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of Illinois, which are now directed by law to be held on the third Mondays of June and November in each year, shall hereafter be held on the first Mondays of May and December in each year; and all process which may have issued, or which shall hereafter issue, returnable to the next succeeding terms of the said District Court as here. tofore established, shall be held returnable, and be returned, to those terms to which they are severally changed by this act.

Approved, January 27, 1831.

zens of the United States, or resident therein, who shall be the author or authors of any book or books, map, chart, or musical composition, which may be now made or composed, and not printed and published, or shall hereafter be made or composed, or who shall invent, design, etch, engrave, work, or cause to be engraved, etched, or worked from his own design, any print or engraving, and the executors, administrators, or legal as signs of such person or persons, shall have the sole right and liberty of printing, re-printing, publishing, and vending such book or books, map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engraving, in whole or in part. for the term of twenty eight years from the time of recording the title thereof, in the manner hereinafter directed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if, at the expiration of the aforesaid term of years, such author, inventor, designer, engraver, or any of them, where the work had been originally composed and made by more than one person, be still living, and a citizen or citizens of the United States, or resident therein, or being dead, shall have left a widow, or child, or children, either or all then living, the same exclusive right shall be continued to such author, designer, or engraver, or, if dead, then to such widow and child, or children, for the further term of fourteen years: Provided, That the title of the work so secured shall be a second time recorded, and all such other regulations as are herein required in regard to ori ginal copy-rights, be complied with in respect to such renewed copy-right, and that within six months before the expiration of the first term.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in all cases of renewal of copy-right under this act, such author or proprietor shall, within two months from the date of said renewal, cause a copy of the record thereof to be pub lished in one or more of the newspapers printed in the United States, for the space of four weeks.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That no person shall be entitled to the benefit of this act, unless he shail give information of copy-right being secured, by causing to be inserted, in the several copies of each and every edition published during the term secured on the title page, or the page immediately following, if it be a book, or, ifa map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engrav ing, by causing to be impressed on the face thereof, or if a volume of maps, charts, music, or engravings, upon the title or frontispiece thereof, the following words, viz: "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year by A. B., in the clerk's office of the district court of " (as the case may be.) SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That if any other person or persons, from and after the recording the title of any book or books, according to this act, shall, within the term or terms herein limited, print, publish, or import, or cause to be printed, published, or imported, any copy of such book, or books, without the consent of the person legally entitled to the copy-right thereof, first had and obtained in writing, signed in presence of two or more credible witnesses, or shall, knowing the same to be so printed or imported, publish, sell, or expose to sale, or cause to be published, sold, or exposed to sale, any copy of such book without such consent in writing; then such offender shall forfeit every copy of such book to the person legally, at the time, entitled to the copy. right thereof; and shall also forfeit and pay fifty cents for every such sheet which may be found in his possession, either printed or printing, published, imported, or exposed to sale, contrary to the intent of this act, the one moiety thereof to such legal owner of the copy-right as aforesaid, and the other to the use of the United States, to be recovered by action of debt in any court having competent jurisdiction thereof.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That, if any per son or persons, after the recording the title of any print, or cut, or engraving, map, chart, or musical composition, according to the provisions of this act, shall, within the term or terms, limited by this act, engrave, etch, or work, sell, or copy, or cause to be engraved, etched, worked, or sold, or copied, either on the whole, or by varying, adding to, or diminishing the main design, with intent to evade the law, or shall print or import for sale, or cause to be printed or imported for sale, any such map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engraving, or any parts thereof, without the consent of the proprietor or proprietors of the copy-right thereof, first obtained in writing, signed in the presence of two credible witnes ses; or, knowing the same to be so printed or imported without such consent, shall publish, sell or expose to sale, or in any manner dispose of any such map, chart, musi cal composition, engraving, cut, or print, without such consent, as aforesaid, then such an offender or offenders shall forfeit the plate or plates on which such map, chart, musical composition, engraving, cut, or print, shall be copied, and also all and every sheet thereof so copied or printed, as aforesaid, to the proprietor or proprietors of the copy-right thereof; and shall further forfeit one do!. lar for every sheet of such map, chart, musical composi tion, print, cut, or engraving, which may be found in his or their possession, printed or published, or exposed to sale, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act; the one moiety thereof to the proprietor or pro prietors, and the other moiety to the use of the United States, to be recovered in any court having competent

