1820. For provisions, four hundred and fifteen thousand one For provisions. hundred and eighty-seven dollars: For medicines, &c. For repairs of vessels. For store rent, freight, enlist For medicines, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, including the marine corps, thirty-six thousand dollars : For repairs of vessels, four hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars: For store rent, freight, transportation, enlistment of seament of seamen, men, and all other contingent expenses, two hundred and forty thousand dollars: &c. For improvement of navy yards, docks, &c. For contracts for shells and shot. For pay and sub For improvement of navy yards, docks, and wharves, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks, and laborers, one hundred thousand dollars: For payment of contracts made for shells and shot, and for military stores, fifty thousand dollars : For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred sistence of marine and seventy-seven thousand two hundred and twenty-eight corps. For clothing ma rine corps. Contingent expenses of marine corps. For military stores. dollars: For clothing the same, twenty-seven thousand two hundred and five dollars : For contingent expenses of the same, twenty thousand dollars : For military stores, one thousand dollars. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appro Out of money in priations herein before made, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. the treasury. [Approved, March 17, 1820.] authorized to ap CHAP. 24. An act to authorize the President of the United States to appoint a Receiver of the Public Moneys and Register of the Land Office for the District of Lawrence county, in the Arkansas Territory. [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, The president That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, point a receiver authorized to appoint a Receiver of the Public Moneys and Lawrence county. Register of the Land Office for the District of Lawrence county, in the Arkansas Territory. and register for elaim to pre-emp it known to the SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person having Persons having a claim to a right of pre-emption within the said District, shall tion, &c. to make make known his claim and location, according to the proviregister six weeks sions of the laws now in force, to the Register, at least six before issuing pa- weeks before the time, to be designated by the President of the of the late army. United States, for issuing patents to the soldiers of the late army entitled to bounty land in said district. tents to soldiers [Approved, March 17, 1820.} CHAP. 25. An act establishing a Circuit Court within and for the District of 1820. Maine. chusetts, New in Maine. [SECT. 1.] 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 Districts of R. Island, MassaRhode Island, Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, and Maine, Hampshire, and shall constitute the First Circuit'; and in addition to the Circuit uit Maine, the 1st Courts now holden in said circuit, there shall be holden annually two Circuit Courts within and for said District of Maine, 2 Courts annually by the justice of the Supreme Court residing in said circuit,' and by the District Judge of Maine, at the times and places following, viz: One session of said court shall commence and At Portland, be holden at Portland, in said district, on the eighth day of May; and the other at Wiscasset, in said district, on the At Wiscasset. eighth day of October; and when either of said days shall happen to be Sunday, the session shall commence on the day next following; and when only one of the judges hereby di- Court may be held rected to hold the said Circuit Courts shall be able to attend, tending. such Circuit Courts may be held by the judge so attending. by the judge at powers of District SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That all acts, and parts Circuit Court of acts, granting said District Court of Maine the powers and Court repealed jurisdiction of a Circuit Court of the United States, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. the District SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Circuit Court Cirenit Court of Maine may de by this act established in and for the District of Maine, shall have power to, and may, at its first session, take cognizance &c. originated in of, and proceed to act upon, hear, and decide, all actions, Court. causes, pleas, processes, matters, and things, which have originated in said District Court, and which would, by law, be cognizable, and be heard and determined, by the Circuit Court to be holden in the District of Massachusetts, if this act had never been made and passed. in the Circuit transferred to the Maine. SECT. 4. And be it further enacted, That those causes which Causes depending have originated as aforesaid, in said District Court, and have Court of Massabeen entered at the Circuit Court in the District of Massachu-chusetts may be setts, and are now pending therein, on error, appeal, or other- Circuit Court of wise, shall be transferred to the Circuit Court by this act established, and entered on the docket of the same at its first session, in order that the said causes may be heard and decided therein, in the manner provided by the third section of this act. [Approved, March 30, 1820.] CHAP. 26. An act further to suspend, for a limited time, the Sale or Forfeiture of Lands, for Failure in completing the Payment thereon.* [* Private,] Forfeiture of [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, lands for non-pag That the operation of the sixth condition of the fifth section ment suspended of the act, entitled "An act to amend the act, entitled 'An 1881. till 31st March, 3.] 1820. act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States northwest of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky {* Page 385, vol. river,"* be, and the same is hereby, suspended until the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twentyone, in favor of the purchasers of public lands, at any of Proviso; beneat the land offices of the United States: Provided, That the limited to pur benefit of this act shall not be extended to any one purchaser chasers within for a greater quantity than six hundred and forty acres. [Approved, March 30, 1820.] 