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Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, By P. H. NICKLIN & TOPLIFF JOHNSON,

in the clerk's office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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ACTS OF THE TWENTIETH CONGRESS

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THE UNITED STATES.

Passed at the First Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, President. J. C. CALHOUN, Vice President, and President of the Senate. NATHANIEL MACON, President of the Senate, pro-tempore. ANDREW STEVENSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

CHAP. 2. An act to prevent defalcations on the part of the Disbursing Agents of the Government, and for other purposes.

construed to

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That no money hereafter appropriated No money apshall be paid to any person, for his compensation, who is in arrears propriated to be paid to perto the United States, until such persons shall have accounted for, sons in arand paid into the Treasury, all sums for which he may be liable: rears to the U. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to s. extend to balances arising solely from the depreciation of trea- Proviso: nosury notes received by such person, to be expended in the public thing to be service; but in all cases where the pay or salary of any person is extend to bawithheld, in pursuance of this act, it shall be the duty of the ac- lances arising counting officers, if demanded by the party, his agent or attorney, from the depreciation of to report, forthwith, to the agent of the treasury department, the treasury balance due; and it shall be the duty of the said agent, within notes. sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such delinquent and his sureties. [Approved, 25th January, 1828.]

CHAP. 15. An act to revive and continue in force "An act declaring the assent of Congress to a certain act of Maryland."

continued in

1. Be it enacted, &c. That the act passed the seventeenth day Act of Mary. of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred, entitled "An land of 17th act declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the states March, 1800, of Maryland and Georgia," and which, by subsequent acts, has force until 3d been revived and continued in force, until the third day of March, March, 1828. one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, be, and the same Act of 1800, so far as relates to the act of Maryland, hereby is revived and ch. 15. vol. i. continued in force, until the third day of March, one thousand P. 731. eight hundred and thirty-eight: Provided, That nothing herein Proviso: nocontained, shall authorize the demand of a duty on tonnage on thing herein vessels propelled by steam, employed in the transportation of pas- shall authorsengers. [Approved, 10th March, 1828.]

contained

ise the de

mand of a du- CHAP. 16. An act to alter the time of holding the District Courts of the United States in the District of North Carolina.

ty on tonnage on vessels

propelled by steam. District

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the District Court of the United States for the district of North Carolina, shall, after the passing of this act, commence and be holden on the following days; that is Courts for the North Caroli- to say: at Edenton, in, and for the district of Albemarle, on the na district, third Monday of April and October; at Newbern, in and for the district of Pamlico, on the fourth Monday of April and October; and at Wilmington, in and for the district of Cape Fear or Clarendon, on the first Monday after the fourth Monday of April and October, in each and every year.

where to be

held.

All suits, &c.

to be proceeded with in the

same manner as if no change had

taken place.

Actual settlers, reported to the com

missioner of the general land office,

under act of 3d March,

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That all suits, actions, writs, process, and other proceedings, commenced, or to commence, or which shall now be pending, in any of the said District Courts, shall be returnable to, heard, tried, and proceeded with, in the said District Courts, in the same manner as if the time for the holding thereof had not been changed. [Approved, 10th March, 1828.]

CHAP. 19. An act granting the right of preference in the purchase of public lands, to certain settlers in the St. Helena land district, in the state of Louisiana.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That every person, his or her legal representatives, comprised in the list of actual settlers reported to the commissioner of the general land office, by the register for the district of St. Helena, in the state of Louisiana, under the authority of the act of Congress, entitled "An act for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices in the district east of the 1819, shall be island of New Orleans," approved the third day of March, one entitled to the thousand eight hundred and nineteen, or who did actually inhabit preference, on and cultivate a tract of land in said district on the third day of becoming purchasers. March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, not rightfully Act of 1819, claimed by any other person, by virtue of any written evidence of ch. 223, vol. claim, legally derived from either the French, British, or Spanish 3, p. 1748. government, or granted as a donation by virtue of any act of Congress heretofore passed, shall be entitled to a right of preference, on becoming the purchaser from the United States of such tract of land, at the same price for which other public lands are Proviso: such sold at private sale: Provided, That such tract of land shall not contain more than one quarter section, to be located by sectional lines; and that the same shall be entered with the register of the quarter sec- land office in said district, within two years, or before if the same tion, to be lo- shall be offered at public sale. [Approved, 19 March, 1828.]

tract not to

contain more than one

cated by sectional lines, &c.

CHAP. 20. An act for the relief of the Columbian college, in the District of Columbia.

Treasurer of § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the treasurer of the United States the U. S. to be, and he is hereby authorized and required to deliver up to the deliver up to the trustees of trustees of the Columbian college, all the obligations, notes, or the Colum other evidences of debt which have heretofore been given by the bian college, trustees, or by any treasurer or agent of the trustees of the said of debt which college, when, and as soon as the trustees of the said college shall have been deliver up, re-assign, transfer or convey to the United States, the

all evidences

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