hundred and sixteen, and to which this is a supplement, for issuing military land warrants, shall be extended to the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; and the time, limited by the said act, for the location of unlocated military land warrants, shall be extended to the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. APPROVED, March 9, 1818. Time for is suing military land warrants extended. Act of Feb. 24, 1819, ch. 41. Time for locating unlocated warrants extended. STATUTE I. CHAP. XVIII.-An Act providing for the sale of certain lands in the district of Marietta, and for the location of claims and sale of certain lands in the district March 18, 1818. of Vincennes. of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for the purpose ascertaining the quantity, and providing for the sale of the lands belonging to the United States, within the limits of a tract of one hundred thousand acres granted to Rufus Putman, Manassah Cutler, Robert Oliver and Griffin Green, in trust for the persons composing the Ohio Company of Associates, in pursuance of the third section of an act, entitled "An act authorizing the grant and conveyance of certain lands to the Ohio Company of Associates," passed on the twenty-first of April, seventeen hundred and ninety-two, it shall be the duty of the surveyor general, and he is hereby authorized, to require of the said Rufus Putman and other surviving patentees, in trust as aforesaid, to make a report to him of the quantity and situation of the lands by them conveyed, as bounties, to actual settlers, according to the conditions of the said third section and grant aforesaid; and also, a duly attested copy of the field notes and plat of the surveys of the lands by them conveyed to actual settlers as aforesaid. And the surveyor general, on receiving a satisfactory report of the quantity and situation of the lands so conveyed, shall cause the residue of the lands within the said tract to be surveyed in the saine manner as the other public lands; or, if he shall deem it more convenient, into tracts of one hundred acres, conforming, as far as practicable, to the plan on which lots granted to actual settlers were laid off; and he shall make return of the surveys to the general land office and the register of the land office at Marietta. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person, or their legal representatives, whose claims were confirmed by any of the several acts for confirming claims to land in the district of Vincennes and which claims have not been located, shall be 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 an act, entitled "An act respecting claims to land in the Indiana Territory and state of Ohio," and in conformity to the provision of that act, and shall be entitled to receive certificates and patents in the same manner as provided by former laws respecting locations in the same tract: Provided, That the locations authorized by this act, and those authorized by an act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain claimants to land in the district of Vincennes," passed on the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, shall be made before the first day of September next; and, after the said locations shall have been made and the surveys thereon completed, the surveyor general shall cause the residue of the said tract to be surveyed, conforming, as far as practicable, to the plan for surveying the other public lands, and he shall make a return of the surveys, to the general land office, and to the register of the land office at Vincennes. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That such part of the tract, described by the first section of this act, as shall appear to belong to the United States, shall be offered for sale at Marietta, and such part of the tract described by the second section of this act, as shall not have been located under confirmed claims, shall be offered for sale at Vincennes. The said VOL. III-52 2 M to the highest bidder, &c. Days of sale. Sales open six days. Price. Patents. 4 dollars a lands, in the said respective tracts, with the exception of the usual proportion for the support of schools, shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder, under the direction of the register of the land office and the receiver of public moneys for the said districts, on such days, respectively, as shall, by proclamation of the President, be designated for that purpose; the sales at each place shall remain open six days, and no longer; the lands shall not be sold for less than two dollars an acre; and shall, in every other respect, both as to public and private sales, be sold on the same terms and conditions as other public lands in the same districts; and patents shall be obtained in the manner, and on the terms, provided in case of other public lands sold by the United States. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the superintendents of the day to superin- public sales, directed by this act, shall each receive four dollars a day for each day's attendance on the said sales. tendents. APPROVED, March 18, 1818. STATUTE I. March 18, 1818. CHAP. XIX.-An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War. Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 81. Act of May 1, 1820, ch. 51. Act of March 1, 1823, ch. 59. Officers and privates who served in the army or navy during the revolutionary war entitled to pensions. Officers, 20 dollars per month: Non-commis sioned officers, &c. 8 dolls. per month. Proviso: claims to previous pensions to be relinquished. A declaration under oath, and other evidence necessary to the obtaining the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That every commissioned officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, and private soldier, and all officers in the hospital department and medical staff, who served in the war of the revolution until the end thereof, or for the term of nine months, or longer, at any period of the war, on the continental establishment; and every commissioned officer, non-commissioned officer, mariner, or marine, who served at the same time, and for a like term, in the