ble, to the plan on which lots granted to actual settlers were laid Return of sur- off; and he shall make return of the surveys to the general land veys to the ge- office and the register of the land office at Marietta. neral land of fice, &c. Confirmed claims to land Vol. ii. p. 1022. § 2. That every person, or their legal representatives, whose claims were confirmed by any of the several acts for confirming in the district claims to land in the district of Vincennes, and which claims of Vincennes, have not been located, shall be authorized to enter their locations may be located on the tract with the register of the land office at Vincennes, on any part of set apart, &c. the tract set apart for that purpose in the said district, by virtue of an act, entitled "An act respecting claims to land in the Indiana territory and state of Ohio," and in conformity to the provision of that act, and shall be entitled to receive certificates and patents in the same manner as provided by former laws reProviso; loca- specting locations in the same tract: Provided, That the locations authorized by this act, and those authorized by an act, en1st Sept. 1818. titled "An act for the relief of certain claimants to land in the Vol. iii. p. district of Vincennes," passed on the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, shall be made before the first day of September next; and, after the said locations shall have been made and the surveys thereon completed, the surveyor general shall cause the residue of the said tract to be surveyed, conforming, as far as practicable, to the plan for surveying the Return of sur- other public lands, and he shall make a return of the surveys to the general land office, and to the register of the land office at Vincennes. tions to be made before 1561. Residue of tract to be surveyed. veys, &c. Part of one tract to be sold at Marietta; other at Vin cennes bidder, &c. 3. That such part of the tract, described by the first section of this act, as shall appear to belong to the United States, shall and part of the be offered for sale at Marietta; and such part of the tract described by the second section of this act, as shall not have been located under confirmed claims, shall be offered for sale at Vincennes. The said lands, in the said respective tracts, with the exception of the usual proportion for the support of schools, shall To the highest be offered for sale to the highest bidder, under the direction of the register of the land office and the receiver of public moneys for the said districts, on such days, respectively, as shall, by pro clamation of the president, be designated for that purpose; the Sales open six sales at each place shall remain open six days, and no longer; the lands shall not be sold for less than two dollars an acre; and shall, in every other respect, both as to public and private sales, be sold on the same terms and conditions as other public lands in the same districts; and patents shall be obtained in the manner, and on the terms, provided in case of other public lands sold by the United States. Days of sale. days. Price. Patents. 4 dolls. a day to superintendents. Vol. iii. p. 1747. 1778. 1927. 4. That the superintendents of the public sales, directed by this act, shall each receive four dollars a day for each day's attendance on the said sales. [Approved, March 18, 1818.] CHAP. 18. An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That every commissioned officer, nonOfficers and commissioned officer, musician, and private soldier, and all officers in the hospital department and medical staff, who served in the war of the revolution until the end thereof, or for the term privates who served in the of nine months, or longer, at any period of the war, on the con- army or navy tinental establishment; and every commissioned officer, noncom-volutionary during the re missioned officer, mariner, or marine, who served at the same war entitled to time, and for a like term, in the naval service of the United States, pensions. who is yet a resident citizen of the United States, and who is, or hereafter, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, shall be, in need of assistance from his country for support, and shall have substantiated his claim to a pension in the manner hereinafter directed, shall receive a pension from the United States: if an officer, of twenty dollars per month during life; if a non- Officers 20 commissioned officer, musician, mariner, marine, or private sol- month. dier, of eight dollars per month during life: Provided, No per- Noncommisson shall be entitled to the provisions of this act, until he shall &c. 8 dolls. have relinquished his claim to every pension heretofore allowed per month. him by the laws of the United States. dolls. per sioned officers, Proviso. A declaration dence, neces § 2. That, to entitle any person to the provisions of this act, under oath, he shall make a declaration, under oath or affirmation, before the and other evidistrict judge of the United States of the district, or before any sary to obtainjudge or court of record of the county, state, or territory, in which ing the benefit the applicant shall reside, setting forth, if he belonged to the of this act. army, the company, regiment, and line, to which he belonged; the time he entered the service, and the time and manner of leaving the service and, in case he belonged to the navy, a like declaration, setting forth the name of the vessel, and particular service in which he was employed, and the time and manner of leaving the service, and shall offer such other evidence as may be in his power; and, on its appearing, to the satisfaction of the said judge, that the applicant served in the revolutionary war as aforesaid, against the common enemy, he shall certify and transmit the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had Testimony, thereon, to the secretary of the department of war, whose duty transmitted to it shall be, if satisfied the applicant comes under the provisions of war, &c. of this act, to place such officer, musician, mariner, marine, or soldier, on the pension list of the United States, to be paid in the same manner as pensions to invalids who have been placed on the pension list are now paid, and under such restrictions and regulations, in all respects, as are prescribed by law. &c. to be the secretary Payment to be made as in case of other pensions. Pension to commence on 3. That every pension by virtue of this act, shall commence on the day that the declaration under oath or affirmation, pre- the day of scribed in the foregoing section, shall be made. oath, &c. or mortgage, § 4. That, from and after the passage of this act, no sale, Sale, transfer, transfer, or mortgage, of the whole, or any part, of the pension of pension, not payable in pursuance of this act, shall be valid; and any person valid. who shall swear or affirm falsely in the premises, and be thereof False swearconvicted, shall suffer as for wilful and corrupt perjury. [Ap- as perjury. ing punishable proved, March 18, 1818.]