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our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; and | AN ACT to provide for the appointment of a Solicitor of the said Nancy shall be, and hereby is authorized to select any other quarter section of land containing one hundred and sixty acres, from any lands within the District of St. Louis aforesaid, which may be subject to entry at private sale; for which quarter section, when entered, a patent shall issue as in other cases. Approved, May 26, 1830.

AN ACT for the relief of Payson Perrin. Be it enacted, &c. That the Collector of the Customs for the district of Boston and Charlestown be authorized to issue certificates of debenture to Payson Perrin, for the amount of drawback of duties on one hundred and five bales; and thirty half bales of Bengal Cotton, shipped on board the ship Tartar, of which the said Payson Perrin was master, at Boston, in September, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, for Havre, in France, which shipment was entered at the Custom-house for exportation, but the oath required by law was not taken, nor the bond given within the time prescribed by law: Provided, That said Payson Perrin shall, in all other respects, comply with the law, to entitle

him to the said debenture.

Approved, May 26, 1830.

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AN ACT for the relief of Lucy M. Lipscomb. Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of one hundred dollars, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to the payment of that sum to Lucy M. Lipscomb, of Missouri, for so much money, erroneously deposited by her agent to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States; to be paid to the said Lucy, or to her order, on demand. Approved, May 26, 1830.

AN ACT for the relief of John Edgar, of Illinois. Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officer of the Treasury Department be, and he is hereby autho rized to pay to General John Edgar, heretofore an acting Captain in the Navy, during the Revolutionary War, the same sum, in gross, and the same pay during his life, which other Captains have received, in virtue of the provisions of the act of Congress, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved fifteenth of May, one thonsand eight hundred and twenty-eight, Approved, May 26, 1830.

AN ACT for the benefit of the creditors of Bennet and
Morte.

Be it enacted, &c. That there be appointed, by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; some suitable person, learned in law, to be Solicitor of the Treasury; and that all and singular the powers and duties that are by law vested in, and required from, the Agent of the Treasury of the United States, shall be transferred to, vested in, and required from, the said Solicitor of the Treasury; and the said Solicitor of the Treasury shall also perform and discharge so much of the duties heretofore belonging to the office of Commissioner, or acting Commissioner of the Revenue, as relates to the superintendence of the collection of outstanding direct and internal duties. And the said Solicitor shall have charge of all lands and other property, which have been or shall be assigned, set off, or conveyed to the United States, in payment of debts, and of all trusts created for the use of the United States, in payment of debts due them; and to sell and dispose of lands assigned, or set off to the United States, in payment of debts, or being vested in them by mortgage, or other security for the payment of debts; and in cases where real estate bath already become the property of the United States by conveyance, or otherwise, in payment of a debt, and such debt hath been fully paid, in money, and the same hath been received by the United States, it shall and may be lawful for the Solicitor of the Treasury to relense by deed, or otherwise convey the same real estate to the debtor from whom it was taken, if he shall be living, or if such debtor be dead, to his heirs or devisees, or such persou as they shall appoint.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury, be, and he hereby is, directed to pay out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine thousand three hundred and forty dollars to Isaac T. Preston, Eleazer W. Ripley, and Eben Fisk, for and on account of Bennet and Morte, late contractors for building the fortifications at Petite Coquille, and the Rigolets Pass, Louisiana; to be distributed and paid by them to the creditors of the said Bennet and Morte, according to

