ment, consent, approbation, and connivance, such unlawful advance or loan shall have been made, upon conviction thereof, shall forfeit and pay, for every such offence, treble the value or amount of the sum or sums which have been so unlawfully advanced or lent; one fifth thereof to the use of the informer, and the residue thereof to the use of the United States.

14. That the bills or notes of the said corporation, original- Notes of the ly made payable, or which shall have become payable, on de- bank, receivamand, shall be receivable in all payments to the United States, Repealed. unless otherwise directed by act of congress.

ble, &c. Vol. iv. p.

2441. 15. That, during the continuance of this act, and whenever The bank to required by the secretary of the treasury, the said corporation give the neces sary facilities, shall give the necessary facilities for transferring the public funds without any from place to place, within the United States, or the territories charge, for thereof, and for distributing the same in payment of the public the funds of transferring creditors, without charging commissions, or claiming allowance, the U. S. from place to place. on account of difference of exchange; and shall also do and per- vol. ii. p. form the several and respective duties of the commissioners of 1625. vol. iv. loans for the several states, or of any one or more of them, when- P. 2425. ever required by law.

in the

16. That the deposites of the money of the United States, Deposites of in places in which the said bank and branches thereof may be neys to be established, shall be made in said bank or branches thereof, un- made in the less the secretary of the treasury shall at any time otherwise or- branches, &c. der and direct; in which case the secretary of the treasury shall 2445. immediately lay before congress, if in session, and, if not, immediately after the commencement of the next session, the reasons of such order or direction.

Vol. iv. p.

prohibited

in specie, by

chargeable

of 12 per cen

num.

$17. That the said corporation shall not, at any time, suspend Corporation or refuse payment in gold and silver, of any of its notes, bills, or from suspendobligations; nor of any moneys received upon deposite in said ing payments bank, or in any of its offices of discount and deposite. And if being made the said corporation shall, at any time, refuse or neglect to pay, with the payon demand, any bill, note, or obligation, issued by the corpora- ment of intertion, according to the contract, promise, or undertaking, therein est at the rate expressed; or shall neglect or refuse to pay, on demand, any tumper anmoneys received in said bank, or in any of its offices aforesaid, on deposite, to the person or persons entitled to receive the same, then, and in every such case, the holder of any such note, bill, or obligation, or the person or persons entitled to demand and receive such moneys as aforesaid, shall, respectively, be entitled to receive and recover interest on the said bills, notes, obligations, or moneys, until the same shall be fully paid and satisfied, at the rate of twelve per centum per annum, from the time of such demand as aforesaid: Provided, That congress may, at any Proviso; contime hereafter, enact laws enforcing and regulating the recove-gress may ry of the amount of the notes, bills, obligations, or other debts, act laws enof which payment shall have been refused as aforesaid, with the forcing the rerate of interest above mentioned, vesting jurisdiction for that pur- amount of pose in any courts, either of law or equity, of the courts of the notes, bills, United States, or territories thereof, or of the several states, as they may deem expedient.

hereafter en

covery of the

&c.

18. That if any person shall falsely make, forge, or counter-Forging, coun. VOL. III.

176

terfeiting, &c.

felony, and

onment and

fine.

the notes, &c. feit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, or counterof the bank, is feited, or willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging, or punishable by counterfeiting, any bill or note in imitation of, or purporting to imprisonment and hard la- be, a bill or note issued by order of the president, directors, and bor, or impris- company, of the said bank, or any order or check on the said bank or corporation, or any cashier thereof; or shall falsely alVol. ii. p.1048. ter, or cause or procure to be falsely altered, or willingly aid or assist in falsely altering, any bill or note issued by order of the president, directors, and company, of the said bank, or any order or check on the said bank or corporation, or any cashier thereof; or shall pass, utter, or publish, or attempt to pass, utter, or publish, as true, any false, forged, or counterfeited, bill or note, purporting to be a bill or note issued by order of the president, directors, and company, of the said bank, or any false, forged, or counterfeited, order or check upon the said bank or corporation, or any cashier thereof, knowing the same to be falsely forged or counterfeited; or shall pass, utter, or publish, or attempt to pass, utter, or publish, as true, any falsely altered bill or note, issued by order of the president, directors, and company, of the said bank, or any falsely altered order or check on the said bank or corporation, or any cashier thereof, knowing the same to be falsely altered, with intention to defraud the said corporation, or any other body politic or person; or shall sell, utter, or deliver, or cause to be sold, uttered, or delivered, any forged or counterfeit note or bill, in imitation, or purporting to be, a bill or note issued by order of the president and directors of the said bank, knowing the same to be false, forged, or counterfeited; every such person shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of felony, and being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall be sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labor, for not less than three years nor more than ten years, or shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years and fined not exceeding five thousand dolProviso state lars: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construcourts not de- ed to deprive the courts of the individual states of a jurisdiction, prived of their Jurisdiction. under the laws of the several states, over any offence declared punishable by this act.

Vol. iii. p. 1999.

