1832,authorized who, on or before the thirty-first day of October, in the year eighteen to purchase. hundred and thirty-two, were in the actual occupancy and cultivation of the same, or any part thereof, shall, on paying into the treasury one dollar and twenty-five cents the acre previous to the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, receive a patent for his or her allotment or purchase: Provided, The register of the land office for the district in which the lands lie, shall be satisfied of the validity of the purchase. Occupants prior to October 31, 1831,authorized to purchase. Proviso. Term of pay SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all persons in actual settlement and cultivation, before or on the thirty-first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, upon any of the lands referred to by the act to which this is an amendment, and not disposed of by the first section of this act, or any former act of Congress, shall, on proof of such settlement and cultivation, and on paying into the treasury of the United States, within six months after the passage of this act, one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, receive a patent for one hundred and sixty acres: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to alter or repeal the third section of the above-recited act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act of which ment extended. this is an amendment as requires that payment shall be made previous to the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, be, and the same is hereby, extended to the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. APPROVED, February 19, 1833. CHAP. XXXI.—An Act to amend an act, entitled " An act supplementary to the act APPROVED, February 19, 1833. STATUTE II. Feb. 19, 1833. CHAP. XXXII.—An Act for the further improvement of Pennsylvania Avenue. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Authorized to States of America, in Congress assembled, That the commissioner of the alter plan. public buildings be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to alter the plan for the improvement of Pennsylvania Avenue, as provided for by an act passed the twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, by causing that portion of the avenue lying between the road directed to be Macadamized and the side pavements, to be graduated and covered with stone, on the Macadam's plan, in place of gravel, provided for by said act; also by extending the foot pavements not less than five and a half feet on each side, and forming side drains, not less than four and a half feet wide; and further, by setting a line of curbs of granite, eight inches thick, on each side of that part of the avenue between the Capitol square and the President's square, with suitable returns at the cross streets, and Macadamizing the cross streets fifty feet on each side of the Macadamized cover of the avenue. Appropriation. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, to carry into effect the pro visions of this act, the sum of sixty-nine thousand six hundred and thirty CHAP.XXXIII.—An Act for the payment of horses and arms lost in the military service of the United States against the Indians on the frontiers of Illinois and the Michigan territory. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any mounted militiaman or volunteer whilst in the service of the United States, in the late expeditions against the Indians, on the frontiers of Illinois and the territory of Michigan, who sustained damage by the loss of any horse which was killed in battle, or died in consequence of a wound received therein, or in consequence of a failure, on the part of the United States, to furnish such horse with sufficient forage whilst in the service, or in consequence of the owner being dismounted, or separated and detached from the same, by order of the commanding officer, or in consequence of the rider being killed or wounded in battle, shall be allowed and paid the value of such horse at the time of going into service: Provided, Such loss was not the result of negligence on the part of the owner; the time employed in going to the place of rendezvous, and returning home after being discharged, to be taken and considered as actual service. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any person in the aforesaid service of the United States, as a volunteer or drafted militiaman, who furnishes [?] himself with arms and military accoutrements, and has sus tained loss by the capture or destruction of the same, without fault or negligence on his part, shall be allowed and paid the value thereof. STATUTE II. Feb. 19, 1833. [Expired.] Horses owned by militiamen or lost whilst in the volunteers, and service of the United States, to be paid for. Value of arms and military ac coutrements to be paid. How claims shall be examin ed. Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all claims arising under this act shall be examined, allowed, and paid in the same manner by the third auditor that similar claims were under " An act to authorize the payment of property lost, captured or destroyed by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes," passed the ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and the act in amendment thereof, passed the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and 3, 1817, ch. 110. seventeen; this act to be and remain in force three years from and after its passage. APPROVED, February 19, 1833. Act of March STATUTE II. CHAP. XXXIV.-An Act for the purchase of certain copies of Watterston and Vanzandt's Statistical Tables, and to authorize a subscription for a continuation of the same. Feb. 19, 1833. [Obsolete.] Purchase of two hundred copies authorized. Proviso. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the librarian of Congress be, and he hereby is, authorized to purchase, for the library of Congress, the remaining copies, not exceeding two hundred in number, of Watterston and Vanzandt's Statistical Tables, at the subscription price of two dollars and fifty cents per copy: Provided, The supplementary tables marked page ninety-four, be furnished for the said copies and for the copies now on hand in the library; and that the librarian be further authorized to subscribe for seven hundred and fifty copies of the continuation of the said tables, proposed to be published by Watterston and Vanzandt, at three dollars per copy; the said copies to be distributed as provided for by the first section of a joint resolution, approved twenty- May 24, 1828. Subscription for the proposed continuation. Resolution of fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, for the CHAP. XXXIX.—An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be appropriated for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations for similar objects, viz: For pay and subsistence of the officers of the navy, and the pay of seamen, one million four hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several yards, fifty-seven thousand three hundred and thirty dollars. For provisions, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs, and wear and tear, of vessels in commission, five hundred and six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, thirty-five thousand dollars. For improvements and necessary repairs of navy yards, viz: For the navy yard at Portsmouth, twenty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-four dollars. For the navy yard at Boston, seventy-three thousand five hundred and thirty-five dollars. For the navy yard at New York, thirty-four thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For the navy yard at Philadelphia, three thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars. For the navy yard at Washington, sixteen thousand dollars. For the navy yard at Norfolk, one hundred and twenty-six thousand five hundred and twenty-nine dollars. For the navy yard at Pensacola, fifty-three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For ordnance, and ordnance