more than meanor, &c. votes, in the whole, at any such election, without the said per- sons to give son's having taken the aforesaid oath or affirmation, or shall suf- thirty votes fer any person whatever to vote as attorney, agent, or proxy, for without makany other person, or for any copartnership, or body politic, with- oath, to be deemed guilty out a power for that purpose, as prescribed in the foregoing sec- of a misdetion, with the oath or affirmation and certificate aforesaid; such of the said judges as shall consent thereto, shall severally be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on due conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or to imprisonment not exceeding one year, at the discretion of the court before which such conviction shall be had. And if Persons wilfully and abany person shall wilfully and absolutely swear or affirm falsely, solutely in taking any oath or affirmation prescribed by this act, such swearing falsely, subperson, so offending, shall, upon due conviction thereof, be sub- ject to pe ject to the pains and penalties which are by law prescribed for nalty. the punishment of wilful and corrupt perjury. $4. That if any person shall, directly or indirectly, give any money, bribe, Persons giving sum or sums of money, or any other bribe, present, or reward, &c. to procure or any promise, contract, obligation, or security, for the payment vote or inor delivery of any money, present, or reward, or any thing to president, or obtain or procure the opinion, vote, or interest, of the president any director, of the bank of the United States, or either of the directors there- of the bank, in of, or the president or a director of either of the branches of the relation to the said bank, in any election, question, matter, or thing, which shall the bank, fined come before the said president and directors for decision, in re- ed, &c. lation to the interest and management of the business of the said bank, and shall be thereof convicted; such person or persons, so giving, promising, contracting, or securing to be given, paid, or delivered, any sum or sums of money, present, reward, or other bribe as aforesaid, and the president or director who shall, in any wise, accept or receive the same, on conviction thereof shall be fined and imprisoned at the discretion of the court, and shall forever be disqualified to hold any office of trust or profit under the said corporation, and shall, also, forever be disqualified to hold any office of honor trust, or profit, under the United States. [Approved, March 3, 1819.] the opinion, terest, of the concerns of and imprison CHAP. 197. An act further to suspend, for a limited time, the sale or forfeiture of lands for Vol. i. failure in completing the payment thereon. p. vol. iii. p. 1772. 783. of the 6th con 5th section of &c. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the operation of the sixth condi- The operation tion of the fifth section of the act, entitled "An act to amend dition of the the act, entitled 'An act providing for the sale of the lands of the act for the the United States northwest of the Ohio and above the mouth of sale of lands, Kentucky river," be, and the same is hereby, suspended until the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, in favor of the purchasers of public lands at any of the land offices of the United States: Provided, That the benefit of Proviso; not this act shall not be extended to any one purchaser for a greater any one purquantity than six hundred and forty acres of land. [Approved, chaser. March 3, 1819.] to extend to CHAP. 198. An act in addition to "An act concerning tonnage and discriminating duties in Vol. iii. p. certain cases." 1710. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the act, passed on the twentieth 20th April, 1818, extend vessels, &c. ed to the The act of 3d March, 1815, the act of 20th April, 1818, &c. Vol. ii. p. 1509. Vol. iii. p. 1798. 1874. The president authorized to employ the of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act concerning tonnage and discriminating duties in certain cases," be, and the same hereby is, extended, in all its provisions and limitations, to the vessels of Prussia, of the city of Hamburg, and of the city of Bremen. § 2. That the act, passed on the third of March, eighteen hundred and fifteen, entitled "An act to repeal so much of the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage of ships and vessels, and vessels of the United States, and between goods imported into the United States in foreign vessels and vessels of the United States," and also the act to which this is an addition, together with this act, shall cease and expire on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-four. [Approved, March 3, 1819.] CHAP. 200. An act to protect the commerce of the United States, and punish the crime of piracy. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the president of the United States be, and hereby is, authorized and requested to employ so many public armed of the public armed vessels, as in his judgment the service may tect merchant require, with suitable instructions to the commanders thereof, in vessels, &c. protecting the merchant vessels of the United States and their crews from piratical aggressions and depredations. vessels to pro The president instruct com manders of public armed $2. That the president of the United States be, and hereby authorized to is, authorized to instruct the commanders of the public armed vessels of the United States to subduc, seize, take, and send into Pessels to take any port of the United States, any armed vessel or boat, or any and send into vessel or boat, the crew whereof shall be armed, and which shall Vessels, which have attempted or committed any piratical aggression, search, have attempt- restraint, depredation, or seizure, upon any vessel of the United ted piratical States, or of the citizens thereof, or upon any other vessel; and also to retake any vessel of the United States, or its citizens, which may have been unlawfully captured upon the high seas. port armed ed or commit aggression, &c. Merchant U. States citizen, may 3. That the commander and crew of any merchant vessel of vessels of the the United States, owned wholly, or in part, by a citizen thereof, owned wholly may oppose and defend against