SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That any person or gether with the time which shall have elapsed from the persons, who shall print or publish any manuscript what- first entry of such copy-right, make up the term of twenever without the consent of the author or legal proprie- ty-eight years, with the same right to his widow, child, or tor first obtained as aforesaid, (if such author or proprie children, to renew the copy-right, at the expiration theretor be a citizen of the United States, or resident therein,) of, as is above provided in relation to copy rights originashall be liable to suffer and pay to the author or proprie- ally secured under this act. And if such author or autor, all damages occasioned by such injury, to be recov- thors, inventor, designer, or engraver, shall not be living ered by a special action on the case founded upon this at the passage of this act, then, his or their heirs, execuact, in any court having cognizance thereof: and the se- tors and administrators, shall be entitled to the like exveral courts of the United States empowered to grant in-clusive enjoyment of said copy-right, with the benefit of junctions to prevent the violation of the rights of au- each and all the provisions of this act for the security thors and inventors are hereby empowered to grant in- thereof, for the period of twenty-eight years from the junctions, in like manner, according to the principles of first entry of said copy-right, with the like privilege of equity, to restrain such publication of any manuscript as renewal to the widow, child, or children, of author or auaforesaid. thors, designer, inventor, or engraver, as is provided in relation to copy rights originally secured under this act : Provided, that this act shall not extend to any copy-right heretofore secured, the term of which has already expired. SEC 10. And be it further enacted, That, if any person or persons shall be sued or prosecuted, for any matter, act, or thing done under or by virtue of this act, he or they may plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That, if any person or persons, from and after the passing of this act, shall print, or publish any book, map, chart,musical composition, print, cut, or engraving, not having legally acquired the copy-right thereof, and shall insert or impress that the same hath been entered according to act of Congress, or words purporting the same, every person so of fending shall forfeit and pay one hundred dollars; one moiety thereof to the person who shall sue for the same, and the other to the use of the United States, to be re covered by action of debt, in any court of record having cognizance thereof. SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That, in all recoveries under this act,either for damages, forfeitures, or penalties, full costs shall be allowed thereon, any thing in any former act to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That no action or prosecution shall be maintained, in any case of forfeiture or penalty under this act, unless the same shall have been commenced within two years after the cause shall have arisen. SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That the "Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned," passed May thirty-first, one thousand seven hunared and ninety, and the act supplementary thereto, passed April twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and two, shall be, and the same are hereby, repealed: saving, always, such rights as may have been obtained in conformity to their provisions. SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That all and several the provisions of this act, intended for the protection and security of copy-rights, and providing remedies, penal ties, and forfeitures, in case of violation thereof, shall be held and construed to extend to the benefit of the legal proprietor or proprietors of each and every copy-right heretofore obtained, according to law, during the term thereof, in the same manner as if such copy-right had been entered and secured according to the directions of this act. Approved, February 3, 1831. AN ACT to amend the act for taking the Fifth Census. Be it enacted, &c. That it shall and may be lawful for such of the assistants to the Marshals in the respective States and Territories, who have not, before the passage of this act, made their respective returns to such Marshals, under the act hereby amended, to complete their enumerations and make their returns under the said act, at any time before the first day of June, and for the Marshals of such States and Territories to make their returns to the Secretary of State at any time before the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyone: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to release such Marshals and assistants from the penalties contained in the act aforesaid, unless their returns shall be made within the time prescribed in this act: And Provided further, That no persons be included in the returns made under the present act, unless such persons shall have been inhabitants of the Districts for which such returns shall be made, on the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the copies of returns and aggregate amounts directed to be filed by the Marshals with the clerks of the several District courts, and Supreme Courts of the Territories of the United States, shall be preserved by said clerks, and remain in their offices respectively; and so much of the Act to which this is an amendment, as requires that they shall be transmitted by said clerks to the Department of State, is hereby repealed. