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ment, and preservation of said road; and he shall pay for the same out of the fund arising from the tolls; he shall have power to appoint and remove at pleasure, the collectors of tolls, and to take from such collector or collectors, bond with good security, conditioned for his, her, or their faithfully discharging his, her, or their duty, and accounting for and paying over to such superintendent, or his successors in office, all monies or tolls by him, her, or them collected or received; and it shall be the duty of the superintendent every six months, before the county or superior court for Ohio county, or before some one by either of said courts appointed for that purpose, to render, under oath, an account of all moneys by him received or expended, particularly setting forth, in such account, the time when, and from whom, he shall have received such money, and the time when, and to whom, and on what account, the same shall have been disbursed or expended. He shall, before he shall have entered on the duties of said office, take, before the county court of Ohio county, or some justice of the peace for said county, an oath, that he will faithfully, justly, and impartially discharge the duties of his said office; and he shall, also, before said court, enter into bond, with two good securi. ties, at least, in the penalty of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for his faithfully performing, in all things, the duties of his office of superintendent, to account, as is before provided for, and also to pay over to his successor or successors in office, or to such persons as the county court of Ohio county may, for this purpose, name and appoint, all tolls by him received, and not expended, by virtue of the provisions of this act. He shall, immediately on the receipt thereof, deposite in the Northwestern Bank of Virginia, all monies by him received for tolls or otherwise, and the same, as superintendent, check for, as he may want the same in repairing, improving, or preserving said road. And in case of death, resignation, or removal from office, or from the State, any and all monies standing to his credit in bank, as superintendent, shall be passed to the credit of his successor in office. If the superintendent shall fail or omit, for two calendar months, to render his accounts as is before required, he shall, for every such failure, forfeit and pay, for the benefit of said road fund, five hundred dollars, to be recovered as is after provided for; or, if he shall fail or omit to pay over all mo nies in his hands as is before required, it shall be lawful, in the name of the President and Directors of the Board of public works, to obtain judgment against him, his security or securities, his or their heirs, executors or administrators, upon motion in the county or superior courts of Ohio county, upon giving ten days notice to such superintendent, his security or securities, his or their heirs, executors or administrators. In all motions, actions, or bills in chancery, against such superintendent, his secu rity or securities, his or their heirs, executors or admin. istrators, whenever judgment or decree shall be pronounced against the defendant or defendants, for any money by such superintendents wrongfully detained, such judg. ment shall be for the principal sum due, with interest thereon from the time at which the principal sun shall have been due, together with fifteen per centum damages thereon, to be made and levied in manner provided for by law.

The said collectors shall, monthly, or oftener, if required by the superintendent, under oath, account for, and pay to the superintendent then in office, all moneys or tolls collected by him or them, and which shall remain, after deducting his or their compensation; and if such collector or collectors shall fail herein, it shall be lawful for the superintendent, in the name of the Presi dent and Directors of the Board of Public Works, to obtain judgment against such collector or collectors, his, her, or their security or securities, his or their heirs, executors, or administrators, by motion in the county or

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superior court for Ohio county, for the sum he, she, or they may be in arrear, with interest and damages as is above provided for in the case of defaulting superintendents: Provided, That such collector or collectors, his, her, or their security or securities, his or their heirs, executors, or administrators, shall [have] had ten days' previous notice of such motion. When the said collector shall have paid over to the superintendent, the superintendent shall give him duplicate receipts therefor, one of which he, the said collector, upon pain of forfeiting fifty dollars for every failure, shall file with the clerk of the county court of Ohio county. The bonds hereby required of superintendents or collectors shall be made payable to the President and Directors of the Board of Public Works, and be deposited, for safe keeping, with the Clerk of the county court of Ohio county. But all moneys, and all fines and forfeitures recovered of them, or either of them, shall be collected and received by the superintendent, in office, or by such person as the county court of Ohio county may appoint to receive the same. The said superintendent, and the said collector or collectors, shall be allowed by the county court of Ohio a rea sonable compensation for their services; to be by them respectively retained out of said tolls, or the proceeds thereof: Provided however, That the compensation to the superintendent shall not exceed three hundred and thirty-three and one third dollars per annum. And for the better order and management of the said, fund, and the preservation of said road, the said superintendent and collector or collectors, shall observe and conform to such instructions as the President and Directors of the Board of Public Works may, from time to time, prescribe.

