the Treasury, under the direction of the President of the United States, be, and he is hereby, authorized and required, as soon as may be, to adopt such measures as may be necessary to give full effect to the reports of the Commissioners which are enumerated in the first and second -sections of this act: Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to prejudice the rights of third persons, or to impose any obligation, on the part of the United States, to make payment, or give other lands, to any claimant who may be deprived of his possessions by operation of law; nor shall the confirmations made by this act be so construed as to extend further than to a relinquishment, by the United States, of all interest in, and to, said lands, nor to any lands occupied by the United States for military purposes.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Judges aforesaid shall be authorized to nominate and appoint, and the Governor to commission, a Clerk, in each county of their respective Districts, in such manner, with such powers, and for such term of time, as the Legislature aforesaid may designate; but in no county shall the Clerk of the Superior Court be appointed the Clerk of the Circuit Court; and the compensation of said Clerks, except in United States' cases, shall be fixed by the Legislature aforesaid.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That, when any party to a suit is aggrieved by the decision of a Judge holding a District Court, except in criminal cases, the party ag grieved shall be at liberty, by appeal, writ of error, or certiorari, to remove said suit to the Superior Court of Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the said Territory, for further trial; and the case thus brought duty of the Register of the Land Office at Detroit to is-up shall be tried by the Judges, or any two of them, other sue patent certificates, in the forms usual in similar cases, than the Judge who made the decision in the District to claimants whose claims are confirmed by this act, upon Court. which certificates, if legally and properly obtained, pa- Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the additional tents shall be granted by the Commissioner of the Gene-Judge, hereby authorized to be appointed, shall receive ral Land Office. the same salary now allowed by law to the Judges of the Superior Court for the Territory of Arkansas.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and re- Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That writs of error quired to pay to John J. Deming, of Detroit, the sum of and appeal from the final decision of the Superior Court thirty dollars, which shall be in full for his services in pre- for the Territory of Arkansas, shall be made to the Suparing and publishing maps for the use of the Commis-preme Court of the United States, in the manner, and sioners aforesaid.

under the same regulations, as from the Circuit Courts of the United States, when the amount in controversy, to be ascertained by oath or affirmation of either party, shall exceed one thousand dollars.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That, for surveying the donation rights or back concessions in said territory, heretofore made under the abovementioned acts of Congress, and not paid for, and also for such surveys as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, there shall be paid, 'out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the same compensation per mile "as is allowed by the tenth section of the act of the eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-to seven, entitled "An act to provide for the confirmation and settlement of private land claims in East Florida, and for other purposes," any thing in any act to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved: 17th April, 1828.

AN ACT providing for the appointment of an additional Judge of the Superior Court for the Territory of Arkansas, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint and commission an additional Judge of the Superior Court for the Territory of Arkansas, who shall reside in said Territory, and hold his commission for the term of four years.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, when said Judge shall have been commissioned, the Legislature of the Territory of Arkansas shall be authorized to organize the counties of said Territory into four Judicial Districts, and to assign to each of the four Judges of the Superior Court of the Territory of Arkansas one of said Circuits or Districts, and to require said Judges to hold Circuit or District Courts in each county of their respective Districts, at such place and time as the Legislature aforesaid may appoint and designate.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in addition to holding District or Circuit Courts, as aforesaid, the Judges aforesaid shall hold two terms annually, of the Superior Court, at the Seat of Government in said Territory; and the Legislature aforesaid shall be authorized, in all cases, except when the United States is a party, to fix the respective jurisdictions of the District and Superior Court. The United States' cases shall be tried in the Superior Court, in the manner that said cases are now tried.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the act of the Legislature of the Territory of Arkansas, passed at the last session of the Legislature of said Territory, in rela tion to the Courts of said Territory, so far as the provi sions of said act are not inconsistent with and repugnant this act, be, and the same is hereby, affirmed, until sid Legislature may alter or modify the same.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That all acts coming
within the purview of this act be, and the same are here-
by, repealed; and that this act shall take effect, and be
in force, from and after its passage.
Approved: 17th April, 1828.

