ing a copy of the writ upon the door of the building against which the claim is filed; and upon the return of service and failure of defendants to appear, the court shall render judgment as in case of a summons; but if they, or either of them appear, they may plead and make defence, and the like proceedings shall be had as in personal actions for the recovery of debts: Provided, That no judgment rendered in such scire facias shall warrant the issuing an execution, except against the building or buildings upon which the lien existed as aforesaid. CHAP. 80. An Act to authorize the county commissioners for the county of Peoria, in the state of Illinois, to enter a fractional quarter section of land for a seat of justice, and for other purposes. CHAP. 81. An Act authorizing an alteration in the election districts for members of the Legislative Council of the territory of Michigan. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Legislative Council of the territory of Michigan be, and hereby is authorized to provide for such alterations in the election districts of said territory as will more effectually secure to the different sections of said territory a more equal representation in said Legislative Council. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That if the said Legislative Council shall have adjourned before the first day of April next, the Governor of said territory shall, by proclamation, district the said territory according to the provisions of the foregoing section." CHAP. 82. An Act supplementary to an act, entitled "An act concerning a seven. CHAP. 83. An Act supplemental to the act entitled" An act for the final ad- SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, shall be extended to and embrace in its operations, every claim to a donation of land in the state of Missouri, held in virtue of settlement and cultivation; and the commissioners appointed under the above recited act, shall proceed to consider, decide and report upon the aforesaid claims, under the provisions of the several acts of Congress heretofore passed in relation to said claims, and under such provisions and restrictions of the act to which this is a supplement, as may be applicable thereto. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Recorder and Commissioners aforesaid, to continue to take the testimony of all such claims as heretofore described, for and during the term of two years from the date of the act to which this is a supplement, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, March 2, 1833. CHAP. 84. An Act authorizing the removal of the office of Surveyor General of Public Lands, south of Ten nessee. CHAP. 85. An Act granting certain city lots to the president and directors of the Georgetown College in the district of Columbia. CHAP. 86. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to grant a quantity of land to the state of Illinois, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of Illinois river with those of lake Michigan," and to allow further time to the state of Ohio for commencing the Miami canal from Dayton to lake Erie. CHAP. 87. An Act to incorporate the Georgetown Free School and Orphan Asylum, in the district of Columbia. CHAP. 88. An Act to authorize the President of the United States to cause the public surveys to be connected with the line of demarcation between the states of Indiana and Illinois. CHAP. 89. An Act further to extend the powers of the board of Canal Commissioners for the improvement of the 'Tennessee river, in the state of Alabama. CHAP. 90. An Act prescribing the mode by which patents for Public Lands shall be signed and executed. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a Secretary, with a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the President, to sign in his name, and for him, all patents for lands sold or granted under the authority of the United States. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force until the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and no longer. Approved, March 2, 1833. CHAP. 91. An Act to revive the act entitled "An act supplementary to the several laws for the sale of public lands." SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases in which persons were settlers or occupants of the public land prior to the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and were authorized to enter under the provisions of the act entitled "An act supplementary to the several laws for the sale of public lands," approved April fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and were prevented from making their entries, in consequence of the public surveys not having been made and returned, or where the land was not attached to any land district, or where the same has been reserved from sale in consequence of a disputed boundary between two states, or between a state and territory, the said occupants shall be permitted to enter the said lands on the same conditions, in every respect, as were prescribed in said act, with in one year after the surveys are made, or the land attached to a land district, or the boundary line established; and if the land shall be proclaimed for sale before the expiration of one year as aforesaid, then the said settlers or occupants shall be permitted to enter before the sale thereof. Approved, March 2, 1833. CHAP. 92. An Act to establish a town at St. Marks, Florida, SECT. 1. 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 so much of the public lands at or near St. Marks, in the territory of Florida, as he may deem proper, to be laid off in town lots, not to contain more than one quarter of an acre each, and into streets, avenues and out lots and public squares, for the use of the town, and whenever the survey of the same shall be completed, it shall be the duty of the surveyor for the territory of Florida, to cause two plats thereof to be made out, on which the town and out lots shall respectively be designated by progressive numbers; one of which shall be transmitted, with a copy of the field notes, to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the other to the Register of the land office for the proper district: Provided, That the President may adopt, if he shall approve, such plan as may have been already reported to the General Land Office. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid town and out lots at said site, with the exception of such of them as the President may reserve for fortifications, shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder, under the direction of the register and receiver of the proper land office, at such times and places as the President shall, by public proclamation, designate for that purpose; and all lots remaining unsold at the closing of the public sales shall be subject to entry at private sale at the proper land office: Provided, That no town lot shall be sold for less than twenty five dollars, nor any out lot for less than at the rate of twenty-five dollars per acre; and they shall, in every other respect, be sold on the same terms and conditions as are provided for the disposal of the other public lands of the United States. SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That previous to offering the aforesaid town and out lots at public sale, the President of the United States shall cause the value of any improvements which may have been made thereon to be ascertained in such a manner as he may prescribe for that purpose; and the purchaser at public sale of any lot upon which there are such improvements, other than the owner thereof, shall, in addition to the sum to be paid to the United States, be, and hereby is, required to pay to the owner of the improvements, the value of them as thus ascertained; and, if payment therefor shall not be made upon the day on which the same was purchased, the lot shall be again offered at public sale on the next day of sale, and such person shall not be capable of becoming the purchaser of that or of any other lot offered at that public sale: Provided, That, if any lot so offered and bid off on the last day of the public sale shall not be thus paid for, the same may be entered at private sale, upon paying to the United States the sum at which it was bid off, and to the owner of the improvements the previously ascertained value thereof: And provided further, That the President be not authorized to offer any part of said town lots for sale, till he shall be satisfied that the site proposed for said town is not included within the limits of any conflicting Spanish title, which may not be released or decided to be invalid. CHAP. 93. An Act granting an additional quantity of land for the location of revolutionary bounty land warrants. CHAP. 94. An Act to extend the provisions of the act of the third March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, entitled "An act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States, until authorized by law." SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all offences prescribed in the fact, entitled "An act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States until authorized by law," approved the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven," when committed upon public lands not situated within any state or organized territorial government, shall be cognizable in the District Court of the United States held in the state nearest where the said offence may have been committed: and the offenders upon conviction, shall be punished accordingly. And the said court shall also have jurisdiction to hear and determine all suits or prosecutions, instituted for the recovery of all fines and penalties imposed by the said act. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, to direct the Indian Agents at Prairie du Chien and Rock Island, or either of them, when offences against the said act shall be committed on lands recently acquired by treaty from the Sac and Fox Indians, to execute and perform all the duties required by the said act to be performed by the Marshals, in such mode as to give full effect to the said act, in and over the lands acquired as aforesaid. the Convention between the United States and his majesty the King of the Two Sicilies, concluded at Naples on the fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. SECT. 1. 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, shall appoint three Commissioners, who shall form a board, whose duty it shall be to receive and examine all claims which may be presented to them under the Convention between the United States and the King of the Two Sicilies of the fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, which are provided for by the said Convention, according to the provisions of the same, and the principles of justice, equity, and the law of nations. The said board shall have a Secretary, versed in the French and Italian languages, and a clerk, both to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate: And the commissioners, secretary and clerk, shall, before they enter on the duties of their offices, take oath well and faithfully to perform the duties thereof. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners shall be, and they are hereby, authorized to make all needful rules and regulations, not contravening the laws of the land, the provisions of this act, or the provisions of the said Convention, for carrying their said commission into full and complete effect. SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That the members of the board so constituted shall meet at the city of Washington, and t'eir salaries shall begin to be allowed within thirty days after the exchange of the ratifications of the Convention shall have been proclaimed by the in one year from the time of said meeting, President of the United States; and, withthey shall terminate their duties. And the Secretary of State is required as soon as the said proclamation of the President shall have been made, to give notice of the said meeting to be published in two newspapers in Washington, and in such other papers as he may think proper. SECT. 4. And be it further enacted, That all records, documents or other papers, which now are in, or hereafter during the continuance of this Commision may come into the possession of the DeCHAP. 