Statute L April 20, 1818.

Act of March 22,1821, ch. 13.

Company officers of artillery.

Company officers of light artillery.

Conductor of artillery, &c.

Extra pay to conductors of artillery.

One armorer to each regiment of infantry, riflemen, and to the artillery, &c.

Where, in cases, &c. the pay, &c. of officers and soldiers has been delayed, &c. it Is, on evidence, to be adjusted.

Chap. CII. — An Act respecting the organization of the army, and far

other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That hereafter the company officers of the corps of artillery shall consist of one captain, two first lieutenants, and two second lieutenants; and in the corps of light artillery the company officers shall consist of one captain, one first lieutenant, and two second lieutenants; and one of the second lieutenants in each company shall act as a conductor of artillery, as in the case of the corps of artillery, whose duty it shall be to receipt and account forall ammunition, implements, and cannon; and for the performance of these services they shall be allowed, each, ten dollars extra, per month.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, to each regiment of in fantry, riflemen, and to each battalion of the corps of artillery, and to the regiment of light artillery, there shall be attached one armorer, with the pay and emoluments allowed to armorers employed by the ordnance department.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in all cases during the late war, where an officer or soldier has been delayed the receipt of his pay and emoluments, or any part thereof, by having been transferred from one corps to another, or omitted to be returned on the muster roll, pay roll, or receipt roll, or from any other cause whatever, upon a satisfactory evidence of the justice of such claim, the same shall be adjusted and paid.

Approved, April 20, 1818.

Statute I. April 20, 1818.

Act of May 22, 1824, ch. 136.

The existing duties on the articles enumerated to cease after 30th June, 1818.

Duties in lieu, &c.

Iron in pigs, iron castings, nails, spikes, iron in bars and bolts, anchors, and alum.

Addition of 10 per cent. on the rates of duties if the articles are imported in vessels not of the United States.

Proviso.

Chap. CIIL—An Act to increase the duties on iron in bars und bolts, iron in pigs, castings, nails, and alum.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, the duties now by law levied, collected, and paid, on iron in pigs, iron castings, nails, on iron in bars and bolts, excepting iron manufactured by rolling; and on alum, imported into the United States, shall cease and determine; and there shall be levied, collected, and paid, in lieu thereof, the several and specific duties hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: on iron in pigs, fifty cents per hundred weight; on iron castings, seventy-five cents per hundred weight; on nails, four cents per pound; on spikes, three cents per pound; on iron in bars and bolts, manufactured without rolling, seventy-five cents per hundred weight; on anchors, two cents per pound; and on alum, two dollars per hundred weight.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That an addition of ten per centum shall be made to the several rates of duties above specified and imposed upon the several goods, wares, and merchandise, aforesaid, which, after the said thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, shall be imported in ships or vessels not of the United States: Provided, That this additional duty shall not apply to such goods, wares, and merchandise, imported in ships or vessels not of the United States, entitled by treaty, or by any act or acts of Congress, to be entered in the ports of the United States, on the payment of the same duties as are paid on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported in ships or vessels of the United States.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed a drawback of the duties by this act imposed on goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States, upon the exportation thereof within the time, and in the manner, prescribed in the fourth section of the act, entitled " An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage," passed on the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the existing laws shall extend to, and be in force for, the collection of the duties imposed by this act on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, and for the recovery, collection, distribution, and remission, of all fines, penalties, and forfeitures, as fully and effectually as if every regulation, restriction, penalty, forfeiture, provision, clause, matter, and thing, in the existing laws contained, had been inserted in, and re-enacted by, this act.

Approved, April 20, 1818.

exported within

the time, &c. prescribed.

Act of 1816, ch. 107.

The existing laws in force for the collection of the duties imposed, &c.

Statute I.

Chap. CIV.— An Act fixing the compensation of Indian agents and factors. April 20, 1818.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, from and after the passage of this act, Indian agents and factors shall receive the following salaries per annum, in lieu of their present compensation, to wit:

The agent to the Creek nation, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

The agent to the Choctaws, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

The agent to the Cherokees on Tennessee river, one thousand three hundred dollars.

The agent to the Cherokees on the Arkansas river, one thousand five hundred dollars.

The agent to the Chickasaws, one thousand three hundred dollars.

The agent in the Illinois territory, one thousand three hundred dollars.

The agent at Prairie du Chien, one thousand two hundred dollars.

The agent at Natchitoches, one thousand two hundred dollars.

The agent at Chicago, one thousand three hundred dollars.

The agent at Green Bay, one thousand five hundred dollars.

The agent at Mackinac, one thousand four hundred dollars.

The agent at Vincennes, one thousand two hundred dollars.

The agent at Fort Wayne and Piqua, one thousand two hundred dollars.

The agent to the Lakes, one thousand three hundred dollars.

