the seat of government in said territory, and continue not longer than six weeks; and the members of said council shall receive three dollars each per day, during their attendance in council, and three dollars for every twenty miles, to be estimated by the actual distance from the place of residence to the seat of government, and so distinctly certified by the governor of said territory, in going to, and returning from, any meeting of the legislative council, once in each session, and no more; and the first election shall be held on the first Monday of October next, and at such times thereafter, and under such regulations, as the governor and legislative council shall direct. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the members of the legislative council shall not be eligible to any office created during the period of their service, or the fees of which were regulated by laws passed whilst they were members, or for one year thereafter. SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the legislative council to pass any law imposing a higher tax on the lands of non-residents, than those of residents of said territory. SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That so much of the several acts of which this is an amendment, as may be inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed; and so much of any of the laws of said territory, as are repugnant to the same, are disapproved and annulled. SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That the several acts passed by the governor and legislative council, granting divorces; the four first sections of "An act to amend an act to define crimes," &c. approved December tenth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five; and "An act to prescribe the forms of actions," &c. approved December fifth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five; the act "in addition and amendment of an act to determine fees," &c. approved December ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five; and " An act to amend an act regulating judicial proceedings," &c. approved December eighth, eighteen hundred and twentyfive; and "An act to provide, in part, for raising a revenue," approved the ninth of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, be, and the same are hereby, disapproved and annulled. APPROVED, May 15, 1826. Members of the legislative be eligible to any office, &c. Taxes. council not to So much of of which this is the several acts an amendment, &c., repealed. Acts by the legislative council, &c., disapproved and annulled. CHAP. XLVII.-An Act for the sale of a house and lot in New Orleans, and a store house at the Quarantine ground in Louisiana. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell a house and lot, in Royal street, in the city of New Orleans, heretofore used for the district court of the United States, and a public store-house and lot of land at the Quarantine ground, in the state of Louisiana, whenever, in his opinion, the same shall be deemed expedient. APPROVED, May 15, 1826. CHAP. LVI.-An Act to alter the lines between the land districts in the territory of Michigan. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the boundaries of the southern land district, in the territory of Michigan, as established by the act passed the third of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, entitled "An act to establish an additional land office in the territory of Michigan," shall be so altered, as that, from the point where the STATUTE I. May 15, 1826. Secretary of the Treasury authorized to sell a house and lot, public prostreet in the city perty, in Royal of New Orleans. STATUTE I. May 16, 1826. Boundaries of the southern land district, in Michigan, established by the act of March 3, 1823, ch. 52, to be altered. present boundary line between the third and fourth townships south intersects the meridian line, the boundary of the said district shall run north with the meridian line until it shall intersect the base line, and thence with the said line west to Lake Michigan. APPROVED, May 16, 1826. STATUTE I. May 16, 1826. Time allowed tion of lands sold for nonpayment of taxes, under several acts extended. Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 37. Act of Jan. CHAP. LIX.—An Act to extend the time allowed for the redemption of land sold for direct taxes, in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United for the redemp- States of America, in Congress assembled, That the time allowed for the redemption of lands which have been, or may be, sold for the non-payment of taxes, under the several acts passed on the second of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen; the ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, for laying and collecting a direct tax within the United States, so far as the same have been purchased for, or on behalf of the United States, be revived and be extended for the further term of two years, from and after the expiration of the present session of Congress: Provided, also, That, on such redemption, interest shall be paid at the rate of twenty per centum on the taxes aforesaid, and on the additions of twenty per centum chargeable thereon; and the right of redemption shall enure, as well to the heirs and assignees of the land so purchased on behalf of the United States, as to the original owners thereof. 9, 1815, ch. 21. Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 24. Interest to be paid, &c. APPROVED, May 16, 1826. STATUTE I. May 16, 1826. Claims to lands recommended for con firmation in the report of the register of the land office at Opelousas, in Louisiana, of Oct. 1, 1825, confirmed. Confirmation to operate only as a relinquish ment of the claims of the United States. CHAP. LXII.