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CHAP. LXXII.-An Act respecting the punishment of piracy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, from and after the passage of this act, the district courts of the United States, in districts where no circuit courts are holden, shall have cognisance of all cases arising under an act of Congress, approved May fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled "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," and shall have the same power and jurisdiction therein, as the circuit courts of the United States, under the same act. APPROVED, March 3, 1823.

STATUTE II.

March 3, 1823.

May 15, 1820. ch. 113. District courts

to take cognisance of piracy.

RESOLUTIONS.

I. RESOLUTION requiring from the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House March 1, 1823. of Representatives, an annual statement of the expenditures from the contingent fund of the two Houses.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, required to lay before the two Houses, respectively, at the commencement of each session of Congress, a table or statement showing the names and compensation of the clerks employed in their respective offices, and the names and compensation of the messengers of the respective Houses; together with the detailed statement of the items of expenditure of the contingent fund of the respective Houses for the next immediately preceding year; in which statement the disbursements shall be arranged under the following heads, to wit: first, printing; second stationery, and distinguishing under this head the articles furnished for the use of the members, from those furnished for the offices of the secretary and clerk, and specifying the number of reams of each kind of paper; third, book-binding; fourth, fuel; fifth, newspapers, specifying under this head the amount of orders given at the preceding session, as well as the payments made; sixth, the post-offices; seventh, the repairs and preservation of the furniture; eighth, services of messengers and horses; ninth, miscellaneous items not included under the preceding heads. Which statements shall exhibit, also, the several sums drawn by the said secretary and clerk, respectively, from the treasury, and the balances, if any, remaining in their hands.

APPROVED, March 1, 1823.

Secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives renish a detailed quired to furstatement of their expendi

tures under different heads.

II. RESOLUTION to direct the withholding of the compensation of certain prize March 3, 1823.

agents.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of July, next ensuing, no prize agent who has not accounted for the prize moneys with which he has heretofore been intrusted for the benefit of the officers and crews of any public armed vessel or vessels of the United States, shall receive from the treasury of the United States any salary or compensation to which he may be entitled, until he shall have accounted for, or repaid into the treasury, all sums so intrusted to him for disbursement.

APPROVED, March 3, 1823.

Compensation to be withheld

from certain

prize agents.

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Notes of the acts relative to Alabama, - 489
Organization of the convention,
- 491
Propositions offered to the convention,
An act for establishing a District Court in the |
State of Alabama, April 21, 1820, 564
Note of acts relating to the District Court of
Alabama,
564
Resolution declaring the admission of the
State of Alabama into the Union, Decem-
ber 14, 1819,
608
An act to alter the terms of the District Court
in Alabama, December 27, 1820,

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Alexandria County, District of Columbia.

610

A company incorporated to make a certain
turnpike road in the county of Alexan-
dria,

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American Captives of the late War.
Provisions of the act of March 1, 1817, chap.
29, respecting the ransom of American
captives, extended, March 3, 1823, 788
Accounts for clothing furnished to the cap-
tives to be adjusted, -
- 788

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Apportionment of Representatives in Congress.
Representatives in the House of Representa-
tives according to the fourth census, March
7, 1822,
- 651
Appropriations.

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An act making appropriations for furnishing
the Senate chamber, and repairing the north
wing of the Capitol, July 26, 1813, 48
Additional appropriations for the support of
government for the year 1813, August 2,
1813, (obsolete,)

81

An act making partial appropriations for the
year 1814, January 11, 1814, (obsolete,) 93
An act making appropriations for the support
of the military establishment of the United
States for the year 1814, March 19, 1814,
(obsolete,)
· 104
An act making appropriations for the support
of the navy of the United States for the
year 1814, (obsolete,)
· 105
Appropriations for the support of government
for the year 1814, (obsolete,)

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106
An act making further appropriations for the
service, of the year 1814, April 18, 1814,
(obsolete,)
Additional appropriations for the service of the
year 1814, Dec. 15, 1814, (obsolete,) 152
Appropriation for repairing or rebuilding the
public buildings in Washington, February
18, 1815, (obsolete,)
205
Appropriations for the support of government
for the year 1815, February 16, 1815, (ob-
solete,)
An act making appropriations for support of
the military establishment for the year
1815, (obsolete,)
- 222
Appropriation of two hundred thousand dol-
lars in addition to the sum heretofore appro-
priated to purchase a stock of ship-timber
for ship building, &c.,
Appropriation for preparing registers of ships
and vessels, (obsolete,)

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Appropriations for the support of the govern-
ment, April 16, 1816, (obsolete,)
Appropriations for the support of the navy for
1816, (obsolete,)

