Public Acts of Congress. deceased member shall be deemed his family, and as such entitled to the relief provided under the foregoing article; but a member having no wife or children, may adopt any other person or persons as his family, for all the purposes of this association, by giving notice in writing, to the president and board of officers, of the name and residence of such person or persons. 14th. The relief to which the families of de ceased members shall be entitled, may be granted either by the payment of a certain sum of mo. ney, as prescribed by the twelfth article, or by annuity, the terms of which shall be fixed by the claimant, and the president and board of officers. 15th. In addition to the pecuniary relief to which the families of the deceased members are entitled, the members of this association pledge themselves to endeavor to provide for the permanent establishment in society of the persons composing such families. 16th. A general meeting of the association shall be held on the last Saturday in March, annually; but the president and board of officers may call a general meeting whenever they shall think it necessary. 17th. The regular meetings of the president and board of officers shall be on the first Saturday of January, April, July, and October, annually; but a special meeting of the board of officers may be called by the president, on a requisition in writing from any member thereof. 18th. In all cases where it is not otherwise expressly provided, a majority of the votes of the members of the association, assembled at any meeting, shall prevail. 19th. All legacies or donations made to the association, shall be appropriated to the general purposes thereof. 20th. The president and board of officers shall have power to make by-laws for their government, provided the same be consistent with these articles. 21st. If the association shall be dissolved by any event, or in any manner whatsoever, otherwise than by the expiration of the charter, the funds then belonging to it shall, after all claims and demands thereon are satisfied, be divided among the families of deceased members, according to the sums paid in by such such members respectively. 22d. The debts which the said corporation may, at any time, owe, shall not exceed the value of the property lawfully held and owned by them; and, in case of excess, the directors who may have been assenting thereto, shall be liable for the same in their natural and individual capacities; and an action of debt may, in such case, be brought against them, or any of them, in the proper court, by any creditor or creditors, of the said corporation, and may be prosecuted to judgment and execution, any condition, covenant, or agreement, to the contrary notwithstanding: And the property of the corporation shall also be liable for and chargeable with the excess. 23d. It shall not be lawful for the said corporation to deal or trade in the manner of a bank, nor issue any note in the nature of a bank note, nor transact any other kind of business, or deal in any other manner or thing, than is expressly authorized by the eleventh article of the second section of this act; and any director or directors, who shall have assented to any such dealing or trade, shall, on conviction thereof, in the proper court, forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars; one-half to the use of the poor of the City of Washington, and the other half to the use of the person who may prosecute for the same: Provided always, That Congress may, at any time, amend, alter, or annul, this act. Approved, February 15, 1819. Be it enacted, &c., That, instead of the salaries now allowed by law to the following officers, there shall be paid to them, quarterly, the fol lowing annual salaries respectively; that is to say: to the Secretary of State, six thousand dollars; to the Secretary of the Treasury, six thousand dollars; to the Secretary of War, six thousand dollars; to the Secretary of the Navy, six thousand dollars; to the Attorney General, three thousand five hundred dollars; to the Postmaster General, four thousand dollars; to the Chief Justice of the United States, five thousand dollars; and to each of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, four thousand five hundred dollars; and to the Assistant Postmaster General, and Additional Assistant Postmaster General, two thousand five hundred dollars each; to commence the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; and to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 20, 1819. An Act authorizing the President of the United States to purchase the lands reserved by the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, to certain Chiefs, Warriors, or other Indians, of the Creek nation. Be it enacted, &c., That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to purchase for, and on behalf of, the United States, any tract or tracts of land, reserved by the act of the third day of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, to the chiefs, warriors, or other Indians, of the Creek nation, which they, or either of them, may be disposed to sell; and the amount of such purchase shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any tract or tracts of land, the title to which may be acquired by the United States, by virtue of this act, shall be offered at public sale, at the land offices of the district in which they may be situate, upon such day or days as the President shall, by 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 Public Acts of Congress. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay unto Adam Kinsley, and Thomas French, such sum of money, in addition to that already paid, under a contract entered into on the twentieth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight, between Tench Coxe, on the part of the United States, with the said Adam Kinsley and Thomas French, for the manufacture of four thousand stand of arms, as shall increase the price of each stand of arms, delivered under the said contract, to a sum equal to that allowed to others who entered into con ing in view the quality of the arms delivered by each; and that the same be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. opinion, for that purpose, in the said State: which grant, hereby provided to be made, shall be considered as made in lieu of a township directed to be reserved by the fifth section of an act, entitled "An act to provide for the ascertaining and surveying of the boundary lines fixed by the treaty with the Creek Indians, and for other purposes," passed March three, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen; and which reserve of one township, provided to be made by the aforesaid fifth section of said act, shall be offered for sale, in the same manner as the other public lands in the same district. Approved, February 20, 1819. An Act directing the payment of certain bills drawn by General Armstrong in favor of William Morgan. Thomas Griffin, administrator of William MorBe it enacted, &c., That there shall be paid to tracts to manufacture and deliver arms to the gan, deceased, and trustee of Alexander MacauUnited States, on or about the same time, keep-ley, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherhundred and nine dollars and twenty-one cents, wise appropriated, the sum of five thousand two being the amount of certain bills of exchange said William Morgan, master of the ship Louisa, drawn by General John Armstrong, in favor of for the value of said ship Louisa, and cargo, under the Louisiana convention, and which bills were delivered to Joseph Fenwick, late Consul of the United States at Bordeaux: Provided always, That before such payment shall be made, the said Thomas Griffin shall give bond, with one or more sureties, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, to indemnify the United States for such payment, against all persons whatsoever, who may hereafter make any claim on account of the said bills, or either of them. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted,, That the said Secretary make the like additional compensation to Charles S. Leonard, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for arms manufactured and delivered by him, under a contract entered into on or about the time abovementioned, keeping in view the rules prescribed in the preceding section. Approved, February 20, 1819. An Act providing for a grant of land for the seat of government in the State of Mississippi, and for the support of a seminary of learning within the said State. Approved, February 20, 1819. An Act supplemental to the act, entitled “An act further to amend the charter of the City of Washington." Be it enacted, &c., That there shall be granted to the State of Mississippi, two entire sections of land, or fractional sections, or quarter sections, not exceeding the quantity contained in two entire sections, for a seat of government in the said State; which land shall be located in one entire tract, at such place as, under the authority of the said State, shall be designated for the seat of government therein, whenever the Indian title shall have been extinguished thereto, and before the commencement of the public sales of the adjoining and surrounding lands belonging to the Uni-plement, or of any other act, passed, or to be ted States. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That, in addition to the township of land granted for the support of Jefferson College, there shall be granted, in the said State, another township, or a quantity of land equal thereto, to be located in tracts of not less than four entire sections each, which shall be vested in the Legislature of the said State, in trust, for the support of a seminary of learning therein; which lands shall be located by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, whenever an extinguishment of Indian title shall be made for lands, suitable, in his Be it enacted, &c., That any lot, or part of a lot, or other real estate whatsoever, in the City of Washington, heretofore sold, or hereafter to be sold, for any tax due to the corporation of said city, or laid or assessed under the authority of the said corporation, pursuant to the powers vested in it by virtue of the act to which this is a sup passed, shall and may be redeemed, so as effectually to reinstate and invest the proprietor, or his legal representatives, in and with all his former estate, as fully and effectually as if such sale had never been made, upon payment, or tender of payment, being made, at any time within two years from the time of such sale, by such proprietor, or by his heirs, executors, or administrators, or by any other person, in his or their behalf, to the purchaser of such lot or part of a lot, or other real estate, his executors or administrators, of the money actually paid by him for the same, with the addition of interest, at the rate of ten per cen Public Acts of Congress. tum per annum, to be computed from the time of the payment of the said money by such purchaser; and if such purchaser, his executors, or administrators, have no known place of residence within the District of Columbia, or be not to be found at