naval service of the United States, who is yet a resident citizen of the United States, and who is, or hereafter, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, shall be, in need of assistance from his country for support, and shall have substantiated his claim to a pension in the manner hereinafter directed, shall receive a pension from the United States: if an officer, of twenty dollars per month during life; if a non-commissioned officer, musician, mariner, marine, or private soldier, of eight dollars per month during life: Provided, No person shall be entitled to the provisions of this act, until he shall have relinquished his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That to entitle any person to the provisions of this act, he shall make a declaration, under oath or affirmation, before the district judge of the United States of the district, or before any judge or court of record of the county, state, or territory, in which the applicant shall reside, setting forth, if he belonged to the army, the company, regiment, and line, to which he belonged the time he entered the service, and the time and manner of leaving the service; and in case he belonged to the navy, a like declaration, setting forth the name of the vessel, and particular service in which he was employed, and the time and manner of leaving the service, and shall offer such other evidence as may be in his power; and, on its appearing, to the satisfaction of the said judge, that the applicant served in the revolutionary war as aforesaid against the common enemy, he shall certify and trans&c. to be transmit the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the benefit of this act. Testimony, mitted to the Secretary of Payment to be made as in case of other pensions. Secretary of the Department of War, whose duty it shall be, if satisfied the applicant comes under the provisions of this act, to place such officer, musician, mariner, marine, or soldier, on the pension list of the United States, to be paid in the same manner as pensions to invalids who have been placed on the pension list are now paid, and under such restrictions and regulations, in all respects, as are prescribed by law. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That every pension by virtue of this act shall commence on the day that the declaration under oath or For Sums appro expenses of the navy, for 1818. For pay and CHAP. XXI.-An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the March 18, 1818. United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expenses priated for the of the navy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively, appropriated, viz : For pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, one million one hundred and thirty-five thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars. For provisions, five hundred and eleven thousand dollars. medicine, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, including the marine corps, twenty-five thousand dollars. For repairs of vessels, three hundred thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, three hundred thousand dollars. For repairs of navy yards, docks, and wharves, one hundred thousand dollars. For pay and subsistence of marine corps, seventy-three thousand dollars. For clothing for the same, thirty-two thousand dollars. For military stores for the same, eleven hundred dollars. For contingent expenses for the same, sixteen thousand dollars. For the purchase of medals and swords, directed by different resolutions of Congress, fifteen thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations hereinbefore made, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 18, 1818. &c. For repairs of vessels. For contin gent expenses. For repairs of navy yards, For pay, &c. of marine corps. For clothing marine corps. For military stores. For medals and swords. STATUTE I. CHAP. XXII.—An Act for altering the time for holding the district court for the March 19, 1818. district of Virginia. (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 for the district of Virginia, which are now directed by law to be holden on the twelfth day of April, in each year, shall hereafter be holden, for the said district, on the second day of April, in each year, except where such day shall occur on Sunday, when the term of the said court shall commence and be holden on the next succeeding day. APPROVED, March 19, 1818. The terms holden on the 12th, shall be holden on the 2d of April, in cept, &c. each year, ex CHAP. XXIII.—An Act extending the time for obtaining military land warrants in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the provision of the second section of the act, entitled "An act to provide for designating, surveying, and granting, the military bounty lands," passed on the sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, which limits the (4) See act of March 24, 1814, ch. 31. See notes to act of Feb. 4, 1819, ch. 12. Act of May time within which persons entitled to military bounty lands shall make 6, 1812, ch. 77. their application for a land warrant to five years from and after such person shall have become entitled thereto, shall not be construed to apply to, affect, or bar, any application for a military land warrant, which may be made by the heirs and representatives of a deceased person, who was entitled thereto by services performed in the late war, or application by the heirs and representatives of any non-commissioned officer or soldier killed in action, or who died in the actual service of the United States, and entitled by existing laws to a bounty in lands; but the heirs and representatives of such persons shall be allowed to make their applications therefor at any time before the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty; any act to the contrary notwithstanding. APPROVED, March 27, 1818. The heirs, &c. of such persons may make ap plications until 1st May, 1820. STATUTE I. March 27, 1818. CHAP. XXIV.-An Act in addition to "An act making appropriation for repairing certain roads therein described.' Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 112. 