AN ACT authorizing the President of the United States
to appoint certain agents therein mentioned.
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, and he is
hereby, authorized, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, to appoint such Agent or Agents as may
be usefully employed in prosecuting the designation and
settlement of the line forming the Northeastern boundary
of the United States, and bringing the existing controver
sy with Great Britain, relating thereto, to a speedy ter-
mination.

Approved: 17th April, 1828.

AN ACT explanatory of "An Act to grant a certain quantity of land to the State of Ohio, for the purpose of making a road from Columbus to Sandusky."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemblat, That, in lieu of the lands appropriated by the act approv ed on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, there shall be granted to the State of Ohio, for the purposes designated in the said act, fortynine sections of land, to be located in the Delaware land District, in the following manner, to wit: every alternate section, through which the road may run, and the section next adjoining thereto, on the West, so far as the said sections remain unsold, and, if any part of the said sec tions shall have been disposed of, then a quantity equal

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thereto, shall be selected under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, from the vacant lands in the sections adjoining on the West of those appropriated.

Approved: 17th April, 1828.

AN ACT for the relief of Thomas Flowers, and the legal representatives of John Kingsbury.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary for the Department of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue a duplicate military bounty land warrant to Thomas Flowers, a Revo. lationary soldier of the Pennsylvania line, for one hundred acres of land, numbered one thousand two hundred and one, the original warrant having been lost or mislaid: And a duplicate military bounty land warrant to the legal representatives of the late Captain John Kingsbury, of the North Carolina line, in the Revolutionary war, for three hundred acres of land, number one thousand two hundred and eight, the original having been accidentally consumed by fire.

Approved: 17th April, 1828.

AN ACT for the benefit of Mary Ann Bond and Mary

Loveless.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Mary Ann Bond and Mary Loveless, daughters of Hugh Smith, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter, and obtain patents for four hundred acres of land in the Territory of Michigan, without making pay. ment therefor: Provided, however, That the entry or entries shall be made on such land, in said Territory, as has been offered for sale, and is now subject to entry, and shall be made, as to three hundred and twenty acres thereof, in a half section, or in quarter sections, and, as to the remaining eighty acres, by taking one half of a quarter section adjoining said entry, running the lines parallel with those of the quarter section, or half section

so entered.

Approved : 17th April, 1828.

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ded, That the said patent shall be subject to all the con-
ditions, limitations, and restrictions, of the said act of
Congress.
Approved: 28th April, 1828.

AN ACT for the relief of William Benning.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the act of the Legislature of the State of Maryland,
entitled “An act for erecting a bridge over the Eastern
Branch," passed at November Session, in the year seven,
teen hundred and ninety-seven, by which a company is
incorporated, by the name of "The Anacostia Bridge
Company," be, and the same is hereby, revived, and re
enacted; and that William Benning, of the City of Wash-
ington, in the District of Columbia, his executors, admi
nistrators, and assigns, be, and they are hereby, vested
with all the powers, rights, and privileges, by the said act
of incorporation granted to the said Anacostia Bridge
Company, and shall be subject to all the pains and penal
ties by the act aforesaid imposed on the said Company.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, so long as the said William Benning, his executors, or administrators, or any assignee of the entire stock of the said Company, shall remain the sole proprietor of the said stock, the sole control and management of the said Company shall remain and be with such sole proprietor, without the in tervention of directors to be elected for that purpose; and, if it shall hereafter happen, that the said William Benning, his executors, or administrators, or any assignee of the entire stock of said Company, shall, by assignments of the stock of said Company, to be made as prescribed by the said act of incorporation, create two or more proprie tors, less than five, the interest of the said Company shall' be managed by such proprietors as, by agreement or convention, to be entered on the books of said Company, they may think best; but, whenever the number of the said proprietors shall exceed four, it shall be the duty of such proprietors to meet and elect directors, from among the stockholders, for the management of the said Company, as is directed by the original act of incorporation.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the proprietor or proprietors of the stock in said Bridge Company shall continue to have and use the name of "The Anacostia AN ACT for the relief of John Shirkey. Bridge Company," and by such name, shall sue and be Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives sued, and do every other matter and thing which the of the United States of America in Congress assembled, said Company is by law authorized to do; and in consiThat the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, direct-deration of the expense of rebuilding and repairing the ed to place John Shirkey on the pension list of military pensioners of the United States, who shall be entitled to, and shall receive, a pension, at the rate of five dollars thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven.

