Sidebilder
PDF
ePub

erect build

ings for the purposes of education.

Buildings sc

lected for pub

lic purposes

to be repair.

ed, &c.

$5000 appropriated.

Part of cer

tain military

reservations

with all its appurtenances, be, and the same is hereby vested in the Mayor of St. Augustine, and his successor forever, in trust, for the purpose of erecting thereon, by the local authorities of St. Augustine, buildings necessary for the education of free white children of both sexes.

§ 4. And be it further enacted, That the President shall cause the buildings which may be selected for public purposes under this act, to be refitted and repaired fit for use, and the better to preserve them from ruin and dilapidation, for which purpose the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

§ 5. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States is hereby authorised to dispose of such part of the military to be sold, and reservations in the city of Detroit, and upon the river Rouge, in the proceeds the territory of Michigan, as in his opinion may not be wanted to be vested in for the public service, and to vest the proceeds in the purchase or the purchase erection of a store house and wharf in the said city of Detroit, and in the erection of an arsenal in the vicinity thereof, either upon the public lands, or upon a site to be procured for that purpose. [Approved, June 28, 1832.]

or erection of

a storehouse,

wharf, and arsenal.

Transfers of appropriations in the

authorised.

CHAP. 154. An act to authorise the President of the United States to direct transfers of appropriations in the naval service, under certain circumstances.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That upon the application of the secretary of the navy, the President of the United States shall have naval service authority, whenever in his opinion, the unforeseen contingencies of the public service may require it, to direct that a part of the money appropriated for a particular branch of the naval service be applied to another branch of the said service; in which case, a special account of the moneys thus transferred, and of their application, shall be laid before Congress before its adjournment, if then in session, and during the first week of the next ensuing session, if such transfer be made in the recess of Congress.

Special accounts of the ferred, and of their application, to be laid

moneys trans

before Congress.

which shall

This act shall continue in force until the close of the next session of Congress and no longer. [Approved, July 3, 1832.]

CHAP. 162. An act concerning Patents for Useful Inventions. List of patents § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That it shall be the duty of the secrehave expired, tary of state, annually, in the month of January, to report to &c., to be re. Congress, and to publish in two of the newspapers printed in the ported to Con- city of Washington, a list of all the patents for discoveries, inventions, and improvements, which shall have expired within the published annually, with year immediately preceding, with the names of the patentees, the names of alphabetically arranged.

gress and

alphabetically arranged.

the patentees, §2. And be it further enacted, That application to Congress to prolong or renew the term of a patent, shall be made before its expiration, and shall be notified at least once a month, for three months before its presentation, in two newspapers printed in the city of Washington, and in one of the newspapers in which the laws of the United States shall be published in the state or territory in which the patentee shall reside. The petition shall set

Form of application to prolong or renew the

term of a pa.

tent.

forth particularly the grounds of the application. It shall be verified by oath; the evidence in its support may be taken before any judge or justice of the peace; it shall be accompanied by a statement of the ascertained value of the discovery, invention, or improvement, and of the receipts and expenditures of the patentee, so as to exhibit the profit or loss arising therefrom.

&c.

55, vol. 1, p.

of State is au

§ 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever any patent Whenever which has been heretofore, or shall be hereafter, granted to any any patent, inventor in pursuance of the act of Congress, entitled "An act to promote the progress of useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose," passed on the twenty-first day of Act of 1793, c. February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred 300. and ninety-three, or of any of the acts supplementary thereto, shall be invalid or inoperative, by reason that any of the terms or shall be invalid or inoperaconditions prescribed in the third section of the said first men- tive, by reationed act, have not, by inadvertence, accident, or mistake, and son, &c. without any fraudulent or deceptive intention, been complied with on the part of the said inventor, it shall be lawful for the secre- the Secretary tary of state, upon the surrender to him of such patent, to cause thorised, upon a new patent to be granted to the said inventor for the same the surrender, invention for the residue of the period then unexpired, for which &c., to grant the original patent was granted, upon his compliance with the a new patent terms and conditions prescribed in the said third section of the said act. And, in case of his death, or any assignment by him In case of made of the same patent, the like right shall vest in his executors death, &c. and administrators, or assignee or assignees: Provided, however, in executors, right to vest That such new patent, so granted, shall, in all respects, be liable &c. to the same matters of objection and defence as any original Proviso. patent granted under the said first mentioned act. But no public use or privilege of the invention so patented, derived from or after the grant of the original patent, either under any special license of the inventor, or without the consent of the patentee that there shall be a free public use thereof, shall, in any manner, prejudice his right of recovery for any use or violation of his invention after the grant of such new patent as aforesaid. [Approved, July 3, 1832.]

