ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES:

PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION, WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, IN THE DISTRICT OF CO LUMBIA, ON MONDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF DECEMBER, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY, AND ENDED ON THE THIRD DAY OF MARCH, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY-ONE.

AN ACT to change the time of holding the rule term | the said three per centum to be transmitted to the Secre of the Circuit Court for the District of West Tennessee. tary of the Treasury be, and the same is hereby repealed. Approved: January 13, 1831

AN ACT making appropriations for carrying into effect

certain Indian Treaties.

Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be, and the one thousand eight hundred and thirty: same are hereby appropriated, for the service of the year

of Indian youth, as stipulated for by the sixth article of For the annual support of a school for the education the treaty of the fifth of August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, with the Chippewa tribe of Indians, one thousand dollars;

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the District Judge of Tennessee, to hold a term of the Circuit Court at Nashville, for the District of West Tennessee, on the first Monday in March, in each year, who shall have power to make all necessary rules and orders touching any suit, action, appeal, writ of error, process, pleadings or pro ceedings, that may be pending in said Circuit Court, or that may have issued returnable to the Circuit Court to be holden on the first Monday in September next, preparatory to the hearing, trial, or decision of such action, suit, appeal, writ of error, process, pleadings, or pro. ceedings; and all writs and process may hereafter be re- and also the sum of two thousand dollars for education, For the payment of the annuity of two thousand dollars, turnable to the said Courts to be holden on the first Mon- as stipulated for by the third article of the treaty of the day in March, in the same manner as to the sessions of sixteenth October, one thousand eight hundred and twenthe Circuit Courts directed by law to be held at Nash-ty-six, with the Potawattamies, the annual sum of four ville on the first Monday in September of each year; and thousand dollars; the writs and other process returnable to the said Circuit Court on the first Monday in September, may bear teste on the first Monday in March.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said District Judge shall have power to adjourn from day to day, or to any other period of time, more than three months before the September term of said Court: Provided, That no final judgment be rendered at said term to be held by the District Judge, except by the consent of both parties.

ANDREW STEVENSON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN C. CALHOUN,
President of the Senate.

Approved: January 13, 1831.

ANDREW JACKSON.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to provide for paying to the State of Illinois three per centum of the nett proceeds arising from the sale of the public lands within the same."

for furnishing annually one hundred and sixty bushels of
For the annual support of a blacksmith and miller, and
and twenty dollars;
salt, under the same treaty, one thousand five hundred

ties provided for by the second article of the treaty with
For the payment of the permanent and limited annui-
the Pottawattamies, of the twentieth of September, one
thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, annually the
sum of three thousand dollars;

For tobacco, iron, steel, education, annuity to the cle, one thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars; principal chief, and employment of laborers, by same arti

For payment of permanent annuity under the fourth article of the treaty with the Miamies, of the twenty-third of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, twenty-five thousand dollars;

one thousand one hundred dollars.
For iron, steel, tobacco, and laborers, by same article,

under the sixth article of said treaty, two thousand dollars.
For support of the poor and infirm, and for education,
Approved: January 13, 1831.

AN ACT for the benefit of schools in Lawrence county,
Mississippi.

Be it enacted, &c. That so much of the act, entitled, an act to provide for paying to the State of Illinois three per centum of the nett proceeds arising from the sale of the public lands within the same," approved the twelfth of December, eighteen hundred and twenty, as requires an subject to private entry and sale in the state of MissisBe it enacted, &c. That one section of the public lands annual account of the application, by the said State, ofsippi, be located for the use and benefit of schools in

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Lawrence county, in said State, in lieu of the sixteenth several objects, to the credit of certain other heads of section, sold and patented to Will Whitehead.

SEC 2. And be it further enacted, That any person pointed by order of the Probate Court, in and for the county of Lawrence, be, and he is hereby, authorized to locate the quantity of land named in this act, for the purposes above named.

Approved: January 13, 1831.

