The right of given by the § 2. That the right of pre-emption given by the aforesaid propre-emption visions, as explained and extended by this act, shall not be so provisions of construed as to affect any right derived from the United States, by purchase, at public or private sale, of the lands claimed under the aforesaid act. the 5th sec tion, &c. Persons who would be had the right had not the lands been reserved for schools, to have the right of pre-emp 3. That any person or persons who have settled on, and improved, any of the lands in the said territory, reserved for the use of schools, before the survey of such lands were actually made, and who would have had the right of pre-emption thereto by the existing laws had not the same been so reserved, shall have the right of pre-emption thereto, under the same terms and conditions, and subject to the same restrictions, provided for other' cases of a right of pre-emption in said territory; and the register of the land office and receiver of public moneys for the district, empowered to shall have power to select any other vacant and unappropriated lands, in the same township, and as near adjacent as lands of equal quantity and like quality can be obtained, in lieu of the section, or parts of a section, which shall have been entered in right of pre-emption, according to the provision of this section. [Approved, March 3, 1919.] tion, &c. The register and receiver select any other unap Pands, &c. in propriated lieu of those right of pre entered in emption. The secretary of war, under ahorized to sell useless CHAP. 211. An act authorizing the sale of certain military sites. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the secretary of war be, and he is direction of the hereby, authorized, under the direction of the president of the president, au- United States, to cause to be sold such military sites, belonging to the United States, as may have been found, or become, usemilitary sites. less for military purposes. And the secretary of war is hereby The secretary, authorized, on the payment of the consideration agreed for, into make a deed the treasury of the United States, to make, execute, and deliver, in fee. all needful instruments, conveying and transferring the same in Jurisdiction of fee; and the jurisdiction, which had been specially ceded, for to cease. military purposes, to the United States, by a state, over such site. or sites, shall thereafter cease. [Approved, March 3, 1819.] on payment, to the U. States Vol.ii. p. 1350. Vol. iii. p. 1950. Owners of boats or ves 4 months at sea, to be paid CHAP. 212. An act in addition to, and alteration of an act, entitled "An act laying a duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the Fisheries." § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the passing of this sels, qualified act, there shall be paid, on the last day of December, annually, to carry on the to the owner of every fishing boat or vessel, or his agent, by the cod fishery, and employed collector of the district where such boat or vessel may belong, that shall be qualified, agreeably to law, for carrying on the bank and other cod fisheries, and that shall actually have been employed therein, at sea, for the term of four months, at least, of the fishing season next preceding, which season is accounted to be from the last day of February to the last day of November in every year, for each and every ton of such boats or vessels, 5, and not ex- burden, according to her admeasurement as licensed or enrolled, ceeding 30, if of more than five tons, and not exceeding thirty tons, three tons, &c. dollars and fifty cents; if above thirty tons, four dollars; and if above thirty tons, and having had a crew of not less than ten persons, and having been actually employed in the cod fishery, at sea, for the term of three and one half months, at the least, If more than If above 30 tons, &c. If above 30, with a crew of 10, &c. but less than four months, of the season aforesaid, three dollars and fifty cents: Provided, That the allowance aforesaid, on any Proviso; alone vessel, for one season, shall not exceed three hundred and lowance, for sixty dollars. one season, &c. act amended, 2. That, such parts of the fifth and sixth sections of the act Parts of the hereby amended, as are contrary to the provisions of this act, be, contrary, dic and the same are hereby repealed. [Approved, March 3, 1819.] repealed. CHAP. 214. An act to authorize the secretary at war to appoint an additional agent for Vol. iii. p. paying pensioners of the United States in the state of Tennessee. 1573. of war to ap § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the passing of this The secretary act, the secretary for the department of war be, and he is hereby, point an addiauthorized to appoint an agent, in addition to the one already tional agent, appointed in the state of Tennessee, under the act of the twenty-to pay pe cast fourth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, for the Tennessee. purpose of paying pensioners of the United States, residing in East Tennessee; whose duties shall be, in all respects, similar to His duties the same, &c. those appointed under the aforementioned act. [Approved, March 3, 1819.] CHAP. 215. An act to designate the boundaries of districts, and establish land offices, for Vol. iii. p. the disposal of the public lands not heretofore offered for sale in the states of Ohio and 1774. 1807. Indiana. 1861. sale of lands extinguished, land office at Delaware. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, for the sale of the unappropri- Districts and ated public lands in the state of Ohio, to which the Indian title is offices for the extinguished, the following districts shall be formed, and land of- to which the fices therefor established: All the public lands, as aforesaid, ly. Indian title is ing between the western boundary line of the state of Ohio, and in Ohio. a north and south line to be drawn at forty-eight miles east of the said boundary line, and bounded on the south by the Indian boundary established by the treaty of Greenville, and on the north by the northern boundary of the state of Ohio, shall form a District, and district, for which a land office shall be established at Piqua: Picqua And all the public lands, as aforesaid, lying between the above A district, and described district and the western limits of the Connecticut re- land office at serve and Canton land district as first established, and bounded on the south by the Indian boundary established by the treaty of Greenville, and on the north by the northern boundary of the state of Ohio, shall form a district, for which a land office shall be established at the town of Delaware. And for the disposal of Districts and the unappropriated public lands in the state of Indiana, to which sale of lands to the Indian title is extinguished, the following districts shall be which the laformed, and land offices established: All the public lands, as extinguished, aforesaid, to which the Indian title was extinguished by the trea- in Indiana. ties concluded at St. Mary's, in the month of October, eighteen land office at hundred and eighteen, lying east of the range line separating the Brookville. first and second ranges, east of the second principal meridian extended north to the present Indian boundary, and north of a line, to be run, separating the ninth and tenth tiers of townships north of the base line, shall form a district, for which a land of fice shall be established at Brookville: And all the public lands, A district, and as aforesaid, the Indian title to which was extinguished by the land office at treaties aforesaid, and lying west of the last described district, offices for the dian title is A district, and Terre Haute. ed to the dis sonville. offered for sale on the same terms, &c. Proviso; the president may remove the land at Jan office &c. authoriz shall form a district, for which a land office shall be established Lands attach at the town of Terre Haute: And all the public lands, as aforetrict of Jeffer- said, the Indian title to which was extinguished by the treaties aforesaid, lying east of the second principal meridian, and south of a line, to be run, separating the ninth and tenth tiers of townships north of the base line, shall be, and are hereby, attached to Lands to be the district of Jeffersonville; and the said lands shall be offered for sale, with the same exceptions, and on the terms and conditions, in every respect, both at public and private sales, as is provided for the sale of the lands in the districts aforesaid: Provided also, That the president of the United States shall have power, and he is hereby authorized, to remove, whenever he shall judge it expedient so to do, the land office from Jeffersonvillę, to some central and suitable place within the district. The president, 2. That the president is hereby authorized to appoint, by ed to appoint and with the consent and advice of the senate, for each of the a register, &c. districts aforesaid, a register of the land office and receiver of public moneys; which appointments shall not be made, for any When a suff of the aforesaid respective land districts, until a sufficient quancient quantity of public tity of public lands shall have been surveyed within such dislands have surveyed, &c. trict, as to authorize, in the opinion of the president, a public The registers sale of land within the same; which registers of the land office to give securi- and receivers of public moneys, when appointed, shall each, rety, and their spectively, give security, in the same sums, and in the same manemoluments to ner, and whose compensation, emoluments, and duties, and be the same authority, shall, in every respect, be the same, in respect to the ters and recei- lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are or may vers in Ohio be provided by law in relation to the registers and receivers of public moneys in the several land offices, established for the disposal of the public lands of the United States, in the states of Ohio and Indiana. for each dis trict and receivers duties and as the regis and Indiana. All the public lands to which the Indian ti tle has been extinguished, reserved, ex fered for sale. register, &c. of sale. 3. That all the public lands within the aforesaid several districts, to which the Indian title has been extinguished, and which have not been granted to, or reserved for, the use of any indivinot granted or dual or individuals, or appropriated and reserved for any other purpose, by any existing treaties or laws, and, with the excepin each town- tion of section numbered sixteen, in cach township, which shall ship, to be of be reserved for the support of schools therein, shall be offered Under the di- for sale, to the highest bidder, at the land offices for the respecrection of the tive districts, under the direction of the register of the land of President to fice and receiver of public moneys, on such day or days as shall, designate days by proclamation of the president of the United States, be' designated for that purpose; the sales shall remain open at each place three weeks. for three weeks, and no longer; the lands shall not be sold for Not less than less than two dollars an acre; and shall, in every other respect, be sold in tracts of the same size, on the same terms and conditions as have been, or may be, by law, provided for the sale of lands of the United States in the states of Ohio and Indiana. Lands remain- All the public lands in the said districts, with the exceptions above public, may be mentioned, remaining unsold at the close of the public sales, may be disposed of at private sale, by the register of the respecvided by law. tive land offices, in the same manner, under the same regulations, for the same price, and on the same terms and conditions, Sales open for 2 dolls, an acre. Vol. iii. p. 1774. ing unsold at sold at private, sale, as pro the same manner, &c. in every respect, as are or may be provided by law for the sale of the lands of the United States in the states of Ohio and In- Patents, in diana: And patents shall be obtained, for the lands sold in the said districts, in the same manner, and on the same terms, as as for other are or may be by law provided for other public lands sold in the public lands states of Ohio and Indiana. in Ohio and land offices 4. That the president of the United States shall have power, and he is hereby authorized, to remove, whenever he shall judge it expedient so to do, any and each of the land offices established by this act, to such suitable place, within the district for which it was established, as he shall judge most proper. § 5. That each of the registers of the land office, and receiv- 5 dolls. to ers of public moneys, shall receive five dollars for each day's at- each register, tendance in superintending