II. RESOLUTION for the further distribution of the journal of the convention which formed the Constitution of the United States. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be instructed to furnish to each member of the present Congress and the delegates from territories, (who may not be entitled to the same, under the resolution of Congress of the twenty-seventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen,) the President and Vice President of the United States, the executive of each state and territory, the attorney general and judges of the courts of the United States, and the colleges and universities in the United States, each one copy; for the use of each of the departments, viz: State, Treasury, War, and Navy, two copies each; for the use of the Senate, five copies; and for the use of the House of Representatives, ten copies of the volumes containing the journal, acts and proceedings of the convention which formed the present Constitution of the United States; and that the residue of the copies of said journal be deposited in the library of Congress, for the use of the members. APPROVED, January 19, 1820. III. RESOLUTION to authorize the publication of part of the secret journal of April 21, 1820. Congress, under the articles of confederation. The secret journal, paold Congress, pers, &c. of the heretofore con sidered confidential, from Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the secret journal, together with all the papers and documents connected with that journal, and all other papers and documents heretofore considered confidential, of the old Congress, from the date of the ratification of the definitive treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, to the formation of the present government, now remaining in the office of the Secretary of State, be published under the direction of the President of the United States, and that a thousand copies thereof be printed and deposited in the library, the President, subject to the disposition of Congress. APPROVED, April 21, 1820. IV. RESOLUTION for the distribution of certain copies of the journal of the convention which formed the Constitution. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, directed to transmit one copy of the journal of the Federal convention at Philadelphia, in one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, which formed the Constitution of the United States, to each of the members, now alive, of the said convention. APPROVED, May 8, 1820. the year 1783 to the year 1789, to be published, under the direction of and 1000 copies printed, &c. May 5, 1820. The Secretary of State to transmit a copy of the Journal to each of the surviving members of the Convention. The consent of Congress given to the V. RESOLUTION giving the consent of Congress to a compact concluded between the May 12, 1820. states of Kentucky and Tennessee, for the settlement of their boundary line. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress be, and the same is hereby, given to a compact or agreement, made and concluded, by and between the states of Kentucky and Tennessee, at Frankfort, in Kentucky, on the second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, to adjust and establish the boundary line between them, and for other purposes. APPROVED, May 12, 1820. VOL. III.-77 compact between Ken tucky and Ten nessee. ACTS OF THE SIXTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the thirteenth day of November, 1820, and ended on the third day of March, 1821. JAMES MONROE, President; DANIEL D. TOMPKINS, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; JOHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate pro tempore; JOHN W. TAYLOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Nov. 27, 1820, First session to be holden at Mobile, 3d Monday of Feb. 1821. STATUTE II. CHAP. I.-An Act to alter the terms of the district court in Alabama. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the first session of the district court for the district of Alabama, shall be holden at Mobile, on the third Monday of February, eighteen hundred and twenty-one; and thereafter, the stated sessions of said court, instead of the times heretosions at Mobile fore appointed, shall be holden, annually, as follows: At Mobile, on the first Mondays of January and June; and at Cahawba, on the first Mondays of April and November; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Stated ses and Cahawba. Process returnable accordingly. But one clerk SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all process which may have issued, or may hereafter issue, returnable to the next succeeding terms, as heretofore established, shall be held returnable, and be returned, to those terms to which they are severally changed by this act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be but one clerk and one set of for the district, who shall keep only one set of records, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. records. APPROVED, November 27, 1820. STATUTE II. Dec. 12, 1820. The Secreta ry of the Trea sury to pay three per cent. of the net proceeds of public lands sold in Il CHAP. II.-An Act to provide for paying to the state of Illinois three per cent. of the net proceeds arising from the sale of the public lands within the same. 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 shall, from time to time, and whenever the quarterly accounts of public moneys of the several land offices shall be settled, pay three per cent. of the net proceeds of the lands of the United States, lying within the state of Illinois, which, since the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, have been, or hereafter may be, the agent of the sold by the United States, after deducting all expenses incidental to the same, to such person or persons as may be authorized by the legislature linois after 1st Jan., 1819, to state. (a) See notes to the "Act to establish a district court in the state of Alabama," April 21, 1820, ch. 47, for a reference to the acts which have been passed relating to the district court of Alabama. 610 of the said state to receive the same; which sums, thus paid, shall be applied to the encouragement of learning within said state, in conformity to the provisions on this subject, contained in the act, entitled "An act to enable the people of the Illinois territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states," approved April eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and to no other purpose; and an annual account of the application of the same shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, by such officer of the state as the legislature thereof shall direct; and in default of such return being made, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to withhold the payment of any sums that may then be due, or which may thereafter become due, until a return shall be made, as herein required. APPROVED, December 12, 1820. To be applied for the encouragement of learning. Act of April 18, 1818, ch. 67. Annual account of the application of the moneys to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, or payment may be withheld. CHAP. III.—An Act to amend the act, entitled "An act to alter the times of the CHAP. VI.-An Act to alter the time of holding the district court in the district of Jan. 11, 1821. Mississippi. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the district court, in the district of Mississippi, heretofore holden on the first Mondays in May and December, shall hereafter hold its regular terms only on the first Monday in January and July; any law to the contrary notwithstand ing. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every writ, process, subpoena, or recognisance, returnable, according to law, or the tenor thereof, to either of the aforesaid terms, holden on the first Mondays in May and December, shall be returnable to the next succeeding term of said court, to be holden on the first Monday in January and July. APPROVED, January 11, 1821. The regular terms to be holden only on the 1st Monday in January and July. Writs, pro cess, &c., to be returned accordingly. (a) The acts relating to the district courts in Mississippi are: An act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States, within the state of Mississippi, April 3, 1818, ch. 29. An act to alter the time of holding the district court in the state of Mississippi, Jan. 11, 1821, cn. 6. An act to change the time of holding the court of the United States for the district of Mississippi, and the circuit court of the United States in the district of Ohio, May 5, 1830, ch. 89. An act to change the place of holding the district court of the United States for the district of Mississippi, March 3, 1835, ch. 35. An act to reorganize the district courts of the United States, in the state of Mississippi, June 18, 1838, ch. 115. STATUTE II. Jan. 17, 1821. [Obsolete.] Sums appropriated, For subsist ence. Arrearages. Quartermaster's depart ment. CHAP. VIII.