That, as soon as the said gates and toll-houses shall be erected, it shall be the duty of the said toll collector or collectors, and they are hereby required to demand and receive, for passing the said gates, the tolls and rates hereafter mentioned: and they may stop any person riding, leading, or driving, any horses, cattle, sulky, chair, phaeton, cart, chaise, wagon, sleigh, sled, or other carriage of burden or pleasure, from passing through the said gate or gates, until they shall have respectively paid for passing the same; that is to say: if there be but one gate, for every score of sheep or hogs, six and a quarter cents; for every score of cattle, twelve and a half cents; for every led or drove horse, three cents; for every mule or ass, led or driven, three cent; for every horse and rider, six and a quarter cents; for every sled or sleigh, drawn by one horse, or ox, six and a quarter cents; for every horse or ox in addition, three cents; for for every dearborne, sulky, chair, or chaise, with one horse, six and a quarter cents; for every horse in addition, six and a quarter cents; for every chariot, coach, coachee, stage, or phaeton with two horses, twelve and a half cents; for every horse in addition, six and a quarter cents; for every other carriage of pleasure, by whatever name it may be called, the like sum, according to the number of wheels and horses drawing the same; for every cart, or wagon, whose wheels do not exceed two and a half inches in breadth, twelve and a half cents; for each horse or ox drawing the same, four cents; for every cart or wagon whose wheels shall exceed two and a half inches in breadth, and not exceeding four inches, six and a quarter cents; for every horse or ox drawing the same, three cents; and for everyother cart or wagon whosewheels shall exceed four inches, and not exceeding five in breadth, four cents; for every horse or ox drawing the same, two cents; and all other wagons or carts, whose wheels shall exceed six inches in breadth, shall pass said gates free and clear of all tolls: Provided, however, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to authorize any tolls to be received or collected from any person passing to or from public worship, or to or from a visit to a friend, or other place within the county in which he resides, or to

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or from any musters, elections, or courts, or to or from his common business on his farm or woodland, or to or from a funeral, or to or from a mill or school, or to or from his common place of trading or marketing within the county in which he resides, including the wagons, carriages, and horses or oxen drawing the same: Provided, also, That no toll shall be received or collected for the passage of any stage or coach conveying the United States mail, or horses bearing the same, or any wagon or carriage laden with property of the United States, or any cavalry or other troops, army, or military stores belonging to the same, or to any of the States comprising the Union, or any person or persons on duty in military ser vice of the United States, or of the militia of the States: And provided, further, That the superintendent may commute the rates of tolls with any person or persons by taking of him or them a certain sum annually, in lieu of the tolls aforesaid: And provided, further, If two gates shall be erected on said road, then only one half of the said rates or tolls shall be received or collected at each gate; and that the superintendent and three discreet free holders of Ohio county, to be appointed for this purpose by the county court of Ohio county, shall determine the number of gates (not exceeding two as aforesaid) and the site or location of such gate or gates: and said superin tendent and persons to be appointed by the county court as aforesaid, are duly authorized to purchase, for the purpose of erecting a toll house or toll-houses on said road, as much ground as they shall deem necessary and advantageous to said road fund; to be paid for out of the tolls aforesaid.

Be it further enacted, That the moneys so collected, and all fines, penalties, and forfeitures, accruing under this act, shall constitute a fund, to be denominated the Cumberland road fund, and shall be applied by the superintendent to be appointed as aforesaid, solely and exclusively to the preservation, repair, and improvement of said road, and the expenses incident thereto, and to no other purpose whatever.