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to note all the clerical errors in the returns of the Marshals and Assistants, whether in the additions, classification of inhabitants, or otherwise, and cause said notes to be printed with the aggregate returns of the Marshals, for the use of Congress. Approved, February 3, 1831. AN ACT for the relief of Matthias Roll and William Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of War cause to be issued to Matthias Roll, a private in the New Jersey line, in the Revolutionary War, a duplicate of military bounty land warrant, number one thousand one hundred and sixty-four, for one hundred acres of land, which issued to Matthew, alias Matthias Roll, the twenty-third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and which has been lost. And the said Matthias Roll shall have the said duplicate located and proceeded upon, in the same manner as if it were an original warrant; and the said original warrant is hereby declared SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That, whenever a copy right has been heretofore obtained by an author or authors, inventor, designer, or engraver, of any book, map, chart, print, cut, or engraving, or by a proprietor of the same if such author or authors, or either of them, such inventor, designer, or engraver, be living at the passage of this act, then such author or authors, or the survivor of them, such inventor, engraver, or designer, shall continue to have the same exclusive right to his book, chart, map, print, cut, or engraving, with the benefit of each and all the provisions of this act, for the security thereof. for such additional period of time as will, to- | null and void. east quarters of section number twenty-five, of township Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary soon as may be, the south-west, north-west, and north. of War cause to be issued to William Jackson, a private in the Virginia line in the Revolutionary War, a duplicate of military bounty land warrant, number one thousand and thirty-six, for one hundred acres of land, which issued to said William Jackson on the thirteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, and which has been lost; and that said William Jackson shall have all the right under said duplicate that he could or might have under the original warrant; and the said original warrant is hereby declared null and void. Approved: February 3, 1831. AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An Act to quiet the titles of certain purchasers of lands between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in the State of Ohio," approved the twenty-sixth of May, in the year eigh. teen hundred and thirty. AN ACT to amend the act granting "certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the State of Alabama, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Tennessee, Coosa, Cahawba, and Blackwarrior rivers," approved the twenty-third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. Be it enacted, &c. That it shall and may be lawful for the State of Alabama, by the Board of Canal Commissioners appointed by her for that purpose, to contract for and con struct that part of the canal round the Muscle shoals, beginning at Campbell's ferry, and running up the river to part of the said contemplated canal between Campbell's ferry and Florence; any thing in the act to which this is an amendment to the conttary notwithstanding. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Engineers of the United States who have this matter in charge, to furnish to said Board of Com missiers, as soon as practicable, a plan of that section of the Canal above contemplated first to be executed, connecting it with the river at or near to Campbell's ferry, and at the most eligible point at, or immediately below Lamb's ferry, on the cheapest practicable plan, in conformity with said original act, to be approved by the President of the United States. Be it enacted, &c. That in addition to the sum appropriated by the act, entitled "An act to quiet the titles of certain purchasers of lands between the lines of Lud-Lamb's ferry, before they contract for, or complete that low and Roberts, in the State of Ohio," approved the twenty-sixth of May, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty, the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Philip Doddridge, the claimant of the Virginia military survey, numbered six thousand nine hundred and twenty eight, for seven hundred acres, being one of the Virginia military surveys, in the said act mentioned, lying between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in the State of Ohio, the sum of one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty-eight cents, with interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the fifth day of March eighteen and twenty five, until paid; the said Philip having alrea Sec. 3. And be it further enacled, That the section dy conveyed to the United States the title to the said said Canal above Lamb's ferry, shall, by said Engineers, seven hundred acres of land, in the manner directed by the river at or above Lamb's ferry, and the section be be so planned as to connect it with the deep water in the President of the United States, pursuant to the pro-low Campbell's ferry, shall, in like manner, be connectvisions of the act of Congress before recited. This act shall commence and be in force from the passing thereof. ed with the deep water at or below said List mentioned ferry. Approved: February 12, 1831. Approved, February 12, 1831. AN ACT to repeal the charges imposed on passports and clearances. Be it enacted, &c. That, so much of the act of the first of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, entitled "An act providing passports for the ships and vessels of the United States,' as imposes a charge of ten dollars for passports, and of four dollars for a clearance, to any ship or vessel bound on a voyage to any foreign country, be, and the same is hereby repealed, to take effect from and after the thirty-first day of March of the present