Public Acts of Congress. per month, to commence the nineteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. William Arnold, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-third of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. R. J. Lowry, at the rate of eight dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the eleventh of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. Jesse McAnnally, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. Ápheus Hill, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. Leroy Jones, at the rate of five dollars and thirty-two cents per month, to commence on the fifth of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. William Wilson, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the fifth of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. John McClure, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the tenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. Robert Warrel, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the ninth of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. William Carter, at the rate of five dollars thirty-three cents per month, to commence on the seventh of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. William English, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the ninth of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. Henry Doherty, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the seventh of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. George Hendrick, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the seventh of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. the twenty-eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. Robert Lyon, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the eighth of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. Henry Turner, at the rate of five dollars and thirty-three cents per month, to commence on the seventh of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. Mark Miller, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. George G. Gretten, at the rate of two dollars and sixty-six cents per month, to commence on the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. Glover Baker, at the rate of two dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. Nathan Crosby, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. James Heard, at the rate of eight dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twentieth of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. Joshua Penny, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. Enoch Barnum, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. Malyne Baker, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. Reuben Thacker, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the pensions of the following named persons, already John Hinkson, at the rate of four dollars per placed on the pension list of the United States, month, to commence on the twentieth of Sep- be increased to the sums herein respectively antember, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. nexed to their names; the said increase to comJeptha Brown, at the rate of four dollars per mence at the times herein mentioned, and be in month, to commence on the fourteenth of De-lieu of pensions they at present receive, that is to cember, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. John Miller, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the second of January, one thousand eight hundered and seventeen. say: Nicholas Welsh, at the rate of twenty-five dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and Aaron Stafford, at the rate of five dollars thirty-fifteen. three cents per month, to commence on the eighth of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. Elias Ware, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. Daniel Moffett, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. Frederick P. Stevenson, at the rate of eight dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the sixth of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. Sion Holly, at the rate of five dollars and thirty-three cents per month, to commence on George Shannon, at the rate of twelve dollars per month, commencing on the eleventh of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. Approved, March 3, 1817. An Act to fix the Peace Establishment of the Marine Corps. Be it enacted, &c., That the Peace Establishment of the Marine Corps shall consist of the following officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, viz: one lieutenant colonel commandant, nine captains, twenty-four first lieutenants, sixteen second lieutenants, one adjutant and inspector, one paymaster, and one quar Public Acts of Congress. termaster, to be taken from the said captains and lieutenants, seventy-three corporals, forty-two drums and fifes, and seven hundred and fifty privates. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States cause the provisions of this act to be carried into effect on the first day of April next, or as soon thereafter as circumstances will admit, and cause any supernumerary officers to be discharged from the service of the United States; and to all persons so discharged there shall be paid three months' additional pay. excepting only such duties as may have been paid or secured on the tonnage of ships, or upon the merchandise imported therein, which ships have been entered in the United States from a colony or district, into or with which vessels of the United States are not ordinarily permitted to enter and trade. Approved, March 3, 1817. An Act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Nathaniel Seavey, and others. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the Treas SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States may, in the recess of the Senate, appoint any of the officers author-ury ized by this act, which appointments shall be submitted to the Senate, at their next session, for their advice and consent. Approved, March 3, 1817. An Act making an appropriation for opening and cutting out a road therein described. Be it enacted, &c., That the sum of four thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, and payable out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of opening and cutting out a road from Reynoldsburgh, on Tennessee river, in the State of Tennessee, through the Chickasaw nation, to intersect the Natchez road near the south end of the Chickasaw old town, agreeable to the survey and marked lines heretofore made by Messrs. Johnson and Dickson, commissioners, appointed by the President of the United States; and that the opening of said road shall be under the direction of the Secretary of War. Approved, March 3, 1817. An Act for the relief of certain Creek Indians. