SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to provide, by contract, to be approved by the President of the United States, for building a sea wall or pier at the Isles of Shoals, between Cedar Island and Smutty-Nose Island, on the coast of New Hampshire and Maine, conformably to the report of the commissioners appointed under the fourth section of the act passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, entitled "An act to authorize the building of lighthouses therein mentioned, and for other purposes," and that a sum, not exceeding eleven thousand five hundred dollars, is hereby appropriated for the purpose aforesaid, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and required to cause to be erected in the Bay of Delaware, at or near a place called the Shears, near Cape Henlopen, by contract or contracts, to be approved by the President of the United States, two piers of sufficient dimensions to be a harbour or shelter for vessels from the ice, if, after a survey made under his direction, the measure shall be deemed expedient; and provided that the jurisdiction of the site where such piers may be erected, shall be first ceded to the United States, according to the conditions in such case by law provided; and that, for the purpose of carrying the same into effect, there be appropriated the sum of twenty-two thousand seven hundred dollars, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the light authorized to be built on Cross Island, in the state of Maine be, and the same is hereby, directed to be built on the South point of Libby Island, and for building and completing the same, the sum of five hundred dollars, in addition to the former appropriation, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes to wit: Four thousand dollars to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase the patent right of David Melville and others, to a newly invented lamp for lighting lighthouses; and a sum not exceeding four thousand two hundred and forty dollars, for placing the same in lighthouses.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That for making and completing a survey of the coast of Florida, under the direction of the President of the United States, a sum of money, not exceeding six thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for carrying the same into effect. APPROVED, May 7, 1822.

CHAP. CXXII.-An Act confirming claims to lots in the town of Mobile, and to land in the former province of West Florida, which claims have been reported favourably on by the commissioners appointed by the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all the claims to lots in the town of Mobile, founded on complete grants derived from either the French, British, or Spanish, authorities, reported to the Secretary of the Treasury by the commissioner for the district east of Pearl river, appointed under the authority of "An act for ascertaining the titles and claims to land in that part of Louisiana which lies east of the island of New Orleans," or which were so reported by the register and receiver, acting as commissioners, under the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled "An act for adjusting claims to land, and

Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 100.

Certain

claims to lots in Mobile confirmed.

All claims to

reported by the commissioner, &c. founded on

private conveyances, &c. confirmed, &c.

establishing land offices, in the districts east of the island of New Orleans," which are contained in the reports of the commissioner, or of the regis ter and receiver acting as commissioners, and which are, in their opinion, valid, agreeably to the laws, usages, and customs, of the said governments, be, and the same are hereby, recognised as valid.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the claims to lots in the town aforesaid, reported as aforesaid, and contained in the reports of the commissioner, or of the register and receiver acting as commissioners, founded on orders of survey, requettes, permissions to settle, or other written evidences of claims, derived from either the French, British, or Spanish authorities, and bearing date prior to the twentieth of December, one thousand eight hundred and three, and which ought, in the opinion of the commissioner, to be confirmed, shall be confirmed in the same manner as if the title had been completed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the claims to lots in the town lots in Mobile, aforesaid, reported as aforesaid, and contained in the reports of the commissioner, or of the register and receiver acting as commissioners, founded on private conveyances which have passed through the office of the commandant, or other evidence, but founded, as the claimants allege, on grants lost by time and accident, and which ought, in the opinion of the commissioner, to be confirmed, shall be confirmed in the same manner as if the titles were in existence: Provided, That, in all such claims where the quantity claimed is not ascertained, no one claim shall be confirmed for a quantity exceeding seven thousand two hundred square feet.

Proviso.

For all other

Mobile, con

tained in the report of the

register and receiver, built upon, &c. on or

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That for all the other claims to lots in claims to lots in the town aforesaid, reported as aforesaid, which are contained in the report of the register and receiver, and which, by the said report, appear to have been built upon or improved and occupied, on or before the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, the claimants shall be entitled to grants therefor as donations: Provided, That in all such claims, where the quantity claimed is not ascertained, no one claim shall be confirmed for a quantity exceeding seven thousand two hundred square feet; And provided also, That all the confirmations and grants provided to be made by this act, shall amount only to a relinquishment for ever, on the part of the United States, of all right and title whatever to the lots of land so confirmed or granted.

before April 15,

1813, grants to issue as dona

tions.

Proviso.

Registers and receivers of the

land offices at

St. Helena and

Jackson Court

houses, to have

the same powers, &c. as are

given by the act supplementary,

&c.

Act of May 8, 1822, ch. 128.

STATUTE I. May 8, 1822.

