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of the duties

on wines, imposed by this act, shall be allowed on exportation, 1st January, and that all existing laws concerning the exportation of merchan- 1829. dise for the benefit of the drawback, the collection of duties, and A drawback the recovery, distribution and remission of all penalties and for- shall be allowfeitures, shall be taken and deemed to be applicable to importations ed on exportaunder this act.-[Approved, 24 May, 1828.]

CHAP. 115. An act in relation to the banks in the District of Co

lumbia.

tion.

discount, to

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That it shall be and is hereby declared Banks in the to be lawful for the several banks of the District of Columbia, in D. C. in calcalculating their discount or interest, to charge according to the culating their standard and rates set forth in "Rowlett's Tables," and in com- be guided, puting the time which a note may have to run, to reckon the days &c. by Rowinclusively. [Approved, 24 May, 1828.]

CHAP. 116. An act to amend the acts concerning naturalization.

lett's tables.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the second section of the act, enti- Second sectled "An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and to tion of the act of 14th April, repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject," which was 1802, and 22d passed on the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hun- March, 1816, dred and two, and the first section of the act, entitled "An act repealed. relative to evidence in cases of naturalization,"† passed on the *Act of 1802, twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and C. [28], vol. 2, sixteen, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

p. 850.
tAct of 1816,

&c. of the U.

S.

18th June,

1812, to be

come a citi.

§2. And be it further enacted, That any alien, being a free ch. 32, vol. 3, white person, who has resided within the limits and under the p. 1539. jurisdiction of the United States, between the fourteenth day of Any alien, beApril, one thousand eight hundred and two, and the eighteenth white person ing a free day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and who residing withhas continued to reside within the same, may be admitted to in the limits, become a citizen of the United States, without having made any between previous declaration of his intention to become a citizen: Pro- 14th April, vided, That whenever any person without a certificate of such 1802, and declaration of intention, shall make application to be admitted a citizen of the United States, it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Court, that the applicant was residing within the limits, zen. and under the jurisdiction of the United States, before the eigh- Proviso. teenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and has continued to reside within the same, or he shall not be so admitted; and the residence of the applicant within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States, for at least five years immediately preceding the time of such application, shall be proved by the oath or affirmation of citizens of the United States, which citizens shall be named in the record as witnesses: and such continued residence within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States when satisfactorily proved, and the place or places where the applicant has resided for at least five years as aforesaid, shall be stated and set forth, together with the names of such citizens, in the record of the court admitting the applicant; otherwise the same shall not entitle him to be considered and deemed a citizen of the United States. [Approved, 24 May, 1828.]

Duty of collectors to issue license.

Proviso.

*Act of 1793, ch. 52, vol. 1,,

p. 285.

No person to be appointed

assistant sur

CHAP. 119. An act to authorise the licensing of vessels to be employed in the Mackerel Fishery.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the collector of the district to which any vessel may belong, on an application for that purpose by the master or owner thereof, to issue a license for carrying on the mackerel fishery, to such vessel, in the form prescribed by the act entitled "An act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same," passed the eighteenth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three:* Provided, That all the provisions of said act respecting the licensing of ships or vessels for the coasting trade and fisheries, shall be deemed and taken to be applicable to licenses, and to vessels licensed for carrying on the mackerel fishery. [Approved, 24 May, 1828.]

CHAP. 121. An act for the better organization of the Medical Department of the Navy of the United States.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That from and after the passing of this act, no person shall receive the appointment of assistant surgeon geon, unless in the navy of the United States, unless he shall have been exexamined, &c. by a amined and approved by a board of naval surgeons, who shall board of naval be designated for that purpose by the secretary of the navy department; and no person shall receive the appointment of surgeon in the navy of the United States, until he shall have served as an assistant surgeon at least two years on board a public vessel of the United States at sea, and unless also, he shall have been examined and approved by a board of surgeons constituted as aforesaid.

surgeons.

President of the U. S. to

designate to every fleet or

squadron an intelligent surgeon.

