom the judgment or decree of the said thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, for the purpose Court may be finally given, shall be entitled to an appeal of enabling the Court in Arkansas, having cognizance of within one year from the time of its rendition, to the claims under the said act, to proceed by bills of review, Supreme Court of the United States, which Court shall filed, or to be filed, in the said Court, on the part of the have power to review the decision of the Court below, United States, for the purpose of revising all or any of the both on the law and the facts; and the Court in Arkansas decrees of the said Court, in cases wherein it shall ap- be, and the same is hereby, required to spread upon the pear to the said Court, or be alleged in such bills of re-record the whole testimony, together with the reasons for view, that the jurisdiction of the same was assumed, in any case, on any forged warrant, concession, grant, order of survey, or other evidence of title; and, in every case wherein it shall appear to the said Court, on the prosecution of any such bill of review, that such warrant, concession, grant, order of survey, or other evidence of title, is a forgery, it shall be lawful, and the said Court is hereby authorized to proceed, by further order and decree, to reverse and annul any prior decree or adjudication upon such claim; and thereupon, such prior decree or adjudication shall be deemed, and held in all places whatever, to be null and void to all intents and purposes. And the said Court shall proceed on such bills of review, by such rules of practice and regulation as they may adopt, for the execution of the powers vested or confirmed in them by this act.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no entries of land in any of the land offices in Arkansas, under any of the provisions of the said act, shall be made, until the further direction of Congress.

their decision in each case, and to transmit to the Supreme Court of the United States the same, together with the original warrant, concession, grant, order of survey, or other evidence of title.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That each of the Judges of the Superior Court of the Territory of Arkansas, shall, while in the discharge of their duties imposed by this act, be allowed at the rate of eight hundred dollars per annum, in addition to their salary as Judges of the Superior Court for the Territory of Arkansas, which shall be in full for their services, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 8, 1830.

AN ACT supplementary to the act, entitled "An act to authorize the citizens of the Territories of Arkansas and Florida to elect their officers, and for other purровев.”

Be it enacted, &c. That in case any vacancy has occur Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That no patent shall red, or shall occur in any office to which any person has be issued for lands under any decree of the said Court, been, or shall be elected by the citizens of Arkansas, under in any case in which the original warrant, concession, the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, grant, or order of survey, has been withdrawn from the either by a refusal to accept the same, or by death, resigfiles of the said Court, unless the person or persons claim-nation, or otherwise, the Governor of the said Territory is ing such patent shall first produce and deposite, in the Office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the original warrant, concession, grant, or order of sur vey, on which such decree was founded, and on which the said Court took jurisdiction under the said act; and no patent shall be issued until the further order of Congress, in any case, under the said act, until it shall satisfactorily appear to the Commissioner of the General Land Office that the warrant, concession, grant, or order of

hereby authorized and required to supply such vacancy, until the next general election: And in case any vacancy shall occur, in the offices of Justice of the Peace, Auditor, or Treasury for the said Territory, either by a refusal to accept the same, or by death, resignation, or otherwise, the Governor thereof is hereby authorized and required to supply such vacancy until the next meeting of the Legislature.

Approved, May 8, 1830.

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AN ACT to authorize the re-conveyance of a Lot of contemplated by this act to be done, under the superintendence and authority of the Corporation of Georgetown, is properly and sufficiently well done, and is entirely safe for the passing of wagons, then, and not before, shall the appropriation herein be paid, or so much of the same as shall be sufficient to meet the expenses of making said draw.

Land to the Mayor and Corporation of the City of New York. Whereas, the Mayor and Corporation of the City of New York, on the sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and eight, did convey to the United States, a lot of land at the foot of Hubert-street, in the City of New York, called the North Battery, "so long as the same should be used and applied to the defence and safety of the port of New York, and no longer."

Be it, therefore, enacted, &c. That, whenever the President of the United States shall determine that the said lot is no longer useful for the purpose aforesaid, he be, and he hereby is authorized, to cause the same to be reconveyed to the Mayor and Corporation of New York, the works thereon to be dismantled, and the materials thereof to be disposed of, in such manner as, in his judgment, the public interest may require.

