and receiver appointed to said office, to superintend the sale of receiver. § 7. And be it further enacted, That all such public lands em- Lands not disbraced within the district created by this act, which shall have posed of at been offered for sale to the highest bidder at the several land public sale, offices, at Jackson, Franklin, Fayette, and Lexington, pursuant to ed and sold may be enter. any proclamation of the President of the United States, and at private sale. which lands remain unsold at the taking effect of this act, shall be subject to be entered and sold at private sale, by the proper officers of the office hereby created, in the same manner, and subject to the same terms, and upon like conditions, as the sale of said land would have been subject to, in the said several land offices hereinbefore mentioned, had they remained attached to the same: Provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed Proviso. as to permit the officers appointed in either of the foregoing land districts to receive compensation out of the Treasury of the United States. [Approved, June 26th, 1834.] CHAP. 77. An act to establish an additional land office in Arkansas. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That so much of the public lands of the Land office to United States in the Territory of Arkansas as lies east of a line be established commencing on the southern boundary of the territory where it at Helena. is intersected by the dividing line between ranges five and six west of the meridian, thence with said range line to the dividing line between townships ten and eleven south; thence east with the said line to the dividing line between ranges two and three west, thence north with said dividing line to the base line, thence east with said base line to the dividing line between ranges two and three east-thence north with said line to the dividing line between townships ten and eleven, north, thence east with said dividing line to the dividing line between ranges six and seven east, thence north with said dividing line to the northern boundary of the Territory of Arkansas, shall form a new land district, to be called the Mississippi land district; and for the sale of the public lands within the district aforesaid, there shall be a land office established at the town of Helena, in the county of Phillips, in the territory aforesaid. side there. § 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a register Register and and receiver appointed to said office, to superintend the sale of receiver to rethe public land in said district, who shall reside at the town of Helena aforesaid, give security in the same manner and sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, duties, and authorities, shall, in every respect, be the same in relation to lands to be disposed of at said office, as are or may be by law provided in relation to the registers and receivers of public money in the several offices established for the sale of the public lands. Land not sold be entered and § 3. And be it further enacted, That all such public lands at public, may embraced within the district created by this act, which shall have sold at private been offered for sale to the highest bidder at any land office in sale. tablish an agency. said Territory, pursuant to any proclamation of the President of the United States, and which lands remain unsold at the taking effect of this act, shall be subject to be entered and sold at private sale by the proper officers of the office hereby created in the same manner, and subject to the same terms and upon like conditions as the sale of said land would have been subject to in said several land offices hereinbefore mentioned, had they remained attached to the same. [Approved, June 26th, 1834.] CHAP. 91. An act authorising the secretary of war to establish a pension agency in the town of Decatur, in the state of Alabama; and to provide for the payment of certain pensioners in the said town of Decatur. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the secretary of war be, and he Secretary of hereby is, authorised to establish a pension agency at Decatur, in the navy to es- the state of Alabama, for the payment of pensioners of the United States, resident in the counties of Jackson, Madison, Limestone, Lauderdale, Franklin, Lawrence, Morgan, Blount, Jefferson, Walker, Fayette, and Marion: Provided, That the establishment of such agency can be made without any charge to the United States. Proviso. Secretary of § 2. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the treasthe Treasury to make ar. ury be, and he hereby is, authorised to make the necessary rangements. arrangements with the branch of the bank of the state of Alabama, established in the said town of Decatur, for the payment of the pensioners herein before described. To take eflect Standard and weight of coins. Gold and sil ver deposited for coinage to be paid for within five days. Proviso. §3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not take effect until the first day of August next. [Approved, June 27th, 1834.] CHAP. 95. An act concerning the gold coins of the United States, and for other purposes. