road to be a report of &c. by marked trees, stakes, or other conspicuous monuments, at the distance of every quarter of a mile, and at every angle of deviaA plan of the tion from a straight line. And the said commissioners shall made and de- cause to be made, and delivered to the president of the United livered to the States, an accurate plan of said road, so laid out by them as president, with aforesaid, with a written report, of their proceedings, describing proceedings, therein the state lines crossed, and the marks, monuments, courses and distances, by which the said road shall be designated; describing also the water-courses and the nature and quality of Road to be di- the ground over which the same shall be laid out; they shall, vided into sec- moreover, divide said road into sections of not more than ten, tions, with notice of materi- nor less than five, miles long, noticing the materials that may be als for making used in making, and giving an estimate of the expense of making, each section of the road aforesaid. each, and expense. Commissioners, &c. to take an oath. Compensation. Proviso; no obligati on on to defray the expense of making the road. 10,000 dolls. 2. That the commissioners, surveyors, chain bearers, and other necessary assistants, to be appointed in pursuance of this act, shall severally take an oath or affirmation, faithfully and diligently to perform their respective duties, and shall receive, in full compensation for their services and expenses, each commissioner six dollars, each surveyor three dollars, and each other necessary assistant one dollar, for each day in which they shall be necessarily employed in the service aforesaid: Provided always, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That nothing in this act contained, or that shall be done in pursuance thereof, shall be deemed or construed to imply any obligation on the part of the United States to make, or to defray the expense of making, the road hereby authorized to be laid out, or of any part thereof. 3. That ten thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money appropriated in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and are hereby, for laying out the road. appropriated to defray the expense of laying out the road aforesaid. [Approved, May 15, 1820.] cretary of the treasury. CHAP. 125. An act for the relief of the inhabitants of the village of Peoria, in the state of Illi nois. Persons claim- 1. Be it enacted, &c. That every person, or the legal repreing lots in Peoria to de- sentatives of every person, who claims a lot or lots in the village liver notice in of Peoria, in the state of Illinois, shall, on or before the first day writing to the register of Ed- of October next, deliver to the register of the land office for the wardsville be- district of Edwardsville a notice in writing of his or her claim; fore, &c. Register to re- and it shall be the duty of the said register to make to the seport to the secretary of the treasury a report of all claims filed with the said register, with the substance of the evidence in support thereof; and also his opinion, and such remarks respecting the claims as Report, &c. to he may think proper to make; which report, together with a list of the claims which, in the opinion of the said register, ought to be confirmed, shall be laid by the secretary of the treasury before congress for their determination. And the said register shall be allowed twenty-five cents for each claim on which a decision shall be made, whether such decision shall be in favor or against the claims; which allowance shall be in full for his services under this act. [Approved, May 15, 1820.] be laid before congress. 25 cents to the register for each claim. CHAP. 126. An act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships and vessels. Repealed. 1895. ships or ves the extension § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, in lieu of the tonnage duty now 1820. 1847. paid on French ships or vessels, there shall be paid a duty of eighteen dollars per ton on all French ships or vessels which ton on French shall be entered in the United States, any act to the contrary sels, in lieu of notwithstanding: Provided, however, That nothing contained in present duty. Proviso; this act shall be so construed as to prevent the extension of the nothing in this provisions of the act, entitled "An act to repeal so much of the act to prevent several acts imposing duties on the tonnage of ships and vessels, of the provisand on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United ions of the act States, as imposes a discriminating duty on tonnage between 1815, to foreign vessels and vessels of the United States, and between the French ships goods imported into the United States in foreign vessels and ves- Vol. ii. p. 1509. sels of the United States," to French ships and vessels, and the goods imported therein, whenever the government of France shall accede to the provisions of the act above referred to. of 3d March, or vessels, &c. collected ac 2. That the tonnage duty laid, and directed to be paid, by The duty to be this act, shall be collected and paid according to the provisions cording to of the act, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties act of 2d on imports and tonnage," passed the second day of March, one vol. i. p. 579. thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine. March, 1799. force from Ist 3. That this act shall commence, and be in force, from and This act in after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twen- July, 1820. ty. [Approved, May 15, 1820.] CHAP. 131. An act to continue in force the act, entitled "An act to provide for reports of Expired. the decisions of the supreme court," approved the third of March, one thousand eight hun red and seventeen. Vol. iii. p. 1639. Vol. iv. p. 2535. Act of 3d March, 1817, continued for 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the act, entitled "An act to provide for reports of decisions of the supreme court," approved the third day of March, on thousand eight hundred and seventeen, be, and the same is hereby, continued in force for three years, Vol. iii. p. and no longer. [Approved, May 15, 1820.] three years. 