Vol. ii. p.1399. CHAP. 15. An act further extending the term of half pay pensions to the widows and children of officers, seamen, and marines, who died in the public service. sions, to the The term of § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That in all cases where provision has half pay pen- been made by law for five years' half pay to the widows and widows, &c. children of officers, seamen, and marines, who were killed in of officers, &c. who died in the battle, or who died in the naval service of the United States, public service, during the late war; and, also, in all cases where provision has extended. Vol. iii. p. 1637. Act of 3d March, 1817, repealed. Proviso. Vol. iii. p. 1677. Fixing the compensa been made for extending the term for five years, in addition to the first term of five years, the said provision shall be further extended for an additional term of five years, to commence at the end of the second term of five years, in each case, respectively, making the provision equal to fifteen years' half pay; which shall be paid out of the fund heretofore provided by law and the said pensions shall cease, for the causes mentioned in the laws providing the same, respectively. 2. That, from and after the passing of this act, the act, entitled "An act to amend and explain an act giving pensions to the orphans and widows of persons slain in the public or private armed vessels of the United States," passed March the third, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, however, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to prevent the payment of any pension already granted, until the full expiration of the period thereof; nor to affect or impair the rights of any person or persons which may have accrued during the existence of the act hereby repealed, as aforesaid. [Approved, January 22, 1824.] CHAP. 20. An act to revive and continue in force an act, entitled "An act fixing the compensations of the secretary of the senate and clerk of the house of representatives, of the clerks employed in their offices, and of the librarian." 1. Be it enacted, &c. That an act, passed the eighteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act fixing the compensations of the secretary of the senate and tions of the se- clerk of the house of representatives, of the clerks employed in their offices, and of the librarian," be, and the same is hereby, declared to be revived, and continued in force, until the first day resentatives, of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-six. [Approved, February 20, 1824.] cretary of the senate, and clerk of the house of rep &c. All lands to be attached to ty surveyor CHAP. 23. An act to regulate the surveying of public and private lands in the southern part of Alabama. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That all the lands in the state of Alathe district of bama shall be attached to the district of the surveyor of the pubthe surveyor, lic lands in the state of Alabama, and the surveying of all public and the depu- and private lands, in the said state, shall hereafter be made under east of the is his direction; and it shall be the duty of the deputy surveyor of Orleans, &c. the district east of the island of New Orleans, and east of Pearl to return plats river, to return the plats of all private claims within the state of claims, &c. Alabama, to the office of the said surveyor. [Approved, February 28, 1824.] land of New of all private CHAP. 25. An act to extend the time limited for the settlement of private land claims in the territory of Florida. titles to land Vol. iii. p. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the time limited for the settle- The act amending, &c. ment of private land claims in the territory of Florida, by an act the act for asof the seventeenth congress, entitled "An act amending, and certaining the supplementary to, the act for ascertaining claims and titles to in Florida, to land in the territory of Florida, and to provide for the survey and be extended. disposal of the public lands in Florida, be, and the same is here- 1907. 2008. by, extended and enlarged, until the first day of January next, when the commissioners for ascertaining claims and titles to the lands aforesaid shall make a return of their proceedings to the secretary of the treasury, to be laid before congress. or claimants grantee or pa § 2. That the claimant or claimants shall not be required to The claimant produce, in evidence, a deraignment of title from the original not required to grantee or patentee, but the exhibition of the original title pa- produce in evipers, agreeably to the fourth section of an act, passed the eighth dence a deof May, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled "An act for title from the ascertaining claims and titles to lands within the territory of original Florida," with the deed or devise, to the claimant, and the office tentee, &c. abstract or abstracts of the intermediate conveyances for the last ten years preceding the surrender of Florida to the United States; and, where they cannot be produced, their absence being satisfactorily accounted for, shall be sufficient evidence of the right of the claimant or claimants to the land so claimed as against the United States: Provided, The claim be defined in quantity, Proviso. and the amount does not exceed the quantity limited in the second section of the act which this is intended to extend: And provided, the conditions required by the laws and ordinances of Proviso. the Spanish government, and the treaty between Spain and the United States, shall have been complied with. actual settler visions of the 3. That no person shall be taken and deemed to be an ac- No person to tual settler, within the provisions of the "Act amending, and be deemed an supplementary to, an act for ascertaining claims and titles to within the proland in the territory of Florida," passed on the third day of act of Sd March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, unless March, 1823, such person, or those under whom he claims title, shall have been an occupier-or in the cultivation, or