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be transferred to the Solicitor of the Treasury, all books, papers, and records, belonging or appertaining to the office of Agent of the Treasury, or belonging and appertaining to the superintendence of the collection of outstanding direct taxes and internal duties; and the Comptroller of the Treasury, and all other officers, who have heretofore been required to cause accounts to be stated or certified, or to make out or forward lists, returns, reports, or statements, to the Agent of the Treasury, are hereby required to cause such accounts to be stated and certified, and such lists, returns, reports, and statements, to be made, and forwarded to the Solicitor of the Treasury; and all lists, returns, reports, and statements, respecting outstanding direct taxes and internal duties, heretofore required to be made to the Commissioner or acting Commissioner of the Revnue, shall hereafter be made to the said Solicitor of the Treasury.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever any bond for duties shall be delivered to a District Attorney for suit, the Collector so delivering the same shall immediately give information thereof to the Solicitor of the Treasury, with a full and exact description of the date of such bond, the amount due thereon, and the name of all the obligors thereto: and the Solietor of the Treasury shall thereupon make such entry thereof as that the said the amount thereof shall have been paid to the United Attorney may duly appear chargeable therewith, until States, or he shall have obtained judgment thereon, and delivered execution to the Marshal, or shall otherwise have been duly discharged therefrom: and the several District Attorneys of the United States, shall, immediately after the end of every term of the Circuit and District Courts of the United States in their respective districts forward to the Solicitor of the Treasury a full and particular statement, as well of all cases in which the United States are party, which are pending in said courts, as of those which may have been decided during such term, accompanied by a certificate of the Clerk of such Court; and it shall be the duty of the Solicitor of the Treasury to

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make constant and strict comparisons and examinations proceedings, and prosecutions aforesaid; and the Attorney of the said returns of the District Attorneys of the re- General shall receive, in addition to his present salary, the ports made by the Collectors of bonds delivered to the sum of five hundred dollars per annum. Attorneys for suit; and if it shall appear that any Collector shall make return of any bond as in suit, or delivered for suit, which is not, at the time, in suit, or delivered for suit, or shall return any bond as in suit, for the whole amount thereof, when part thereof has been paid to him, or as in suit for more than is actually due thereon, the Solicitor of the Treasury shall, immediately upon discovery thereof, communicate the same to the President of the United States; and it shall further be the duty of each Collector to accompany his return for the last quarter of every year with a particular account of bonds in suit, stating the amount actually unpaid on each; and to the truth of such account he shall certify on oath.

Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the Solicitor of the Treasury shall receive an annual salary of three thousand five hundred dollars; and be authorized to employ, with the approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury, one Clerk, who shall receive a salary of eleven hundred and fifty dollars per annum; and one Messenger, with a salary of five hundred dollars per annum. All letters to and from the Solicitor of the Treasury, relating to the duties and business of his office, shall be transmitted by mail free of postage.

Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated for the payment of the said salaries for SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That when any suit the present year; to be paid out of any money in the Treaor action for the recovery of any fine, penalty, or forfei-sury not otherwise appropriated. ture, shall be instituted or commenced, a statement of such Approved: May 29, 1830. suit or action shall be immediately transmitted to the Solicitor of the Treasury, by the Attorney instituting the same, and whenever any seizure shall be made for the purpose of enforcing any forfeiture, the Collector or other person causing such seizure to be made, shall, in like manner, immediately give information thereof to the Solicitor of the Treasury.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said Solicitor shall have power to instruct the District Attorneys, Marshals, and Clerks of the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, in all matters and proceedings, appertaining to suits in which the United States is a party, or interested, and cause them or either of them, to report to him from time to time, any information he may require in relation to the same.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all moneys recovered or collected by the Solicitor of the Treasury, or under his direction shall be reported by him to the officer from whom the bond or other evidence of debt, was received, and proper credit be given therefor; and he shall report in like manner, all credits allowed by due course of law; or any suits under his direction.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Solicitor of the Treasury, with the approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury, to establish such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the observance of Collectors, District Attorneys, and Marshals, respecting suits in which the United States are parties, as may be deemed necessary for the just responsibility of those officers, and the prompt collection of all revenues and debts due and accruing to the United States.

AN ACT making appropriations for certain expenditures on account of the Engineer, Ordnance, and Quartermaster's Departments.

Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to wit:

For the erection of barracks and the purchase of land at Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien, twelve thousand dollars.

For the payment of the land upon which the barracks are erected at Houlton, in the State of Maine, six hundred and twenty-nine dollars and twenty-one cents.

For the completion of the barracks at New London, and for a portico to the officers' quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For barracks, quarters, hospital, and store-houses at Green Bay, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the completion of Jefferson Barracks, in the State of Missouri, eight thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars.

For the erection of a store-house for the subsistence and Quartermaster's Departments at Baton Rouge, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For the erection of barracks at Key West, and for ditching, draining, and clearing the ground required to be used for military purposes, fifteen thousand dollars.

For opening a road from Green Bay to Winnebago Lake, and thence to Fort Winnebago, two thousand dollars.

