Accounts for Clerk hire in the Land-offices of Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. An act to enable the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department to audit and settle the accounts of the surveyor of public lands in the States of Illinois and Missouri, and territory of Arkansas, for extra clerk hire in his office. (Obsolete.) March 3, 1823..... ..... ..... ..... Circuit Court of Washington, &c. An act providing for the accommodation of the Circuit Court of the United States for Washington county, in the District of Columbia, and for the preservation of the records of said court. March 3, 1823....... An additional Land-office in Missouri established. An act to establish an additional land-office in the State of Missouri. March 3, 1823............. Laws of the United States. An act to authorize the purchase of a number of copies of the sixth volume of the laws of the United States. March 3, 1823....... Claims to Lots in Peoria confirmed. An act to confirm certain claims to lots in the village of Peoria, in the State of Illinois. March 3, 1823.... ..... Lands granted to the State of Missouri for Education, &c. An act concerning the lands to be granted to the State of Missouri, for the purpose of education, and other public uses. March 3, 1823.... .... Page 784 785 785 786 786 787 Ransom of American Captives. An act supplementary to "An act relating to the ransom of American captives of the late war." March 3, 1823...... ..... 788 National Armory on the western Waters. An act to establish a national armory on the western waters. March 3, 1823..... Piracy. An act respecting the punishment of piracy. March 3, 1823... 788 789 RESOLUTIONS. 1. Requiring from the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives an annual statement of the expenditures from the contingent fund of the two Houses. March 1, 1823....... 789 2. To direct the withholding of the compensation of certain prize agents. March 3, 1823. 789 THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. ACTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the twentyfourth day of May, 1813, and ended the second day of August, 1813. JAMES MADISON, President; ELbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; HENRY CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I. CHAPTER I.—An Act concerning certain streets in Georgetown.(a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the proprietors of the ground to open a new street in the town of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, beginning at the termination of three hundred and seventy-eight feet and six inches from the intersection of Washington and Bridge streets, on the east side of Washington street and south of Bridge street, and thence running parallel with Bridge street to Rock creek, of the width of sixty feet, to be called Needwood street. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Greene street, in the said town, be opened and extended to Causeway street, in lines parallel with Washington street; and that Montgomery street, in the said town, be opened and extended from Bridge street to Needwood street, in lines parallel with Washington street. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the streets called and known by the names of Lovely and Wapping, and all that part of Montgomery street, south from Bridge street to Causeway street, not embraced in lines parallel with Washington street, lying between Washington street and Rock creek, in the said town, upon the opening and establishment of the said streets, between Washington street and Rock creek, be, and the same are hereby vacated; and the title to the ground over which the same now runs, shall be vested in fee simple in the proprietors of the ground over which the streets to be opened and extended by virtue of this act, shall run, in proportion to the quantity owned by each proprietor. APPROVED, June 14, 1813. (a) An act to amend the charter of Georgetown, March 3, 1805, chap. 32. Vor III.-1 A June 14, 1813. Needwood to be street opened. Greene and Montgomery streets to be opened and extended. Certain parts of Wapping and Lovely streets vacated, and the ground reinvested in original proprie tors. STATUTE I. June 19, 1813. Act of July 29, 1813, chap. 35. under what sanctions to be made. CHAP. II.-An Act for the government of persons in certain fisheries. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the master or skipper of any vessel of the burthen of twenty tons or upwards, qualified according to law for carrying on the bank and other cod fisheries, bound from a port of the United States to be employed in any such fishery, at Agreements sea, shall, before proceeding on such fishing voyage, make an agreement with fishermen in writing or print with every fisherman who may be employed therein, (except only an apprentice or servant of himself or owner,) and, in addition to such terms of shipment as may be agreed on, shall in such agreement express whether the same is to continue for one voyage or for the fishing season, and shall also express, that the fish or the proceeds of such fishing voyage or voyages, which may appertain to the fishermen, shall be divided among them in proportion to the quantities or number of said fish which they may respectively have caught; which agreement shall be endorsed or countersigned by the owner of such fishing vessel or