thorized, by proclamation, to suspend the operation of either or both of the provisions of this act, as the case may be, and to withhold any or all the privileges allowed, or to be allowed, to Colombian vessels or their cargoes. APPROVED, May 19, 1832. STATUTE I. May 19, 1832. Board to be CHAP. LXXX.-An Act authorizing the revision and extension of the rules and regulations of the naval service. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United constituted, &c. States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to constitute a board of naval officers to be composed of the naval commissioners and two post captains to meet at the seat of government, whose duty it shall be, with the aid and assistance of the attorney general, carefully to revise and enlarge the rules and regulations governing the naval service, with the view to adapt them to the present and future exigencies of this important arm of national defence, which rules and regulations, when approved by him and sanctioned by Congress, shall have the force of law, and stand in lieu of all others heretofore enacted. STATUTE I. May 22, 1832. Maine, 8 6 Vermont, 5 Delaware, 1 APPROVED, May 19, 1832. CHAP. XCI.—An Act for the apportionment of representatives among the several stutes, according to the fifth census. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, the House of Representatives shall be composed of members, elected agreeably to a ratio of one representative for every forty-seven thousand and seven hundred persons in each state, computed according to the rule prescribed by the constitution of the United States, that is to say, within the state of Maine, eight; within the state of New Hampshire, five; within the state of Massachusetts, twelve; within the state of Rhode Island, two; within the state of Connecticut, six; within the state of Vermont, five; within the state of New York, forty; within the state of New Jersey, N.Carolina,13 S.Carolina, 9 six; within the state of Pennsylvania, twenty-eight; within the state of Georgia, 9 Delaware, one; within the state of Maryland, eight; within the state of Kentucky, 13 Virginia, twenty-one; within the state of North Carolina, thirteen; withTennessee,13 Onio, in the state of South Carolina, nine; within the state of Georgia, nine; Indiana, 7 within the state of Kentucky, thirteen; within the state of Tennessee, Mississippi, 2 thirteen; within the state of Ohio, nineteen; within the state of Indiana, Louisiana, 3 seven; within the state of Mississippi, two; within the state of Illinois, Missouri, 2 three; within the state of Louisiana, three; within the state of Missouri, Alabama, 5 two; and within the state of Alabama, five. APPROVED, May 22, 1832. 19 Illinois, 3 STATUTE I. May 22, 1832. Court to be 'n June. CHAP. XCII.-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 neld 2d Monday States of America, in Congress assembled, That the district court of the United States for the western district of Louisiana, shall be hereafter holden on the second Monday of June, in each year, instead of the third Monday of August, as is now required by law. (a) See notes to the acts relating to the district court in Louisiana, vol. iii. P. 774. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all proceedings of a civil or criminal nature now pending in, or returnable to, said court, shall be proceeded in by the said court, in the same manner as if no alteration of the time for holding said court had taken place. APPROVED, May 22, 1832. STATUTE I. CHAP. XCIII.-An Act to authorize the removal of the land office from Mount May 22, 1832. Land offices to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the land office at Mount be removed. Salus, in the Choctaw district, in the state of Mississippi, shall be removed to, and located at, such place in the said land district as the President of the United States may direct, if in his opinion any removal be necessary; and that the land office at Franklin, in the county of Howard, state of Missouri, shall be removed to, and located in, the town of Fayette in said county; and it shall be the duty of the registers, and the receivers of public money for said land offices, within sixty days from and after the passage of this act, to remove the books, records, and whatever else belongs to said offices, to their respective places of location as herein provided for. APPROVED, May 22, 1832. CHAP. CIV.-An Act to exempt the vessels of Portugal from the payment of duties on tonnage. (a) STATUTE I. May 25, 1832. No tonnage duties to be le Proviso. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That no duties upon tonnage vied. shall be hereafter levied or collected of the vessels of the kingdom of Portugal: Provided, always, That whenever the President of the United States shall be satisfied that the vessels of the United States are subjected in the ports of the kingdom of Portugal, to payment of any duties of tonnage, he shall, by proclamation, declare the fact, and the duties now payable by the vessels of that kingdom shall be levied and paid, as if this act had not been passed. APPROVED, May 25, 1832. CHAP. CV.