Illinois. Missouri. Michigan territory. Arkansas ter ritory. Florida ter ritory. dolph county, to fort Wayne. From Indianapolis, on the Horse Shoe Bend, state road, to the Ohio river; thence to Elizabeth, in the state of Kentucky. In Illinois. From Edwardsville to Springfield. In Missouri.-From Jefferson city, by Gasconade Courthouse, Massey's Iron Works, Potosi and Farmington, to Jackson. From Fulton, by Columbia, Rockport, Booneville, Meredith, Marmaduke's and Jones' Salt Works, to Lexington. From Cooper Courthouse to Fulsom. From Monticello, by Covington Courthouse to St. Stephen's, Alabama. In Michigan Territory.-From Taylor's Village, on Stoney Creek, by Indian Village, in Shelby, to E. Andrews', From Stoney Creek Postoffice, by N. Millard's, Gideon Gates', to fort Gratiot. In Arkansas Territory.-From Memphis to Little Rock. In Florida Territory.-From Pensacola to Blakeley. From Pensacola to fort Crawford. From St. Mary's, by Fernandina, and the town of St. John, to Jacksonville. APPROVED, March 2, 1827. STATUTE II. March 2, 1827. [Obsolete.] 3000 dollars appropriated for the purchase of books. 400 dollars as compensation to an assistant librarian. CHAP. XL.-An Act making an appropriation for the purchase of books for the use of the library of Congress, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purchase of books, under the direction of the joint library committee, for the use of the library of Congress. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of four hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, as a compensation to an assistant employed by the librarian of Congress during the present session. APPROVED, March 2, 1827. STATUTE II. March 2, 1827. Time of holding said court changed to the 2d Monday in December instead of that of October, &c. Records, to said court, heretofore holden at Cahaw CHAP. XLI.-An Act to alter the time of holding the district court of the United 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 southern district of Alabama, shall be holden in the city of Mobile, on the second Monday in December instead of the second Monday in October, and in addition to the term now directed by law to be holden on the first Monday in May in each and every year, and shall continue so long as business may require. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the records and papers &c., belonging belonging to the district court heretofore holden at the town of Cahawba, in the southern district of Alabama, except such as may be necessary in any criminal prosecution pending in the said court, shall be transferred to, and become a part of, the records and papers of the district court holden at Mobile, and all causes of a civil nature pending in the district court heretofore holden at the said town of Cahawba, shall be transferred to the district court holden in the city of Mobile, and shall have day therein and be proceeded in to final judgment and execution, in the same manner as if the said causes had originated in the said court holden at Mobile; and it shall be lawful for the said last-mentioned court to issue execution upon any judgment heretofore rendered in the district ba, except such be transferred (a) See notes to act of April 21, 1820, ch. 47. court holden at Cahawba, which said judgment shall not have been satisfied, and to issue writs of scire facias for the purpose of reviving any judgment heretofore rendered by the district court holden at Cahawba, and to issue all other writs or process which may be necessary, according to the course of judicial proceedings. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all causes of a criminal nature, now pending in the district court holden at Cahawba, shall be proceeded in by the said court, to final judgment, and to execution of such judgment or sentence as may be rendered by the said court, in the said causes; and, that immediately thereafter, the records and papers in the said causes shall be transferred to, and become a part of, the records and papers of the district court, holden at Mobile. APPROVED, March 2, 1827. Causes of a criminal nature the district now pending in court, holden at Cahawba, to be proceeded in by the said court to final judgment, &c. STATUTE II. CHAP. XLII.-An Act giving further compensation to the captains and subalterns March 2, 1827. of the army of the United States, in certain cases. 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, each captain and subaltern in the army shall be allowed one additional ration. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every officer in the actual command of a company in the army of the United States, shall be entitled to receive ten dollars per month additional pay, as compensation for his duties and responsibilities, with respect to the clothing, arms, and accoutrements of the company, whilst he shall be in the actual command thereof: Provided, That no subaltern officer who shall be in the performance of any staff duty, for which he receives an extra compensation, shall be entitled to the additional ration herein provided for. APPROVED, March 2, 1827. After the pas sage of this act, lowed an addi- in actual command of a company, in the United States, to receive 10 dollars per army of the month, additional pay. Proviso. STATUTE II. CHAP. XLIII.-An Act authorizing the completion and repair of certain roads March 2, 1827. in the territory of Florida, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be opened and repaired, in the territory of Florida, a public road, known by the name of the King's road, from the Georgia line, by St. Augustine, to New Smyrna. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ the troops of the United States, stationed in Florida, in such manner as he may think proper, in opening and repairing said road; and for defraying the expenses thereof, the sum of eleven thousand dollars is hereby appropriated. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the additional sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the completion of the United States' military road from Pensacola to St. Augustine, by the construction of a bridge across the St. Sebastian's river, near St. Augustine; and that the further sum of six thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for the purpose of completing the road from Colerain, in Georgia, to Tampa Bay, in the territory of Florida; and the appropriations aforesaid shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any part of the above appropriations shall remain unexpended, it shall be appropriated to open President to cause to be opened a pub lic road from the Georgia line, by St. Au gustine. Troops of the United States in in opening and repairing the Florida to assist same. Additional sum of 5000 dollars appropriated for the comple tion of United road from Pen- struction of a bridge across the St. Sebas tian's river. Communication between Moscheto or Halifax and Indian rivers. 1824, ch. 22. ing the communication between Moscheto or Halifax and Indian rivers, in the line of communication to Cape Florida, described in the report of the engineer, appointed in pursuance of an act of Congress, of the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twentyfour, authorizing the survey of a military road from St. Augustine to Cape Florida. APPROVED, March 2, 1827. STATUTE II. March 2, 1827. 30,000 dollars appropriated. A suitable person to superintend the repairs to be made on said road to be appointed. CHAP. XLIV.-An Act for the preservation of the Cumberland road. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of thirty thousand dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated for the purpose of repairing the public road from Cumberland to Wheeling, under the direction of the President of the United States, to be paid out of any money in the public treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint some suitable person to superintend the repairs to be made .on said road, whose compensation, to be paid out of the sum appropriated by this act, shall be fixed by the President of the United States. APPROVED, March 2, 1827. STATUTE II. March 2, 1827. Secretary of the Treasury to refund the discriminating duties paid between the 3d of March, 1815, and the 13th November of the same year. CHAP. XLV.-An Act to refund certain duties paid upon vessels belonging to citizens of Hamburg, and their cargoes. (b) 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 to refund the discriminating duties that were paid in the ports of the United States between the third of March, eighteen hundred and fifteen, and the thirteenth November of the same year, upon any vessels belonging to citizens of the city of Hamburg, and their cargoes; and that the same be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 2, 1827. STATUTE II. March 2, 1827. Sums, respectively, uppropriated. Improving Hyannis harbour. Building two piers at the mouth of Oswego harbour. 1826, ch. 78. CHAP. XLVI.-An Act to authorize the improving of certain harbours, the building of piers, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, to accomplish the objects hereinafter mentioned; that is to say: For improving Hyannis harbour, in the state of Massachusetts, a sum not exceeding ten thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For building two piers at the mouth of Oswego harbour in the state of New York, thirty-three thousand three hundred and forty-eight dollars and sixty-four cents; no part of which last-mentioned sum shall be expended until a contract shall have been made for completing said piers, agreeably to the plan proposed in a report made under the act of the twentieth of May last; and for erecting a pier by contract, at the mouth of Dunkirk harbour, in the state of New York, three thousand dollars. (a) For the notes relating to the Cumberland road, see vol. ii. p. 357. (b) See notes as to discriminating duties, Act of Jan. 7, 1824, ch. 4. For improving Cleaveland harbour, in the State of Ohio, ten thousand dollars. For improving the harbour at the mouth of Pascagoula river, in the state of Mississippi, and for removing the obstructions to the navigation of said river, eight thousand dollars. For removing obstructions to the navigation of Saugatuck river, and protecting Saugatuck Harbour, by a suitable work, to prevent the washing of the sand from Cedar Point, into said harbour, a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars. For completing a pier at the entrance of La Plaisance bay, in the territory of Michigan, agreeably to the plan and estimate made under the act of the twentieth of May last, three thousand nine hundred and seventyseven dollars and eighty-one cents. For making a survey and examination to ascertain the expediency and expense of constructing piers to improve the harbour of Churches Cove, in the town of Little Compton, in the state of Rhode Island, two hundred dollars. For making a survey and examination to ascertain the expediency and expense of erecting a pier in Stonington harbour, in the state of Connecticut, two hundred dollars. For defraying the expense of an examination of the public piers at Port Penn, Marcus Hook, and Fort Mifflin, in the river Delaware, in the states of Pennsylvania and Delaware, in order to determine the expediency and expense of repairing and improving the same, one hundred dollars. For a survey of the Colbert Shoals, in the Tennessee river, to ascertain the nature of the obstructions, the practicability, the manner, and the expense of removing them, two hundred dollars. For removing the obstructions to the navigation of the Kennebec river, in the state of Maine, at Lovejoy's Narrows, four thousand dollars; no part of which sum shall be expended until a contract shall have been made for removing said obstructions, agreeably to the plan proposed by the engineer employed to make a survey of said narrows. Cleaveland. harbour. Harbour at the mouth of Pascagoula river. Navigation of the Saugatuck harbour, &c. Completing a pier at the enPlaisance bay. 1826, ch. 78. Improvement of the harbour trance of La of Churches Cove. Erecting a pier in Stonington harbour. Expense of an examination of the public piers at Port Penn, &c. Survey of the Colbert Shoals. Removing the obstructions to the navigation of the Kennebec river. Erection of For the erection of piers, placing beacons or buoys, and removing obstructions at, and near, the entrance into the harbour of Saco in the state piers, &c. of Maine, a sum not exceeding seven thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 2, 1827. Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury. STATUTE II. CHAP. XLVII.-An Act to authorize the building of lighthouses and beacons, March 2, 1827. and for other purposes. 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 provide, by contract, for building lighthouses and beacons, and placing buoys on the sites hereinafter mentioned, to wit: A lighthouse at or near the mouth of Portsmouth harbour, in the state of New Hampshire, to be placed on the ledge called the Whale's Back, or on such other site, near to said ledge, as the Secretary of the Treasury shall select. A lighthouse at the point of Marsh near the mouth of Neuse river, in the state of North Carolina. A beacon, in the harbour, at the mouth of Bass river, between the towns of Dennis and Yarmouth; a beacon on a ledge of rocks, called the U [Obsolete.] Building of lighthouses, &c. A lighthouse near the mouth of Portsmouth harbour. A lighthouse at the Point of Marsh. A beacon, in the harbour at the mouth of Bass river, &c. A buoy on Cheppinaxet Point, &c. A beacon on Well's Point, &c. Buoys at the entrance of Mobile bay. Buoys on the bar at the entrance of St. Augustine harbour. Secretary of accept from the the Treasury to state of Pennsylvania, the cession of the public piers, &c. A column to be erected on Little Mark Island. Sums appropriated. Lighthouse at Portsmouth harbour. Lighthouse near the mouth of Neuse river. Beacon at Bass river, &c. Buoys in Greenwich harbour. Beacon on Well's Point. Beacon on Bishops, three miles south-east from the lighthouse on Point Gammon; a beacon on Collin's ledge; a buoy on the Channel rock; a buoy on the south-west rock; a buoy on the Gangway rocks; a buoy on the southwest part of Suckenecut shoals; a buoy on the end of Dogfish bar; and a buoy on the south end of Kilpond bar, in the Vineyard Sound, in the state of Massachusetts. A buoy on Cheppinaxet point; a buoy on Garden point; and a buoy on Long Point in East Greenwich harbour, in the state of Rhode Island. A beacon on Well's Point; a buoy on Marchard flat; a buoy on Stoney bar, and a buoy on Allen's flat, in Bridgeport harbour; a beacon on Patrick's reef, in Norwalk harbour; a buoy on Smith's ledge, near Darien, and a buoy on Shippan reef, in the state of Connecticut. Four buoys at the entrance of Mobile bay, and one at the mouth of Dog river, in the state of Alabama. Three buoys on the bar at the entrance of St. Augustine harbour, and three buoys in St. Mark's harbour, in the territory of Florida. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to accept, from the state of Pennsylvania, the cession, to the United States, of the public piers, and the causeway leading thereto, which were built by said state, at Chester, in the Delaware river, and directed to cause said piers and causeway to be repaired by contract. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, empowered and directed to cause to be built, by contract, a column on Little Mark Island, at the entrance of Harpswell Sound, in the state of Maine. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to accomplish the objects specified in this act, that is to say: For building a lighthouse at or near the mouth of Portsmouth harbour, fifteen hundred dollars. For building a lighthouse on the point of Marsh near the mouth of Neuse river, three thousand five hundred dollars. For erecting a beacon at the mouth of Bass river, between the towns of Dennis and Yarmouth, one thousand dollars; for erecting a beacon or spindle on the ledge of rocks, called the Bishops, one hundred dollars; for erecting a beacon or spindle on Collin's ledge, one hundred dollars; and for placing six buoys on the sites above designated, in the Vineyard Sound, one hundred and fifty dollars. For placing three buoys in East Greenwich harbour, seventy-five dollars. For erecting a beacon on Well's Point, in Bridgeport harbour, five hundred dollars; and for placing three buoys in said harbour seventy-five dollars. For erecting a beacon on Patrick's reef, in Norwalk harbour, three Patrick's reef. hundred dollars; for placing a buoy on Smith's ledge, near Darien, twenty-five dollars; and for placing a buoy on Shippan reef, thirty dollars. For repairing the public piers and causeway at Chester, five thousand three hundred and eighty-three dollars and forty cents. Public piers, &c., at Chester. Column on Little Mark Island. Pier adjacent to the one at Buffalo, &c. 1826, ch. 73. For erecting a column on Little Mark Island, at the entrance of Harpswell Sound, twelve hundred dollars. For erecting a pier adjacent to the pier at Buffalo, in the state of New York, and placing thereon the lighthouse authorized to be built at the east end of Lake Erie, by the act of eighteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, including the appropriation of two thousand five hundred dollars, made by the act aforesaid for that object, six thousand five hundred dollars; any part of which sum may be applied by the Secretary of the Treasury to defray the expense of altering the lighthouse |