Transportation. Pay to certain staff officers. Blankets. Muskets. Second. The amount paid by the state of South Carolina for the transportation of military stores, and of her troops, in the service of the United States, as aforesaid; or recognised by them as having been called out for that purpose, over and above the number of wagons allowed to each regiment in the army of the United States. Third. The pay or compensation allowed by the said state to the paymaster and commissary general, and other staff officers, whilst they were, respectively, employed in making or superintending disbursements. for the militia in the service of the United States as aforesaid. Fourth. The sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, for blankets purchased by the state for the use of a portion of her militia whilst in the service of the United States. Fifth. The value of the present contract price of the muskets purchased, or procured, by the state of South Carolina, for her militia, during the late war, when in the service of the United States: Provided, That the said muskets shall become the property of the United States; And provided, also,That any part of the said amount may be received in arms at the present contract price. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the several items hereby allowed, and the amount of interest, as aforesaid, shall, when ascertained, be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 22, 1832. STATUTE I. March 22, 1832. CHAP. LII.-An Act to amend the several acts establishing a territorial government in Florida. (a) Additional members of the legislative coun cil. Act of March 30, 1822, ch. 13. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That there shall be elected one member of the legislative council in the territory of Florida, from the counties of Madison and Hamilton, and one from the county of Walton, in said territory. APPROVED, March 22, 1832. STATUTE I. March 31, 1832. [Expired.] Act of May 30, ch. 1830, 215. The provisions of the act limit ed. CHAP. LVII.-An Act explanatory of the act entitled "An act for the relief of officers and soldiers of the Virginia line and navy, and of the continental army, during the revolutionary war," approved thirtieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty. 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, entitled "An act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Virginia line and navy, and of the continental army, during the revolutionary war," approved thirtieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, shall not be construed to extend to any land warrants heretofore issued, which have been located, surveyed, or patented on the lands reserved and set apart for the satisfaction of the military bounty lands due to the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line upon continental establishment, or for the satisfaction of the officers and soldiers of the continental army. The act of SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the third May 20, 1826, ch. 138, section of the act, entitled "An act to extend the time for locating Virtinued in force ginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the land to June 1, 1832. office,"approved twentieth May, one thousand eight hundred and twentysix, be, and the same is hereby, continued in force for seven years, from con (a) For notes of the acts relating to the territory of Florida, see vol. iii. p. 523. and after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo; and the proprietors of any location, survey, or patent, contemplated by the aforesaid section, may avail themselves of the provisions of the said section, in the cases therein enumerated. APPROVED, March 31, 1832. CHAP. LVIII.-An Act to add a part of the southern to the northern district of Alabama. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all that part of the country lying within the limits of Alabama, and now in the occupancy of the Cherokee and Chicasaw tribes of Indians, shall be added to, and constitute a part of, the northern judicial district of Alabama, instead of the southern district of said state as now arranged. APPROVED, March 31, 1832. STATUTE I. March 31, 1832. The country in the limits of Alabama occupied by the Cherokees and Chicasaws, a part o the northern judicial district. STATUTE I. CHAP. LXIV.-An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the April 5, 1832. year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, viz: For pay of the army and subsistence of officers, one million one hundred and twenty-two thousand one hundred and forty-six dollars. For arrearages in the pay department, fifteen thousand dollars. For forage of officers, forty-eight thousand four hundred and twentyseven dollars. For clothing for servants of officers, twenty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of one hundred thousand dollars, two hundred and fortyfive thousand dollars. For clothing of the army, camp equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, in addition to material and clothing on hand, amounting to thirty-five thousand dollars, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars. For medical and hospital department, twenty thousand dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of eight thousand dollars. [Obsolete.] Appropriations for the army. &c. Pay of army, Arrearages. cers. Clothing for servants. Subsistence. Clothing of army, &c. Medical department. Expenses of department. For various expenses of the quartermaster's department, viz: For fuel, forage, straw, stationery, blanks, repairing officers' quarters, barracks, quartermaster's store-houses, and hospitals; for erecting temporary cantonments and gunhouses; for rent of quarters, store-houses, and land; for postage of letters on public service; for