Laws of the United States. for one on Turner's Reef, situated about one-third of the distance from the main land to Fisher's Island. Three thousand dollars for erecting a beacon on the beach near the west side of the New Haven harbor; and two hundred and fifty dollars for buoys on Pardee's Bar, Black Rock Bar, and the Shag Banks in said harbor. Six thousand and two hundred dollars for erecting a monument or beacon on Branford Reef, in Long Island Sound. Two hundred and fifty dollars for placing buoys, viz: one on the north end of Hatchet's Reef, in the Sound; one on the south end of said reef; one on the southeast tail of Saybrook Bar, at the mouth of Connecticut River; and one on the south end of Crane Reef, west of Saybrook. State of New York. Three thousand one hundred and ninety dollars to rebuild the beacon in Black Rock Harbor, should it be deemed expedient by the Secretary of the Treasury; Four thousand dollars for erecting a beacon-light on a proper site near Sackett's Harbor, in Lake Ontario ; Three thousand dollars for erecting a beacon light at the junction of Rondout Creek and Hudson River, or on or near the Esopus Meadows, as may be deemed most expedient by the Secretary of the Treasury; One thousand dollars for erecting a beacon on the middle ground between Stratford and Crane Neck, in Long Island Sound, Twelve thousand five hundred and twelve dollars, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations for erecting a light-house, and forming the foundation for the same, in the harbor of Buffalo. State of Pennsylvania. Two thousand five hundred dollars for erecting a beacon-light at the end of the pier which forms the entrance into the harbor of Eric, on Lake Erie ; [21st CoNG. 2d Sess. A sum not exceeding one thousand dollars for purchas ing land and removing a wind mill on Cape Roman. State of Georgia. For a beacon on the White Oyster Beds, near the mouth of Savannah River, three thousand dollars. State of Ohio. Five thousand dollars for building a light-house on Turtle Island, at the mouth of Maumee Bay, Lake Erie. One thousand dollars for erecting a beacon-light on the pier at Grand River. State of Louisiana. Forty thousand dollars for building two light houses, one at the mouth of the southwest pass of the River Mississippi, and the other on the south point between the Southwest Pass and the Balize. Seven thousand dollars for a light-house at the Rigolets. State of Mississippi Seven thousand dollars for building a light-house on St. Joseph's Island, or some other suitable place off the Pascagoula Bay. Seven thousand dollars for a light-house at Pass Christian near the Bay of St. Louis. For buoys to be placed at the south pass, and the pass at Dauphin Island, four hundred dollars. State of Alabama. Five hundred dollars for placing buoys in Mobile Bay. State of Illinois. Five thousand dollars for building a light-house at the mouth of Chicago River, Lake Michi gan. Michigan Territory. Five thousand dollars for building a light-house at the confluence of the St. Joseph's River with Lake Michigan. Five thousand dollars for a light house on the Outerthunder Bay Island in Lake Huron. for buoys and placing the same on the flats at the head of Lake St. Clair. A sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars for building a light-boat to be stationed in the strait connecting Lakes State of Delaware. Fifteen hundred dollars for erect-Huron and Michigan; and three hundred and fifty dollars ing a beacon light near the mouth of Mispillion Creek; Ten thousand dollars for building a light house at Mahon's Ditch, in addition to what remains unexpended of an appropriation to build a light-house at Duck Creek, and which last named appropriation is hereby transferred to the first mentioned object. State of Maryland. Five thousand dollars for building a light-house on or near Turkey Point, at the mouth of Elk River; For erecting a beacon-light on Lazaretto Point, at the entrance of the harbor of Baltimore, or on the point of land upon which Fort McHenry is situated, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, two thousand five hundred dollars. For a floating light at the Wolf Trap, in the Chesapeake Bay, twelve thousand dollars; Four hundred dollars for placing buoys at the entrance of the harbor of Annapolis. State of Virginia. Seven thousand and five hundred dollars for building a light-house on one of the Chingo. teague islands; Five hundred dollars for placing in the Potomac River three buoys on the Kettle Bottoms, one on Port Tobacco Shoals, one in Nanjemoy Reach, one on Ragged Point Bar, and on Parsimmon Bar. State of North Carolina. Eleven thousand dollars for building a light boat, to be stationed at or near Brant Island Shoal, in Pamptico Sound; For a buoy, to be placed on the bar near Harbor Island, two hundred dollars; For three buoys to be placed in the river and inlet of Cape Fear twelve hundred dollars. State of South Carolina. Fifteen hundred dollars for constructing three hollow buoys, an. placing the same on the bar at or near the entrance of the harbor of Georgetown, in addition to any unexpended appropriation for placing buoys at or near that harbor. Florida Territory. Eleven thousand four hundred dollars for building a light-house on the west end of St. George's Island, near the entrance of Appalachicola Bay. Four hundred dollars for placing buoys in the said bay between St. George's Island, and the entrance of the Appalachicola River. Two hundred dollars for placing buoys in the Bay and River of St. Mark's. One hundred and sixty dollars for placing buoys at St. Augustine, and in St John's River. Five thousand dollars for building a light-house on a suitable site at or near Port Clinton. Approved, March 3, 1831. AN ACT for the benefit of Percis Lovely, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c. That the tract of land not exceeding one half section, including the present residence of Mrs. Percis Lovely, in Pope county, in the Territory of Arkansas, shall be reserved by the President of the United States from public sale, during the lifetime of said Percis, and that she shall have the entire use and privilege of, and possession of the said half section of land, for and during her life: Provided, That the said Percis Lovely, shall not commit, or permit any other person to commit, on said land, any voluntary waste. