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# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 97

Chap. XCVII.—An Act respecting the northern boundary of the State of Missouri.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Commissioners to be appointed to run the boundary line between Iowa and Missouri. That there shall be appointed by the Governor of the Iowa Territory, by and with the advice and consent of the Council of said Territory, a commissioner, to act in conjunction with such commissioner as may be appointed by the State of Missouri, and such third person, not a citizen of the State of Missouri or Territory of Iowa, as may be designated by the two commissioners aforesaid; the duty of which said three persons it shall be, to ascertain, survey, and mark out the northern boundary line of the State of Missouri, and to cause plats of the said line, when so ascertained, surveyed, and marked out, to be returned to the offices of the Secretary of State of the United States, of the State of Missouri, and of the Territory of Iowa, which plats shall be accompanies by reports of their proceedings in the premises.
Commissioners to appoint a surveyor.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That said three commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have authority to appoint a surveyor, and engage the necessary assistants and laborers, to enable them to ascertain, survey, and mark the said line; and the compensation of said commissioners, and of the surveyor employed by them, shall be at the rate of eight dollars per day, for so many days as they may necessarily be employed about the business aforesaid;Compensation limited. and the laborers and assistants shall be paid such compensation as may be agreed upon between each of them and the commissioners, or a majority of them, not to exceed two dollars per day.
Report of majority of commissioners fixing the boundary line, to be final.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the report, as aforesaid, of any two of said commissioners, shall be final and conclusive, and the line so ascertained, surveyed, marked out and returned as aforesaid, by any two of said commissioners, shall be the northern boundary line of the State of Missouri.
Act, when to take effect. Appropriation.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not go into force until the Legislature of the State of Missouri shall have assented to the same, and agreed to abide by the award of said commissioners, or any two of them, as final and conclusive; and the sum of four thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry into effect the provisions of this act.
Approved, June 17, 1844.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 14

No. 14. A Joint Resolution in relation to the transmission of the British mail between Boston and Canada, and for other purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Postmaster Gen’l to make arrangements with British government for transmission of the mails between Boston and Canada. Arrangements to be made for transmission of the mail betw’n the U. s. and Europe. Ports of Bremen, Havre, and others, to be secured, &c. That the Postmaster General be and he is hereby authorized to make such arrangements as may be deemed expedient with the Post Office Department of the British government for the transmission of the British mail in its unbroken state or condition between Boston and Canada.
Be it further resolved, That the Postmaster General be and he is hereby authorized to enter into such arrangement or arrangements with the proper authorities in France and Germany, and the owners or agents of vessels plying regularly between those countries and the United States, whereby a safe and as near as possible a regular direct mail communication, under official guaranty, between the United States and the continent of Europe, viz.: the ports of Bremen in Germany and Havre in France, and such other principal ports on said continent as the Postmaster General may deem most proper, shall be secured―so that the entire inland and foreign postage on letters and all other mail matter, ​sent over sea from and to the United States, to and from any part of France and of the States comprehended within the German Customs Union, and of those countries on the continent, between which and France and of the said German States there exists a continued arrangement of the like kind, may be paid at the place where they are respectively mailed or received.
Approved, June 15, 1844.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 16

No. 16. A Joint Resolution authorizing the transfer of certain clerks in the Treasury Department.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Sec. of Treas. may transfer three clerks to arrange statistical information, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby authorized to transfer from any office or offices of the Treasury Department from which their services may, in his opinion, be dispensed with, three or more clerks to be employed under his direction in collecting, arranging and classifying such statistical information as may be procured, showing or tending to show each year the condition of the agriculture, manufactures, domestic trade, currency and banks of the several States and Territories of the United States.Clerks to receive same pay as before. The clerks which may be transferred and employed under this authority shall receive the same salaries as at present―and a report containing the results of the information obtained upon the before mentioned subjects, shall be annually made to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the first Monday of January.
Approved, June 15, 1844.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 10

No. 10. A Resolution respecting receipts issued by the Treasurer of the United States, in payment for public lands.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Treasurer’s certificates of deposites for the purchase of lands under act of April 24, 1820, ch. 51, when assigned, to be received in payment for public lands. That any certificates which have been issued by the Treasurer of the United States, in favor of individuals who have deposited moneys at the Treasury in payment for lands intended by them to be purchased under the act of Congress, approved April the twenty-fourth, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled “An act making further provision for the sale of public lands,” and which certificates have been assigned, may be received in payment for public lands purchased at public sale or by private entry; and any receiver of public moneys who may have received such certificates in payment, as aforesaid, may be credited with the amount thereof, upon delivering them duly transferred to the Treasury.
Approved, June 12, 1844.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/9th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 34