. CHAP. 21. An act for altering the time for holding the district court for the district of Virginia. holden on the $ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the terms of the district court for The terms. the district of Virginia, which are now directed by law to be 12th, shall be holden on the twelfth day of April, in each year, shall hereafter holden on the be holden, for the said district, on the second day of April, in in each year, 2d, of April, except, &c. Vol. ii. p. 1243. The second section of the act referred to, the heirs, &c. ed, &c. each year, except where such day shall occur on Sunday, when the term of the said court shall commence and be holden on the next succeeding day. [Approved, March 19, 1818.] CHAP. 22. An act extending the time for obtaining military land warrants in certain cases. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the provision of the second section of the act, entitled "An act to provide for designating, surnot to apply to veying, and granting, the military bounty lands," passed on the of persons kill- Sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, which limits the time within which persons entitled to military bounty lands shall make their application for a land warrant, to five years from and after such person shall become entitled thereto, shall not be construed to apply to, affect, or bar, any application for a military land warrant, which may be made by the heirs and representatives of a deceased person, who was entitled thereto by services performed in the late war, or application by the heirs and representatives of any noncommissioned officer or soldier killed in action, or who died in the actual service of the United States, and entitled by existing laws to a bounty in lands; but the heirs and representatives of such persons shall be allowed to make their applications therefor at any time before the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty; any act to the contrary notwithstanding. [Approved, March 27, 1818.] CHAP. 25. An act allowing additional salary and clerk hire to the surveyor for the Illinois and Missouri territories, and for other purposes. The heirs of such persons may make ap plications until 1st May, 1820. Surveyor of lands in Illi nois and Missouri allowed 2000 dollars per ann, in lieu, &c. Three clerks, &c. Accounting treasury to liam Rector, fied, &c. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the surveyor of the lands of the United States in the territories of Illinois and Missouri, shall hereafter be allowed an annual compensation of two thousand dollars, in lieu of the compensation now fixed by law, and shall also be allowed three clerks, whose whole compensation shall not exceed two thousand dollars per annum. 2. That the accounting officers of the treasury department officers of the be authorized to adjust and settle the accounts of William Recsettle the ac- tor, for his services as principal deputy surveyor, and surveyor of counts of Wil- the Illinois and Missouri territories, and to allow him, in addition and allow him to his salary as fixed by law, the following fees, that is to say: the fees speci- for examining and recording the surveys executed by any of his deputies, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of the boundary line of the surveys executed under his direction in the offices aforesaid: Provided, The allowance shall not be made where he has on the surveys of private claims in any case where he has received, or is entitled to receive, similar fees from individuals. [Approved, April 3, 1818.] Proviso; no allowance received similar fees, &c. Laws of the U. States to have the same ef CHAP. 28. An act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the state of Mississippi. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That all the laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and fect in Missis- effect within the said state of Mississippi as elsewhere within the United States. sippi as elsewhere. Mississippi to § 2. That the said state shall be one district, and be called be a judicial the Mississippi district; and a district court shall be held there district court. Two sessions Vol. iii. p. in, to consist of one judge, who shall reside in the said district, district, with a and be called a district judge. He shall hold, at the seat of government of the said state, two sessions annually, on the first of the court Mondays in May and December, and he shall, in all things, annually, &c. have and exercise the same jurisdiction and powers which were, 1806. by law, given to the judge of the Kentucky district, under an Jurisdiction act, entitled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the the judge. United States." He shall appoint a clerk for the said district, Vol. i. p. 53. who shall reside and keep the records of the court at the place A clerk; his of holding the same; and shall receive, for the services perform- Vol. i. p. 569. ed by him, the same fees to which the clerk of the Kentucky district is entitled for similar services. and powers of duty, fees, &c. § 3. That there shall be allowed to the judge of the said dis- Salary of the trict court the annual compensation of two thousand dollars, to judge 2000 commence from the date of his appointment, to be paid quarter yearly at the treasury of the United States. compensation 4. That there shall be appointed, in the said district, a per- A district atson learned in the law, to act as attorney for the United States, torney, with a who shall, in addition to his stated fees, be paid by the United of 200 dolls. States two hundred dollars, as a full compensation for all extra