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# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 62

Chap. LXII.—An Act to increase the salary of the Postmaster General.
2,000 dollars to be paid him, annually, in addition to his present pay.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from the first day of the present year, there shall be paid, annually, to the Postmaster General, two thousand dollars, in addition to his present salary.
Approved, March 2, 1827.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 8

Chap. VIII.—An Act to provide for the location of the two townships and land reserved for a seminary of learning in the territory of Florida, and to complete the location of the grant to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum of Kentucky.
The township of land reserved for a seminary of learning, in the district of East Florida, by act of March 3d, 1823, ch. 28, sec. 11, to be located east of the Appalachicola river, &c. April 22, 1826, ch. 29.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the township of land reserved in the district of East Florida, by an act of Congress, approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, for a seminary of learning, shall be located east of the Appalachicola river, and may be located in sections corresponding with any of the legal divisions into which the public lands are authorized to be surveyed, so as not to interfere with private land claims, and the rights of pre-emption; and the township located west of the Appalachicola river, as directed in the aforesaid act, so far as it is covered by the claims of those entitled to the right of pre-emption, by the act approved the twenty-second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, shall be located in sections upon any unappropriated lands in said district of country, until the amount taken by said interferences shall be satisfied and discharged.
Power given to the governor to lease the same.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the governor and legislative council of said territory shall have power to take possession of the lands granted for the use of schools and for a seminary of learning, and to ​lease the same from year to year; and the money arising from the rest of said lands shall be appropriated to the use of schools, and the erection of a seminary of learning, in such manner as they may direct; and they shall have power to pass laws for the preservation of said lands from intrusion and trespass until Florida shall be admitted into the Union as a state.
Location of the grant to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum of Kentucky.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the incorporated Deaf and Dumb Asylum of Kentucky shall have the power, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, of locating so much of the township of land granted to the said institution, as has been taken by the claims of those who are entitled to the right of pre-emption in the territory of Florida, under the provisions of the act aforesaid; which shall be located in sections upon any unappropriated and unreserved lands in either of the territories of Florida or Arkansas; which said tracts, when so located, shall be disposed of by the corporation of said Deaf and Dumb Asylum, agreeably to the provisions of an act passed the fifth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, entitled “An act for the benefit of the incorporated Deaf and Dumb Asylum of Kentucky.”
Approved, January 29, 1827.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 60

Chap. LX.—An Act to authorize the sale of certain tracts of land in the state of Ohio, commonly called Moravian land.
Certain lots lying in the Salem, Gnadenhutte, and Shoenbrun tracts of land, to be offered at public sale.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the several lots of land lying in the Salem, Gnadenhutten, and Shoenbrun tracts of land, which have been valued at more than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, ​may be offered at public sale, at such time as the President of the United States may think expedient, and sold as other public lands of the United States.
Approved, March 2, 1827.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 77

Chap. LXXVII.—An Act for altering the times of holding the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, holden at the city of Richmond.
Terms of the district court for the eastern district, changed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the terms of the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, now directed to be holden in the city of Richmond, on the second day of April, and the fifteenth day of October, in every year, shall, in future, be held in the said city on the fifteenth day of May, and on the fifteenth day of November, annually; and that all suits, actions, and proceedings of whatever kind, now depending in, or returnable to, said court, shall be taken to be continued or returnable to the terms herein established.
Approved, March 3, 1827.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 7

Chap. VII.—An Act making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States.
Sums respectively approprited towards the payment of revolutionary pensioners.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 they are hereby, respectively appropriated towards the military service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and for the objects following; that is to say:
Revolutionary pensioners.For the pensions to the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, one million two hundred and sixty thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars;
Invalid pensioners.For the invalid and half pay pensioners, three hundred and one thousand and fifty-five dollars;
Widows and orphans.For pensions to the widows and orphans, twelve thousand dollars.
Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said sums, respectively, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, January 29, 1827.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 79

Chap. LXXIX.—An Act authorizing the payment of interest to the state of Pennsylvania.
Accounting officers of the Treasury Department to liquidate the claims of the state of Pennsylvania against the U.S.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 Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to liquidate and settle the claim of the state of Pennsylvania against the United States, for interest upon loans or moneys borrowed, and actually expended by her, for the use and benefit of the United States, during the late war with Great Britain.
Rules, applicable to the case, when the amount of interest is ascertained. First. Second. Third.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in ascertaining the amount of interest, as aforesaid, due to the state of Pennsylvania, the following rules shall be understood as applicable to, and governing the case, to wit: First, that interest shall not be computed on any sum which Pennsylvania has not expended for the use and benefit of the United States, as evidenced by the amount refunded or repaid to Pennsylvania by the United States. Second, that no interest shall be paid on any sum on which she has not paid interest. Third, that when the principal, or any part of it, has been paid or refunded by the United States, or money placed in the hands of Pennsylvania for that purpose, the interest on the sum or sums so paid or refunded, shall cease, and not be considered as chargeable to the United States any longer than up to the time of the re-payment, as aforesaid.
Amount of interest to be paid from the treasury.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the amount of interest, when ascertained as aforesaid, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1827.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 80