Approved: 17th April, 1828.

said bridge, and keeping the same in repair, the said bridge, and all its profits, shall be, and the same is hereby, vested in the said William Benning, his executors, administrators, and assigns, according to their respective shares; and it shall and may be lawful for the said William Benning, his executors, administrators, and assigns, at all times hereafter, to take and receive the same tolls, from persons passing the said bridge, as are now by law AN ACT for the relief of Anthony Hermange. allowed to be taken by the Navy Yard Bridge, in the Dis Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives trict of Columbia, incorporated by an act of Congress. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be com of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, autho-petent for Congress, at any time hereafter, to repeal or rized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual modify this act. Approved: 28th April, 1828 form, to Anthony Hermange, of the City of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, for certain improvements in the AN ACT for the relief of Richard Taylor. machinery for propelling Ships and other Vessels, on his paying into the Treasury the usual fees, and making oath Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives that he, being a citizen of the United States, dnes verily believe, that he and Paul Steenstrup, of Kongsberg, in of the United States of America in Congress assembled, the Kingdom of Norway, are the true inventors or disco- That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to verers of the said improvements, and delivering into the pay to Richard Taylor, of Kentucky, out of any money patent office models of the same (if the Secretary of the in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of State shall deem it necessary) with specifications, as is two thousand five hundred and fifty-one dollars and fiftyrequired by the acts of Congress, relative to the issuing eight cents, for pension, being the difference between of letters patent for inventions or improvements: Provi-two dollars and a half per month, from the sixth of No.

vember, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, to the last day of December, one thousand eight hundred and four, and twenty dollars per month, for the same time. Approved: 28th April, 1828.

AN ACT for the relief of Asa Herring. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Asa Herring be, and he is hereby, released from the payment of that portion of the debt due to the General Post Office Department, by William Myers, formerly Postmaster at Mechanicsburg, in Pennsylvania, which accrued subsequently to the seventeenth of June, eight een hundred and twenty-two.

Approved: 28th April, 1828.

AN ACT to extend the time allowed for the redemption

of lands sold for direct taxes, in certain cases.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the United States of America in Congress asserbled, That the time allowed for the redemption of lands, which have been, or may be, sold for the non-payment of taxes under the several acts, passed on the second of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen; the ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteeen; and the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, for laying and collecting a direct tax within the United States, so far as the same have been purchas ed for, or on behalf of the United States, be revived, and be extended for the further term of three years, from and after the expiration of the present session of Congress: Provided, also, That, on such redemption, interest shall be paid at the rate of twenty per centum on the taxes aforesaid, and on the additions of twenty per cen tum, chargeable thereon; and the right of redemption shall enure, as well to the heirs and assignees of the land so purchased, on behalf of the United States, as to the originals thereof.

Approved: 28th April, 1828.

AN ACT extending the limits of certain Land Offices in
Indiana, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the lands in the State of Indiana, to which the Indian title is extinguished, which lies Last of the line dividing the first and second ranges, East of the second principal meridian, and North of the Southern boundary of the Fort Wayne District, shall be attached to the Land District, the Land Office of which is estab. lished at Fort Wayne; and that all the lands to which the Indian title is extinguished in said State, and which may lie West of the line dividing the first and second ranges East of the second principal meridian, shall be attached to the Land District, the Land Office of which is established at Crawfordsville.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Surveyor General shall cause the second principal meridian to be extended to the Northern boundary of the State of Indiana: Provided, The assent of the Indians be obtained to the running and marking that portion of the meridian line which may lie within the lands not ceded to the United States.

Approved: 28th April, 1828.