5000 dollars for repairing, &c. the road between fort Hawkins and fort Stoddard. 5000 dollars for repairing, &c. the road leading from Columbia to Madisonville, &c. Sums to be expended under direction of the Secretary of War. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of five thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, and payable out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of repairing, and keeping in repair, the road between fort Hawkins, in the state of Georgia, and fort Stoddard, in the Alabama territory. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousand dol lars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, and payable out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of repairing, and keeping in repair, that part of the road leading from Columbia, in the state of Tennessee, by the Choctaw agency, to Madisonville, in the state of Louisiana, which lies between the southern boundary of the state of Tennessee, and the Indian boundary line, near Zadock Brashears, in the state of Mississippi, which sums shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary for the Department of War. APPROVED, March 27, 1818. CHAP. XXVI.—An Act allowing additimal salary and clerk hire to the surveyor for the Illinois and Missouri territories, 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 surveyor of the lands of the United States in the territories of Illinois and Missouri, shall hereafter be allowed an annual compensation of two thousand dollars, in lieu of the compensation now fixed by law, and shall also be allowed three clerks, whose whole compensation shall not exceed two thousand dollars per annum. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the accounting officers of the Treasury Department be authorized to adjust and settle the accounts of William Rector, for his services as principal deputy surveyor, and surveyor of the Illinois and Missouri territories, and to allow him, in addition to his salary as fixed by law, the following fees, that is to say: for examining and recording the surveys executed by any of his deputies, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of the boundary line of the surveys executed under his direction in the offices aforesaid: Provided, The allowance shall not be made on the surveys of private claims in any case where he has received, or is entitled to receive, similar fees from individuals. APPROVED, April 3, 1818. STATUTE I. CHAP. XXIX.—An Act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United April 3, 1818. states within the state of Mississippi. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all the laws of the United States, which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said state of Mississippi as elsewhere within the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said state shall be one district, and be called the Mississippi district. And a district court shall be held therein, to consist of one judge, who shall reside in the said district, and be called a district judge. He shall hold, at the seat of government of the said state, two sessions annually, on the first Mondays in May and December; and he shall, in all things, have and exercise the same jurisdiction and powers which were by law given to the judge of the Kentucky district, under an act, entitled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States." He shall appoint a clerk for the said district, who shall reside and keep the records of the court at the place of holding the same; and shall receive, for the services performed by him, the same fees to which the clerk of the Kentucky district is entitled for similar services. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the judge of the said district court the annual compensation of two thousand dollars, to commence from the date of his appointment; to be paid, quarter yearly, at the treasury of the United States. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed, in the said district, a person learned in the law, to act as attorney for the United States, who shall, in addition to his stated fees, be paid by the United States two hundred dollars, as a full compensation for all extra services. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That a marshal be appointed for the said district, who shall perform the same duties, be subject to the same regulations and penalties, and be entitled to the same fees, as are prescribed to marshals in other districts; and shall, moreover, be entitled to the sum of two hundred dollars annually, as a compensation for all extra services. APPROVED, April 3, 1818. Laws of the United States to have the same effect in Mississippi as elsc where. Mississippi to be a judicial disdistrict court, and a district judge to reside trict, with a therein. Altered by act of Jan. 11, 1821, ch. 6. Two sessions of the court an nually, &c. Powers of the judge. Act of Sep. 24, 1789, ch. 20, sect. 10. Act of Feb. 28, 1799, ch. 19. Salary of the judge 2000 dolls. per ann. A district attorney with a compensation of 200 dollars per annum besides fees. A marshal with a compendollars per an sation of 200 num besides fees. CHAP. XXX.-An Act altering the time for holding a session of the district court in the district of Maine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the district court, heretofore by law holden on the last day of May, in each year, at Portland, within, and for the district of Maine, shall hereafter be holden, at the same place, on the first Tuesday of June in each year. APPROVED, April 3, 1818. STATUTE I. April 3, 1818. The district court for Maine to be hereafter holden at Portland on the first Tuesday of June in each year. CHAP. XXXII.—An Act respecting the courts of the United States within the state of New York. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the passing of this act, the district court of the United States, for the northern district of New York, shall be holden by the judge of the said district, and in case of his inability on account of sickness, absence, or STATUTE I. April 3, 1818. The courts for the northern district to be holden by the judge thereof. inability, by the In case of his |