Approved, May 10, 1830.

AN ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of
Richard Eppes.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the legal representatives of Richard Eppes, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and ninety-four dollars and twenty-five cents, for that amount paid by him into the Treasury, on account of clothing, which was delivered to the fourth regiment of Virginia militia, by the Quartermaster General of the State of Virginia, and improperly debited in the account of said Eppes.

Approved, May 10, 1880.

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AN ACT to alter the Bridge and Draw across the Potomac, from Washington City to Alexandria.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Corporation of George. town, in the District of Columbia, be, and they are hereby authorized, within six months from the passing of this act, to form a draw in the bridge leading from Washington City to Alexandria, across the Potomac river, not less than sixty-six feet in length, nor less than twelve feet wide; and for defraying the expense of making said draw, the sum of six thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That said Corporation of Georgetown shall not interrupt the passage across said bridge for a longer period than sixty days, under the penalty of paying to the Bridge Company an amount equal to ten dollars, for each and every day over sixty days, that the passing of said bridge may be interrupted.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That if said Company shall refuse to the Corporation of Georgetown the right to execute the provisions of this act, then the rights and provisions in favor of said Company, secured by the second section of this act, shall be null and void, and of no effect.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That if the said Company shall refuse to permit the alteration in the draw herein provided for, and shall, within thirty days after the passage of this act, notify the Corporation of Georgetown of such refusal, then this act, and every thing therein contained, shall cease to have effect.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Corporation of Washington, in said District of Columbia, be authorized to form a draw in said bridge, over the Eastern channel of said river, thirty-five feet wide; for which purpose the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, and is to be applied in the same manner by the Corporation of Washington, to the construction of the said last mentioned draw, as the appropriation in the first section of this act is to be made and applied by the Corporation of Georgetown, to the construction of the first mentioned draw; and further, that all the provisions of this act, relating to the first mentioned draw and the Corporation of Georgetown, shall apply to the draw last mentioned and the Corporation of Washington.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That nothing con-
tained in this act shall be considered as giving a construc-
tion to so much of the tenth and eleventh sections of the
original charter of said Bridge Company, as relates to the
construction of draws in said bridge.
Approved, May 14, 1830.

AN ACT to alter the time of holding the sessions of the
Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Legislative Council of the
first Monday in January in each year, instead of the second
Territory of Florida shall commence its session on the
Monday in October, as now directed by law.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the first and Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Washington third sections of an act to amend an act for the apprehension of criminals and the punishment of crimes and Bridge Company shall hereafter be required to keep eight reflecting lamps, to be lighted during the night, of which misdemeanors," passed by said Legislative Council the four shall be at the principal draw, two at the smaller fifteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and twentydraw, and one at each end of the bridge; and in repairing pine, be, and the same are hereby annulled. Approved, May 14, 1830.

said bridge, the Company may, and are hereby permitted to reduce the width of the bridge to twenty-four feet, leaving four feet on one side of said bridge for foot AN ACT for the relief of sundry Revolutionary and other Officers and Soldiers, and for other purposes. passengers, which shall, by a strong and sufficient railing, be separated from the carriage way.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of War be, and he

Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That, in making said is hereby, authorized and required to place the names of draw, the opposite side of the warps, above and below the John L. Polleresky, a major, Samuel Snow and David bridge, shall be curved off in a circular form; and the side Mead Randolph, captains, Sylvanus Wood, Samuel Geof the spaces covered by said draw, shall be sufficiently rock, William Holgate, and Nathaniel Elliott, lieutenants, and strongly planked up on each side; and said Bridge Company shall remove from the passage through it, all obstructions to safe navigation.

and George Wunder, an ensign, in the Revolutionary war, on the list of Revolutionary pensioners, and to pay them each at the rate of twenty dollars a month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred

See. 4. And be it further enacted, That so soon as the
Secretary of War shall be fully satisfied that the work and twenty-eight.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary | Tandeheste, a Seneca warrior of the late war, Thomas of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to Flemming, Cornelius Huson, Stephen Twist, William place the names of Samuel Hoadly, late a major, Robert Turney, James Riley, Adrian Peters, on the list of invalid Kane, an adjutant in a corps of volunteers, Zachariah S. pensioners, and to pay them at the rate of eight dollars per Conger, John Downer, Stephen Shea, and Michael Fish-month each, commencing respectively on the first day of el, lieutenants, and Henry Starring, jr, an ensign in the January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight. late war, on the list of invalid pensioners; and to pay SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of them as follows, to wit: to Samuel Hoadly, twelve dol- War be, and he is hereby authorized and required to place lars a month; to Robert Kane, eight dollars a month: to the names of the following persons upon the invalid penZachariah S. Conger, fourteen dollars a month; to John sion list, at the following rates, to wit: Silas Peese and Downer, fifteen dollars a month; to Stephen Shea, twen- Peter Shite at the rate of eight dollars a month each; ty dollars a month; to Michael Fishel, seventeen dollars Joshua Bill, Henry Barton, Robert Mophet, James D. Ria month; and to Henry Starring, jr., ten dollars a month, chardson, and Daniel Depuy, at the rate of five dollars commencing on the first day of January, one thousand thirty-three and one-third cents each; Benjamin Gates, at eight hundred and twenty-eight. the rate of six dollars; William Gamage, Isaac Plumer, SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary Thomas Gilbert, Jonathan Edwards, Asa Pratt, Elisha of War be, and he is hereby, required to place the names Douglass, John Pearle, William Clark, Jonathan Hoyt, and of the following persons upon the list of Revolutionary Henry Johnson, an Indian warrior of the Six Nations, at pensioners, viz: Samuel French, William Lawrence, Asa the rate of four dollars a month each, commencing respecWilkins, Stephen Fuller, Stephen Wilcox, Elijah John- tively on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ston, Samuel Sykes, Josiah Morse, Abiel Brown, John twenty-eight.

Lemnon, Andrew Bacon, Joseph Raynesford, Benjamin SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary
Mott, Joseph Boss, Levi Hutchins, John Perry, second, of War be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Ann Lit-
James Johnson, James Robinson, Chamberlain Hudson, tle, administratrix of the estate of William Little, deceas-
Philemon Tiffany, Lemuel Pardee, Joseph Wilson, Isaac ed, the amount of pension of said William Little, for one
Smally, William Cole, Hartman Lower, John Reizer, year, nine months and twenty-nine days.

Daniel Hinds, Joseph B. Jennison, Henry Romer, David SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary
Carswell, Joseph Barlow, Hamblin Cole, John Powell, of War be, and he is hereby required, to place the name
Christopher Cary, William Scott, of Connecticut, Joseph of Rachael Turner, widow of Peter Turner, a soldier of
Chaplin, John Putney, John Stout, Philip Nagle, Frede- the late war, on the list of half-pay pensioners, and pay
rich Stull, James Porter, Absalom Baker, Richard Nagle, to her at the rate of four dollars a month, for the term of
Robert Ditcher, Ezekiel Knowles, Caleb Wiseman, Tho- five years, to commence on the first day of January, one
mas Putney, Anselm Bailey, William Scott, of Smithfield, thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
Bradford county, Pennsylvania, Micajah Mayfield, Tris- SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of
tram Dagget, Edward Curran, George Giller, Samuel War be, and he is hereby, required to place the name of
Fox, Joseph Neilson, Eli Sugart, Timothy Benedict, Asa Andrew Herrick, a soldier of the Revolution, and now a
Quiry, Seth Higley, William Higginbotham, Lemuel With-lunatic, upon the list of Revolutionary pensioners, and pay
ington, William Harris, Amos Ingraham, Benjamin Jones, to such persons as shall be appointed and properly autho-
Thomas Salsbury, John Israel, Elias Porter, Frederick rized, for the time being, to take charge of his person and
Sheckler, Reuben Ricker, Anthony Sluthour, Reuben estate, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence
Carter, Joseph Smith, John Hudson, Nathaniel Fuller, on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred
Henry Doll, Amos Andrews, Valentine Stickell, Joel and twenty-eight.