Indian expenditure, under which balances accruing preap-viously to the above date, remain due to certain indivi. viduals, and appear upon the books of the Second Auditor; also, to direct similar transfers to be made to and from the several specific heads of contingencies of the Indian Department, pay of agents, sub-agents, and presents to Indians; and, also, of the sum of five thousand and fourteen dollars and fifteen cents from the head of subsistence of the army, to the head of Indian expendi

AN ACT for the relief of Aaron Fitzgerald. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of War be direct-ture, under which that amount was actually applied and ed to place Aaron Fitzgerald on the pension list during life, at twelve dollars per month, instead of the pension

which he now receives.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be paid to the said Aaron Fitzgerald the sum of three hundred and sixty-one dollars and sixty-six cents; being the difference between six dollars per month actually allowed him as a pension, and eight dollars per month which ought to have been allowed him from the twenty-first of February, one thousand, eight hundred and fifteen, to the eleventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty; and that the said sum be paid to him out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved: January 13, 1831.

expended: Provided, always, That no such transfer shall be made unless it satisfactorily appear that the specific expenditure was actually made for the service of Indian affairs, in good faith, by an authorized agent of the Government, and before the date aforesaid, and that the balances from which such transfers are authorized to be made are not necessary for the specific purpose of their original appropriation.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized to pay to Mark and R. H. Bean, of Arkansas, out of any money in sand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars and twentythe Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, eight thou five cents, for supplies furnished to the emigrant Creek Indians by direction of former Indian agents: Provided, AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to provide That the said Beans shall first present sufficient evidence for paying to the States of Missouri, Mississippi, and to the proper accounting officer, that credit was originalAlabama, three per centum of the nett proceeds aris-ly given by them to the Government of the United ing from the sale of the public lands within the same." States, and that no part of the amount has been receivBe it enacted, &c. That so much of an act, entitled cd by them, or satisfied, directly or indirectly, from the Approved, January 27, 1831. "An act to provide for paying to the States of Missouri, agent through whom they sold or contracted. Mississippi, and Alabama, three per centum of the nett proceeds arising from the sale of the public lands within the same," approved the third of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, as requires an annual account of the ap. plication of the said three per centum, to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Approved: January 19, 1831.

AN ACT making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and invalid pensioners.

Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be, and the ney in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for paysame are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any mo ing revolutionary and invalid pensioners, viz:

For payment of revolutionary pensioners, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, one million eleven thousand one hundred dollars.

AN ACT for the relief of Thomas Fitzgerald. For paying the invalid pensioners, in the year one Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to cause to be paid to Thomas thousand eight hundred and thirty one, two hundred and Fitzgerald, an invalid pensioner of the United States, the seventy-six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars, sum of two hundred and eighty-four dollars and twenty-in addition to an unexpnted balance of appropriation for two cents, being arrearages of pension to which he is invalid pensioners of twenty-nine thousand two hundred entitled on account of a total disability received while and forty-six dollars ninety-five cents. in the service of the United States, and which has heretofore been withheld in consequence of a mistake in first placing his name on the pension roll.

Approved: January 19, 1831.

For pensions to widows and orphans, five thousand dollars.

Approved, January 27, 1831.

AN ACT to alter the times of holding the District Courts of the United States for the Districts of Maine and Hlinois, and Northern District of Alabama.

AN ACT for closing certain accounts, and making appropriations for arrearages in the Indian Department. Be it enacted, &c. That the terms of the District Court Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of sixty one thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be of the United States for the Northern District of Alaba paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise ap-ma, which are now directed by law to be held on the propriated, for arrearages in the Indian Department, the same to be applied to the payment of balances on accounts presented and settled by the proper accounting officer, and now actually due, which accrued previous to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and to no other purpose.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of settling and closing the accounts in the office of the Second Auditor, relating to Indian affairs, prior to the date of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, the President of the United States is hereby authorized to direct tranfers to be made from such balances of moneys heretofore appropriated to carry into effect cer tain Indian treaties as are no longer required for their

first Mondays of March and October in each year, shall hereafter be held on the second Mondays of April and October in each year; and that the term of the District Court of the United States for the District of Maine, which is now directed by law to be held on the second Tuesday of September in each year, shall hereafter be held on the first Tuesday of September in each year: and all processes which may have issued, or which shall hereafter issue, returnable to the next succeeding terms of the said District Courts as heretofore established, shall be held returnable, and be returned, to those terms to which they are severally changed by this act.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the terms of the District Court of the United States for the District

