session, and cultivated any part thereof in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter, with the register of the land office, for the district in which such lands may lie, by legal subdivisions, any number of acres, not more than one hundred and sixty or a quarter section, to include his improvement, upon paying to the United States the then minimum price of said land: Provided, however, That no entry or sale of any land shall be made, under the provisions of this act, which shall have been reserved for the use of the United States, or either of the several states, in which any of the public lands may be situated. Where two or SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if two or more persons be settled upon the same quarter section, the same may be divided between more settlers. the two first actual settlers, if, by a north and south, or east and west line, the settlement or improvement of each can be included in a half quarter section; and in such case the said settlers shall each be entitled to a pre-emption of eighty acres of land elsewhere in said land district, so as not to interfere with other settlers having a right of preference. Proof of set SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That prior to any entries being made under the privileges given by this act, proof of settlement or im- tlement. provement shall be made to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of the land district in which such lands may lie, agreeably to the rules to be prescribed by the commissioner of the general land office for that purpose, which register and receiver shall each be entitled to receive fifty cents for his services therein. And that all assignments and transfers of the right of pre-emption given by this act, prior to the issuance of patents, shall be null and void. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not delay the sale of any of the public lands of the United States, beyond the time which has been, or may be, appointed, for that purpose, by the President's proclamation; nor shall any of the provisions of this act be available to any person, or persons, who shall fail to make the proof and payment required before the day appointed for the commencement of the sales of lands including the tract, or tracts, on which the right of preemption is claimed; nor shall the right of pre-emption, contemplated by this act, extend to any land, which is reserved from sale by act of Congress, or by order of the President, or which may have been appropriated, for any purpose whatsoever. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be and remain in force, for one year from and after its passage. APPROVED, May 29, 1830. STATUTE I. CHAP. CCXI.-An Act to revive and continue in force "An act fixing the compen- May 29, 1830. sations of the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives, of the clerks employed in their offices, and of the librarian.' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the act passed the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act fixing the compensation of the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives, of the clerks employed in their offices, and of the librarian," be, and the same is hereby revived and continued in force. APPROVED, May 29, 1830. Act of April 18, 1818, ch. 69, revived. STATUTE I. May 29, 1830. Monthly sessions of district court. Vol. iii. 120, 774. Two addition circuit court. CHAP. CCXIII.—An act increasing the terms of the judicial courts of the United States for the southern district of New York, and adding to the compensation of several district judges of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, hereafter, there shall be held, monthly, in the city of New York, a session of the district court of the United States for the southern district of New York, to commence on the first Tuesday of each month, and be held in the manner now provided by law for holding the stated terms of the said court. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, hereafter, there shall be held, al sessions of annually, in the city of New York, two additional sessions of the circuit court of the United States, for the said district, for the trial of criminal causes, and suits in equity, to commence on the last Monday of February, and the last Monday of July: And further, That the said court may, at its discretion, direct special sessions thereof to be held in the said city, for the trial of criminal causes or suits in equity; which said additional and special sessions may be held by the said district judge alone. Special sions. Salaries. ses District judges of New York. District judge of Connecticut. Eastern dis trict of Penn. North Carolina. Maine. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, hereafter, the district judge for the southern district of New York, shall reside in the city of New York; and there shall be allowed the said judge, the yearly compensation of thirty-five hundred dollars, to be paid at the treasury of the United States, in quarterly payments; to the judge of the northern district of New York, the sum of two thousand dollars, and to the judge for the district of Connecticut, one thousand five hundred dollars. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That, hereafter, there shall be alMassachusetts. lowed the district judges of the United States for the districts of MassaSouth Carolina. chusetts, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and the eastern district of Georgia. Alabama. Pennsylvania, each, the yearly compensation of two thousand five hundred dollars; and to the district judges of the following districts, respectively, the yearly compensation following-to the district judge of North Carolina, two thousand dollars; of Maine, one thousand eight hundred dollars; of Rhode Island, one thousand five hundred dollars; of Delaware, one thousand five hundred dollars; of Maryland, two thousand dollars; of New Jersey, one thousand five hundred dollars; of Vermont, one thousand two hundred dollars, and of the western district of Pennsylvania, one thousand eight hundred dollars, to be paid at the treasury of the United States, in quarterly payments. Rhode Island. Western dis trict of Penn. APPROVED, May 29, 1830. STATUTE I. May 30, 1830. Certain troops of Virginia authorized to draw scrip, &c. CHAP. CCXV.