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ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES,

Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the sixth day of December, 1830, and ended March third, 1831.

ANDREW JACKSON, President; J. C. CALHOUN, Vice President of the
United States and President of the Senate; ANDREW STEVENSON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

STATUTE II.

CHAP. I.—An Act to change the time of holding the rule term of the circuit court of the district of West Tennessee. (a)

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 district judge of Tennessee, to hold a term of the circuit court at Nashville, for the district of West Tennessee, on the first Monday in March, in each year, who shall have power to make all necessary rules and orders touching any suit, action, appeal, writ of error, process, pleadings, or proceedings, that may be pending in said circuit court, or that may have issued returnable to the circuit court to be holden on the first Monday in September next, preparatory to the hearing, trial, or decision of such action, suit, appeal, writ of error, process, pleadings or proceedings; and all writs and process may hereafter be returnable to the said courts to be holden on the first Monday in March, in the same manner as to the sessions of the circuit courts directed by law to be held at Nashville on the first Monday in September of each year and the writs and other process returnable to the said circuit court on the first Monday in September, may bear teste on the first Monday in March.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said district judge shall have power to adjourn from day to day, or to any other period of time, more than three months before the September term of said court: Provided, That no final judgment be rendered at said term to be held by the district judge, except by the consent of both parties. APPROVED, January 13, 1831.

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CHAP. II.-An Act to amend an act, entitled "An act to provide for paying to the state of Illinois three per centum of the net proceeds arising from the sale of the public lands within the same."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of the act, entitled "An act to provide for paying to the state of Illinois three per centum

STATUTE II.

Jan. 13, 1831. [Obsolete.] Act of Dec. 12, 1820, ch. 2.

State of Illi

(a) Acts relating to the circuit court of Tennessee, vol. ii. pp. 420, 477, 516, 693; vol. iii. p. 661. Act of May 5, 1830, ch. 89. Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 193. Act of January 18, 1839, ch. 3. Act of July 4, 1840, ch. 42. Act of May 18, 1842, ch. 30. Act of March 3, 1843, ch. 74. Act of June 17, 1844, ch. 96.

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of the net proceeds arising from the sale of the public lands within the same," approved the twelfth of December, eighteen hundred and twenty, as requires an annual account of the application, by the said state, of the said three per centum, to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

APPROVED, January 13, 1831.

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CHAP. III.—An Act making appropriations for carrying into effect certain Indian

treaties.

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, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty:

For the annual support of a school for the education of Indian youth, as stipulated for by the sixth article of the treaty of the fifth of August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, with the Chippewa tribe of Indians, one thousand dollars.

For the payment of the annuity of two thousand dollars, and also the sum of two thousand dollars for education, as stipulated for by the third article of the treaty of the sixteenth October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, with the Pattawatamies, the annual sum of four thousand dollars.

For the annual support of a blacksmith and miller, and for furnishing annually one hundred and sixty bushels of salt, under the same treaty, one thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.

For the payment of the permanent and limited annuities provided for by the second article of the treaty with the Pattawatamies, of the twentieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, annually the sum of three thousand dollars.

For tobacco, iron, steel, education, annuity to the principal chief, and employment of labourers, by same article, one thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.

For payment of permanent annuity under the fourth article of the treaty with the Miamies, of the twenty-third of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For iron, steel, tobacco, and labourers, by same article, one thousand one hundred dollars.

For support of the poor and infirm, and for education, under the sixth article of said treaty, two thousand dollars. APPROVED, January 13, 1831.

STATUTE II.

Jan. 19, 1831. [Obsolete.]

Act of May 3, 1822, c. 46.

States of Mis

exonerated

CHAP. VI.-An Act to amend an act, entitled "An act to provide for paying to the states of Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama, three per centum of the net proceeds arising from the sale of the public lands within the same.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of an act, entisouri, Mississip- tled "An act to provide for paying to the states of Missouri, Mississippi, pi and Alabama and Alabama, three per centum of the net proceeds arising from the sale of the public lands within the same," approved the third of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, as requires an annual account of the application of the said three per centum, to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

from obligation to render annual account of, &c.

APPROVED, January 19, 1831.

STATUTE II.

