been confirmed by this and former acts of Congress, in the staff of the army of the United States," passed April their district, shall be located and surveyed, having re- the fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and the gard to the laws, usages and customs of the Spanish Go- eighth section of the act, entitled "An act to reduce and vernment on that subject, and also the mode adopted by fix the military peace establishment of the United States," the Government of the United States, in surveying the passed March the second, eighteen hundred and twentyclaims confirmed by virtue of the second and third sections one, are hereby continued in force for five years from the of an act of Congress entitled "An act regulating the passing of this act, and thence to the end of the next sesgrants of lands, and providing for the disposal of the sion of Congress thereafter, and no longer. lands of the United States, south of the State of Tennessee," approved the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and three; and that so much of the fourth section of the "Act supplementary to the several acts for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices in the district east of the island of New Orleans," approved the eigthth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, as interferes with the power granted to the register and receiver of the land office at St. Stephens, be, and the same is, hereby, repealed. SECT. 6. And be it further enacted, That certificates of confirmation and patents shall be granted for all lands and town lots confirmed by virtue of the provisions of this act, in the same manner as patents are granted for lands and town lots confirmed under former acts of Congress. SECT. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to make such compensation, not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, in addition to the sum already paid to the present receiver of the land office at St. Stephens, as to him may seem a just and proper equivalent for the services rendered by him in the discharge of the duties under the provisions of an act of Congress passed on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. Approved: 2d March, 1829. AN ACT to provide for the apprehension and delivery of deserters from certain foreign vessels in the ports of the United States. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the better to erable the commissary general of subsistence to carry into effect the provisions of the above specified acts, there be appointed two commissaries, to be taken from the line of the army, one of whom shall have the same rank, pay, and emoluments, as quartermaster; and the other with the rank, pay, and emoluments of assistant quartermaster. Approved: 2d March, 1829. AN ACT for the relief of the Navy Hospital Fund. Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is, appropriated to the navy hospital fund; and that the same be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the requisition of the Commissioners of the said fund, cut of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved: 2d March, 1829. AN ACT for the relief of William Otis. Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and hereby are, authorized and directed to audit and settle, upon principles of justice and equity, the accounts and clains of William Otis, formerly collector of the customs for the district of Barnstable, in the State of Massachusetts; and to satisfy and discharge such amount of principal and interest as may be found due to said Otis, a sum sufficient is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That, before any sum shall be paid to the said William Otis, under the authority of this act, agreeably to the decision of the accounting officers of the treasury, such decision shall receive the sanction and approval of the President of the United States. Approved: 2d March, 1829. Be it enacted, &c. That, on application of a consul or vice consul of any foreign Government, having a treaty with the United States, stipulating for the resteration of seamen deserting, made in writing, stating that the person therein named has deserted from a vessel of any such Government, while in any port of the United States, and AN ACT for the relief of George Wilson, of Pennsylvania. on proof, by the exhibition of the register of the vessel, Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of eight thousand nine ship's roll, or other official document, that the person hundred and sixty-three dollars and eighty-seven and one named belonged, at the time of desertion, to the crew of half cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to said vessel, it shall be the duty of any court, judge, jus- George Wilson, of Pennsylvania, payable out of any motice, or other magistrate, having competent power to is-ney in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being an sue warrants, to cause the said person to be arrested for indemnification for his claim for seventy-one thousand one examination; and if, on examination, the facts stated are hundred and eleven acres of land, held as citizens' rights, found to be true, the person arrested, not being a citizen in the pretended purchases of land from the State of Georof the United States, shall be delivered up to the said con- gia, by the Georgia and Tennessee companies: Provided, sul or vice consul, to be sent back to the dominions of That the said George Wilson shall previously take and any such Government, or, on the request, and at the ex-subscribe the oath required by the third section of the act pense, of the said consul or vice consul, shall be detained passed on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight until the consul or vice consul finds an opportuity to send hundred and fourteen, providing for the indemnification him back to the dominions of any such Government: Pro- of claimants of public lands in the Mississippi Territory, vided, nevertheless, That no person