No interest to be considered as accruing, and no further payment shall be made, accrue on cer- on account of such debt, the certificates of which have been so tificates can celled, &c. Nothing in vent congress surplus to oth &c. cancelled and destroyed. § 7. That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to prethis act to prevent the congress of the United States, if war shall occur with any from applying foreign power, from applying, to any object of public service, any er objects in surplus of the amount herein appropriated to the singing fund, case of war, which may be left in any year, after paying the interest and principal which may be actually due and payable by the United States, Nor to affect in conformity with their engagements. Nor shall any thing in this pledges of for- act be construed to repeal, alter, or affect, any of the provisions of any former act, pledging the faith of the United States to the payment of the interest or principal of the public debt, but all such payments shall continue to be made at the time heretofore prescribed by law, excepting only, as before provided, that no payments shall be made on certificates which have become the property of the United States. [Approved, March 3, 1817.] mer acts, &c. Exception. Vol. iii. p. 1720. Chiefs and warriors of the Creek nation authorized to locate, &c. cation. Vol. ii. p. 1511. CHAP. 261. An act making provision for the location of the lands reserved by the first articles of the treaty of the ninth of August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, between the United States and the Creek naion, to certain chiefs and warriors of that nation, and for other purpose. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, the chiefs and warriors of the Creek nation who, by virtue of the first article of the treaty of the ninth of August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, between the United States and that nation of Indians, are entitled to a reservation of land, which shall include their improvements, shall be authorized to locate said reservation in the following Manner of lo- manner, viz: Every such chief or warrior shall and may select such four quarter sections, or such number of quarter sections and fractional parts of sections, not exceeding six hundred and forty acres of land, as have been or may be surveyed, in pursuance of the act of congress, passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and as shall include their respective improvements. And in case such chief or warrior shall have resided at one place, and cultivated a farm or plantation at another place, he may, at his option, select such quarter sections, and fractional parts of sections, as shall include his said Proviso; as to separate improvements: Provided, however, That the lands so selected, shall enure to such chief or warrior, so long only as he shall continue to occupy and cultivate the same; and, in case he shall not have abandoned the possession, shall, on his decease, descend to and vest in his heirs in fee simple, reserving to the widow of such chief or warrior the use and occupation of one third part of said lands during her natural life. the title vest ed. Widows and have the right claimant, &c. § 2. That when any chief or warrior, so entitled to a reservachildren to tion of land at the time of the signing of the treaty, shall have of selection as since died, and left a widow and child or children, who has or have the original continued to occupy and cultivate the said land, they shall have the right of selection in the same manner as the original claimant would have, if he were living; and the title of the lands, so selected, shall be a fee simple title in the child or children, reserving to the widow, if any, the use and occupation of one third of the land during her life: Provided, however, That the said child Proviso; as or children shall not have the power to alienate the said lands, of alienation except by devise, until each and every one of them shall have in the chilarrived at the age of twenty-five years. to the power dren. of native Creeks who &c. 3. That the descendant of any native Creek Indian, male Descendants or female, who, at the commencement of the late war with the hostile Creeks, occupied and cultivated a farm or plantation, who continued continued friendly to the United States during that war, and who, entitled to a friendly, &c. after the termination of hostilities, returned to, and has continu- reservation, ed to occupy and cultivate, the said farm or plantation, shall be entitled to a reservation of two quarter sections of land, to be selected in the manner stated in the first section of this act; which land shall enure to them so long as they shall continue to occupy and cultivate the sante; and, on their death, shall descend, in fee, to their children; and on failure of children, shall revert to the United States; reserving, however, to the husband or widow, as the case may be, the right to occupy and cultivate one third part of the lands during their natural lives. warrior who and who was titled to a re United to take evi of 4. That the child or children of any chief or warrior of the The children Creek nation, who resided within the limits of the said ceded of any Creek country at the cominencement of the late Creek war, and who resided within was killed or died in the service of the Unitid States, during said the limits, &c. war, or who has since died of wounds received therein, shall be killed, &c. enentitled, without payment, to a reservation of so much land as servation, &c. such chief or warrior would have been entitled to, had he been living at the time said treaty was signed; which land shall be located in the manner prescribed by the first section of this act. $5. That, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provi- The agent sions of this act, the agent of the United States for the Creek na- States for the tion shall immediately proceed to take such evidence as each Creek nation and every person, who may be entitled to lands under the pro- dence, &c. visions of it, shall be able to adduce in support of such title. The Evidence, as far as practi evidence shall, as far as practicable, be taken by the agent