time, and in the manner, prescribed in the fourth section of the act, entitled "An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage," passed on the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the existing laws shall extend to, and be in force for, the collection of the duties imposed by this act on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, and for the recovery, collection, distribution, and remission, of all fines, penalties, and forfeitures, as fully and effectually as if every regulation, restriction, penalty, forfeiture, provision, clause, matter, and thing, in the existing laws contained, had been inserted in, and re-enacted by, this act. APPROVED, April 20, 1818. exported within the collection CHAP. CIV.-An Act fixing the compensation of Indian agents and factors. 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, Indian agents and factors shall receive the following salaries per annum, in lieu of their present compensation, to wit: The agent to the Creek nation, one thousand eight hundred dollars. The agent to the Cherokees on the Arkansas river, one thousand five hundred dollars. The agent to the Chickasaws, one thousand three hundred dollars. The agent in the Illinois territory, one thousand three hundred dollars. The agent at Prairie du Chien, one thousand two hundred dollars. The agent to the Lakes, one thousand three hundred dollars. And all sub-agents, five hundred dollars per annum. Sub-agents. Factors and SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all factors shall receive one thousand three hundred dollars, and assistant factors seven hundred dol- assistant faclars, per annum. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sums hereby allowed to Indian agents and factors shall be in full compensation for their services; and that all rations, or other allowances, made to them, shall be deducted from the sums hereby allowed. APPROVED, April 20, 1818. tors. The sums al lowed to be in full, &c. Rations, &c. to be deducted. STATUTE 1. Act of 1816, ch. 107. CHAP. CVII.-An Act to continue in force, from and after the thirtieth of June, April 20, 1818. one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, until the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, the fourth paragraph of the first section of the act, entitled "An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage. The 4th paraBe it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United graph of the 1st States of America, in Congress assembled, That the fourth paragraph section of the of the first section of the act, entitled "An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage," passed the twenty-seventh of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, shall, from and after the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, continue to operate in the same manner, and to have the same effect, until the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, that the above mentioned fourth paragraph now has, and will continue to have, until the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. APPROVED, April 20, 1818. April 20, 1818. CHAP. CVIII.-An Act to divide the state of Pennsylvania into two judicial Pennsylvania divided into two districts. Western dis trict. Eastern dis trict. Terms of the eastern district. Terms of the circuit court for the western district. See act of May 15, 1820 ch. 111. Richard Peters to hold the courts in the eastern district, &c. The President, with consent of Senate, to appoint a judge for the western district, with a salary of 1600 dolls. per an num. Circuit court for the eastern district to be held as directed by law, &c. Western district court to have jurisdiction as a circuit court. Writs of error to the circuit court in the eastern district, &c. districts. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the state of Pennsylvania be, and the same is hereby, divided into two districts, in manner following, to wit: the counties of Fayette, Greene, Washington, Alleghany, Westmoreland, Somerset, Bedford, Huntingdon, Centre, Mifflin, Clearfield, M'Kean, Potter, Jefferson, Cambria, Indiana, Armstrong, Butler, Beaver, Mercer, Crawford, Venango, Erie and Warren, shall compose one district, to be called the Western district; and the residue of the said state shall compose another district, to be called the Eastern district; and the terms of the district court for the said Eastern district, shall be held in the city of Philadelphia, at the several times they are now directed to be held in said district of Pennsylvania; and the terms of the circuit court for the Western district shall commence and be held in the city of Pittsburg, on the first Mondays of the months of June and December, in each and every year, and be continued and adjourned, from time to time, as the court may deem expedient for the despatch of the business thereof. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Richard Peters, now judge of the district court of Pennsylvania, shall be, and he is hereby, assigned as the judge to hold the courts in the Eastern district, and to do all things appertaining to the office of a district judge, under the constitution and laws of the United States. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a district judge for the said western district of Pennsylvania; which judge, when appointed, shall receive a salary of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum; to be paid in the same manner as the salary of the judge of the eastern district of said state, and he shall also do and perform all such duties as are enjoined on, or in anywise appertaining to, a district judge of the United States. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the circuit court of the United States shall be held, for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, at the city of Philadelphia, at the times, and in the manner now directed by law to be held for the district of Pennsylvania; and the district court for the said western district, in addition to the ordinary jurisdiction and powers of a district court, shall, within the limits of the said western district, have jurisdiction of all causes, except of appeals and writs of error, cognisable by law in a circuit court, and shall proceed therein in the same manner as a circuit court; and writs of error shall lie from decisions therein to the circuit court in the said eastern district of Pennsylvania, in the same manner as from other district courts to their respective circuit courts. (a) An act concerning the western district of Pennsylvania, Dec. 16, 1818, ch. 4. Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 170. Act of April 5, 1826, ch. 23. Presi The dent, with the consent of the Senate, to appoint an attorney and a mar shal for the western dis Actions, suits, process, &c. continued over to the western district court. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, be, and hereby is authorized to appoint one person as district aftorney, and one person as marshal for the said western district, whose terms of appointment and service, as well as duties and emoluments, shall be the same with those respectively annexed to the said offices in the eastern district. And the district attorney and the marshal for the district of Pennsylvania, shall, trict, &c. respectively, be district attorney and marshal for said eastern district. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings, of a civil nature, except in cases of appeals and writs of error, commenced or pending in the district or circuit court of said district of Pennsylvania, in which no verdict shall have passed, er plea to the merits shall have been decided, and which, by law, should have been had or commenced in said district court of said western district, if the same had been had or commenced before the passing hereof, and where the parties to the same shall not otherwise agree, shall be, and hereby are, continued over to the district court of the western district, established by this act, and shall there be proceeded in with like effect, and in the same manner, as if originally had or commenced therein. And the said district and circuit courts of said eastern district, shall possess and exercise all necessary powers for the removal of all papers and files relating to such actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings, to the said district court of said western district, so continued over as aforesaid: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any bond or recognisance made or entered into in any of the actions or suits hereby directed to be removed; but the same shall continue of as much validity as though this act had not passed. APPROVED, April 20, 1818. The district and circuit courts of the eastern district invested with powers for the removal of papers, &c. Proviso. STATUTE I. CHAP. CIX.-An Act supplementary to the several acts making appropriations for April 20, 1818. the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. [Obsolete.] Sums appro Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be priated. and they are hereby, respectively, appropriated, and shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: For the payment of balances due several states, on an adjustment of their accounts, for expenses incurred by calling out the militia during the late war, six hundred thousand dollars. Towards erecting barracks at Baton Rouge, forty thousand dollars. For carrying into effect the treaty with the Cherokee Indians, eighty thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses of holding Indian treaties in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, fifty-three thousand dollars. For arrearages in the Indian department, thirty-five thousand dollars. For additional pay to the militia, fifty thousand dollars. For expenses of mounted volunteers, ninety thousand dollars. For pensions for one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, in addition to the sum already appropriated for that purpose, fifty thousand dollars. For pensions to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army, under the act of the eighteenth of March last, three hundred thousand dollars. For deficiency in the appropriation for clerk hire, in the office of the Department of War, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, eight hundred dollars. For rent of offices for the above department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, five hundred dollars. For office rent for the above department, for one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, one thousand dollars. For balances due several states. Barracks at Baton Rouge. Treaty with Cherokees. Expenses of holding Indian treaties in 1818. Arrearages. Pay of militia. Mounted volunteers. Pensions under act of 1818, ch. 19. Pensions to revolutionary officers and sol diers. Clerk hire in War Department. Rent of of fices for War Department. STATUTE I. For additional clerk hire, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars. April 20, 1818. CHAP. CX.-An Act concerning tonnage and discriminating duties, in certain Act of Mar. 3, 1815, ch. 77. Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 75. Acts respect ing discrimina tions between foreign vessels and those of the United States, repealed so far as respects vessels belonging to subjects of the Netherlands, &c. Discriminating duties on goods, &c. repealed in favour of produce, &c. of the Netherlands, &c. cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage of vessels in the ports of the United States, as imposes a discriminating duty between foreign vessels and vessels of the United States, is hereby repealed, so far as respects vessels truly and wholly belonging to the subjects of the king of the Netherlands; such repeal to take effect from the time the government aforesaid abolished the discriminating duties between her own vessels and the vessels of the United States arriving in the ports or places aforesaid. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the several acts imposing duties on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, as imposes a discriminating duty between goods imported into the United States in foreign vessels and in vessels of the United States, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as the same respects the produce or manufactures of the territories, in Europe, of the king of the Netherlands, or such produce and manufactures as can only be, or most usually are, first shipped from a port or place in the kingdom aforesaid, the same being imported in vessels truly and wholly belonging to subjects of the king of the Netherlands; such repeal to take effect from the time the government aforesaid abolished its discriminating duties between goods, wares, and merchandise, imported in vessels of the United States and vessels belonging to the nation aforesaid. APPROVED, April 20, 1818. STATUTE I. April 20, 1818. CHAP. CXII.-An Act authorizing a subscription for the Statistical Annals of Adam Seybert, and the purchase of Pitkin's Commercial Statistics. [Obsolete.] The Secretary of State directed and receive, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United to subscribe for States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary for the Department of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to subscribe for, and receive, for the use and disposal of Congress, five hundred copies of the Statistical Annals proposed to be published by Adam Seybert, of Philadelphia; and that he also be directed to purchase, for the purpose aforesaid, two hundred and fifty copies of Pitkin's Commercial Statistics of the United States. Statistical An nals, and 250 copies of Pit kin's Statistics. The subscription and pur chase money SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum or sums of money necessary to defray the cost of the subscription and purchase afore6750 dolls., &c. said, shall not exceed the sum of five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, April 20, 1818. STATUTE I. April 20, 1818. CHAP. CXIII.-An Act making the port of Bath, in Massachusetts, a port of entry for ships or vessels arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, and from places beyond the same; and for establishing a collection district, whereof Belfast shall be the port of entry. Bath, in Massachusetts, made a port of entry for vessels, &c. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the port of Bath, in the state of Massachusetts, be, and hereby is, made a port of entry for ships or vessels arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, and from places beyond the same. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a collection district be and hereby is, established in the state of Massachusetts, which shall include all the ports and harbours on the western shore of the Penobscot bay and river, from the town of Camden to the town of Bangor, both inclusive; and a collector shall be appointed for the district, to reside at Belfast, which shall be the only port of entry for said district. APPROVED, April 20, 1818. CHAP. CXIV.-An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to repay or remit certain alien duties therein described. 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, directed to cause to be repaid or remitted all alien or discriminating duties, either upon tonnage or merchandise imported in respect to all British vessels which have been entered in ports of the United States, at any time between the third day of July, inclusive, and the eighteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, which have been paid, or secured to be paid, contrary to the provisions of the convention regulating commerce between the territories of the United States and of his Britannic Majesty, bearing date the third day of July, eighteen hundred and fifteen: Provided, That this act shall not take effect until a similar provision shall be made by the government of Great Britain, in favour of American vessels, in regard to duties on tonnage and merchandise entered in the British European ports during the same period. APPROVED, April 20, 1818. STATUTE I. CHAP. CXV.—An Act authorizing the disposal of certain lots of public ground in April 20, 1818. the city of New Orleans and town of Mobile. 1822, ch. 16. The President the use of the navy, arsenal, military hospital and barracks in New Orleans, and of Fort Charlotte, at Mobile, and ground whereon they stand to be laid off into lots, &c. cause the 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 may abandon States shall have power, and he is hereby authorized, whenever in his opinion it shall be consistent with the public interest, to abandon the use of the navy arsenal, military hospital, and barracks in the city of New Orleans, and of Fort Charlotte, at the town of Mobile; to cause the lots of ground whereon the said arsenal, hospital, and barracks in New Orleans, and Fort Charlotte, at Mobile, now stand, to be surveyed and laid off into lots, with suitable streets and avenues, conforming as near as may be, to the original plan of the city and town aforesaid; and when the surveys are completed, one plat thereof shall be returned to the Secretary of the Treasury, and another to such officer or agent as the President shall have authorized to dispose of the said lots; and the said lots of ground shall be offered at public sale at the city of New Orleans and town of Mobile respectively, on such day or days as the President shall, by his proclamation, designate for that purpose, in the same manner, and on the same conditions and terms of credit, as is provided by law for the sale of public lands of the United States, and patents shall be granted therefor, as for other public lands sold by the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized, as soon as in his opinion the public interest will permit, to cause the Fort St. Charles to be demolished, and the navy yard in said city to be discontinued; and the lot of ground on which the said fort is erected shall be appropriated to the use of a public square, VOL. III.-59 A plat thereof to the Secretary of the Treasury, &c. The lots to be offered at public sale, &c. The President may cause Fort St. Charles to be demolished, and navy yard to be discontin ued. |