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same so far as relates to the act of Maryland, hereby is revi ved and continued in force, until the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight: Provided, That no- Proviso; nothing thing herein contained, shall authorize the demand of a duty on tonnage on vessels propelled by steam, employed in the trans on tonnage on ver portation of passengers. [Approved, 10 March, 1828.]

shall authorize the

demand of a duty sels propelled by

steam.

CHAP. 16. An ACT to alter the time of holding the District Courts of the
United States in the District of North Carolina.

na District, after

Act, to be held as

ton, on the 3d

and October ; at

[SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre District Courts for sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. the North CarolfThat the District Courts of the United States for the District the passing of this of North Carolina shall, after the passing of this act, commence follows: at Edenand be holden on the following days; that is to say: at Edenton, Monday of April in, and for, the District of Albemarle, on the third Monday of Newbern, April and October; at Newbern, in, and for, the District of Pamlico, on the fourth Monday of April and October; and at Wilmington, in, and for, the District of Cape Fear, or Claren don, on the first Monday after the fourth Monday of April and October, in each and every year.

on

the 4th Monday of April and

October; at Wil1st Monday after April and October

mington, on the the 4th Monday of

annually.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That all suits, actions, All suits, &c. to be proceeded with, in writs, process, and other proceedings, commenced, or to com- the same manner asif no change ad mence, or which shall now be pending, in any of the said Dis- taken place. trict Courts, shall be returnable to, heard, tried, and proceeded with, in the said District Courts, in the same manner as if the time for the holding thereof had not been changed.

[Approved, 10 March, 1828.]

CHAP. 17. An ACT making Appropriations for the support of the Navy of the
United States, for the year eighteen hundred and twenty eight.

Appropriations

[SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for defraying the expenses of the Navy for the year one for the Navy for thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, the following sums 1828. be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated:

tence of Officers,

For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the Pay and Subsis seamen, other than those at navy yards, shore stations and in & &c. ordinary, one million one hundred and seventy-six thousand three hundred and twelve dollars.

tence and allow

For pay and subsistence and allowances of officers, and pay Pay and Subsi of seamen, &c. at navy yards, shore stations, hospitals, and in ances of Officers, ordinary, one hundred and eighty-five thousand and thirty-two men, &c. dollars.

and pay of Sea

tendents, Naval

For pay of Superintendents, Naval Constructors, and all the Pay of Superincivil establishment at the several yards and stations, fifty-nine Constructors, thousand one hundred and two dollars.

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Provisions.

For provisions, five hundred and five thousand dollars.

For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and for wear and tear of

Repairs of Vessels vessels in commission, four hundred and seventy-five thousand

in ordinary, &c.

Medicines, Surgical struments, &c. Ordnance and ordnance stores. Repairs, c. of Navy Yards.

Arrearages prior to 1st January,

1828.

For completing

the construction

dollars.

For medicines, surgical instruments and hospital stores, twenty-seven thousand dollars.

For ordnance and ordnance stores, fifty thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements of navy yards, one hundred and five thousand dollars..

For arrearages prior to first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, fifteen thousand dollars.

For completing the construction and equipment of the sloops and equipment of of war, authorized by act of Congress of third March, one thouby Act of 3d sand eight hundred and twenty-five,* two hundred and one March, 1825. thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

the Sloops of War

*See Vol. 7, p.

421.

expenses that may

following pur

poses:

Travelling expen

&c. &c.

