rities of said county shall have the privilege of selecting their county seat, in such manner as cther counties have been authorized to do, under the laws of said territory.

Approved 21st January, 1829.

CHAP. 14. An Act to allow further time to complete the issuing and locating of Military Land Warrants.

CHAP. 15. An Act authorizing the laying off a

town on Bean river, in the state of Illinois, and for other purposes.

CHAP. 16. An Act releasing the lien of the United States upon a part of the land of Benjamin Owens, in Anne Arundel county, state of Maryland, to the trustees of Mount Zion meetinghouse, in said county and state.

CHAP. 17. An Act for the relief of Daniel Goodwin, executor of Benjamin Goodwin, deceased. Approved 5th February, 1829.

CHAP 18. An Act to provide for the purchase and distribution of certain copies of the Digest of the Laws of the United States, by Thomas F. Gordon.

CHAP. 19. An Act to alter the time for holding the sixth Circuit Court of the United States, for the district of South Carolina.

Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sixth circuit court of the United States, for the district of South Carolina, which is required by law to be holden on the second Monday in December, annually, shall hereafter be holden on the fourth Monday in November, annually; and that all process which shall have been issued, and all recognizances returnable, and all suits and other proceedings, which have been continued to the said court, on the day heretofore provided by law for the meeting of the same, shall be returned and held continued to the said court. at the time herein provided for the meeting thereof.

CHAP. 25 An Act making appropriations for building light houses and beacons, and placing buoys, and for improving harbours, and directing surveys.

CHAP. 26. An Act making additional appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

CHAP 27. An Act authorizing the subscription of Stock in the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, and in the Dismal Swamp Canal Company.

SECT. 1. 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 directed to subscribe, in the name and for the use of the United States, for seven hundred and fifty shares of the capital stock of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, and also for two hundred shares of the capital stock in the Dismal Swamp Canal Company, and pay for the same at such times, and in such proportions, as may be required by the said companies respectively, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the treasury shall vote for president and directors of the said companies respectively, according to such number of shares, and shall receive upon the said stock the proportion of the tolls which shall, from time to time, be due to the United States for the shares expended.

CHAP. 28. An Act making provision for the pay

ment of pensions to the widow or children of pensioners, in certain cases, and for other purposes.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That in case of the death of any invalid pensioner, before the certificate of the continuance of his diability, required by the act, entitled "An act regulating the payments to invalid pensioners," passed March third, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, was obtained, it shall be lawful for the secretary of war, and he is hereby directed, to pay to the legal representatives of such deceased invalid, the arrears of pension due at the time of his death, at the rate at which it was fixed at his last examination. Provided, such last examination was within two years from the time of his death.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever any revolutionary pensioner shall die, the secretary of war shall cause to be paid the arrears of pension due to the said pensioner at the time of his death; and all payments under this act shall be made to the widow of the deceased pensioner, or her attorney; or if he left no widow, or she be dead, to the children of the pensioner, or to their guardian, or his attorney; and if no child or children, then to the legal representatives of the deceased.

SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That in all cases of applications for pensions, for wounds received in the revolutionary war, the testimony to establish the facts may be authenticated in the same manner with those who apply for pensions for wounds received in the late war with Great Britain.

CHAP. 29. An Act making appropriations for completing certain Roads, and for making examinations and surveys.

CHAP 30 An Act for the construction of the

Cumberland Road, westwardly of Zanesville. CHAP. 31. An Act for the continuation of the Cumberland Road.

CHAP. 32. An Act making appropriations for the Indian Department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

CHAP. 33. An Act to authorize a subscription for stock, on the part of the United State, in the Louisville and Portland Canal Company. SECT. 1. 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 hereby is, authorized and directed to subscribe for or purchase, in the name and for the use of the United States, any stock which may have been forfeited to the company, and which shall be undisposed of on the fourth day of March next, not exceeding thirteen hundred and fifty shares, of the capital stock of the Louisville and Portland Canal Company; and to pay for the same, when called upon by said company, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Provided, said shares can be had for a surn not exceeding one hundred dollars each.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said secretary of the treasury shall vote for president and directors of said company, according to such number of shares, and shall receive, upon the said stock, the proportion of tolls which shall, from time time, be due to the United States for the stock aforesaid. j

CHAP. 34. An Act making additonal appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

CHAP. 35. An Act making additional appropriations for the payment of the Revolutionary and other Pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

CHAP. 36. An Act making appropriations for the erection and completion of certain Barracks and Quarters, and for other purposes.

