perior court, at the seat of government in said territory; and the legislature aforesaid shall be authorized, in all cases except when the United States is a party, to fix the respective jurisdictions of the district and superior court. The United States' cases shall be tried in the superior court, in the manner that said cases are now tried.

SECT. 4. And be it further enacted, That the judges aforesaid shall be authorized to nominate and appoint. and the governor to commission, a clerk in each county of their respective districts, in such manner, with such powers, and for such term of time, as the legislature aforesaid may designate. But in no county shall the clerk of the superior court be appointed the clerk of the circuit court; and the compensation of said clerks, except in United States' cases, shall be fixed by the legislature aforesaid.

SECT: 5. And be it further enacted, That when any party to a suit is aggrieved by a decision of a judge holding a district court, except in criminal cases, the party

aggrieved shall be at liberty, by appeal, writ of error, or certiorari, to remove said suit to the superior court of said territory, for further trial; and the case thus brought up shall be tried by the judges, or any two of them, other than the judge who made the decision in the district court.

SECT. 6. And be it further enacted, That the additional judge hereby authorized to be appointed, shall receive the same salary now allowed by law to the judges of the superior court for the territory of

Arkansas.

SECT. 7. And be it further enacted, That writs of error and appeal from the final decision of the superior court for the territory of Arkansas, shall be made to the supreme court of the United States, in the manner, and under the same regulations, as from the circuit courts of the United States, when the amount in controversy, to be ascertained by oath or affirmation of either party, shall exceed one thousand dollars.

SECT. 8. And be it further enacted, That the act of the legislature of the territory of Arkansas, passed at the last session of the legislature of said territory, in relation to the courts of said territory, so far as the provisions of said act are not inconsistent with and repugnant to this act, be, and the same is hereby affirmed, until said legislature may alter or modify the

same.

SECT. 9. And be it further enacted, That all acts coming within the purview of this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. And that this act shall take effect, and be in force, from and after its passage.

CHAP. 30. An Act authorizing the President of the United States to appoint certain agents therein mentioned.

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 here, authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint such agent or agents as may be usefully employed in prosecnting the designation and settlement of the line formin the north eastern boundary of the United States, and bringing the existing controversy with Great Britain relating thereto, to a speedy termination.

CHAP. 31. An Act explanatory of "An Act to grant a certain quantity of land to the state of Ohio, for the purpose of making a road from Columbus to Sandusky."

Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of

America, in Congress assembled, That in lieu of the lands appropriated by the act sand eight hundred and twenty-seven, approved on the third of March, one thouthere shall be granted to the state of Ohio, for the purposes designated in the said act, forty-nine sections of land, to be located in the Delaware land district, in the following manner, to wit: every alternate section through which the road thereto on the west, so far as the said may run, and the section next adjoining sections remain unsold; and if any part of the said sections shall have been disposed of, then a quantity equal thereto shall be selected, under the direction of the commissioner of the general land office, from the vacant lands in the sections. adjoining on the west of those appropriated.

CHAP 32. An Act for the relief of Thomas Flowers, and the legal representatives of John kinsbury.

CHAP. 33. An Act for the benefit of Mary Ann Bond and Mar Loveless.

CHAP. 34. An Act for the relief of John Shirkey. Approve 17th April, 1828.

CHAP. 35. An Act for the relief of Anthony Hermange.

CHAP. 36. An Act for the relief of Wm. Benning.

CHAP. 37. An Act for the relief of Richard Taylor.

CHAP. 39. An act to extend the time allowed for

the redemption of land sold for direct taxes, in - certain cases.

Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the time allowed for the redemption of lands which have been, or may be, sold for the non-payment of taxes under the several acts passed on the second of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen; the ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen; and the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, for laying and collecting a direct tax within the United States, so far as the same have been purchased for, or on behalf of, the United States, be revived, and be extended for the further term of three years, from and after the expiration of the present session of Congress. Provided, also, that on such redemption, interest shall be paid at the rate of twenty per centum on the taxes aforesaid, and on the additions of twenty per centum chargeable thereon; and the right of redemption shall enure, as well to the heirs and assignees of the land so purchased, on behalf of the United States, as to the originals thereof.

