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number of negroes, mulattoes, or persons of color, so delivered.

veniently may be, to the civil authority of the United States, to be proceeded against, in due course of law, in some of the districts thereof. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That it SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the shall be the duty of the commander of any armed President of the United States be, and he is vessel of the United States, whenever he shall hereby, authorized, to make such regulations and make any capture under the provisions of this arrangements, as he may deem expedient, for the act, to bring the vessel and her cargo, for adjudisafekeeping, support, and removal beyond the cation, into some of the ports of the State or limits of the United States, of all such negroes, Territory to which such vessel, so captured, mulattoes, or persons of color, as may be so deliv-shall belong, if he can ascertain the same; if not, ered and brought within their jurisdiction; and then to be sent into any convenient port of the to appoint a proper person or persons, residing United States. upon the coast of Africa, as agent or agents for receiving the negroes, mulattoes, or persons of color, delivered from on board vessels, seized in the prosecution of the slave trade, by commanders of the United States' armed vessels.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That a bounty of twenty-five dollars be paid to the officers and crews of the commissioned vessels of the United States, or revenue cutters, for each and every negro, mulatto, or person of color, who shall have been, as herein before provided, delivered to the marshal or agent duly appointed to receive them: And the Secretary of the Trea sury is hereby authorized and required to pay, or cause to be paid, to such officers and crews, or their agent, the aforesaid bounty, for each person delivered as aforesaid.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That when any citizen, or other person, shall lodge information with the attorney for the district of any State or Territory, as the case may be, that any negro, mulatto, or person of color, has been imported therein, contrary to the provisions of the acts in such case made and provided, it shall be the duty of the said attorney forthwith to commence a prosecution, by information; and process shall issue against the person charged with holding such negro, negroes, mulatto, mulattoes, person or persons of color, so alleged to be imported contrary to the provisions of the acts aforesaid: And if, upon the return of the process executed, it shall be ascertained, by the verdict of a jury, that such negro, negroes, mulatto, mulattoes, person or persons of color, have been brought in, contrary to the true intent and meaning of the acts in such cases made and provided, then the court shall direct the marshal of the said district to take the said negroes, mulattoes, or persons of color, into his custody, for safekeeping, subject to the orders of the President of the United States: and the informer or informers, who shall have lodged the information, shall be entitled to receive, over and above the portion of the penalties accruing to him or them by the provisions of the acts in such case made and provided, a bounty of fifty dollars, for each and every negro, mulatto, or person of color, who shall have been delivered into the custody of the marshal; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to pay, or cause to be paid, the aforesaid bounty, upon the certificate of the clerk of the court for the district where the prosecution may have been had, with the seal of office thereto annexed, stating the

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all such acts, or parts of acts, as may be repugnant to the provisions of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to carry this law into effect.

Approved, March 3, 1819.

An Act to authorize the building, erecting, and placing light-houses, beacons, and buoys, on places designated in Boston, Buzzard, and Chesapeake, Bays, Lakes Ontario and Erie, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted, fc., That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to provide, by contract, which shall be approved by the President of the United States, for building lighthouses, erecting beacons or landmarks, and placing light vessels or boats, on the following sites or shoals, to wit:

A light-house on Long Island Head, and a beacon or landmark on Half-way Rock, in Boston Bay; and also a light-house on Bird's Island, in Buzzard's Bay, in the State of Massachusetts.

A light-house on Galloo Island, near the outlet of Lake Ontario, in the State of New York.

A light-house, at a proper place, at or between the mouth of Grand River, in the State of Ohio, and the mouth of Detroit River, in the Territory of Michigan..

Three light-houses, on the following sites: one on the Bodkin, one on North Point, and one on Sparrow's Point, in the State of Maryland.

A light-house on Windmill Point, at the mouth of Rappahannock river, or a light vessel or boat on the Wolf-trap shoals, if the latter shall be deemed preferable to a light-house on Windmill Point; a light-house on Craney Island, at the mouth of Elizabeth river, and a light vessel, or boat, on Willoughby's Spit, between Lynnhaven Bay and Hampton Roads, in the State of Virginia: And a beacon, or landmark, on Wolf Island, near the port of Darien, in the State of Georgia.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause three buoys to be placed in such manner as to mark out the channel leading into the harbor of Boston, and one buoy to be placed on West Island Ledge, in Buzzard's Bay; a spindle, or buoy, on the outer rock of the reef run

