may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and in cases where two persons shall live upon the same quarter section, subject to be entered under the provisions of this act, each shall have the right to enter that quarter quarter section which includes his improvements.

CHAP. 66. An Act to authorize the

Judges of the courts of the United States to take bail of the claimants of property seized, and perform other acts in vacation.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in any cause of admirality and maritimne jurisdiction, or other case of seizure, depending in any court of the United States, any judge of the said court, in vacation, shall have the same power and authority to order any vessel, or cargo, or other property, to be delivered to the claimants, upon bail, or bond, under the statute as the case may be, or to be sold when necessary as the said court now has in term time, and to appoint appraisers, and exercise every other incidental power necessary to the complete execution of the authority herein granted; and the said recognizance of bail or bond, under such order, may be executed before the clerk, upon the party's producing the certificate of the collector of the district, of the sufficiency of the security offered; and the same proceedings shall be had in case of said order of delivery, or of sale, as are now had in like cases when ordered in term time: Provided, That upon every such application either for an order of delivery or of sale, the collector and the attorney of the district shall have reasonable notice in cases of the United States, and the party or counsel in all other cases.

CHAP. 67. An Act providing for the organization of the Ordnance Department.

said Territory, and for other purpo

ses.

CHAP. 71. An Act making appropriations in conformity with the stipulations of certain Indian treaties.

CHAP. 72. An Act providing for the postponement of the trial of certain cases now pending in the Superior courts of Arkansas Territory, and for withholding from sale or entry certain lands in said Territory.

CHAP. 73. An Act for the relief of Jefferson College in the State of Mississippi.

Approved, April 20, 1832.

CHAP. 74. An Act making appropria- . tions for the support of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo.

CHAP. 75. An Act to provide the

means of extending the benefits of vaccination, as a preventive of the Small Pox, to the Indian tribes, and thereby, as far as possible, to save them from the destructive ravages of that disease.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the several Indian Agents and SubAgents, under the direction of the Secretary of War, to take such measures as he shall deem most efficient, to convene the Indian tribes in their respective towns, or in such other places and numbers, and at such seasons as shall be most convenient to the Indian population, for the purpose of arresting the progress of small pox among the several tribes by vaccination.

SECT. 2 And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, empowered to employ as many Physicians or Surgeons, from the army or resident on the frontier near the point where their services shall be re

the sureties of Amos Edwards.

CHAP. 69. An Act to change the time of holding the United States district court, at Staunton, in the western district of Virginia.

CHAP. 70. An Act authorising the

Governor of the Territory of Arkansas to lease the Salt Springs, in

execution of this act; and, if necessary, two competent persons to conduct the Physicians to the remote Indians who are infected, or may be in immediate danger of being infected, with the small pox, whose compensation shall be six dollars per day, and six men, whose compensation shall be twentyfive dollars per inonth.

SECT. 3. And be it further enacted,

That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War, to cause all Indian Agents to be supplied with genuine vaccine matter; and all Agents and Sub-Agents shall use all proper means to persuade the Indian population to submit to vaccination.

SECT. 4. And be it further enacted, That all Agents, Sub-Agents, Physicians and Surgeons, employed in the execution of this act, shall make monthly returns or reports of their proceedings to the War Department. And the Secretary thereof shall submit to Congress, on or before the first of February next, a general report of all proceedings in the premises.

SECT. 5. And be it further enacted, That, to carry this act into effect, the sum of twelve thousand dollars be appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

CHAP. 76. An Act confirming to Josh

ua Kennedy, his claim to a tract of land in the city of Mobile.

CHAP. 77. An Act for altering the

time of holding the District Court of the United States for the District of Indiana.

CHAP. 78. An Act to extend the Patent of Jethro Wood.

CHAP. 79. An Act for giving effect to

a commercial arrangement between the United States and the Republic of Colombia.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That vessels of the Republic of Colombia, and their cargoes, whether of foreign or domestic produce or manufacture, which shall come direct from the ports of that nation to the United States, shall pay no greater duties on importation, anchorage, tonnage, or any other kind, than are now, or hereafter may be, levied on the vessels of the United States.

