the recess of said legislative council, by granting commissions, which shall expire at the end of their next session. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the qualified electors of said territory shall, at their next and every subsequent election for members of their legislative council, choose, by ballot, eight persons, having the qualifications of electors, in addition to the number now by law authorized; and the names of the twenty-six persons, so elected, shall be transmitted by the governor of said territory, to the President of the United States, immediately after said election, who shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, appoint, therefrom, thirteen persons; which said thirteen persons shall compose the legislative council, any nine of whom shall form a quorum to transact business; and all vacancies occurring in said council shall be filled in the same manner, from the list transmitted as aforesaid. The members of the said legislative council shall receive three dollars each per day, during their attendance at the sessions thereof, and three dollars for every twenty miles in going to, and returning therefrom, in full compensation for their services; which shall be paid by the United States. Same course to writs of error, as in other SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That appeals and writs of error shall lie, from the decision of the highest judicial tribunal of said terri- be pursued with tory, to the Supreme Court of the United States, in the same manner, and under the same regulations as do lie and are taken from the circuit courts of the United States, where the amount in controversy shall exceed one thousand dollars, which shall be ascertained by evidence satisfactory to the court allowing the appeal. courts. Two of the SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That not less than two judges of the supreme or superior court of said territory, shall hereafter hold a superior judges court to transact the business of said court. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That so much of any ordinance or law of the United States as contravenes the provisions of this act, so far as respects the territory of Michigan, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. APPROVED, February 5, 1825. to hold a court. So much of any law as contravenes the provisions of this act, repealed. CHAP. VII.-An Act confirming certain claims to lands in the western district of Louisiana. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all the claims to land embraced in the report made by the commissioners appointed for adjusting the titles and claims to land in the western district of Louisiana, upon the thirtieth day of December, eighteen hundred and fifteen, and recom mended by them for confirmation, be, and the same are hereby, con firmed: Provided, That no person or persons shall be entitled, by any one clain, to a greater quantity than one league square under this act. APPROVED, February 5, 1825. CHAP. IX. – An Act making compensation to the persons appointed by the electors to deliver the votes for President and Vice President. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the person appointed by the electors to deliver to the president of the Senate, a list of the votes for President and Vice President, shall be allowed, on delivery of VOL. IV.-11 (a) See notes to act of May 11, 1820, ch. 87. STATUTE II. Feb. 5, 1825. Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 36. 2, 1805, ch. 26. Act of March Act of Feb. 28, 1823, ch. 15. commissioners Report of the for adjusting the titles, &c. to land in the western district of Louisiana, confirmed. STATUTE II. Feb. 11, 1825. Compensation allowed to persons who president of the delivered to the Senate the votes for President and Vice President. To také effect from Nov. 1, 1824. STATUTE II. said list, twenty-five cents for every mile of the estimated distance, by the most usual route, from the place of meeting of the electors to the seat of government of the United States, going and returning. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from the first of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-four. APPROVED, February 11, 1825. Feb. 11, 1825. CHAP. X.-An Act to remit the duties on books, maps, and charts, imported for [Obsolete.] All duties upon books, &c. for the use of the library of Congress, to be remitted. STATUTE II. Feb. 21, 1825. [Obsolete.] Specific appropriations for the military service for 1825. the use of the library of Congress. 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 hereby is, directed to remit all duties upon such books, maps, and charts, as have been during the present year, or hereafter may be, imported into the United States, by the authority of the joint library committee of Congress, for the use of the library of Congress. APPROVED, February 11, 1825. CHAP. XI. An Act making appropriations for the military service of the United 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, respectively, appropriated for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, to wit: For pay of the army, and subsistence of officers, including the military academy, nine hundred and ninety-four thousand four hundred and seven dollars and seventy-five cents. For subsistence, in addition to an unexpended balance on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, of twenty-nine thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and forty-five cents, two hundred and sixty thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty-five cents. For forage for officers, thirty-five thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. For the recruiting service in addition to an unexpended balance on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, of one thousand dollars, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, in addition to an unexpended balance on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, of eight thousand five hundred dollars, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For the purchasing department, two hundred and four thousand five hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents. For the purchase of woollens, during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, in advance for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, twenty thousand dollars. For the expense of building a brick wall round the arsenal lot, on Schuylkill, and repairs of public buildings thereon, eight thousand dollars. For medical and hospital department, in addition to amount on hand, on first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, of thirteen thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars. For quartermaster general's department, two hundred and eightyfour thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventy-five cents. For quartermaster's supplies, transportation, mathematical instruments, books, and stationery, for the military academy at West Point, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. For the contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars. For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, forty thousand seven hundred dollars. For arsenals, forty-four thousand six hundred dollars. For the pensions to the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, one million two hundred and forty-eight thousand four hundred and fiftytwo dollars and twenty-six cents. For the half pay pensions to widows and orphans, twenty thousand dollars. For making surveys, and carrying on the operations of the board of engineers, in relation to internal improvements, and in addition to an unexpended balance on hand, twenty-eight thousand five hundred and sixtyseven dollars. For paying certain states the amount due on account of militia in the service of the United States, during the late war, ninety-two thousand five hundred and thirty-five dollars and seventy-seven cents, being an amount heretofore appropriated, and which has passed to the surplus fund. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not other wise appropriated: Provided, however, That no money appropriated by this act, shall be paid to any person for his compensation, who is in arrears to the United States, until such person shall have accounted for, and paid into the treasury, all sums for which he may be liable: Provided, also, That nothing in this section contained shall be construed to extend to balances arising solely from the depreciation of treasury notes received by such person to be expended in the public service; but, in all cases where the pay or salary of any person is withheld, in pursuance of this act, it shall be the duty of the accounting officer, if demanded by the party, his agent, or attorney, to report forthwith to the agent of the Treasury Department, the balance due; and it shall be the duty of the said agent, within sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such delinquent and his sureties. APPROVED, February 21, 1825. CHAP. XII.