Sums appropriated for Work on the centre building. Culvert to the President's house, &c. Grounds President's house, the following sums of money be, and hereby are appropriated. For continuing the work on the centre building, the sum of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For constructing a culvert to the President's house, painting, and necessary repairs of the same, the sum of three thousand three hundred dollars. For improving the grounds around the Capitol, twelve hundred and fifty around the Cap- dollars. itol. Out of moneys Proviso. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said several sums of in the treasury. money be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, however, That no money appropriated by this act shall be paid to any person for his compensation or perquisites, 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. APPROVED, May 1, 1822. STATUTE I. May 3, 1822. The Secretary of the Treasury from time to time, to pay 3 per cent, of the net proceeds of the sales of public lands in the state of Missouri since January 1, 1821, deducting expenses, &c. Act of March 6, 1820, ch. 22. The sums to CHAP. XLVI.-An Act to provide for paying to the state of Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama, 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 in the said state of Missouri shall be settled, pay three per cent. of the net proceeds of the sales of the lands of the United States, lying within the state of Missouri, which since the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twentyone, have been, or hereafter may be, sold by the United States, after deducting all expenses incidental to the same, to such person or persons as may or shall be authorized by the legislature of the said state of Missouri to receive the same; which sum or sums, thus paid, shall be applied to the making of public roads and canals within the said state of Missouri, under the direction of the legislature thereof, according to the provisions on this subject contained in the act of Congress of the sixth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled "An act to authorize the people of the Missouri 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, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories," and to no other purpose. And an annual account of the same shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, by such officer or person of the state as the legislature thereof shall direct, and of its the Secretary of application, if any be made; and, in default of such return being made, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to withhold the payment of any sum or sums that may then be due, or which thereafter may become due, until a return shall be made as herein required. be applied to the making of roads and canals in Missouri, under direction of the legislature, &c. Account of the application of the money to be transmitted to the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury to pay 3 per cent. of the net proceeds of the sales of public lands within the SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, from time to time, and whenever the quarterly accounts of public moneys of the several land offices in the state of Mississippi shall be settled, pay three per cent. of the net proceeds of the sales of the lands of the United States lying within the state of Mississippi, which, since the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, have been, or hereafter may be, sold by the United States, after deducting all expenses incident to the same, to such person or persons as may or shall be authorized by the legislature of the said state of Mississippi to receive the same; which sum or sums, thus paid, shall be applied to making public roads and canals within the said state, according to the paid to be ap- provisions on this subject contained in the act, entitled “An act to plied to the state of Mississippi, deduct ing expenses, to any person au thorized to receive it. The sums thus enable the people of the western part of the Mississippi 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," and to no other purpose; and an annual account of the same shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, by such officer or person of the state as the legislature thereof shall direct, and of its application, if any be made, and in default of such return being made, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to withhold the payment of any sum or sums that may then be due, or which thereafter may become due, until a return shall be made as herein required. making of roads and canals in Mississippi, &c. 1817, ch. 23. Annual account to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury to pay three per cent, of the net proceeds of the sales of public state of Alabama, since Sept. lands within the 1, 1819, deducting expenses, to any person au thorized to re ceive it. The sums thus paid to be applied to the making roads, canals, &c., in Alabama. 1819, ch. 47. Annual account of the ap SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, from time to time, and whenever the quarterly accounts of public moneys of the several land offices in the state of Alabama shall be settled, pay three per cent. of the net proceeds of the sales of the lands of the United States lying within the state of Alabama, which since the first day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, have been, or hereafter may be, sold by the United States, after deducting all expenses incident to the same, to such person or persons as may or shall be authorized by the legislature of the said state of Alabama to receive the same; which sum or sums, thus paid, shall be applied to making public roads and canals, and improving the navigation of rivers, within the said state of Alabama, under the direction of the legislature thereof, according to the provisions on this subject contained in the act, entitled "An act to enable the people of the Alabama 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," and to no other purpose; and an annual account of the same shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, by such officer or person of the state as the legislature thereof shall direct, and of its application, if any be made; and in default of such return being made, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to withhold the payment of any sum or sums that may then be due, or