Depredations. Clerks. Miscellaneous. Proviso, giving power to transfer funds, &c. STATUTE II. May 18, 1842. Act of June 18, 1838, ch. 118. 1839, ch. 3. Vol. 2, 273. Times of hold ing said courts in East Ten nessee. see. No. 210. For mail depredations and special agents, twenty-eight thousand dollars. No. 211. For clerks for offices, (i. e. to deputy postmasters,) two hundred thousand dollars. No. 212. For miscellaneous, fifty-eight thousand dollars: Provided, That the President and the Postmaster General shall have the same power to transfer funds from one to another head of appropriation, between the foregoing appropriations, made for the service of the General Post Office, as the President and any other head of an Executive Department now have to transfer funds appropriated under one head to the service of another, in any other branch of the public service. APPROVED, May 18, 1842. CHAP. XXX.—An Act changing the times of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States for the districts of East and West Tennessee.(a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Act of Jan. 18, United States of America in Congress assembled, That the circuit and district courts of the United States for the district of East Tennessee, shall hereafter be held at Knoxville in said district, on the first Mondays in November and May, in each and every year, instead of the times heretofore fixed by law; and that the circuit and district courts for the West Tennes district of West Tennessee shall hereafter be held at Jackson, in said district, on the second Mondays in October and April, in each and every year, instead of the times heretofore fixed by law-the spring terms of said circuit court at Knoxville and Jackson, as herein provided, to be held by the district judge; and should any difficult question of law arise The judge may in any cause, said judge may, at his discretion, adjourn said cause to adjourn a cause. the succeeding term of said court. And all writs, pleas, suits, recognizances, indictments, or other proceedings, civil or criminal, issued, commenced, or pending in either of said courts, shall be returnable to, be entered and have day in court, and be heard and tried according to the times of holding said courts, as herein provided. Rule days to be fixed, and orders made by the courts. 1st sec. act 4th July 1840, ch. 42, repealed. STATUTE II. June 1, 1842. Act of March 10, 1838, ch. 33. The July term now held at Co lumbus to be held at Cincinnati. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That such rule days, for the return of process and the filing of pleadings, may from time to time be fixed, and other orders made by said courts, respectively, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, as may be necessary or proper for the convenience of parties and the advancement of business in said courts; and that the first section of "An act to amend an act, approved the eighteenth of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled 'An act to amend an act entitled an act to require the judge of the district of East and West Tennessee to hold a court at Jackson, in said State,' approved June the eighteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for other purposes," approved July the fourth, eighteen hundred and forty, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. APPROVED, May 18, 1842. CHAP. XXXI.—An Act to amend the act of the tenth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled An act to change the time of holding the circuit and district courts in the district of Ohio. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the term of the circuit and district courts of the United States, in the district of Ohio, now required by law to be held on the first Monday of July, annually, at Columbus, shall hereafter be held at the city of Cincinnati; and all process and recognizances, and other proceedings taken or issued, or made returnable at Columbus, at the said July term next, shall be re (a) See notes to the act of June 18, 1839, chap. 3. turnable at the said term at Cincinnati; and the said district court shall An adjourned term may be held at Cleveland. The court may make the necessary rules. STATUTE II. French vessels coming directly from Cayenne, &c. to pay no higher duties than American vessels. 1828, ch. 49. CHAP. XXXII.-An Act regulating commercial intercourse with the port of Cay- June 1, 1842. enne, in the colony of French Guiana, and to remit certain duties. (a) Bit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the act entitled "An act regulating the commercial intercourse with the islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe," approved on the ninth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, admitting French vessels coming from, and laden with articles, the growth and manufacture of either of the said islands, are hereby extended to the vessels of the same nation coming from the port of Cayenne, in the colony of French Guiana, so as to entitle said vessels coming directly from said port of Cayenne, and laden with articles the growth or manufacture of said colony, which are permitted to be exported therefrom in American vessels, to admission into the ports of the United States, on payment of no higher duties of tonnage, or on their cargoes, as aforesaid, than are imposed on American vessels, and on like cargoes therein imported: Provided, That if the President of the United States shall, at any time, receive satisfactory information that the privileges allowed to American vessels and their cargoes in the said colony of French Guiana by the arretes of its Governor, bearing date the fifth of December, eighteen hundred and thirtyone, and the twenty-eighth of December, eighteen hundred and thirtythree, and by the tariffs and regulations in force in the colony, have been revoked or annulled, he is hereby authorized, by proclamation, to suspend the operations of this act, and withhold all privileges allowed under it. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to refund, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amount of duty, inconsistent with the provisoes of the first section of this act, which, since the arretes, and the tariffs, and regulations referred to in the provisions to the first section of this act, have been in operation in said colony, as may have been levied in the ports of the United States upon any French vessels coming directly from the port of Cayenne, laden with such articles, the growth or manufacture of said colony, which were allowed to be exported therefrom in American vessels. APPROVED, June 1, 1842. CHAP. XXXVIII.