SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Legislatures of said States be, and they are hereby, authorized to make such laws and needful regulations as may be deemed expedient to secure and protect from injury or waste, the sections reserved by the laws of Congress, for the use of schools, to each township, and to provide by law, if not deemed expedient to sell, for leasing the same for any term not exceeding four years, in such manner as to render them productive, and most conducive to the object for which they were designed. Authority to make laws for protection of said lands, &c. In case of insaid proceeds to sufficiency of support schools, authority to in vest them until adequate. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That if the proceeds accruing to any township or district from said fund, shall be insufficient for the support of schools therein, it shall be lawful for said Legislatures to invest the same in the most secure and productive manner, until the whole proceeds of the fund belonging to such township or district shall be adequate to the permanent maintenance and support of schools within the same: Provided, That the Legislatures aforesaid shall, in no case, Proviso. invest the proceeds of the sale of the lands in any township in manner aforesaid, without the consent of the inhabitants of said township or district, to be obtained as aforesaid. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That any sales of such lands, reserved as aforesaid, as have been made in pursuance of any of the laws enacted by the Legislatures of said States, and not inconsistent with the principles of this act, are hereby ratified and confirmed so far as the assent of the United States to the same may be necessary to the firmation thereof. APPROVED, February 15, 1843. con CHAP. XXXIV.-An Act for the relief of the owners of the fund received from the British Government as an indemnity for slaves lost from on board the Comet and Encomium at Nassau, Bahamas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of seven thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents, a balance of the indemnities received from the British Government for loss of slaves from on board the Comet and the Encomium, at Nassau, paid into the treasury by the late John Forsyth, be paid, on the order of the Secretary of State, to the persons or companies entitled thereto, or to their representatives; and that, for that purpose, the aforesaid sum be, and it is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, February 18, 1843. Such sales as have been made with the principles of this act, confirmed. not inconsistent STATUTE III. Feb. 18, 1843. [Obsolete.] Balance of in demnities to be paid to persons or companies entitled thereto. STATUTE III. CHAP. XLIV.—An Act altering the times of holding the circuit court of the United Feb. 24, 1843. States for the district of Connecticut. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the circuit court of the United States for the district of Connecticut, shall hereafter be held on the fourth Tuesday in April, and on the third Tuesday in September in each year, instead of the last Wednesday in April, and the seventeenth day of September, the times heretofore established by law. And all indictments, informations, recognisances, writs, suits, pleas, actions, motions, and all other proceedings, civil and criminal, shall be heard, tried, proceeded with, and determined by the said court, in the same manner as they might and ought to have been done, had the said court been holden at the times heretofore directed by law. APPROVED, February 24, 1843. Changed to fourth Tuesday in April, and third Tuesday in September. All proceedings to go on as heretofore. STATUTE III. Feb. 24, 1843. CHAP. XLV.—An Act to continue in force an act therein mentioned, relating to the port of Baltimore. 1850, ch. 17. Act of 17th March, 1800, ch. 15, so far as relates to Maryland, revived and continued to 1st June, 1850. Proviso. STATUTE III. Feb. 27, 1843. Act of Feb. 13, 1837, ch. 14. er and refiner transferred from the assayer to the coiner in the Dahlonega and branch mints at 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, 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 of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, be, and the same, so far as it relates to the act of the State of Maryland, is hereby revived and continued in force until the first day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty: 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, February 24, 1843. CHAP. XLVI.-An Act amendatory of an act establishing the branch mint at Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Duties of melt United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act passed the thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyseven, to amend an act entitled "An act to establish branches of the mint of the United States," passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, be, and it is hereby, altered and amended so as to transfer the duties of melter and refiner from the assayer to the coiner at the branches of Dahlonega in Georgia, and of Charlotte in North Carolina, respectively, and that all laws and parts of laws conflicting with this act be, and they are hereby, repealed. APPROVED, February 27, 1843. Charlotte. STATUTE III. Feb. 27, 1843. The appropria tion for Ocracoke hospital not to revert to the surplus fund. 1842, ch. 265. STATUTE III. March 1, 1843. Act of 16th July, 1798, ch. 77, extended to the coasting trade. Act of July 20, 1840, ch. 48. Act of Feb. 12, 1842, ch. 3. Measures to be taken to col lect hospital money. CHAP. XLVII.