-An Act to extend the limits of Georgetown, in the District of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the limits of Georgetown, in the district of Columbia, be, and they are hereby, extended, so as to include the part of a tract of land called " Pretty Prospect," recently purchased by the corporation of the said town, as a site for their poor's-house; beginning, for the said piece of ground, at a stone marked number four, extending at the end of four hundred and seventy-six poles on the first line of a tract of land, called the "Rock of Dunbarton;" said stone also standing on the western boundary line of lot numbered two hundred and sixty, of Beatty and Hawkins' addition to said town; and running thence, north, seventy-eight degrees, east thirty-eight poles; south eighty degrees, east three poles: south, eighteen poles, south twelve degrees, east nine poles; south eleven degrees, west twelve poles; south seventy-two (a) Notes of the acts relating to discriminating duties, vol. iv. 2. STATUTE I. May 25, 1832. Limits extend ed. Powers of cor ed. degrees, west twenty-three poles, to the said first line of the "Rock of Dunbarton," thence, with said line, to the beginning. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the rights, powers, and poration extend- privileges, heretofore granted by law to the said corporation, and which are at this time claimed and exercised by them, may and shall be exercised and enjoyed by them, within the bounds and limits set forth and described in the first section of this act. APPROVED, May 25, 1832. STATUTE I. May 25, 1832. Contract to be made. President to determine mode of improve ment. Appropriations. For supply of water. Flagging. CHAP. CVI.-An Act for improving Pennsylvania Avenue, supplying the public buildings with water, and for paving the walk from the western gate to the Capitol with flagging. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the commissioner of the public buildings be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to contract, after giving due notice by public advertisement, for improving the avenue, in the city of Washington, leading from the Capitol to the executive offices, by paving the centre way thereof forty-five feet in width, with cobble or pebble stones, or with pounded stone upon the McAdam plan, or in any other permanent manner, as the President of the United States may direct; and also, for the graduation, and covering with the best gravel to be obtained, the sideways of said avenue, and for proper gutters and drains to carry off the water, for which purpose, the sum of sixty-two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, under the same direction as prescribed in the first section, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes, that is to say. For conducting water in pipes from the fountain, on square number two hundred and forty-nine, to the President's house and public offices, and the construction of reservoirs and hydrants, five thousand seven hundred dollars. For bringing water in pipes to the Capitol, and the construction of reservoirs and hydrants, and the purchase of the rights of individuals to the water, forty thousand dollars. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the commissioner of the public buildings is hereby authorized and directed to contract for the purchase, delivery, and laying of Seneca flagging on the walk from the western gate to the Capitol; and for this purpose, the sum of seven thousand one hundred and two dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, May 25, 1832. STATUTE I. May 25, 1832. Act of May Power to collect tax of one and thirteen CHAP. CVII.-An Act to amend an act, entitled "An act to enlarge the powers of the several corporations of the District of Columbia." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 26, 1828, ch. 87. States of America, in Congress assembled, That the corporation of Washington be, and it is hereby, empowered to collect, annually, the tax at the rate of one per centum and thirteen hundredths of one per centum, hundredths of on the assessed value of the real and personal estates within the city of Washington, assessed and laid by the fifth section of said act, or any part thereof, for the purposes and objects designated in said act, by the same officers, process, and means by which said corporation is now, or may here one per cent. after be, empowered to collect any other taxes; and to pay over said money, when so collected as aforesaid, to the treasury of the United States, in the manner, and within the times, prescribed by the acts to which this act is a supplement: and that, in default made by the said corporation, either in collecting or paying over as aforesaid, that then, and in such case, President of the United States may proceed to exercise the powers reposed in, and conferred on, him, in and by the said fifth section. the In default of corporation, President may exercise powers reposed in, &c. Inspectors of andria. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the common council of Alexandria shall have power to appoint one or more inspectors of tobacco for tobacco in Alexthe town of Alexandria; and the said inspectors shall take an oath before a justice of the peace of the county of Alexandria, or the mayor of the corporation, for the faithful discharge of the duties of office of inspector, a certificate of which he shall return to the clerk of the common council: And the said common council shall have power to pass all needful laws for the due and proper inspection of tobacco, and for regulating the conduct of the said inspectors; and the said common council shall have power to remove, for just cause, any inspector, and appoint another in his place. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall commence and be in force from the passage thereof. APPROVED, May 25, 1832. STATUTE I. CHAP. CIX.-An Act making appropriations for the Indian department for the May 31, 1832. year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. 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 they are hereby, appropriated for the Indian department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, viz: [Obsolete.] For the pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, and Superintend the several Indian agents, as established by law, including an agent for ent and agents. the Kansas, agreeably to a treaty with that tribe of June third, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, thirty-two thousand dollars. For the pay of sub-agents, as established by law, nineteen thousand dollars. For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of one thousand eight hundred and two, fifteen thousand dollars. For the pay of Indian interpreters and translators, employed in the several superintendencies and agencies, twenty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars. Sub-agents. Presents. Interpreters. For the pay of gunsmiths and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed Gunsmiths, &c. within the several superintendencies and agencies, under treaty provisions and the orders of the War Department, eighteen thousand three hundred and forty dollars. For iron, steel, coal, and other expenses attending the gunsmiths and blacksmiths' shops, five thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars. For expense of transportation and distribution of Indian annuities, nine thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars. For expense of provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuities, while on visits of business, with the different superintendents and agents, and when assembled on public business, eleven thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars. For expense of building houses for Indian agents, blacksmiths' shops, and for repairs of the same, when required, in the several agencies, seven thousand dollars. For contingencies of the Indian department, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, in no case shall any money hereby appropriated be used for the purpose of rewarding Indians for settling disputes among themselves. Iron, &c. Transportation. Provisions, &c. Houses, &c. Contingencies. Proviso. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, for defraying the expenses of conducting a deputation of Indians from the head waters of the Missouri to Washington city, and from thence to their own country: Provided, That no compensation beyond their actual expenses for extra services, shall be allowed any Indian agent or sub-agent for services when doing duty under the order of their government, detached from their agency and boundary of the tribe to which they are agents. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the purchase and delivery of corn, or other provisions, for the use of the Seminole Indians, who are likely to suffer on account of the failure of their crops from a severe drought the last year. APPROVED, May 31, 1832. STATUTE I. May 31, 1832. Appropriations for burial ground. CHAP. CX.-An Act to aid the vestry of Washington parish in the erection of a keeper's house, and the improvement and security of the ground allotted for the interment of members of Congress, and other public officers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the commissioner of the public buildings, for the purpose of aiding the vestry of Washington parish, in the erection of a keeper's house, for planting trees, boundary stones, and otherwise improving the burial ground, allotted to the interment of members of Congress, and other officers of the general government. APPROVED, May 31, 1832. STATUTE I. May 31, 1832. [Obsolete.] CHAP. CXI.—An Act in relation to the penitentiary for the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriations States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of thirty-eight for penitentiary. thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of completing the penitentiary and buildings connected with it, for the erection of railing on the exterior walls, and for the support of the convicts, and pay of the officers for the present year, to be expended under the superintendence and direction of the inspectors of the penitentiary. STATUTE I. May 31, 1832. Deeds, &c. District of Columbia. APPROVED, May 31, 1832. CHAP. CXII.—An Act for quieting possessions, enrolling conveyances, and securing the estates of purchasers within the District of Columbia. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United of land in the States of America, in Congress assembled, That if any person or persons, seised or possessed of, or holding any estate or interest in any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, lying and being within the District of Columbia, shall execute and acknowledge a deed for the conveyance of such (a) An act to amend an act for quieting the possessions, enrolling conveyances, and securing the estates of purchasers within the District of Columbia, passed the 31st May, 1832. April 20, 1838, ch. 67. |