The agent in the Missouri territory, one thousand two hundred dollars.

And all sub-agents,five hundred dollars per annum.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all factors shall receive one thousand three hundred dollars, and assistant factors seven hundred dollars, per annum.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sums hereby allowed to Indian agents and factors shall-be in full compensation for their services; and that all rations, or other allowances, made to them, shall be deducted from the sums hereby allowed.

Approved, April 20, 1818.

Indian agents and factors to receive the salaries specified.

Creeks. Choctaws. Cherokees, on Tennessee river.

Cherokees, on
Arkansas river.

Chickasaws.
In Illinois.

At Prairie du
Chien.
Natchitoches.
At Chicago.
At Green Bay.

At Mackinac.

At Vincennes. At Fort Wayne, fee.

To the Lakes.
In Missouri.

Sub-agents.

Factors and assistant factors.

The sums allowed to be in full, &c.

Rations, &c. to be deducted. act to regulate duties on imports and tonnage continued until 30th June, 1826.

of the first section of the act, entitled "An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage," passed the twenty-seventh of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, shall, from and after the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, continue to operate in the same manner, and to have the same effect, until the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, that the above mentioned fourth paragraph now has, and will continue to have, until the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, April 20, 1818.

Statute I. April 20, 1818.

Pennsylvania divided into two districts.

Western district.

Eastern district.

Terms of the eastern district.

Terms of the circuit court for the western district.

See act of May 15,1820ch.lll. Richard Peters to hold the courts in the eastern district, &c.

The President, with consent of Senate, to appoint a judge for the western district, with a salary of 1600 dolls, per annum.

Circuit court for the eastern district to be held as directed bylaw, &c.

Western district court to have jurisdiction as a circuit court.

Writs of error to the circuit court in the eastern district, &o.

Chap. CVTH.—An Act to divide the stale of Pennsylvania into two judicial

districts, (a)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the state of Pennsylvania be, and the same is hereby, divided into two districts, in manner following, to wit: the counties of Fayette, Greene, Washington, Alleghany, Westmoreland, Somerset, Bedford, Huntingdon, Centre, Mifflin, Clearfield, M'Kean, Potter, Jefferson, Cambria, Indiana, Armstrong, Butler, Beaver, Mercer, Crawford, Venango, Erie and Warren, shall compose one district, to be called the Western district; and the residue of the said state shall compose another district, to be called the Eastern district; and the terms of the district court for the said Eastern district, shall be held in the city of Philadelphia, at the several times they are now directed to be held in said district of Pennsylvania; and the terms of the circuit court for the Western district shall commence and be held in the city of Pittsburg, on the first Mondays of the months of June and December, in each and every year, and be continued and adjourned, from time to time, as the court may deem expedient for the despatch of the business thereof.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Richard Peters, now judge of the district court of Pennsylvania, shall be, and he is hereby, assigned as the judge to hold the courts in the Eastern district, and to do all things appertaining to the office of a district judge, under the constitution and laws of the United States.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a district judge for the said western district of Pennsylvania ; which judge, when appointed, shall receive a salary of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum; to be paid in the same manner as the salary of the judge of the eastern district of said state, and he shall also do and perform all such duties as are enjoined on, or in anywise appertaining to, a district judge of the United States.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the circuit court of the United States shall be held, for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, at the city of Philadelphia, at the times, and in the manner now directed by law to be held for the district of Pennsylvania; and the district court for the said western district, in addition to the ordinary jurisdiction and powers of a district court, shall, within the limits of the said western district, have jurisdiction of all causes, except of appeals and writs of error, cognisable by law in a circuit court, arid shall proceed therein in the same manner as a circuit court; and writs of error shall lie from decisions therein to the circuit court in the said eastern district of Pennsylvania, in the same manner as from other district courts to their respective circuit courts.

(a) An act concerning the western district of Pennsylvania, Dec. 16, 1818, ch. 4. 1824, ch. 170. Act of April 5, 1826, ch. 23.

Act of May 26,

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, be, and hereby is authorized to appoint one person as district attorney, and one person as marshal for the said western district, whose terms of appointment and service, as well as duties and emoluments, shall be the same with those respectively annexed to the said offices in the eastern district. And the district attorney and the marshal for the district of Pennsylvania, shall, respectively, be district attorney and marshal for said eastern district.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings, of a civil nature, except in cases of appeals and writs of error, commenced or pending in the district or circuit court of said district of Pennsylvania, in which no verdict shall have passed, or plea to the merits shall have been decided, and which, by law, should have been had or commenced in said district court of said western district, if the same had been had or commenced before the passing hereof, and where the parties to the same shall not otherwise agree, shall be, and hereby are, continued over to the district court of the western district, established by this act, and shall there be proceeded in with like effect, and in the same manner, as if originally had or commenced therein. And the said district and circuit courts of said eastern district, shall possess and exercise all necessary powers for the removal of all papers and files relating to such actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings, to the said district court of said western district, so continued over as aforesaid: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any bond or recognisance made or entered into in any of the actions or suits hereby directed to be removed; but the same shall continue of as much validity as though this act had not passed.

