of St. Augustine harbor, and three buoys in St. Mark's harbor, Buoys on the in the territory of Florida. bar at the entrance of St. harbor. 2. That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is hereby, Augustine authorized to accept, from the state of Pennsylvania, the cession, to the United States, of the public piers, and the cause the treasury to Secretary of way leading thereto, which were built by said state, at Chester, accept from in the Delaware river, and directed to cause said piers and causeway to be repaired by contract. the state of Pennsylvania, the cession of, &c. 'A column to 3. That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is hereby, empowered and directed to cause to be built, by contract, a be erected on column on Little Mark Island, at the entrance of Harpswell Little Mark Sound, in the state of Maine. Island. or near the Neuse river. river, &c. harbor. Well's Point, ter. 4. That the following sum be, and the same are hereby, Sums approappropriated to accomplish the objects specified in this act, that priated. is to say: For building a light house at or near the mouth of Light house at Portsmouth harbor, fifteen hundred dollars; for building a light mouth of, &c. house on the point of marsh near the mouth of Neuse river, three Light house on the point of thousand five hundred dollars; for erecting a beacon at the marsh near the mouth of Bass river, between the towns of Dennis and Yar- mouth of mouth, one thousand dollars; for erecting a beacon or spindle Beacon at the on the ledge of rocks, called the Bishops, one hundred dollars; mouth of Bass, for erecting a beacon or spindle on Collin's ledge, one hundred dollars; and for placing six buoys on the sites above designated, in the Vineyard Sound, one hundred and fifty dollars; for placing Buoys in three buoys in East Greenwich harbor, seventy-five dollars; for Greenwich, erecting a beacon on Well's Point, in Bridgeport harbor, five Beacon on hundred dollars; and for placing three buoys in said harbor, Beacon on seventy-five dollars; for erecting a beacon on Patrick's reef, in Patrick's reef, Norwalk harbor, three hundred dollars; for placing a buoy on Smith's ledge, near Darien, twenty-five dollars; and for placing a buoy on Shippan reef, thirty dollars; for repairing the public Public piers, piers and causeway at Chester, five thousand three hundred and &c. at Ches eighty-three dollars and forty cents; for erecting a column on Column on Little Mark Island, at the entrance of Harpswell Sound, twelve Little Mark hundred dollars; for erecting a pier adjacent to the pier at Pier adjacent Buffalo, in the state of New York, and placing thereon the light to the one a house authorized to be built at the east end of Lake Erie, by &c. the act of eighteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, including the appropriation of two thousand five hundred dollars, made by the act aforesaid for that object, six thousand five hundred dollars; any part of which sum may be applied by the secretary of the treasury to defray the expense of altering the light house already erected at said Buffalo, if he shall be of the opinion that the same may be so altered as to render unnecessary the erection of another light house, in the vicinity of Buffalo; for altering and repairing the Newport light house, Repairing the Newport light at the entrance of Narraganset Bay, twelve hundred dollars; house. for erecting a light house at Natchez, in the state of Mississippi, Light house at in addition to the appropriation of one thousand five hundred dollars heretofore made for that object, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six dollars; for placing four buoys at the en- Buoys at the trance of Mobile Bay, and one at the mouth of Dog river, nine entrance of hundred dollars; for placing three buoys on the bar at the entrance Buoys on the Island. Buffalo, &c. Natchez. Mobile Bay. Augustine harbor. between one bar at the en- of St. Augustine harbor, one hundred and twenty dollars; and trance of St. for placing three buoys in St. Mark's harbor, one hundred and twenty dollars; for the erection of a light vessel of between one Light vessel, hundred and thirty and one hundred and fifty tons, for the south hundred and west point of the Royal Shoal, on Pamptico Sound in North thirty and one hundred and Carolina, eleven thousand dollars, and the vessel now stationed fifty tons, &c. at the shoal commonly called Ocracoke nine feet shoal in said Light house at Cat Island. sound; for a light house at Cat Island, in the Gulph of Mexico, Two light five thousand dollars; for the erection of two light houses on houses on Cape Elizabeth, in Maine, three thousand dollars. Cape Eliza beth. priated, &c. The president to cause to be laid out, a direct and practicable rout to the Saganaw river and bay, &c. 5. That the sums hereby appropriated shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. [Approved, March 2, 1827.] CHAP. 205. An act to authorize the laying out and opening of certain roads in the territory of Michigan. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, the president of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be laid out, in road commen- the territory of Michigan, a road, commencing at Detroit, and cing at Detroit, and pur- pursuing the most direct and practicable route to the Saganaw suing the most river and bay, in said territory; and that in like manner he cause to be laid out a road from Detroit to Fort Gratiot, at the outlet of Lake Huron; and for each of these objects the president shall appoint three commissioners, who shall explore, survey, and mark, in the most eligible course, the aforesaid roads, and cause the plats of such surveys, accompanied with the field notes, to be made out, certified and transmitted to the president, who, if he approve of the same, shall cause them to be deposited in the war department, and the roads shall be considered as established and accepted. Each com missioner to be a surveyor, 3 dolls. and 2. That the commissioners, one of whom, on each route, shall be a surveyor, shall each receive three dollars, and their and to receive assistants one dollar and fifty cents, per day, for the time necestheir assist- sarily employed in exploring, surveying, and marking said roads; ants, 1 dollar and that for the purpose of defraying the expenses thereof, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. 