stores, ten thousand dollars. For defraying expenses; for freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; for wharfage and dockage, storage and rent, travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen, house rent, chamber money, and fuel and candles to officers, other than those attached to navy yards and stations, and for officers in sick quarters, where there is no hospital, and for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire, and office rent, stationery, and fuel to navy agents; for premiums, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for com. pensation to judge advocates; for per diem allowances for persons attending courts martial, and courts of inquiry, and for officers engaged in extra service beyond the limits of their stations; for printing and stationery of every description, and for books, maps, charts, and mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models and drawings; for purchase and repair of steam and fire engines, and for machinery; for purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, timber wheels, and workmen's tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage; for cabin furniture of vessels in commission, and for furniture of officers' houses at navy yards, for taxes on navy yards and public property; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labour at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel for forges, founderies, and steam engines; for candles, oil, and fuel, for vessels in commission and in ordinary; for repairs and building of magazines and powder houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built; and for no other object or purpose whatsoever, two hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars. For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, five thousand dollars. For pay of the officers and non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and for subsistence of the officers of the marine corps, one hundred and twelve thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars. For subsistence of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and washerwomen, serving on shore, eighteen thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars. For clothing, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars. For fuel, nine thousand and ninety-eight dollars. For medicines, hospital stores, and surgical instruments, two thousand three hundred and seventy dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to discharge an outstanding claim for prize money for the capture of the Algerine vessels in one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, twenty-one dollars, being part of an unexpended balance carried to the surplus fund. For the payment of claims arising under the act of eleventh of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled "An act concerning certain marine officers," eighteen thousand three hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-eight cents. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of compensating the board authorized by the act of the nineteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, for their services in revising and enlarging "the rules and regulations governing the naval service, with the adapt them to the present and future exigencies of this important arm of national defence," the sum of seven thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid by the Navy Department, according to the rates of allowances for detention on special service now prescribed by the rules and regulations of the Navy Department. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the salary directed by "An act for the regulation of the navy, and privateer pension, and navy hospital funds," passed July tenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, to be paid to the clerk of said funds out of the treasury of the United States, shall be paid from any money in said treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That for carrying into effect the acts for the suppression of the slave trade, including the support in the United States, and for a term not exceeding six months after their arrival in Africa, of all persons removed from the United States under the said acts, the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That there be paid to Master Commandant John D. Sloat, of the United States' navy, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand three hundred and sixty dollars, being the amount of his account exhibited to the Navy Department for expenses incurred in entertaining, on board the St. Louis, under his command, General Bolivar and several of his officers, at Guayaquil, in the year one thousand eight hundred and Contingencies. Marine corps. Subsistence. Clothing. Fuel. Contingencies. Stores. Medicines, &c. Claim for prize money. Claims under act of July 11, [14,] 1832, ch. 223. Compensation to Board authorized by act of May 19, 1832, ch. 80. Salary of clerk. 1832, ch. 194. Suppression of slave trade. .ohn D. Sloat. twenty-nine; and General La Fuente, President of Peru, and Major-general Miller, of the Peruvian army, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. APPROVED, February 20, 1833. STATUTE II. Feb, 20, 1833. for the payment of Indian annuities, &c. CHAP. XL.-An Act making appropriations for Indian annuities, and other To the Wyandot tribe, five thousand nine hundred dollars. To the Wyandot, Munsee, and Delaware tribes, one thousand dollars. To the Shawanee tribe, three thousand dollars, and eight hundred and forty dollars for expenses of a blacksmith, and furnishing salt. To the Shawanee and Seneca tribes of Lewistown, one thousand dol lars, and seven hundred and eighty dollars for expenses of a blacksmith. To the Delaware tribe, six thousand five hundred dollars, and one hundred dollars for furnishing salt. To the Wea tribe, three thousand dollars. To the Piankeshaw tribe, eight hundred dollars. To the Kaskaskias tribe, one thousand dollars. To the Ottaway tribe, five thousand three hundred dollars. To the Ottaway and Missouri tribes, two thousand five hundred dollars, and fifteen hundred dollars for the expenses of blacksmiths and tools, and agricultural implements. To the Chippeway tribe, three thousand eight hundred dollars; also, one thousand dollars for purposes of education, and two thousand dol lars for the purchase of farming utensils and cattle, and the employment of persons to aid them in their agriculture. To the Chippeways, Ottaways, and Pattawatamie tribes, sixteen thousand dollars, and one hundred and twenty-five dollars for furnishing salt. To the Pattawatamie tribe, sixteen thousand three hundred dollars, and one hundred dollars to To-pe-ni-be, principal chief; also, three thousand dollars for purposes of education, and two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars for expenses of blacksmiths, millers, and agriculturists, and for furnishing salt, tobacco, iron, and steel. To the Pattawatamie tribe of Huron, four hundred dollars. To the Choctaw tribe, fifty thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Mushulatubbe, a chief, one hundred and fifty dollars, and to Robert Cole, a chief, one hundred and fifty dollars; also, twelve thousand five hundred dollars for purposes of education, and two thousand nine hundred and fifty-five dollars for expenses of blacksmiths and millwrights, and for furnishing iron and steel. To the Eel river tribe, one thousand one hundred dollars. To the Six Nations, New York, four thousand five hundred dollars; also, two hundred dollars to the Young King, a chief, and fifty dollars to Little Billey, of the Seneca tribe. To the Seneca tribe, New York, six thousand dollars. To the Creek tribe, forty-six thousand five hundred dollars; also, three thousand dollars for purposes of education, and nine hundred and fiftyfive dollars for expenses of a blacksmith, and for furnishing iron and steel. To the Cherokee tribe, ten thousand dollars; also, two thousand dollars for purposes of education. |