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# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/16th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 118

Chap. CXVIII.—An Act in addition to the act, entitled “An act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty,” and for other purposes.
Act of April 11, 1820, ch. 38. Sums appropriated—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, that is to say:
For compensation of members of Congress.For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, in addition to the appropriation heretofore made for that object, twenty-three thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
For public wharf, &c. on Staten Island.For rebuilding the public wharf, and repairing the public warehouses, on Staten Island, fifteen thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations hereinbefore made, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Arrearages.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the arrearages of the Department of War, from the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, be paid out of the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars already appropriated for arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen; any thing in the act entitledAct of May 1, 1820, ch. 50. “An act in addition to the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Department,” passed the first of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, May 15, 1820.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/16th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 119

Chap. CXIX.—An Act to provide for the building an addition to the custom-house now erecting in the city of New Orleans, for the use of the district court of the United States for the state of Louisiana.
An addition to be built to the custom-house at New Orleans.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be built an addition to the custom-house now erecting in the city of New Orleans, which shall contain rooms suitable for the use of the district court of the United States for the state of Louisiana; and that so much of the appropriation for the erection of custom-houses and public warehouses as shall be sufficient for that purpose, be, and the same is hereby declared to be, applicable to that object.
When the new building is completed, the present house and lot, &c. are to be sold, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, as soon as the said building shall be completed, the Secretary of the Treasury shall be authorized and required to cause to be sold, at public sale, upon such terms, and in such manner, as he shall judge to be expedient, the house and lot in which the district court is now held, and to cause the amount for which they shall be sold to be paid into the treasury of the United States.
Approved, May 15, 1820.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/16th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 121

Chap. CXXI.—An Act to authorize the governor of Illinois to obtain certain abstracts of lands from certain public offices.
The register of the land office at Vincennes to furnish a complete abstract of lands purchased and lying in Illinois, &c. Ten cents to the register for each entry. Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the register of the United States’ land office at Vincennes, in the state of Indiana, to furnish to the governor of the state of Illinois, when he shall apply for the same, a complete abstract of all the lands which have been purchased at that office, or which may hereafter be purchased, which lie within the state of Illinois, designating the name of each purchaser, and the time of making the purchase; for which he shall be entitled to receive, from such applicant, at the rate of ten cents for each separate entry, a copy whereof is required; Provided, however, That all the expense incurred by virtue of this act, shall be defrayed by said state.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause a complete abstract to be made out, of military bounty lands patented to soldiers, lying in Illinois.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the application of the governor of said state, to cause a complete abstract to be made out, for the use of said state, of all the military bounty lands which have been patented to the soldiers of the late army, lying within the same, designating the name of each patentee.
Approved, May 15, 1820.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/16th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 125

Chap. CXXV.—An Act for the relief of the inhabitants of the village of Peoria, in the state of Illinois.
Persons claiming lots in Peoria to deliver notice in writing to the register at Edwardsville, before Oct. 1, 1820. Register to report to the Secretary of the Treasury. Report, &c. to be laid before Congress.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every person, or the legal representatives of every person, who claims a lot or lots in the village of Peoria, in the State of Illinois, shall, on or before the first day of October next, deliver to the register of the land office, for the district of Edwardsville, a notice, in writing, of his or her claim; and it shall be the duty of the said register to make to the Secretary of the Treasury a report of all claims filed with the said register, with the substance of the evidence in support thereof; and also his opinion and such remarks respecting the claims as he may think proper to make; which report, together with a list of the claims which, in the opinion of the said register, ought to be confirmed, shall be laid by the Secretary of the Treasury before Congress for their determination. And the said register shall be allowed twenty-five cents for each claim on which a decision shall be made, whether such decision shall be in favour or against the claims; which allowance shall be in full for his services under this act.
Approved, May 15, 1820.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/7th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 39

Chap. XXXIX.—An Act to revive and continue in force, an act intituled “An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes.”
A former act revived and continued in force. Act of April 18, 1796, ch. 13. 1803, ch. 14.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, intituled “An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes,” approved on the eighteenth of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, shall be, and the same is hereby revived and continued in force, until the fourth day of March next, and no longer.
Approved, April 30, 1802.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/7th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 43