So much of

the public lands

within the bounds describ

ed, in Illinois, to form a land dis

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the registers and receivers of the land offices at St. Helena Courthouse and at Jackson Courthouse, respectively, shall have the same powers to direct the manner in which all lands confirmed by this act shall be located and surveyed, and also to decide between the parties in all conflicting and interfering claims, as are given by the act, entitled "An act supplementary to the several acts for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices, in the districts east of the island of New Orleans."

APPROVED, May 8, 1822.

CHAP. CXXIV.—An Act to establish an additional land office in the state of
Illinois.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of the public lands of the United States as lies east of the Mississippi river, north of the line separating the thirteenth and fourteenth tiers of townships north of the base line, and west of the third principal meridian, in the state of Illinois, shall form a land district, for the disposal of the said lands, and for which purpose a land office shall be established at such may designate. place therein as the President of the United States shall designate, until the same shall be permanently fixed by law.

trict, &c.

A land office

as the President

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a register and receiver appointed to the said land office, to superintend the sales of the public lands in the said district, who shall reside at the place where the said office shall be established as aforesaid, give security in the same manner, in the same sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, and duties, and authority, shall, in every respect, be the same in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are or may be by law, provided in relation to the registers and receivers of public moneys in the several offices established for the sale of the public lands: Provided, That the said appointments shall not be made until a sufficient quantity of public lands shall have been surveyed within the said district to authorize, in the opinion of the President, a public sale of lands within the same.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the second, third, and fifth, sections of the act, entitled "An act to designate the boundaries of districts, and establish land offices, for the disposal of the public lands not heretofore offered for sale in the states of Ohio and Indiana," approved March third, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and the act, entitled "An act making further provision for the sale of the public lands," approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and twenty, be, and the same are hereby, made applicable to the said district and office, so far as they are not changed by subsequent laws of the United States. APPROVED, May 8, 1822.

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CHAP. CXXVI. An Act to designate the boundaries of a land district, and for the establishment of a land office, in the state of Indiana.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, for the sale of the unappropriated public lands in the state of Indiana, to which the Indian title is extinguished, the following district shall be formed, and a land office established: All the public lands as aforesaid, to which the Indian title was extinguished by the treaties concluded at St. Mary's in the month of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, lying east of the range line separating the first and second ranges east of the second principal meridian, extended north to the present Indian boundary and north of a line to be run separating the tiers of townships numbered twenty and twentyone, commencing on the old Indian boundary, in range thirteen east of the said principal meridian, in Randolph county, and the said district to be bounded on the east by the line dividing the states of Ohio and Indiana, shall form a district, for which a land office shall be established at Fort Wayne.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for the aforesaid district, a register of the land office and a receiver of public moneys; which appointments shall not be made for the aforesaid land district until a sufficient quantity of public lands shall have been surveyed within the said district as to authorize, in the opinion of the President, a public sale of land within the same; which register of the land office and receiver of public moneys, when appointed, shall each, respectively, give security in the same sums, and in the same manner, and whose compensation, emoluments, and duties, and authority, shall, in every respect, be the same, in respect to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are or may be provided by law in relation to the regis ters and receivers of public moneys in the several land offices established for the disposal of the public lands of the United States in the states of Ohio and Indiana.

All the pub

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the public lands within the aforesaid district, to which the Indian title has been extinguished, lic lands in the

district, not

granted or re

served, &c. ex

16, &c., to be

offered for sale to the highest bidder.

and which have not been granted to, or secured for, the use of dividual or individuals, or appropriated and reserved for any incept section No. pose by any existing treaties or laws, and with the exception of section any other purnumbered sixteen in each township, which shall be reserved for the support of schools therein, shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder, at the land office for the said district, under the direction of the register of the land office and receiver of public moneys, on such day or days as shall, by proclamation of the President of the United States, be designated for that purpose: the lands shall be sold in tracts of the same size, on the same terms and conditions, and in every respect, as provided by the act, entitled "An act making further provision for the sale of the public lands," approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and twenty.

The lands to be sold in tracts

&c. as provided by act of April 24, 1820, ch. 51.

The President may remove the land office to a suita

ble place when ever he judges it expedient. Five dollars

a day to the reg

ister and receiver.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States shall have power, and he is hereby authorized, to remove, whenever he shall judge it expedient so to do, the land office aforesaid, to such suitable place, within the said district, as he shall judge most proper.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the register of the land office and receiver of public moneys shall, each, receive five dollars for each day's attendance in superintending the public sales in the said district.

APPROVED, May 8, 1822.

STATUTE I.

May 8, 1822.

Mail-routes discontinued.