CHAP. VIII.-An Act for closing certain accounts, and making appropriations Jan. 27, 1831. for arrearages in the Indian department.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of sixty-one thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for arrearages in the Indian department, the same to be applied to the payment of balances on accounts presented and settled by the proper accounting officer, and now actually due, which accrued previous to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and to no other purpose.

[Obsolete.] Arrearages.

Transfers of

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of settling and closing the accounts in the office of the second auditor, relating to Indian balances. affairs, prior to the date of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, the President of the United States is hereby authorized to direct transfers to be made from such balances of moneys heretofore appropriated to carry into effect certain Indian treaties as are no longer required for their several objects, to the credit of certain other heads of Indian expenditure, under which balances accruing previously to the above date, remain due to certain individuals, and appear upon the books of the second auditor; also, to direct similar transfers to be made to and from the several specific heads of contingencies of the Indian department, pay of agents, sub-agents, and presents to Indians; and, also, of the sum of five thousand and fourteen dollars and fifteen cents from the fers. head of subsistence of the army, to the head of Indian expenditure, under which that amount was actually applied and expended: Provided, always, That no such transfer shall be made unless it satisfactorily appear that the specific expenditure was actually made for the service of Indian affairs, in good faith, by an authorized agent of the government, and before the date aforesaid, and that the balances from which such transfers are authorized to be made are not necessary for the specific purpose of their original appropriation.

Other trans

Proviso.

To Mark and

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized to pay to Mark and R. H. Bean, of Arkan- R. H. Bean. sas, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, eight thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents, for supplies furnished to the emigrant Creek Indians by direction of former Indian agents: Provided, That the said Beans shall first present sufficient evidence to the proper accounting officer, that credit was originally given by them to the government of the United States, and that no part of the amount has been received by them, or satisfied, directly or indirectly, from the agents through whom, they sold or contracted. APPROVED, January 27, 1831.

Proviso.

CHAP. IX.—An Act making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and

invalid pensioners.

STATUTE II.

Jan. 27, 1831. [Obsolete.]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriations. States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for paying revolutionary and invalid pensioners, viz:

For payment of revolutionary pensioners, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, one million eleven thousand one hundred dollars.

Revolutionary pensions.

Invalid pen

For paying the invalid pensioners, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, two hundred and seventy-six thousand seven hun- sions. VOL. IV.-55 20

Widows and orphans.

dred and twenty dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of appro-
priation for invalid pensioners of twenty-nine thousand two hundred and
forty-six dollars ninety-five cents.

For pensions to widows and orphans, five thousand dollars.
APPROVED, January 27, 1831.

STATUTE II.

Jan. 27, 1831.

District court of Alabama.

CHAP. X.-An Act to alter the times of holding the district courts of the United States for the districts of Maine and Illinois, and northern district of Alabama.(a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the terms of the district court of the United States for the northern district of Alabama, which are now directed by law to be held on the first Mondays of March and October in each year, shall hereafter be held on the second Mondays of District court April and October in each year; and that the term of the district court of the United States for the district of Maine, which is now directed by law to be held on the second Tuesday of September in each year, shall hereafter be held on the first Tuesday of September in each year: and all processes which may have issued, or which shall hereafter issue, returnable to the next succeeding terms of the said district courts as heretofore established, shall be held returnable, and be returned, to those terms to which they are severally changed by this act.

of Maine.

District court of Illinois.

STATUTE 11.

Jan. 27, 1831.

[Expired.] Certain provisions continued in force for two

years from May

24, 1831.

Act of May

24, 1828, ch. 108.

Act of Jan. 6, 1829, ch. 2.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the terms of the district court of the United States for the district of Illinois, which are now directed by law to be held on the third Mondays of June and November in each year, shall hereafter be held on the first Mondays of May and December in each year; and all process which may have issued, or which shall hereafter issue, returnable to the next succeeding terms of the said district court as heretofore established, shall be held returnable, and be returned, to those terms to which they are severally changed by this act. APPROVED, January 27, 1831.