Imprisonment and hard labor,

notes, &c.

issued by the corporation.

19. That if any person shall make or engrave, or cause or or fine and im procure to be made or engraved, or shall have in his custody or prisonment, possession, any metallic plate, engraved after the similitude of for engraving a similitude of any plate from which any notes or bills, issued by the said corthe plates of poration, shall have been printed, with intent to use such plate, or to cause or suffer the same to be used, in forging or counterfeiting any of the notes or bills issued by the said corporation; or shall have in his custody or possession any blank note or notes, bill or bills, engraved and printed after the similitude of any notes or bills issued by said corporation, with intent to use such blanks, or cause or suffer the same to be used, in forging or counterfeiting any of the notes or bills issued by the said corporation; or shall have in his custody or possession any paper adapted to the making of bank notes or bills, and similar to the paper upon which any notes or bills of the said corporation shall have been issued, with intent to use such paper, or cause or suffer the same to be used, in forging or counterfeiting any of the

notes or bills issued by the said corporation; every such person, being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall be sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labor for a term not exceeding five years, or shall be imprisoned for a term not exceeding five years and fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.

tion to pay the

for its charter,

20. That, in consideration of the exclusive privileges and The corporabenefits conferred by this act upon the said bank, the president, United States directors, and company, thereof, shall pay to the United States, 1,500,000dolls. out of the corporate funds thereof, the sum of one million and in three equal' five hundred thousand dollars, in three equal payments; that is payments. to say: five hundred thousand dollars at the expiration of two years; five hundred thousand dollars at the expiration of three years; and five hundred thousand dollars at the expiration of four years after the said bank shall be organized and commence its operations in the manner hereinbefore provided.

to be estab

cept within

The corpora

21. That no other bank shall be established by any future No other bank law of the United States during the continuance of the corpora- lished, &c. tion hereby created, for which the faith of the United States is hereby pledged: Provided, Congress may renew existing char- Proviso: exters for banks in the district of Columbia, not increasing the ca- the district of pital thereof, and may also establish any other bank or banks in Columbia. said district, with capitals not exceeding, in the whole, six millions of dollars, if they shall deem it expedient. And, notwith- tion to exist standing the expiration of the term for which the said corpora- for two years tion is created, it shall be lawful to use the corporate name, ration of its style, and capacity, for the purpose of suits for the final settle- charter, for the ment and liquidation of the affairs and accounts of the corpora- concerns. tion, and for the sale and disposition of their estate, real, personal, and mixed; but not for any other purpose, or in any other manner, whatsoever, nor for a period exceeding two years after the expiration of the said term of incorporation.

after the expi

close of its

does not com

$22. That if the subscriptions and payments to said bank shall If the bank not be made and completed so as to enable the same to com- mence by the mence its operations, or if the said bank shall not commence its 1st Monday in April, 1817, operations on or before the first Monday in April next, then, and congress may in that case, congress may, at any time within twelve months annul the thereafter, declare, by law, this act null and void.

charter.

of either house

may inspect

reason to be

ter has been

23. That it shall, at all times, be lawful for a committee of Committees either house of congress, appointed for that purpose, to inspect of congress the books, and to examine into the proceedings, of the corpora- the books of tion hereby created, and to report whether the provisions of this the bank, &c. charter have been, by the same, violated or not; and whenever When there is any committee, as aforesaid, shall find and report, or the presi- lieve the chardent of the United States shall have reason to believe, that the violated, a charter has been violated, it may be lawful for congress to di- scire facias rect, or the president to order, a scire facias to be sued out of the may be sued circuit court of the district of Pennsylvania, in the name of the bank compelUnited States, (which shall be executed upon the president of the corporation for the time being, at least fifteen days before the commencement of the term of said court,) calling on the said corporation to show cause wherefore the charter hereby granted The court shall not be declared forfeited; and it shall be lawful for the may examine, said court, upon the return of the said scire facias, to examine

out, and the

led to show

cause, &c.

&c.

ed, &c.

Proviso; every issue of

fact to be tried by jury.

charter forfeit into the truth of the alleged violation, and if such violation be made appear, then to pronounce and adjudge that the said charter is forfeited and annulled. Provided, however, Every issue of fact which may be joined between the United States and the corporation aforesaid, shall be tried by jury. And it shall be lawful for the court aforesaid to require the production of such of the books of the corporation as it may deem necessary for the Judgment ex- ascertainment of the controverted facts and the final judgment the supreme of the court aforesaid shall be examinable in the supreme court of the United States, by writ of error, and may be there reversed or affirmed, according to the usages of law. [Approved, April 10, 1816.]

aminable in

court.

Accounting officers of the

settle the ac

CHAP. 46. An act providing for the settlemement of certain accounts against the library of congress, for extending the privileges of using the books therein, and for establishing the salary of the librarian.