year. Approved February 12, 1831. AN ACT to authorize the transportation of merchandise by land or by water with the benefit of debenture. this act, all goods, wares, or merchandise imported inta Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the passage of the United States, the duties on which have been paid, or secured to be paid, may be transported by land, or partly by land and partly by water, from the district into which they were imported to two other districts, and ex ported from either of them with the benefit of drawback: Provided, That all regulations and formalities now in force relating to the transportation of goods, wares, or merchandise, by land or by water, from the district into which they were imported to another district, for the Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of State be, proscribed under and by virtue of the act to which this is benefit of brawback, and such other regulations as are and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue let-an, ddition, for the further transportation of such goods, ters patent, in the usual form, to John Powell, for his wares, or merchandise, to other districts, shall be com invention of a machine "for the purpose of separating theplied with: And provided also, That all the regulations metal from gold ore, and the auriferous earth of alluvial deposites," upon his compliance with all the provisions of the existing laws, except so far as they require, on the part of aliens, a residence of two years in the United AN ACT authorizing the Secretary of State to issue patent to John Powell. States. Approved: February 12, 1831. a and formalities now in forte, respecting the exportation of goods, wares, and merchandise, for the benefit of draw back, shall be complied with, so far as may be consistent with the other provisions of the act to which this is an addition, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to prescribe the form of the certificate to be used, and the oaths to be taken, on the transportation of such goods, wares, or merchandise, from the second district into which they may be so brought to the third district. Approved February 12, 1831. Laws of the United States. AN ACT for the relief of William Smith,administrator of Be it enacted, &c. That the Register of the Land Of fice at Cabawba be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to cancel the relinquishment made by the said William Smith, as administrator of John Taylor, deceased, on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, of the west half of the southwest quarter of land, of section fifteen, in township ten, of range fourteen, in Butler county, in the State of Alabama, and which still remains unsold by the United States; and that he be authorized and directed to deliver over the certificate therefor to the said William; and the said William Smith is authorized and empowered to dispose of the same by assignment or otherwise, in as full and ample manner, to all intents and purposes, which be might or could have done before the relinquishment thereof, and that all the benefits and privileges given by this act to the said William Smith shall be given and extended to his assignee or assignees; and that the said William Smith, or his assignee or assignees, be allowed to hold the same, free from forfeiture for twelve months from the passage of this law: Provided, nevertheless, That the said William Smith shall, before he be entitled to the benefit of this act, pay over to the receiver of public moneys at Cahawba, the sum of ninety-nine dollars and ninety-eight and a quarter cents, that being the full amount of money which had been paid thereon previous to the relinquishment, and which has been transferred and credited on other lands purchased by his intestate in his lifetime. Approved, February 12, 1831. AN ACT to provide hereafter for the payment of six thousand dollars annually to the Seneca Indians, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c. That the proceeds of the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, being the amount placed in the hands of the President of the United States, in trust, for the Seneca tribe of Indians, situated in the State of New York, be hereafter passed to the credit of the Indian appropriation fund and that the Secretary of War be authorized to receive and pay over to the Seneca tribe of Indians, the sum of six thousand dollars, annually, in the way and manner, as heretofore practised, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorized to receive and pay over to the Seneca tribe of Indians, the sum of two thousand six hundred and fourteen dollars and forty cents, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, on account of the deficiency, by that amount, in the sum paid over to said Indians the last year. Approved, February 19, 1831. AN ACT to establish a Land Office in the Territory of Be it enacted, &c. That all the public lands to which the Indian title has been extinguished, lying west of the meridian line, in the Territory of Michigan, shall constitute a new land district; and, for the sale of the public lands within the said district, there shall be a Land Of fice established at such place within the district, as the President of the United States may designate, who is hereby authorized to change the location of such office, whenever, in his opinion, the public interest may require it. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Land Office now established at Monroe, shall be removed to the place designated for the location of this office, and the Register and Receiver of the Monroe Land Office, shall [21st CoNG. 2d SESS. 