with the said debtor, upon such terms and conditions as he may think reasonable and proper under all the circumstances of the case, and may execute a release to him or her for the amount of the said debt or debts which he or she may owe to the United States; which said release shall contain a recital that the foregoing particulars have been satisfactorily proved to the said Secretary: Provided, however, that the said release shall be rendered null and void, if it shall at any time be ascertained that the said insolvent debtor hath obtained the same upon false suggestions.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That if the saidinsolvent debtor, or any other person, shall falsely take an oath or affirmation under this act, he or she shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and shall suffer the pains and penalties in that case provided.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That each of the said commissioners of insolvency shall receive five dollars per day for each day they shall be actually employed in the performance of their duty under this act; which sum together with the actual expense incurred for office rent and all other contingencies, provided the same shall not, in the whole, exceed two dollars per day, shall be apportioned among the several applicants by the said commissioner or commissioners, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, according to the time occupied in the investigation of each case; and each of the said applicants, immediately after the investigation of his or her case shall be completed, by the commissioner or commissioners, and before the report shall be transmitted to the said Secretary, shall pay his or her respective proportions of the same and it shall be the duty of the said commissioner or commissioners to transmit with his or their report, in each case, a statement, under oath or affirmation, to the said Secretary, of the time actually ac cupied in the investigation thereof and the amount which they shall have received from the said applicant.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the compensation to be paid to the District Attorney of each district and territory shall be five dollars for each day he shall be actually employed under the provisions of this act.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to report annually to Congress the names of the applicants under this act, and the nature and amount of the debt or debts due from each to the United States; and, also, the names of those who shall have obtained releases, together with the terms of compromise in each case.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act.

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force for three years and no longer. Approved March 2, 1831.

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AN ACT for the continuation of the Cumberland Road
in the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of one hundred thou-
sand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for
the purpose of opening, grading, and making the Cum-
berland road, westwardly of Zanesville, in the State
of Ohio; and that the sum of nine hundred and fifty dol-
lars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for repairs
on the said road during the year one thousand eight hun-
dred and thirty; and also the further sum of two thou-
sand seven hundred dollars, to be expended under the
directions of the Secretary of War, in completing the
payments to individuals for work heretofore done on the
Cumberland road, east of Zanesville, in the State of Ohio,
under the directions of the superintendent of said road, or
so much of said sum as may be found necessary for that

purpose; also for the payment of arrearages for the sur-
vey of the said road from Zanesville to the capital of Mis-
souri, two hundred and sixty-five dollars and eighty-five
cents; and that the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars
be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose
of opening, grading, and bridging, the Cumberland Road,
in the State of Indiana, including a bridge over White
River, near Indianopolis, and progressing with the work
to the eastern and western boundaries of said State; and
that the sum of sixty-six thousand dollars be, and the same
is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of opening, grad-
ing, and bridging the Cumberland Road, in the State of
Illinois; which sums shall be paid out of any money not
otherwise appropriated, and replaced out of the fund re-
served for laying out and making roads under the direc-
tion of Congress, by the several acts passed for the ad-
mission of the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, into
the Union, on an equal footing with the original States.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the imme-
diate accomplishment of these objects, the superintend-
ents heretofore appointed, or hereafter to be appointed,
in the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, shall, under
the direction of the President of the United States, sepa-
rately superintend, in a faithful manner, such parts of
said road as may be designated to cach, and disburse the
money, each giving bond and security as he shall direct,
and shall receive such compensation as, in his opinion,
shall be equitable and just, not exceeding, to each, that
heretofore allowed by law to the superintendent of the
Cumberland Road, in the State of Ohio.
Approved: March 2, 1831.

AN ACT making provision for a subscription to a com-
pilation of Congressional Documents.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Clerk of the House of Representatives hereby is authorized and directed to subscribe for seven hundred and fifty copies of the compilation of Congressional documents proposed to be published by Gales & Seaton; Provided, That the documents shall be selected under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives: And provided, also, That the price paid for the printing of the said copies shall be at a rate not exceeding that of the price paid to the printer of Congress for printing the documents of the two Houses. Approved, March 2, 1831.

