STATUTE I. May 24, 1828. [Obsolete.] 1828, ch. 117. Sums appropriated. For contingencies for the same, three thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars. For contingencies additional for the same, one hundred and twentyfive dollars. For military stores for the same, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For medicines and hospital stores for the same, five hundred and ninetytwo dollars and twenty-five cents. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sums herein appropriated shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; but that no part of the same shall be drawn from the treasury before the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. APPROVED, May 24, 1828. CHAP. CXVIII.—An Act making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. 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 they are hereby, respectively appropriated, for the objects following, to wit: For the pensions to the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, two hundred thousand dollars. For half-pay pensions to widows and orphans, three thousand dollars. For the invalid and half-pay pensioners, seventy-five thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sums herein appropriated shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; but that no part of the same shall be drawn from the treasury before the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. APPROVED, May 24, 1828. CHAP. CXIX.-An Act to authorize the licensing of vessels to be employed in the mackerel fishery. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, from and after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the collector of the district to which any vessel may belong, on an application for that purpose by the master or owner thereof, to issue a license for carrying on the mackerel fishery, to such vessel, in the form prescribed by the act, entitled "An act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same," passed the eighteenth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three: Provided, That all the provisions of said act, respecting the licensing of ships or vessels for the coasting trade and fisheries, shall be deemed and taken to be applicable to licenses and to vessels licensed for carrying on the mackerel fishery. APPROVED, May 24, 1828. CHAP. CXX.-An Act in addition to "An act making an appropriation for the support of the navy of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight." 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 they are hereby, appropriated, viz: (a) See notes of the acts of Congress in relation to ships and vessels, and persons employed in the fisheries, vol. iii. 49-and notes of the decisions of the Courts of the United States on the acts relating to the fisheries, vol. iii. 49. For pay, subsistence, and provisions, thirty-five thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. For medicines and hospital stores, one thousand two hundred dollars. For repairs, and for wear and tear, ten thousand dollars. Pay, &c. Medicines. STATUTE I. CHAP. CXXI.—An Act for the better organization of the medical department of May 24, 1828. the navy of the United States. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, from and after the passing of this act, no person shall receive the appointment of assistant surgeon in the navy of the United States, unless he shall have been examined and approved by a board of naval surgeons, who shall be designated for that purpose, by the secretary of the navy department; and no person shall receive the appointment of surgeon in the navy of the United States until he shall have served as an assistant surgeon at least two years, on board a public vessel of the United States, at sea, and unless, also, he shall have been examined and approved by a board of surgeons constituted as aforesaid. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States may designate and appoint to every fleet or squadron an experienced and intelligent surgeon, then in the naval service of the United States, to be denominated "Surgeon of the Fleet," who shall be surgeon of the flag ship, and who, in addition to his duties as such, shall examine and approve all requisitions for medical and hospital stores for the fleet, and inspect their quality; and who shall, in difficult cases, consult with the surgeons of the several ships, and make records of the character and treatment of diseases, to be transmitted to the Navy Department; and who, in addition to the compensation allowed to surgeons at sea, shall be allowed double rations while acting as surgeon of the fleet as aforesaid. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That assistant surgeons who shall have been commissioned less than five years, shall each receive thirty dollars a month, and two rations a day; after five years' service, they shall be entitled to an examination by a board of naval surgeons, constituted as aforesaid, and having been approved and passed by such board, they shall each receive an addition of five dollars a month, and one ration a day; and, after ten years' service, a further addition of five dollars a month, and one ration a day. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That every surgeon who shall have received his appointment, as is hereinbefore provided for, shall receive fifty dollars a month, and two rations a day; after five years' service, he shall be entitled to receive fifty-five dollars a month and an additional ration a day; and after ten years' service, he shall receive sixty dollars a month and an additional ration a day; and after twenty years' service, he shall receive seventy dollars a month and the rations as last aforesaid. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That every assistant surgeon (after having faithfully served two years) shall, while in actual service at sea, in addition to the usual compensation allowed him by law, receive double (a) Acts relating to the medical department of the navy: An act to regulate the medical establishment, March 2, 1799, ch. 27. After the passing of this act, no person to receive the appointment of assistant sur geon, unless examined, &c. President of the United States may designate, &c. to every fleet or squadron an intelligent surgeon, then in the naval service of the An act further to regulate the medical department of the army, May 8, 1820, ch. 75. United States. Assistant sur geons who have sioned less than five years, to receive each month, and two rations per day, been commis 30 dollars a &c. Every surgeon who ccived his appointment as herein provided shall have re for, to receive 50 dollars per month and two rations a day, &c. Every assistant surgeon, &c. An act for the better organization of the medical department of the navy of the United States, May 24, 1828, ch. 121. the An act to amend an act entitled "An act for the better organization of the medical department of navy, approved May 24, 1828," Jan. 21, 1829, ch. 7. An act to re-organize the navy department of the United States, Aug. 31, 1842, ch. 286, sec. 3. 2 D VOL. IV.-40 to receive five dollars per month in addi tion to the usual compensation. STATUTE I. May 24, 1828. Governor, &c. to make such laws, &c. as they may deem expedient, to protect from injury, &c., section 16, re rations, and five dollars a month; and every surgeon in the navy, while in APPROVED, May 24, 1828. CHAP. CXXII.-An Act authorizing the legislative council of the territory of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United served in each support of schools, &c. APPROVED, May 24, 1828. STATUTE I. May 24, 1828. [Obsolete.] Sums appropriated for the military service for the 1st quarter of 1829. Pay of the army, &c. Forage. Clothing of officers' ser Recruiting Contingent vants. service. expenses. Subsistence department. Purchasing department. Medical department. Quarter master general's depart ment. Military aca demy. Contingencies of the army. National ar mories. CHAP. CXXIII.—An Act making appropriations for the military service of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United For pay of the army, and pay and subsistence of the officers, two hundred and sixty-four thousand and seventy-six dollars. For forage for officers, ten thousand and thirty-two dollars. For clothing of officers' servants, four thousand nine hundred and forty-two dollars. For the recruiting service, nine thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, four thousand dollars. For the subsistence department, fifty-four thousand two hundred dollars. For the purchasing department, forty-four thousand five hundred and ninety-four dollars and thirty-seven cents. For the medical department, six thousand dollars. For the quartermaster general's department, eighty-five thousand two For the military academy at West Point, three thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, sixteen thousand For armament of new fortifications, twenty-five thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sums herein appropri Ordnance de- ated shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; but that no part of the same shall be drawn from the treasury before the first January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. APPROVED, May 24, 1828. partment. New fortifications. CHAP. CXXIV. An Act making appropriations to enable the President of the United States to defray the expenses of delegations of the Choctaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Chickasaw, and other tribes of Indians, to explore the country west of the Mississippi. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to enable the President of the United States to employ suitable persons to conduct delegations of the Choctaw, Creeks, Cherokees, and Chickasaw, and such other tribes of Indians as may be disposed to send delegations west of the Mississippi for the purpose of exploring the unoccupied lands of the United States without the limits of the states and territories, preparatory to the final emigration of said Indians. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to defray the expenses of the delegations aforesaid, not exceeding the amount of the above appropriation; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, May 24, 1828. STATUTE I. May 24, 1828. [Obsolete.] Delegations of the Choctaw, Creek, &c., Indians west of the Mississippi, to explore the unoccupied lands of the United States. Amount of expenses not to exceed $15,000. STATUTE I. CHAP. CXXV.-An Act to establish sundry post-roads and to discontinue others. May 24, 1828. In Maine.