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, duties, and authorities, shall, in every respect, be the same, in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their of fice, 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 all the public lands lying east of the Meridian line in the Territory aforesaid, which are not now embraced in the district of Detroit, be, and they are hereby, attached thereto; it shall be the duty of the Register and Receiver of the and Land Office in said district to deposit in the Land Office at Detroit all the records, books and papers, surveys, &c. which pertain to said Land Office at Monroe, which shall be kept by the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at Detroit, as a part of the records of said office. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all such public lands as shall have been offered for sale to the highest bidder at Monroe or Detroit, pursuant to any proclamation of the President of the United States, and which are embraced within the provisions of this act, 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 Registers of the Land Offices to which they are hereby attached; and all provisions of law applicable to the public lands, to which this act applies, shall continue in full force and effect. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That so much of the State of Illinois as lies between the Illinois and Mississip pi rivers, bounded on the south by the base line, on the north by the northern boundary of that State, and on formed into a separate land district, the offices for which the extreme east by the third principal Meridian, be to be located where it will best accommodate purchasers and others, by the President; and a Register and Receiver shall be appointed at such time as the President of the United States shall deem proper. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That another district be also formed in that State, on the north of the dividing line between townships sixteen and seventeen north of the base line, and east of the third principal Meridian, including all that part of the State to its northern boundary, the offices for which to be located by the President, where the public interest and the convenience of purchasers may require; and a Register and Receiver shall be appointed at such time as the President of the United States shall deem proper. Sec. 7. And be it further enacled, That the Registers and Receivers shall reside, respectively, at the places where the Land Offices are located, give security in the same manner, in the same sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, and duties, and authority, in every respect, be the same, in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as may be by law provided neys in the several offices established for the disposal of in relation to the Registers and Receivers of public mothe lands of the United States north-west of the river Ohio. shall be disposed of in the same manner, and on the same SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the said lands terms and conditions, as are or may be provided by law for the sale of other lands of the United States: Provided, that no tracts of land excepted from sales by virtue of any former acts, shall be sold by virtue of this act. to which the Indian title is extinguished, lying in that SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That all the lands part of the State of Indiana which is east of the Lake Michigan, bordering upon the northern line of said State, and not attached to any land district, shall be, and the same are hereby, attached to the Fort Wayne District. Approved, February 19, 1831. AN ACT respecting the jurisdiction of certain District AN ACT making appropriations for the completion and support of the Penitentiary in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. Courts. Be it enacted, &c. That the District Courts of the Be it enacted, &c. That, in addition to the unexpend. United States for the northern District of New York, the western District of Pennsylvania, the District of Indiana, ed balance of the appropriation of eighteen hundred and the District of Illinois, the District of Missouri, the Dis. twenty-nine, now subject to the order of the Inspectors, trict of Mississippi, the western District of Louisiana, there shall be, and hereby is, appropriated for the sup the eastern District of Louisiana, the northern District of port of the said penitentiary, for the pay of its officers, Alabama, and the southern District of Alabama, in addi-the erection of additional buildings and improvements; tion to the ordinary jurisdiction and powers of a District for a wharf and sea wall; the purchase of materials, tools Court shall within the limits of their respective Districts, and implements of trade; the purchase of additional have jurisdiction of all causes, except appeals and writs ground for the institution; the draining of the marsh of error, which now are,or hereafter may by law be made, east of the penitentiary, and other contingent expenses, cognizable in a Circuit Court, and shall proceed therein the sum of thirty-six thousand three hundred and sixty dollars, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not in the same manner as a Circuit Court. otherwise appropriated, and to be expended under the Approved, February 19, 1831. direction of the Board of Inspectors. Provided, That no more than two thousand dollars shall be drawn from the AN ACT for the relief of William Burris, of Mississippi. Treasury at any one time; and that no subsequent draft shall be made, until the amount previously drawn shall Be it enacted, &c. That William Burris be allowed to be duly accounted for by proper vouchers, regularly relinquish to the United States the east half of the quar-numbered, and an abstract of which shall accompany ter of section twenty-one, township three, range six, east, containing eighty acres entered by mistake, and to locate in lieu thereof, another half quarter section of land on any of the public lands of the United