his Fishermen agent. And if any fisherman, having engaged himself for a voyage or neglecting their for the fishing season, in any fishing vessel, and signed an agreement duty. therefor as aforesaid, shall thereafter and while such agreement remains in force and to be performed, desert or absent himself from such vessel without leave of the master or skipper thercof, or of the owner or his agent, such deserter shall be liable to the same penalties as deserting seamen or mariners are subject to in the merchant service, and may in the like manner, and upon the like complaint and proof, be apprehended and detained; and all costs of process and commitment, if paid by the master or owner, shall be deducted out of the share of fish, or proceeds of any fishing voyage to which such deserter had or shall become entitled. And any fisherman, having engaged himself as aforesaid, who shall during such fishing voyage refuse or neglect his proper duty on board the fishing vessel, being thereto ordered or required by the master or skipper thereof, or shall otherwise resist his just commands to the hinderance or detriment of such voyage, besides being answerable for all damages arising thereby, shall forfeit to the use of the owner of such vessel his share of any public allowance which may be paid upon such voyage. Act of July 20, 1790, chap. 29, sec. 7. Conditions to which they be come subject. Fishing vessels to continue liable for wages of the hands for six months after sale of fish. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That where an agreement or contract shall be so made and signed for a fishing voyage or for the fishing season, and any fish which may have been caught on board such vessel during the same, shall be delivered to the owner or to his agent for cure, and shall be sold by said owner or agent, such vessel shall, for the term of six months after such sale, be liable and answerable for the skipper's and every other fisherman's share of such fish, and may be proceeded against in the same form and to the same effect as any other vessel is by law liable and may be proceeded against for the wages of seamen or mariners in the merchant service. And upon such process for the value of a share or shares of the proceeds of fish delivered and sold as aforesaid it shall be incumbent on the owner or his agent to produce a just account of the sales and division of such fish according to such agreement or contract; otherwise the said vessel shall be answerable upon such process for what may be the highest value of the share or shares demanded. But in all cases the owner of such vessel or his agent, appearing to answer to such process, may offer thereupon his account of general supplies made for such fishing voyage and of other supplies therefor made to either of the demandants, and shall be allowed to produce evidence thereof in answer to their demands respectively; and judgment shall be rendered upon such process for the respective balances which upon such an inquiry shall appear: Provided always, That when process shall be issued against any vessel liable as aforesaid, if the owner thereof, or his agent, will give bond to each fisherman in whose favour such process Remedy at common law to be preserved. CHAP. IV. An Act to amend the act in addition to the act, entitled "An act to raise an additional military force, and for other purposes." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That five of the regiments which were authorized to be raised by an act in addition to the act, entitled "An act to raise an additional military force, and for other purposes," passed the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, may, at the discretion of the President of the United States, be enlisted for and during the war, unless sooner discharged, and be limited as to service to the defence of the sea board of the United States, or of such part thereof as the President may elect and determine. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That each man recruited under the authority of this act, be allowed the same bounty in money and land as is allowed by law to men enlisted for five years or for the war, and that the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, shall receive the same pay, clothing, subsistence and forage, be entitled to the same benefits, be subject to the same rules and regulations, and be placed in every respect on the same footing as the other regular troops of the United States. APPROVED, July 5, 1813. July 5, 1813. Repealed by act of February 27, 1815, ch. 62. CHAP. VI.-An Act authorizing the President of the United States to cause to be built barges for the defence of the ports and harbours of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the protection of the ports and harbours of the United States, the President shall cause to be built, without delay, such number of barges as he may deem neces- barges to be sary, to be armed, equipped, and manned as he may direct, of a size not less than forty-five feet long, and capable of carrying heavy guns. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose aforesaid the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, July 5, 1813. CHAP. VII.-An Act further extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be authorized to issue military land warrants to such persons as have A number of buiit. Specific appropriation. |