cers, in lieu of quarters, other than house-rent; purchase of books, charts, nautical and mathematical instruments, chronometers, machinery, models, drawings, and all stationery, of every description, used throughout the naval service; expense of pursuing deserters; expense of officers in sick quarters; storage of powder; lighterage and scow hire; postage of letters on public service; for per diem allowance to officers engaged on extra service beyond the limit of their stations; for the purchase and repairs of steam and fire engines and machinery; for expenses of burying deceased persons belonging to the navy; for taxes on navy yards and public property; and for accidents to the public vessels, and for no other object or purpose whatever, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars. For contingent expenses for objects arising in the current year, and not hereinbefore enumerated, five thousand dollars. For repairs of vessels, and for wear and tear, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the improvement of navy yards, docks, and wharves, slips, enclosures, and buildings, of every description, one hundred and fiftyseven thousand five hundred dollars, with authority to purchase, by and with the consent of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, a slip of land, estimated to contain about nine thousand superficial feet, to straighten the back line of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts. For ordnance and ordnance stores, including small arms, manufacture of powder, one thousand dollars, with the unexpended balances of former appropriations, estimated to amount to about nineteen thousand dollars. For ship's houses, to repay the amount taken from the gradual increase, seventy-eight thousand five hundred dollars. For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and seventy-two thousand and ninety-four dollars. For clothing for the same, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars. For fuel for the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, six thousand dollars. For military stores, including stocking arms, armorer's pay, armorer's tools, knapsacks, tents, camp equipage, accoutrements, and ordnance stores, five thousand dollars. For medicines, hospital stores, and instruments for the officers and marines of the marine corps, stationed on shore, two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars and seventy-one cents. For contingent expenses; that is to say: fuel for commissioned officers, transportation, stationery, bed sacks, straw, extra rations to officers, and postage on public letters, nine thousand dollars. For repairing barracks at the different stations, and for building new barracks at Portsmouth, ten thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, however, That no money appropriated by this act, shall be paid to any person for his compensation, who is in arrears to the United States, until such person shall have accounted for, and paid into the treasury, all sums for which he may be liable: Provided, further, That nothing in this section contained shall extend to balances arising solely from depreciation of treasury notes, received by such person to be expended in the public service; but, in all cases where the pay or salary of any person is withheld in pursuance of this act, it shall be the duty of the accounting officer, if demanded by the party, his agent, or attorney, to report, forthwith to the agent of the Treasury Department, the balance due; and it shall be the duty of the Repairs of vessels. Navy yards. Ordnance and ordnance stores. Ship's houses. Marine corps. Clothing. Fuel. Military stores, &c. Contingent expenses. Paid out of the treasury. Proviso. Proviso. said agent, within sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such delinquent and his sureties. APPROVED, April 29, 1824. CHAP. XLIV.-An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the 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, to wit; For fortifications, to each specifically, as follows: For fort Jackson, at Plaquemine Turn, on the river Mississippi, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For the fort at Chef Menteur, one hundred thousand dollars. For the fort at Mobile Point, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For fort Monroe, ninety-five thousand dollars. For fort Calhoun, ninety thousand dollars. For topographical reconnoisance, repairs, and contingencies, twentysix thousand dollars. For the purchase of a site, and collecting materials for the projected work at New Utrecht Point, one of the works intended to defend the Narrows, in New York harbour, fifty thousand dollars. For the purchase of a site, and collecting materials for the projected work at Brenton's Point, Narraganset Bay, Rhode Island, fifty thousand dollars. APPROVED, April 29, 1824. CHAP. XLV.-An Act to alter the times of holding the district court, in the district of Missouri. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the district court, for the district of Missouri, shall hereafter be held on the first Mondays in March and September, in every year; any thing in any act heretofore passed, to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all writs, pleas, suits, recognisances, indictments, and all other proceedings, civil and criminal, shall be heard, tried, and proceeded with, by the said court, at the times fixed in the first section of this act, in the same manner as if no alteration in the times for holding said court had taken place. APPROVED, April 29, 1824. April 30, 1824. CHAP. XLVI.-An Act to procure the necessary surveys, plans, and estimates, The President to cause the necessary sur upon the subject of roads and canals. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the (a) The acts relating to the district court of Missouri, are: An act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States, within the state of Missouri, and for the establishment of a district court therein, March 16, 1822, ch.12, sec. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. An act to alter the time of holding the district court in the district of Missouri, April 29, 1824, ch. 45. An act supplementary to the act entitled "An act to amend the judicial system of the United States," March 3, 1837, ch. 34. An act to amend the act of the third of March, 1837, entitled "An act supplementary to the act entitled 'An act to amend the judicial system of the United States, and for other purposes," "March 3, 1839, ch. 81. made of such roads and canals as he may deem of national importance, &c. United States is hereby authorized to cause the necessary surveys, plans, veys to be and estimates, to be made of the routes of such roads and canals as he may deem of national importance, in a commercial or military point of view, or necessary for the transportation of the public mail; designating, in the case of each canal, what parts may be made capable of sloop navigation: the surveys, plans, and estimates, for each, when completed, to be laid before Congress. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, to carry into effect the objects of this act, the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ two or more skilful civil engineers, and such officers of the corps of engineers, or who may be detailed to do duty with that corps, as he may think proper; and the sum of thirty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, April 30, 1824. Two or more skilful engi neers to be em ployed. CHAP. XLVII.—An Act_rewarding the officers and crews of two gigs, or small boats, under the command of Lieutenant Francis H. Gregory, of the United States' Navy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to have distributed as prize money to Lieutenant Francis H. Gregory, of the United States' navy, and the officers and crews of two gigs, or small boats, under his command, or to their legal representatives, the sum of three thousand dollars, for the capture and destruction of a British gun-boat, called the Black Snake, in the river St. Lawrence, on the nineteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and that the said sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for the purpose aforesaid, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, May 4, 1824. STATUTE I. May 4, 1824. 3000 dollars to be distributed as prize money to Lieutenant Francis H. Gregory, &c. for the capture and destruction of a British gun boat, in June, 1814. CHAP. LXV. An Act declaring the consent of Congress to certain acts of the state of Alabama. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress be, and hereby is, granted to the operation of an act of the general assembly of the state of Alabama, passed on the thirtieth of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, entitled "An act to improve the navigation of the Coosa river, and to aid in its connection with the Tennessee waters;" and, also, to an act, passed on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, entitled "An act to improve the navigation of the Tennessee river." APPROVED, May 13, 1824. STATUTE I. May 13, 1824. Consent of Congress given to the acts of the general assembly of Alabama, of the Dec., 1823. 30th and 31st STATUTE I. CHAP. LXVI.-An Act altering the times of holding the courts in the District May 13, 1824. of Columbia. (a) Session of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the circuit court for the circuit court (a) An act concerning the orphans' court of Alexandria county, in the District of Columbia, May 19, 1828, ch. 59. An act to establish a criminal court in the District of Columbia, July 7, 1838, ch. 192. of the District of Columbia. STATUTE I. May 18, 1824. [Obsolete.] Where the purchaser or holder of any of the public lands, has ob tained a certifi cate of further credit, under the act of March 2, 1821, ch. 12, he shall be allowed to file it with the regis ter of the land Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 57. Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 176. Proviso. Proviso. A deduction to be made on complete pay ments. Washington county, in the District of Columbia, shall hereafter commence and be held on the third Monday of December, and first Monday of May, in each year, instead of the days now fixed by law; and the circuit court for Alexandria county, in said district, on the fourth Monday of November and the second Monday of April, instead of the days now established by law; and that all process whatsoever, now issued, or which may be issued, in the respective counties of Washington and Alexandria, in said district, returnable to the days, respectively, now fixed by law, for each of the said counties, shall be returnable, and returned, on the days prescribed by this act; and all causes, recognisances, pleas, and proceedings, civil, and criminal, returnable to, and depending before, the said courts, at the respective times of holding the same, as heretofore established, shall be returned, and continued, in the same counties respectively, in the same manner as if the said causes, recognisances, pleas, and proceedings, had been regularly returned or continued, to the said respective times appointed by this act for holding the said courts. APPROVED, May 13, 1824. CHAP. LXXXVIII.—An Act to provide for the extinguishment of the debt due to the United States, by the purchasers of public lands. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, in all cases where the purchaser, or legal holder, of any certificate of purchase of any of the public lands of the United States, may have obtained a certificate of further credit under the provisions of an act, passed the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, entitled "An act for the relief of the purchasers of public lands, prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty," or of the acts supplementary thereto, of the twentieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twentytwo, and of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twentythree, the person obtaining such certificate, or the legal holder thereof, shall be allowed, at any time prior to the tenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, to file, with the register of the land office, in the district where such land is situated, a relinquishment, in writing, of any section, half section, quarter section, or legal subdivision of a fractional section, made according to the provisions of the existing laws, in relation to the survey and sale of the public lands; and any payment made, on any tract of land, so relinquished, shall be applied to the payment of the amount due on any tract retained by said purchaser, or legal holder of a certificate of purchase; which relinquishment shall be allowed only on condition that any such purchaser, or legal holder of a certificate of purchase, relinquish a sufficient quantity of land thereby to complete his or her payments due to the United States, on any lands retained, or pay the balance due, and which may afterwards become due, in money, before or at the time of such relinquishment; and on the payment of such balance in money, there shall be allowed, on the amount so paid, a deduction at the rate of thirty-seven and a half per centum: Provided, That nothing herein contained, shall entitle the person making such relinquishment to claim any repayment from the United States, on account of any lands so relinquished: And provided further, That nothing herein contained shall authorize any discounts upon payments made by relinquishment. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all purchasers, or legal holders of any certificate of purchase, of any of the public lands of the United States, who may have obtained a certificate of further credit, under the provisions of the several acts above mentioned, on making complete payment, previous to the tenth of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, of every instalment then due, and which shall afterwards become payable, shall be allowed, upon the amount so paid, a deduction, at the rate of thirty-seven and an half per centum. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the registers and receivers of the land offices of the United States, immediately after the tenth of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, to return complete lists of the lands relinquished to the United States, within their districts; and such lands shall be exposed to sale as other public lands of the United States. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the register and receiver of any land office, shall be allowed double the fees given them by the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, for like services, to be paid by the person or persons availing themselves of the provisions of this act. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act be extended to town lots, and out-lots, reserved for that purpose, and sold by the United States on a credit. APPROVED, May 18, 1824. Duty of the registers and receivers. Fees to be allowed them. 1821, ch. 12. The provisions of this act to extend to town lots, &c. CHAP. LXXXIX.-An Act providing for the appointment of an agent for the Osage Indians, west of the state of Missouri, and territory of Arkansas, 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 President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint an agent for the Osage Indians west of the state of Missouri, and territory of Arkansas, who shall receive for his compensation the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, in full, and that all rations or other allowances made to him, shall be deducted from the sum hereby allowed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of each Indian agent to reside and keep his agency within, or near the territory, claimed by the tribe or tribes of Indians for which he may be agent, at such place as the President of the United States may designate. APPROVED, May 18, 1824. STATUTE I. May 18, 1824. [Repealed.] An agent to be appointed to the Osage Indians west of the state of Missouri, and territory of Arkansas. Said agents to reside near said tribe or tribes. CHAP. CXXXVI.-An Act to amend the several acts imposing duties on imports. (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 thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, in lieu of the duties now imposed by law on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, the following duties, that is to say: First. On sail-duck, osnaburgs, burlaps, and ticklenbergs, a duty of fifteen per centum ad valorem. On all manufactures of wool, or of which wool shall be a component part, except worsted stuff goods and blankets, which shall pay twenty STATUTE I. May 22, 1824. Sail-duck. (a) See notes to the acts imposing duties on imports, vol. i. 24. Act of May 19, 1828, ch. 55. Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 227. Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 55. Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 58. Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 62. Act of June 30, 1834, ch. March 3, 1835, ch. 42. Act of March 2, 1837, ch. 15. Act of May 31, 1838, ch. 93. 1838, ch. 178. Act of March 3, 1839, ch. 82, sec. 2. Act of Sept. 11, 1841, ch. 24. 1842, ch. 270. Act of April 2, 1844, ch. 8. Act of June 4, 1844, ch. 39. 131, 139. Act of Act of July 7, Act of Aug. 30, Under the Tariff act of 22d May, 1821, ch. 136, bombazines being goods in which wool is a component material, are liable to a duty of thirty per cent. The United States v. Edward Clarke and |