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An Act for erecting a light-house on the south point of the island of Sapelo, and for placing buoys and beacons in the shoals of the inlet leading to the town of Darien, and near the entrance of Ipswich harbor, near Plymouth harbor, before the harbor of Nantucket, and on the island of Tuckanuck, at or near the entrance of Connecticut river, and near the entrance of Great Egg Harbor river.

Be it enacted, &c., That as soon as the jurisdiction of so much of the head land of the south point of the island of Sapelo, in the State of Georgia, as the President of the United States shall deem sufficient for the purpose of erecting a light-house and its appurtenances, shall have been ceded to the United States, provided the said land can be obtained at a reasonable price, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to provide by contract, which shall be approved by the President of the United States, for building a lighthouse thereon, and furnishing the same with all necessary supplies, and also to agree for the salaries or wages of the person or persons who may be appointed, by the President, for the superintendence and care of building the said light-house. And the President is hereby authorized to make the said appointment.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be further authorized and directed to cause to be placed four buoys on the shoals called the South and North banks of the harbor, or entrance, of the inlet leading to the town of Darien.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be erected and placed beacons and buoys at the following places, to wit: two beacons and three buoys near the entrance of Ipswich harbor; three buoys, one on Gurnet rock, one on Boss rock, and one on Deck's flats, and two beacons on the stony muscle bed, near Plymouth harbor; three additional buoys before the harbor of Nantucket, and a buoy or leading mark on the island of Tuckanuck, in the State of Massachusetts; three buoys at or near the entrance of Connecticut river, and three buoys to be placed at or near the entrance of Great Egg Harbor river, in

the State of New Jersey.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appropriated and paid out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum not exceeding eleven thousand five hundred dollars, for the purposes aforesaid. Approved, March 17, 1808.

An Act extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of War be authorized to issue military land warrants to such persons as have, or shall, before the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten, produce to him satisfactory evidence of the validity of their claims; which warrants, with those heretofore issued and not yet satisfied, shall and may be located in the names of the holders or proprietors thereof, prior to the first day of October,

one thousand eight hundred and ten, on any unlocated parts of the fifty quarter townships and the fractional quarter townships reserved by law for original holders of military land warrants. Approved, March 21, 1808.

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An Act to amend the act, entitled "An act establishing Circuit Courts, and abridging the jurisdiction of the District Courts of the districts of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio."

Be it enacted, &c., That so much of the second section of the act, entitled "An act establishing circuit courts, and abridging the jurisdiction of the district courts of the districts of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio," passed the twenty-fourth day of February, eighteen hundred and seven, constituting the State of Tennessee one district, for the purpose of holding circuit courts therein, shall be, and is hereby repealed; and from and after the passage of this act, the State of Tennessee shall be divided into two districts, for the purpose of holding circuit courts therein, and the limits of the said districts shall be the same as those now prescribed for the districts of East and West Tennessee. in and by the fourth section of the above recited act; and there shall be holden annually, in each of the said two districts, one cir cuit court, to consist of one justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and the district judge of the said district of East and West Tennessee; and the sessions of the said courts shall be held in each of the said districts, at Nashville on the second Monday in June, and at Knoxville on the third Monday in October annually; and that all actions, causes, pleas, processes, and other proceedings relative to any cause, civil or criminal. which shall be returnable to or depending in the said circuit court of the United States, to be held at Nashville on the first Monday of June next, shall be returned, and held continued to, and be proceeded upon, on the second Monday in June next, in the same manner they would have been if this change had not taken place.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That where any suit or suits has or have been brought, or is or are now pending before the circuit court held at Knoxville, in and for the district of East Tennessee, against a person residing in said district of East Tennessee, such suit or suits shall be proceeded upon, and finally determined in the dis trict of East Tennessee; and where any suit or suits has or have been brought, or is or are now pending before the circuit court held at Nashville, in and for the district of West Tennessee, against a person residing in the said district of West Tennessee, such suit or suits shall be proceeded upon and finally determined in the district of West Tennessee.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the district judge of Tennes see to attend at Knoxville, on the first Thursday after the third Monday in April next, and on the first Thursday after the third Monday in April of each and every year thereafter, and at Nashville on the first Thursday after the fourth Mon

