of Georgia equal to the amount of Mississippi stock received in payment of public lands in Mississippi territory, until, &c. Proviso; amount of payments limited, and repayment to be made to the treasury before, &c. to the state of Georgia, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise Statute II. March 3, 1817. A lighthouse to be built on the west chop of Holmes's Hole, as soon as Massachusetts cedes jurisdiction, &c. Superintendent, &c. 5,000 dolls, appropriated. Chap. XXXVII.—An Act for erecting a light-house on the west chop of Holmes's Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, as soon as a cession shall be made by the state of Massachusetts to the United States of the jurisdiction over a piece of land proper for the purpose, the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby authorized to provide, by contract, to be approved by the President of the United States, for building a light-house on the west chop of Holmes's Hole harbour in the said state, and to furnish the same with all necessary supplies; and also to agree for the salaries or wages of the person, or persons, who may be appointed by the President for the superintendence and care of the same; and the President shall be authorized to make the said appointments. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, And there shall be appropriated and paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars for the purposes aforesaid. Approved, March 3, 1817. Statute II. March 3,1817. The Bank of the United States, &c. to perform the duties of commissioners of loans. 1836, ch. 60. Chap. XXXVIII.—An Act transferring the duties of commissioner of loans to the Sank of the United States, and abolishing the office of commissioner of loans. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Bank of the United States, and its several branches, shall be, and they are hereby, required to do and perform the several duties of commissioners of loans for the several states; and the Bank of the United States and its several branches, and such state banks as the Bank of the United States may employ in those states where no branch bank shall be established, shall observe and conform to the directions which have been or may hereafter be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the.President of the United States, touching the execution of the duties aforesaid. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all such duties and acts as are now done and performed by the commissioners of loans, in transferring stock from the books of one loan office to another, or to the books of the treasury, or from the books of the treasury to the books of the loan offices, shall be done and performed by the president of the Bank of the United States, the president of the several branches of the said bank, and by the president of such state banks as the Bank of the United States may employ, (in states where no branch of the United States Bank shall be established:) and the acts of the presidents aforesaid shall be countersigned by the cashiers of those banks respectively. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to notify the President of the Bank of the United States, that the duties now performed by the commissioners of loans will be transferred to the Bank of the United States, and he shall direct the commissioners of loans and the agents for military pensions, where there is no commissioner, respectively, in the several states, to deliver to the president of the Bank of the United States, or to the president of a branch thereof, or to the president of such state bank as the Bank of the United States may employ, on such day or days as he may designate, the register, and all the records and papers of their respective offices; and it shall be the duty of the said commissioners of loans and agents for pensioners to comply with the said direction, and also to take duplicate receipts for the delivery of the records and papeis herein described, one of which shall be transmitted, without delay, to the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, however, that the Secretary of the Treasury may designate such time before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, for the performance of the duties aforesaid, as the public convenience will permit; And provided also, That this act shall not be construed to extend to any agent for military pensions in any state where there is no bank established by law. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the office of commissioner of loans, upon the delivery of the records and papers, as herein required, to the Bank of the United States, or its branches, or to the state banks employed by the Bank of the United States in those states where there may be no branch, shall be, and hereby is, abolished; and the pay and emoluments of the said commissioners of loans, and the clerks and persons employed by them, after such delivery, shall respectively cease and determine. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the act, entitled "An act for the prompt settlement of public accounts;" shall commence, and be in force, on and after the third day of this instant, March, any thing in the aforesaid act to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, March 3, 1817. Chap. XXXIX.