Vol. ii. p.1050. Vol. iii. p. 1698. 1798. may employ sels of the U. the acts of congress pro- port, &c. Act of 1818, ch. 86. between the U. S. and the captors. CHAP. 224. An act in addition to the acts prohibiting the slave trade. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the president of the United States The president be, and he is hereby, authorized, whenever he shall deem the armed ves- it expedient, to cause any of the armed vessels of the United S. to enforce States to be employed to cruise on any of the coasts of the United States, or territories thereof, or of the coast of Africa, or elsewhere, where he may judge attempts may be made to carry on the slave trade by citizens or residents of the United States, in contravention of the acts of congress prohibiting the same, and to instruct and direct the commanders of all armed vessels of the United States, to seize, take, and bring into any port of the United States, all ships or vessels of the United States, wheresoever brought into found, which may have taken on board, or which may be intended for the purpose of taking on board, or of transporting, or may have transported, any negro, mulatto, or person of color, in violation of any of the provisions of the act, entitled "An act in addition to an act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States, from and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight, and to repeal certain parts of the same,' or of any other act or acts prohibiting the traffic The proceeds in slaves, to be proceeded against according to law: And the of offending proceeds of all ships and vessels, their tackle, apparel, and furto be divided niture, and the goods and effects on board of them, which shall be so seized, prosecuted, and condemned, shall be divided equally between the United States and the officers and men who shall seize, take, or bring, the same into port for condemnation, whether such seizure be made by an armed vessel of the United To be distrib States or revenue cutter thereof: And the same shall be distriuted as prizes. buted in like manner as is provided by law for the distribution Proviso; offi- of prizes taken from an enemy. Provided, That the officers and cers and men men, to be entitled to one half of the proceeds aforesaid, shall safe keep every negro, mulatto, or person of color, found on board of any ship or vessel so seized, taken, or brought into port, for condemnation, and shall deliver every such negro, mulatto, or person of color, to the marshal of the district into which they are brought, if into a port of the United States, or, if elsewhere, to such person or persons as shall be lawfully appointed by the president of the the United States, in the manner hereinafter directed, transmitting to the president of the United States, as soon as may be after such delivery, a descriptive list of such negroes, mulattoes, or persons of color, that he may give directions for the disposal of them. And provided further, That the commanders of such commissioned vessels do cause to be cers and crews apprehended, and taken into custody, every person found on of offending vessels to be board of such vessel, so seized and taken, being of the officers taken into cus- or crew thereof, and him or them convey, as soon as convenienttody, &c. ly may be, to the civil authority of the United States, to be proceeded against, in due course of law, in some of the districts thereof. to safe keep the negroes, &c. and delithe marshal, ver them to &c. A descriptive list to be transmitted to the president. Proviso; offi The president § 2. That the president of the United States be, and he is authorized to hereby, authorized to make such regulations and arrangements make regulaas he may deem expedient, for the safe keeping, support, and tions for safe the negroes, appoint agents them, &c. to receive removal beyond the limits of the United States, of all such ne- keeping, &c. groes, mulattoes, or persons of color, as may be so delivered and brought within their jurisdiction; and to appoint a proper person or persons, residing upon the coast of Africa, as agent or agents for receiving the negroes, mulattoes, or persons of color, delivered from on board vessels, seized in the prosecution of the slave trade, by commanders of the United States' armed vessels. 3. That a bounty of twenty-five dollars be paid to the officers and crews of the commissioned vessels of the United States, or revenue cutters, for each and every negro, mulatto, or person of color, who shall have been, as hereinbefore provided, delivered to the marshal or agent duly appointed to receive them: And the secretary of the treasury is hereby authorized and required to pay, or cause to be paid, to such officers and crews, or their agent, the aforesaid bounty, for each person delivered as aforesaid. Bounty of 25 dolls. for every negro, &c. delivered to the marshal, &c. Secretary of cause the bounty to be the treasury to paid. cute by infor mation, in the case of persons holding ne groes, &c. unlawfully im ported. rect the mar negroes into custody, subject to the orders of the president, shal to take the § 4. That when any citizen, or other person, shall lodge in- District attor formation, with the attorney for the district of any state or ter- nyo proseritory, as the case may be, that any negro, mulatto, or person of color, has been imported therein, contrary to the provisions of the acts in such case made and provided, it shall be the duty of the said attorney forthwith to commence a prosecution, by information; and process shall issue against the person charged with holding such negro, negroes, mulatto, mulattoes, person or persons of color, so alleged to be imported contrary to the provisions of the acts aforesaid: And if, upon the return of the pro- Upon the verdict of a jury, cess executed, it