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day in November next, and on the first Thursday after the fourth Monday in November of each and every year thereafter, who shall have power to make all necessary orders touching any suit, action, appeal, writ of error, process, pleadings, or proceedings, returned to the circuit court next to be holden thereafter at Knoxville, and Nashville, or depending therein, preparatory to the hearing, trial, or decision of such action, suit, appeal, writ of error, process, pleadings, or proceedings; and all writs and process may be returnable to the said courts on the first Thursday after the third Monday in April, at Knoxville, and on the first Thursday after the fourth Monday in November, at Nashville, in the same manner as to the sessions of the circuit court, directed to be held by this act in the district of East Tennessee, at Knoxville, and in the district of West Tennessee, at Nashville; and the said writs, returnable to the circuit courts to be held at Knoxville, may also bear teste on the said first Thursday after the third Monday in April; and the writs returnable to the circuit courts to be held at Nashville may bear teste on the first Monday in November, as though a session of the said circuit court was holden on those days at Knoxville and Nashville respectively.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be two clerks appointed, one for the circuit court to held at Knoxville, and one for the circuit court to be held at Nashville, whose duty it shall be to attend the said district judge on the said first Thursday after the third Monday in April, and on the said first Thursday after the fourth Monday in November, of each and every year, at the places aforesaid, who shall make due entry of all such matters and things as shall or may be ordered by the said judge; and at each and every of the said sessions, so held for the purpose aforesaid, all actions, pleas, and other proceedings, relative to any cause, civil or criminal, shall, for the circuit court to be held at Nashville, be continued over to the ensuing second Monday in June, and shall for the circuit court to be held at Knoxville, be continued over to the ensuing third Monday in

October.

and have day in the session to be held by this act, on the first Thursday after the third Monday in April next; and such proceedings shall be had thereon, at the said session, as are herein before provided.

Approved, March 22, 1808.

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An Act authorizing a detachment from the Militia of the United States.

Be it enacted, &c., That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized, at such times as he shall deem necessary, to require of the Executives of the several States and Territories, to take effectual measures to organize, arm, and equip, according to law, and hold in readiness to march at a moment's warning, their respective proportions of one hundred thousand militia, officers included, to be apportioned by the President of the United States, from the latest militia returns in the Department of War, and in such other data as he shall judge equitable. cases where such returns have not been made, by

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Executives of the several States and Territories may accept, as part of the said detachment, any corps of volunteers who shall engage to continue in service six months after they arrive at the place of rendezvous.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the detachment of militia and volunteers aforesaid shall be officered out of the present militia officers, or others, at the option and discretion of the constitutional authority in the respective States and Territories, the President apportioning the general officers among the respective States and Territories, as he may deem proper.

said detachments shall not be compelled to serve SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the a longer time than six months after they arrive at the place of rendezvous, and that during the time of their service they shall be entitled to the same pay, rations, and allowance for clothing, as are established by law for the army of the Uni

ted States.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to call into actual service any part, or the whole, of said detachment, when he shall judge that the exigencies of the United tachment shall be called into actual service, they States require it; and, if a part only of said deshall be taken from such part thereof as the President of the United States shall deem proper.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings, of what nature or kind soever, civil or criminal, which were originally returned to the circuit court begun and held at Nashville, on the first Monday in June last; and all writs, process, and proceedings, as aforesaid, which are, or may be made returnable to the said circuit court to be held at Nashville, shall, after the next June term of the circuit court, be continued, returned to, and SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That a sum have day in the session to be held by this act, on not exceeding one million of dollars be, and the the first Thursday after the fourth Monday in No- same is hereby, appropriated out of any moneys vember next, and all actions, suits, process, plead-in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for ings, and other proceedings, of what nature or kind the pay, subsistence, and support of such part of soever, civil or criminal, which were originally said detachment as may be called into actual serreturned to the circuit court begun and held at Knoxville, on the third Monday in October last; and all writs, process, and pleadings, as aforesaid, which are or may be made returnable to the said circuit court, shall be continued, returned to,

vice.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force for the term of two years from the passing thereof, and no longer. Approved, March 30, 1808.

