Public Acts of Congress. "An act to incorporate the Bank of Potomac," and shall be subject to all the restraints and limitations expressed in the said act, except so far as the same shall be altered by any provisions hereinafter contained. SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That an election for directors of the Bank of Potomac shall be held in the town of Alexandria, on the first Monday in November in each year, of which notice shall be given in one or more newspapers published in said town, for four weeks at least before the day of election; and the stockholders shall choose, by ballot, to be given in person or by proxy, by a majority of votes, from amongst the stockholders, thirteen directors, for the term of one year thereafter, and, on resignation, disqualification, or removal, of any director out of the county of Alexandria, or out of the county of Fairfax, in Virginia, the other directors, at their next meeting thereafter, may elect, by ballot, another person, qualified as aforesaid, in his place, for the residue of the year. The directors of said bank shall, at the first meeting after every general election, elect, by ballot, from among their own number, by a majority of their whole number, a president; and in case of his death, resignation, or removal out of the county of Alexandria, or out of the county of Fairfax, or of his refusal to accept his office, the directors shall meet, as soon as conveniently can be thereafter, and elect another person as president, in the manner before de scribed. SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That every stockholder of the Bank of Potomac, being a citizen of the United States, shall be entitled to vote at all elections to be holden by the stockholders of said bank, in pursuance of this act, and shall have as many votes in proportion to the stock he may hold, as follows, that is to say: For every share, from one to twenty, one vote; for each share, from twenty to fifty shares, one vote for two shares; from fifty to one hundred, one vote for four shares; above one hundred shares, one vote for six shares: Provided, That no share, or number of shares, pledged to the said bank as security for any debt due, or to become due, to it, shall be considered as conferring any right to vote at the said elections. Bank shall, forthwith, become stockholders in the said Bank of Potomac, and shall be entitled to the same privileges and advantages, and the stock of the said Union Bank shall, to all intents and purposes, be considered as forming a part of the capital of the said Bank of Potomac; and the proper officers of the said Bank of Potomac shall forthwith issue to the stockholders of the said Union Bank certificates of stock in the said Bank of Potomac, at the rate of one share, or one hundred dollars of Potomac Bank stock, for every hundred dollars of the Union Bank stock so subscribed, according to the respective interests of the said stockholders in the stock so subscribed. SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That, on the said union being made as aforesaid, all contracts legally made by the said Union Bank shall, forthwith, become obligatory on the said Bank of Potomac, and all debts due by the said Union Bank on notes issued by it, or otherwise, shall become chargeable on, and payable by, the said Bank of Potomac; and the parties to such contracts, and the creditors of the said Union Bank, shall have the same remedies to enforce the performance of such contracts, and the payment of such debts, against the said Bank of Potomac, its property, and effects, as are now, by law, given to them against the said Union Bank; and that the said Bank of Potomac may, in its own name, sustain all actions and suits which may be necessary to enforce the payment of debts due to, and the performance of contracts made with, the said Union Bank, and for the recovery of any lands, tenements, goods, and chattels, belonging to, and improperly withheld from, the said Union Bank. SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That all bonds, bills, notes, or other securities for money, which, by the terms thereof, have been, or shall be, made payable at the said Union Bank, which shall fall due after the said union shall have been carried into effect, shall, from thenceforth, be considered as if the same had been made payable at the said Bank of Potomac; and that a demand of payment at the said Bank of Potomac shall, to all intents and purposes, be as effectual in law as if the same were made at the said Union Bank. SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That, from the time the said union of the said banks shall be SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That it shall carried into effect, the twenty-seventh section of be lawful for the president of the Union Bank of the act of Congress, passed on the third of March, Alexandria, at any time before the first day of one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, entitled April next, with the consent of a majority in in- "An act to incorporate the subscribers to certain terest of the stockholders thereof, to subscribe to banks in the District of Columbia, and to prevent the said Bank of Potomac the full amount of the the circulation of the notes of unchartered associacapital stock of the said Union Bank, and, on tions within the said District, shall be, and the such subscription being made, to deliver over and same is hereby, repealed: Provided, That such retransfer to the said Bank of Potomac all the books, peal shall not, in any way, impair the right of the papers, money, property, and evidences of debts, said Bank of Potomac to the money, property, belonging to the said Union Bank, and to convey debts, and effects, which shall be transferred or to the said Bank of Potomac the real estate be- conveyed to it, as aforesaid, nor its remedies in its longing to said Union Bank, for passing the title own name for the recovery thereof; nor shall any of which bank in the said estate, to the said Bank suit now brought in the name of the said Union of Potomac, the deed of the President of the said Bank, thereby abate, but the same may be carried Union Bank shall be effectual; on which sub-on and prosecuted for the benefit of the said Bank scription, delivery, transfer, and conveyance, be- of Potomac, to final judgment and execution; and ing made, the stockholders of the said Union that proceedings on such judgments or executions Public Acts of Congress. may be instituted and carried on in the name of the said Union Bank, against the bail, securities, and all other persons bound in such suits for the defendants therein. sixteen, the third of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, to Canadian volunteers, may be, and hereby are, authorized to locate the said warrants, and to receive patents therefor in their own names, as had been the practice before the twenty-sixth of December, eighteen hundred and nineteen: Provided however, That in no case shall lands be so located until after having been exposed to public sale, shall remain unsold. Approved, March 3, 1821. An Act to continue in force, for a further time, the act entitled “An act for establishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes." Be it enacted, &c., That the act entitled "An act for establishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes," passed on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and which was, by subsequent acts, continued in force until the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, shall be, and the same is hereby, further continued in force until the third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and no longer. Approved, March 3, 1821. SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That if any stockholder or stockholders in either of the said banks, who has not heretofore assented to the union aforesaid, shall, within three months from the passing of this act, file his declaration in writing in the said Bank of Potomac, declaring himself dissatisfied with the said union, and his determination to withdraw his interest from the same; and if the said bank cannot agree with such stockholder or stockholders on the amount of such interest, and shall not forthwith pay the same, then it shall be lawful for the circuit court of the District of Columbia, at Alexandria, on the petition in writing of such stockholder or stockholders, to appoint three commissioners, whose duty it shall be to ascertain the value of the interest of such stockholder or stockholders in the bank to which he or they may belong at the time of the said union, for which purpose such commissioners shall, under the direction of the said court, have access to the books, papers, and accounts of the said banks, and on the report of the said commissioners, and such other evidences as may be laid before them, then said court shall proceed to ascertain the value of the stock of such stockholder or stockholders, and shall decree the value, so ascertained, to be paid to him or them by the said Bank of Potomac, and shall have power to enforce such decree by execution, attachment, or other legal process. SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for any two or more of the SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, instead banks, whose charters are hereby extended, by their of the appropriation therein contained, there shall respective presidents and directors, with the consent be, and is hereby, appropriated, the sum of five of a majority in interest of their respective stock-hundred thousand dollars per annum, for six years, holders, to agree, under written articles of associa- from the year eighteen hundred and twenty-one, tion, to unite and form one bank, by a style and inclusive, to be applied to carry into effect the purname to be prescribed in such articles; and the poses of the said act. subscribers thereto, and their legal representatives, shall, from the day fixed for that purpose in the said articles, be incorporated under the style and name set forth in the said articles, and thenceforth subject to the same rules, duties, regulations, conditions, provisions, and impositions, and be vested with the same rights, privileges, and immunities, as a body corporate, as by this act appertains to the Bank of Potomac, and are prescribed for the union of the Union Bank of Alexandria with the Bank of Potomac. SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That this act be, and the same is hereby declared to be, a public act, and that so much, and such parts of the said acts incorporating the several banks aforesaid, as may be repugnant to this act, be and the same are hereby repealed and annulled. Approved, March 2, 1821. An Act to regulate the location of Land Warrants, An Act to amend the act entitled “An act for the gradual increase of the Navy of the United States." Be it enacted, &c., That