19. That the salary of the collector of the district of Cape Salary of colVincent shall commence from the time of his appointment. lector of Cape Vincent, &c. 20. That this act shall be in force from and after the thirti- This act in eth day of June next. [Approved, May 7, 1822.] CHAP. 112. An act authorizing the payment of certain certificates. force from Vol. i. p. 400. 1795; 12th 1798; 1. Be it enacted, &c. That so much of an act, entitled "An 2331. act making further provision for the support of public credit and the act of 3d for the redemption of the public debt," passed the third day of of March, March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and so much of the act, entitled "An act respecting loan office and final set- And of act of tlement certificates, indents of interest, and the unfunded and 1799 June, registered debt, credited on the books of the treasury," passed Vol. i. p. 507. the twelfth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, as bars from settlement or allowance certificates, com- As bars loan monly called loan office and final settlement certificates, and in- settlement dents of interest, be, and the same is hereby, suspended for the certificates, term of two years from and after the passing of this act, and from ed for two thence until the end of the next session of congress; a notifica- years, &c. tion of which temporary suspension of the act of limitation shall suspension to be published by the secretary of the treasury, for the information be published. of the holders of the said certificates, in one or more of the public papers in each of the United States. office and final &c. suspend. Notification of loan office presented at § 2. That all certificates, commonly called loan office certifi- Outstanding cates, countersigned by the loan officers of the states, respec- certificates, tively, final settlement certificates, and indents of interest, which, &c. may be at the time of passing this act, shall be outstanding, may be presented at the treasury; and, upon the same being liquidated and adjusted, shall be paid to the respective holders of the same, with interest at six per cent. per annum, from the date of the last payment of interest, as endorsed on said certificates. 3. That, for carrying this act into effect, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated. [Approved, May 7, 1822.] CHAP. 118. An act requiring surveyors general to give bond and security for the faithful disbursement of public money, and to limit their term of office. the treasury; and, being liquidated, &c. be paid to to the holders, with interest, &c. give bond, sum of 30,000 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the passing of this Every surveyact, every surveyor general, commissioned by the authority of or general to the United States, shall, before entering on the duties of his of- with security, fice, and every surveyor general now in commission, shall, on or in the penal before the thirtieth day of September next, execute and deliver, dolls. for the to the secretary of the treasury of the United States, a bond, faithful diswith good and sufficient security, for the penal sum of thirty public money, thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful disbursement, ac- and performcording to law, of all public money placed in his hands for dis- ficial duties. bursement, and for the faithful performance of the duties of his office. ance of his of The commis veyors gene 2. That the commission of every surveyor general now in sions of suroffice, shall, unless sooner vacated, by death, resignation, or re- ral now in ofmoval from office, cease and expire on the first day of February fice, to cease on the 1st Feb. 1823. Commissions next; and the commission of every surveyor general, hereafter of surveyors commissioned by the authority of the United States, shall cease general hereafter appoint- and expire, unless sooner vacated by death, resignation, or reed, to expire, moval from office, in four years from the date of the commission. The president 3. That the president of the United States shall, and he is may require hereby authorized, whenever he may deem it expedient, require general to give any surveyor general of the United States to give new bond and new bond and additional security, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury, for the faithful disbursement, according to law, of all money placed in his hands for disbursement. [Approved, May 7, 1822.] any surveyor additional security, &c. As soon as the jurisdiction has been ced ed, &c. the secretary of the treasury to provide for building light houses on the islands and places mentioned, and to of superintendents. CHAP. 119. An act to authorize the building of lighthouses therein mentioned, and for other purposes. $1. Be it enacted, &c. That, as soon as the jurisdiction of such portions of land at Monhegan Island, on the coast of Maine; at Billingsgate Island, in Barnstable Bay; at Cutter Hunk Island, near New Bedford, in the state of Massachusetts; at Stonington Point, in the state of Connecticut; at Old Field Point, Long Island, in the state of New York; at Cape May, in the state of New Jersey; at or near the port of Ocracoke, in the state of North Carolina; at Cape Florida, and on the Dry Tortugas, or agree for sala- on some place in the vicinity, as the president of the United ries or wages States shall select for the sites of lighthouses; shall be ceded to, and the property thereof respectively vested in, the United States, it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to provide, by contracts, which shall be approved by the president, for building lighthouses respectively on such sites, to be so lighted as to be distinguished from other lighthouses near the same; and also to agree for the salaries, wages, or hire, of the persons to be appointed by the president for the superintendence of the same. The secretary 2. That the secretary of the treasury be, and he hereby is, of the treasury authorized, if he shall deem it expedient, to cause to be removed floating light the floating light placed at or near the said port of Ocracoke, at the port of and to have the safe placed at the Narrows in the Potomak may cause the Ocracoke to be removed, river. &c. The secretary to provide, by contract, for procuring buoys at the places mentioned. 