—An Act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Virginia line and navy, and of the continental army, during the revolutionary war. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the officers and soldiers, sailors and marines, who were in the service of Virginia on her own state establishment during the revolutionary war, and who were entitled to military land bounties, by the laws and resolutions of that state, their heirs, and assigns, shall be, and they are hereby, authorized to surrender, to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, such of their warrants for the said land bounties as shall remain unsatisfied, in whole or in part, and to receive certificates or scrip for the same, at any time before the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, which certificates or scrip shall be issued by the said Secretary, and signed by him, and countersigned by the commissioner of the general land office, in the following manner, that is to say: There (a) Notes of the acts which have been passed relating to Virginia military bounty land, vol. ii. p. 274. shall be a separate certificate or scrip, for such sum as shall, at the time of issuing the same, be equal to the then minimum price of each quantity of eighty acres of land due by such warrant, and remaining unsatisfied at the time of such surrender, and a like certificate or scrip for such sum as, at the time, shall be equal to the minimum price of the quantity that shall so remain unsatisfied, of any such warrant after such subdivisions of the amount into quantities of eighty acres. And where any such warrant shall have been lost or mislaid, by time and accident, it shall and may be lawful for the party desiring to surrender the same, to surrender an official copy thereof, certified under the seal of the land office of Virginia, with the affidavit of the party endorsed upon, or accompanying the same, stating that such warrant has been lost or mislaid, and that the original hath not been sold or transferred, to the knowledge or belief of the party so surrendering, or his or her guardian. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the commissioner of the general land office, to request the executive of Virginia to furnish him with a statement of all such warrants, within the purview of this act, as have already issued, showing the number and date of each warrant, and the quantity of acres granted by each, and also a monthly statement of the same description, showing the number, date, and quantity, of such warrants as shall hereafter be granted. And no warrant shall be taken to be within the provisions of this act, which shall hereafter be granted, unless the executive of Virginia shall cause a certificate to be endorsed thereon, signed by some proper officer, stating that the party to whom such warrant shall be so granted, his, her, or their ancestor or devisor, was entitled thereto by some law or resolution of the said state, in force at the time of the deed of cession, by the state of Virginia, to the United States. Statement to be obtained from executive of Virginia. Certificate of SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That before the Secretary of the Treasury shall issue the scrip required by the provisions of this bill, the non-location. applicants shall produce to him the certificate of the register of the land office in Kentucky, and the certificate of the surveyor of the military lands of the Virginia line, that the warrants (when the original is presented, or the copy, when the original has been lost or destroyed,) has not been located, surveyed, or patented, in Kentucky, attested by the seal of his office. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the certificates or scrip to be Scrip receivaissued by virtue of this act, shall be receivable in payment for any lands ble, &c. hereafter to be purchased, at private sale, after the same shall have been offered at public sale, and shall remain unsold at any of the land offices of the United States, established, or to be established, in the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. And all such certificates or scrip, as shall be issued by virtue of this act shall be assignable, by endorsement thereon, attested by two witnesses: Provided, That all certificates or scrip to be issued, in virtue of any warrant hereafter to be granted, shall be issued to the party originally entitled thereto, or his heir or heirs, devisee or devisees, as the case may be. Proviso. Persons con this act. SEC.5. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act shall be deemed and taken to extend to all such officers, soldiers, sailors, marines, templated by chaplains, musicians, surgeons, and surgeons' mates, in the land or sea service of the state of Virginia during the revolutionary war, and generally, to every person to whom the state had engaged to pay a land bounty for services in that war, of any description, by any law or resolution passed before, and in force at the date of the said deed of cession; except only such persons as are mentioned in, and provided for by the reservation contained in the said deed of cession in favour of the officers and soldiers of the said state on continental establishment: Provided, That no scrip issued under the provisions of this act, shall entitle the holder to enter or purchase any settled or occupied lands, without the written con Proviso. sent of such settlers or occupants, as may be actually residing on said lands at the time the same shall be entered or applied for: And provided, also, That the amount of land thus located, shall not exceed two hundred and sixty thousand acres. