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# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/16th Congress/2nd Session/Resolution 3

III. Resolution authorizing the President of the United States to cause astronomical observations to be made, to ascertain the longitude of the Capitol, in the city of Washington, from some known meridian in Europe.
The President authorized to cause astronomical observations to be made to insure a determination of the longitude of the Capitol.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be authorized to cause such number of astronomical observations to be made, by methods which may, in his judgment, be best adapted to insure a correct determination of the longitude of the Capitol, in the city of Washington, from Greenwich, or some other known meridian in Europe; and that the data, with accurate calculations or statements founded thereon, be laid before Congress at their next session.
Approved, March 3, 1821.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 108

Chap. CVIII.—An Act vesting in the commissioners of the counties of Wood and Sandusky, the right to certain lots in the towns of Pettysburg and Croghansville, in the state of Ohio, for county purposes.
Unsold town lots, &c. in Perrysburg, &c. Unsold town lots, &c. in Croghansville.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the right to all the unsold town lots and out-lots in the town of Perrysburg be, and the same is hereby, vested in the commissioners of Wood county, in the state of Ohio; and the right to all the unsold town lots and out-lots in the town of Croghansville be, and the same is hereby, vested in the commissioners of Sandusky county, in said state; on condition that said commissioners shall permanently locate the seat of justice for their respective counties at said towns; and that the net proceeds of the sales of so many of said lots as are necessary to be retained for the purpose of erecting public buildings thereon, be applied to the erection and improvement of the public buildings and squares in said towns respectively.
Approved, May 7, 1822.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/16th Congress/2nd Session/Resolution 1

I. Resolution providing for the admission of the state of Missouri into the Union, on a certain condition.
Missouri admitted into the Union on a certain condition, &c.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Missouri shall be admitted into this union on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever, upon the fundamental condition, that the fourth clause of the twenty-sixth section of the third article of the constitution submitted on the part of said state to Congress, shall never be construed to authorize the passage of any law, and that no law shall be passed in conformity thereto, by which any citizen, or either of the states in this Union, shall be excluded from the enjoyment of any of the privileges and immunities to which such citizen is entitled under the constitution of the United States:Proviso; the legislature of the state to declare its assent, &c. Provided, That the legislature of the said state, by a solemn public act, shall declare the assent of the said state to to the said fundamental condition, and shall transmit to the President of the United States, on or before the fourth Monday in November next, an authentic copy of the said act; upon the receipt whereof, the President, by proclamation, shall announce the fact; whereupon, and without any further proceeding on the part of Congress, the admission of the said state into this Union shall be considered as complete.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 10

Chap. X.—An Act for the apportionment of representatives among the several states, according to the fourth census.
Alabama to have three members, if it is made to appear, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, as the returns of the marshal of the state of Alabama are not complete, in consequence of the death of the former marshal, who commenced the enumeration in said state, nothing in this act contained shall be construed to prevent the state of Alabama from having three representatives, if it shall be made to appear to Congress, at the next session, that the said state, at the time of passing this act, would have been entitled to that number, according to its population and the ratio hereby established, if the said returns had been complete.
Approved, March 7, 1822.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/16th Congress/2nd Session/Resolution 2

II. Resolution providing for jails in certain cases, for the safe custody of persons committed under the authority of the United States.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That where any state or states ​Vol. i. 96. Any states having granted and withdrawing the use of a jail, the marshal, under direction of the judge, may hire a place, &c.having complied with the recommendation of Congress, in the resolution of the twenty-third day of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, shall have withdrawn, or shall hereafter withdraw, either in whole or in part, the use of their jails for prisoners committed under the authority of the United States, the marshal in such state or states, under the direction of the judge of the district, shall be, and hereby is, authorized and required to hire a convenient place to serve as a temporary jail, and to make the necessary provision for the safe keeping of prisoners committed under the authority of the United States, until permanent provision shall be made by law for that purpose; and the said marshal shall be allowed his reasonable expenses, incurred for the above purposes, to be paid out of the treasury of the United States.
Approved, March 3, 1821.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 1

Chapter I.—An Act authorizing the transmission of certain documents free of postage.
Members, delegates, &c., authorized to transmit documents to any post-office, free, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the members of Congress, the delegates from territories, the secretary of the Senate, and the clerk of the House of Representatives, be, and they are hereby, authorized to transmit, free of postage, to any post-office within the United States, or the territories thereof, any documents which have been, or may be, printed by order of either House.
Approved, December 19, 1821.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 83