Be it further enacted, That the General Assembly re serves to itself at any future session thereof, without the consent of Congress, to change, alter, or amend this act: Provided, That the same shall not be so changed, altered, or amended, as to reduce or increase the rates of toll hereby established, below or above a sum necessary to defray the expenses incident to the repair and preservation of said road, to the erection of gates and toll houses thereon, and for the payment of the fees or salaries of the superintendent, the collector of tolls, and of such other agents as may be necessarily employed in the preservation and repair of the said road, according to the true intent and meaning of this act.

Be it further enacted, That directors shall be set up at proper and convenient situation, to caution all conductors and drivers of carriages or wagons on the road, as aforesaid, that they shall always pass on the left of each other, under the penalty of five dollars for every offence ; and there shall also be set up, at some conspicuous place at each gate, a board, on which shall be legibly printed the rates of toll as is provided for in this act; and if any toll collector shall unreasonably delay or hinder any passenger or traveller at any of the gates, or shall de mand or receive more toll than is by this act established, he shall, for each any every such offence, forfeit and pay to the party aggrieved, the sum of ten dollars.

Be it further enacted, That if any person shall purposely and maliciously deface, or otherwise injure any of the milestones, parapet walls, culverts, or bridges, or any masonry whatsoever, or any of the gates or tollhouses of, or belonging to the said Cumberland road, in this State, as the same is now constructed, or may hereafter be constructed, every person so offending, upon conviction thereof, or judgment, information, or present.

ment, in the county or superior court of Ohio county, be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the jail of the county not exceeding six months, or both, at the discretion of the court; and if any person shall purposely fill, choke, or otherwise obstruct any of the side drains, valleys, gutters, or culverts of said road now made, or hereafter to be made, or shall connect any private road or cartway with said Cum. berland road, or if any surveyor of a county road shall connect the same with the said Cumberland road, without making at the point of connection, a stone culvert or paved valley, or other good and sufficient fixture so as to secure a free passage for the water along such side drain where such private or county road or cartway connects with said Cumberland road, and so as to secure such Cumberland road from injury by reason of such county or private road, or way, being connected with said Cumberland road, every person so offending shall, upon convic. tion thereof, be, for every such offence, fined in a sum not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty dollars; and if any person shall stand his wagon and team, or either of them, over night upon the pavement of said road now made, or which may hereafter be made, or shall at any other time stand a wagon and team, or either of them, upon the said pavement for the purpose of feeding, or if he shall, in any other manner, purposely and wilfully obstruct the travel upon said road, or if he shall fast-lock or rough lock either of the wheels of any wagon, coach, chaise, gig, sulky, carriage, or other two or four-wheeled vehicle while travelling upon said road as now made, or as it may hereafter be made, (excepting, however, such parts of said road as may be, at the time of said locking, covered with ice,) every person so offending shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not less than two, nor more than twenty dollars.

Be it further enacted, That all fines, penalties, and forfeitures, incurred under the provisions of this act, may be recovered by presentment or indictment in the county or superior courts of Ohio county, or by information or action of debt in the name of the Governor, for the use of said road fund, in the same courts; or, the said fines, penalties, and forfeitures, where the same shall be less than twenty dollars, may be recovered by action of debt in the name and for the use aforesaid, before any justice of the peace for Ohio county; but an appeal may be had, as in other cases, to the next monthly court of Ohio county, from the judgment of any justice of the peace, when the same shall be a greater sum than five dollars, exclusive of costs, and it shall be the duty of the superintendent and collectors of tolls to prosecute all offences against the provisions of this act, and he or they shall not be liable for costs where the person or persons prosecuted shall be acquitted, unless the court or justice will certify that the prosecution is groundless and without good cause.

Be it further enucled, That if more than one gate be erected upon said road, it shall be lawful for any person, desirous to do so, to pay the whole toll at any one gate, and, thereupon, the collector shall grant him a proper certificate thereof, which certificate shall be a sufficient warrant to procure his passage through the other gate.

Be it further enacted, That this act shall not have any force or effect till the Government of the United States shall assent to the same.

VIRGINIA, Richmond city to wit:

I, George W. Mumford, Clerk of the House of Delegates, and Keeper of the Rolls of Virginia, do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of an act concerning the Cumberland Road, passed February the seventh, eighteen hurdred and thirty two.

