Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Governor shall execute deeds for the lots he may sell under the provisions of this act, to purchasers, so soon as the purchasers shall pay off entirely the amount they may have bid for any lot or lots, and all sales shall be for cash. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That, so soon as the Governor aforesaid shall dispose of lots, he shall apply the proceeds of said sales to the erection of a good and substantial court-house and jail; and, after these shall have been completed, should there be any funds remaining, it shall be the duty of said Governor to apply the surplus thus remaining to the erection of a suitable and permanent house for the residence of the present and future Governors of Arkansas, during their continuance in office. Approved: March 2, 1833. AN ACT for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers and seamen who were lost in the United States' schooner Sylph. Be it enacted, &c. That, the widows, if any such there be, and in case there be no widow, the child or children, and if there be no child, then the parents or parent, and, if there be no parent, then the brothers or sisters, of the officers and seamen who were in the service of the United States, and lost in the schooner Sylph, shall be entitled to, and receive, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to six months' pay of their respective deceased relatives aforesaid, in addition to the pay due to the said deceased on the fifteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyone, to which day the arrears of pay due to the said deceased shall be allowed and paid by the accounting officers of the Navy Department. Approved: March 2, 1833. RESOLUTIONS. ever it shall be made to appear that any applicant for a pen. sion under said act entered the army of the revolution, in pursuance of a contract with the Government, made previ ous to the eleventh day of April, one thousand seven hun. dred and eighty three, and continued in service until after that period, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to compute the period of any such applicant's service, from the time he then entered the army, and until the date of the definitive treaty of peace, and to allow him a pension accordingly. Approved: March 2, 1833. A RESOLUTION for the relief of sundry owners of vessels sunk for the defence of Baltimore. Resolved, &c. That the memorial of John S. Stiles, and the memorial of the owners of vessels, taken and sunk for the defence of Baltimore during the late war, with the papers and documents referred to the Committee on Claims of the House of Representatives in the cases aforesaid, be referred to the Third Auditor for his decision under the act of May twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and thirty, "for the relief of sundry owners of vessels sunk for the defence of Baltimore," which decision shall be subject to the supervision of the Secretary of the Navy. Approved: March 2, 1833. A RESOLUTION authorizing the Secretary of War to correct certain mistakes. Resolved, &c. That if it shall be made satisfactorily to appear to the Secretary of War, that in the treaties concluded in one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, with the Potawatamie Indians, in the State of Indiana, that in the proper schedules accompanying the same, mistakes were made in writing the names of persons to whom payments were to be made, such mistakes may be corrected and the payments made accordingly. Approved: March 2, 1833. A RESOLUTION authorizing the delivery of certain papers in the Department of State to the Commissioners for Settling Claims under the Treaty with France, of A RESOLUTION providing for the continuation of the second of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. Resolved, &c. That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to deliver to the Commissioners for the Settlement of Claims under the treaty with France, ratified and confirmed on the second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, the evidences of any claim submitted to, and rejected by the commissioners for the settlement of claims under the treaty with Spain, which was made on the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and finally ratified and confirmed on the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, which evidences shall be returned to the Department of State when the Commission shall expire. Approved: February 19, 1833. A RESOLUTION in relation to the execution of the act supplementary to the "Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution." Resolved, &c. That, in the execution of the act supplementary to the "Act for the relief of certain surviving off cers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved June sev. enth, one thou and eight hundred and thirty-two, wher Gales and Seaton's Compilation of State Papers. Resolved, &c. That the provisions of the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, authorizing a subscription to a compilation of Congression al Documents, be, and the same are hereby, extended to the continuation of said compilation proposed to be executed by Gales and Seaton; and that the copies of the said continuation when completed, shall be distributed to the members of the twenty-second Congress, and in such other manner as Congress shall he reafter direct: Proded, The said continuation shall be limited to eight vol. umes. Approved: March 2, 1833. A RESOLUTION to place thirty copies of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution at the disposition of the Secretary of State. Resolved, &c. That thirty copies of Sparks' Diplomatic Correspondence of the Revolution, now in the custody of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, be placed at the disposition of the Secretary of State, for the use of the diplomatic agents of the United States in foreign countries. Approved: March 2, 1833. INDEX TO THE DEBATES IN THE SENATE. American State Papers, a proposition for extending the Calhoun, Mr., his resolutions declaratory of the nature and Chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Pise appointed, 6. Constitutional powers, Mr. Clayton's resolution on the Crimes, a bill supplementary to an act for the more effi- District Code of Laws, ordered to be printed in the re- Documents in the State Department, a resolution for em- 810. Force bill. (See Duties.) French spoliations, a bill to provide for the satisfaction of Interest to States, a bill providing for the final settlement Lands, public, notice given by Mr. Clay of his intention 235. Light-houses, a bill was received from the House on the Louisville and Portland canal, a bill to authorize the pur- Members, a list of the, 1. Missouri canal, a bill granting land to enable the State to Postage, a proposition for introducing a bill to reduce Powers of the Government, three resolutions defining his acknowledgments to the Senate, 3. veto on the bill of last session, providing for the South Carolina resolutions, in reply to the President's Spanish claims, a resolution instructing the Committee on of obtaining evidence deposited in the State De- Special order, a resolution for changing the hour of taking Standing committees appointed, 4. Tariff, a bill to modify the various acts imposing duties on imports, 462; the bill reported with amend- resolutions, offered by Mr. Webster, 483; laid on the bill from the House to modify the existing ta- to lie on the table, 785; the bill from the Treasurer's annual report of the state of the finances, 3. Yeas and nays, on considering the resolution for a reduc. resolution for the reduction of the rates of post- on amendment to the resolution calling on the reign articles on which the duty may be reduc- on postponing Mr. Clay's land bill, 81, 122. on the land bill, 229, 230, 231, 232, 235. on a question touching the election of printer, 588. on striking out the 2d section of the bill to mo- on adding a 9th section to the bill, 724. on striking out the 3d and 6th sections of do., 724. INDEX TO THE NAMES OF THE SPEAKERS IN THE DEBATES IN THE SENATE, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. Foot, revenue collection bill, 518, 676. electing public printer, 588. modifying the tariff, 795. Mr., from Connecticut, on printing commercial on a reduction of postage, 31, 35, 49. ditto of duties on foreign goods, 51, 60. Mr. Calhoun's resolutions, 237. calling for copies of military orders, 409. Forsyth, Mr., from Georgia, on copying documents in State Department, 79, 80, 123. call for a copy of the South Carolina proclamation, 103. on the land bill, 232, 233. Mr. Calhoun's resolutions, 243, 784. |