STATUTE I. CHAP. XXIX.-An Act making an appropriation for defraying the cxpenses in- March 19, 1804. curred in inquiring into the official conduct of Samuel Chase, and Richard Peters, and in conducting the impeachment against John Pickering. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of two thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of such expenses as may have been or hereafter may be incurred in prosecuting the inquiry into the official conduct of Samuel Chase, and Richard Peters, and in conducting the impeachment against John Pickering. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That to every witness summoned to attend the Senate in support of the said impeachment, there shall be allowed for every day's attendance, the sum of three dollars, and at the rate of twelve and a half cents per mile, in coming from and returning to his place of abode, for travelling expenses. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That any other expense certified by the chairman of any committee appointed to conduct the said inquiry or impeachment, to have been authorized by him, shall also be allowed and paid. APPROVED, March 19, 1804. Appropria. tions for carry. ing on the impeachments against Samuel Chase and John Pickering. Fees to the witnesses. Any other ex- pense committee to be paid. STATUTE I. CHAP. XXXI.-An Act altering the sessions of the District Courts of the United March 23, 1804. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sessions of the district court of Virginia folk to com mence June and the days Sunday, the court to commence on the following day. Writs and process continued over according SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all writs and process which have been issued, and all recognizances returnable, and all suits and other pleadings which have been continued, to the said district court, directed by law to be holden in Norfolk, on the third Tuesday in March next, shall be returned and held continued to the fifteenth day of June ly. next; and in like manner, all writs and process which [have] been issued, and all recognizances returnable, and all suits and other proceedings which have been continued to the said district court, directed by law to be holden in the city of Richmond, on the third Tuesday in June next, shall be returned, and held continued to the nineteenth day of May next. Sessions of the district court of Rhode Island SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of April next, the session of the district court for the district of Rhode Island, shall commence at Newport, on the second Tuesday in May, altered. and third Tuesday in October; at Providence, the first Tuesday in August, and the first Tuesday in February, annually; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Writs and pro SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all suits, process, and proceedings, of what nature or kind soever, pending in, or made returnable cess continued (a) By the act of March 24, 1819, the sessions of the court are to be held at Richmond on the 1st day of April, and the 15th day of October, and at Norfolk on the 1st day of May, and the 1st day of November. VOL. II.-35 over according to said court, shall, after the said first day of April next, be continued ly. over until the next court to be held in conformity to this act. Sessions of the SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the sessions of the district district court of court for the district of West Tennessee, directed by law to be held in West Tennessec altered. Process con tinued over accordingly. See act of February 24, 1807, sec. 4, ch. 16. STATUTE. I. the town of Nashville, shall be hereafter held and commence on the Thursday next succeeding the fourth Mondays of May and November, in every year; and that all writs and process which have been issued, and all recognizances returnable, and all suits and other proceedings which have been continued to the said district court, directed by law to be held at Nashville, on the fourth Monday of May next, shall be returned and held continued to the Thursday next succeeding said fourth Monday. APPROVED, March 23, 1804. March 23, 1804. CHAP. XXXII.—An Act supplementary to the act, intituled "An act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States.” [Obsolete.] Act of Feb Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the president and directors of the Bank of the United States shall be, and they are hereby authorized to establish offices of discount and deposit in any part of the territories or dependencies of the United States, in the manner, and on the terms prescribed by the act to which this is a supplement. APPROVED, March 23, 1804. March 23, 1804. CHAP. XXXIII.