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(ACT of December 12th, 1811.)

cause to be opened a road from the frontier of Georgia, on the route from Athens to New Orleans, till the same intersects the thirty-first degree of north latitude: Provided, he shall not expend more than six thousand four hundred dollars in opening the same. And to cause to be opened a road or roads, through the territory lately ceded by the Indians to the United States, from the river Mississippi to the Ohio, and to the former Indian boundary line which was established by the treaty of Greenville: Provided, he shall not expend, in opening the same, more than six thousand dollars. And to cause to be opened a road from Nashville, in the state of Tennessee, to Natchez, in the Mississippi territory: Provided, he shall not expend more than six thousand dollars in opening the same.

ACT of March 3, 1807. 4 Bioren, 117.

3. SEC. I. The president of the United States is hereby authorised to cause to be opened a road from the thirty-first degree of north latitude to New Orleans, on the route from Athens to New Orleans, under such regulations as may be agreed upon for that purpose between the executive of the United States and the Spanish government.

ACT of February 10, 1809. 4 Bioren, 201.

4. SEC. 11. The president of the United States is hereby authorised to cause the canal of Carondelet, leading from lake Ponchartrain, by way of the Bayou St. John, to the city of New Orleans, to be extended to the river Mississippi, and made sufficiently deep throughout to admit an easy and safe passage to gunboats, if upon survey thereof, he shall be convinced that the same is practicable and will conduce to the more effectual defence of said city.

ACT of March 3, 1811. 4 Bioren, 356.

SEC. 11. The president of the United States, is hereby authorised and empowered to permit such deviations from the courses run and established by the commissioners, under the authority of "An act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the state of Maryland, to the state of Ohio," as, in his opinion, shall be deemed expedient: Provided, That no deviations shall be made from the principal points established on said road between Cumberland and Brownsville.

ACT of December 12, 1811. 4 Bioren, 364.

5. SEC. 1. The president of the United States is hereby authorised, to appoint three commissioners, who shall explore, survey, and mark, by the most eligible course, a road from the foot of the rapids of the river Miami of lake Erie, to the western line of the Connecticut Reserve, and a road to run southwardly, from lower Sandusky, to the boundary line established by the treaty of Greenville, which said road shall be sixty feet in width; and the said commissioners shall make out accurate plats of such surveys, accompanied with field notes, and certify and transmit the same to the president

(ACT of March 3d, 1817.)

of the United States, who, if he approve of said surveys, shall cause the plats thereof to be deposited in the office of the treasury of the United States; and the said roads shall be considered as established and accepted, pursuant to the treaty held at Brownstown, in the territory of Michigan, on the twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.

SEC. 11. The aforesaid roads shall be opened and made under the direction of the president of the United States, in such manner as he shall direct.

ACT of January 8, 1812. 4 Bioren, 367.

6. SEC. 1. The president of the United States, is hereby authorised to cause to be opened, a road from the point where the United States' road from Vincennes to the former Indian boundary line, established by the treaty of Greenville, strikes the said line, to the North Bend in the state of Ohio.

ACT of April 16, 1816. Pamphlet edit. 53.

7. SEC. 1. The president of the United States, is hereby authorised to cause to be made, in such manner as he may deem most proper, an alteration in the road laid out under the authority of an act, entitled "An act to authorize the surveying and making of certain roads in the state of Ohio, as contemplated by the treaty of Brownstown in the territory of Michigan," so that the said road may pass through the United States' reservation at Lower Sandusky, or north thereof, not exceeding three miles.

SEC. 11. The necessary expenses which shall be incurred in altering the said road shall be paid out of the monies appropriated for the surveying of the public lands of the United States.

ACT of April 27, 1816. Pamphlet edit. 112.

8. SEC. 1. The president of the United States, is hereby authorised to appoint three commissioners, who shall explore, survey, and mark in the most eligible course, a road from Shawnee town, on the Ohio river, to the United States' Saline, and to Kaskaskia, in the Illinois territory; and said commissioners shall make out accurate plats of such surveys, accompanied with field notes, and certify and transmit the same to the president of the United States, who, if he approves of said survey, shall cause the plats thereof to be deposited in the office of the treasury of the United States, and the said road shall be considered as established and accepted.

SEC. II. The said road shall be opened and made under the direction of the president of the United States, in such manner as he shall direct.

ACT of March 3, 1817. Pamphlet edit. 252.

9. SEC. I. The sum of four thousand dollars, is hereby appropriated, and payable out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of opening and cutting out a road from Reynoldsburgh, on Tennessee river, in the state of

(ACT of May 15th, 1820.)

Tennessee, through the Chickasaw nation, to intersect the Natchez road near the south end of the Chickasaw old town, agreeable to the survey and marked lines heretofore made by Messrs. Johnson and Dickson, commissioners appointed by the president of the United States, and that the opening of said road shall be under the direction of the secretary of war.

ACT of March 27, 1818.

Pamphlet edit. 40.

10. SEC. I. The sum of five thousand dollars, is hereby appropriated and payable out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of repairing, and keeping in repair, the road between Fort Hawkins, in the state of Georgia, and Fort Stoddart, in the Alabama territory.

11. SEC. II. The sum of five thousand dollars, is hereby appropriated and payable out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of repairing, and keeping in repair, that part of the road leading from Columbia, in the state of Tennessee, by the Chocktaw agency, to Madisonville, in the state of Louisiana, which lies between the southern boundary of the state of Tennessee, and the Indian boundary line, near Zadock Brashears, in the state of Mississippi, which sums shall be expended under the direction of the secretary for the department of war.

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ACT of May 15, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 118.