AN ACT making appropriations for the Indian Department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, for the Indian Department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty one, viz.:

For pay of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis and the several Indian agents, as authorized by law, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.

For pay of sub-agents, as authorized by law, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars.

For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of one thousand eight hundred and twelve, fifteen thousand dollars.

For pay of Indian interpreters and translators employed at the several superintendencies and agencies, twenty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For pay of gun and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed within the superintendencies and agencies, under the treaty provisions and the orders of the Secre tary of War, eighteen thousand three hundred and forty dollars.

For iron, steel, coal, and other expenses attending the gun and blacksmith's shops, five thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars.

Laws of the United States.

For expense of transportation and distribution of Indian annuities, nine thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars. For expense of provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuities while on visits of business with the different superintendents and agents, and when assembled on business eleven thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.

For contingencies of the Indian Department, twenty thousand dollars.

For expenses incurred in surveying the north-western boundary lines of the Miami and Potawatamie cessions by treaties of sixteenth October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and twenty third October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, two hundred and twenty-seven dollars.

For surveying and dividing the reservation granted to the half-breed Sacs and Foxes by the treaty of fourth August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, two thousand dollars.

For the payment of sundry claims for Indian depredations, heretofore allowed at the Department of War, one thousand three hundred dollars.

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For running the Indian boundary line in Florida, per act twenty-sixth May, eighteen hundred and twentyfour, one hundred and thirty-five dollars and forty-nine cents.

For purchase of Creek and Cherokee reservations, per act second March, eighteen hundred and twentythree, twenty-one hundred dollars.

For expense of treating with the Choctaws and Chickasaws, for extinguishment of their title to lands within the limits of Mississippi, per act twentieth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, six hundred and fifty eight dollars.

Approved, March 2, 1831.

AN ACT to provide for the punishment of offences committed in cutting, destroying, or removing live oak and other timber, or trees reserved for naval purposes. Be it enacted, &c. That if any person or persons shall cut, or cause or procure to be cut, or aid, assist, or be employed in cutting, or shall wantonly destroy, or cause or procure to be wantonly destroyed, or aid, assist, or be employed in wantonly destroying any live oak or red cedar tree For payments made for provisions and necessary assist- or trees, or other timber standing, growing, or being on ance to Indians emigrating to the West, and to those any lands of the United States, which, in pursuance of tribes now settled on or near the Kansas river, west of any law passed, or hereafter to be passed, shall have the Missouri, in addition to the appropriation heretofore been reserved or purchased for the use of the United made for that object by act of ninth May, one thousand States, for supplying or furnishing therefrom, timber for eight hundred and twenty-eight, three thousand five the navy of the United States; or if any person or per hundred and sixty-two dollars eighty-six cents. sons shall remove, or cause or procure to be removed, or For provisions and other assistance to Indians remov-aid, or assist, or be employed in removing from any such ing to the West from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missou- lands which shall have been reserved or purchased as ri, required in one thousand eight hundred and thirty- aforesaid, any live oak or red cedar tree, or trees, or one, five thousand dollars. other timber, unless duly authorized so to do, by order, in writing, of a competent officer, and for the use of the navy of the United States; or if any person or persons shall cut, or cause or procure to be cut, or aid, or assist, or be employed in cutting any live oak or red cedar tree or trees, or other timber on, or shall remove, or cause or

For building houses for Indian agents, sub-agents, blacksmith's shops in all the several agencies, seven thousand dollars.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacled, That the following sums,carried to the surplus fund, at the commencement of the present year, be, and the same are hereby appro-procure to be removed, or aid, or assist, or be employed priated, viz:

For additional expense at the Red river agency, per act of ninth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, thirteen hundred dollars.

in removing any live oak or red cedar trees, or other tinber from any other lands of the United States, acquired, or hereafter to be acquired, with intent to export, dispose of, use, or employ the same in any manner whatsoFor extinguishment of the title of the Creeks to land ever, other than for the use of the navy of the United in Georgia, per act twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight States; every such person or persons so offending, on hundred and twenty-four, balance re-appropriated twen- conviction thereof before any court having competent ty-first March, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, four jurisdiction, shall, for every such offence, pay a fine not thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifty-less than triple the value of the tree or trees, or timber

seven cents.

