Public Acts of Congress. vessel shall be unjustly or unreasonably hindered or delayed, or shall be damaged in her hull, spars, or rigging, in passing the said draw, the said company shall be liable to the master or the owner or owners of such ship or vessel, for damages, at the rate of six cents per ton of such ship or vessel, for each and every hour such ship or vessel shall be hindered or delayed, and for all damages in her hull, spars, and rigging, as aforesaid, to be ascertained and recovered in a special action on the case, in any court of competent jurisdiction; and the said company shall constantly keep the said bridge furnished with twenty good lamps, to be well supplied with oil, and lighted in due season, four of which lamps shall be kept at the said draw, and kept burning through the night, and the others shall be kept burning until the hour of twelve at night, under the penalty of five dollars for each offence, to be recovered by warrant before any justice of the peace, having jurisdiction, by such person or persons as shall sue for the same. And it shall be lawful for the said company to cause each leaf of the said draw to be made of the width of twenty feet, instead of thirty-six feet, the width of the said bridge; and if at any time hereafter the channel under the said principal draw of thirty-five feet shall change and shift to and under any other part of said bridge, then it shall be the duty of said company at all times to remove the former and keep a good and sufficient draw of thirty-five feet in width over the main and principal channel, wherever the same shall pass under the said bridge: Provided, That the same shall appear necessary, on a survey to be made by three commissioners, to be appointed for that purpose by the President of the United States. amount of each share shall be paid by instalments to hoist or remove the said draw, any ship or of ten dollars, at such time as the said company shall direct; and in case any instalment or instalments shall not be paid at the time appointed by the said company, or within ten days thereafter, the same may be recovered, in the name of the said company, by warrant from a justice of the peace, if the amount due shall not exceed twenty dollars; and if the sum so due shall exceed twenty dollars, the same may be recovered by motion, in the name of the said company, on ten days' notice, in any court of record in the county or district, where the debtor shall be found; and in all such warrants and motions, the certificate of the clerk of the said company, authenticated by the president, under the common seal of the said company, shall be conclusive evidence of the defendant's being a member of the company, and prima facie evidence of the amount due on the shares held by such defendant. And if such instalments be not paid within sixty days, after the time limited for the payment of the same, and advertised for four weeks successively, in one or more gazettes, published in Washington, Alexandria, or Georgetown, the president and directors of the said company may proceed to forfeit, for the use of the company, the share or shares of the person or persons so failing to pay. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the said company be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to erect and build, or to cause to be erected and built, over the river Potomac, between the termination of Maryland avenue and Alexander's island, a good and sufficient bridge, at least thirty-six feet wide, of sound and suitable materials, and in all respects adequate for the passage of travellers, horses, cattle, and carriages, with a secure railing on each side, at least four feet high; of which width, six feet on one side shall be appropriated to the purpose of a way for foot passengers, and shall be separated from the carriage-way by a good and sufficient railing, at least four feet high. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the said company shall, in like manner, cause a draw or passage-way, at least fifteen feet wide, to be made in the said bridge, across the other channel of the said river, near the eastern shore, commonly called the Maryland channel, subject to all the restrictions, penalties, and provisions, contained in the last preceding section, for keeping and maintaining the draw or passage-way over the main channel of the said river, except so far as respects the building of wharves on each side thereof: Provided, That the same shall appear necessary, on a view and survey thereof, by three commissioners, to be appointed for that purpose by the President of the United States. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the said company shall cause to be built, and kept and maintained in good repair, a convenient and sufficient draw or passage-way, at least thirty-five feet wide, in the said bridge, over the main channel of the river, for the passing and re-passing of vessels, by day and by night; and shall also cause to be built, and to be kept and maintained in good repair, a well constructed and substantial wharf, erected on piles, on each side of the said bridge, and adjoining or near to the said draw, in every SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That as respect sufficient for ships and other vessels to soon as the said bridge and wharves shall be erectlie at securely; and all ships, waiting for a pas-ed and built, and furnished and completed, as resage through the said draw, may lie at such wharves, free of charge, until a suitable opportunity offers of passing through the said draw; and the said company shall, at their own cost, and without toll, cause the said draw or passage-a quarter; for each person and a horse, eighteen way to be hoisted or removed, without delay, for the passage of all ships and vessels with masts. that are unable to pass under the same; and if, through the unskilfulness or negligence of the person or persons employed by the said company, quired by this act, the said company shall be entitled to demand and receive, by their proper agents, servants, or officers, tolls at the following rates, viz: For each foot passenger six cents and cents and three quarters of a cent; for each chaise, sulky, or riding chair, thirty-seven cents and a half; for each coach, coachee, stage-wagon, chariot, phaeton or curricle, or other riding carriage, one hundred cents, and the further sum of twelve Public Acts of Congress. pair, to be recovered in an action or actions of trespass on the case, in any court competent to try the same. SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That the toll to be taken at the said bridge shall be receivable by the said corporation, for and during the termof sixty years, to commence from the day when the said bridge shall be opened for passengers; after which time the said bridge shall be the property of the United States, and the said corporation be dissolved. Approved, February 5, 1808. An Act to erect a light-house on Point Judith, in the State of Rhode Island. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to cause a good and sufficient lighthouse to be erected on Point Judith, in the State of Rhode Island, and to appoint the keeper of the said light-house, under the direction of the President of the United States, and otherwise to provide for such light-house at the expense of the United States: Provided, That sufficient land for accommodation of such light-house can be obtained, at a reasonable price, and the Legislature of Rhode Island shall cede the jurisdiction over the same to the United States. And the sum, not exceeding five thousand dollars, is hereby appropriated for the purpose of defraying the expense of erecting the said light-house; to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appro cents and a half for each horse, more than SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the said light-house to be so constructed that the light, on being discovered, may with certainty be distinguished from that of the other light-houses, heretofore erected in its neighborhood. Approved, February 10, 1808. An Act making appropriations for the support of Government, during the year one thousand eight hundred and eight. Be it enacted, &c., That, for the expenditures of the civil list, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, including the contingent expenses of the several departments and offices; for the compensation of the several loan officers and their clerks, and for books and stationery for the same; for the payment of annuities and grants; for the support of the mint establishment; for the expenses of intercourse with foreign nations; for the support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers; for defraying the expenses of surveying the public lands, and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims, the following sums be, and the same hereby are, respectively appropriated, that is to say: SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said corporation, as long as they shall be entitled to receive toll at the said bridge, to keep the same in good repair; and if, in neglect of their said duty, the said corporation shall at any time suffer the said bridge to be out of repair, so as to be unsafe or inconvenient for passengers, the said corporation shall be liable to be presented for such neglect, before any court of competent jurisdiction, and upon conviction there- For compensation granted by law to the memof, to pay to the United States a penalty not ex-bers of the Senate and House of Representatives, ceeding five hundred dollars, at the discretion of their officers and attendants, estimated for a sesthe court; and shall also be responsible for all sion of four months and a half continuance, two damages which may be sustained by any person hundred and one thousand four hundred and or persons in consequence of such a want of re- twenty-five dollars. Public Acts of Congress. For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, twenty-nine thousand two hundred dollars. For all contingent expenses of the Library of Congress, and the Librarian's allowance, for the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, eight hundred dollars. For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars. For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks, and persons employed in that department, thirteen thousand dollars. For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, four thousand two hundred dollars. For printing and distributing copies of the laws of the first session of the tenth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For special messengers charged with despatches, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars. For the expense of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in receiving and transmitting passports and sea letters, stationery, and printing, one thousand dollars. For compensation to the Comptroller of the Treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand nine hundred and seventyseven dollars. For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses of the Comptroller's office, eight hundred dollars. For compensation to the Auditor of the Treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars. For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the office of the Auditor of the Treasury, five hundred dollars. For compensation to the Treasurer, clerks, and persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-five cents. For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the Treasurer's office, three hundred dollars. For compensation to the Register of the Treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty-two dollars and two cents. For expense of stationery and printing in the Register's office, (including books for the public stocks, and for the arrangement of the marine papers,) two thousand eight hundred dollars. For purchasing books, maps, and charts, for the use of the Treasury Department, four hundred dollars. For fuel and other contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, four thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses of stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, one thousand two hundred dollars. For compensation to a Superintendent employed to secure the buildings and records of the Treasury, during