contained, for and during the additional term of five years, from and after the period of the expiration of the said pensions, respectively: Provided, however, That the said pensions shall alone Proviso. be paid from the proceeds of the privateer pension fund, so called, and without recourse to the United States for any deficiency, (should such occur,) which may hereafter arise thereon: And provided further, That no pension shall be paid to any such wi- Proviso. dow after her intermarraige, nor to any orphan children of such officer, seamen, or marines, after they shall have attained the age of sixteen years. [Approved, April 9, 1824.] CHAP. 36. An act to change the terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States in the state of Ohio, and one of the terms of the circuit court in Kentucky. court for the the second § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the circuit court of the United The circuit States, within and for the district of Ohio, instead of the time Ohio district, now fixed by law, shall be held on the second Monday of July to be held on next; and thereafter on the first Mondays of January and June, Monday of in each year; and the district court of the United States, in and July next, and thereafter, for said district, shall hereafter be held on the Mondays next suc- &c. ceeding the times herein fixed for holding the circuit court. term of the 2. That the next fall term of the circuit court of the Unit- The next fall ed States for the district of Kentucky, be commenced and held circuit court on the second Monday in October next, in lieu of the first Mon- for the Kentucky district, day in November: Provided, That this act shall not be con- &c. strued to extend to, or embrace, any other or future term of the said circuit court, than the next November term, as aforesaid. Proviso. zances, &c. to in, &c. as it 3. That all recognizances, process, suits, and proceedings, All recogniof every kind, whether of a civil or criminal nature, commenced be proceeded or pending in either of said courts, shall be returned to, pro- the time of ceeded in, and determined at, the terms herein provided for, in holding said the same manner as if the time of holding said courts had not been changed. been changed. [Approved, April 22, 1824.] CHAP. 38. An act to alter the times of holding the district court of the United States for the district of Illinois. courts had not court for the $1. Be it enacted, &c. That, in lieu of the times now appoint- The district ed by law, the district court of the United States for the district district of of Illinois, shall be hereafter holden on the third Mondays in Illinois, to be June and November in each year. holden on, &c. in, &c. as if 2. That all writs, pleas, suits, recognizances, indictments, All writs to and all other proceedings of a civil or criminal nature, now be proceeded pending in, or which are, or may be returnable to, said court, shall be heard, tried, and proceeded with, by the said court, in the same manner as if no alteration of the times of holding said court had taken place. [Approved, April 22, 1824.] CHAP. 40. An act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act supplementary to the act, en titled An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt." the time of holding said been changed. court had not missioned to § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the person or persons who shall Persons comor may be commissioned, either by any judge of the supreme administer uncourt of the United States, or by any district judge of the United der the act of to have full &c. to power, issue a cita tion, directed agent, or at 6th Jan. 1800, States, to administer the oath prescribed by the act, entitled "An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt," passed on the sixth day of January, anno domini, one thousand eight to his creditor, hundred, shall, and may have full power and authority to issue a citation, directed to the creditor, his agent or attorney, if either lives within one hundred miles of the place of imprisonment, requiring him to appear at the time and place therein mentioned, place of im- if he see fit, to show cause why the said oath or affirmation should not be administered. torney, if either lives within 100 miles of the prisonment. The creditor, &c. if living within 50 2. That, if the creditor, his agent, or attorney, lives within fifty miles of the place of imprisonment, only fifteen days previmiles, to give ous notice by citation shall be required. [Approved, April 22, fifteen days previous notice. The district court for Missouri, to be 1824.] CHAP. 45. An act to alter the times of holding the district court, in the district of Missouri. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the district court, for the district of Missouri, shall hereafter be held on the first Mondays in held on the March and September, in every year; any thing in any act herefirst Mondays in March and tofore passed, to the contrary notwithstanding. September, 2. That all writs, pleas, suits, recognizances, indictments, yearly. Writs, &c. to and all other proceedings, civil and criminal, shall be heard, tried, be proceeded and proceeded with, by the said court, at the times fixed in the with as though no alteration first section of this act, in the same manner as if no alteration in the times for holding said court had taken place. [Approved, April 29, 1824.] had been made. CHAP. 46. An act to procure the necessary surveys, plans, and estimates, upon the subject of roads and canals. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the president of the United States is hereby authorized to cause the necessary surveys, plans, and estimates, to be made of the routes of such roads and canals as he may deem of national importance, in a commercial or military point of view, or necessary for the transportation of the public mail; designating, in the case of each canal, what parts may be made capable of sloop navigation: the surveys, plans, and estimates, for each, when completed, to be laid before congress. § 2. That, to carry into effect the objects of this act, the president be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ two or more skilful civil engineers, and such officers of the corps of engineers, or who may be detailed to do duty with that corps, as he may think proper; and the sum of thirty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. [Approved, April 30, 1824.] CHAP. 65. An act declaring the consent of congress to certain acts of the state of Alabama. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the consent of congress be, and hereby is, granted to the operation of an act of the general assembly of the state of Alabama, passed on the thirtieth of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, entitled An act to improve the navigation of the Coosa river, and to aid in its connexion with the Tennessee waters; and, also, to an act, passed on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, entitled "An act to improve the navigation of the Tennessee river." [Approved, May 13, 1824.] CHAP. 66. An act altering the times of holding the courts in the district of Columbia. court for district of Co and first Monday in May; and that for Alexandria county, on the 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the circuit court, for Washington The circuit county, in the district of Columbia, shall hereafter commence Washington and be held on the third Monday of December, and first Monday county in the of May, in each year, instead of the days now fixed by law; and lumbia, to be the circuit court for Alexandria county, in said district, on the held on the 3d Monday of fourth Monday of November, and the second Monday of April, December, instead of the days now established by law; and that all process whatsoever, now issued, or which may be issued, in the respective counties of Washington and Alexandria, in said district, returnable to the days, respectively, now fixed by law, for each of 1st Monday of the said counties, shall be returnable, and returned, on the days prescribed by this act; and all causes, recognizances, pleas, and day of April, proceedings, civil, and criminal, returnable to, and depending annually. before, the said courts, at the respective times of holding the same, as heretofore established, shall be returned, and continued, in the same counties, respectively, in the same manner as if the said causes, recognizances, pleas, and proceedings, had been regularly returned or continued, to the said respective times appointed by this act for holding the said courts. [Approved, May 13, 1824.] November, CHAP. 88. An act to provide for extinguishment of the debt due to the United States, by Vol. iii. p. the purchasers of public lands. 1807. 1839. 1926. 1969. 2105. holder of any has obtained a under the &c. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, in all cases where the purchas- Vol. iv. p. er, or legal holder, of any certificate of purchase of any of the Where the public lands of the United States, may have obtained a certifi- purchaser or cate of further credit under the provisions of an act, passed the public lands, second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty- certificate of one, entitled "An act for the relief of the purchasers of public further credit, lands, prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred on Marc and twenty," or of the acts supplementary thereto, of the twen- 1821, he shall tieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and be allowed, of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twentythree, the person obtaining such certificate, or the legal holder thereof, shall be allowed, at any time prior to the tenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, to file, with the register of the land office, in the district where such land is situated, a relinquishment, in writing, of any section, half section, quarter section, or legal subdivision of a fractional section, made according to the provisions of the existing laws, in relation to the survey and sale of the public lands; and any payment made, on any tract of land, so relinquished, shall be applied to the payment of the amount due on any tract retained by said purchaser, or legal holder of a certificate of purchase; which relinquishment shall be allowed only on condition that any such purchaser, or legal holder of a certificate of purchase, relinquish VOL. III. 224 Proviso. Proviso. a sufficient quantity of land thereby to complete his or her payments due to the United States, on any lands retained, or pay the balance due, and which may afterwards become due, in money, before or at the time of such relinquishment; and on the payment of such balance in money, there shall be allowed, on the amount so paid, a deduction at the rate of thirty-seven and. a half per centum: Provided, That nothing herein contained, shall entitle the person making such relinquishment to claim any repayment from the United States, on account of any lands so relinquished: And provided further, That nothing herein contained shall authorize any discounts upon payments made by relinquishment. A deduction at 2. That all purchasers, or legal holders of any certificate of purchase, of any of the public lands of the United States, who and a half per may have obtained a certificate of further credit, under the provisions of the several acts above mentioned, on making complete payment, previous to the tenth of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, of every instalment then due, and which shall afterwards become payable, shall be allowed, upon the amount so paid, a deduction, at the rate of thirty-seven and an half per the rate of centum to be made on complete payments. Duty of the registers and receivers. Fees to be al centum. 