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That no person shall be entitled to the benefit of this act, unless he shall, before publication, deposit a printed copy of the title of such book, or books, map, chart, musica! composition, print, cut, or engraving, in the clerk's office of the district court of the said district wherein the author or proprie tor shall reside, and the clerk of such court is hereby directed and required to record the same thereof forthwith, in a book to be kept for that purpose, in the words following (giving a copy of the title, under the seal of the court, to the said author or proprietor, whenever he shall require the same:) "District of to wit: Be it remembered, that on the day of Anno domini, A. B. of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, (map, chart, or otherwise, as the case may,) the title of which is in the words following, to wit. (here insert the title,) the right whereof he claims as author (or proprietor as the case may be;) in conformity with an act of Congress, entitled An act to amend the several acts respecting copyrights.' C. D. Clerk of the District." For which record, the clerk shall be entitled to receive, from the person claiming such right as aforesaid, fifty cents; and the like sum for every copy, under seal, actually given to such person or his assigns. And the author or proprietor of any such book, map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engraving, shall, within three months from the publication of said book, map, chart, musical com position, print, cut, or engraving, deliver or cause to be delivered a copy of the same to the clerk of said district. And it shall be the duty of the clerk of each dis-jurisdiction thereof. trict court, at least once in every year, to transmit a certified list of all such records of copy-right, including the titles so recorded, and the dates of record, and also all the several copies of books or other works deposited in his office according to this act, to the Secretary of State, to be preserved in his office.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act shall be construed to extend to prohibit the importation of vending, printing, or publishing, of any map, chart, book, musical composition, print or engraving, written, compos ed, or made, by any person not being a citizen of the United States, nor resident within the jurisdiction thereof.

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SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That any person or persons, who shall print or publish any manuscript what ever without the consent of the author or legal proprietor first obtained as aforesaid, (if such author or proprie tor be a citizen of the United States, or resident therein,) shall be liable to suffer and pay to the author or proprietor, all damages occasioned by such injury, to be recovered by a special action on the case founded upon this act, in any court having cognizance thereof and the several courts of the United States empowered to grant in-clusive enjoyment of said copy-right, with the benefit of junctions to prevent the violation of the rights of authors and inventors are hereby empowered to grant injunctions, in like manner, according to the principles of equity, to restrain such publication of any manuscript as aforesaid.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That, whenever a copy-right has been heretofore obtained by an author or authors, inventor, designer, or engraver, of any book, map, chart, print, cut, or engraving, or by a proprietor of the same: if such author or authors, or either of them, such inventor, designer, or engraver, be living at the passage of this act, then such author or authors, or the survivor of them, such inventor, engraver, or designer, shall continue to have the same exclusive right to his book, chart, map, print, cut, or engraving, with the benefit of each and all the provisions of this act, for the security thereof. for such additional period of time as will, to- | null and void.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War cause to be issued to William Jackson, a private in the Virginia line in the Revolutionary War, a duplicate of military bounty land warrant, number one thousand and thirty-six, for one hundred acres of land, which issued to said William Jackson on the thirteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, and which has been lost; and that said William Jackson shall have all the right under said duplicate that he could or might have under the original warrant; and the said original warrant is hereby declared null and void.

Approved: February 3, 1831.

AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An Act to quiet the titles of certain purchasers of lands between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in the State of Ohio," approved the twenty-sixth of May, in the year eigh. teen hundred and thirty.

soon as may be, the south-west, north-west, and north. east quarters of section number twenty-five, of township number six, in range number one west, in the Cincin nati District, under the same rules and regulations that govern the sale of other public lands of the United States.

Approved, February 12, 1831.

AN ACT to amend the act granting "certain relinquish ed and unappropriated lands to the State of Alabama, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Tennessee, Coosa, Cahawba, and Black warrior rivers," approved the twenty-third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

Be it enacted, &c. That it shall and may be lawful for the State of Alabama, by the Board of Canal Commissioners appointed by her for that purpose, to contract for and construct that part of the canal round the Muscle shoals, beginning at Campbell's ferry, and running up the river to Lamb's ferry, before they contract for, or complete that part of the said contemplated canal between Campbell's ferry and Florence; any thing in the act to which this is an amendment to the conttary notwithstanding.