any aggression, search, restraint, or in part by a depredation, or seizure, which shall be attempted upon such vesdefend against sel, or upon any other vessel owned as aforesaid, by the commanaggression, der or crew of any armed vessel whatsoever, not being a public armed vessel, armed vessel of some nation in amity with the United States; and may subdue and capture the same; and may also retake any vessel, owned as aforesaid, which may have been captured by the commander or crew of any such armed vessel, and send the same into any port of the United States. &c. by any &c. cal aggression, &c. has been first at tempted or made, &c. Vessels or 4. That whenever any vessel or boat, from which any piraboats, from which pirati tical aggression, search, restraint, depredation, or seizure, shall cs have been first attempted or made, shall be captured and brought into any port of the United States, the same shall and may be adjudged and condemned to their use and that of the captors, after due process and trial, in any court having admiralty jurisdiction, and which shall be holden for the district into which such captured vessel shall be brought; and the same court shall Sale and dis- thereupon order a sale and distribution thereof accordingly, and at their discretion. tribution. crime of pira 5. That if any person or persons whatsoever, shall, on the Persons comhigh seas, commit the crime of piracy, as defined by the law of na-mitting the tions, and such offender or offenders shall afterwards be brought cy on the high into, or found in, the United States, every such offender seas, if brought offendor or found in the ers shall, upon conviction thereof, before the circuit court of U. States to be the United States for the district into which he or they may be death. punished with brought, or in which he or they shall be found, be punished with death. 6. That this act shall be in force until the end of the next This act in force, &c. session of congress. [Approved, March 3, 1819.] CHAP. 203. An act to continue in force, for a further term, the act, entitled “An act for es- Vol. ii. p. tablishing trading houses with the Indian tribes," and for other purposes. 1188. The act for es with the Indi 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the act, entitled "An act for establishing tablishing trading houses with the Indian tribes," passed on the trading houses second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, an tribes, &c. and which was, by subsequent acts, continued in force until the Vol. iii. p. first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, shall be, and the same is hereby, further continued in force until the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and no longer. 1761. 1819. may transfer 2. That the president of the United States shall have pow- The presient er, and he is hereby authorized, in every case where he shall Indian agents: judge it expedient, to transfer any of the Indian agents, whose Repealed. compensation was fixed by the act, entitled "An act fixing the Vol. iv. compensation of Indian agents and factors," from the places de- 2400. signated by the said act, for the discharge of their duties, respectively, to such other places as the public service may require; and shall also have power to appoint, by and with the sent of senate, consent and advice of the senate, an Indian agent for the upper dian agent Missouri, whose annual compensation shall be one thousand upper Missou eight hundred dollars. [Approved, March 3, 1819.] CHAP. 204. An act regulating the payments to invalid pensioners. And with con appoint an Infor li &c. Repealed. Vol. iv. p. 2329. geons, &c. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That in all cases of application for the In applications payment of pensions to invalids, under the several laws of con- for payments of pensions the gress granting pensions to invalids, the affidavit of two surgeons affidavit of two. or physicians, whose credibility, as such, shall be certified by the credible surmagistrate before whom the affidavit is made, stating the con- stating the tinuance of the disability for which the pension was originally continuance granted, (describing it,) and the rate of such disability at the disability, &c. time of making the affidavit, shall accompany the application of to accompany the applicathe first payment which shall fall due after the fourth day of March tion for payment falling next, and at the end of every two years thereafter; and if, in a due after the case of a continued disability, it shall be stated at a rate below 4th March, that for which the pension was originally granted, the applicant 1620, &c. shall only be paid at the rate stated in the affidavit: Provided, Proviso; affiThat where the pension shall have been originally granted for a cessary in total disability, in consequence of the loss of a limb, or other case of total cause which cannot, either in whole, or in part, be removed, the disability, &c. above affidavit shall not be necessary to entitle the applicant to payment: And provided also, That this act shall not extend to Proviso; this the invalids of the revolution, who have been, or shall be, placed act not to ex-! davit not ne tend to inva 18th March, 1818. Vol. iii. p. 1662. lids under act on the pension list, pursuant to an act of congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," approved the eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight. [Approved, March 3, 1819.] The duties on wines not enumerated in the act of 27th April, 1816, when imported in bottles or cases, &c. to cease after CHAP. 205. An act to regulate the duties on certain wines. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, the duties now by law levied, collected, and paid, on wine not enumerated in the Act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage,' passed the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, when imported in bottles or cases, of seventy cents per gallon, and on wine not enumerated in said act, when imported otherwise than in bottles or cases, of twenty-five cents per gallon, shall cease and determine; and there shall be levied, Specific duties collected, and paid, in lieu thereof, the several and specific duties hereinafter mentioned; that is to say on wines not enumerated in the act aforesaid, when imported in bottles or cases, thirty cents per gallon, and when imported otherwise than in bottles or cases, fifteen cents per gallon. the 30th June, in lieu, &c. Addition of 10 per cent. to the rates specified, upon importations in vessels not of the U. S. after 30th June, 1819. § 2. That an addition of ten per centum shall be made to the several rates of duties above specified and imposed upon the several goods, wares, and merchandise, aforesaid, which, after the said thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, shall be imported in ships or vessels not of the United States: Provided, That this additional duty shall not apply to such goods, wares, and merchandise, imported in ships or vessels not of the United States, entitled by treaty, or by any act or importations acts of congress, to be entered in the ports of the United States authorized by treaty or acts on the payment of the same duties as are paid on goods, wares, of congress, and merchandise, imported in ships or vessels of the United Proviso; ad ditional duty not to affect &c. posed on ex States. Drawback of 3. That there shall be allowed a drawback of the duties by the duties im- this act imposed on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported inportation, &c. to the United States, upon the exportation thereof, within the time, and in the manner, prescribed in the fourth section of the act, entitled "An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage," passed on the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. Existing laws in force for the $4. That the existing laws shall extend to, and be in force collection of for, the collection of the duties imposed by this act on goods, the duties im wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States; and this act, and for the recovery, collection, distribution, and remission, of all very, distribu- fines, penalties, and forfeitures, as fully and effectually as if every tion, &c. of regulation, restriction, penalty, forfeiture, provision, clause, matfines, &c. ter, and thing, in the existing laws contained, had been inserted in, and re-enacted by, this act. for the reco Wines, &c. deposited as 5. That wines and distilled spirits, imported and deposited directed by act in the public stores, under the direction of the surveyor, in the of 20th April, manner prescribed by the "Act providing for the deposite of transported wines and distilled spirits in public warehouses," passed the coastwise, &c. twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, may 1818, may be be transported coastwise, from the public warehouses in one dis- as the secreta trict to those in another district, under such regulations as the treasury may prescribe. secretary of the treasury may prescribe, without loss of deben- Vol. . p. ture. [Approved, March 3, 1819.] 1714. CHAP. 206. An act respecting the location of certain sections of lands to be granted for the Vol. iii. p. seat of government in the state of Indiana. 1565. Instead of four sections, &c. any contigu $1. Be it enacted, &c. That, instead of four sections, provided to be located under the direction of the legislature of the state of Indiana, and to be granted for the purpose of fixing thereon ous quarter sections, fracthe seat of government for that state, it shall be lawful to locate, tious, &c. not for that purpose, under the direction of the legislature aforesaid, to exceed four any contiguous quarter sections, fractions, or parts of sections, be located, not to exceed, in the whole, the quantity contained in four en- &c. tire sections: Such locations shall be made before the commencement of the public sales of the adjoining and surrounding fore public lands belonging to the United States. [Approved, March 3, 1819.] sales. CHAP. 208. An act making provision for the civilization of the Indian tribes adjoining the frontier settlements. sections, may Locations to ments, where and to teach § 1. Be it enacted, &e. That, for the purpose of providing The president against the further decline and final extinction of the Indian authorized to employ capatribes, adjoining to the frontier settlements of the United States, ble persons to and for introducing among them the habits and arts of civiliza- instruct Indians adjoining tion, the president of the United States shall be, and he is here- frontier settleby, authorized, in every case where he shall judge improvement practicable, in in the habits and condition of such Indians practicable, and that agriculture, the means of instruction can be introduced with their own con- Indian chilsent, to employ capable persons, of good moral character, to in- dren reading, struct them in the mode of agriculture suited to their situation; arithmetic, and for teaching their children in reading, writing, and arith- &c. metic, and for performing such other duties as may be enjoined, according to such instructions and rules as the president may give and prescribe for the regulation of their conduct, in the discharge of their duties. writing, and 000 dolls. 2. That the annual sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the Annual approsame is hereby, appropriated, for the purpose of carrying into ef- priation of 10,fect the provisions of this act; and an account of the expendi- Account ef exture of the money, and proceedings in execution of the foregoing penditure and proceedings to provisions, shall be laid annually before congress. [Approved, be laid before March 3, 1819.] congress. CHAP. 209. An act explanatory of the act, entitled "An act for the final adjustme of land Vol. ii. p. titles in the state of Louisiana and territory of Missouri." 1410. ions of the 5th sections of the act of 12th April, 1814, to be construed to extend to ward county. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the provisions of the fifth section The provis of the act of congress, entitled "An act for the final adjustment of land titles in the state of Louisiana and territory of Missouri," - passed the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, shall be so construed as to extend to the citizens of the county of Howard, in the Missouri territory, as established by the act of the legislature of the territory, passed the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, any construction to the contrary notwithstanding. 199 VOL. III. citizens of Ho |