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the gold coins of the United States shall contain the following quantities of metal, that is to say; each eagle shall contain two hundred and thirty-two grains of pure gold, and two hundred and fifty-eight grains of standard gold; each half eagle, one hundred and sixteen grains of pure gold, and one hundred and twenty-nine grains of standard gold; each quarter eagle shall contain fifty-eight grains of pure gold, and sixty-four and a half grains of standard gold; every such eagle shall be of the value of ten dollars; every such half eagle shall be of the value of five dollars; and every such quarter eagle shall be of the value of two dollars and fifty cents; and the said gold coins shall be receivable in all payments, when of full weight, according to their respective values; and when of less than full weight, at less values, proportioned to their respective actual weights. §2. And be it further enacted, That all standard gold or silver deposited for coinage after the thirty-first of July next shall be paid for in coin under the direction of the secretary of the treasury, within five days from the making of such deposite, deducting from the amount of said deposite of gold and silver one-half of one per centum: Provided, That no deduction shall be made unless said advance be required by such depositor within forty days. shall be receiv § 3. And be it further enacted, That all gold coins of the Rate at which United States minted anterior to the thirty-first day of July next, gold coins shall be receivable in all payments at the rate of ninety-four and able. eight-tenths of a cent per pennyweight. 4. And be it futher enacted, That the better to secure a conformity of the said gold coins to their respective standards as aforesaid, from every separate mass of standard gold which shall be made into coins at the said mint, there shall be taken, set apart by the treasurer and reserved in his custody, a certain number of pieces, not less than three, and that once in every year the pieces so set apart and reserved shall be assayed under the inspection of the officers, and at the time, and in the manner now provided by law, and, if it shall be found that the gold so assayed, shall not be inferior to the said standard hereinbefore declared, more than one part in three hundred and eighty-four in fineness, and one part in five hundred in weight, the officer or officers of the said mint whom it may concern, shall be held excusable; but if any greater inferiority shall appear, it shall be certified to the President of the United States, and if he shall so decide, the said officer or officers shall be thereafter disqualified to hold their respective offices: Provided, That, if in making any delivery of coin at the mint in payment of a deposite, the weight thereof shall be found defective, the officer concerned shall be responsible to the owner for the full weight, if claimed at the time of delivery. Gold coins to be set apart for assay. Proviso. § 5. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force To be in force from and after the thirty-first day of July, in the year one thou- after July 1st, sand eight hundred and thirty-four. [Approved, June 28, 1834.] CHAP. 96. An act regulating the value of certain foreign gold coins within the United States. 1834. which receiv tugal and Bra § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That from and after the thirty-first day Rates at of July next, the following gold coins shall pass as current as able after July money within the United States, and be receivable in all pay- 31st, 1834. ments, by weight, for the payment of all debts and demands, at the rates following, that is to say: the gold coins of Great Britain, Coins of Great Portugal, and Brazil, of not less than twenty-two carats fine, at Britain, Porthe rate of ninety-four cents and eight-tenths of a cent per penny- zil. weight; the gold coins of France nine-tenths fine, at the rate of France. ninety-three cents and one-tenth of a cent per pennyweight; and the gold coins of Spain, Mexico, and Colombia, of the fineness Spain, Mexico of twenty carats three grains and seven-sixteenths of a grain, at and Colombia. the rates of eighty-nine cents and nine-tenths of a cent per pennyweight. § 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Assay of secretary of the treasury to cause assays of the aforesaid gold such coins to coins, made current by this act, to be had at the mint of the United be made anStates at least once in every year, and to make a report of the result thereof to Congress. [Approved, June 28th, 1834.] CHAP. 97. An act to authorise the removal of the custom-house from Magnolia, to St. Marks in Florida. nually. cause the cus § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States, President to be, and he is hereby, authorised to remove the custom-house, now tom house to established at Magnolia on the St. Marks river in Florida, to the be removed. town of St. Marks or same other point on St. Marks harbour, which may be deemed suitable, when in his judgment the public interest and convenience may require it, and after the removal aforesaid the office of surveyor, at St. Marks shall be abolished. [Approved, June 28th, 1834. ] CHAP. 98. An act to attach the territory of the United States west of the Mississippi river, and north of the state of Missouri, to the Territory of Michigan. Territory to 1. Be it enacted, &c. That all that part of the territory be attached to, of the United States bounded on the east by the Mississippi river, and subject to on the south by the state of Missouri, and a line drawn due west the laws of from the north-west corner of said state to the Missouri river; on Michigan. President to enter into ar rangement with France to pay double the south-west and west by the Missouri river, and the White Earth river, falling into the same; and on the north, by