For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, per act of the twentieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, two thousand and fifty dollars. Clerks. 1818, ch. 87. For compensation to the clerk in said office, per act of twenty-sixth 1824, ch. 157. of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, two hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the clerk in said office, per act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, two hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the messengers in said office, in full of all allowances, two hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents. For contingent expenses of said office, seven hundred and fifty dol lars. For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. For compensation to the secretary to the commissioners of the navy board, five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissioners of the navy board, per act of the twentieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, eight hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For compensation to the clerks and draftsman in said office, per act of twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, one thousand dollars. For additional compensation to one clerk in said office, per act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, fifty dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said office, in full of all allowances, one hundred and seventy-five dollars. For contingent expenses of said office, four hundred and fifty dollars. For allowance to the superintendent and four watchmen, employed for the security of the war and navy buildings, and for the incidental and contingent expenses, including oil, candles, fuel, labour, &c., five hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For compensation to the Postmaster General, one thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the two assistant postmasters general, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. 1827, ch. 50. Messengers. Contingent expenses. Commissioners of navy board. Secretary of navy board. Clerks. 1818, ch. 87. 1824, ch. 157. 1827, ch. 50. Messenger. Contingent expenses. Superintendent and watch men, &c. Postmaster General. Assistant Postmasters Ge neral. Clerks. For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Postmaster General, per act of the twentieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, five thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars. For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of the twenty- 1824, ch. 157. sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, one thousand four hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, one thousand six hundred dollars. For compensation to the messengers in said office, in full of all allowances, two hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents. For compensation to one additional assistant messenger, eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the surveyor general, in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, five hundred and twenty-five dollars. For compensation to the surveyor south of Tennessee, five hundred dollars. 1827, ch. 50. Messengers. Contingent expenses. Surveyor general in Ohio, &c. Clerks. Surveyor south of Tennessee. Clerks. Surveyor in Illinois, &c. Clerks. Surveyor in Alabama. Clerks, Surveyor in Florida. Commissioner public build ings. Officers and clerk of mint. Persons employed in the mint. Incidental For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, four hundred and twenty-five dollars. For compensation to the surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, five hundred dollars. For compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, three hundred and seventy-five dollars. For compensation to the surveyor in Florida, five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, five hundred dollars. For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings in Washington city, five hundred dollars. For compensation to the officers and clerk of the mint, two thousand four hundred dollars. For compensation to the persons employed in the different operations of the mint, two thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, and repairs, cost of machineand contingent ry; for allowance for wastage in gold and silver coinage of the mint, expenses, &c. two thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars. Governor, &c. of the Michigan territory. Contingent expenses. Compensation, &c. to the legislative council, &c. Governor, &c. of the Arkansas terri tory. Contingent expenses. Governor, &c. of the Florida territory. Contingent expenses. Compensation, &c. of the legislative council, &c. Chief justice, &c. of the United States. Attorney ge neral. Clerk. Reporter of Supreme Court. Sundry district attorneys and marshals. Expenses of the Supreme, &c. Courts of the United States. For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Michigan territory, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For the contingent expenses of the Michigan territory, eighty-seven dollars fifty cents. For compensation and mileage to the members of the legislative council, and printing the laws, and the contingent and incidental expenses of said council, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Arkansas territory, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses of the Arkansas territory, eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Florida territory, two thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. For contingent expenses of the Florida territory, eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For compensation and mileage to the members of the legislative council, and printing the laws, and the contingent and incidental expenses of said council, one thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars. For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice and asso ciate judges of the district of Columbia, nineteen thousand six hundred dollars. For compensation to the Attorney General of the United States, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. For compensation to the clerk in the office of the Attorney General, two hundred dollars. For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, two hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to sundry district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, two thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars. For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the district of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeit ures, incurred in the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and preceding years; and, likewise, for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present governments, five hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents. For the support of lighthouses, floating lights, and other objects, for the protection of navigation, forty-two thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands of the United States, ten thousand dollars. For stationery and books for the offices of commissioners of loans, four hundred dollars. For the salaries of the two keepers of the public archives in Florida territory, two hundred and fifty dollars. Keepers of public archives in Florida. Salaries of abroad. For the salaries of the ministers of the United States at London, Paris, Madrid, St. Petersburg, Mexico, and Colombia; for the salaries ministers, &c. of chargés des affaires at Stockholm, the Netherlands, Denmark, Lisbon, Guatemala, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Peru, and Chili; for the salaries of the secretaries of legation, and for the contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty-one thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. For the salaries of the agents of claims at London and Paris, one thousand dollars. For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen in foreign countries, six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, January 6, 1829. Agents of claims, London and Paris. Relief, &c. of distressed American seamen. CHAP. II.