States, in the State of Mississippi, which has been offered at public sale and is now subject to entry at private sale. Approved, February 19, 1831. AN ACT to alter and amend "An act to set apart and dispose of certain public lands for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive. Be it enacted, &c. That all persons entitled to lands, under a contract entered into on the eighth of January, eighteen hundred and nineteen, by the Secretary of the Treasury on the part of the United States, and Charles Villar, agent of the Tombecbee Association, in pursuance of "An act to set apart and dispose of certain public lands for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive" approved on the third of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, their heirs, devisees or assigns, who appear by the report of William L. Adams, special agent of the treasury, appointed in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, passed the twentieth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, to have complied with the conditions of settlement and cultivation, as stipulated for in said contract or who shall hereafter made it pear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that they have so complied, shall on paying into the Treasury one dollar and twenty five cents the acre previous to the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirtythree receive a patent for the same. ap. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all persons who became entitled to an allotment of land under said contract, their heirs, devisees, or assigns, who have failed to comply with the conditions of settlement and cultivation within the period required thereby, who at the time of the passage of this act shall be in the actual occupancy and cultivation of the same, shall, on paying into the Treasury one dollar and twenty five cents the acre, previous to the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirtythree, receive a patent for the same. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the widow and children of any person who became entitled to an allotment of land under said contract, and died without per forming the conditions required, shall, on paying into the Treasury, one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, previous to the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, receive a patent for the same. Approved: February 19, 1831. the same. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a majority of the inspectors shall certify upon said abstract, that the amount of moneys, as stated therein, have been actually and necessarily expended, and further, the affidavits of the warden and clerk, taken before a judge or justice of the peace, shall be endorsed on said abstract, stating that the moneys mentioned therein, and vouchers accompanying the same, have been actually paid to the persons, and for the purposes stated in said abstracts and vouchers. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the warden of the said penitentiary shall be appointed by the Presi dent, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate: and said warden shall appoint, and may remove, at his pleasure, all its subordinate officers, excepting the clerk, who shall be appointed and removed by the inspectors, or a majority of them. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the number of inspectors shall hereafter be reduced to three, a majority of whom shall constitute a board for the transaction of business, and shall receive an annual salary, payable quar ter-yearly, of two hundred and fifty dollars each. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the passage of this act, the salary of the warden of the said penitentiary shall be fifteen hundred dollars per an in the District of Columbia, in the schooners Louisa and Marino, in one thousand AN ACT to incorporate Saint Vincent's Orphan Asylum, eight hundred and eighteen : Provided, That satisfactory evidence of the reasonableness of the charges for said maintenance shall be furnished, and that the sums received by the said Livingston for the hire of said Africans, and for the labor performed for him, by them, if any, be accounted for and deducted. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the same al lowance shall be made to Francis W. Armstrong, Marshal of the United States for the district of Alabama, for the time that the aforesaid fifteen Africans were kept by him, subject, in the settlement, to the same restrictions provided for in the first section of this act. Approved: February 25, 1831 Be it enacted, &c. That William Matthews, Matthew Deagle, Peter S. Shreiber, Thomas Carbery, and William Hickey, and their successors in office, are hereby made, declared, and constituted a corporation and body politic, in law and in fact, to have continuance forever, under the name, style, and title of Saint Vincent's Orphan Asylum. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all and singular the lands, tenements, rents, legacies, annuities, rights, privileges, goods, and chattels, that may hereafter be given, granted, sold, devised, or bequeathed to Saint Vincent's Orphan Asylum, be, and they are hereby, vested in, and confirmed to, the said corporation; and that tenements, rents, annuities, rights, or privileges, or any goods, chattels, or other effects, of what kind or nature soever, which shall, or may hereafter be given, granted, sold, bequeathed, or devised unto them, or either of them, as Trustees of the said Asylum, by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable of making such grant, and to dispose of the same: Provided, The clear annual income of property to be acquired by said corporation shall, at no time, exceed the sum of five thousand dollars. AN ACT supplemental to an act, passed on the thirty-they may purchase, take, receive, and