Chap. LXXXIII.—An Act to appropriate lands for the support of schools in certain townships and fractional townships, not before provided for.
Following quantities of land where none is appropriated for the use of schools in certain townships or fractional townships, to be reserved for such purpose.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to make provision for the support of schools, in all townships or fractional townships for which no land has been heretofore appropriated for that use in those states in which section number sixteen, or other land equivalent thereto, is by law directed to be reserved for the support of schools, in each township, there shall be reserved and appropriated, for the use of schools in each entire township, or fractional township, for which no land has been heretofore appropriated or granted for that purpose, the following quantities of land, to wit: for each township or fractional township, containing a greater quantity of land than three quarters of an entire township, one section; for a fractional township, containing a greater quantity of land than one half, and not more than three quarters of a township, three quarters of a section; for a fractional township, containing a greater quantity of land than one quarter, and not more than one half of a township, one half section; and for a fractional township, containing a greater quantity of land than one entire section, and not more than one quarter of a township, one quarter section of land.
Aforesaid tracts of land to be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid tracts of land shall be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury, out of any unappropriated public land within the land district where the township for which any tract is selected may be situated; and when so selected, shall be held by the same tenure, and upon the same terms, for the support of schools, in such township, as section number sixteen is, or may be held, in the state where such township shall be situated.
Land to be selected in the French grant in Ohio.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be selected, in the manner above mentioned, one section and one quarter section of land, for the support of schools within that tract of country, usually called the French grant, in the county of Sciota, and state of Ohio.
Approved, May 20, 1826.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 89

Chap. LXXXIX.—An Act to authorize the judge of the district court for the western district of Virginia, to hold the district court for the western district of Pennsylvania, for the trial of certain cases.
Judge for the western district of Virginia to hold the district court of the western district of Pennsylvania, for the trial of certain cases.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the district judge for the western district of Virginia is hereby authorized and required to hear, try, and determine, all causes now pending in the district court for the western district of Pennsylvania, in which the judge of the said last-mentioned district court had been concerned as counsel before his appointment, in the same manner, and at the same times and places, as the said district judge of the western district of Pennsylvania might or could have done, had he not been concerned as counsel therein.
Compensation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said judge shall receive for his services eight dollars per day, for the time he shall be employed in holding said courts, and travelling to and from his place of residence, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 20, 1826.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 90

Chap. XC.—An Act concerning a seminary of learning in the territory of Michigan.
A quantity of land not exceeding two entire townships, to be reserved for the use and support of an university in Michigan.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 be, and he is hereby, authorized to set apart and reserve from sale, out of any of the public lands within the territory of Michigan, to which the Indian title may be extinguished, and not otherwise appropriated, a quantity of land, not exceeding two entire townships, for the use and support of an university within the territory aforesaid, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever, to be located in tracts of land corresponding with any of the legal divisions into which the public lands are authorized to be surveyed, not less than one section, one of which said townships, so set apart and reserved from sale, shall be in lieu of an entire township of land, directed to be located in said territory for the use of a seminary of learning therein, by an act of Congress entitledAct of March 26, 1804, ch. 35. “An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes,” approved March twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and four.
Approved, May 20, 1826.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 80

Chap. LXXX.—An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to incorporate a company for making a certain turnpike road in the county of Alexandria,” passed thirteenth July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
Act of July 13, 1813, ch. 12. Preamble.Whereas, by an act, entitled “An act incorporating a company to establish a turnpike road, from Wiley’s Tavern, in the county of Fairfax, to a point of intersection on the Little River turnpike road, or on the line of the District of Columbia,” passed by the general assembly of the state of Virginia, it is provided, that the company thereby incorporated may, at their discretion, locate their said road so as to intersect the Little River turnpike road, or the line of the District of Columbia; in the latter case of intersecting the line of the District of Columbia, the said road may terminate at some distance from the town of Alexandria—
Commissioners to be appointed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioners, to be appointed under the act of Congress to which this is an amendment, for locating and marking the road therein mentioned, shall have power to lay out the same from any point of intersection on the line of the District of Columbia, if the said Virginia Company shall so locate their road, to such point in the line of the corporation of Alexandria, as they, in their judgment, may think fit; and the said company, incorporated by the act to which this is an amendment, at their annual meeting in March, shall elect, from among the stockholders, a President and four directors, to manage the concerns of the company for one year, and until others are appointed in their place.
Rates of toll.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the rates of toll heretofore fixed by the said act, shall be considered as the rates for two miles, and that the company shall have power to demand and receive, in the same proportion, for a greater or less distance:Proviso. Provided, The tolls to be collected thereon shall not exceed the rate of tolls on the Little River turnpike road, for the like distance; and that Hugh Smith, Robert J. Taylor, Richard M. Scott, John C. Vowell, Thomas Vowell, Thomas ​Sandford, William Fowle, Humphrey Peake, and Francis Peyton, be added to the commissioners named in the said act, for taking subscriptions to the said stock.
If the road become free under said act, the levy court of Alexandria shall keep it in repair.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if, at any time hereafter, the said road shall become free under the provisions of the said act, then, and in that case, the levy court of the county of Alexandria shall thereafter keep the said road in repair, at the expense of the said county.
Approved, May 20, 1826.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 81