shall be ascertained, by the verdict of a jury, the court to dithat such negro, negroes, mulatto, mulattoes, person or persons of color, have been brought in, contrary to the true intent and meaning of the acts in such cases made and provided, then the court shall direct the marshal of the said district to take the said negroes, mulattoes, or persons of color, into his custody, for safe keeping, subject to the orders of the president of the United States; and the informer or informers, who shall have lodged the Informer entir information, shall be entitled to receive, over and above the por- ty of 50 dolls. tion of the penalties accruing to him or them by the provisions for every neof the acts in such case made and provided, a bounty of fifty dollars, for each and every negro, mulatto, or person of color, who shall have been delivered into the custody of the marshal; and the secretary of the treasury is hereby authorized and re- The secretary of the treasury quired to pay, or cause to be paid, the aforesaid bounty, upon to cause the the certificate of the clerk of the court for the district where the bounty to be prosecution may have been had, with the seal of office thereto paid, &e. annexed, stating the number of negroes, mulattoes, or persons of color, so delivered. tled to a boun gro, &c. tured under the provisions of this act to port of the be brought into § 5. That it shall be the duty of the commander of any armed Vessels capvessel of the United States, whenever he shall make any capture under the provisions of this act, to bring the vessel and her cargo, for adjudication, into some of the ports of the state or territory to which such vessel, so captured, shall belong, if he can ascertain the same; if not, then to be sent into any convenient port of the United States. a state where they belong, if, &c. Repugnant 6. That all such acts, or parts of acts, as may be repugnant acts and parts of acts, repeal to the provisions of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby, cd. repealed. Not exceeding 7. That a sun, not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, 100,000 dolls. be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to carry this law into appropriated, effect. [Approved, March 3, 1819.] &c. The secretary of the treasu ing light-hous es, erecting beacons or land marks, &c. on the mentioned. &c. CHAP. 226. An act to authorize the building, erecting, and placing, lighthouses, boacons' and buoys, on places designated in Boston, Buzzard, and Chesapeake, bays, lakes Ontario and Erie, and for other purposes. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That it shall be the duty of the secry to provide, retary of the treasury to provide, by contract, which shall be apby contract, to proved by the president of the United States, for building lightbe approved by the presi- houses, erecting beacons or land marks, and placing light vesdent, for build- sels or boats, on the following sites or shoals, to wit: A lighthouse on Long-Island Head, and a beacon or land mark on HalfWay Rock, in Boston Bay; and also a lighthouse on Bird's Island, in Buzzard's Bay, in the state of Massachusetts. A lightsites or shoals house on Galloo Island, near the outlet of lake Ontario, in the Lighthouses, State of New-York. A lighthouse, at a proper place, at or between the mouth of Grand river, in the state of Ohio, and the mouth of Detroit river, in the territory of Michigan. Three lighthouses, on the following sites: one on the Bodkin, one on North Point, and one on Sparrow's Point, in the state of Maryland. A lighthouse on Windmill Point, at the mouth of Rappahannock river, or a light vessel or boat on the Wolf Trap Shoals, if the latter shall be deemed preferable to a lighthouse on Windmill Point; a lighthouse on Craney Island, at the mouth of Elizabeth river, and a light vessel, or boat, on Willoughby's Spit, between Lynnhaven Bay and Hampton Roads, in the state of Virginia and a beacon, or land mark, on Wolf Island, near the port of Darien, in the state of Georgia. Buoys and spindles. $ 2. That it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to cause three buoys to be placed, in such manner as to mark out the channel leading into the harbor of Boston, and one buoy to be placed on West Island Ledge, in Buzzard's Bay; a spindle, or buoy, on the outer rock of the reef running from Cochney's Island to Eastern Norwalk 'Island; another spindle, or buoy, on the reef running about southwest from the western point of the western Norwalk Island; and a spindle on the rock off the point of Fairweather Island, in the state of Connecticut : And twenty buoys in the Chespeake Bay and Petapsco river, for designating the shoals and channel, in the state of Maryland. A pier at the § 3. That it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to cause a pier to be carried out to nine feet water, at the lighthouse heretofore authorized to be erected at the mouth of the Mississippi; and, also, that he cause the present wood tower, at the Seguin lighthouse, in the state of Massachusetts, to be replaced with one of stone. mouth of the Mississippi. Stone, instead of wood, tow er, at Seguin lighthouse. Appropriations to ac complish the 4. That there be appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated, the purposes enu- following sums of money, to accomplish the purposes heretofore enumerated in this act, to wit: For the erection and establishment of lighthouses on Long Island Head, on Bird's Island, and merated in this act. a beacon or landmark on Half-Way Rock, eleven thousand five hundred dollars: For a lighthouse on Galloo Island, near the' outlet of Lake Ontario, twelve thousand five hundred dollars : For a lighthouse, at a proper place, at or between the mouth of Grand river and Detroit river, five thousand dollars: For three lighthouses, one