expenses of courts martial, including compensation of judge advocates, members, and witnesses: for extra pay to soldiers employed on extra labour, under the act of March second, one thousand 1819, ch. 45. eight hundred and nineteen; and for expenses of expresses, escorts to paymasters, and other contingencies to quartermaster's department, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For transportation of officers' baggage, and allowance for travel in lieu of transportation, and for per diem allowance to officers on topographical duty, fifty-five thousand dollars. Transportation of baggage, &c. Transportation For transportation of clothing, subsistence, ordnance, and of lead from the mines, and for transportation of the army, and funds for pay of the of clothing, &c. (a) Notes of the acts relating to the district court of Alabama, vol. iii. p. 564. Expenses of visitors at West Point. Out-buildings at West Point. Repairs of barracks, &c. Fire-grates, Models for engineering dep't. Models for the drawing depart ment, &c. Expenses, &c., of academy. Contingencies. Fortifications. Ordnance ser vice. Arsenals. Arsenals in Florida. Recruiting service. Contingencies. Arrcarages. Close of accounts. 1821, ch. 35. Claims of the out in 1831. army, including the several contingencies and items of expenditure at the several stations and garrisons, usually estimated under the head of transportation of the army, one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses of the board of visitors at West Point, and their travelling expenses, two thousand dollars. For fuel, forage, stationery, printing, transportation, and postage for the military academy, eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-two dollars. For re-constructing the out-buildings attached to West Point academy, and for improvements connected therewith, one thousand five hundred dollars. For general repairs of barracks, academies, mess-house, officers and professors' quarters, store-houses, wharf, carts, boats, fences, roads, paints, and other objects, four thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars. For renewal and repairs of fire-grates, one hundred and fifty dollars. For pay of adjutants and quartermasters' clerk, nine hundred dollars. For increase and expenses of the library, fourteen hundred dollars. For philosophical apparatus, seven hundred and ninety dollars. For models for department of engineering, six hundred dollars. For models for the drawing department, repairs of instruments for the mathematical department, apparatus and contingencies for the department of chemistry, eight hundred and eighty-seven dollars. Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses of the academy, one thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars. For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For arsenals, sixty thousand seven hundred dollars. For the recruiting service, twenty-four thousand nine hundred dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of fifteen thousand [thousand] dollars. For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, thirteen thousand eight hundred dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of nine thousand dollars. For arrearages prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, payable through the third auditor's office, five thousand dollars. To enable the second auditor to close the accounts, under the act of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, allowing three months' gratuitous pay to disbanded officers and soldiers, five hundred dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be militia called authorized and required to settle, adjust, and pay the claims of the militia called out by competent authority, or received into the service of the United States by a general officer of the United States' army, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and all charges and expenses incident to the service of said troops, agreeably to the provisions of the third section of an act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, approved twenty-first of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, which provides for the payment of like expenses, and troops called out in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven; and that the sum of fifty-five thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars be appropriated for the said object, to be paid out of any money in the treasury. Act of March 21, 1828, ch. 21, вес. 3. APPROVED, April 5, 1832. CHAP. LXV.—An Act supplementary to the several laws for the sale of public lands. (a) STATUTE I. April 5, 1832. All public lands offered at pribe purchased in fractions of sections, &c. vate sale may Act of Feb. Proviso. Proviso. 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, all the public lands of the United States, when offered at private sale, may be purchased at the option of the purchaser, either in entire sections, half sections, quarter sections, half-quarter sections, or quarter-quarter sections; and in every case of a division of a half-quarter section, the line for the division thereof shall run east and west, and the corners and contents of quarter-quarter sections, which may thereafter be sold, shall be ascertained as nearly as may be, in the manner, and on the principles, directed and prescribed by the second section of an act, entitled "An act concerning the mode of surveying the public lands of 11, 1805, ch. 14. the United States," passed on the eleventh day of February, eighteen hundred and five; and fractional sections, containing fewer or more than one hundred and sixty acres, shall in like manner, as nearly as may be practicable, be subdivided into quarter-quarter sections, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to alter any special provision made