the first section of the act entitled "An act for the gradual increase of the Navy of the United States," approved April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixteen, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved, March 3, 1821. An Act to release French ships and vessels, entering the ports of the United States prior to the thirtieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, from the operation of the act entitled "An act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships and vessels, and for other purposes." Be it enacted, &c., That the provisions of the act entitled "An act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships and vessels," passed May fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, shall not extend to, or operate upon, any French ship or vessel that shall have entered into any port within the jurisdiction of the United States prior to the thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury, after deducting a tonnage duty equal to that paid by every French ship or vessel which entered the ports within the jurisdiction of the United States prior to the passage and operation of the act entitled "An act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships and vessels," passed May fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred Public Acts of Congress. and twenty, from the tonnage duty collected from French ships and vessels by virtue of the above recited act, between the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and the thirieth day of September following be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay and refund the remainder of such tonnage duty, free from costs and charges, to any person or persons who shall have authority to receive the same. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in the event of the signature of any treaty or convention concerning the navigation or commerce between the dominions of the United States and France, the President of the United States be, and is hereby authorized, should he deem the same expedient, by proclamation, to suspend, until the end of the next session of Congress, the operation of the aforesaid act entitled "An act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships and vessels, and for other purposes;" and, also, to suspend, as aforesaid, all other duties on French vessels, or the goods imported in the same, which may exceed the duties on American vessels and on similar goods imported in the same. Approved, March 3, 1821. An Act to establish a port of entry in the District of Sandusky, in the State of Ohio, and for other pur poses. Be it enacted, &c., That, from and after the first day of May next, the town of Portland, in the district of Sandusky, in the State of Ohio, shall be the port of entry for that district; and that from and after that time the present port of entry established at Danbury shall cease to be the port of entry for said district. Approved, March 3, 1821. An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States to sell and convey a certain tract of land in Northumberland county, in the State of Virginia. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to sell and dispose of, at public or private sale, all the estate, right, title, interest, claim, and demand, of the United States of America, of, in, and to, all that certain tract or piece of land, situate in Northumberland county, in the State of Virginia, formerly owned by Presly Thornton, of the said county and State, and late of Sharp Delany, containing about two thousand five hundred acres, be the same more or less; the same being the premises which William Lewis and Thomas Robinson, by deed of indenture, executed on the second day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and nine, granted and conveyed to the United States; the moneys arising from the said sale to be appropriated towards the payment of a debt due from the late Sharp Delany to the United States, and the residue thereof, if any there be, to be paid over to the legal representatives of the said Sharp Delany. Approved, March 3, 1821. An Act to authorize the Clerk of the District Court of the United States for the district of Louisiana to appoint a deputy to aid him in the discharge of the duties of his office. Be it enacted, &c., That the clerk of the district court of the United States for the district of Louisiana shall be authorized to appoint a deputy to aid him in the discharge of the duties of his office; and that the said clerk shall be, in all respects, liable for the acts of his said deputy. Approved, March 3, 1821. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act for regulating process in the courts of the United States.' in any district court of the United States, in which Be it enacted, &c., That in all suits and actions it shall appear that the judge of such court is any ways concerned in interest, or has been of counsel for either party, or is so related to, or connected with, either party, as to render it improper for him, in his opinion, to sit on the trial of such suit or action, it shall be the duty of such judge, on application of either party, to cause the fact to be entered on the records of the court; and, also, an order that an authenticated copy thereof, with all the proceedings in such suit or action, shall be forthwith certified to the next circuit court of the district; and if there be no circuit court in such district, to the