which thereafter may become due, until a return shall be made as herein required: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall not allow to either of the said states of Mississippi and Alabama three per cent. on the net proceeds of the sales of public lands within the limits of the late Mississippi territory, after deducting incidental expenses, until the sum of one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, stipulated to be paid by the United States to the state of Georgia, for the cession of the late Mississippi territory, now composing the states of Mississippi and Alabama, shall have been first paid and deducted; nor until the stock created under the provisions of the act of Congress of the thirty-first of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled "An act providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands in the Mississippi territory," (a) and the act supplementary thereto, shall have been redeemed, or if not entirely redeemed 23, 1815, ch. 24. the residue to be deducted from the net proceeds. APPROVED, May 3, 1822. CHAP. XLVII.-An Act relating to treasury notes. (b) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, from and after the passing of this act, no treasury note shall be received in payment on account of the United States, or paid, or funded, except at the treasury of the United States. APPROVED, May 3, 1822. plication of the money to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury. Proviso. Act of Jan. STATUTE I. May 3, 1822. No treasury notes to be re ceived in payment, or paid, or funded, ex cept at the Treasury. (a) An act providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands in the Mississippi territory, March 31, 1814, ch. 39. (b) For the acts relating to treasury notes, see vol. ii. 766. STATUTE I. May 4, 1822. See the act of May 26, 1824, ch. 187. Persons engaged in the campaign of 1818, who lost horses in consequence of the United States failing to supply forage, to be paid the value of them. CHAP. XLVIII.—An Act for the relief of the officers, volunteers, and other persons, engaged in the late campaign against the Seminole Indians. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any officer, volunteer, ranger, cavalry, or other persons engaged in the campaign of one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, against the Seminole Indians, who has sustained damage by reason of the loss of any horse or horses, which in consequence of the government of the United States failing to supply sufficient forage, while engaged in said service, died, or were unavoidably abandoned and lost, shall be allowed and paid the value thereof. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said officers, volunteers, and rangers, cavalry or other persons, for the loss of any necessary equiTo be paid also, for loss of page of said horse or horses, or for any guns lost in said service or which necessary horse were left in possession of the United States, or of any officer thereof, equipage, or shall be allowed and paid the value thereof; said claims to be paid out guns lost or left of in possession of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, the United That, if any payment shall have been made to any officer or soldier aforeStates. said, for the use and risk, after the death or abandonment of his horse, Out of money such amount shall be deducted from the value thereof, unless said officer in the treasury. Proviso. Proviso. Proviso. The President to prescribe the rules and regulations of auditing and settling the claims. STATUTE I. May 4, 1822. [Obsolete.] Sums appropriated for the support of the navy for the year 1822. Pay and subsistence of officers and pay of seamen, &c. Provisions, in addition, &c. Medicines, &c. Repairs of or soldier shall show that he was remounted, in which case the deduction shall only extend to the time such officer or soldier served on foot: And provided also, That, if any payment shall have been made to any officer or soldier on account of clothing, such payment shall be deducted from the value of his horse or accoutrements: And provided further, That no claim shall be allowed under the provisions of this act, until proper evidence shall have been received by the accounting officers from the company to which the claimants shall have belonged, showing the number of horses lost in said company in manner aforesaid, the time when lost, and the name of the owner. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the accounting officer of the Treasury Department shall audit and settle those claims, under such rules and regulations as the President of the United States may prescribe. APPROVED, May 4, 1822. CHAP. XLIX.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, for defraying the expenses of the Navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and twentytwo, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated: For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, in addition to the sum of one hundred thousand dollars already appropriated, the sum of eight hundred and sixty-one thousand four hundred and sixtysix dollars. For provisions, in addition to the sum of twenty thousand dollars already appropriated, and to an unexpended balance of thirty thousand dollars, the sum of two hundred and sixty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars. For medicines, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, thirty-two thousand dollars. For the repairs of vessels, in addition to the sum of twenty thousand vessels, in ad- dollars already appropriated, the sum of three hundred and eighty-eight dition, &c. thousand dollars. For improvements of navy yards, docks, and wharves, fourteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. Improvement of navy-yards, &c. For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, store-keepers, inspectors of timber, clerks of the yards, and artificers, thirty-six thousand four hun- intendents, &c. dred and fifty dollars. Labourers For labourers and teams employed in loading and unloading vessels, piling, docking and removing timbers, stores, et cetera, and fuel for the and teams, &c. engine, twenty thousand dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, twenty-five thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, in addition to the sum of twenty thousand dollars already appropriated, two hundred and ten thousand dollars. For the pay and subsistence