effect, all that part of the Indian country west of the Mississippi and bounded north by the north line of lands assigned to the Osages, produced east to the state of Missouri, west by Mexico, south by the Red river, east by the west line of the Territory of Arkansas, and the state of Missouri, shall be annexed to the Territory of Arkansas; and the residue of the Indian country west of the Mississippi shall be annexed to the judicial district of Missouri; and the several portions of the Indian country east of the Mississippi shall be annexed, severally, to the Territory in which they are situate.

Sec. 25.-So much of the laws of the United States as provides for the punishment of crimes committed in any place within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, shall be in force in the Indian country; but they shall not extend to crimes committed by one Indian against the person or property of another.

Sec. 26.-If any person charged with a violation of any provision of this act, shall be found within any of the United States, or either of the territories, he may be apprehended, ' and transported to the territory or judicial district having jurisdiction of the same.'

Sec. 27. All penalties under this act, may be recovered, in the name of the United States, before any court having juris. diction of the same, (in any state or territory in which the defendant shall be arrested or found) the one half to the use of the informer, the other half to that of the United States, except when the prosecution shall be first instituted on behalf of the United States, in which case the whole shall be for their

use.

Sec. 28. When property shall be seized for a violation of this act, the person prosecuting on behalf of the United States may proceed as in the case of goods brought into the United States in violation of the revenue laws.

Ch. 162.-Department of Indian Affairs. An act was passed providing for the organization of this department.

Ch. 163. Convicts. Persons convicted of offences against the United States and confined in the prison of any state or territory, shall be subject to the same discipline and treatment as convicts sentenced by the courts of such state or territory and shall be exclusively under the control of the officers having charge of such prison.

Ch. 166. Sec. 1.-Florida. All acts or parts of acts passed by the Legislative Council of Florida, imposing a higher tax

on the slaves or other property of non-resident citizens than is imposed on the slaves or other property of resident citizens of this territory, are declared null and void.

Sec. 2. Any person attempting to enforce any such act, shall be punished either by fine not exceeding $200 or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by both.

Ch. 168.-Postage. The governors of the several states are authorized to transmit by mail, free of postage, all laws and reports, whether bound or unbound, and all records and documents of their respective states, which may be directed by the legislatures of the several states to be transmitted to the executives of other states;' and the governor of the state transmitting the same shall, in addition to his frank, endorse the kind of book or document enclosed.

Ch. 170. Sec. 1.-Tonnage duty on Spanish vessels. From and after March 1, 1835, Spanish vessels coming from Cuba or Porto Rico, either directly or after touching at any place, shall pay in the ports of the United States such further tonnage duty, in addition to the tonnage duty payable under any other law, as shall be equivalent to the amount of discriminating duty, that would have been imposed on the cargoes imported in the said vessels, respectively, if the same had been exported from Havana in American bottoms.

Sec. 2.-Before any such vessel shall be allowed to depart from a port of the United States with a cargo directly or indirectly destined to either of the said islands, it shall pay such further tonnage duty as shall be equivalent to the amount of discriminating duty, that would be payable for the time being upon the cargo, if imported into Havana in an American

bottom.

Sec. 3.-No Spanish vessel shall be allowed to depart from a port of the United States, with any goods, except upon a destination to some place in Cuba or Porto Rico, without giving bond with approved security in double the value of the vessel and cargo, that the said cargo or any part thereof shall not be landed in either of the said islands;' which bond shall be cancelled on the production of the certificate of an American Consul, that the cargo has been landed elsewhere, bonâ fide, and without intention to reship it for a port in one of those Islands.

Sec. 4.-The secretary of the treasury is authorized from time to time, to estimate the said additional tonnage duty, and to give directions to the officers of customs, for the collection

of such duties, so as to conform the same to any variation, which may take place in the discriminating duties levied on the cargoes of American vessels in Havana.

Sec. 5.-Whenever the President shall be satisfied that the discriminating duties in favor of Spanish bottoms levied upon cargoes of American vessels in Cuba and Porto Rico, have been abolished, or whenever, in his opinion a satisfactory arrangement upon the subject, shall have been made between the United States and Spain, he is authorized to declare the same by proclamation, and thereupon this act shall cease to have any further force.

Ch. 171.-Transfer of appropriations. Upon the application of the secretary of the navy, the President is authorized, whenever, in his opinion, the contingencies of the public service may require it, at any period between the close of the year and the passage of the new naval appropriation bills, to direct that a part of the money appropriated for a particular branch of the naval service the former year, be applied to another branch of the said service;' in which case a special account of the money thus transferred and of their application, shall be laid before Congress previously to its adjournment.

Ch. 174.-Washington, Georgetown and Alexandria. An act was passed to prohibit the corporations of these cities issuing promissory notes or bills of any denomination less than ten dollars after March 1, 1839, and to provide for the gradual withdrawal from circulation of all such notes or bills.

Ch. 213.-Blanchard's patent. An act was passed to renew, for the term of fourteen years from January 12, 1834, Blanchard's patent for a machine for turning or cutting irregular forms.'

Ch. 247.-Polish exiles. By this act, thirty-six sections of land, in any three adjacent townships of the public lands in Illinois or Michigan, were granted to 235 Polish exiles transported to this country by the emperor of Austria; the lands are to be selected by them, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury, and to be divided into equal parts distributed among them by lot; and after the expiration of ten years the grantees are to be entitled to a patent for the lot assigned to them; provided that they shall during that term, actually inhabit and cultivate the township of land in the ratio of one settlement for every 500 acres, and pay into the proper land office, the minimum price per acre, at the time of such payment, within the said term of ten years.

Diplomatic Correspondence. A resolution was passed providing for the distribution of the copies of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States between the peace of 1783 and March 4, 1789.'

La Fayette. A resolution was passed' manifesting the sensibility of the two houses of Congress and the nation, on the occasion of the decease' of La Fayette, and requesting J. Q. Adams to deliver an oration on his life and character, before Congress, at the next session.

NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.

A Practical Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence, with so much of Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology and the Practice of Medicine and Surgery, as are [is] essential to be known by members of Parliament, Lawyers, Coroners, Magistrates, Officers in the Army and Navy and Private Gentlemen; and all the Laws relating to Medical Practitioners: with Explanatory Plates. By J. CHITTY Esq., Barrister at Law. Part. 1. London, 1832, pp. 468.

It is difficult to believe that this book was actually written by the author of the Treatise on Pleading a man who has been known, for the last quarter of a century, as a voluminous legal author, besides enjoying an extensive practice. It is a work, whose learning and research on medical subjects are such, that they seem hardly possible to have been acquired, except by long years of exclusively medical study. The first part only is published,

which is thus analyzed in the author's preface.

'The First Part of the work, after explaining technical terms, and referring to the sources of information, proceeds to describe the Structure of Man in the healthy state, and which comprises Anatomy and Physiology. At the same time are in general noticed the principal diseases affecting each Örgan or Function. The component parts, whether fluid or solid, and the divisions into Organs and Functions, and certain general properties, are first considered. Then is taken an Anatomical and Physiological view of every Organ and of each Function in particular. Bones, Joints, Ligaments, Muscles, Tendons, Arteries, Capillaries, Veins, Absorbent and Secernent Vessels, and Nerves, and all other parts, are separately examined. Then are described all the Functions, whether of Motion, Respiration, Circulation,

The