Public Acts of Congress. of the documents ordered to be printed by a re- and crew, in capturing the British sloop-of-war solve of the Senate and House of Representa- Penguin, after a brave and skilful combat. tives of the twenty-seventh of December, one Approved, February 22, 1816. thousand eight hundred and thirteen, the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to take one copy for each of the Judges of the Su-Resolution, for printing the laws relative to naturali. preme Court of the United States, to be transmitted to said judges, according to the provision of the act of Congress of the eighteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. Approved, February 6, 1816. Resolution, to indemnify the sureties of Commodore zation. Resolved, &c., That the Secretary of State be authorized and directed to cause to be printed four thousand copies of the laws now in force on the subject of naturalization. And, of the copies which may be so provided, two shall be sent to each marshal of a judicial district of the United States, two to the clerk or prothonotary for each naturalized, and two to each collector of the cusState, which may, by law, admit persons to be Approved, April 16, 1816. Resolved, &c., That under the peculiar circum-court of the United States, or of a particular stances of the case, of an appeal taken by Commodore John Rodgers, from a decree of the United toms. States circuit court for the district of Massachu- such as the President of the United States may The remaining copies, after reserving setts, affirming that of the district court for the deem proper for the use of the Executive departsaid district, to the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case wherein John Donnel of Bal-ments, shall be placed in the Library of Congress. timore was libellant, and the said John Rodgers and John Smith were respondents, the United States will indemnify and save harmless any person who may become sureties for the said John Rodgers, in a bond to respond the final judgment of the Supreme Court on the said appeal: Provided, That this interposition on the part of the United States shall not be considered as involving them in any other engagement or responsibility, than to indemnify and save harmless the said sureties from eventual loss, on account of such suretyship. Approved, February 15, 1816. Resolution, requiring the Secretaay of State to compile and print, once in every two years, a register of all officers and agents, civil, military, and naval, in the service of the United States. ter, containing correct lists of all the officers and Resolved, &c., That, once in two years, a regisagents, civil, military, and naval, in the service of the United States, made up to the last day of September of each year in which a new Congress is to assemble, be compiled and printed under the direction of the Secretary for the Department of State. And to enable him to form such register, Resolution, requesting the President to present med-he, for his own department, and the heads of the als to Captain Stewart and the officers of the frigate Constitution. other departments, respectively, shall, in due time, cause such lists as aforesaid, of all officers and agents, in their respective departments, including pre-clerks, cadets, and midshipmen, to be made and lodged in the office of the Department of State. And the said lists, shall exhibit the amount of compensation, pay, and emoluments allowed to each officer, agent, clerk, cadet, and midshipman, the State or county in which he was born, and where employed. Resolved, &c., That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, requested to sent to Captain Charles Stewart, of the frigate Constitution, a gold medal, with suitable emblems and devices, and a silver medal, with suitable emblems and devices, to each commissioned officer of the said frigate, in testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of the gallantry, good conduct, and services of Captain Stewart, his officers and crew, in the capture of the British vessels of war, the Cyane and the Levant, after a brave and skilful combat. Approved, February 22, 1816. Resolution, requesting the President to present medals to Captain James Biddle, and the officers of the sloop-of-war Hornet. Resolved, &c., That the President of the United States be, and he is is hereby, requested to present to Captain Jas. Biddle, of the sloop-of-war Hornet, a gold medal, with suitable emblems and devices, and a silver medal, with suitable emblems and devices, to each commissioned officer of the said sloop of-war, in testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of the gallantry, good conduct and services of Captain Biddle, his officers 2. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy subjoin to the list of the persons employed in his department, the names, force, and condition of all the ships and vessels belonging to the United States, and when and where built. 3. Resolved, That five hundred copies of the said register be printed; and that on the first Monday in January in each year, when a new Congress shall be assembled, there be delivered to the President, the Vice President, each head of a department, each member of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, one copy of such register; and to the Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives, each, ten copies, for the use of the respective houses; that twenty-five copies shall be deposited in the Library of the United States, at the Seat of Government, to be used like other books in that library, and that the residue of the Public Acts of Congress. said copies be disposed of in such manner as Congress shall from time to time direct. 4. Resolved, That, for the information of the present Congress, such register as aforesaid be prepared and distributed as aforesaid, on the first day of its next session. Approved, April 27, 1816. A resolution relative to the more effectual collection of the public revenue. and that from and after the twentieth day c ruary next, no such duties, taxes, debts, or of money accruing or becoming payable to United States as aforesaid, ought to be calle or received otherwise than in the legal curre of the United States, or Treasury notes, or of the Bank of the United States, or in notes banks which are payable and paid on dema the said legal currency of the United Stat Approved, April 30, 1816. Trea-Resolution, authorizing the President of the Un States to employ a skilful assistant in the com engincers. Resolved, &c., That the Secretary of the sury be, and he hereby is, required and directed to adopt such measures as he may deem necessary to cause, as soon as may be, all duties, taxes, debts, or sums of money, accruing or becoming payable to the United States, to be collected and paid in the legal currency of the United States, or Trea. sury notes, or notes of the Bank of the United States as by law provided and declared, or in notes of banks which are payable and paid on demand in the said legal currency of the United States, Resolved, &c., That the President of the t ted States be, and he is hereby, authorized ploy, in addition to the corps of engineers as established, a skilful assistant, whose compet tion shall be such as the President of the C States shall think proper, not exceeding the lowance to the chief officer of that corps Approved, April 30, 1816. speech of, on a proposed amendment of the speech of, in reply to Mr. King - - 94 99 101 102 9 46 211 213 217 . 226 241 24 33 93 95 98 101 remarks of, on Mr. Lacock's resolution Barry, Edward, and George Hodge, Mr. Roberts a bill for relief of, read read a second time ordered to a third reading - read a third time, and passed Bate, John, Mr. Talbot presented the petition of, referred Bates, Frederick. (See Crawford, William, &c.) Bowen, Benjamin, and other messengers, the petition of, for increase of compensation, Boyle, Thomas H., a bill from the House of Rep read a second time, and referred ordered to a third reading - read a third time, and passed Brice's Selection of Commercial Laws, on mo- Senate was ordered to procure four co- 30 Briggs, Isaac, Mr. Wells presented the petition of, referred 107 355 |