presenta

tion, to be receiv

duties.

in case it shall thereafter be made to appear that the goods upon 1838. which the duties so remitted or refunded were chargeable, were not in fact destroyed at the conflagration aforesaid. Provided, Proviso That in all cases when the applicant for relief under this act shall have had bonds other than those given for duties on goods destroyed by said fire suspended under the act entitled "An act for the relief of the sufferers by fire in the city of New York" approved nineteenth March eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the amount of twenty-four per cent. on the amount of duties secured by such bonds shall be deducted from the sum which would otherwise be remitted to such applicants under this act. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That upon the presentation Certificates, by any person to the collector of New York, of any certificate upon so issued by the said commissioners, showing that a remission et in payment of is to be made upon any unpaid bond given to secure duties, and then in the hands of the said collector, it shall be his duty to make the requisite endorsement upon the said bond or bonds and likewise so far to cancel the said certificate by a proper endorsement thereon as his endorsement upon the bond or bonds shall require and so far as any such certificate shall show that duties paid are to be refunded, the said collector of the port of New York shall receive such certificate in lieu of money for the payment of duties at all times endorsing upon the certificate the amount of duties thus cancelled by its presentation; and as fast as the said certificates shall be thus fully Certificates af cancelled the said collector shall retain and transmit to the ed shall he transSecretary of the Treasury to be by him placed upon the files of the Department with the statement upon which they were issued, and the testimony upon which the duties are refunded or remitted.

ter being cancell

mitted to the Sec.

Treasury.

ages only par

to be in propor

struction.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That in all cases where Remission of any article or package, as imported, shall have been partially duties on pack and not entirely destroyed by the said conflagration, the remis- tially destroyed sion or refunding of duties upon such article or package shall be tion to the dein proportion to the destruction by the said fire, as that proportion shall be ascertained and certified to the said commissioners by the appraisers for the port of New York; but this section shall not be so construed as to extend to any merchandise or property destroyed or damaged other than in the original and unbroken packages as imported

not

an

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the said commis- A clerk may be employed by sioners may employ a clerk who shall be paid for his services the Commissionout of any unappropriated money in the Treasury such reason- et exceeding able compensation as the Secretary of the Treasury shall allow, 82000 per which payment the said Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to make, not to exceed the rate of two thousand dollars Approved, July 7th, 1838.

per annum.

num.

19

1838.

Collection district to be esta

sissippi, to be

burg district.

CHAP. 175. An ACT to establish a new collection district in the State of Mis

sissippi.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Repre blished in north-sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as ern part of Mis- sembled, That all that part of the State of Mississippi north of called the Vicks- the point where the range line strikes the Mississippi river, between townships thirteen and fourteen, of the Washington land. district, is hereby created a collection district, to be called the Vicksburg to Vicksburg district, whereof Vicksburg shall be the port of entry, be the port of subject to all the regulations and duties prescribed in regard to the district of Mississippi, by an act passed the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, entitled "An act to establish a port of entry at Natchez, in Mississippi, and creating certain Grand Gulf to other ports of delivery, and for other purposes;" and that Grand be a port of de- Gulf shall be a port of delivery within said district of which Natchez is the port of entry. Approved, July 7th, 1838.

entry.

livery.

sal of certain U..

fice shall be esta

in Natchitoches,

the office for the Northwestern land district in Louisiana.

CHAP. 176. An ACT to establish additional land offices in the States of Louisiana and Arkansas.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as

For the disposembled, That for the disposal of that portion of the lands S. lands in Lou- belonging to the United States in the State of Louisiana, within isiana, a land of the following boundaries, to wit: beginning at the point on the blished and kept Sabine river, where the base line or thirty-first degree of north to be known as latitude strikes the same; thence up said river to the point where the boundary line between the United States of Mexico and the aforesaid State of Louisiana shall leave the same, thence with said boundary, when the same shall be finally fixed, to the northern boundary of the State; thence east with said northern boundary to the dividing line between the ranges three and four west; thence with said dividing line south to the base line or thirty-first degree of north latitude, thence with said line to the beginning: a land office shall be established and kept in the town of Natchitoches, to be known as the office for the Northwestern land district in the State of Louisiana.