—An Act to confirm certain claims to lands in the district of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the several claims to lands, recommended for confirmation in the report of the register of the land office at Opelousas, in the state of Louisiana, dated on the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, and which are designated in that report by letter A, and numbered one, two, three, four, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twentyfive, twenty-six, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty, forty-two, forty-three, forty-four, forty-five, forty-six, forty-seven, forty-eight, fifty-two, fifty-three, fifty-four, fifty-five, fiftysix, fifty-nine, sixty, sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three, sixty-five, sixtysix, sixty-nine, seventy, seventy-five, seventy-six, seventy-seven, seventyeight, seventy-nine, eighty, eighty-two, eighty-three, eighty-seven, and ninety, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed agreeably to the said report: Provided, That this confirmation shall operate only as a relinquishment of the claim of the United States to the lands hereby confirmed. APPROVED, May 16, 1826. STATUTE I. May 17, 1826. Act of April 29,1816, ch.138. The Presi dent to cause CHAP. LXIV.—An Act supplementary to "An act for the gradual increase of the navy of the United States." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to cause the building of one of the up ships authorized by the act for the gradual increase of the navy of the the building of one of the navy to be sus STATUTE I. CHAP. LXV.—An Act for the subscription of stock in the Dismal Swamp Canal May 18, 1826. Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to subscribe, in the name and for the use of the United States, for six hundred shares of the capital stock of the Dismal Swamp Canal, and to pay for the same, at such times, and in such proportions, as may be required by the existing rules and regulations of the said company. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall vote for the president and directors of said company, according to said number of shares, and shall receive, upon said stock, the proportions of tolls and emoluments which shall, from time to time, become due to the United States, on the shares of stock aforesaid. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not go into effect until the United States' board of engineers shall examine said canal, and make a report, in writing, to the Secretary of War, that, in their opinion, the plan on which the canal is to be executed, will answer, as far as circumstances will permit, as a part of the chain of canals contemplated along the Atlantic Coast, and that in their opinion, the sum hereby authorized to be subscribed for will be sufficient to finish the canal according to said plan: And it is further provided, That to carry this act into effect, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the money subscribed on behalf of the United States shall be actually expended in the completion of the canal, and not in the payment of any debt or debts now owing by the company; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, before the payment of any part of the money subscribed on behalf of the United States, to adopt such measures as shall insure the application of the same to the completion of the said canal, according to the plan proposed, and to no other purpose whatsoever. APPROVED, May 18, 1826. Secretary of the Treasury to subscribe, for 600 shares of the capital stock of the Dismal Swamp Canal. This act not to go into effect until the board of engineers shall examine said canal, and make a report, in writing, to the Secretary of War. 150,000 dol lars appropriated to carry this act into effect. The money subscribed on behalf of the United States to be actually expended wholly in the completion of the canal. CHAP. LXVI.—An Act to authorize the sale and conveyance of the house belonging to the United States at the Hague. STATUTE I. May 18, 1826. [Obsolete.] President to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President be, and cause to be he is hereby, authorized to cause to be sold and conveyed, the house and lot belonging to the United States at the Hague, which was conveyed to the United States, by virtue of a resolution of the continental ConVOL. IV.-22 P sold and conveyed, the house and lot belonging to the United States at the Hague. gress of the twenty-seventh of December, seventeen hundred and eightyAPPROVED, May 18, 1826. two. STATUTE I. May 18, 1826. [Obsolete.] Specific appropriations. For ten sloops of war. 1825, ch. 101. For pay of labourers and teams employ ed in loading and unloading vessels, &c. &c. For the inclined plane at the navy yard in Washington. 1823, ch. 32. For shiphouses. 1823, ch. 32. For contingent expenses of the naval service prior to 1824. 1823, ch. 32. For pay to superintend ents, naval constructors, &c. 1823, ch. 32. For the suppression of piracy. 1822, ch. 1. For rewarding captors of Algerine vessels as authorized by law. CHAP, LXVII.