Riggins, William Vickroy, Joseph Randall, John McMur- SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary
try, James Long, William Rockwell, Stephen Bennet, of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of
Josiah Mott, Simon Fobes, Thomas Bloomfield, Obed Thomas Scott, alias Knox, a soldier of the late war, and
Cushman, Nathan Lockwood, Dennis Jones, Robert Mil- now a lunatic, upon the list of invalid pensioners of the
ton, James Needs, Christopher Ward, Eliakim Clap, Wil- United States, and to pay to such person or persons as may
liam Pew, Revolutionary soldiers, John McClain, a sailor, be appointed and properly authorized to take charge of
and Christopher Sype, a musician, and restore to the the person and estate of said Thomas Scott, alias Knox, at
same list the names of Archibald Jackson, Roger Merrill, the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the
David Colson, Samuel Payeon, Zadock Morris, Jacob first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
Cramer, James Davidson, George Lucas, Jacob Rading- twenty-eight; which said pension shall continue so long as
ton, Ebenezer Beeman, Charles Sterns, Zacheus Rich, the said Secretary shall be satisfied of the continuance of
Francis Newton, Joshua Spears, Zephaniah Ross, Leonard the disability aforesaid.
Corl, and Moses Weld; and to pay them each at the rate
of eight dollars a month, commencing on the first day of
January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.

SEC 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, and required to pay, instead of their present pensions, to Humphrey Becket, Levi Hathway, and Jacob Zimmerman, Revolutionary soldiers, the sum of eight dollars a month to the two former, four dollars to the latter, and eight dollars a month to Minney Ryneason, and George Doogan, soldiers of the late war, to commence respectively on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized and required to place the names of James McFarlane, Henry Houser, James Ferrel, Esau Ritchey, George W. Morrison, Robert Gumbleton, Robert Currey, William Ferguson, Levi M. Roberts, William M. Fowler, Ebenezer Lord, Joseph Booth, John Carlton, second, soldiers of the late war,

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the minor children of Collins Hurlbut, a soldier of the late war, their guardians, or such other person as may be lawfully authorized to receive the same for the use of said children, the sum of four dollars per month, for the term of five years, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place upon the pension roll the name of James Royal, of Tennessee, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to be paid at the same time, and in the same manner, as pensions are usually paid, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

SEO. 13. And be it further enacted, That the pensions aforesaid shall be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, in the same manner that other pensions are now payable.

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Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That in all cases | and other Green Teas, twelve cents per pound; Souchong, of the death of any of the pensioners named in this act, and other Black Teas, except Bohea, ten cents per pound; leaving a widow, such widow shall be entitled to receive and Bohea four cents per pound; and on Teas imported the arrears of pensions due at the decease of her husband, from any other place, or in vessels other than those of the under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of War United States, the following rates, to wit: Imperial, Gunmay prescribe. powder, and Gomee, thirty-seven cents; Hyson and Young Hyson, twenty-seven cents; Hyson Skin and other Green Teas, twenty cents: Souchong, and other Black Teas, except Bohea, eighteen cents; and Bohea, six cents per pound.

Approved: May 20, 1830.

AN ACT to establish a port of delivery at Delaware City.
Be it enacted, &c. That Delaware City, in the District of
Philadelphia, shall be a port of delivery; and a Surveyor
shall be appointed, who shall reside at said City.
Approved: May 20, 1830.

AN ACT making appropriations to carry into effect the
Treaty of Butte des Mortes.

Be it enacted, &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, as stipulated in the fourth article, fifteen thousand six hundred and eighty-two dollars.

