authorised to purchase Winslow Lewis' pa tent right for houses, Conditions and terms. Secretary of of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authothe Treasury rised and empowered, under the directions of the President of the United States, to purchase of Winslow Lewis, his patent right to the plan of lighting light-houses, by reflecting and lighting light magnifying lanterns, if the same shall be proved to be a discovery made by him; and to contract with the said Winslow Lewis, for fitting up and keeping in repair, any or all the light-houses in the United States or the territories thereof, upon the new and improved plan of the reflecting and magnifying lanterns; or to contract with the said Winslow Lewis, for such sum as he may think for the interest of the United States: Provided, The sum so to be allowed, shall not in any case annually exceed the appropriation made for supplying the light-house establishment with oil in any given year, which has passed for a term not exceeding seven years, the said Lewis covenanting, with sufficient sureties, to fit up and keep in repair all the light-houses in the United States or territories thereof, on the new and improved plan of lighting light-houses by reflecting and magnifying lanterns; and the same to furnish and keep in repair for a term of years not less than seven, at the sole expense of the said Winslow Lewis, and to deliver over at the expiration of the term aforesaid, all the lighthouses fitted up according to the new and improved plan, to the United States in good repair, he, the said Winslow Lewis, warranting the same to remain in good repair for seven years more, from and after the expiration of the said contract. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a Appropria sum not exceeding sixty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of tion. any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry this law into effect. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Vice-President of the United States, and March 2, 1812. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER XXXV. AN ACT supplementary to "An act providing for the accommodation of the General Post-Office and Patent Office, and for other purposes." dent, autho rised to repair and finish the Great Hotel, for the ac BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Post- Post-Master General, un Master-General, under the direction of the der direction President of the United States, be authorised of the Presi to repair and finish, in a suitable manner for the accommodation of the Post-Office Department and the Patent-Office, the two stories of the building purchased for the government, commodation by authority of the aforesaid act, being the first and second stories, including also sundry repairs on the outside and in the garret of said building, upon the principles stated in the report of the Post-Master-General, dated January fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That of the Postpartment and Patent Office. Office De as soon as the repairs can be properly made, When these and before the commencement of the next an- be removed. Appropria tion. nual session of Congress, the General PostOffice and the City Post-Office shall be remov. ed to said public building. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of completing the aforesaid work, there be appropriated, from any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirteen thousand, two hundred and forty-seven dollars and sixty-one cents, including the sum of two thousand three hundred dollars, now in the Treasury, and also the sum of one thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars and seventy cents, now in the hands of Thomas Munroe, Superintendent of the city of Washington, being unexpend ed balances of the sum of twenty thousand dollars, authorised by the act of April twentyeighth, one thousand eight hundred and ten, to which this act is a supplement. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives Vice-President of the United States, and March 7, 1812. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON, CHAPTER XXXVI. AN ACT for the relief of the Board of Commis sioners west of Pearl River. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and missioners', west of Pearl settled and they are hereby directed to audit and settle the Board of comaccounts of the board of commissioners west of Pearl river, in the Mississippi territory, and river, acto allow each of them the sum of six dollars counts to be per day for every day's actual attendance on the board, subsequent to the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, except for the eighty-four days, already provided for. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO. CLINTON, Vice-President of the United States, and March 10, 1812. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. paid. CHAPTER XXXVII. AN ACT making a further appropriation for the defence of our Maritime Frontier. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame rica in Congress assembled, That the sum of Appropriafive hundred thousand dollars be, and the same tion. is hereby appropriated, in addition to the sums already appropriated, for the purposes of fortifying and defending the maritime frontier of the United States; and that the same be paid out of any monies in the Treasury, not other wise appropriated. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO. CLINTON, Vice-President of the United States, and March 10, 1812. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. Further time given tor registering claims in the land office at Opelousas. CHAPTER XXXVIII. AN ACT giving further time for registering claims to land in the western district of the territory of Orleans. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every person or persons claiming lands in the western district of the territory of Orleans, who are actual settlers on the land which they claim, and whose claims have not been heretofore filed with the Register of the and office, for the said district, shall be allowed until the first day of November next, to deliver notices in writing, and the written evidences of their claims to the Register of the land office at Opelousas; and the notices and evidences so delivered within the time limited by this act, shall be recorded in the same manner, and on payment of the same fees, as if the same had been delivered before the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eight; but the rights of such persons |