Assistant surgeons commissioned

less than five years to receive each

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States may designate and appoint to every fleet or squadron, an experienced and intelligent surgeon, then in the naval service of the United States, to be denominated "Surgeon of the Fleet,” who shall be surgeon of the flag ship, and who, in addition to his duties as such, shall examine and approve all requisitions for medical and hospital stores for the fleet and inspect their quality, and who shall in difficult cases, consult with the surgeons of the several ships, and make record of the character and treatment of diseases, to be transmitted to the navy department; and who, in addition to the compensation allowed to surgeons at sea, shall be allowed double rations while acting as surgeon of the fleet as aforesaid.

3. And be it further enacted, That assistant surgeons who shall have been commissioned less than five years, shall each receive thirty dollars a month, and two rations a day; after five years service, they shall be entitled to an examination by a board of naval surgeons, constituted as aforesaid, and having $30 a month been approved and passed by such board, they shall each receive an addition of five dollars a month, and one ration a day; and, after ten years service, a further addition of five dollars a month, and one ration a day.

and 2 rations a day, &c.

Every sur

§ 4. And be it further enacted, That every surgeon who shall

received his

have received his appointment, as is hereinbefore provided for, geon who shall receive fifty dollars a month, and two rations a day; after shall have five years' service, he shall be entitled to receive fifty-five dollars appointment a month and an additional ration a day; and after ten years' ser- as herein provice, he shall receive sixty dollars a month and an additional vided for, to ration a day; and, after twenty years' service, he shall receive seventy dollars a month and the rations as last aforesaid.

receive $50

per month and 2 rations

§ 5. And be it further enacted, That every assistant surgeon a day, &c. (after having faithfully served two years) shall, while in actual Assistant surgeon after service at sea, in addition to the usual compensation allowed him having faithby law, receive double rations, and five dollars a month; and fully served every surgeon in the navy, while in actual service at sea, shall for two years, also, in addition to his usual compensation, receive double rations, to receive $5 and ten dollars a month. [Approved, 24 May, 1828.]

CHAP. 122. An act authorizing the Legislative Counsel of the Territory of Michigan to take charge of School Lands in said Territory.

per month in addition, &c.

protect from

each town

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the governor and legislative Michigan to make laws, to council of the terrritory of Michigan be, and they are hereby, authorised to make such laws and needful regulations, as they injury, &c. shall deem most expedient, to protect from injury and waste sec- section 16 in tion numbered sixteen, in said territory, reserved in each township, ship, for the for the support of schools therein; and to provide, by law, for leas- support of ing the same, for any term not exceeding four years, in such schools, &c. manner as to render them productive, and most conducive to the objects for which they were designed.

[Approved, 23 May, 1828.]

CHAP. 125. An act to establish sundry Post Roads and to discon

tinue others.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the following be established as post roads:

IN MAINE.

From Damariscotta Mills, by West Jefferson and Windsor, to In Maine. Palermo.

From Waterville, by Clinton, Albion and Freedom, to Belfast;

From Rumford point, by Dixfield, Canton, North Livermore, East Livermore, Wayne, and Winthrop, to Augusta; and that so much of the route from Readfield to Rumford Point, as interferes with this route, be discontinued:

From Augusta, through South Vassalborough, South China, Palermo, North Palermo, Montville, North Searsmont, and Belmont, to Belfast;

From Green to Farmington;

From Standish, through East Baldwin, Sebago, Bridgetown and Denmark, to Fryeburg;

From Parsonfield, through Porter, and the westerly part of Brownfield, to Fryeburg;

From Augusta, through Belgrade, Rome, New Sharon, Industry, and New Vineyard, to New Portland;

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In New
Hampshire.

In Massachusetts.

In Connecticut.

In Vermont.

From New Sharon, through Industry, New Vineyard, and New Portland, to Kingfield;

From the Great Falls, in the State of New Hampshire, to the Little Falls, in Lebanon, Maine.

IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.

From Milford, through Dunstable, to Derry.
From Farmington to Dover;

From Concord, by Chichester, Pittsfield, Barnstead, Strafford,
Barrington, and Madbury, to Dover;

From Walpole, by Drewsville, Langdon, and Alstead to Marlow;

From Lower Bartlett, through Adam's and Pinkham's Grant, to Randolph ;

From Haverhill, through Bath and Lyman, to Lyman Bridge, thence to the Lower Village, in Barnet, Vermont;

From Glenville, by Bethlehem and Whitefield, to Lancaster.

IN MASSACHUSETTS.