Given under my hand this thirteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-two. Approved: March 2, 1832.

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of the building; and where the proceedings are by scire facias, the writ shall be served in like manner as a sum. mons upon the persons named therein, if to be found within the county, and if not found within the county, then by fixing a copy of the writ upon the door of the building against which the claim is filed; and upon the return of service and failure of the defendants to appear, the court shall render judgment as in the case of a summons; but if they, or either of them, appear, they may plead and make defence, and the like proceedings shall be had as in personal actions for the recovery of debts: Provided, That no judgment rendered in such scire facias, shall warrant the issuing an execution, except against the building or

Approved: March 2, 1833.

AN ACT to secure to mechanics and others payment for labor done and materials furnished in the erection of buildings in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted, &c. That all and every dwelling-house, or other building, hereafter constructed and crected within the City of Washington, in the town of Alexandria, or in Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, shall be subject to the payment of the debts contracted for, or by reason of any work done or materials found and provided by any brickmaker, bricklayer, stonecutter, mason, lime merchant, carpenter, painter and glazier, ironmonger, blacksmith, plasterer, and lumber merchant, or any oth er person or persons employed in furnishing materials for, or in the erecting and constructing such house or oth-buildings upon which the lien existed as aforesaid. er building, before any other lien which originated subsequent to the commencement of such house or other building. But if such dwelling house, or other building, or any portion thereof, shall have been constructed under contract or contracts entered into by the owner thereof, or his or her agent, with any person or persons, no person who may have done work for such contractor or contractors, or furnished materials to him, or on his order or authority, shall have or possess any lien on said house or other building, for work done or materials so furnished, unless the person or persons employed by such contractor to do work on, or furnish materials for, such building, shall, within thirty days after being so employed, give notice in writing, to the owner or owners of such building, or to his or to their agent, that he or they are so employed to work or to furnish materials, and that they claim the benefit of the lien granted by this act. And if such house or other building should not sell for a sum sufficient to pay all the demands for such work and mate. rials, then, and in such case, the same shall be averaged, and each of the creditors paid a sum proportionate to their several demands: Provided, always, That no such debt for work and materials shall remain a lien on the said houses or other buildings longer than two years from the commencement of the building thereof, unless an ac. tion for the recovery of the same be instituted, or the claim filed, within three months after performing the work or furnishing the materials, in the office of the clerk of the court for the county in which the building shall be situated: And provided, also, That each and every person, having received satisfaction for his or their debt, for which a claim has been or shall be filed, or action brought as aforesaid, shall, at the request of any person interested in the building on which the same was a lien, or in having the same lien removed, or of his or their legal representative, on payment of the costs of the claim or action, and on tender of the costs of office for entering the satisfaction, within six days after such request made, enter satis. faction of the claim in the office where such claim was or shall be filed, or such action brought, which shall forever thereafter discharge, defeat, and release the same; and if such persons, having received such satisfaction as aforesaid, by himself or his attorney, shall not, within six days' after request and payment of the costs of the claim or action, and tender as aforesaid, by himself or his attorney, duly authorized, enter satisfaction as aforesaid, he, she, or they, neglecting or refusing so to do, shall forfeit and pay unto the party or parties aggrieved any sum of money, not exceeding one-half of the debt, for which the claim was filed, or action brought as aforesaid, to be sued for and demanded by the person or persons indemnified, in like manner as other debts are now recovered by the existing laws for the recovery of debts.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners for the County of Peoria, in the State of Illinois, to enter a fractional quarter section of land for a seat of justice, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted, &c. That the commissioners for the county of Peoria, in the State of Illinois, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter with the Register and Receiver of the public lands at Springfield, in said State, (for the use of said county,) the residue of the northeast fractional quarter of section number nine, in township number eight north, in range number eight east: Provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to interfere said fractional quarter section. with the claim or claims of any other person or persons, to

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, And in all cases of lien created by this act, the person having a claim filed agreeably to its provisions, may, at his election, proceed to recover it by personal action, according to the nature of the demand, against the debtor, his executors, or administrators, or by scire facias against the debtor or owner VOL. IX.-d

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the heirs or le gal representatives of J. Latham, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to withdraw, and re-locate the claim which was illegally located on said fractional quarter section, upon any other quarter section of public land to which it may, by law, be applicable. Approved: March 2, 1833.