Chap. LXXX.—An Act authorizing the establishment of an arsenal in the town of Augusta, in Maine.
Secretary of War to purchase a site for an arsenal in Augusta, state of Maine.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Department of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to purchase as soon as it can be effected, on reasonable terms, a site for an arsenal, in the town of Augusta, in the state of Maine; and to cause to be erected thereon such an arsenal as may be deemed proper, for the safe keeping of the arms and munitions of the United States, for the northern and eastern frontier; and that, for these purposes, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1827.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 30

* Front Matter
* Lists and Tables
* Public Acts and Resolutions of the Fifty-Fifth Congress
* Private Acts and Resolutions of the Fifty-Fifth Congress
* Treaties and Conventions
* Proclamations Made by the President of the United States
* Concurrent Resolutions
* Index
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 30/55th Congress/2nd Session/Resolution 42

[No. 42.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to present a sword of honor to Commodore George Dewey, and to cause to be struck bronze medals commemorating the battle of Manila Bay, and to distribute such medals to the officers and men of the ships of the Asiatic Squadron of the United States.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Commodore George Dewey, U.S.N. Presentation to of sword and of medals to his command.That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he hereby is, authorized to present a sword of honor to Commodore George Dewey, and to cause to be struck bronze medals commemorating the battle of Manila Bay, and to distribute such medals to the officers and men of the ships of the Asiatic Squadron of the United States under command of Commodore George Dewey on May first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and that to enable the Secretary to carry out this resolution the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, June 3, 1898.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 30/55th Congress/2nd Session/Resolution 44

Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of \Var to submit plans and estimates for the improvement of Tampa Bay, Florida, from Port Tampa to its month, in the Gulf of Mexico.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled,Tampa Bay, Florida. Plans, etc., for improvement of. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to submit plans and estimates for the improvement of Tampa Bay, from Port Tampa to the mouth of the bay, in the Gulf of Mexico, so as to give a depth of water thirty feet deep at mean low water, five hundred feet wide on the bar at the entrance of Tampa Bay, and three hundred feet wide in the bay itself; and that the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, requested to inform Congress of his views as to the advisability of the proposed improvement.
Approved, June 4, 1898.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 32

* Front Matter
* Lists and Tables
* Public Acts and Resolutions of the Fifty-Seventh Congress
* Private Acts and Resolutions of the Fifty-Seventh Congress
* Concurrent Resolutions
* Treaties and Conventions
* Proclamations Made by the President of the United States
* Index
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 32/57th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 1311

Chap. 1311.—An Act Directing the Secretary of the Treasury to bestow medals upon First Lieutenant David H. Jarvis, Second Lieutenant Ellsworth P. Bertholf, and Samuel J. Call, surgeon, all of the Revenue-Cutter Service.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America at Congress assembled,Revenue-Cutter Service Medals of honor to rescuers of arctic whaling fleet. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to bestow a gold medal of honor, of such design as he may a prove, upon First Lieutenant David H. Jarvis, Second Lieutenant Ellsworth P. Bertholf, and Doctor Samuel J. Call, surgeon, all of the Revenue—Cutter Service and members of the overland expedition of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and eighteen hundred and ninety-eight for the relief of the whaling fleet in the arctic regions, in recognition of the heroic service rendered by them in connection with said expedition.
Appropriation. Sec. 2. That the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purchase or manufacture of said medals, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, June 28, 1902.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 30/55th Congress/2nd Session/Resolution 43

[No. 43.] Joint Resolution Providing for the printing of House Document Numbered Three hundred and ninety-six, relating to the beet-sugar industry in the United States.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Beet-sugar industry.there be printed sixty thousand copies of House Document Numbered Three hundred and ninety-six, Fifty-fifth Congress, being a special report on the beet-sugar industry in the United Printing of House document on ordered.States, twenty-seven thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, thirteen thousand copies for the use of the Senate, and twenty thousand copies for the use of the Department of Agriculture.
Approved, June 4, 1898.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 31/56th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 24

[No. 24.] Joint Resolution Recognizing the gallantry of Frank H. Newcomb, commanding the revenue cutter Hudson; of his officers and men; also retiring Captain Daniel B. Hodgsdon, of the Revenue·Cutter Service, for efficient and meritorious services in command of the cutter Hugh McCulloch at Manila.
Lieut. Fran H. Newcomb, etc., medals presented to.Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in recognition of Lieutenant Frank H. Newcomb, of the Revenue Cutter Service, commanding the revenue cutter Hudson, his officers and the men of his command, for their intrepid and heroic gallantry in the action at Cardenas, Cuba, on the eleventh day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, when the Hudson rescued the United States naval torpedo boat Winslow in the face of a·most galling fire from the enemy’s guns the Winslow being disabled, her captain wounded, her only other officer and half her crew killed. The commander of the Hudson kept his vessel in the very center of the hottest fire of the action, although in constant danger of going ashore on account of the shallow water, until finally he got a line made fast to the Winslow and towed that vessel out of range of the enemy’s guns. In commemoration of this signal act of heroism it is hereby enacted that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to cause to be prepared and to present to First Lieutenant Frank H. Newcomb, Revenue-Cutter Service, a gold medal, and to each of his officers a silver medal, and to each member of his crew a bronze medal.
Capt. Daniel B. Hodgsdon, retired.That in recognition of the efficient and meritorious services of Captain Daniel B. Hodgsdon, United States Revenue-Cutter Service, while in command of the United States revenue cutter Hugh McCulloch, under the orders and in cooperation with the fleet commanded by Rear-Admiral George Dewey, United States Navy, at the battle of ​ Manila, on May first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight (the said officer being now in the sixty-third year of his age, and having served continuously for thirty-seven years as an officer of the Revenue-Cutter Service), he be placed on the permanent waiting orders or retired list of the Revenue-Cutter Service, on the duty pay of his grade.
Appropriation.That the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the medals above specified.
Approved, May 3, 1900.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 31/56th Congress/2nd Session/Resolution 18