-An Act to ascertain the boundary of the lands reserved by the state of Virginia, northwest of the river Ohio, for the satisfaction of her officers and soldiers on continental establishment, and to limit the period for locating the said lands. (a) Boundary line now under the direction of the surveyor-gene ral established. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the line run under the direction of the surveyor-general of the United States, from the source of the Little Miami, towards the source of the Scioto, and which binds on the east, the surveys of the lands of the United States, shall, together with its course continued to the Scioto river, be considered and held as the westerly boundary line, north of the source of the Little Miami, of the territory reserved by the state of Virginia, between the Little Miami Proviso, that and Scioto rivers, for the use of the officers and soldiers of the continental line of that state: Provided, that the state of Virginia shall, within two years after the passing of this act, recognize such line as the boundary of the said territory. within two years the state of Virginia recognize the line. Officers and soldiers to com plete their loca tions in three years within the reserved territory. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the officers and soldiers, or their legal representatives who are entitled to bounty lands within the above-mentioned reserved territory, shall complete their locations within three years after the passing of this act, and every such officer and soldier, or his legal representative, whose bounty land has or shall have been Officers and located within that part of the said territory, to which the Indian title soldiers whose has been extinguished, shall make return of his or their surveys to the bounty land shall have been secretary of the department of war, within five years after the passing located on that of this act, and shall also exhibit and file with the said secretary, and part of the ter- within the same time, the original warrant or warrants under which he ritory to which the Indian title claims, or a certified copy thereof, under the seal of the office where the (a) Act of March 2, 1807, chap. 21; act of April 30, 1810, chap. 35; act of April 11, 1818, chap. 43; act of April 18, 1818, chap. 62; act of February 24, 1819, chap. 40; act of April 20, 1822, chap. 29; act of March 3, 1823, chap. 38; act of May 18, 1824, chap. 88; act of May 4, 1826, chap. 34; act of March 2, 1827, chap. 35; act of May 23, 1828, chap. 71; act of February 25, 1831, chap. 34; act of July 3, 1832, chap. 163; act of July 24, 1832, chap. 205; act of January 27, 1835, chap. 6; act of July 7, 1838, chap. 166; act of September 4, 1841, chap. 16. said warrants are legally kept; which warrant, or certified copy thereof, shall be sufficient evidence that the grantee therein named, or the person under whom such grantee claims, was originally entitled to such bounty land: and every person entitled to said lands and thus applying, shall thereupon be entitled to receive a patent in the manner prescribed by law. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That such part of the above mentioned reserved territory as shall not have been located, and those tracts of land, within that part of the said territory to which the Indian title has been extinguished, the surveys whereof shall not have been returned to the Secretary of War, within the time and times prescribed by this act, shall thenceforth be released from any claim or claims for such bounty lands, and shall be disposed of in conformity with the provisions of the act, intituled "An act in addition to, and modification of, the propositions contained in the act, intituled An act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory, northwest of the river Ohio, to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states, and for other purposes." APPROVED, March 23, 1804. has been extin- years. 1803, ch. 21. Act of April 16, 1816, ch. 49. Act of April 11, 1818, ch. 43. Act of Feb. 24, 1819, ch. 40. Unlocated portion of the reserved territory in five years to be released from claims and disposed of, &c. STATUTE I. CHAP. XXXIV.-An Act further to aller and establish certain post roads, and for March 26, 1804. other purposes. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following post roads be discontinued: In North Carolina. From Woodstock to Hyde Courthouse; from Halifax to Tarborough; and from Tarborough to Louisburg. In Virginia. From Lexington, by Amherst Springs, to Cabelsborough; from Pendleton Courthouse to Bath Courthouse; and from Alexandria to Piscataway, in Maryland. In Kentucky. From Hartford, by Vienna, to Muhlenburg Courthouse. In Ohio.