CHAP. LXXII.-An Act respecting the punishment of piracy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, from and after the passage of this act, the district courts of the United States, in districts where no circuit courts are holden, shall have cognisance of all cases arising under an act of Congress, approved May fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled "An act to continue in force an act to protect the commerce of the United States, and punish the crime of piracy; and, also, to make further provisions for punishing the crime of piracy," and shall have the same power and jurisdiction therein, as the circuit courts of the United States, under the same act. APPROVED, March 3, 1823.
STATUTE II.
March 3, 1823.
May 15, 1820. ch. 113. District courts
to take cognisance of piracy.
I. RESOLUTION requiring from the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House March 1, 1823. of Representatives, an annual statement of the expenditures from the contingent fund of the two Houses.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, required to lay before the two Houses, respectively, at the commencement of each session of Congress, a table or statement showing the names and compensation of the clerks employed in their respective offices, and the names and compensation of the messengers of the respective Houses; together with the detailed statement of the items of expenditure of the contingent fund of the respective Houses for the next immediately preceding year; in which statement the disbursements shall be arranged under the following heads, to wit: first, printing; second stationery, and distinguishing under this head the articles furnished for the use of the members, from those furnished for the offices of the secretary and clerk, and specifying the number of reams of each kind of paper; third, book-binding; fourth, fuel; fifth, newspapers, specifying under this head the amount of orders given at the preceding session, as well as the payments made; sixth, the post-offices; seventh, the repairs and preservation of the furniture; eighth, services of messengers and horses; ninth, miscellaneous items not included under the preceding heads. Which statements shall exhibit, also, the several sums drawn by the said secretary and clerk, respectively, from the treasury, and the balances, if any, remaining in their hands.
Secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives renish a detailed quired to furstatement of their expendi
tures under different heads.
II. RESOLUTION to direct the withholding of the compensation of certain prize March 3, 1823.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of July, next ensuing, no prize agent who has not accounted for the prize moneys with which he has heretofore been intrusted for the benefit of the officers and crews of any public armed vessel or vessels of the United States, shall receive from the treasury of the United States any salary or compensation to which he may be entitled, until he shall have accounted for, or repaid into the treasury, all sums so intrusted to him for disbursement.
Compensation to be withheld
from certain
prize agents.
Notes of the acts relative to Alabama, - 489 Organization of the convention, - 491 Propositions offered to the convention, An act for establishing a District Court in the | State of Alabama, April 21, 1820, 564 Note of acts relating to the District Court of Alabama, 564 Resolution declaring the admission of the State of Alabama into the Union, Decem- ber 14, 1819, 608 An act to alter the terms of the District Court in Alabama, December 27, 1820,
Alexandria County, District of Columbia.
A company incorporated to make a certain turnpike road in the county of Alexan- dria,
American Captives of the late War. Provisions of the act of March 1, 1817, chap. 29, respecting the ransom of American captives, extended, March 3, 1823, 788 Accounts for clothing furnished to the cap- tives to be adjusted, - - 788
Apportionment of Representatives in Congress. Representatives in the House of Representa- tives according to the fourth census, March 7, 1822, - 651 Appropriations.
An act making appropriations for furnishing the Senate chamber, and repairing the north wing of the Capitol, July 26, 1813, 48 Additional appropriations for the support of government for the year 1813, August 2, 1813, (obsolete,)
An act making partial appropriations for the year 1814, January 11, 1814, (obsolete,) 93 An act making appropriations for the support of the military establishment of the United States for the year 1814, March 19, 1814, (obsolete,) · 104 An act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States for the year 1814, (obsolete,) · 105 Appropriations for the support of government for the year 1814, (obsolete,)
106 An act making further appropriations for the service, of the year 1814, April 18, 1814, (obsolete,) Additional appropriations for the service of the year 1814, Dec. 15, 1814, (obsolete,) 152 Appropriation for repairing or rebuilding the public buildings in Washington, February 18, 1815, (obsolete,) 205 Appropriations for the support of government for the year 1815, February 16, 1815, (ob- solete,) An act making appropriations for support of the military establishment for the year 1815, (obsolete,) - 222 Appropriation of two hundred thousand dol- lars in addition to the sum heretofore appro- priated to purchase a stock of ship-timber for ship building, &c., Appropriation for preparing registers of ships and vessels, (obsolete,)
Appropriations for the support of the govern- ment, April 16, 1816, (obsolete,) Appropriations for the support of the navy for 1816, (obsolete,)
