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An Act to establish a Judicial District in Virginia, | a new certificate of the same value with the one west of the Alleghany Mountain.

Be it enacted, &c., That so much of the State of Virginia as is situate west of the summit of the mountains which separate the waters empty. ing 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.

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, cognizable by law in a circuit court, and 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 districts.

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 appointment; to be paid quarterly at the Treasury of the United States. Approved, February 4, 1819.

An Act to authorize the payment, in certain cases, on account of the Treasury notes which have been lost or destroyed.

Be it enacted, &c.. 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,

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.

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, &c., 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 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 earried 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. Approved, February 4, 1819.

An Act making appropriations for the military service of the United States for the year eighteen hundred and nineteen.

Be it enacted, &c., 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 the medical and hospital department, fifty thousand dollars.

For the quartermaster's department, five hundred and forty thousand 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

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For making a survey of the water-courses tributary to, and west of, the Mississippi; also those tributary to the same river, and northwest 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.

dollars to defray an expense incurred under the Chickasaw treaty lately concluded; and, including, also, the further sum of seven thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars, being the aggregate amount of certain sums stipulated to be paid, within sixty days, to certain individuals named in the abovementioned treaty.

For annuity to the Creek nation, under the treaty of one thousand eight hundred and two, three thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before_made, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, February 15, 1819.

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 Philadel- An Act to extend the jurisdiction of the Circuit

phia, fifteen thousand dollars; for completing the arsenal and other works at Watertown, near Boston, twenty thousand dollars; for completing the arsenal and other works at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, five thousand dollars; for a levee round the arsenal at Watervliet, New York, six thousand dollars; for building a powder magazine at Baton Rouge, twenty thousand dollars.

For cannon, powder, and shot, to fulfil existing contracts, for mounting cannon, and for purchase of lead, one hundred and ninety-one thousand

Courts of the United States to cases arising under the law relating to Patents.

Be it enacted, &c., That the circuit courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, as well in equity as at law, of all actions, suits, controversies, and cases, arising under any law authors or inventors the exclusive right to their of the United States, granting or confirming to respective writings, inventions, and discoveries; and upon any bill in equity, filed by any party aggrieved in any such cases, shall have authority to grant injunctions, according to the course and To provide for the payment of the retained principles of courts of equity, to prevent the viobounty, and the per diem travelling allowance of lation of the rights of any authors or inventors, pay and subsistence to soldiers discharged from secured to them by any laws of the United the army, in the year eighteen hundred and States, on such terms and conditions as the said nineteen, ninety-two thousand five hundred dol-courts may deem fit and reasonable: Provided, however, That from all judgments and decrees

two hundred dollars.

lars.

For the purchase of maps, plans, books, and of any circuit courts, rendered in the premises, a instruments, for the War Department, one thou-writ of error or appeal, as the case may require,

sand five hundred dollars.

For fuel, maps, plans, books, erection of quarters, and other buildings, and for contingent expenses for the academy at West Point, thirty-five thousand six hundred and forty dollars.

For marking and running the boundary line of the several cessions of land made by the Indians, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the payment of the half pay pensions to widows and orphans, two hundred thousand dollars.

shall lie to the Supreme Court of the United circumstances, as is now provided by law in other States, in the same manner, and under the same judgments and decrees of such circuit courts. Approved, February 15, 1819.

An Act to authorize the President and Managers of the Rockville and Washington Turnpike Road Company, of the State of Maryland, to extend and make their turnpike road to or from the boundary of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, through the said District, to the line thereof. Be it enacted, &c., That so much of the law of the State of Maryland, entitled "An act to For the annual allowance to the Revolution-incorporate companies to make certain turnpike ary pensioners, under the law of March eigh-roads through the counties of Montgomery, Fredteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, erick, and Washington, and for other purposes," one million seven hundred and eight thousand five hundred dollars.

For the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, three hundred and sixty-eight thousand and thirty-nine dollars.

For arrearages arising from a deficiency in the appropriation for paying the Revolutionary pensions in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand four hundred dollars and eighty-five cents.

For the Indian department, including arrearages incurred by holding Indian treaties, two hundred and forty thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars, including twenty thousand

passed at December session, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, as relates to the Rockville and Washington Turnpike Road Company, be, and it hereby is, declared to be in full force within the District of Columbia.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the president and managers of the said turnpike read company be, and they are hereby, authorized to make said road from the boundary of the District of Columbia to the boundary of the city of Washington.

