toms of the United States, or a license to any ship or vessel, for carrying on the coasting trade, or fishery or fisheries of the United States, or a certificate of ownership, pass, passport, sea letter, or clearance, granted for any ship or vessel, under the authority of the United States, or a permit, debenture, or other official document, granted by any collector or other officer of the customs, by virtue of his or their office; or shall falsely alter any abstract, official copy, or certificate of any recording, registering, or enrolling of any ship or vessel in the office of any collector of the customs of the United States, or any license to any ship or vessel for carrying on the coasting trade or fisheries of the United States, or any certificate of ownership, pass, passport, sea letter, or clearance granted for any ship or vessel under the authority of the United States, or any permit, debenture, or other official document granted by any collector, or other officer of the customs, by virtue of his or their office; or shall pass, utter, or publish, or attempt to pass, utter, or publish, as true, any such false, forged, or counterfeited instrument, or any such falsely altered abstract, official copy, certificate, license, pass, passport, sea letter, clearance, permit, debenture, or other official document as aforesaid, knowing the same to be false, forged, or counterfeited, or falsely altered, with an intent to defraud the United States, or any other body politic or corporate, or person, whatsoever; every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding one thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labour not exceeding three years. SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That, if any person, or persons, shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting any coin, in the resemblance or similitude of the gold or silver coin, which has been, or hereafter may be, coined at the mint of the United States; or in the resemblance or similitude of any foreign gold or silver coin which by law now is, or hereafter may be made current in the United States; or shall pass, utter, publish, or sell or attempt to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or bring into the United States; from any foreign place, with intent to pass, utter, publish, or sell, as true, any such false, forged, or counterfeited coin, knowing the same to be false, forged, or counterfeited, with intent to defraud any body politic, or corporate, or any other person or persons, whatsoever; every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment, and confinement to hard labour, not exceeding ten years, according to the aggravation of the offence.(a) SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That, if any person, or persons, shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting any coin, in the resemblance or similitude of any copper coin which has been, or hereafter may be, coined at the mint of the United States; or shall pass, utter, publish, or sell, or attempt to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or bring into the United States, from any foreign place, with intent to pass, utter, publish, or sell, as true, any such false, forged, or counterfeited coin, with intent to defraud any body politic, or corporate, or any other person, or persons, whatsoever; every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding one thousand dollars, and by imprisonment, and confinement to hard labour, not exceeding three years. SEC. 22. And be it further enacted, That, if any person or persons, (a) The head pistareen is no part of the Spanish milled dollar. Such pistareen or piece of coin is not a silver coin of Spain made current, by law, in the United States. United States v. Gardner, 10 Peters, 618. Of a person, upon the high seas, or in any arm of the sea, or in any river, haven, creek, on the high seas basin, or bay, within the admiralty jurisdiction of the United States, and &c. using a danout of the jurisdiction of any particular state, on board any vessel belonggerous weapon with an intent ing in whole or in part to the United States, or any citizen or citizens to kill, &c. thereof, shall, with a dangerous weapon, or with intent to kill, rob, steal, or to commit a mayhem, or rape, or to perpetrate any other felony, commit an assault on another, such person shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding three thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labour, not exceeding three years, according to the aggravation of the offence. (a) Of any person guilty of conpiracy, &c. Of any person employed by the mint, who shall debase, &c. any gold or silver coin struck by said mint, for the purpose of gain. All acts, &c. inconsistent with this, repealed. Proviso. Act of April 30, 1790, ch. 9. Nothing in this act to be SEC. 23. And be it further enacted, That, if any person or persons shall, on the high seas, or within the United States, wilfully and corruptly conspire, combine, and confederate, with any other person or persons, such other person or persons being either within or without the United States, to cast away, burn, or otherwise destroy, any ship or vessel, or to procure the same to be done, with intent to injure any person, or body politic, that hath underwritten, or shall thereafterwards underwrite, any policy of insurance thereon, or on goods on board thereof, or with intent to injure any person, or body politic, that hath lent or advanced, or thereafter shall lend or advance, any money on such vessel, on bottomry or respondentia, or shall, within the United States, build or fit out, or aid in building or fitting out, any ship or vessel, with intent that the same shall be cast away, burnt, or destroyed, for the purpose or with the design aforesaid, every person, so offending, shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of felony, and shall be punished by fine, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and by imprisonment, and confinement to hard labour, not exceeding ten years. SEC. 24. And be it further enacted, That, if any of the gold or silver coins which shall be struck or coined at the mint of the United States, shall be debased, or made worse, as to the proportion of fine gold or fine silver therein contained, or shall be of less weight or value than the same ought to be, pursuant to the several acts relative thereto, through the default or with the connivance of any of the officers or persons who shall be employed at the said mint, for the purpose of profit or gain, or otherwise, with a fraudulent intent, and if any of the said officers or persons shall embezzle any of the metals which shall, at any time, be committed to their charge for the purpose of being coined, or any of the coins which shall be struck or coined at the said mint, every such officer, or person who shall commit any, or either, of the said offences, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall be sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour for a term not less than one year, nor more than ten years, and shall be fined in a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars. SEC. 25. