States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause such an examination CHAP. LVII.—An Act further to extend the provisions of the act, entitled "An act supplementary to an act, entitled An act for the relief of the purchasers of the public lands prior to the first July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.' 999 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all persons who shall produce satisfactory evidence to the register and receiver of the proper land office, that they were actually entitled to, and would have availed themselves of, the provisions of the act, entitled "An act supplementary to the act, entitled 'An act for the relief of the purchasers of the public lands prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty," approved April twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and their failure to do so was owing to such cause or circumstance as he [they] could not control or prevent, shall be allowed until the thirtieth day of September next, to avail themselves of all the privileges, advantages and provisions, of the said act, in the same manner they could have done prior to the thirtieth day of September last. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. CHAP. LVIII.—An Act to amend an act, entitled "And [An] act further to regu- March 3, 1823. late the entry of merchandise imported into the United States from any adjacent territory." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, from and after the passage of this act, every master or other person having charge of a vessel, boat, canoe, or raft, or the conductor or driver of any carriage, or sleigh, or other person bringing merchandise, from any foreign territory adjacent to the United States, who shall neglect or refuse to deliver a manifest, as is required in and by the act, entitled "An act further to regulate the entry of merchandise imported into the United States from any adjacent territory," passed the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, shall be subject to pay, instead of the penalty of four hundred dollars imposed by the first section of said act, four times the value of the merchandise so imported. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons Penalty of the act of March 2, 1821, ch. 14, for regulating the entry of merchandise from any for eign territory, altered. Persons receiving, &c. imported and shall receive, conceal, or buy, any goods, wares, or merchandise, know goods illegally ing them to have been illegally imported into the United States, and liable to seizure by virtue of any act in relation to the revenue, such person or persons shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a sum double the amount or value of the goods, wares, or merchandise, so received, concealed, or purchased. liable to seizure, to forfeit double the amount. Persons forcibly resisting, &c. an officer of the customs, to be fined. Provisions of the 46th section SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall forcibly resist, prevent, or impede, any officer of the customs or their deputies, or any person assisting them in the execution of their duty, such person, so offending, shall, for every such offence, be fined a sum not exceeding four hundred dollars. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the fortysixth section of the act, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," passed the second day of March, Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, be, and they are ch. 22, sec. 46, hereby, extended to the case of goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States from an adjacent territory. of the act of March 2, 1799, extended. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all penalties and forfeitures, incurred by force of this act, shall be sued for, recovered, distributed, and accounted for, in the manner prescribed by an act, entitled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," passed on the second day of March, Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. March 1, 1823. CHAP. LIX.-An Act supplementary to the acts to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary Act of March 11, 1818, ch. 19. Secretary of War authorized to restore to the list such pensioners as have or shall be struck off by the act of May 1, 1820, ch. 53, upon certain conditions. A judge may attend at the dwelling of such person as shall be unable to attend in court to make his schedule. war. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to restore to the list of pensioners the name of any person who may have been, or hereafter shall be stricken therefrom, in pursuance of the act of Congress, passed the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled " An act in addition to an act, entitled 'An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,"" passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, if such person, so stricken from the list of pensioners, has heretofore furnished, or hereafter shall furnish, evidence, in pursuance of the provisions of said act, to satisfy the Secretary of War that he is in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country, and that he has not disposed of or transferred his property, or any portion thereof, with a view to obtain a pension. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, when any person, coming within the provisions of the acts to which this is supplementary, shall, by reason of bodily infirmity, be unable to attend in court to make his schedule, and furnish the evidence by said acts required, it shall be lawful for any judge or justice of a court of record in the district, city, county, or borough, in which such person resides, to attend at his place of abode and receive his schedule, and oath or affirmation, and said judge or justice shall certify that said applicant was, from bodily infirmity, unable to attend such court; which schedule, and oath or affirmation, and certificate, shall, by said judge or justice, be produced in the court of which he is judge; and the opinion of said court, of the value of the property contained in said schedule, shall be entered thereon, and certified by the clerk of said court; and such schedule shall be valid for all the purposes contemplated by the acts aforesaid. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That no pension hereafter to be allowed on claims or schedules heretofore filed under the act or acts to which this act is a supplement, or under the provisions of this act, shall commence before the passage thereof; and all other pensions hereafter to be allowed under the acts aforesaid, shall commence from the time of completing the proof. APPROVED, March 1, 1823. No pension to commence previous to the passing of this act, &c. STATUTE II. CHAP. LX. An Act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act to designate the March 3, 1823. boundaries of districts, and establish land offices for the disposal of the public lands, not heretofore offered for sale, in the states of Ohio and Indiana.” Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all the lands ceded and relinquished to the United States, by the Wea tribe of Indians, under the first article of the treaty held at Vincennes, on the elventh [eleventh] day of August, eighteen hundred and twenty, and which is specified and designated by the second article of the treaty between the United States and the said tribe, concluded at St. Mary's, on the second day of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, be, and the same is hereby, attached to the Terre Haute district for the sale of public lands in the state of Indiana. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the public lands specified, designated, and embraced, within the first and second article of the treaties aforesaid, which have not been granted to, or secured for, the use of any individual or individuals, or appropriated and reserved for any other purpose, by any existing treaties or laws, and, with the exception of section numbered sixteen, in each township, which shall be reserved for the support of schools therein, shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder, at the land office in the Terre Haute district, under the direction of the register of the land office and receiver of public moneys, on such day or days as shall, by proclamation of the President of the United States, be designated for that purpose. The lands shall be sold in tracts of the same size, on the same terms and conditions, and, every respect, as provided by the act, entitled "An act making further provision for the sale of the public lands," approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and twenty. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the register of the land office and the receiver of public moneys shall, each, receive five dollars for each day's attendance in superintending the public sales of the land before described, according to the President's proclamation. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. 1819, ch. 92. Lands ceded by the Wea Indians to be at tached to the Terre Haute district. Lands to be sold at the land office of the Terre Haute district, on such day or days as shall be designated by the President. Act of April 24, 1820, ch. 51. Register and receiver to re ceive five dollars a day each. CHAP. LXI.—An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums STATUTE II. March 3, 1823. [Obsolete.] Specific appropriations for fortifications. be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit: For Fort Delaware, fifty-eight thousand dollars: For Fort Washington, forty-six thousand dollars: For Fort Monroe, one hundred thousand dollars : For Fort Calhoun, eighty thousand dollars : For collecting materials for a fortification at Mobile Point, in the state of Alabama, fifty thousand dollars: Appropriations. STATUTE II. March 3, 1823. [Obsolete.] Specific ap propriations for the public buildings. To be paid from the treasury. STATUTE II. For the Rigolets, and Chief [Chef] Menteur, one hundred thousand dollars: For collecting materials for, and progressing with, a fort on the right bank of the Mississippi, opposite Fort St. Philip, forty thousand dollars: For repairing Fort Jackson, in the harbour of Savannah, eight thousand dollars: For contingencies and repairs of fortifications, twenty-six thousand dollars: For the purchase of small arms for arming the whole body of the militia, in addition to the annual appropriation of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three for arming the militia, twenty thousand dollars: For completing the barracks and other public buildings, at Baton Rouge, twenty-nine thousand one hundred seventy-eight dollars seventy seven cents. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. CHAP.LXII.—An Act making appropriations for the public buildings. For improving the grounds around the Capitol, one thousand dollars: For making the necessary alteration in the Representatives' Hall, for the accommodation of the eighteenth Congress, the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars: For finishing the south portico to the President's house, the sum of nineteen thousand dollars. For an allegorical ornament for a clock for the use of the Senate, two thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said several sums of money be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. March 3, 1823. CHAP. LXIII.-An Act to authorize the Postmaster General to pay for certain repairs to the general post-office, and keep the engine house, the fire engine, and apparatus, in repair. Postmaster certain bal ances. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United General to pay States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be authorized to pay, out of the moneys arising from the postages of letters and packets, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars and fifty-two Act of May 15, cents, being a balance due for repairs to the general post-office, and for procuring a fire engine, under the provisions of the act of the seventeenth [fifteenth] of May, eighteen hundred and twenty. 1820, ch. 133. To pay for repairs from the contingent fund. STATUTE II. March 3, 1823. [Obsolete.] Officers of the SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster General shall be authorized, out of the contingent fund of said department, to defray such expenses as may be necessary for keeping in repair the engine-house, the fire engine, and hose apparatus, belonging to said department. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. CHAP. LXIV.-An Act to enable the proper accounting officers of the Treasury De partment to audit and settle the accounts of the surveyor of public lands in the states of Illinois and Missouri, and territory of Arkansas, for extra clerk hire in his office. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United treasury to set- States of America, in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury shall be, and are hereby, authorized and required to audit and settle the accounts of the surveyor of public lands in the states of Illinois and Missouri, and territory of Arkansas, for extra clerk hire in his office, for surveying executed before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and for which provision was not made by an allowance of mileage on the surveys of the public lands, under the act of the Congress of the United States, of the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and make him an allowance therefor, not exceeding the rate of clerk hire now allowed by law in the offices of the other surveyors general, proportioned to the quantity of work done in each; and the amount, so allowed, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. tle the accounts of the surveyor of Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, for ex tra clerk hire. Act of April 3, 1818, ch. 26. STATUTE II. CHAP. LXV.-An Act providing for the accommodation of the circuit court of March 3, 1823. the United States for Washington county, in the District of Columbia, and for the preservation of the records of said court. Circuit court of Washington District of Cocounty in the lumbia, to be accommodated in the City Hall. with apartments Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be purchased, and completely finished, in the City Hall, now building in the city of Washington, permanent and suitable apartments for holding the sessions of the circuit court of the United States, for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, for the use of the grand and petit juries of the said county, for the offices of the clerk of the said court and the marshal of the said district, and for the preservation and security of the books, papers, and records, of the said court, provided that the said purchase can be made upon reasonable terms, and not exceeding the sum hereinafter appropriated. And for effecting the object of this act, the Appropriation. sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the appropriation hereinbefore made shall be expended under the superintendence of the commissioner of the public buildings, in such manner as shall be directed by the President of the United States. To be expended under the superintendence of the commissioner of public build When apartments are finished, court to be removed, and no allow SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, so soon as the said apart-ings. ments shall have been provided, the said circuit court, and the said clerk's and marshal's offices, with all the books, papers, and records, thereunto belonging, shall be removed thereto; and no allowance of money for the rent of apartments for the use of the said court and offices shall thenceforth, or thereafter, be made out of the treasury of the United States. APPROVED, March 3, 1823. ance admitted afterwards for rent. STATUTE II. CHAP. LXVI.-An Act to establish an additional land office in the state of March 3, 1823. Missouri. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of the public lands of the United States, as lies west of the range line dividing the twenty-third and twenty-fourth tiers of townships west of the fifth principal meridian, in the present Howard land district, in the state of Missouri, shall form a land district for the disposal of the said lands, to be called the western district; and a land office shall be established at Lexington, in the county of Lillard, for the disposal thereof. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a register and VOL. III.-99 3 U 2 A new land district to be formed, to be called the western district, for which a land tablished. office is to be es A register and |