CHAP. 163. An act for the sale of the unlocated lots in the fifty quarter townships in the United States' military district, in the state of Ohio, reserved to satisfy warrants granted to individuals for their military services.

to inventor.

the U. S. mil.

§1. Be it enacted, &c. That the lots and fractional parts of Certain unlolots lying in the fifty quarter townships, reserved by an act of cated lots in Congress, passed the eleventh day of February, one thousand itary district eight hundred, and entitled "An act giving further time to the in Ohio, made holders of military warrants to register and locate the same," liable to priand which remain unlocated, shall hereafter be liable to be sold vate sale. at private sale, in the respective land offices in which they lie, in c. 8, vol. 1, p. the same manner, and for the same sum per acre, as other lands 718. of the United States lying in said districts, and undisposed of. [Approved, July 3, 1832.]

Act of 1800,

President of

U.S. anthorised to appoint three

CHAP. 164. An act to authorise the surveying and laying out a road from Detroit to the mouth of Grand River of Lake Michigan, in the Michigan territory, and for the survey of Canal routes in the territory of Florida.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorised to appoint three commissioners, who shall explore, survey, and mark, in the most elegible course, commission- a road from Detroit, westwardly by way of Sciawasse, to the ers, to survey mouth of Grand River, in the territory of Michigan; the said and lay out commissioners shall make out accurate plats of such surveys, road. Plats of sur accompanied with field notes, and certify and transmit the same. to the President of the United States, who, if he approve of said surveys, shall cause the plats thereof to be deposited in the office of the treasury of the United States, and the said road shall be the President considered as established and accepted: Provided, That said com-if approved missioners shall be disinterested persons, not residents of any to be deposit county through which said road may pass.

veys to be made out,

certified, and transmitted to

ed, &c. Proviso.

Per diem compensa

tion to commissioners,

three dollars, each, assistants, one dollar fifty cents. Proviso.

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall each be entitled to receive three dollars, and their assistants one dollar and fifty cents, for each and every day they shall be necessarily employed in the surveying, exploring, and marking of said road, and making their returns thereof: Provided, The whole expense thereof shall not exceed the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars.

§ 3. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of com$3,500 appro- pensating the said commissioners and their assistants, there shall be, and is hereby appropriated, the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

priated for compensation to the commission

ers and their assistants.

tain the prac

ticability of canals to con

§ 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorised to cause to be made, an Survey autho- accurate and minute survey of the country between the waters rised to ascer of St. Andrew's bay, and the river and bay of Chattahoochie, and between Pensacola bay and Bon Secour, along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, with a view to ascertain the practicability and cost of canals to connect said bays and rivers, with notes, plans, observations, and opinions, of the engineers on each of said parts designated, with estimates of the cost of each; and for the purpose of carrying into effect the foregoing provisions, the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. [Approved, July 4, 1832.]

nect certain bays and rivers in Flori.

da.

Estimates to

be made.

The President of the

U. States au

CHAP. 165. An act to authorise the surveying and making of a road from La Plaisance Bay, in the Territory of Michigan, to intersect the Chicago road.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorised to appoint three commissioners, thorised to who shall explore, survey, and mark, in the most eligible course, appoint three a road from La Plaisance Bay, in the Territory of Michigan, to commission- intersect, at some suitable point, the road from Detroit to Chicago, ers to survey established under the provisions of the act of the third of March,

and lay out

road.

veys to be

one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five; and said commis- Plats of sursioners shall make out accurate plats of such surveys, accompa- made out, cernied with field notes, and certify and transmit the same to the tified, and President of the United States, who, if he approve of said surveys, transmitted to shall cause the plats thereof to be deposited in the office of the the Presi dent; if aptreasury of the United States, and the said road shall be consid- proved, to be ered as established and accepted: Provided, That said commis- deposited in sioners shall be disinterested persons, not residents of the counties the treasury, of Monroe or Lenewee, in said territory.

&c.

Proviso.

three dollars,

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners Compensashall, each, be entitled to receive three dollars, and their assist- tion to comants one dollar and fifty cents, for each and every day they shall missioners, be necessarily employed in the surveying, exploring, and marking and to assist. of said road, and making their returns thereof: Provided, That the whole expense thereof, shall not exceed the sum of five hundred each, for evedollars. ry day necessarily em

ants, $1.50

ployed, &c.