Vermont.

New York.

New Jersey. Maryland. Pennsylvania.

CHAP. CXXVII.—An Act to establish certain post-roads, and to discontinue others, 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 following mail-routes be discontinued; that is to say:

In Vermont. From Lynden to Wheelock, in the county of Caledonia.

In New York. From Utica, by Clinton, Chandler's store, Augusta, and Madison, to Hamilton Village.

From Chitteningo, alias Sullivan, to Madison; and that part of the route from Leicester to Olean, which is situated between Oil Creek and Olean.

In New Jersey. From Liberty Corner to Somerville.

In Maryland.-From Annapolis to Kent Island, and from thence, through Queenstown, to Centreville.

In Pennsylvania. From Uniontown, by Middletown, to Perryopolis.

From Londontown to Messenburg.

In Virginia. From Brown's store to Dickinson's store, in Franklin county.

In North Carolina.—From Haysville to Williamsborough.
From Winton, by Gale's Courthouse, to Sunbury.

From Waynesville, in North Carolina, to Houstonville, in South
Carolina.

In Kentucky. From Ross's post-office, Whitby county, to Monticello, in Wayne county.

From Manchester to the Hazelpatch, and from thence to Columbia.

In Ohio.-From the mouth of Little Scioto to Piketon.

In Arkansas. From Clark Courthouse to Hempstead Courthouse, and to the post of Washita.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following post-roads be established; to wit:

In Maine.-From Hallowell, by Silas Piper's, in Harlem, Jonathan Greely's, at the Four Corners in Palermo, to Montville.

In Vermont.-From Poultney, through Middletown, Tinmouth, and Willingford, to Mount Holly, in the county of Rutland.

From Montpelier, through Barre, Orange, and Topsham, to Newbury.

From Lynden, through Sutton, to Barton, in the county of Orleans.

Post-roads established. Maine. Vermont.

Massachu

In Massachusetts.-From Plymouth to Carver and Rochester.
From Holmes's Hole, in Tisbury, to Chilmark, in the island called setts.
Martha's Vineyard.

From Mendon, through Milford, Holiston, Sherburne, Natick, Needham, Newton, and Brighton, over the Mildam, to Boston.

From Milbury, in Worcester county, to the town of Providence, in Rhode Island, to pass through the towns of Sutton and Douglass, in Massachusetts, and the town of Burrellville and village of Chepackett, in Rhode Island.

From Belchertown, by Enfield, to Greenwich.

From Worcester to Providence, in Rhode Island, passing through Grafton, Upton, Mendon, Bellingham, Cumberland, and Pawtucket.

From Amesbury to Southampton, in New Hampshire, and thence to Kingston.

In Connecticut.-That the post-road from Hartford to New London, Connecticut. shall be by the Presbyterian meeting house, in the first society in the town of Hebron.

From New London, along the new turnpike road, to the town of Providence, in Rhode Island.

In New Hampshire. The post-road from Walpole to Newport shall be through the town of Langdon.

In New York-From Deposit to Stockport, in Pennsylvania. From Jay to Danville, thence, down the Ausable river, by Bullen's mills, to Keesville, in the town of Chesterfield.

From Schenectady, by Charlton, Galway, Providence, and Northampton, to Edinburgh, and from Edinburgh, back by Northampton, West Galway Church, and Glenville, to Schenectady.

From the Post-office in Luzerne, on the west side of the Hudson river, to the Post-office in Chester.

From Green, in the county of Chenango, to Ithaca, in Tompkins county.

From Cherry Valley, in the county of Otsego, to the village of Canajoharie, in the county of Montgomery.

From Champion, in the county of Jefferson, to Alexandria, by Felt's mills, Le Raysville, Evans's mills, Theresa, and Plessis.

From the village of Canandaigua to the village of Penn Yan, in the county of Ontario.

From Batavia, by the village of Lockport, to intersect the ridge road at William Molyneaux's, in the town of Cambia.

From Howard, in the county of Steuben, by Rathbun's settlement and Loon Lake settlement, to Conhocton.

From Bath to Catherine's, by Mount Washington and Bartle's mills, and, returning, by Mead's creek, to the mouth of Mud creek.

From South Danville to Goff's mills.

From Champlain to the town of Moores, thence, by Lawrence's mill's, and Beekmantown, to Plattsburg.

From Ithaca to Burdett, near the head of Seneca lake.

From Poughkeepsie, by Pleasant Valley, Salt Point, James Thorn's in Clinton Friends' meeting house in Stanford, the Federal store, and from thence to the Pine Plains' Post-office, in the town of North East.

New Hampshire.

New York.