Public Acts of Congress. ability at the time of making the affidavit, shall ner, prescribed in the fourth section of the act, accompany the application of the first payment entitled "An act to regulate the duties on imports which shall fall due after the fourth day of March and tonnage," passed on the twenty-seventh day next, and at the end of every two years thereaf- of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. ter; and if, in a case of a continued disability, it SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the shall be stated at a rate below that for which the existing laws shall extend to, and be in force for, pension was originally granted, the applicant the collection of the duties, imposed by this act shall only be paid at the rate stated in the affida- on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into vit: Provided, That where the pension shall the United States; and for the recovery, collechave been originally granted for a total disability, tion, distribution, and remission, of all fines, penin consequence of the loss of a limb, or other alties, and forfeitures, as fully and effectually as cause, which cannot, either in whole or in part, if every regulation, restriction, penalty, forfeiture, be removed, the above affidavit shall not be neces-provision, clause, matter, and thing, in the existsary to entitle the applicant to payment: Anding laws contained, had been inserted in, and reprovided also, That this act shall not extend to enacted by this act. the invalids of the Revolution, who have been, or shall be, placed on the pension list pursuant to an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war," approved the eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight. Approved, March 3, 1819. An Act to regulate the duties on certain Wines. Be it enacted, &c., That, from and after the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, the duties now by law levied, collected, and paid, on wine not enumerated in the "Act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage," passed the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, when imported in bottles or cases, of seventy cents per gallon, and on wine not enumerated in said act, when imported otherwise than in bottles or cases, of twenty-five cents per gallon, shall cease and determine; and there shall be levied, collected, and paid, in lieu thereof, the several and specific duties hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, on wines not enumerated in the act aforesaid, when imported in bottles or cases, thirty cents per gallon, and when imported otherwise than in bottles or cases, fifteen cents per gallon. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That wines and distilled spirits, imported and deposited in the public stores, under the direction of the surveyor, in the manner prescribed by the "Act providing for the deposite of wines and distilled spirits in public warehouses," passed the twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, may be transported coastwise, from the public warehouses in one district, to those in another district, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, without loss of debenture. Approved, March 3, 1819. An Act respecting the location of certain sections of land to be granted for the seat of government in the State of Indiana. Be it enacted, &c., That, instead of four sections, provided to be located under the direction of the Legislature of the State of Indiana, and to be granted for the purpose of fixing thereon the seat of government for that State, it shall be lawful to locate, for that purpose, under the direction of the Legislature aforesaid, any contiguous quarter sections, fractions, or parts of sections, not to exceed, in the whole, the quantity contained in four entire sections: Such locations shall be made before the commencement of the public sales of the adjoining and surrounding lands, belonging to the United States. Approved, March 3, 1819. An Act making appropriations for the public buildings, for the purchase of a lot of land, and furnishing a supply of water for the use of certain public buildings. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That an addition of ten per centum shall be made to the several rates of duties above specified, and imposed upon the several goods, wares, and merchandise, aforesaid, which, after the said thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, shall be imported in ships or vessels not of the United States: Provided, That this additional duty shall not apply to such goods, wares, and merchandise, imported in ships or vessels not of the United States, entitled by treaty, or by any act or acts of Congress, to be entered in the ports of the United States, on the payment of the same duties as are paid on goods, wares, and merchan-one dise, imported in ships or vessels of the United States. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed a drawback of the duties by this act imposed on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, upon the exportation thereof, within the time, and in the man Be it enacted, &c., That there be appropriated for finishing the wings of the Capitol, in addition to the sums already appropriated, the further sum of fifty-one thousand three hundred and thirtytwo dollars. For erecting the centre building of the Capitol hundred and thirty-six thousand six hundred and forty-four dollars. For finishing the gates, the iron railing, and the enclosure north of the President's house, five thousand three hundred and forty-four dollars. For enlarging the offices west of the President's house, eight thousand one hundred and thirtyseven dollars. Public Acts of Congress. For purchasing a lot of land, and for constructing pipes, for supplying the Executive offices and President's house with water, nine thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. Which said several sums of money, hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, shall be expended under the direction of the President of the United States. Approved, March 3, 1819. An Act making provision for the civilization of the Indian tribes adjoining the frontier settlements. Be it enacted, &c., That, for the purpose of providing against the further decline and final extinction of the Indian tribes, adjoining to the frontier settlements of the United States, and for introducing among them the habits and arts of civilization, the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby, authorized, in every case where he shall judge improvement in the habits and condition of such Indians practicable, and that the means of instruction can be introduced with their own consent, to employ capable persons, of good moral character, to instruct them in the mode of agriculture suited to their situation; and for teaching their children in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and for performing such other duties as may be enjoined, according to such instructions and rules as the President may give and prescribe for the regulation of their conduct, in the discharge of their duties. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the annual sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act; and an account of the expenditure of the money, and proceedings, in execution of the foregoing provisions, shall be laid annually before Congress. Approved, March 3, 1819. An Act explanatory of the act, entitled "An act for the final adjustment of land titles in the State of Louisiana and Territory of Missouri." Be it enacted, &c., That the provisions of the fifth section of the act of Congress, entitled "An act for the final adjustment of land titles in the State of Louisiana and Territory of Missouri," passed the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, shall be so construed as to extend to the citizens of the county of Howard, in the Missouri Territory, as established by the act of the Legislature of the Territory, passed the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, any construction to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the right of pre-emption given by the aforesaid provisions, as explained and extended by this act, shall not be so construed as to affect any right derived from the United States, by purchase, at public or private sale, of the lands claimed under the aforesaid act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That any person or persons who have settled on, and improved, any of the lands in the said Territory, reserved for the use of schools, before the survey of such lands were actually made, and who would have had the right of pre-emption thereto by the existing laws had not the same been so reserved, shall have the right of pre-emption thereto, under the same terms and conditions, and subject to the same restrictions, provided for other cases of a right of pre-emption in said Territory; and the register of the land office, and receiver of public moneys, for the district, shall have power to select any other vacant and unappropriated lands, in the same township, and as near adjacent as lands in lieu of the section, or parts of a section, which of equal quantity and like quality can be obtained, shall have been entered in right of pre-emption, according to the provision of this section. Approved, March 3, 1819. An Act making appropriations to carry into effect treaties concluded with several Indian tribes therein mentioned. Be it enacted, &c., That, for the purpose of carrying into effect a treaty between the United States and the Wyandot, Seneca, Delaware, Shawanee, Pattawatima, Ottawa, and Chippewa, tribes of Indians, concluded at the foot of the Rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie, on the twentyninth day of September, eighteen hundred and seventeen, and the supplementary treaty concluded with said tribes, at St. Mary's, in the State of Ohio, on the seventeenth of September, eighteen hundred and eighteen, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, in conformity with the stipulations contained in said treaty and supplement, to wit: The sum of thirteen thousand three hundred dollars, for the payment of the annuities granted to said tribes, in the manner and proportions following: To the Wyandot tribe, annually, forever, at Upper Sandusky, four thousand five hundred dollars. To the Seneca tribe, annually, forever, at Lower Sandusky, one thousand dollars. To the Shawanee tribe, annually, forever, at Wapaghkonetta, two thousand dollars. To the Shawanees and Senecas of Lewistown, annually, forever, one thousand dollars. To the Pattiwatimas, annually, for fifteen years, at Detroit, one thousand three hundred dollars. To the Ottawas, annually, for fifteen years, at Detroit, one thousand dollars; and the further annual sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, forever. To the Chippewa tribe, annually, for fifteen years, at Detroit, one thousand dollars. And the sum of three thousand dollars, to he paid in the course of the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, to the Delaware and Wyandot tribes, to wit: To the Delaware tribe, at Wapaghkonetta, five hundred dollars. Public Acts of Congress. To the Wyandot tribe, two thousand five hun-at Piqua and Fort Wayne, agreeably to a schedred dollars. dule examined and approved by the commissioners. For the payment of the amount of damages, assessed by authority of the Secretary of War, in favor of several