For the completion of the military road in the State of Maine, forty-seven thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-two cents.

For the erection of wooden barracks for the troops at Fortress Monroe, ten thousand two hundred dollars. For the purchase of five and a half acres of land for the use of the National Armory at Springfield, in Massachu setts, two thousand two hundred dollars.

SEO. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Solicitor of the Treasury to obtain from the several District Attorneys of the United States, full and accurate accounts of all causes and actions pending in the courts of the United States, in which the United States shall be plaintiffs, on the fourth day of July next; and shall cause an intelligent abstract thereof, showing the names of the parties in each suit, the cause of action, the time of its commencement, and such other matters as may be neces- For the National Armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, sary to full information respecting the same, to be pre-viz: For extending the walls and embankments which pared aud laid before Congress at the commencement of the next session.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is authorized to transfer one of the Clerks now employed in the office of the Fifth Auditor, to the office of Solicitor of the Treasury; and the said Clerk shall continue to receive the same salary as at present.

SEO. 10. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Attorney General of the United States, at the request of said Solicitor, to advise with and direct the said Solicitor as to the manner of conducting the suits,

For the erection of a new fire-proof Arsenal at the National Armory at Springfield, in Massachusetts, sixteen thousand dollars.

convey the water from the Potomac river to the works, nine thousand three hundred dollars; for erecting a forg ing shop, tilt hammer, and new workshop, six thousand five hundred dollars; for the erection of ten additional dwelling houses for the workmen, ten thousand dollars; for slating the roofs of the present workshops, three thousand two hundred dollars.

For the purchase of five acres of land adjoining the Arsenal at Watertown, Massachusetts, five hundred dollars.

For the erection of a military laboratory and workshop at West Point, two thousand five hundred dollars.

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AN ACT providing for the settlement of the accounts of certain Diplomatic Functionaries.

Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officer of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to settle the accounts of William B. Lawrence, late Chargé des Affaires of the United States at London; Alexander H. Everett, late Minister of the United States to Spain; and of James Barbour, Jr., late acting Secretary of Legation at London; William Radcliffe, late Consul of the United States at Lima, for diplomatic services performed upon the death of the Chargé des Affaires of the United States; and of William H.D C. Wright, Consul of the United States at Rio de Janeiro, for diplomatic services performed upon the retirement of the Chargé des Affaires of the United States; as far as the same shall appear to the Secretary of State to have been sanctioned by instructions from the Department of State, or to have a just and equitable foundation in usage.

Approved, May 29, 1830.

AN ACT making a re-appropriation of a sum heretofore
appropriated for the suppression of the slave trade.
Be it enacted, &c. That the unexpected balance of the
sum of thirty thousand dollars, appropriated by the act
entitled "An act making an appropriation for the sup-
pression of the slave trade," approved, May twenty-fourth,
one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, be re-ap-
propriated to the same object, pursuant to the act of Con-
gress of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred
and nineteen.

Approved, May 31, 1830.

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.

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certified under the seal of the land office of Virginia, with the affidavit of the party endorsed upon, or accompanying the same, stating that such warrant has been lost or mislaid, and that the original has not been sold or transferred, to the knowledge or belief of the party so surrendering, or his or her guardian.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to request the Executive of Virginia, to furnish him with a statement of all such warrants, within the purview of this act, as have already issued, showing the number and date of each warrant, and the quantity of acres granted by each, and also a monthly statement of the same description, showing the number, date, and quantity, of such warrants as shall hereafter be granted. And no warrant shall be taken to be within the provisions of this act, which shall hereafter be granted, unless the Executive of Virginia shall cause a certificate to be endorsed thereon, signed by some proper officer, stating that the party to whom such warrant shall be so granted, his, her, or their ancestor or devisor, was entitled thereto by some law or resolution of the said State, in force at the time of the deed of cession, by the State of Virginia, to the United States.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, before the Secretary of the Treasury shall issue the scrip required by the provisions of this bill, the applicants shall produce to him the certificate of the Register of the Land Office in Kentucky, and the certificate of the Surveyor of the military lands of the Virginia line, that the warrants, (when the original is presented, or the copy, when the original has been lost or destroyed) has not been located, surveyed, or patented, in Kentucky, attested by the seal of his office.

