Delaware. Ohio. Maine. Massachusetts. Connecticut. New York. Pennsylvania. North Carolina. Alabama. Michigan. Sums herein appropriated to In the state of Delaware, twenty-two thousand dollars for building piers, at proper sites, in the river Delaware, at New Castle, and three thousand dollars for repairing the old piers at the same place, and deepening the water around them. In the state of Ohio, five thousand six hundred and twenty dollars, to remove obstructions at the mouth of Grand River; twelve thousand dollars for the same purpose, at the mouth of Ashtabula Creek; two thousand dollars for the same purpose, at the mouth of Cunningham Creek; and five thousand dollars for the same purpose, in Huron River; and four hundred dollars for making a survey of Sandusky Bay, to ascertain the expediency and expense of constructing piers, to improve the navigation thereof, and of placing buoys therein. In the state of Maine, two hundred dollars for making a survey to ascertain the practicability and utility of removing obstructions to navigation in Pisquataqua river, and the expense of effecting the same. In the state of Massachusetts, five hundred dollars for making surveys of the following places, to wit: the flat on the north-west side of the harbour of Edgartown, to ascertain the practicability of building a light-house thereon, and the utility of the same to navigation, and of preventing the said harbour from being filled up with sand. The bar at the mouth of Merrimack river, and the practicability of deepening the channel over the same, and the harbour of Hyannis, in the Vineyard Sound, to ascertain what improvements can be made in the same for the safe anchorage of vessels, and the expense of effecting, severally, these objects. In the state of Connecticut, four hundred dollars for making a survey of Saugatuck river and harbour, and to ascertain the expediency and expense of removing the obstructions to the navigation thereof, and of facilitating the commercial intercourse between the port of Saugatuck and the city of New York. In the state of New York, two hundred dollars for making a survey of Oswego bay and harbour, for ascertaining the expediency and expense of constructing piers, to improve the navigation thereof. In the state of Pennsylvania, one hundred dollars, to defray the expense of a survey of the public piers at Chester, in the river Delaware, in order to determine the expediency of accepting the cession thereof made by the state of Pennsylvania, and the expense of repairing the same. In the state of North Carolina, one thousand dollars for making a survey of the Swash, in Pamtico Sound, near Ocracock Inlet, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the channel through the same can be deepened; and also one of Cape Fear River, below the town of Walmington, [Wilmington,] for the same purpose, and also for a survey of Roanoke Inlet and sound, with the view of ascertaining the practicability of making a permanent ship channel between Albemarle Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, at Roanoke Inlet, or elsewhere, and a statement of the costs of effecting, severally, these objects. In the state of Alabama, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, for the purpose of removing the obstructions and deepening the harbour of Mobile. In the territory of Michigan, two hundred dollars for making a survey of La Plaisance bay, to ascertain the expediency of improving the navigation thereof, and the expense of effecting the same. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums herein be paid from the appropriated be, and the same are hereby, directed to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, May 20, 1826. treasury. STATUTE I. CHAP. LXXIX.--An Act to authorize the payment of interest due to the city of May 20, 1826. Baltimore. proper Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to liquidate and settle the claim of the city of Baltimore against the United States, for interest upon money borrowed, and actually expended by the city in its defence, during the late war with Great Britain. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in ascertaining the amount of interest due to the city of Baltimore, the following rules shall be adhered to, to wit: That interest shall not be computed on any sum which the city of Baltimore has not expended for the benefit of the United States, which sum shall be evidenced by the amount refunded or repaid to the city of Baltimore by the United States; that no interest shall be paid on any sum on which the city of Baltimore has not paid interest; and that when the principal, or any part of it, has been paid by the United States to the city of Baltimore, the interest on the sum so paid shall cease, and not be chargeable to the United States any longer than to the time of repayment. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the amount of the interest, when ascertained as aforesaid, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, May 20, 1826. CHAP. LXXX.