-An Act making further appropriation for ten sloops of war, For building ten sloops of war, as authorized by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For pay of labourers and teams, employed in loading and unloading vessels, piling, docking, and removing timbers and stores, in the service of the navy, being the balance of the appropriation of the act of the third March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, carried to the surplus fund, seventeen thousand six hundred ninety-three dollars and forty-five cents. For the inclined plane at the navy yard in Washington, being the balance of the appropriation, by the act of the third March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, carried to the surplus fund, ten thousand and seventeen dollars and forty-one cents. For ship houses, being the balance of an appropriation, by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, carried to the surplus fund, forty-four thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents. For contingent expenses of the naval service, prior to the year eighteen hundred and twenty-four, two thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty-one cents; fifty dollars whereof, being the balance of appropriation, by the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, and carried to the surplus fund. For pay to the superintendents, naval constructors, store keepers, inspectors of timber, clerks of the yards, and artificers in the naval service, being the balance of appropriation, by the act of the third March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, carried to the surplus fund, twentynine thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars and eighteen cents. For the suppression of piracy, being the balance of an appropriation, by the act of the twentieth December, eighteen hundred and twentytwo, carried to the surplus fund, three thousand seven hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty-seven cents. For rewarding captors of Algerine vessels, as authorized by law, being the balance of former appropriations, carried to the surplus fund, fourteen thousand seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and twentyeight cents. APPROVED, May 18, 1826. STATUTE I. May 18, 1826. CHAP. LXXIII.—An Act for authorizing the building of lighthouses and light vessels, erecting beacon lights, placing buoys, removing obstructions in the river Savannah, and for other purposes. The Secretary Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United of the Treasury States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the empowered to Treasury be, and he is hereby, empowered to provide by contract for building lighthouses and light vessels, and erecting beacons and beacon build lighthouses, &c. Maine. Massachu In the state of Massachusetts, a light vessel to be anchored at or near Tuckanuck shoal, in the Vineyard Sound; the tonnage of the setts. light vessel not to be under one hundred and twenty-five tons; a lighthouse on the end of Sandy Neck, at or near the mouth of Barnstable harbour. A lighthouse at or near the end of Long Point, Provincetown harbour. In the state of Connecticut, a lighthouse at or near the mouth of Norwalk harbour, to be located on the Rauton Neck, or on the west end of Norwalk, Long Island, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, after an examination of those sites shall have been made by suitable persons, to be by him appointed for that purpose. A beacon on the round shoals, at the mouth of Ousatonic river. In the state of New York, a lighthouse at or near Dunkirk, on Lake Erie. One at the east end of Lake Erie, on a proper site to be selected, at or near the mouth of Buffaloe creek. One on the west end of Plum island, in Long Island Sound; and one on Tibit's Point, in Lake Ontario. Connecticut. New York. New York In the states of New York and New Jersey, a lighthouse upon the bluff, near fort Tompkins, on Staten Island; one in Princess bay, on said and New Jerisland, and two on the Highland of Neversink. In Delaware bay, a lighthouse on the Brandywine Shoals. In the state of Maryland, a lighthouse on Cove point, instead of Cedar point, as heretofore ordered. A lighthouse on Smith's island, one on Concord point, at or near the mouth of the Susquehannah river; and a light vessel to be anchored at or near Hooper's straits, Chesapeake bay. In the state of Virginia, a lighthouse on Smith's island, near Cape Charles, on a proper site to be selected, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. sey. Delaware. Virginia. North Caro In the state of North Carolina, a light vessel, not to be under fifty, nor In the state of South Carolina, a lighthouse on Cape Romaine or its vicinity, or a light vessel to be anchored off the said cape, or its vicinity ; the preference to be given to the one or the other, which, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall best subserve the purposes of navigation, and afford security to the same. In the state of Georgia, a beacon on Grass island, at the entrance of Cockspur harbour. In the state of Mississippi, a lighthouse on the Mississippi river, at the town of Natchez. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit: In the state of Maine, four thousand dollars for a lighthouse on Mantinicus rock; and four thousand dollars for one on Pemaquid point. In the state of Massachusetts, two thousand five hundred dollars for a lighthouse at or near the end of Long Point, Provincetown harbour; eight thousand, for a light vessel to be anchored at or near Tuckanuck shoal, in the Vineyard Sound; and ninety dollars for Spar buoys, to be anchored, one on the Middle Ground shoal, near the entrance of Salem harbour, and one on the Ledge rocks, of Dorchester Flatts, in Boston harbour; three thousand five hundred dollars for a lighthouse on the end of Sandy Neck, at or near the mouth of Barnstable harbour; and two hundred South Carolina. Georgia. Mississippi. Sums appro priated. Maine. Massachu setts. |