and fifty cents [per copy] for one thousand copies of the System of Infantry Discipline, prepared by him, under assurances given by the Secretary of War, deducting therefrom the price for which said copies were sold at auction, by said Duane: Provided, nevertheless, That, before the payment of any balance found due to the said Colonel William Duane, the amount or balance of any judgment or judgments obtained against him, by the United States, shall be deducted therefrom.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the balance, if any is found in favor of Colonel William Duane, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

AN ACT for the relief of William Pemberton.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

Be it enacted, &c. That there be paid to William Pemberton the sum of fifty-five dollars, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the loss of a horse during the late war. Approved-March 3, 1825.

AN ACT making an appropriation for the benefit of Joseph Smith, of Alexandria.

Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department pay, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to Joseph Smith, of Alexandria, the amount of wages, and dividend of prize money, due to said Smith for the services, during the late war, of his slave Tom, alias Thomas Mitchel, on board the United States' ship the Wasp, and which has not heretofore been paid to bim, for the want of an appropriation in the act passed at the last session, entitled "An act for the relief of Joseph Smith, of Alexandria."

Approved-March 3, 1825.

AN ACT authorizing Noah Webster to import into the United States his work on Languages, at a rate of duty heren specified.

Be it enacted, &c. That Noah Webster, of New Haven, in the state of Connecticut, be, and he is hereby, autho rized to import into the United States, for the period of five years, at the same rate of duty as is now imposed upon books in foreign languages, copies of a work prepared by the said Noah Webster, concerning the Origin, His tory, and Affinities of Languages; also, a Dictionary of the English Language, and a Synopsis of the Principal Elementary Words, in Different Languages.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

AN ACT to alter the terms of the District Court of the United States in the Western District of Virginia.

Be it enacted, &c. That the terms of the District Court, in and for the Western District of Virginia, instead of the time now fixed by law, shall be holden on the days and at the places hereinafter mentioned, namely: at Staun ton, on the last Mondays in March and August; at Wythe Court House on the first Mondays in April and September; at Lewisburg, on the Fridays after the first Mondays in April and September; and at Clarksburg, on the first Mondays of June and November, in each year.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all recognizances, process, suits, and proceedings, of every kind, whether of a civil or criminal nature, commenced or pending in either of said Courts, shall be returned to,proceeded in, and determined at, the terms herein provided for, in the same manner as if the time of holding said Courts had not been changed.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

AN ACT to authorize the laying out and opening of a Public Road from the St. Mary's River, to the Bay of Tampe, in the territory of Florida.

Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be opened, in the territory of Florida, a Public Road, commencing at the Bay of Tampa, and pursuing the most direct practicable route to Wanton's, in said territory, and thence, pursuing the most direct and practicable route to Colerain, on the St Mary's River.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ the troops of the United States, stationed in Florida, in such manner as be may think proper, in the completion, or assisting in the completion, of said road.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for defraying the expense of opening said road, the sum of twelve thou sand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

AN ACT for the relief of Peter Burt.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of State be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual form, to Peter Burt, for his Improved Sounding Machine, upon his complying with all the provisions of the several acts of Congress, relative to the issuing letters patent for inventions and improvements, except so far as the said acts require, on the part of aliens, a residence of two years in the United States.

AN ACT for the relief of Stephen Thatcher.

Approved March 3, 1825.

Be it enacted, &c. That, in settling the accounts of Stephen Thatcher, Collector of the Customs of the District

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of Passamaquoddy, in the state of Maine, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and required to allow to said Thatcher, the sum of two thousand eight hundred and two dollars and sixty-one cents; which sum is charged said Thatcher in his accounts with the Treasury Department, and claimed by him as a foreign tonnage duty on certain British colonial vessels, which entered in said District in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-two, said Thatcher having admitted them to enter on the payment of the same duties as American vessels,

Approved-March 3, 1825.

