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# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/1st Session/Chapter 73

Chap. LXXIII.—An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the general land office,” approved the twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.
Act of May 20, 1826, ch. 138. Officers and soldiers of the Virginia line, &c., allowed, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line, on the continental establishment, their heirs or assigns, entitled to bounty land within the tract of country reserved by the state of Virginia, between the Little Miami and Sciota rivers, shall be allowed until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, to obtain warrants, subject, however, to the conditions, restrictions, and limitations, relating to locations, surveys, and patents contained in the act of which this is an amendment.
No location to be made, &c. Certain proviso in part repealed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no location shall be made by virtue of any warrant obtained after the said first day of January, one ​thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; and no patent shall issue in consequence of any warrant obtained after that time. And that the second proviso, inserted in the first section of the above recited act, except only that part thereof which requires “a certificate of the register of the land office of Virginia, that no warrant has issued from the said land office for the same services,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Approved, April 23, 1830.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/1st Session/Chapter 5

Chap. V.—An Act making appropriations for certain arrearages in the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
Appropriations for arrearages in naval service, for 1829.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, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for certain arrearages in the naval service, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, viz:
Pay and subsistence, &c.For pay and subsistence of officers, and pay of seamen, other than those at navy yards, shore stations, and in ordinary, one hundred and thirty-six thousand nine hundred and twenty-two dollars and sixty-one cents.
Repairs, and wear and tear.For repair of vessels in ordinary, and for wear and tear of vessels in commission, eighty-two thousand eight hundred and forty dollars and eighty-eight cents.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses in the naval service, thirty thousand three hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty-nine cents.
Superintendents, naval constructors, &c.For pay of superintendents, naval constructor, and all the civil establishment at the yards and stations, three hundred and ninety-two dollars and seven cents.
Medicines, &c.For medicines, surgical instruments, and hospital stores, two thousand two hundred and six dollars and fifty cents.
Marine corps.For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars and ten cents.
Approved, January 30, 1830.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/1st Session/Chapter 59

Chap. LIX.—An Act amending and supplementary to the act to aid the state of Ohio in extending the Miami canal from Dayton to Lake Erie, and to grant a quantity of land to said state, to aid in the construction of canals authorized by law, and for making donations of land to certain persons in Arkansas territory.
Provision of Act of May 24, 1828, ch. 108, repealed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act, approved May twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, entitled “An act to aid the state of Ohio in extending from Dayton to Lake Erie, and to grant a quantity of land to said state, to aid in the construction of the canals authorized by law, and for making donations of land to certain persons in Arkansas territory,” as provides that the extension of the Miami canal shall be completed within twenty years, or that the state shall be bound to pay to the United States the amount of any land previously sold, be, and the same is hereby, repealed:Proviso: State of Ohio not to apply the land to, &c. Penalty. Proviso. Provided, That if the state of Ohio shall apply the said lands, or the proceeds of the sales, or any part thereof, to any other use whatever, than in the extension of the Miami canal, before the same shall have been completed, the said grant, for all lands unsold, shall thereby become null and void, and the said state of Ohio shall become liable and bound to pay to the United States, the amount for which said land, or any part thereof, may have been sold, deducting the expenses incurred in selling the same: And provided also, That it shall be lawful for the legislature of said state to appropriate the proceeds of the land so granted, either in extending the said Miami canal from Dayton to Lake Erie, or in the construction of a rail-road, from the termination of the said canal, at Dayton, towards the said lake.
When line of said canal passed over land sold by the U. States, governor of Ohio may locate other lands. Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, whenever the line of the said canal, to be extended as aforesaid, from Dayton to the Maumee river, at the mouth of Auglaize, shall pass over land sold by the United States, it shall be lawful for the governor of the state of Ohio to locate other lands in lieu of the land so sold: Provided, such locations shall not exceed the number of acres necessary to complete an aggregate quantity, equal to one half of five sections in width, on each side of said extended canal.
Approved, April 2, 1830.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/1st Session/Chapter 68

Chap. LXVIII.—An Act authorizing the appointment of an additional brigadier general for the territory of Arkansas.
President of United States authorized to appoint brigadier general in Arkansas.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, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, be, and he is hereby authorized to appoint a brigadier general for the second brigade of the Arkansas militia.
Approved, April 15, 1830.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/1st Session/Chapter 74

