shall be ceded to, and the property thereof vested in, the United States, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to provide, by contract, which shall be approved by the President, for building a lighthouse on such island, to be so lighted as to be distinguishable from other lighthouses on the east and west of the same; and, also, to agree for the salaries, wages, or hire, of the person or persons to be appointed by the President for the superintendence of the same. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for the purpose of building such lighthouse, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Appropriation for the lighthouse on the Isles of Shoals. The Secretary of the Treasury contract, for building other lighthouses, piers, &c. river. Genessee river. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to provide, by contract, for building lighthouses, erecting piers, beacons, or land marks, and building and placing light vessels, or boats, and buoys, on the following sites or shoals, to wit: A pier at the mouth of Kennebunk river, in the state of Maine; two lighthouses, one on Tenpound island, at the entrance into Gloucester harbour, and the other on Baker's island, near Salem, in the state of Massachusetts; a lighthouse at a proper site near the mouth of Genessee river, in the state of New York; a buoy on Southwest Ledge, and another on Adams' Fall, in or near to the harbour of New Haven, in the state of Connecticut: A light vessel at the end of Smith's Point Shoals, in the Chesapeake bay, in the state of Virginia: A lighthouse on Shell Castle Island, in the state of North Carolina or, in lieu thereof, a light vessel, to be moored in a proper place, near the said island, if, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, the latter shall be preferred: A beacon and two buoys on Island. proper sites in the channel leading to the harbour of Charleston, in the state of South Carolina: A lighthouse on a proper site in Mobile bay, in the state of Alabama, or, in lieu thereof, a light vessel in the said bay; if the same shall be preferred: A light vessel, should the same be deemed Mississippi. necessary by the Secretary of the Treasury, at the mouth of the Mississippi, in the state of Louisiana. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums of money, to accomplish the objects specified in this act, to wit: for erecting a pier at the mouth of Kennebunk river, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars; for placing a bell near the lighthouse on West Quody Head, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; for erecting two lighthouses, one on Tenpound Island, and the other on Baker's Island, and placing three buoys on the rocks and flats near Salem, a sum not exceeding nine thousand dollars; for defraying the expense of lighting the lighthouse on the south side of the harbour of Nantucket, and superintending the same, a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars; for a lighthouse near the mouth of Genessee river, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars; for placing two buoys, one on Southwest Ledge, and the other on Adams' Fall, in or near the harbour of New Haven, a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars; for a light vessel, and placing the same at the end of Smith's Point Shoals, a sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars; for a lighthouse on Shell Castle Island, or a light vessel, if preferred, a sum not exceeding fourteen thousand dollars; for a beacon and two buoys on proper sites in or near to the channel leading to Charleston harbour, a sum not exceeding six thousand five hundred dollars; for a lighthouse, or light vessel, for Mobile bay, a sum not exceeding nine thousand dollars; for a light vessel at the mouth of the Mississippi, a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, if he shall deem it expedient and proper, to build the lighthouse directed to be built on Sparrow's Point, in the state of Maryland, on North Point in said state; and also to substitute a South-west Ledge. Adams' Fall. Smith's Point. Shell Castle Charleston. Mouth of the Sums appro jects of this act. priated for ob The lighthouse directed on Sparrow's Point may be built on North Point. A light vessel light vessel for the lighthouse directed to be built on Craney Island, at the mouth of Elizabeth river, in the state of Virginia. may be substi tuted for a light house on Craney Island. Additional sums appropriated, for lighthouses and light vessels heretofore directed. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That, to complete the lighthouses and light vessels heretofore directed to be built, there be appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following additional sums, to wit: for the lighthouses in the state of Maryland, a sum not exceeding six thousand six hundred dollars: for the lighthouse directed to be built between the mouth of Grand River, in the state of Ohio, and the mouth of Detroit River, in the territory of Michigan, five thousand dollars: and for the lighthouses or light vessels for the state of Virginia, a sum not exceeding six thousand six hundred dollars. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That no lighthouse, beacon, nor cession of juris- landmark, shall be built or erected on any site previous to the cession of jurisdiction over the same being made to the United States. No lighthouse, &c. previous to diction. STATUTE 1. May 15, 1820. First, 2d, 3d of act of 3d March, 1819, APPROVED, May 15, 1820. CHAP. CXIII-An Act to continue in force "An act to protect the commerce of the United States, and punish the crime of piracy," and also to make further provisions for punishing the crime of piracy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the first, second, and 4th sections third, and fourth, sections of an act, entitled "An act to protect the commerce of the United States and punish the crime of piracy," passed on ch. 77, continued the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, be, and the same are hereby, continued in force, from the passing of this act for the term of two years, and from thence to the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer. for two years, &c. Fifth section SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the fifth section of the said of the act of 3d act be, and the same is hereby, continued in force, as to all crimes made punishable by the same, and heretofore committed, in all respects to crimes here as fully as if the duration of the said section had been without limitation. March, 1819, continued as tofore commit ted. Persons com or on seas, in a roadstead, &c. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, if any person shall, upon the high seas, or in any open roadstead, or in any haven, basin, or bay, or in mitting robbery, any river where the sea ebbs and flows, commit the crime of robbery, in on any ship or vessel, or ship's or upon any ship or vessel, or upon any of the ship's company of any company, &c. ship or vessel, or the lading thereof, such person shall be adjudged to the high be a pirate: and, being thereof convicted before the circuit court of the United States for the district into which he shall be brought, or in which he shall be found, shall suffer death. And if any person engaged in any Conviction in piratical cruise or enterprise, or being of the crew or ship's company of where brought or any piratical ship or vessel, shall land from such ship or vessel, and, on shore, shall commit robbery, such person shall be adjudged a pirate: and on conviction thereof before the circuit court of the United States for the district into which he shall be brought, or in which he shall be found, shall suffer death: Provided, That nothing in this section contained shall be construed to deprive any particular state of its jurisdiction over such offences, when committed within the body of a county, or authorize the courts of the United States to try any such offenders, after conviction or acquittance, for the same offence, in a state court. circuit court found. Persons engaged in any piratical enterprise, &c. and committing robbery on shore, declared pirates, and to suffer death. Persons land ing negroes or SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any citizen of the United ing on a foreign States, being of the crew or ship's company of any foreign ship or vesshore, and seiz- sel engaged in the slave trade, or any person whatever, being of the crew mulattoes, not or ship's company of any ship or vessel, owned in the whole or part, or held to service, navigated for, or in behalf of, any citizen or citizens of the United &c. with intent States, shall land, from any such ship or vessel, and, on any foreign slaves, or de- shore, seize any negro or mulatto, not held to service or labour by the coying, forcibly laws of either of the states or territories of the United States, with inbringing or car- tent to make such negro or mulatto a slave, or shall decoy, or forcibly on board, &c. bring or carry, or shall receive, such negro or mulatto on board any to make them rying, &c. them such ship or vessel, with intent as aforesaid, such citizen or person declared pirates, shall be adjudged a pirate; and, on conviction thereof before the and to suffer circuit court of the United States for the district wherein he may be brought or found, shall suffer death. death. negroes, &c. on suffer death. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That if any citizen of the United Persons forStates, being of the crew or ship's company of any foreign ship or vessel cibly confining, detaining, or engaged in the slave trade, or any person whatever, being of the crew or aiding to conship's company of any ship or vessel, owned wholly or in part, or navi- fine or detain gated for, or in behalf of, any citizen or citizens of the United States, board vessels, shall forcibly confine or detain, or aid and abet in forcibly confining or &c. declared detaining, on board such ship or vessel, any negro or mulatto not held pirates, and to to service by the laws of either of the states or territories of the United States, with intent to make such negro or mulatto a slave, or shall, on board any such ship or vessel, offer or attempt to sell, as a slave, any negro or mulatto not held to service as aforesaid, or shall, on the high seas, or any where on tide water, transfer or deliver over, to any other ship or vessel, any negro or mulatto, not held to service as aforesaid, with intent to make such negro or mulatto a slave, or shall land, or deliver on shore, from on board any such ship or vessel, any such negro or mulatto, with intent to make sale of, or