AN ACT respecting the adjournment of the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted, &c. That all adjournments of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, heretofore made, or which may hereafter be made, by any one Judge of the said Court, in Court sitting, and in the absence of the other Judges, shall be as valid as if made by all the Judges of the said Court.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

AN ACT for the relief of Sarah Shillito.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Sarah Shillio, out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, for a house destroyed in the summer of one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, while in the occupation of the United States' troops; deducting, however, from the above sum, the amount that has been paid for the rent of said house, by an officer of the army of the United States.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

AN ACT for the relief of Lemuel Wootten.

Be it enacted, &c. That there be paid to Lemuel Wootten, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seven hundred dollars, for a wagon and four horses, with harness, lost in the service of the United States, in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, deducting therefrom whatever sum may have been paid for the use of said wagon and team.

AN ACT for the relief of Moses Plumer.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

Be it enacted, &c. That it shall and inay be lawful for Moses Plumer, a soldier in the late war, to locate and enter, with the Register of the Land Office for the proper district in the Territory of Arkansas, according to the sectional and divisional lines, any unappropriated quarter section of land within the Military District in said territory; and upon such location and entry being made, it shall be the duty of the Register to issue to the said Moses Plumer a certificate, specifying therein the quarter section so located and entered. And it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue a patent for the land so located and entered whenever the cer tificate aforesaid shall be presented to him for that purpose: Provided, That, before such location and entry shall be made, the said Moses Plumer shall surrender to the Register the patent which he now holds from the United States, for the southeast quarter of section. four, of township ten, in range five, west of the tract appropriated for military bounties, in the territory of Arkansas, accompanied by such a release of his interest to the land therein specified, as the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall direct.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

AN ACT for the relief of Francis Wright, Son, and other heirs of Francis Wright, deceased.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue to Francis Wright, Son, and other heirs of Francis Wright, deceased, a military land warrant for one hundred acres of land for Revolutionary services of the deceased, in lieu of a warrant for the same quantity of land which had been issued to the said Francis Wright, Son, and their heirs of Francis Wright, in February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and which is proven to have been lost before the same was located.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

AN ACT to change the time of holding the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Be it enacted, &c. That the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana shall be annually holden in the City of New Orleans, on the second Monday of December, instead of the third Monday of November, as now prescribed by law.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all suits, actions, writs, processes, and other proceedings, which now are pending in said District Court, or which are, or may hereafter be, commenced for, or returnable to, the said District Court, on the third Monday of November, as heretofore established, shall be returnable to, heard, tried, and proceeded with, in the said District Court, in the same manner as if the time for holding thereof had not been changed.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

AN ACT to make Castine a port of entry for ships or vessels coming from beyond the Cape of Good Hope. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the first day of April next, Castine, in the state of Maine, shall be, and is hereby, made a port of entry for ships or vessels coming from beyond the Cape of Good Hope.

Approved-March 3, 1825,

AN ACT to extend the time for issuing and locating Military Land Warrants to officers and soldiers of the Revolu

tionary Army.

Be it enacted, &c. That the time limited by the second section of the act approved the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, for issuing military land warrants to the officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary army, shall be extended till the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twentyseven, and the time for locating the unlocated warrants shall be extended till the first day of October thereafter. Approved-March 3, 1825.

AN ACT to authorize the sale of a Section of Land therein mentioned.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be exposed to public sale, in the same manner other lands of the United States are, the section numbered thirty-four, of the Eleventh Township and Third Range of Townships offered for sale, at Steubenville, Ohio; and, if not so sold, the said section shall be liable to entry in the Steubenville Land Office, as other lands are.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

AN ACT granting Pensions to James Barker and Zebulon Pike.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place James Barker on the list of Revolutionary pensioners of the United States, at the rate of eight dollars per month, con.mencing on the fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four; and that said Barker shall be entitled to receive said pension in the manner provided by law.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place Colonel Zebulon Pike upon the list of Revolutionary pensioners of the United States, and cause to be paid to him at the rate of twenty dollars per month, commencing on the day the said Zebulon Pike was stricken from the Pension Roll, up to the sixth day of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-four; from which time his pension shall continue.