-An Act to authorize the collector of the district of Fairfield to reside in either of the towns of Fairfield or Bridgeport. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act entitled "An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage,' approved March second, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, as requires the collector for the district of Fairfield, in the State of Connecticut, to reside in the town of Fairfield, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; (a) See notes of the acts relating to discriminating duties, vol. 4, 2. VOL. V.-62 President au thorized to suspend the operations of this act, when. Certain duties to be refunded. STATUTE II. June 4, 1842. So much of act 2d March 1799, ch. 22, as re quires the col lector to reside at Fairfield, repealed, &c. June 13, 1842. Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 355. and the said collector shall reside in said town of Fairfield, or in the town of Bridgeport, within said district. APPROVED, June 4, 1842. CHAP. XXXIX.—An Act to provide for the settlement of the claim of the State of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be reimbursed and paid to the State of Maine, on the order of the Governor of said State, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, such amount as the Paymaster General of the United States army, and the accounting officers of the Treasury shall ascertain and certify would have been due from the United States to the militia called into the service of the State in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, for the protection of her northeastern frontier, by the Governor, if said militia had been duly called into the service of the United States, and regularly received and mustered by the officers of the United States army, according to the laws and regulations which have governed in the payment of the volunteers and militia of other States. And the Paymaster General and accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and required to include the following claims, presented by said State, viz.: First. The cost of cannon-balls and knapsacks purchased by the State, for the use of the troops called into service, and for defence of the frontier aforesaid: Provided, That said balls and knapsacks shall belong to the United States. Second. The amount paid by the State for transportation of military stores, and of her troops in actual service as aforesaid; Provided, The amount should, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, appear to be reasonable. Third. The pay or compensation allowed by the State to the Paymaster and Commissary General, and other staff officers, while they were respectively employed in making or superintending disbursements for the militia in actual service as aforesaid: Provided, The compensation paid by the State, as aforesaid, shall not exceed that paid by the United States for similar services. Fourth. The sum paid by the State for blankets for the use of her militia while in actual service as aforesaid, or so much thereof as shall appear reasonable. Fifth. The amount of expenditures by said State in necessary repairs of arms used by the militia while in actual service as aforesaid. Provided, That the accounts of the agent employed by the State of Maine to make said payments, be submitted to the Paymaster General and the accounting officers for their inspection. APPROVED, June 13, 1842. CHAP. XL.—An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to carry into effect, in the States of Alabama and Mississippi, the existing compacts with those States with regard to the five per cent. fund and the school reservations." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the second The 2d section section of the act entitled "An act to carry into effect, in the States of of the act amended. Alabama and Mississippi, the existing compacts with those States in regard to the five per cent. fund and the school reservations," as requires the land therein designated as reserved to the State of Mississippi for the use of schools to be selected, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, "out of any public lands, remaining unsold, that shall have been offered at public sale within either of the land districts in said State of Mississippi, contiguous to said lands, within said State," ceded by the Chickasaws, be so amended that the said lands may be selected, under the direction of the Governor of said State of Mississippi, out of any public lands remaining unsold within either of the land districts in said State of Mississippi, contiguous to the lands in said State, ceded by the Chickasaw Indians. APPROVED, June 13, 1842. STATUTE II. CHAP. XLVII.—An Act for the apportionment of Representatives among the several June 25, 1842. States according to the sixth census. (a) House of Re presentatives, how to be composed. Ratio of Re Number of to each State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, the House of Representatives shall be composed of members elected agreeably to a ratio of one Representative for every seventy thousand six hundred and eighty persons in each State, and of one additional representative for each State having a fraction greater than one moiety of the presentation. said ratio, computed according to the rule prescribed by the Constitution of the United States; that is to say: Within the State of Maine, seven; within the State of New Hampshire, four; within the State of Representatives Massachusetts, ten; within the State of Rhode Island, two; within the State of Connecticut, four; within the State of Vermont, four; within the State of New York, thirty-four; within the State of New Jersey, five; within the State of Pennsylvania, twenty-four; within the State of Delaware, one; within the State of Maryland, six; within the State of Virginia, fifteen; within the State of North Carolina, nine; within the State of South Carolina, seven; within the State of Georgia, eight; within the State of Alabama, seven; within the State of Louisiana, four; within the State of Mississippi, four; within the State of Tennessee, eleven; within the State of Kentucky, ten; within the State of Ohio, twenty-one; within the State of Indiana, ten; within the State of Illinois, seven; within the State of Missouri, five; within the State of Arkansas, one; and within the State of Michigan, three. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in every case where a State is entitled to more than one Representative, the number to which each State shall be entitled under this apportionment shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory equal in number to the number of Representatives to which said State may be entitled, no one district electing more than one Representative. APPROVED, June 25, 1842. CHAP. L.-An Act confirming certain land claims in Louisiana. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claims to lands within the land district of New Orleans, being numbers six, seven, eight, nine, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, thirty, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-eight, forty-seven, forty-eight, fifty-seven, fifty-nine, sixty, sixtyone, and sixty-two, of the two reports of the register and receiver of said land district, dated fourteenth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and second of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and made under the provisions of the act of the sixth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, entitled "An act for the final adjustment of claims to lands in the State of Louisiana," be, and the same are Where a State is entitled to more than one representative, the election to be by districts,. &c. STATUTE II. July 6, 1842. Certain land claims in New confirmed. Orleans district (a) See notes of the acts for the apportionment of representatives among the several States, according to the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth census; act of Jan. 11, 1802, chap. 1. Proviso. Appropriation for documents relative to land claims not confirmed. Certain claims in Ouachita dis trict confirmed. Certain other ed. Proviso. hereby, confirmed: Provided, always, That this is only to operate as a quit-claim on the part of the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise disposed of, to be used by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in paying the expenses of a copy of all the documents of record, and offered before the register and receiver of the New Orleans land district, in support of the claims reported upon by them, and which are not confirmed by this act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That claims numbers two, five, eight, nine, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-two, twenty-six, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirtyeight, forty and forty-six, of the report of the register and receiver of the Ouachita land district, in the State of Louisiana, dated the twentyfourth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and made under the provisions of the act of the sixth day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, are hereby confirmed for six hundred and forty acres each. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That numbers one, four, seven, claims confirm fifteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-three, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-seven, and forty-eight of said report, are also confirmed, as recommended by the register and receiver; number three, is confirmed to two thousand acres, number twenty-four to one thousand acres, and number forty-five to two hundred acres: Provided, That this act shall amount only to a relinquishment on the part of the United States, and shall in no manner affect the rights of third persons, and, on the presentation to the Commissioner of the General Land Office of a plat of survey duly approved by the surveyor general of the State of Louisiana, the claimant shall be entitled to a patent. lena, confirmed. 1835, ch. 17. Certain claims SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That claims numbers ten, eighat Greensburg, teen, nineteen, and twenty, of the list reported by the register and reformerly St.Heceiver of the land office at Greensburg, formerly St. Helena, under the provisions of the act of Congress of the sixth day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, entitled "An act for the final adjustment of claims to lands in the State of Louisiana," be, and the same are hereby confirmed; and upon the presentation to the Commissioner of the General Land Office of a plat, approved by the surveyor general of Louisiana, the owner or owners of said claims shall be entitled to a patent. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That claims numbers seven and claims confirm eight of the list mentioned in the preceding section are also confirmed, giving the right to the claimants to locate the same within one year after the passage of this act, on any public lands subject to sale at private entry, in the district where said claims are situated; which location, approved and certified by the surveyor general of Louisiana to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, will entitle said claimants to a patent: Provided, Said claimants shall, previous to making said location, relinquish to the United States their claims to the lands originally claimed by them. Certain other ed. Proviso. Certain claims to land in the the Red river, confirmed. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the claims to land within the district south of Red river, being numbers thirty-three, thirty-five, district south of forty-five, fifty-two, seventy-seven, seventy-nine, eighty-seven, ninetythree, one hundred, one hundred and two, one hundred and three, one hundred and eight, one hundred and twenty-two, one hundred and thirtytwo, one hundred and forty-two, one hundred and forty-seven, one hundred and forty-eight, one hundred and fifty-one, one hundred and fiftytwo, one hundred and fifty-seven, one hundred and fifty-nine, one hundred and sixty, one hundred and sixty-two, one hundred and sixty-three, one hundred and sixty-four, one hundred and sixty-five, one hundred and sixty-six, of the reports of the register and receiver of the land |