Surveyor south of Tennessee. Clerks. Surveyor in Illinois, &c. Clerks. Surveyor in Alabama. Clerks. Surveyor in Florida. Clerks. Commissioner For compensation to the surveyor south of Tennessee, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, one thousand seven hundred dollars. For compensation to the surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, two thousand dollars. For compensation to clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, two thousand dollars. For compensation to clerks in the office of said surveyor, one thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the surveyor in Florida, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings in Washpublic buildings. ington city, two thousand dollars. Officers and clerk of mint. Assistants. Contingent expenses. Governor, &c. of the Michigan territory. Contingent expenses. Legislative council, &c. Governor, &c. of the Arkansas territory. Contingent expenses. Governor, &c. of Florida. Contingent expenses. Legislative council. Legislative council. Judiciary. Att'y Gen. Clerk. For compensation to the officers and clerk of the mint, nine thousand six hundred dollars. For compensation to assistants in the several departments of the mint, including extra clerk hire and labourers, twelve thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses and repairs; cost of machinery; for allowance for wasteage in gold and silver coinage of the mint, seven thousand and eighty dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the Michigan territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council, pay of the officers of the council, fuel, stationery, and printing, including arrearages, eight thousand dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Arkansas territory, including an additional compensation to each judge, of eight hundred dollars, to twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, nine thousand and ninety-two dollars and thirty cents. For contingent expenses of the Arkansas territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Florida territory, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses, and arrearages of such expenses, of the Florida territory, eight hundred and sixty-one dollars and eighty-eight cents. For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council, pay of officers and servants of the council, fuel, stationery, printing, and distribution of the laws, seven thousand seven hundred and sixteen dollars. For the payment of the session of the legislative council of Florida, ending the twenty-fourth of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and for arrearages from deficiencies of appropriation for the legislative council of Florida, in the years one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, eleven hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice and associate judges of the District of Columbia, including additional compensation of judge of Missouri, to twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, seventy-eight thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars. For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, three thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerk in the office of the attorney general, eight hundred dollars. For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand dollars. Reporter of Supreme Court. District attor For compensation to the district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, eleven thousand three neys and mar hundred dollars. For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also, for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures, incurred in the year eighteen hundred and thirty, and preced ing years; and, likewise, for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecution, for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present governments, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating lights, beacons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of oil, keepers' salaries, repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, one hundred and eighty-six thousand and three dollars and thirteen cents. For building a lighthouse on a ledge of rocks called the Whale's Back, in the harbour of Portsmouth, being the amount of an appropriation for that object, which was carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand five hundred dollars. For building a lighthouse at Cat Island, in the Gulf of Mexico, being the amount of an appropriation for that object, which was carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, five thousand dollars. shals. Beacon on For erecting a beacon in the harbour at the mouth of Bass river, between the towns of Dennis and Yarmouth, in Massachusetts, being Bass river. the amount of an appropriation for that object, which was carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand dollars. For erecting a pier adjacent to the pier at Buffalo, in New York, and placing thereon the lighthouse authorized to be built at the east end of Lake Erie, by act of the eighteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, being the balance of an appropriation for that object, which was carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, two thousand five hundred dollars. Pier at Buffa lo, &c. Act of May 18, 1826, ch. 73. Roanoke Marshes. For building a lighthouse at the south entrance of Roanoke Marshes, Lighthouse, in North Carolina, in addition to the appropriation of five thousand dollars, made March second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight [twenty-seven], five thousand dollars. For rebuilding the lighthouse at West Passamaquoddy Head, in Maine, eight thousand dollars. For building a light-vessel, to be placed on Carysfort reef, in the territory of Florida, the one heretofore stationed there having become so decayed as to be irreparable, twenty thousand dollars. For surveying private land claims in East Florida, eight thousand dollars. For the salaries of registers and receivers of land offices, where there are no sales, two thousand dollars. For the salaries of two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars. For stationery and books for the offices of commissioners of loans, five hundred dollars. For allowance to the law agent, assistant counsel, and district attorney, under the act