of the marine corps, in addition to an unexpended balance of twenty-two thousand dollars, one hundred and fortyseven thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars. For clothing the same, in addition to an unexpended balance of six thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents, the sum of twenty-two thousand seven hundred and thirty-six dollars. For fuel for nine hundred and thirty-eight non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, six thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For military stores for the same, the unexpended balance of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, being eleven thousand one hundred and eighty dollars and fifteen cents. For contingent expenses for the same; that is to say: fuel for commissioned officers, bed sacks, repairing barracks, transportation, and travelling expenses to officers, postage of letters, armorers, and armorers' tools, and stationery, with extra rations to officers commanding posts, fourteen thousand dollars. To make good a deficit in the contingent expenses of the marine corps, which accrued prior to the year eighteen hundred and twenty-one, the sum of nine thousand one hundred and nine dollars and twenty-two cents. Ordnance, &c. Contingent expenses. Pay, &c. of marine corps. Clothing marine corps. Fuel for marine corps. Military stores for marine corps. Contingent expenses. To make good a deficit in the contingent expenses. Out of money in the treasury. Proviso. Proviso. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations hereinbefore made, 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 or perquisites, 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, further, That nothing in this section contained shall extend to balances arising solely from the deprecia [depreciation] of treasury notes received by such person to be expended in the public Where pay is service. But in all cases where the pay or salary of any person is with- withheld, the held in pursuance of this act, it shall be the duty of the accounting accounting offiofficer, if demanded by the party, his agent or attorney, to report forth-te, on demand, with to the agent of the Treasury Department the balance due, and it shall be the duty of said agent, within sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such defaulter. APPROVED, May 4, 1822. to report to the agent of the treasury, &c. STATUTE I. May 4, 1822. The Act of CHAP. L.-An Act to repeal the act, entitled "An act to encourage vaccination." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the act passed the Feb. 27,1813, twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, entitled "An act to encourage vaccination," be, and the same is hereby, repealed. ch. 37, to encourage vacci nation, repeal ed. APPROVED, May 4, 1822. STATUTE I. May 4, 1822. District court held at New CHAP. LI.-An Act to alter the times of holding the district court in the district of New Jersey. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United to be hereafter States of America, in Congress assembled, That the district court for the district of New Jersey shall hereafter be held at New Brunswick on the second Tuesdays of March and September, and at Burlington on the third Tuesdays of May and November, in every year, any thing in any act heretofore passed to the contrary notwithstanding. Brunswick and at Burlington. STATUTE I. May 4, 1822. Appropriation for missions to such independent nations on the American continent as the President may deem proper. APPROVED, May 4, 1822. CHAP. LII.-An Act making an appropriation to defray the expenses of missions to the independent nations on the American continent. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, for such missions to the independent nations on the American continent, as the President of the United States may deem proper, there be, and hereby is, appropriated, a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, May 4, 1822. STATUTE I. May 4, 1822. All the right of the United States to fines assessed on citizens of Pennsylvania for non-performance of militia duty, &c., vested in that state. Moneys in the hands of marshals, &c., to be paid to treasurer of the state. Fines to be recovered as CHAP. LIII.—An Act vesting in the state of Pennsylvania the right of the United States to all fines assessed for the non-performance of militia duty during the late war with Great Britain. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all right which the United States have to the fines assessed upon the citizens of the state of Pennsylvania, for the non-performance of militia duty during the late war with Great Britain, shall be, and the same hereby is, vested in the said state. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all moneys in the hands of those who now are, or heretofore have been, marshals or deputy marshals, which may have been collected from the fines aforesaid, after deducting the expense of assessing and collecting, shall be paid by them, respectively, to the treasurer of the said state. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said fines shall be recovered by the said state under such regulations, provisions, and restric the state legis- tions, as shall be prescribed by the legislature thereof. lature may pre scribe. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said state, provided it shall If Pennsylva- accept of the provisions of this act, shall account to the United States for the sum of three thousand two hundred and thirty-eight dollars and forty-six cents, if that amount of the said fines shall be collected, it being the expenses of three courts martial, held in the said state, for the trial of said delinquents, of which Colonel Thomas C. Miller, Colonel James Wood, and Colonel Thomas Moore, were, respectively, presidents. APPROVED, May 4, 1822. nia accepts of the provisions of this act, that state is to account, &c. (a) Acts relating to the district courts in New Jersey: An act to establish the judicial system of the United States, Sept. 24, 1789, ch. 20, sec. 3. An act for altering the times and places of holding certain courts therein mentioned, March 3, 1801, ch, 32, sec. 5. An act to repeal certain acts respecting the organization of the courts of the United States, and for other purposes, March 2, 1802, ch. 8, sec. 2. An act to alter the times of holding the district court in the district of New Jersey, May 4, 1822, th. 51. |