-From Damariscotta Mills, by West Jefferson and Windsor, to Palermo. From Waterville, by Clinton, Albion and Freedom, to Belfast. From Rumford Point, by Dixfield, Canton, North Livermore, East Livermore, Wayne, and Winthrop, to Augusta; and that so much of the route from Readfield to Rumford Point, as interferes with this route, be discontinued. From Augusta, through South Vassalborough, South China, Palermo, North Palermo, Montville, North Searsmont, and Belmont, to Belfast. From Green to Farmington. From Standish, through East Baldwin, Sebago, Bridgetown and Denmark, to Fryeburg. From Parsonfield, through Porter, and the westerly part of Brownfield, to Fryeburg. From Augusta, through Belgrade, Rome, New Sharon, Industry, and New Vineyard, to New Portland. From New Sharon, through Industry, New Vineyard, and New Portland, to Kingfield. From the Great Falls, in the state of New Hampshire, to the Little Falls in Lebanon, Maine. In Maine. New Hamp In New Hampshire.-From Milford, through Dunstable, to Derry. Massachu In Massachusetts.-From Taunton to Providence, by Rehoboth village. From Newburyport, by Salisbury, Amesbury, Haverhill, Methuen, setts. and Dracut, to Lowell. From Canton, by Sharon and Foxborough meeting-houses, to East Attleborough. From Greenfield, through Shelburne, Buckland, and Hawley, to Savoy. From Ware, through Hardwick, Petersham, Athol, and Royalston, in Massachusetts, and Richmond, and Swanzey, in New Hampshire, to Keene. In Connecticut.-From Springfield, Massachusetts, by Somers, Connecticut, on the Burbank road, Tolland, Mansfield, Beardley's store, and Windham, to Norwich. From Sharon, through Salisbury, Great Hal Connecticut. Vermont. New York. New Jersey. low, the valley of Housatonic, and Fall's village, to North Canaan. From Lyme, through the village of Hamburg, Comstock's Ferry, East Haddam Landing, Leesville, Middle Haddam, Glastenbury, and East Hartford, to the city of Hartford. From Farmington, by Sunbury meeting-house, to Granby. From Robin's Inn, in Voluntown, by Griswold's meetinghouse, to Jewett city. From Windham, Old Courthouse, through Mansfield, and Wellington, to Stafford Springs. In Vermont.-From Bellow's Falls, through Saxon's River village and Athens, to Townshend. From Arlington, through Sandgate, to Salem, New York. From Chelsea, through Vershire, by Portsmills, to Thetford meeting-house. From Guildhall, through Burke, Sutton, Barton, and Irasburg, by the Episcopal Church, in Berkshire, to St. Alban's. From Richford, by Berkshire, Franklin, and Powell's Falls, in Highgate, to the village of St. Albans. From Bakersfield, through Fairfield, to St. Albans. From Hardwick, through Greensborough, Barton, and Brownington, to Derby. In New York. From the village of Skeneateles, via Sempronius, Lock, and the village of Groton, to Ithaca. From Hillsdale Post-office, down the valley of the Taghkanic, by the Copake and Ancram Postoffices, to the post-road from Poughkeepsie, to Salisbury. From the village of New Ark, by the most direct route, to the village of Eastridge. From Verona, via Cicero, to Cato Four Corners. From Lima, via Fowlersville and Bradley's Four Corners, to Pembroke. From Keesville, via Port Kent, to Burlington, in Vermont. From Delhi, by the most direct route, to Cooperstown. From Watertown, via Evans' Mills, Philadelphia, Antwerp, Governeur, De Kalb, Heuville, to Ogdenburg. From Potsdam, via Norfolk, Massena, and Hogansburg, to the Canada line at St. Regis. From Malone, via Bangor, Moira, Brasher, and Stockholm, to Potsdam. From Ithaca, on the most direct route, via the head of Seneca Lake, and Joseph Tomkin's, to Hammondsport. From South Sparta, via Liberty Corners, Prattsburgh, and Pulteney, to Wayne Hotel. From Hornby, via Mead Creek, Erwin Addison, Woodhull, and Jasper, to Independence. From Bath, via Prattsburgh, Cool's Corners, and Penyann, to Ovid. From Liberty, via Samuel Taggart's and Vanfassin's Mills, to Lima. From Geneva, via Seneca and Bethel, to Rushville. From Richmond, by Spring Water, to Dansville. From North Almond, to Dewitt's valley. From Almond, via North Almond, Allen, Hunt's Hollow and Portage, to Pike. From Northampton, to Northville Post-office, thence through the towns of Hope, Welles, and Lake Pleasant, to Seth Witmore's. From the village of Owego, [Oswego] via Speedsville, to Slaterville. From Chester Post-office, via the village of Sugar Loaf, to Warwick. From Canandaigua to Gibsonville. From Lodi Post office, via Seelysburg, and Randolph, to Jamestown. Chenang. Point, via Rugg's Edy, Osborn's, North Hollow, and Holcomb's Settlement, to Harpersville. From Salem to Union village. From Monticello, via Fallsburgh and Neversink, to the Post-office near the old Dutch Church, in the town of Wawasing. From Poughkeepsie, via Fishkill Plains, Stormville, Patterson, Elm, Milltown, and Millplains, to Danbury, Connecticut. From Mayville, by Mina and Greenfield, to the town of Erie, in Pennsylvania. From Hammondsport, via South Pulteney, East Wheeler, West Hill, West Creek, Neal's Creek, and Pond Settlement, to Rathbone Settlement. From Geneva, via Marengo, Clyde, Melvin's Mills, and Sterling, to the village of Oswego. From Charlotteville, via South Wooster, to Davenport. In New Jersey-From Mauricetown to Port Elizabeth. From Philadelphia, by Camden, Woodbury, Mullico Hill, Woodstown, Allowaystown, and Roadstown, to Greenwich. From Hacketstown to Hope, Warren county. From Newton, by Stillwater, to the store of Smith and Bristol, on the Delaware, near the mouth of Flatbrook, thence to Dingman's |