tribes and individuals of Indians, whose property was injured or destroyed during the late war, fourteen thousand four hundred and eighty dollars thirteen cents; to be paid in the manner following: To the Wyandots, at Upper Sandusky, four thousand three hundred and nineteen dollars thirty-nine cents. To the Senecas, at Lower Sandusky, three thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine dollars twenty-four cents. To the Indians at Lewis and Scoutash towns, one thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars fifty cents. To the Delawares, for the use of the Indians who suffered losses at Greentown, and at Jeromestown, at Wapaghkonetta, three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars and fifty cents. To the representatives of Hembis, a Delaware Indian, at Wapaghkonetta, three hundred and forty-eight dollars and fifty cents. To the Shawanees, an additional sum, at Wapaghkonetta, of four hundred and twenty dollars. To the Senecas, an additional sum, at Wapaghkonetta, of two hundred and nineteen dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of carrying into effect the treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw nation of Indians, concluded on the nineteenth of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, the following sum be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, in conformity with the stipulations contained in said treaty; that is to say: To the Chickasaw nation, annually, for fifteen successive years, twenty thousand dollars. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of carrying into effect the treaties concluded at St. Mary's, in the State of Ohio, with the Wea tribe, on the second of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen; the Pattawatima tribe, on the second of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen; the Delaware tribe, on the third of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen; and with the Miami tribe, on the sixth of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen; the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, in conformity with the stipulations contained in said treaties; that is to say: To the Wea tribe, the annual sum of one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; which sum, in addition to their former annuity of eleven hundred and fifty dollars, will make a sum total of three thousand dollars. To the Pattawatima tribe, the annual sum of two thousand five hundred dollars. To the Delaware tribe, the annual sum of four thousand dollars. And a sum not exceeding thirteen thousand three hundred and twelve dollars twenty-five cents, to satisfy certain claims against the Delaware nation, stipulated to be paid by the United States, and to be expended by the Indian agent 15th CoN. 2d SESS.-80 To the Miami tribe, the annual sum of fifteen thousand dollars. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of carrying into effect the treaty concluded on the fourth [24th] of August, eighteen hundred and eighteen, with the Quapaw tribe of Indians; and the treaty concluded on the twentyfifth September, eighteen hundred and eighteen, with the Peoria, Kaskaskia, Michigania, Cahokia, and Tamarois. tribes of the Illinois nation of Indians; the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, in conformity with the stipulations contained in the said treaties; that is to say: To the Quapaw tribe, the sum of four thousand dollars, and the further annual sum of one thousand dollars. To the Peoria, Kaskaskia, the Michigania, Cahokia, and Tamarois, tribes of the Illinois nation, the annual sum of three hundred dollars. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of carrying into effect the treaty concluded on the twenty-fifth of September, eighteen hundred and eighteen, with the Great and Little Osage nation of Indians, a sum, not exceeding four thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to satisfy claims of citizens of the United States, for property stolen or destroyed by the Osages, agreeably to the stipulation contained in said treaty. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That, for the payment of the annuity granted to the Creek nation of Indians, by the treaty concluded near Fort Wilkinson, on the Oconee, the sixteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and two, and for which no appropriation has heretofore been made, the annual sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated; and that, for the purpose of carrying into effect the treaty concluded with said nation at the Creek agency, on the twenty-second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, the further annual sum of ten thousand dollars, for the term of ten successive years, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, conformably to the stipulations contained in the said treaty. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of carrying into effect sundry other stipulations, contained in several of the treaties herein before mentioned, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That there be appointed, agreeably to the ninth article of the treaty concluded with the Wyandot, Seneca, Delaware, Shawanee, Pattawatima, Ottawa, and Chippewa, tribes of Indians, on the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, an agent, to reside among or near the Wyandots, who shall also execute the duties of agent for the Senecas, and the Delawares on the Sandusky river; and an agent to reside among or near the Shawanees; who shall each Public Acts of Congress. receive twelve hundred dollars per annum, as a full compensation for their services. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the several sums herein before appropriated, be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.