the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, including the expense of two watchmen, and for the repair of two fire engines, buckets, lanterns, and other incidental expenses, one thousand one hundred dollars. For compensation to the Secretary of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, two hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks, and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, one thousand dollars. For compensation to the Accountant of the War Department, clerks, and persons employed in his office, ten thousand nine hundred and ten dollars. For contingent expenses in the office of the Accountant of the War Department, one thousand dollars. For compensation to clerks employed in the Paymaster's office, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For fuel in the said office, ninety dollars. For compensation to the Purveyor of Public Supplies, clerks, and persons employed in his office, and for expense of stationery, store rent, and fuel for the said office, four thousand six hundred dollars. For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks, and persons employed in his office, nine thousand eight hundred and ten dollars. For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the Seeretary of the Navy, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the Accountant of the Navy, clerks, and persons employed in his office, ten thousand four hundred and ten dollars. For contingent expenses in the office of the Accountant of the Navy, five hundred dollars. For compensation to the Postmaster General, to the Assistant Postmaster General, clerks, and persons employed in the Postmaster General'soffice, sixteen thousand dollars. For expense of fuel, candles, house rent for the messenger, stationery, chests, &c., two thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the several Loan Officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the clerks of the several Commissioners of Loans, and for an allowance to certain Loan Officers in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expenses of several Loan Officers, fifteen thousand dollars. For compensation to the Surveyor General, and for his clerks, three thousand two hundred dollars. For compensation to the Surveyor of lands south of the State of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, stationery, and other contingencies, three thousand two hundred dollars. Public Acts of Congress. For compensation to the officers of the Mint: The Director, two thousand dollars. The Treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars. The Assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars. The Chief Coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars. The Melter and Refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars. The Engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars. One clerk, at seven hundred dollars. United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the Treasury, two thousand dollars. For additional compensation to the clerks of the several Departments of State, Treasury, War, and Navy, and of the General Post Office, not exceeding for each Department, respectively, fifteen per centum, in addition to the sums allowed by the act, entitled "An act to regulate and fix the compensation of clerks, and to authorize the laying out certain public roads, and for other purposes," thirteen thousand two hundred and sixtynine dollars and thirty-three cents. And two clerks, at five hundred dollars each. For the wages of persons employed in the different branches of melting, coining, carpenters', For compensation granted by law to the Chief millwrights', and smiths' work, including the sum Justice, Associate Judges, and District Judges of of one thousand dollars per annum, allowed to the United States, including the Chief Justice an assistant coiner and die forger, who also over- and two Associate Judges of the District of Cosees the execution of the iron works, eight thou-lumbia; to the Attorney General, and to the Dissand and fifty dollars. trict Judge of the Territory of Orleans, fifty-nine thousand four hundred dollars. For the repairs of furnaces, cost of rollers and screws, timber, bar iron, lead, steel, potash, and for all other contingencies of the Mint, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the Governor, Judges, and Secretary of the Territory of Orleans, thirteen thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses of the Executive officers of the said Territory, and for express hire and compensation of an Indian interpreter, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the Governor, Judges, and Secretary of the Mississippi Territory, including additional compensation allowed the Judges for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, nine thousand four hundred dollars. For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in said Territory, including a deficiency in the appropriation for these objects in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, six hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the Governor, Judges, and Secretary of the Indiana Territory, including additional compensation allowed to the Judges for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the Governor, Judges, and Secretary of the Michigan Territory, including additional compensation allowed to the Judges for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of the said Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the Governor, Judges, and Secretary of the Louisiana Territory, including additional compensation allowed to the Judges for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of the said Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For the discharge of such demands against the For the like compensation granted to the seve ral District Attorneys of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars. For compensation to the Marshals of the Districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Kentucky, Ohio, East and West Tennessee, and Orleans, one thousand six hundred dollars. For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, Circuit, and District Courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures, and penalties, and likewise for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars. For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late Government, eight hundred and sixty dollars. For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and nine, ninety-eight thousand dollars. For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, stakeages of channels, bars, and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, including repairs and raising Newport light-house, eighty-five thousand dollars. For erecting light-houses at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and at or near the pitch of Cape Lookout, in North Carolina, a former appropriation of twenty thousand dollars for those objects having been carried to the surplus fund, twenty thousand dollars. For erecting a light-house on the south point of Cumberland island, in the State of Georgia, a former appropriation of four thousand dollars for that object having been carried to the surplus fund, four thousand dollars. For erecting a light-house on Cape Hatteras, and beacon on Shellcastle Island, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for those objects, one thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-four cents. Public Acts of Congress. For erecting the following light-houses in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for them respectively, that is to say: For erecting a light-house on New Point Comfort, in Virginia, one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twenty cents. For erecting light-houses on Long Island Sound, one thousand dollars. For erecting a light-house on Wood Island or Fletcher's neck, one hundred dollars. For ereeting a double light-house at or near Chatham harbor, on the back of Cape Cod, two thousand dollars. For placing buoys and beacons in or near the rocks and shoals in the channel leading into the harbor of Salem, in Massachusetts, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, five thousand dollars. For the expenses of the Boards formed in the Territories of Orleans and Louisiana, for investigating and adjusting titles and claims to land, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, thirty-three thousand three hundred dollars. For carrying on the surveys of the public lands in the several Territories, twenty-one thousand one hundred and seventy-four dollars. For the contingent expenses of Government, the balance of former appropriations for that object having been carried to the surplus fund, twenty thousand dollars. For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, thirty-three thousand and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, twenty thousand dollars. For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, fifty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, fifty thousand dollars. For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, five thousand dollars. For expenses of prosecuting claims in relation to captures, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the Treasury, four thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by an act making provision for the debt of the United States, and out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 10, 1808. An Act making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and eight. Be it enacted, &c., That, for defraying the expenses of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, the following sums be, and the same hereby are, respectively appropriated, that is to say: For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, three hundred and sixty-eight thousand and forty-eight dollars. For provisions, one hundred and sixty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and ten cents. For medicines, instruments, and hospital stores, five thousand dollars. For repairs of vessels, one hundred and ninetyfive thousand dollars. For freight, store rent, commissions to agents, and other contingent expenses, seventy-five thousand dollars. For pay and subsistence of the Marine Corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, one hundred and sixty thousand one hundred and thirty-one dollars and ninety cents. For clothing for the same, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty cents. For military stores for the same, nine thousand six hundred and fifty-four dollars. For medicine, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick belonging to the Marine Corps, two thousand dollars. For quartermasters' and barrackmasters' stores, officers' travelling expenses, armorers' and carpenters' bills, fuel, premiums for enlisting, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses, fourteen thousand and thirty-five dollars. For the expense of navy yards, comprising docks and other improvements, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks, and laborers, sixty thousand dollars. For ordnance, fifty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums herein specifically appropriated shail be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 10, 1808. And to An Act to revive and continue certain causes and proceedings in the District Court of the District of Columbia. Be it enacted, &c., That all causes, suits, actions, writs, process, and proceedings, which were pending in the district court of the District of Columbia at the time appointed by law for holding a session thereof, on the first Tuesday of October last past, or which were returnable to the session of the said court, which ought to have been holden on the first Tuesday of October, shall be, and the same are hereby, revived, reinstated. and continued over to the next stated session of the said court, to be holden on the first Tuesday of April next, in the same manner and condition, and the same further proceedings may be had therein, as if a session of the said court had been, on the said first Tuesday of October, holden according to law, and as if a regular continuance of all the said causes, suits, actions, writs, process, and proceedings, had been duly entered upon the records of the said court. Approved, February 10, 1808. |