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby, repealed: Provided, nevertheless, That all such acts, and parts of acts, shall be, and remain in full force for the punishment of all offences committed before the passing of this act. SEC. 26. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained (a) Under the words "high seas," in the crimes act of 1825, sec. 22, the words " high seas" mean the unenclosed waters of the ocean outside of the fauces terræ. The United States v. Thomas Grush, 5 Mason's C. C. R. 290. The state courts have jurisdiction of offences committed on arms of the sea, havens, basins or bays, within the ebb and flow of the tide, when these places are within the body of the county; and in such cases the circuit court of the United States has no jurisdiction. Ibid. Where an arm of the sea or creeks, haven, basin or bay, is so narrow that a person standing on one shore can reasonably discern, and distinctly see by the naked eye, what is doing on the opposite shore, the waters are within the body of a county. Ibid. In such waters, it seems, that the admiralty and common law courts have concurrent jurisdic tion. Ibid. The county of Suffolk, in which the city of Boston is included, extends to all waters between the circumjacent islands, down to the Great Brewster and Point Allerton. Ibid. shall be construed to deprive the courts of the individual states, of jurisdiction, under the laws of the several states, over offences made punishable by this act. APPROVED, March 3, 1825. construed so as courts of indito deprive the vidual states of jurisdiction. STATUTE II. CHAP. LXVI.—An Act further to amend the act authorizing payment for property March 3, 1825. lost, captured, or destroyed by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes, passed ninth April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any person having a claim for a building destroyed by the enemy during the late war, under the ninth section of the act to which this is an amendment, and of the act to amend the same, passed the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, which shall have been presented to the commissioner of claims, appointed under the act first aforesaid, at any time before the tenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and which was not paid under said acts, nor finally rejected by said commissioner, may, within nine months, hereafter, present the same with the evidence to support it, to the third auditor of the treasury, for examination and adjustment, and if he shall be satisfied the building or buildings for which damages are claimed, was, at the time of its destruction, occupied by order of any agent or officer of the United States, as a place of deposit for military or naval stores, or as barracks for the military forces of the United States, he shall proceed to assess the damages, and certify the amount for payment, in the way pointed out in the act first above referred to, which shall be immediately paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That if the auditor shall be satisfied the evidence before him is insufficient to enable him correctly to decide between the United States and the claimant, he may, on giving notice to the claimant, cause other evidence to be taken: And provided, also, That no payment shall be made under the provisions of this act, where the property destroyed was occupied under a contract with the owner, and at the risk of such owner. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount which shall appear to have been paid to the owners, as rent for the use or occupation of their property, shall be deducted from the amount directed to be paid to them under this act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in case the whole amount of claims presented and allowed, under this act, shall exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, then, and in that case, the claimants shall, respectively, receive only their rateable proportion of the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be liquidated by the said auditor, in the adjustment of the amount to be received by such claimants respectively. APPROVED, March 3, 1825. CHAP. LXXIV.-An Act to authorize the sale of a section of land therein mentioned. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be exposed to public sale, in the same manner other lands of the United States are, the section numbered thirty-four, of the eleventh township and third range of townships offered for sale, at Steubenville, Ohio; and, if not so sold, the said section shall be liable to entry in the Steubenville land office, as other lands are. APPROVED, March 3, 1825. 9, Act of April 1816, ch. 40. 3, 1817, ch. Act of March 110. Course to be pursued by those having claims for buildings destroyed during the late war. Proviso. Proviso. Amount paid for the use thereof, deducted. When the claimants to receive a rateable proportion. STATUTE II. bered 34, of the in Ohio. STATUTE II. March 3, 1825. [Obsolete.] Act of Feb. 11, 1825, ch. 10. Additional ap propriation for bringing to the seat of government the votes for President CHAP. LXXV. An Act making an additional appropriation for defraying the expenses of bringing to the seat of government the votes for President and Vice President of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That there be, and there hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents, for the payment of the expenses of bringing to the seat of government the votes for President and Vice President of the and Vice Presi United States, in addition to the sum of three thousand three hundred dollars, heretofore appropriated for the same object. APPROVED, March 3, 1825. dent. STATUTE II. March 3, 1825. CHAP. LXXVI.