Chap. XLIII.—An Act making an appropriation for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and two.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums, including any sum which may have been, or might be expended during the present year, by virtue of any former appropriation, be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, to defray the expenses of the navy of the United States during the year one thousand eight hundred and two; that is to say:
Specific appropriations.For the pay and subsistence of the officers, the pay of the seamen, provisions and repairs, five hundred and eight thousand two hundred and twenty-six dollars.
For medicines, instruments, and hospital stores, ten thousand dollars.
For the purchase of ordnance and other military stores, twenty thousand dollars.
​Specific appropriations.For salaries of superintendents of navy yards, storekeepers and clerks, store-rent, hire of labourers, &c. twelve thousand dollars.
For the purchase and expense of transportation of timber, and other materials, including ordnance for the seventy-four gun ships, one hundred and ninety thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For the improvement of navy yards, docks and wharves, fifty thousand dollars.
For contingencies, ten thousand dollars.
For the pay and subsistence, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff of the marine corps, seventy-one thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty cents.
For clothing for the same, fifteen thousand five hundred and nineteen dollars.
For military stores for the same, one thousand two hundred and twenty-four dollars and sixty cents.
For the quartermaster’s department, comprising quarters for the officers, and barracks for the men at different stations, fuel, stationery, camp utensils, &c. seven thousand and sixty-one dollars.
For medicine, medical services, and hospital stores, one thousand dollars.
For officers’ travelling expenses, armourer’s and carpenter’s bills, and other contingent expenses, two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the said several sums of money, herein before specifically appropriated, and amounting together to the sum of nine hundred thousand dollars, as shall not have been expended by virtue of any former appropriation, shall be paid, first, out of any balance remaining unexpended of former appropriations for the support of the navy;—and secondly, out of any monies in the treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated by law.
Approved, May 1, 1802.
# Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The peace treaty between Mexico and the United States to end the Mexican–American War.
* The original version signed on February 2, 1848 in Guadalupe Hidalgo.
* The version in United States Statutes at Large as ratified by the US Congress on March 10, 1848.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 130

Chap. CXXX.—An Act in relation to the district court for the northern district of New York.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Clerk of the court may appoint a deputy. That it shall be lawful for the clerk of the district court for the northern district of New York, to appoint a deputy, who, in his absence, may exercise all the official powers of the said clerk, at the village of Auburn, in the county of Cayuga, in the said district.Deputy to take an oath. And such deputy, before he enters on the discharge of his duties, shall take the usual oath for the faithful performance of his duties as such deputy.Clerk responsible for acts of his deputy. And nothing herein contained shall be held to excuse or release the said clerk from legal responsibility for acts performed by his said deputy, in behalf of said clerk in the office aforesaid.
Approved, August 11, 1842.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 177

Chap. CLXXVII.—An Act explanatory of an act entitled “An act to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district.”
Act of Aug. 3, 1842, ch. 120. Construction of the 1st section of the act.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first section of the act entitled “An act to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district,” shall be construed in the same manner it would have been had the words “from and after the thirtieth day of June next” been wholly omitted in said section.
The act to take effect from and after 3d August 1842. 1842, ch. 120.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid act, entitled “An act to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district,” approved August third, eighteen hundred and forty-two, shall take effect in all its provisions, and be in force as hereby explained, from and after the third day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two.
Approved, August 16, 1842.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 128

Chap. CXXVIII.—An Act to settle the title to certain tracts of land in the State of Arkansas.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Owners of certain Spanish and French land claims authorized to enter the same. That each and every owner of a Spanish or French land claim, in the State of Arkansas, which was submitted for adjudication to the superior court of the late Territory of Arkansas, and by that court confirmed, being subsequent purchasers for a valuable consideration, is hereby authorized, within twelve months from the passage of this act, to enter, respectively, the land covered by the said claim, at the minimum price, under such regulations as the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall prescribe: Provided,Proviso. That no such entry shall be made, except of lands mentioned and described in the original claim, or of such tracts as have been located in pursuance of the act of the twenty-sixth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, entitled1824, ch. 173. “An act enabling the claimants to lands within the limits of the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims,” or any act reviving the same; nor unless the owner of the claim shall make and subscribe an oath, before the register or receiver of the land office of the district in which the lands lie, which oath such register or receiver is hereby authorized to administer, that at the time he became the owner of the claim he had no notice or knowledge that the claim was fraudulent, or that the same rested upon any forged warrant, grant, order of survey, or other evidence of title.Patents to issue. And, for every entry made under the provisions of this act, a patent shall issue, as though no Spanish or French claim had ever been entered upon said land.
Approved, August 11, 1842.
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Chap. CXXIX.—An Act regulating the services of the several judges in the Territory of Iowa.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Assignment of the judges to districts. That until otherwise ordered by law of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Iowa, the judges for said Territory lately appointed shall be, and they are hereby, assigned to the same districts to which the same judges respectively, were heretofore assigned by the laws of the said Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Iowa.
Approved, August 11, 1842.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 127