Chap. LXXXI.—An Act to provide for erecting a penitentiary in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
President of the United States to appoint the commissioners.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 is hereby, authorized and required to appoint three commissioners, whose duty it shall be to select a proper site in the District of Columbia, on which to erect a penitentiary, for the said district.
When the commissioners shall have selected the site, it must be approved by the President.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, as soon as the said commissioners shall have selected the said site, and the President of the United States shall have approved thereof, it shall be the duty of the commissioner of the public buildings to cause to be built thereon, of substantial materials, a penitentiary for the said district, sufficiently large to contain one hundred and sixty separate cells, and other necessary apartments, for the residence of the keeper of the said penitentiary,Penitentiary to be erected. and other purposes, on a plan to be approved by the President of the United States, and enclose the same in a securely walled yard of sufficient dimensions to allow room to employ the convicts who may be there confined at any kind of labour which may be found most profitable.
40,000 dollars appropriated for defraying the expenses thereof.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of defraying the expense of erecting the said building, there is hereby appropriated the sum of forty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Duty of the commissioner of the public buildings.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said commissioner of the public buildings, to cause the present jail in the city of Washington to be so altered and repaired, as to make it a suitable, convenient, healthy, and comfortable prison for the use of the city and the county of Washington; for the making and finishing of which repairs, the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Commissioners to select a site in the county of Alexandria, for a county jail.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall also select a site in the county of Alexandria, for a county jail, on which it shall be the duty of the commissioner of the public buildings to cause a county jail, for the city and county of Alexandria, to be erected and finished on a plan to be approved by the President of the United States. And there is hereby appropriated, for the building of the said jail, the sum of ten thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 20, 1826.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 1

I. Resolution directing a survey of certain routes between Baltimore and Philadelphia, for a post-road.
Postmaster General authorized, &c., to cause to be made an examination of the various routes between Baltimore, and Philadelphia, and report to Congress, &c.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be authorized and required to cause an examination and survey of the various routes between Baltimore and Philadelphia, crossing the Susquehanna at Havre de Grace Ferry, Port Deposit, and Conewingo Bridges, and report to Congress the route which may be best adapted for a permanent post-road, with an estimate of the expense of making each of said routes safe and convenient for the transportation of the mail.
Approved, May 4, 1826.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 9

Chap. IX.—An Act for the survey of a route for a Canal between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
The President of the United States authorized to cause to be made an accurate and minute examination south of the St. Mary’s river, with a view to ascertain the most eligible route for a canal, to connect the Atlantic with the Gulf of Mexico.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 is hereby, authorized to cause to be made an accurate and minute examination of the country south of the St. Mary’s river, and including the same, with a view to ascertain the most eligible route for a canal, admitting the transit of boats, to connect the Atlantic with the Gulf of Mexico, and also, with a view to ascertain the practicability of a ship channel; that he cause particularly to be examined the route from the St. Mary’s river to the Appalachicola river or bay, and from the St. John’s river to the Vassasousa bay, with a view to both the above objects; that he cause the necessary surveys, both by land and along the coast, with estimates of the expense of each, accompanied with proper plans, notes, observations, explanations and opinions, of the ​board of engineers, and that he cause a full report of these proceedings to be made to Congress; and to carry the same into effect, the sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1826.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 2

II. Resolution expressive of the sense of Congress of the gallant conduct of Lieutenant Duncan, of the United States’ Navy.
Resolutions expressive of the sense of Congress of the conduct of Capt. Thomas McDonough, &c., extended to Lt. Duncan.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the joint resolutions of Congress, passed October twentieth, eighteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “Resolutions expressive of the sense of Congress of the gallant conduct of Captain Thomas McDonough, the officers, seamen, and marines, and infantry serving as marines, on board of the United States squadron on Lake Champlain,” be so construed and extended as to include the name of Silas Duncan, a lieutenant in the navy of the United States, in testimony of the sense which is entertained by both houses of Congress, of the distinguished gallantry and good conduct of the said Lieutenant Duncan, in an action with the enemy’s forces, on the sixth of September, eighteen hundred and fourteen, on the same Lake.
Approved, May 13, 1826.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 82

Chap. LXXXII.—An Act concerning the United States’ arsenal in Georgia.
Secretary of War to cause to be purchased in the vicinity of Augusta, a site for an arsenal. Proviso.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, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be purchased, in the vicinity of Augusta, a suitable site for an United States’ arsenal, ​and to be erected thereon such buildings as may be necessary, in lieu of those at this time occupied for such purpose: Provided, Such site can be obtained upon reasonable terms, and with proper regard to health, and to the public convenience:Proviso. And provided also, That the consent of the proper authorities of the state of Georgia shall be given thereto, and the jurisdiction over the same be ceded to the United States.
A sum not exceeding 70,000 dollars appropriated, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding seventy thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the objects aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. And that the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be sold, or otherwise disposed of, the buildings above mentioned, at present used as an arsenal, with the ground on which they stand, so as may best conduce to the public interest, and to the object aforesaid.
Approved, May 20, 1826.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 88

Chap. LXXXVIII.—An Act to authorize the Secretary of the War Department to purchase a site for an arsenal at St. Louis, in the state of Missouri, and to provide for the erection of an arsenal on the same.
Secretary of War to purchase a site for an arsenal at or in the vicinity of St. Louis.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the War Department be, and is hereby, authorized to purchase, as ​soon as it can be effected, on reasonable terms, a site for an arsenal, at or in the vicinity in St. Louis, Missouri; and to cause to be erected such an arsenal on the same, as may be deemed proper for the safe keeping of the arms and munitions of the United States, on that frontier; and that for these purposes the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of the moneys of [in] the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 20, 1826.