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of Illinois, which are now directed by law to be held on the third Mondays of June and November in each year, shall hereafter be held on the first Mondays of May and December in each year; and all process which may have issued, or which shall hereafter issue, returnable to the next succeeding terms of the said District Court as heretofore established, shall be held returnable, and be returned, to those terms to which they are severally chang. ed by this act.

Approved, January 27, 1831.

AN ACT to extend the time for entering certain dona.
tion claims to land in the Territory of Arkansas
Be it enacted, &c. That the provisions of the eighth
and ninth sections of the act of Congress, approved
twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred
and twenty-eight, entitled "An act to aid the State of
Ohio in extending the Miami Canal from Dayton to Lake
Erie, and to grant a quantity of land to said State to aid
in the construction of the Canals authorized by law, and
fo making donations of land to certain persons in Arkan-
sa Territory," and the provisions of the act, entitled
An act restricting the location of certain land claims
in the Territory of Arkansas, and for other purposes,'
,"
approved sixth January, one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-nine; and, also, the provisions of the act, enti-
tled "An act to extend the time for locating certain do
nations in Arkansas;" approved thirteenth January, one
thonsand eight hundred and thirty, be, and same are
hereby, continued in force for the period of two years,
from the twenty-fourth May, one thousand eight hundred
and thirty-one: Provided, That nothing in this act, or
the foregoing acts, shall be so construed as to prevent
the President of the United States from bringing the said
lands in Arkansas into market under the existing laws:
and all claims to donations under the before recited act,
which shall not have been presented and allowed by the
proper authorities on or before the day which shall be
fixed on by the President for the sale of said land, are
hereby declared forfeited to the United States.

Approved, January 27, 1831.

zens of the United States, or resident therein, who shall be the author or authors of any book or books, map, chart, or musical composition, which may be now made or composed, and not printed and published, or shall hereafter be made or composed, or who shall invent, design, etch, engrave, work, or cause to be engraved, etched, or worked from his own design, any print or engraving, and the executors, administrators, or legal as signs of such person or persons, shall have the sole right and liberty of printing, re-printing, publishing, and vending such book or books, map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engraving, in whole or in part. for the term of twenty eight years from the time of record ing the title thereof, in the manner hereinafter directed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if, at the expiration of the aforesaid term of years, such author, inventor, designer, engraver, or any of them, where the work had been originally composed and made by more than one person, be still living, and a citizen or citizens of the United States, or resident therein, or being dead, shall have left a widow, or child, or children, either or all then living, the same exclusive right shall be continued to such author, designer, or engraver, or, if dead, then to such widow and child, or children, for the further term of fourteen years: Provided, That the title of the work so secured shall be a second ti ne recorded, and all such other regulations as are herein required in regard to ori. ginal copy-rights, be complied with in respect to such renewed copy-right, and that within six months before the expiration of the first term.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That no person shall be entitled to the benefit of this act, unless he shall give information of copy-right being secured, by causing to be inserted, in the several copies of each and every edition published during the term secured on the title page, or the page immediately following, if it be a book, or, if a map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engraving, by causing to be impressed on the face thereof, or if a volume of maps, charts, music, or engravings, upon the title or frontispiece thereof, the following words, viz: "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year by A. B., in the clerk's office of the district court of "(as the case may be.) SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That if any other person or persons, from and after the recording the title of any book or books, according to this act, shall, within the term or terms herein limited, print, publish, or import, or cause to be printed, published, or imported, any copy of such book, or books, without the consent of the person legally entitled to the copy-right thereof, first bad and obtained in writing, signed in presence of two or more credible witnesses, or shall, knowing the same to be so printed or imported, publish, sell, or expose to sale, or cause to be published, sold, or exposed to sale, any copy of such book without such consent in writing; then such offender shall forfeit every copy of such book to the person legally, at the time, entitled to the copyright thereof; and shall also forfeit and pay fifty cents for every such sheet which may be found in his possession, either printed or printing, published, imported, or SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in all cases of exposed to sale, contrary to the intent of this act, the one renewal of copy-right under this act, such author or moiety thereof to such legal owner of the copy-right as proprietor shall, within two months from the date of said aforesaid, and the other to the use of the United States, renewal, cause a copy of the record thereof to be pub-to be recovered by action of debt in any court having lished in one or more of the newspapers printed in the United States, for the space of four weeks.