§3. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of compensating the said commissioners and their assistants, and for opening and making said road, there shall be, and is hereby appropriated, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, to be paid out of $15,000 apany moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be propriated. expended under the direction [of] the President of the United States, for the purposes aforesaid: Provided, however, That Proviso. the money applied to the making of said road, shall be laid out first in making such parts of it from La Plaisance Bay, to the crossing of the river Raisin, at or near Tesecumseh, as have not heretofore been improved; and the residue, if any, upon such parts of it as, in the judgment of the superintendent, the public good may most require. [Approved, July 4, 1832.]

CHAP. 166. An act for the final adjustment of the claims to lands in the southeastern land district of the State of Louisiana.

lands within

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That any person or persons, claiming Claims to lands within the limits of the southeastern land district of the the southeaststate of Louisiana, agreeably to the provisions of the laws hereto- ern land disfore enacted for the adjustment of land claims in that part of the trict of Louisterritory of Orleans or state of Louisiana, but whose titles have iana to be presented to not been heretofore confirmed, may, at any time prior to the first register and day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, present receiver of their claims, together with the written evidence and other testi- land office at New Orleans, mony in support of the same, to the register and receiver of the prior to 1st land office at New Orleans; and it shall be the duty of the said July, 1833. register and receiver to record, in a book to be kept for that pur- claim be repose, the notice of every claim so preferred, together with the corded, &c. evidence; for which service they shall receive a compensation Fees to regisfrom the claimants, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every ter and hundred words.

Notice of

receiver.

claims to be

§2. And be it further enacted, That the said register and Report of receiver shali, at or before the beginning of the next session of made to the Congress thereafter, make to the secretary of the treasury, a secretary of report of the claims which may have been preferred before them, the treasury; together with the testimony, their opinion of the validity of the to be laid before Congress, claims, and such other information respecting them as may be in &c.

Proviso.

Sales of land suspended until after 1st July, 1833.

Certain per

lands by

claims unconfirmed, but

embraced in

&c., and

whose lands

may have

their possession; which report shall, by the secretary of the treasury, be laid before Congress as soon as practicable, with his opinion touching the validity of the respective claims: Provided, That no claims shall be therein recommended for confirmation, for more than the quantity contained in a league square.

§ 3. And be it further enacted, That the sales of land in the said southeastern district, by public auction or private entry, shall be suspended until after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

§ 4. And be it further enacted, That all persons who, before the sons who held first Monday of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, held lands in the said southeastern district, by claims unconfirmed, but which were embraced in the principles of the which were previous laws for the adjustment of claims in that part of the the principles, territory of Orleans or state of Louisiana, which lands may have been sold at the public sale which took place at New Orleans on the first Monday of November, one thousand eight hundred and been sold, &c. thirty, under the President's proclamation of the fifth June, one may avail thousand eight hundred and thirty, may avail themselves of this themselves of act as though their lands had not been sold; and the said the benefits of register and receiver shall make a separate report of the cases Separate re- of this class: and if it shall appear to the secretary of the treasury port of cases that all or any of the claims contained therein, although unconof this class to firmed, are embraced in the intent and meaning of the previous be made to the laws for the adjustment of land claims as aforesaid, he is hereby secretary of the treasury, authorised to repay to the persons, or the legal representative of and if it shall the persons who purchased, such sum or sums as they may have he is author- paid for lands of this description, bought by them at the said pub

this act.

of

appear, &c.

repay

ised to purchasers of such lands

may have

lic sale.

§ 5. And be further enacted, That, in addition to the compenthe sums they sation hereinbefore provided, the said reigister and receiver shall receive, for the services required of them by this act, the sum of five hundred dollars each, to be paid by the secretary of the treacompensation sury out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriallowed to re- ated. [Approved, July 4, 1832.]

paid, &c. Additional

gister and receiver, $500, each.

Governor to select land.

Act of 1831, c. 302, ate, p. 2240.

U. S. not lia

ble for any expense in selecting, &c.

CHAP. 172. An act to authorise the Governor of the Territory of Arkansas to select ten sections of land, granted to said Territory for the purpose of building a legislative house for said Territory, and for other purposes.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That all the authority and power is hereby vested in, and given to the Governor of the Territory of Arkansas, which was vested in, and given to the legislature of the Territory of Arkansas, by an act of Congress of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, by which a quantity of land, not exceeding ten sections, was granted to said territory, for the purpose of raising a fund for the erection of a public building at Little Rock, the seat of government of said territory.

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That nothing herein contained, shall be so construed as authorising any expense on the part of the United States for selecting said lands, or building said house,

« ForrigeFortsett »