From Taunton, to Providence, by Rehoboth Village;

From Newburyport, by Salisbury, Amesbury, Haverhill, Methuen, and Dracut, to Lowell;

From Canton, by Sharon, and Foxborough Meeting-houses, to East Attleborough;

From Greenfield, through Shelburne, Buckland, and Hawley, to Savoy ;

From Ware, through Hardwick, Petersham, Athol, and Royalston, in Massachusetts, and Richmond, and Swanzey, in New Hampshire, to Keene.

IN CONNECTICUT.

From Springfield, Massachusetts, by Somers, Connecticut, on the Burbank road, Tolland, Mansfield, Beardley's Store, and Windham, to Norwich;

From Sharon, through Salisbury, Great Hallow, the valley of Housatonic, and Fall's village, to North Canaan;

From Lyme, through the village of Hamburgh, Comstock's ferry, East Haddam Landing, Leesville, Middle Haddam, Glastenbury, and East Hartford, to the city of Hartford;

From Farmington, by Sunbury Meeting-house, to Granby, From Robin's Inn, in Voluntown, by Griswold's Meeting-house, to Jewett City;

From Windham, Old Court House, through Mansfield, and Wellington, to Stafford Springs.

IN VERMONT.

From Bellow's Falls, through Saxon's river village and Athens to Townshend;

From Arlington, through Sandgate, to Salem, New York; From Chelsea, through Vershire, by Portsmills, to Thetford Meeting-house;

From Guildhall, through Burke, Sutton, Barton, and Irasburg, by the Episcopal church, in Berkshire, to St. Albans;

From Richford, by Berkshire, Franklin, and Powell's Falls, in Highgate, to the village of St. Albans;

From Bakersfield, through Fairfield, to St. Albans ;

From Hardwick, through Greensborough, Barton, and Brown

ington, to Derby.

IN NEW YORK.

From the village of Skeneateles, via Sempronius, Lock, and In New York. the village of Groton, to Ithaca;

From Hillsdale post-office, down the valley of the Taghkanic, by the Copake and Ancram post-offices, to the post-road from Poughkeepsie to Salisbury;

From the village of New Ark, by the most direct route, to the village of Eastridge;

From Verona, via Cicero, to Cato Four Corners;

From Lima, via Fowlersville and Bradley's Four Corners, to
Pembroke;

From Keesville, via Port Kent, to Burlington, in Vermont;
From Delhi, by the most direct route, to Cooperstown;
From Watertown, via Evan's mills, Philadelphia, Antwerp,
Governeur, De Kalb, Heuville, to Ogdenburg;

From Potsdam, via Norfolk, Massena, and Hogansburg, to the
Canada line at St. Regis ;

From Malone, via Bangor, Moira, Brasher, and Stockholm, to Potsdam;

From Ithaca, on the most direct route, via the head of Seneca Lake, and Joseph Tomkin's, to Hammondsport;

From South Sparta, via Liberty Corners, Prattsburgh, and Pulteney, to Wayne Hotel;

From Hornby, via Mead creek, Erwin Addison, Woodhull, and Jaspar, to Independence;

From Bath, via Prattsburgh, Cool's Corners, and Penyann, to Ovid;

From Liberty, via Samuel Taggart's and Vanfassin's mills, to Lima;

From Geneva, via Seneca and Bethel, to Rushville;

From Richmond, by Spring Water, to Dansville;

From North Almond, to Dewitt's valley;

From Almond, via North Almond, Allen, Hunt's, Hollow, and Portage, to Pike;

From Northampton, to Northville post-office, thence through the towns of Hope, Welles, and Lake Pleasant, to Seth Witmore's;

From the village of Owego, [Oswego] via Speedsville, to Slaterville:

From Chester post-office, via the village of Sugar Loaf to Warwick;

From Canandaigua to Gibsonville;

From Lodi post-office, via Seelysburg, and Randolph, to Jamestown ;

From Chenango Point, via Rugg's Edy, Osborn's, North Hollow, and Holcombe's Settlement, to Harpersville;

From Salem to Union village;

From Monticello, via Fallsburgh and Neversink, to the Postoffice near the old Dutch Church, in the town of Wawasing; From Poughkeepsie, via Fishkill Plains, Stormville, Patterson, Elm, Milltown, and Millplains, to Danbury, Connecticut;

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