competent jurisdiction thereof.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That, if any person or persons, after the recording the title of any print, or cut, or engraving, map, chart, or musical composition, according to the provisions of this act, shall, within the term or terms, limited by this act, engrave, etch, or work, sell, or copy, or cause to be engraved, etched, worked, or sold, or copied, either on the whole, or by varying, adding to, or diminishing the main design, with intent to evade the law, or shall print or import for sale, or cause to be printed or imported for sale, any such map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engraving, or any parts thereof, without the consent of the proprietor or proprietors of the copy-right thereof, first obtained in writing, signed in the presence of two credible witnesses; or, knowing the same to be so printed or imported without such consent, shall publish, sell or expose to sale, or in any manner dispose of any such map, chart, musical composition, engraving, cut, or print, without such consent, as aforesaid; then such an offender or offenders shall forfeit the plate or plates on which such map, chart, musical composition, engraving, cut, or print, shall be copied, and also all and every sheet thereof so copied or printed, as aforesaid, to the proprietor or proprietors of the copy-right thereof; and shall further forfeit one dollar for every sheet of such map, chart, musical composi tion, print, cut, or engraving, which may be found in his or their possession, printed or published, or exposed to sale, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act; the one moiety thereof to the proprietor or proprietors, and the other moiety to the use of the United States, to be recovered in any court having competent

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That no person shall be entitled to the benefit of this act, unless he shall, before publication, deposit a printed copy of the title of such book, or books, map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engraving, in the clerk's office of the district court of the said district wherein the author or proprie tor shall reside, and the clerk of such court is hereby directed and required to record the same thereof forth with, in a book to be kept for that purpose, in the words following (giving a copy of the title, under the seal of the court, to the said author or proprietor, whenever he shall require the same:) "District of to wit: Be it remembered, that on the day of Anno domini, A. B. of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, (map, chart, or otherwise, as the case may,) the title of which is in the words following, to wit. (here insert the title,) the right whereof he claims as author or proprietor as the case may be;) in conformity with an act of Congress, entitled An act to amend the several acts respecting copyrights. C. D. Clerk of the District." For which record, the clerk shall be entitled to receive, from the person claiming such right as aforesaid, fifty cents; and the like sum for every copy, under seal, actually given to such person or his assigns. And the author or proprietor of any such book, map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engraving, shall, within three months from the publication of said book, map, chart, musical com position, print, cut, or engraving, deliver or cause to be delivered a copy of the same to the clerk of said district. And it shall be the duty of the clerk of each dis-jurisdiction thereof. trict court, at least once in every year, to transmit a cer. tified list of all such records of copy-right, including the titles so recorded, and the dates of record, and also all the several copies of books or other works deposited in his office according to this act, to the Secretary of State, to be preserved in his office.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act shall be construed to extend to prohibit the importation or vending, printing, or publishing, of any map, chart, book, musical composition, print or engraving, written, compos ed, or made, by any person not being a citizen of the United States, nor resident within the jurisdiction thereof.