one hundred and nine thousand seven hundred and seventy-four dollars and thirty-three cents. For payment of the salaries of the registers and receivers of the different land offices, thirty-nine thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands, seventy-five thousand dollars. For continuing the work on the centre building, eighty-six thousand dollars. For alterations and repairs in the room occupied by the Supreme Court, six hundred and forty dollars. For improving the capitol square and painting the railing round the same, two thousand dollars. For making a footway in front of the public grounds and open spaces between the Capitol and Navy office, five thousand dollars. For stationery and books, for the offices of commissioners of loans, two thousand dollars. For rent and repairs of the tenement formerly occupied as a temporary residence by the President of the United States, eight hundred and thirtynine dollars, twenty-four cents. For registers for ships and vessels of the United States, and for lists of crews, four thousand dollars. For sick, disabled, and destitute seamen, in foreign countries, forty thousand dollars. For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, six thousand dollars. For the salaries of the ministers of the United States to London, Paris, St. Petersburg, Madrid, and Lisbon, the chargé des affaires at Madrid, from the third of March to the fourth of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, and also for the chargé des affaires at Stockholm, and the Hague, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For the salaries of the ministers or chargé des affairs of the United States, who have been, or may be appointed to the governments on the continent of America, thirty-six thousand dollars. For outfits of the ministers to Paris and Madrid, eighteen thousand dollars. For salaries of the several secretaries of legation, eighteen thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of those missions, twenty thousand dollars. For the salaries of the agents of claims at London and Paris, four thousand dollars. For payment of the salaries of the commissioner and arbitrator under the first article of the treaty of Ghent, and for one half of the salary of the secretary, and half the contingent expenses of the commission, two thousand five hundred dollars, in addition to the unexpended balance of the appropriation for one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three for the same object. For expenses of carrying into effect the sixth and seventh articles of the treaty of Ghent, including the compensation of the commissioners, agents, and surveyors, and their contingent expenses, sixteen thousand dollars. For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, thirty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, forty thousand dol lars. For compensation for extra clerks employed' in the General Post-office during the last year, nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents. Legislative council of Mi For compensation of nine members of the legislative council of the Michigan territory, at two dollars each, per day, for sixty days, one chigan. thousand and eighty dollars. For the contingent expenses of the legislative council, including the printing of the laws of said territory, one thousand two hundred dollars. For the salaries of the secretaries of the land commissioners of East and West Florida, two thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation and travelling expenses of the members of the legislative council of the Florida territory, and for contingent expenses of the territory, including arrearages for the years one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and one thousand eight hundred and twentythree, six thousand six hundred and sixty-two dollars sixty-four cents, being the unexpended balance of the last year. For the completion of the medals voted by Congress to certain general officers; to purchase gold for the medals, and to replace General McComb's medal, two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For a draughtsman and two colourers, for the general land office, authorized by law, three thousand dollars. Contingent expenses, &c. Secretaries, &c. Compensation, &c., of le gislative council of Florida, &c. Medals, &c. Draughtsman, &c. Paid out of Proviso. Proviso. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise the treasury. appropriated: Provided, however, That no money appropriated by this act, shall be paid to any person for his compensation who is in arrears to the United States, until such person shall have accounted for, and paid into the treasury, all sums for which he may be liable: Provided, also, That nothing in this section contained, shall be construed to extend to balances arising solely from the depreciation of treasury notes, received by such person to be expended in the public service; but in all cases where the pay or salary of any person is withheld, in pursuance of this act, it shall be the duty of the accounting officer, if demanded by the party, his agent or attorney, to report forthwith to the agent of the Treasury Department, the balance due; and it shall be the duty of the said agent, within sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such delinquent and his sureties. APPROVED, April 2, 1824. CHAP. XXXIII.