-Approved, March 3, 1819. An Act authorizing the sale of certain military sites. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, under the direction of the President of the United States, to cause to be sold such military sites, belonging to the United States, as may have been found, or become useless for military purposes. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, on the payment of the consideration agreed for, into the Treasury of the United States, to make, execute, and deliver, all needful instruments, conveying and transferring the same in fee; and the jurisdiction, which had been specially ceded, for military purposes, to the United States, by a State, over such site or sites, shall thereafter cease. Approved, March 3, 1819. An Act in addition to, and alteration of an act, entitled "An act laying a duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the fisheries." ment of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint an agent, in addition to the one already appointed in the State of Tennessee, under the act of the twenty-fourth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, for the purpose of paying pensioners of the United States, residing in East Tennessee; whose duties shall be, in all respects, similar to those appointed under the aforementioned act. Approved, March 3, 1819. An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to convey Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to convey, by deed, in fee simple, to a certain John Peacher, a lot, or parcel of land, with the appurtenances belonging to the same, lying in Jefferson county, in the State of Virginia, called the Keep-Tryst Furnace, and containing two hundred and twentyone acres, belonging to the United States, upon such terms as he may think most conducive to the interest of the United States; and the money arising from the sale thereof, to deposite in the Treasury of the United States. Approved, March 3, 1819. An Act to designate the boundaries of districts, and establish land offices, for the disposal of the public lands not heretofore offered for sale in the States of Ohio and Indiana. Be it enacted, &c., That, from and after the passing of this act, there shall be paid, on the last day of December, annually, to the owner of every fishing boat or vessel, or his agent, by the collector of the district where such boat or vessel may belong, that shall be qualified, agreeably to law, for carrying on the Bank and other Cod fisheries, Be it further enacted, &c., That, for the sale of and that shall actually have been employed there the unappropriated public lands, in the State of in, at sea, for the term of four months, at least, the following districts shall be formed, and land Ohio, to which the Indian title is extinguished, of the fishing season next preceding, which season is accounted to be from the last day of February offices therefor established: All the public lands, to the last day of November in every year, for each line of the State of Ohio, and a north and south as aforesaid, lying between the western boundary and every ton of such boats or vessels, burdened line to be drawn at forty-eight miles east of the according to her admeasurement as licensed or said boundary line, and bounded on the south by enrolled, if of more than five tons, and not exceed the Indian boundary established by the Treaty of ing thirty tons, three dollars and fifty cents; if Greenville, and on the north by the northern above thirty tons, four dollars; and if above thirty boundary of the State of Ohio, shall form a distons, and having had a crew of not less than ten persons, and having actually been employed in trict, for which a land office shall be established the cod fishery, at sea, for the term of three and at Piqua. And all the public lands, as aforesaid, one-half months, at the least, but less than fourying between the above described district and months, of the season, at least, three dollars and fifty cents: Provided, That the allowance aforesaid on any one vessel, for one season, shall not exceed three hundred and sixty dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That such parts of the fifth and sixth sections of the act hereby amended, as are contrary to the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.-Approved, March 3, 1819. the western limits of the Connecticut Reserve and Canton land district as first established, and tablished by the Treaty of Greenville, and on the bounded on the south by the Indian boundary esOhio, shall form a district, for which a land office north by the northern boundary of the State of shall be established at the town of Delaware. And for the disposal of the unappropriated public lands in the State of Indiana, to which the Indian title is extinguished, the following districts shall be formed, and land offices established: All the public lands, as aforesaid, to which the Indian title was extinguished by the treaties concluded at St. Mary's, in the month of October, eighteen Be it enacted, &c., That, from and after the hundred and eighteen, lying east of the range passing of this act, the Secretary for the Depart-line, separating the first and second ranges, east An Act to authorize the Secretary at War to appoint an additional agent for paying pensioners of the United States in the State of Tennessee. Public Acts of Congress. of the second principal meridian extended north to the present Indian boundary, and north of a line to be run, separating the ninth and tenth tiers of townships north of the base line, shall form a district, for which a land office shall be established at Brookville. And all the public lands, as aforesaid, the Indian title to which was