—An Act authorizing the subscription of stock in the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company. Secretary of the Treasury authorized to subscribe, for 1500 shares of the capital stock peake and Dela of the Chesa ware Canal Company. The Secretary of the Treasury to vote for the president and directors of said company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to subscribe, in the name and for the use of the United States, for one thousand five hundred shares of the capital stock of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, and to pay for the same, at such times, and in such proportions, as may be required by the said company, out of the dividends which may grow due to the United States upon their bank stock in the Bank of the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Secretary of the Treasury shall vote for president and directors of the said company, according to such number of shares, and shall receive upon the said stock, the proportion of the tolls which shall from time to time, be due to the United States for the shares aforesaid. APPROVED, March 3, 1825. STATUTE II. March 3, 1825. CHAP. LXXVIII.—An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to alter the times of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States, for the district of South Carolina." (a) The circuit court for the district of South Carolina, at Columbia, to com mence on the 4th Tuesday of Nov. annually. Same course to be pursued with suits, &c., as before. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, from and after the passing of this act, the circuit court for the district of South Carolina, at Columbia, South Carolina, shall commence on the fourth Tuesday in November, annually, instead of the third Tuesday, as is now provided for by an act approved the twenty-fifth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all suits, actions, torts, processes, and other proceedings, which now are pending in said circuit court, or which now are, or may hereafter be commenced for, or returnable to, the said circuit court at Columbia, at the time heretofore established, shall be returnable to, heard, tried, and determined in the said circuit court, at the time hereby fixed and established. APPROVED, March 3, 1825. (a) See notes to the act of May 25, 1824, ch. 145. STATUTE II. CHAP. LXXX.-An Act to change the time of holding the district court of the March 3, 1825. United States for the eastern district of Louisiana. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana, shall be annually holden in the city of New Orleans, on the second Monday of December, instead of the third Monday of November, as now prescribed by law. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all suits, actions, writs, processes, and other proceedings, which now are pending in said district court, or which are, or may hereafter be, commenced for or returnable to, the said district court, on the third Monday of November, as heretofore established, shall be returnable to, heard, tried, and proceeded with, in the said district court, in the same manner as if the time for holding thereof had not been changed. APPROVED, March 3, 1825. Time of hold ing the district States, for the cast district of Louisiana, changed. court of United All suits, &c., to be proceeded with as before. STATUTE II. CHAP. LXXXIII.-An Act to extend the time for the settlement of private land March 3, 1825. claims in the territory of Florida, to provide for the preservation of the public archives in said territory, and for the relief of John Johnson. (b) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, when the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied that John Johnson, of Indiana, did enter, at the Brookville land office, in said state, the east half of the north-east quarter of section thirty-five, and the west half of the north-west quarter of section thirty-six, in township seventeen, north, in range four, east, by mistake, instead of the east half of the south-east quarter, and the west half of the south-west quarter of the same sections, it shall be lawful for a patent to be issued to the said John Johnson for the two last-mentioned half quarters, so intended to be entered, on his relinquishing to the United States his interest in, and surrendering the patent issued for, the two first-mentioned half quarters, in such manner as shall be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners appointed to ascertain claims and titles to land in East Florida, be, and they are hereby, authorized to continue their session until the first Monday of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, under the same laws, ordinances, and regulations, heretofore established for their govern ment. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act, entitled "An act to extend the time limited for the settlement of private land claims in Florida," as renders void all claims to land in said territory, not filed on or before the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and it shall be lawful for claims to be filed before the board of commissioners in East Florida, any time prior to the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed two additional clerks to the board of commissioners of East Florida, to each of whom shall be allowed the sum of seven hundred dollars, to be paid quarterly by the treasury of the United States. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That each of the commissioners appointed for the examination of claims in East Florida, be allowed at (a) See notes to the act of March 3, 1823, ch. 44. Act of April 22, 1826, ch. 29. The Secretary of the Treasury, when satisfied that John Johnson, of Indiana,did enter, through mistake, certain half quarter sections of land, shall issue to him a patent for two others. The commis sioners of land claims in east Florida, to continue their sea sion. Part of the act extending settlement of private land claims in Flori the time for the da, repealed. Act of Feb. 24, 1824, ch. 25. Two additional clerks for the board of commissioners of East Florida. Compensation of the commissioners. |