occupation, of the land, at and before the cultivator of period of the cession. unless he be the land, &c. this is an § 4. That so much of the act of which this is an amendment, so much of the as authorizes the secretary of said commissioners to demand and act of which receive from the claimants ten cents per hundred words for re- amendment, to cording titles to lands, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. be repealed. commission ers dolls. required 5. That the former secretaries, or those who may now be se- Secretaries of cretaries, to the said boards of commissioners, who shall have re-es having received their salary of one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, ceived 1,250 from the treasury of the United States, which is, by law, declar- to pay over ed to be their full compensation, shall be, and they are hereby, such fees as required to pay over, respectively, to the commissioners, con- demanded and formably with the provisions of the original law, all such fees as received by have been demanded, and received by them, which shall be appropriated to defray the expenses of the commission. have been them. 6. That so much of the acts of which this is amendatory, as so much of the makes void all claims not filed before the first day of December, acts of which atory, as makes yoid all this is amend- one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and it shall be lawful for claims to be filed laims not fil- any time previous to the first day of September next; but all and first of Dec. every claim not filed by that time, shall be held and deemed void 1823, to be re- and of none effect. ed before the sioner to re ceive 2,000 pealed. Each commis- 7. That each of the commissioners heretofore appointed, or who may hereafter be appointed, who has performed, and shall hereafter perform, the duties assigned him, shall receive, from the first Monday in February until the first day of January next, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum, in full compensation for his services. [Approved, February 28, 1824.] dolls. per ann. Vol.ii. p. 1423. CHAP. 26. An act to repeal, in part, an act, entitled "An act to lessen the compensation for marshals, clerks, and attorneys, in the cases therein mentioned." So much of the April, 1824, as lessens the compensations of mar shals, &c. to be repealed. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That so much of the act, passed on act of the 18th the eighteenth day of April, anno domini, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled "An act to lessen the compensation for marshals, clerks, and attornies, in the cases therein mentioned," as prohibits the allowance of daily compensation to marshals, clerks, and attornies, in the districts in said act mentioned, be, and the same hereby is, repealed; and that there hereafter be allowed to the marshals, clerks, and attornies, for said districts, the same daily compensation as is allowed to the same officers in other districts. [Approved, March 8, 1824.] Vol. iii. p. 1773. The state of Alabama to be divided into CHAP. 28. An act for the better organization of the district courts of the United States within the state of Alabama. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the state of Alabama shall be, and the same is hereby, divided into two districts, in manner foltwo districts. lowing, to wit:-That part thereof composing the counties of ern district, to Cahawba Jackson, Decatur, Madison, Limestone, Lauderdale, Franklin, Lawrence, Morgan, Blount, St. Clair, Jefferson, Walker, and Marion, shall compose one district, to be called the northern district of Alabama; and the residue thereof, shall compose another district to be called the southern district of Alabama. District court § 2. That there shall be two terms of the district court for the for the south-southern district, held at Mobile, in each year, to begin on the be held at Mo- third Monday after the fourth Monday in March, and the fourth bile twice, at Monday after the fourth Monday in October; and one term at once; and that Cahawba, in each year, to begin on the third Monday in June; of the northern and one term of the district court, for the northern district, shall Huntsville be held in Huntsville, in each year, to begin on the second Mononce in each day in July; and the district judge of the United States, for the district at year. be returned to state of Alabama, is hereby required to hold the courts aforesaid, and furthermore, to hold one or more special terms, at Cahawba, and at Huntsville, in each year, if, in his opinion, the business of the court shall require it to be done. All writs and 3. That the third Monday in December, in each year, shall executions to be a return day for writs and executions, returnable to the said the district district court at Cahawba; and the second Monday in January, court at Mo- in each year, shall be a return day for writs and executions rehawba, to be turnable to the said district court at Huntsville; and the parties adjourned, to such suits as shall be so returned, shall make up their plead bile and Ca &e, ings under such rules as the court shall prescribe, in order to have the causes so returned, in a state for trial at the next regular term. district courts, § 4. That all causes pending in the said district courts at Mo- All cases bile and Cahawba shall be adjourned and continued from the ring in the times heretofore prescribed by law for holding said courts, re- at Mobile and spectively, to the times appointed by this act: and all recogni- be adjourned, Cahawba, to zances and process of every description, made returnable to the &c. former terms of holding said courts, respectively, shall be returned to the terms herein established, and be as valid as if the time of holding the same had not been changed. said courts, in fendants re trict, to be &c. 5. That all causes, at law or in chancery, pending in the All cases said district courts at Mobile and Cahawba, in which the defend- pending in ant or defendants resided, in the northern district, at the time of which the deserving the process, shall