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issue patents for the same, which patents shall operate only as a relinquishment on the part of the United States: Provided, nevertheless, that if, prior to the passage of this act, the land above specified shall have been sold by the United States, to any other person or persons, the same shall not be confirmed to the said Elijah L. Clarke, and the heirs and legal representatives of Lewis Clarke, but they shall, respectively, be at liberty to enter any other land, now subject to entry, within the same district, equal in quanty to that above mentioned; and a patent shall issue therefor, under the restrictions above recited. And provided also, That, should a part only of the said land have been sold, the said Elijah L. Clarke, and the heirs and legal representatives of Lewis Clarke, shall have liberty to take such parts of the said land as shall not have been sold, in part satisfaction of their claims respectively, and to enter elsewhere, within the said district, so much other land, as shall be equal to the part sold; or the said Elijah, and the said heirs and legal representatives, may, respectively, relinquish to the United States, all claim to the said land so remaining unsold, and enter elsewhere, within the said district, the quantity of land, (now subject to entry,) equal to their whole claims respectively.

Approved, February 27, 1830.

AN ACT making appropriations for the military service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty.

For Apparatus pertaining to the Chemical and Mineralogical Department, Materia Chemica and contingencies, eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars and sixty-four cents. For Miscellaneous items, one thousand six hundred and thirty-six dollars.

For incidental expenses, four hundred dollars.

For arrearages of Clerk hire for one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, two hundred and seventy dollars.

For contingencies of the Army, ten thousand dollars. For the National Armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

For the armament of the Fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the current expenses of the Ordnance service, fifty six thousand dollars.

For Arsenals, ninety thousand two hundred dollars. For the recruiting service, five thousand two hundred and ninety-two dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of seventeen thousand and ninety-three dollars.

For contingent expenses of the recruiting service, nine thousand seven hundred and six dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of three thousand and eightyfive dollars.

For arrearages prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, five thousand dollars.

For arrearages between the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, one thousand Approved, March 11, 1880.

Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any un-dollars. appropriated money in the Treasury, for the service of the military establishment, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, viz.:

For pay of the Army and subsistence of the officers, one million and sixty-three thousand nine hundred and nine dollars.

For forage for officers, forty-six thousand two hundred and nineteen dollars.

For clothing for the servants of officers, twenty thousand four hundred and thirty dollars.

For subsistence in addition to an unexpended balance of forty-five thousand dollars, two hundred and ninety-five thousand five hundred dollars.

For clothing for the Army, camp equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, in addition to materials and clothing on hand amounting to eighty thousand dollars, one hundred and thirty-six thousand three hundred and forty-four dollars.

AN ACT making appropriations for the Naval service, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty.

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

For pay and subsistence of the officers of the Navy, and pay of seamen, one million four hundred and sixty-three thousand four hundred and forty-nine dollars.

For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishment of the several Navy yards and stations, fifty-seven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. For provisions, four hundred and fifty-seven thousand five hundred and thirty-seven dollars.

For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the wear and tear of vessels in commission, five hundred and ninety thousand

For the Medical and Hospital Department, twenty-dollars. eight thousand dollars.

For the Quartermaster's Department, four hundred and seven thousand dollars.

For fuel, stationary, transportation, printing, postage, and forage for the Military Academy, nine thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.

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For repairs and improvements of the buildings and grounds about the hospital at West Point, four thousand three hundred and ten dollars,

For defraying the expenses of the Board of Visiters at West Point, fifteen hundred dollars.

For hire of Quartermaster's and Adjutant's clerks, and assistants to Librarian and Professors of Chemistry, one thousand and ninety-two dollars,

For the increase of the Library, subscription to Military and Scientific Journals, and binding books, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For Philosophical Apparatus, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six dollars..

For Models and Modeller, and books on Architecture for Department of Engineering, one thousand dollars.

For repairing Mathematical Instruments, and for Mo

For medicines, surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, thirty thousand five hundred dollars.

For ordnance and ordnance stores, thirty thousand dol

lars.

For timber sheds, viz.: one at Portsmouth, two at Boston, two at New York, one at Washington, and three at Norfolk, nine thousand five hundred dollars each, eightyfive thousand five hundred dollars.

