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(ACT of May 15th, 1820.)

and marines, who were killed in battle, or died of wounds received in battle, or who died in the naval service of the United States, during the late war, the said provision shall be continued for the additional term of five years, to commence at the end of the first term of five years, in each case, respectively, making the provision equal to ten years half pay; which shall be paid in the manner, and out of the fund, heretofore designated by law; and the said pensions shall also cease for the reasons mentioned in the said law.

RESOLUTION of March 3, 1819. Pamphlet edit. 112.

42. SEC. i. All the ships of the navy of the United States, now building or hereafter to be built, shall be named by the secretary of the navy, under the direction of the president of the United States, according to the following rule, to wit: Those of the first class shall be called after the states of this union; those of the second class after the rivers; and those of the third class after the principal cities and towns; taking care that no two vessels in the navy shall bear the same name.

ACT of May 15, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 113.

An act authorising the building of a certain number of small vessels of war.

43. The president of the United States, is hereby authorized to cause to be built and equipped, any number of small vessels of war, (not exceeding five) which, in his judgment, the public service may require; the said vessels to be of a force not more than twelve guns each, according to the discretion of the president. And for carrying this act into effect, the sum of sixty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

ACT of May 15, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 114.

An act to amend the act, entitled "An act to amend the act authorising the employment of an additional naval force."

44. SEC. 1. The second section of the act, entitled "An act authorising the employment of an additional naval force," passed on the thirty-first day of January, eighteen hundred and nine, is hereby, amended, so far as to authorise the enlistment of able seamen, ordinary seamen, and boys, during the continuance of the service or cruise for which they shall be enlisted; not, however, to exceed the period of three years. [Supra, 24.]

ACT of May 15, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 122.

An act to amend “ An act making reservation of certain public lands for naval purposes," passed March 1, 1817.

45. So much of the first section of the act of congress, passed

(ACT of May 15th, 1820.)

on the first day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, entitled "An act making reservation of certain public lands for naval purposes," as empowers the secretary of the navy to appoint an agent or agents and surveyor, is hereby repealed; and the duties and services required by said section, shall be performed in future by such surveyor of the public lands, as may be designated by the president of the United States.

OFFICES-LIMITED.

Appointments to be for four years,
Commissions when to expire,

1 | Bonds,

2 Treasury department,

ACT of May 15, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 95.

An act to limit the term of office, of certain officers therein named, and for other purposes.

1. SEC. i. From and after the passing of this act, all district attorneys, collectors of the customs, naval officers, and surveyors of the customs, navy agents, receivers of public moneys for lands, registers of the land offices, paymasters in the army, the apothecary general, the assistant apothecaries general, and the commissary general of purchases, to be appointed under the laws of the United States, shall be appointed for the term of four years, but shall be removeable from office at pleasure.

SEC. 11. The commission of each and every of the officers named in the first section of this act, now in office, unless vacated by removal from office, or otherwise, shall cease and expire in the manner following: All such commissions bearing date on or before the thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, shall cease and expire on the day and month, of their respective dates, which shall next ensue after the thirtieth day of September next; all such commissions bearing date after the said thirtieth day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and before the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, shall cease and expire on the day and month of their respective dates, which shall next ensue after the thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. And all other such commissions shall cease and expire, at the expiration of the term of four years from their respective dates.

3. SEC. 111. It shall be lawful for the president of the United States, and he is hereby authorised, from time to time, as in his opinion the interest of the United States may require, to regulate and increase the sums for which the bonds required, or which

(ACT of April 30th, 1802.)

may be required, by the laws of the United States, to be given by the said officers, and by all other officers employed in the dis bursement of the public moneys, under the direction of the war and navy departments, shall be given, and all bonds given in conformity with such regulations shall be as valid and effectual, to all intents and purposes, as if given for the sums respectively men. tioned in the laws requiring the same.

4. SEC. IV. The commissions of all officers employed in levying or collecting the public revenue, shall be made out and recorded in the treasury department, and the seal of the said department affixed thereto; any law to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, That the said seal shall not be affixed to any such commissions, before the same shall have been signed by the president of the United States.

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1. SEC. 1. The inhabitants of the eastern division of the territory northwest of the river Ohio, are hereby authorised to form for themselves a constitution and state government, and to assume such name as they shall deem proper; and the said state, when formed, shall be admitted into the union, upon the same footing with the original states, in all respects whatever.