[No. 18.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to cause bronze medals to be struck and distributed to certain officers and men who participated in the war with Spain, and for other purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be,Navy and Marine Corps and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be struck bronze medalsBronze medals to oficers, etc., Spanish war authorized. commemorative of the naval and other engagements in the waters of the West Indies and on the shores of Cuba during the war with Spain, and to distribute the same to the officers and men of the Navy and Marine Corps who participated in any of said engagements deemed by him of sufficient importance to deserve commemoration: Provided, That officers and men ofProvisos. the Navy or Marine Corps who rendered specially meritorious service, otherwise than in battle, may be rewarded in like manner: And provided further, That any person who may, under the provisions of this Act, be entitledBronze bar authorized instead of two medals. to receive recognition in more than one instance shall, instead of a second medal, be presented with a bronze bar appropriately inscribed, to be attached to the ribbon by which the medal is suspended. And to carry outAppropriation. the provisions of this resolution the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1901.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 31

* Front Matter
* Lists and Tables
* Public Acts and Resolutions of the Fifty-Sixth Congress
* Private Acts and Resolutions of the Fifty-Sixth Congress
** First Session, Resolution 24
** Second Session, Resolution 18
* Treaties and Conventions
* Proclamations Made by the President of the United States
* Concurrent Resolutions
* Index
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 122

Chap. CXXII.—An Act authorizing the legislative council of the territory of Michigan to take charge of school lands in said territory.
Governor, &c. to make such laws, &c. as they may deem expedient, to protect from injury, &c., section 16, reserved in each township for the support of schools, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the governor and legislative council of the territory of Michigan be, and they are hereby, authorized to make such laws and needful regulations, as they shall deem most expedient, to protect from injury and waste section numbered sixteen, in said territory, reserved in each township, for the support of schools therein; and to provide, by law, for leasing the same, for any term not exceeding four years, in such manner as to render them productive, and most conducive to the objects for which they were designed.
Approved, May 24, 1828.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 124

Chap. CXXIV.—An Act making appropriations to enable the President of the United States to defray the expenses of delegations of the Choctaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Chickasaw, and other tribes of Indians, to explore the country west of the Mississippi.
Delegations of the Choctaw, Creek, &c. Indians west of the Mississippi, to explore the unoccupied lands of the United States.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to enable the President of the United States to employ suitable persons to conduct delegations of the Choctaw, Creeks, Cherokees, and Chickasaw, and such other tribes of Indians as may be disposed to send delegations west of the Mississippi for the purpose of exploring the unoccupied lands of the United States without the limits of the states and territories, preparatory to the final emigration of said Indians.
Amount of expenses not to exceed $15,000.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to defray the expenses of the delegations aforesaid, not exceeding the amount of the above appropriation; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 24, 1828.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 15

Chap. XV.—An Act to revive and continue in force “An act declaring the assent of Congress to a certain act of Maryland.”
Act of March 17, 1800, ch. 15, continued in force until March 3, 1838.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act passed the seventeenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred, entitled “An act declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the states of Maryland and Georgia,” and which, by subsequent acts, has been revived and continued in force, until the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, be, and the same so far as relates to the act of Maryland, hereby is revived and continued in force, until the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight:Proviso. Provided, That nothing herein contained, shall authorize the demand of a duty on tonnage on vessels propelled by steam, employed in the transportation of passengers.
Approved, March 10, 1828.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 18

Chap. XVIII.—An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
Sums appropriated for fortifications.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 each specifically, as follows:
Forts.For fort Adams, eighty thousand dollars. For fort Hamilton, sixty thousand dollars. For fort Monroe, one hundred thousand dollars. For fort Calhoun, eighty thousand dollars. For fort Macon, at Bogue point, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For fort at Mobile point, eighty thousand dollars. For fort Jackson, eighty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs and contingencies, fifteen thousand dollars. For fortifications at Pensacola, fifty thousand dollars. For fortifications at Charleston, twenty-five thousand dollars. For fortifications at Savannah, twenty-five thousand dollars. For fortPreservation of islands in Boston harbour. at Oak Island, North Carolina, sixty thousand dollars. For preservation of islands in Boston harbour, two thousand dollars.
To be paid from the treasury.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.
Approved, March 10, 1828.