be transferred to the district court for fendant or dethe said northern district, established by this act, and be pro- sided in the ceeded in, adjudged, and determined, in the same manner as if northern disoriginally commenced in said court; and it shall be the duty of transferred, the clerks of the said district courts at Mobile and Cahawba, to transmit, by some safe conveyance, to the clerk of the district court for the northern district, the original papers in all such causes, together with a transcript of all proceedings had therein. § 6. That all suits hereafter to be brought, in either of the All suits herecourts aforesaid, not of a local nature, shall be brought only in brought, &c. the district where the defendant shall reside; but if there be to be brought only in the dismore than one defendant, and some of them reside in the north- trict where the ern, and some in the southern district, the plaintiff may sue in defendant either, and send a duplicate writ to the other, on which he shall &c. endorse that it is part of a suit brought in the district from which it is sent; and the said writs, when executed and returned, shall constitute one suit, and be proceeded in accordingly. after to be shall reside, A clerk of the district court 7. That the judge of said courts shall appoint a clerk of the district court of the northern district, who shall reside, and keep for the northhis office, and the records and documents appertaining thereto, ern district to be appointed, at the place of holding said court: be entitled to the same fees &c. allowed by law to the clerks of the southern district, and be subject to the same liabilities and penalties. district of Al 8. That the district attorney heretofore appointed for the The district district of Alabama, shall be the district attorney for the south- tofore apern district of Alabama; and there shall be a district attorney pointed for the appointed for the northern district of Alabama, who shall hold abama, to be his appointment for the same term, be subject to the same duties, attorney for and receive the same salary, fees, and emoluments, allowed to district, &c. the district attorney of the southern district of Alabama. the southern to stand ad 9. That, should the judge fail to attend at the time and The business place of holding any of the courts herein mentioned, before the journed to the close of the third day of the term, the business thereof shall stand next term, in adjourned to the next term. [Approved, March 10, 1824.] CHAP. 29. An act to define the boundary line between the Edwardsville and Springfield land districts, in the state of Illinois. case of, &c. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That all that tract of country lying be- The country lying between the Illinois tween the Illinois and Mississippi rivers, and south of the base pi rivers, &c. line of the military surveys, be, and the same is hereby, attached to be attached to, and made a part of, the land district, the office of which is land district of located at Edwardsville; and all the tract of country lying beEdwardsville, tween the said rivers, and north of the said base line, be, and to, &c. the &c. The session of the district the same is hereby, attached to, and made a part of, the land district, the office of which is established at Springfield, in the county of Sangamo. [Approved, March 16, 1824.] CHAP. 30. An act to change the terms of the district court of the United States for the Kentucky district. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the passage of this act, the sessions of the district court of the United States, court of Ken- in and for the Kentucky district shall commence and be holden on the first Monday of May and of November, in each year, instead of the terms now appointed by law. tucky, to be held on, &c. Motions, &c. to stand adjourned. One draughts man, and two 2. That all motions, process, pleas, and suits, returnable to the term of said court, heretofore appointed to be holden in April next, shall stand adjourned and continued over to the May term, next appointed by this act, and shall be as effectual in law as if the said April term had not been abolished. [Approved, March 24, 1824.] CHAP. 31. An act to authorize the employing of certain assistants in the general land office. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the secretary of the treasury be, colorers to be and he is hereby, authorized to employ in the general land office, appointed in for a term not exceeding twelve months, one assistant draughtsthe general land office for man and two colorers, for the purpose of completing the maps directed to be made by a resolution of the senate of the United States, passed on the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. [Approved, March 24, 1824.] one year. Acts of 4th March, 1814, and 16th extended. Vol. ii. p. 1399. CHAP. 34. An act extending the term of pensions, granted to persons disabled, and to the widows and orphans of those who have been slain, or who have died, in consequence of wounds or casualties, received while in the line of their duty, cn board the private armed ships of the United States, during the late war. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the pensions of all persons, who now are in the receipt thereof, under the provisions of the folApril, 1818, lowing laws of the United States, or either of them, to wit: an act passed March fourth, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled "An act giving pensions to the orphans and widows of persons slain in the public or private armed vessels of the United States ;" and an act passed April sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act in addition to an act giving pensions to the orphans and widows of persons slain in the public or private armed vessels of the United States;" so far as regards persons receiving pensions from the fund arising from captures and salvage, made by the private armed vessels of the United States, be, and the same are hereby, continued, under the restrictions and regulations in the said acts Vol. iii. p. 1673. 1974. |