on cable, to be the land occupied by such claimant ; and in all cases where he taken on the shall be of opinion that the claim is a valid one, the quarter sections, including the improvements, shall be designated as provided for in the first section of this act; and the agent shall, without delay, return to the secretary of the treasury the evidence taken in each case, (reserving a copy thereof) together with the names of the claimants, and the numbers of the quarter sections reserved for them respectively. And the secretary of the treasury, with the approbation of the president, shall finally decide to decide, &c. on the validity of such claim. land, &c. Agent to re dence to the secretary of turn the evi the treasury. The secretary of the treasury, transmit to the names, &c. 6. That the agent shall transmit, without delay, to the re- The agent to gister of the land office for the district in which the lands may register of the be, a statement of the names of the claimants, and the numbers land office, the of the quarter sections which have been reserved for each claimant; and the register of the land office shall not offer any such quarter section for sale, unless specially directed otherwise by the secretary of the treasury. $7. That the agent of the United States shall be allowed, in Three dollars addition to his salary, the sum of three dollars per day, whilst agent, the occupied in performing the duties assigned to him by this act; &c. The agent and he shall be authorized to employ a surveyor, in those cases may employ a where it may be necessary, for the purpose of ascertaining the surveyor, quarter sections of land to be allotted to each claimant. &c. Expenses to § 8. That the expenses which shall be incurred in carrying be paid out of into effect this act, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. [Approved, March 3, 1817.] money in the treasury. Repealed. 2400. &c. which, if committed CHAP. 265. An act to provide for the punishment of crimes and offiences committed within the Indian boundaries. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That if any Indian, or other person or persons, shall, within the United States, and within any town, district, or territory, belonging to any nation or nations, tribe or tribes, of Indians, commit any crime, offence, or misdemeanor, within the sole which, if committed in any place or district of country under the jurisdiction of the U.S. sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, would, by would be pun- the laws of the United States, be punished with death, or any death, or other other punishment, every such offender, on being thereof convictpunishment, to ed, shall suffer the like punishment as is provided by the laws of the United States for the like offences, if committed within any place or district of country under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States. ished with suffer in like manner. Superior territorial, and cir rized to try of this act. 2. That the superior courts in each of the territorial discuit, and other, tricts, and the circuit courts and other courts of the United States, courts, autho- of similar jurisdiction in criminal causes, in each district of the fences against United States, in which any offender against this act shall be first apprehended or brought to trial, shall have, and are hereby invested with, full power and authority to hear, try, and punish, all crimes, offences, and misdemeanors, against this act; such courts proceeding therein in the same manner as if such crimes, offences, and misdemeanors, had been committed within the bounds of their respective districts: Provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect any treaty now in force between the United States and any Indian nation, or to extend to any offence committed by one Indian against another, within any Indian boundary. Proviso; this act not to affect any Indian treaty, or extend, &c. The president, nors of terri tories, invest ed with the same powers for the punish ment of offences against this act as by the actions of the act referred to. Vol. ii. p. 838. Vol. iii. p. 1848. 3. That the president of the United States, and the governor of each of the territorial districts, where any offender against this act shall be apprehended or brought for trial, shall have and exercise the same powers, for the punishment of offences against this act, as they can severally have and exercise by virtue of the fourteenth and fifteenth sections of an act, entitled "An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers," passed thirtieth March, one thousand eight hundred and two, for the punishment of offences therein described. [Approved, March 3, 1817.] Vol. ii. p.1122, CHAP. 269. An act supplementary to an act, entitled “An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the treasury, war, and navy, departments.", The president 1. Be it enacted, &c. That nothing contained in the act of restrained from making the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and nine, entitransfers, &c. tled "An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the treasury, war, and navy, departments," Vol. ui. p. 1659. shall be construed to authorize the president of the United States to direct any sum appropriated to fortifications, arsenals, armories, customhouses, docks, navy yards, or buildings of any sort, or to munitions of war, or to the pay of the army or navy, to be applied to any other object of public expenditure. [Approved, March 3, 1817.] CHAP. 272. An act allowing further time for entering donation rights to lands in the district of Detroit. of certain do district of De Dec. 1818, to $1. Be it enacted, &c. That the claimants to certain donation The claimants rights to land in the district of Detroit, granted by the second nation rights [section] of an act, entitled "An act to authorize the granting of to land in the patents for land, according to the surveys that have been made, troit, allowed and to grant donation rights to certain claimants of land in the until the 1st of district of Detroit, and for other purposes," passed the twenty-file their third of April, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, be, and they are hereby, allowed until