next circuit court of the State, and if there be no circuit court in such State, to the most convenient circuit court in an adjacent State; which circuit court shall, upon such record being filed with the clerk thereof, take cognizance thereof, in the like manner as if such suit or action had been originally commenced in that court, and shall proceed to hear and determine the same accordingly, and the jurisdiction of such circuit court shall extend to all such cases so removed, as were cognizable in the district court from which the same was removed. Approved, March 3, 1821. An Act to revive and continue in force "An act fixing the compensations of the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives, of the Clerks employed in their offices, and of the Librarian," approved the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Be it enacted, &c., That the act, entitled "An act fixing the compensation of the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives, of the Clerks employed in their offices, and the Librarian," approved the eightenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, be, and the same is hereby, revived and continued in force from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twentyfour.-Approved, March 3, 1821. An Act to alter and establish certain Post Roads. Be it enacted, &c., That the following post roads be, and the same are hereby, discontinued, that is to say: Public Acts of Congress. From Concord, in Rockingham_county, by Salisbury, Andover, New Chester, Bridgewater, and Plymouth, thence by New Holderness, New Hampton, Sanbornton, and Salisbury, to Concord, and From Farmington to Middleton, in New Hampshire. From Carver to Wareham. From Northampton, by Southampton, to Springfield, in Massachusetts. From Herkimer, by Woodworth's, Columbia, by Underwood's, Litchfield, to Laghwaite. From Vernon to Delhi. From Little Falls, by Fairfield, Newport, and Russia, to Remsen, in New York. From Liberty Corner, by Doughty's Mills and New Providence, to Springfield, in New Jersey. In Morgantown, by Crab Orchard, to Kingwood, in Virginia. From Milledgeville, to Greensborough, Georgia. From Pocotaligo, by Hickory Hill, to Augusta, in South Carolina. From Clinton, in Tennessee, to Pulaski, in Kentucky. From Washington to Cincinnati; and From Lancaster to Washington, in Ohio. From Falmouth to Grant's Lick, on the east side of the river, in Kentucky. From Smithton to John Graham's in Missouri. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following be established post roads, that is to say: In Maine.-From Brunswick, by Topsham, Lisbon, Wales, Monmouth, Leeds, Wayne, and Fayette, to Jay; and thence by Livermore, Turner, and Durham, to Brunswick. From Green, by Leeds and Wayne, to Winthrop. From Bangor, by Levant, Corinth, New Charlestown, Atkinson, Sebec, Brownsville, Williamsburg, Foxcroft, Guilford, and Sangerville, to Bangor. From Warsaw, by Hartland and St. Albin's, to Palmyra. From Bethel, by Gilead, Shelburne, Durand, Kilkenney, and Jefferson, to Lancaster, in New Hampshire. In New Hampshire. From Concord, in Rockingham county, by the McCrillis tavern, in Canterbury, Northfield meeting-house, Sanbornton, Smith's village on the turnpike, across the river near Pine Hill, and Bridgewater, to Plymouth. From Smith's village on the turnpike, by New Hamptom meeting-house, and the paper mill in Holderness, to Plymouth. From Concord, by Loscowan, Salisbury village, Andover, New Chester, Bristol, and the Mayhew turnpike, to Rumney. From Rochester, by Chesnut Hill, in Farmington, to Middleton. From the post route from Centre Harbor to Plymouth, and the post route from Portsmouth, by Meredith, and New Hampton, to Plymouth, shall be by the post office in Holderness. In Massachusetts.-From Greenfield, by Bernardstown, Northfield, Warwick, Orange, New Salem, Shutesbury, Leverett, Sunderland, and Montague, to Greenfield. From Richmond to West Stockbridge. From Northampton, by East Hampton, South Hampton, Westfield, Southwick, and East Granby, to Hartford, in Connecticut. From Worcester to Croton. From Boston, by a turnpike road, to Taunton; and thence by Wellington, Dighton, Swanzey, Warren, Bristol, Portsmouth, and Middleton, to Newport, in Rhode Island. From South Hadley, by Granby, to Belcher town. In Connecticut. From Mansfield to Willington. From Stafford, by Union, to Woodstock. From Brooklin, by South Killingly, to Thomp son. From Bridgeport, by Long Hill, Trumbull, Levi Edwards's, in Huntington, Newtown, and Brookfield, to New Milford. In New York.-From Utica, by Whitesborough, Floyd, Steuben, and Western, to Rome. From Cayuga to Montezuma. From Turin, by Harrisburg, Copenhagen, Tylersville, Pinkney, and Rodman, to Adams. From Newburgh, by Middletown, Marlborough, Milton, and New Paltz, to Poughkeepsie. From Upper Red Hook Landing, to the present post road from New York to Albany. From Watertown, by Le Raysville, to Antwerp. From Mooresville, by Bovina, in Delaware county, to Delhi. From Bergen, by Riga, and East Riga, to Rochesterville. From Ellicottville, by Little Valley, Conewongo Creek, and Gerry, to Mayville. From Caledonia to Riga. From Whitehall, in Washington county, by Putnam, to Ticonderoga. From Southold, in Suffolk, to the village of Oysterponds. bridge, in the county of Chenango, by New HartFrom Utica, in the county of Oneida, to Bainford, Paris Furnace, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Columbus, New Berlin, Norwich, and