on the Bodkin, one on North Point, and one on Sparrow's Point, in the Chesapeake Bay, and on the Petapsco river, nine thousand dollars: For a lighthouse on Windmill Point, or light vessel or boat on the Wolf Trap Shoals, a light vessel or boat on Willoughby's Spit, between Lynnhaven Bay and Hampton Roads, and a lighthouse on Craney Island, at the mouth of Elizabeth river, twelve thousand dollars: For three buoys, to mark out the channel leading into Boston harbor, and for one to be placed on West Island Ledge, in Buzzard's Bay, sixteen hundred dollars: For the spindles or buoys on the reef running from Cochney's Island; for that on the reef running about southwest from the western point of the western Norwalk's Island, and for that on the rock off the point of Fairweather Island, twelve hundred dollars: For twenty buoys, to be placed in the Chesapeake Bay and Petapsco river, eight thousand dollars: For the pier to be carried out from the lighthouse at the mouth of the Mississippi, four thousand dollars; and for replacing the tower at the Seguin lighthouse, twenty-five hundred dollars and for a beacon or land mark on Wolf Island, near the port Darien, in the state of Georgia, one thousand dollars. deficiencies of 5. That, to make up the deficiencies of the appropriations To make up heretofore made, for the purposes following, the several sums, former approrespectively named, be, and they are hereby, appropriated, pay- priations. able out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to wit: To pay for the land, and erecting the lighthouse, at Holmes's Hole, sixty-three dollars: For erecting a lighthouse on the south point of Cumberland Island, seven thousand dollars: For erecting a lighthouse on the south point of Sapelo Island, two thousand five hundred and five dollars. propriations to 6. That the sum of three thousand and twenty-seven dollars Additional apbe, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the pay the salatreasury not otherwise appropriated, in addition to the sums ries of lighthouse keepers, heretofore appropriated, to pay the salaries to the several keepers of the lighthouses within the United States; to be applied, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury, so as to fix Salary of each the annual salary of each keeper aforesaid at the rate of three keeper fixed at hundred and fifty dollars per annum. 350 dolls. per ann. authorized on 7. That the secretary of the treasury, in case he shall deem Lighthouse it expedient and proper, may cause the lighthouse heretofore au- south point of thorized to be erected on the south point of Sapelo Island, to be Sapelo, may be placed on changed to, and placed on, Wolfe's Island. [Approved, March Wolfe's Is3, 1819.] land. CHAP. 231. An act to repeal part of an act, passed on the twenty seventh day of February, Vol. ii. p. one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, entitled "An act in addition to "Án act regulat 1299. ing the post office establishment." the act of 27th $1. Be it enacted, &c. That so much of the last clause of the The clause of "Act in addition to "An act regulating the post office establish- Feb. 1813, for securing the ment," passed the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand regular trans- eight hundred and thirteen, as contains these words, being the portation of the mail throughout the year, repealed. concluding words of the clause, namely: "And that such contracts shall secure the regular transportation of the mail throughout the year;" be, and the same is hereby, annulled and repealed. [Approved, March 3, 1819.] Reference to the act of 18th April, 1818. Illinois a state of the Union, on an equal footing. RESOLUTIONS. [No. 1.] Resolution declaring the admission of the state of Illinois into the Union. Resolved, &c. That, whereas, in pursuance of an act of congress, passed on the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act to enable the people of the Illinois territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states," the people of said territory did, on the twenty-sixth day of August, in the present year, by a convention called for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and state government, which constitution and state government, so formed, is republican, and in conformity to the principles of the articles of compact between the original states and the people and states in the territory northwest of the river Ohio, passed on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven: Resolved, &c. That the state of Illinois shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever. [Approved, December 3, 1818.] Form and manner of printing. [No. 6.] Resolution directing the manner in which the printing of congress shall be executed, fixing the prices thereof, and providing for the appointment of a printer or printers. Resolved, &c. That the printing of congress, unless when otherwise specially ordered, shall be done in the following form and manner, viz Bills, as heretofore, with english type, on foolscap paper. Rule or table work, in royal octavo size, where it can be brought into that size, by any type not smaller than brevier; and where it cannot, in such form as to fold conveniently into the volume. All other printing with a small pica type, on royal paper, in pages of the same size as those of the last edition of the laws of the United States, including the marginal notes. And the following prices shall be allowed and paid for the above described work: For the composition of every page of bills, one dollar; of every page of small pica, plain work, one dollar; of every page of small pica, rule work, two dollars; of every page of brevier, rule work, three dollars and fifty cents; and for a Press work. larger form of brevier rule work, in proportion. For the press Prices allow ed. Composition. |