1820. province, possession, plantation, island, or place, under the dominion of Great Britain in the West Indies, or on the continent of America, south of the southern boundaries of the United States, except only such goods, wares, and merchandise, as are truly and wholly of the growth, produce, or manu. facture, of the province, colony, plantation, island, possession, or place, aforesaid, where the same shall be laden, and from whence such goods, wares, or merchandise, shall be directly imported into the United States; and all goods, wares, and Vessel and goode merchandise, imported, or attempted to be imported, into the of importations United States of America, contrary to the provisions of this contrary to this act, together with the vessel on board of which the same shall be laden, her tackle, apparel, and furniture, shall be forfeited to the United States. forfeited in case act. carried into effect April, 1818. SECT. 4. And be it further enacted, That the form of the This act to ba bond aforesaid shall be prescribed, and the same shall be dis- as act of 18th charged, and all penalties and forfeitures, incurred under this act, shall be sued for, recovered, distributed, and accounted for, and the same may be mitigated, or remitted, in the manner, and according to the provisions, of the act to which this act is supplementary. [Approved, May 15, 1820.] CHAP. 123. An act to authorize the Appointment of Commissioners to lay out the Road therein mentioned. Whereas, by the continuation of the Cumberland road from Continuance of Wheeling, in the State of Virginia, through the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, the lands of the United States may be- and more come more valuable Cumberland road may leader puòvaluable. app in 3 come Indiana, er li the country be the Mississippi, road.. [SECT. 1.] 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 States be, and he is hereby, The President to authorized to appoint three impartial and judicious persons, missiers, not not being citizens of any of the States aforesaid, to be com- citizens of Ohio missioners, and, in case of the death or resignation of any of nois, to examine them, to appoint other and like persons in their place, who ween Wheeling shall have power carefully to examine the country, between and a point on Wheeling, in the State of Virginia, and a point on the left &c and lay out a bank of the Mississippi river, to be chosen by said commissioners, between St. Louis and the mouth of the Illinois river, and to lay out a road from Wheeling aforesaid, to the point so to be chosen on the left bank of the river Mississippi; the said road to be on a straight line, or as nearly so as, having a Road to be due regard to the condition and situation of the ground and straight, &c. water-courses over which the same shall be laid out, shall be deemed expedient and practicable. And said commissioners Surveyors, chainshall have power to employ able surveyors, chai bearers, and other necessary assistants, in laying out said road; and so bearers, &c. 1820. Lands for the road reserved from sales. feet wide, &c poad to be made the President. much of the lands of the United States as may be included within the same, shall be, and is hereby, reserved and except ed from the sales of the public lands. The said road to be Road to be 80 eighty feet wide, and designated by marked trees, stakes, or other conspicuous monuments, at the distance of every quarter of a mile, and at every angle of deviation from a straight A plan of the line. And the said commissioners shall cause to be made, and delivered to and delivered to the President of the United States, an accuwith a report of rate plan of said road, so laid out by them as aforesaid, with a proceedings, &c, written report of their proceedings, describing therein the State lines crossed, and the marks, monuments, courses, and distances, by which the said road shall be designated; describing, also, the water-courses, and the nature and quality of the ground over which the same shall be laid out; they shall, Road to be divid- moreover, divide said 'road into sections of not more than ten, with n of manor less than five, miles long, noticing the materials that may terials for making be used in making, and giving an estimate of the expense of each and expense. making, each section of the road aforesaid. ed into ections, &e to take an path. Commissioners, SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners, surveyors, chainbearers, and other necessary assistants, to be appointed in pursuance of this act, shall severally take an oath, or affirmation, faithfully and diligently to perform their respective duties, and shall receive, in full compensation for Compensation. their services and expenses, each commissioner six dollars, each surveyor three dollars, and each other necessary assistant one dollar, for each day in which they shall be necessarily Proviso; no obli- employed in the service aforesaid: Provided always, and it is to defray the hereby enacted and declared, That nothing in this act containexpense of make ed, or that shall be done in pursuance thereof, shall be deemed 8. ing the road. 10,000 dolls. ape propriated for laying out the road. or construed to imply any obligation on the part of the United States to make, or to defray the expense of making, the road hereby authorized to be laid out, or of any part thereof. SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That ten thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, be, and are hereby, appropriated to defray the expense of laying out the road aforesaid. [Approved, May 15, 1820.] {*/Private.] lue of six lan of CHAP. 124. An act for the Relief of Thomas Leiper,* [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, The specific va- That there be paid to Thomas Leiper the specie value of ice certificates to four Loan Office Certificates, numbered two thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand nine hundred and four, two thousand nine hundred and five, two thousand nine hundred and six, and issued by the Commissioner of Loans for the State of Pennsylvania, in the name of Thonias Leiper, on be paid to T. Leiper, with in terest. 