CHAP. XI.—An Act to extend the time for entering certain donation claims to land in the territory of Arkansas.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unitea States of America, in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the eighth and ninth sections of the act of Congress, approved twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, entitled “An act to aid the state of Ohio in extending the Miami Canal from Dayton to Lake Erie, and to grant a quantity of land to said state to aid in the construction of the canals authorized by law, and for making donations of land to certain persons in Arkansas territory;" and the provisions of the act entitled "An act restricting the location of certain land claims in the territory of Arkansas, and for other purposes," approved sixth January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine; and, also, the provisions of the act, entitled " An act to extend the time for locating certain donations in Arkansas," approved thirteenth January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, be, and the same are hereby, continued in force for the period of two years, from the twenty-fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one: Provided, That nothing in this act, (a) District court of Maine, vol. ii. pp. 667, 829; vol. iii. p. 413. Act of February 15, 1843, ch. 32. District court of Illinois, vol. iii. p. 237. Act of April 22, 1824, ch. 38. Act of February 19, 1831, ch. 28. Act of July 9, 1832, ch. 182. Act of March 10, 1838, ch. 33. District court of Alabama, vol. iii. p. 662. Act of April 17, 1822, ch. 23. ch. 28. Act of May 22, 1826, ch. 149. Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 41.

Act of Jan. 13, 1830, ch. 3.

Proviso.

Act of March 10, 1924, Act of March 31, 1832, ch. 58.

An act to re-organize the district courts of the United States in Alabama, February 6, 1839, ch. 20. Act of August 4, 1842, ch. 123.

or the foregoing acts, shall be so construed as to prevent the President of the United States from bringing the said lands in Arkansas into market under the existing laws; and all claims to donations under the beforerecited act, which shall not have been presented and allowed by the proper authorities on or before the day which shall be fixed on by the President for the sale of said land, are hereby declared forfeited to the United States.

APPROVED, January 27, 1831.

STATUTE II.

Act of June

13, 1812, ch. 99. States to relinquish certain rights.

The United

CHAP. XII.-An Act further supplemental to the act entitled "An act making Jan. 27, 1831. further provision for settling the claims to land, in the territory of Missouri, passed the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the United States do hereby relinquish to the inhabitants of the several towns or villages of Portage des Sioux, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Saint Ferdinand, Villa a Robert, Carondelet, Saint Genevieve, New Madrid, New Bourbon, and Little Prairie, in the state of Missouri, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the town or village lots, out lots, common field lots, and commons in, adjoining and belonging to, the said towns or villages, confirmed to them respectively, by the first section of the act of Congress, entitled "An act making further provision for settling the claims to land in the territory of Missouri," passed the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, to be held by the inhabitants of the said towns and villages, in full property, according to their several rights therein, to be regulated or disposed of for the use of the inhabitants, according to the laws of the state of Missouri.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the United States do hereby relinquish all their right, title, and interest, in and to the town and village lots, out lots, and common field lots, in the state of Missouri, reserved for the support of schools, in the respective towns and villages aforesaid, by the second section of the above-recited act of Congress; and that the same shall be sold or disposed of, or regulated for the said purposes, in such manner, as may be directed by the legislature of said state. APPROVED, January 27, 1831.

United States

to relinquish all right, &c. in Missouri.

CHAP. XIV. An Act making provision for the compensation of witnesses, and payment of other expenses attending the trial of the impeachment of James H. Peck.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That to every witness summoned to attend the trial of the impeachment of James H. Peck, there shall be allowed and paid, for every day's attendance upon the said trial, the sum of four dollars; and also for mileage, at the rate of twenty cents for every mile distance coming to the city of Washington, and returning to the usual place of residence of the witnesses respectively, computing the said distance by the usual route of travel by land.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the secretary of the Senate to ascertain and certify the amount due to each witness for attendance and mileage; which certificate shall be a sufficient voucher to entitle the witness to receive from the treasury of the United States, the amount certified to be due, unless otherwise ordered by the Senate.

STATUTE II.

Feb. 3, 1831. [Obsolete.] Witnesses, four dollars per diem, cents per mile.

and twenty

Secretary of the Senate to certify.

(a) See notes of decisions of the Supreme Court on land titles in Missouri, vol. ii. pp. 748, 812. Notes of acts passed relative to lands in Missouri, vol. ii. p. 812.

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