judge of the southern district. The judge of the northern district to give timely notice to the judge of the southern district. Three termis of the northern district court. be revived and otherwise, it shall be the duty of the judge of the southern district of New York to hold the said court, in and for the said northern district, and to do and perform all other acts and duties of the judge of the said northern district, with the like power and authority in all respects. And whenever such inability of the judge of the said northern district, to hold any term of the said court, shall exist, it shall be his duty to give previous timely notice thereof to the judge of the said southern district. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be held in each year, three terms of the district court for the northern district of New York, to wit: at the city of Albany, on the second Tuesday of May and on the second Tuesday of November: and at the village of Utica, in the county of Oneida, on the third Tuesday of May. (a) And all suits and proceedings in the said court shall be revived, and shall continue in full force, in the same manner as if the said court had been regularly held according to law, and had been adjourned to the term next to be holden by virtue of this act. And all process already issued, or which may be issued, out of the said court, before the passing of this act, shall be held and deemed returnable to the next terin thereof, to be holden by virtue of this act. And be holden in the it shall be at the discretion of the judge of the said northern district of New York, or, in case of his inability, of the judge of the said southern district, to appoint and hold a court or courts at any other time or place, than those before mentioned, within and for the said northern district, as the business therein may require. Process issued, &c. to be returnable, &c. Courts may northern dis trict at other times, &c. at discretion. The northern district enlarged. Proceedings had in suits, &c. in the former district court declared valid. The jurisdiction of causes, within the limits of the present northern district vested in the court for that district, whether they have or have not been instituted in the former district court. Pleadings, &c. to be trans ferred to clerk's the office SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said northern district of the state of New York shall be, and the same is hereby enlarged, so as to include the counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Schenectady, Schoharie, and Delaware, in the said state. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all proceedings hitherto had in the district courts of the United States, either for the northern or for the southern district of New York, in any suit at common law, or in any civil cause of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, in continuation of any such suit or cause which had been instituted in the former district court of the United States for the district of New York, be, and the same hereby are, declared as valid and effectual as if the same suit or cause had been originally instituted in the district court in which such proceedings have been had. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the jurisdiction of every suit or cause, either at common law, or of maritime and admiralty jurisdiction, whether the same hath or hath not been instituted in the district court of the former district of New York, wherein the cause shall have arisen, or the seizure shall have been made, within the limits of the northern district of New York, as prescribed by this act, and which hath not been proceeded in to final judgment or decree, shall be vested in the district court for the northern district of New York; and all pleadings, libels, claims, evidences, and papers, whatsoever, that may have been filed, and all moneys which may have been paid or deposited, in the office of the clerk of the former district of New York, or of the clerk of the southern district of New York, in every such suit or cause, shall for the northern be transferred to, and filed and deposited in, the office of the clerk of the northern district of New York. And the said district court for the northern district of New York shall have as full power to hear, try, and determine, the said suits and causes, and to proceed therein to final judgment and decree, as the district court for the district of New York had (a) By the act to alter the times of holding the district court in the northern district of New York, passed March 2, 1821, the district court is directed to be held at Utica on the last Tuesday in August, and at Albany on the last Tuesday in January, annually. As to the jurisdiction of the district court of the northern district of New York, see the act respecting the jurisdiction of certain district courts, Feb. 19, 1831, ch. 28. By the act of March 3, 1837, ch. 32, sec. 2, circuit courts are directed to be held in the northern district of New York, at Albany, on the second Tuesday in June, and third Tuesday in October, annually. See act of March 3, 1823, ch. 41. Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 52. district. The northern district court to have full power, &c. Jurisdiction of causes in the by law. And the jurisdiction of all suits or causes, whether at common law, or of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, whether the same hath southern disor hath not been instituted in the district court, for the former district of trict vested in New York, where in the cause of action shall have arisen, or the seizure the court for that district, shall have been made, within the limits of the southern district of New whether they York, and which have not been proceeded in to final judgment or decree, have or have shall be vested in the district court for the said southern district of New tuted in the York, and the said court shall have as full power to hear, try, and de- former district termine the said suits and causes, as the district court for the district court. of New York had by law. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the original jurisdiction of the circuit court of the southern district of New York shall be confined to causes arising within the said district, and shall not be construed to extend to causes of action arising within the northern district of New York. APPROVED, April 3, 1818. CHAP. XXXIII-An Act to provide for the erection of a court-house, jail, and pub- not been insti Original jurisdiction of the circuit court of STATUTE I. April 3, 1818. The levy court of Alexandria for that county. may erect a jail The marshal to remove prisoners when certified the jail is in a ceive them. condition to re The levy court may erect a court-house and fire-proof office for records at the expense of the county, &c. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said levy court may cause to be erected, if they deem expedient, at the expense of the county, a good and convenient court-house, and a fire-proof office for records, to be built of stone or brick; and that it shall be the duty of the said court to cause the jail before provided for, and the said courthouse and office, when erected, to be kept in a good state of repair. And if it should be considered expedient by the said court to erect The levy court the said court-house and office in any other place than the present mar- may purchase a ket square, the said court is hereby authorized and empowered to pur- for the erection chase, within the limits of the town of Alexandria, a lot of ground, of the buildings, not exceeding two acres, for the erection of the said buildings and of &c. the said jail, and for no other use whatever. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the levy court of the county of Alexandria shall, from time to time, as it shall be necessary, levy on the titheables, and other taxable property, within the said county, the sums of money which shall be necessary to carry into full effect the several provisions of this act. APPROVED, April 3, 1818. lot in Alexandria The court to levy the money necessary, &c. from time to time. STATUTE I. April 4, 1818. After the 4th CHAP. XXXIV. — An Act to establish the flag of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after July, 1818, the the fourth day of July next, the flag of the United States be thirteen flag to be 13 stripes and 20 horizontal stripes, alternate red and white: that the union be twenty stars. stars, white in a blue field. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That on the admission of every A star to be new state into the Union, one star be added to the union of the flag; added for every and that such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July then next succeeding such admission. APPROVED, April 4, 1818. new state. STATUTE I. April 4, 1818. The state of Tennessee may issue grants, &c. on all en tries, &c. made, pursuant to the laws of North Carolina, before the 25th CHAP. XXXV. — An Act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act to authorize the state of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect titles to certain lands therein described, and to settle the claims to the vacant and unappropriated land within the same," passed the eighteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and six. Act of April Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 18, 1806, ch. 31. United States of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the state of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect titles on all special entries and locations of lands in the said state, made pursuant to the laws of North Carolina, before the twenty-fifth day of February, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, which were good and valid in law, and recognized by the act of the said state of North Carolina, commonly called the cession act, passed the day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, and which lie west and south of the line described in the act to which this is supplementary; and also to issue grants and perfect titles on all warrants of survey, interfering entries and locations, which might be removed by the cession act of North Carolina aforesaid, and which are good and valid in law, and grants, on warwhich have not been actually located or granted, east and north of the rants of survey, &c. which might aforesaid line; and all interfering grants which are good and valid in be removed by law, or the warrants or certificates legally issued, in consequence of the cession act, such interference, on land lying south and west of the said line, in the manner and under the same or similar rules, regulations, and restrictions, as are prescribed by the laws now in force in the said state of Tennessee, for issuing grants and perfecting titles on claims of a like nature for lands lying north and east of the said line. Feb. 1790, which were valid, and lie west and south of the line described, &c. And to issue &c. And all interfering grants, &c. under the same rules, &c. Previous to &c., the war rant, &c., must be laid before the commis sioner of land SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That previous to issuing a grant or issuing a grant, perfecting a title on any of the claims herein before described, the warrant, or other legal evidence of such claim, shall be laid before the commissioner of land claims for West Tennessee, for the time being, appointed by the authority of the said state, and approved by him as valid claims for West upon sufficient legal evidence being adduced of such validity, according Tennessee, &c. to the rules and regulations prescribed by the laws of the said state now in force, for deciding on warrants and other land claims of the like nature, authorized to be perfected into grants, north and west of the aforesaid line; and upon such warrant or other legal evidence, of any of the claims aforesaid, being declared valid by said commissioner, it shall be lawful for the surveyor of the proper district, or county, to lay off and survey the same, in the manner prescribed by the laws of the said state in similar cases, and return such survey to the register of the land office of West Tennessee, who shall thereupon be authorized to make out a grant thereon, to be executed by the governor, and countersigned by the secretary of the said state, in the manner provided by the laws of the same : Provided, That no surveys shall be made, grants issued, or titles perfected by virtue of this act, for any land to which the Indian claim has not been previously extinguished. The warrant, &c. being declared valid, the land to be laid off by the surveyor, &c. Grant to be executed by the governor, &c. Proviso. Persons who have had grants from North Carolina since Dec. 23d, 1811, for lands in Tennessee, on surrendering them to be cancelled, may ob tain grants from Tennessee. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That those persons who have had surveys made, and obtained grants from the state of North Carolina, since the twenty-third day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, for lands lying within the state of Tennessee, shall, upon surrendering such grants to the said commissioner of land claims for West Tennessee, for the time being, to be cancelled and vacated, be allowed to produce the entries, warrants, or other evidences of claims, upon which such grants were founded; and if the said claims shall be deemed good and valid by the said commissioner, then it shall be lawful for the state of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect titles on such claims in the same manner as if no such grants had been issued by the state of North Carolina. APPROVED, April 4, 1818. STATUTE I. April 4, 1818. granted to an CHAP. XXXVI.—An Act declaring the consent of Congress to an act of the state of North Carolina for the relief of sick and disabled American Seamen. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the assent of Congress Congress be, and hereby is, granted and declared to an act of the legis- act of North lature of the State of North Carolina, entitled "An act for the relief Carolina for the of sick and disabled American seamen," and passed on the twenty-third relief of sick day of December last; and the said act is hereby ratified and confirmed. American seaSEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force for men. This act in five years and no longer. APPROVED, April 4, 1818. CHAP. XXXVII. An Act concerning the bounty or allowance to fishing vessels in certain cases. and disabled force for five years. STATUTE 1. April 4, 1818. Where fish been prevented Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ing vessels, States of America, in Congress assembled, That where any fishing vessel since the 18th of the United States has been, since the eighteenth day of February, in Feb., 1815, have the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, prevented, by illegal by illegal capcapture or seizure, under authority, or pretence of authority, from any ture, &c., from foreign government, from fishing at sea, for any part of the term of four fishing at sea for any part of months required by law to be employed by such vessel in fishing, in order the four months to entitle the owner of such vessel to the bounty or allowance prescribed required, &c., by law, the time of the unlawful detention of such vessel shall be compu- computed, ted as a part of the said four months, and such bounty or allowance shall be paid accordingly: Provided, That such vessel has, in all other respects, complied with the requisites of the laws now in force. APPROVED, April 4, 1818. the time to be and the bounty, &c., to be paid. Proviso the other requisites must have been complied with. STATUTE I. CHAP. XL. An Act to regulate the fees of public notaries in the county of Washing- April 4, 1818. ton, in the District of Columbia. re ceive the same Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United The public States of America, in Congress assembled, That the public notaries notaries of appointed for, and residing in, the county of Washington, in the District Washington of Columbia, shall be, and they are hereby, severally authorized to demand county to and receive, for any services required of them in that capacity, such fees as are now allowed to the public notaries of the state of Maryland, by the laws of that state, for similar services. APPROVED, April 4, 1818. CHAP. XLII. An Act limiting the time for claims being produced for lands authorized to be granted to the inhabitants of New Madrid. fees as public notaries in Maryland. STATUTE I. April 9, 1818. Act of Feb. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 17, 1815, ch. 45. States of America, in Congress assembled, That every person claimPersons claiming lands, in ing lands in virtue of the act entitled "An act for the relief of the virtue of the inhabitants of the late county of New Madrid, in the Missouri territory, act mentioned, who suffered by earthquakes," passed on the seventeenth day of February, cation, &c., on to make applione thousand eight hundred and fifteen, shall make application therefor, or before the 1st and produce evidence, in support of his claim, to the recorder of land Jan., 1819. titles for the said territory, on or before the first day of January next: and the said recorder shall not issue a certificate for any claim as aforesaid, the evidence in support of which shall not have been produced to him within the time limited as aforesaid. APPROVED, April 9, 1818. Recorder not to issue certifi- STATUTE I. Persons who CHAP. XLIII. An Act concerning the territory of Alabama. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any person or persons purchase a VOL. III. 53 quarter section or more of land paid one fourth, &c., shall be competent to hold any office of honour or profit in that territory, &c. STATUTE I. April 9, 1818. Sums appropriated for the ernment. who have or may hereafter purchase, from the United States, one quarter section or more of land in the Alabama territory, and shall have paid one fourth part thereon, as the law in such cases requires, and shall have obtained a certificate of the proper land office to that effect, shall be competent to hold any office of honour or profit in the said territory, any thing in the ordinance or former laws of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding. APPROVED, April 9, 1818. CHAP. XLV. - An Act making appropriation for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United support of gov- States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated; that is to say: For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, two hundred thousand dollars. Compensation of members of Congress, &c. Contingent expenses of Congress. Library and librarian of Congress. President. Vice President. Rent, &c., of a house occu pied by the Pres ident. Secretary of State. Clerks in De partment of State. Messenger. Contingent expenses of Department of Secretary of the Treasury. Clerks. Messenger. First comptroller. First comp For the expenses of fire wood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses, of the two houses of Congress, thirty-seven thousand dollars. For the expenses of the library of Congress, including the librarian's allowance, for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars. For compensation to the Vice President of the United States, five thousand dollars. For rent and repairs of a house occupied by the President of the United States, eight hundred and ninety dollars. For compensation to the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the Department of State, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said department, and for the patent office, six hundred and sixty dollars. For the contingent and incidental expenses of the said department, including the expenses of printing and distributing copies of the laws of the first session of the fifteenth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, and to provide for a deficiency in the appropriation for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, nineteen thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars. For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, five thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten thousand four hundred and thirty-three dollars. For compensation to the messenger and assistant messenger in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, seven hundred and ten dollars. For compensation to the first comptroller of the treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the first troller's clerks, comptroller of the treasury, fifteen thousand five hundred and sixteen dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hun For compensation to the second comptroller of the treasury, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the second comptroller of the treasury, eight thousand eight hundred dollars. |