Register and

appointed to re

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a register and reReceiver to be ceiver of public moneys shall be appointed for said land district side in Natchi in the manner required by law, who shall reside in the town of bonds. salaries, Natchitoches, they shall give bond and security in the same

toches: their

and duties.

During the continuance of act

register and re

manner and in the same sums, as other registers and receivers in said State; and their salaries, emoluments, duties and authority shall in every respect be the same, in relation to the lands in the aforesaid district as are now given or granted to the registers and receivers in the other land offices in said State.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That during the con22d June, 1838, the tinuance of the act entitled "An act to grant pre-emption rights eiver shall at- to settlers on the public lands" approved June twenty-second, in tend a Shreever the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, the register and reupon pre-emption ceiver of the aforesaid land district shall attend at least once

port to

claims.

act

in

two months if necessary at Shreeveport in said district for the purpose of receiving proof of and acting on such claims for preemption rights, as may be presented to them under said act, and remain at said place as long as may be necessary not exceeding two weeks at a time, and said register and receiver shall give public notice for at least two weeks of the time they will attend at said place.

1838.

General Land

shall be supplied

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner Commissioners of the General Land Office is hereby invested with authority to Office to direct direct in what manner and on what conditions the said land of- how the office fice shall be supplied with plats and copies of plats and surveys with plats, &c. from the offices now established at Monroe and Opelousas, and the office of the Surveyor General of Louisiana.

of Fayetteville

ern district.

Where land of

fice shall be es tablished.

pointed.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all that portion What portion of the present Fayetteville district which lies south of the line district shall be between townships eleven and twelve north, of the principal called the Westbase line shall form a separate land district and be called the Western land district, and the land office for said district shall be established at the county seat of Johnson county or such other place as the President of the United States shall designate. SEC. 6 And be it further enacted, That there shall be ap- Register and repointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of ever to be apthe Senate, under the existing laws, a register and receiver in and for said district, whose compensation shall be the same as provided for other registers and receivers; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, as soon as it can be done, to cause the necessary tract books, plats, maps and surveys of The necessary the public lands, in said district, to be filed in said office; and of the public all applications for entries in said district shall be made as hereto- in said office. fore prescribed by law at the land offices now established, until the first day of June next. Approved, July 7th, 1838.

CHAP. 177. An ACT to continue in force the act for the payment of horses and other property lost in the military service.

Their compen

sation.

books, plats, &c.

lands to be filed

Entries to be

made as hereto

fore until June 1, 1839.

for two years.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act approved January eighteen, one thousand eight Act of 18th Janu hundred and thirty-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the pay-ary 1837, contin ment of horses and other property lost or destroyed in the military service of the United States," be, and the same is hereby, continued in force for two years from the end of the present session of Congress. Approved July 7th, 1838.

3

CHAP. 178.
An ACT exempting from duty the coal which may be on board of
steamboats or vessels propelled by steam on their arrival at any port in the United
States.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be

1838.

ing in the U.

lawful for the captain or master of any steamboat or vessel proCaptains or pelled by steam, arriving at any port in the United States, to steamboats arriv retain all the coal such boat or vessel may have on board at the S. with coal on time of her arrival, and may proceed with said coal to a foreign ceed with the port, without being required to land the same in the United States or to pay any duty thereon; and all acts inconsistent ng duty thereon, with the provisions of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby herewith repeal repealed.

board may pro

samme to foreign

ports without pay

Acts inconsistent

ed.

Approved, July 7th, 1838.

CHAP. 179. An ACT making appropriation for the compilation of the laws d

Florida.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assem $2000 appropri- bled, That the sum of two thousand dollars be, and the same ated for compil ing the laws of hereby is, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended in compiling the statutes/ and other laws of the Territory of Florida; the same to be placed for that purpose under the control of the Governor of said Territory. Approved, July 7th, 1838.