For making and repairing timber docks at Norfolk, Washington, and Boston, eighteen thousand dollars. For repairing and enlarging wharves at Washington and Norfolk, nineteen thousand dollars.

For repairs of storehouses at Washington, and for two building ways at Norfolk, eighteen thousand dollars.

For covering and preserving ships in ordinary, forty thousand dollars.

For the gradual increase of the Navy, to supply a sum taken from that fund, and applied to the purchase of iron water tanks, one hundred and fifty-two thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.

For defraying expenses that may accrue during the dels for Drawing Department, two hundred and fifty dol-year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, for the following purposes, viz. ;

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For the Library of Congress, five thousand dollars. For salary of the Principal and Assistant Librarians, two thousand three hundred dollars.

For freight and transportation of material and stores, jas are connected with the ordinary proceedings of either of every description; for wharfage and dockage, storage of the said Houses, during its session, and executed by and rent, travelling expenses of officers, and transporta- the public printers agreeably to their contracts, unless tion of seamen, house rent, chamber money, and fuel and authorized by an act or joint resolution. 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; stationery and fuel to Navy Agents; for premiums, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for For compensation to the President and Vice-President compensation to Judge Advocates; for per diem allow- of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretaances for persons attending courts martial and courts of ry of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of enquiry, and for officers engaged in extra service beyond the Navy, and the Postmaster-General, sixty thousand the limits of their stations; for printing and stationery of dollars.

For contingent expenses of the Library, four hundred and fifty dollars.

For Clerks, Machinist, and Messenger, in the Patent Office, five thousand four hundred dollars..

For incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of State, including the printing and distributing the laws, and extra copying of papers, twenty-seven thousand one hundred dollars.

every description, and for books, maps, charts, and ma- For Clerks and Messengers in the office of the Secrethematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, motary of State, nineteen thousand and fifty dollars. dels and drawings; for purchase and repair of steam and fire engines, and for machinery; for purchase and main tenance 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 cabin furniture of vessels in commission, and for furniture of officers' houses at Navy Yards; for taxes on Navy Yards and public property; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labor at Navy Yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel for forges, foundries, and steam-engines; for candles, oil and fuel, for vessels in commission and in ordinary; for repairs of magazines and powder-houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built; and for no other object or purpose whatever, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses for objects arising during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and not herein before enumerated, five thousand dollars.

For the pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, and for subsistence of officers of the marine corps, one hundred and seven thousand seven hundred and thirteen dollars.

For subsistence of four hundred non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and washerwomen serv ing on shore, seventeen thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.

For deficiency of the appropriation for pay and subsistence during the last year, eleven thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars.

For clothing, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars.

For fuel, nine thousand and ninety-eight dollars.
For contingent expenses, fourteen thousand dollars.
For military stores, six thousand dollars.

For medicines, two thousand three hundred and sixtynine dollars.

For completing the officers' quarters at the marine barracks in Washington, three thousand dollars. Approved, March 11, 1830.

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty.

Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, viz.:

For pay and mileage of the Members of Congress and Delegates, and pay of the Officers and Clerks of both Houses, five hundred and twenty-six thousand seven hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of both Houses of Congress, one hundred and thirty-five thousand six hundred dollars; to be applied to the expenditures of the contingent funds of the Senate and House of Representatives: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be applied to any printing, other than of such documents or papers,

For contingent expenses of the Patent Office, including books and binding, copper plate and other printing, parchment, stationery, and fuel, one thousand one hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Marshals of certain States and Territories, for making returns of free taxable non-freeholders, per resolution of twenty-fifth April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, in addition to eight hundred and fifty dollars, appropriated by act of second March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.

To repay the State of Maine, for expenses paid in collecting evidence in relation to aggressions by inhabitants of New Brunswick, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For publishing the laws of the second session of the Nineteenth Congress, in the newspaper Halcyon, published in Alabama, one hundred and twenty dollars.

For publishing the laws of the second session of the Twentieth Congress, in the Eastern Argus, published in Maine, sixty-five dollars.

For completing the sets of the Laws of the United States on hand in the Department of State, seven hundred and twenty-four dollars.

For completing the Fixtures in the Patent Office, four thousand six hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks and Messengers in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, fifteen thousand four hundred dollars.