—An Act to amend an act, entitled "An act for the establishment of a turnpike company in the county of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, during the continuance of the act, entitled "An act for the establishment of a turnpike company in the county of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia," passed the twenty-first April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, the Washington and Alexandria turnpike company shall be entitled to demand and receive, by their proper agents, servants, or officers, at the bridge built by said company, over Four Mile Creek, between the town of Alexandria and the city of Washington, the sum of one cent from each and every person passing on foot over said bridge: Provided always, and it is further enacted, That, whenever the net proceeds of tolls collected on said road and bridge shall be sufficient to defray the expense of rebuilding the bridge on Four Mile Run, keeping said bridge and road in a sufficient state of repair, and allow the stockholders dividends, at the rate of six per centum per annum, then, and in that case, the circuit court of the District of Columbia for the county of Alexandria shall determine that the right of said company to demand the tolls prescribed by this act, or any other tolls, from foot passengers, shall cease. STATUTE I. April 9, 1824. During the continuance of the act of April 21, 1808, ch. 50, the Washington and Alexandria turnpike company may demand, at the bridge over the Four Mile Creek, one cent for each foot passenger. Proviso. STATUTE I. April 9, 1824. [Obsolete.] Acts of March 4, 1814, ch. 20, and April 16, 1818, ch. 65, extended. Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 190. Proviso. Proviso. CHAP. XXXIV.-An Act extending the term of pensions granted to persons disabled and to the widows and orphans of those who have been slain, or who have died, in consequence of wounds or casualties, received while in the line of their duty, on board the private armed ships of the United States, during the late war.(a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, the pensions of all persons, who now are in the receipt thereof, under the provisions of the following laws of the United States, or either of them, to wit: an act passed March fourth, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled "An act giving pensions to the orphans and widows of persons slain in the public or private armed vessels of the United States ;" and an act passed April sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act in addition to an act giving pensions to the orphans and widows of persons slain in the public or private armed vessels of the United States:" so far as regards persons receiving pensions from the fund arising from captures and salvage, made by the private armed vessels of the United States, be, and the same are hereby, continued, under the restrictions and regulations in the said acts contained, for and during the additional term of five years, from and after the period of the expiration of the said pensions, respectively: Provided, however, That the said pensions shall alone be paid from the proceeds of the privateer pension fund so called, and without recourse to the United States for any deficiency (should such occur,) which may hereafter arise thereon: And provided, further, That no pension shall be paid to any such widow after her intermarriage, nor to any orphan children of such officer, seamen, or marines, after they shall have attained the age of sixteen years. APPROVED, April 9, 1824. STATUTE I. April 9, 1824. Official acts of James Miller as governor of Arkansas, from March 3, 1822, to Jan. 3, 1823, declared valid. STATUTE I. CHAP. XXXV.-An Act confirming certain acts of James Miller, as governor of 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, the official acts and proceedings of James Miller, as governor of the territory of Arkansas, from the third day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, to the third day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, be, and the same are hereby, declared to have the same validity, force and effect, as if the said James Miller had been duly appointed and commissioned for and during the said term, by the President of the United States, as governor of the territory of Arkansas; and he is hereby authorized to have and receive the same salary, pay and emoluments, as he would by law have been entitled, during the same period, to receive, if he had been so appointed and commissioned as aforesaid. APPROVED, April 9, 1824. April 22, 1824. CHAP. XXXVI.—An Act to change the terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States in the state of Ohio, and one of the terms of the circuit court in Kentucky.(b) Sessions of the circuit court Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United for the Ohio dis- States of America, in Congress assembled, That the circuit court of the United States, within and for the district of Ohio, instead of the time trict, and the district court. (a) This act was revived by the act of May 26, 1824, ch. 190. now fixed by law, shall be held on the second Monday of July next; and thereafter on the first Mondays of January and June in each year; and the district court of the United States, in and for said district, shall hereafter be held on the Mondays next succeeding the times herein fixed for holding the circuit court. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the next fall term of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Kentucky, be commenced and held on the second Monday in October next, in lieu of the first Monday in November: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to extend to, or embrace, any other or future term of the said circuit court, than the next November term, as aforesaid. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all recognisances, process, suits, and proceedings, of every kind, whether of a civil or criminal nature, commenced or pending in either of said courts, shall be returned to, proceeded in, and determined at, the terms herein provided for, in the same manner as if the time of holding said courts had not been changed. APPROVED, April 22, 1824. CHAP. XXXVII.-An Act giving the consent and sanction of Congress to a certain act of the legislative council of the territory of Florida. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the consent and sanction of Congress be, and the same are hereby, given to the act of the legislative council of the territory of Florida, approved by the governor of said territory on the fourth day of July, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, entitled "An act to provide for levying a poll tax." APPROVED, April 22, 1824. CHAP. XXXVIII.-An Act to alter the times of holding the district court of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That in lieu of the times now appointed by law, the district court of the United States for the district of Illinois, shall be hereafter holden on the third Mondays in June and November in each year. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all writs, pleas, suits, recognisances, indictments, and all other proceedings of a civil or criminal nature, now pending in, or which are, or may be, returnable to, said court, shall be heard, tried and proceeded with, by the said court, in the same manner as if no alteration of the times for holding said court had taken place. APPROVED, April 22, 1824. The next fall term of the cirthe Kentucky district, to be cond Monday cuit court for held on the se in October. be proceeded STATUTE I. April 22, 1824. Consent, &c. of Congress, given to the act of the legislative council of Florida. STATUTE I. April 22, 1824. Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 70. The district court for the district of Illi nois to be holden on the third Mondays in June and November. All writs to be proceeded in &c. STATUTE I. April 22, 1824. CHAP. XXXIX.-An Act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act supplementary to the act, entitled 'An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt.'" (b) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the person or persons who shall or may be commissioned, either by any judge of the 1824, ch. 3. (a) See notes to act of April 18, 1818, ch. 67. Act of Jan. 6, 1800, ch. 4. Act of Jan. 7, (6) The constitutional and legal rights of a citizen of the United States to sue in the circuit court of the United States, do not permit an act of insolvency, completely executed under the authority of a state, to be a good bar to a recovery upon a contract made in another state. Suydam et al. v. Broadnax, 14 Peters, 97. Supreme Court of the United States, or by any district judge of the United States, to administer the oath prescribed by the act, entitled "An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt," passed on the sixth day of January, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred, shall, and may have full power and authority to issue a citation, directed to the creditor, his agent or attorney, if either lives within one hundred miles of the place of imprisonment, requiring him to appear at the time and place therein mentioned, if he see fit, to show cause why the Isaid oath or affirmation should not be so administered. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, if the creditor, his agent, or attorney, lives within fifty miles of the place of imprisonment, only fifteen days' previous notice by citation shall be required. APPROVED, April 22, 1824. STATUTE I. April 29, 1824. [Obsolete.] Special appropriation for the Navy. Pay of officers and seamen. Provisions. Medicines. Subsistence of officers at navy yards &c. Contingent expenses. CHAP. XLIII.-An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, for defraying the expenses of the navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated: For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, eight hundred and forty-seven thousand one hundred and forty-two dollars and twenty-five cents. For provisions, in addition to the sum of twenty-five thousand one hundred and twenty-eight dollars, and seventy-five cents, the balance of appropriation for provisions unexpended and provisions on hand, three hundred thousand dollars. For medicines, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, twenty-five thousand dollars. For pay, subsistence, and allowances, of every description, to all commissioned and warrant officers, employed at the several navy yards and store stations, also of naval constructors, store-keepers, inspectors, master workmen, clerks of the yards, of the check, and of commanders, and porters attached to the navy yards and store stations, two hundred and thirty-one thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-six cents. For contingent expenses accruing in the present year; that is to say: for commissions, clerk hire, office rent, stationery, and fuel, to navy agents; premiums, and other expenses of recruiting; freight of provisions, stores, and materials, from one station to another, and from the United States to distant stations in other countries where our ships are employed; allowances to officers at the several navy yards and stations, for house rent, fuel, and candles; travelling expenses for officers, and transportation for seamen; freight of timber, wharfage, and dockage for vessels where there are no public yards; expenses, and a per diem allowance, attending courts martial and courts of inquiry; compensation to judge advocates; cabin furniture for vessels in commission; incidental labour at navy yards, which is not applicable to any other appropriation; pilotage of public vessels in the United States, and in foreign countries; printing naval registers, blank pay-rolls, receipt rolls, steward's returns, seamen's allotment tickets, the proceedings of courts martial; storage of provisions, and stores in foreign ports, and in the United States where public stores are not provided; coals for blacksmiths and anchormakers, and fuel for steam-engines; purchase and maintenance of oxen, carts, large timber wheels, and workmen's tools; chamber money to offi |