shall be detained more which affidavit, and the transfer of the said George Wilthan two months after his arrest, but at the end of that son of all his claim, to the United States, according to the time shall be set at liberty, and shall not again be molested provisions of the said act, shall be filed in the Department for the same cause: And provided further, That, if any of State, with the transfers, conveyances, and records, such deserter shall be found to have committed any crime returned to that Department, by the commissioners apor offence, his surrender may be delayed until the tribunal pointed under the act supplementary to the act aforsesaid, before which the case shall be depending, or may be cognizable, shall have pronounced its sentence, and such sentence shall have been carried into effect. Approved: 2d March, 1829. AN ACT to continue the present mode of supplying the army of the United States. Be it enacted, &c. That the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth sections of the act, entitled "An act regulating passed on the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen: Provided, That before any pay ment shall be made, under the provisions of this act, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney General, or any two of them, shall certify that this case comes within the class of cases intended to be embraced by the acts of Congress of thirty-first March, 1814, and twenty-third February, 1815; and that it ought in justice to be paid. Approved: 2d March, 1829. Laws of the United States. AN ACT for the relief of John T. Smith and Wilson P. [20th CoNG. 2d SESS. For the annual support of a blacksmith and miller, and for furnishing one hundred and sixty bushels of salt, under Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officers the same treaty, one thousand five hundred and twenty of the Treasury Department be, and they hereby are, au- dollars. For the payment of the permanent annuity under the thorized and instructed to audit and settle the accounts of Alpha Kingsley, late a paymaster in the army of the Unit- fourth article of the treaty with the Miamies of the twened States, on principles of equity and justice; and to ex-ty-third October, one thousand eight hundred and twentytend the benefit of such settlement, if any, to the judg-six, twenty-five thousand dollars. ment obtained against the securities of said Kingsley, in For the delivery of iron, steel, and tobacco, under the the State of Missouri, so far as the same may operate, or les- same treaty, and for the employment of laborers, one sen, or discharge the said judgment, but not to the pay-thousand one hundred dollars. ment of any balance from the United States. Approved: 2d March, 1829. AN ACT for the relief of the heirs of John Gwyn. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to issue to the heirs of John Gwyn, deceased, late a soldier of the revolutionary army, a land warrant for one hundred acres of land; which warrant, when issued, shall be located on any unlocated land, in the manner, and within the time, provided by law for other military warrants for services in the revolutionary army; and a patent shall be granted thereon as in other cases. Approved: 2d March, 1829. For the annual support of the poor and infirm Miamies, and the education of their youth, under the sixth article of said treaty, two thousand dollars. For making good a deficiency in the appropriation to carry into effect the fourth article of the treaty of the second and third June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, with the Osage and Kansas Indians, sixteen thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars and forty cents. For the payment of the sum stipulated in the second article of the agreement entered into with the Winnebago Indians on the twenty-fifth of August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, twenty thousand dollars. For the payment of the permanent annuity stipulated in the second article of the treaty with the Pottawattima Indians of the twentieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, two thousand dollars. For the payment of the limited annuity stipulated in the same article, one thousand dollars. For the purchase of goods and the payment in specie stipulated in said article, including transportation, fortyfive thousand five hundred dollars. AN ACT for the relief of Thomas Griffin. Be it enacted, &c. That Thomas Griffin be, and he is hereby, released from the payment of a debt due to the United States by Thomas Archer, heretofore collector of the customs of the district of Yorktown, in the State of Virginia; and that the Attorney of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia be, and he is hereby, author.. For the expense of farming, and for utensils, specified ized, and required to execute, in the name and behalf of in said article, seven thousand five hundred dollars. the United States, and to cause to be affiled in the Regis- For tobacco, iron, steel, education, annuity to principal try of the District Court of the United States, for the said chief, employment of laborers, and purchase of land grantDistrict, a release of the judgment obtained in behalf of ed to Nancy Burnett, two thousand nine hundred and sixthe United States in said Court, on the sixteenth of May, ty dollars. the one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, against said Thomas Griffin, administrator of Lawrence Gibbons, and of the forthcoming bond, excuted by the said Thomas Griffin, on the levy of the writ of fieri facias founded on the said judgment, and of the cost accruing thereon. Approved: 2d March, 1829. AN ACT for the benefit of the Trustees of the Valley For the payment of claims against the Pottawattimas, stipulated in the third article of said treaty, ten thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars. For expenses of ascertaining the value of property belonging to the missionary establishment, the removal of which is