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326

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390

Appropriation for carrying into effect a treaty
with the Cherokee Indians, April 29, 1816,
(obsolete,)
Appropriations for the support of the military
establishment of the United States, April
29, 1816, (obsolete,)
330
An act making further appropriation for the
year 1816, April 30, 1816, (obsolete,) 340
An act making a partial appropriation for the
subsistence of the army for the year 1817,
January 22, 1817, (obsolete,)
Appropriations for the support of govern-
ment in 1817, (obsolete,) -
Appropriations for the support of the military
establishment in 1817, (obsolete,) 359
Provision for furnishing the house of the Pre-
sident of the United States, (obsolete,)- 362
An act making additional appropriations to
repay the expenses of the army and militia
during the late war with Great Britain,
March 3, 1817, (obsolete,)
- 378
An act making appropriations for the support
of the navy of the United States for the
year 1819, (obsolete,)
- 382
The President restrained from making trans-
fers of appropriations for specified objects to
other purposes, March 3, 1817,
Appropriation for carrying into effect certain
Indian treaties, (obsolete,) -
Appropriations for carrying into effect treaties
with certain Indian tribes, March 3, 1817,
393
(obsolete,)
Appropriation for payment of arrearages in-
curred for the support of the military es-
tablishment previous to 1817, February 16,
1818, (obsolete,)
405
Appropriations for the military establishment
for the year 1818, February 19, 1818, (ob-|
solete,)
407
Appropriations for the support of the navy in
1818, May 18, 1818, (obsolete,)
411
Appropriations for the support of the govern-
ment in 1818, April 9, 1818, (obsolete,) 417
An act supplementary to an act making ap-
propriations for the year 1818, April 20,
1818, (obsolete,)
Appropriation for the military service of the
United States for the year 1818, February
15, 1818, (obsolete,)
Appropriations for the support of the navy for
the year 1819, February 16, 1819, (obso-
lete,)
483
An act making appropriations for the support
of government for the year 1819, March 3,
1819, (obsolete,)

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An act making appropriations for the public

Appropriations..

buildings, for the purchase of a lot of land,
and furnishing water for the use of certain
public buildings, March 3, 1819, (obsolete,)
516

An act making appropriations to carry into
effect treaties concluded with several Indian
tribes therein mentioned, March 3, 1819,
(obsolete,)
- 517
An act making partial appropriations for the
military service of the year 1820, January
14, 1820, (obsolete,)

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539

An act in addition to the "Act making appro-
priations for the support of the navy of the
United States for the year 1819," January
14, 1820, (obsolete,)

- 540
An act making appropriations to supply the
deficiency in the appropriations heretofore
made for the completion of the repairs of
the north and south wing of the capitol, for
furnishing the President's house, and the
erection of two new executive offices, Feb-
ruary 10, 1820, (obsolete,)
- 541
An act making appropriations for the support
of the navy of the United States for the
year 1820, March 17, 1820, (obsolete,) 553
An act making appropriations for the support
of government for the year 1820, April 11,
1820, (obsolete,)

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608
An act making partial appropriations for the
military service of the United States for the
year 1821, January 17, 1821, (obsolete,)612
An act making appropriations for the support
of government for the year 1821, March 3,
1821,
628
An act making appropriations for the military
service of the year 1821, March 3, 1821,
(obsolete,)
- 633
An act making appropriations for the support
of the navy of the United States for the
year 1821, March 3, 1821, (obsolete,) - 634
An act making appropriations for the public
buildings, March 3, 1821, (obsolete,) - 635
An act making partial appropriations for the
support of the navy of the United States
during the year 1822, February 19, 1822,
(obsolete,)
- 650
An act making appropriations for the military
service of the United States during the year
1822, and towards the service of the year
1823, March 15, 1822, (obsolete,)

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652
An act making appropriations for the support of
government for the year 1822, and for other
purposes, April 30, 1822, (obsolete,) - 668
An act making an appropriation to defray the
expenses of missions to the independent

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An act making appropriations for the support
of the navy of the United States for the
year 1822, and for other purposes, May 4,
1822, (obsolete,)

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676
An act making further appropriations for the
military service of the United States, and for
other purposes, May 7, 1822, (obsolete,) 686
Appropriation for the compensation of the
Senate and House of Representatives for
1823,
721
An act making appropriations for the military
service of the United States for the year
1823, March 3, 1823, (obsolete,) - 748
An act making appropriations for the support
of government for the year 1823, March 3,
1823,
757
An act making appropriations for the support
of the navy of the United States for the
year 1823, March 3, 1823, (obsolete,) 763
An act making appropriations for certain forti-
fications of the United States for the year
1823, and for other purposes, March 3,
1823, (obsolete,)

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783
An act making appropriations for the public
buildings, March 3, 1823, (obsolete,)
Repairs of the post-office, &c.,

Arkansas Territory.

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784

784

86

An act granting further time for registering
claims to lands in the late district of Arkan-
sas, in the territory of Missouri, and for
other purposes, August 2, 1813, (obsolete,)
Further time given for the registering of
claims to lands in the territory of Arkan-
sas,
86
Note of the acts relating to the territory, after-
wards the state of Arkansas,
493
An act establishing a separate territorial go-
vernment in the southern part of the terri-
tory of Missouri, March 2, 1819, 493
Organization of the government of the Ar-
kansas territory,

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493
The act providing for the government of the
territory of Missouri in force in the terri-
tory of Arkansas,
- 565

Army of the United States.

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Five additional regiments to be raised, act of
July 5, 1818, (obsolete,)
3
An act to regulate the allowance of forage to
officers in the army of the United States,
July 22, 1813,

34

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Repeal of the act which authorized the Presi-
dent to accept the services of volunteer
corps, and of the act for raising a corps of
sea fencibles, February 27, 1815,
The medical staff extended, April 24, 1816,
(repealed,)

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Judge-advocates and chaplains,

Pay and emoluments,

219

297

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