eighteen, twenty-one thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty-seven cents. For cannon and shot, to fulfil existing contracts, and for the purchase of flints, and timber for travelling carriages, fifty-three thousand dollars. For the national armories, in addition to the sum of fifty-six thousand dollars, already appropriated, three hundred and nineteen thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance department, one hundred thousand dollars. For the completion of arsenals, to wit: for completing the arsenal at Augusta, in Georgia, twenty-seven thousand dollars. For completing the arsenal at Baton Rouge, twenty-five thousand dollars; and at Watertown, near Boston, eight thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For balances due to certain states, in addition to an unexpended balance of one hundred and fifty-three thousand one hundred and seventytwo dollars, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For arrearages, in addition to fifty thousand dollars already appropriated, one hundred thousand dollars. For the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, in addition to an unexpended balance of eighty-four thousand nine hundred and eighty-two dollars twenty-nine cents, three hundred and forty-one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and seventy one cents. For the annual allowance to the revolutionary pensioners, under the act of the eighteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, two millions seven hundred and sixty-six thousand four hundred and forty dollars. For the half-pay pensions of widows and orphans, one hundred thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the Indian Department during the sent year, two hundred thousand dollars. pre For surveying and marking boundary lines of Indian cessions, fifteen thousand dollars. For making a survey of the water-courses tributary to, and west of, the Mississippi, also those tributary to the same river and north-west of the Ohio, four thousand five hundred dollars. For making a survey, maps, and charts, of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, from the rapids of the Ohio at Louisville, to the Balize, for the purpose of facilitating and ascertaining the most practicable mode of improving the navigation of those rivers, five thousand dollars. Cannon and shot, &c. National ar mories. Ordnance department. Completion of arsenals. Balances due certain states. Arrearages. Invalid pen sioners. Revolutionary pensioners, Widows and orphans. Indian de partment. Indian boun dary lines. Survey of water-courses. Survey, maps, and charts of the Ohio and Mississippi. Public road Creek nation. For completing the public road through the Creek nation, between the states of Georgia and Alabama, three thousand three hundred dollars. through the SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations hereinbefore made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not in the treasury. otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, April 14, 1820. STATUTE I. CHAP. XLVI.—An Act to continue in force the act passed on the twentieth day of April 18, 1820. April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled" An act supplementary to an act, entitled An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,' passed the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine," and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the act passed on the twentieth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act supplementary to an act, entitled 'An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, passed the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine," Act of 20th April, 1818,con tinued in force until 4th March, 1823. STATUTE I. April 11, 1820. [Obsolete.] Sums appropriated for The centre building of the Capitol. Painting. Graduating ground round Repairs, &c. in the President's house. Alterations and improvements in the Senate chamber. CHAP. XLI.—An Act making further appropriations for continuing the work For continuing the work of the centre building of the Capitol, one hundred and eleven thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars. For painting the inside of the north and south wings of the Capitol, and providing for the expense of making such alterations therein as have been directed during the present session of Congress, two thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars. For graduating the ground round the Capitol, and supplying the de- * ficiency in former appropriations for enclosing and improving the Capitol square, five thousand five hundred and ninety-one dollars. For making necessary repairs and alterations in the President's house, one thousand one hundred dollars. For making alterations and improvements in the Senate chamber, for the better accommodation of the Senate, two thousand four hundred dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said several sums be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, April 11, 1820. CHAP. XLV.