the northern boundary of the United States, shall be, and hereby is, for the purpose of temporary government, attached to, and made a part of, the territory of Michigan, and the inhabitants therein shall be entitled to the same privileges and immunities and be subject to the same laws, rules, and regulations, in all respects, as the other citizens of Michigan territory. [Approved, June 28th, 1834.] CHAP. 100. An act to enable the President to make an arrangement with the Government of France in relation to certain French seamen killed or wounded at Toulon, and their families. WHEREAS Certain French seamen were unfortunately killed and others wounded, by firing a salute from the American Frigate United States, in the harbour of Toulon, on the first day of May last, and whereas it is proper to manifest the sensibility, with which the disastrous accident is viewed by the Government of the United States, therefore, § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorised and empowered to enter in an arrangement with the Government of France for the payment of an annual sum of twice the amount receivable by the navy penpensions to sioners of the same or a similar class to the wounded who the wounded, survive, and to such relatives of those who were unhappily killed tives of those as aforesaid, as the President may deem it expedient to include in this provision, which said sum shall be paid on the earliest day practicable after the proposed arrangement shall be concluded and on the same day in each year thercafter during the respective lives of the persons to whom granted. and to rela killed. Appropriation for the pur pose. State of Indi § 5. And be it further enacted, That a sum of money sufficient to enable the President to carry the aforesaid arrangement into effect be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. [Approved, June 28th, 1834.] CHAP. 101. An act to authorise the correction of erroneous selections of land granted to the State of Indiana, for the purpose of constructing the Michigan road. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the State of Indiana be, and hereana may se- by is authorised to select other lands in lieu of sections numbered eighteen and twenty-nine, and fractional section numbered thirty- lect lands in two, in township thirty-seven north, of range one, east, heretofore lieu of those formerly se selected, to be applied to the purpose of constructing the Michi- lected. gan road in Indiana; the selections authorised by this act to be made on any unsold land, within the district where the abovementioned lands lie, and shall be applied to the same object, and the first named selections are hereby declared void and of no effect. [Approved, June 28th, 1834.] CHAP. 102. An act limiting the times of advertising the sales of the Public Lands. less than three § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That hereafter the public lands which Sales to be adshall be exposed to public sale by order of the President of the vertised not United States, shall be advertised for a period of not less than nor more than three nor more than six months prior to the day of sale, any thing six months. in any law heretofore enacted to the contrary notwithstanding. [Approved, June 28, 1834.] CHAP. 106. An act further to provide for the location of certain land in the Territory of Arkansas. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the proviso to the act entitled "An Proviso of act act to extend the time for locating certain donations in Arkansas," of Jan. 13th, approved the thirteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and 1830, repealed thirty, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and all locations of Act of 1830, or said claims made, or to be made, shall in no wise be affected by 2177. said proviso. [Approved, June 28th, 1834.] CHAP. 125. An act in reference to pre-emption rights in the south. eastern district of Louisiana. 3, ante p. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the pre-emption rights granted by Register of the register and receiver of the land Office at New Orleans, to Land office to issue patents certain individuals claiming the same, in the southeastern land in conformity district of Louisiana, under the act of Congress approved fifth with acts of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled "An act supple- Congress of mentary to the several laws for the sale of public lands," and the 15th June, 5th April and act approved fifteenth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, 1832. entitled "An act to authorise the inhabitants of the State of Lou isiana to enter the back lands," be, and they are hereby, confirm. ed; and the register of the land office is hereby directed to issue patent certificates accordingly. Act of 1832, c. 65, ante p. 2262. 2273. tain lands sur. § 2. And be it further enacted, That the re-survey made under the supervision of the surveyor general of Louisiana, of certain And for cer lands on the bayou St. Vincent, in sections designated as numbers veyed on bay. one hundred and ten, and one hundred and forty three, in town ou St.Vincent. ship thirteen of range fourteen east, situate in the southeastern district of Louisiana, and which resurvey purports to include the improvements of the actual settlers within its limits, claiming the right of pre-emption thereto under the act of fifth April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed; and payments may be made and patents issued in accordance therewith. [Approved, June 28th, 1834.] |