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An Act to incorporate the Medical Society of the District of Columbia.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in relation to the process of constructing said road, and to toll-gates, and the rates of tolls thereon, the said company shall be, and hereby is, invested with all the rights, privileges, and immunities, and shall be subject to all the obligations, which, by the act of Congress, "to incorporate a company for making certain turnpike roads in the District of Columbia," passed April twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and ten, are given, granted, imposed on, and vested in, the Company of the Columbia Turnpike Roads, had that company proceeded to make the said road according to the terms of the act of Congress aforesaid: Provided, That the formal written release, by the company last mentioned, of their right to make said road, according to their act of incorporation, be filed, within ten days after the passing of this act, in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the United States for Washing-sors, in fee or for lease, estate or estates, any land, ton county, in the District of Columbia.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Corporation of Washington are hereby authorized and empowered, at any time, to purchase out the said road herein authorized to be made, with all the rights and profits thereto belonging, on paying to the said company a sum which shall be equal to the total amount expended on said road, with six per cent. interest thereon from the date of its expenditure.

Approved, February 15, 1819.

An Act authorizing the election of a Delegate from the Michigan Territory to the Congress of the United States, and extending the right of suffrage to the citizens of said Territory.

Be it enacted, &c., That the citizens of the Michigan Territory be, and they are hereby, authorized to elect one Delegate to the Congress of the United States, who shall possess the qualifications, and exercise the privileges, heretofore required of, and granted to, the Delegates from the several Territories of the United States.

ton, James H. Blake, John T. Shaaff, Thomas Be it enacted, &c., That Charles WorthingSim. Frederick May, Joel T. Gustine, Elisha Harrison, Peregrine Warfield, Alexander McWilliams, George Clark, Henry Hunt, Thomas Henderson, John Harrison, Benjamin S. Bohrer, Samuel Horseley, Nicholas W. Worthington, William Jones, James T. Johnson, Richard Weightman, George May, Robert French, and such persons as they may, from time to time, elect, and their successors, are hereby declared to be a community, corporation, and body politic, forever, by and under the name and title of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia; and by and under the same name and title they shall be able and capable in law to purchase, take, have, and enjoy, to them and their succes

registered debts, or other public securities within tenements, rents, annuities, chattels, bank stock, the District, by the gift, bargain, sale, or demise, of any person or persons bodies politic or corporate, capable to make the same, and the same, at their pleasure, to alien, sell, transfer, or lease and apply, to such purposes as they may adjudge most conducive to the promoting and disseminating medical and surgical knowledge, and for no other purpose whatever: Provided, nevertheless, That the said society, or body politic, shall not, personal, or mixed, exceeding, in total value, the at any one time, hold or possess property, real, sum of six thousand dollars per annum.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the shall hold, in the city of Washington, four stated members of the said society above designated, meetings in every year, viz., on the first Mondays in January, April, July, and October; the officers of the society to consist of a president, two vice presidents, one corresponding secretary, one recording secretary, one treasurer, and one liSEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every Monday in March, one thousand eight hundred brarian, who shall be appointed on the second free white male citizen of said Territory, above and nineteen, and on the annual meeting in Janthe age of twenty-one years, who shall have re-uary forever thereafter, (not less than seven memsided therein one year next preceding an elec-bers being present at such meeting.) And the tion, and who shall have paid a county or territorial tax, shall be entitled to vote at such election for a Delegate to the Congress of the United States, in such manner, and at such times and places, as shall be prescribed by the Governor and Judges of said Territory.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the person, duly qualified according to law, who shall receive the greatest number of votes at such election, shall be furnished, by the Governor of said Territory, with a certificate, under his official seal, setting forth that he is duly elected, by the qualified electors, the Delegate from said Territory to the Congress of the United States, for the term of two years from the date of said certificate, which shall entitle the person to whom the same shall be given to take his seat in the House of Representatives in that capacity. Approved, February 16, 1819.

society may make a common seal, and may elect into their body such medical and chirurgical practitioners, within the District of Columbia, as they may deem qualified to become members of the society; it being understood that the in office until the next election after the passage officers of the society now elected, are to remain of this act.

and may be lawful for the said medical society, SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall or any number of them attending, (no less than seven,) to elect, by ballot, five persons, residents of the District, who shall be styled the Medical Board of Examiners of the District of Columbia; whose duty it shall be to grant licenses to such medical and chirurgical gentlemen as they may, upon a full examination, judge adequate to commence the practice of the medical and chirurgical arts, or as may produce diplomas from some

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following rules, regulations, restrictions, limitations, and provisions, shall form, and be funda-the proceedings of the association, and of the mental articles of, the constitution of the said corporation, to wit :