AN ACT in addition to the act, entitled "An act to pro. vide for the sale of lands conveyed to the United States, in certain cases, and for other purposes," pass ed the twenty-sixth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representives of the United States of America in Congress as

sembled, That in all cases where lands have been, or shall hereafter be, conveyed to, or for, the United States, for forts, arsenals, dock-yards, light-houses, or any like purpose, or in the payments of debts due to the United States, which shall not be used, or necessary for the purposes for which they were purchased, or other authorized purpose, it shall he lawful for the President of the United States to cause the same to be sold, for the best price to be obtained, and to convey the same to the purchaser, by grant or otherwise.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be authorized to procure the assent of the Legislature of any State within which any pur chase of land has been made, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings, without such consent having been obtained; and, also, to obtain exclusive legislation over any such tract as is provided for in the sixteenth clause of the that he be authorized to procure the like consent and exeighth section of the first article of the Constitution; and clusive legislation, as to all future purchases of land for either of those purposes.

of the United States, in all cases where lands have been Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President conveyed for the United States to individuals or officers, be authorized to obtain from the person or persons to whom the conveyance has been made, a release of their interest to the United States.

Approved: 28th April, 1828.

AN ACT authorizing the Legislative Council of Florida to meet in October, instead of December; and repeal. ing the proviso in the sixth section of the act, entitled "An act to amend an act for the establishment of a Territorial Government in Florida, and for other pur poses," approved March the third, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida shall begin its next session on the second Monday in October, instead of December, and annually, thereafter, on the same day in the said month of October.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proviso in the sixth section of the act, entitled "An act to amend 'An act for the establishment of a Territorial Goverment in Florida, and for other purposes," approved March the third, one thousand eight hundred and twentythree, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed as ap proving any act or acts heretofore passed by the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Governor and Legislative Council, at the next session of said Council, to divide said Territory into thir teen election districts, in such manner as to give to each the same number of qualified electors, as nearly as con veniently may be, and to secure to each district an equal representation; and the said Governor and Council shall have power, from time to time, to alter and regulate the several districts in such manner as the increasing population of the territory may require.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Judges of the Superior Courts in said Territory shall have power to order extra terms of said Courts, or to adjourn them to require it, and when, from sickness or other cause, the any other time and place, when the public interest may Judges cannot hold the regular terms, giving due notice of the same; and it shall also be lawful for the said Judges to hold Courts in either of the Districts, when the Judge sickness or other cause. of the district is absent, or prevented from attending by

Approved: 28th April, 1828.

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AN ACT to authorize the cancelling of a Bond therein mentioned.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Clerk of the sixth Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Georgia be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cancel a certain Bond, given in pursuance of the decree of the said Court, for the exportation, beyond the limits of the United States, of sundry African negroes, parcel of the cargo of the Spanish vessel called the Antelope, or the Ramirez, which bond was executed by Guesta Manzanal and brothers, by their Attorney, and Joseph Cummings, and Francis Sorrell, and acknowledged by them on the twenty-fourth December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, before the Marshal of the Georgia District, in the penalty of fourteen thousand eight hundred dollars, and conditioned for the exportation of the slaves aforesaid.

Approved: 2d May, 1828.

