Public Acts of Congress. eral Land Office, and the other to the register of the land office at Wooster. north of the Ohio river, and above the mouth of An Act for the relief of Charles Ross and Samuel SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, previously to the disposal at public sale of the before mentioned tract of land, the Surveyor General shall, and he is hereby directed to resurvey, and mark the exterior lines of the said tract, conform ably to the survey made in December, one thousand eight hundred and five, by virtue of the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and five, and also to cause divisional lines to be run through each section and fractional section binding on the said river, so that each subdivision may contain, as nearly as may be, one hundred and sixty acres each. And in like manner to cause the "Great island," lying at the foot of the rapids, in the said river, to be surveyed, and by lines, running north and south, to divide the same, as nearly as may be, into six equal parts; that is to say, that part of the said island, described in the survey of the said cession, as lying in township number three, in four parts; and that part of the said island lying in township number four, Be it enacted, &c., That the commissioner to into two parts: Provided, That in running the be appointed by virtue of an act of Congress, subdivisional lines no interference shall be made passed at the present session, entitled "An act to affecting or impairing the rights of persons to authorize the payment for property lost, captured, whom letters patent have been granted for land or destroyed by the enemy, while in the military lying within the limits of the said twelve miles service of the United States, and for other pursquare, nor affecting the selection or location poses," be, and he is hereby, authorized to audit hereafter to be made under the direction of the and settle the claim of Charles Ross and Samuel Secretary of War, for military purposes: Pro- Breck, surviving executors of John Ross, devided also, That in no case, shall the subdivisional ceased, by ascertaining or causing to be ascertainlines be so run as to extend to, or embrace the ed, in the manner prescribed in the aforesaid act, bed of the river, which shall be deemed, and is the amount of damages which they have sustained, hereby declared to be, a public highway: And in consequence of the occupation, by the troops provided also, That the whole expense of resur- of the United States, of Point Petre, in the State veying and marking the exterior lines of the said of Georgia, in the loss of the rent of the farm atcession and of the subdivisional lines of the sec-tached thereto, the destruction of the buildings, tions, lying adjacent to the river, shall not exceed and of the wood, and other fuel thereon. three dollars for every mile actually surveyed, re-surveyed, and marked, by virtue of this and the preceding section. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the land contained within the aforesaid cession of twelve miles square, not excepted by virtue of any section of this act, shall, with the exception of number sixteen, which shall be reserved in each township, for the support of schools within the same, and with the exception also of the salt springs and land reserved for the use of the same, be offered for sale to the highest bidder, at Wooster, in the State of Ohio, under the direction of the register and receiver of the land office, and on such day or days as shall, by a public proclamation of the President of the United States, be designated for that purpose. The sale for the quarter sections, fractional quarter sections, and of the town lots and out lots, shall remain open at Wooster, for seven days and no longer. The quarter sections, and fractional quarter sections, shall not be sold for less than two dollars an acre; the in lots for less than twenty dollars each, nor any out lots for less than at the rate of five dollars per acre; and shall, in every other respect, be sold on the same terms and conditions as have been or may be, by law, provided for the lands sold SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Charles Ross and Samuel Breck, executors aforesaid, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 27, 1816. An Act concerning the annual sum appropriated for arming and equipping the militia. Be it enacted, &c., That the annual sum of two hundred thousand dollars, as appropriated for the purpose of providing arms and military equipments for the militia, either by purchase or manufac ture, according to the act of the twenty-third of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, entitled "An act making provision for arming and equipping the whole body of the militia of the United States," shall be paid, for each year, respectively, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum appropriated, to be paid as aforesaid, shall be applied for the purpose, and according to the intention specified in said act, without being liable at any time to be carried to the account of the surplus fund. And nothing in the act of the third of Public Acts of Congress. arch, one thousand eight hundred and nine, en-to take out a license for retailing the same, nor be tled "An act further to amend the several acts liable to any penalty or forfeiture for failing to the establishment and regulation of the Trea- do so. ry, War, and Navy Departments," shall be con- Approved, April 29, 1816. ued to authorize the transferring of the sum nually appropriated as aforesaid, or any portion ereof, to any other branch of expenditure. Approved, April 29, 1816. n Act for the relief of Menassah Miner and Isaac Denison. Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting fficers of the Treasury Department be, and they re hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Menassah Miner the sum of three hundred and hree dollars and seventy-four cents, and to Isaac Denison the sum of two hundred and fifty-five ollars and ninety-two cents, out of any money in The Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for ser-vices rendered and expenses incurred by said Menassah in providing for his son John Miner, and for like services and expenditures rendered and incurred by Isaac Denison in providing for his son Frederick Denison, while they were diseased by wounds received by them in the service of the United States in defence of Stonington Point, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. Approved, April 29, 1816. An Act for reducing the licenses to retailers of wines, spirituous liquors, and foreign merchandise. An Act regulating the currency, within the United Be it enacted, &c., That, from the passage of this act, and for three years thereafter, and no longer, the following gold and silver coins shall pass current as money within the United States, and be a legal tender for the payment of all debts and demands, at the several and respective rates following, and not otherwise, videlicit: the gold coins of Great Britain and Portugal, of their present standard, at the rate of one hundred cents for every seventy-seven grains, or eighty-eight cents and eight-ninths per penny weight; the gold coins of France, of their present standard, at the rate of one hundred cents for every twenty-seven and a half grains, or eighty-seven and a quarter cents per penny weight; the gold coins of Spain, at the rate of one hundred cents for every twentyeight and a half grains, or eighty-four cents per pennyweight; the crowns of France, at the rate of one hundred and seventeen cents and six-tenths, per ounce, or one hundred and ten cents for each crown weighing eighteen pennyweights and seventeen grains; the five franc pieces, at the rate of one hundred and sixteeen cents per ounce, or ninety-three cents and three mills for each five franc piece, weighing sixteen pennyweights and two grains. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause assays of the foregoing gold and silver coins, made current by this act, to be had at the Mint of the United States, at least once in every year; and to make report of the result thereof to Congress. Approved, April 29, 1816. An Act for the gradual increase of the Navy of the United States. Be it enacted, &c., That, from and after the thirty-first day of December next, the additional duties laid on licenses to retailers of wines, spirituous liquors and foreign merchandise, by the third section of the act, entitled "An act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of Government and maintaining the public credit, by laying duties on sales at auction, and on licenses to retail wines, spirituous liquors, and foreign merchandise, and for increasing the rates of postage," passed on the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, shall cease and determine; and in case of any application for a license to retail, between the thirtieth day of June and the first day of January next, a Be it enacted, &c., That, for the gradual inlicense therefor shall, agreeably to the present crease of the Navy of the United States, the sum rates of duty, be granted, to expire on the thirty-of one million of dollars per annum, for eight first of December next, on paying to the collector a sum which shall bear the same proportion to the duty for a year by the existing rates as the time for which the license may be granted shall bear to a year; and for neglect or failure to obtain such license, the same penalty shall be incurred, to be recovered in like manner as for the neglect or failure to obtain a license under the act, entitled "An act laying duties on licenses to retailers of wines, spirituous liquors, and foreign merchandise," passed on the second of August, one thouBand eight hundred and thirteen: Provided, That after the first day of January next, no retailer of imported salt alone, whose stock in trade shall not exceed one hundred dollars, shall be compelled years, is hereby appropriated, including the sum of two hundred thousand dollars per annum, for three years, or the unexpended balance thereof, appropriated by an act approved on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, entitled "An act concerning the Naval establishment." SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized, to cause to be built nine ships, to rate not less than seventy-four guns each, and twelve ships, to rate not less than forty-four guns each, including one seventy-four and three fortyfour gun ships, authorized to be built by an act bearing date on the second day of January, one Public Acts of Congress. thousand eight hundred and thirteen, entitled An Act to establish a land district in Illinois Territory, "An act to increase the Navy of the United States;" and, in carrying this act into effect, the President shall be, and he is hereby authorized, as soon as the timber and other necessary materials are procured, and the timber properly seasoned, to cause the said ships to be built and equipped; or, if in his judgment, it will more conduce to the public interest, he may cause the said ships to be framed and remain on the stocks, and kept in the best state of preservation, to be prepared for service in the shortest time practicable, when the public exigency may require them. north of the district of Kaskaskia. Be it enacted, &c., That so much of the public lands of the United States, heretofore included within the land district of Kaskaskia, and lying north of the base line in Illinois Territory, shall form a new land district, for the disposal of the said lands, and for which purpose a land office shall be established at Edwardsville, Madison county, under the direction of the register of the land office and receiver of public moneys to be appointed for that purpose, who shall reside at the place, give security in the same manner and in the same sums, and whose compensation, emoluSEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for ments, duties and authority shall, in every respect, the defence of the ports and harbors of the Uni-be the same in relation to the lands which shall ted States, the President shall be, and he is here- be disposed of at their office, as are or may be by by, authorized to cause to be procured the steam law provided in relation to the registers and reengines, and all the imperishable materials neces-ceivers of public moneys in the several offices, sary for building and equipping three steam bat- established for the disposal of the lands of the teries, on the most approved plan, and best cal- United States northwest of the river Ohio. culated for the waters in which they are to act; and such materials shall be secured in the best manner, to insure the completing such batteries in the shortest time practicable, when they, or either of them, in the opinion of the President, may be required for the public service; and the President is further authorized to cause to be completed and kept in the best state of preservation, the block ship now on the stocks, near New Orleans. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the moneys appropriated by this act shall not be transferred to any other object of expenditure, nor shall any part thereof be carried to the fund denominated the surplus fund." Approved, April 29, 1816. An Act supplementary to an act making alterations in the Treasury and War Departments, passed the eighth day of May, 1792. Be it enacted, &c., That there shall be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, an additional Accountant of the Department of War, whose duty it shall be to adjust and settle all the accounts in that Department existing at the conclusion of the late war and are now unsettled. In the execution of this duty he shall conform to the regulations which govern the Accountant of the War Department, and shall receive the same compensation for his services and be entitled to the same privileges of franking. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That for defraying the expenses of clerks to be employed under his direction, and for the payment of his salary, the sum of eight thousand eight hundred and seven dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force for one year from the passing thereof, and to the end of the next session of Congress thereafter, and no longer. Approved, April 29, 1816. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said lands shall be disposed of in the same manner, and on the same terms and conditions, as are or may be provided by law for the sale of public lands in the district of Kaskaskia; provided that no tract of land, excepted from the sale by virtue of any former act, shall be sold by virtue of this act. Approved, April 29, 1816. An Act to increase the compensation of the superintendents of the manufactories of arms, at Springfield and Harper's Ferry. Be it enacted, &c., That in addition to the pay and rations, as at present fixed, of the superintendents of the manufactories of arms, at Springfield and Harper's Ferry, they shall receive thirty dollars per month, and one ration per day. Approved, April 29, 1816. An Act authorizing the Judges of the Circuit Court, and the Attorney for the District of Columbia, to prepare a code of jurisprudence for the said District Be it enacted, &c., That the judges of the circuit court, and the attorney of the District of Columbia, be, and they are hereby, authorized to prepare and digest a code of jurisprudence, both civil and criminal, for the said District, to be hereafter submitted to the Congress of the United States, to be modified, altered, or adopted, as to them shall seem proper. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid to the said judges and the attorney aforesaid, as a compensation for their services in this respect, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 29, 1816. An Act authorizing payment for prisoners captured by private armed vessels. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and re Public Acts of Congress. same is hereby, repealed; and in lieu of the said commissioners, there shall be appointed, by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one Commissioner, who shall hold no other office under the authority of the United States, and who shall perform all the duties with which the said three commissioners were charged, and whose duty it shall also be to contract for, and superintend the enclosing and improvements of the public square, under the direction of the President of the United red to settle and pay unto the owners, officers, SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the said Commissioner a salary of two thousand dollars, to be paid quarterly, be the duty of such persons as may have been SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall appointed to superintend the repairing of the public buildings, to deliver up unto the Commissioner who shall be appointed in virtue of this act, all plans, draughts, books, records, accounts, conevidence of debt in their possession, which belong tracts, bonds, obligations, securities, and other to their offices. Act for settling the compensation of the commis-cut of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. sioners, clerk, and translator of the board for land claims in the eastern and western district for the Territory of Orleans, now State of Louisiana. Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting icers of the Treasury, in settling the accounts r compensation to the commissioners, the clerk nd translator of the board for adjusting the titles d claims to lands in the eastern and western strict of the Territory of Orleans, now State of ouisiana, shall allow to them, respectively, for SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That, from e time they were actually employed in discharge and after the third day of March next, the office the duties aforesaid, at the rate of the following of superintendent, established by act of Congress nual compensation: to each of the commission- of first May, one thousand eight hundred and -s, two thousand dollars; to the clerk, one thou-two, shall cease, and thereafter the duties of said nd five hundred dollars; and to the translator, office shall be performed by the Commissioner to me thousand dollars; which allowance shall com- be appointed by virtue of this act; and to whom ence, for the commissioners, clerk, and trans- the superintendent shall deliver all documents, tor for the eastern district, on the first of July: securities, books, and papers, relating to said ne thousand eight hundred and nine, and con- office; and from and after the third day of March nue until the first day of May, one thousand next, the Commissioner aforesaid shall be vested ight hundred and eleven, and for the commis- with all the powers and perform all the duties oners, clerk, and translator for the western dis- conferred upon the superintendent aforesaid. rict, on the first day of January, one thousand SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the ight hundred and eleven, and continue until the President of the United States be, and hereby is, leventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred authorized and empowered, in repairing the pubnd fifteen, and shall include the moneys they lic buildings in the City of Washington, to make may have received, or are entitled to, according such alterations in the plans thereof, respectively, o the existing laws, and shall be in full for all as he shall judge proper, for the better accommoervice rendered by them in relation to the landsdation of the two Houses of Congress, the Presi vithin the said district. Approved, April 29, 1816. An Act making an appropriation for enclosing and improving the public square near the Capitol; and to abolish the office of Commissioners of the Public Buildings, and of Superintendent, and for the appointment of one Commissioner of