STATUTE III. Feb. 4, 1843. Secretary of War to cause them to be paid. Appropriation. STATUTE III. Feb. 14, 1843. Invalid pensions. Revolutionary pensions. 1818, ch, 19. Pensions to widows and orphans. 1836, ch. 362. Five years' pensions to widows. 1838, ch. 189. when such first-mentioned act shall expire shall be determined, for the purpose of finally disposing of such cases, and for no other purpose. APPROVED, January 28, 1843. CHAP. XXVI.—An Act for the payment of seven companies of Georgia militia, for services rendered in the years eighteen hundred and forty and eighteen hundred and forty-one. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War cause to be paid the companies of Captains Johnson, Henderson, Knight, Jones, and North, for services rendered in the year eighteen hundred and forty, according to the muster-rolls of said companies, now on file in the War Department, made out and verified by Captain J. Brown, of the United States army; and that he cause to be paid, also, the companies of Captains Jernigan and Sweat, for services rendered in the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, according to the muster-rolls of said companies, now on file in the War Department, as verified by Assistant Adjutant General W. W. S. Bliss, of the United States army; and that the laws and regulations applicable to the payment of the volunteers and militia of the United States govern in the payment of these companies; and that the sum of nineteen thousand three hundred and ninety-nine dollars and eighty-seven cents be, and hereby is, appropriated for the purpose of making said payments, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, February 4, 1843. CHAP. XXVII.-An Act making appropriations for pensions for the half calen dar year beginning the first day of January and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three; and for the fiscal year be ginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fortyfour. (a) 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, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the half calendar year beginning on the first day of January and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three; and for the fiscal year beginning on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four: For invalid pensions for the said half calendar year, eighty-six thousand two hundred and forty dollars; and for the said fiscal year, one hundred and fifty-eight thousand four hundred dollars. For revolutionary pensions under the act of the eighteenth March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, for the said half calendar year, seventeen thousand six hundred dollars; and for the said fiscal year, one hundred and ninety-two thousand dollars. For pensions to widows and orphans, under the act of fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, for the said half calendar year, four thousand five hundred dollars; and for the said fiscal year, two hundred and twenty-two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For five years' pensions to widows, under the act of seventh of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, for the said half calendar year, ten thousand dollars; and for the said fiscal year, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. (a) An act to define and establish the fiscal year of the treasury of the United States, Aug. 26, 1842, chap. 207. For arrearages prior to July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, Arrearages payable through the Third Auditor, for the said half calendar year, and half-pay pensions. one thousand dollars; and for the said fiscal year, two thousand dollars. For arrearages and half pay pensions, through the Second Auditor, for the said fiscal year, five hundred dollars. For half pay pensions, payable through the Third Auditor, for the said fiscal year, three thousand dollars. APPROVED, February 14, 1843. STATUTE III. Feb. 15, 1843. Vol. 2, 255. CHAP. XXX.-An Act to amend the charter of the town of Alexandria. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Mayor of the town of Alexandria shall hereafter be annually elected, by ballot, by Mayor. the citizens qualified to vote for members of the Common Council of the said town; and that the votes for Mayor shall be taken by the Commissioners appointed to superintend the election for members of the Common Council in the several wards of the said town, under the same laws and regulations as now govern the election of members of the Common Council, and at the same time and places appointed therefor, excepting so far as may by this act be otherwise hereinafter directed; and the Commissioners for all the wards, or a majority of the Commissioners for each ward, shall meet on the day after the said election at the Council Chamber in the town of Alexandria, or at such other fit and convenient place as the Common Council may, from time to time, direct, and then and there add and compare the votes given for Mayor in their respective wards, and the individual having the highest number of votes for the office of Mayor, shall be declared by the Commissioners so assembled to be duly elected; and they shall make out a certificate thereof, and cause the same to be delivered to the person elected, and a duplicate thereof to the Clerk of the Common Council; and if two or more persons voted for as Mayor shall have an equal and the highest number of votes, the Commissioners shall certify that fact, with the names of such persons, to the President or Chairman of the Common Council, whereupon the Common Council shall proceed to elect the Mayor from among those who received the equal and highest number of votes, in the manner now provided by law. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners, before they shall receive any vote for Mayor, shall, in addition to the oath or affirmation now required of them by law, severally take an oath or affirmation, truly and faithfully to receive and count the votes of such persons as are by law entitled to vote for Mayor of Alexandria in ward No. and not knowingly to receive the vote of any person for Mayor who is not legally entitled to the same, which oath shall be administered by the Mayor, or any justice of the peace for the county of Alexandria. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That on the refusal of any person elected to the office of Mayor of Alexandria, in the mode prescribed in the foregoing sections, to accept the same, or on the death, resignation, inability, or removal of any person filling such office of Mayor of Alexandria, the Common Council of said town shall proceed to elect another person to fill said office for the remainder of the year. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the first election under this act shall be held at the time when the members of the Common Council of Alexandria are elected next after this act goes into effect: Provided, however, That nothing in the foregoing sections contained, shall in any wise alter, change, or affect the powers, duties, qualifications, or term of service of the Mayor of said town of Alexandria, as now provided by law, except so far as the same may be in conflict with this enactment. APPROVED, February 15, 1843. Commissioners of election tional oath. to take an addi In case of va cancy, the Common Coun cil to make the election. Time of the first election. Proviso. limiting the effect of this act. STATUTE III. Feb. 15, 1843. [Obsolete.] Franking privilege granted. 3, 1845, ch. 43, Act of March вес. 6. CHAP. XXXI. — An Act to authorize the chief clerk in the office of the Secretary of State to frank public and official documents sent from that office. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the right and privilege of franking all public and official documents, that may be sent from the office of the Secretary of State, be, and hereby is, granted to the chief clerk in that office. APPROVED, February 15, 1843. STATUTE III. Feb. 15, 1843. CHAP. XXXII. Circuit court to be held at Portland on 1st October. Proviso. District court on fourth Tues STATUTE III. Feb. 15, 1843. Authority to provide for the sale of school lands, &c. An Act to change the place of holding the circuit and district courts in the district of Maine. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the term of the circuit court of the United States, for the district of Maine, heretofore held at Wiscasset, in and for said district, on the first day of October, shall hereafter be held at Portland, in said district, on the first day of October, and that all writs, pleas, and recognizances and indictments, and all other proceedings, both civil and criminal, pending in said court, shall be returnable to and have day and be heard, tried, and proceeded in at Portland, in the same manner as they might have been done at Wiscasset, had the place of holding said court not been changed: Provided, however, if the first day of October happen on Sunday, then the court shall be held on the second day of said month. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the term of the district court of the United States for the district of Maine, heretofore held at Wiscasset, on the fourth Tuesday of February, shall hereafter be held at Portland on the first Tuesday of February, and that the term of said court heretofore held at Portland on the first Tuesday of June, shall hereafter be held at Bangor in said district, on the fourth Tuesday of June. APPROVED, February 15, 1843. CHAP. XXXIII.-An Act to authorize the Legislatures of the States of Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee, to sell the lands heretofore appropriated for the use of schools in those States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Legislatures of Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee, be, and they are hereby, authorized to provide by law for the sale and conveyance in fee simple, of all or any part of the lands heretofore reserved and appropriated by Congress for the use of schools within said States, and to invest the money arising from the sales thereof in some productive fund, the proceeds of which shall be forever applied, under the direction of said Legislatures, to the use and support of schools within the several townships and districts of country for which they were originally reserved and set apart, and for no other use or purpose whatever: Provided, Said land, or any part thereof, shall in no wise be sold without the consent of the inhabitants of such township or district, to be obtained in such manner as the Legislatures of said States shall by law direct; and in Apportionment the apportionment of the proceeds of said fund, each township and disof the proceeds. trict shall be entitled to such part thereof, and no more, as shall have accrued from the sum or sums of money arising from the sale of the school lands belonging to such township or district. Proviso. (a) District Court of Maine, vol. 3, 413. Notes of the acts relating to the circuit court of the district of Maine, vol. 3, 773. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That the Legislatures of sud States be, and they are hereby, authorized to make such laws and needful regulations as may be deemed expedient to secure and protect from injury or waste, the sections reserved by the laws of Congress, for the use of schools, to each township, and to provide by law, if not deemed expedient to sell, for leasing the same for any term not exceeding four years, in such manner as to render them productive, and most couducive to the object for which they were designed. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That if the proceeds accruing to any township or district from said fund, shall be insufficient for the support of schools therein, it shall be lawful for said Legislatures to invest the same in the most secure and productive manner, until the whole proceeds of the fund belonging to such township or district shall be adequate to the permanent maintenance and support of schools within the same: Provided, That the Legislatures aforesaid shall, in no case, invest the proceeds of the sale of the lands in any township in manner aforesaid, without the consent of the inhabitants of said township or district, to be obtained as aforesaid. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That any sales of such lands, reserved as aforesaid, as have been made in pursuance of any of the laws enacted by the Legislatures of said States, and not inconsistent with the principles of this act, are hereby ratified and confirmed so far as the assent of the United States to the same may be necessary to the confirmation thereof. APPROVED, February 15, 1843. CHAP. XXXIV.—An Act for the relief of the owners of the fund received from the British Government as an indemnity for slaves lost from on board the Comet and Encomium at Nassau, Bahamas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of seven thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents, a balance of the indemnities received from the British Government for loss of slaves from on board the Comet and the Encomium, at Nassau, paid into the treasury by the late John Forsyth, be paid, on the order of the Secretary of State, to the persons or companies entitled thereto, or to their representatives; and that, for that purpose, the aforesaid sum be, and it is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, February 18, 1843. Anchority to make laws fr protection of sad lands, &c. In case of inproceeds to sufficiency of support schools, authority to in vest them until adequate. Proviso. Such sales as have been made with the principles of this act, confirmed. not inconsistent STATUTE III. Feb. 18, 1843. [Obsolete.] Balance of indemnities to be paid to persons or companies entitled thereto. STATUTE III. CHAP. XLIV.—An Act altering the times of holding the circuit court of the United Feb. 24, 1843. States for the district of Connecticut. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the circuit court of the United States for the district of Connecticut, shall hereafter be held on the fourth Tuesday in April, and on the third Tuesday in September in each year, instead of the last Wednesday in April, and the seventeenth day of September, the times heretofore established by law. And all indictments, informations, recognisances, writs, suits, pleas, actions, motions, and all other proceedings, civil and criminal, shall be heard, tried, proceeded with, and determined by the said court, in the same manner as they might and ought to have been done, had the said court been holden at the times heretofore directed by law. APPROVED, February 24, 1843. Changed to fourth Tuesday in April, and third Tuesday in September. All proceedings to go on as heretofore. STATUTE III. Feb. 24, 1843. Act of 17th March, 1800, ch. 15, so far as relates to Maryland, revived and continued to 1st June, 1850. Proviso. STATUTE III. Feb. 27, 1843. Act of March 13, 1835, ch. 14. er and refiner transferred from the assayer to the coiner in the Dahlonega and branch mints at CHAP. XLV.-An Act to continue in force an act therein mentioned, relating to the port of Baltimore. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act passed the seventeenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred, entitled "An act declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the States of Maryland and Georgia," and which by subsequent acts has been revived and continued in force until the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, be, and the same, so far as it relates to the act of the State of Maryland, is hereby revived and continued in force until the first day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall authorize the demand of a duty on tonnage on vessels propelled by steam employed in the transportation of passengers. APPROVED, February 24, 1843. CHAP. XLVI.-An Act amendatory of an act establishing the branch mint at Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Duties of melt- United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act passed the thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyseven, to amend an act entitled "An act to establish branches of the mint of the United States," passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, be, and it is hereby, altered and amended so as to transfer the duties of melter and refiner from the assayer to the coiner at the branches of Dahlonega in Georgia, and of Charlotte in North Carolina, respectively, and that all laws and parts of laws conflicting with this act be, and they are hereby, repealed. APPROVED, February 27, 1843. Charlotte. STATUTE III. Feb. 27, 1843. tion for Ocracoke hospital CHAP. XLVII.-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act making an appropria tion for the erection of a marine hospital at or near Ocracoke, North Carolina.” Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United The appropria- States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of ten thousand dollars, appropriated by an act entitled "An act making an appropriation for the erection of a marine hospital at or near Ocracoke, North Carolina," shall not revert to the surplus fund at the expiration of two years from and after the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and forty-four, anything in the act of March third, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, to the contrary notwithstanding. not to revert to the surplus fund. 1842, ch. 265. APPROVED, February 27, 1843. STATUTE III. March 1, 1843. CHAP. XLIX. Act of 16th July, 1798, ch. 77, extended to the coasting trade. Act of July 20, 1840, ch. 48. Act of Feb. 12, 1842, ch. 3. Measures to be taken to col lect hospital money. ·An Act amendatory of "An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions and penalties of the act of the sixteenth of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, entitled "An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen," be, and the same hereby are, extended to the masters, owners and seamen of registered vessels employed in carrying on the coasting trade; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to issue such instructions to the collectors of the various ports as shall secure the collection of hospital money from said seamen, masters and owners. APPROVED, March 1, 1843. |