Sec, 4. And be it; further enacted, That the certificates or scrip to be issued by virtue of this act, shall be receivable in payment for any lands hereafter to be purchased at private sale, after the same shall have been offered at public sale, and shall remain unsold at any of the Land Offices of the United States, established, or to be established, in the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. And all such certificates or scrip as shall be issued by virtue of this act, shall be assignable, by endorsements thereon, attested by two witnesses: Provided, That all certificates or scrip to be issued, in virtue of any warrant hereafter to be granted, shall be issued to the party originally entiBe it enacted, &c. That the officers and soldiers, sai-tled thereto, or his heir or heirs, devisee or devisees, as lors and marines, who were in the service of Virginia on the case may be. her own State establishment during the Revolutionary Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of war, and who were entitled to military land bounties, thic act shall be deemed and taken to extend to all such by the laws and resolutions of the State, their heirs and officers, soldiers, sailors, marines, chaplains, musicians, assigns, shall be, and they are hereby authorized to sur- surgeons, and surgeons' mates, in the land or sea service, render, to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United of the State of Virginia during the Revolutionary war, aud States, such of their warrants for the said land bounties generally, to every person to whom the State had enas shall remain unsatisfied, in whole or in part, and to re-gaged to pay a land bounty for services in that war, of ceive certificates or scrip for the same, at any time before any description, by any law or resolution passed before, the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight and in force at the date of the said deed of cession; exhundred and thirty-five, which certificates of scrip shall cept only such persons as are mentioned in, and provided be issued by the said Secretary, and signed by him, and for, by the reservation contained in the said deed of cescountersigned by the Commissioner of the General Land sion in favor of the officers and soldiers of the said State Office, in the following manner, that is to say: There on continental establishment: Provided, That no scrip shall be a separate certificate or scrip for such sum as shall, at the time of issuing the game, be equal to the then minimum price of each quantity of eight acres of land due by such warrants, and remaining unsatisfied at the time of such surrender, and a like certificate or scrip for such sum as, at the time, shall be equal to the minimum price of the quantity that shall so remain unsatisfied, of any such warrant after such subdivisions of the amount into quantities of eighty acres. And where any such warrant shall have been lost for mislaid, by time and accident, it shall and may be lawful for the party desiring to surrender the same, to surrender an official copy thereof,

issued under the provisions of this act, shall entitle the holder to enter or purchase any settled or occupied lands, without the written consent of such settlers or occupants, as may be actually residing on said lands at the time the same shall be entered or applied for: And provided, also, That the amount of lands thus located, shall not exceed two hundred and sixty thousand acres.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the first and fourth sections of this act, shall extend to and embrace owners of military land warrants, issued by the United States, in satisfaction of claims for bounty land for services during the Revolutionary war; and that

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the laws, heretofore enacted, providing for the issuing said compensation as in his opinion shall be equitable and warrants, are hereby revived and continued in force for just, not exceeding to each that heretofore allowed by two years. law to the superintendent of the Cumberland road, in the State of Ohio.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act shall also be deemed and taken to extend to all the unsatisfied warrants of the Virginia army, on continental establishment: Provided, That the quantity thereof shall not exceed fifty thousand acres, in addition to the two hundred and sixty thousand acres heretofore authorized to be located by their State line.

Approved, May 30, 1830.

AN ACT making appropriations for examinations and surveys, and also, for certain works of Internal Improvement.

Be it enacted, &c., That the following sums be, and they are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, viz.;

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of fif teen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby granted, for claims due and remaining unpaid at the Treasury, on account of the Cumberland road, east of Wheeling, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

I approve this bill, and ask a reference to my communication to Congress of this date, in relation thereto. May 31, 1830. ANDREW JACKSON.