—An Act to amend an act entitled “An act making an appropria CHAP. XLIX. ·An Act amendatory of "An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions and penalties of the act of the sixteenth of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, entitled "An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen," be, and the same hereby are, extended to the masters, owners and seamen of registered vessels employed in carrying on the coasting trade; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to issue such instructions to the collectors of the various ports as shall secure the collection of hospital money from said seamen, masters and owners. APPROVED, March 1, 1843. CHAP. L.-An Act to perfect the titles to lands south of the Arkansas river, held under New Madrid locations, and pre-emption rights under the act of one thousand eight hundred and fourteen [fifteen]. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the locations heretofore made of warrants issued under the act of the seventeenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, entitled "An act for the relief of the inhabitants of the late county of New Madrid, in Missouri Territory, who suffered by earthquakes" of those locations which were made on the south side of the Arkansas river, if made in pursuance of the provisions of that act in other respects, shall be perfected into grants, in like manner as if the Indian title to the lands on the south side of said river had been completely extinguished at the time of the passage of said act. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in all cases in which the locations so made on the south side of the Arkansas river may have been sold, and the lands thus located under the act aforesaid have been appropriated by the United States, the owner of the warrants issued under the provisions of the act aforesaid shall have a right to enter, within twelve months after the passage of this act, without payment, the like quantity of the public lands, of any of the unappropriated and unimproved lands in the State of Arkansas, corresponding with the legal subdivisions. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That every settler on the public lands south of the Arkansas river shall be entitled to the same benefits accruing under the provisions of the pre-emption act of one thousand eight hundred and fourteen [fifteen], as though they had resided north of said river. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all Cherokee pre-emptions which have been or may be located upon any of the surveyed lands of the United States, south of the base line in Arkansas, shall be confirmed, and patents shall issue thereon as in other cases. APPROVED, March 1, 1843. CHAP. LI. · An Act in relation to the two per cent. fund of the State of Missis- March 1, 1843. sippi. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the assent of Congress is hereby given to the appropriation, by the State of Mississippi, to the completion of the railroad from Brandon to Jackson, of the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, as a part of the two per cent. fund heretofore relinquished by Congress to said State; and that the Governor of said State be, and he is hereby, authorized, with the said two per cent. fund now in the Treasury of the United States, to enter any public lands in said State, subject to private entry, and in the name and on behalf of said State, to be held subject to the same trusts and purposes of said fund. APPROVED, March 1, 1843. a) Under the act of February 17, 1815, chap. 45, New Madrid certificates could be located upon lands before they were offered at public sale under a proclamation of the President, or even surveyed by the public surveyor. Barry v. Gamble, 3 Howard, 32. The act of April 26, 1822, chap. 40, recognised locations of this kind, although they disregarded the sectional lines by which the surveys were afterwards made. Ibid. STATUTE III. March 1, 1843. [Obsolete.] Appropriations. Pay. Subsistence of officers. Forage of officers' horses. Clothing for discharged sol diers and offi cers' servants. Subsistence. Clothing, &c. Supplies in Quartermas ter's departm't. Barracks, &c. Fort Severn. Quartermas CHAP. LII.-An Act making appropriations for the support of the army and of the military academy, and for armories, arsenals, arms and munitions of war, and surveys, for the half calendar year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. 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 hereby are, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army and of the military academy, and for armories, arsenals, arms and munitions of war, and surveys, for the half calendar year, commencing on the first day of January, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fortyfour: For pay of the army for said half calendar year, two hundred and fifty-eight thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and ninetytwo cents; and for said fiscal year, one million three hundred and thirteen thousand three hundred and seventy dollars. For commutation of officers' subsistence for said half calendar year, one hundred and forty-nine thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars and forty cents; and for said fiscal year, four hundred and sixtyone thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars. For commutation of forage for officers' horses for said half calendar year, thirty-one thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars and fifty-six cents; and for said fiscal year, one hundred and one thousand and thirty-five dollars. For payments in