-From Zanesville to Marietta, and from Cincinnati to Detroit. In Maryland.-From Westminster to Taneytown; from Emmitsburg In Massachusetts.-From Worcester to Providence, in Rhode Island. In New York. From the town of Chester, in Washington county, to SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following post roads be established, to wit: In Georgia. From Athens to Walkinsville. In South Carolina. From Orangeburg, by Barnwell Courthouse, Tredways, and Town creek mills to Campbetton; from Statesburg to Columbia. In North Carolina.-From Warrenton, by Ransom's bridge and Enfield, to Tarborough; and to return, by Nash Courthouse, Sill's store and Ransom's bridge, to Warrenton; from Halifax to Enfield; from Scotland Neck, by Granbury's Cross-roads, to Windsor; and from Newbern to the town of Beaufort; from Raleigh, by Nutall's store, to Merritsville. Post roads discontinued. North Caroli na. Virginia. Kentucky. Ohio. Maryland. Pennsylvania. setts. Vermont. Post roads cstablished. na. Georgia. North Caroli. (a) Act to regulate the Post-office department, May 1, 1810, chap. 37; act of March 3, 1825, chap. 64; act of July 2, 1836, chap. 270. Act of March 3, 1845, chap. 43. Virginia. Kentucky. Tennessee. Ohio. Pennsylvania New Jersey. New York. Connecticut. Massachu setts. Maine. New Hamp shire. In Virginia. From Fredericksburg, by Falmouth, Elk Run Church, Fauquier Courthouse and Salem, to Paris; from Clarksburg, by Buchanan settlement, to Randolph Courthouse; from Lancaster Courthouse to Kilmarnock; and from Kanawha Courthouse, by Point Pleasant, to Galliopolis, in Ohio; from thence to the Scioto Salt Springs; and from Prince Edward Courthouse, by Lester's store, Wheeler's Springs, and Campbell Courthouse, to New London; from Danville, in Virginia, to Lenox's castle, in North Carolina; and from Wood Courthouse to Marietta. In Kentucky.-From Springfield, by Green Courthouse, Adair Courthouse, and Cumberland Courthouse, to Jackson Courthouse, in Tennessee; and from thence to Blackburn Springs; from John Wood's near the Hazle patch, to Lincoln Courthouse; from the town of Washington to Augusta; from Frankfort to Henry Courthouse; that the post road from Montgomery Courthouse to Fleming Courthouse, shall pass by Slate creek iron works, and the Upper Blue Licks; and that the post road from Hartford to Logan Courthouse, shall pass by Muhlenburg Courthouse. In Tennessee. From Dixon's Springs, by Lebanon and Rutherford Courthouse, to Nashville; and that the post road from Nashville to Springfield, shall pass by Mansker's lick. In Ohio.-From Warren, in the county of Trumbull, by Cleveland, to Detroit; from Chilicothe to Alexandria; from Steubenville to New Lisbon; from Chilicothe to Franklinton; from Cincinnati, through Franklin and Dayton, to Stanton; from thence, through Wainsville and Deerfield, to Charleston; from Zanesville, through Tuscorowa, to Graden-hutton; and that the post road from Georgetown to Canfield, shall pass through New Lisbon. In Pennsylvania.-From Alexandria, through Hollidaysburg, Beula and Armagh, to Greensburg; from Pittsburg, through Butler and Mercer, to Meedsville; from Bedford, by Berlin, to Somerset; from Chambersburg, through Strasburg and Faunetsburg, to Huntingdon. In New Jersey-From Ringoe's tavern, by Somerset Courthouse, Boundbrook, Scotch Plains and Springfield, to Newark; and from Rahway, by Scotch Plains, to New Providence. In New York.-From Kingston, through Catskill, Loonenburg, and Coxsackie, to the city of Albany; from Lansingburg, through Schaghticoke, Easton, Argyle, and Hartford, to Whitehall; from Owego to Aurora; from Unadella to Cooperstown; from the little falls on the Mohawk river, to the academy in Fairfield; from Kingston, by Delhi, to the post-office in Meredith; from Walton to Jericho; from the Painted post, in the state of New York, to Williamsport, in the state of Pennsylvania; the post road from Canandagua to Niagara, shall pass by Buffaloe Creek. In Connecticut.-From Hartford, through Granby and Granville, to Blanford, in Massachusetts; from New Haven, through Hamden, Cheshire, and Southington, to Farmington; and from Hartford, through Glastenbury and Colchester, to New London. In Massachusetts.-From Shrewsbury, through Holden, Rutland, Oakham, Hardwick, Greenwich, Pelham and Amherst, to Northampton. In Maine.