such place of residence, at the time such redemption is desired to be made; or if such proprietor, his heirs, executors, or administrators, or any other person in his behalf, shall offer to pay such money, with interest as aforesaid, and such purchaser, his executors, or administrators, shall refuse to acept the same, and give a sufficient receipt and acquittance in writing for the same, by way of redemption aforesaid, then, and in every such case, it shall and may be lawful for such proprietor, his heirs, executors, or administrators, or other person in his or their behalf, to make the redemption aforesaid, as effectually, by paying the said money, with interest as aforesaid, to the clerk of the circuit court for the county of Washington; whose duty it shall be to make report of the same to the said court, immediately, if in session, otherwise on the first day of session then next ensuing, and to deposite the said money for safe-keeping, and pay the same over to such purchaser, or his legal representatives, under the direction of the said court: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to affect the right of any person now entitled, under any law heretofore enacted, to receive any higher or other premium than an interest of ten per centum per annum, as aforesaid, upon the redemption of any real estate, other than vacant and unimproved lots heretofore sold for taxes, nor to affect the vested legal right of such person to hold such real estate clear of such right of redemption, at any time less than two years from the time of the sale, such legal right being vested prior to the passing of this act; and that the said court may require such higher or other premium to be paid, by the person redeeming, to the purchaser, in any case wherein it shall appear to the said court that a vested legal right to such premium existed before the passing of this act. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several collectors of the said taxes, or such other officer of the said corporation as shall be charged with the duty of selling any such real estate for taxes, shall, within ten days after every such sale, transmit to the clerk of the said court an accurate report in writing, certified by the clerk or register of the said corporation, containing a particular description of the property sold, the amount of taxes for the raising of which it has been sold, the names and residence of the person or persons to whom such property belongs, or to whom such taxes have been assessed, and of the purchaser or purchasers, the amount of the purchase money; distinguishing how much has been actually paid, and the clear surplus, if any, coming to the proprietor; which report it shall be the duty of the clerk of the said court forthwith to record among the land records of the said county, and the expense thereof shall be paid by the party who redeems the same. Approved, February 20, 1819. An Act providing additional penalties for false entries for the benefit of drawback, or bounty on exportation. Be it enacted, &c., That, in addition to the forfeitures and penalties heretofore provided by law, for making a false entry with the collector of any district, of any goods, wares, or merchandise, for the benefit of drawback or bounty on exportation, the person making such false entry shall, (except in the cases heretofore excepted by law,) forfeit and pay to the United States a sum equal to the value of the articles mentioned or described in such entry; to be sued for, recovered, distributed, and accounted for, in the manner prescribed by the act, entitled "An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage," passed on the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninetynine. Approved, February 20, 1819. An Act for the relief of Thomas Hall Jervey. Treasury shall cause to be paid to Thomas Hall Be it enacted, fc., That the Secretary of the Jervey, surveyor of the port of Charleston, onehalf of the amount received by the United States on account of the condemnation of the schooner the Lovely Cordelia, and of the James and Elizabeth, and that an amount, not exceeding five thousand dollars, be appropriated for this purpose, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 24, 1819. An Act concerning the heirs and legatees of Thomas Turner, deceased. Be it enacted, &c., That the Commissioners of the Navy Pension Fund are hereby authorized and required to pay, out of the said fund, to the executors of Thomas Turner, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs and legatees of the said Thomas Turner, deceased, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars; the said sum being in consideration of services rendered by the said Thomas Turner, deceased, as accountant of the Navy Department, in receiving and settling all accounts respecting the said fund, and for which no compensation has heretofore been made. Approved, February 24, 1819. An Act for the relief of Kenzie and Forsyth. Be it enacted, &c., That the accounting officers of the Treasury Department be authorized and directed to settle the accounts of Kenzie and Forsyth, for three mules and ten horses which were lost in the public service at the evacuation of Chicago during the late war; and that the sum found due to said Kenzie and Forsyth be paid to them out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury. Approved, February 24, 1819. An Act making provision for the claim of M. Poirey. Be it enacted, &c., That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, author Public Acts of Congress. shall be, and hereby is, authorized to make such