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the first and fourth sections of this act, shall extend to and embrace owners of military land warrants, issued, by the United States, in satisfaction of claims for bounty land for services during the revolutionary war; and that the laws, heretofore enacted, providing for the issuing said warrants, are hereby revived and continued in force for two years. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act shall also be deemed and taken to extend to all the unsatisfied warrants of the Virginia army on continental establishment: Provided, That the quantity thereof shall not exceed fifty thousand acres, in addition to the two hundred and sixty thousand acres heretofore authorized to be located by their state line. APPROVED, May 30, 1830. CHAP. CCXVII.—An Act making appropriations for certain expenditures on account of the engineer, ordnance, and quartermaster's department. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit: For the erection of barracks and the purchase of land at Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien, twelve thousand dollars. For the payment of the land upon which the barracks are erected at Houlton, in the state of Maine, six hundred and twenty-nine dollars and twenty-one cents. For the completion of the barracks at New London, and for a portico to the officers' quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars. For barracks, quarters, hospital, and storehouses at Green bay, fifteen thousand dollars. For the completion of Jefferson barracks, in the state of Missouri, eight thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars. For the erection of a storehouse for the subsistence and quartermaster's departments at Baton Rouge, three thousand five hundred dollars. For the erection of barracks at Key West, and for ditching, draining, and clearing, the ground required to be used for military purposes, fifteen thousand dollars. For opening a road from Green bay to Winnebago lake, and thence to Fort Winnebago, two thousand dollars. For the completion of the military road in the state of Maine, fortyseven thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-two cents. For the erection of wooden barracks for the troops at Fortress Monroe, ten thousand two hundred dollars. For the purchase of five and a half acres of land for the use of the national armory at Springfield, in Massachusetts, two thousand two hundred dollars. For the erection of a new fire-proof arsenal at the national armory at Springfield, in Massachusetts, sixteen thousand dollars. For the national armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, viz: For extending the walls and embankments which convey the water from the Potomac river to the works, nine thousand three hundred dollars; for erecting a forging-shop, tilt hammer, and new work-shop, six thousand five hundred dollars; for the erection of ten additional dwelling-houses for the workmen, ten thousand dollars; for slating the roofs of the present workshops, three thousand two hundred dollars. For the purchase of five acres of land adjoining the arsenal at Watertown, Massachusetts, five hundred dollars. For the erection of a military laboratory and workshop at West Point, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the purchase of a lithographic press, of paper and ink, and for the employment of a suitable lithographer for the War Department, six hundred dollars. For barracks at Fort Gratiot, five thousand dollars. Arsenal, &c. West Point. Lithography. Barracks. For the security of the Pea Patch island; for the construction of a Fort Delaware. new water-tank; and for gravelling the parade at fort Delaware, fortyone thousand three hundred and twenty-one dollars and fourteen cents. APPROVED, May 31, 1830. CHAP. CCXVIII.—An Act making a re-appropriation of a sum heretofore appropriated for the suppression of the slave trade. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the unexpended balance of the sum of thirty thousand dollars, appropriated by the act, entitled "An act making an appropriation for the suppression of the slave trade," approved May twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and twentyeight, be re-appropriated to the same object, pursuant to the act of Congress of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and nine teen. APPROVED, May 31, 1830. CHAP. CCXIX.-An Act to repeal the tonnage duties upon ships and vessels of the May 31, 1830. United States, and upon certain foreign vessels. (a) Tonnage duabolished as to American vessels: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, from and after the first ties day of April next, no duties upon the tonnage of the ships and vessels of the United States, of which the officers and two thirds of the crew shall be citizens of the United States, shall be levied or collected; and all acts and parts of acts imposing duties upon the tonnage of ships and vessels of the United States officered and manned as aforesaid, so far as the same relate to the imposition of such duties, shall, from and after said first day of April next, be repealed. And as to fo certain condi tions. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the said first day of April next, all acts and parts of acts imposing duties upon the reign vessels on tonnage of the ships and vessels of any foreign nation, so far as the same relate to the imposition of such duties, shall be repealed: Provided, That the President of the United States shall be satisfied that the discriminating or countervailing duties of such foreign nation, so far as they operate to the disadvantage of the United States, have been abolished. APPROVED, May 31, 1830. STATUTE I. CHAP. CCXX.-An Act to authorize the President of the United States to cause the present site of the national mint to be sold, and muking an appropriation for completing the new buildings now erecting.· Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be authorized, and he is hereby authorized, to cause (a) Acts relating to discriminating duties, vol. iv. p. 2. 2N2 VOL. IV. 54 May 31, 1830. Sales, &c. |