governors of the several states, to transmit by mail, free of postage, all laws and reports, whether bound or unbound, and all records and documents of their respective states, which may be directed by the legis latures of the several states to be transmitted to the executives of other states; and the governor of the state transmitting the same shall, in addition to his frank, endorse the kind of book or document enclosed, and books, &c. to be direct the same to the governor of the state to which the same may be

sent.

APPROVED, June 30, 1834.

Character of

endorsed

CHAP. CLXX.—An Act concerning tonnage duty on Spanish vessels. (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 first day of March next, Spanish vessels coming from the island of Cuba, or Porto Rico, either directly, or after touching at any port or place, shall pay, in the ports of the United States, such further tonnage duty in addition to the tonnage duty which may be payable under any other law, as shall be equivalent to the amount of discriminating duty that would have been imposed on the cargoes imported in the said vessels, respectively, if the same had been exported from the port of Havana, in American bottoms.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That before any such vessel shall be permitted to clear out or depart from a port of the United States, with a cargo which shall be directly or indirectly destined to either of the said islands, the said vessel shall pay such further tonnage duty as shall be equivalent to the amount of discriminating duty that would be payable, for the time being, upon the cargo, if imported into the port of Havana, in an American bottom.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That no Spanish vessel shall be allowed to clear out or depart from a port of the United States, with any goods, wares, or merchandise, except upon a destination to some port or place, in the Island of Cuba or Porto Rico, without giving bond, with approved security, in double the value of the vessel and cargo, that the said cargo, or any part thereof, shall not be landed in either of the said islands; which bond shall be cancelled on producing of certificate from an American consul, that the said cargo has been landed elsewhere, bona fide and without intention to reship it for a port in one of the said islands. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, from time to time, to estimate the said additional tonnage duty, and to give directions to the officers of the customs of the United States, for the collection of such duties, so as to conform the same to any variation which may take place in the discriminating duties levied on the cargoes of American vessels in the said port of Havana.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That whenever the President of the United States shall be satisfied, that the discriminating duties in favour of Spanish bottoms, levied upon the cargoes of American vessels in the ports of Cuba and Porto Rico, have been abolished, or whenever, in his opinion, a satisfactory arrangement upon the subject of the said duties shall have been made between the United States and Spain, the President is hereby authorized to declare the same by proclamation, and thereupon this act shall cease to have any further force or effect. APPROVED, June 30, 1834.

(a) See notes of the acts relating to discriminating duties, ante, p. 2.

STATUTE I.

June 30, 1834. CHAP. CLXXI.—An Act to authorize the President of the United States to direct transfers of appropriations in the naval service, under certain circumstances.

President may

direct transfers of year and the passage of new naval appropri

between close

ation bill.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That upon the application of the Secretary of the Navy, the President of the United States shall have authority, whenever, in his opinion, the contingencies of the public service may require it, at any period between the close of the year, and the passage of the new naval appropriation bills, to direct that a part of the money appropriated for a particular branch of the naval service the former Account to be year to be applied to another branch of the said service; in which case, a special account of the moneys thus transferred, and of their application, shall be laid before Congress previous to its adjournment. APPROVED, June 30, 1834.

laid before Con

gress.

STATUTE I.

June 30, 1834.

Term to commence

third Monday of March.

CHAP. CLXXIII.-An Act for changing the term of the district court, for the western district of Louisiana. (a)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United on the States of America, in Congress assembled, That the term of the district court of the United States for the western district of Louisiana, shall hereafter commence and be holden on the third Monday of March in each and every year, instead of the time heretofore appointed by law, and the court shall then be holden under the powers, duties, rules, and regulations heretofore prescribed by law.

Process, &c. continued to the

March term.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all process, pleadings, motions, suits and business, heretofore begun, pending, and undetermined, shall stand continued, valid and adjourned over to the said next term of said court to be holden on the said third Monday in March next, then to be proceeded in, as if regularly returnable to, notified, or set, for that term. APPROVED, June 30, 1834.

STATUTE I.

June 30, 1834. CHAP. CLXXIV.-An Act to prohibit the corporations of Washington, Georgetown, and Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, from issuing promissory notes or bills of any denomination less than ten dollars after the period therein mentioned, and for the gradual withdrawal from circulation of all such notes or bills.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall not be lawful for the corporations of Washington, Georgetown, or Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, or either of them, after the first day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, to issue any promissory note or bill of a less denomination than ten dollars: Provided, That it shall not be lawful for either of the corporations aforesaid to make or issue any new promissory note or bill, after the passage of this act, of a less denomination than ten dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That each and all the corporations aforesaid shall annually withdraw from circulation and destroy promissory notes or bills respectively issued by either of them of a less denomination than ten dollars, so as to effect a reduction of one-fifth per annum of the amount which each corporation may have in circulation of the said notes or bills; and render an account at each session to Congress, showing the amount withdrawn and extinguished as aforesaid, and the balance still in circulation.

(a) See notes of the acts which have been passed relating to the district court of Louisiana, vol. iii. p. 774.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, on failure of either or all of the corporations aforesaid to comply with the requirements of the second section of this act, it shall not thereafter be lawful for the corporation or corporations so failing, to issue any promissory note or bill of a less denomination than ten dollars.

APPROVED, June 30, 1834.