-From Brunswick, by Litchfield and Hallowell, to Augusta; from Wiscassett to Boothbay; and from Fryburgh, through Conway, the notch of the White Mountain, Jefferson, Lancaster, to Guildhall Courthouse, in Vermont. In New Hampshire-From Haverhill in Massachusetts, to pass through Salem, to Windham in New Hampshire; from Alsop to Conway; from Salisbury to Plymouth, alternately on each side of Merimack river; from Littleton to Guildhall Courthouse, alternately on each side of Connecticut river; from Littleton, through St. Johnsbury and Danville in Vermont, to St. Alban's on Lake Champlain. In Louisiana. From Massac, on the Ohio river, to Cape Girardeau, in Louisiana; from thence to New Madrid; from the said Cape Girardeau, by St. Geneveive to Kaskaskias, in the Indiana territory; and from Cahokia to St. Louis, in Louisiana; from Natchez to Tombigby; and from Natchez to New Orleans. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all letters, returns, and other papers on public service, sent by the mail to or from the offices of inspector and paymaster of the army, shall be received and conveyed free of postage. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That whenever it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-General, that any road established by this or any former act, as a post road, is obstructed by fences, gates, or bars, other than those lawfully used on turnpike roads, to collect their toll, and not kept in good repair with proper bridges and ferries, where the same may be necessary, it shall be the duty of the Postmaster-General to report the same to Congress, with such information as can be obtained, to enable Congress to establish some other road instead of it in the same main direction. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not be so construed as to affect any existing contract for carrying the mail. APPROVED, March 26, 1804. CHAP. XXXV.—An Act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in March 26, 1804. the Indiana territory, and for other purposes.(a) Powers of the surveyor-gene ral extended over all the lands of the U. the Ohio, and east of the Mississippi; and he to be laid off into townships. States north of shall cause them Expenses of surveying not to dollars per mile. exceed three Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the powers vested by law in the surveyor-general, shall extend over all the public lands of the United States to which the Indian title has been or shall hereafter be extinguished, north of the river Ohio, and east of the river Mississippi; and it shall be the duty of the said surveyor-general to cause the said lands to be surveyed into townships, six miles square, and divided in the same manner and under the same regulations, and to do and perform all such other acts in relation to the said lands, as is provided by law in relation to the lands of the United States, situate northwest of the river Ohio and above the mouth of Kentucky river: Provided, that the whole expense of surveying and marking the lines shall not exceed three dollars for every mile that shall be actually run, surveyed and marked: And provided also, that such tracts of land as are lawfully claimed by individuals within the said boundaries, and the title whereto has been or shall be recognized by the United States, shall be laid out and surveyed at the expense of the parties respectively, in conformity with the true boundaries of such tracts. And it shall also be the duty of the said surveyor-general to cause to be run, surveyed and marked such of the Indian boundary lines of the said lands, as have not yet been surveyed; dary lines to be and with the approbation of the President of the United States to ascertain by astronomical observations the positions of such places north of the river Ohio and east of the river Mississippi, as may be deemed necessary for the correctness of the surveys, and to be the most important points of the geography of the country. Tracts claimed to be laid out at the expense of the claimant. Indian boun. run and marked. Land-offices established at Detroit, Vincennes and SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the disposal of the lands of the United States, north of the river Ohio and east of the river Mississippi, in the Indiana territory, three land-offices shall be established in the same, one at Detroit for the lands lying north of the state of Ohio Kaskaskia. to which the Indian title has been extinguished; one at Vincennes for the lands to which the Indian title has been extinguished, and which (a) See notes to act of March 23, 1804, chap. 33; an act granting lands to the inhabitants and settlers at Vincennes, and the Illinois country, &c., March 3, 1791, chap. 27, vol. i. 221. |