-An Act to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate a company for making a certain turnpike road in the county of Alexandria," passed thirteenth July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen. STATUTE I. May 20, 1826. Act of July Preamble. Commission Whereas, by an act, entitled "An act incorporating a company to establish a turnpike road, from Wiley's Tavern, in the county of Fair- 13, 1813, ch. 12. fax, to a point of intersection on the Little River turnpike road, or on the line of the District of Columbia," passed by the general assembly of the state of Virginia, it is provided, that the company thereby incorporated may, at their discretion, locate their said road so as to intersect the Little River turnpike road, or the line of the District of Columbia; in the latter case of intersecting the line of the District of Columbia, the said road may terminate at some distance from the town of AlexandriaBe it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the commis- ers to be apsioners, to be appointed under the act of Congress to which this is an amendment, for locating and marking the road therein mentioned, shall have power to lay out the same from any point of intersection on the line of the District of Columbia, if the said Virginia Company shall so locate their road, to such point in the line of the corporation of Alexandria, as they, in their judgment, may think fit; and the said company, incorporated by the act to which this is an amendment, at their annual meeting in March, shall elect, from among the stockholders, a President and four directors, to manage the concerns of the company for one year, and until others are appointed in their place. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the rates of toll heretofore fixed by the said act, shall be considered as the rates for two miles, and that the company shall have power to demand and receive, in the same proportion, for a greater or less distance: Provided, The tolls to be collected thereon shall not exceed the rate of tolls on the Little River turnpike road, for the like distance; and that Hugh Smith, Robert J. Taylor, Richard M. Scott, John C. Vowell, Thomas Vowell, Thomas VOL. IV.-23 pointed. Rates of toll. Proviso. If the road become free under said act, the levy court of Alexandria shall keep it in repair. Sandford, William Fowle, Humphrey Peake, and Francis Peyton, be added to the commissioners named in the said act, for taking subscriptions to the said stock. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That if, at any time hereafter, the said road shall become free under the provisions of the said act, then, and in that case, the levy court of the county of Alexandria shall thereafter keep the said road in repair, at the expense of the said county. APPROVED, May 20, 1826. STATUTE I. May 20, 1826. President of the appoint the com missioners. CHAP. LXXXI.—An Act to provide for erecting a penitentiary in the District of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States to United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to appoint three commissioners, whose duty it shall be to select a proper site in the District of Columbia, on which to erect a penitentiary, for the said district. When the commissioners shall have selected the site, it must be approved by the President. Penitentiary to be erected. 40,000 dollars appropriated for defraying the expenses thereof. the public buildings. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, as soon as the said commissioners shall have selected the said site, and the President of the United States shall have approved thereof, it shall be the duty of the commissioner of the public buildings to cause to be built thereon, of substantial materials, a penitentiary for the said district, sufficiently large to contain one hundred and sixty separate cells, and other necessary apartments, for the residence of the keeper of the said penitentiary, and other purposes, on a plan to be approved by the President of the United States, and enclose the same in a securely walled yard of sufficient dimensions to allow room to employ the convicts who may be there confined at any kind of labour which may be found most profitable. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of defraying the of erecting the said building, there is hereby appropriated expense the sum of forty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Duty of the SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the commissioner of said commissioner of the public buildings, to cause the present jail in the city of Washington to be so altered and repaired, as to make it a suitable, convenient, healthy, and comfortable prison for the use of the city and county of Washington; for the making and finishing of which repairs, the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Commissioners to select a site in the coun ty of Alexandria, for a county jail. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall also select a site in the county of Alexandria, for a county jail, on which it shall be the duty of the commissioner of the public buildings to cause a county jail, for the city and county of Alexandria, to be erected and finished on a plan to be approved by the President of the United States. And there is hereby appropriated, for the building of the said jail, the sum of ten thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, May 20, 1826. STATUTE I. May 20, 1826. Secretary of War to cause to be purchased in the vicinity of CHAP. LXXXII.-An Act concerning the United States' arsenal in Georgia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be purchased, in the vicinity of Augusta, a suitable site for an United States' arsenal, for an arsenal. Proviso. and to be erected thereon such buildings as may be necessary, in lieu of Augusta, a site those at this time occupied for such purpose: Provided, Such site can be obtained upon reasonable terms, and with a proper regard to health, and to the public convenience: And provided, also, That the consent of the proper authorities of the state of Georgia shall be given thereto, and the jurisdiction over the same be ceded to the United States. Proviso. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding seventy A sum not thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the objects exceeding 70,000 dollars appropriaforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. ated, &c. And that the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be sold, or otherwise disposed of, the buildings above mentioned, at present used as an arsenal, with the ground on which they stand, so as may best conduce to the public interest, and to the object aforesaid. APPROVED, May 20, 1826. STATUTE I. CHAP. LXXXIII.-An Act to appropriate lands for the support of schools in certain townships and fractional townships, not before provided for. May 20, 1826. Following quantities of is appropriated for the use of tain townships or fractional townships, to be re schools in cer served for such purpose. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That to make pro-and where none vision for the support of schools, in all townships or fractional townships for which no land has been heretofore appropriated for that use in those states in which section number sixteen, or other land equivalent thereto, is by law directed to be reserved for the support of schools, in each township, there shall be reserved and appropriated, for the use of schools, in each entire township, or fractional township, for which no land has been heretofore appropriated or granted for that purpose, the following quantities of land, to wit: for each township or fractional township, containing a greater quantity of land than three quarters of an entire township, one section; for a fractional township, containing a greater quantity of land than one half, and not more than three quarters of a township, three quarters of a section; for a fractional township, containing a greater quantity of land than one quarter, and not more than one half of a township, one half section; and for a fractional township, containing a greater quantity of land than one entire section, and not more than one quarter of a township, one quarter section of land. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid tracts of land shall be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury, out of any unappropriated public land within the land district where the township for which any tract is selected may be situated; and when so selected, shall be held by the same tenure, and upon the same terms, for the support of schools, in such township, as section number sixteen is, or may be held, in the state where such township shall be situated. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be selected, in the manner above mentioned, one section and one quarter section of land, for the support of schools within that tract of country, usually called the French grant, in the county of Sciota, and state of Ohio. APPROVED, May 20, 1826. Aforesaid tracts of land to be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury. Land to be selected in the French grant in Ohio. STATUTE I. CHAP. LXXXVIII.-An Act to authorize the Secretary of the War Department May 20, 1826. to purchase a site for an arsenal at St. Louis, in the state of Missouri, and to provide for the erection of an arsenal on the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the War Department be, and is hereby, authorized to purchase, as Secretary of War to purchase a site for an arsenal at or St. Louis. in the vicinity of soon as it can be effected, on reasonable terms, a site for an arsenal, at or in the vicinity of St. Louis, Missouri; and to cause to be erected such an arsenal on the same, as may be deemed proper for the safe keeping of the arms and munitions of the United States, on that frontier; and that for these purposes the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of the moneys of [in] the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, May 20, 1826. STATUTE I. May 20, 1826. [Obsolete.] Judge for the western district of Virginia to hold the district court of the western district of Pennsylvania, for the trial of certain cases. Compensation. CHAP. LXXXIX.-An Act to authorize the judge of the district court for the western district of Virginia, to hold the district court for the western district of Pennsylvania, for the trial of certain cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the district judge for the western district of Virginia is hereby authorized and required to hear, try, and determine, all causes now pending in the district court for the western district of Pennsylvania, in which the judge of the said last-mentioned district court had been concerned as counsel before his appointment, in the same manner, and at the same times and places, as the said district judge of the western district of Pennsylvania might or could have done, had he not been concerned as counsel therein. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said judge shall receive for his services eight dollars per day, for the time he shall be employed in holding said courts, and travelling to and from his place of residence, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, May 20, 1826. CHAP. XC.-An Act concerning a seminary of learning in the territory of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the STATUTE 1. May 20, 1826. Washington CHAP. CIX.-An Act to extend the width of the Washington canal. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Canal Company United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Washington Canal Company be,. and are hereby, authorized to increase the width of the Washington Canal, from Seventh street west, to its western authorized to in- |