rate the waters emptying into the Chesapeake Bay and Roanoke river from the waters which fall into the Ohio river, shall be one judicial district; and there shall be a district court therein, to consist of one judge, who shall reside in the said district, and be called a district judge, and annually hold six sessions, as follows: At Clarksburg, on the fourth Mondays of March and September; at Lewisburg, on the second Mondays of April and October; and at Wythe Courthouse, on the first Mondays of May and November. (a) SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said court shall, besides the ordinary jurisdiction of a district court, have jurisdiction of all causes, except of appeals and writs of error, cognisable by law in a circuit court, and shall proceed therein in the same manner as a circuit court; and writs of error shall be from decisions therein to the Supreme Court, in the same manner as from circuit courts. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a clerk appointed for the said court; and that a district attorney and marshal be appointed for the said district, in like manner as in other judicial districts. Yearly compensation to the judge. Compensation of the district SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the said judge of the said district court, the yearly compensation of one thousand six hundred dollars, to commence from the date of his appointment; that there shall be allowed to the said district attorney, the yearly compensation of two hundred dollars, to commence from the date of his appointment; and there shall be allowed to the said marshal the yearly sum of two hundred dollars, to commence from the date of his appoint- shal. ment; to be paid quarterly at the treasury of the United States. APPROVED, February 4, 1819. attorney. Of the mar CHAP. XIII.-An Act to authorize the payment, in certain cases, on account of treasury notes which have been lost or destroyed. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That whenever proof shall be exhibited to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the loss or destruction of any treasury note, issued under the authority of any act of Congress, it shall be lawful for the said secretary, upon receiving bond, with sufficient security to indemnify the United States against any other claim on account of the treasury note alleged to be so lost or destroyed, to pay the amount due on such note, to the person who had lost it, or in whose possession it has been destroyed. STATUTE II. Feb. 4, 1819. On proof, &c. of the loss of a treasury note, the Secretary, upon bond, &c. to pay the amount due. On proof of struction of any certificate of new SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, whenever proof shall be exhibited, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the loss the loss or deor destruction of any certificate of Mississippi stock, it shall be lawful to issue to the person who had lost it, or in whose possession it was destroyed, a new certificate of the same value with the one lost or destroyed; the person claiming such renewal complying with the rules and regulations at present established at the Treasury Department, for the renewal of certificates of stock lost or destroyed. APPROVED, February 4, 1819. 31, sec. 1, 2, 3. 4, 1819, ch. 12. Mississippi stock, a be issued. certificate may (a) The acts relating to the district courts in Virginia have been: Act of September 22, 1789, (obsolete,) ch. 20, sec. 3. Act of April 29, 1802, (obsolete,) sec. 4, ch. 31. Act of March 23, 1804, ch. Act of March 24, 1814, ch. 31. Act of March 19, 1818, ch. 22. Act of February Act of February 10, 1820, ch. 9. Act of April 26, 1822, ch. 31. Act of May 26, Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 102. Act of May 20, 1826, ch. 88. Act of April 20, 1832, ch. 69. Act of March 3, 1835, ch. 34. Act of July 1, 1836, ch. 232. Act of March 2, 1838, ch. 15. Act of January 20, 1843, ch. 3. 1824, ch. 167. STATUTE II. Feb. 4, 1819. [Obsolete.] Appropriation as prize money among the representatives of Commodore Preble, Capt. Stewart, officers, and crew, of the Syren, &c.; their proportion of the appraised value of the brig Transfer, cap tured by the Syren, &c. CHAP. XV.—An Act authorizing the distribution of a sum of money among the representatives of Commodore Edward Preble, and the officers and crew of the brig Syren. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated; which sum shall be distributed by the Secretary of the Navy, as prize money, among the representatives of Commodore Edward Preble, deceased, and Captain Charles Stewart, the officers and crew of the brig of war Syren, or to the representatives of such as may be dead, on account of their proportion of the sum of five thousand dollars, the appraised value of the brig Transfer, captured by the said brig Syren, for a breach of the blockade of the port of Tripoli, in the year eighteen hundred and four, during the war carried on by the United States against that power; the said brig Transfer having been taken into the service of the United States by Commodore Edward Preble, commander of the blockading squadron; which brig was regularly condemned, as a good prize, by sentence of a court of admiralty. APPROVED, February 4, 1819. STATUTE II. Feb. 15, 1819. [Obsolete.] Sums appropriated for the Pay of the army. Subsistence. Forage. Clothing. Bounties, &c. Medical and hospital depart ment. Quartermas ter's depart ment. Arrearages. Extra pay for construction, &c. of military roads. Contingencies of the army. Arrearages. Fortifications. water courses. Ordnance de partment. Armories. Arsenals, &c. CHAP. XVIII.-An Act making appropriations for the military service of the 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 pay of the army of the United States, one million of dollars. For subsistence, in addition to two hundred thousand dollars already appropriated, seven hundred and eighty-nine thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars. For forage for officers, twenty-six thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars. For clothing, four hundred thousand dollars. For bounties and premiums, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For the quartermaster's department, five hundred and forty thousand dollars. For arrearages, arising from a deficiency in the appropriation for the quartermaster's department, during the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, twenty-six thousand dollars. For extra pay to non-commissioned officers and soldiers employed in the construction and repairs of military roads, ten thousand dollars. For contingencies of the army, sixty thousand