2. SEC. II. The said state shall consist of all the territory included within the following boundaries, to wit: bounded on the east by the Pennsylvania line, on the south by the Ohio river, to the mouth of the Great Miami river, on the west by the line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami aforesaid, and on the north by an east and west line drawn through the southerly extreme of lake Michigan, running east, after intersecting the due north line aforesaid, from the mouth of the Great Miami, until it shall intersect lake Erie, or the territorial line, and thence, with the same, through lake Erie, to the Pennsylvania line aforesaid: Provided, That congress shall be at liberty, at any time hereafter, either to attach all the territory lying east of the line to be drawn due north from the mouth of the Miami aforesaid to the territorial line, and north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly extreme of lake Michigan, running east as aforesaid to lake Erie, to the aforesaid state, or dispose of it otherwise, in con

(ACT of April 30th, 1802.)

formity to the fifth article of compact between the original states and the people and states to be formed in the territory northwest of the river Ohio.

SEC. IV. [Provides for the choice of representatives to form a convention, &c.]

3. SEc. v. The members of the convention, thus duly elected, are hereby authorised, to meet at Chilicothe on the first Monday in November next; which convention, when met, shall first determine, by a majority of the whole number elected, whether it be or be not expedient, at that time, to form a constitution and state government for the people within the said territory; and if it be determined to be expedient, the convention shall be, and hereby are, authorised to form a constitution and state government; or, if it be deemed more expedient, the said convention shall provide by ordinance for electing representatives to form a constitution or frame of government: which said representatives shall be chosen in such manner, and in such proportion, and shall meet at such time and place, as shall be prescribed by the said ordinance, and shall form for the people of the said state a constitution and state government: Provided, The same shall be republican, and not repugnant to the ordinance of the thirteenth of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, between the original states and the people and states of the territory northwest of the river Ohio.

4. SEC. VI. Until the next general census shall be taken, the said state shall be entitled to one representative in the house of representatives of the United States.

[See title CONGRESS, 2, ante page, 128.]

5. SEC. VII. The following propositions shall be, and the same are hereby offered to the convention of the eastern state of the said territory, when formed, for their free acceptance or rejection; which, if accepted by the convention, shall be obligatory upon the United States.

First: That the section number sixteen, in every township, and where such section has been sold, granted, or disposed of, other lands equivalent thereto, and most contiguous to the same, shall be granted to the inhabitants of such township, for the use of schools.

Second: That the six miles reservation, including the salt springs, commonly called the Sciota salt springs, the salt springs near the Muskingum river, and in the military tract, with the sections of land which include the same, shall be granted to the said state, for the use of the people thereof, the same to be used under such terms, and conditions, and regulations, as the legislature of the said state shall direct: Provided, The said legislature shall never sell nor lease the same for a longer period than ten years.

Third: That one-twentieth part of the net proceeds of the lands lying within the said state, sold by congress, from and after the thirtieth day of June next, after deducting all expenses incident to the same, shall be applied to the laying out and making public

(ACT of March 3d, 1803.)

roads, leading from the navigable waters emptying into the Atlantic, to the Ohio, to the said state, and through the same; such roads to be laid out under the authority of congress, with the consent of the several states through which the road shall pass: Provided always, That the three foregoing propositions herein offered, are on the conditions that the convention of the said state shall provide by an ordinance, irrevocable without the consent of the United States, that every and each tract of land sold by congress, from and after the thirtieth day of June next, shall be and remain exempt from any tax laid by order or under authority of the state, whether for state, county, township, or any other purpose whatever, for the term of five years, from and after the day of sale.

ACT of February 19, 1803. 3 Bioren, 524.

An act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States, within the state of Ohio.

Whereas the people of the eastern division of the territory northwest of the Ohio, did, on the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and two, form for themselves a constitution and state government, and did give to the said state the name of the "state of Ohio," in pursuance of an act of congress, entitled "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," whereby the said state has become one of the United States of America, in order, therefore, to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States, within the said state of Ohio.

SEC. 1. [See title JUDICIARY 82, ante page, 400.]

ACT of March 3, 1803. 3 Bioren, 541.

6. SEC. 1. The following several tracts of land in the state of Ohio, be, and the same are hereby appropriated for the use of schools in that state, and shall, together with all the tracts of land heretofore appropriated for that purpose, be vested in the legislature of that state, in trust for the use aforesaid, and for no other use, intent, or purpose, whatever, that is to say:

First: The following quarter townships, in that tract commonly called the "United States' military tract," for the use of schools within the same, viz: the first quarter of the third township in the first range, the first quarter of the first township in the fourth range, the fourth quarter of the first township and the third quarter of the fifth township in the fifth range, the second quarter of the third township in the sixth range, the fourth quarter of the second township in the seventh range, the third quarter of the third township in the eighth range, the first quarter of the first

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