Chap. XXXIV.—An Act making provision for the compensation of witnesses who attended the trial of the impeachment of Samuel Chase.
Per diem allowance to the witnesses.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to every witness summoned to attend the trial of the impeachment of Samuel Chase, there shall be allowed and paid for every day’s attendance upon the said trial the sum of three dollars; and also for mileage at the rate of twelve and an half cents for every mile distance coming to the city of Washington, and returning to the usual place of residence of the witnesses, respectively.
Secretary of the Senate to ascertain and certify the amount due to to each witness. This certificate to be a good voucher at the treasury. Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the secretary of the Senate to ascertain and certify the amount due to each witness for attendance and mileage; which certificate shall be a sufficient voucher to entitle the witness to receive from the treasury of the United States the amount certified to be due, unless otherwise ordered by the Senate.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sum of six thousand ​dollars be appropriated to defray the expenses to be incurred under the provisions of this act, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 21, 1806.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/9th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 35

Chap. XXXV.—An Act in addition to an act, intituled “An act supplementary to the act providing for a naval peace establishment, and for other purposes.”
Second and fourth sections of the act of March 3, 1801, ch. 20, repealed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second and fourth sections of “An act providing for a naval peace establishment, and for other purposes,” be, and the same are hereby repealed.
President to keep in actual service, in time of peace, as many frigates as he may think proper. Rest to be laid up. Armed vessels officered and armed as the President chooses. Number of officers. Half pay to officers not under orders.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to keep in actual service, in time of peace, so many of the frigates and other public armed vessels of the United States, as in his judgment the nature of the service may require, and to cause the residue thereof to be laid up in ordinary in convenient ports.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the public armed vessels of the United States, in actual service, in time of peace, shall be officered and manned, as the President of the United States shall direct: provided that the officers shall not exceed the following numbers and grades, that is to say; thirteen captains, nine masters commandant, seventy-two lieutenants, and one hundred and fifty midshipmen: but the said officers shall receive no more than half their monthly pay, during the time when they shall not be under orders for actual service; and provided further, that the whole number of able seamen, ordinary seamen and boys shall not exceed nine hundred and twenty-five; but the President may appoint, for the vessels in actual service, so many surgeons, surgeon’s mates, sailing masters, chaplains, pursers, boatswains, gunners, sail makers, and carpenters, as may in his opinion be necessary and proper.
Approved, April 21, 1806.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/9th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 28

Chap. XXVIII.—An Act to suspend the sale of certain lands in the state of Ohio, and the Indiana territory.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the operation of the ​Operation of the sixth condition of the 5th section in a former act suspended. 1800, ch. 55. In favour of actual settlers.sixth condition of the fifth section of the act, intituled “An act to amend the act, intituled An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States northwest of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river,” be, and the same is hereby suspended until the first day of October next, in favour of such purchasers of lands under the said act, who shall exhibit satisfactory proof to the register and receiver of public monies in the respective districts where they reside, that they were actual settlers on the land so purchased, at the time of passing this act.
Approved, April 15, 1806.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/9th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 36

Chap. XXXVI.—An Act for the regulation of the times of holding the courts of the district of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Session of the court of Washington changed. Present courts adjourned accordingly. Process made returnable according to the change.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the circuit court for Washington county, in the district of Columbia, shall hereafter commence and be held on the first Monday in June in each year, instead of the fourth Monday in July, as now fixed by law; and the circuit court for Alexandria county, in said district, on the first Monday in July, instead of the fourth Monday in June, as now established; and that the circuit court for Washington county, which now stands adjourned to the fourth Monday in July next, shall be, and is hereby adjourned to the first Monday in June next; and the circuit court for Alexandria country shall be adjourned to, and held on the first Monday in July next; and that all process whatsoever, now issued, or that may be issued in the respective counties of Washington and Alexandria, in said district, returnable to the fourth Mondays in June and July next, respectively, or to any particular day in the first, second, or other succeeding weeks during the said terms, as heretofore established, shall be returnable, and returned to the first Mondays in June and July next, or to corresponding days in the first, second, or other succeeding weeks during the said terms, respectively, as now by this law established; and all causes, recognizances, 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 to the said first Monday in June and July next, in the same counties, respectively, in the same manner, as if the said causes, recognizances, pleas and proceedings, had been regularly returned or continued to the said respective times appointed by this act, for holding the said courts.
Provisions of a former act extended to insolvent debtors. 1803, ch. 31.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the act, intituled “An act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the district of Columbia,” shall extend to any debtor who may have been, or hereafter shall be arrested and holden to bail in the said district, and who at the time of his arrest shall have been a resident in the said district one year, next preceding his arrest.
Approved, April 21, 1806.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/9th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 3

Chap. III.—An Act making an additional appropriation to supply the deficiency in the appropriation for the naval service, during the year one thousand eight hundred and five.
A further sum appropriated to supply a deficiency in a former appropriation.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for supplying the deficiency in the appropriation for the naval service, during the year one thousand eight hundred and five, the further sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby appropriated.
Approved, January 22, 1806.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/9th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 30