AN ACT to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the States or Territories, and for their removal West of the river Mississippi. Be it enacted, &c. That it sball, and may be lawful for For defraying the expenses incidental to making exami- the President of the United States to cause so much of nations and surveys for National Works, under the act of any territory belonging to the United States, west of the the thirtieth April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty- river Mississippi, not included in any States, or organized four, including five thousand one hundred and four dollars territory, and to which the Indian title has been extinguishand twenty-seven cents, for arrearages on account of sur- ed, as, he may judge necessary, to be divided into a suitveys and office rent in the years one thousand eight hun-able number of Districts, for the reception of such tribes dred and twenty-six, one thousand eight hundred and or nations of Indians as may choose to exchange the lands twenty-seven, and one thousand eight hundred and twenty- where they now reside, and remove there; and to cause eight, thirty thousand dollars. each of said Districts to be so described by natural or artificial marks, as to be easily distinguished from every

For continuing the road from Detroit to Fort Gratiot, seven thousand dollars.

For continuing the road from Detroit to Saganaw bay, seven thousand dollars.

For continuing the road from Detroit to Chicago, eight thousand dollars.

For completing repairs on the road between Alachua Court House and Jacksonville, in Florida, two thousand dollars.

For completing the road from Alagua tó Mariana, two thousand dollars.

For completing the survey and estimate of a canal to connect the waters of the Atlantic with the Gulf of Mexico, ten thousand four hundred dollars. And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to cause a detailed report to be made out, showing the practicability or impracticability of making a ship or other canal, and the reasons for either, with an estimate of the probable expense, and advantages of such a canal as may be considered practicable.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of opening, grading, and making the Cumberland road, westwardly of Zanesville, in the State of Ohio; and that the sum ofsixty thous and dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of opening, grading, and bridging the Cumberland road, in the State of Indiana, commencing at Indianapolis, and progressing with the work to the eastern and western boundaries of said State; and that the sum of forty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of opening, grading, and bridging the Cumberland road, in the State of Illinois; which said sums shall be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated, and replaced out of the fund reserved for laying out and making roads, under the direction of Congress, by the several acts passed for the admission of the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, into the Union, on an equal footing with the original States.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That for the immediate accomplishment of these objects, the superintendents heretofore appointed, or hereafter to be appointed, in the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, shall, under the direction of the President of the United States, faithfully execute the work and disburse the money, giving bond and security as he shall direct, and receiving such

other.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the President to exchange any or all of such districts, so as to be laid off and described, with any tribe or nation of Indians now residing within the limits of any of the States or Territories, and with which the United States have existing treaties, for the whole or any part or portion of the Territory claimed and occupied by such tribe or nation, within the bounds of any one or more of the States or Territories where the land claimed and occupied by the Indians is owned by the United States, or the United States are bound to the State within which it lies to extinguish the Indian claim thereto.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in the making of any such exchange or exchanges, it shall and may be lawful for the President solemnly to assure the tribe or nation with which the exchange is made, that the United States will forever secure and guaranty to them, and their heirs or successors, the country so exchanged with them; and if they prefer it, that the United States will cause a patent of grant to be made and executed to them for the same: Provided always, That such lands shall revert to the United States if the Indians become extinct, or abandon the same.

SEO. 4. And be it further enacted, That if, upon any of the lands now occupied by the Indians, and to be exchanged for, there should be such improvements as add value to the land claimed by an individual or individuals of such tribes or nations, it shall and may be lawful for the President to cause such value to be ascertained by appraisement or otherwise, and to cause such ascertained value to be paid to the person or persons rightfully claim ing such improvements. And upon the payment of such valuation, the improvements to be valued and paid for, shall pass to the United States, and possession shall not afterwards be permitted to any of the same tribe.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That, upon the mak ing of any such exchange as is contemplated by this act, it shall and may be lawful for the President to cause such aid and assistance to be furnished to the emigrants as may be necessary and proper to enable them to remove to and settle in, the country for which they may have er changed; and also to give them such aid and assistance as may be necessary for their support and subsistence for the first year after their removal.

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Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the President to cause such tribe or nation to be protected at their new residence against all interruption or disturbance from any other tribe or nation of Indians, or from any other person or persons whatever.

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hension of invasion: Provided, Their numbers were not in undue proportion to the exigency: Second, where they were called out by the authority of the State, and afterwards recognized by the Federal Government; and thirdly, where they were called by, and served under, the requisition of the President of the United States, or of any officer thereof.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the President to have the same superintendence and care over any tribe or nation in the country to Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of four which they may remove, as contemplated by this act, that hundred and thirty-thousand seven hundred and fortyhe is now authorized to have over them at their present eight dollars and twenty-six cents, if so much be necessary, places of residence: Provided, That nothing in this act be applied to the foregoing purposes, out of any moneys in contained shall be construed as authorizing or directing the the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. violation of any existing treaty between the United States Approved: May 31, 1830. and any of the Indian tribes.