supplementary to the several acts providing for the settle Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 47. L. H. Passamaquoddy. Light-vessel, Carysfort reef. Surveying East Florida. Registers and receivers. ar Keepers chives, Florida. Stationery. &c. Law agent, Act of May 23, 1828, ch. 70. Luigi Persico. Custom-house, &c. Portland. Miscellaneous claims. Diplomatic salaries and out fits; ment of private land claims in Florida, dated twenty-third of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, including contingencies, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the second payment to Luigi Persico, for statues for the capitol, four thousand dollars. For finishing the custom-house and warehouse at Portland, Maine, and for repairing the wharf and clearing out the dock belonging to the same, two thousand one hundred dollars. For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall be ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, twelve thousand dollars. For the salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Spain, Russia, the Netherlands, and Colombia; for outfits of ministers of the United [States] to Great Britain, France, Spain, and Colombia, and a chargé d'affaires to Mexico; for outfits for chargé d'affaires to Sweden, Peru, and Guatemala; for the salaries of the chargé des affaires of the United States to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Peru, Chili, Mexico, and Guatemala; for the salaries of and contingent the secretaries of legation; and for the contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, one hundred and eighty-four thousand five hundred dollars. expenses. Agents for claims. Barbary inter course. Relief, &c., Amer. seamen. Contingent expenses. Surveying, &c. N. E. boundary. Fifth census. For the salaries of the agents for claims at London and Paris, four thousand dollars. For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, thirty thousand dollars. For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, fifteen thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars. For surveying, printing, clerk hire, and other expenses, in relation to the north-eastern boundary agency, five thousand four hundred dollars. For discharging the expense of taking the fifth enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in addition to the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, appro1829, ch. 24. priated for that purpose by the act of March second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. Publishing foreign correspondence of old Congress. For enabling the Secretary of State to execute a contract with Jared Sparks, of Boston, made by Henry Clay, late Secretary of State, for printing and publishing the foreign correspondence of the Congress of the United States, from the first meeting thereof to the ratification of the definitive treaty of peace, in one thousand seven hundred and eightythree, thirty-one thousand three hundred dollars. APPROVED, March 18, 1830. STATUTE I. March 23, 1830. CHAP. XXXV. —An Act for the further regulation of vessels bound up James Vessels bound up James river exempted from stopping in HamptonRoads. Master revc nue cutter to board all such vessels, &c. river, in the state of Virginia. 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, it shall not be necessary for any vessel bound up James river, in the state of Virginia, to stop in Hampton Roads, to deposit a manifest with the collector at Norfolk. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the. master of the revenue cutter on that station, under the orders of the Secretary of the Treasury, to board all such vessels, to endorse their manifests, and to place an officer on board of each vessel bound up James river, having a cargo from a foreign port. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever there shall be no revenue cutter on that station for the purpose of boarding vessels, or when the state of the weather may be such as to render it impracticable to send an officer on board any vessel bound up James river, having a cargo from a foreign port, the captain is hereby authorized and directed to deposit, with the surveyor at Hampton, a copy of the manifest of the cargo on board said vessel. APPROVED, March 23, 1830. In certain cases,captain of vessel may deposit copy of manifest with surveyor at Hampton. STATUTE I. CHAP. XXXVI. An Act to continue in force "An act authorizing certain soldiers March 23, 1830. in the late war to surrender the bounty lands drawn by them, and to locate others in lieu thereof," 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 act of the twentysecond of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, entitled "An act authorizing certain soldiers in the late war to surrender the bounty lands drawn by them, and to locate others in lieu thereof," be, and the same is hereby, continued in force for the term of five years. And the provisions of the above recited act shall be, and are hereby, extended to those having like claims in the states of Illinois and Missouri. APPROVED, March 23, 1830. Act of May 22,1826,ch.147, authorizing, &c. continued for 5 years, and its provisions extended to, &c. CHAP. XL. act. STATUTE I. An Act to provide for taking the fifth census or enumeration of March 23, 1830. the inhabitants of the United States. (a) Marshals of United States to cause inhabit ants to be enumerated, &c. Act of Feb. 3, 1831, ch. 17. Act of May 5, 1832, ch. 74, sec. 2. 1832, ch. 91. All free white persons enume rated to be class ed according to sex and age. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the marshals of the several districts of the United States, and of the District of Columbia, and of the territories of Michigan, Arkansas, and of Florida, respectively, shall be, and are hereby, required, under the direction of the Secretary of the Department of State, and according to such instructions as he shall give, pursuant to this act, to cause the number of the inhabitants within their respective districts and territories, (omitting, in such enumeration, Indians not taxed,) to be taken according to the directions of this The said enumeration shall distinguish the sexes of all free white persons, and ages of the free white males and females, respectively, under five years of age; those of five and under ten years of age; those of ten years and under fifteen; those of fifteen and under twenty; those of twenty and under thirty; those of thirty and under forty: those of forty and under fifty; those of fifty and under sixty; those of sixty and under seventy; those of seventy and under eighty: those of eighty and under ninety: those of ninety and under one hundred; those of one hundred and upwards; and shall further distinguish the number of those free white persons included in such enumeration, who are deaf and to state number dumb, under the age of fourteen years; and those of the age of fourteen years and under twenty-five, and of the age of twenty-five years and upwards; and shall further distinguish the number of those free white persons included in such enumeration, who are blind. The said enumeration shall distinguish the sexes of all free coloured persons, and of all other coloured persons bound to service for life, or for a term of years, and the ages of such free and other coloured persons, respectively, of each sex, under ten years of age; those of ten and under twenty-four; those of twenty-four and under thirty-six; those of thirty-six and under fifty-five; those of fifty-five and under one hundred; and those of one Enumeration of deaf and dumb between certain ages. Also, number of blind. All coloured persons enumerated to be classed according to sex and age. (a) See notes of the acts providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, vol. . p. 101. Enumeration to state number of deaf and dumb, and of blind. Marshals to appoint assistants, &c. Assistants to be residents, &c. Portion of territory assigned to each not to exceed, &c.; to be distinctly defined. Enumeration to be made by actual inquiry, &c. Marshals,&c., to take oath, &c. Oath or affirmation of marshal; hundred and upwards; and shall further distinguish the number of those free coloured and other coloured persons, included in the foregoing, who are deaf and dumb, without regard to age, and those who are blind. For effecting which, the marshals aforesaid shall have power, and are hereby required, to appoint one or more assistants in each city and county in their respective districts and territories, residents of such city or county for which they shall be appointed, and shall assign to each of the said assistants a certain division of territory, which division shall not consist, in any case, of more than one county, but may include one or more towns, townships, wards, hundreds, precincts, or parishes, and shall be plainly and distinctly bounded; the said enumeration shall be made by an actual inquiry by such marshals or assistants, at every dwelling-house, or by personal inquiry of the head of every family. The marshals and their assistants shall respectively, before entering on the performance of their duty under this act, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, before some judge or justice of the peace, resident within their respective districts or territories, for the faithful performance of their duties. The oath or affirmation of the marshal shall be as follows: "I, A. B., marshal of the district (or territory) of , do solemnly swear, (or affirm,) that I will truly and faithfully cause to be made, a full and perfect enumeration and description of all persons resident within my district, (or territory,) and return the same to the Secretary of State, agreeably to the directions of an act of Congress, entitled 'An act to provide for taking the fifth census, or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United Of assistants. States,' according to the best of my ability." The oath or affirmation of an assistant shall be as follows: "I, A. B., appointed an assistant to the marshal of the district (or territory) of do solemnly swear, (or affirm,) that I will make a just, faithful, and perfect enumeration and description of all persons, resident within the division assigned to me for that purpose, by the marshal of the district, (or territory,) of , and make due return thereof to the said marshal, agreeably to the directions of an act of Congress, entitled 'An act to provide for the taking the fifth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States,' according to the best of my ability, and that I will take the said enumeration and description, by actual inquiry at every dwelling-house within said division, or personal inquiry of the head of every family, and not otherwise." The enumeration shall commence on the first day in June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and shall be completed and closed within six calendar months thereafter; the several assistants shall, within the said six months, and on or before the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, deliver to the marshals, by whom they shall be appointed, respectively, two copies of the accurate returns of all persons, except Indians not taxed, to be enumerated, as aforesaid, within their respective divisions; which returns shall be made in a schedule, the form of which is annexed to this act, and which shall distinguish, in each county, city, town, township, ward, precinct, hundred, district, or parish, according to the civil divisions of the states or territories, respectively, the several families, by the name of their master, mistress, steward, overseer, or other principal persons therein. Enumeration to commence June 1st, 1830. Close within six months. Assistants on or before Dec. 1, 1830, to de liver two copies of returns, &c. Returns to be made in certain form, &c. Penalty on assistants, for failing, &c. Marshals to SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every assistant failing or neglecting to make a proper return, or making a false return, of the enumeration, to the marshal, within the time limited by this act, shall forfeit the sum of two hundred dollars, recoverable in the manner pointed out in the next section of this act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the marshal shall file one copy file one copy of of each of the several returns aforesaid, and, also, an attested copy of returns, &c. the aggregate amount hereinafter directed, to be transmitted by them respectively, to the Secretary of State, with the clerks of their respective district or superior courts, as the case may be, who are hereby directed with the clerks of district or superior courts. |