AN ACT authorizing an alteration in the Election Districts for Members of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan be, and hereby is, authorized to provide for such alterations in the Election Districts of said Territory, as will more effectually secure to the dif. ferent sections of said Territory a more equal representation in said Legislative Council.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if the said Legislative Council shall have adjourned before the first day of April next, the Governor of said Territory shall, by proclamation, district the said Territory according to the provisions of the foregoing section. Approved March 2, 1833.

AN ACT supplementary to an act, entitled "An act concerning a Seminary of Learning in the Territory of Arkansas," approved the seventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.

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Be it enacted, &c. That the Governor of the Territory of Arkansas shall select twenty of the sections of public land reserved by the act, entitled "An act concerning a Seminary of Learning in the Territory of Arkansas," proved the second of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven; and, after advertising and proclaiming them for sale in the several newspapers printed in Arkansas, and such other papers as he may deem expedient, he shall proceed to sell the same for cash, at some notorious place in Little Rock, to be designated in said advertisement, to the highest bidder.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Governor shall proclaim and sell the same, in quantities not exceeding one half section, nor shall any sale be made

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for a price less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. It shall be the duty of the Governor to give to the purchaser a certificate of his purchase; and he shall also make a return to the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at Little Rock, of the quantity sold, the number of the section, range, township, and such other description of the land as he may deem necessary, the price for which each parcel sold, and to whom sold; and he shall also communicate to the Legislature of the Territory of Arkansas a duplicate of the same, upon which a patent shall issue to the purchasers as in other cases of sales of public lands.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacled, That the money arising from the sales of the said twenty sections, or such portions of them as may be sold from time to time, after paying the reasonable expenses incurred in making selections of the two townships under the before recited act, and the expenses of selling the same under this act, shall be applied to the erection of suitable buildings for a seminary of learning at such place as may be designated, and under such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Legislature of Arkansas.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Governor of said Territory to pay the nett proceeds of said sales into the office of the Treasurer of said Territory, who shall be responsible for the same as other public moneys; and who shall not pay out the whole, or any part thereof, for any other objects or purposes than such as are provided for by the act of the second of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, to which this is a supplement, and by this act, and in obedience to the laws of the Legislature of said Territory, made to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and the said recited act.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Governor of the said territory shall be authorized to lease, for a term not exceeding five years, at any one time, the remainder of the two townships granted by the said act, and to apply the proceeds arising therefrom to the purposes aforesaid; and he shall render, once in two years, an account of the same to the Legislature of said Territory, and pay over the money to the Treasurer of said Territory.

Approved: March 2, 1833.

AN ACT supplemental to the act entitled "An act for the final adjustment of land claims in Missouri." Be it enacted, &c. That the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, shall be extended to, and embrace in its operations, every claim to a donation of land in the State of Missouri, held in virtue of settlement and cultivation; and the commissioners appointed under the above recited act, shall proceed to consider, decide, and report upon the aforesaid claims, under the provisions of the several acts of Congress heretofore passed in relation to said claims, and under such provisions and restrictions of the act to which this is a supplement, as may be applicable thereto.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Recorder and Commissioners aforesaid, to continue to take the testimony of all such claims as heretofore described, for and during the term of two years, from the date of the act to which this is a supplement, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved March 2, 1833..

AN ACT authorizing the removal of the Office of Surveyor General of Public Lands South of Tennessee. Be it enacted, &c. That after the 1st day of April next, the Office of the Surveyor General of Public Lands South of Tennessee, shall be kept at Jackson, the seat of Government of the State of Mississippi.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all accounts

for surveys of public lands in the State of Louisiana, not approved before the first day of April next, shall be presented, with the proper returns of such surveys, to the office of the Surveyor General of public lands for the State of Louisiana, for settlement or allowance. Approved March 2, 1833.