-An Act making appropriations for the military service of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated: For the pay of the army of the United States, in addition to an unexpended balance of one hundred thousand dollars, one million thirty-six thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars. For subsistence, in addition to the sum of two hundred and twenty thousand dollars already appropriated, six hundred and two thousand and forty-eight dollars. For bounties and premiums for fifteen hundred recruits, twenty-one thousand dollars. For quarters, fuel, straw, and all other expenses for recruits, until organized to join regiments and corps, thirty-four thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. For clothing, three hundred thousand dollars. For the medical and hospital department, forty-two thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars. For the quartermaster's department, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the contingencies of the army, forty thousand dollars. For forage for officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of twenty thousand dollars, six thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars. For fortifications, eight hundred thousand dollars. For the military academy at West Point, for fuel, maps, plans, books, and apparatus, and contingent expenses, eighteen thousand three hundred and twenty-two dollars. For completing the buildings, two thousand five hundred dollars. For arrearages, prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, twenty-one thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty-seven cents. For cannon and shot, to fulfil existing contracts, and for the purchase of flints, and timber for travelling carriages, fifty-three thousand dollars. For the national armories, in addition to the sum of fifty-six thousand dollars, already appropriated, three hundred and nineteen thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance department, one hundred thousand dollars. For the completion of arsenals, to wit: for completing the arsenal at Augusta, in Georgia, twenty-seven thousand dollars. For completing the arsenal at Baton Rouge, twenty-five thousand dollars; and at Watertown, near Boston, eight thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For balances due to certain states, in addition to an unexpended balance of one hundred and fifty-three thousand one hundred and seventytwo dollars, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For arrearages, in addition to fifty thousand dollars already appropriated, one hundred thousand dollars. For the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, in addition to an unexpended balance of eighty-four thousand nine hundred and eighty-two dollars twenty-nine cents, three hundred and forty-one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and seventy one cents. For the annual allowance to the revolutionary pensioners, under the act of the eighteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, two millions seven hundred and sixty-six thousand four hundred and forty dollars. For the half-pay pensions of widows and orphans, one hundred thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the Indian Department during the present year, two hundred thousand dollars. For surveying and marking boundary lines of Indian cessions, fifteen thousand dollars. For making a survey of the water-courses tributary to, and west of, the Mississippi, also those tributary to the same river and north-west of the Ohio, four thousand five hundred dollars. For making a survey, maps, and charts, of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, from the rapids of the Ohio at Louisville, to the Balize, for the purpose of facilitating and ascertaining the most practicable mode of improving the navigation of those rivers, five thousand dollars. For completing the public road through the Creek nation, between the states of Georgia and Alabama, three thousand three hundred dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations hereinbefore made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, April 14, 1820. Cannon and shot, &c. National ar mories. Ordnance department. Completion of arsenals. Balances due certain states. Arrearages. Invalid pen sioners. Revolutionary pensioners, Widows and orphans. Indian department. Indian boun dary lines. Survey of water-courses. Survey, maps, and charts of the Ohio and Mississippi. Public road Creek nation. through the Out of money in the treasury. STATUTE I. CHAP. XLVI.—An Act to continue in force the act passed on the twentieth day of April 18, 1820. April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled" An act supplementary to an act, entitled 'An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,' passed the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine," and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the act passed on the twentieth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act supplementary to an act, entitled 'An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, passed the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine," Act of 20th April, 1818,con tinued in force until 4th March, 1823. Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22. Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 79. Twenty days from date of clearance for try, &c. in shall continue in force for two years from the twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and, from that time, until the end of the next session of Congress, thereafter, and no longer. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in all cases of entry of merchandise for the benefit of drawback, the time of twenty days shall be completing en allowed, from the date of the clearance of the ship or vessel in which the same shall be laden, for completing the entry, and taking the oath required by law: Provided, That the exporter shall, in every other particular, comply with the regulations and formalities heretofore established for entries of exportation for the benefit of drawback. cases of draw back. Proviso. STATUTE I. April 21, 1820. Laws of the United States extended to Alabama. Alabama a district. A district court of one judge. Four stated sessions annual ly, at Mobile and Cahawba. APPROVED, April 18, 1820. CHAP. XLVII.-An Act to establish a district court in the state of Alabama.