the said bay, if the same shall be preferred: A light vessel, Mouth of the should the same be deemed necessary by the secretary of the Mississippi. treasury, at the mouth of the Mississipi, in the state of Lou isiana. jects of this 4. That there be appropriated, out of any moneys in the trea- Sums approsury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums of money, to pred for obaccomplish the objects specified in this act, to wit: for erecting a act. pier at the mouth of Kennebunk river, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars for placing a bell near the lighthouse on West Quoddy head, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars: for erecting two lighthouses, one on Tenpound Island, and the other on Baker's Island, and placing three buoys on the rocks and flats near Salem, a sum not exceeding nine thousand dollars for defraying the expense of lighting the lighthouse on the south side of the harbor of Nantucket, and superintending the same, a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars for a lighthouse near the mouth of Gennessee river, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars: for placing two buoys, one on Southwest Ledge, and the other on Adam's Fall, in or near the harbor of New Haven, a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars for a light vessel, and placing the same at the end of Smith's Point Shoals, a sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars: for a lighthouse on Shell Castle Island, or a light vessel, if preferred, a sum not exceeding fourteen thousand dollars for a beacon and two buoys on proper sites in or near to the channel leading to Charleston harbor, a sum not exceeding six thousand five hundred dollars for a lighthouse, or light vessel, for Mobile Bay, a sum not exceeding nine thousand dollars; for a light vessel at the mouth of the Mississippi, a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars. may be built lighthouse, &c. The light5. That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is hereby, house directed authorized, if he shall deem it expedient and proper, to build the on Sparrow's, lighthouse directed to be built on Sparrow's Point, in the state on North of Maryland, on North Point in said state; and also to substiA light vessel tute a light vessel for the lighthouse directed to be built on may be subCraney Island, at the mouth of Elizabeth river, in the state of stituted for a Virginia. 6. That, to complete the lighthouses and light vessels here< Additional tofore directed to be built, there be appropriated out of any mo- sums appropriated, for neys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following lighthouses additional sums, to wit: for the lighthouses in the state of Ma- and light vesryland, a sum not exceeding six thousand six hundred dollars directed. for the lighthouse directed to be built between the mouth of Grand River, in the state of Ohio, and the mouth of Detroit river, in the territory of Michigan, five thousand dollars: and for the lighthouses or light vessels for the state of Virginia, a sum not exceeding six thousand six hundred dollars. sels heretofore &c. previous 7. That no lighthouse, beacon, nor landmark, shall be built No lighthouse, or erected on any site previous to the cession of jurisdiction over to cession of the same being made to the United States. [Approved, May jurisdiction. 15, 1820.] VOL. III. 206 Vol. iii. p. 1738. 1st, 2d, 3d, and 4th, sections of act of 3d March, 1819, continued for 2 years, &c. 5th section of CHAP. 113. An act to continue in force "An act to protect the commerce of the United States and punish the crime of piracy," and also to make further provision for punishing the crime of piracy. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the first, second, third, and fourth, sections of an act, entitled "An act to protect the commerce of the United States and punish the crime of piracy," passed on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, be, and the same are hereby, continued in force, from the passing of this act, for the term of two years, and from thence to the end of the next session of congress, and no longer. § 2. That the fifth section of the said act be, and the same is the act of 3d hereby, continued in force, as to all crimes made punishable by March, 1819, the same, and heretofore committed, in all respects, as fully as if continued, &c. the duration of the said section had been without limitation. Vol. i. p. 84. Vol. iii. p. 2000. mitting robbe ny, &c. Persons, en 3. That if any person shall, upon the high seas, or in any open roadstead, or in any haven, basin, or bay, or in any river where the sea ebbs and flows, commit the crime of robbery, in Persons com- or upon any ship or vessel, or upon any of the ship's company of ry on any ship any ship or vessel, or the lading thereof, such person shall be or vessel, or adjudged to be a pirate; and, being thereof convicted, before ship's compa- the circuit court of the United States for the district into which Conviction in he shall be brought or in which he shall be found, shall suffer circuit court. death. And if any person engaged in any piratical cruise or engaged in any terprise, or being of the crew or ship's company of any piratical piratical enterprise, &c. ship or vessel, shall land from such ship or vessel, and, on shore, and commit shall commit robbery, such person shall be adjudged a pirate; and on conviction thereof, before the circuit court of the United States for the district into which he shall be brought, or in which Conviction in he shall be found, shall suffer death: Provided, That nothing in circuit court this section contained shall be construed to deprive any particuwhere brought lar state of its jurisdiction over such offences when committed Proviso; within the body of a county, or authorize the courts of the Unitbe deprived of ed States to try any such offenders, after conviction or acquitjurisdiction, tance, for the same offence, in a state court. &c. ting robbery on the shore, &c. or found. states not to Persons landing on a foreign shore, and seizing negroes or them slaves, 4. That if any citizen of the United States, being of the crew or ship's company of any foreign ship or vessel engaged in the slave trade, or any person whatever, being of the crew or ship's