AN ACT granting certain lots to the President and Di. rectors of the Georgetown College in the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted, &c. That there shall be, and hereby are, granted to the President and Directors of Georgetown College, in the District of Columbia, lots in the city of Washington, to the amount, in value, of twenty five thou sand dollars, which said lots shall be selected and valued by the Commissioner of the Public Buildings, when requested by the said President and Directors; and when the said lots shall be so selected and valued, the same shall be vested in the said corporation, in fee simple, to be by them held and disposed of in the following manner; that is to say: the said corporation, by proper and lawful act or acts, under their corporate seal, shall sell and dispose of said lots, as soon as reasonably practicable, for the best price or prices they can obtain, and shall vest the proceeds of the same in some public stock, or stock of some incorporated bank.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, when the said lots aforesaid shall be selected and valued as aforesaid, the said Commissioner shall make return of the numbers and description thereof to the clerk of the circuit court of the county of Washington; to be by him recorded among the records of the land titles in the said county.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the proceeds of the sales aforesaid, so to be vested, shall not be otherwise used by the said President and Directors than as a capital, to be by them forever hereafter kept vested as aforesaid; and the dividends, or interest, thereupon accruing, shall, by them, be used and applied in aid of the revenues of the said college, to the establishment and endowment of such professorships therein as now are, or hereafter shall be, established by the President and Directors; and to and for no other purpose whatever. Approved March 2, 1833.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to grant a quantity of land in the State of Illinois, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of Illinois river with those of Lake Michigan" and to allow further time to the State of Ohio for commencing the Miami Canal from Dayton to Lake Erie.

Be it enacted, &c. That the lands granted to the State of Illinois by the act to which this is an amendment, may be used and disposed of by said State, for the purpose of making a rail road instead of a canal as in said act contemplated; and that the time for commencing and completing said canal or rail road, whichever the State of Illinois may choose to make, be and is extended five years: Provided, That if a rail road is made in place of a canal, the State of Illinois shall be subject to the same duties and obligations, and the Government of the United States shall be entitled to, and have the same privileges on said rail road, which they would have had through the canal, if it had been opened.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the further time of five years be allowed the State of Ohio to com. mence the Miami canal from Dayton to Lake Erie, in addition to the time now allowed therefore by law. Approved March 2, 1833.

AN ACT to incorporate the Georgetown Free School and
Orphan Asylum, in the District of Columbia.
Be it enacled, &c. That Stephen Dubuisson, Lewis
Carbery, Peter O'Donnoghue, Edward B. King, Enoch