CHAP. 40. An Act extending the limfts of certain Land Offices in Indiana, and for other pur.

poses.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all the lands in the State of Indiana, to which the Indian title is extinguished, which lies east of the line dividing the first and second ranges east of the second principal meridian, and north of the southern boundary of the Fort Wayne District, shall be attached to the land district, the land office of which is established at Fort Wayne; and that all the lands to which the Indian title is extinguished in said state, and which may lie west of the line dividing the first and second ranges east of the second principal meridian, shall be attached to the land district, the land office of which is established at Crawfordsville.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Surveyor General shall cause the second principal meridian to be extended to the northern boundary of the state of Indiana. Provided, the assent of the Indians be obtained to the running and marking that portion of the meridian line

CHAP. 41. An Act, in addition to the act, entitled "An act to provide for the sale of lands conveyed to the United States, in certain cases, and for other purposes," passed the twentysixth day of May, eighteen hundred and twentyfour.

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 where lands have been, or shall hereafter be, conveyed to, or for, the United States, for forts, arsenals, dock-yards, light-houses, or any like purpose, or in payment of debts due the United States, which shall not be used, or necessary, for the purposes for which they were purchased, or other authorized purpose, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to cause the same to be sold, for the best price to be obtained, and to convey the same to the purchaser, by grant or otherwise.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be authorized to procure the assent of the legislature of any state, within which any purchase of land has been made, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings, without such consent having been obtained; and also to obtain exclusive legislation over any such tract, as is provided for in the sixteenth clause of the eighth section of the first article of the constitution; and that he be authorized to procure the like consent and exclusive legislation, as to all future purchases of land for either of those purposes.

SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States, in all cases where lands have been conveyed for the United States to individuals or officers, be authorized to obtain from the person or persons to whom the conveyance has been made, a release of their interest to the United States.

CHAP. 42. An Act authorizing the Legislative

Council of Florida to meet in October, instead of December; and repealing the proviso in the sixth section of the act, entitled "An act to amend an act, for the establishment of a Territorial Government in Florida, and for other purposes" approved March the third, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.

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 Florida shall begin its next ses

sion on the second Monday in October, instead of December, and annually thereafter on the same day in the said month of October.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proviso in the sixth section of the act. entitled, "An act to amend an act for the establishment of a territorial government in Florida, and for other purposes." approved March the third, one thousand eight hundred and twentythree, be, and the same is hereby repealed. Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as approving any act or acts heretofore passed by the Legislative Council of the territory of Florida.

SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Governor and Legislative Council, at the next session of said Council, to divide said territory into thirteen election districts, in such manner as to give to each the same number of qualified electors, as nearly as conveniently may be, and to secure to each district an equal representation; and the said Governor and Council shall have power, from time to time, to alter and regulate the several districts in such manner as the increasing population of the territory may require.

SECT. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Judges of the Superior Courts in said territory shall have power to order extra terms of said courts, or to adjourn them to any other time and place when the public interest may require it, and when, from sickness or other cause, the Judges cannot hold the regular terms, giving due notice of the same; and it shall also be lawful for the said Judges to hold courts in either of the districts, when the Judge of the district is absent, or prevented from attending by sickness or other cause.

Approved 28th April, 1828.

CHAP. 43. An Act to authorize the cancelling of a Bond therein mentioned.

CHAP. 44. An Act making a supplementary ap

propriation for the military service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight CHAP. 45. An Act making appropriations for the Public Buildings, and for other purposes. SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, the office of Architect of the Capitol shall cease and determine; and

that the said Architect shall, on said day, deliver up to the Commissioner of the Public Buildings, all the books, plans, accounts, vouchers, and all other papers and things belonging to his office, and the said Commissioner shall take charge of, and superintend, the public buildings, and perform such other duties as may be required of him by law; and that the said Commissioner be required to reside near the Capitoì.