CHAP 37. An Act making additional appropri ations for certain Fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine

CHAP. 38. An Act providing for the printing and binding sixty thousand copies of the abstract of Infantry Tactics, including Manoeuvres of Light Infantry and Riflemen, and for other purposes.

CHAP. 39. An Act to authorize the establishment of a Town, on land reserved for the use of schools, and to direct the manner of disposing of certain reserved quarter sections of land, for the seat of government in Florida.

CHAP 40. An Act confirming the Reports of the Register and Receiver of the Land Office for the district of Saint Stephens, in the state of Alabama, and for other purposes.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all the claims to lands and town lots contained in the abstracts denominated A, number one, D, number one, E, number one, F, number one, reported to the treasury department by the register and receiver of the land office for the district of Saint Stephens, in the state of Alabama, under the provisions of the act of Congress of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-se ven, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed to the extent therein recommended for confirmation.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the claims contained in special reports, numbered one to four, inclusive, and in a supplementary report of the said register and receiver, made as aforesaid, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed.

SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That every person or persons, or the legal representatives of such person or persons, who on the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, had, for ten consecutive years prior to that day, been in possession of a tract of land, not claimed by any other person, and not exceeding the quantity contained in one league square; and who were, on that day, resident in that part of Louisiana

situated east of Pearl river, and west of the Perdido, and below the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and had still possession of such tract of land, shall be authorized to file their claim in the manner required in other cases, before the said register and receiver, at Saint Stephens, for their decision thereon. And it shall be the duty of the said register and receiver to hear and record the evidence offered to support such claim; and if the same shall be established by sufficient proof, agreeably to the provisions of this section, the said officers shall, in their report, recommend the confirmation of the right to such claim, as in other cases. Provided, that no more land shall be reported for confirmation, by virtue of this section, than is actually claimed by the party, or than is contained within the acknowledged and ascertained boundaries of the tract claimed; nor shall the provision of this section authorize the confirmation of any land heretofore sold by the United States.

SECT. 4. And be it further enacted, That the confirmation of all the claims provided for by this act, shall amount only to a relinquishment for ever, on the part of the United States, of any claim whatever to the tracts of land and town lots so confirmed, and that nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect the claim or claims of any individual or body politic or corporate, if any such there be. SECT. 5. And be it further enacted, That the register and receiver of the land office at Saint Stephens be, and they are hereby, invested with power to direct the manner in which all claims to lands and town lots, which have been confirmed by this and former acts of Congress, in their district, shall be located and surveyed, having regard to the laws, usages, and customs of the Spanish government on that subject, and also the mode adopted by the government of the United States, in surveying the claims confirmed by virtue of the second and third sections of an act of Congress, entitled "An act regulating the grants of lands, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States, south of the state of Tennessee," approved the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and three; and that so much of the fourth section of the "act supplementary to the several acts for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices in the district east of the island of New-Orleans," approved the eighth of

May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, as interferes with the power granted to the register and receiver of the land office at Saint Stephens, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

SECT. 6. And be it further enacted, That certificates of confirmation and patents shall be granted for all lands and town lots confirmed by virtue of the provisions of this act, in the same manner as patents are granted for lands and town lots confirmed under former acts of Congress.

SECT. 7. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to make such compensation, not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, in addition to the sum already paid, to the present receiver of the land office at Saint Stephens, as to him may seem a just and proper equivalent for the services rendered by him in the discharge of the duties under the provisions of an act of Congress passed on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.