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King, Charles King, Ignatius Clarke, Bernard Brien, A. H. Boucher, John R. May, and Joseph Brooks, and their successors in office, are hereby made, declared, and constituted, a corporation and body politic, in law and in fact, to have continuance forever, under the name, style, and title, of the Georgetown Free School and Orphan Asylum.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all and singular the lands, tenements, rents, legacies, annuities, rights, privileges, goods and chattels, that may hereafter be given, granted, sold, devised, or bequeathed, to the Georgetown Free School and Orphan Asylum, be, and they are hereby, vested in, and confirmed to, the said corporation; and that they may purchase, take, receive, and enjoy any lands, tenements, rents, annuities, rights, or privileges, or any goods, chattels, or other effects, of what kind or nature soever, which shall or may hereafter be given, granted, sold, bequeathed, or devised unto them, or either of them, as Trustees of the said Free School and Asylum, by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable of making such grant, and to dispose of the same: Provided, The clear annual income of property to be acquired by said corporation shall at no time exceed the sum of five thousand dollars.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said cor. poration, by the name and style aforesaid, be, and shall be hereafter, capable, in law and equity, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, within the District of Columbia, and elsewhere, in as effectual a manner as other persons or corporations can sue or be sued ; and that they shall adopt and use a common seal, and the same to use, alter, or exchange, at pleasure; that they may appoint such officers as they shall deem necessary and proper, to assign them their duties, and regulate their compensation, and to remove any or all of them, and appoint others, as often as they shall think fit; and the said corporation shall make such by laws as may be use ful for the Government and support, and for the general accomplishment of the objects of the said Asylum, as hereinafter mentioned and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States, or the laws in force in the District of Columbia, for the time being, and the same to alter, amend, or abrogate, at pleasure.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a meeting of the regular annual contributors to the support of the Georgetown Free School and Orphan Asylum, in the month of June in each year, the hour and day and manner of giving notice for which to be regulated by the by-laws; at which meeting, by those who, from the by laws, may be qualified to vote, nine female managers shail be elected, who shall appoint a President and Se. cretary, and may fil vacancies in their own board until the next annual election; and that their duties shall be regulated by the by-laws.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That, with the consent and approbation of the parent, guardian, or friends, who may have the care of any male or female child, or where a child may be destitute of any friend or protector, the same may be received into the Georgetown Free School and Orphan Asylum, under such regulations as may be made by the by-laws, and there protected, instructed, and supported; and that they shall not thereafter be wi hdrawn, or be at liberty themselves to withdraw, from the Free School and Asylum, without the consent or dismissal of the corporation aforesaid, until, if a male, he shall have attained the age of twenty-one years, or, if a female, the age of eighteen years; but, up to the ages aforesaid, respectively, they shall remain subject to the direction of the said corporation, unless they may, by the same, be exonerated from service previous to attaining those ages, respectively, and the said corporation shall have the power to bind any child under their care, for the purpose of acquiring a knowledge of some useful

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trade, occupation, or profession, under such conditions as may be determined by the by-laws, a copy of which conditions shall be delivered to, and they shall be bind. ing on, every person to whom any child may be so bound; that children may be received into the schools for daily attendance, whose parents or guardians are, or may be, unable to pay for their instruction, or whose parents or guardians may contribute towards the support of the Free School and Asylum, under such regulations as may be made in the by-laws.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That any vacancy which, from death, resignation, or otherwise, may happen in the board of trustees, shall be filled according to the mode to be prescribed in the by-laws; that they may hold such meetings as they shall think proper, and, to give form to their proceedings, may appoint such officers as they may deem necessary, and provide proper checks and responsibilities for the security of the property and funds of the corporation aforesaid; that they shall keep a journal of their proceedings, upon which the by-laws shall be recorded; and that they shall make report at the annual meeting to be held in June, of the affairs and condition of the institution for the preceding year. Approved: March 2, 1833.

AN ACT to authorize the President of the United States to cause the public surveys to be connected with the Jine of demarcation between the States of Indiana and Illinois.

Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States be, and hereby is, authorized and required to cause the public lands lying along the line of demarcation between the States of Indiana and Illinois, as established by the joint sanction of those States, to be surveyed in connection with said line on either side thereof.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized to allow for the service to be performed under this act, such further compensation, in addition to [the] regular price now autthorized by law, as to him shall appear to be just and reasonable, to be paid out of the regular appropriation for surveying public lands northwest of the Ohio river. Approved: March 2, 1833.

AN ACT further to extend the powers of the Board of Canal Commissioners for the improvement of the Tennessee River, in the State of Alabama.

by the State of Alabama to superintend the improvement Be it enacted, &c. That the Commissioners appointed

of the Tennessee river, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby, authorized to suspend the improve. ment of so much of said river as is below Florence, in said State, and every other part of the same, until the canal and other improvements between Lamb's ferry and Campbell's ferry shall have been completed, any thing in the act entitled "An act to grant certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the State of Alabama, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Tennes. see, Coosa, Cahawba, and Black Warrior rivers," approved twenty-third of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to the contrary not withstanding. Approved: March 2, 1833.

AN ACT prescribing the mode by which Patents for Public Lands shall be signed and executed.

Be it enacted, &c. That it shall be lawful for the Presi dent of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a Secretary, with a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the Presi dent, to sign his name, and for him, all patents for lands sold or granted under the authority of the United States.

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