Librarian's salary fixed. Repealed by act of April 18, 1818, ch. 69.

Attorney

general to have

the use of the

books in the library.

the amount thereof, which shall be deemed equitable, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the librarian for attending said library, an annual salary of one thousand dollars, payable quarterly at the treasury of the United States, to commence and take effect from and after the twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the privilege of using the books in the library shall be extended to the attorney general of the United States and the members of the diplomatic corps on the same terms and conditions, as it is enjoyed by the judges of the supreme

court.

APPROVED, April 16, 1816.

STATUTE I.

The company

incorporated by the act of April 20, 1810, ch. 26, may extend

April 16, 1816. CHAP. XLVII.-An Act supplementary to an act, entitled "An act to incorporate a company for making certain turnpike roads within the district of Columbia." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America,in Congress assembled, That the company for making certain turnpike roads in the district of Columbia, established by an act of Congress, passed on the twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten, be authorized and empowered to open and make a turnpike road, at their own risk and expense, from the eastern branch bridge, to meet a road to be opened and made under the authority of the state of Maryland, from Edward H. Calvert's mill, in Prince George's county, to the line of the district of Columbia.

the road.

Tolls.

1810, ch. 27.

STATUTE I.

April 16, 1816. [Obsolete.] Certain mili

tary land war

rants to be is

sued by the Secretary of War. Act of March 9, 1818, ch. 15.

Act of Feb.

24, 1819, ch. 41.

Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 15.

Act of March

3, 1823, ch. 38.

Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 111.

At the expiration of the term limited by this act, the surveyor general to be

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said company may demand and receive the same tolls as are allowed for a like distance by the act to which this is a supplement, and shall possess and enjoy the same rights and privileges, and be subject to the same limitations, pains and penalties, as are prescribed, enjoined and directed by the aforesaid act, and an act in addition thereto, passed on the twenty-fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten. APPROVED, April 16, 1816.

CHAP. XLIX.-An Act further extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants, 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 Secretary of War be authorized to issue military land warrants to such persons as have or shall, before the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, produced to him satisfactory evidence of the validity of their claims; which warrants, with those heretofore issued, and not yet satisfied, shall and may be located in the name of the holders or proprietors thereof, prior to the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, on any unlocated parts of the fifty quarter townships, and the fractional quarter townships, reserved by law for original holders of military land warrants. And patents shall be granted, for the land located under this act, in the same manner as is directed by former acts for granting military lands.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That at the expiration of the term limited by this act, for the location of the military land warrants aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the commissioner of the general land office, to transmit to the surveyor general a list of all the lots of land within the furnished by fifty quarter townships and fractional quarter townships, which shall at that time remain unlocated; and the surveyor general shall prepare and

commissioner

office with a list of lots

transmit to the registers of the land office at Chilicothe and Zanesville, of general land respectively, general plats of the aforesaid unlocated lots, which lots shall, after the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, be offered for sale at the land offices in the districts in which they are situated, in the same manner, on the same terms and conditions, in every respect, as other public lands are offered at private sale, in the same districts.

APPROVED, April 16, 1816.

there unlocat

ed.

Unlocated

lots to be sold.

STATUTE I.

CHAP. LII.—An Act for the relief of certain claimants to land in the district April 16, 1816. of Vincennes.

[Obsolete.] Claims to lands in the

district of Vin

cennes, con

firmed by act of March 3, 1807,

ch. 47.

Act of Feb.

13, 1813, ch. 23. Act of April

16, 1816, ch. 52.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the several persons whose claims were confirmed by the act of Congress, entitled “An act confirming certain claims to land in the district of Vincennes, and for other purposes," approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven; and the act entitled "An act confirming certain claims to land in the district of Vincennes," approved the thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, which having been located cannot be surveyed agreeably to law, or which having been located have, in the opinion of the register of the land office, for the said district, been removed by the surveys of prior locations, from the spot intended to be occupied, are hereby authorized to enter their locations with the register of the land office at Vincennes, on any part of the tract set apart for that purpose in the said district, by virtue of the act, entitled 13, 1818, ch. 18. "An act respecting claims to lands in the Indiana Territory and state of Ohio," and in conformity to the provisions of this act. APPROVED, April 16, 1816.

Act of March

CHAP. LIII.-An Act to authorize the President of the United States to alter the road laid out from the foot of the rapids of the river Miami of lake Erie, to the western line of the Connecticut reserve.