SECT. 2 And be it further enacted, That the restriction of coming direct from a port in Colombia, contained in the preceding section, shall be taken off, as soon as the President shall receive satisfactory evidence, that a like restriction is taken off from vessels of the United States in the ports of the Republic of Colombia, and shall make known the same by his proclamation declaring the fact.

SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That if the President of the United States shall at any time receive satisfactory information that the privileges allowed or which may be allowed to American vessels and their cargoes in the ports of Colombia, corresponding with those, extended, or to be extended by this act, to Colombian vessels and their cargoes in the ports of the United States, have been revoked or annulled, he is hereby authorized, by proclamation, to suspend the operation of either or both of the provisions of this act, as the case may be, and to withhold any or all the privileges allowed, or to be allowed, to Colombian vessels or their cargoes,

CHAP. 80. An Act authorizing the revision and extension of the rules and regulations of the Naval service. CHAP. 81. An Act to revive and con

tinue in force An act for the relief of the representatives of John Donelson, Stephen Heard, and others.' CHAP. 82. An Act for the relief of Richard G. Morris.

CHAP. 83. An Act for the relief of Joseph Bogy.

CHAP. 84. An Act for the relief of the Miami Exporting Company.

CHAP. 85. An Act for the relief of Allen W. Hardie.

gress assembled, That from and after the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirtythree, the House of Representatives shall be composed of members, elected agreeably to a ratio of one representative for every fortyseven thousand and seven hundred persons in each State, computed according to the rule prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, that is to say, within the State of Maine, eight; within the State of New Hampshire, five; within the State of Massachusetts, twelve; within the State of Rhode Island, two; within the State of Connecticut, six; within the State of Vermont, five; within the State of Ne York, forty; within the State of New Jersey, six; within the State of Pennsylvania, twentyeight; within the State of Delaware, one; within the State of Maryland, eight; within the State of Virginia, twentyone; within the State of North Carolina, thirteen; within the state of South Carolina, nine; within the State of Georgia, nine; within the State of Kentucky, thirteen; within the State of Tennessee, thirteen; within the State of Ohio, nineteen; within the State of Indiana, seven; within the State of Mississippi, two; within the State of Illinois, three; within the State of Louisiana, three; within the State of Missouri, two; and within the State of Alabama, five.

CHAP. 92. An Act to alter the time of holding the District Court of the United States for the western district of Louisiana.

CHAP. 93. An Act to authorize the

removal of the Land Office from

Mount Salus in the State of Mississippi, and to remove the Land Office from Franklin to Fayette in the State of Missouri.

CHAP. 94. An Act for the relief of De Garmo Jones.

CHAP. 95. An Act for the relief of

George J. Knight.

CHAP. 99. An Act for the relief of the legal representative of Rignald, alias Reynold, Hillary.

Approved, May 25, 1832.

CHAP. 100. An Act for the relief of the heirs and residuary legatees of William Carter, late of the State of Virginia, deceased.

CHAP. 101. An Act for the relief of John Hughes.

CHAP. 102. An Act for the relief of Ann D. Baylor.

CHAP. 103. An Act for the relief of Edmund Brooke.

CHAP. 104. An Act to exempt the vessels of Portugal from the pay. ment of duties on tonnage.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no duties upon tonnage shall be hereafter levied or collected of the vessels of the kingdom of Portugal: Provided always, That whenever the President of the United States, shall be satisfied that the vessels of the United States are subjected in the ports of the kingdom of Portugal, to payment of any duties of tonnage, he shall, by proclamation declare the fact, and the duties now payable by the vessels of that kingdom, shall be levied and paid, as if this act had not been passed.

CHAP. 105. An Act to extend the limits of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.

