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William B.Crews

military

&c.

CHAP. 26.-AN ACT for the relief of William B. Crews.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asAccounting offi- sembled, That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and sury directed to they are hereby, directed to ascertain whether William B. ascertain whether Crews has been paid for all military services rendered by him has been paid for to the United States, from the eighth of August, eighteen hunvices, try ser- dred and thirty-seven, to February fourteen, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, by examining the proper officers and other persons, as well as the proper rolls of the company to which he belonged. And the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to pay, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to said Crews, such sum of money as may be found Proviso, whole his due: Provided, The same does not exceed the sum of eighty dollars, and the same shall be in full of all claims by said Crews against the United States.

amount not to exceed $80.

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Approved July 18, 1850..

&c., to be valid

the collector of

customs

the vessel is reg

CHAP. 27.—AN ACT to provide for recording the conveyances of vessels, and for other purposes.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asNo bill of sale, sembled, That no bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation or conunless recorded veyance of any vessel or part of any vessel of the United States, in the office of shall be valid against any person other than the grantor or where mortgagor, his heirs, and devisees, and persons having actual istered and en- notice thereof; unless such bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation or conveyance be recorded in the office of the collector of customs where such vessel is registered or enrolled: Provided, That the lien by bottomry on any vessel created during her voyage, by a loan of money or materials, necessary to repair or enable such vessel to prosecute a voyage, shall not lose its priority or be in any way affected by the provisions of this act.

rolled.

Proviso.

Collectors of the customs shall

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the collectors of record all bills of the customs shall record all such bills of sale, mortgages, hysale; &c., and pothecations or conveyances, and, also, all certificates for disthere for a fee of charging and cancelling any such conveyances, in a book or

fifty cents.

receive

An index of records, &c., to

books to be kept for that purpose, in the order of their reception; noting in said book or books, and also, on the bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation, or conveyance, the time when the same was received, and shall certify on the bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation or conveyance, or certificate of discharge or cancellation, the number of the book and page where recorded; and shall receive, for so recording such instrument of conveyance, or certificate of discharge, fifty cents.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the collectors of he made out for the customs shall keep an index of such records, inserting althe convenience phabetically the names of the vendor or mortgagor, and of the ed, and the col- vendee or mortgagee, and shall permit said index and books

of those concern

a fee of one dol

ing each certifi

from said index.

of records to be inspected during office hours, under such rea: lectors to receive
sonable regulations as they may establish, and shall, when re- lar for furnish-
quired furnish to any person, a certificate setting forth the names cate of facts
of the owners of any vessel registered or enrolled, the parts or
proportions owned by each, (if inserted in the register or enroll-
ment,) and also, the material facts of any existing bill of sale,
mortgage, hypothecation, or other incumbrance upon such ves-
sel, recorded since the issuing of the last register or enrollment,
viz., the date, amount of such incumbrance, and from and to
whom or in whose favor made, the collector shall receive for
each such certificate one dollar.

to

Collectors furnish certified

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the collectors of the customs shall furnish certified copies of such records on the copies. receipt of fifty cents for each bill of sale, mortgage or other conveyance.

In addition to
the oath now tak¬

en, the owner-
ship or part

ed in the register.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the owner, or agent of the owner of any vessel of the United States, applying to a collector of the customs for a register or enrollment of a vessel, ownership to be shall in addition to the oath now prescribed by law, set forth shown and insertin the oath of ownership, the part or proportion of such vessel belonging to each owner, and the same shall be inserted in the register or enrollment; and that all bills of sale of vessels registered or enrolled shall set forth the part of the vessel owned by each person selling, and the part conveyed to each person purchasing.

SEC 6. And be it further enacted, That the twelfth clause or section of the act entitled "An act in addition to the several acts regulating the shipment and discharge of seamen, and the duties of consuls," approved July twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty, be so amended, as that all complaints in writing to the consuls or commercial agents as therein provided, that a vessel is unseaworthy, shall be signed by the first, or the second and third officers, and a majority of the crew, before the consul or commercial agent shall be authorized to notice such complaint, or proceed to appoint inspectors as therein provided—

Amendment of

an act.

Wilfully de. stroying a vessel

a penal offence.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That any person, not being an owner, who shall on the high seas wilfully with intent at sea by burnto burn or destroy, set fire to any ship or other vessel, or other-ing, or otherwise, wise attempt the destruction of such ship or other vessel, being the property of any citizen or citizens of the United States, or procure the same to be done, with the intent aforesaid, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall suffer imprisonment to hard labor, for a term not exceeding ten years nor less than three years according to the aggravation of the offence.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force from and after the first day of October next ensuing. Approved July 29, 1850.

To be in force from and after the first of October.

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CHAP. 28-AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act for the better organization of the District Court of the United States within the State of Louisiana," approved the 3d of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asbe sembled, That the act entitled "An act for the better organization of the District Court of the United States, within the State of Louisiana," approved third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, be so amended that it shall be the duty of the Judge of the Western District of said State to hold a term of the court at St. Joseph's, in the parish of Tensas, on the first Monday in December in each year, for the parishes of Carroll, Madison, Tensas, and Concordia, and to appoint a clerk of the court for that place; and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the District Court of the United States at Monroe to deliver to the clerk at St. Joseph's, or to his order, the original papers in all such cases as properly belong to the court at that place, together with a transcript of the proceedings had thereon; and it shall be the Marshal's du- duty of the marshal of said western district to attend the terms of said court at St. Joseph's, by himself or deputy, and to perform all the duties of his office for that court in the same manner and with the same powers, duties, and emoluments, as he is required to do for the courts at other places in the district, by the act to which this is an amendment.

point a clerk, &c.

ties.