2046. CHAP. 132. An act to amend the act, entitled "An act to amend the act authorizing the Vol. ii. p. employment of an additional naval force." 1109. of 31st Jan. thorize enlist § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the second section of the act, en- 2d sect. of act titled "An act authorizing the employment of an additional na- 1809, amendval force," passed on the thirty-first day of January, eighteen edhundred and nine, be, and the same is hereby, amended, so far- So as to auas to authorize the enlistment of able seamen, ordinary seamen, ments for the and boys, during the continuance of the service or cruise for service or which they shall be enlisted; not, however, to exceed the period not to exceed of three years. [Approved, May 15, 1820.] CHAP. 135. An act granting to the state of Ohio the right of pre-emption to certain quarter sections of land. cruise; but three years. emption, at quarter sec $1. Be it enacted, &c. That there be granted to the state of Right of preOhio, at the minimum price for which the public lands are sold, minimum the right of pre-emption to one quarter section, in or near the price, to one centre of each county, included in the purchase recently made ton, in the of the Indians, by the treaty concluded at St. Mary's, on the twentieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and granted to centre of each county, &c. Ohio, &c. Provisoes; purchase must be made before public sales: proceeds, after deducting sums original eighteen, for the establishment of a seat of justice in the said counties: Provided, The purchase be made before the commencement of the public sales: And provided also, That the proceeds of the sale of each quarter section, which may be made under the authority of the state of Ohio, shall be appropriated for the purpose of erecting public buildings in said counties, rely paid, appro- spectively, after deducting therefrom the sums originally paid by the state aforesaid: And provided further, That the seat of justice for said counties, respectively, shall be fixed on the lands so selected. [Approved, May 15, 1820.] priated for public buildings, &c. Vol. iii. p. 1619. Power of the secretary of the navy to appoint agents, &c. repealed. Duties to be performed by surveyors of public lands. CHAP. 136. An act to amend an act "making reservation of certain public lands for naval purposes," passed first March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That so much of the first section of the act of congress, passed on the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, entitled "An act making reservation of certain public lands for naval purposes," as empowers the secretary of the navy to appoint an agent or agents and surveyor, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and the duties and services required by said section be performed in future by such surveyors of public lands as may be designated by the president of the United States. [Approved, May 15, 1820.] RESOLUTION. [No. 1.] Resolution declaring the admission of the state of Alabama into the Union, Whereas, in pursuance to an act of congress, passed on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled "An act to enable the people of the Alabama territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the The people of original states," the people of the said territory did, on the seAlabama have cond day of August, in the present year, by a convention called stitution and for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and state state govern- government, which constitution and state government, so form formed a con ment, &c. Alabama admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the origi nal states. ed, is republican, and in conformity to the principles of the articles of compact between the original states and the people and states in the territory northwest of the river Ohio, passed on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eightyseven, so far as the same have been extended to the said territory by the articles of agreement between the United States and the state of Georgia Resolved, &c. That the state of Alabama shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever. [Approved, December 14, 1819.] ACTS OF THE SIXTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the 13th of November, 1820, and ended on the 3d of March, 1821. JAMES MONROE, President. DANIEL D. TOMPKINS, Vice President, and President of the Senate. JOHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate pro tempore, during the whole of the Session. JOHN W. TAYLOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. 