For compensation to the First Comptroller of the Treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks and Messengers in the office of the First Comptroller, nineteen thousand one hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Second Comptroller of the Treasury, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerk s and Messenger in the office of the Second Comptroller, ten thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the First Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks and Messenger in the office of the First Auditor, thirteen thousand nine hundred dollars. 1

For compensation to the Second Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks and Messenger in the office of the Second Auditor, sixteen thousand nine hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Third Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks and Messengers in the

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office of the Third Auditor, twenty-one thousand nine, hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks and Messenger in the office of the Fourth Auditor, seventeen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the Fifth Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks and Messenger in the office of the Fifth Auditor, fifteen thousand one hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Treasurer of the United States three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks and Messenger in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the Register of the Treasury, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks and Messengers in the office of the Register of the Treasury, twenty-four thousand two hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks and Messengers in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, twenty thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Clerk in the office of the Surgeon General, eleven hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses of said office, two hundred and twenty dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks in the office of the Quartermaster General, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said office, five hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents.

For compensation to the Clerks and Messengers in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For deficiency in the appropriations of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, for salaries of Clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, four hundred and nineteen dollars.

For contingent expenses of said office, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Commissioners of the Navy Board, ten thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Secretary of the Commissioners of the Navy Board, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks, Draftsman, and Messenger, in the office of the Commissioners of the Navy Board, eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of the office of the Commissioners of the Navy Board, one thousand eight hundred

For compensation to the Secretary to the Commission-dollars. ers of the Sinking Fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.

For expenses of stationery, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the several offices, of the Treasury Department, thirty-seven thousand five hundred

dollars.

For erecting a building for the use of the State and Treasury buildings, including stone steps at the South front of the Treasury, and pavements, two thousand eight hundred dollars.

For compensation of superintendents and watchmen, and repairs of fire engines and buckets, for the security of the State and Treasury buildings, one thousand nine hundred dollars.

For compensation to Clerks and Messengers in the office of the Secretary of War, twenty-one thousand six hundred und fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, three thousand dollars.

For books, maps, and plans for the War Department, one thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks and Messenger in the office of the Paymaster General, four thousand and six hundred dollars.

For compensation to Clerks and Messenger in the office of the Commissary General of Purchases, four thousand two hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks in the office of the Adjutant General, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

For allowance to the superintendents and four watchmen, employed for the security of the records and buildings of the War and Navy Departments, and for incidental and contingent expenses, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

For erecting a building for the use of the War and Navy Departments, and for pavements connected therewith, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the two Assistant Postmasters General, five thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks and Messengers in the office of the Postmaster General, forty-one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For superintendency of the buildings, making up blanks, and compensation to two watchmen and one laborer, sixteen hundred and forty dollars.

For compensation to the Surveyor General in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks in the office of said Surveyor, two thousand one hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Surveyor South of Tennessee, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks in the office of said Surveyor, one thousand seven hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to clerks in the office of said Survey

For contingent expenses of said office, including arrear-or, two thousand dollars. ages of six hundred dollars, in eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand six hundred dollars.

For Compensation to the Clerks in the office of the Commissary General of Subsistence, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said office, two thousand six hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks in the office of the Chief Engineer, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks in the Ordnance Office. two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses to said office eight hundred lars.

For compensation to the Surveyor in Alabama, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to clerks in the office of said Surveyor, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Surveyor in Florida, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks in the office of said Surveyor, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Commissioner of the Public Buildings in Washington City, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Officers and Clerk of the Mint, nine thousand six hundred dollars.

For compensation to assistants in the several departdol-ments of the Mint, including extra clerk hire and laborers, twelve thousand dollars.

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For incidental and contingent expenses and repairs, | For building a light house on a ledge of rocks called cost of machinery, for allowance for wastage in gold and the Whale's Back, in the harbor of Portsmouth, being the silver coinage of the Mint, seven thousand and eighty amount of an appropriation for that object, which was dollars. carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Governor, Judges, and Secretary, of the Michigan Territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of the Michigan Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Council, pay of the officers of the Council, fuel, stationery, and printing, including arrearages, eight thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Governor, Judges, and Secretary of the Arkansas Territory, including an additional compensation to each Judge of eight hundred dollars, to twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, nine thousand and ninety-two dollars and thirty cents.

For contingent expenses of the Arkansas Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.