3. That it shall be the duty of the registers and receivers of the land offices of the United States, immediately after the tenth of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, to return complete lists of the lands relinquished to the United States, within their districts; and such lands shall be exposed to sale, as other public lands of the United States. 4. That the register and receiver of any land office, shall be lowed them. allowed double the fees given them by the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, for like services, to be paid by the person or persons availing themselves of the provisions of this act. The provisions of this act to 5. That the provisions of this act be extended to town lots, extend to town and out lots, reserved for that purpose, and sold by the United lots, &c. States on a credit. [Approved, May 18, 1824.] Vol. iii. P. 1587. 1705. 1706. 1740. on goods imported. • Sail duck. CHAP. 136. An act to amend the several acts imposing duties on imports. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the thirtieth day Specific duties of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, in lieu of the duties now imposed by law on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, the following duties, that is to say: First. On sail duck, osnaburgs, burlaps, and ticklenbergs, a duty of fifteen per centum ad valorem. On all manufactures of wool, or of which wool shall be a component part, except worsted stuff goods and blankets, which shall pay twenty-five per centum ad valorem, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem, until the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, and after that time, a duty of thirty-three and a third per centum ad valorem: Provided, That, on all manufactures of wool, except flannels and baizes, the actual value of which at the place whence imported, shall not exceed thirty-three and a third cents per square yard, shall be charged with a duty of twenty-five per Proviso. centum ad valorem. Second. On all manufactures, not herein Specific duspecified, of cotton, flax, or hemp, or of which either of these ties on goods imported. materials shall be a component part, and on all manufactures of Cotton, &c. silk, or of which silk shall be a component material, coming from beyond the cape of Good Hope, a duty of twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on all other manufactures of silk, or of which silk shall be a component material, twenty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all cotton cloths whatsoever, or cloths Proviso. of which cotton shall be a component material, excepting nankeens imported directly from China, the original cost of which, at the place whence imported, with the addition of twenty per centum, if imported from the cape of Good Hope, or any place beyond it; and of ten per centum, if imported from any other place, shall be less than thirty cents per square yard, shall, with such addition, be taken and deemed to have cost thirty cents per square yard, and shall be charged with duty accordingly. And that all unbleached and uncolored cotton twist, yarn, or thread, the original cost of which shall be less than sixty cents per pound, shall be deemed and taken to have cost sixty cents per pound, and shall be charged with duty accordingly. And all bleached or colored cotton yarn, twist, or thread, the original cost of which shall be less than seventy-five cents per pound shall be deemed and taken to have cost seventy-five cents per pound, and shall be charged with duty accordingly: Provided also, That the Proviso. provisions of this act shall not apply to, or be enforced against, importations of goods from ports or places eastward of the cape of Good Hope, or beyond Cape Horn, before the first of January &c. hext ensuing. Third. On wool unmanufactured, a duty of twen- Wool unmanty per centum ad valorem, until the first day of June, one thous-ufactured. and eight hundred and twenty-five; afterwards, a duty of twenty-five per centum ad valorem, until the first June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six; afterwards, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all wool, the actual value Proviso. of which, at the place whence imported, shall not exceed ten cents per pound, shall be charged with a duty of fifteen per centum ad valorem, and no more. Fourth. On all Leghorn hats Leghorn hats, or bonnets, and all hats or bonnets of straw, chip, or grass, and on all flats, braids, or plats for making of hats or bonnets, a duty of fifty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all Leghorn hats Proviso. and bonnets, and all hats or bonnets of straw, chip, or grass, which, at the place whence imported, with the addition of ten per centum, shall have cost less than one dollar each, shall with such addition, be taken and deemed to have cost one dollar each, and shall be charged with duty accordingly. Fifth. On japan- Japanned ned wares of all kinds, on plated wares of all kinds, and on all wares, &c. manufactures, not otherwise specified, made of brass, iron, steel, pewter, lead, or tin, or of which either of these metals is a component material, a duty of twenty-five per centum ad valorem. On bolting cloths, fifteen per centum ad valorem ; on hair cloth and hair seating, thirty per centum ad valorem; on marble, and all manufactures of marble, thirty per centum ad valorem ; on all paper hangings, forty per centum ad valorem; on coach laces, of cotton or other material, thirty-five per centum ad valorem ; on all other laces, twelve and a half per centum |