(a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all the laws of the United States, which are not locally inapplicable, shall be extended to the state of Alabama, and shall have the same force and effect within the same as elsewhere within the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said state shall be one district, and be called the Alabama district; and a district court shall be held therein, to consist of one judge, who shall reside in the said district, and be called the district judge. He shall hold, alternately, at the towns of Mobile and Cahawba, beginning at the first, four stated sessions annually; the first to commence on the first Monday in April next, and the three other sessions, progressively, on the first Monday of every third calendar Powers of the month thereafter. He shall, in all things, have and exercise the same Judge. jurisdiction and powers which were by law given to the judge of the Kentucky district, under an act entitled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States," and an act entitled "An act in addition to the act, entitled An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States,"" approved second March, one thousand seven hundred and ninetythree. He shall appoint clerks for the said district, who shall reside, and keep the records of the court, at the places of holding the same, and shall receive, for the services performed by them, the same fees to which the clerk of the Kentucky district is entitled for similar services. Act of 1789, ch. 20. 1793, ch. 22. Clerks of the court. Causes, &c. in the territorial general court transferred to the district court. Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 59. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all causes, actions, indictments, libels, pleas, processes, and proceedings, whatsoever, returnable, commenced, depending, or in any manner existing, in the general court established by an act, entitled "An act to establish a separate territorial government for the eastern part of the Mississippi territory," by virtue of the federal jurisdiction by that act granted, be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the said district court, and may be proceeded in, shall exist, and have like incidents and effects, as if they had been originated and been proceeded in, in the said district court. (a) The acts which have been passed relating to the district court of Alabama are: An act to establish a district court in the state of Alabama, April 21, 1820, ch. 47. An act to alter the terms of the district court of Alabama, Nov. 27, 1820, ch. 1. An act for the better organization of the district courts of the United States in the state of Alabama, March 10, 1824, ch. 28. An act fixing the times and places of holding the district courts of the United States in the district of Alabama, May 22, 1826, ch. 149. An act to alter the times of holding the district courts of the United States for the districts of Maine, Illinois, and Alabama, Jan. 27, 1831, ch. 10. An act to alter the time of holding the district courts of the United States for the southern district of Alabama, March 2, 1827, ch. 41. An act respecting the jurisdiction of certain district courts, Feb. 19, 1831, ch. 28. An act supplementary to an act, entitled “An act to amend the judicial system of the United States, March 3, 1837, ch. 34, sec. 3, 4. An act to re-organize the district courts of the United States in the state of Alabama, Feb. 6, 1839, ch. 20. Acts of 1822, ch. 23; 1832, ch. 58; 1842, ch. 123; 1848, ch. 143; 1852, ch. 25. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the dockets, books, records, and papers, belonging to the said general court, arising out of, and appertaining to, its federal jurisdiction, shall be transferred to, and become the dockets, books, records, and papers, of the said district court. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the judge of the said district court, the annual compensation of fifteen hundred dollars, to commence from the date of his appointment; to be paid quarter yearly at the treasury of the United States. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed, in the said district, a person learned in the law, to act as attorney for the United States; who shall, in addition to his stated fees, be paid by the United States two hundred dollars annually, as a full compensation for all extra services. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That a marshal shall be appointed for the said district, who shall perform the same duties, be subject to the same regulations and penalties, and be entitled to the same fees, as are prescribed to marshals in other districts; and shall, moreover, be entitled to the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars annually, as a compensation for all extra services. APPROVED, April 21, 1820. CHAP. XLVIII.-An Act relative to the Arkansas territory. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the act of Congress passed on the fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, providing for the government of the territory of Missouri, as modified by the act of Congress passed on the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, entitled an act to alter certain parts of the act aforesaid, shall be considered as applicable to the government of the territory of Arkansas, and shall have reference to the proceedings of the said territory, in the organization of the second grade of the territorial government assumed, by said territory, under an act of Congress of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, establishing the territory of Arkansas; and all and every step taken under the last-mentioned act, shall be considered valid, if not inconsistent with the three before-recited acts taken together. APPROVED, April 21, 1820. CHAP. L.-An Act to authorize the Secretary of State to cause the laws of the SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That fifteen sets of the laws of the (a) See notes to act of March 2, 1819, ch. 49. |