having previously sold, such negro or mulatto, as a slave, such citizen or person shall be adjudged a pirate; and, on conviction thereof before the circuit court of the United States for the district wherein he shall be brought or found, shall suffer death. APPROVED, May 15, 1820. CHAP. CXVII. -An Act for the relief of persons holding confirmed unlocated STATUTE I. May 15, 1820. Persons hold unlocated tract reserved Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all persons lawfully holding confirmed unlocated claims for land within the tract ing confirmed reserved by the third section of the act, entitled "An act confirming claims for land certain claims to land in the Illinois territory and providing for their within the location," passed the sixteenth day of April, in the year one thousand by 3d section of eight hundred and fourteen, be allowed until the first day of Novem- act of 16th ber, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, to register the same: April, 1814, &c. Act of 1814, and the said claims shall be receivable in payment for public lands ch. 120. within the said reserved tract, conformably with the provisions of the said act, and of the act, entitled "An act making further provision for settling claims to land in the territory of Illinois," passed the twentysixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, at any time before the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty. APPROVED, May 15, 1820. Claims to be receivable, &c. Act of 1816, ch. 101. STATUTE I. CHAP. CXVIII. -An Act in addition to the act, entitled "An act making appro- May 15, 1820. priations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty," and for other purposes. Act of April 11, 1820, ch. 38. Sums appropropriated 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, appropriated, that is to say: For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, in addition to the appropriation heretofore sation of memmade for that object, twenty-three thousand three hundred and forty dollars. For rebuilding the public wharf, and repairing the public warehouses, on Staten Island, fifteen thousand dollars. For graduating the Capitol square, putting the grounds in order, and planting trees within the same, two thousand dollars. 3 E VOL. III. 76 For compen bers of Congress. wharf, &c. on For public Staten Island. Arrearages. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the arrearages of the Department of War, from the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, be paid out of the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars already appropriated for arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight Act of May 1, hundred and fifteen; any thing in the act entitled "An act in addition to the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments," passed the first of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, to the contrary notwithstanding. APPROVED, May 15, 1820. 1820, ch. 50. STATUTE 1. May 15, 1820. An addition to be built to the New Orleans. CHAP. CXIX.-An Act to provide for the building an addition to the customhouse now erecting in the city of New Orleans, for the use of the district court of the United States for the state of Louisiana. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be built an addition to the custom-house now custom-house at erecting in the city of New Orleans, which shall contain rooms suitable for the use of the district court of the United States for the state of Louisiana; and that so much of the appropriation for the erection of custom-houses and public warehouses as shall be sufficient for that purpose, be, and the same is hereby declared to be, applicable to that object. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, as soon as the said building shall be completed, the Secretary of the Treasury shall be authorized and required to cause to be sold, at public sale, upon such terms, and in such manner, as he shall judge to be expedient, the house and lot in which the district court is now held, and to cause the amount for which they shall be sold to be paid into the treasury of the United States. APPROVED, May 15, 1820. When the new building is completed, the present house and lot, &c. are to be sold, &c. STATUTE I. May 15, 1820. The register of the land of fice at Vincena complete ab nes to furnish stract of lands purchased and lying in Illinois, &c. Ten cents to the register for CHAP. CXXI. An Act to authorize the governor of Illinois to obtain certain abstracts of lands from certain public offices. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the register of the United States' land office at Vincennes, in the state of Indiana, to furnish to the governor of the state of Illinois, when he shall apply for the same, a complete abstract of all the lands which have been purchased at that office, or which may hereafter be purchased, which lie within the state of Illinois, designating the name of each purchaser, and the time of making the purchase; for which he shall be entitled to receive, from such applicant, at the rate of ten cents for each separate entry, a copy whereof is required; Provided, however, That all the expense incurred by virtue of this act, shall be defrayed by said state. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the application of the governor of said plete abstract to state, to cause a complete abstract to be made out, for the use of said be made out, of state, of all the military bounty lands which have been patented to the military bounty lands patented soldiers of the late army, lying within the same, designating the name to soldiers, ly- of each patentee. ing in Illinois. each entry. Proviso. Secretary of the Treasury to cause a com STATUTE I. May 15, 1820. Act of April 18, 1818, ch. 65. After 30th APPROVED, May 15, 1820. CHAP. CXXII.-An Act supplementary to an act, entitled "An act concerning navigation." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, from and after the thir Sept., 1820, ports of United against British vessels coming States closed from Lower Canada, New tieth day of September next, the ports of the United States shall be and remain closed against every vessel owned wholly, or in part, by a subject or subjects of his Britannic majesty, coming, or arriving by sea, from any port or place in the province of Lower Canada, or coming or arriving from any port or place in the province of New Brunswick, the province of Nova Scotia, the islands of Newfoundland, St. Johns, or Brunswick, &c. Cape Breton, or the dependencies of any of them, the islands of Bermuda, the Bahama islands, the islands called Caicos, or the dependencies of any of them, or from any other port or place in any island, colony, territory, or possession, under the dominion of Great Britain in the West Indies, or on the continent of America, south of the southern boundary of the United States, and not included within the act to which this act is supplementary. And every such vessel, so excluded from the ports of the United States, that shall enter, or attempt to enter, the same, in violation of this act, shall, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with the cargo on board such vessel, be forfeited to the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth day of September next, the owner, consignee, or agent, of every vessel, owned wholly, or in part, by a subject or subjects of his Britannic majesty, which shall have been duly entered in any port of the United States, and on board of which shall have been there laden, for exportation, any article or articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture, of the United States, other than provisions and sea stores, necessary for the voyage, shall, before such vessel shall have been cleared outward at the custom-house, give bond in a sum double the value of such article or articles, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the collector, that the article or articles so laden on board such vessel, for exportation, shall be landed in some port or place other than a port or place in any province, island, colony, territory, or possession, belonging to his Britannic majesty, that is mentioned or described in this act, or in the act to which this act is supplementary. And every such vessel that shall sail, or attempt to sail from any port of the United States, without having complied with the provisions aforesaid, by giving bond as aforesaid, shall, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with the article or articles aforesaid, laden on board the same as aforesaid, be forfeited to the United States: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed or construed so as to violate any provision of the convention to regulate commerce between the territories of the United States and of his Britannic majesty, signed the third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth day of September next, no goods, wares, or merchandise, shall be imported into the United States of America from the province of Nova Scotia, the province of New Brunswick, the islands of Cape Breton, St. Johns, Newfoundland, or their respective dependencies, from the Bermuda islands, the Bahama islands, the islands called Caicos, or either or any of the aforesaid possessions, islands, or places, or from any other province, possession, plantation, island, or place, under the dominion of Great Britain in the West Indies, or on the continent of America, south of the southern boundaries of the United States, except only such goods, wares, and merchandise, as are truly and wholly of the growth, produce, or manufacture, of the province, colony, plantation, island, possession, or place aforesaid, where the same shall be laden, and from whence such goods, wares, or merchandise, shall be directly imported into the United States; and all goods, wares, and merchandise, imported, or attempted to be imported, into the United States of America, contrary to the provisions of this act, together with the vessel on board of which the same shall be laden, her tackle, apparel, and furniture, shall be forfeited to the United States. Vessel and cargo forfeited on attempting to enter. Bonds to be given by the owner, &c. of British vessels, after 30th Sept., with articles of 1820, laden the growth, &c. of the United States for exto land them in portation, not the prohibited places. Vessels and articles forfeiting to sail before bond given. ed for attempt Proviso. No goods, wares, or mer. chandise, to be imported from the prohibited places, except they are wholly of the growth, &c. of the colony where laden and whence directly imported. Vessel and goods forfeited portations contrary to this act. in case of im |