sides fees. services. per ann. be with a com ann. besides 5. That a marshal shall be appointed for the said district, A marshal, who shall perform the same duties, be subject to the same regu- pensation of lations and penalties, and be entitled to the same fees, as are 200 dolls. per prescribed to marshals in other districts; and shall, moreover, fees. be entitled to the sum of two hundred dollars annually, as a compensation for all extra services. [Approved, April 3, 1818.] · CHAP. 29. An act altering the time for holding a session of the district court in the district of Maine. court for hereafter § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the district court, heretofore by The district law holden on the last day of May, in each year, at Portland, Maine to be within and for the district of Maine, shall hereafter be holden, at holden at the same place, on the first Tuesday of June in each year. [Ap- Portland, &c. proved, April 3, 1818.] CHAP. 31. An act respecting the courts of the United States within the state of New Vol. iii. p. York. 1646. The court for district to be holden by the det her sof judge thereof. the northern In case of his § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the passing of this act, the district court of the United States, for the northern district of New York, shall be holden by the judge of the said district, and, in case of his inability on account of sickness, absence, or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the judge of the southern inability, by district of New York to hold the said court, in and for the said the judge of northern district, and to do and perform all other acts and duties district. of the judge of the said northern district, with the like power and authority in all respects. And whenever such inability of The judge of the judge of the said northern district, to hold any term of the district to give said court, shall exist, it shall be his duty to give previous timely timely notice, notice thereof to the judge of the said southern district. the southern the northern &c. the northern 2. That there shall be held, in each year, three terms of the Three terms of district court for the northern district of New York, to wit: at district court, the city of Albany, on the second Tuesday of May, and on the At Albany, At Utica. second Tuesday of November; and at the village of Utica, in Suits to be re- the county of Oneida, on the third Tuesday of May. And all vived, &c. Vol. iii. p. 1813. Process issued, to be returnable. Courts may be holden in the northern district at other times, at discretion. The northern district en larged. Proceedings had in suits, instituted in trict court de suits and proceedings in the said court shall be revived, and shall continue in full force, in the same manner as if the said court had been regularly held according to law, and had been adjourned to the term next to be holden by virtue of this act. And all process already issued, or which may be issued, out of the said court, before the passing of this act, shall be held and deemed returnable to the next term thereof, to be holden by virtue of this act. And it shall be at the discretion of the judge of the said northern district of New York, or, in case of his inability, of the judge of the said southern district, to appoint and hold a court or courts at any other time or place, than those before mentioned, within and for the said northern district, as the business therein may require. 3. That the said northern district of the state of New York shall be, and the same is hereby, enlarged, so as to include the counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Schenectady, Schoharie, and Delaware, in the said state. 4. That all proceedings hitherto had in the district courts of the United States, either for the northern or for the southern the former dis- district of New York, in any suit at common law, or in any civil clared valid. cause of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, in continuation of any such suit or cause which had been instituted in the former district court of the United States for the district of New York, be, and the same hereby are, declared as valid and effectual as if the same suit or cause had been originally instituted in the district court in which such proceedings have been had. &c. vested in tuted in the former district court. transferred to ern district. The jurisdic-$5. That the jurisdiction of every suit or cause, either at tion of causes, common law, or of maritime and admiralty jurisdiction, whether the court for the same hath or bath not been instituted in the district court of that district, the former district of New York, wherein the cause shall have whether they have or have arisen, or the seizure shall have been made, within the limits of not been insti- the northern district of New York, as prescribed by this act, and which hath not been proceeded in to final judgment or decree, shall be vested in the district court for the northern district of Pleadings, li- New York; and all pleadings, libels, claims, evidences, and pabels, &c. to be pers, whatsoever, that may have been filed, and all moneys which the clerk's of may have been paid or deposited in the office of the clerk of the fice for north former district of New York, or of the clerk of the southern district of New York, in every such suit or cause, shall be transferred to, and filed and deposited in, the office of the clerk of the The northern northern district of New York. And the said district court for district court the northern district of New York shall have as full power to power to try, hear, try, and determine, the said suits and causes, and to proceed therein to final judgment and decree, as the district court Jurisdiction of for the district of New York had by law. And the jurisdiction causes, within of all suits or causes, whether at common law, or of admiralty the southern and maritime jurisdiction, whether the same hath or hath not district, vest been instituted in the district court for the former district of New York, wherein the cause of action shall have arisen, or the seizure shall have been made, within the limits of the southern district of New York, and which have not been proceeded in to to have full &c. the limits of ed in the court for that district, whether they have or have not |