For defraying the expenses that may accrue during the year For defraying the one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, for the followaccrue during the ing purposes, to wit: For freight and transportation of materiyear 1928, for the als and stores of every description; for wharfage and dockage, storage and rent; travelling expenses of officers and transporWharfage, &o tation of seamen; house rent and chamber money, fuel and ses of officers, &c. candles to officers other than those attached to navy yards and shore stations, and for officers in sick quarters where there is no hospital; for commissions, clerk hire, office rent, stationery, and fuel to the navy agents; for premiums and incidental exPremiums, &c. &c. penses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for compensation to Judge Advocates; for per diem allowance to persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry, and to officers engaged on extra service beyond the limits of their stations; for printing and stationery of every description, and for books, maps, charts, nautical and mathematical instruments, chronom eters, models and drawings; for purchase and repair of steam and fire engines, and for machinery; for purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, wheels and workmen's tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage; for cabin furniture of vessels in commission; for taxes on navy yards and public property;, for asYards, and public sistance rendered to public vessels in distress; for incidental labor at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel for forges, foundries, and steam engines; for candles, oil and fuel for vessels in commission and in ordi &c. for commis: nary; for repairs of magazines and powder houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built; and for no other object or purpose whatever, two hundred and forty thousand dollars.

For printing, &c. &c

For taxes on Navy property, &c.

For oil,

sion and in ordina

ry, &c.

For contingent expenses for objects arising in the year one Contingent ex thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and not herein before enumerated, five thousand dollars.

penses for objects arising in 1828.

Pay, &c. of the
Marine Corps.

Clothing for same.

For pay and subsistence of the Marine Corps, one hundred and twenty two thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars. For clothing for the same, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars.

For fuel for the same, twelve thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars.

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Fuel for same

For contingent expenses, thirteen thousand five hundred dol- contigent exlars.

penses.

For additional contingencies not enumerated for the same, Additional five hundred dollars.

tingencies.

eon

For military stores for the same; that is to say: for keeping Military stores for the arms in repair, armorer's pay and armorer's tools, and ord- same. nance stores, three thousand dollars.

&c, for Officers, &c.

For medicines, hospital stores and instruments for the use of Medicines, the officers and marines on shore, two thousand three hundred on shore. and sixty-nine dollars.

Colonel Samyel

For the compensation of Colonel Samuel Miller, for certain Compensation to extra services relative to the accounts of R. M. Desha, one Miller. hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty cents.

articles carried to

For the following items which have been carried to the sur- For the following plus fund on the first of January, eighteen hundred and twen- Surplus Fund on ty-eight, viz:

1st January, 1828

penses prior to

For contingent expenses prior to one thousand eight hundred For contingent exand twenty-four, eight hundred and forty-two dollars, thirty four 1824.

cents.

For contingent expenses for one thousand eight hundred and For contingent extwenty four, two thousand eight hundred and ninety three dol-Poses for 1824. lars, four cents.

For contingent expenses for one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, seven hundred and eighty-four dollars, twenty-eight cents.

For contingent expenses for 1825.

expenses for 1825, not enumerated.

For contingent expenses for one thousand eight hundred and For contingent twenty-five, not enumerated, two hundred and forty dollars, eight cents.

For navy yards, five thousand dollars.

For Navy Yards

For Navy Yard at

For navy yard at Pensacola, three hundred dollars thirty-one.

seven cents.

For swords and medals, five hundred and seventy-nine dol- For Swords, &e. lars sixty two cents.

For five Schoon

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For five schooners, fifty-eight dollars thirty-three cents. For building barges, sixty-seven dollars sixteen cents. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid sums Sums appropria be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ap- fra Treasury. propriated.

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SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That there be, and here- A sum not exby is, appropriated, for the purchase of such lands as the Pre- appropriated, for sident of the United States may think necessary and proper to such lands, as the provide live oak and other timber for the use of the Navy of U. States way the United States, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and proper, to proto be paid out of the moneys appropriated for the gradual im- vide live oak and provements of the Navy of the United States, by the first sec- the use of the Na, tion of the act, entitled "An act for the gradual improvement of the Navy of the United States, approved the third day of [ See Val 7, P March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven."*

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CHAP. 18. An ACT making appropriations for certain Fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

[SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Sums appropria- That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appro priated; to wit: for fortifications, to each specifically, as follows:

ted for Fortifica

tions.

For Fort Adams.

Fort Hamilton.

Fort Monroe.

Fort Calhoun.

Fort Macon.

Fort at Mobile
Point.

Fort Jackson.
Repairs and con-
tingencies
Fortifications at
Pensacola.