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An Act concerning the sale of the lands of the Uni-session. And the land contained in such warted States, and for other purposes. rants or orders of survey shall not be disposed of Be it enacted, &c., That whenever the Presi- until otherwise directed by law. dent of the United States has been or may be authorized to cause the public lands in any land district to be offered for sale, it shall be lawful, whenever he shall think it convenient, to offer for sale, at first, only a part of the lands contained in such district, and, at any subsequent time or times, to offer for sale in the same manner any other part, or the remainder of the lands contained in the same.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That that part of the lands to which the Indian title was extinguished by the treaty with the Choctaw nation made on Mount Dexter, in the year one thousand eight hundred and five, lying on the east of Pearl river, shall be attached to the land district east of Pearl river, and that the residue of the lands to which the Indian title was extinguished by said treaty, shall be attached to the SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the land district west of Pearl river; and the said fourth section of an act passed the twenty-first lands shall, with the exception of section number day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, which shall be reserved in each townsix, entitled "An act in addition to an act, enti- ship for the use of schools within the same, and tled 'An act regulating the grants of land, and also with the exception of fifteen hundred acres providing for the disposal of the lands of the of land, which is hereby confirmed to John McUnited States south of the State of Tennessee," Grew, in compliance with the fourth article of be revived and continued in force until the first said treaty, be offered for sale under the same day of October next; and in any case where a regulations, at the same prices, and on the same donation shall be granted in lieu of a pre-emp-terms, as other lands lying within the said distion certificate, agreeably to the provisions of the said fourth section, the money, if any shall have been paid, shall be by the receiver of the public money repaid to the person or persons who have paid the same.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That certain settlers on the river Mobile, in the Mississippi Territory, (east of Pearl river, who reside near the line of demarcation, between the United States and Spain, run in pursuance of the treaty of the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and whose claims to land has not been decided on according to law,) shall be allowed until the first day of October next to file a notice in writing with the Register of the Land Office, stating the nature and extent of their claims, together with a plat of the tract or tracts claimed; and the said Register of the Land Office, and the Receiver of Public Moneys, are hereby required to hear and determine such claims according to the several acts of Congress "regulating the grants of land and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States south of the State of Tennessee," and to grant certificates in the form heretofore prescribed by the Board of Commissioners in said district.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Registers of the Land Office east and west of Pearl river, in the Mississippi Territory, to transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, on or before the first day of November next, a full and fair report of all the claims of certain persons to lands in the Mississippi Territory, founded upon British or Spanish warrants or orders of survey granted prior to the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, not confirmed by former laws regulating the grants of lands in said Territory, which have heretofore been regularly filed with the Register of the Land Office aforesaid, together with the evidence in support of such claims respectively, and to be by him laid before Congress at their next ensuing

tricts.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That every person, and the legal representatives of every person, who being either the head of a family or above the age of twenty-one years, who did before the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, actually inhabit and cultivate a tract of land in the Mississippi Territory, belonging to the United States, shall be allowed until the first day of October next to obtain permission to remain on such tract or tracts of land, according to the provisions of the act entitled "An act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States until authorized by law;" and the person or persons obtaining such permission shall be entitled to all the benefits, rights, and privileges granted by law to those who obtained the same prior to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the right of the United States to two town lots lying and being in the city of Natchez, be, and the same is hereby, forever vested in the corporation of the said city, so as not to affect the legal or equitable claims of any individuals, or of any body politic or corporate, if any such there be.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That whenever the claims of persons having a right of preemption in either of the districts east or west of Pearl river, shall interfere with each other, the Register and Receiver of Public Moneys are hereby authorized, in their respective districts, so to regulate their locations as to prevent such interference.

Approved, March 31, 1808.

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An Act further to prolong the continuance of the
Mint at Philadelphia.

Be it enacted, &c., That the act entitled "An act concerning the Mint," approved March the third, one thousand eight hundred and one, is hereby revived and continued in force and operation for the further time of five years after the

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fourth day of March, one thousand eight hun- two musicians, one saddler, one farrier, and sixtydred and eight. four privates.

Approved, April 1, 1808.