Writs of error and appeal to lie

in same causes

as from a circuit

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SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That writs of error and appeal shall lie from decisions of the District Court of the Westcourt to Supreme ern District of Louisiana, exercising circuit court jurisdiction, to the Supreme Court of the United States in the same causes as from a Circuit Court to the Supreme Court, and under the same regulations.

Court.

A court 10 be

port, and also at Monroe.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the parish of Bienheld at Shreve ville shall form a part of the Western District of Louisiana and be one of the parishes for which a court is to be held at Shreve port; and that the parish of Caldwell shall be one of the parishes for which a court is to be held at Monroe; and that this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved July 29, 1850.

lection district.

CHAP. 29-AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," approved March second, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep· resentatives of the United States of America, in Congress asTransfer of col- sembled, That so much of the waters of the Narragansett bay, and the shores, bays, harbors, creeks and inlets, in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, as are within the county of Kent, including the port of East Greenwich, and that part of Warwick, lying upon Greenwich bay, is hereby taken from the collection district of Newport, in said State, and attached to, and made part of, the collection district of Providence. Approved July 29, 1850.

CHAP. 30.-AN ACT to provide for holding the courts of the United States in case of the sickness or other disability of the judges of the district courts.

courts in the

ness or other dis

judge.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in case of the sickness or other disability of any Provisions made district judge of any judicial district of the United States which for holding U.S. shall prevent him from holding any stated or appointed term of event of the sickthe district court of his district, or of the circuit court therein in ability of the the absence of the circuit judge and upon the fact of such sick. ness or other disability being certified by the clerk of such district court to the circuit judge of the circuit within which such district may lie, it shall be lawful for such circuit judge, if in his judgment the public interests shall so require, to designate and appoint the district judge of any other judicial district of the United States within the same circuit, to hold the district court or circuit court in case of the sickness or absence of the circuit judge, in the place of, and discharge all the judicial duties of the district judge who may be sick or otherwise disabled as aforesaid, while such sickness or other disability shall continue: which appointment shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the said district court, and be entered on the minutes of the court; and a certified copy thereof, under the seal of the court be, by such clerk transmitted to the judge so designated and appointed.

Clerk of the district court to

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case there be no circuit judge resident within such circuit, or of his absence therefrom or inability to execute the provisions of the preceding section, or of the disability or neglect of the district judges designated by him, to hold the courts and transact the business within the district for which he or they may be so designated,. the clerk of such district court, shall certify such fact or facts to the Chief Justice of the United States; and it shall thereupon notify the Chief be lawful for the Chief Justice of the United States to designate Justice of the inaand appoint in manner aforesaid, any district judge within said to hold a court, circuit, or of any judicial district within a circuit next immediately contiguous to the one within which such disability exists, which appointment shall be transmitted to such clerk, and by him acted on as directed in the preceding section.

bility of the judge

by sickness or provision

otherwise, and

made

It shall be the duty of the dis

purpose, to hold

fied.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of such district judge as shall be for that purpose designated trict judge, apand appointed, (as in the preceding sections provided,) to hold pointed for that the district court or circuit court as aforesaid and discharge all the courts specithe judicial duties of the district judge, who shall be sick or otherwise disabled as aforesaid, so long as such sickness or other disability shall continue; and all the acts and proceedings in said courts or by or before the said district judge so designated and appointed shall have the same force, effect and validity as if done and transacted by and before the district judge of said district.

If necessary a new designation

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for such circuit judge or the Chief Justice of the United States to as the case may be, from time to time, if in his judgment the

be made by the Chief Justice,&c.

judge, appointed

allowed

when certified by the clerk, &c.

public interests shall so require, to make a new designation and appointment of any other district judge, of any judicial district within the same circuits as aforesaid, with the powers and for the duties and purposes mentioned in the preceding sections of this act, and to revoke and determine any previous designation and appointment.

The district SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the district judge to hold the courts so designated and appointed to hold the court and discharge the designated, to be duties of the district judge of another district and who shall elling expenses hold such court or discharge such duties, shall be allowed his reasonable expenses of travel to and from and of residence in such other district necessarily incurred by reason of such designation and appointment and his obedience thereto, and such expenses shall when certified by the clerk and district attorney of the judicial district within which such services shall have been performed, be paid by the marshal of such district and allowed him in his account with the United States.

Approved July 29, 1850.

at the city of Co

CHAP. 31.-AN ACT to regulate the terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the district of Ohio.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asTwo regular sembled, That there shall be held at the city of Columbus, terms to be held in the State of Ohio, two regular terms of the circuit and dislumbus, Ohio, in trict courts of the United States for the district of Ohio, in each year, which shall commence respectively on the third Tuesday in May and the third Tuesday in October in each year, and so much of any law as requires the terms of said courts to be held in July and November, respectively, is hereby repealed.

each year, &c.

All issues pen

ding to be tried at

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all issues now the terms herein pending in either of said courts shall be tried at the terms hereprovided for, &c. in provided for, and no process issued or proceedings pending in either of said courts shall be avoided or impaired by this change of the time of holding the same, but all process, bailbonds, and recognizances, returnable at the next term of either of said courts, shall be returnable and returned to the court. next held under this act, in the same manner as if so made returnable on the face thereof, and shall have full effect accordingly.

Approved July 29, 1850.

CHAP. 32. AN ACT for the relief of Jacob Zimmerman.

[SEC. 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 Interior be, and he is hereby, pension of $8 per directed to place the name of Jacob Zimmerman on the roll of

Jacob Zimmerman allowed a

month.

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