and the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, is appropriated hereby appropriated for paying the amount of to pay com such commission or commissions, as may be missions and defray o her thus allowed, and also for defraying the ex. expenses, penses of printing and issuing the subscription certificates and certificates of stock and other expenses incident to the receiving of subscriptions, and completing the loan authorised by this act. appropriation lions of dol- lars for the the present loan. Commission Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That so Surplus funds much of the funds constituting the annual of the annual appropriation of eight millions of dollars, for of eight milthe payment of the principal and interest of the public debt of the United States, as may be wanted for that purpose, after satisfying the sums necessary for the payment of the interest, and such part of the principal of said debt, as the United States are now pledged annually to pay or reimburse, is hereby pledged and appropriated for the payment of the interest, and for the reimbursement of the principal of the stock which may be created by virtue of this act: it shall accordingly be the duty of the commissioners of the sinking fund, to cause to be applied and paid out of the said fund ers of the yearly, such sum and sums as may be annually sinking fund wanted to discharge the interest accruing on ingly. the said stock, and to reimburse the principal as the same shall become due, and may be discharged in conformity with the terms of the loan; and they are further authorised to apply, from time to time, such sum or sums, out of the said fund, as they may think proper, towards redeeming by purchase, and at a price not above par, the principal of the said stock, or any part thereof. And the faith of the United States is hereby pledged, to establish sufficient revenues for making up any deficiency that may hereafter take place in the to act accord The faith of venues to funds hereby appropriated for paying the said make up defi- interest, and principal sums, or any of them, in manner aforesaid. ciencies. Banks in the District of thorised to lend money under this act Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any of the banks in the District of Columbia, to lend any part of the sum authorised to be borrowed by virtue of this act, any thing in any of their charters of incorporation to the contrary notwithstanding. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. H. CRAWFORD, President of the Senate, pro tempore. February 8, 1813. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. cent. reserv ed in the CHAPTER CLXIV. AN ACT regulating pensions to persons on board private armed ships. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame rica, in Congress assembled, That the two per centum reserved in the hands of the collectors The two per and consuls by the act of June, eighteen hundred and twelve, entitled "An act concollectors and cerning letters of marque, prizes, and prize consuls, to be goods," shall be paid to the Treasury, under paid into the the like regulations provided for other public constitute a money, and shall constitute a fund for the purposes provided for by the seventeenth section hands of the Treasury, to fund, &c. of the beforementioned act. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the list, &c. Secretary of the Navy be authorized and required to place on the pension list, under the Secretary of like regulations, and restrictions, as are used the navy to place certain in relation to the navy of the United States, persons on any officer, seaman or marine, who, on board the pension of any private armed ship or vessel bearing a commission of letter of marque, shall have been wounded or otherwise disabled in any engagement with the enemy; allowing to the captain a sum not exceeding twenty dollars per month; to lieutenants and sailing master a sum not exceeding twelve dollars each per month; to marine officer, boatswain, gunner, carpenter, master's mate and prize-masters, a sum not exceeding ten dollars each per month; to all other officers a sum not exceeding eight dollars each per month, for the highest rate of disability, and so in proportion; and to a seaman, or acting as a marine, the sum of six dollars per month, for the highest rate of disability, and so in proportion; which several pensions shall be paid, by direction of the Secretary of the Navy, out of the fund above. provided, and from no other. cfficers to enter the Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Commanding commanding officer of every vessel having a commission, or letters of marque and reprisal, names, &c. shall enter in his journal the name and rank of of wounded any officer, and the name of any seaman, who, persons in 2 during his cruize, shall have been wounded or disabled as aforesaid, describing the manner and extent, as far as practicable, of such wound or disability. journal. Collectors to transmit a Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That every collector shall transmit quarterly to the Secretary of the Navy, a transcript of such transcript of journals as may have been reported to him, so to the Secre far as it gives a list of the officers and crew, tary of the and the description of wounds and disabilities, Navy, &c. such journals the better to enable the Secretary to decide on claims for pensions. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. H. CRAWFORD, President of the Senate, pro tempore. February 13, 1813. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER CLXV. AN ACT confirming certain claims to lands in the district of Vincennes. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame rica in Congress assembled, That all the deciCertain decisions of the register and receiver of public sicns of the monies for the district of Vincennes, made in register and favor of persons claiming donation lands in public monies said district, as entered in a list of claims receiver of confirmed. which in the opinion of the said register and receiver ought to be confirmed in pursuance of the act, entitled "An act providing for the sale of certain lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes," passed on the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten, which list is a part of their report to the Secretary of the Treasury, bearing date of the twenty-seventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, be, and the same are hereby confirmed. Claims of tain per sons confirm Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following persons whose claims, according the aforesaid report, are not embraced by the provisions of the above recited act, but which ed. nevertheless in the opinion of the register and receiver ought to be confirmed, shall be, and their claims are hereby confirmed respectively, to the following quantities of land, that is to say: the heirs of Francis Peltier, the heirs of Bernice Lefevre, and the heirs of Jean Btt. Valecour, respectively, four hundred acres; Rene Campeau, Francois Cardinal, the heirs of Joseph Pancake, the heirs of Jacob Howell, the heirs of Alexander Wilson, the heirs of Daniel Sullivan, and the heirs of Jacob Tevebaugh, respectively, one hundred acres. Locations to Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the several persons whose claims are confirmed by bee: tered acthis act, are hereby authorised to enter their cordingly. locations with the register of the land office at Vincennes, on any part of the tract set apart for that purpose in said district, by virtue of the act, entitled "An act respecting claims to lands in the Indiana territory and state of Ohio," and in conformity to the provisions of that act: Provided, That such locations Proviso. shall be made prior to the first day of October next; and the right of any person who shall neglect to locate prior to that day shall become void and forever be barred. tled to land authorising Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That every person, or the legal representative of Persons entievery person, whose claim to a tract of land to receive is confirmed by this act, shall, whenever his certificates claim shall have been located and surveyed, the granting be entitled to receive from the register of the of patents. land office at Vincennes a certificate, stating that the claimant is entitled to receive a patent for such tract of land by virtue of this act; for |