company of any ship or vessel, owned in whole or in part, or mulattoes, not navigated for, or in behalf of, any citizen or citizens of the United held to service, &c. with States, shall land, from any such ship or vessel, and, on any foreign intent to make shore, seize any negro or mulatto, not held to service or labor by the laws of either of the states or territories of the United States, with intent to make such negro or mulatto a slave, or shall decoy, or forcibly bring or carry, or shall receive, such negro or mulatto on board any such ship or vessel, with intent as aforesaid, such citizen or person shall be adjudged a pirate; and, on conviction thereof, before the circuit court of the United States circuit court for the district wherein he may be brought or found, shall suffer where brought death. &c. Conviction in or found. Persons forci § 5. That if any citizen of the United States, being of the bly confining, crew or ship's company of any foreign ship or vessel engaged in detaining, or the slave trade, or any person whatever, being of the crew or aiding to confine or detain, ship's company of any ship or vessel, owned wholly or in part, sels, &c. or water, trans to any other or navigated for, or in behalf of, any citizen or citizens of the negroes, &c. United States, shall forcibly confine or detain, or aid and abet in onboard vesforcibly confining or detaining, on board such ship or vessel, offering to sell on board, &c. any negro or mulatto not held to service by the laws of either of or, on the high the states or territories of the United States, with intent to make seas or tide such negro or mulatto a slave, or shall, on board any such ship ferring or deor vessel, offer or attempt to sell, as a slave, any negro or mulat-livering over to not held to service as aforesaid, or shall, on the high seas, or ship, or landany where on tide water, transfer or deliver over, to any other ing, &c. negroes, &c. ship or vessel, any negro or mulatto, not held to service as afore- with intent, said, with intent to make such negro or mulatto a slave, or shall &c. land, or deliver on shore, from on board any such ship or vessel, any such negro or mulatto, with intent to make sale of, or having previously sold, such negro or mulatto, as a slave, such citizen or person shall be adjudged a pirate; and, on conviction there- Conviction in of, before the circuit court of the United States for the district wherein he shall be brought or found, shall suffer death. proved, May 15, 1820.] circuit court where brought [Ap- or found. CHAP. 117. An act for the relief of persons holding confirmed unlocated claims for lands in Vol. iii. p. the state of Illinois. 1583. unlocated tract reserved of act of 16th 1. Be it enacted, &c. That all persons lawfully holding con- Persons holdfirmed unlocated claims for land within the tract reserved by the ing confirmed third section of the act, entitled "An act confirming certain claims for land claims to land in the Illinois territory and providing for their lo- within the cation," passed the sixteenth day of April, in the year one thous- by 3d section and eight hundred and fourteen, be allowed until the first day April, 1814, of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, to re- &c. gister the same: and the said claims shall be receivable in Vol. ii. p. payment for public lands within the said reserved tract, conformably with the provisions of the said act, and of the act, entitled receivable, "An act making further provision for settling claims to land in the territory of Illinois," passed the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, at any time before the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty. [Approved, May 15, 1820.] CHAP. 121. An act to authorize the governor of Illinois to obtain certain abstracts of lands from certain public offices. 1415. Claims to be &c. complete at lying in 1. Be it enacted, &c. That it shall be the duty of the regis- The register of the land office ter of the United States' land office at Vincennes, in the state of at Vincennes Indiana, to furnish to the governor of the state of Illinois, when to furnish he shall apply for the same, a complete abstract of all the lands stract of lands which have been purchased at that office, or which may here- purchased and after be purchased, which lie within the state of Illinois, desig-linois. nating the name of each purchaser and the time of making the 10 cents to the purchase; for which he shall be entitled to receive, from such each entry. applicant, at the rate of ten cents for each separate entry, a copy Proviso; Illinois to defray whereof is required: Provided, however, That all the expenses in- the expense. curred by virtue of this act shall be defrayed by said state. register for the treasury to 2. That it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury, Secretary of upon the application of the governor of said state, to cause a cause a comcomplete abstract to be made out, for the use of said state, of all plete abstract to be made out the military bounty lands which have been patented to the solof military diers of the late army, lying within the same, designating the name of each patentee. [Approved, May 15, 1820.] bounty lands, &c. Vol. iii. p. 1677. Vol. iv. p. 2212. After 30th ish vessels da, New CHAP. 122. An act supplementary to an act, entitled "An act concerning navigation." $1. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the thirtieth day of September next, the ports of the United States shall be and Sept. 1820, remain closed against every vessel owned, wholly or in part, by of the U. States closed a subject or subjects of his Britanic majesty, coming, or arriving against Brit- by sea, from any port or place in the province of Lower Canada, coming from or coming or arriving from any port or place in the province of Lower Cana- New-Brunswick, the province of Nova-Scotia, the islands of Brunswick, Newfoundland, St. Johns, or Cape Breton, or the dependencies Nova-Scotia, of any of them, the islands of Bermuda, the Bahama islands, the islands called Caicos, or the dependencies of any of them, or from any other port or place in any island, colony, territory, or possession, under the dominion of Great Britain, in the West Indies or on the continent of America, south of the southern boundary of the United States, and not included within the act Vessel and to which this act is supplementary. And every such vessel, so cargo forfeited excluded from the ports of the United States, that shall enter, or attempt to enter, the same, in violation of this act, shall, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with the cargo on board such vessel, be forfeited to the United States. Newfound land, St. Johns, Cape Breton, Bermuda, Bahamas, or Cai cos, &c. on attempting to enter. Bonds to be given by the British ves den with arti not to land hem in the prohibited places. § 2. That, from and after the thirtieth day of September next, owner, &c. of the owner, consignee, or agent, of every vessel owned, wholly or sels, after 30th in part, by a subject or subjects of his Britannic majesty, which Sept. 1820, la- shall have been duly entered in any port of the United States, cles of the and on board of which shall have been there laden, for exportagrowth, &c. of tion, any article or articles of the growth, produce, or manufacthe U. S., for exportation, ture, of the United States, other than provisions and sea-stores, necessary for the voyage, shall, before such vessel shall have been cleared outward at the customhouse, give bond, in a sum double the value of such article or articles, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the collector, that the article or articles so laden on board such vessel, for exportation, shall be landed in some port or place other than a port or place in any province, island, colony, territory, or possession; belonging to his Britannic majesty, that is mentioned or described in this act, or Vessel and ar- in the act to which this act is supplementary. And every such ticles forfeited vessel that shall sail, or attempt to sail, from any port of the to sail before United States, without having complied with the provisions aforebond given. said, by giving bond as aforesaid, shall, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with the article or articles aforesaid, laden on board the same as aforesaid, be forfeited to the United States: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be deemthing herein to violate the ed or construed so as to violate any provision of the convention commercial to regulate commerce between the territories of the United convention of 3d July, 1815. States and of his Britannic majesty, signed the third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. for attempting Proviso; no After 30th 3. That, from and after the thirtieth day of September next, Sept. 1820, no no goods, wares, or merchandise, shall be imported into the or merchan where laden United States of America from the province of Nova-Scotia, the goods, wares, province of New-Brunswick, the islands of Cape Breton, St. dise, to be imJohns, Newfoundland, or their respective dependencies, from the ported from Bermuda islands, the Bahama islands, the islands called Caicos, places, except the prohibited or either or any of the aforesaid possessions, islands, or places, they are wholly of the or from any other province, possession, plantation, island, or growth, &c. of place, under the dominion of Great Britain in the West Indies the colony or on the continent of America, south of the southern bounda- and whence ries of the United States, except only such goods, wares, and directly imported. merchandise, as are truly and wholly of the growth, produce, or manufacture, of the province, colony, plantation, island, possession, or place, aforesaid, where the same shall be laden, and from whence such goods, wares, or merchandise, shall be directly imported into the United States; and all goods, wares, and Vessel and merchandise, imported, or attempted to be imported, into the goods forfeited United States of America, contrary to the provisions of this act, importations together with the vessel on board of which the same shall be la- this act. den, her tackle, apparel, and furniture, shall be forfeited to the United States. in case of contrary to carried into ef. 1818. 4. That the form of the bond aforesaid shall be prescribed, This act to be and the same shall be discharged, and all penalties and forfeit- fect as act of ures incurred under this act shall be sued for, recovered, dis- 18th April, tributed, and accounted for, and the same may be mitigated, or remitted, in the manner, and according to the provisions, of the act to which this act is supplementary. [Approved, May 15, 1820.] CHAP. 123. An act to authorize the appointment of commissioners to lay out the road there- Vol. iv. p. in mentioned. 2166. of the Whereas, by the continuation of the Cumberland road from Continuation Wheeling, in the state of Virginia, through the states of Ohio, Cumberland Indiana, and Illinois, the lands of the United States may become road may more valuable— render public lands more The president to appoint ers, not citi Illinois, to tween Wheel 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the president of the United States valuable. be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint three impartial and judicious persons, not being citizens of any of the states afore- 3 commissionsaid to be commissioners, and, in case of the death or resigna- zens of Ohio, tion of any of them, to appoint other and like persons in their Indiana, or place, who shall have power carefully to examine the country examine the between Wheeling, in the state of Virginia, and a point on the country beleft bank of the Mississippi river, to be chosen by said commis- ing and a point sioners, between St. Louis and the mouth of the Illinois river, on the Missis sippi, &c. and and to lay out a road from Wheeling aforesaid to the point so to lay out a road. be chosen on the left bank of the river Mississippi; the said road Road to be to be on a straight line, or as nearly so as, having a due regard straight, &c. 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 Surveyors, to employ able surveyors, chain bearers, and other necessary assistants, in laying out said road; and so much of the lands of Lands for the the United States as may be included within the same, shall be, road reserved and is hereby, reserved and excepted from the sales of the pub- Road to be 80 lic lands. The said road to be eighty feet wide, and designated feet wide, &c. chain bearers, &c. from sales. |