lieu of clothing for discharged soldiers and officers' servants, for said half calendar year, twenty-nine thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars; and for said fiscal year, fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars. For subsistence in kind for said fiscal year, four hundred and ninetyfive thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty cents. For clothing, camp and garrison equipage, for said fiscal year, one hundred thousand dollars. For regular supplies in the quartermaster's department for said half calendar year, thirty thousand dollars; and for said fiscal year, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars. For barracks, quarters, and storehouses, embracing the repairs and enlargement of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; the erection of temporary cantonments and of gun-houses for the protection of cannon; the purchase of tools and materials and of furniture for the barrack rooms, rent of quarters for officers, of barracks for troops where there are no public buildings for their accommodation, of storehouses for the safe-keeping of subsistence, clothing, and other military supplies, and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments for military practice, for said half calendar year, forty-five thousand dollars; and for said fiscal year, one hundred and five thousand dollars. For arrearages for the completing quarters and barracks at Fort Severn, Maryland, nine thousand and twenty-nine dollars and fifty-three cents. For the incidental expenses of the quartermasters' department, conter's departm't. sisting of postage on public letters and packets, expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge advocates, members and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers under the act of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of 1819, ch. 45. expresses and of the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation of clerks in the offices of the quartermasters and assistant quartermasters, at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid, and of temporary agents in charge of dismantled works; and to such wagon and forage masters as it may be necessary to employ under the act of the fifth of July, eigh-Act of July 5, teen hundred and thirty-eight; expenditures necessary to keep the regi- 1838, ch. 162. ments of dragoons and the four companies of light artillery complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the place of those which may be lost and become unfit for the service, and the erection of stables, for said fiscal year, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For transportation of officers' baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, for said fiscal year, fifty thousand dollars. For transportation of troops and supplies, viz: transportation of the army and baggage, freight and ferriages, purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for purposes of transportation or garrison use; drayage and cartage; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the Pay department; expense of transport vessels and of procuring water at such posts as from their situations require it; transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase and delivery, under contracts, to such points as the circumstances of the service may require; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from the foundries and armories, to the arsenals, fortifications, and frontier posts, for said fiscal year, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. For the current expenses of ordnance service for the said fiscal eighty thousand dollars. year, For armaments of fortifications, including compensation of a competent person to superintend the manufacture of cannon, for the said fiscal year, one hundred thousand dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, for the said fiscal year, seventyfive thousand dollars. For manufacture of arms at national armories, for the said fiscal year, three hundred thousand dollars. Transportation of officers' baggage. Transportation of troops and supplies. Ordnance ser vice. Fortifications, &c. Ordnance and stores. Manufacture of arms. Springfield ar mory. armory. For repairs, improvements, and new machinery, at Springfield armory, for the said fiscal year, twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs, improvements, and new machinery, at Harper's Ferry Harper's Ferry armory, for the said fiscal year, thirty-thousand five hundred dollars. For arsenals for the said fiscal year, ninety thousand dollars. For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone for the said fiscal year, forty thousand dollars. For completing the principal buildings of the arsenal at Charleston, For surveys in reference to the military defences of the frontier, inland and Atlantic, for the said fiscal year, including a survey of the direct communication from Albemarle Sound to the Atlantic ocean, with a view to re-open a ship channel, fifteen thousand dollars. For military and geographical surveys west of the Mississippi, for the said half calendar year, five thousand dollars; and for the said fiscal year, fifteen thousand dollars. For continuation of the surveys of the Northern and Northwestern lakes of the United States for the said fiscal year, thirty thousand dol :ars. year, nine For medical and hospital department, for said half calendar thousand five hundred dollars; and for the said fiscal year, twenty-five thousand dollars. For continuing the meteorological observations at the military posts Arsenals. Saltpetre and brimstone. Arsenal at Charleston. Drawings. Surveys. |