—An Act restricting the location of certain land claims in the territory of Arkansas, and for other purposes. Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That no person entitled to a donation of land by the eighth section of an act, entitled "An act to aid the state of Ohio in extending the Miami canal from Dayton to Lake Erie, and to grant a quantity of land to said state to aid in the construction of the canals authorized by law, and for making donations of land to certain persons in Arkansas territory," shall be permitted to enter the improvement of any actual settler in the territory of Arkansas, before the same shall have been offered for sale, unless it be with the consent of such actual settler; and all entries which may be so made shall be considered null and void. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That no person residing south of the Arkansas river, and west of the present territorial line, shall be entitled to the donation of land given by the eighth section aforesaid, unless said persons shall move east of said line; and, in that case, they shall be entitled to the donations specified in said eighth section of said act, under the restrictions aforesaid. APPROVED, January 6, 1829. CHAP. III.—An Act to preserve from injury and waste the school lands in the territory of Arkansas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the governor and general assembly of the territory of Arkansas be, and they are hereby, VOL. IV.-42 2 E 2 STATUTE II. Jan. 6, 1829. Governor and general as sembly of Arkansas, autho rized to protect the lands, &c. Rents to be applied to the support of common schools. authorized to make, and carry into effect, such laws and needful regulations as they shall deem most expedient to protect from injury and waste the sixteenth section in all townships of land in said territory, where surveys have been, or may hereafter be, made, which sections are reserved for the support of schools in each township, and to provide by law for leasing or renting the same, for any term not exceeding five years, in such manner as to render said school lands most valuable and productive, and shall apply the rents derived therefrom to the support of common schools, in the respective townships, according to the design of the donation, and to no other purpose whatever. APPROVED, January 6, 1829. STATUTE II. Jan. 6, 1829. All merchandise now entitled to debenture, or which may be hereaf ter imported, to be allowed the benefit of draw back, &c. Proviso. Proviso. CHAP. IV. An Act extending the term within which merchandise may be exported with the benefit of drawback. 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, all goods, wares, and merchandise which are now entitled to debenture, or which may be hereafter imported, may be exported with the benefit of drawback, and without any deduction from the amount of the duty on the same, at any time within three years from the date when the same may have been, or shall be imported: Provided, That all existing laws regulating the exportation of goods, wares, and merchandise, shall have been in all other respects complied with. And provided further, That this act shall not be so construed as to alter in any manner the terms of credit now allowed by law for the duties on goods, wares, or merchandise, imported. APPROVED, January 6, 1829. STATUTE II. Jan. 6, 1829. Salary of two hundred dollars allowed to the marshal of Con necticut. CHAP. V.—An Act to allow a salary to the marshal of the district of Connecticut. STATUTE II. Jan. 21, 1829. Exemption of certain surgeons in the navy from certain requisites to the allowance of pay and rations provided for by act of May 1828, ch. 121. CHAP. VII.—An Act to amend an act, entitled "An act for the better organization of the medical department of the navy," approved twenty-fourth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That every surgeon who was in the navy, at the time of the passage of the act for the better organization of the medical department of the navy, approved twenty-fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, shall be entitled to the additional pay and rations (according to length of service) provided for by the fourth section of that act, notwithstanding such surgeons may not have been examined, or received their appointments in the manner prescribed by the first section thereof. APPROVED, January 21, 1829. (a) See notes to act of May 24, 1828, ch. 121. CHAP. VIII.-An Act for altering the times for holding the sessions of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Georgia, at the places provided by law. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sixth circuit court of the United States for the district of Georgia, which is by law appointed to be holden on the fourth Monday in November, annually, at Savannah, in the said state, shall hereafter be holden on the Thursday after the first Monday in November, annually, at Milledgeville, in the said state; and that the session of the said court, which is now required by law to be holden on the sixth day of May annually, at Milledgeville, in the said state, shall hereafter be holden on the Thursday after the first Monday in May annually, at Savannah, in the said state; and that all process, which shall have been issued, and all recognisances returnable, and all suits and other proceedings, which have been continued to the said courts respectively, on the days, and at the places heretofore provided by law for their meeting, shall be returned, and held to be continued to the said courts, at the times and places herein provided for the meeting of the said courts respectively. APPROVED, January 21, 1829. STATUTE II. Jan. 21, 1829. Circuit court of the United Georgia disStates, for trict, to be holden at Milledgeville in November, and at Savannah in May. STATUTE II. CHAP. IX.-An Act to allow a salary to the marshal of the eastern district of Jan. 21, 1829. Virginia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Salary of States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of two hundred 200 dollars aldollars be, and the same hereby is, allowed, annually, as a salary to the marshal of the eastern district of Virginia. APPROVED, January 21, 1829. lowed to marshal of eastern district of Virginia. STATUTE II. Jan. 21, 1829. Collection district estab lished in Florida, by name of St. Mark's, &c. CHAP. X.—An Act to establish a port of entry at Magnolia, in Florida. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all the ports, harbours, shores, and waters, of the main land of Florida, and of the islands opposite and nearest thereto, extending from Ocklockney bay to Charlotte harbour, be, and they are hereby, established a collection district, by the name of the St. Mark's district; and a port of entry shall be established at Magnolia for said district, and a collector shall be appointed, collector. who shall give the same bond, perform the same duties, and be entitled to the same compensation and fees as the collectors of the other districts in Florida. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all that part of Florida, between the St. Mary's and St. John's river, shall be annexed to, and made a part of, the collection district of St. Augustine. APPROVED, January 21, 1829. Provision for Certain portion of Florida annexed to St. Augustine district. CHAP. XI.—An Act allowing an additional drawback on sugar refined in the United 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, there shall be allowed a drawback on sugar refined in the STATUTE II. Jan. 21, 1829. [Obsolete.] A drawback on sugar re fined in United States, and ex |