CHAP. CCXLVII.—An Act granting land to certain exiles from Poland. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That there be, and is hereby, granted to Lewis Banezakiewitz and his associates, being two hundred and thirty-five exiles from Poland, transported to the United States by the orders of the Emperor of Austria, thirty-six sections of land, to be selected by them, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in any three adjacent townships of the public lands which have been, or may hereafter be surveyed, situated within the limits of the state of Illinois or the territory of Michigan.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain an authenticated list of the names of the aforesaid two hundred and thirty-five Polish exiles, and cause the same to be filed and recorded in the office of the commissioner of the general land office.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That immediately after the said thirty-six sections of land shall be surveyed and located in the manner prescribed in the first section of this act, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the said thirty-six sections to be divided into equal parts among the said two hundred and thirty-five Poles, by lot, under such regulations as the said Secretary may prescribe.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for each and every of the said grantees to enter upon and take possession of the respective lots of land assigned to them and each of them; and, after the expiration of ten years, the said grantees, respectively, shall be entitled to a patent for the lot of land assigned to them as aforesaid: Provided, That the said grantees shall, during the said term of ten years, without intermission, actually inhabit and cultivate the said township of land in the ratio of one settlement for every five hundred acres thereof; and, on due proof of such habitation and cultivation to the Secretary of the Treasury, and of the payment into the proper land office of the minimum price per acre, at the time of such payment, within the said term of ten years, patents shall be granted as aforesaid, and not otherwise.

APPROVED, June 30, 1834.

STATUTE I.

June 30, 1834. Thirty-six sections of land in

Illinois or Michigan granted to Polish exiles.

Names of the

grantees to be

recorded in the general land ofice.

Land to be di

vided by lot, in equal portions.

Ten years' oc

cupancy to entitle to patent.

Proviso.

RESOLUTIONS.

I. RESOLUTION providing for the distribution of the diplomatic correspondence of the United States, from the peace of seventeen hundred and eighty-three, to the fourth of March, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine.

peace

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the copies of the "Selection of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, between the of seventeen hundred and eighty-three, and the fourth of March, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine," published in virtue of an act of the fifth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, in continuation of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the Revolution, be distributed and disposed of,

June 19, 1834.

Library committee to distribute copies of Diplomatic Correspondence.

1832, ch. 74.

under the direction of the joint library committee, in manner following, viz :

To each person who received a copy of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the Revolution, and who shall apply to the clerk of the House of Representatives, for the continuation of the same, one copy;

To the library of each institution, to which a copy of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the Revolution was sent, one copy;

To Jared Sparks, editor of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the Revolution, one copy;

To Edward Livingston, under whose direction, as Secretary of State, the selection aforesaid was made, one copy.

SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That twenty-five copies of the work aforesaid, and of any other work or works printed by order, or at the expense of the United States, shall be placed at the disposition of the joint library committee, to be by them disposed of, in return for donations to the library of Congress.

APPROVED, June 19, 1834.

June 19, 1834.

Librarian to deliver two co

pies of census

to each member of the present, who was not a

member of last Congress.

II. RESOLUTION for distributing returns of the last census.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the librarian of Congress be authorized to deliver to each member of the present Congress, who was not a member of the last Congress, two copies of the return of the last census of the inhabitants of the United States, and that it may be lawful for the said members to transmit the said copies, free of postage, by mail. APPROVED, June 19, 1834.

Grant of the

right of way, and restriction of its

use.

Post, p. 792.

June 25, 1834. III. RESOLUTION giving the right of way through the property of the United States at Harper's Ferry, to the Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States of America be, and he is hereby, authorized to convey to the Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company, free of charge, the right of way through the property held by the United States at Harper's Ferry, (and at present not improved,) if, in his opinion, it should not be inconsistent with the public service; and, also, on the same terms, so much of the ground between the arsenal and the Shenandoah river, and near its junction with the Potomac, as may be deemed consistent with the public interest: to be used for the benefit of the said company in the deposit and accommodation of the trade of said Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company only, and for no other purpose whatever: Provided, nevertheless, That the said railroad shall be so located, in the judgment of two or more skilful engineers of the army of the United States, who may be deputed by the President of the United States to make such location, as not to impede or injure, in any manner, the future improvement of the navigation of the river Shenandoah by a lock and dam navigation, or by extending a canal along the left bank thereof, to the river Potomac, or to the canal now constructed along the left bank of the said river.

Proviso.

APPROVED, June 25, 1834.

Death of General La Fayette.

IV. RESOLUTION manifesting the sensibility of the two houses of Congress, and of June 26, 1834. the nation, on the occasion of the decease of General La Fayette. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the two houses of Congress have received, with the profoundest sensibility, intelligence of the death of General La Fayette, the friend of the United States, the friend of Washington, and the friend of liberty.

2. And be it further resolved, That the sacrifices and efforts of this illustrious person, in the cause of our country, during her struggle for independence, and the affectionate interest which he has at all times manifested for the success of her political institutions, claim from the government and people of the United States, an expression of condolence for his loss, veneration for his virtues, and gratitude for his services.

3. And be it further resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to address, together with a copy of the above resolutions, a letter to George Washington La Fayette, and the other members of his family, assuring them of the condolence of this whole nation in their irreparable bereavement.

4. And be it further resolved, That the members of the two houses of Congress will wear a badge of mourning for thirty days, and that it be recommended to the people of the United States to wear a similar badge for the same period.

5. And be it further resolved, That the halls of the houses be dressed in mourning for the residue of the session.

6. And be it further resolved, That John Quincy Adams be requested to deliver an oration on the life and character of General La Fayette, before the two houses of Congress at the next session.