AN ACT for the relief of David Gilmore.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

Be it enacted, &c. That a judgment, recovered by the United States against David Gilmore, and others, at the District Court of the United States, holden at Portland, in the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, for the sum of eighty-four dollars and fifteen cents, damages and costs, be, and the same is hereby, released and discharged. And the Secretary_of the Trea sury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the said David Gilmore, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seventy dollars, being the amount of cost expended by the said Gilmore, in defending a suit wrongfully commenced against him.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, if the said David Gilmore, and others, have paid, or shall hereafter, and before they can avail themselves of the benefit of this act, pay, the amount of said judgment, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the said David Giln.ore, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the amount of said judgment, together with the amount of the Marshal's fees taken

thereon.

AN ACT for the relief of Jacob A. Blackwell.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

Be it enacted, &c. That there be paid to Jacob A. Blackwell, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventy-five cents, being the amount by him paid to the Collector of Washington, in the state of North Carolina, as extra tonnage duty and light money on the Brig Prospect, in the year eighteen hundred and sixteen; the said Brig being taken to be a foreign vessel, when, in point of fact, she was bona fide an American vessel.

AN ACT for the relief of Malachi Burns.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon application, cause a patent to be issued to Malachi Burns, or his legal representatives, for three hundred and two arpens of land, situated in the Parish of Feliciana, in the state of Louisiana, according to the boundaries of a plat thereof, made for Edward Metcalf, on the seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven: Provided, This act shall not preju dice, or in any wise affect, the rights of any third person.

AN ACT for the continuation of the Cumberland Road.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

Be it enacted, etc. That the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of moneys not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for the purpose of opening and making a road from the town of Canton, in the state of Ohio, on the right bank of the Ohio river, opposite the town of Wheeling, to the Muskingum river, at Zanesville, in said state; which said sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be replaced out of the fund reserved for laying out and making roads under the direction of Congress, by the several acts passed for the admission of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states.

Sec. 2. And it further enacted, That, for the immediate accomplishment of this object, the President, with the advice of the Senate, shall appoint some fit person as the superintendent of said road, whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the President, to divide the same into sections of not more than ten miles each; to contract for, and personally superintend, the opening and making the said road, as well as to receive, disburse, and faithfully account with the Treasury for, all sums of money by him received in virtue of this act.

Sec, 3. And be it further enacted, That the superintendent shall not be interested, directly or indirectly, in the avails of any contracts so to be made by him as aforesaid: That he shall, before he enters upon the discharge of the duties enjoined by this act, execute a bond to the United States, with security, to be approved of by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties prescribed by this act: That he shall hold his office during the pleasure of the President, and shall receive at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum for his services, during the time he may be employed in the discharge of the duties required by

this act.

Sec 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to appoint one impartial and judicious person, not being a citizen of either of the states through which the road, hereafter mentioned, shall pass, to be a Commissioner; and, in case of the death, resignation, refusal to act, or any disability of any such Commissioner, to appoint another in his stead, who shall have power, according to the provisions of the act, entitled "Au act to authorize the appointment of Commissioners to lay out the road therein mentioned," approved May fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, to complete the examination and survey heretofore commenced by virtue of the provisions of said act, and to extend the same to the permanent seat of Government of the state of Missouri; the said road to conform, in all respects, to the provisions of the said recited act, except that it shall pass by the seat of Government of the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois; and the said Commissioner and the person employed under him, shall receive the same compensation for their services, respectively, as is allowed by the said recited act: Provided, however, That the said road shall commence at Zanesville, in the state of Ohio; and to defray the expense thereof, the sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of the appropriation made by the first section of this act.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