the Public Buildings. Be it enacted, &c., That a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, to enclosing and improving the public square, east of the Capitol, which sum shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. dent of the United States, and the various departments of the Government, or any of them. Approved, April 29, 1816. An Act to provide for the appointment of a surveyor of the public lands in the Territories of Illinois and Missouri. Be it enacted, &c., That a surveyor of the lands of the United States in the Territories of Illinois and Missouri shall be appointed, whose duty it shall be to engage a sufficient number of skilful surveyors as his deputies, and to cause so much of the land abovementioned as the President of the United States shall direct, and to which the titles of the Indian tribes have been extinSEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That so guished, to be surveyed and divided in the manmuch of any act or acts as authorizes the ap-ner, and to do and perform all such other acts pointment of three commissioners, for the super- in relation to such lands, as the Surveyor Genintendence of the public buildings, be, and the leral is authorized and directed to do, in rela14th CoN. 1st Sess.-60 Public Acts of Congress. States and the Cherokee nation of Indians, con- An Act providing for the sale of certain lands in the tion to the same, or the lands lying north west of the river Ohio: and it shall also be the duty of the surveyor to cause to be surveyed the lands in the said Territories, the claims to which have been, or hereafter may be, confirmed by any act of Congress, which have not already been surveyed according to law; and generally to do and perform all and singular the duties required by law to be performed by the principal deputy surveyor for the Territory of Missouri; and shall transmit to the registers of the land offices within the said Territories, respectively, general and particular plats of all the lands surveyed, or to be surveyed, and shall also forward copies of said Be it enacted, &c., That such part of the tract plats to the Commissioner of the General Land of land which was set apart for refugees from Office; fix the compensation of the deputy sur- Canada and Nova Scotia, by the act of Congress, veyors, chain carriers and axemen: Provided, passed the eighteenth day of February, one thouThat the whole expense of surveying and mark- sand eight hundred and one, entitled "An aet reging the lines shall not exceed three dollars for ulating the grants of land appropriated for the every mile that shall be run, surveyed, and marked. refugees from the British provinces of Canada SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the and Nova Scotia," which has not been located surveyor of the lands of the United States, ap- by the said refugees, shall be attached to, and pointed in pursuance of this act, shall be allowed made a part of the land district of Chillicothe; and an annual compensation of one thousand dollars, the said unlocated land shall be offered for sale to and shall be entitled to receive from individuals the highest bidder, under the direction of the the following fees: that is to say, for recording register of the land office and of the receiver of the surveys executed by any of the deputies, at public moneys for the said district, at Chillicothe, the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of on such day as shall, by proclamation of the Presi the boundary line of such survey, and for a certi- dent of the United States, be designated for that fied copy of a plat of a survey in his office twenty- purpose; the sale shall remain open six days, and five cents, and that all the plats of surveys, and no longer; the lands shall not be sold for less all other papers and documents pertaining, or than two dollars an acre, and shall in every other which did pertain to the office of the Surveyor respect be sold in tracts of the same size, and on General under the Spanish Government within the same terms and conditions as have been or the limits of the Territory of Missouri, or to the may be provided for lands in the said district. office of principal deputy surveyor for said Terri- All the said unlocated land, remaining unsold at tory, or pertaining to the office of Surveyor Gen- the close of the public sales, may be disposed of eral, or to any office heretofore established or au- at private sale by the register of the said land thorized for the purpose of executing or recording office, in the same manner, under the same regusurveys of lands within the limits of the Territo-lations, for the same price, and on the same terms ries of Missouri and Illinois, shall be delivered to the surveyors of the lands of the United States, authorized to be appointed by this act; and any plat of survey duly certified by the said surveyor shall be admitted as evidence in any of the courts of the United States or Territories thereof. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act entitled "An act extending the powers of the Surveyor General to the Territory of Louisiana, and for other purposes," passed February twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and six, as provides for the appointment of a principal deputy surveyor, and so much of any act of Congress heretofore passed, as is repugnant to, or inconsistent with, any provision of this act, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved, April 29, 1816. as are or may be provided by law for the sale of lands in the said district; and patents shall be obtained in the same manner, and on the same terms, as for other public lands in the said district. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the superintendents of the public sales directed by this act shall each receive four dollars a day for each day's attendance on the said sales. Approved, April 29, 1816. An Act supplemental to the act, entitled "An act regulating and defining the duties of the Judges of the Territory of Illinois," and for vesting in the courts of the Territory of Indiana a jurisdiction in chancery cases, arising in the said Territory. Be it enacted, &c., That when a new county shall be established in the Territory of Illinois, by the Legislature thereof, such new county shall be attached to the judicial circuit from which the largest portion thereof is taken; and it shall be the duty of the judges allotted to such circuit, in pursuance of the act to which this is a supplement, to hold courts in such new county twice in each year, at such time and place as the Legislature of the Territory may designate. |