the public sales in their respective day's superindistricts. [Approved, March 3, 1819.] proper. &c. for each tendence of public sales. CHAP. 216. An act to authorize the president of the United States to take possession of Obsolete. East and West Florida, and establish a temporary government therein. Vol. iii. p. 1817. take posses tions of the treaty of § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the president of the United States The president be, and he is hereby, authorized to take possession of, and oc- authorized to cupy, the territories of East and West Florida, and the appen- sion of East dages and appurtenances thereof, and to remove and transport and West the officers and soldiers of the king of Spain, being there, to the agreeably to Florida, Havana, agreeably to the stipulations of a treaty between the the stipulaUnited States and Spain, executed at Washington, on the twenty-second day of February, in the year one thousand eight hun- Washington, dred and nineteen, providing for the cession of said territories to the United States, and he may, for these purposes, and in order to maintain in said territories the authority of the United States, employ any part of the army and navy of the United He may employ the army, States, and the militia of any state or territory which he may navy, deem necessary. &c. &c. to appoint of of their liber 2. That, until the end of the first session of the next con- The president gress, unless provision for the temporary government of said ficers, &c. for territories be sooner made by congress, all the military, civil, the preservaand judicial, powers, exercised by the officers of the existing habitants in government of the same territories, shall be vested in such per- the enjoyment son and persons, and shall be exercised in such manner, as the ty, &c. president of the United States shall direct, for the maintaining the inhabitants of said territories in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and religion; and the laws of the United Revenue laws States, relative to the collection of revenue, and the importation to the territoof persons of color, shall be extended to the said territories; and the president of the United States shall be, and he is here- President to by, authorized within the term aforesaid, to establish such dis- tricts, and aptricts, for a collection of the revenue, and, during the recess point officers of congress, to appoint such officers, whose commissions shall toms. expire at the end of the next session of congress, to enforce the said laws, as to him shall seem expedient. &c. extended ries. establish dis of the cus 20,000 dolls. appropriated; 3. That the sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby ap- to be applied propriated for the purpose of carrying this act into effect, to be under the dipaid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropri- president. rection of the This act to take effect treaty have ated, and to be applied under the direction of the president of the United States. 4. That this act shall take effect, and be in force, whenever when the rati- the aforesaid treaty, providing for the cession of said territories fications of the to the United States, shall have been ratified by the king of been exchang- Spain and the ratifications exchanged, and the king of Spain shall be ready to surrender said territory to the United States, according to the provisions of said treaty. [Approved, March 3, 1819.] ed, &c. Vol. iii. p. 1562. 1647. The 2d sec tion of the act until third March, 1822. CHAP. 217. An act concerning the allowance of pensions upon a relinquishment of bounty lands. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the second section of the act of 16th April, making further provision for military services during the late war, tinued in force and for other purposes, approved April sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and so much of the act to amend the same, approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, as relates to the subject of that section, shall be continued in force for the term of three years from and after the Proviso; the passing of this act : Provided, nevertheless, That no pension shall one of them, be granted under the said acts, after the sixteenth day of April must, to obtain next, unless, at the time of relinquishing the bounty land, in the the pension, be under 16. manner therein described, the children, for whose benefit the same may be granted, or one of them, shall be under sixteen years Proviso; pen- of age: And provided also, That the pensions shall commence mence at date at the date of the relinquishments respectively. [Approved, of relinquish- March 3, 1819.] children, or sion to com ment. Vol. iii. p. 1812. Four sections, quarter sections, &c. CHAP. 218. An act granting a donation of land to the state of Illinois, for the seat of government of said state. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That there shall be granted to the state or contiguous of Illinois four sections of land, or contiguous quarter sections and fractions, not exceeding the quantity contained in four entire granted to IlLinois for a sections, for the purpose of fixing thereon the seat of governseat of government for the said state; which lands shall be selected in the To be selected manner provided by the thirtieth section of the schedule to the as provided, constitution of the said state: Provided, That such election shall Proviso; se- be made before the public sale of the adjoining public lands shall lection before, have taken place. Approved, March 3, 1819.] ment. &c. &c. Vol. iii. p. 1599. 1823. Gold coins of and Portugal: Of France: of Spain: CHAP. 220. An act to continue in force an act regulating the currency, within the United 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the gold coins of Great Britain and Portugal, of their present standard, shall be a legal tender in the payment of all debts, at the rate of one hundred cents for every twenty-seven grains, or eighty-eight cents and eight-ninths per pennyweight: The gold coins of France, of their present standard, at the rate of one hundred cents for every twenty-seven and an half grains, or eighty-seven and a quarter cents per pennyweight: The gold coins of Spain at the rate of one hundred cents for every twenty-eight and a half grains, or eightyfour cents per pennyweight; until the first day of November next: |