AN ACT more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted, etc. That if any person or persons, within any fort, dock-yard, navy-yard, arsenal, armory, or ma. gazine, the site whereof is ceded to, and under the jurisdiction of, the United States, or on the site of any lighthouse, or other needful building belonging to the United States, the site whereof is ceded to them, and under their jurisdiction, as aforesaid, shall wilfully and maliciously burn any dwelling house, or mansion house, or any store, barn, stable, or other building, parcel of any dwelling or mansion house, every person, so offending, his or her counsellors, aiders, and abettors, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, suffer death.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, if any person or persons, in any of the places aforesaid, shall wilfully and maliciously set fire to, or burn, any arsenal, armory, magazine, rope-walk, ship-house, ware-house, block-house, or barrack, or any store-house, barn, or stable, not parcel of a dwelling-house, or any other building, not mentioned in the first section of this act, or any ship or vessel, built, or building, or begun to be built, or repairing, or any light-house, or beacon, or any timber, cables, rigging, or other materials for building, repairing, or fitting out, ships or vessels, or any pile of wood, boards, or other lumber, or any military, naval, or victualling stores, arms, or other munitions of war, every person, so offending, his or her counsellors, aiders, and abettors, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, not exceeding ten years, according to the aggravation of the offence. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any offence shall be committed, in any of the places aforesaid, the punishment of which offence is not specially provided for by any law of the United States, such offence shall, upon a conviction in any court of the United States, having cognizance thereof, be liable to, and receive, the same punishment as the laws of the state, in which such fort, dock-yard, navy-yard, arsenal, armory, or magazine, or other place, ceded as aforesaid, is situated, provide for the like offence, when committed within the body of any county of such state.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons, upon the high seas, or in any arm of the sea, or in any river, haven, creek, basin, or bay, within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, shall commit the crime of wilful murder, or rape, or shall wilfully and maliciously strike, stab, wound, poison, or shoot at, any other person, of which striking, stabbing, wounding, poisoning, or shooting, such person shall afterwards die, upon land, within or without the United States, every person so offending, his or her counsellors, aiders, or abettors, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, upon conviction thereof, suffer death.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That if any offence shall be committed on board of any ship or vessel, belonging to any citizen or citizens of the United States, while lying in a port or place within the jurisdiction of any foreign state or sovereign, by any person belonging to the company of said ship, or any passenger, or any other person belonging to the company of suid ship, or any other passenger, the same offence shall be cognizable and punishable by the proper Circuit Court of the United States, in the same way and manner, and under the same circumstances, as if said offence had been committed on board of such ship or vessel on the high seas, and without the jurisdiction of such foreign sovereign or state: Provided, always, That if such offender shall be tried for such offence, and acquitted or convicted thereof, in any competent court of such foreign state or sovereign, he shall not be subject to another trial in any court of the United States,

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons upon the high seas, or in any arm of the sea, or in any river, haven, creek, basin, or bay, within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, shall, by surprise, or by open force or violence, maliciously attack or set upon, any ship or vessel belonging, in whole or in part, to the United States, or to any citizen or citizens thereof, or to any other person whatsoever, with an intent unlawfully to plunder the same ship or vessel, or to despoil any owner or owners thereof of any moneys, goods, or merchandise, laden on board thereof; or shall, by force or violence, or by putting in fear, unlawfully plunder any such ship or vessel, or steal or carry away any money,