assignment accordingly. ized to liquidate, settle, and allow the claim of M. Poirey, as secretary and aid-de-camp to Major General Lafayette, during the time of his service, SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall in those capacities, in the time of the Revolu- be the duty of the auditor charged with the extionary war between the United States of Amer-amination of the accounts, as aforesaid, to keep ica and Great Britain. Approved, February 24, 1819. An Act allowing further time to complete the issuing SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the time limited by the act supplementary to the act further extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants, and for other purposes, approved March ninth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, for issuing military land warrants, shall be extended to the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, and the time limited by the said act for the location of unlocated military land warrants, shall be extended to the first day of October thereafter. Approved, February 24, 1819. all accounts of the receipts and expenditures of the public money in regard to them; to receive from the second comptroller the accounts which shall have been finally adjusted, and to preserve such accounts, with the vouchers and certificates. And it shall be the duty of the said auditor to make such reports on the business bereby assigned to him, as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, and require, from time to time, for the service of the War Department. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Treasurer of the United States shall disburse all such moneys as shall have been previously ordered for the use of the Indian Department, with the exception of those relating to Indian trade beforementioned, by warrants from the Treasury; which disbursements shall be made pursuant to warrants drawn by the Secretary of War, and countersigned by the second comptroller, and registered by the second and third auditor, as the case may be. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act to which this is a supplement, as is inconsistent with this act, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved, February 24, 1819. An Act to incorporate a company to build a bridge over the Eastern Branch of Potomac, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets East, in the City of Washington. Be it enacted, &c., That the following persons, viz: William Prout, William Marbury, Samuel N. Smallwood, Timothy Winn, and Adam Lindsay, or any three of them, be, and are hereby, constituted a board of commissioners, with full power and authority to open, or cause to be An Act making provision for the claim of M. de Vienne. Be it enacted, &c., That the accounting officers of the War Department be, and they are hereby, authorized to liquidate, settle, and allow the claim of M. de Vienne, for the pay, appoint-opened, books for receiving and entering subscripments, and emoluments of lieutenant colonel, for seven months' service during the Revolutionary war between the United States and Great Britain. Approved, February 24, 1819. tions, for raising a capital stock, not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each, for the purpose of erecting a bridge between Eleventh and Twelfth streets East, in the City of Washington, over the Eastern Branch, to the most convenient landing on An Act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act the opposite shore, and making such other incito provide for the prompt settlement of Public Ac-dental works, and defraying such other incidental counts." expenses, as shall be required by this act, or deemed necessary or expedient by the company hereinafter namned; the time, place, and manner, of receiving and entering such subsciptions, to be ascertained by the said board of commissioners, and duly advertised in such newspapers as they may deem expedient: Provided, That the time to be fixed upon, by the said board of commissioners, for opening books for receiving said subscriptions, shall be on or before the second Monday in March next; and that no subsciption shall be received, unless the sum of ten dollars be first paid into the hands of the person authorized to receive the same, on each share subscribed for. Be it enacted, &c., That, from and after the third day of March next, it shall be the duty of the second auditor of the Treasury to receive all unsettled accounts arising out of Indian affairs, with the exception of those appertaining to the Indian trade, and examine the same, and thereafter certify the balance, and transmit the accounts, with the vouchers and certificates, to the second comptroller, for his decision thereon: Provided, That if in the opinion of the President of the United States the public interest and convenience would be promoted by assigning all, or any part of, the said accounts to the third auditor, he Public Acts of Congress. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, when- from one to another, by assignments in writing, ever two hundred of the said shares shall be sub-executed before two witnesses, at least, and auscribed for, all persons who may then be, or there-thenticated and registered, as the said company after may become, the actual holders or proprietors may prescribe and direct in their by-laws and of shares in the said capital stock, either as sub-regulations, and shall be deemed personal, and scribers for the same, or as the legal representa- not real, property; and that the shares held by tives, successors, or assignees, of such subscribers, any individual shall be liable to be attached, or shall be, and they are hereby, made and created taken by fieri facias, to satisfy the debts due from a body politic and corporate, by the name and such individual, in like manner as other personal style of The Navy Yard Bridge Company;" property may be. and by that name may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and do and suffer all acts, matters, and things, which a body politic and corporate may lawfully do and suffer; and may have a common seal, and the same may break and alter at pleasure, and may make all by-laws, rules, and regulations, and ordinances, for the good government of said company, and for carrying into effect the objects of their institution, so that such by-laws, rules, regulations, and ordinances, be not repugnant to the laws of the United States in force within the District of Columbia. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That a meeting of the said company may, at any time, be called, at some convenient place in the City of Washington, by a majority of the directors of the company, for the time being, and by onethird of the members of the said company, or by the proprietors of one-third of the shares actually subscribed for, or the legal representatives or proprietors: Provided, however, That no meeting of the said company shall be legal or valid, unless a quorum shall be formed, consisting of the majority of the members of said company, or of the proprietors of at least two-thirds of the number of shares actually subscribed for, their legal rep election, any vacancies that may happen among the number of directors, or among the number of the officers of the company; and the person so elected, by the said directors, may continue in office till the next legal meeting of the com SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That at all elections for directors and officers of said com-resentatives, successors, or proxies, nor unless the pany, each and every member of the said com- time of such meeting be previously advertised, pany shall be entitled to as many votes as he or for three weeks successively, in one or more she may hold shares of the capital stock of said gazettes in the District of Columbia; and the company, and may vote by proxy, executed under said company shall have power, at any meeting their hands and seals, in the presence of two wit- legally called and constituted in pursuance of nesses; and that when two hundred of the said this act, to displace any of their directors or offishares shall be subscribed for, as aforesaid, or as cers, and to supply, by a new election, all vacansoon after as may be, the said board of commis- cies that may happen among the directors or offisioners shall call a meeting of the company, at cers of the company; and a majority of the said some convenient place in the City of Washing-directors may provisionally supply, by their own ton, giving at least three weeks' notice thereof, by public advertisement, in one or more newspapers published in the District of Columbia; and the said company shall then and there elect, by ballot, five directors and a treasurer, and such other officers, agents, and servants, as the company. pany may think fit to appoint; and as soon thereafter as a board of directors shall be formed, they shall elect one of their body to be president of the said board of directors; and all the powers, authority, and duties, whatsoever, by this act vested in the said board of commissioners, shall cease and determine, and thenceforward become vested in the president and directors for the time being of the said company; and the said board of commissioners shall account to the president and directors of the said company, at their first meeting, for all moneys received by them or their agents, on account of subscriptions, and shall immediately pay over the same to the treasurer of said company. And the said directors and treasurer shall hold their offices until the first Tuesday in October next, and until a new election shall be made by the company. And there shall be holden on that day, and, annually thereafter, on every first Tuesday in October, a meeting of the said company, for the purpose of electing five directors and a treasurer, and other officers and agents, as aforesaid. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said shares shall be negotiable and transferrable SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the amount of each share shall be paid by instalments of ten dollars, at such time as the said company shall direct; and in case any instalment or instalments shall not be paid at the time appointed by the said company, or within ten days thereafter, the same may be recovered in the name of the said company, by warrant from a justice of the peace, if the amount due shall not exceed twenty dollars, and if the sum so due shall exceed twenty dollars, the same may be recovered by motion in the name of the said company, on ten days' notice, in any court of record in the county or district where the debtor should be found; and in all such warrants and motions, the certificate of the clerk of the said company, authenticated by the president, under the common seal of the said company, shall be conclusive evidence of the defendant's being a member of the company, and prima facie evidence of the amount due on the shares held by such defendant; and if such instalment be not paid within sixty days after the time limited for the payment of the same, and advertisement for four weeks, successively, in one or more newspapers published in the Dis |