-An Act making a partial appropriation for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. 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 they are hereby, appropriated, on account of the military service for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, to wit: For subsistence of the army of the United States, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For arrearages on the settlement of outstanding claims, twenty thousand dollars. For the quartermaster's department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said sums be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, January 17, 1821. STATUTE II. Feb. 9, 1821. [Obsolete.] Time allowed until 4th Jan., 1823, to obtain warrants and complete locations; and until 4th Jan., 1826, to return surveys and warrants to procure patents. Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 31. The provisions of the act of 3d March, 1807, revived, with limitation, as to time, as in the preceding section, &c. Proviso; no location on tracts previous ly patented or surveyed. CHAP. XI.-An Act to extend the time for locating Virginia military lund warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the general land office. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on continental establishment, their heirs or assigns, entitled to bounty lands within the tract of country reserved by the State of Virginia, between the little Miami and Sciota rivers, shall be allowed a further time of two years, from the fourth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, to obtain warrants and complete their locations, and the further time of four years, from the fourth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, to return their surveys and warrants, or certified copies of warrants, to the general land office, to obtain patents. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the act, entitled "An act authorizing patents to issue for lands located and surveyed by virtue of certain Virginia resolution warrants," passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, shall be revived and in force, with all its restrictions, except that the respective times allowed for making locations, and returning surveys thereon, shall be limited to the terms prescribed by the first section of this act, for the location and return of surveys on other warrants, and that the surveys shall be returned to the general land office: Provided, That no locations as aforesaid, in virtue of this or the preceding section of this act, shall be made on tracts of land for which patents had previously been issued, or which had been previously surveyed; and any patent which may, nevertheless, be obtained for land located contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be considered null and void. APPROVED, February 9, 1821. STATUTE II. March 2, 1821. CHAP. XII.—An Act for the relief of the purchasers of public lands prior to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and twenty. (b) Lands pur chased prior to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 1st July, 1820, States of America, in Congress assembled, That in all cases where lands (a) Acts relating to Virginia resolution land warrants, and sale of lands north-west of the river Ohio, vol. i. 464. (b) Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 92. Act of April 24, 1820, ch. 51. Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 57. Act of May 18, 1824, ch. 88. Act of May 4, 1826, ch. 34. have been purchased from the United States, prior to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and twenty, it shall be lawful for any such purchaser, or other person or persons, being the legal holder of any certificate or certificates of land, on or before the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, to file, with the register of the land office, where any tract of land has been purchased, a relinquishment, in writing, of any section, half section, quarter section, half quarter section, or legal subdivision of any fractional section, of land so purchased, upon which the whole purchase money has not been paid, and all sums paid on account of the part relinquished, shall be applied to the discharge of any instalments which may be, or shall hereafter become, due and payable upon such land, so purchased, as shall not have been relinquished, and shall be so applied and credited as to complete the payment on some one or more half-quarter sections where the payments by transfer are sufficient for that purpose: Provided, That all divisions and subdivisions, contemplated by this act, shall be made in conformity with the first section of an act making further provision for the sale of public lands, passed the twentyfourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty: And, provided, also, That the right of relinquishment hereby given shall, in no case, authorize the party relinquishing to claim any repayment from the United States: And, provided, also, That where any purchaser has purchased, at the same time, two or more quarter sections, he shall not be permitted to relinquish less than a quarter section. Interest re SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the interest which shall have accrued before the thirtieth day of September next, upon any debt to the mitted. United States, for public land, shall be, and the same is hereby, remitted and discharged. Debtors di classes. 3d class. Payment of the debts by the respective classes, in in SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the persons indebted to the United States, as aforesaid, shall be divided into three classes; the first class vided into three to include all such persons as shall have paid to the United States only one fourth part of the original price of the land by them respectively purchased or held; the second class to include all such persons as shall have paid to the United States only one-half part of such original price; and the third class to include all such persons as shall have paid to the United States, three-fourth parts of such original price; and the debts of the persons included in the first class shall be paid in eight equal annual instalments; the debts of the persons included in the second class shall be paid in six equal annual instalments; and the debts of the persons included in the third class shall be paid in four equal annual instalments, the first of which instalments, in each of the classes aforesaid, shall be paid in manner following, to wit: of the third class, on the thirtieth day of September next; of the second class, on the thirty-first day of December next; and of the first class, on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two; and the whole of the debt aforesaid, shall bear an equal annual interest at the rate of six per cent.: Provided always, That the same shall be remitted upon each and every of the instalments aforesaid which shall be punctually paid when the same shall become payable as aforesaid. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That in all cases where complete payment of the whole sum due, or which may become due, for any tract of land purchased from the United States, as aforesaid, shall be made on or before the thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, a deduction at the rate of thirty-seven and a half per centum, shall be allowed upon the sum remaining unpaid: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall authorize any discount upon payments made by a transfer of former payments under the provisions of the first section of this act. stalments. Times of paying the first instalment. Debt to bear an interest of 6 per cent per annum. Proviso. Deduction of 37 per cent. 1822. Proviso. Those who have laid off towns, part or SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That each and every individual or company that has laid off, on any lands by him or them purchased of the the whole of the |