12. Whereas, by the continuation of the Cumberland road from Wheeling, in the state of Virginia, through the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, the lands of the United States may become more valuable-The president of the United States, is hereby authorised to appoint three impartial and judicious persons, not being citizens of any of the states aforesaid, to be commissioners, and, in case of the death or resignation of any of them, to appoint other and like persons in their place, who shall have power carefully to examine the country between Wheeling in the state of Virginia, and a point on the left bank of the Mississippi river, to be chosen by said commissioners, between St. Louis, and the mouth of the Illinois river, and to lay out a road from Wheeling, aforesaid, to the point so to be chosen on the left bank of the river Mississippi; the said road to be on a straight line, or as nearly so as, having a due regard to the condition and situation of the ground and water courses over which the same shall be laid out, shall be deemed expedient and practicable. And said commissioners shall have power to employ able surveyors, chainbearers, and other necessary assistants, in laying out said road; and so much of the lands of the United States as may be included within the same, shall be, and is hereby, reserved and excepted from the sales of the public lands. The said road to be eighty feet wide, and designated by marked trees, stakes, or other conspicuous monuments, at the distance of every quarter of a mile, and at every angle of deviation from a straight line. And the said com

(ACT of February 27th, 1795.)

missioners shall cause to be made and delivered to the president of the United States, an accurate plan.

Judges,

SALARIES AND COMPENSATIONS.

President and Vice President,
War and treasury departments,
Michigan territory,
Marshals,

1, 3, 5

2

4, 12, 14

5,6

7, 10

Ministers and consuls,

President of the Senate,

Clerks,

Superintendants of armories,
Heads of departments, &c.

[Vide, Index for particular officers.]

ACT of September 23, 1789. 2 Bioren, 55.

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1. SEC. I. There shall be allowed to the judges of the supreme and other courts of the United States, the yearly compensations hereinafter mentioned, to wit: to the chief justice four thousand dollars; to each of the justices of the supreme court three thousand five hundred dollars; to the judge of the district of Maine one thousand dollars: to the judge of the district of New Hampshire one thousand dollars; to the judge of the district of Massachusetts twelve hundred dollars; to the judge of the district of Connecticut one thousand dollars; to the judge of the district of New York fifteen hundred dollars; to the judge of the district of New Jersey one thousand dollars; to the judge of the district of Pennsylvania sixteen hundred dollars; to the judge of the district of Delaware eight hundred dollars; to the judge of the district of Maryland fifteen hundred dollars; to the judge of the district of Virginia eighteen hundred dollars; to the judge of the district of Kentucky one thousand dollars; to the judge of the district of South Carolina eighteen hundred dollars; to the judge of the district of Georgia fifteen hundred dollars; and to the attorney general of the United States fifteen hundred dollars; which compensation shall commence from their respective appointments, and be paid at the treasury of the United States in quarterly payments. [Altered as to those parts of the sec. in italics, see title JUDICIARY, and infra, 3.]

ACT of September 24, 1789. 2 Bioren, 56.

2. SEC. 1. There shall be allowed to the president of the United States, at the rate of twenty-five thousand dollars, with the use of the furniture and other effects, now in his possession, belonging to the United States; and to the vice president, at the rate of five thousand dollars per annum, in full compensation for their respective services, to commence with the time of their entering on the duties of their offices respectively, and to continue so long as they shall remain in office, and to be paid quarterly out of the treasury of the United States.

ACT of February 27, 1795. 2 Bioren, 479.

3. There shall be allowed to the judges of the districts of

(ACT of February 25th, 1808.)

Rhode Island and Delaware each two hundred dollars yearly, in addition to the compensation heretofore allowed to commence on the first day of the present year and to be paid at the treasury of the United States, in quarterly payments. [See title JUDICIARY.]

ACT of February 20, 1804. 3 Bioren, 569.

An act continuing for a limited time, the salaries of the offices of government therein mentioned.

SEC. 1. From and after the last day of December 1803, the following annual compensations, and no other, are hereby granted to the officers herein respectively enumerated, that is to say:

To the secretary of state five thousand dollars; to the secretary of the treasury five thousand dollars; to the secretary of war four thousand five hundred dollars; to the secretary of the navy four thousand five hundred dollars; to the attorney general three thousand dollars; to the comptroller of the treasury three thousand five hundred dollars; to the treasurer three thousand dollars: to the auditor of the treasury three thousand dollars; to the register of the treasury two thousand four hundred dollars; to the accountant of the war department two thousand dollars; to the accountant of the navy department two thousand dollars; to the postmaster general three thousand dollars, and to the assistant postmaster general three thousand dollars; which sums shall be respectively paid quarter yearly at the treasury of the United States.

SEC. II. This act shall continue in force for three years, and from thence until the end of the next session of congress thereafter and no longer.

[Continued by act of January 27th, 1808, and by act of April 24th, 1812, also by act of April 27th, 1816, infra, 12. But altered as to those parts of the first sec. in italics, see infra, 12, 14.] ACT of March 3, 1809. 4 Bioren, 99.

5. SEC. 1. Each of the judges of the Mississippi, Indiana, Michigan, and Louisiana, territories, appointed under the authority of the United States, shall be entitled to the annual sum of twelve hundred dollars.

ACT of December 5, 1807. 4 Bioren, 129.

6. Each of the secretaries of the Mississippi, Indiana, Louisiana, and Michigan territories, appointed under the authority of the United States, shall be entitled to the annual sum of one thousand dollars.

ACT of February 25, 1808. 4 Bioren, 144.

7. SEC. 1. From and after the last day of March next, there shall be paid, annually, to the marshal for the district of North Carolina, the sum of four hundred dollars; to the marshal for the district of New Jersey, the sum of two hundred dollars; in addi

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