Statute II. March 3, 1821.

[Obsolete.] 2500 dolls, per annum to each commissioner.

2500 dolls, per annum to each agent.

In full.
Proviso.

Commissioners and agents not entitled, before Jan. 1, 1821, to more than 4444 dollars per annum in full, &c.

25,000 dollars for payment of salaries, &c., during 1821.

Chap. XL.—An Act establishing the salaries of the commissioners and agents appointed under the treaty of Ghent.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, from and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, each commissioner now appointed, or who may be appointed agreeably to the provisions of the treaty of Ghent, shall be entitled to receive at the rate of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum; and each agent appointed, or who may be appointed, as aforesaid, shall be entitled to receive at the rate of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum; which said sums, so allowed to said officers, respectively, shall be a full compensation for services and all personal expenses incurred while in the performance of the duties of their respective offices: Provided, That the compensation by this section allowed, shall not be continued longer than two years from the said first day <3f January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That each commissioner and agent shall not be entitled to receive, for services performed in their respective offices, before the said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, any greater sum than the rate of four thousand four hundred and forty-four dollars per annum, which shall be considered a full compensation for services, and all personal expenses incurred while in the discharge of their respective duties.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the payment of the salaries of the said commissioners and agents, and for the expenses under the several commissions under the treaty of Ghent, for the present year.

Approved, March 3, 1821.

Statute II. March 3, 1821.

[Obsolete.] Debentures issued upon the exportation of spirits distilled from molasses, or refined sugar, to be payable within thirty days, &c.

Chap. XLI.—An Act to authorize the collectors of customs to pay debentures issued on the exportation of loaf sugar and spirits distilled from molasses.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all debentures which have been, or may hereafter be issued upon the exportation of spirits distilled from molasses, or sugar refined within the United States, shall be payable within thirty days after the passing of this act, or thirty days after the date of their issue, as the case may be, and shall be discharged by the collector of the customs, by whom they may have been, or shall be, issued, out of the product of the duties upon imports and tonnage; any thing in any act or acts of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, March 3, 1821.

Statute II.

March 3, 1821. Chap. XLII.—An Act to extend the time for unlading vessels arriving from

foreign ports, in certain cases.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That when the capacity of any vessel, arriving with a cargo from a foreign port, shall exceed three hundred tons, the term for unlading such vessel shall hereafter be twenty days from the report of arrival, Sundays excepted.

Approved, March 3, 1821.

[Obsolete.]

VesscTj,ex

ceeding 300 tons

allowed 20 days

for unlading.

Chap. XLIII.—An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States to sell and convey a certain tract of land in Northumberland county, in tlte state of Virginia.

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 of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to sell and dispose of, at public or private sale, all the estate, right, title, interest, claim, and demand, of the United States of America, of, in, and to, all that certain tract, or piece of land, situate in Northumberland county, in the state of Virginia, formerly owned by Presly Thornton, of the said county and state, and late of Sharp Delany, containing about two thousand five hundred acres, be the same more or less; the same being the premises which William Lewis and Thomas Robinson, by deed of indenture, executed on the second day of June, anno domini one thousand eight hundred and nine, granted and conveyed to the United States; the moneys arising from the said sale to be appropriated towards the payment of a debt due from the late Sharp Delany to the United States; and the residue thereof, if any there be, to be paid over to the legal representatives of the said Sharp Delany.

Approved, March 3, 1821.

Chap. XLIV.—Jin Act to regulate the location of land warrants, and the issuing of patents, in certain cases.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the holders, by assignment, of warrants issued under the acts of Congress, of the fifth of March, eighteen hundred and sixteen, the third of March eighteen hundred and seventeen, to Canadian volunteers, may be, and hereby are, authorized to locate the said warrants, and to receive patents therefor in their own names, as had been the practice before the twenty-sixth of December, eighteen hundred and nineteen: Provided, however, That in no case shall lands be so located, until, after having been exposed to public sale, shall remain unsold. .

Approved, March 3, 1821.

Statute n.

March 3, 1821

[Obsolete.]

The Secretary of the Treasury authorized to sell the right of the United States to a piece of land formerly owned by Presly Thornton, in Virginia.

Appropriation of the moneys arising from the sale.

Statute II. March 3,1821.

[Obsolete.]

Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 25.

Act of March 3,1817, ch. 106.

Assignees of warrants issued to Canadian volunteers, may locate them, &c.

Proviso.

Statute II.