the first day of December, one 1232. thousand eight hundred and eighteen, to file their claims with 1780. the register of the land office for the district aforesaid. [Approved, March 3, 1817.] CHAP. 273. An act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the state of Indiana. claims. Vol. ii. p. Vol. iii. p. All the laws § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That all the laws of the United States, of the U. S. which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and not locally ineffect within the said state of Indiana as elsewhere within the be in force in United States. applicable, to Indiana. of the court and powers of § 2. That the said state shall be one district, and be called The state to the Indiana district; and a district court shall be held therein, be a judicial district, &c. to consist of one judge, who shall reside in the said district, and be called a district judge. He shall hold, at the seat of govern- Two sessions ment of the said state, two sessions annually, on the first Mon- annually. days in May and November, and he shall, in all things, have and Jurisdiction exercise the same jurisdiction and powers which were, by law, the judge. given to the judge of the Kentucky district, under an act, enti- Vol. i. p. 53. tled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United A clerk, &c. States." He shall appoint a clerk for the said district, who shall reside and keep the records of the court at the place of holding the same; and shall receive, for the services performed by him, the same fees to which the clerk of the Kentucky district is entitled for similar services. § 3. That there shall be allowed to the judge of the said dis- 1000 dolls. trict court the annual compensation of one thousand dollars, to year to the judge. commence from the date of his appointment, to be paid quarter yearly at the treasury of the United States. the district, 4. That there shall be appointed in the said district, a per- Attorney to son learned in the law, to act as attorney for the United States, &c. 200 dolls. who shall, in addition to his stated fees, be paid by the United a year to the States two hundred dollars, as a full compensation for all extra sides fees. services. attorney, be &c. 5. That a marshal shall be appointed for said district, who A marshal, shall perform the same duties, be subject to the same regulations and penalties, and be entitled to the same fees, as are pre- 200 dolls. anscribed to marshals in other districts; and shall, moreover, be nually to the 187 VOL. III. marshal, for entitled to the sum of two hundred dollars annually, as a compensation for all extra services. [Approved, March 3, 1817.] extra services. Expired. Vol. iii. p. 1665. The court for the northern district to be CHAP. 275. An act respecting the district court of the United States in the northern district of New-York. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the passage of this act, the district court of the United States, within and for the holden by the northern district of New York, shall be holden by the judges of judges, &c. said northern district, together with the judge of the district court Proviso; eith- of the United States for the southern district of said state: Proof the judges vided, nevertheless, That either of the said judges shall be competent to hold said court in the absence of the other. competent. Times and places of holding the court for the northern district. Vol. iii. p. 1813. 1,000 dolls. annually ad § 2. That the district court of the United States, within and for said northern district, shall be holden at the village of Utica, on the third Tuesday of January, and second Tuesday of July; at Canandaigua, on the second Tuesday of October; and at Salem, on the third Tuesday of April, in each year. And all suits and proceedings in said court shall be revived and continue in full force, in the same manner as if the said court had been adjourned to the term next to be holden by virtue of this act. § 3. That, during the continuance of this act, there shall be ditional to the paid to the judge of the district court of said southern district, in addition to his present salary, the annual sum of one thousand dollars, as compensation for the duties required to be performed under this act. judge of the southern district. This act in force for a year only. Obsolete. Where appeals have been taken tary of the treasury to peals to be acted on by the principal assessor, &c, Vol. ii. p.1451. 4. That this act shall be in force one year, and no longer. [Approved, March 3, 1817.] CHAP. 276. An act respecting the assessment and collection of the direct tax. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That in all cases in which appeals have been taken, and the same shall not have been legally acted on and not legal- by a principal assessor, in any collection district, in regard to ly acted on, &c. the secre- the enumerations, valuations, or revisions, of property, subject to the direct tax, the secretary of the treasury shall be, and he is direct the ap- hereby, authorized to direct the said appeals to be acted on by the principal assessor of such collection district; and such appeals shall be conducted, as nearly as may be, in conformity with the provisions of the act "to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government and maintaining the public credit, by laying a direct tax upon the United States, and to provide for assessing and collecting the same," passed the ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, so far as respects the direct tax imposed in that year, and with the provisions of an act supplementary thereto, passed the twentysixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, so far as respects the direct tax imposed in that year. Vol. iii. p. 1578. &c. Deeds to be § 2. That all deeds for real estate, sold for taxes by any deacknowledged by collectors, signated collector, or by the collector for the district of Columbia, shall be made, executed, and acknowledged, by such collector, or proved in due form; and for every such deed the purpay a dollar chaser, or grantee, shall pay to the said collector, for his use, the for each deed. sum of one dollar. Grantees to |