Chap. LXXIV.—An Act to regulate and fix the compensation of the clerks in the Department of State.
Secretary of State authorized to employ certain clerks, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ one chief clerk; whose compensation shall not exceed two thousand dollars per annum; one clerk, whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand six hundred dollars per annum; one clerk, whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; six clerks, whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand four hundred dollars, each, per annum; one clerk, whose salary shall not exceed one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars per annum; one clerk, whose salary shall not exceed one thousand dollars, to be charged with the duty of translating foreign languages, in addition to other duties; one clerk, whose salary shall not exceed one thousand dollars per annum, one clerk, whose salary shall not exceed nine hundred dollars per annum; one clerk whose compensation shall not exceed eight hundred dollars per annum; one superintendent in the patent office, whose salary shall not exceed one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; two clerks in the patent office, whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand dollars, each, per annum; one clerk, whose compensation shall not exceed eight hundred dollars per annum.
Approved, April 23, 1830.
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Chap. LII.—An Act to change the time and place of holding the court for the county of Crawford, in the territory of Michigan.
Time and place of holding a court in Michigan changed from 2d Monday in May, at Prairie du Chien, to 1st Monday in October, at Mineral Point.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the term of the court appointed to be held, annually, on the second Monday in May, at the village of Prairie du Chien, by the additional judge of the United States for the territory of Michigan, shall be held on the first Monday in October, annually, at Mineral Point, in the county of Iowa, in the said territory; and the clerk and sheriff of said county shall be the clerk and sheriff of this court; and its jurisdiction shall be and continue the same as if said county of Crawford had not been divided.
Approved, April 2, 1830.
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Chap. L.—An Act changing the residence of the collector in the district of Burlington, in the state of New Jersey.
Collector of Burlington.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter, the collector of ​the district of Burlington, in the state of New Jersey, shall reside at Lamberton instead of Burlington, in said district.
Approved, March 31, 1830.
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Chap. LX.—An Act making appropriations to pay the expenses in holding certain Indian treaties.
Appropriations for holding Indian treaties.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the objects herein specified, viz:
Expenses of commissioners.For payment of the expenses incurred by the commissioners in preparing for and holding treaties with the Winnebago Indians, and also, with the Chippewas, Ottawas, and Pattawatamies, and the council held with the Sacs and Foxes, at Prairie du Chien, in July and August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, eight thousand nine hundred and ninety-four dollars and fourteen cents.
Reimbursement of compensation to commissioners.For reimbursing the “contingencies of the Indian department,” this amount paid from said contingencies to General McNeil and Mr. Atwater, on account of their compensation, two thousand three hundred and ninety-four dollars and sixty cents.
Compensation to commissioners.For payment of compensation yet due to one of the commissioners, seven hundred and fifty-three dollars and forty-three cents.
Compensation to secretary.For payment of the compensation and all other services of the secretary of the commission, four hundred and thirty dollars.
Presents.For payment of a draft drawn by the commissioners on the Secretary of War, on account of presents to the Sacs and Foxes, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
Services of, &c.For paying Doctor Alexander Walcott, General H. Dodge, John H. Kenzie, and Henry Gratiot, for services rendered by them in negotiating the said treaties, six hundred dollars.
Approved, April 7, 1830.
# Virginia Ordinance of Secession

adopted April 17, 1861; ratified May 23, 1861
AN ORDINANCE to repeal the ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America by the State of Virginia, and to resume all the rights and powers granted under said Constitution.
The people of Virginia in their ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, adopted by them in convention on the twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, having declared that the powers granted under said Constitution were derived from the people of the United States and might be resumed whensoever the same should be perverted to their injury and oppression, and the Federal Government having perverted said powers not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern slave-holding States:
Now, therefore, we, the people of Virginia, do declare and ordain, That the ordinance adopted by the people of this State in convention on the twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and all acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying and adopting amendments to said Constitution, are hereby repealed and abrogated; that the union between the State of Virginia and the other States under the Constitution aforesaid is hereby dissolved, and that the State of Virginia is in the full possession and exercise of all the rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent State.
And they do further declare, That said Constitution of the United States of America is no longer binding on any of the citizens of this State.
This ordinance shall take effect and be an act of this day, when ratified by a majority of the voter of the people of this State cast at a poll to be taken thereon on the fourth Thursday in May next, in pursuance of a schedule hereafter to be enacted.
Adopted by the convention of Virginia April 17,1861
[ratified by a vote of 132,201 to 37,451 on May 23, 1861]
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# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 221