Chap. XLV.—An Act to continue in force, for a furllur time, the act, entitled March 3, 1821. "An act for establishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes." rReoealed 1"

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United The act of States of America, in Congress assembled,'Thai the act, entitled "An ^I1"TM 2'1?11' ar^t for establishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes," passed on the ed unUl June second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and which 3,1822. was, by subsequent acts, continued in force until the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, shall be, and the same is hereby, further continued in force until the third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and no longer.

Approved, March 3, 1821.

Statute II.

Chap. XLVI.—An Act to release French ships and vessels, entering the ports of March 3, 1821. the United Slates prior to the thirtieth of September, one thousand eight hundred rnbaolete l and twenty, from the operation of the act, entitled "An act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships and vessels," and for other purposes.

Be it enactedby the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 182c0 0cn- 126.' States of America, in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the act, The'provisions Vol. Ill—81 3 H 2

of the act of May 15th, 1820, not to extend to French vessels,

iic.

The Secretary of the Treasury to refund the extra duties to vessels, &c.

1820, ch. 126.

In case of a convention of navigation or commerce, the President may suspend the act to impose a new tonnage duty on French vessels, &c.

1820, ch. 126.

entitled " An act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships and vessels," passed May fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, shall not extend to, or operate upon, any French ship or vessel that shall have entered into any port within the jurisdiction of the United States prior to the thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury, after deducting a tonnage duty equal to that paid by every French ship or vessel which entered the ports within the jurisdiction of the United States prior to the passage and operation of the act, entitled "An act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships and vessels/'passed May fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, from the tonnage duty collected from French ships and vessels, by virtue of the above-recited act, between the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and the thirtieth day of September following, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay and refund the remainder of such tonnage duty, free from costs and charges, to any person or persons who shall have authority to receive the same.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in the event of the signature of any treaty or convention concerning the navigation or commerce between the dominions of the United States and France, the President of the United States be, and is hereby, authorized, should he deem the same expedient, by proclamation to suspend, until the end of the next session of Congress, the operation of the aforesaid act, entitled "An act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships and vessels, and for other purposes;" and, also, to suspend, as aforesaid, all other duties on French vessels, or the goods imported in the same, which may exceed the duties on American vessels, and on similar goods imported in the same.

Approved, March 3, 1821.

Statute II. March 3, 1821.

Act of April 29, 1816, ch. 138.

First section of the act- of 29th-April, 1816, repealed.

500,000 dollars per annum for six years, for the gradual increase of the navy.

Chap. XLVII.—An Act to amend the act, entitled "An act for the gradual increase of the navy of the United Siatet."

Iie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the first section of the act, entitled "An act for the gradual increase of the navy of the United States," approved April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixteen, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, instead of the appropriation therein contained, there shall be, and is hereby, appropriated, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars per annum, for six years, from the year eighteen hundred and twenty-one, inclusive, to be applied to carry into effect the purposes of the said act.

Approved, March 3, 1821.

Statute II.

March 3, 1821. Chap. XLVIII.—An Act to establish a port of entry in the district of Sandusky,' in the state of Ohio, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, from and after the first day of May next, the town of Portland in the district of Sandusky, in the state of Ohio, shall be the port of entry for that district; and that from and after that time the present port of entry established at Danbury shall cease to be the port of entry for said district.

Approved, March 3, 1821.

Portland to be the port of entry after 1st May, 1821.

Statute II. Chap. XLIK.—An Act to amend the act, entitled "An act to provide for taking March 3, 1821. the fourth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, and for other purposes."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, instead of the time prescribed in the above-recited act, in which the marshals and their assistants should perform the various duties assigned them by the said act, the same is hereby enlarged to the first day of September next.

Approved, March 3, 1821.

Act of March 14,1820,ch.24.

Time enlarged till Sept. 1, 1821.

Statute II.

Chap. L.—An Act to authorize the clerk of the district court of the United Slates March 3, 1821. for the district of Louisiana, to appoint a deputy to aid him in- the discharge of the duties of his office.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the clerk of the district court of the United States for the district of Louisiana, shall be authorized to appoint a deputy to aid him in the discharge of the duties of his office; and that the said clerk shall be, in all respects, liable for the acts of his said deputy.

Approved, March 3, 1821.

The clerk of the district court of Louisiana authorized to appoint a deputy, &c.

Statute II.