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 is hereby authorized to cause to be made, in such manner as he may deem most proper, an alteration in the road laid out under the authority of an act, entitled "An act to authorize the surveying and making of certain roads in the state of Ohio, as contemplated by the treaty of Brownstown in the territory of Michigan," so that the said road may pass through the United States' reservation at Lower Sandusky, or north thereof not exceeding three miles.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the necessary expenses which shall be incurred in altering the said road shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated for the surveying of the public lands of the United States.

APPROVED, April 16, 1816.

CHAP. LV.—An Act making further provision for military services during the April 16, 1816. late war, and for other purposes.

[Obsolete.]

See

act of

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America,in Congress assembled, That when any officer March 3, 1817, or private soldier of the militia, including rangers, sea fencibles and

ch. 107.

and soldiers of militia, &c., provided for.

Proviso.

Representa volunteers, or any non-commissioned officer, musician or private, enlisted tives of officers for either of the terms of one year or eighteen months, or any commissioned officer of the regular army shall have died while in the service of the United States, during the late war, or in returning to his place of residence, after being mustered out of service, or who shall have died at any time thereafter, in consequence of wounds received whilst in the service, and shall have left a widow, or if no widow, a child or children, under sixteen years of age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, for and during the term of five years; and in case of death or intermarriage of such widow before the expiration of said five years, the half pay for the remainder of the time shall go to the child or children of said decedent. Provided always, That the secretary of war shall adopt such forms of evidence in applications under this act, as the President of the United States may prescribe. Provided also, That the officers and private scldiers of the militia, as aforesaid, who have been disabled by wounds or otherwise, while in the service of the United States in the discharge of their duty, during the late war, shall be placed on the list of pensioners in the same manner as the officers and soldiers of the regular army, under such forms of evidence, as the President of the United States may prescribe. Provided also, That the provisions of this act shall not extend to any person embraced in the provision of an act, entitled "An act to provide for the widows and orphans of militia slain, and for militia disabled in the service of the United States," passed the second day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.

Proviso.

Proviso.

Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 40.

Guardians of children of deceased officers may take the

half pay for five years in lieu of their land.

See act of

ch. 94.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when any non-commissioned officer, musician or private soldier of the regular army of the United States shall have been killed in battle, or have died of wounds or disease, while in the service of the United States, during the late war, and have left a child or children under sixteen years of age, it shall be lawful for the guardian of such child or children, within one year from the passing March 3, 1819, of this act, to relinquish the bounty land, to which such non-commissioned officer, musician or private soldier, had he survived the war, would have been entitled; and, in lieu thereof, to receive half the monthly pay to which such deceased person was entitled, at the time of his death, for and during the term of five years, to be computed from and after the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, the payment thereof to be made when and where other military pensions are or shall be paid; and where a warrant for the military bounty land aforesaid shall have been issued to or for the use of the child or children of any such deceased non-commissioned officer, musician or private soldier, such child or children, or either of them, being under sixteen years of age, it shall be lawful for the guardian of such minor or minors, to surrender and deliver such warrant into the office for the department of war, within one year from the passing of this act; of which surrender and delivery, the secretary of that department shall give notice to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall thereupon give the requisite orders for the payment of the half pay hereby provided for.

Bounty in land to be given to soldiers, &c.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all soldiers who have been enlisted to serve for five years, or during the war, and were above the age of forty-five, or under the age of eighteen years, who have faithfully served during the late war, and have been regularly discharged, and the representatives of such soldiers as shall have died whilst in the service of the United States, and all soldiers who have been enlisted, and have faithfully served during the late war, until they have been promoted to the rank of commissioned officers, who, if they had served during the war under their enlistment, and been regularly discharged, would have been entitled to a bounty in land, shall be entitled to one hundred and

sixty or three hundred and twenty acres of land, according to the term of enlistment: the warrants and patents to issue in the same manner as in the case of soldiers enlisted of proper age, and discharged under similar circumstances.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into effect, and other acts giving bounty lands to soldiers of the regular army, the President of the United States is hereby authorized to cause to be surveyed and laid off in one or more surveys, two millions of acres not otherwise appropriated, in addition to the appropriations of lands by the act of May the sixth, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, for designating, surveying and granting military bounty lands according to the provisions of said act.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That no transfer of land, granted in virtue of this or any other law, giving bounties of land to non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates enlisted during the late war, shall be valid, unless the contract or agreement therefor, or letter of attorney, giving power to sell or convey, shall have been executed after the patents shall be issued and delivered to the persons entitled thereto. APPROVED, April 16, 1816.