50 cents per day. 12,000 dolls. for the pur pose of connecting the Detroit and sin, &c. 3. That, for the purpose of connecting the Detroit and the appropriated, river Raisin with the Maumee and Sandusky roads, and to complete the opening and construction of the same, there shall be appropriated the sum of twelve thousand dollars, which shall be the river Rai- paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. 4. That, for the opening and construction of the Detroit and Chicago road, the sum of twenty thousand dollars be appropriating of the De- ed, which shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not othtroit and Chi-erwise appropriated: Provided, The said sum shall be expended upon such part of the road as is within the territory of Michigan. And that the opening and construction of the roads provided for by this act shall be done under the direction of the president of the United States. [Approved, March 2, 1827.] 20,000 dolls. for the open cago road. Proviso. CHAP. 207. An act in addition to "An act to regulate and fix the compensation of the clerks in the different offices," passed April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. state authoriz clerks. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the secretary of state be author- Secretary of ized to employ, in the state department, one additional clerk, ed to employ whose compensation shall not exceed sixteen hundred dollars; additional two additional clerks, whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand dollars each; and one additional clerk for the patent office, whose compensation shall not exceed eight hundred dollars. Secretary of 2. That the secretary of the treasury be, and he hereby is, employ an ad. authorized to employ, in the treasury department, one additional ditional clerk. clerk, whose compensation shall not exceed fourteen hundred dollars; in the office of the fourth auditor, two additional clerks, whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand dollars each. the treasury to 3. That the secretary of the navy be, and he hereby is, au- Secretary of thorized to employ one additional clerk, whose compensation the navy to shall not exceed one thousand dollars. additional 4. That the secretary of the war department be, and he Secretary of hereby is, authorized to employ one additional clerk for the office war to employ of the chief engineer; one additional clerk for the office of the clerks, for ceradjutant general; and one additional clerk for the office of the tain departcommissary general of subsistence; the compensation to each not exceeding eight hundred dollars. menis. 5. That the postmaster general, be and he hereby is, au- Postmaster thorized to employ five additional clerks, whose compensation ploy five adshall not exceed one thousand dollars each; and one additional ditional clerks. clerk whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand four hundred dollars. the treasury office of the 6. That the secretary of the treasury be authorized to allow Secretary of four clerks in the office of the register of the treasury, and one to allow four clerk in the office of the navy commissioners, one clerk in the clerks in the fifth auditor's office, and one clerk in the first comptroller's of register of the fice, who now receive eight hundred dollars each, the sum of treasury, &c. one thousand dollars each a year. bureau of In 7. That the sum of one thousand dollars, as compensation Clerk in the for one clerk in the bureau of Indian affairs, be applied under dian affairs. the direction of the secretary of war, under the act of eighteen hundred and eighteen. After the 31st March, 1827, a certain por tion of the section of the relating to $ 8. That, from and after the thirty-first of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, so much of the second section of the act to fix the compensation of the clerks in the different offices, passed on the twentieth of April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, act of the 20th as relates to the clerks authorized to be employed in the office of April, 1818, the commissioner of the general land office, be repealed, and that clerks employthere be employed, from and after that period, in said office, one ed in the land office, repealclerk, whose compensation shall not exceed seventeen hundred ed. dollars; ten clerks, whose compensation shall not exceed eleven hundred and fifty dollars; and six clerks, whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand dollars; and that there be two hundred and fifty dollars allowed as a contingency for keeping the account of the three per cent. fund, appropriated to the use of certain states. 9. That the sum of eighteen thousand four hundred dollars Sum of 18,400 VOL. III. 239 dolls. appropriated. A certain quantity of land to be allowed said state for open ing a canal to linois river lake Michi gan. be, and hereby is, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, as compensation to the several clerks authorized by this act, and for the additional compensation provided therein. [Approved, March 2, 1827.] CHAP. 208. An act to grant a quantity of land to the state of Illinois, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of the Illinois river with those of lake Michigan. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That there be, and hereby is, granted to the state of Illinois, for the purpose of aiding the said state in opening a canal to unite the waters of the Illinois river with those of lake Michigan, a quantity of land equal to one half of five secunite the wa- tions in width, on each side of said canal, and reserving each ters of the Il- alternate section to the United States, to be selected by the comwith those of missioner of the land office, under the direction of the president of the United States, from one end of the said canal to the other; and the said lands shall be subject to the disposal of the legislature of the said state, for the purpose aforesaid, and no other : Provided, That the said canal, when completed, shall be, and forever remain, a public highway for the use of the government of the United States, free from any toll, or other charge, whatThe U. States. ever, for any property of the United States, or persons in their Proviso; said service, passing through the same: Provided, That said canal shall be commenced within five years, and completed in twenty years, or the state shall be bound to pay to the United States the amount of any lands previously sold, and that the title to purchasers under the state shall be valid. Proviso; said canal to be public highway for the government of canal to be commenced within five years, &c. Duty of the `governor of said state, &c. 2. That, so soon as the route of the said canal shall be located and agreed on by the said state, it shall be the duty of when the ca- the governor thereof, or such other person or persons as may nal is located, have been, or shall hereafter be, authorized to superintend the construction of said canal, to examine and ascertain the particular sections to which the said state will be entitled, under the provisions of this act, and report the same to the secretary of the treasury of the United States. Power given to the legisla ture. General as rized to locate Michigan, by 3. That the said state, under the authority of the legislature thereof, after the selection shall have been so made, shall have power to sell and convey the whole, or any part of the said land, and to give a title in fee simple therefor, to whomsoever shall purchase the whole, or any part thereof. [Approved, March 2, 1827.] CHAP. 209. An act to authorize the state of Indiana to locate and make a road therein named. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the general assembly of the state sembly autho- of Indiana shall be, and the same are hereby, authorized to loand make a cate and make a road from lake Michigan, by the way of Indianroad from lake apolis, to some convenient point on the Ohio river, agreeably to the way of In- the second article of a treaty made and concluded near the mouth dianapolis, to of the Mississinowa, upon the Wabash, in the state of Indiana, the sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand the Ohio river. eight hundred and twenty-six, between the commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and warriors of the Potawatamie tribe of Indians; and the said general assembly are some conveni ent point on hereby authorized to apply the strip of land and the sections of land, by said articles ceded to the United States, or the proceeds thereof, to the making of the same; and the said grant shall be at their sole disposal. [Approved, March 2, 1827.] CHAP. 210. An act concerning a seminary of learning in the territory of Arkansas. Vol. iv. p. the treasury the use of an 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the secretary of the treasury be, 2358.2453. and he is hereby, authorized to set apart and reserve from sale, Secretary of out of any of the public lands within the territory of Arkansas, to set apart a to which the Indian title has been, or m be, extinguished, certain quanand not otherwise appropriated, a quantity of land not exceed out of the pubing two entire townships, for the use and support of an uni- lic lands, for versity within the said territory, and for no other use or pur- university. pose whatsoever; to be located in tracts of land of not less than an entire section, corresponding with any of the legal divisions into which the public lands are authorized to be surveyed, one of which said townships, so set apart and reserved from sale, shall be in lieu of an entire township of land directed to be located on the waters of the Arkansas river in said territory, for the use of a seminary of learning therein, by an act of congress, entitled "An act inaking provision for the establishment of additional land offices in the territory of Missouri," approved February the seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. {Approved, March 2, 1827.] CHAP. 212. An act to authorize the importation of brandy, casks of a capacity not less Vol. iv. p. than fifteen gallons, and the exportation of the same for the benefit of a drawback of the 2178. duties. Proviso ; course to be § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the passage of this Brandy to be imported in act, brandy may be imported into the United States, in casks of casks not less a capacity not less than fifteen gallons, any thing in any law to than 15 galls. the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, however, That all the Proviso. provisions of existing laws, not inconsistent with this act, relating to the importation of foreign spirits, be complied with: And provided further, That all brandy imported in casks of a capacity pursued, less than ninety gallons, shall be deposited, at the expense and where the risk of the importer, in such public or other warehouses, as shall ported in be designated by the collector or surveyor, for the port where casks less than 90 galthe same shall be landed, and shall be removed therefrom in the lons. manner prescribed by an act, entitled "An act providing for the deposite of wines and distilled spirits in public warehouses, and for other purposes." same is im 2. That brandy imported in casks of a capacity not less than Where the fifteen gallons, may be exported for the benefit of a drawback of same is imthe duties which shall have been paid thereon; and the exporter casks not less than 15 galor exporters of brandy so imported shall be entitled to receive a l debenture or debentures, for the amount of such drawback, agreeably to the existing laws; and all acts now in force regulating the exportation of spirits, and the allowance and payment of drawbacks and debentures, shall be deemed applicable to brandy, the importation of which is permitted by this act. 3. That this act shall continue in force for the period of Act to continthree years, and no longer. [Approved, March 2, 1827.] ue in force for three years. |