SECT. 4. And be it further enacted. That the regulations of the city of Washington, for the preservation of the public peace and order, be extended to the Capitol and Capitol Square, whenever the application of the same shall be requested by the presiding officer of either House of Congress, or the Commissioner of the public buildings; and that it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the public buildings to obey such rules and regulations as may, from time to time, be prescribed, jointly, by the presiding officers of the two Houses of Congress, for the care, preservation, orderly keeping, and police, of all such portions of the Capitol, its appurtenances, and the enclosures about it, and the public buildings and property in its immediate vicinity, as are not in the exclusive use and occupation of either House of Congress; that it shall also be his duty to obey such rules and regulations as may be, from time to time, prescribed by the presiding officer of either House of Congress, for the care, preservation, orderly keeping, and police of those portions of the Capitol, and its appurtenances, which are in the exclusive use and occupation of either House of Congress, respectively; and that it shall also be his duty to obey such rules and regulations as may, from time to time, be prescribed by the President of the United States, for the care, preservation, orderly keeping, and police of the other public buildings and public property in the city of Washington; and the Commissioner, and his assistants, are hereby authorized and empowered to use all charge of the aforesaid duties; and the necessary and proper means for the disnecessary assistants of the Commissioner shall receive a reasonable compensation for their services, to be allowed by the presiding officers of the two Houses of Congress; one moiety of the said sums to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate, and the other moiety of the same

CHAP 46. An act to authorize the purchase and distribution of the seventh volume of the Laws of the United States.

CHAP. 47. An Act making appropriations for the Ind an Department, for the year one thousand eigh: hundred and twenty eight..

CHAP. 48. An Act to authorize a Rail Road within the District of Commbia.

Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the assent of Congress to the constructing a Rail Road by a company incorporated by the Legislature of Maryland, from Baltimore to the city of Washington, be, and the same is hereby given, to the extent that Congress has jurisdiction of the soil over which it may pass; conceding to said Company to exact such tolls, and to enjoy such benefits and privileges, as the act of incorporation of the state of Maryland gives to said Corporation, within the limits of the state of Maryland. Provided, in the location of the road, it shall not be lawful for said Company to pass through any of the reserved squares or open spaces of the city, without the consent of Congress.

CHAP. 49. An Act regulating commercial intercourse with the Islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe.

Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled. That all French vessels, coming directly from the Islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe, and laden with articles, the growth or manufacture of either of said islands, and which are permitted to be exported therefrom in American vessels, may be admitted into the ports of the United States, on payment of no higher duties on tonnage, or on their cargoes, as afore said, than are imposed on American vessels, and on like cargoes imported in American vessels. Provided, that if the President of the United States shall, at any time, receive satisfactory information, that the privileges allowed to American vessels and their cargoes, at said Islands, by the French ordinance of February fifth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, have been revoked or annulled, he is hereby authorized, by proclamation, to suspend the operation of this act, and withhold all privileges allowed under it.

CHAP. 50. An Act for the relief of William Gentry, of Missouri.

CHAP. 51. An Act for the relief of Elvington Roberts, of Mississippi.

Approved May 9, 1828.

CHAP. 52. An Act supplementary to "An act to provide for the adjustment of claims of persons entitled to indemnification, under the first article of the treaty of Ghent, and for the distribution among such claimants of the sum paid, and to be paid, by the government of Great Britain, under a convention between the United States and his

Britannic Majesty, concluded at London, on the thirteenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six," passed on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the eighth section of the aforesaid act shall be, and the same is hereby repealed.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Commission created by the said act, shall not continue after the first day of September next.