—An Act to regulate the trade in plaster of Pari: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, from and ufter the fourth day of July next, no plaster of Paris, the production of any country, or its dependencies, from which the vessels of the United States are not permitted to bring the same article, shall be imported into the United States in any foreign vessel. And all plaster of Paris imported, or attempted to be imported, into the United States, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, and the vessel in which the same may be imported, or attempted to be imported, together with the cargo, tackle, apparel, and furniture, shall be forfeited to the United States; and such plaster of Paris, vessel and cargo, shall be liable to be seized, prosecuted, and condemned, in like manner, and under the same regulations, restrictions, and provisions, as have been heretofore established for the recovery, collection, and distribution, and remission, of forfeitures to the United States by the several revenue laws. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force five years from the thirty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen: Provided, nevertheless, That if any foreign nation or its dependencies, which have now in force regulations on the subject of the trade in plaster of Paris, prohibiting the exportation thereVol. III.—46 2H The Secretary of the Treasury to notify the President of tho Bank of the United States, &c. prohibitory regulations, the restrictions imposed by the act to cease with respect to that nation. of to certain ports of the United States, shall discontinue such regulations, the President of the United States is hereby authorized to declare that fact by his proclamation, and the restrictions imposed by this act shall, from the date of such proclamation, cease and be discontinued in relation to the nation, or its dependencies, discontinuing such regulations. Approved, March 3,1817. Statute II. March 3, 1817. Act of Feb. 26, 1803, ch. 9. Ships' papers to be produced to the qpllector before entry. The papers to be deposited with the consul of the nation * within fortyeight hours. Fine in case of non-compliance. Proviso; as to foreign nations in whoso ports American consuls are not •allowed to have custody of papers according to the act mentioned. 1803, ch. 9. Consul not to deliver the papers to the master until he produces a clear Consuls offending to be fined. Chap. XL.—An Act authorizing the deposit of the papers of foreign vessels, with the consul of their respective nations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the register, or other document in lieu thereof, together with the clearance and other papers, granted by the officers of the customs to any foreign ship or vessel, at her departure from the port or place from which she may have arrived, shall, previous to entry in any port of ihe United States, be produced to the collector with whom such entry is to be made. And it shall be the duty of the master or commander, within forty-eight hours after such entry, to deposit the said papers with the consul or vice-consul of the nation to which the vessel belongs, and to deliver to the collector the certificate of such consul or vice-consul, that the said papers have been so deposited; and any master, or commander, as aforesaid, who shall fail to comply with this regulation, shall, upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in a sum not less than five hundred dollars, nor exceeding two thousand dollars; Provided, That this act shall not extend to the vessels of foreign nations in whose ports American consuls are not permitted to have the custody and possession of the register and other papers of vessels entering the ports of such nation, according to the provisions of the second section of the act supplementary to the act "concerning consuls and vice-consuls, and for the further protection of American seamen," passed the twenty-eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and three. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any foreign consul to deliver to the master or commander of any foreign vessel the register and other papers deposited with him pursuant to the provisions of this act, until such master or commander shall produce to him a clearance in due form from the collector of the port where such vessel has been entered; and any consul offending against the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction thereof before the Supreme Court of the United States, be fined at the discretion of the court in a sum not less than five hundred dollars, nor exceeding five thousand dollars. Approved, March 3, 1817. Statute II. March 3, 1817. [Obsolete.] Decayed furniture to be sold, and the proceeds and 20,000dolls. additional appropriated for furnishing the President's house Chap. XLI.—An Act to provide for furnishing the house of the President of the Untted States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That after the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered, to cause to be sold such articles furnished by the United States for the President's household, as may be decayed, out of repair, or unfit for use; and that the proceeds of sales, and so much of a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, in addition thereto, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, as the President of the United States may judge necessary, be, and hereby are, appropriated for the accommodation of the household of the President, to be laid out and expended for such ar- Statute II. Chap. XLII.—An Act further to regulate the territories of the United Slates, and March 3, 1817. their electing delegates to Congress. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That in every territory of the United States in which a temporary government has been, or hereafter shall be established, and which by virtue of the ordinance of Congress of the thirteenth of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, or of any subsequent act of Congress, passed or to be passed, now hath or hereafter shall have the right to send a delegate to Congress, such delegate shall be elected every second year, for the same term of two years for which members of the house of representatives of the United States are elected; and in that house each of the said delegates shall have a seat with a right of debating, but not of voting. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That on the first Monday of August next the citizens of the territory of Missouri, qualified according to the act, entitled " An act providing for the government of the territory of Missouri," shall elect a delegate to Congress; and it shall be the duty of the general assembly of the said territory to make provision by law for the annual or biennial meetings of the said general assembly, as the interests of the territory may in their opinion require; and such annual or biennial meeting shall be on the first Monday of December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. And so much of any law, or laws, as are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, March 3,1817. . • Delegates to Congress to be elected every second year. vol. i, 51. The citizens of Missouri to elect a delegate to Congress. Act of June 4, 1812, ch. 95. Provision to be made for the meeting of the general assembly. Chap. XLIII.—An Act to continue in force an act, entitled "An act for establish' ing trading houses with the Indian tribes." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled "An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes," passed on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and which was continued in force for a limited time by an act passed on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, shall be, and the same is hereby, further continued in force until the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and no longer. Approved, March 3, 1817. Statute II. March 3, 1817. Act of March 2,1811, ch. 30. The act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes continued until the 1st of May, 1818. Act of May 6, 1822, ch. 54. Chap. XIJV.—An Act to alter and establish certain post-roads. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the post-roads hereafter named be discontinued: In Pennsylvania.—From Wysoxby, Orville and Warren to Nanticoke. From Silver Lake or Montrose to Binghampton. From Williamsport to Jersey Shore. In Virginia.—From Liberty to Fincastle. In Indiana.—From Brookville, by Bath and Lewistown, to Salisbury. Statute II. March 3, 1817. [Obsolete.] Post-roads discontinued. Pennsylvania. Virginia. Kentucky. fn Kentucky.—From Isbellville to Ewingville. From Greenup c. h. to Little Sandy Salt works. From Danville, by Casey c. h.,Pulaskic. h.,Wayne c. h., Burksville and Columbia, to Danville. Port-roads es- Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following be established tablished. post-roads. Maine. In Maine.—From Jay, by Jaypoint, Dixfield and Holmantown, to Rumford. From Anson to Solon. NewHampshire. In New Hampshire.—From Dunstable, by Nottingham West, to Pelham. From Ackworth, Lempster and Unity, to Newport. From Ossippe, by Effingham, to Parsonfield. Vermont.. In Vermont.—From Craftsborough, by Kelyvale, and Montgomery, to Richford. Massachusetts. In Massachusetts.—From Groton, by Pepperel and Holies, to Amherst, N. H. | • Connecticut. In Connecticut.—From Bridgeport, by Weston, Reading and Bethel, to Danbury. From Stanford, by way of New Canaan, and North Ridgefield, to Danbury. From Colchester, by Chatham, to Middletown. New York. In New York.—From Canandaigua, by Bristol, Richmond, Livonia, Gennessee and Warsaw, to Sheldon. From Oswego Falls, by Port Glasgow and Portland, and along the ridge road by Carthage, to Rochester. From Moscow, by the state road, to Buffalo. From Oswego, by Montrose, Pa. and the turnpike to Mil ford, thence by Hamburg, in New Jersey, to Jersey City. From Poughkeepsie, through Beekmantown, to New Milford. From Bath, by Angelica, Hamilton, Cerestown, Pa. Coudersport and Jersey Shore, to Williamsport. • From Bath to Naples. From Angelica, by Nunda and Leicester, to Batavia. From Salem, by Hebron, Argyle and Fort Edwards, to Sandy Hill. From Kingston, by Hurley, Marbletown, Rochester, Warwarsink, Mamakoting, to Milford, Pa. From Madison, by Peterboro, to the Sullivan Post-office at the Chittencngo creek. New Jersey. In ^ew Jersey.—From Trenton, by Birmingham, Lambertsville, Prattsville, Frenchtown, MUford and Hughes' Forge, to Easton, Pa. From Baskingridge, by New Providence, to Springfield, in Essex county. Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania.—From Newtown on the Somerset great road, by Fairfield meeting-house, to Armagh. From Greensburgh, by the Great Salt works, to Indiana. From Connelsville to Mount Pleasant. From Kittaning to Roseburg. From Franklin, by Oil Creek Town, Centreville, Bloomfield and Union, to Waterford. From Lewistown, by Bellville, M'Aleavy's, Henry's and Petersburg!], to Alexandria; or, from Lewistown, by Bellville, Kisharvyville's valley, Wilson's mills, and Huntingdon, to Alexandria. From Womelsdorf, by Rohrersburg, Pine Grove, Klingerstown, and Georgetown, to Sunbury. From Meansville, by Wysox, Pike, Head of Wyalusing creek and Windham, to Montrose. From Measville, by Sugar creek, and Smith's, to Putnamville. From Putnamville, by Columbia, Springfield, Athens and Old Sheshiquin, to Meansville. |