extinguished by the treaties aforesaid, and lying west of the last described district, shall form a district, for which a land office shall be established at the town of Terre Haute. And all the public lands, as aforesaid, the Indian title to which was extinguished by the treaties aforesaid, lying east of the second principal meridian, and south of a line, to be run, separating the ninth and tenth tiers of townships north of the base line, shall be, and are hereby, attached to the district of Jeffersonville; and the said lands shall be offered for sale, with the same exceptions, and on the terms and conditions, in every respect, both at public and private sales, as is provided for the sale of the lands in the districts aforesaid: Provided, also, That the President of the United States shall have power, and he is hereby authorized, to remove, whenever he shall judge it expedient so to do, the land office from Jeffersonville, to some central and suitable place within the district. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the consent and advice of the Senate, for each of the districts aforesaid, a register of the land office and receiver of public moneys; which appointments shall not be made, for any of the aforesaid respective land districts, until a sufficient quantity of public lands shall have been surveyed within such district as to authorize, in the opinion of the President, a public sale of land within the same; which registers of the land office and receivers of public moneys, when appointed, shall each, respectively, give security, in the same sums, and in the same manner, and whose compensation, emoluments, and duties, and authority, shall, in every respect, be the same, in respect to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are or may be provided by law in relation to the registers and receivers of public moneys in the several land offices, established for the disposal of the public lands of the United States, in the States of Ohio and Indiana. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the public lands within the aforesaid several districts, to which the Indian title has been extinguished, and which have not been granted to, or reserved for, the use of any individual or individuals, or appropriated and reserved for any other purpose, by any existing treaties or laws, and, with the exception of section numbered sixteen, in each township, which shall be reserved for the support of schools therein, shall be offered for sale, to the highest bidder, at the land offices for the respective districts, under the direction of the register of the land office and receiver of public moneys, on such day or days as shall, by proclamation of the President of the United States, be designated for that purpose: the sales shall remain open at each place for three weeks, and no longer; the lands shall not be sold for less than two dollars an acre; and shall, in every other respect, be sold in tracts of the same size, on the same terms and conditions as have been, or may be, by law, provided for the sale of the lands of the United States in the States of Ohio and Indiana. All the public lands in the said districts, with these exceptions abovementioned, remaining unsold at the close of the public sales, may be disposed of at private sale, by the register of the respective land offices, in the same manner, under the same regulations, for the same price, and on the same terms and conditions, in every respect, as are or may be provided by law for the sale of the lands of the United States in the States of Ohio and Indiana. And patents shall be obtained, for the lands sold in the said districts, in the same manner, and on the same terms, as are or may be by law provided for other public lands in the States of Ohio and Indiana. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States shall have power, and he is hereby authorized, to remove, whenever he shall judge it expedient so to do, any and each of the land offices established by this act, to such suitable place, within the district for which it was established, as he shall judge most proper. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted That each of the registers of the land office, and receivers of public moneys, shall receive five dollars for each day's attendance in superintending the public sales in their respective districts. Approved, March 3, 1819. An Act to authorize the President of the United States to take possession of East and West Florida, and establish a temporary government therein. Be it enacted, &c., That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to take possession of and occupy the territories of East and West Florida, and the appendages and appurtenances thereof; and to remove and transport the officers and soldiers of the King of Spain, being there, to the Havana, agreeably to the stipulations of a treaty between the United States and Spain, executed at Washington, on the twenty-second day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, providing for the cession of said territories to the United States; and he may, for these purposes, and in order to maintain in said territories the authority of the United States, employ any part of the army and navy of the United States, and the militia of any State or Territory which he may deem necessary. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, until the end of the first session of the next Congress, unless provision for the temporary government of said territories be sooner made by Congress all the military, civil, and judicial powers, exercised by the officers of the existing government of the same territories, shall be vested in such peron and persons, and shall be exercised in such |