April 4, 1818. XI. RESOLUTION requesting the President of the United States to present a sword to Colonel Richard M. Johnson. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be requested to present to Colonel Richard M. Johnson a sword, as a testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of the daring and distinguished valour displayed by himself and the regiment of volunteers under his command, in charging, and essentially contributing to vanquish, the combined British and Indian forces, under Major General Proctor, on the Thames in Upper Canada, on the fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen. APPROVED, April 4, 1818. April 4, 1818. Thanks of Congress to General Harrison and Governor Shelby, &c. Gold medals to them. XII. RESOLUTION directing medals to be struck, and, together with the thanks of Congress, presented to Major General Harrison, and Governor Shelby; and for other purposes. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the thanks of Congress be, and they are hereby, presented to Major General William Henry Harrison, and Isaac Shelby, late governor of Kentucky, and, through them, to the officers and men under their command, for their gallantry and good conduct in defeating the combined British and Indian forces under Major General Proctor, on the Thames, in Upper Canada, on the fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, capturing the British army, with their baggage, camp equipage and artillery; and that the President of the United States be requested to cause two gold medals to be struck, emblematical of this triumph, and presented to General Harrison, and Isaac Shelby, late Governor of Kentucky. APPROVED, April 4, 1818. April 20, 1818. Surveys pre establishment of two naval arsenals to be resumed and XIII. RESOLUTION directing the completion of the survey of the waters of the Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United paratory to the States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, requested to cause to be resumed and completed the surveys heretofore commenced, preparatory to the establishment of two naval arsenals; and that, to the naval officers employed completed, &c. in this service, officers of the corps of engineers be joined, with instructions to prepare plans of the fortifications necessary to be erected for the defence of such arsenals, with an estimate of the expense of erecting the same. And that the President be further requested to cause such a survey of the Chesapeake Bay to be made, as may be requisite to ascertain what points are necessary to be fortified for the protection of the commerce of said bay; and a report of the same, with a plan of the Report, with works necessary to be erected, with an estimate of the expense of the a plan, &c. same, to be made to Congress in the first week of their next session. APPROVED, April 20, 1818. Plans of fortifications and estimate of expense. Survey of the Chesapeake Bay, &c. ACTS OF THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Passed at the second session, which was begun and held in the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the sixteenth day of November, 1818, and ended on the third day of March, 1819. JAMES MONROE, President; DANIEL D. TOMPKINS, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; HENRY CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE II. CHAP. I.—An Act to provide for the removal of the library of Congress to the north wing of the Cupitol. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the joint library committee of Congress be, and they are hereby, authorized to cause suitable apartments, in the north wing of the Capitol, to be fitted up and furnished for the temporary reception of the library of Congress, and to cause the said library to be removed to, and placed in, the same. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the accounts of the expenditures which may be incurred under this act; and that the amount, so settled, be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sum of two thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to the further purchase of books for the said library. APPROVED, December 3, 1818. Dec. 3, 1818. [Obsolete.] Suitable apartments to be fitted up for the library in the north wing of the capitol. Accounts to be settled at the treasury. 2000 dollars further for books. CHAP. II.-An Act to increase the number of clerks in the Department of War. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Department of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to employ an additional number of clerks in his department, not exceeding twelve; and that the sum of twelve thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for their compensation; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. This act to continue in force for one year, and no longer. APPROVED, December 5, 1818. STATUTE II. Dec. 16, 1818. [Obsolete.] CHAP. III.-An Act making a partial appropriation for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and to make good a deficit in the appropriation for holding treaties with the Indians. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United support of the States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to the objects herein specified, to wit: Sums appropriated for the army. 200,000 dolls. for subsistence. Deficit for holding treaties with Indians, 50,000 dolls. For subsistence of the army of the United States, two hundred thousand dollars. For holding treaties with Indian tribes, being a deficit in the appropriations for that object in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, fifty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said sums be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, December 16, 1818. STATUTE II. Dec. 16, 1818. No suit, action, &c. depending and undetermined on the 20th April, 1818, to be dis continued or abated, on account of the court not having been holden on the first Monday of June, 1818. Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 108. Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 170. The court authorized to make rules and orders touching such suits, as if it had been holden. Suits, &c., hereafter trans ferred to be deemed de pending as if they had been entered, and the court hold en on the 20th of June last. CHAP. IV.-An Act concerning the western district court of Pennsylvania. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That no suit, action, plea, process, or proceeding, at law or in equity, which, on the twentieth day of April last, was depending and undetermined in the district or circuit court of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania, and by law directed to be removed to the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, shall be discontinued or abated on account of the said court not having been opened and holden on the first Monday of June last, agreeably to the act of Congress passed on the twentieth day of April last; but that all such suits, actions, pleas, process,. and proceedings, both at law and in equity, shall be deemed, taken, and, to all intents and purposes, be held to be depending in the said district court for the western district of Pennsylvania, as fully and effectually as if the said court had been opened and holden on the said first Monday of June last. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said court be, and is hereby, authorized and empowered, from time to time, to make all such rules and orders touching such suits, actions, pleas, process, and proceedings, at law and in equity, as they might or could have done, if said court had been opened and holden on the said first Monday of June. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all suits, actions, pleas, process, and proceedings, aforesaid, which may be hereafter certified and transferred from the district or circuit court of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania, to the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, shall, to all intents and purposes, be deemed and taken to be depending in the said court on the said first Monday of June last, and the same proceedings may be had therein as if the same had been on that day entered in the said court agreeably to the act of Congress aforesaid. APPROVED, December 16, 1818. STATUTE II. Feb. 4, 1819. [Obsolete.] Limits of the district. CHAP. XII.—An Act to establish a judicial district in Virginia, west of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United rate the waters emptying into the Chesapeake Bay and Roanoke river from the waters which fall into the Ohio river, shall be one judicial district; and there shall be a district court therein, to consist of one judge, who shall reside in the said district, and be called a district judge, and annually hold six sessions, as follows: At Clarksburg, on the fourth Mondays of March and September; at Lewisburg, on the second Mondays of April and October; and at Wythe Courthouse, on the first Mondays of May and November.(a) Jurisdiction of the court. Writs of er SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said court shall, besides the ordinary jurisdiction of a district court, have jurisdiction of all causes, except of appeals and writs of error, cognisable by law in a circuit court, ror to the Suand shall proceed therein in the same manner as a circuit court; and writs of error shall be from decisions therein to the Supreme Court, in the same manner as from circuit courts. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a clerk appointed for the said court; and that a district attorney and marshal be appointed for the said district, in like manner as in other judicial dis tricts. preme Court. A clerk, district attorney and marshal. Yearly compensation to the judge. Compensation of the district SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the said judge of the said district court, the yearly compensation of one thousand six hundred dollars, to commence from the date of his appointment; that there shall be allowed to the said district attorney, the yearly compensation of two hundred dollars, to commence from the date of his appointment; and there shall be allowed to the said marshal the yearly sum of two hundred dollars, to commence from the date of his appoint- shal. ment; to be paid quarterly at the treasury of the United States. APPROVED, February 4, 1819. attorney. Of the mar CHAP. XIII.—An Act to authorize the payment, in certain cases, on account of treasury notes which have been lost or destroyed. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That whenever proof shall be exhibited to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the loss or destruction of any treasury note, issued under the authority of any act of Congress, it shall be lawful for the said secretary, upon receiving bond, with sufficient security to indemnify the United States against any other claim on account of the treasury note alleged to be so lost or destroyed, to pay the amount due on such note, to the person who had lost it, or in whose possession it has been destroyed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, whenever proof shall be exhibited, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the loss or destruction of any certificate of Mississippi stock, it shall be lawful to issue to the person who had lost it, or in whose possession it was destroyed, a new certificate of the same value with the one lost or destroyed; the person claiming such renewal complying with the rules and regulations at present established at the Treasury Department, for the renewal of certificates of stock lost or destroyed. APPROVED, February 4, 1819. (a) The acts relating to the district courts in Virginia have been: Act of September 22, 1789, (obsolete,) ch. 20, sec. 3. Act of April 29, 1802, (obsolete,) sec. 4, ch. 31. Act of March 23, 1804, ch. 31, sec. 1, 2, 3. Act of March 24, 1814, ch. 31. Act of March 19, 1818, ch. 22. Act of February 4, 1819, ch. 12. Act of February 10, 1820, ch. 9. Act of April 26, 1822, ch. 31. Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 167. Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 102. Act of May 20, 1826, ch. 89. Act of April 20, 1832, ch. 69. Act of March 3, 1835, ch. 36. Act of July 1, 1836, ch. 232. Act of March 2, 1838, ch. 15. Act of January 20, 1843, ch. 3. 1844, ch. 12. 1842, ch. 203. STATUTE II. Feb. 4, 1819. [Obsolete.] Appropriation as prize money among the representatives of Commodore Preble, Capt. Stewart, officers, and crew, of the Syren, &c.; their proportion of the CHAP. XV.-An Act authorizing the distribution of a sum of money among the representatives of Commodore Edward Preble, and the officers and crew of the brig Syren. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated; which sum shall be distributed by the Secretary of the Navy, as prize money, among the representatives of Commodore Edward Preble, deceased, and Captain Charles Stewart, the officers and crew of the brig of war Syren, or to the representatives of such as may be dead, on account of their proportion of the sum of five thousand dollars, the appraised value of the brig appraised value Transfer, captured by the said brig Syren, for a breach of the blockade of the port of Tripoli, in the year eighteen hundred and four, during the war carried on by the United States against that power; the said brig Transfer having been taken into the service of the United States by Commodore Edward Preble, commander of the blockading squadron; which brig was regularly condemned, as a good prize, by sentence of a court of admiralty of the brig Transfer, captured by the Syren, &c. APPROVED, February 4, 1819. STATUTE II. Feb. 15, 1819. [Obsolete.] Sums appropriated for the Pay of the army. Subsistence. Forage. Clothing. Bounties, &c. Medical and hospital depart ment. Quartermas ter's depart ment. Arrearages. Extra pay for construction, &c. of military roads. Contingencies of the army. Arrearages. Fortifications. water courses. Ordnance de partment. Armories. Arsenals, &c. CHAP. XVIII.—An Act making appropriations for the military service of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated: For the pay of the army of the United States, one million of dollars. For subsistence, in addition to two hundred thousand dollars already appropriated, seven hundred and eighty-nine thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars. For forage for officers, twenty-six thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars. For clothing, four hundred thousand dollars. For bounties and premiums, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For arrearages, arising from a deficiency in the appropriation for the quartermaster's department, during the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, twenty-six thousand dollars. For extra pay to non-commissioned officers and soldiers employed in the construction and repairs of military roads, ten thousand dollars. For contingencies of the army, sixty thousand dollars. For arrearages arising from a deficiency in the appropriation to pay outstanding claims, one hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and seven dollars. For fortifications, five hundred thousand dollars. For making a survey of the water courses tributary to, and west of, the Mississippi; also those tributary to the same river, and north-west of the Ohio; six thousand five hundred dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance department, one hundred thousand dollars. For the armories at Springfield and Harper's Ferry, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For the erection and completion of arsenals, to wit: for completing the arsenal at Augusta, in Georgia, fifty thousand dollars; for erecting a powder magazine at Frankford, near Philadelphia, fifteen thousand dol |