For claims against the Osages, by citizens of the United States, per act third March, eighteen hundred and nineteen, balance re-appropriated twenty-first March, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, eight hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents.

For extinguishment of the claims of the Cherokees to their lands in Georgia, per act ninth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, forty-six thousand one hundred and four dollars and fifty cents.

so cut, destroyed, or removed, and shall be imprisoned not exceeding twelve months

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if the master, owner, or consignee of any ship or vessel shall, knowingly, take on board any timber cut on lands which shall have been reserved or purchased as aforesaid, without proper authority, and for the use of the navy of the United States; or shall take on board any live oak or red cedar timber cut on any other lands of the United States, with intent to transport the same to any port or place For carrying into effect the treaty concluded with the within the United States, or to export the same to any Creeks, fifteenth November, eighteen hundred and twen-foreign country, the ship or vessel on board of which ty-seven, per act twenty-fourth May, eighteen hundred the same shall be taken, transported, or seized, shall, and twenty-eight, four thousand eight hundred and fifty- with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, be wholly forfeitseven dollars. ed to the United States; and the captain or master of For carrying into effect the treaty of sixth May, eigh- | such ship or vessel wherein the same shall have been ex- · teen hundred and twenty-eight, with the Cherokee In-ported to any foreign country against the provisions of dians, for their removal, &c. from Georgia, per act twen- this act, shall forfeit and pay to the United States a sum ty-fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty. not exceeding one thousand dollars. eight, fifty-nine thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars and nineteen cents.

For expense of Indian delegations to explore the country west of the Mississippi, per act twenty-fourth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, one hundred and fifty nine dollars.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all penalties and forfeitures incurred under the provisions of this act shall be sued for, recovered and distributed, and accounted for, under the directions of the Secretary of the Navy, and shall be paid over, one half to the informer or informers, if any, or captors, where seized, and the

lars per annum, in addition to their salary as Judges of
the Superior Court for the said Territory, which shall be
in full for their services, to be paid out of any money in
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 2, 1831.

AN ACT making appropriations for the public build-
ings, and for other purposes.

For completing the painting of the Capitol, three thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.

AN ACT granting a quantity of land to the Territory Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be, and the of Arkansas, for the erection of a public building at same are hereby, respectively, appropriated, to be paid the Seat of Government of said Territory. out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise approBe it enacted, &c. That the Legislature of the Terri-priated, for the following purposes, that is to say: tory of Arkansas be, and they are hereby authorized to select, or cause to be selected, a quantity of the unappropriated public lands in the Territory of Arkansas, not exceeding ten sections, and in portions not less than one quarter section, which is hereby granted to said Territory, for the purpose of raising a fund for the erection of a public building at Little Rock, the Seat of Government of said Territory.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Legislature of said Territory be, and they are hereby authorized to adopt such measures for the sale of said tract of land, or any part thereof, at such times and manner, and convey the same by such deeds, as they shall deem expedient; and upon the presentation of such deeds of conveyance as shall be adopted by said Legislature, and given to the purchasers, to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, it shall be the duty of the President to issue patents to the purchasers, as in other cases. Approved, March 2, 1831.

AN ACT confirming the selections heretofore made of lands for the construction of the Michigan Road in the State of Indiana.

For planting and improving the ground within the enclosure of the Capitol square, including the gardener's salary for one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and pay of laborers, three thousand dollars.

To make good the deficiency in the estimates of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, for finishing gates and fences, five thousand nine hundred and eighty-four dollars.

For lighting lamps in and round the square, and erecting twenty-four new lamps, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For alterations and repairs, five hundred dollars. For new stoves for warming and ventilating the Hall of the House of Representatives, eight hundred dol

lars.

For purchasing Seneca Stone, flagging for the terrace and walks adjoining the Capitol, three thousand dollars.