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money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expense of the same.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, the office of Architect of the Capitol shall cease and determine; and that the said Architect shall, on said day, deliver up to the Commissioner of the Public Buildings all the books, plans, accounts, vouchers, and all other papers and things belonging to his office; and the said Commissioner shall take charge of, and su perintend the Public Buildings, and perform such other duties as may be required of him by law; and that the said Commissioner be required to reside near the Capitol. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the regulations of the City of Washington, for the preservation of the public peace and order, be extended to the Capitol and Capitol Square, whenever the application of the same shall be requested by the presiding officer of either House of Congress, or the Commissioner of the Public Buildings; and that it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the Public Buildings to obey such rules and regulations as may, from time to time, be prescribed, jointly, by the presiding officers of the two Houses of Congress, all such portions of the Capitol, its appurtenances, and for the care, preservation, orderly keeping, and police, of the enclosures about it, and the Public Buildings and property in its immediate vicinity, as are not in the exclu sive use and occupation of either House of Congress ; that it shall also be his duty to obey such rules and regulations as may be, from time to time, prescribed by the Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Quarter presiding officer of either House of Congress, for the master General be, and he is hereby, authorized to apply care, preservation, orderly keeping, and police, of those the sum of eighteen hundred dollars of the money hereto portions of the Capitol and its appurtenances which are fore appropriated for the Quartermaster's Department, to in the exclusive use and occupation of either House of the confirmation and completion of the purchase of thirty Congress, respectively; and that it shall also be his duty acres of land, near the city of Savannah, in Georgia; to obey such rules and regulations as may, from time to which purchase was conditionally made by Lieutenant C.time, be prescribed by the President of the United States, A. Waite, for the purpose of erecting barracks for the

AN ACT making a supplementary appropriation for the military service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, for the armament of fortifications.

United States.

Approved: 2d May, 1828.

AN ACT making appropriations for the Public Buildings, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and the same hereby are, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes; that is to say:

For completing the work remaining to be done, on and about the Public Buildings, fifty-six thousand four bundred dollars and eight cents.

For the cost of a building lot, and other expenditures for the jail at Alexandria, one thousand six hundred and ninety-nine dollars and sixteen cents.

For the completion of the Penitentiary in the District of Columbia, twenty-two thousand three hundred and eighty-seven dollars and ninety-seven cents.

For defraying the expense of a building, near the Navy Department, twelve hundred and sixty-one dollars and eighteen cents.

for the care, preservation, orderly keeping, and police, of the other Public Buildings and public property in the City of Washington; and the Commissioner and his Assistants are hereby authorized and empowered to use all necessary and proper means for the discharge of the aforesaid duties; and the necessary Assistants of the Commissioner shall receive a reasonable compensation for their services, to be allowed by the presiding officers of the two Houses of Congress: one moiety of the said sums to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate, and the other moiety of the same to be paid out of the contingent fund of the House of Representatives. Approved: 2d May, 1828.

AN ACT to authorize the purchase and distribution of the

Seventh Volume of the Laws of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary for the Department of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to subscribe for, and receive, for the use and disposal of Congress, five hundred and fifty copies of the seventh Volume of the Laws of

Vice President of the United States, one copy to each of the Heads of Departments, to the Attorney-General of the United States, to each of the Senators and Represen

the United States, to contain an index to the same, to be For an entrance and door-way into the Capitol, from well bound; and cause to be distributed, one copy therethe top of the terrace on the Western front, three thou-of to the President of the United States, one copy to the sand one hundred and twenty-one dollars and ten cents. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner of the Public Buildings be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered to be caused to be built, an En-tatives, and to each Delegate of Territories of the Twengine House, for the accommodation of the Franklin Engine Company, under suitable conditions to secure the faithful performance of the work, and to procure an Hy. draulion Engine and the requisite appurtenances of the same; and that the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any

tieth Congress; fifteen copies to the Secretary of the Se nate, for the use of the Senate, and thirty copies to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, for the use of that House; one copy to each branch of the Legislature of each State and Territory; and one copy to each of the Executives of the several States and Territories,

and cause the residue to be deposited in the Library of Congress.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose aforesaid, the sum of two thousand two hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

Approved: 9th May, 1828.

AN ACT making appropriations for the Indian Depart. ment, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

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, ap. propriated, to wit:

For pay of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis, and the several Indian Agents, as authorized by law, thirty-one thousand dollars:

For pay of Sub-Agents, as established by law, fifteen thousand one hundred dollars :

For presents to Indians, as authorized by act of one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, two thousand dol lars :

For houses for sub-Agents, Interpreters, and blacksmiths, at Peoria and Ioway sub-Agencies; expenses of emigrating Indians; claims of Delawares, for horses taken by white men; holding councils for settlement of differences among Indian tribes, &c. within the superintendency of General Clark, as estimated for by him, fourteen thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars :

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the severa
sums hereby appropriated, be paid out of any money in
the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved: 9th May, 1828.