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ning from Cochney's Island to Eastern Norwalk Island; another spindle, or buoy, on the reef running about southwest from the western point of the Western Norwalk Island; and a spindle on the rock off the point of Fairweather Island, in the State of Connecticut: And twenty buoys in the Chesapeake Bay, and Patapsco river, for designating the shoals and channel, in the State of Maryland.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause a pier to be carried out to nine feet water, at the light-house heretofore authorized to be erected at the mouth of the Mississippi; and, also, that he cause the present wood tower, at the Seguin light-house, in the State of Massachusetts, to be replaced with one of stone.

lars: For erecting a light-house on the south point of Sapelo Island, two thousand five hundred and five dollars.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three thousand and twenty-seven dollars be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated, to pay the salaries to the several keepers of the light-houses within the United States; to be applied, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, so as to fix the annual salary of each keeper aforesaid, at the rate of three hundred and fifty dollars per annum.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury, in case he shall deem it expedient and proper, may cause the lighthouse heretofore authorized to be erected on the south point of Sapelo Island, to be changed to, and placed on, Wolf's Island. Approved, March 3, 1819

Approved, March 3, 1819.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated, the following sums of money, to accomplish the purposes heretofore enumerated in this act, to wit: For the erection and establishment of light-houses on Long Island Head, on Bird's An Act to repeal part of an passed on the twentyIsland, and a beacon or landmark on Half-way seventh day of February, one thousand eight hunRock, eleven thousand five hundred dollars: dred and thirteen, entitled "An act in addition to 'An act regulating the Post Office Establishment." For a light-house on Galloo Island, near the outlet of Lake Ontario, twelve thousand five Be it enacted, &c., That so much of the last hundred dollars: For a light-house, at a proper clause of the "Act in addition to 'An act reguplace, at or between the mouth of Grand river | lating the Post Office Establishment," passed the and Detroit river, five thousand dollars: For twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand three light-houses, one on the Bodkin, one on eight hundred and thirteen, as contains these North Point, and one on Sparrow's Point, in words, being the concluding words of the clause, the Chesapeake Bay, and on the Patapsco river, namely: "And that such contracts shall secure nine thousand dollars: For a light-house on the regular transportation of the mail throughout Windmill Point, or light vessel or boat on the the year;" be, and the same is hereby, annulled Wolf-trap shoals, a light vessel or boat on Wil- and repealed. loughby's Spit, between Lynnhaven Bay and Hampton Roads, and a light-house on Craney Island, at the mouth of Elizabeth river, twelve thousand dollars: For three buoys, to mark out the channel leading into Boston harbor, and for one to be placed on West Island Ledge, in Buzzard's Bay, sixteen hundred dollars: For the spindles or buoys on the reef running from Coch-Resolution declaring the admission of the State of ney's Island; for that on the reef running about southwest from the western point of the Western Resolved by the Senate and House of RepresentNorwalk's Island, and for that on the rock off the atives of the United States of America in Conpoint of Fairweather Island, twelve hundred dol-gress assembled, That, whereas, in pursuance of lars: For twenty buoys, to be placed in the an act of Congress, passed on the eighteenth day Chesapeake Bay and Patapsco river, eight thou- of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighsand dollars: For the pier to be carried out from teen, entitled "An act to enable the people of the the light-house at the mouth of the Mississippi, Illinois Territory to form a constitution and State four thousand dollars; and for replacing the government, and for the admission of such State tower at the Seguin light-house, twenty-five hun-into the Union, on an equal footing with the origdred dollars; and for a beacon or landmark on Wolf Island, near the port of Darien, in the State of Georgia, one thousand dollars.

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Illinois into the Union.

inal States," the people of said Territory did, on the twenty-sixth day of August, in the present year, by a convention called for that purpose, form SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That, to for themselves a constitution and State governmake up the deficiencies of the appropriations ment, which constitution and State government, heretofore made, for the purposes following, the so formed, is republican, and in conformity to several sums, respectively named, be, and they the principies of the articles of compact between are hereby, appropriated, payable out of any mo- the original States and the people and States in ney in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the territory northwest of the river Ohio, passed to wit: To pay for the land, and erecting the on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven light-house, at Holmes's Hole, sixty-three dol-hundred and eighty-seven: Resolved by the Sen

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ate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Illinois shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever.

Approved, December 3, 1818.

Resolution authorizing the transmission of certain documents free of postage.

Resolved, &c., That the members of Congress, the Delegates from Territories, the Secretary of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House of Reptives, be, and they are hereby, authorized to transmit, free of postage, to any post office within the United States or the Territories thereof, any documents which have been, or may be, communicated to either House of Congress, during the present session, by the President of the United States or either of the Heads of Departments, and printed for the use of Congress.

Approved, December 5, 1818.

Resolution directing a survey of certain parts of the

coast of North Carolina.