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause the sum of eighty-five thousand dollars to be paid to the friendly Creek Indians, whose property was destroyed by the hostile Creek Indians in the late war, in fair and just proportions to the losses which they have severally sustained from such Indians, which amount shall be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise priated. Approved, March 3, 1817. not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred dollars in equal proportions to Nathanel Seavey, Richworth Mason, and Daniel Tobey, of the State of Massachusetts, their agent, or legal representatives; which sum of three hundred dollars is paid to them as an evidence entertained by Congress of their valor and good conduct, in having recaptured the schooner Pink, in the late war with Great Britain, and made prisoners of the prize crew of said schooner, consisting of three British seamen ; which prisoners were delivered to the collector of Wiscasset in the District of Maine; and also as compensation for the prisoners so taken. Approved, March 3, 1817. An Act for the relief of the widow and children of Arnold Henry Dohrman, deceased. is, granted to Rachel Dohrman, widow of Arnold Be it enacted, &c., That there be, and hereby Henry Dohrman, late of Steubenville, in the State of Ohio, deceased, the sum of three but dred dollars, annually, during her life, payable quarterly, from and after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six teen. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be, and hereby is, granted to each of the minor children of the said Dohrman, until they shall respectively arrive at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of one hundred dollars, payable quarterly, from and after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six teen; the said grants to the said minor children appro-and education, and shall be accounted for in corr shall be received and applied for their support An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to cause repayments to be made of certain alien duties. formity to the laws that now are, or hereafter may be, in force in the State of Ohio, providing for the management of the estates of orphans. grants herein made shall be paid out of any mo SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the neys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1817. An Act for the relief of Asa Wells. Be it enacted, fc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to cause to be repaid, or remitted, all alien or discriminating duties, either upon tonnage or merchandise imported, in respect to all British vessels which Be it enacted, &c., That there be paid to Asa have been entered in ports of the United States Wells the sum of four hundred and eighty-eight at any time between the seventeenth of August, dollars and ninety-five cents, on account of the one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and the costs incurred by him in the defence of suits twenty-second of December, in the same year, brought against him for acts done in the dis Public Acts of Congress. charge of his duty as an officer of the United | be construed to affect the rights of any persons States, and that the same be paid to the said Asa who may be the holders of Treasury notes alWells out of any money in the Treasury not ready issued. otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1817. An Act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Teakle Savage, and others. Whereas, during the late war, Captain Teakle Savage did volunteer his services and the use of his boat to the officers commanding at Hampton, in Virginia, and did, with the assistance of some of the militia stationed at that place, and in company with the revenue cutter commanded by Captain Ham, capture one launch and two barges belonging to the enemy, and make prisoners of one lieutenant, one midshipman, one boatswain, and fifty-two privates and marines; which boats were valued, by officers appointed by General Wade Hampton, commander at Norfolk, at the sum of two thousand six hundred and forty-five dollars, which boats and prisoners were delivered to the proper authority of the United States: Be it therefore enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the said Teakle Savage, the officers and men of the militia who served with him, and to the officers and crew of the revenue cutter aforesaid, or to the agent of such persons, or their legal representative, where any of them should be dead, the sum of four thousand and twenty dollars, to be divided among the said officers and men, conformably to the principles of the laws relating to the division of prize money. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to appoint an agent to distribute the money aforesaid, in the manner herein directed, to the several persons authorized to receive the same, upon their producing to the said agent satisfactory evidence that they are entitled thereto. Approved, March 3, 1817. An Act to repeal so much of any acts now in force as authorizes a loan of money, or an issue of Treasury notes. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act, entitled "An act to authorize the issuing of Treasury notes for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen," as makes it lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the Treasury notes, in cases therein mentioned, to be reissued and applied anew to the same purposes, and in the same manner, as when originally issued, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all Treasury notes which are now, or shall hereafter become the property of the United States, (from reimbursement, purchase, exchange, or receipts, on account of taxes, duties, and demands,) shall be cancelled or destroyed at such times, and under such regulations and securities, as the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, with the approbation of the President, shall establish and determine. Approved, March 3, 1817. An Act making additional appropriations to defray the expenses of the Army and Militia during the late war with Great Britain. Be it enacted, &c., That, for defraying the expenses of the Military Establishment, and those incurred by calling out the militia during the late war with Great Britain, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated by law for these objects, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, viz : For the pay of the army and militia, including the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of interest, advanced by the State of Pennsylvania for defraying the expenses of the militia of said State, during the late war, seven hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For subsistence, two hundred thousand dollars. For the Quartermaster's department, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the Ordnance department, one hundred and forty-four thousand dollars. For the payment of balances due to certain States, on account of disbursements for militia employed in the service of the United States, during the late war, seven hundred and seventeen thousand dollars. Indians, fifteen thousand dollars. Be it enacted, &c., That so much of any act, or acts, of Congress as authorizes the President of the United States to borrow money on the For paying the expenses incurred in ascercredit of the United States, and to cause certifi-lished by the treaty lately made with the Creek taining and surveying the boundary lines estabcates of stock to be issued for money so borrowed, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided always, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to invalidate, or in any way affect, any securities or claims for money heretofore borrowed under the said act. several sums, hereby appropriated, be paid out of SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1817. An Act to provide for the redemption of the Public Debt. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of any act, or acts, of Congress as authorizes the President of the United States to cause Treasury notes to be prepared, signed, and issued, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, Be it enacted, &c., That so much of any act always, That nothing in this act contained shall | or acts of Congress, as makes appropriations for Public Acts of Congress. the purchase or reimbursement of the principal, or for the payment of the interest, of the funded debt of the United States be, and the same is hereby, repealed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That from the proceeds of the duties on merchandise imported, and on the tonnage of vessels, and from the proceeds of the internal duties, and of the sales of Western lands, now belonging, or which may bereafter belong, to the United States, the annual sum of ten millions of dollars be, and the same is yearly, appropriated to the Sinking Fund; and the said sum is hereby declared to be vested in the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, in the same manner as the moneys heretofore appropriated to the said fund, to be applied by the said Commissioners to the payment of interest and charges, and to the reimbursement or purchase of the principal of the public debt; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury annually to cause to be paid to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, the said sum of ten millions of dollars, in such payments, and at such times in each year, as the situation of the Treasury will best admit: Provided, That all such payments as may be necessary to enable the said Commissioners to discharge or reimburse any demands against the United States, on account of the principal or interest of the debt which shall be actually due in conformity to the engagements of the said United States, shall be made at such times in each year as will enable the said Commissioners faithfully and punctually to comply with such engagements: Provided, also, That any money which may have been paid, before the passage of this act, to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, as a part of the annual appropriation heretofore made by law to that fund, shall be held to be a payment for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, on account of the appropriation of ten millions herein before directed. the public debt, and the Commissioners aforesaid are authorized and directed to apply the sums by this act appropriated to the purchase and redemption of the public debt, holden by the Bank of the United States, if not otherwise to be obtained on the terms stated in this act. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That after the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, whenever there shall be, at any time after an adjournment of Congress, in any year, a surplus of money in the Treasury, above the sums appropriated for the service of such year, the payment of which to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, will yet leave in the Treasury, at the end of the year, a balance equal to two millions of dollars, then such surplus shall be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to the Sinking Fund, to be paid at such times as the situation of the Treasury will best permit; and shall be applied, by the Commissioners thereof, to the purchase or redemption of the public debt. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That whenever, in any year, there shall be a surplus in the Sinking Fund, beyond the amount of interest and principal, which may be actually due and payable by the United States, in such year, in conformity with their engagements, the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund shall be, and they are hereby, authorized, with the approbation of the President of the United States, to purchase the debt of the United States at its market price, if such price shall not exceed the following rates, viz: for stock of the United States, bearing an interest of three per centum, there shall not be paid more than sixty-five dollars for every hundred dollars of the principal thereof; for stock bearing an annual interest of six per centum per annum, there shall not be paid more than the par or true value thereof; and for stock bearing an annual interest of seven per centum, there shall not be paid an advance above the par value thereof, which shall exceed, for every hundred dollars of stock, the computed value of an annuity of one dollar for a number of years, equal to that during which the stock so purchased will not be Sink-reimbursable at the pleasure of Government, estimating, in such computation, the interest of money at six per centum per annum. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in addition to the sum of ten millions of dollars, herein before annually appropriated to the ing Fund, there shall be appropriated for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, to the Sinking Fund, the further sum of nine mil- SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all lions of dollars, to be paid out of any moneys in certificates of public debt which, by payment or the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, at such purchase, have become, or hereafter shall become, time within the year as the Secretary of the the property of the United States, shall be canTreasury shall deem most conducive to the pub-celled or destroyed, at such times, and under such lic interest, to be applied by the Commissioners regulations and securities, as the Commissionof the Sinking Fund to the purchase or redempers of the Sinking Fund, with the approbation tion of the public debt; and it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury, at any time during the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, if he shall deem it expedient to do so, to cause to be paid to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund a further sum, not exceeding four millions of dollars, which shall be considered as an advance to that amount, on the appropriation of ten millions, payable in the next year, and the said amount shall also be applied by the said Commissioners to the purchase or redemption of of the President, shall establish and determine. And no interest shall be considered as accruing, and no payment shall be made, on account of such debt, the certificates of which have been so cancelled and destroyed. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained, shall be construed to prevent the Congress of the United States, if war shall occur with any foreign Power, from applying, to any object of public service, any surplus of the amount herein appropriated to the Sinking Public Acts of Congress. Fund, which may be left in any year after paying the interest and principal which may be actually due and payable by the United States, in conformity with their engagements. Nor shall anything in this act be construed to repeal, alter, or affect any of the provisions of any former act, pledging the faith of the United States to the payment of the interest or principal of the public debt, but all such payments shall continue to be made at the time heretofore prescribed by law, excepting only as before provided, and no payments shall be made on certificates which have become the property of the United States. Approved, March 3, 1817. An Act making provision for the location of the lands reserved by the first article of the treaty of the 9th of August, one thousand eight hundred and four teen, between the United States and the Creek na tion, to certain chiefs and warriors of that nation, and for other purposes. have the power to alienate the said lands, except by devise, until each and every one of them shall have arrived at the age of twenty-five years. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the descendant of any native Creek Indian, male or female, who, at the commencement of the late war with the hostile Creeks, occupied and cultivated a farm or plantation; who continued friendly to the United States during that war; and who, after the termination of hostilities, returned to, and has continued to occupy and cultivate, the said farm or plantation, shall be entitled to a reservation of two quarter sections of land, to be selected in the manner stated in the first section of this act, which land shall enure to them so long as they thall continue to occupy and cultivate the same; and, on their death shall descend, in fee, to their children; and on failure of children, shall revert to the United States, rethe case may be, the right to occupy and cultiserving, however, to the husband or widow, as vate one-third part of the lands during their na Be it enacted, &c., That the chiefs and war-tural lives. riors of the Creek nation who, by virtue of the first article of the treaty of the ninth of August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, between the United States and that nation of Indians, are entitled to a reservation of land, which shall include their improvements, shall be authorized to locate said reservation in the following manner, viz: Every such chief or warrior shall and may select such four quarter sections, or such number of quarter sections and fractional parts of sections, not exceeding six hundred and forty acres of land, as have been or may be surveyed, in pursuance of the act of Congress, passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and as shall include their respective improvements. And in case such chief or warrior shall have resided at one place, and cultivated a farm or plantation at another place, he may, at his option, select such quarter sections and fractional parts of sections, as shall include his said separate improvements: Provided, however, That the lands so selected shall enure to such chief or warrior, so long only as he shall continue to occupy and cultivate the same; and, in case he shall not have abandoned the possession, shall, on his decease, descend to and vest in his heirs in fee simple, reserving to the widow of such chief or warrior the use and occupation of one-third part of said lands, during her natural life. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when any chief or warrior, so entitled to a reservation of land at the time of the signing of the treaty, shall have since died, and left a widow and child or children, who has or have continued to occupy and cultivate the said land, they shall have the right of selection in the same manner as the original claimant would have, if he were living; and the title of the lands, so selected, shall be a fee simple title in the child or children, reserving to the widow, if any, the use and occupation of onethird of the land during her life: Provided, however, That the said child or children shall not SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the child or children of any chief or warrior of the Creek nation, who resided within the limits of the said ceded country, at the commencement of the late Creek war, and who was killed or died in the service of the United States, during said war, or who has since died of wounds received therein, shall be entitled, without payment, to a reservation of so much land as such chief or warrior would have been entitled to, had he been living at the time said treaty was signed; which land shall be located in the manner prescribed by the first section of this act. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, the agent of the United States for the Creek nation shall immediatey proceed to take such evidence as each and every person, who may be entitled to lands under the provisions of it, shall be able to adduce in support of such title. The evidence shall, as far as practicable, be taken by the agent on the land occupied by such claimant; and in all cases where he shall be of opinion that the claim is a valid one, the quarter sections, including the improvements, shall be designated as provided for in the first section of this act; and the agent shall, without delay, return to the Secretary of the Treasury the evidence taken in each case, reserving a copy thereof, together with the names of the claimants, and the numbers of the quarter sections reserved for them, respectively. And the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President, shall finally decide on the validity of such claim. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the agents shall transmit, without delay, to the register of the land office for the district in which the lands may be, a statement of the names of the claimants, and the numbers of the quarter sections which have been reserved for each claimant; and the register of the land office shall not offer any such quarter section for sale, unless |