Approved, April 20, 1818.

The President, with the consent of the Senate, to appoint an attorney and a marthai for the western district, &c.

Actions, suits, process, &c. continued over to the western district court.

The district and circuit courts of the eastern district invested with powers for the removal of papers, &c.

Proviso.

Chap. CIX.—An Act supplementary to the several act« making appropriations for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be and they are hereby, respectively, appropriated, and shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:

For the payment of balances due several states, on an adjustment of their accounts, for expenses incurred by calling out the militia during the late war, six hundred thousand dollars.

Towards erecting barracks at Baton Rouge, forty thousand dollars.

For carrying into effect the treaty with the Cherokee Indians, eighty thousand dollars.

For defraying the expenses of holding Indian treaties in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, fifty-three thousand dollars.

For arrearages in the Indian department, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For additional pay to the militia, fifty thousand dollars.

For expenses of mounted volunteers, ninety thousand dollars.

For pensions for one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, in addition to the sum already appropriated for that purpose, fifty thousand dollars.

For pensions to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army, under the act of the eighteenth of March last, three hundred thousand dollars.

For deficiency in the appropriation for clerk hire, in the office of the Department of War, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, eight hundred dollars.

For rent of offices for the above department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, five hundred dollars.

For office rent for the above department, for one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, one thousand dollars.

-statute I. April 20, 1818.

[Obsolete.] Sums appropriated.

For balances due several states.

Barracks at Baton Rouge.

Treaty with Cherokecs.

Expenses of holding Indian treaties in 1818.

Arrearages.

Pay of militia.

Mounted volunteers.

Pensions under act of 1818, ch. 19.

Pensions to revolutionary officers and soldiers.

Clerk hire in War Department.

Rent of of. fices for War Department.

Statute I.

For additional clerk hire, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars
Approved, April 20, 1818.

April 20,1818. Chap. CX.—An Act concerning tonnage and discriminating duties, in certain

Act of Mar. 3, 1815, ch. 77.

Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 75.

Acts respect" ing discriminations between foreign vessels and those ofthe United States, repealed so far as respects vessels belonging to subjects of the Netherlands, &c. Discriminating duties on goods, &c. repealed in favour of produce, &c. of the Netherlands, &c.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage of vessels in the ports of the United States, as imposes a discriminating duty between foreign vessels and vessels of the United States, is hereby repealed, so far as respects vessels truly and wholly belonging to the subjects of the king of the Netherlands; such repeal to take effect from the time the government aforesaid abolished the discriminating duties between her own vessels and the vessels of the United States arriving in the ports or places aforesaid.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the several acts imposing duties on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, as imposes a discriminating duty between goods imported into the United States in foreign vessels and in vessels of the United States, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as the same respects the produce or manufactures ofthe territories, in Europe, of the king of the Netherlands, or such produce and manufactures as can only be, or most usually are, first shipped from a port or place in the kingdom aforesaid, the same being imported in vessels truly and wholly belonging to subjects of the king of the Netherlands; such repeal to take effect from the time the government aforesaid abolished its discriminating duties between goods, wares, and merchandise, imported in vessels of the United States and vessels belonging to the nation aforesaid.

Approved, April 20, 1818.

Statute I. April 20, 1818.

[Obsolete.] The Secretary ofState directed to subscribe for and receive, &c. 500 copies of Seybert's Statistical Annals, and 250 copies of Pitkin's Statistics.

The subscription and purchase money 5750 dolls., &c.

Statute I.

Chap. GXII.—An Act authorizing a subscriptionfor the Statistical Annals of Mam
Seybert, and the purchase of Pitkin's Commercial Statisties.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ofthe United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary for the Department of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to subscribe for, and receive, for the use and disposal of Congress, five hundred copies of the Statistical Annals proposed to be published by Adam Seybert, of Philadelphia; and that he also be directed to purchase, for the purpose aforesaid, two hundred and fifty copies of Pitkin's Commercial Statistics of the United States.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum or sums of money necessary to defray the cost of the subscription and purchase aforesaid, shall not exceed the sum of five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, April 20, 1818.

April 20, 1818. Chap. CXIII.—An Act making the port of Bath, in Massachusetts, a port of entry for ships or vessels arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, and from places beyond the same; and for establishing a collection district, whereof Belfast shall be the port of entry.

chulttts1 ^mlTo Be il enacted h!Jthe Senate and House of Representatives of the United a port of entry0 States of America, in Congress assembled, That the port of Bath, in the for vessels, &c. stale of Massachusetts, be, and hereby is, made a port of entry for ships