Fortifications at
Charleston.

Fortifications at
Savannah

Fort at Oak Island, N. C.

Preservation of Islands in Bos ton Harbour.

To be paid from
Treasury.

For Fort Adams, eighty thousand dollars:

For Fort Hamilton, sixty thousand dollars :
For Fort Monroe, one hundred thousand dollars:
For Fort Calhoun, eighty thousand dollars:

For Fort Macon, at Bogue point, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars:

For Fort at Mobile Point, eighty thousand dollars:
For Fort Jackson, eighty eight thousand five hundred dollars:
For repairs and contingencies, fifteen thousand dollars:
For Fortifications at Pensacola, fifty thousand dollars:
For Fortifications at Charleston, twenty-five thousand dol-
lars.

For Fortifications at Savannah, twenty-five thousand dollars: For Fort at Oak Island, North Carolina, sixty thousand dollars :

For preservation of islands in Boston harbour, two thousand dollars:

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums, hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, 19 March, 1828.]

list of actual set

the Commissioner

Land Office, un

March 1819, shall

CHAP. 19. An ACT granting the right of preference in the purchase of Pub-
Jic Lands, to certain settlers in the St. Helena Land District, in the State of
Louisiana.

[SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepreEvery person, &c. sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, comprised in the That every person, his or her legal representatives, compritlers, reported to sed in the list of actual settlers reported to the Commissioner of the General of the General Land Office, by the Register for the District of der act of 3d St. Heleua, in the State of Louisiana, under the authority of the be entitled to the act of Congress, entitled" An act for adjusting the claims to right of prefer land, and establishing Land Offices, in the District East of the the purchaser Island of New Orleans,"* approved the third day of March, one such tract of land. thousand eight hundred and nineteen, or who did actually in[See Vol 6, habit and cultivate a tract of land in said district on the third 431.] day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, not rightfully claimed by any other person, by virtue of any writteu evidence of claim, legally derived from either the French, British, or Spanish government, or granted as a donation by

ence, on becoming

fro the U. S. of

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Proviso ;

virtue of any act of Congress heretofore passed, shall be entitled to a right of preference, on becoming the purchaser, from the United States, of such tract of land, at the same price for which other public lands are sold at private sale: Provided, Such tract not to That such tract of land shall not contain more than one quar- contain more than ter section, to be located by sectional lines; and that the same tion, to be located shall be entered with the Register of the Land Office in said district, within two years, or before, if the same shall be offered at public sale.

[Approved, 19 March, 1828.]

one quarter sec

by sectional lines

CHAP. 20. An ACT for the Relief of the Columbian College, in the District of
Columbia.

to the Trustees of

College, all the ob

other evidences of

been given by the

[SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Treasurer of the United States be, and he is hereby, Treasurer of the authorized and required to deliver up to the Trustees of the U. s. to deliver up Columbian College, all the obligations, notes, or other eviden- the Columbian ces of debt which have heretofore been given by the Trus- ligations, &c. or tees, or by any Treasurer, or agent of the Trustees of the said debt which have College when, and so soon as the Trustees of the said College user on card shall deliver up, re-assign, transfer or convey to the United tain conditions. States, the obligations, notes, claims, or property, in consideration of which, the Trustees of the said College became indebted to the United States, and also all property heretofore pledged to the United States in security of the said debts, so due from the Trustees of the said College to the United States.

discharged and re

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees of the Trustees to be said College shall be discharged and released from the said leased. claims of the United States, immediately upon complying with the requisitions of the first section of this act.

[Approved, 19 March, 1328.]

CHAP. 21. An ACT making Appropriations for the Military Service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.

[SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respect- sums appropriaively appropriated for the Military Service of the United States, ry Service for the for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to year 1828. wit:

ted for the Milita

cers, including the

For pay to the Army and subsistence of Officers, including Pay, &c. of offl the Military Academy, one million and fifty-six thousand three Military Academy bundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents.

For subsistence, in addition to an unexpended balance in the For Subsistence în

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