95. An Act to carry into effect partment of State, in relation to such claims, shall be delivered to the commission aforesaid. SECT. 5. And be it further enacted, That the compensation of the respective officers, for whose appointment provision is made by this act, shall not exceed the following sums, namely: to each of the said Commissioners, at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum: to the Secretary of the board, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum; and to the clerk, at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum. And the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby authorized to make such provisions for the contingent expenses of the said commission as shall appear to him reasonable and proper; and the said salaries and expenses shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. SECT. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall report to the Secretary of State a list of all the several awards made by them; a certified copy thereof shall be by him transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall thereupon distribute in ratable proportions, among the persons in whose favour the awards shall have been made, such moneys as may have been received into the treasury in virtue of this act, according to the proportions which their respective awards shall bear to the whole amount then received, first deducting such sums of money as may be due to the United States from said persons in whose favour said awards shall be made: and shall cause certificates to be issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, in such form as he may prescribe, showing the proportion to which each may be entitled of the amount that may thereafter be received: and on the presentation of the said certificates at the treasury, as the net proceeds of the general instalments, payable by the Neapolitan government, shall have been received, such proportions thereof shall be paid to the legal holders of the said certificates. SECT. 7. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, to cause the several instalments, with the interest thereon payable to the United States, in virtue of the said Convention, to be received from the Neapolitan government, and transferred to the United States, in such manner as he may deem best, and the net proceeds thereof to be paid into the treasury, and the same are hereby appropriated, to satisfy the awards herein provided for. SECT. 8. And be it further enacted, Secretary of the Board of Commissioners on the business of the commissions, shall pass by mail, free of postage. SECT. 9. And be it further enacted, That as soon as said Commission shall be executed and completed, the records, documents, and all other papers, in the possession of the commission or its officers, shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State. CHAP. 96. An Act to authorize the Governor of the territory of Arkansas to sell the land granted to said territory by an act of Congress approved the fifteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and for other purposes. CHAP. 97. An Act for the relief of John Bruce, Administrator of Philip Bush, deceased. CHAP. 98. An Act for the relief of John Thomas and Peter Foster. CHAP. 99. An Act for the relief of James Taylor, of Kentucky. CHAP. 100. An Act for the relief of Peter Bargy, Jr., Stephen Norton and Hiram Wolverton, CHAP. 101. An Act for the relief of the legal representative of John Miller, deceased. CHAP. 102. An Act for the relief of Robert Eaton. CHAP. 103. An Act for the relief of the heirs and representatives of John Campbell, late of the city of New York, deceased. CHAP. 104. An Act for the relief of Eleanor Courts, widow of Richard Henly Courts. CHAP. 105. An Act for the relief of Elizabeth Scott, assignee of Alexander Scott, Junior. CHAP. 106. An Act for the relief of the heirs of Doctor Isaac Ledyard, deceased. CHAP. 107. An Act for the relief of the heirs of Colonel John Ely, deceased. That all communications to and from the CHAP. 108. An Act for the relief of certain invalid pensioners, therein CHAP. 125. An Act for the relief of named. Absalom Bolles. CHAP. 109. An Act for the relief of CHAP. 126. An Act for the relief of CHAP. 110. An Act for the relief of CHAP. 127. An Act for the relief of CHAP. 111. An Act for the relief of CHAP. 128. An Act for the relief of CHAP. 112. An Act for the relief of CHAP. 129. An Act for the relief of William Osborn. CHAP. 113. An Act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of George Hodge, deceased. CHAP. 114. An Act for the relief of Major Abraham A. Massias. CHAP. 115. An Act for the relief of Archibald W. Hamilton. CHAP. 116. An Act for the relief of Daniel Goodwin, executor of Benjamin Goodwin, deceased. CHAP. 117. An Act supplemental to an act entitled "An act for the relief of Alexander Claxton," passed on the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty. CHAP. 118. An Act for the relief of Lieutenant George D. Ramsay, of the Army of the United States, CHAP. 119. An Act for the relief of James Range, a soldier of the revolution. СНАР. 120. An Act for the relief of Joshua P. Frothingham, and the heirs of Thomas Hopping, deceased. CHAP. 121. An Act to authorize the issuing of a patent or patents to Samuel Hall, an alien, non-resident. CHAP. 122. An Act for the relief of Farish Carter. CHAP. 123. An Act for the relief of the mother of Fitz Henry Babbit, late a lieutenant in the navy of the United States. CHAP. 124. An Act for the relief of Algernon S. Thruston. Joseph Gaston, of South Carolina. CHAP. 130. An act for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers and seamen who were lost in the United States' schooner, the Sylph. CHAP. 131. An Act for the relief of Raphael Paine and Elias Arnold. CHAP. 132. An Act for the relief of Newton Berryman. CHAP, 133, An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Peter Wagnon, deceased. CHAP. 134. An Act for the relief of Jared E. Groce, of the state of Alaba ma. CHAP. 135. An Act for the relief of Thadeus Phelps and Company. CHAP. 136. An Act for the relief of William Stewart.. CHAP. 137. An Act in aid of an act, entitled "An act for the relief of James Barnett." CHAP. 138. An Act for the relief of Lieutenant Harvey Brown. CHAP. 139. An Act for the relief of Hugh Beard. CHAP. 140. An Act for the relief of Jane Dauphin, administratrix of John Dauphin. CHAP. 141. An Act for the relief of James Gibbon, and Sarah Price, widow of William Price and Philip Slaughter. |