1820. the twenty-seventh day of February, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, for one thousand dollars each; and also the specie value of two Loan Office Certificates, numbered two thousand nine hundred and sixty, and two thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, issued by the Commissioner of Loans for the State of Pennsylvania, on the second day of March, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, for one thousand dollars each; which certificates appear to be outstanding on the books of the Treasury; with interest, at six per centum, annually; out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the said Thomas Leiper shall first execute Proviso; T. and deliver to the Comptroller of the Treasury a bond of ecute a bond of indemnity, in such sum, and with such security, as shall be indemnity. satisfactory to the said Comptroller. [Approved, May 15, 1820.] Leiper first to es CHAP. 125. An act for the Relief of the Inhabitants of the Village of Peoria, in the State of Illinois. lots in Peoria gister of Ed 1st October, 1320. to the Secretary [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every person, or the legal representatives of every per- Persons claiming son, who claims a lot or lots in the village of Peoria, in the deliver notice in State of Illinois, shall, on or before the first day of October writing to the Renext, deliver to the Register of the Land Office, for the dis- wardsville before trict of Edwardsville, a notice, in writing, of his or her claim; and it shall be the duty of the said Register to make to the Register to report Secretary of the Treasury a report of all claims filed with the of the Treasury. said Register, with the substance of the evidence in support thereof; and also his opinion and such remarks respecting the claims as he may think proper to make; which report, Report, &c. to be together with a list of the claims which, in the opinion of the laid before Consaid Register, ought to be confirmed, shall be laid by the Secretary of the Treasury before Congress for their determination. And the said Register shall be allowed twenty-five cents 25 cents to the for each claim on which a decision shall be made, whether Register for each such decision shall be in favor or against the claims; which allowance shall be in full for his services under this act. [Approved, May 15, 1820.] gress. CHAP. 126. An act to impose a new Tonhage Duty on French Ships and Vessels. [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in lieu of the tonnage duty now paid on French ships on French shi 18 doll. per to. in this act to pre of the provisions March, 1815. to 1820. or vessels, there shall be paid a duty of eighteen dollars per or vessels, in lieu ton, on all French ships or vessels which shall be entered of present duty. in the United States, any act to the contrary notwithstanding: Proviso; nothing Provided, however, That nothing contained in this act, shall Went the extension be so construed as to prevent the extension of the provisions of the act of 3d of the act, entitled " An act to repeal so much of the several French ships or acts imposing duties on the tonnage of ships and vessels, and vessels, when on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, as imposes a discriminating duty on tonnage between foreign vessels and vessels of the United States, and between the goods imported into the United States in foreign vessels, Page 824, vol. and vessels of the United States,"* to French ships and vessels, and the goods imported therein, whenever the govern ment of France shall accede to the provisions of the act above referred to. : France accedes. The duty to be collected accord March, 1799. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tonnage ing to act of 2d duty laid, and directed to be paid, by this act, shall be collected and paid according to the provisions of the act, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," passed the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine. Page 136, vol. 5.] This act in force from 1st July, 1:20. SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall commence, and be in force, from and after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty. [Approved, May 15, 1820.] CHAP. 127. An act to provide for the Expense of surveying certain Parts of the Coast of North-Carolina, and for other purposes. [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 5,000 dolls. appro That, for carrying into effect a resolution directing a survey priated for sur- of certain parts of the coast of North-Carolina, passed on the veying certain parts of the coast nineteenth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, the sum of five thousand dollars be, [ Page 110, Act and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any Congress,] unappropriated money in the Treasury. of North-Caro lina. 2d session sums to pay per Castine, and for Appropriation of SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sums respectsons who paid du- ively necessary to carry into effect the "Act for the relief of ties on goods at certain persons who have paid duties on certain goods imported relief of W. Chan- into Castine,"§ approved the eleventh day of April, in the ¡Ånte, page 39 ] present year, and also the "Act for the relief of Walter ChanAnte, page 39.] ning," approved the eleventh day of April aforesaid, shall be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. [Approved, May 15, 1820.] ning. CHAP. 128. An act for the Relief of the legal Representatives of Tench Fran cis, deceased.* 1820. [* Private cers of the Trea on just and rea [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Depart- Accobuting offi ment be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle sury to settle T. the accounts of Tench Francis, deceased, late purveyor of accounts public supplies, in such manner and upon such terms, as may sonable terms. appear just and reasonable: Provided, That the sum to be Proviso; credit redited to said Francis, after charging him with all payments sum debited to made to any person or persons for his use, shall not exceed the sum standing to his debit in the books of the Treasury. [Approved, May 15, 1820.] not to exceed the him: CHAP. 129. An act for the Relief of Joshua Newsom, Peter Crook, and James som, P. Crook; to be settled. [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officer of the Treasury Depart- Claim of J. News ment be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to audit and and J. Rabb, for settle the claims of Joshua Newsom and of Peter Crook, for horses impressed, two horses each, and of James Rabb, for seven horses, alleged to have been impressed into the public service in the Seminole war: Provided, That such impressment, and the Proviso; impress value of said horses when impressed, be satisfactorily proved; ment and value that said horses were not returned to their owners; and &c. that any compensation which may have been allowed and paid to be deductpaid for the service of said horses, after the time of their im- ed. pressment, be deducted. must be proved, Compensation out of the Trea SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount there- Amount to be paid of, when ascertained as aforesaid, be paid out of any money sury in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. [Approved, May 15, 1820.] CHAP. 130. An act for the Relief of Thomas Hunter.‡ [ Private.]. Hunter, late a [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Depart- The claim of T. ment audit and settle the claim of Thomas Hunter, late a soldier, &c. to be soldier in the nineteenth regiment of United States infantry, settled, and the for retained bounty, pay, and travelling allowances, due him to Sterling Johnat the time of his honorable discharge; and to pay the amount due him to Sterling Johnson, his attorney in fact, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury: Provided, That the Protiso; S. John said Sterling Johnson shall make and deliver, to the First &c. Comptroller of the Treasury, a bond, in such sum, and with son. son to give bend, |