Chap. CCXXI.—An Act to increase and improve the law department of the library of Congress.
Librarian to prepare apartment for a law library, &c.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 librarian to prepare an apartment near to, and connected by an easy communication with that in which the library of Congress is now kept, for the purpose of a law library; to remove the law books, now in the library, into such apartment; and to take charge of the law library, in the same manner as he is now required to do of the library of Congress.
Justices of the Supreme Court to have access, and make rules and regulations. Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States shall have free access to the said law library; and they are, hereby, authorized and empowered to make such rules and regulations for the use of the same, by themselves and the attorneys and counsellors, during the sittings of the said court, as they shall deem proper: Provided, Such rules and regulations shall not restrict the President of the United States, the Vice President, or any member of the Senate or House of Representatives, from having access to the said library, or using the books therein, in the same manner that he now has, or may have, to use the books of the library of Congress.
Law library to be part of library of Congress, &c. Incidental expenses.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the law library shall be a part of the library of Congress, subject to the same regulations, except such alterations as are herein provided for, as now are, or hereafter shall be established for the library of Congress; and the incidental expenses of the law library shall be paid out of the appropriations for the library of Congress.
Appropriations.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be, and hereby is, appropriated, for the present year, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, and a further annual sum of one thousand dollars, for the period of five years, to be expended in the purchase of law books; and that the librarian shall make the purchases of the books for the law library, under such directions, and pursuant to such catalogue, as shall be furnished him by the chief justice of the United States.
Approved, July 14, 1832.
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Chap. CCIV.—An Act to enforce quarantine regulations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, the revenue cutters, revenue boats, or revenue ​Act of May 27, 1796, ch. 31. Secretary of the Treasury to employ aid to enforce quarantine regulations. Act of Feb. 25, 1799, ch. 12. Act limited to March 4, 1833.officers, employed or authorized to be employed for the purposes of the revenue, should be insufficient to aid in the execution of the quarantine and health laws of any state, or the regulations made pursuant thereto, the said Secretary may cause to be employed such additional revenue boats and revenue officers as he may deem necessary for that purpose, the said revenue boats to be of such size and description as he may see proper. This act to continue in force until the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Approved, July 13, 1832.
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Chap. CCVI.—An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to pay to the Seneca tribe of Indians, the balance of an annuity, of six thousand dollars, usually paid to said Indians, and remaining unpaid for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
Appropriation.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be authorized to pay to the Seneca tribe of Indians, the sum of two thousand six hundred and fourteen dollars and forty cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, that being the balance due on the annuity payable to said Indians for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
Approved, July 13, 1832.
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Chap. CCVII.—An Act concerning tonnage duty on Spanish vessels.
No higher duties of tonnage to be levied on Spanish vessels than are paid by Amer. vessels.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no other or greater duty of tonnage be levied in the ports of the United States on vessels owned wholly by subjects of Spain, coming from a port of Spain, than shall, by the Secretary of the Treasury, be ascertained to have been paid on ​American vessels in the ports of Spain previous to the twentieth October, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
Spanish colonial vessels to pay same tonnage duty as American vessels in Spanish colonial ports.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That vessels owned wholly by Spanish subjects, coming from any of the colonies of Spain, either directly or after touching at any other port or place, shall pay, in the ports of the United States, the same rate of duty on tonnage that shall be levied on American vessels in the Spanish colonial port from whence such Spanish vessel shall have last departed; the said amount to be ascertained by the Secretary of the Treasury, who is hereby authorized, from time to time, to give directions to the officers of the customs of the United States for the collection of such duties, so as to conform the said duties to any variation that may take place in the duties levied on American vessels in such Spanish ports.
The President, in case any foreign nation shall abolish discriminating duties on Amer. vessels, may direct duties on vessels of such nation to cease, &c.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever the President shall be satisfied that the discriminating or countervailing duties of tonnage levied by any foreign nation on the ships or vessels of the United States shall have been abolished, he may direct that the tonnage duty on the vessels of such nation shall cease to be levied in the ports of the United States; and cause any duties of tonnage that may have been levied on the vessels of such foreign nation, subsequent to the abolition of its discriminating duties of tonnage, to be refunded.
2d and 3d sections to take effect Jan. 1, 1833.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the second and third sections of this act shall be in force and take effect from and after the first day of January next.
Approved, July 13, 1832.
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Chap. CCV.—An Act to extend the time of issuing military land warrants to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army.
Time extended to January 1, 1835.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time allowed for issuing military land warrants to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army shall be extended to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.
Land appropriated, to be applied in the manner provided by the act of May 30, 1830, ch. 215.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the further quantity of three hundred thousand acres of land be, and the same is hereby appropriated, in addition to the quantity heretofore appropriated by the act entitled “An act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Virginia line and navy, and of the continental army during the revolutionary war,” approved the thirtieth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, which said appropriation shall be applied in the manner provided by the said act to the unsatisfied warrants which have been or may be issued as therein directed to the officers and soldiers and others as described in the first, fifth, and seventh sections of said act.
Last paragraph of the first section of said act repealed.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the last paragraph of the first section of the said act which authorizes the issuing of warrants upon an affidavit that the original was lost, and upon the production of an official copy thereof, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Approved, July 13, 1832.
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Chap. CCXXII.—An Act to provide for completing the removal and erection of the naval monument.
Appropriation.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of paying the workmen for renewing the inscriptions, and giving uniformity of color to the naval monument, its ornaments and statues, recently removed from the Washington navy yard to the Capitol square, a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, July 14, 1832.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 223

Chap. CCXXIII.—An Act concerning certain officers of the marine corps.
Allowance to officers of the marine corps.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 hereby is, authorized to cause to be allowed and paid to such officers of the marine corps, as have heretofore received the brevet rank of majors in said corps, the amount of pay and emoluments to which they would have been entitled as commandants of separate stations, if said brevet rank had been recognised by the Navy Department:Proviso. Provided, That no officer shall receive under this act more than the difference between the pay and emoluments actually received by them, and those to which their said brevet rank would have entitled them as aforesaid.
Approved, July 13, 1832.