-An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, other than those at navy yards, shore stations, and in ordinary, seven hundred and eighty-three thousand five hundred and fifty-four dollars thirty seven cents. For the pay and subsistence of officers and others, at navy yards, shore stations, and in ordinary, two hundred and seventy-nine thousand three hundred and sixty-four dollars and seventy-three cents. For provisions, three hundred and fifty-five thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. For repairs of vessels, and for wear and tear of vessels in commission, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. To be paid out of the trea sury. Proviso. Proviso. STATUTE II. Feb. 21, 1825. [Obsolete.] Special ap propriations for the support of the navy for 1825. and &c. Subsistence pay. At navy yards, Provisions. Repairs. Improvement, For improvement and repairs of navy yards, one hundred and sixty&c. of navy yards. five thousand dollars, viz: at Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, three &c. Ordnance. Sundry expenses. Contingent expenses. Marine corps. Proviso. Proviso. thousand dollars; at Charlestown, in Massachusetts, twenty thousand dollars; at New York, sixty thousand dollars; at Philadelphia, twelve thousand dollars; at Washington, forty thousand dollars; at Norfolk, including the purchase of a tract of land, for the extension and security of the navy yard at that place, thirty thousand dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, thirty-five thousand dollars. For medicines and hospital stores, thirty-five thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses which may accrue during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, for the following purposes: For freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; for wharfage and dockage; for storage and rent: for travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen; for house rent or chamber money; for fuel and candles to officers, other than those attached to navy yards and shore stations; for commissions, clerk hire, office rent, stationery, and fuel, to navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting; for expenses of pursuing deserters: for compensation to judge advocates: for per diem allowance to persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry, and to officers engaged in extra service beyond the limits of their stations; for expenses of persons in sick quarters; for burying deceased persons belonging to the navy; for printing and for stationery of every description; for books, charts, nautical and mathematical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for purchase and repairs of steam and fire engines and machinery; for purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, wheels, and workmen's tools, of every description; for postage of letters on the public service; for pilotage; for cabin furniture for vessels in commission; for taxes on navy yards and public property; for assistance rendered to public vessels in distress; for incidental labour at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coals and other fuel for forges, founderies, steam-engines, and for candles, oil, and fuel; for vessels in commission and in ordinary and for no other object or purpose whatever-two hundred thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, for objects arising in the current year, and not herein before enumerated, five thousand dollars. For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and eightynine thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars and fifty cents. For clothing for the same, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars. For fuel for the same, six thousand dollars. For medicines, hospital stores, and instruments for the officers and marines stationed on shore, two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars seventy-one cents. For contingent expenses, that is to say: fuel for commissioned officers, transportation, stationery, bed sacks, straw, extra rations to officers, and postage on public letters, fourteen thousand dollars. For arrearages of contingent expenses for the years one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three and one thousand eight hundred and twentyfour, five thousand 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: Provided, however, That no money appropriated by this act shall be paid to any person for his compensation, who is in arrears to the United States, until such person shall have accounted for and paid into the treasury, all sums for which he may be liable: Provided, also, That nothing in this section contained shall be construed to extend to balances arising solely from the depreciation of treasury notes received by such person to be expended in the public service: but, in all cases where the pay or salary of any person is withheld, in pursuance of this act, it shall be the duty of the accounting officer, if demanded by the party, his agent, or attorney, to report forthwith to the agent of the Treasury Department, the balance due; and it shall be the duty of the said agent, within sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such delinquent and his sureties. APPROVED, February 21, 1825. STATUTE II. CHAP. XIII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of government, for Feb. 25, 1825. the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five. 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, respectively, appropriated, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five; that is to say: For compensation to the Senators, and members of the House of Representatives, their officers and clerks, in addition to the sum of two hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars, appropriated by the act of the fifteenth day of December last, sixty-four thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars. [Obsolete.] Sums appro priated for the year 1825. Congress and their officers. 1824, ch. 1. Contingent For expenses of fuel, stationery, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses, of both Houses of Congress, sixty-five thousand expenses there dollars. For the expenses of the library of Congress, including the salary of the librarian, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the President of the United States, thousand dollars. of. Library and librarian of Con gress. twenty-five For compensation to the Vice President of the United States, five thousand dollars. President. Vice President. Secretary of State. For compensation to the Secretary of State, six thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the Department of State, per act of the twentieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 1818, ch. 87. fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars. For compensation to the messengers in said department, including the messenger in the patent office, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to one mechanist, per act of twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, seven hundred dollars. For the incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of State, including the expenses of printing the laws, and for extra copying of papers, twenty-five thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, six thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, per act of twentieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, including four hundred dollars short appropriated for one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. Clerks. Messengers. Mechanist for patent office. 1824, ch. 157. Incidental and contingent ex penses. Secretary of the Treasury. Clerks. 1818, ch. 87. Additional For compensation of one clerk, per act of twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, one thousand one hundred and clerk. fifty dollars. For compensation to the messengers in said office, one thousand and fifty dollars, in full of all allowances. For compensation to the first comptroller of the treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars. |