Appropriation for carrying into effect a treaty with the Cherokee Indians, April 29, 1816, (obsolete,) Appropriations for the support of the military establishment of the United States, April 29, 1816, (obsolete,) 330 An act making further appropriation for the year 1816, April 30, 1816, (obsolete,) 340 An act making a partial appropriation for the subsistence of the army for the year 1817, January 22, 1817, (obsolete,) Appropriations for the support of govern- ment in 1817, (obsolete,) - Appropriations for the support of the military establishment in 1817, (obsolete,) 359 Provision for furnishing the house of the Pre- sident of the United States, (obsolete,)- 362 An act making additional appropriations to repay the expenses of the army and militia during the late war with Great Britain, March 3, 1817, (obsolete,) - 378 An act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States for the year 1819, (obsolete,) - 382 The President restrained from making trans- fers of appropriations for specified objects to other purposes, March 3, 1817, Appropriation for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties, (obsolete,) - Appropriations for carrying into effect treaties with certain Indian tribes, March 3, 1817, 393 (obsolete,) Appropriation for payment of arrearages in- curred for the support of the military es- tablishment previous to 1817, February 16, 1818, (obsolete,) 405 Appropriations for the military establishment for the year 1818, February 19, 1818, (ob-| solete,) 407 Appropriations for the support of the navy in 1818, May 18, 1818, (obsolete,) 411 Appropriations for the support of the govern- ment in 1818, April 9, 1818, (obsolete,) 417 An act supplementary to an act making ap- propriations for the year 1818, April 20, 1818, (obsolete,) Appropriation for the military service of the United States for the year 1818, February 15, 1818, (obsolete,) Appropriations for the support of the navy for the year 1819, February 16, 1819, (obso- lete,) 483 An act making appropriations for the support of government for the year 1819, March 3, 1819, (obsolete,)
An act making appropriations for the public
buildings, for the purchase of a lot of land, and furnishing water for the use of certain public buildings, March 3, 1819, (obsolete,) 516
An act making appropriations to carry into effect treaties concluded with several Indian tribes therein mentioned, March 3, 1819, (obsolete,) - 517 An act making partial appropriations for the military service of the year 1820, January 14, 1820, (obsolete,)
An act in addition to the "Act making appro- priations for the support of the navy of the United States for the year 1819," January 14, 1820, (obsolete,)
- 540 An act making appropriations to supply the deficiency in the appropriations heretofore made for the completion of the repairs of the north and south wing of the capitol, for furnishing the President's house, and the erection of two new executive offices, Feb- ruary 10, 1820, (obsolete,) - 541 An act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States for the year 1820, March 17, 1820, (obsolete,) 553 An act making appropriations for the support of government for the year 1820, April 11, 1820, (obsolete,)
608 An act making partial appropriations for the military service of the United States for the year 1821, January 17, 1821, (obsolete,)612 An act making appropriations for the support of government for the year 1821, March 3, 1821, 628 An act making appropriations for the military service of the year 1821, March 3, 1821, (obsolete,) - 633 An act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States for the year 1821, March 3, 1821, (obsolete,) - 634 An act making appropriations for the public buildings, March 3, 1821, (obsolete,) - 635 An act making partial appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States during the year 1822, February 19, 1822, (obsolete,) - 650 An act making appropriations for the military service of the United States during the year 1822, and towards the service of the year 1823, March 15, 1822, (obsolete,)
652 An act making appropriations for the support of government for the year 1822, and for other purposes, April 30, 1822, (obsolete,) - 668 An act making an appropriation to defray the expenses of missions to the independent
An act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States for the year 1822, and for other purposes, May 4, 1822, (obsolete,)
676 An act making further appropriations for the military service of the United States, and for other purposes, May 7, 1822, (obsolete,) 686 Appropriation for the compensation of the Senate and House of Representatives for 1823, 721 An act making appropriations for the military service of the United States for the year 1823, March 3, 1823, (obsolete,) - 748 An act making appropriations for the support of government for the year 1823, March 3, 1823, 757 An act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States for the year 1823, March 3, 1823, (obsolete,) 763 An act making appropriations for certain forti- fications of the United States for the year 1823, and for other purposes, March 3, 1823, (obsolete,)
783 An act making appropriations for the public buildings, March 3, 1823, (obsolete,) Repairs of the post-office, &c.,
An act granting further time for registering claims to lands in the late district of Arkan- sas, in the territory of Missouri, and for other purposes, August 2, 1813, (obsolete,) Further time given for the registering of claims to lands in the territory of Arkan- sas, 86 Note of the acts relating to the territory, after- wards the state of Arkansas, 493 An act establishing a separate territorial go- vernment in the southern part of the terri- tory of Missouri, March 2, 1819, 493 Organization of the government of the Ar- kansas territory,
493 The act providing for the government of the territory of Missouri in force in the terri- tory of Arkansas, - 565
Army of the United States.
Five additional regiments to be raised, act of July 5, 1818, (obsolete,) 3 An act to regulate the allowance of forage to officers in the army of the United States, July 22, 1813,
Repeal of the act which authorized the Presi- dent to accept the services of volunteer corps, and of the act for raising a corps of sea fencibles, February 27, 1815, The medical staff extended, April 24, 1816, (repealed,)
Judge-advocates and chaplains,
Pay and emoluments,
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