CHAP. 41. An Act to provide for the apprehension and delivery of Deserters from certain foreign vessels in the ports of the United States. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That on application of a consul or vice-consul of any foreign government, having a treaty with the United States, stipulating for the restoration of seamen deserting, made in writing, stating that the person therein named has deserted from a vessel of any such government while in any port of the United States, and on proof, by the exhibition of the register of the vessel, ship's roll, or other official document, that the person named belonged at the time of desertion to the crew of the said vessel, it shall be the duty of any court, judge, justice, or other magistrate, having competent power, to issue warrants to cause the said person to be arrested for examination; and if, on examination, the facts stated are found to be true, the person arrested, not being a citizen of the United States, shall be delivered up to the said consul or vice consul, to be sent back to the dominions of any such government, or, on the request and at the expense of the said consul or vice consul, shall be detained until the consul or vice consul finds an opportunity to send him back to the dominions of any such govern

ment. Provided, nevertheless, that no person shall be detained more than two months after his arrest; but at the end of that time shall be set at liberty, and shall not be again molested for the same cause. And provided, further, that if any such deserter shall be found to have committed any crime or offence, his surrender may be delayed until the tribunal before which the case shall be depending, or may be cognizable, shall have pronounced its sentence, and such sentence shall have been carried into effect.

CHAP. 42. An Act to continue the present mode

of supplying the army of the United States. CHAP. 43. An Act for the relief of the Navy Hospital Fund.

CHAP. 44. An Act for the relief of William Otis.

CHAP. 45. An Act for the relief of George Wilson, of Pennsylvania.

CHAP. 46. An Act for the relief of John T. Smith and Wilson P. Hunt.

That the secretary of war be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to appoint a commissioner, to meet such commissioner as may be appointed on the part of the state of South Carolina, to assess the value of a tract of land on the Catawba river, at or near Rocky Mount, (and commonly known as Mount Dearborn,) or so much thereof as in the opinion of the superintendant of public works in South Carolina, may be important or necessary for the completion or preservation of the public works of said state. And if said commissioners shall disagree as to the value of said land, they are hereby authorized to choose, jointly, a third commissioner, the assessment and valuation of any two of whom, when certified under their hands and seals, shall be conclusive.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That so soon as the state of South Carolina shall pay into the treasury of the United States the amount of such valuation, the

CHAP. 48. An Act for the relief of Thomas Griffin.

CHAP. 49. An Act for the benefit of the trustees

of the Valley Creek Academy, in the state of Alabama.

CHAP. 50. An Act making appropriations for carrying into effect certain treaties with the Indian tribes, and for holding a treaty with the Pattawatimas.

Approved 2d March, 1829. CHAP. 51. An Act making appropriations for the public buildings, and for other purposes.

CHAP. 52. An Act making additional appropri

ations for completing and repairing Piers, for the improvement of certain Harbours, and of the navigation of certain rivers. CHAP. 53. An Act for the preservation and repair of the Cumberland Road.

CHAP. 54. An Act to authorize the President of the United States to cause the reserved Salt Springs in the state of Missouri to be exposed to public sale.

CHAP. 55. An Act to authorize the President of

the United States to cause the reserved Lead Mines, in the state of Missouri, to be exposed to public sale, and for other purposes.

CHAP. 56. An Act to incorporate the Washington, Alexandria, and Georgetown Steam Packet Company.

CHAP. 57. An Act providing for ceding to the state of South Carolina the jurisdiction over, and the title to, a certain tract of land, called Mount Dearborn, in the said state.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,

directed to convey to the state of South Carolina all the right and title of the United States in or to said land so assessed; and from and after the execution of said conveyance, the jurisdiction of the United States over the soil so conveyed, be, and the same is hereby, retroceded to the state of South Carolina.

CHAP. 58. An Act for the relief of Charles A. Burnett.

CHAP. 59. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Guest, deceased.

CHAP. 60. An Act for the relief of Samuel Chesnut.

CHAP. 61. An Act for the relief of the representatives of James A. Harper, deceased.

CHAP. 62. An Act for the relief of Thomas Hunt. CHAP. 63. An Act for the relief of William R. Maddox.

CHAP. 64. An Act for the relief of Joshua Foltz.

CHAP. 65. An Act concerning the government and discipline of the Penitentiary, in the district of Columbia.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Penitentiary erected in the city of Washington, in pursuance of "An act to provide for erecting a penitentiary in the district of Columbia, and for other purposes," passed twentieth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, shall be designated and known as the penitentiary