CON ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, OF A PUBLIC OR GENERAL NATURE: PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION, WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ON MONDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF DECEMBER, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY-ONE, and ENDING ON THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF JULY, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY-TWO. AN ACT to authorize the State of Illinois to sell | AN ACT to alter the time of holding the Spring term of twenty thousand acres of the saline lands in said State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the U. States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Illinois be and is authorized and empowered to sell and dispose of twenty thousand acres [in addition to the thirty thousand acres heretofore authorized to be sold] of the lands granted to said State for the use and support of the salt works, known by the name of the "Ohio Saline," in the county of Gallatin, in said State; the said twenty thousand acres of land to be selected and sold, and the proceeds thereof applied in such manner as the General Assembly of Illinois have directed, or hereafter may direct. ANDREW STEVENSON, Approved: Jan. 19, 1832. ANDREW JACKSON. AN ACT supplementary to an Act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on Public Lands. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the passage of this act, all persons who have purchased under an act, entitled "An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands," approved the 29th of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, may assign and transfer their certificates of purchase, or final receipts, and patents may issue in the name of such assignee, any thing in the act aforesaid to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved: Jan. 23, 1832. the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the first day of March next, a term of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern district of New York shall commence and be held at the place fixed by law for holding said Court, on the first Monday of April, in each and every year; and that, from and after said first day of March, the term of said Court, now required by law to be held on the last Monday in May in each year, shall be abolished. Approved: February 10, 1832. AN ACT to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise the claim of the United States on the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to compromise and finally settle the claim of the United States on the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie, on such terms as he may deem most conducive to the best interests of the United States, Approved: February 10, 1832. AN ACT to provide for the payment of arrearages in the Naval service, chargeable to the enumerated contin. gent prior to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of eighty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be applied, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, in the payment of arrearages connected with the Naval service, and chargeable to the contingent enume. rated prior to January the first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and which have been, or may be, approved and passed by the proper accounting officers. Approved: February 24, 1832. AN ACT making appropriations for the Revolutionary and other Pensioners of the United States, for the year 1832. AN ACT to direct the manner of issuing patents on confirmed land claims in the Territory of Florida. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all patents that are, or may be, by law, directed to be issued on private land claims, confirmed by the Commissioners of private land claims, and by the several acts of Congress approving their reports, and confirming the titles to lands in the Territory of Florida, shall be, and they are hereby, required to be issued to the confirmees, or to the assignee, or present owner, where the land has been sold or transferred since the confirm- Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be approation of the title; and it shall be the duty of the Commis-priated for the pensioners of the United States, for the sioner of the General Land Office, upon the production year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two: of satisfactory proof of the death of the confirmee, or upon the production of a regular chain of title from the confirmee, to cause the patent to be issued to the heirs and legal representatives, or to the assignees of the confirmee, as the case may be. Approved: January 23, 1832. For the Revolutionary pensioners, nine hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hundred and four dollars. For the invalid pensioners, in addition to the sum of one hundred and forty thousand five hundred and thirtytwo dollars in the Treasury, one hundred and sixty-five thousand and thirty-nine dollars. AN ACT making appropriations for the Naval service, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be appropriated for the naval service, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, viz: For pay and subsistence of the officers of the navy, and the pay of seamen, one million four hundred and nine thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars. For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several yards, fifty-eight thousand five hundred and thirty dollars. For provisions, four hundred and twenty-nine thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars. For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission, five hundred and thirty thousand six hundred and eighty-two dollars. For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, twenty-five thousand dollars, For improvements and necessary repairs of navy yards, viz : For the navy yard at Portsmouth, forty-one thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars. For the navy yard at Boston, eighty-five thousand dollars. For the navy yard at New York, seventy-two thousand dollars. For the navy yard at Philadelphia, ten thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars. For the navy yard at Washington, forty-two thousand dollars. For the navy yard at Norfolk, one hundred and twen ty thousand nine hundred and twenty-three dollars. For the navy yard at Pensacola, twenty-five thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, ten thousand dol lars. For defraying expenses that may accrue for the fol lowing purposes, viz: For freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description: for wharfage and dockage, storage and rent, travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen, house rent, cham ber money, and fuel and candles to officers, other than those attached to navy yards and stations, and for officers in sick quarters, where there is no hospital, and for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire, and office rent, stationary, and fuel to navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending diem allowances for persons attending courts martial and deserters; for compensation to judge advocates; for per vice beyond the limits of their stations; for printing and courts of inquiry, and for officers engaged in extra sercharts, and mathematical and nautical instruments, chro stationary of every description, and for books, maps, pair of steam and fire engines, and for machinery; for pur nometers, models, and drawings; for purchase and rechase and maintenance of oxen and horses,and for carts, timber wheels, and workmen's tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage, for of officers' houses at navy yards; for taxes on navy yards cabin furniture of vessels in commission, and for furniture in distress; for incidental labor at navy yards, not appliand public property; for assistance rendered to vessels for forges, foundries, and steam engines; for candles, oil, cable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel and fuel, for vessels in commission and in ordinary; for repairs and building of magazines and powder houses other object or purpose whatsoever, two hundred and for preparing moulds for ships to be built, and for no fifty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, five thousand dollars. For the pay of the officers and non-commissioned offi cers and privates, and for subsistence of the officers of the marine corps, one hundred and eleven thousand five hundred and sixty-three dollars. For subsistence for non-commissioned officers, musi cians, and privates, and washerwomen serving on shore, eighteen thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars. For clothing, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars. For fuel, nine thousand and ninety-eight dollars. For medicines, hospital stores, and surgical instruments, two thousand three hundred and sixty nine dollars. Approved: Feb. 24, 1832. AN ACT for the adjustment and settlement of the claims of the State of South Carolina against the United States. Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to liquidate and settle the claim of the State of South Carolina against the United States for interest upon money actually expended by her for military stores for the use and benefit of the United States, and on account of her militia, whilst in the service of the United States, during the late war with Great Britain; the money so expended having been drawn by the State from a fund upon which she was then receiving interest. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in ascertaining the amount of interest to be paid, as aforesaid, to the State of South Carolina, interest shall be computed upon sums expended by the State for the use and benefit of Laws of the United States. the United States as aforesaid, and which have been, or shall be, repaid to South Carolina by the United States. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the following claims of the State of South Carolina against the United States, which have been heretofore disallowed, in conse. quence of their not coming within the regulations of the Government, shall be adjusted and settled, that is to say: [22d CoNG. 1st SESS. rants, and returning surveys thereon to the Land Office," approved twentieth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, be, and the same is hereby, continued in force for seven years, from and after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; and the proprietors of any location, survey, or patent, contemplated by the aforesaid section, may avail themselves of the provi sions of the said section in the cases therein enumerated. Approved: March 31, 1832. 1st. The cost of certain cannon-balls purchased or procured by the said State for her military defence du ring the late war, and rejected by the inspecting officers of the United States, in consequence of their not being AN ACT to add a part of the Southern to the Northern conformable to the standard fixed by the Department of War: Provided, That the balls so rejected shall belong to the United States. 2d. The amount paid by the State of South Carolina for the transportation of stores, and of her troops, in the service of the United States, as aforesaid, or recognized by them as having been called out for that purpose, over and above the number of wagons allowed to each regi ment in the army of the United States. 3d. The pay or compensation allowed by the said State to the Paymaster and Commissary General, and other staff officers, whilst they were, respectively, employed in making or superintending disbursements for the militia in the service of the United States, as aforesaid. 4th. The sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, for blankets purchased by the State for the use of a portion of her militia whilst in the service of the United States. 5th. The value of the present contract price of the muskets purchased or procured by the State of South Carolina for her militia, during the late war, when in the service of the United States: Provided, That the said muskets shall become the property of the United States: And provided also, That any part of the said amount may be received in arms at the present contract price. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the several items hereby allowed, and the amount of interest, as aforesaid, shall, when ascertained, be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved: March 22, 1832. District of Alabama. Be it enacted, &c. That all that part of the country lying within the limits of Alabama, and now in the occupancy of the Cherokee and Chickasaw tribes of Indians, shall be added to, and constitute a part of, the Northern Judicial District of Alabama, instead of the Southern District of said State, as now arranged. Approved: March 31, 1832. AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the Army, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the support of the army, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo, viz: For pay of the army and subsistence of officers, one million one hundred and twenty-two thousand one hun dred and forty-six dollars. For arrearages in the Pay Department,fifteen thousand dollars. For forage of officers, forty-eight thousand four hundred and twenty-seven dollars. For clothing for servants of officers, twenty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of one hundred thousand dollars, two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. For clothing of the army, camp equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, in addition to materials and clothing on hand, amounting to thirty five thousand dolAN ACT to amend the several Acts establishing a terri- lars, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars. torial Government in Florida. Be it enacted, &c. That there shall be elected one For medical and hospital department, twenty thousand member of the Legislative Council in the Territory of dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of eight Florida, from the counties of Madison and Hamilton; and one from the county of Walton, in said Territory. Approved: March 22, 1832. AN ACT explanatory of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of the officers and soldiers of the Virginia Line and Navy, and of the Continental Army, during the Revolutionary war," approved thirtieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty. Be it enacted, &c. That the provisions of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Virginia Line and Navy, and of the Continental Army, during the Revolutionary war," approved thirtieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, shall not be construed to extend to any Land Warrants heretofore is sued, which have been located, surveyed, or patented, on the lands reserved and set apart for the satisfaction of the Military Bounty Lands, due to the officers and soldiers of the Virginia Line upon Continental establishment, or for the satisfaction of the officers and soldiers of the Continental Army. thousand dollars. For various expenses of the Quartermaster's Department, viz: For fuel, forage, straw, stationary, blanks, repairing officers' quarters, barracks, storehouses, and hospitals; for erecting temporary cantonments and gunhouses; for rent of quarters, storehouses, and land; for postage of letters on public service; for expenses of courts martial,including compensation of judge advocates, members, and witnesses; for extra pay to soldiers employed on extra labor, under the acts of March 2d, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; and for expenses of expresses, escorts to paymasters, and other contingencies to Quartermaster's Department, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For transportation of officers' baggage, and allowance for travel in lieu of transportation, and for per diem allowance to officers on topographical duty, fifty-five thou sand dollars. For transportation of clothing, subsistence, ordnance, and of lead from the mines, and for transportation of the army, and funds for pay of the army, including the several contingencies and items of expenditure at the several stations and garrisons, usually estimated under the head of transportation of the army, one hundred and fourteen Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the third section of the act, entitled "An act to extend the time for locating Virginia Military Land War-thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses of the Board of Visiters at West Point, and their travelling expenses, two thousand dollars. For fuel, forage, stationary, printing, transportation, and postage for the military academy, eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-two dollars. For re-constructing the out-buildings attached to West Point Academy, and for improvements connected therewith, one thousand five hundred dollars. For general repairs of Barracks, Academies, Mess House, Officers' and Professors' Quarters, Store Houses, wharves, carts, boats, fences, roads, paints, and other objects, four thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars. For renewal and repairs of fire-grates, one hundred and fifty dollars. For pay of Adjutant's and Quartermaster's Clerk, nine hundred dollars. For increase and expenses of the Library, fourteen hundred dollars. For philosophical apparatus, seven hundred and ninety dollars. For models for department of engineering, six hundred dollars. For models for the drawing department, repairs of instruments for the mathematical department, apparatus, and contingencies for the department of chemistry, eight hundred and eighty-seven dollars. Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses of the academy, one thousand six hundredand twenty-five dollars. For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars. For the National Armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. when offered at private sale, may be purchased at the option of the purchaser, either in entire sections, half sections, quarter sections, half quarter sections, or quarter quarter sections; and in every case of a division of a half quarter section, the line for the division thereof shall run east and west, and the corners and contents of quarter quarter sections, which may thereafter be sold, shall be ascertained as nearly as may be, in the manner, and on the principles, directed and prescribed by the second section of an act, entitled “An act concerning the mode of surveying the public lands of the United States," passed on the eleventh day of February, eighteen hundred and five; and fractional sections, containing fewer or more than one hundred and sixty acres, shall, in like manner, as nearly as may be practicable, be subdivided into quarter quarter sections, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to alter any special provision made by law for the sale of land in town lots: And provided, also, That no person shall be permitted to enter more than one half quarter section of land under this act, in quarter quarter sections, in his own name, or in the name of any other person, and in no case, unless he intends it for cultivation, or for the use of its improvement: And the person making application to make an entry under this act, shall file his and her affida vit, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, that he or she makes the entry in his or her own name, for his or her own benefit; and not in trust for another: Provided, further, That all actual settlers, being house-keepers, upon the public lands, shall have the right of pre-emption to enter, within six months For the armament of fortifications, one hundred thou-after the passage of this act, not exceeding the quantity sand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, seventy thousand dollars. For Arsenals, sixty thousand seven hundred dollars. For an Arsenal in Florida, twenty thousand dollars. For the recruiting service, twenty four thousand nine hundred dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of fifteen thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, thirteen thousand eight hundred dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of nine thousand dollars. For the arrearages prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, payable through the Third Auditor's office, five thousand dollars. of one half quarter section, under the provisions of this act, to include his or their improvements, under such regulations as have been, or may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and in cases where two persons shall live upon the same quarter section, subject to be entered under the provisions of this act, each shall have the right to enter that quarter quarter section which includes his improvement. Approved: 5th April, 1832. AN ACT to authorize the Judges of the Courts of the United States to take bail of the claimants of property seized, and perform other acts in vacation. Be it enacted, &c. That in any cause of admiralty and To enable the Second Auditor to close the accounts, maritime jurisdiction, or other case of seizure, dependunder the act of third March, one thousand eight huning in any court of the United States, any Judge of the dred and twenty-one, allowing three months' gratuitous pay to disbanded officers and soldiers, five hundred dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorized and required to settle, adjust, and pay, the claims of the militia called out by competent authority, or received into the service of the United States, by a General Officer of the United States' army, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty one, and all charges and expenses incident to the service of said troops, agreeably to the provisions of the third section of an act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, approved twenty-first of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, which provides for the payment of like expenses, and troops called out in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven; and that the sum of fifty-five thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars; be appropriated for the said object to be paid out of any money in the Treasury. Approved: April 5th, 1832. clerk said court, in vacation, shall have the same power and authority to order any vessel, or cargo, or other property, to be delivered to the claimants, upon bail or bond, under the statute, as the case may be, or to be sold when necessary, as the said court now has in term time, and to appoint appraisers, and exercise every other incidental power necessary to the complete execution of the authority herein granted; and the said recognizance of bail or bond, under such order, may be executed before the collector of the district, of the sufficiency of the securiupon the party's producing the certificate of the case of said order of delivery, or of sale, as are now had ty offered; and the same proceedings shall be had in in like cases when ordered in term time: Provided, That, upon every such application, either for an order of delivery or of sale, the collector and the attorney of the dis. trict shall have reasonable notice in cases of the United States, and the party or counsel in all other cases. Approved: April 5, 1832. AN ACT supplementary to the several laws for the sale AN ACT providing for the organization of the Ordnance of Public Lands. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the first day of May next, all the public lands of the United States, Department. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the passage of this act, the Ordnance Department shall consist of one Laws of the United States. Colonel, one Lieutenant Colonel, two Majors, and ten Captains, and as many enlisted men as the public service may require, not exceeding two hundred and fifty. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorized to select from the Sergeants of the line of the army, who shall have faithfully served eight years in the service, four years of which in the grade of non-commissioned officer, as many ordnance Sergeants as the service may require, not to exceed one for each military post; whose duty it shall be to receive and preserve the ordnance, arms, ammunition, and other military stores, at the post under the direction of the commanding officer of the same, and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War, and who shall receive for their services five dollars per month, in addition to their pay in the line. [22d CONG. 1st SESS. shall be applied, by the Legislature of said Territory, to the opening and improving such roads in said Territory as said Legislature may direct, and to no other purpose whatever. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Hot Springs in said Territory, together with four sections of land, including said Springs, as near to the centre thereof as may be, shall be reserved for the future disposal of the United States, and shall not be entered, located, or appropriated, for any other purpose whatever. Approved: April 20, 1832. AN ACT making appropriations, in conformity with the stipulations of certain Indian treaties. Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of thirty-nine thou sand and seventy five dollars be appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be applied for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty one, to the several following objects, specifically, namely: For payment of the permanent annuity to the Chippe thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, sixteen thousand wa, Ottawa, and Pottawatamy Indians, for the year one dollars. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the first section of the act passed on the eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, entitled "An act for the better regulation of the Ordnance Department," and so much of the second section of the act, entitled "An act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment of the United States," passed the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, as provides for one supernumerary Captain to each regiment of artillery, to perform ordnance duty, and so much of the fourth section of the same as merges the Ordnance Department in the artillery, and reduces the number of enlisted men, be, and the same are, hereby, repealed: Provided, That nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to divest the President of the United States of authority to select from the regiments of artillery such number of Lieutenants as may be ne-three thousand dollars. cessary for the performance of the duties of the Ordnance Department. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all officers and the rules and articles of war, and that the officers shall enlisted men authorized by this act, shall be subject to receive the pay and emoluments now allowed to, or which may hereafter be allowed, artillery officers. Approved: April 5, 1832. AN ACT to change the time of holding the United States' Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the passing of this act, the United States' District Court, in the western district of Virginia, heretofore held at Staunton, on Wednesday after the fourth Monday in April and September, in each year, be hereafter held at Staunton on the first day of May, and the first day of October, in each year; and when those days, or either of them, fall on Sunday, the Court is to be held on the next succeeding day. Approved: April 20th, 1832. AN ACT authorizing the Governor of the Territory of Arkansas to lease the Salt Springs, in said Territory, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c. That the Salt Springs, lying on the Washita river, on Little river, and on Saline creek, in said Territory of Arkansas, together with as many contiguous sections to each of said Springs as shall be equal to one township, and every other salt spring which may be discovered in said Territory, with the section of one mile square which includes it, shall be reserved for the future disposal of the United States, and shall not be liable to be entered, located, or appropriated, for any other purpose whatever. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Governor of said Territory shall be, and is hereby, authorized to let out or lease said springs, for a term not exceeding five years; and the rents and profits arising from said Springs For the expense of salt for the same tribes, according to the treaty with them, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. For payment of the annuity to the Winnebago Indians, eight thousand dollars. For tobacco and salt for the same tribe, four hundred and twenty-five dollars. For the support of blacksmiths, shops, iron, and steel, For the purchase of oxen, cart, and service of a man, at the portage of Ouisconsin and Fox rivers, according to ities aforesaid, one thousand one hundred and sixty doltreaty, three hundred and sixty-five dollars. For the transportation and other expenses of the annu lars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be further appropriated, to be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the following sums, namely: For the payment of the missionary property held by the Baptist denomination, at the St. Joseph's of Lake Michigan, as valued by agents appointed for that purpose, in pursuance of the fifth article of the treaty of St. Joseph's of 20th September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, five thousand seven hundred and twenty one dollars and fifty cents. For payment of the claims of the Cherokees for improvements abandoned under the treaty of the eighth of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and the convention of twenty seventh February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, four thousand five hundred and sixty-eight dollars. Approved: April 20, 1832. AN ACT providing for the postponement of the trial of certain cases now pending in the Superior Courts of Arkansas Territory, and for withholding from sale or entry certain lands in said Territory. Be it enacted, &c. That the District Attorney of the United States for the Territory of Arkansas be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to postpone, until after the expiration of the next session of the Supreme Court of the United States, all further proceedings in any case which has been tried, or now is pending for trial, in the Superior Court of the Territory of Arkansas, upon which bills of review have been filed in said Superior Court on the part of the United States, under the provisions of an act, passed May the eighth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, entitled “An act for further extending the pow |