For purposes of education, as provided by the fifth article, for three years, three thousand dollars.

For compensation of Commissioners, and other expenses attending the adjustment of boundaries and fother objects referred to in the first, second, and third articles, five thousand dollars.

Approved: May 20, 1830.

AN ACT for the relief of the City Council of Charleston,
South Carolina.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Tea, Cocoa, and Coffee, which have been, or which shall be hereafter put into the Custom House stores, under the bond of the importer, and which shall remain under the control of the proper officer of the customs, on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and the thirtyfirst day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one respectively, shall be subject to no higher duty than if the same were imported, respectively, after the said thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to alter or postpone the time when the duty on the said Tea, Cocoa, and Coffee shall be payable.

Approved, May 20, 1830.

AN ACT for the relief of Jonathan Taylor, and the representatives of James Morrison and Charles Wilkins.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, to Jonathan Taylor, and the representatives of James Morrison and Charles Wilkins, twelve thousand sixty-one dollars and ninety-nine cents, in the proportion of one-third to each, for the improvements made by the said Taylor, Morrison, Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of twenty-five thousand and Wilkins, at the salt works, in what is now the State dollars, if so much be necessary, be applied by the Secre- of Illinois, under a lease between the United States tary of the Treasury to the erection, or purchase of a and them, dated on the fifth of February, one thousand United States' Marine Hospital for the sick and disabled eight hundred and ten; which amount was liquidated seamen, at Charleston, South Carolina; and, also, to in- by the President of the United States, on the second of demnify the City Council of Charleston, for the damages June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty; and to be which they have sustained, from being obliged to provide discharged by surrendering to said lessees, kettles of a building or buildings for such sick and disabled seamen, that value, at said works, but which the State of Illinois as would have been entitled to relief from the Marine has declined to surrender, claiming to own them by the Hospital Fund, in consequence of the failure of the Trea- cession of said works by the United States to the State of sury Department to furnish the amount of fifteen thou-Illinois. sand dollars, for the erection of a Marine Hospital, according to the terms of a contract entered into in the year one. thousand eight hundred and four, between the then Secretary of the Treasury, and the said City Council.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the foregoing purposes, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 20, 1830.

Approved, May 20, 1830.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled, "An act to regulate the practice in the Courts of the United States, for the District of Louisiana."

Be it enacted, &c. That the mode of proceeding in drawing and empanneling juries in the Courts of the United States for the Louisiana Districts shall be the same as is now provided by law in the District Courts of the State of Louisiana; and that the Judge of the United States' AN ACT to reduce the duties on Coffee, Tea, and Cocoa. Courts in said District be, and he is hereby authorized, by Be it enacted, &c. That from and after the thirty-first rule, to adopt any amendment that may hereafter be made day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thir- to the laws of the said State, prescribing the qualification ty, the duty on Coffee shall be two cents per pound, and of jurors, and providing for drawing and empanneling from and after the thirty-first day of December, one thou-juries.

sand eight hundred and thirty-one, the duty on Coffee Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the duties shall be one cent per pound, and no more; and from and prescribed by the laws of the State of Louisiana, to be after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight performed by the Sheriff, in relation to the drawing and hundred and thirty, the duty on Cocoa shall be one cent summoning of jurors, shall be performed by the marshals, per pound, and no more. And that, from and after the and those so prescribed for the Parish Judge, or the Disthirty-first December, one thousand eight hundred and trict Judge of the State, shall be performed by the Disthirty-one, the following rates of duty nd ano other, shall trict Judge of the United States. And that the duties so be levied and collected on Teas imported from China, or prescribed by the said State laws, imposed on any other other place East of the Cape of Good Hope, and in vessels State officer, shall be performed by such householders as of the United States, to wit: Imperial Gunpowder, shall be designated by the said Judge of the District and Gomee, twenty-five cents per pound; Hyson and Court of the United States. Young Hyson, eighteen cents per pound; Hyson Skin Approved, May 20, 1830.

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