For employing John Frazeefto execute a bust of John Jay for the Supreme Court Room, four hundred dollars. For painting the President's House, inside and out,

Be it enacted, &c. That the selections and locations heretofore made by the State of Indiana, of the Michi-three thousand four hundred and eighty-two dollars. gan road lands, so far as they may remain unsold,be,and the same are hereby, sanctioned and confirmed; and that other public lands in Indiana, in lieu of those already sold, shall be selected under the same authority that the original selections and locations were made: Provided, that no selections or locations shall hereafter be made for the purpose aforesaid, until the authority of the State of Indiana shall cause to be made to the General Land,Officer in accurate survey and plat of the said road throughout its

For planting and improving the grounds about the President's House, including the gardener's salary, four thousand dollars.

entire line.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Land Of. ficers at Crawfordsville and Fort Wayne shall be duly notified, by the State authority, of the selections made in virtue of this act; after which, no sales thereof shall be

made.

Approved, March 2, 1831.

AN ACT to extend the act, entitled "An act for the
further extending the powers of the Judges of the Su-
perior Court of the Territory of Arkansas, under the
act of the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and twenty-four, and for other purposes.'
Be it enacted, &c. That the act, entitled "An act for
the further extending the powers of the Judges of the
Superior Court of the Territory of Arkansas, under the
act of the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and twenty-four, and for other purposes," ap
proved on the eighth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and thirty, be and the same is hereby, extend-
ed and continued in force until the eighth day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That each of the Judges of the Superior Court of the Territory of Arkansas shall, whilst in the discharge of the duties imposed by this act, be allowed at the rate of eight hundred dol

For alterations and repairs of the President's House, five hundred dollars.

For furniture, and repairs of furniture, five thousand dollars.

For compensation to Charles Bulfinch, late architect of the Capitol, for his extra services in planning and superintending the building of the Penitentiary at Washington, the Jail in Alexandria, the additional buildings for the Post Office and Patent Office, and for allowance for returning with his family to Boston, eleven hundred dollars. Approved, March 2, 1831.

AN ACT for the relief of Mrs. Clarissa B. Harrison. Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be authorized and directed to allow the Public Money at Vincennes, the following credits, to representatives of J. C. S. Harrison, late Receiver of take date from the respective times the money was paid or the services rendered by said Receiver, viz: one thousand five hundred dollars for bringing up the books of Nathaniel Ewing, his predecessor; two thousand and fifteen dollars and four cents, paid out under a deed of trust from the bank of Vincennes, with commissions on the same, amounting to thirty-five dollars and fifty-one cents; and the said accounting officers are hereby authorized to settle and adjust any other claims of the late Receiver, arising from the discharge of his official duty, upon the principles of justice and equity, and to credit the amount thereof.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That after the final adjustment of said accounts, the Secretary of the Treasu

Laws of the United States.

ry is hereby authorized to allow to the legal representatives and heirs of said receiver the period of eighteen years to pay the amount which shall be found due from said Receiver, without interest, upon such terms and conditions as to the Secretary of the Treasury shall be deemed reasonable and equitable, by taking a lien on the estate of the said Receiver, or such other security as, in his opinion, will secure the debt.

Approved March 2, 1831.

AN ACT for the relief of Richard Smith and William
Pearse, the second, of Bristol, in Rhode Island.

Be it enacted, &c. That there shall be issued, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register for the brig Hope, built in Holland, but now owned by Richard Smith and William Pearse, the second, citizens of the United States, and now lying at the port of Bris. tol, in Rhode Island, unseaworthy, whenever the said Smith and Pearse shall furnish the Secretary of the Treasury with satisfactory proof that the said brig has been repaired in the United States, and that the cost of repair ing her, by her present owners, exceeds three-fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same ton nage in the Unitted States.

Approved March 2, 1831.

