57 &e. tions, as the said courts of the United States respectively shall, 1828. in their discretion, deem expedient, or to such regulations as to such alterations, the Supreme Court of the United States shall think proper, from time to time, by rules, to prescribe to any circuit or district court concerning the same. upon the proper dant. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in any one of the where judg United States, where judgments are a lien upon the propert ments are a lien of the defendant, and where, by the laws of such State, defen y of the defendants are entitled in the courts thereof, to an imparlance of one term or more, defendants, in actions in the courts of the United States, holden in such State, shall be entitled to an imparlance of one term. ecution and other ments, c. ren Courts of the U. SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That writs of execution when writs of exand other final process issued on judgments and decrees, ren final process isdered in any of the courts of the United States, and the pro sued on judgceedings thereupon shall be the same, except their style, in each dered in any of the State, respectively, as are now used in the courts of such State, States, & saving to the courts of the United States in those States, in which there are not courts of equity, with the ordinary equity jurisdiction, the power of prescribing the mode of executing their decrees in equity by rules of Court: Provided, however, Proviso; That it shall be in the power of the courts, if they see fit in their discretion, by rules of court, so far to alter final process in said courts as to conform the same to any change which may be adopted by the Legislatures of the respective States for the State courts. SECT. 4. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to extend to any court of the Uni ted States now established, or which may hereafter be establish ed, in the State of Louisiana. [Approved, 19 May, 1828.] Nothing in this act be construed to Court of the U. S. extend to any &c. CHAP. 69. An ACT to authorize the building of Light-houses, 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 the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, em- Secretary of the powered to provide, by contract, for building Light-houses and red to provide Light-vessels, and erecting Beacons, and placing Buoys, on the for building Light following sites and shoals, to wit: Houses, &c. Maine-a Lighthouse at Dice's In the State of Maine, a Light house at Dice's Head. In the State of Massachusetts, a Light house on Nobsque head. Point; one on the Point of Flats, at the entrance of Edgar- Massachusetts-a town Harbor; a Light house on Dumpling rock, south of the Nobsque Point, mouth of Aponeganset river. Light-house on &c. &c. Light-house on In the State of Rhode Island, a Light-house on Nayat Point; Rhode Island, a and two Pyramids or Spindles, to wit: one on a reef of rocks, Nayat Point; and 1828. 58 under water, opposite to Pawtuxet, and one on a reef of rocks, two pyramids or opposite the Punham Rock, in the northern part of Narraganspindies, &c. &c. set Bay. Connecticut,-a In the State of Connecticut, a Beacon-light on or near the near Spindle Spindle Rock, at the mouth of Black Rock harbor. Beacon-light on or Rock. New-York-two es, one on the flats. In the State of New York, two small Light-houses, to wit: small Light-hous- one on the flats, two miles north of Kinder Hook, upper landtwo iniies north of ing, called the Drowned Lands, and one on the point of the per landing,called island on the west side of the channel, opposite the lower landing. A Light house at a proper site, at or near Portland, on Lake Erie. Kinder Hook up the Drowned Lands. on Little Watt's Maryland-two In the State of Maryland, two Light houses; one on Little Light-houses: one Watt's Island, at the Southeastern extremity of Tangier Sound; Island, at the and the other on Clay Isiand, at the northernmost extremity tremity of Tan- of the same Sound; and a Beacon-light, or small Light-house gier Sound, &c. on Point Lookout, in the Chesapeake Bay. Southeastern ex Virginia-a Light- North Caro ina-a Light Vessel to be In the State of Virginia, a Light-house on Smith's Point, at the mouth of the Potomac, in the Chesapeake Bay. In the State of North Carolina, a Light-vessel, to be substisubstituted for the tuted for the Light house heretofore directed to be built at the Light-House at Point of Marsh, at the mouth of Neuse River. the mouth of Neuse River. A Beacon light house at a A Beacon-light, or small Light-house, at a proper site on Pamptico Point; and one at the south entrance of Roanoake site on ampuco Marshes. Point, &e. oper In Alabaina-a In the State of Alabama, a Light house at or near Choctaw Light house at or near the Choctaw Point, in Mobile Bay; and an Iron Spindle on Saud Island, on the outer bar of Mobile Bay. Point, in Mobile Light-houses, one In Michigan,-two In the Territory of Michigan, two Light houses; one at OtOtter Creek ter Creek Point, at the head of Lake Erie, and the other on Point, at the head the Island of Bois Blanc, near Michilimacinac. of Lake Erie, &c. In orida,-a Sums appropria In the Territory of Florida, a Light-house at the mouth of St. John's river. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums ted, to be paid of money be appropriated and paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into effect, viz: For building a Light-house on Dice's Head, five thousand dollars. For the Light-house on Nobsque Point, three thousand dollars; and for the Pier and Light-house at the entrance of Edgartown harbor, five thousand five hundred dollars. For a Light-house on Dumpling Rock, four thousand dollars. For a Light house on Nayat Point, three thousand five hundred dollars; and for two Pyramids or Spindles, in Narraganset Bay, two thousand dollars. For a Beacon light on or near Spindle Rock, at the mouth of Black Rock harbor, six thousand two hundred dollars. For two small Light houses in Hudson river, eight thousand dollars. For a Light-house at or near Portland, on Lake Erie, five 59 thousand dollars; one thousand dollars for removing obstruc- house on Little For the Light house on Little Watt's Island, six thousand For the Light- For the Light-house on Smith's Point, seven thousand five For the Light- house on Smith's Point. Pamptico Point, entrance of Roan For a Beacon light or Light house on Pamptico Point, five For a Beacon For a Light house at Otter Creek Point, five thousand dol- For a Light-house lars. For one on Bois Blanc, five thousand dollars. at Otter Creek · For one on Bos For one at St buoys in the Hud For one at St. John's River, six thousand five hundred dol- son River, on the following sites: buoys car the For placing two buoys near the channel, to the eastward of For placing two the Pea Patch, in the river Delaware, viz: one on the north channe the east point of the Pea Patch; and one on a small shoal in the Eastward of the passage, four hundred dollars. For Spindles or Monuments, and Buoys, to render the navi gation of Kennebec bay and river safe, fifteen hundred dol lars. For placing a buoy on Killpond bar, in Buzzard's bay, dollars. For placing twenty buoys, at proper sites, on the river sixty Pea Patch, in the & c. For Spindles or to render the nav For placing a buoy on Kilpond Teche, For placing twen- ty buoys in Lou For an Iron Spin dle, on Sand Is the For five buoys, in the channel, be &c. For five buoys, in the channel, between Key West and the mouth of St. 60 1828 SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said Secretary Secretary empow. be empowered as aforesaid, and that the following sums be aping sums appro-propriated and paid as aforesaid, for the purpose hereafter designated, viz: ered, and follow priated. A Light-house To build a light-house, at a proper site, near St. Mark's Harbor, Florida. Harbor, in Florida, the sum of six thousand dollars. near St. Mark's A Light-house in the Harbor of To build a light house on a ledge of rocks, called the Whale's Portsmouth, New Back, in the harbor of Portsmouth, in the State of New Hampshire, eight thousand dollars, in addition to a former appropriation for that object. Hampshire. A Light-house near the mouth of Duck Creek. After the passage Secretary of the To build a light-house near the mouth of Duck Creek, adjoining Delaware Bay, the sum of four thousand dollars. SECT. 4. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the of this act, the passage of this act, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is Treasury author. hereby, authorized and empowered to regulate and fix the salized to fix the salaries of the respective Keepers of light-houses, in such mantive keepers of ner as he shall deem just and proper: Provided, The whole Proviso: sum al- sum allowed shall not exceed an average of four hundred dollowed each not to lars to each Keeper. aries of the respec Light-houses. exceed $400. dition to the sums Sum of 5,200 ap- SECT. 5. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five propriated in ad thousand two hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, apheretofore appro-propriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise Les appropriated, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated, within the U.S. to pay the salaries to the several Keepers of the light-houses priated to aries of Keepers of within the United States; to be applied under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in conformity to the authority in him vested by the third section of this act. [Approved, 23 May, 1828.] to land in the Dis da, contained numbered 4, 8, from the latter the CHAP. 70. An ACT supplementary to the several acts providing for the settlement and confirmation of private land claims in Florida. [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, The three claims That the three claims to land in the district of West Florida, trict of W. Flori- contained in the reports of the Commissioners, and numbered the reports of the four, [4.] eight, [8,] and ten, [10,] excluding from the latter the Commissioners, land contained in certificate, and in the plats a and c, and the and 10, excluding claims contained in the reports of the Commissioners of land contained in East Florida, and in the reports of the Receiver and Regis. the plats A and C, ter, acting as such, made in pursuance of the several acts of &c. &c. confirm-Congress providing for the settlement of private land claims in Florida, and recommended for confirmation by said Commissioners, and by the Register and Receiver, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed to the extent of the quantity contained in one league square, to be located by the claimaints, or their agents within the limits of such claims or surveys filed, as aforesaid, before the said Commissioners, or Receiver and Register, certificate, and in ed. 1 which location shall be made within the bounds of the original grant, in quantities of not less than one section, and to be bounded by sectional lines. 1828. quantity of acres shall be confirmed of any one grant, SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That no more than the No more than the quantity of acres contained in a league square, shall be con- contained in a firmed within the bounds of any one grant; and no confirma- gue square, tion shall be effectual until all the parties in interest, under the within the bounds original grant, shall file with the Register and Receiver of the &c. district where the grant may be situated, a full and final release of all claim to the residue contained in the grant; and where there shall be any minors incapable of acting within said Territory of Florida, a relinquishment by the legal guardian shall be sufficient; and thereafter the excess in said grants, respectively, shall be liable to be sold as other public lands of the Uni ted States. ister, &e. of the Florida, acting, ex sioners under act 1827, recommen SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the decisions All the decisions made by the Register and Receiver of the district of East Flori- made by the Regda, acting, ex officio, as Commissioners, in pursuance of an act of District of East Congress, approved the eighth of February, one thousand eight officio, as Commis hundred and twenty-seven, authorizing them to ascertain and of 8th February, decide claims and titles to lands in the district aforesaid, and ded for confirinathose recommended for confirmation under the quantity of tion, confirmed. three thousand five hundred acres, contained in the reports, abstracts, and opinions, of the said Register and Receiver, transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, according to law, and referred by him to Congress, on the twenty-ninth January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed. The confirmations authorized by this act shall operate only as a release of any claim had by the United States, and not to affect the interest of third persons. ceiver to examine East Florida, &c. SECT. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said Register Register and Reand Receiver shall continue to examine and decide the remain and decide the re ing claims in East Florida, subject to the same limitations and maining claims in in conformity with the provisions of the several acts of Congress, for the adjustment of private land claims in Florida, until the first Monday in December next, when they shall make a final report of all the claims, aforesaid, in said district, to the Secretary of the Treasury; and it shall never be lawful, after that time, for any of the claimants to exhibit any further evidence in support of said claims. And the said Register and Receiver, and Clerk, shall receive the compensation provided in the act aforesaid, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the extra Proviso; Extra compensation of one thousand dollars, each, which is hereby compensation of allowed to the Register and Receiver, for services under and ed to the Register by the provisions of this act, shall not be paid until a report of each. all the claims be made to the Secretary of the Treasury. 81000 to be allow and Receiver, SECT. 5. And be it further enacted, That the proper account- Proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, author- ing officers of the 1 |