For building a light-house at Cat Island, in the Gulf of Mexico, being the amount of an appropriation for that object, which was carried to the surplus fund on the thirtyfirst of December, one thousand eight hundred and twen ty-nine, five thousand dollars.

For erecting a beacon in the harbor at the mouth of Bass river, between the towns of Dennis and Yarmouth, in Massachusetts, being the amount of an appropriation for that object, which was carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand dollars..

For erecting a pier adjacent to the pier at Buffalo, in New York, and placing thereon the light-house authorizFor compensation to the Governor, Judges, and Secre-ed to be built at the East end of Lake Erie, by act of the tary of the Florida Territory, ten thousand five hundred eighteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and dollars. twenty-six, being the balance of an appropriation for that For contingent expenses and arrearages of such expen-object, which was carried to the surplus fund on the ses of the Florida Territory, eight hundred and sixty-one thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and dollars and eighty-eight cents. twenty-nine, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Council, pay of officers and servants of the Council, fuel, stationery, printing, and distribution of the laws, seven thousand seven hundred and sixteen dollars.

For the payment of the session of the Legislative Council of Florida, ending the twenty-fourth of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and for arrearages from deficiencies of appropriation for the Legislative Council of Florida, in the years one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, eleven hundred and fifty dollars.

For building a light-house at the South entrance of Roanoke Marshes, in North Carolina, in addition to the appropriation of five thousand dollars, made March second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, five thousand dollars.

For rebuilding the light house at West Passamaquoddy Head, in Maine, eight thousand dollars.

For building a light vessel, to be placed on Carysfort Reef, in the Territory of Florida, the one heretofore stationed there having become so decayed as to be irreparable, twenty thousand dollars.

For surveying private land claims in East Florida, eight thousand dollars.

For the salaries of Registers and Receivers of Land Of

For compensation to the Chief Justice, the Associate Judges, and District Judges of the United States, includ-ficers, where there are no sales, two thousand dollars. ing the Chief Justice and Associate Judges of the District of Columbia, including additional compensation of Judge of Missouri, to twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, seventy-eight thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars.

For the salaries of two Keepers of the Public Archives in Florida, one thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Attorney General of the
United States, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Clerk in the office of the
torney General, eight hundred dollars.

For stationery and books for the officers of Commis sioners of Loans, five hundred dollars,

For allowance to the Law Agent, Assistant Consul, and District Attorney, under the act supplementary to the several acts providing for the settlement of private Atland claims in Florida, dated twenty-third of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, including contingencies, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand dollars.

For compensation to the District Attorneys and Marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several Territories, eleven thousand three hundred dollars.

For the second payment to Luigi Persico, for statues for the Capitol, four thousand dollars.

For finishing the Custom House and Warehouse at Portland, Maine, and for repairing the wharf and clearing out the dock belonging to the same, two thousand one hundred dollars.

For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Circuit and District Courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also, for jurors and witnesses, in aid of For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures, in the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall be curred in the year eighteen hundred and thirty, and pre-ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at ceding years: and, likewise, for defraying the expenses the Treasury, twelve thousand dollars.

of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of For the salaries of the Ministers of the United States to prosecution for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present Governments, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For the support and maintenance of light-houses, floating lights, beacons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of oil, keepers' salaries, repairs, and improvements, and contingent expenses, one hundred and eightysix thousand and three dollars and thirteen cents.

Great Britain, France, Spain, Russia, the Netherlands, and Colombia; for outfits of Ministers of the U. States to Great Britain, France, Spain, and Colombia, and a Chargé d'Affairs to Mexico; for outfits for Chargé d'Af fairs to Sweden, Peru, and Guatemala; for the salaries of the Chargé d'Affairs of the United States to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Peru, Chili, Mexico and Guatemala; for the salaries of the Secretaries of Legation: and for the contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, one hundred and eight-four thousand five hundred dollars.

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For the salaries of Agents for claims at London and Pa-, are hereby, extended to those having like claims in the ris, four thousand dollars. States of Illinois and Missouri. Approved, March 25, 1880.

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For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, thirty thousand dollars.

For the relief and protection of American Seamen in foreign countries, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars.

For surveying, printing, clerk hire, and other expenses, in relation to the Northeastern Boundary Agency, five thousand four hundred dollars.