Chap. LI.—An Act to amend an act, entitled "An act for regulating process in the March 3, 1821. courts of the United Slates." (a)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That in all suits and actions in any district court of the United States, in which it shall appear that the judge of guch court is any ways concerned in interest, or has been of counsel for either party, or is so related to, or connected with, either party, as to render it improper for him, in his opinion, to sit on the trial of such suit or action, it shall be the duty of such judge, on application of either party, to cause the fact to be entered on the records of the court; and, also, an order that an authenticated copy thereof, with all the proceedings in such suit or action, shall be forthwith certified to the next circuit court of the district; and if there be no circuit court in such district, to the next circuit court in the state; and if there be no circuit court in such state, to the most convenient circuit court in an adjacent state; which circuit court shall, upon such record being filed with the clerk thereof, take cognisance thereof, in the like manner as if such suit or action had been originally commenced in that court, and shall proceed to hear and determine the same accordingly; and the jurisdiction of such circuit court shall extend to all such cases so removed, as were cognisable in the district court from which the same was removed.

Approved, March 3,1821.

Act of May 8, 1792, ch. 3B, Yol. i. 275.

In suits in a district court, where the judge may be interested, &c. he must enter the fact on record, &c.

Proceedings to be certified to the next circuit court, &c.

Circuit court to take cognisance and proceed, &c.

Statute II.

Chap. LII.—An Act to authorize the building of lighthouses therein mentioned, March 3, 1821. and for other purposes.

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 and empowered to provide, by contract, for building lighthouses, and placing buoys, on the following

The Secretary of the Treasury to provide for building the lighthouses and

(a) See notes to act of Sept. 29,1789, vol. i. 93, and notes to act of May 8, 1792, vol. i. 275.

placing the buoys mentioned.

Appropriations for the lighthouses and buoys.

No# lighthouse previous to cession of jurisdiction.

President requested to cause a survey of the Isles or Shoals, &c.

President authorized to cause the seawall to be repaired, if, &c.

Result to ua communicated to Congress.

Proviso.

2500 dollars appropriated, Stc.

sites and shoals, to wit: five lighthouses; one on Cross Island, near Machias; one in the harbour of Boothbay, at such place as the Secretary of the Treasury shall designate; and one on Pond island, at the mouth of the Kennebeck river; one on the Stratford Point, in Connecticut; and one on Throg's Neck, in New York; and on the shoals of Nantucket, and the Vineyard sound, a number of buoys, not exceeding ten, in the state of Massachusetts. A lighthouse at the mouth of Oswego river, at such place as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, in the state-of New York. And two buoys, one on James' Ledge, and one on the rock called Old Gay; and a spindle on the Brothers, in the state of Rhode Island.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums of money, to wit: For building three light-houses; one on Cross island, near Machias; one in the harbour of Boothbay; and one on Pond island; ten thousand five hundred dollars: for building the lighthouses on Stratford point and Throg's Neck, four thousand dollars; for a lighthouse at the mouth of Oswego river, three thousand five hundred dollars; for ten buoys on Nantucket shoals, and the Vineyard sound, one thousand five hundred dollars; for two buoys and a spindle for the rocks called James' Ledge, Old Gay, and the Brothers, four hundred and fifty dollars: and for placing buoys, and anchors with buoys, in the Altamaha river, between the port of Darien and Doboy sound, in the state of Georgia, a sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars. m

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That no lighthouse shall be built on any site previous to the cession of jurisdiction over the same to the United States.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and requested to cause such an examination or survey of the Isles of Shoals, on the coast of New Hampshire and Maine, to be made, by proper and intelligent persons, as may be requisite to ascertain the expediency and practicability of repairing the sea-wall, at Smutty Nose island, and of building a s%a-wall between said island and Cedar island. And that the President be further requested in like manner, to ascertain the expediency of erecting a stone pier on Sunken rocks, in the harbour of Portsmouth, in the state of New Hampshire. And the President is hereby authorized to cause the sea-wall aforesaid to be repaired, and the pier aforesaid to be erected, by contract, under the direction of the collector of the district of Portsmouth, if, on the report of such persons, he shall deem it necessary. And the President is further requested to communicate to Congress, at their next session, the result of so much of the examination and survey, as relates to the expediency and practicability of building the sea-wall aforesaid: Provided, That no money shall be expended in erecting the pier aforesaid, until the jurisdiction of the site thereof shall be ceded by the state of New Hampshire to the United States.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That a sum, not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars, is hereby appropriated for the purposes aforesaid; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, March 3, 1821.