provided for in the fifth article of the said treaty, three hundred dollars. For compensation to Cherokee Indians emigrating from within the chartered limits of the State of Georgia, in purBe it enacted, &c. That the Trustees of the Valley Creek suance of the provisions of the treaty of the sixth of May, Academy, in the State of Alabama, be, and they are here- one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, with the by, authorized to enter with the Register of the Cahawba Cherokees of Arkansas, upon the supposition that five land district, in said State, the northwest quarter of sec-hundred may emigrate within the year, that is to say: For tion number twenty-six, in township number eighteen, rifles, including a balance due on rifles purchased last range number ten; and upon paying to the Receiver of Pub-year; for blankets, for brass kettles, and for tobacco, ten lic Moneys for the said district, at the rate of one dollar and thousand seven hundred and twenty-four dollars and setwenty-five cents an acre, the said Trustees shall be enti-venty-five cents. tled to receive a patent for the said quarter section, vesting the title to the same in them and their successors for AN ACT making appropriations for carrying into effect certain treaties with the Indian tribes, and for holding a treaty with the Pattawattimas. "Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, viz: For the annual support of a school for the education of Indian youth, under the treaty of the fifth August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, with the Chippewas, one thousand dollars. For the payment of the annuity to the Pattawattimas, under the treaty of the sixteenth October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, two thousand dollars. For fulfilling the stipulations of the same treaty in gard to education, two thousand dollars. For expense of transportation of those articles, two thousand dollars. For payment for property which may be abandoned by Cherokees emigrating from Georgia, five thousand dollars. For expense of emigration, being ten dollars per head, five thousand dollars. For one year's provisions for emigrants, fifteen thousand dollars. For gratuity of ten dollars to each emigrant, as per eighth article of the treaty, five thousand dollars. For compensation of appraisers of property abandoned by emigrants, as provided in eighth article of said treaty, and of such other persons as it may be necessary to employ in executing the provisions of said article, six thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation for improvements which may be abandoned by the Cherokees of Arkansas, as is provided in the re-fourth article of said treaty, estimating for one thousand heads of families, thirty-seven thousand dollars. AN ACT making appropriations for the Public Buildings, and other purposes. Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be appropriated and paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes, respectively, to wit: For repairs and other work necessary to be done, on and about the capitol and its enclosures, eighteen thousand seven hundred and sixty-two dollars and sixty-three cents. For crecting fourteen additional lamps, in or around capitol square, two hundred and ten dollars. For keeping lighted twenty-four lamps in or around said square, six hundred and five dollars. For erecting an iron rail fence, and central gate, on that part of the public ground, west of the capitol, which adjoins the circular walk, twenty-eight hundred dollars. To complete the north front of the President's house, according to the original plan, by erecting a portico, twenty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents. For work to be done on and about the Pressident's house and enclosures, six thousand three hundred and sixty-one dollars and eighty-six cents. For furnishing the President's house, under the direction of the President of the United States, fourteen thousand dollars. For the purchase and enclosure of the square numbered two hundred and forty-nine, on the plan of the city, eight thousand dollars. Isle bay, Pennsylvania, seven thousand three hundred and ninety dollars and twenty-five cents. For completing the erection of piers at the mouth of Dunkirk harbor, in the State of New York, nine thousand eight hundred and twelve dollars and seventy-five cents. For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Ashtabula creek, Ohio, six thousand nine hundred and forty dollars and twenty-five cents. For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Cunningham creek, Ohio, two thousand nine hundred and fifty-six dollars. For improving Cleveland harbor, Ohio, twelve thousand one hundred and seventy-nine dollars. For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Huron river, Ohio, five thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars. For completing a pier at La Plaisance bay, Michigan territory, two thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars. For continuing to improve the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, fifty thousand dollars. For removing obstructions in the Savannah river, below the city of Savannah, in Georgia, being a balance of appropriations carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twentyeight, twenty-four thousand four hundred and ninety dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved: 3d March, 1829. AN ACT for the preservation and repair of the Cumber land Road. Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby granted, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropri ated, to the purpose of repairing bridges, walls, and other works, on the Cumberland road, east of Wheeling, where the same may be necessary, in the judgment of the superintendent, for the purpose of putting the said road in reTo enable the President of the United States to contract pair; and the said superintendent shall be appointed by with Liugi Persico, to execute two statues, in front of the the President of the United States, and shall receive the capitol, four thousand dollars. For repairs and expenses of the fire apparatus of the Columbia and Franklin Engine Companies, six hundred and forty dollars. same compensation as the superintendent of the said road For balance of compensation to N. Gevelot, for sculp-west of Wheeling. ture in the capitol, seven hundred and fifty dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized to continue in office the architect of the capitol, as long as may be necessary for the execution of the work to be done upon the capitol under the first section of this act, at his present rate of compensation. Approved: 3d March, 1829. AN ACT to authorize the President of the United States to cause the reserved Salt Springs, in the State of Missouri, to be exposed to public sale. Be it enacted, &c. That the President be, and he hereby is, authorized, at any time that he shall think proper, to SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the commission-cause the reserved salt springs and contiguous lands, in er of public buildings annually make to Congress, at the the state of Missouri, belonging to the United States, and commencement of the session, a report of the manner in unclaimed by individuals, to be exposed to sale, in the which all appropriations for the public buildings and same manner that other public lands are authorized by law grounds have been applied; of the number of public lots sold or remaining unsold each year; of the condition of the public buildings and public grounds, and of the measures necessary to be taken for the preservation and care of the public property. Approved: 3d March, 1829. to be sold. Approved: 3d March, 1829. AN ACT to authorize the President of the United States to cause the reserved Lead Mines, in the State of Missouri, to be exposed to public sale, and for other pur poses. Be it enacted, &c. That the President be, and he hereby AN ACT making additional appropriations for completing and repairing piers, for the improvement of certain har-is, authorized, at any time that he shall think proper, to bors, and of the navigation of certain rivers. Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit: For repairing the damages sustained by the piers under construction at the mouth of Oswego river, from a severe gale in October last, seven thousand four hundred and seventy-two dollars. For closing the breach made in the peninsula at Presque cause the reserved lead mines and contiguous lands, in the state of Missouri, belonging to the United States, and unclaimed by individuals, to be exposed to sale, in the same manner that other public lands are authorized by law to be sold, except as hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted That six months' notice, at least, of the times and places of the said sales, shall be given, in such newspapers of general circulation, in Laws of the United States. such of the States as the President may think expedient, with a brief description of the mineral region in Missouri, and of the lands to be offered for sale, showing the number and the localities of the different mines now known, the probability of discovering others, the quality of the ore, the facilities for working it, the further facilities, if any, for manufactories of shot, sheet lead, and paints, and the means and expense of transporting the whole to the principal markets in the United States. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in all cases of confirmation or sales of lands in Missouri, reported to contain lead ore, the patent shall be issued to the person in whose favor the confirmation has been made, or to the purchaser from the United States, or their heirs or assignees, as in ordinary cases of confirmation or sales. Approved: 3d March, 1829. AN ACT to incorporate the Washington, Alexandria, and [20th CoNG. 2d SESS. seal, at all elections in virtue of this act; and shall have as many votes as he shall have shares. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That a general meeting of stockholders of the said company shall be holden on the first Monday of January next, after the passing of this act, and on the first Monday of January in every year thereafter, at such place within the District of Columbia as the president and directors shall appoint, by giving two weeks' notice in one or more of the newspapers of the District, for the purpose of electing directors for the ensuing year; who shall meet speedily after their election and choose a president; and the president and directors for the time being shall continue in office until others shall be duly elected in their places, and be organized, by the assembling of a quorum, and the choice of a President. At all elections, the persons having the greatest number of votes shall be deemed to be chosen. All elections shall be held under the superintendence of the president of the company for the time being, and four stockholders, not Be it enacted, &c. That from and after the passing of this being at the time directors, appointed by the board of act, all those persons who have already associated and directors, any three of whom shall be the judges thereof; formed, or may hereafter join, a company or limited part- and who shall, immediately thereafter, notify the persons nership, under the name and title of the Washington, Alex- elected, and make a return thereof to the directors, at andria, and Baltimore Steam Packet Company, and their their first meeting. Should two or more persons have the successors, shall be, and they are hereby, incorporated and same number of votes, the other individuals elected direcmade a body corporate and politic, by the name and style tors shall determine, by ballot, from among said persons, of the Washington, Alexandria, and Georgetown, Steam who shall be the director or directors. Packet Company; and, as such, shall continue until the be opened at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and