Resolved, &c., That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, requested to cause surveys to be made of the points of Cape Hatteras, Cape Lookout, and Cape Fear, and of the shoals of those capes, respectively; and to cause such an examination to be made of those capes and shoals, respectively, as will ascertain the practicability of erecting light-houses, beacons, or buoys, on or near the extreme points of them, or either of them; and also to cause the latitude and longitude of the said capes, extreme points, and shoals, respectively, to be ascertained with as much exactness as may be practicable; and that the results of such surveys and examinations be reported to Congress.

Approved, January 19, 1819.

Resolution for the distribution of Seybert's Statistical
Annals; and directing Pitkin's Commercial
tics to be deposited in the Library.

posited in the Library of Congress, for the use of the members.

Approved, January 23, 1819.

Resolutions authorizing the transmission of the documents accompanying the report of the committee to examine into the proceedings of the Bank of the United States, free of postage.

Resolved, &c., That the Members of Congress, the Delegates from Territories, the Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives, be, and they are hereby, authorized, to transmit, free of postage, to any post office within the United States, or the Territories thereof, the documents accompanying the report of the committee appointed by the House of Representatives to examine into the proceedings of the Bank of the United States.

Approved, February 15, 1819.

Resolutions directing the manner in which the printing of Congress shall be executed, fixing the prices thereof, and providing for the appointment of a printer or printers.

Resolved, &c., That the printing of Congress, unless when otherwise specially ordered, shall be done in the following form and manner, viz:

Bills, as heretofore, with English type, on foolscap paper. Rule or table-work, in royal octavo size, where it can be brought into that size, by any type not smaller than brevier; and where it cannot, in such form as to fold conveniently into the volume. All other printing with a small pica type, on royal paper, in pages of the same size as those of the last edition of the laws of the United States, including the marginal notes.

And the following prices shall be allowed and paid for the above described work: For the composition of every page of bills, one dollar; of every page of small pica, plain work, one dollar; of every page of small pica, rule-work, two dollars; every page of brevier, rule-work, three dollars and fifty cents; and for a larger form of brevier rule-work, in proportion.

For the press-work of bills, including paper, folding, and stitching-for fifty copies, twenty-five cents per page; for four hundred copies, one dolStatis-lar and twenty-five cents per page; for the presswork of tables, other than those in the regular octavo form, for six hundred copies, including as above, five dollars and fifty cents, per form; for the press-work of the Journals, of nine hundred copies, including as above, one dollar per page; for all other printing, in the octavo form, of six hundred copies, including as above, eighty-seven and a half cents per page; and for a larger or smaller number, in proportion.

Resolved, &c., That the Secretary of State cause to be distributed one copy of Seybert's Statistical Annals to the President of the United States; to the Vice President of the United States, and to the Executive of each State and Territory, one copy; two copies for the use of each of the Departments, viz: State, Treasury, War, and Navy; one copy for the use of the Attorney General of the United States; and one copy to That, as soon as this resolution shall have been each member and delegate of the Fifteenth Con-approved by the President of the United States, gress; and one copy to each college and univer-each House shall proceed to ballot for a printer, versity in the United States, if applied for by to execute its work during the next Congress; such college or university; and the residue of the five hundred copies of the Annals aforesaid, together with the two hundred and fifty copies of Pitkin's Commercial Statistics, shall be de

and the person having the greater number of votes shall be considered duly elected, and shall give bond, with sureties, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the

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House of Representatives, respectively, for the prompt, accurate, and neat execution of the work; and in case any inconvenient delay should be, at any time, experienced by either House, in the delivery of its work, the Secretary and Clerk, respectively, may be authorized to employ another printer to execute any portion of the work of the Senate or House, and charge the excess, in the account of such printer, for executing such work, above what is herein allowed, to the printer guilty of such negligence and delay: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall preclude the choice of the same printer by the Senate and by the House of Representatives. Approved, March 3, 1819.

Resolution declaring the manner in which the vessels composing the Navy of the United States shall be named.

Resolved, &c., That all ships of the Navy of the United States, now building, or hereafter to be built, shall be named by the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of the President of the United States, according to the following rule, to wit: Those of the first class shall be called after the States of this Union; those of the second class after the rivers; and those of the third class after the principal cities and towns; taking care that no two vessels in the Navy shall bear the same name. Approved, March 3, 1819.

INDEX

TO THE PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE SECOND SESSION OF
THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS.

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Agent for paying Pensioners, a bill from the
House of Representatives to authorize the
Secretary of War to appoint an additional,
in the State of Tennessee, read

read a second time, and referred
reported without amendment

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read the third time, and passed

Alabama Territory, Mr. Tait presented the me-
morial of the Legislature of, praying ad-
mission into the Union as a State, &c.,
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