CHAP. LVI.-An Act in addition to an act, entitled "An act in relation to the navy pension fund."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That in all cases of prizes captured by the public armed ships of the United States, which shall be sold under the order of the proper prize court, by interlocutory or final decree, it shall be the duty of the marshal of the United States, making the sale, to pay the proceeds thereof into the registry of the proper court, within thirty days after such sale shall be made and closed, and immediately upon the payment into the registry of the proceeds as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court to deposit the same in some bank to be designated by the judge or judges of the court, subject to the order and distribution of the court as in other cases, and when the said prizes shall have been duly condemned, it shall be the duty of the court to direct the share of such prizes belonging to the United States, to be forthwith carried in the account with such bank, to the credit of the treasurer of the United States, on account of the navy pension fund, and copies of the certificate of such deposit and credit shall be thereupon transmitted to the treasurer of the United States and to the Secretary of the Navy, as soon as may be, by the clerk of such court; and the share of such prizes belonging to the captors, deposited as aforesaid, shall be paid over to the parties entitled, or to their authorized agent or agents, upon the order of the proper court in term, or of the judge or judges of such court in vacation.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the marshals of the several districts of the United States, and of the clerks of the respective courts of the United States, to state and settle their respective accounts in all cases of prizes captured as aforesaid, specify ing therein all costs and charges taxed, claimed and paid by them, and to submit the same to the proper court, having cognisance thereof, for examination and allowance, within sixty days after a final adjudication of such causes, unless a different time shall be assigned by such court; and thereupon such courts in term, or any judge thereof in vacation may proceed summarily to hear, examine, and allow the same accounts, and, after such allowance, one copy of the same accounts shall be filed among the records of the court, and another copy shall be transmitted by the clerk of the court to the Secretary of the Navy, within thirty days after the allowance thereof.

District attorney's duty also prescribed.

Clerks may be

compelled to tions prescrib

fulfil the direc

ed.

Extra allowance to account

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the district attorneys of the respective districts of the United States to transmit to the Secretary of the Navy a statement of all prizes captured as aforesaid which shall be libelled, condemned, or restored, at each term of the district and circuit courts, within their respective districts, as soon as may be after the conclusion of each term, and to accompany such list with a schedule and invoice of the various articles composing the cargoes of such prizes.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the respective courts of the United States, before whom a libel against any prizes captured as aforesaid, shall be pending, or by whom a decree of condemnation and distribution of such prizes shall have been awarded, shall have full power and authority, in the exercise of their admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, to issue a monition and other proper process to compel the marshal and clerk to perform, and obey the requisitions of this act; and upon the complaint of the United States or any person interested in the premises, summarily to hear and examine the same, and to make such award, order and decree therein, as to justice and law shall appertain. And if the marshal or clerk shall wilfully refuse, or unreasonably neglect to perform and obey any of the requisitions of this act; the party so refusing or neglecting shall further forfeit and pay to the United States the sum of five hundred dollars for every such refusal or neglect.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to ant of navy de- the accountant of the Navy Department for his extra services in collecting, stating and settling the accounts of prize money belonging to the navy pension fund, the annual sum of three hundred dollars, to be paid quarter yearly out of the navy pension fund.

partment.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That wherever sales of prizes, captured as aforesaid, have been made before the passing of this act, and the proceeds thereof have not been paid into the registry of the proper court, or finally distributed under its order, it shall be the duty of the marshal, who made the sale, within six calendar months from the passing of this act, or such shorter reasonable time as may be assigned by the court, or the judge or judges thereof, to pay into the registry of the court the proceeds of such sale, with a written account of the costs and charges, attending the same, and to submit the same account for examination and allowance to the court, or the judge or judges thereof; and in like manner it shall be the duty of the respective clerks of the district courts, within six calendar months from the passing of this act, or such shorter reasonable time as may be assigned by the proper court, or the judge or judges thereof to present to such court, or the judge or judges thereof, for examination and allowance, a particular account of their fees and charges, in all cases of prizes captured as aforesaid, where such account has not been already presented and allowed; and after such account shall be examined and allowed, it shall be filed among the records of the court, and a copy thereof, duly attested, shall be transmitted by the clerk of the court to the Secretary of the Navy; and if any marshal or clerk shall neglect or refuse to perform the duties herein required, he may be proceeded against in the proper court, in the manner provided in the fourth section of this act.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That in cases where the allowance of the half monthly pay, which may now be granted by law, to officers, seamen, and marines, disabled in the service of the United States, shall, in the opinion of the commissioners of the navy pension fund, from the nature and extent of the disability, and the situation of the party disabled, be inadequate to his necessary subsistence, the said commissioners shall be, and hereby are, authorized, in their discretion, to increase such allowance to any sum not exceeding the full amount of the monthly pay to which the party so disabled was by law entitled in the said service. APPROVED, April 16, 1816.