Chap. CXXVII.—An Act to provide for the settlement of the claims of the State of Georgia for the services of her militia.
1852, ch. 110, § 14. Appropriation to indemnify Georgia for expenses in calling out her militia to suppress Indian hostilit’s.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to the payment and indemnity of the State of Georgia, for any money actually paid by said State on account of necessary and proper expenses incurred by said State in calling out her militia, in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-five, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, during the Seminole, Cherokee, and Creek campaigns, or for the suppression of Indian hostilities in Florida and Alabama, or so much of said sum as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid, after deducting any sum or sums of money that may have heretofore been advanced by the United States to the State of Georgia, to be applied to the objects aforesaid, and which may not have been previously, so applied.
What would have been due, &c. to be first ascertained.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Paymaster General of the United States army and the accounting officers of the Treasury shall first ascertain and certify what would have been due from the United States to the volunteers and militia called into the service of the said ​State of Georgia, or by her proper authorities, during the time and for the purposes mentioned in the preceding section, if said volunteers and militia had been duly called into the service of the United States, and regularly received and mustered by officers of the United States army, according to the laws and regulations which have governed in the payment of the volunteers and militia of other states:Proviso. Provided, That the accounts of the agent or other officer of the State of Georgia, employed or authorized to make payments for the aforesaid services, or any of them, be submitted to the Paymaster General and the accounting officers, for their inspection:Proviso. And provided also, That no reimbursement shall be made on account of the payment of any volunteers or militia who refused to be received and mustered into the service of the United States, or to serve under officers of the United States army, if any may have been ordered to that service by the President of the United States or other proper authority.
Approved, August 11, 1842.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 180

Chap. CLXXX.—An Act to amend the act entitled “An act supplementary to the act entitled ‘An act to amend the judicial system of the United States.’”
Act of March 3, 1837, ch. 34. Act of March 3, 1839, ch. 81. Act of June 17, 1844, ch. 96. What districts shall compose the 4th, 5th, and 6th circuits.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the fourth circuit shall be composed of the districts of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia;
The fifth circuit shall be composed of the districts of Alabama and Louisiana;
The sixth circuit shall be composed of the districts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Times of holding circuit courts in Virginia, andThe circuit courts in the district of Virginia shall be holden at Richmond on the first Monday in May and on the fourth Monday in November.
N. Carolina.The circuit courts in the district of North Carolina shall be holden on the fourth Monday of May and second Monday in December.
Act to take effect 1st February next. Justices of the Supreme Court to allot the districts. Process, &c. when returnable.This act shall not take effect until the first day of February next, before which time the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, or a majority of them, shall allot the several districts among the Justices of the said court.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That when the time of holding any court, by this act has been changed, all processes, proceedings, and causes shall be returned and held to be continued to the said courts, at the times herein provided for their meeting, respectively.
Approved, August 16, 1842.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 126

Chap. CXXVI.—An Act to annex a part of the town of Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island, to the collection district of Fall River in the State of Massachusetts.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,The part of Tiverton annexed, described. That all that part of the town of Tiverton, in the State of Rhode Island, which lies north of the south line of the farm of William Slade, and of the farm of the heirs of Boylston Brayton, to Wattupper Pond, and by said pond to the south line of the State of Massachusetts, and the waters and shores adjoining thereto, be, and the same is hereby, annexed to, and made a part of the collection district of Fall river in the State of Massachusetts.
Approved, August 9, 1842.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 178

Chap. CLXXVIII.—An Act authorizing the settlement and payment of certain claims of the State of Alabama.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Secretary of War to audit and adjust the claims of Alabama, how. That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, directed to audit and adjust the claims of the State of Alabama, under such laws and regulations as have heretofore governed the Department in auditing and allowing the claims of the States on the United States, for moneys advanced and paid by said State for subsistence, supplies, and services of local troops called into service by and under the authorities of said State, but not mustered into the service of the United States, and for provisions and forage furnished the friendly Indians during the Creek and Seminole hostilities, in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-six and eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in all cases in which the payment was for subsistence, supplies, service, provisions, and forage, which would have been paid for under existing laws and regulations, if such troops had been mustered into the service of the United States, and the provisions and forage had been furnished by an agent of the United States;Sum found due to be paid. and that the sum so found due to said State be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated:Proviso. Provided, That, in auditing and adjusting said claims, duly authenticated copies of papers which have been lost or destroyed, upon due proof of such loss or destruction, shall be received as evidence.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, ​Report on claims presented, and not allowed, to be made to the House of Reps.and he hereby is, required to report to the House of Representatives a schedule of such claims as may be presented for adjustment under this act, and not allowed, with the reasons for such disallowance, at the next session of Congress.
Approved, August 16, 1842.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 179

Chap. CLXXIX.—An Act to change the name of the port of entry on Lake Erie, known as Portland, to that of Sandusky.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,After 1st October 1842, Portland to be called Sandusky. That from and after the first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, the port of Portland on Lake Erie, in the district of Sandusky, in the State of Ohio, shall be called the port of Sandusky.
Approved, August 16, 1842.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 181

Chap. CLXXXI.—An Act requiring foreign regulations of commerce to be laid annually before Congress.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Changes in the commercial systems of other nations to be communicated. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to lay before Congress, annually, at the commencement of its session, in a compendious form, all such changes and modifications in the commercial systems of other nations, whether by treaties, duties on imports and exports, or other regulations, as shall have come to the knowledge of the Department.
Approved, August 16, 1842.