close at first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and for three in the afternoon. ty-nine; and, by that name, may sue and be sued, implead SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the President and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and and Directors shall have full power to make, revise, alter be defended, in courts of records, and any other place for the government of the said corporation, and that of its and annul, all such rules, orders, by-laws, and regulations, whatsoever; and by that name may have and hold, pur-officers, servants and affairs, as they shall, from time to chase, receive, possess, enjoy, and retain, lands, rents, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, and effects, of time, think expedient; and to use, employ, and dispose of what nature, kind, or quality, soever, necessary for the the funds and property of the said company, for the interobjects of this incorporation; and the same may sell, grant, est and benefit of the stockholders, and agreeably to the dem ise, alien, and dispose of; and by that name shall have, objects of the said incorporation. duri ng the continuance of this act, succession; and may make, have, and use, a common seal, and the same may break, alter, and renew, at pleasure; and shall have pow. er to ordain, establish, and put in execution such by-laws, ordinances, and regulations, as shall seem necessary and convenient for the government of the said corporation, not being contrary to law, nor the constitution thereof; and, generally, to do and to execute all acts necessary or proper for the objects of said incorporation, subject to the rules, regulations, restrictions, limitations, and provi sions, herein described and declared. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the capital stock of the said company shall consist of not exceeding seventyfive thousand dollars, money of the United States, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. All elections shall SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the books, correspondence, and papers, of the company, shall, at all times, be subject to the inspection of the Directors. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the President and Directors shall have power to appoint all officers or servants requisite for executing the business of the said company, and to establish the compensation to be made to the President and to the other officers or servants of the said company, respectively; but no compensation shall be given to a Director for his services, except by a vote of the stockholders, in a general meeting. and Directors shall have power to call a general meeting SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the President of the stockholders, for the purposes concerning the interests of the company, giving at least two weeks' notice in one or more newspapers of the District. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the affairs of the SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the shares of said company shall be conducted by four Directors and a the capital stock, at any time owned by any individual President, whose place, if chosen from among their num- stockholder, shall be transferable only on the books of ber, shall be supplied by that body. Two of the directors, the company, according to such rules as may, conformawith the president, shall form a board or quorum, for trans-bly to law, be established in that behalf, by the President acting all the business of the company. In case of the and Directors; but all debts actually due to the company sickness of the president, or his necessary absence, his by a stockholder, requesting a transfer, must be satisfied place may be supplied by any director whom he, by writ- before such transfer shall be made. ing, under his hand, may nominate for that purpose; or, in case of his not making such nomination, the board may appoint a president, to act during his sickness or absence. The president and directors who may be in office at the time of the passage of this act, shall continue in office, under and by virtue of this act of incorporation, until others shall be duly chosen in their stead. No person shall be a director or president, who is not a stockholder; and a director ceasing to be a stockholder, shall cease to be a director. Every stockholder shall be entitled to vote, by himself, his agent, or proxy appointed under his hand and SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, 'That the dividends of the profits of the company, or so much of said profits as shall be deemed expedient and proper, shall be declared half yearly, in the second week in January and July, in each year; the amount of said dividend to be, from time to time, determined by the President and Directors, and in no case to exceed the amount of the net profits actually acquired by the company, so that the capital stock of said company shall never be impaired by dividends. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That, if the said Directors, shall, at any time, wilfully and knowingly, make Or declare any dividend which shall impair the said capital been made to the commissioner, under the act of Con stock, all the Directors present at the making or declar-gress of the 9th April, one thousand eight hundred and ing of said dividend, and consenting thereto, shall be liable, sixteen. The sum found due, if any thing, by the Third in their individual capacities, to the company, for the Auditor, under this act, and the acts referred to, to be amount or proportion of said capital stock, so divided by paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise apthe said Directors; and each Director who shall be present propriated. ́ at the making or declaring of such dividend, shall be Approved: 3d March, 1829. deemed to have consented thereto, unless he shall immediately enter, in writing, his dissent, on the minutes of the proceedings of the board. AN ACT for the relief of Samuel Chesnut. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That if any vacancy pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise apshall, at any time, happen among the Directors, by death, propriated, to Samuel Chesnut, the sum of eighty-five resignation, or otherwise, the rest of the Directors, for dollars, the value of a horse lost by him while in the mithe time being, shall elect a Director to fill the vacancy.litary service of the United States, during the late war, by SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That in case it reason of his being dismounted by order of Gov. Shelby, should, at any time, happen that an election of Directors at Portage river, while on an expedition to Canada. should not be made on any day when pursuant to this act it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not, for that cause, be deemed to be dissolved; but it shall be lawful, on any other day, to hold and make an election of Directors at a meeting to be called in such manner as shall be prescribed by the laws and ordinances of said corpora tion. Approved: 3d March, 1829. AN ACT providing for ceding to the State of South Carolina the jurisdiction over, and the title to, a certain tract of land, called Mount Dearborn, in the said State. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to appoint a commissioner, to meet such commissioner as may be appointed on the part of the State of South Carolina, to assess the value of a tract of land on the Catawba river, at or near Rocky Mount, (and commonly known as Mount Dearborn,) or so much thereof as in the opinion of the superintendent of public works in South Carolina may be important or necessary for the completion or preservation of the public works of said State and if said commissioners shall disagree as to the value of said land, they are hereby authorized to choose, jointly, a third commissioner, the assessment and valuation of any two of whom, when certified under their hands and seals, shall be conclusive. SEC. 2. And be it fu ther enacted, That so scon as the State of South Carolina shall pay into the Treasury of the United States the amount of such valuation, the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to convey to the State of South Carolina, all the right and title of the United States in or to said land so assessed; and from and after the execution of said conveyance, the jurisdiction of the United States over the soil so conveyed, be, and the same is hereby, retroceded to the State of South Carolina. Approved: 3d March, 1829. Approved: 3d March, 1829. AN ACT for the relief of the representatives of James A. Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the legal representatives of James A. Harper, deceased, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the Sum of two hundred fifty-two dollars, and ninety-three cents, for money expended by the said Harper, in the recruiting service of the United States during the late war, and which is now due to said representatives, as it appears by a statement from the Treasury Department. Approved: 3d March, 1829. AN ACT for the relief of Thomas Hunt. Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officers pay unto Thomas Hunt, or his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and five dollars and sixty-seven cents, in full for his pay and subsistence as an adjutant, with the pay and rank of a lieutenant, from the 21st of July, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, to thirtieth April, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen. Approved: 3d March, 1829. AN ACT for the relief of William R. Maddox. Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officers pay unto William R. Maddox, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and four dollars and fifty-three cents, being in full for the balance of the price of sixty-seven thousand eight hundred and eighty-three bricks, delivered at the capitol for the use of the United States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty. Approved: 3d March, 1829. AN ACT for the relief of Joshua Foltz. AN ACT for the relief of Charles A. Burnett. Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officers Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to setpay to Charles A. Burnett, out of any money in the Trea- tle and adjust the account of Joshua Foltz, and to allow sury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty-nine dol-him for ten months' services as a wagoner in the revolu lars sixty-one and a half cents, the balance duc him for tionary war; to be paid out of any money in the treasury work done, and articles furnished for the President's not otherwise appropriated. House, during the administration of James Monroe. Approved: 3d March, 1829. AN ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of John Guest, deceased. Approved: 3d March, 1829. AN ACT concerning the government and discipline of the Penitentiary in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted, &c. That the Penitentiary erected in Be it enacted, &c. That the Third Auditor of the Treasury the city of Washington, in pursuance of "An act to proDepartment is hereby authorized to settle and adjust the vide for erecting a Penitentiary in the District of Colum claim of the legal representatives of John Guest, deceased, bia, and for other purposes," passed twentieth May, for a frame house and brick office, burnt in the town of Havre eighteen hundred and twenty-six, shall be designated and de Grace, in the State of Maryland, in the year one thou-known as the Penitentiary for the District of Columbia, sand eight hundred and thirteen, by the British, upon the and shall be exclusively appropriated to the confining such principles of the act of third March, one thousand eight persons as may be convicted of offences which now are, undred and twenty-five, the same as if application had or may hereafter be, punishable with imprisonment and |