AN ACT to authorize a Rail Road within the District of
Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprezentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the assent of Congress to the constructing a Rail Road by a Company incorporated by the Legislature of Maryland, from Baltimore to the City of Washington, be, and the same is hereby, given, to the extent that Congress has jurisdiction of the soil over which it may pass ; com ceding to said Company to exact such tolls, and to enjoy such benefits and privileges, as the act of incorporation of the State of Maryland gives to said Corporation within the limits of the State of Maryland: Provided, in the lo cation of the Road, it shall not be lawful for said Cour pany to pass through any of the reserved squares or open spaces of the City, without the consent of Congress. Approved: 9th May, 1828.

AN ACT regulating commercial intercourse with the
Islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe.

of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives That all French vessels, coming directly from the Islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe, and laden with articles, the growth or manufacture of either of the said Islands, For additional expense arising out of the recently ex-merican vessels, may be admitted into the ports of the and which are permitted to be exported therefrom in Atended intercourse with the Indians within the Michigan United States, on payment of no higher duties on tonnage, Territory, and the establishment of a new sub-Agency or on their cargoes, as aforesaid, than are imposed on therein, for the Chippewas, high up Lake Superior, at American vessels, and on like cargoes imported in AmeriLa Point, or Michael's Island, as recommended by Gover- can vessels: Provided, That, if the President of the Unitnor Cass, five thousand dollars : tion, that the privileges allowed to American vessels and ed States shall, at any time, receive satisfactory inform their cargoes, at said Islands, by the French ordinance of February fifth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty. ized, by Proclamation, to suspend the operation of this six, have been revoked or annulled, he is hereby author. act, and withhold all privileges allowed under it Approved: 9th May, 1828.

For additional expense at the Red River Agency, on account of the removal of the Quapaws, and attaching them to that Agency, agreeably to the late treaty with them, one thousand three hundred dollars:

For expense attending Indian Agency, established under the late treaty with the Creek nation, and an act of Congress, of twentieth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, four thousand five hundred dollars:

For aiding the emigration of the Creek Indians, providing for them for the period of twelve months after their emigration, and for rendering them such assistance as the President of the United States may think proper, in their agricultural operations, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the existing treaty with the Creek nation of Indians, having relation to the aforesaid objects, fifty thousand dollars :

AN ACT for the relief of William Gentry, of Missouri.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That William Gentry, of Saline county, in the State of Missouri, be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, the Northwest quarter of section twenty-five, in township fifty, in range twenty, West of And the sum of fifty thousand dollars be, and the same the fifth principal meridian, in Missouri; and to enter, inis hereby, appropriated, to enable the President of the stead thereof, the Northeast quarter of the same section, United States to carry into effect the articles of agree-if it shall remain unsold when he shall make his applica. ment and cession, entered into on the twenty-fourth of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, between the United States and the State of Georgia, which sum of money, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be applied, under the direction of the President of the United States, to the extinguishment of the claims of the Cherokee Indians, to all the lands which they occupy within the limits of the said State :

For contingencies of Indian Department, ninety-five thousand dollars :

For refunding to the State of North Carolina the amount expended by her in extinguishing the title of certain Indians of the Cherokee tribe, to reservations of land within the limits of said State, granted to them in fee simple, by treaties with the United States, in the years one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, the sum of twenty-two thou

tion; or if it shall have been sold, then he may enter any other quarter section, in the same land district, that shafl be liable to entry at private sale, instead of the said Northeast quarter: for which he has heretofore paid the United States, in consequence of the mistake of the Clerk in the Register's Office, at Franklin, in inserting the said Northwest quarter in the entry.

Approved: 9th May, 1828.

AN ACT for the relief of Elvington Roberts, of Mississippi.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Elvington Roberts, of Adams county, in the State of Mississippi, be, and he is hereby, authorized to relin. quish to the United States the East half of the Southeast quarter, section twenty-four, in township twe, of