AN ACT to authorize the Territory of Florida to open a canal through the public lands between Chipola River and Saint Andrew's Bay, in West Florida.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Territory of Florida be and is hereby, authorized to survey and mark, through the public lands of the United States, the route of a canal by which to connect the navigation of the river Chipola | and Saint Andrew's Bay, in West Florida, and to cut the same through the public lands; and ninety feet of land on each side of said canal shall be reserved from sale on the part of the United States, and the use thereof be forever vested in the Territory, or such company as shall be organized by them, for a canal, and for no other purpose whatever.

tory, or any incorporated company under their authority,
be, and they are hereby authorized to open, through the
public lands of the United States, a canal from Matanzas
to Halifax River, in East Florida, upon the same condi-
tions, restrictions, and limitations, in every respect, as
are prescribed in the foregoing provisions of this act ;
and the same lands shall be reserved, in like manner,
for the objects specified, and for no other.
Approved March 2, 1831.

further period of fourteen years.
AN ACT to extend the Patent of John Adamson, for a

Be it enacted, &c. That there be, and hereby is granted unto John Adamson, a citizen of the United States, his heirs, administrators, and assigns, for the term of fourteen years, from the 12th day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and vending to others, to be used, h's improvement, called a "Floating Dry Dock," a description of whica is given in a schedule annexed to letters patent granted to the said John Adamson, for the same, on the thirteenth day Approved: March 2, 1831. of December, one thousand eight, hundred and sixteen.

AN ACT to authorize the State of Illinois to surrender
a township of land granted to said State for a seminary
of learning, and to locate other lands in lieu thereof.
Be it enacted, &c. That the State of Illinois be, and is
hereby authorized to relinquish to the United States,
township number five, north of range number one west,
situate in the county of Fayette, in said State, heretofore
granted to the said State for the use of a seminary of
learning, and to locate upon the public lands within said
State, the sale of which is authorized by law, one entire
township of land, or a quantity of land equal thereto, in
tracts of not less than the quarter of a section.
Approved March 2, 1831.

AN ACT to establish ports of delivery at Port Pontchar-
train and Delaware City, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted, &c. That there be, and hereby is esta
blished at Port Pontchartrain, on Lake Pontchartrain, a
port of delivery, that a Surveyor shall be appointed to
reside at said port, that all ships and vessels bound to
said port, shall, after proceeding thereto, and making
report and entry at the port of New Orleans, within the
time limited by law, be permitted to unlade their cargoes
at the said port under the rules and regulations prescrib-

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if the said Territory shall not survey, and direct by law, said canal to be opened, and furnish the Commissioner of the General Land Office a map thereof, within two years from and after the date of this act, or if the said canal be not completed suitably for navigation within five years thereafter, or if said land hereby granted shall ever cease to be used and occupied for the purpose of constructing and keeping in repair a canal suitable for navigation, the re-ed by law. servation and grant aforesaid shall be void and of no ef fect: Provided, That nothing in this act contained, or that shall be done in pursuance thereof, shall be deemed to imply any obligation, on the part of the United States, to appropriate money to defray the expense of surveying for opening said canal: And provided likewise, That the said canal, when completed by said Territory, or by an incorporated company under the authority of the same, shall be, and forever remain, a public highway for the use of the Government of the United States, free from any toll or charge whatever for any property of the United States, or persons in their service on public business passing through the same.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every section of land through which said canal route may pass, shall be, and the same is hereby reserved from sale, under the direction of the Government of the United States, until hereafter specially directed by law; and the said Territory, or company incorporated by them, are hereby authorized, without waste, to use any materials on the public lands adjacent to said canal that may be necessary to

its construction.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said Terri-
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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all vessels about to depart from the said port for foreign ports and places shall be permitted to clear out with their cargoes at the custom-house in the city of New Orleans, and depart under the same rules, regulations, and restrictions, and in every respect in the same manner, as vessels clearing out and departing for foreign ports and places from the said city of New Orleans by the way of the Mississippi River; and goods imported into the United States, and exported from said port, shall be entitled to the benefit of a drawback of the duties upon exportation to any foreign port or place, under the same provisions, regulations, restrictions and limitations, as if the said goods, wares, and merchandise had been exported directly from New Orleans, by way of the Mississippi River.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That Delaware City, in the District of Delaware, shall be a port of delivery; and a Surveyor shall be appointed, who shall reside at said city.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That a collection district be, and is hereby established in the Territory of Florida, which shall include all the ports, harbors, shores, and waters of the main land in Florida, and of the islands