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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That when, in the opinion of the President of the United States, a suitable proportion of the troops authorAn Act authorizing the sale of Public Arms. ized by this act shall be raised, there may be apBe it enacted, &c., That the President of the pointed two additional brigadier generals, who United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to shall be entitled to one aid-de-camp each, to be cause to be sold to individual States, which may taken from the subalterns of the line; two brigade wish to purchase, any arms now owned by the inspectors, and two brigade quartermasters; and United States, and which may be parted with such number of hospital surgeons, and surgeons' without injury to the public. Accounts of such mates, as the service may require, but not exceedsales shall be laid before Congress, and the money ing five surgeons and fifteen mates, with one arising therefrom be, and the same is hereby, ap- steward and one wardmaster to each hospital; propriated, under the direction of the President the brigade inspectors appointed under this act of the United States, to the purchase or manu- shall be taken from the line; and the brigade facture of other arms for the use of the United quartermasters, the adjutants, regimental quarterStates: Provided, That such arms be not deliv-masters, and paymasters, from the subalterns of ered to any State or their agents until the payment of the purchase money be first made into the Treasury of the United States, in money or in the stock of the United States, at its value, as established by an act, entitled "An act to repeal so much of any act or acts as authorize the receipt of evidences of the public debt, in payment for the lands of the United States, and for other purposes relative to the public debt:" Provided, also. That this provision shall not extend to any purchase, not exceeding five thousand stand of arms, which shall be made by a State to which the United States by existing engagements are bound to pay a sum of money, equal to the amount of such purchase. Approved, April 2, 1808.

An Act to raise for a limited time an additional Military Force.

Be it enacted, &c.. That, in addition to the present Military Establishment of the United States, there be raised five regiments of infantry, one regiment of riflemen, one regiment of light artillery, and one regiment of light dragoons, to be enlisted for the term of five years, unless sooner discharged.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said regiments of infantry, riflemen, and artillery, shall consist of ten companies each, and the regiment of light dragoons of eight troops; and the field and staff officers of each regiment, of one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, one major, one adjutant, one quartermaster, one paymaster, one surgeon, one surgeon's mate, one sergeant major, one quartermaster sergeant, two principal musicians, and for the regiment of light dragoons, one riding master; each company of infantry and riflemen, to consist of one captain, one first and one second lieutenant, one ensign, two cadets, four sergeants, four corporals, two musicians, and sixty-eight privates; each company of artillery, of one captain, one first and one second lieutenant, two cadets, four sergeants, four corporals, two musicians, eight artificers, and fifty-eight matross es; and each troop of light dragoons, of one captain, one first and one second lieutenant, one cornet, two cadets, four sergeants, four corporals, 10th CoN. 1st SESS.-90

the line.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the compensation of the officers, cadets, non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers, and privates, authorized by this act, shall be, viz: to each brigadier general, one hundred and four dollars per month, twelve rations per day, or an equivalent in money, and sixteen dollars per month for forage, when not furnished by the public; each brigade inspector, thirty dollars per month, in addition to his pay in the line; each brigade quartermaster and aid-de-camp, twenty dollars, and each adjutant regimental quartermaster and paymaster, ten dollars per month, in addition to their pay in the line; and to each, six dollars per month for forage, when not furnished as aforesaid; each hospital surgeon, seventy-five dollars per month, six rations per day, or an equivalent in money, and twelve dollars per month for forage, when not furnished as aforesaid; each hospital surgeon's mate, forty dollars per month, two rations per day, or an equivalent in money, and six dollars per month for forage, when not furnished as aforesaid; each hospital steward, twenty dollars per month and two rations per day, or an equivalent in money; each wardmaster, sixteen dollars per month, and two rations per day, or an equivalent in money; to the colonel of light dragoons, ninety dollars per month, six rations per day, and forage for five horses; to the lieutenant colonel of light dragoons, seventy-five dollars per month, five rations per day, and forage for four horses; to the major of light dragoons, sixty dollars per month, four rations per day, and forage for four horses; to each captain of light dragoons, fifty dollars per month, three rations per day, and forage for three horses; to each lieutenant of light dragoons, thirtythree and one third dollars per month, two rations per day, and forage for two horses; to each cornet of light dragoons, twenty-six and two third dollars per month, two rations per day, and forage for two horses; to the riding master, twenty-six and two third dollars per month, two rations per day, and forage for two horses; each saddler and farrier, ten dollars per month, one ration per day, and a suit of uniform clothing annually; and all other officers, cadets, non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers, and privates, authorized by this

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of the officers, other than the general officers proper to be appointed under this act, which appointments shall be submitted to the Senate at the next session, for their advice and consent.