139. An act to alter the terms of the district court in Alabama. to be holden at Feb. 1821. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the first session of the district First session court for the district of Alabama shall be holden at Mobile, on Mobile, third the third Monday of February, eighteen hundred and twenty- Monday of one; and, thereafter, the stated sessions of said court, instead Stated sesof the times heretofore appointed, shall be holden, annually, as in Ca follows: At Mobile, on the first Mondays of January and June; hawba and at Cahawba, on the first Mondays of April and November; 1773. 1896. any law to the contrary notwithstanding. bile and Vol. iii. 2. That all process which may have issued, or may hereaf- Process reter issue, returnable to the next succeeding terms, as heretofore turnable accordingly. established, shall be held returnable, and be returned, to those terms to which they are severally changed by this act. 3. That there shall be but one clerk for the district, who shall But one clerk, keep only one set of records; any law to the contrary notwith- and one set of standing. [Approved, November 27, 1820.] records. CHAP. 140. An act to provide for paying to the state of Illinois three per cent. of the nett Vol. iv. p. proceeds arising from the sale of the public lands within the same. 2218. The secretary of the treasury to pay 3 per nett proceed's § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the secretary of the treasury shall, from time to time, and whenever the quarterly accounts of public moneys of the several land offices shall be settled, pay three cent. of the per cent. of the nett proceeds of the lands of the United States, of public lands lying within the state of Illinois, which, since the first day of sold in Illinois, January, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, have been agent of the or hereafter may be, sold by the United States, after deducting state, all expenses incidental to the same, to such person or persons as &c. to the The money to be applied to the encouragement of may be authorized by the legislature of the said state to receive the same; which sums, thus paid, shall be applied to the encouragement of learning within said state, in conformity to the learning, &c. provisions on this subject, contained in the act, entitled "An act to enable the people of the Illinois territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states," approved April eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and to no other purpose; and an annual account of the application of the same shall be transmitted to the secretary of the treasury, by such officer of the state as the legislature thereof shall direct; and, in default of such return being made, the secretary of the treasury is hereby required to withhold the payment of any sums that may then be due, or which may thereafter become due, until a return shall be made as herein required. [Approved, December 12, 1820.] Annual account of the application of the moneys to be transmit ted to the se cretary of the treasury, &c. Vol. iii. p. 1664. 1841. The regular terms to be in January and Writs, process, &c. to be returned accordingly. Vol. ii. p. 1056. Vol. iii. p. 1669. 1918. Time allowed CHAP. 144. An act to alter the time of holding the district court in the district of Mississippi. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the district court, in the district of Mississippi, heretofore holden on the first Mondays in May and December, shall hereafter hold its regular terms only on the first Monday in January and July; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. 2. That every writ, process, subpoena, or recognisance, returnable, according to law, or the tenor thereof, to either of the aforesaid terms, holden on the first Mondays in May and December, shall be returnable to the next succeeding term of said court, to be holden on the first Monday in January and July, [Approved, January 11, 1921.] CHAP. 149. An act to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the general land office. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the officers and soldiers of the until 4th Jan. Virginia line on continental establishment, their heirs or assigns, 1823, to obtain entitled to bounty lands within the tract of country reserved by complete loca- the state of Virginia, between the Little Miami and Sciota rivers, warrants and tions, &c. Vol. ii. p. 1056. The provisions of the act of 3d of March, 1807, revived, &c. shall be allowed a further time of two years, from the fourth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, to obtain warrants and complete their locations; and the further time of four years, from the fourth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, to return their surveys and warrants, or certified copies of warrants, to the general land office, to obtain patents. 2. That the provisions of the act, entitled "An act authorizing patents to issue for lands located and surveyed by virtue of certain Virginia resolution warrants," passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, shall be revived and in force, with all its restrictions, except that the respective times allowed for making locations, and returning surveys thereon, shall be limited to the terms prescribed by the first section of this act, for the location and return of surveys on other warrants, and that the surveys shall be returned to the general land |