located. Where to be the holders or proprietors thereof, prior to the first day of October, one thousand eighthundred and thirteen, on any unlocated parts of the fifty quarter townships and the frac tional quarter townships, reserved by law for original holders of military land warrants. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ANDREW GREGG, President of the Senate, pro tempore December 19, 1809. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER XXI. AN ACT for the relief of William and Elias Rector. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the treasury, be authorised to settle the claim of William and Elias Rector, at a sum not exceeding three dollars per mile, for the lines which bound each survey, whether separate or adjoining other claims, for each survey which they have made, or may hereafter make, under the authority of the United States, of the private claims of the Kaskaskia district, or Illinois territory, claimed by virtue of French or British grants, legally and fully made and executed, or by virtue of grants issued under the authority of former acts of Congress, by either of the governors of North West, (now Ohio) or Indiana territories, and which had already been surveyed by a person authorised to execute such survey. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO: CLINTON, Vice President of the United States, and December 28, 1809. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER XXII. AN ACT to revive and continue in force for a further time, the first section of the act, entitled "An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States, against the Barbary powers." Revival and continuance in force of the first sec. ranean fund. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of the act passed on the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, entitled "An act further to protect tion of the the commerce and seamen of the United act creating States, against the Barbary powers," as is the Meditercontained in the first section of the said act, (and which was revived and continued in force, for the time therein mentioned, by an act, entitled "An act to revive and continue in force, for a further time, the first section of the act, entitled 'An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States, against the Barbary powers," passed the tenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine,) be, and the same hereby Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO: CLINTON, Vice President of the United States, and January 12, 1810. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER XXIII. AN ACT to extend certain privileges therein mentioned to Joseph Joshua Dyster. B ༄ E it enacted by the Senate and House of America, in Congress assembled, That two years residence as required by an act, entitled "An act to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for useful discoveries and inventions, to certain persons therein mentioned; and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the right of patentees," shall not be required of Joseph Joshua Dyster, to enable him to obtain a patent for any discovery he has made in constructing iron bridges, and applicable to other architectu ral purposes; but he shall obtain a patent therefor on his conforming to the other requisitions of said act. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT for the relief of Harry Caldwell and Amasa B United E it enacted by the Senate and House of America, in Congress assembled, That the brig Joseph Ricketson, owned by Harry Relief in th Caldwell and Amasa Jackson, which on or cases of Caldabout the twenty-fifth day of July last, at well, Jackson, Reynolds and Kingston, in the island of Jamaica, took on Jones. board three refugees, from the island of Cuba with their domestic slaves, six in number, and landed them at New Orleans; and that the schooner Victory, owned by Jeremiah Reynolds, who, about the latter end of September last, at Curracoa, took on board a number of French emigrants from the said island of Cuba, with their domestic slaves, six in number, and landed them also at New Orleans, which said vessels were seiz F ed, together with their effects, and libelled, for a violation of an act, entitled "An act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place of the United States, from and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eight," be, and they are hereby severally released from the seizures aforesaid. And that the schooner Wolfe, of Baltimore, owned and commanded by Levin Jones, which vessel was seized some time in October last, at Norfolk, in Virginia, on account of hav ing brought from Charleston, in South Carolina, to that place, certain French slaves, nineteen in number, without previously complying with the requisites enjoined by the ninth and tenth sections of the act aforesaid, be, and she is hereby also released from the seizure. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Remission of all penalties or forfeitures, which may have all penalties been incurred either by the captains or owntures in these ers of said vessels, in consequence of the violation of any of the provisions of the act and forfei cases. referred to in the first section, be, and the same are hereby remitted. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO: CLINTON, Vice President of the United States, and February 5, 1810. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. |