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An Act to authorize the transportation of certain doeuments by mail, free of postage.

Be it enacted, &c., That the members of Congress, the Secretary of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House of Representatives. be, and they are hereby, authorized to transmit, free of postage, the Message of the President of the United States, of the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and the documents accompanying the Message of the President of the United States, of the thirtieth of March, printed by order of the Senate and House of Representalives, to any post office within the United States and Territories thereof, to which they may respectively direct; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Senate, and of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, to send, by the mail, the printed copies of the same Message and documents, or any part thereof that may remain after Congress shall adjourn, and the same shall be conveyed. free of postage, as aforesaid, conformably to the directions of the members of each House of Congress respectively: any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, April 13, 1808.

act, shall receive the like pay, clothing, rations, SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That, in the forage, and other emoluments, as the officers, ca- recess of the Senate, the President of the United dets, non-commissioned officers, musicians, artifi-States is hereby authorized to appoint all or any cers, and privates of the present Military Establishment: Provided, The officers and riding master furnish their own horses and accoutrements, and actually keep in service the aforesaid number of horses to entitle them to the aforego- SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That every ing allowance for forage, or its equivalent in commissioned and staff officer, to be appointed in money: And provided also, That the whole or any virtue of this act, shall be a citizen of the United part of the regiment of light dragoons shall be lia-States, or some one of the Territories thereof. ble to serve on foot as light infantry until, by order Approved, April 12, 1808. of the President of the United States, horses and accoutrements shall be provided to equip the whole or any part thereof, as mounted dragoons. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted. That the officers, cadets, non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers, and privates, raised pursuant to this act, shall be entitled to the like compensation in case of disability by wounds and otherwise, incurred in the service, as the officers, cadets, non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers, and privates in the present Military Establishment, and with them shall be subject to the rules and articles of war which have been established or may be hereafter. by law, established: And that the provisions of the act, entitled "An act fixing the Military Peace Establishment of the United States," relative to the widow, child, or children of any commissioned officer who shall die, while in the service of the United States, by reason of any wound received in actual service of the United States, to courts martial, the regulation and compensation of recruiting officers, the age, size, qualifications and bounties of recruits, arrears of pay, the bonds and duties of paymasters, penalties for desertion, punishment of persons who shall procure or entice any soldier to desert, or shall purchase from any soldier his arms, uniform, clothing, or any part thereof; and the punishment of any commanding officer of any ship or vessel who shall receive on board of his ship or vessel, as one of his crew. knowing him to have deserted, or otherwise carry away any such soldier, or shall refuse to deliver him up to the orders of his commanding officer, to the oath or affirmation to be taken and subscribed by officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, to the allowance for extra expense to any commissioned officer in travelling and sitting on general courts martial, to arrests of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, for debts, to the allowance to soldiers discharged from service, except by way of punishment, in force and applied to all persons, matters, and things, within the intent and meaning of this act, in the same manner as if they were inserted at large in the

same.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the subsistence of the officers of the army, when not received in kind, shall be estimated at twenty cents per ration.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed to each brigade, one chaplain, who shall be entitled to the same pay and emoluments as a major in the infantry.

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An Act to continue in force, for a further time, an set.
entitled "An act for the more effectual preservation
of peace in the ports and harbors of the United
States, and in the waters under their jurisdiction."
Be it enacted, &c., That the act, entitled "An
act for the more effectual preservation of peace
in the ports and harbors of the United States, and
in the waters under their jurisdiction," passed on
the third day of March, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and five, be, and the
same hereby is, continued in force for the term of
two years, and from thence to the end of the next
session of Congress, and no longer.
Approved, April 19, 1808.

An Act to revive and continue in force "An act declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the States of Maryland and Georgia."

Be it enacted, &c., That the act which passed the seventeenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred, entitled "An act declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the States of Maryland and Georgia," be, and the same is hereby, revived and continued in force until

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