3. That the secretary of the treasury be, and he hereby is, of the treasury authorized to provide, by contract, for procuring and placing buoys at the following places, to wit: one at Harbor Island Bar, one on Pine Point Shoal, one on the Point of Marsh Shoals, one on Swan Island Shoal, one on the east end of Brant Island Shoal, one on the Middle Ground Shoal, one on the Bluff Shoal, and ⚫ one on the Long Shoal, all being situated on the coast of North Carolina; and also for three buays for the bar of the port of Georgetown, South Carolina. Appropriations for carrying this act into effect. 4. That the following sums be appropriated for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into effect, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; to wit: For building the lighthouse at Monhegan Island, three thousand dollars; at Billingsgate Island, on Barnstable Bay, two thousand dollars; at Cutter Hunk Island, near New Bedford, and for placing buoys near thereto, three thousand dollars; at Old Field Point, Long Island, two thousand five hundred dol lars; for placing a lamp on the mess-house at Fort Niagara, one thousand dollars; for finishing the pier near the port of Kennebunk, in the state of Maine, the further sum of four thousand dollars; for completing the lighthouse on Throgsneck, the additional sum of five hundred dollars; for building a light vessel, and placing the same on or near the outer bar of the harbor of New York, fifteen thousand dollars; for placing three buoys on the bar near the port of Georgetown, South Carolina, three hundred dollars; for rebuilding and completing the lighthouse on Frank's Island, in the state of Louisiana, nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; for building the lighthouse at Stonington Point, three thousand five hundred dollars; for building the lighthouse at Cape May, the sum of five thousand dollars; for building the lighthouse at or near Ocracoke, the sum of twenty thousand dollars; for building the lighthouse at Cape Florida, eight thousand dollars; and for building the lighthouse on the Dry Tortugas, or on some place in the vicinity, eight thousand dollars; and for procuring and placing the buoys on the coast of North Carolina, and for removing the floating light at or near the port of Ocracoke, the sum of one thousand three hundred dollars. of the treasu &c. for build Isles of Shoals, 5. That the secretary of the treasury be, and he hereby is, The secretary authorized to provide, by contract, to be approved by the presi- ry to provide, dent of the United States, for building a sea wall or pier at the by contract, Isles of Shoals, between Cedar Island and Smutty-Nose Island, ing a sea wall, on the coast of New Hampshire and Maine, conformably to the &c. at the report of the commissioners appointed under the fourth section &c. of the act passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, entitled "An act to authorize the building of lighthouses therein mentioned, and for other purposes," and that a sum, not exceeding eleven thousand five hundred dollars, is hereby appropriated for the purpose aforesaid, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. The secretary of the treasu be erected, by 6. That the secretary of the treasury be authorized and required to cause to be erected in the Bay of Delaware, at or near ry to cause a place called the Shears, near Cape Henlopen, by contract or two piers to contracts, to be approved by the president of the United States, contract, at a two piers of sufficient dimensions to be a harbor or shelter for place called the Shears, if, vessels from the ice, if, after a survey made under his direction, &c. the measure shall be deemed expedient; and provided that the The jurisdic jurisdiction of the site where such piers may be erected, shall be to be first cedfirst ceded to the United States, according to the conditions in ed. Appropriation such case by law provided; and that, for the purpose of carrying for erection of the same into effect, there be appropriated the sum of twenty- the piers. two thousand seven hundred dollars, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. tion of the site thorized on $7. That the light authorized to be built on Cross Island, in The light authe state of Maine, be, and the same is hereby, directed to be Cross Island built on the south point of Libby Island; and for building and to be built on Libby Island. completing the same, the sum of five hundred dollars, in addition Appropriation. to the former appropriation, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. § 8. That the following sums of money be, and the same are Appropriations for pur chasing and hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not othpatent lamp of erwise appropriated, for the following purposes, to wit: Four placing the D. Melville and others. thousand dollars to enable the secretary of the treasury to purchase the patent right of David Melville and others, to a newly invented lamp for lighting lighthouses; and a sum not exceeding four thousand two hundred and forty dollars, for placing the same in lighthouses. Appropriation 9. That for making and completing a survey of the coast of for completing Florida, under the direction of the president of the United the coast of States, a sum of money, not exceeding six thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for carrying the same into effect. [Approved, May 7, 1822.] the survey of Florida. Claims to lots in Mobile, founded on complete grants from the French, British, or Spanish, authorities, reported, &c. recognised as valid. CHAP. 122. An act confirming claims to lots in the town of Mobile, and to land in the former province of West Florida, which claims have been reported favorably on by the commissioners appointed by the United States. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That all the claims to lots in the town of Mobile, founded on complete grants derived from either the French, British, or Spanish, authorities, reported to the secretary of the treasury by the commissioner for the district east of Pearl river, appointed under the authority of "An act for ascertaining the titles and claims to land in that part of Louisiana which lies east of the island of New Orleans," or which were so reported by the register and receiver, acting as commissioners, Vol. ii. p.1235. under the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred Vol. iii. p. 1748. All claims to lots in Mobile, contained in and nineteen, entitled "An act for adjusting claims to land, and establishing land offices, in the districts east of the island of New Orleans," which are contained in the reports of the commissioner, or of the register and receiver acting as commissioners, and which are, in their opinion, valid, agreeably to the laws, usages, and customs, of the said governments, be, and the same are hereby, recognised as valid. 2. That all the claims to lots in the town aforesaid, reported as aforesaid, and contained in the reports of the commissionthe reports of er, or of the register and receiver acting as commissioners, foundthe commissioner, &c. ed on orders of survey, requettes, permissions to settle, or other bearing date written evidences of claims, derived from either the French, Briprior to 20th Dec. 1803, &c. tish, or Spanish, authorities, and bearing date prior to the twenconfirmed, &c. tieth of December, one thousand eight hundred and three, and which ought, in the opinion of the commissioner, to be confirmed, shall be confirmed in the same manner as if the title had been completed. All claims to lots in Mobile, the 3. That all the claims to lots in the town aforesaid, reportcontained in ed as aforesaid, and contained in the reports of the commissionthe reports of er, or of the register and receiver acting as commissioners, foundsioner, &c. ed on private conveyances which have passed through the office confirmed, &c. of the commandant, or other evidence, but founded, as the Proviso; where the quantity is claimants allege, on grants lost by time and accident, and which ought, in the opinion of the commissioner, to be confirmed, shall be confirmed in the same manner as if the titles were in existence: Provided, That, in all such claims where the quantity claimed is not ascertained, no one claim shall be confirmed for not ascertaina quantity exceeding seven thousand two hundred square feet. ed, &c. claims to lots tained in the as donations. § 4. That for all the other claims to lots in the town afore- For all other said, reported as aforesaid, which are contained in the report of in Mobile conthe register and receiver, and which, by the said report, appear report of the to have been built upon or improved and occupied, on or before register, &c. the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thir- grants to issue teen, the claimants shall be entitled to grants therefor as donations: Provided, That in all such claims, where the quantity where the Provisoe's; claimed is not ascertained, no one claim shall be confirmed for a quantity is not quantity exceeding seven thousand two hundred square feet: ascertained, no claim to be And provided also, That all the confirmations and grants provid- confirmed for ed to be made by this act, shall amount only to a relinquishment 7200 square for ever on the part of the United States, of all right and title feet, &c. whatever to the lots of land so confirmed or granted. more than Registers, &c. to have the same powers, &c. as are given by the act 5. That the registers and receivers of the land offices at St. Helena Courthouse and at Jackson Courthouse, respectively, shall have the same powers to direct the manner in which all lands confirmed by this act shall be located and surveyed, and supplementa. also to decide between the parties in all conflicting and interfer- ry, &c. ing claims, as are given by the act, entitled "An act supple- 1867. mentary to the several acts for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices, in the districts east of the island of New Orleans." [Approved, May 8, 1822.] CHAP. 124. An act to establish an additional land office in the state of Illinois. Vol. iii. p. public lands land district, 1. Be it enacted, &c. That so much of the public lands of Somuch of the the United States as lies east of the Mississippi river, north of within the the line separating the thirteenth and fourteenth tiers of town-bounds déscribed, in Hliships north of the base line, and west of the third principal me- nois, to form a ridian, in the state of Illinois, shall form a land district, for the & &. disposal of the said lands, and for which purpose a land office A land office, shall be established at such place therein as the president of the as the presi dent may deUnited States shall designate, until the same shall be perma- signate." nently fixed by law. receiver for at the place &c. 2. That there shall be a register and receiver appointed to A register and the said land office, to superintend the sales of the public lands the land office, in the said district, who shall reside at the place where the said &c. to reside office shall be established as aforesaid, give security in the same established, manner, in the same sums, and whose compensation, emolu- give security, ments, and duties, and authorities, shall, in every respect, be the same in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are, or may be by law, provided in relation to the registers and receivers of public moneys in the several offices established for the sale of the public lands: Provided, That the Proviso; the said appointments shall not be made until a sufficient quantity of not to be made public lands shall have been surveyed within the said district to until, &c. authorize, in the opinion of the president, a public sale of lands within the same. The provi3. That the provisions of the second, third, and fifth, scc- sions of the tions of the act, entitled "An act to designate the boundaries of 2d, 3d, and districts, and establish land offices, for the disposal of the public of the acts VOL. III. 214 5th, sections |