dollars. For arrearages arising from a deficiency in the appropriation to pay outstanding claims, one hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and seven dollars. For fortifications, five hundred thousand dollars. For making a survey of the water courses tributary to, and west of, the Mississippi; also those tributary to the same river, and north-west of the Ohio; six thousand five hundred dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance department, one hundred thousand dollars. For the armories at Springfield and Harper's Ferry, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For the erection and completion of arsenals, to wit: for completing the arsenal at Augusta, in Georgia, fifty thousand dollars; for erecting a powder magazine at Frankford, near Philadelphia, fifteen thousand dol lars; for completing the arsenal and other works at Watertown, near Boston, twenty thousand dollars; for completing the arsenal and other works at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, five thousand dollars; for a levee round the arsenal at Watervliet, New York, six thousand dollars; for building a powder magazine at Baton Rouge, twenty thousand dollars. For cannon, powder, and shot, to fulfil existing contracts, for mounting cannon, and for purchase of lead, one hundred and ninety-one thousand two hundred dollars. To provide for the payment of the retained bounty, and the per diem travelling allowance of pay and subsistence to soldiers discharged from the army, in the year eighteen hundred and nineteen, ninety-two thou sand five hundred dollars. For the purchase of maps, plans, books, and instruments, for the War Department, one thousand five hundred dollars. For fuel, maps, plans, books, erection of quarters, and other buildings, and for contingent expenses for the academy at West Point, thirty-five thousand six hundred and forty dollars. For marking and running the boundary line of the several cessions of land made by the Indians, fifteen thousand dollars. For the payment of the half-pay pensions to widows and orphans, two hundred thousand dollars. For the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, three hundred and sixty-eight thousand and thirty-nine dollars. For the annual allowance to the revolutionary pensioners, under the law of March eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, one million seven hundred and eight thousand five hundred dollars. Maps, &c. for the academy at West Point. Marking, &c. Indian boundary lines. Payment of half pay pensions to widows and orphans. Invalid pen sioners. Revolutionary pensioners. 1818, ch. 19. Arrearages for paying revolutionary pen For arrearages arising from a deficiency in the appropriation for paying the revolutionary pensions in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand four hundred dollars and eighty-five sions in 1818. cents. For the Indian department, including arrearages incurred by holding Indian treaties, two hundred and forty thousand two hundred and seventynine dollars, including twenty thousand dollars to defray an expense incurred under the Chickasaw treaty lately concluded; and including also, the further sum of seven thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars, being the aggregate amount of certain sums stipulated to be paid within sixty days, to certain individuals named in the above-mentioned treaty. For annuity to the Creek nation, under the treaty of one thousand eight hundred and two, three thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations hereinbefore made, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, February 15, 1819. Indian department. Annuity to the Creek na tion. CHAP. XIX.-An Act to extend the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of the United Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the circuit courts of the United States shall have original cognisance, as well in equity as at law, of all actions, suits, controversies, and cases, arising under any law of the United States, granting or confirming to authors or inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings, inventions, and discoveries: and upon any bill in equity, filed by any party aggrieved in any such cases, shall have authority to grant injunctions, according to the course and principles of courts of equity, to prevent the violation of the rights of any authors or inventors, secured to them by any laws of the United States, on such terms and conditions as the said courts may deem fit and VOL. III.-61 2 S STATUTE II. Feb. 15, 1819. The circuit courts to have original cognisance, in equity and at law, in controversies respecting the right to inven tions and writings. Act of Feb. 21, 1793, ch. 11. Act of May 31,1790, ch. 15. Proviso. reasonable: Provided, however, That from all judgments and decrees of any circuit courts, rendered in the premises, a writ of error or appeal, as the case may require, shall lie to the Supreme Court of the United States, in the same manner, and under the same circumstances, as is now provided by law in other judgments and decrees of such circuit courts. APPROVED, February 15, 1819. STATUTE II. Feb. 15, 1819. CHAP. XXI.-An Act to authorize the President und Managers of the Rockville and Washington turnpike road company, of the state of Maryland, to extend and muke their turnpike road to or from the boundary of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, through the said district, to the line thereof. That part of the law of cable to the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of the law of Maryland appli- the state of Maryland, entitled, "An act to incorporate companies to make certain turnpike roads through the counties of Montgomery, Frederick, and Washington, and for other purposes," passed at December session, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, as relates to the Rockville and Washington turnpike road company, be, and it hereby is, declared to be in full force within the District of Columbia. Rockville and Washington Turnpike Road Company, in full force in the district of Co lumbia. The road may be made from the boundary of the district to the boundary of the city. of the Company SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the president and managers of the said turnpike road company, be, and they are hereby, authorized to to make said road from the boundary of the District of Columbia to the boundary of the city of Washington. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in relation to the process of The powers constructing said road, and to toll gates, and the rates of toll thereon, and obligations the said company shall be, and hereby is, invested with all the rights, priviof the Turnpike leges, and immunities, and shall be subject to all the obligations, which, by the act of Congress, "to incorporate a company for making certain turnpike roads in the District of Columbia," passed April twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and ten, are given, granted, imposed on, and vested in, the company of the Columbia turnpike roads, had that company proceeded to make the said road according to the terms of the act of Congress aforesaid: Provided, That the formal written release, by the company last mentioned, of their right to make said road, according to their act of incorporation, be filed, within ten days after the passing of this act, in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the United States for Washington county, in the District of Columbia. Roads, trans- Proviso. The corporation of Wash ington may purchase out the road, on pay ing the capital expended, and 6 per cent. thereon. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the corporation of Washington are hereby authorized and empowered, at any time, to purchase out the said road herein authorized to be made, with all the rights and profits thereto belonging, on paying to the said company a sum which shall be equal to the total amount expended on said road, with six per cent. interest thereon from the date of its expenditure. APPROVED, February 15, 1819. STATUTE II. Feb. 16, 1819. CHAP. XXII.—An Act authorizing the election of a delegate from the Michigan territory to the Congress of the United States, and extending the right of suffrage to the citizens of said territory. (a) The citizens of Michigan au Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the citizens of the Michi (a) The acts which have been passed relative to the territory of Michigan, are: An act to divide the Indiana territory into two separate governments. Jan. 11, 1805, ch. 5. An act authorizing the election of a delegate from the Michigan territory to the Congress of the United States, and extending the right of suffrage to the citizens of that territory. Feb. 16, 1819, ch. 22. An act to provide for the apportionment of an additional judge for the Michigan territory and for other purposes. Jan. 30, 1823, ch. 8. elect a delegate to Congress,&c. gan territory be, and they are hereby authorized to elect one delegate to thorized to the Congress of the United States, who shall possess the qualifications, and exercise the privileges, heretofore required of, and granted to, the delegates from the several territories of the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every free white male citizen of said territory, above the age of twenty-one years, who shall have resided therein one year next preceding an election, and who shall have paid a county or territorial tax, shall be entitled to vote at such election for a delegate to the Congress of the United States, in such manner, and at such times and places, as shall be prescribed by the governor and judges of said territory. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the person, duly qualified according to law, who shall receive the greatest number of votes at such election, shall be furnished, by the governor of said territory, with a certificate, under his official seal, setting forth that he is duly elected, by the qualified electors, the delegate from said territory to the Congress of the United States, for the term of two years from the date of said certificate, which shall entitle the person to whom the same shall be given to take his seat in the House of Representatives in that capacity. APPROVED, February 16, 1819. Qualifications of the electors. The governor to certify the election of the delegate. The certifi entitles cate the delegate to his seat in the House of Representatives. STATUTE II. Feb. 16, 1819. Sums appro expenses of the navy. CHAP. XXV.-An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, for defraying the ex-priated for the penses of the navy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated: For pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, nine hundred and eighty-six thousand three hundred and seventy-two dollars and seventy-five cents. For provisions, four hundred and five thousand five hundred and fifteen dollars. For medicines, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, including the marine corps, thirty-six thousand dollars. For repairs of vessels, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Pay of officers and pay of seamen. Provisions. Medicines, hospital stores, &c. Repairs of vessels. An act to amend the ordinance and acts of Congress for the government of the territory of Michigan and for other purposes. March 3, 1823, ch. 35. An act in addition to an act entitled "An act to amend the ordinance and acts of Congress for the government of the territory of Michigan, and for other purposes." Feb. 5, 1825, ch. 6. An act to allow the citizens of the territory of Michigan to elect the members of their legislative council, and for other purposes. Jan. 29, 1827, ch. 6. An act authorizing the legislative council of the territory of Michigan to take charge of the school lands in said territory. May 24, 1828, ch. 122. An act relative to the plan of Detroit in Michigan territory. May 28, 1830, ch. 151. An act for improving the navigation of certain rivers in the territories of Florida and Michigan. March 2, 1833, ch. 64. An act prolonging the second session of the fifth legislative council of the territory of Michigan. March 2, 1833, ch. 72. An act authorizing an alteration in the election districts for members of the legislative council of the territory of Michigan. March 2, 1833, ch. 82. An act to attach the territory of the United States west of the Mississippi river and north of the state of Missouri, to the territory of Michigan. June 28, 1834, ch. 98. An act authorizing an extra session of the legislative council of Michigan. June 30, 1834, ch. 151. An act to establish the northern boundary line of the state of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the state of Michigan into the Union upon the conditions therein expressed. June 15, 1836, ch. 99. An act to settle and establish the northern boundary line of the state of Ohio. June 23, 1836, ch. 117. An act supplementary to the act entitled "An act to establish the northern boundary line of the state of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the state of Michigan into the Union on certain conditions. June 23, 1836, ch. 121. An act to admit the state of Michigan into the Union on an equal footing with the original states. Jan. 26, 1837, ch. 6. |