CHAP. 106. An Act for improving Pennsylvania Avenue, supplying the Public Buildings with water, and for paving the walk from the western gate to the Capitol with flagging.

the heirs of William Vawters.

CHAP. 97. An Act for the relief of the heirs of Doctor Samuel Kennedy. CHAP. 98. An Act for the relief of

John Roberts, late Major of Infantry, in the war of the Revolution.

'An Act to incorporate the Trustees of the Female Orphan Asylum of Georgetown, and the Washington City Asylum, in the District of Columbia.'

Approved, May 25, 1832.

CHAP. 109. An Act making appro

priations for the Indian Department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo.

CHAP. 110. An Act to aid the vestry

of Washington parish in the erection of a keeper's house, and the improvement and security of the ground allotted for the interment of members of Congress, and other public officers.

CHAP. 111. An Act in relation to the Penitentiary for the District of Columbia.

CHAP. 112. An Act for quieting possessions, enrolling conveyances and securing the estates of purchasers within the District of Columbia.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if any person or persons, seized or possessed of, or holding any estate or interest in any lands, tenements or hereditaments, lying and being within the District of Columbia, shall execute and acknowledge a deed for the conveyance of such estate or interest, or for declaring or limiting any use or trust in and of the same, before any judge of a court of record and of law of the State and county in which such person or persons may be, or before any chancellor of any such State, or before any Judge of the Supreme, Circuit, District or Territorial Courts of the United States, or before any two Justices of the Peace of the State, District or Territory and county in which such person or persons may be; and such Judge, Chancellor or Justices shall annex to such a deed, a certificate, under his or their hands of the execution and acknowledgment thereof, and that the grantor or grantors was or were known to him or them, or that his, her or their identity had been satisfactorily proved, and the Register, Clerk or Prothonotary of such Court or county, shall also certify under his hand and the seal of his office, that the Judge, Chancellor, or Justices, is or are, was or were such at the time of the execution and acknowledgment thereof; or if any such person or persons, seized or possessed as aforesaid, shall be in some foreign country, and shall execute and acknowledge any such deed before any Judge or Chancellor of any Court, master or master extraordinary, in chancery, or notary public, in such foreign country; and such execution and acknowledgment, and also the identity of the grantor or

grantors shall be certified upon, or annexed to, such deed, under the hand and seal of any such judge, chancellor, master or master extraordinary, or notary public, and such deed, so executed, acknowledged and certified in the several ani respective modes aforesaid, shall be recorded among the land records of the county of Washington, or the county of Alexandria in the District of Columbia, within six calendar months from the day of its date, if executed and acknowledged within the United States or the Territories thereof, or within twelve calendar months from the day of its date, if executed and acknowledged in some foreign country; such deed shall be good and effectual for the purpose or purposes therein mentioned.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any feme covert in whom such estate or interest may be, shall be a party with her husband, executing such deed, or shall only be relinquishing her right of dower, in or to such estate or interest, and the judge, chancellor, justices, master or master extraordinary in chancery or notary public, aforesaid, before whom the saine may be executed and acknowledged, shall make the contents thereof known to her, and shall examine her, out of the presence and hearing of her husband, whether she doth make her acknowledgment of the same voluntarily, and without being induced to do so by fear or threats of, or ill usage, by her husband, or fear of his displeasure; and such examination and acknowledgment, and also the identity of the party shall be certified in the mode prescribed in the first section of this act, according to the place or country where such feme covert shall be at the time of such examination and acknowledgment, and such deed shall be recorded within the several and respective periods herein before mentioned; the same shall be good and available for the purposes therein mentioned, and thereby intended.

SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That the clerks of the circuit court of the District of Columbia for the counties of Washington and Alexandria, respectively, are hereby, authorized to record any deed or conveyance, executed and authenticated agreeably to the provisions of this act

Approved, May 31, 1832.

CHAP. 113. An Act vesting in the Corporation of the City of Washington, all the rights of the Washington Canal Company; and for other purposes.