For discharging the expense of taking the fifth enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in addition to the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, appropriated for that purpose by the act of March second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

AN ACT for the relief of Antoine Prudhomme, Louis Closeau, and Gilbert Closeau, of Louisiana. Be it enacted, &c. That the claim of Antoine Prudhomme, for six hundred and forty aeres of land, situated on the right bank of the Rigolet de Bon Dieu, in the Parish of Nachitochez, and opposite to the place called Petite Ecore; as also the claim of Louis Closeau, to six hundred and forty arpents of land, situated on the right bank of Red River; and the claim of Gilbert Closeau, to four hundred arpents of land, situated on the same side of said river, and bounded above by the claim of Louis Closeau, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office is For enabling the Secretary of State to execute a contract hereby required, upon the presentation of plats and surwith Jared Sparks, of Boston, made by Henry Clay, late veys of the said several tracts of land, regularly made, Secretary of State, for printing and publishing the foreign by competent authority, to issue patents to the said recorrespondence of the Congress of the United States, spective claimants, for the lands hereby confirmed to from the first meeting thereof, to the ratification of the each; Provided, That this act shall amount only to a redefinitive Treaty of Peace, in one thousand seven hundred linquishment on the part of the United States; and shall and eighty-three, thirty-one thousand three hundred dol-in no manner affect the rights of third persons. lars.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the master of the revenue cutter on that station, under the orders of the Secretary of the Treasury, to board all such vessels, to endorse their manifests, and to place an officer on each vessel bound up James river, having a cargo from a foreign port

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever there shall be no revenue cutter on that station for the purpose of boarding vessels, or when the state of the weather may be such as to render it impracticable to send an officer on board, any vessel bound up James river, having a cargo from a foreign port, the Captain is hereby authorized, and directed to deposite, with the Surveyor at Hamp ton, a copy of the manifest of the cargo on board such vessel.

Approved, March 23, 1830.

AN ACT to continue in force "An act authorizing certain Boldiers in the late war to surrender the bounty lands drawnby them, and to locate others in lieu thereof, and for other purpовев.

Approved, March 28, 1830.

AN ACT for the relief of the heirs of John Pierre Lan

derneau, deceased.

ral Land Office, upon application, cause a patent to be

Be it enacted, &c. That the Commissioner of the Gene

issued to the heirs of John Pierre Landerneau, deceased,
for four hundred arpents of land, situated in the parish of
Ouachita, in the State of Louisiana, according to the
boundaries of a plat thereof, made for the said John
Pierre Landerneau, on the twenty-third day of October,
eighteen hundred and two, by James M'Laughlin, for-
merly a Spanish Surveyor, in the said parish of Ouachi-
ta: Provided, That this act shall not prejudice, or in any
way affect, the rights of any third person.
Approved, March 23, 1830.

AN ACT for the relief of Hyacinth Bernard.
Be it enacted, &c. That Hyacinth Bernard be, and he
is hereby, confirmed in his claim to thirty-three arpents
of land, by forty arpents in depth, on both sides of the
Bayou Teche, in the State of Louisiana, to be surveyed
and taken according to the plat of survey made by
James L. Johnson, on the twenty-first of November, one
thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and as recom-
mended for confirmation by the Commissioner of the
Land Office, to whom it was presented: Provided, That
this act shall only be construed to a relinquishment on the
part of the United States, and shall not interfere with
the rights of third persons.

Approved, March 23, 1830.

AN ACT making appropriations to carry into effect certain Indian Treaties,

Be it enacted, &c. That the following sum be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, viz:

and thirty, of the permanent annuity provided for by the For payment for the year one thousand eight hundred second article of the treaty concluded at Prairie du Chien, the twenty-ninth July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, with the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pottawattamie Indians, sixteen thousand dollars.

For the purchase of goods, stipulated by the said article to be delivered to the said Indians, twelve thousand dollars.

Be it enacted, &c. That the act of the twenty-second of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, entitled "An act authorizing certain soldiers in the late war to surrender the bounty lands drawn by them, and to to locate others in lieu thereof," be, and the same is For the purchase of fifty barrels of salt, for one thouhereby, continued in force for the term of five years, sand eight hundred and thirty, stipulated by the said arAnd the provisions of the above recited act shall be, and I ticle, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.

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