1. Be it enacted, &c. That the accounting officers of the treasury to in- treasury be, and they are hereby, authorised and required to investigate and vestigate and settle the accounts against the library of congress, counts, &c. exhibited by George Watterston, Daniel Rapine, and William Elliot; and the amount thereof, which shall be deemed equitable, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Annual salary of 1,000 dolls.

to the librarian.

Repealed. Vol. iii. p. 1677.

Attorney general and diplomatic corps allowed the use of the

2. That there shall be allowed to the librarian for attending said library, an annual salary of one thousand dollars, payable quarterly, at the treasury of the United States, to commence and take effect from and after the twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.

§ 3. That the privilege of using the books in the library shall be extended to the attorney general of the United States and the members of the diplomatic corps, on the same terms and condibooks in the tions as it is enjoyed by the judges of the supreme court. [Approved, April 16, 1816.]

library.

Vol. iii. p.

1661, 1721,

1812, 1921,

2012, 2048.

Vol. iv. p. 2162, 2216, 2314, 2312, 2410.

of war to issue

The warrants

CHAP. 49. An act further extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants,

and for other purposes.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the secretary of war be authorized to issue military land warrants to such persons as have or shall, before the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred The secretary and eighteen, produced to him satisfactory evidence of the valimilitary land dity of their claims; which warrants, with those heretofore iswarrants, &c. sued, and not yet satisfied, shall and may be located, in the name may be locat- of the holders or proprietors thereof, prior to the first day of Oced prior to the tober, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, on any unlocated parts of the fifty quarter townships and the fractional quarter townships, reserved by law for original holders of military land Patents to be warrants. And patents shall be granted, for the land located granted, &c. under this act, in the same manner as is directed by former acts for granting military lands.

1st Oct. 1818,

&c.

At the expiration of the

the commis

2. That, at the expiration of the term limited by this act, for term limited, the location of the military land warrants aforesaid, it shall be sioner of the the duty of the commissioner of the general land office, to transgeneral land mit to the surveyor general a list of all the lots of land within the fifty quarter townships, and fractional quarter townships, which

office to trans

mit to the

eral a list of

cated, &c.

shall at that time remain unlocated; and the surveyor general surveyor genshall prepare and transmit to the registers of the land office at all the lots reChillicothe and Zanesville, respectively, general plats of the afore- maining unlo said unlocated lots; which lots shall, after the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, be offered for sale at the land offices in the districts in which they are situated, in the same manner, on the same terms and conditions, in every respect, as other public lands are offered at private sale, in the same districts. Approved, April 16, 1816.]

CHAP. 52. An act for the relief of certain claimants to land in the district of Vincennes.

whose claims

of 30 March,

ter at Vincen

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the several persons whose claims Persons were confirmed by the act of congress, entitled "An act con- were confirmfirming certain claims to land in the district of Vincennes, and ed by the acts for other purposes," approved the third day of March, one thous- 1807, and 13th and eight hundred and seven; and the act, entitled "An act Feb. 1813, &c. may enter confirming certain claims to land in the district of Vincennes," their locations approved the thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight with the regishundred and thirteen; which, having been located, cannot be nes, &c. surveyed agreeably to law, or which, having been located, have, Vol. ii. p. in the opinion of the register of the land office, for the said dis- vol. iii. p. trict, been removed by the surveys of prior locations, from the 1661. 1713. spot intended to be occupied, are hereby authorized to enter their locations with the register of the land office at Vincennes, on any part of the tract set apart for that purpose in the said district, by virtue of the act, entitled "An act respecting claims Vol. ii. p. to lands in the Indiana territory and state of Ohio," and in conformity to the provisions of this act. [Approved, April 16, 1816.]

CHAP. 53. An act to authorize the president of the United States to alter the road laid out from the foot of the Rapids of the river Miami of lake Erie to the western line of the Connecticut reserve.

1066. 1293.

1022.

cause an al

road laid out

1. Be it enacted, &c. That the president of the United States The president be, and is hereby, authorized to cause to be made, in such man- authorized to ner as he may deem most proper, an alteration in the road laid teration to be out under the authority of an act, entitled "An act to authorize made in the the surveying and marking of certain roads in the state of Ohio, under the act as contemplated by the treaty of Brownstown, in the territory a authorizing, of Michigan," so that the said road may pass through the United Vol. ii. p. States' reservation at Lower Sandusky, or north thereof, not exceeding three miles.

1204.

penses to be

2. That the necessary expenses which shall be incurred in Necessary exaltering the said road, shall be paid out of the moneys appropri- paid out of ated for the surveying of the public lands of the United States. moneys ap propriated, [Approved, April 16, 1916.]

CHAP. 54. An act to authorize the legislature of the state of Ohio to sell a certain part of a tract of land, reserved for the use of that state.

&c.

ture of Ohio

1. Be it enacted, &c. That the legislature of the state of Ohio The legislashall be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to may cause to cause to be selected and sold, in such manner, and on such be selected terms and conditions, as they may by law direct, any one section tion of 640 not exceeding the quantity of six hundred and forty acres of the acres of land

and sold a sec.

of the