640 acres. [Private.] ing officers of the Cassin, adminis sin, for moneys husband to sol &o. CHAP. 27. An act for the Relief of Mary Cassin, widow and administratrix of [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Proper account-That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury DepartTreasury to settle ment audit and settle the claim of Mary Cassin, widow and the claim of Mary administratrix of Patrick Cassin, deceased, for moneys adtratrix of P. Cas- vanced by her said husband to soldiers in the army of the advanced by her United States, on account of pay due to them at the time said diers in the army, advances were made; and to allow and pay to the said Mary Cassin, administratrix as aforesaid, out of any unappropriated moneys in the Treasury, such part of said claim as shall not appear to have been paid to the said soldiers, respectively, by Proviso; Mary any officer of the United States: Provided, That the said a bond of indem Mary Cassin, administratrix as aforesaid, shall, previous to nity to the comp- the receipt of the moneys which may be allowed her under this act, 'deliver to the Comptroller of the Treasury a bond of indemnity, in such sum, and with such sureties, as he may direct. [Approved, April 5, 1820.] Cassin to deliver troller. + Private.] ing officers of the and settle the land, on account CHAP. 28. An act for the Relief of the Heirs and legal Representatives of [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Proper account- That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury DepartTreasury to audit ment be authorized to audit and settle the claim of the heirs claim of the heirs, and legal representatives of Nicholas Vreeland, deceased, on &c. of N. Vree account of a certificate issued to the said Nicholas Vreeland, of a certificate for on the thirtieth of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, for two hundred and forty-five dollars and sixty-six ninetieths, and numbered sixteen hundred and fifty; which certificate is alleged to have been accidentally destroyed, and appears, by the records of the Treasury, to be outstanding and unpaid; and to pay to the surviving executors of said deceased, for the use and benefit of the heirs and repre 245 dolls, and 6690ths. 1820. sentatives of the said deceased, the principal of said certificate, and so much of the interest thereof as may remain due thereon: Provided, That the said surviving executors execute and de- Proviso; surviv fiver to the Comptroller of the Treasury a bond of indemnity, deliver a bond of in such sum, and with such security, as the said Comptroller indemnity to the may direct and approve. [Approved, April 5, 1820.] ing executors to comptroller. to pay to John A. full extra ser [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized Secretary of Was and directed to pay to John A. Dix, a licutenant in the army Di, 112 dolls. in of the United States, one hundred and twelve dollars, in full, for ex for extra services performed as adjutant, under the command of colonel John B. Walbach, in Portsmouth, harbor, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen; and that the Out of money same be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. [Approved, April 5, 1820.] the Treasury. CHAP. 30. An act for the Relief of the legal Representatives of John O'Connor, deceased.t {t Private.] sentatives of John tle to a tract of Creek, in Missis [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the legal representatives of John O'Connor, deceas- The legal rensed, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their title to a O'Connor contract of land situated on Buffaloe Creek, in the state of Mis-firmed in their ti sissippi, containing eight hundred arpens, granted by the land on Buffaloe Spanish government to William Conway, by patent, dated the sippi, c. fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and conveyed to John O'Connor, by the said Conway, on the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven: Provided, That Proviso: nothnothing in this act contained shall affect the claim or claims of affect the claims any other person or persons to the said land, or any part thereof, derived from the United States, or any other source whatever. [Approved, April 5, 1820.] ing in this act to of other persons. CHAP. 31. An act for the Relief of Robert Swartwout.‡ [Private.) [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Depart-ing officers of the ment be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle Treasury toalis Proper account». 1820. Swartwout such sum as may the account of Robert Swartwout, and to allow him such-sun as may appear equitable and just, in consequence of the loss appear equitable sustained in the sale of certain Treasury Notes, for and on on sale of Trea- account of the United States. [Approved, April 5, 1820.] and just for loss sury Notes, &c. [* Private. ing officers of the Bc. not exceeding CHAP. 32. An act for the Relief of John Harding, Giles Harding, John Shute, and John Nichols.* [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Proper account- That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and Treasury to allow they hereby are, authorized and directed to audit and settle John Harding, the claim of John Harding, Giles Harding, John Shute, and 900 dolls. for 15 John Nichols, for fifteen boats belonging to them, and detained, Baton Rouge by at Baton Rouge, by Major General Thomas, in the year eighteen hundred and fifteen; and to allow them any sum not exceeding, in the whole, nine hundred dollars; which allowance, Oht of money in when made, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury the Treasury. not otherwise appropriated. [Approved, April 5, 1820.] boats detained at Gen. Thomas, in 1815. [Private.] ing officers of the expenses of J CHAP. 33. An act for the Relief of Jennings O'Bannon.† [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Proper account- That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Depart Treasury to set- ment be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed equi tle the account of tably to settle the account of expenses incurred by Jennings O'Bannon, incur- O'Bannon, in a suit erroneously instituted against him on beneously instituted half of the United States, on the exhibition of proper vouchers; half of the U. s. and the sum which shall be found due shall be paid to the said Out of money in Jennings O'Bannon, out of any moneys in the Treasury, not the Treasury. otherwise appropriated. [Approved, April 5, 1820.] red in a suit erro against him in be [Private.] State to issue let CHAP. 34. An act authorizing the Secretary of State to issue Letters Patent to [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, The Secretary of That the Secretary of State be, and he hereby is, authorized ters patent to R. and required to issue letters patent to Richard Willcox, for Willcox, for a ro- his invention of a rotary portable oven, and for his improve oven, &c. and for ments of the ovens now in use; and also for his several the process of dis- inventions and improvements in the process of distillation, and modes and means of conducting the same, upon complying with the directions of the act, entitled "An act tary portable inventions, &c. in tillation his |