Guilford. From Lisle in the county of Broome, through the towns of Berkshire and Carolina, on the Susquehanna, and Bath turnpike road, to Ithica, in the county of Tompkins. From Manlius, by Oran, Delhi, Fabius, Pompey, and thence to Manlius. From Utica, by Rome, to Montezuma, and thence to Rochester, upon and near the Great Canal. From Bennington, Vermont, by White Creek, Cambridge, Easton, and Greenwich, to Saratoga Springs, New York. From Richfield, by Peltries, in Columbia, by Underwood's, in Litchfield, to Utica. to Herkimer. From Peltries, in Columbia, by Elie Palmer's, From Little Falls, Herkimer county, by Eaton's Bush, Middleville, Newport, Naham Daniel's Russia post office, to Trenton, with a side mail from Middleville to Fairfield post office. From Canandaigua, in the State of New York, Public Acts of Congress. In New Jersey.-From Chester to Flanders. From Liberty Corner to Somerville. From Trenton, by Croswick's tavern, Rickle's town, Julius, and Arny's, to New Egypt. In Pennsylvania. From Easton, by Stockertown, to Roscommon. From Chester, by Village Green, Wilcoxe's mills, Concord meeting-house, and Dilworthtown, to West Chester. From Clark's Ferry, by Landisburg, Douglass's mills, and Concord, to Fannellsburg. From Somerset, by Connelsville, Union, Smithfield, Germantown, and Geneva, to Morgantown, in Virginia. From Hanover, by Berlin, to Dillstown. From Lambpeter square to Cochransville. From Gettysburg, by Petersburg, and Dillstown, to Harrisburg. From Berwick, on the Tioga and Susquehanna turnpike, to Meansville. From Lancaster, by New London cross roads, Newark, and Christiana bridge, to New Castle, in Delaware. From Gettysburg, by Lughtersburg, to Hagerstown, Maryland. From Leditz, in Lancaster county, by Elizabeth furnace and Shuefferston, to Lebanon. From Beavertown, Jeffriestown and Noblestown, to Cannonsburg. In Delaware.-From Milford to the village of Milton, a new route. In Maryland. That the mail route from Easton to Princess Anne shall pass over Dover Bridge, and by New Market and Cambridge; the route from Easton, by the Trappe, to Cambridge, shall nevertheless be continued. From Easton to the Trappe, in Talbot county. From Harford to Michael's store. In Virginia. From Kingwood, by Crab Orchard, Hagan's store, to Smithfield, in Pennsylvania. From Lewis courthouse, by French Creek settlement, Flatwood's, and Elk river, to Nicholas courthouse. From Woodring's mill, in Preston county, by Goff's ferry, on Cheat river, to Leading creek, in Randolph county. From the mouth of Fishing creek, on the Ohio, river, by Buffalo, Barnes's mills, Pritchett's settlement, and Smithfield, to Kingwood. From Springfield to Romney, in Hampshire county. From Morgantown, by Jackson's iron works, Carlisle's furnace, to Sandy creek glades. From Charlottesville, by Warren, to Buckingham courthouse. From Culpeper courthouse, by State mills, to Woodville. From Staunton, by Little river, to the Panther Gap. From Jacksonville, in Wood county, by Murphy's settlement, to Lewis courthouse. 16th CoN. 2d SESS.-58 That the mail route from Wheeling pass by Sisterville and the mouth of Fishing creek. That the mail route from Warm springs, in Bath county, by Anthony's creek, to Lewisburg, shall, in returning, pass by Frankford, Locust creek, Barnes's mill, Cackley's, Bradshaw's, and Gatewood, to the Warm Springs. In North Carolina.--From Salisbury to Fayetteville. From Wilkesborough, by Mock's Old Fields, Salisbury, Skeen's ferry, Lawrenceville, Wadesborough, and Sneedsborough, to Cheraw, formerly Chatham, in South Carolina. From Charlotte, by Chester courthouse, and Newberry courthouse, to Edgefield courthouse, in South Carolina. That the mail route from Fayetteville to Wilmington pass by David Wright's store, in Duplin county. From Salisbury, by Fulton, to Huntsville. In South Carolina. From Columbia, by Ashville and Warm Springs, in North Carolina, to Lexington, in Kentucky. From Coosawatchie, by Robertsville and King creek, to Augusta. In Georgia. From Monticello, by Monroe, in Walton county, and Lawrenceville, in Gwinnet county, to Hall courthouse. From Jefferson to Fairfield, in Camden county. From Carnesville, by Habersham courthouse, to Rabun courthouse. From Powelton, in Hancock county, by Greensborough, to Madison, in Morgan county. From Carnesville, by Bushville, to Hall courthouse. In Kentucky. From Franklin to Nashville, in Tennessee. From Eddyville, by Iron Banks, to New Madrid, in Missouri. That the post route from Burkesville to Monticello shall pass by Robert Poage's in Stockton's Valley. That the post route from Columbia to Glasgow shall pass by Edmonton, in Barren county. From Scottsville to Cairo, in Tennessee. From Falmouth, in Pendleton county, passing the three forks of Grassy creek and Gains's, to Burlington, in Boone county. From Bowling Green, by Litchfield and Hardingsburg, to Corydon, in Indiana. In Tennessee. From Clinton to Burkesville, in Kentucky. From Washington, in Rher county, by Hamilton courthouse and the new turnpike road, to Morgantown, at the mouth of Sequatchee, by Marion courthouse and Jackson courthouse, to Huntsville, in Alabama. From McMinville, by Shelby, to Columbia. From Sparta, by Cookeville, Gainesborough, and Meigsville, to Tompkinsville, in Kentucky. From Kingston, by Washington, to Huntsville, in Alabama. That the route from Springfield to Russelville, in Kentucky, shall pass Fort's mills, on Red river. From Murfreesborough to Statesville. |