CHAP. 53. An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That each of the surviving officers of the army of the Revolution, in the Continental Line, who was entitled to half pay by the resolve of October twenty-first, seventeen hundred and eighty, be authorized to receive, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. the amount of his full pay in said line, according to his rank in the line, to begin on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and to continue during his natural life. Provided, that, under this act, no officer shall be entitled to receive a larger sum than the full pay of a captain in said line.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever any of said officers has received money of the United States, as a pensioner, since the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twentysix, aforesaid, the sum so received shall be deducted from what said officer would, otherwise, be entitled to, under the first section of this act; and every pension to which said officer is now entitled, shall cease after the passage of this act.

SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That every surviving non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, in said army,

Who enlisted therein for and during the war, and continued in service until its termination, and thereby became entitled to receive a reward of eighty dollars, under a resolve of Congress, passed May fifteenth, seventeen hundred and seventy eight, shall be entitled to receive his full monthly pay in said service, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; to begin on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and to continue during his natural life. Provided, that no non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, in said army, who is now on the pension list of the United States, shall be entitled to the benefits of this act.

SECT. 4. And be it further enacted, That the pay allowed by this act shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, be paid to the officer or soldier entitled thereto, or to their authorized attorney, at such places and days as said Secretary may direct; and that no foreign officer shall be entitled to said pay, nor shall any officer or soldier receive the same, until he furnish to said Secretary satisfactory evidence that he is entitled to the same, in conformity to the provisions of this act; and the pay allowed by this act shall not, in any way, be transferable, or liable to attachment, levy, or seizure, by any legal process whatever, but shall inure wholly to the personal benefit of the officer or soldier entitled to the same by this act.

SECT. 5. And be it further enacted, That so much of said pay as accrued by the provisions of this act, before the third day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, shall be paid to the officers and soldiers entitled to the same, as soon as may be, in the manner and under the provisions before mentioned; and the pay which shall accrue after said day, shall be paid semi-annually, in like manner, and under the same provisions.

CHAP. 54. An Act for the relief of Willoughby Barton.

Approved 15th May, 1828. CHAP 55. An Act in alteration of the several acts imposing duties on Imports.

SECT. 1. 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 September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, in lieu of the duties now imposed by law on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, there shall

be levied, collected, and paid, the following duties, that is to say:

First. On iron, in bars or bolts, not manufactured in whole or in part by rolling, one cent per pound.

Second. On bar and bolt iron, made wholly or in part by rolling, thirty-seven dollars per ton. Provided, that all iron in slabs, blooms, loops, or other form, less finished than iron in bars or bolts, except pigs or cast iron, shall be rated as rolled, iron in bars or bolts, and pay a duty accordingly.

Third. On iron, in pigs, sixty-two and one half cents per one hundred and twelve pounds.

Fourth. On iron or steel wire, not exceeding number fourteen, six cents per pound, and over number fourteen, ten cents per pound.

Fifth. On round iron, or brazier's rods of three sixteenths to eight sixteenths of an inch diameter, inclusive; and on iron in nail or spike rods, slit or rolled; and on iron in sheets, and hoop iron; and on iron slit or rolled for band iron, scroll iron, or casement rods, three and one half cents per pound.

Sixth. On axes, adzes, drawing knives, cutting knives, sickles, or reaping hooks, sithes, spades, shovels, squares, of iron or steel, bridle bits of all descriptions, stellyards and scale beams, socket chisels, vices, and screws of iron for wood, called wood screws, ten per cent. ad valorem, in addition to the present rates of duty.

Seventh. On steel, one dollar and fifty cents per one hundred and twelve pounds.

Eighth. On lead, in pigs, bars, or sheets, three cents per pound; on leaden shot, four cents per pound; on red or white lead, dry or ground in oil, five cents per pound; on litharge, orange mineral, lead manufactured into pipes, and sugar of lead, five cents per pound.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twentyeight, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following duties, in lieu of those now imposed by law.

First. On wool unmanufactured, four cents per pound; and also, in addition thereto, forty per cent. ad valorem, until the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, from which time an additional ad valorem duty of five per cent. shall be imposed annually, until the whole of said ad valorem