and paid, in lieu thereof, the several and specific duties hereinafter mentioned, that is to say on iron in pigs, fifty cents per Iron in pigs, hundred weight; on iron castings, seventy-five cents per hun-iron castings, dred weight; on nails, four cents per pound; on spikes, three iron in bars cents per pound; on iron in bars and bolts, manufactured with- and bolts, anout rolling, seventy-five cents per hundred weight; on anchors, alum. two cents per pound; and on alum, two dollars per hundred weight. chors, and the rates of 2. That an addition of ten per centum shall be made to the Addition of 10 several rates of duties above specified and imposed upon the per cent, on several goods, wares, and merchandise, aforesaid, which, after duties if the the said thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and articles are imported, &c. eighteen, shall be imported in ships or vessels not of the United States: Provided, That this additional duty shall not apply to Proviso; the such goods, wares, and merchandise, imported in ships or ves- ty not to apply sels not of the United States, entitled by treaty, or by any act or to merchanacts of congress, to be entered in the ports of the United States, in foreign vesdise imported on the payment of the same duties as are paid on goods, wares, sels entitled and merchandise, imported in ships or vessels of the United by treaty, &c. States. additional du the duties, if 3. That there shall be allowed a drawback of the duties by Drawback of this act imposed on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported the goods are into the United States, upon the exportation thereof within the exported, &c. time, and in the manner, prescribed in the fourth section of the act, entitled "An act to regulate the duties on imports and 1587. tonnage," passed on the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. Vol. iii. p. laws in force 4. That the existing laws shall extend to, and be in force The existing for, the collection of the duties imposed by this act on goods, for the collec wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, and tion of the du ties imposed, for the recovery, collection, distribution, and remission, of all &c. fines, penalties, and forfeitures, as fully and effectually as if every regulation, restriction, penalty, forfeiture, provision, clause, matter, and thing, in the existing laws contained, had been inserted in, and re-enacted by, this act. [Approved, April 20, 1818.] CHAP. 99. An act fixing the compensation of Indian agents and factors. Repealed. receive the Creek. Tennessee Arkansas § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the passage of this act, Indian agents and factors shall receive the following salaries and factors to, per annum, in lieu of their present compensation, to wit: The salaries speciagent to the Creek nation, one thousand eight hundred dollars; fied. the agent to the Choctaws, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Choctaw. the agent to the Cherokees on Tennessee river, one thousand Cherokee, on three hundred dollars; the agent to the Cherokees on the Arkan- river. sas river, one thousand five hundred dollars; the agent to the Cherokee, on Chickasaws, one thousand three hundred dollars; the agent in river. the Illinois territory, one thousand three hundred dollars; the Chickasaw. agent at Prairie du Chien, one thousand two hundred dollars; At Prairie du the agent at Natchitoches, one thousand two hundred dollars; At Natchitothe agent at Chicago, ope thousand three hundred dollars; the ches. agent at Green Bay, one thousand five hundred dollars; the At Chicago. agent at Mackinac, one thousand four hundred dollars; the Bay. agent at Vincennes, one thousand two hundred dollars; the agent At Vincennes. In Ulinois. Chien. At Green At Fort Wayne, &c. To the Lakes. at Fort Wayne and Piqua, one thousand two hundred dollars; the agent to the Lakes, one thousand three hundred dollars; the In Missouri. agent in the Missouri territory, one thousand two hundred dolSub-agents. lars. And all sub-agents, five hundred dollars per annum. Factors and 2. That all factors shall receive one thousand three hundred assistant facdollars, and assistant factors seven hundred dollars per annum. tors. 8. That the sums hereby allowed to Indian agents and factors shall be in full compensation for their services; and that all rations, or other allowances, made to them, shall be deducted from the sums hereby allowed. [Approved, April 20, 1818.] The sums al lowed to be in full, &c. Rations, &c. to be deduct ed. Vol. iii. p. 1587. The 4th paraist section of graph of the the act to re gulate duties on imports and tonnage continued un til 30th June, 1826. Vol. iii. p. 1717. 1957. Pennsylvania divided into two districts. trict. Eastern district. CHAP. 102. An act to continue in force, from and after the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, until the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, the fourth paragraph of the first section of the act, entitled "an act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage." § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the fourth paragraph of the first section of the act, entitled "An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage," passed the twenty-seventh of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, shall, from and after the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, continue to operate in the same manner, and to have the same effect, until the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, that the above mentioned fourth paragraph now has, and will continue to have, until the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. [Approved, April 20, 1818.] CHAP. 103. An act to divide the state of Pennsylvania into two judicial districts. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the state of Pennsylvania be, and the same is hereby, divided into two districts, in manner followWestern dis- ing, to wit: the counties of Fayette, Greene, Washington, Alleghany, Westmoreland, Somerset, Bedford, Huntingdon, Centfe, Mifflin, Clearfield, M'Kean, Potter, Jefferson, Cambria, Indiana, Armstrong, Butler, Beaver, Mercer, Crawford, Venango, Erie, and Warren, shall compose one district, to be called the western district; and the residue of the said state shall compose Terms of the another district, to be called the eastern district; and the terms of the district court for the said eastern district, shall be held in the city of Philadelphia, at the several times they are now diTerms of the rected to be held in said district of Pennsylvania; and the terms of the circuit court for the western district shall commence and be held in the city of Pittsburg, on the first Mondays of the months of June and December, in each and every year, and be continued and adjourned, from time to time, as the court may deem expedient for the despatch of the business thereof. eastern district court. circuit court for the wes tern district. Vol. iii. p. 1795. Richard Peters to hold the courts in the eastern district, &c. The president, with consent § 2. That Richard Peters, now judge of the district court of Pennsylvania, shall be, and he is hereby, assigned as the judge to hold the courts in the eastern district, and to do all things appertaining to the office of a district judge, under the constitution and laws of the United States. § 3. That the president of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, by and with the advice and con judge for the sent of the senate, to appoint a district judge for the said west- of the senate, ern district of Pennsylvania; which judge, when appointed, shall to appoint a receive a salary of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum, western dis to be paid in the same manner as the salary of the judge of the new a eastern district of said state, and he shall also do and perform all dolls. per ann. such duties as are enjoined on, or in any wise appertaining to, a district judge of the United States. salary of 1600 His duties. ed by law, &c. have jurisdic 4. That the circuit court of the United States shall be held, Circuit courtn for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, at the city of Philadel- district to be phia, at the times, and in the manner, now directed by law to be held as directheld for the district of Pennsylvania; and the district court for Western disthe said western district, in addition to the ordinary jurisdiction trict court to and powers of a district court, shall, within the limits of the said one. exwestern district, have jurisdiction of all causes, except of ap- cept, &c. peals and writs of error, cognizable by law in a circuit court, and shall proceed therein in the same manner as a circuit court; and writs of error shall lie from decisions therein to the circuit Writs of error, court in the said eastern district of Pennsylvania, in the same manner as from other district courts to their respective circuit courts. &c. The president, with the consent of the 5. That the president of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, be, and hereby is, authorized to appoint one person as district attorney, and one person as senate, to apmarshal, for the said. western district, whose terms of appoint-point an attor ney, &c. for ment and service, as well as duties and emoluments, shall be the the western same with those respectively annexed to the said offices in the eastern district. And the district attorney and the marshal for the district of Pennsylvania shall, respectively, be district attorney and marshal for said eastern district. district, &c. process, &c. district court, 6. That all actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other pro- Actions, suits, ceedings, of a civil nature, except in cases of appeals and writs continued over of error, commenced or pending in the district or circuit court of to the western said district of Pennsylvania, in which no verdict shall have pass- except, &c. ed, or plea to the merits shall have been decided, and which, by law, should have been had or commenced in said district court of said western district, if the same had been had or commenced before the passing hereof, and where the parties to the same shall not otherwise agree, shall be, and hereby are, continued over to the district court of the western district established by this act, and shall there be proceeded in with like effect, and in the same manner, as if originally had or commenced therein. And the said district and circuit courts of said eastern district The district shall possess and exercise all necessary powers for the removal of courts, &c. inall papers and files relating to such actions, suits, process, plead- vested with powers, &c. ings, and other proceedings, to the said district court of said western district, so continued over as aforesaid: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any bond or recognisance made or entered into in any of the actions or suits hereby directed to be removed; but the same shall continue of as much validity as though this act had not passed. [Approved, April 20, 1818.] and circuit Proviso; no thing herein to affect any bond or recognisance. Vol. ii. p. 1509. vol. iii. p. 1737. Acts respect ing discriminating duties between foreign vessels and those of CHAP. 105. An act concerning tonnage and discriminating duties, in certain cases. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That so much of the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage of vessels in the ports of the United States, as imposes a discriminating duty between foreign vessels and vessels of the United States, is hereby repealed, so far as respects vessels truly and wholly belonging to the subjects of repealed, &c. the king of the Netherlands; such repeal to take effect from the time the government aforesaid abolished the discriminating duties between her own vessels and the vessels of the United States arriving in the ports or places aforesaid. the U. States, Discriminating duties on 2. That so much of the several acts imposing duties on goods, &c. re- goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, pealed in favor as imposes a discriminating duty between goods imported into of produce, &c. of the Ne- the United States in foreign vessels and in vessels of the United therlands, &c. States, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as the same Bath, in Massachusetts, made a port respects the produce or manufactures of the territories, in Europe, of the king of the Netherlands, or such produce and manufactures as can only be, or most usually are, first shipped from a port or place in the kingdom aforesaid, the same being imported in vessels truly and wholly belonging to subjects of the king of the Netherlands; such repeal to take effect from the time the government aforesaid abolished its discriminating duties between goods, wares, and merchandise, imported in vessels of the United States and vessels belonging to the nation aforesaid. [Approved, April 20, 1818.] CHAP. 108. An act making the port of Bath, in Massachusetts, a port of entry for ships or vessels arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, and from places beyond the same; and for establishing a collection district, whereof Belfast shall be the port of entry. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the port of Bath, in the state of Massachusetts be, and hereby is, made a port of entry for ships of entry, &c. or vessels arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, and from places beyond the same. A collection lished, to in 2. That a collection district be, and hereby is, established district estab- in the state of Massachusetts, which shall include all the ports clude all the and harbors on the western shore of the Penobscot bay and river, from the town of Camden to the town of Bangor, both inclusive; to Bangor. and a collector shall be appointed for the district, to reside at A collector to Belfast, which shall be the only port of entry for said district. [Approved, April 20, 1818.] ports, &c. from Camden reside at Bel fast. Instead of pre sent compen ers to be paid sation, receiv an annual salary of 500 dolls. each, and commis CHAP. 118. An act for changing the compensation of receivers and registers of the land of fices. 1. Be it enacted, & c. That, instead of the compensation now allowed by law to the receivers of public moneys for the lands of the United States, they shall receive an annual salary of five hundred dollars each, and a commission of one per centum on the moneys received, as a compensation for clerk hire, receiving, safe keeping, and transmitting, such moneys to the treasury of the United States: Provided always, That the whole amount which whole amount any receiver of public moneys shall receive, under the provisions sion of 1 per cent. Proviso; of this act, shall not exceed, for any one year, the sum of three not to exthousand dollars. ceed 3000 dolls. a year. 500 dolls. per one per cent. 2. That, instead of the compensation now allowed by law, Registers to to the registers of the land office, they shall receive an annual receive, each, salary of five hundred dollars each, and a commission of one per annum and centum on all the moneys expressed in the receipts by them fil- commission of ed and entered, and of which they shall have transmitted an account to the secretary of the treasury: Provided always, That Proviso; the whole amount which any register of the land offices shall re- not to exceed ceive, under the provisions of this act, shall not exceed, for any 3000 dolls. a one year, the sum of three thousand dollars. [Approved, April 20, 1818.] whole amount year. CHAP. 119. An act for transferring the claims in the office of the commissioner to the Obsolete. third auditor of the treasury department. der the act &c. transfer fice of the 1. Be it enacted, &c. That all claims under the act, entitled All claims un"An act to authorize the payment of property lost, captured, or authorizing destroyed, by the enemy, while in the military service of the payment for property lost, United States, and for other purposes," passed the ninth of April, &c. not finalone thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and the act in amend-ly acted on, ment thereof, passed the third of March, one thousand eight hun- red to the of dred and seventeen, now remaining in the office of the commis- third auditor. sioner of claims, and not acted on finally by said commissioner Vol. iii. p. before the ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the office of the third auditor of the treasury department; and the said third au- ditor to be ditor, in all adjudications upon the claims aforesaid, shall be go- governed by verned, in all respects, by the same rules, regulations, and re- rules, &c. strictions, as have heretofore been prescribed to the commissioner of claims under the above recited acts. 1542. 1651. The third au the same ditor allowed 2. That the third auditor aforesaid, for performing the duties The third auhereby required of him, shall be allowed and paid the sum of five 500 dolls. hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 20, 1818.] CHAP. 121. An act respecting the surveying and sale of the public lands in the Alabama Vol. iv. p. territory. 1724. of the survey title has been ed as the pre § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the powers and duties of the sur- The powers veyor for the lands in the northern part of the late Mississippi or limited, &c. territory, shall extend to the whole of the Alabama territory, and that only. And it shall be his duty to cause such of the said Lands to lands, to which the Indian title has been, or shall hereafter be, which Indian extinguished, as the president of the United States shall direct, extinguished to be surveyed and divided in the same manner, and under the to be surveysame regulations, as are provided by law in relation to other sident directs. public lands. And the said surveyor shall receive for his servi- 2000 dolls. per ces, hereafter, an annual compensation of two thousand dollars, surveyor, and and shall be allowed not exceeding two clerks, whose whole two clerks at compensation shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars per annum. year. 2. That in every public sale hereafter to be made of public Not exceedlands, in the territory of Alabama, there shall, in addition to the ing ten sec usual reservation of section sixteen, in each township, for the the school support of schools, be excepted from the sales such sections, not section, to be ann. to the 1500 dolls, a tions, besides excepted |