enjoy any lands, first March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, entitled "An act for the relief of purchasers of public lands, and for the suppression of fraudulent practices at the public sales of lands of the United States." Be it enacted, &c. That all purchasers, their heirs or assignees, of such of the public lands as were sold on a credit for a less price than fourteen dollars per acre, and on which a further credit has been taken under any of the laws passed for the relief of purchasers of public lands, and which lands have reverted to the United Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said corpoStates on account of the balance due thereon not having ration, by the name and style aforesaid, be, and shall be been paid or discharged, agreeably to said relief laws, hereafter, capable, in law and equity, to sue and be sued, shall be entitled to patents, without further payment, in to plead and be impleaded, within the District of Colum. all instances where one dollar and twenty-five cents, or abia and elsewhere, in as effectual a manner as other pergreater sum, per acre, shall have been paid; or where sons or corporations can sue or be sued; and that they payment to that amount shall not have been heretofore shall adopt and use a common seal, and the same to use, made, such purchasers, their heirs or assignees, shall alter, or exchange at pleasure; that they may appoint have the right of pre-emption until the fourth day of Ju- such officers as they shall deem necessary and proper, to ly, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, by paying assign them their duties, and regulate their compensation, into the proper land office such sum, in addition to the and to remove any or all of them, and appoint others, as amount heretofore paid, as will, together, amount to the often as they shall think fit; and the said corporation minimum price of the lands of the United States at the shall make such laws as may be useful for the government time of such payment. and support, and for the general accomplishment of the objects of the said Asylum, as hereinafter mentioned, and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States, or the laws in force in the District of Columbia, for the time being, and the same to alter, amend, or abrogate at pleasure. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all such occupants of relinquished land as are contemplated and described in the second section of the above recited act, to which this is a supplement, as are in possession of land which was sold on credit, for a less sum than fourteen dollars per acre, shall have the right of pre-emption of the Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be same lands, according to the legal subdivisions of sec- a meeting of the regular annual contributors to the sup tions, not exceeding the quantity of two quarter sections port of Saint Vincent's Orphan Asylum, in the month of in contiguous tracts or contiguous to other lands held by June, in each year, the hour, and day, and manner of such occupants respectively, until the fourth day of July, giving notice for which, to be regulated by the by-laws; one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, upon their at which meeting, by those who from the by laws may paying into a proper office, for all land originally sold for a be qualified to vote, nine female managers shall be elect price not exceeding five dollars per acre, one dollar and ed, who shall appoint a first and second Directress, and twenty-five cents per acre; and for all lands which origi- may fill all vacancies in their own Board, until the next nally sold for more than five dollars, and not exceeding annual election; and the present managers may continue fourteen dollars per acre, the amount of the first instal-in office until the election in June next. ment heretofore paid; such occupants first proving their possession, respectively in conformity to the provisions of the said act, to which this is a supplement, in the manner which has been prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, pursuant to the provisions thereof: Provided, however, That in all cases where proof of possession has been already made under said recited act, proof shall not again be required, unless the applicant choose to take other land than that to which such proof applies. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted That the provisions of this act shall extend to all town property of which the Government has been proprietors, and not subsequently sold, when full payment has not been made: Provided, The original purchasers, or their assignees, pay into the proper land office, on or before the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, one half of the original purchase money, without interest. Approved: February 25, 1831. VOL. VII-B. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That, with the consent and approbation of the parent, guardian, or friends, who may have the care of any male or female child, or where a child may be destitute of any friend or protector, the same may be received into Saint Vincent's Orphan Asylum, under such regulations as may be made by the by-laws, and there protected, instructed, and supported: and they shall not thereafter be withdrawn, or be at liberty themselves to withdraw from the Asylum, without the consent or dismissal of the corporation aforesaid, until, if a male, he shall have attained the age of twentyone years, or, if a female, the age of eighteen years; but, up to the ages aforesaid respectively, they shall remain subject to the direction of the said corporation, unless they may, by the same, be exonerated from service previous to attaining those ages respectively; and the said corporation shall have the power to bind any child under their care, for the purposé of acquiring a know |