STATUTE II. mouth, on the first day of May; and at Exeter, on the first day of October, shall hereafter be holden at Portland, on the first day of May; at Wiscasset, on the first day of October; at Portsmouth, on the eighth day of May; and at Exeter, on the eighth day of October, in said districts, in each year; and when either of said days shall be Sunday, the session of said court shall commence on the day next following: and all causes, suits, actions, process, pleadings, and proceedings, of every description, existing or depending in the circuit court, in the districts aforesaid, shall be returnable to, and proceeded with, in due form of law, at the times conformable to the alterations herein provided for. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. March 3, 1823. CHAP. XLII.—An Act supplementary to "An act for the better organization of the courts of the United States within the state of New York." Act of April 3, 1818, ch. 32. An appeal to be from the northern district court of New York, to the circuit court in the southern district. STATUTE II. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from final decrees or judgments, in the district court of the northern district of the state of New York, there shall be an appeal to the circuit court in the southern district of said state, in the same manner, and upon the same terms, as from other district courts to their respective circuit courts. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. March 3, 1823. CHAP. XLIII.-An Act further to prolong the continuance of the mint at Phila [Expired.] Act of March delphia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 3, 1801, ch. 21, States of America, in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled "An act concerning the mint," approved March the third, one thousand eight hundred and one, is hereby revived and continued in force and operation for the further term of five years, from the fourth day of March next. concerning the mint, revived for five years. Duty of commissioner of loans to be performed by the collector of Philadelphia. Expense of materials used in refining, and other deductions, to be made from the deposit, and accounted for to treasury of the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, during the continuance of the mint at the city of Philadelphia, the duties which were enjoined on the commissioner of loans for the state of Pennsylvania, by the second section of the act, entitled "An act concerning the mint," passed on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and one, shall be performed by the collector of the port of Philadelphia for the time being. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That when any silver, brought to the mint for coinage, shall require refining, the expense of the materials used in the process shall be deducted from the amount of the deposit; and that, when silver so deposited, shall be of a quality superior to that of the legal standard of the silver coins of the United States, a deduction shall be made from the amount, equal to the expense of the copper necessary to reduce it to the said standard; and that all such deductions be regularly accounted for, by the treasurer of the mint, to the treasury of the United States. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. STATUTE II. March 3, 1823. CHAP. XLIV.-An Act for the better organization of the district court of the United States within the state of Louisiana. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, for the more conve (a) District courts of Louisiana. An act for the admission of the state of Louisiana into the Union, and to extend the laws of the United States to the said state, April 8, 1812, ch. 50. State of Louisiana divided into two dis western and eastern. Three stated sessions to be held annually for the eastern district at New Orleans, and one for the western at Opelousas Court house. nient transaction of business in the courts of the United States within the state of Louisiana, the said state shall be, and the same is hereby, divided into two districts, in manner following, to wit: The counties of tricts, the Attakapas, Opelousas, Rapide, Natchitoches, and Ouachita, shall compose one district, to be called the western district of Louisiana; and all the remaining part of the said state shall compose another district, to be called the eastern district of Louisiana; and all criminal actions, or civil suits, which have arisen in the western district, together with all process, writs, recognisances, and records, belonging thereto, shall be transferred to the western district; and there shall be, annually, only three stated sessions of the district court for the eastern district, to be held at New Orleans, on the third Mondays of November, February, and May; and there shall be, annually, one stated session of the said court in the western district of the state, to be held at Opelousas Courthouse, to commence on the third Monday of August; and the district judge of the United States, for the state of Louisiana, is hereby authorized and required to hold special sessions of the said court, in the said western district, for the trial of criminal or civil causes, whenever he may deem it expedient: That all process, writs, and recognisances, of every kind, whether respecting juries, witnesses, bail, or otherwise, which relate to the cases to be tried at the said special sessions, shall be considered as belonging to such sessions, in the same manner as if they had been issued or taken in reference thereto : That any special session may be adjourned to any time, or times, previous to the next stated meeting of the district court: That all business depending for trial at any special court shall, at the close thereof, be considered as of course removed to the next stated term of the district court: the said judge shall appoint a clerk of the said court in the western district, who shall reside, and keep the records of the court, at the place where the sessions of the court are held, and shall receive for the services performed by him, the same fees and compensation that are allowed to the clerk of the said court of the eastern district of the state, and shall be subject, in every respect, to the same responsibilities. Judge to appoint a clerk for the western district court. President to shal and district attorney for the western district. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United appoint a marStates, be, and hereby is, authorized to appoint one person as marshal, and one as district attorney, for the said western judicial district of the United States within the state of Louisiana, created by this act, and that the terms of appointment and service, together with the duties and responsibilities of the said marshal and district attorney, respectively, for the district aforesaid, be, in all respects, the same within their said district as the terms of appointment and services, the duties and responsibilities, of the marshal and district attorney, respectively, of the eastern district of the state of Louisiana; and said marshal shall receive such fees and emoluments as are received by the marshal of the United States for the state of Louisiana; and said attorney an annual compensation of two hundred dollars, and the same fees and emoluments as are allowed to the attorney of the United States, for the eastern district of Louisiana. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. An act for the better organization of the district court of the United States within the state of Louisiana, March 3, 1823, ch. 44. An act to change the time of holding the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana, March 3, 1825, ch. 80. An act to alter the time of holding the district court of the United States for the western district of Louisiana, May 22, 1832, ch. 92. An act for changing the terms of the district court for the western district of Louisiana, June 30, 1834, ch. 173. An act respecting the jurisdiction of certain district courts, Feb. 19, 1831, ch. 28. STATUTE II. March 3, 1823. CHAP. XLV.—An Act to alter the times of holding the district court of the United States for the district of Vermont.(a) Time of holding the district court of Vermont altered. Proviso. Causes to be proceeded in as if no alteration had been made. STATUTE II. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the district court of the United States for the district of Vermont, shall be hereafter holden on the sixth day of October, and on the twenty-fourth day of May, in each year, instead of the tenth day of October, and twenty-seventh day of May, as is now required by law: Provided, That if either of the days prescribed by this act for holding said court, shall be a Sunday, then the said court shall commence and be holden on the following day. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all proceedings of a civil or criminal nature, now pending in, or returnable to, said court, shall be proceeded in by the said court, in the same manner as if no alteration of the time for holding said court had taken place. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. March 3, 1823. CHAP. XLVI.—An Act extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army. [Expired.] Time of is suing and locating military land warrants to revolutionary Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the time limited by the second section of the act, approved on the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, for issuing military land warrants to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army, shall be extended to the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty1819, ch. 41. five; and the time for locating the unlocated warrants shall be extended to the first day of October thereafter. officers and soldiers ex tended. STATUTE II. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. March 3, 1823. CHAP. XLVII.—An Act to extend the time allowed for the redemption of land sold for direct tax in certain cases. (b) [Expired.] Time for redemption of lands sold for direct tax revived and extended for two years. Proviso. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the time allowed for the redemption of lands, which have been, or may be, sold for the nonpayment of taxes, under the several acts, passed the second day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, the ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, for laying and collecting a direct tax, within the United States, so far as the same have been purchased for, or on behalf of, the United States, be revived and extended for the further term of two years, from and after the expiration of the present session of Congress: Provided, That on such redemption, interest shall be paid, at the rate of twenty per centum per annum on the taxes aforesaid, and on the additions of twenty per centum chargeable thereon; and the right of redemption shall enure, as well to the heirs and assignees of the lands so purchased on behalf of the United States as to the original owners thereof. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. (a) See act of March 22, 1816, ch. 31, for notes of the acts relating to the circuit and district courts of Vermont. (b) Act of August 2, 1813, ch. 37. Act of Jary 9, 1815, ch. 21. Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 24. STATUTE II. CHAP. XLVIII.—An Act vesting in the state of Virginia the right of the United March 3, 1823. States to all fines assessed for non-performance of militia duty, during the late war with Great Britain, within said state. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all right which the United States have to the fines assessed upon the citizens of the state of Virginia, for the non-performance of militia duty during the late war with Great Britain, shall be, and the same is hereby, vested in the said state. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all moneys in the hands of those who now are, or heretofore have been, marshals, or deputy marshals, which may have been collected from the fines aforesaid, after deducting the expense of collecting the same, and the cost of any suit or suits which may have been brought against said marshals or deputy marshals, in consequence of the collection of said fines, shall be paid by them, respectively, to the treasurer of said state. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said fines shall be recovered, by the said state, under such regulations, provisions, and restrictions, as shall be prescribed by the legislature thereof: Provided, That if the provisions of this act are accepted by the state of Virginia, that state shall indemnify the United States against any charge or charges which has already accrued, or which may hereafter be made, in consequence of the assessment and collection of said fines. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. Right of the United States to militia fines in Virginia vested in that state. Moneys that are or have been collected to be paid to treasurer of the state. Fines to be recovered by the state as pre scribed by the legislature. Proviso. STATUTE II. CHAP. XLIX.-An Act for the erection of a monument over the tomb of Elbridge March 3, 1823. Gerry, late Vice President of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the superintendent of the public buildings be, and he hereby is directed to cause to be erected, in the burial ground of the city of Washington, a neat and appropriate monument over the tomb of Elbridge Gerry, late Vice President of the United States, who died at Washington, November twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, with a suitable inscription on the same, stating the name, station, age, and time of death, of the deceased. Superintend ent of the puberect a monument over the tomb of Elbridge Gerry. Appropriation SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a sum, not exceeding one thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the pay- therefor. ment of the cost thereof, from any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. CHAP. L.-An Act to continue in force an act, entitled "An act regulating the currency within the United States of the gold coins of Great Britain, France, Portugal, and Spain, and the crowns of France and five franc pieces," passed on the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, so far as the same relates to the crowns of France and five franc pieces. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of the act, entitled "An act regulating the currency within the United States of the gold coins of Great Britain, France, Portugal, and Spain, and the crowns of France and five franc pieces," passed on the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, as relates to the VOL. III.-98 to be in force for four years, as regards French crowns and five franc pieces. STATUTE II. March 3, 1823. Instalments due on certain town remitted. crowns of France and five franc pieces, shall be, and the same hereby is, continued in force, for the further term of four years, from and after the fourth day of March next. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. CHAP. LI.-An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to remit the instalments due on certain lots in Shawneetown, in the state of Illinois. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the lots in Shawnee Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to remit the instalments due, and to become due, on lots numbered eleven hundred and thirteen and eleven hundred and fourteen, in Shawneetown, in the state of Illinois, and a patent or patents shall issue for the same, as in other cases; which said lots are used as a public square. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. CHAP. LII.-An Act to establish an additional land office in the territory of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all the public lands in the district of Detroit, lying south of the boundary line between the third and fourth townships, south of the base line, except so much thereof as lies north of the river Huron, of Lake Erie, and all the public lands in the territory of Michigan, to which the Indian title was extinguished by the treaty of Chicago, shall be formed into a new land district; and, for the sale of the public lands within the district hereby constituted, there shall be a land office established, at such place within the district as the President of the United States may designate. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a register of the land office, and a receiver of public moneys, appointed by the President of the United States, for the land office hereby created, to superintend the sales of public lands within said district, who shall give security in the same manner, in the same sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, and duties, and authority, shall, in every respect, be the same, in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their office, as are, or may be, by law provided in relation to the registers and receivers of public moneys in the several offices established for the sale of public lands. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the third and fifth sections of the act, entitled "An act to designate the boundaries of districts, and establish land offices, for the disposal of the public lands, not heretofore offered for sale, in the states of Ohio and Indiana," approved March the third, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, be, and the same are hereby, made applicable to the district and office hereby created, so far as they are not changed by subsequent laws of the United States: Provided, That all such public lands, embraced within the district created by this act, which shall have been offered for sale to the highest bidder, at Detroit, pursuant to any proclamation of the President of the United States, and which lands remain unsold at the taking effect of this act, shall be subject to be entered and sold at private sale by the register of the land office hereby created, in the same manner, and subject to the same terms, and upon like conditions, as the sales of said lands would have been subjected to in the land office at Detroit had they remained attached to that office. (a) See notes to act of February 21, 1823, ch. 10. |