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AN ACT making additional appropriations for pay of the
Marine Corps.

Be it enacted, &c. That there is hereby appropriated,
out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appro
priated, a sum sufficient to pay the extra emoluments di-
rected to be paid to the officers of the Marine Corps by a
joint resolution, approved the twenty-ninth day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and thirty.
Approved: May 31, 1830.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Third Auditor of the Treasury ascertain the value of the following vessels, at the RESOLUTION in relation to the compensation of officers time they were taken to be sunk for the defence of the of the Marine Corps. City of Baltimore, in the year one thousand eight hun

Approved: May 29, 1830.

AN ACT for the relief of James Smith. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to James Smith, out of any money, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eighty dollars, for the loss of a horse which Capt. Robert Brackenridge impressed into the service of the United States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, the property of said Smith. Approved, May 28, 1830.

Resolved, &c. That the pay, subsistence, emoluments, dred and fourteen, to wit: The ships Thomas Wilson, and allowances received by the officers of the Marine Chesapeake, Adriana, Scioto, Temperance, Fabius, In- Corps, previous to the first of April, eighteen hundred dia Packet, Mars, and Nancy; brigs Aid, George, Swal- and twenty-nine, be, and the same is hereby, directed to low, Blanche, Sally, Eliza, Betsey, Father and Son, and be continued to them from that date up to the twentyAnn; schooners Scudder, Ann, Columbia, Enterprise, eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyand Packet; and the sloop Rosanna; and to allow to the one. owners, respectively, the amount of twenty-five per centum on said valuation: Provided, That, in each and every case, the said valuation shall be duly established by full and competent disinterested testimony, and that the damages sustained in the vessels in question, by being sunk and raised exclusively, was to the full extent of the said per centum over and above all the amount or amounts beretofore received for said damages by said owners, or their legal representatives, respectively: And provided also, That the said vessels, at the time they were taken, were sound and seaworthy, and would have remained seaworthy at the return of peace, in one thousand eight AN ACT for the relief of Thomas Wheatley. hundred and fifteen: And provided also, That, in no in- Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury stance where any vessel is not proved to have been sea-pay to Thomas Wheatly, out of any money in the Treaworthy at the time she was taken to be sunk, shall a great-sury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of forty-five er allowance be made than will, with the money heretofore dollars, the value of a horse that died in the military serreceived for damage and detention of such vessel, and the vice of the United States, in one thousand eight hundred value thereof at the time she was raised, with such rigging and twelve, for the want of forage. or other articles as have been sold or reserved by the pro- Approved: May 28, 1830. per owner, amount to the value of the vessel at the time she was taken to be sunk.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount so found by the Third Auditor shall be paid to the owners respectively, or to their legal representatives, by the Secretary of the Treasury, out of any money, not other wise appropriated, or be applied on debts due by them to the United States, as the case may be. Approved: May 29, 1830.

AN ACT for the relief of Henry Williams. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Henry Williams, out of any money, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars, the value of two horses which died in the service of the United States, in the year eighteen hundred and thirteen, for the want of forage, in the campaign against the Creek Indians, the property of said Williams. Approved: May 28, 1830.

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AN ACT to authorize the payment of the claim of the State of Massachusetts for certain services of her Militia AN ACT for the relief of James Barnett. during the late war. Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officers Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby required to settle of the Treasury, under the superintendence of the Sec- the account of James Barnett, a Lieutenant of Infantry in retary of War, be, and they are hereby, authorized and the Continental line in the Revolutionary war, and to allow directed to audit and settle the claims of the State of to him five years full pay for his services in said war as a Massachusetts against the United States, for the services Lieutenant as aforesaid, it being the commutation for his of her Militia during the late war, in the following cases: half pay for life; and that it be paid out of any money in First, where the Militia of the said State were called out the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. to repel actual invasion, or under a well founded appre- Approved: May 28, 1830. VOL. VI.-e

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