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury payunto the said Percis Lovely or her legal representative, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to that for which her improvements upon the land secured to her by the treaty at Hiawassee, in one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, for life, were valued, and which improvements and land were taken from her by the trea General Moses Hazen, deceased. ty at Washington, of one thousand eight hundred and AN ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of twenty-eight, with the Cherokee Indians. Provided, That before the money shall be paid the said Percis Lovely, she shall produce to the Treasury Department satis factory evidence that the said sum of money has not been heretofore paid her by the Government of the United States, through the Indian Department: and Provided, also, That the half section granted by this act, shall not interfere with, or include any lands lying within the limits of any reservation made by the last named treaty, made at Washington as aforesaid, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of the said Moses Hazen, the amount of interest due on the sum of thirteen thou sand three hundred and eighty-six dollars and two nineteenths of a dollar, a balance found to be due to the said Hazen, agreeably to a resolution of Congress of the twenty-fifth of April,anno domini, seventeen hundred and eighty-one. Approved, March 3, 1831. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That for carrying into effect the treaty concluded with the Seneca tribe of Indians at Washington, the twenty-eighth day of Februa ry, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the sum AN ACT for the relief of Benjamin S. Smoot, of Alaof eleven thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1831. AN ACT for the relief of Brevet Major Riley, and Lieutenants Brook and Seawright. bama. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Benjamin S. Smoot one thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, being by order of the officers of the United States, to prevent the value of a store house owned by him, and destroyed its being shelter to the British, in their attack upon fort Bowyer, in one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. Approved, March 3, 1831. AN ACT for the relief of John Nicholson. Be it enacted, &c. That the proper officers of the Treasury settle and pay to John Nicholson, Marshal of the Eastern District of Louisiana, such sums as may reasona. bly be due, or may hereafter become due, to him, for the care, custody, maintenance and clothing of such Africans as may have been brought into the port of New Or leans, and legally committed to his custody by order of the Court of the United States for the said district, and that such payment be made out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1831, AN ACT for the relief of John Gough, and other Canadian refugees. States be authorized to issue to John Gough, of Indiana, Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United a patent for the north-east quarter of section eleven, in Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of two hundred and township twelve, north of range nine, west, in the Vinten dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not other-cennes land district, upon the condition expressed therewise appropriated, be, and the same hereby is appro-in, that neither said John, nor any person under him, priated, to be paid to Brevet Major Bennet Riley, Lieu- shall claim any benefit under a patent erroneously issued tenant F. J. Brook, and Lieutenant J. D. Seawright, of for the south-east quarter of said section, and alleged to the Army of the United States, under the orders of the be lost. Secretary of War, for the loss of three horses, captured Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the existing from them in an action with the Camanche and other In-laws for the correction of errors in the purchase of the dians, on the Santa Fe trace, in the summer of one thou-public land shall be equally applicable to erroneous losand eight hundred and twenty-nine, while giving con- cations of the warrants of the Canadian refugees. voy to a caravan of traders from the United States to the Approved, March 3, 1831, Mexican dominions, under the orders of the President of the United States. Approved March 3, 1831. AN ACT to extend the patent of Samuel Browning for a further period of fourteen years. Be it enacted, &c. That there be, and hereby is, grantAN ACT for the relief of Duval and Carnes. ed unto Samuel Browning, a citizen of the United States, Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of three thousand his heirs, administrators, and assigns, for the term of eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty-nine fourteen years from the twenty-fourth day of November, cents, be paid to Duval and Carnes, merchants in com- eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, the full and exclupany, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ap- sive right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and propriated, in full of all claims for losses and damages vending to others to be used, his improvement called a sustained by them in consequence of an unlawful seizure" magnetic separating machine," a description of which of their goods, in the Territory of Arkansas, by Colonel Arbuckle, on the fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. Approved, March 3, 1831. is given in a schedule annexed to letters patent granted to the said Samuel Browning for the same on the twentyfifth day of November, eighteen hundred and fourteen. Approved, March 3, 1831. Laws of the United States. AN ACT for the relief of John Culbertson, and to provide an intepreter for the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana. act. Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three and one-third cents be paid by the Marshal of the United States for the eastern District of Louisiana to John Culbertson, for his services rendered as interpreter to the United States Court for said District under the provisional appointment of the Judge, for each regular term of said Court, from the December term of one thousand eight hundred and twentyfive, inclusively, up to the time of the passage of this SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Judge of the District Court of the United States for the eastern District of Louisiana, be and is hereby, authorized to appoint an interpreter to said Court, and to allow him a compensation not exceeding three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three and one-third cents, for his services at each regular term of said Court, to be hold. en subsequently to the passage of this act; and the Marshal is authorized to pay the same upon the der of the Judge: Provided always, That it shall be the duty of the said interpreter, during his continuance in office, to attend all and every of the called or irregular sessions of the said Court, without any additional compensation therefor: Provided, also, That the said interpreter shall not receive, under this act, more than one thousand dollars for each year. Approved, March 3, 1831. or AN ACT concerning vessels employed in the Whale Be it enacted, &c That all the provisions of the act en- AN ACT to create the office of Surveyor of the Public Lands for the State of Louisiana. Be it enacted, &c. That a Surveyor General of the State of Louisiana shall be appointed, who shall have the same authority, and perform the same duties, respecting public lands and private land claims in the State of Louisiana, as are now vested in, and required of the Survey. or of the lands of the United States, south of the State of Tennessee, or the principal deputy Surveyors in the said State; and that from and after the first day of May next, the office of principal deputy Surveyors, as crea. ted by the ninth section of the act of Congress of the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and six, entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled "An act for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to lands within the territory of Orleans and district of Louisiana," be and the same are hereby, abolished; and it shall be the duty of said principal deputy Surveyors to surrender to the Surveyor General of Louisiana, or to such person or persons as he may appoint to receive the same, all the maps, books, records, field notes, documents and articles of every description, appertaining or in any wise belonging to their offices respectively. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the principal deputy Surveyor of the district east of the island of New Orleans be and he hereby is required to separate and ar range the papers in his office; and all the maps, records, [21st CoNG. 2d SESS. papers and documents of every description which refer to lands in the State of Louisiana, shall be delivered to the order of the Surveyor General for that State; and shall be delivered to the Surveyor for the State of Alasuch of them as refer to lands in the State of Alabama bama; and such of them as refer to lands in the State of Mississippi, together with such maps, papers, records and documents in the office of said principal deputy Surveyor, as are not hereby required to be delivered to the Surveyor General of the State of Louisiana or to the Survey. der of the Surveyor of the lands of the United States south of the State of Tennessee; and the office of said shed from and after the first day of May next; and the principal deputy shall be, and the same is hereby abolpowers and duties now exercised and performed by the said principal deputy Surveyor shall be vested in and performed by the aforesaid Surveyors, within their respec or for the State of Alabama shall be delivered to the or tive States. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Surveyor south of the State of Tennessee to deliver to the Surveyor General of the State of Louisiana all the maps, papers, records, and documents relating to the public lands, and private claims in Louisiana, which may be in his office; and in every case where it shall be impracticable to make a separation of such maps, papers, records, and documents, without injury to the portion of them relating to lands in Mississippi, it shall be his duty to cause copies thereof certified by him to be furnished to the Surveyor General of Louisiana, and which copies shall be of the same validity as the originals. General of Louisiana shall appoint a sufficient number of Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Surveyor skilful and experienced Surveyors as his deputies, who, with one or more good and sufficient sureties, to be ap proved by said Surveyor General, shall enter into bond for the faithful performance of all surveying contracts confided to them in the penalty of double the amount of money accruing under the said contracts at the rate per mile stipulated to be paid therein, and who, before entering on the performance of their duties, shall take an oath, or make affirmation, truly, faithfully, and impartially, to the utmost of their skill and ability, to execute the trust confided to them; and, in the event of the failure. of a deputy to comply with the terms of his contract, unless such failure shall be satisfactorily shown by him to have arisen from causes beyond his control, he shall forfeit the penalty of his bond on due process of law, and ever afterwards be debarred from receiving a contract for surveying public lands in Louisiana or elsewhere. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Surveyor General to be appointed in pursuance of this act shall establish his office at such place as the President of the United States may deem most expedient for the public service; and that he shall be allowed an annual salary of two thousand dollars, and that he be authorized to employ one skilful draughtsman and recording clerk, whose aggregate compensation shall not exceed one thousand five hundred dollars per annum ; and that the fees heretofore authorized by law for examining and recording surveys be, and the same are hereby, abolished; and any copy of a plat of survey, or transcript from the records of the office of the said Surveyor General, shall be admitted as evidence in any of the courts of the United States or Territories thereof; and for every copy of a plat of sur vey there shall be paid twenty five cents, and for any transcript from the records of said office, there shall be paid at the rate of twenty-five cents for every hundred words by the individuals requiring the same. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That, in relation to all such confirmed claims as may conflict, or in any manner interfere with each other, the Register of the Land Office and Receiver of Public Moneys for the proper land district are hereby authorized to decide between the parties, and shall in their decision be governed by such conditional lines or boundaries as have been or may be agreed upon between the parties interested, either verbally or in writing; and in case no lines or boundaries be agreed upon between the parties interested, then the said Register and Receiver are hereby authorized to decide between the parties in such manner as may be consistent with the principles of justice; and that it shall be the duty of the Surveyor General of the said State to have those claims surveyed and platted in accordance with the decisions of the Register and Receiver: Provided, That the said decisions and surveys, and the patents which may be issued in conformity thereto, shall not in any wise be considered as precluding a legal in Yestigation and decision by the proper judicial tribunal between the parties to any such interfering claims, but shall only operate as a relinquishment on the part of the United States of all title to the land in question. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That all the lands to which the Indian title has been extinguished lying north of the northern boundary of the State of Illinois, west of Lake Michigan, and east of the Mississippi River, shall be surveyed in the same manner, and under the same regulations, provisions, restrictions, and reservations as the other public lands are surveyed. ever. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Legislature of the State of Missouri be, and is hereby, authorized to sell and convey in fee simple all or any part of the lands heretofore reserved and appropriated by Congress for the use of a seminary of learning in said State, and to invest the money arising from the sale thereof in some productive fund, the proceeds of which shall be forever applied by the Legislature of said State solely to the use of such seminary, and for no other use or purpose whatsoAnd that the Legislature of said State of Missouri shall be, and is hereby, authorized to sell and convey in fee simple all or any part of the salt springs not exceeding twelve in number, and six sections of land adjoining to each granted to said State by the United States for the use thereof, and selected by the Legislature of said State, on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, and to invest the money arising from the sale thereof in some productive fund, the proceeds of which shall be forever applied, under the direction of said Legislature, for the purpose of education in said State, and for no other purpose whatsoever. Approved, March 3, 1831. AN ACT for the relief of George B. Dameron and Wil liam Howze, of Mississippi. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby, authorized to make a reasonable allowance to the Register and Receiver of the land office at Jackson Court House, Mississippi, for extra services performed by them under the third section of the set of the third March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven. Approved, March 3, 1831. dents of the Treasury Department: Provided, however, That no allowance shall be made in the settlement aforesaid greater than the amount for which the said Thomas is now held liable to the United States. Approved March 3, 1831. AN ACT for the relief of Christopher Bechtler. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby authorized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual form, to Christopher Bechtler, for each of his two machines for the purpose of washing gold ores, upon his compliance with all the provisions of the several acts of Congress relative to the issuing of letters patent for inventions and improvements, except so far as the said acts require, on the part of aliens, a residence of two years in the United States. Approved: March 3, 1831. AN ACT for the relief of James Hogland. Be it enacted, &c. That James Hogland, of the State of Indiana, be, and he is hereby authorized to surrender and cancel, at the land office at Indianapolis, in such form as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, his patent for the east half of the southeast quarter of section seventeen, in township fourteen, north, of range three, east, in the district of lands offered for sale at Indianano lis; and that he be permitted to enter, in lieu thereof, and without paying for the same, any other half quarter section in said district, subject to entry at private sale. Approved: March 3, 1831. AN ACI granting a pension to Martin Miller. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of War be authorized and directed to place the name of Martin Miller on the list of revolutionary pensioners, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. Approved, March 3, 1831. AN ACT for the relief of Joseph S. Cannon. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of Joseph S. Cannon on the Navy Pension List, at the rate of ten dollars per month, payable from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine. Approved: March 3, 1831. AN ACT for the relief of Antoine Dequindre, and the legal representatives of Louis Dequindre, deceased. Be it enacled, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to release and discharge Antoine Dequindre, and the legal repre sentatives of Louis Dequindre, deceased, from the pay ment of three several bonds given to the collector of Detroit, on the twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, for the payment of duties on a quantity of goods transported through Canada, from Buffalo to Detroit, amounting, together, to the sum of five AN ACT for the relief of James Thomas, late Quarter-hundred and seventy-nine dollars and forty-nine cents: master General in the Army of the United States. Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to adjust and settle the accounts Provided, That, if any costs have arisen, by the com- and claims of Col. Jas. Thomas, late Quartermaster General of the Army of the U. States, and allow him a credit for all vouchers which he shall satisfactorily prove to have been lost for the expenditure of money duly authorized AN ACT for the relief of Samuel Coburn of the State of and not heretofore placed to his credit, and that they allow him such compensation for all extra official duties performed and services rendered by him as he is entitled to, if any, according to former regulations and prece Mississippi. Be it enacted, &c. That the Surveyor General of the public lands south of the State of Tennessee, be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be sur Laws of the United States. veyed by the proper officer, a certain tract of land, claimed by Samuel Coburn, lying on the waters of Chubby's Fork, of the Bayou Pierre, Claiborne county, Mississippi, originally claimed by William Thomas, by virtue of a Spanish warrant or order of survey, granted to said Thomas on the twenty-first of March, one thousand seven hun dred and ninety-five; and that a correct return and plat of the same be made to his office, stating how much of said claim has been sold or confirmed by the United States to Abraham Barnes or any other person. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Samuel Coburn is authorized to locate, on any of the public lands within the State of Mississippi, so many acres of the claim above referred to as may be ascertained by said survey and plat, to be sold or confirmed to Abraham Barnes or any other person; and that the remainder of the original Spanish grant to Thomas be, and the same is hereby confirmed to Samuel Coburn: Provided, That such confirmation shall only operate as a relinquishment of all right and title on the part of the United States to said land. Approved March 3, 1831. AN ACT for the relief of Woodson Wren, of Mississippi. Be it enacted, &c. That Woodson Wren of the State of Mississippi, be, and he is hereby, confirmed to a tract of land containing eight hundred arpens, situated on the east side of the bay of Biloxi, in the county of Jackson, and State of Mississippi, between Bellfontaine and the old French fort, claimed by virtue of a purchase from Little berry Robertson, and reported for confirmation by the Register and Receiver of the land office at Jackson Courthouse, Mississippi, dated July the twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon being presented with plats and certificates of survey of the said tract of land, legally executed by a proper officer, shall issue a patent for the same; which patent shall operate only as a reliquishment, on the part of the United States, of all right and title to said land. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office that the claim herein above alluded to, [21st CoNG. 2d SESS. RESOLUTION, in relation to the transmission of public documents printed by order of either House of Congress. Resolved, &c. That nothing contained in the act to reduce into one the several acts establishing and regulat ing the Post Office Department, approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, shall be construed to repeal or limit the operation of the act authorizing the transmission of certain documents free of postage, approved December nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred twenty-one. Approved, January 13, 1831. A RESOLUTION directing the Secretary of State to subscribe for seventy copies of Peters' condensed reports of decisions of the Supreme Court. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Department of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to subscribe for and receive seventy copies of the condensed reports of cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, edited by Richard Peters, and cause to be distributed one copy thereof to the President of the United States, each of the Justices of the Supreme Court, each of the Judges of the District Courts, the Attorney General of the United States, each of the Heads of Departments, each of the Judges of the several Territories of the United States, five copies thereof for the use of each House of Congress; and the residue of the copies shall be deposited in the Library of Congress: Provided, however, That the cost of each volume shall not exceed five dollars. Approved, March 2, 1831. |