of said territories to the United States; and he may, for these purposes, May employ the army, navy, and in order to maintain in said territories the authority of the United and militia. States, employ any part of the army and navy of the United States, and the militia of any state or territory, which he may deem necessary. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, until the end of the first session of the next Congress, unless provision for the temporary government of said territories be sooner made by Congress, all the military, civil, and judicial, powers exercised by the officers of the existing government of the same territories, shall be vested in such person and persons, and shall be exercised in such manner, as the President of the United [States] shall direct, for the maintaining the inhabitants of said territories in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and religion; and the laws of the United States relating to the revenue and its collection, subject to the modification stipulated by the fifteenth article of the said treaty, in favour of Spanish vessels and their cargoes, and the laws relating to the importation of persons of colour, shall be extended to the said territories. And the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby, authorized within the term aforesaid, to establish such districts for the collection of the revenue, and during the recess of Congress, to appoint such officers, whose commissions shall expire at the end of the next session of Congress, to enforce the said laws, as to him shall seem expedient. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint, during the recess of the Senate, a commissioner and surveyor, whose commissions shall expire at the end of the next session of Congress, to meet the commissioner and surveyor who may be appointed on the part of Spain, for the purposes stipulated in the fourth article of said treaty; and that the President be, and he is hereby, further authorized to take all other measures which he shall judge proper, for carrying into effect the stipulations of the said fourth article. of Organization government, as the President may direct. Revenue laws, and laws prohibiting the importation of persons of colour, be in force. President authorized to establish collection districts, and appoint officers. to President to appoint a comsurveyor, &c. missioner and President may take all other measures neces sary, &c. Board of three commissioners, accord cle of the treaty. President may SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That a board of three commissioners shall be appointed, conformably to the stipulations of the eleventh article of the said treaty: and the President of the United States is hereby ing to 11th artiauthorized to take any measures which he may deem expedient for organizing the said board of commissioners, and, for this purpose, may appoint a secretary well versed in the French and Spanish languages, and a clerk; which appointments, if made during the recess of the Senate, shall, at the next meeting of that body, be subject to nomination for their advice and consent. organize the Secretary. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the compensation of the re- Compensation. spective officers, for whose appointment provision is made by this act, shall not exceed the following sums: The commissioner to be appointed conformably to the fourth article, at the rate, by the year, of three thousand dollars. To the surveyor, two thousand dollars. To each of the three commissioners to be appointed conformably to the eleventh article of the treaty, three thousand dollars. To the secretary of the board, two thousand dollars. Of commissioner under the 4th article. Of surveyor. Of the commissioners under the 11th article. Of the secretary. Clerk. 100,000 dol SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That, for carrying this act into execution, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and hereby is, appropriated, to be taken from any moneys in the treasury not otherwise lars for carrying appropriated. APPROVED, March 3, 1821. this act into execution. STATUTE II. March 3, 1821. [Obsolete.] 2500 dolls. per annum to each commissioner. CHAP. XL.-An Act establishing the salaries of the commissioners and agents appointed under the treaty of Ghent. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, from and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, each commissioner now appointed, or who may be appointed agreeably to the provisions of the treaty of Ghent, shall be entitled to receive at the rate of 2500 dolls. per twenty-five hundred dollars per annum; and each agent appointed, or annum to each agent. In full. Proviso. Commissioners and agents not entitled, before Jan. 1, 1821, to more than 4444 dollars per annum in full, &c. 25,000 dollars for payment of salaries, &c., during 1821. who may be appointed, as aforesaid, shall be entitled to receive at the rate of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum; which said sums, so allowed to said officers, respectively, shall be a full compensation for services and all personal expenses incurred while in the performance of the duties of their respective offices: Provided, That the compensation by this section allowed, shall not be continued longer than two years from the said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That each commissioner and agent shall not be entitled to receive, for services performed in their respective offices, before the said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, any greater sum than the rate of four thousand four hundred and forty-four dollars per annum, which shall be considered a full compensation for services, and all personal expenses incurred while in the discharge of their respective duties. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the payment of the salaries of the said commissioners and agents, and for the expenses under the several commissions under the treaty of Ghent, for the present year. APPROVED, March 3, 1821. STATUTE II. March 3, 1821. [Obsolete.] the Debentures issued upon exportation of spirits distilled CHAP. XLI.-An Act to authorize the collectors of customs to pay debentures issued on the exportation of loaf sugar and spirits distilled from molasses. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all debentures which have been, or may hereafter be issued upon the exportation of spirits distilled from molasses, or sugar refined within the United States, shall or refined sugar, be payable within thirty days after the passing of this act, or thirty days from molasses, to be payable within thirty days, &c. after the date of their issue, as the case may be, and shall be discharged by the collector of the customs, by whom they may have been, or shall be, issued, out of the product of the duties upon imports and tonnage; any thing in any act or acts of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding. APPROVED, March 3, 1821. STATUTE II. March 3, 1821. CHAP. XLII.—An Act to extend the time for unlading vessels arriving from [Obsolete.] Vessels exceeding 300 tons allowed 20 days for unlading. foreign ports, in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That when the capacity of any vessel, arriving with a cargo from a foreign port, shall exceed three hundred tons, the term for unlading such vessel shall hereafter be twenty days from the report of arrival, Sundays excepted. APPROVED, March 3, 1821. CHAP. XLIII.-An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States to sell and convey a certain tract of land in Northumberland county, in the state of Virginia. STATUTE II. March 3, 1821. [Obsolete.] The Secretary of the Treasury authorized to sell the right of the United States to a piece of land formerly owned by Presly Thornton, in 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 of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to sell and dispose of, at public or private sale, all the estate, right, title, interest, claim, and demand, of the United States of America, of, in, and to, all that certain tract, or piece of land, situate in Northumberland county, in the state of Virginia, formerly owned by Presly Thornton, of the said county and state, and late of Sharp Delany, containing Virginia. about two thousand five hundred acres, be the same more or less; the same being the premises which William Lewis and Thomas Robinson, by deed of indenture, executed on the second day of June, anno domini one thousand eight hundred and nine, granted and conveyed to the United States; the moneys arising from the said sale to be appropriated towards the payment of a debt due from the late Sharp Delany to the United States; and the residue thereof, if any there be, to be paid over to the legal representatives of the said Sharp Delany. APPROVED, March 3, 1821. CHAP. XLIV.—An Act to regulate the location of land warrants, and the issuing of patents, in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the holders, by assignment, of warrants issued under the acts of Congress, of the fifth of March, eighteen hundred and sixteen, the third of March eighteen hundred and seventeen, to Canadian volunteers, may be, and hereby are, authorized to locate the said warrants, and to receive patents therefor in their own names, as had been the practice before the twenty-sixth of December, eighteen hundred and nineteen: Provided, however, That in no case shall lands be so located, until, after having been exposed to public sale, shall remain unsold. APPROVED, March 3, 1821. CHAP. XLV.-An Act to continue in force, for a further time, the act, entitled "An act for establishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, 'That the act, entitled "An act for establishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes," passed on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and which was, by subsequent acts, continued in force until the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, shall be, and the same is hereby, further continued in force until the third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and no longer. APPROVED, March 3, 1821. CHAP. XLVI.-An Act to release French ships and vessels, entering the ports of the United States prior to the thirtieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, from the operation of the act, entitled "An act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships and vessels," and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the act, VOL. III.-81 3H 2 Appropriation of the moneys arising from the sale. of the act of May 15th, 1820, not to extend to French vessels, &c. The Secreta sury to refund the extra duties to vessels, &c. 1820, ch. 126. entitled "An act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships and vessels," passed May fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, shall not extend to, or operate upon, any French ship or vessel that shall have entered into any port within the jurisdiction of the United States prior to the thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury, ry of the Trea- after deducting a tonnage duty equal to that paid by every French ship or vessel which entered the ports within the jurisdiction of the United States prior to the passage and operation of the act, entitled "An act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships and vessels,"passed May fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, from the tonnage duty collected from French ships and vessels, by virtue of the above-recited act, between the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and the thirtieth day of September following, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay and refund the remainder of such tonnage duty, free from costs and charges, to any person or persons who shall have authority to receive the same. In case of a convention of navigation or commerce, the duty on French SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in the event of the signature of any treaty or convention concerning the navigation or commerce between the dominions of the United States and France, the President of the United States be, and is hereby, authorized, should he deem the same expedient, by proclamation to suspend, until the end of the next session of Congress, the operation of the aforesaid act, entitled “An act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships and vessels, and for other purposes;" and, also, to suspend, as aforesaid, all other duties on French vessels, or the goods imported in the same, which may exceed the duties on American vessels, and on similar goods imported in the same. APPROVED, March 3, 1821. STATUTE II. March 3, 1821. Act of April 29, 1816, ch. 138. First section of the act of CHAP. XLVII.—An Act to amend the act, entitled “An act for the gradual increase of the navy of the United States." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the first section of the act, entitled "An act for the gradual increase of the navy of the United States," approved April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixteen, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, instead of the appropriation therein contained, there shall be, and is hereby, appropriated, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars per annum, for six years, from the year eighteen hundred and twenty-one, inclusive, to be applied to carry into effect the purposes of the said act. APPROVED, March 3, 1821. STATUTE II. March 3, 1821. CHAP. XLVIII.-An Act to establish a port of entry in the district of Sandusky, in the state of Ohio, and for other purposes. Portland to be the port of entry after 1st May, 1821. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, from and after the first day of May next, the town of Portland in the district of Sandusky, in the state of Ohio, shall be the port of entry for that district; and that from and after that time the present port of entry established at Danbury shall cease to be the port of entry for said district. APPROVED, March 3, 1821. STATUTE II. CHAP. XLIX.-An Act to amend the act, entitled "An act to provide for taking March 3, 1821. the fourth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, and for other purposes." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, instead of the time prescribed in the above-recited act, in which the marshals and their assistants should perform the various duties assigned them by the said act, the same is hereby enlarged to the first day of September next. APPROVED, March 3, 1821. Act of March 14, 1820, ch. 24. Time enlarged till Sept. 1, 1821. STATUTE II. CHAP. L.-An Act to authorize the clerk of the district court of the United States March 3, 1821. for the district of Louisiana, to appoint a deputy to aid him in the discharge of the duties of his office. The clerk of the district court of Louisiana authorized to appoint a Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the clerk of the district court of the United States for the district of Louisiana, shall be authorized to appoint a deputy to aid him in the discharge of the duties of his office; and that the said clerk shall be, in all respects, liable deputy, &c. for the acts of his said deputy. APPROVED, March 3, 1821. STATUTE II. CHAP. LI.—An Act to amend an act, entitled "An act for regulating process in the March 3, 1821. courts of the United States." (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That in all suits and actions in any district court of the United States, in which it shall appear that the judge of such court is any ways concerned in interest, or has been of counsel for either party, or is so related to, or connected with, either party, as to render it improper for him, in his opinion, to sit on the trial of such suit or action, it shall be the duty of such judge, on application of either party, to cause the fact to be entered on the records of the court; and, also, an order that an authenticated copy thereof, with all the proceedings in such suit or action, shall be forthwith certified to the next circuit court of the district; and if there be no circuit court in such district, to the next circuit court in the state; and if there be no circuit court in such state, to the most convenient circuit court in an adjacent state; which circuit court shall, upon such record being filed with the clerk thereof, take cognisance thereof, in the like manner as if such suit or action had been originally commenced in that court, and shall proceed to hear and determine the same accordingly; and the jurisdiction of such circuit court shall extend to all such cases so removed, as were cognisable in the district court from which the same was removed. APPROVED, March 3, 1821. Act of May 8, 1792, ch. 36, vol. i. 275. In suits in a district court, judge may be interested, &c. where the he must enter the fact on record, &c. Proceedings to be certified to the next circuit court, &c. Circuit court to take cognisance and proceed, &c. STATUTE II. CHAP. LII.—An Act to authorize the building of lighthouses therein mentioned, March 3, 1821. and for other purposes. The Secre tary of the Treasury to provide for building the 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 is hereby, authorized and empowered to provide, by contract, for building lighthouses, and placing buoys, on the following lighthouses and (a) See notes to act of Sept. 29, 1789, vol. i. 93, and notes to act of May 8, 1792, vol. i. 275. |