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goods, or merchandise, laden on board thereof; every person so offending, his or her counsellors, aiders, or abettors, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction, thereof, be punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, not exceeding ten years, according to the aggravation of the offence.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons upon the high seas, or in any other of the places aforesaid, with intent to kill, rob, steal, commit a rape, or to do or perpetrate any other felony, shall break or enter any ship or vessel, boat, or raft; or if any person or persons shall wilfully and maliciously cut, spoil, or destroy, any cordage, cable, buoys, buoy-rope, headfast, or other fast, fixed to any anchor or moorings, belonging to any ship, vessel, boat, or raft, every person, so offending, his or her counsellors, aiders, and abettors, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, bepunished by fine, not exceeding one thousand dollars, and by imprisonment or confinement to hard labor, not exceeding five years, according to the aggravation of the offence. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That, if any person or persons upon the high seas, or in any of the places aforesaid, shall buy, receive, or conceal, or aid in concealing, any money, goods, bank notes, or other effects or things which may be the subject of larceny, which have been feloniously taken or stolen from any other person, knowing the same to have been taken or stoler, every person so offending shall be deeming guilty of a misde meanor, and may be prosecuted therefor, although the principal offender chargeable, or charged with the larceny, shall not have been prosecuted or convicted thereof; and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, not exceeding three years, ac cording to the aggravation of the offence.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That, if any person or persons shall plunder, steal, or destroy, any money, goods, merchandise; or other effects, from, or belonging to, any ship or vessel, or boat, or raft, which shall be in distress, or which shall be wrecked, lost, stranded, or cast away, upon the sea, or upon any reef, shoal, bank, or rocks of the sea, or in any other place within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States; or if any person or persons shall wilfully obstruct the escape of any person endeavoring to save his or her life from such ship or vessel, boat, or raft, or the wreck thereof; or if any person or persons shall hold out or show any false light or lights, or extinguish any true light, with intention to bring any ship or vessel, boat or raft, being or sailing upon the sea, into danger, or distress, or shipwreck, every person so offending, his or her counsellors, aiders, and abettors, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding five thousand dollars, and imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, not exceeding ten years, according to the ag gravation of the offence."

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That, if any master or commander of any ship or vessel, belonging, in whole or in part, to any citizen or citizens of the United States, shall, during his being abroad, maliciously, and without justifiable cause, force any officer or mariner of such ship or vessel on shore, or leave him behind, in any foreign port or place, or refuse to bring home again all such of the officers and mariners of such ship or vessel, whom he carried out with him, as are in a condition to return, and willing to return, when he shall be ready to proceed in his homeward voyage, every master or commander, so offending, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment, not exceeding six months, according to the aggrava tion of the offence.

Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall wilfully and maliciously set on fire, or burn, or otherwise destroy, or cause to be set on fire, or burnt, or otherwise destroyed, or aid, procure, abet, or assist in setting on fire, or burning, or otherwise destroying, any ship or vessel of war of the United States, afloat on the high seas, or in any arm of the sea, or in any river, haven, creek, basin, or bay, within the admiralty jurisdiction of the United States, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, suffer death: Provided, That nothing herein contain ed shall be construed to take away or impair the right of any court martial to punish any offence, which by the law of the United States, may be punishable by such court.

Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That if any officer of the United States shall be guilty of extortion, under or by color of his office, every person, so offending, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment, not exceeding one year, according to the aggravation of the offence. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That if any person, in any case, matter, hearing, or other proceeding, when an oath or affirmation shall be required to be taken or administered under or by any law or laws of the United States, shall, upon the taking of such oath or affirmation, knowingly and willingly swear or affirm falsely, eve ry person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, not exceeding five years, according to the aggravation of the offence. And if any or persons shall knowingly or willingly procure any such perjury to be committed, every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of subornation of perjury, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, not exceeding five years, according to the aggravation of the offence.

Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That, if any person, upon his or her arraignment upon any indictment before any court of the United States for any offence, not capital, shall stand mute, or will not answer or plead to such indictment, the court shall, notwithstanding, proceed to the trial of the person so standing mute, or refusing to answer or plead, as if he or she had pleaded not guilty, and upon a verdict being returned by the jury, may pro ceed to render judgment accordingly. And the trial of all offences, which shall be committed upon the high seas, or elsewhere, out of the limits of any state or district, shall be in the district where the offender is appre hended, or into which he may be first brought.

Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That in every case where any criminal, convicted of any offence against the United States, shall be sentenced to imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, it shall be lawful for the court, by which the sentence is passed, to order the same to be executed in any state prison or penitentiary within the district where such court is holden; the use of which prison or penitentiary may be allowed or granted by ⚫the Legislature of such state for such purposes; and the expenses attendant upon the execution of such sentence shall be paid by the United States.

Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That, if any person who shall be employed as president, cashier, clerk, or servant, in the Bank of the United States, created and established by an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States," passed on the tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, or in any office of discount and deposite established by the Directors of said Bank, in any state or territory of the United States, shall feloniously take, steal, and carry away, any money, goods, bond,