Fiorida.

Taylor's ledge and Broadcove rock.

Wood island.

Fort-point ledge, Adam's 1dge and Buck ledge.

Bulwark ledge.

Drummer's ledge

and Mark island

CHAP. 180. An ACT making appropriations for building light-houses, light-bosts beacon-lights, buoys, and making surveys, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assem bled, That the following appropriations be, and the same are hereby, made and directed to be paid out of any money in th Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary c the Treasury to cause to be erected and established, the light houses, beacon-lights, buoys, and to make the surveys herein provided for, to wit:

STATE OF MAINE.

For the erection of two buoys near the entrance of Portland harbor, viz: one on Taylor's ledge, and one on Broadcove rock, five hundred dollars.

For re-building the light-house on Wood island, five thousand

dollars.

For placing monuments on Fort-point ledge, Adam's ledg and Buck ledge, in Penobscot river, one thousand three hundred dollars, in addition to the former appropriation for that purpose. For placing a monument on Bulwark ledge, about seven miles east-southeast of Portland light-house, three thousand

dollars.

For placing one buoy on Drummer's ledge, south of Mark ledge. island, and one buoy on Mark island ledge, five hundred

dollars.

For erecting a light-house on Bear island, at the entrance of Mount Desert harbor, three thousand dollars.

1838.

Bear island.

For erecting a monument on Bunker's ledge, outside of said Bunker's ledge. island, one thousand dollars.

For placing one buoy at the southwest entrance of said Mount Desert Mount Desert harbor, and two buoys on the reef in the middle harbor, and Bass of Bass harbor, one hundred and fifty dollars.

harbor.

For placing a buoy on Bantam ledge, outside of Ram island, Bantam ledge. two hundred dollars.

For erecting a stone beacon and a bouy on Half-tide ledge in Half-tide ledge. the county of Hancock twelve hundred dollars dollars.

For placing a spar buoy on a ledge in the vicinity of Crab- Crab-tree's point tree's point, about four miles below Sullivan harbor, in said county, one hundred and fifty dollars.

For the erection of a monument or beacon on York ledge, off York ledge. the entrance of York harbor, ten thousand dollars.

For erecting a light-house and seawall at Saddle-back ledge, in Penobscot bay ten thousand dollars in addition to the former ledge =appropriations.

t

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Saddle-back

light-house.

For the erection of a pier on the east side of Whaleback light- Whaleback house, to protect the same, seventeen thousand dollars, in addition to the appropriation already made for that purpose.

STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS.

Nantucket is

For the erection of two small beacon-lights, on the north side of Nantucket island, in addition to former appropriation for that land. purpose, two thousand one hundred dollars.

For completing the light-house on Mayo beach, in Weelfleet Mayo beach. bay, two thousand dollars.

For a monument, in the place of one carried away, on Bowditch's ledge, in the harbor of Salem, five thousand dollars. For a monument on Bowbill ledge, in the harbor of Manchester, or for removing the same, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury five thousand dollars.

For rebuilding the two light-houses on Plumb island, near Newburyport, four thousand dollars.

STATE OF RHODE ISLAND.

For buoys or dolphins in Providence river, six hundred dol

lars.

For placing two spindles at the mouth of Paucatuck river, the sum of four hundred dollars.

STATE OF CONNECTICUT.

Bowditch's

ledge.

Bowbill ledge.

Plumb island.

Providence ri

ver.

For placing six buoys in the western, and six in the eastern entrance of Mystic river, from Fisher's island sound, in the Mystic river. State of Connecticut, according to the survey and estimate of F. H. Gregory, reported to the Board of Navy Commissioners, on the seventh day of August last, four hundred and thirty-five dollars; and for buoys on the rock in the channel east of Ram island, Turner's rec.

Ram island and