by law for the sale of land in town lots: And, provided also, That no person shall be permitted to enter more than one half-quarter section of land under this act, in quarter-quarter sections, in his own name, or in the name of any other person, and in no case, unless he intends it for cultivation, or for the use of his improvement. And the person making application to make an entry under this act shall file his and her affidavit, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, that he or she makes the entry in his or her own name, for his or her own benefit, and not in trust for another: Provided, further, That all actual settlers, being house-keepers upon the public lands, shall have the right of pre-emption to enter, within six months after the passage of this act, not exceeding the quantity of one half-quarter section, under the provisions of this act, to include his or their improvements, under such regulations as have been, or may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and in cases where two persons shall live upon the same quarter section, subject to be entered under the provisions of this act, each shall have the right to enter that quarter-quarter section which includes his improvements. APPROVED, April 5, 1832. Proviso. STATUTE I. CHAP. LXVI.-An Act to authorize the judges of the courts of the United States April 5, 1832. to take bail of the claimants of property seized, and perform other acts in vacation. Judge autho rized, &c. to deto claimant. liver vessel, &c. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That in any cause of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, or other case of seizure, depending in any court of the United States, any judge of the said court, in vacation, shall have the same power and authority to order any vessel, or cargo, or other property, to be delivered to the claimants, upon bail or bond, under the statute, as the case may be, or to be sold when necessary, as the said court now has in term time, and to appoint appraisers, and exercise every other incidental power necessary to the complete execution of the authority herein granted; and the said recognisance of bail or bond, under such order, may be executed before the clerk upon the party's executed before clerk, &c. producing the certificate of the collector of the district, of the sufficiency of the security offered; and the same proceedings shall be had in case (a) Notes of the acts relative to the sale of the public lands, vol. ii. p. 73. Bond to be Proviso. STATUTE I. April 5, 1832. Ordnance department to consist of, &c. Ordnance sergeants. Act of Feb. 8, 1815, ch.38. Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 13. Proviso. Government and pay. of said order of delivery, or of sale, as are now had in like cases when CHAP. LXVII.—An Act providing for the organization of the ordnance department. (a) 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 ordnance department shall consist of one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, two majors, and ten captains, and as many enlisted men as the public service may require, not exceeding two hundred and fifty SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorized to select from the sergeants of the line of the army, who shall have faithfully served eight years in the service, four years of which in the grade of non-commissioned officer, as many ordnance sergeants as the service may require, not to exceed one for each military post; whose duty it shall be to receive and preserve the ordnance, arms, ammunition, and other military stores, at the post under the direction of the commanding officer of the same, and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War, and who shall receive for their services five dollars per month, in addition to their pay in the line. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the first section of the act passed on the eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, entitled "An act for the better regulation of the ordnance department," and so much of the second section of the act, entitled "An act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment. of the United States," passed the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, as provides for one supernumerary captain to each regiment of artillery, to perform ordnance duty, and so much of the fourth section of the same act as merges the ordnance department in the artillery, and reduces the number of enlisted men, be, and the same are hereby repealed: Provided, That nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to divest the President of the United States of authority to select from the regiments of artillery such number of lieutenants as may be necessary for the performance of the duties of the ordnance department. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all officers and enlisted men authorized by this act, shall be subject to the rules and articles of war, 1838, ch. 162, § 14. and that the officers shall receive the pay and emoluments now allowed, or which may hereafter be allowed, to artillery officers. APPROVED, April 5, 1832. CHAP. LXIX.-An Act to change the time of holding the United States district court, at Staunton, in the western district of Virginia. (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, the United States district court, in the western district of Virginia, heretofore held at Staunton, on Wednesday after the fourth Monday in April and September, in each year, be hereafter held at Staunton, on the first day of May, and the first day of October, in each year; and when those days, or either of them, fall on Sunday, the court to be held on the next succeeding day. APPROVED, April 20, 1832. (a) For notes of the acts relating to the ordnance department, see vol. ii. p. 732. |