Chap. XXX.—An Act supplementary to the act making provision for the payment of claims of citizens of the United States on the government of France.
Claims of citizens of the U. States under the Bordeaux embargo to be paid at the treasury.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 shall cause to be paid, at the treasury of the United States, the amount of certain claims of citizens of the United States against the government of France, arising from the Bordeaux embargo, in conformity with a certified list of liquidations, attested by the minister of the public treasury of France, and transmitted by the minister plenipotentiary of the United States, at Paris, to the said secretary; which payments shall be made for such sums, respectively, as are stated in the above-mentioned list of liquidations, to such persons, respectively, as the accounting officers of the treasury shall determine to be rightfully entitled to the same, and out of the monies heretofore appropriated for the purpose of discharging the claims of citizens of the United States against the government of France, the payment of which was assumed by the government of the United States, by virtue of the convention of the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and three.
Approved, April 18, 1806.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 96

Chap. XCVI.—An Act supplementary to an act, entitled “An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments.”
Act of March 3, 1809, ch. 28. The President restrained from making transfers of appropriations for specified objects to any other objects.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That nothing contained in the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and nine, entitled “An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments,” shall be construed to authorize the President of the United States to direct any sum appropriated to fortifications, arsenals, armories, custom-houses, docks, navy yards, or buildings of any sort, or to munitions of war, or to the pay of the army or navy, to be applied to any other object of public expenditure.
Approved, March 3, 1817.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 86

Chap. LXXXVI.—An Act making additional appropriations to defray the expenses of the army and militia during the late war with Great Britain.
Additional appropriation for defraying the expenses of the military establishment, and those incurred by calling out the militia.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for defraying the expenses of the military establishment, and those incurred by calling out the militia during the late war with Great Britain, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated by law for these objects, the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, viz:
For pay of the army and militia, including the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of interest, advanced by the state of Pennsylvania for defraying the expenses of the militia of said state, during the late war, seven hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For subsistence, two hundred thousand dollars.
For the quarter [master’s] department, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the ordnance department, one hundred and forty-four thousand dollars.
For the payment of balances due to certain states, on account of disbursement for militia employed in the service of the United States, during the late war, seven hundred and seventeen thousand dollars.
15,000 dolls. for ascertaining Indian boundary line, &c.For paying the expenses incurred in ascertaining and surveying the boundary lines established by the treaty lately made with the Creek Indians, fifteen thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums, hereby appropriated, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1817.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 99

Chap. XCIX.—An Act allowing further time for entering donation rights to lands in the district of Detroit.
The claimants to certain donation rights of land in the district of Detroit allowed until the 1st of Dec. 1818, to file their claims. Act of April 23, 1812, ch. 62. Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 84.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claimants to certain donation rights in the district of Detroit, granted by the second [section] of an act, entitled “An act to authorize the granting of patents for land, according to the surveys that have been made, and to grant donation rights to certain claimants of land in the district of Detroit, and for other purposes,” passed the twenty-third of April, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, be, and they are hereby, allowed until the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, to file their claims with the register of the land office, for the district aforesaid.
Approved, March 3, 1817.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 92

Chap. XCII.—An Act to provide for the punishment of crimes and offences comitted within the Indian boundaries.
Indians or other persons committing offences in Indian towns, &c. which, if committed within the sole jurisdiction of the United States, would be punished with death, or other punishment, to suffer in like manner.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if any Indian, or other person or persons, shall within the United States, and within any town, district, or territory, belonging to any nation or nations, tribe or tribes, of Indians, commit any crime, offence, or misdemeanor, which, if committed in any place or district of country under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States , would, by the laws of the United States, be punished with death, or any other punishment, every such offender, on being thereof convicted, shall suffer the like punishment as is provided by the laws of the United States for the like offences, if committed within any place or district of country under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States.
Superior territorial, and circuit, and other courts authorized to try offences against this act.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the superior courts in each of the territorial districts, and the circuit courts and other courts of the United States, in which any offender against this act shall be first apprehended or brought for trial, shall have, and are hereby invested with, full power and authority to hear, try, and punish, all crimes, offences, and misdemeanors, against this act; such courts proceeding therein in the same manner as if such crimes, offences, and misdemeanors, had been committed within the bounds of their respective districts: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect any treaty now in force between the United States and any Indian nation, or to extend to any offence committed by one Indian against another, within any Indian boundary.The President, and the governors of territories, invested with the same powers for the punishment of offences against this act as by the sections of the act referred to.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States, and the governor of each of the territorial districts, where any offender against this act shall be apprehended or brought for trial, shall have, and exercise, the same powers, for the punishment of offences against this act, as they can severally have and exercise by virtue of the fourteenth and fifteenth sections of an act, entitled “An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers,” passed thirtieth March, one thousand eight hundred and two, for the punishment of offences therein described.March 30, 1802, ch. 13, sec. 14, 15.
Approved, March 3, 1817.