Be it enacted, &c. That in addition to the sum appropriated by the act, entitled "An act to quiet the titles of certain purchasers of lands between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in the State of Ohio," approved the twenty-sixth of May, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty, the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any money in the TreaSEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the sury not otherwise appropriated, to Philip Doddridge, duty of the Engineers of the United States who have the claimant of the Virginia military survey, numbered this matter in charge, to furnish to said Board of Com six thousand nine hundred and twenty eight, for seven missi. Lers, as soon as practicable, a plan of that section hundred acres, being one of the Virginia military surveys, of the Canal above contemplated first to be executed, in the said act mentioned, lying between the lines of connecting it with the river at or near to Campbell's ferLudlow and Roberts, in the State of Ohio, the sum of y, and at the most eligible point at, or immediately beone thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and low Lamb's ferry, on the cheapest practicable plan, in sixty-eight cents, with interest at the rate of six per cen-conformity with said original act, to be approved by the tum per annum, from the fifth day of March eighteen and twenty five, until paid; the said Philip having alrea Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the section of dy conveyed to the United States the title to the said said Canal above Lamb's ferry, shall, by said Engineers, seven hundred acres of land, in the manner directed by be so planned as to connect it with the deep water in the President of the United States, pursuant to the pro- the river at or above Lamb's ferry, and the section be visions of the act of Congress before recited. This act low Campbell's ferry, shall, in like manner, be connect shall commence and be in force from the passing thereof.ed with the deep water at or below said last mentioned Approved: February 12, 1831. ferry.

AN ACT to repeal the charges imposed on passports and clearances.

Be it enacted, &c. That, so much of the act of the first of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, entitled "An act providing passports for the ships and vessels of the United States," as imposes a charge of ten dollars for passports, and of four dollars for a clearance, to any ship or vessel bound on a voyage to any foreign country, be, and the same is hereby repealed, to take effect from and after the thirty-first day of March of the present year.

Approved February 12, 1831.

AN ACT authorizing the Secretary of State to issue a patent to John Powell.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue let. ters patent, in the usual form, to John Powell, for his invention of a machine "for the purpose of separating the metal from gold ore, and the auriferous earth of alluvial deposites," upon his compliance with all the provisions of the existing laws, except so far as they require, on the part of aliens, a residence of two years in the United

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President of the United States.

Approved, February 12, 1831.

AN ACT to authorize the transportation of merchandise by land or by water with the benefit of debenture. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the passage of this act, all goods, wares, or merchandise imported into the United States, the duties on which have been paid, or secured to be paid, may be transported by land, or partly by land and partly by water, from the district into which they were imported to two other districts, and exported from either of them with the benefit of drawback: Provided, That all regulations and formalities now in force relating to the transportation of goods, wares, or merchandise, by land or by water, from the district into which they were imported to another district, for the benefit of brawback, and such other regulations as are Pr scribed under and by virtue of the act to which this is wares, or merchandise, to other districts, shall be coman, ddition, for the further transportation of such goods, plied with: And provided also, That all the regulations and formalities now in force, respecting the exportation of goods, wares, and merchandise, for the benefit of draw. back, shall be complied with, so far as may be consistent with the other provisions of the act to which this is an addition; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to prescribe the form of the transportation of such goods, wares, or merchandise, certificate to be used, and the oaths to be taken, on the from the second district into which they may be so brought to the third district.

Approved: February 12, 1831.

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AN ACT for the relief of William Smith, administrator of
John Taylor, deceased.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Register of the Land Of fice at Cahawba be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to cancel the relinquishment made by the said William Smith, as administrator of John Taylor, deceased, on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, of the west half of the south west quarter of land, of section fifteen, in township ten, of range fourteen, in Butler county, in the State of Alabama, and which still remains unsold by the United States; and that he be authorized and directed to deliver over the certificate therefor to the said William; and the said William Smith is authorized and empowered to dispose of the same by assignment or otherwise, in as full and ample manner, to all intents and purposes, which he might or could have done before the relinquishment thereof, and that all the benefits and privileges given by this act to the said William Smith shall be given and extended to his assignee or assignees; and that the said William Smith, or his assignee or assignees, be allowed to hold the same, free from forfeiture for twelve months from the passage of this law: Provided, nevertheless, That the said William Smith shall, before he be entitled to the benefit of this act, pay over to the receiver of public moneys at Cahawba, the sum of ninety-nine dollars and ninety-eight and a quarter cents, that being the full amount of money which had been paid thereon previous to the relinquishment, and which has been transferred and credited on other lands purchased by his intestate in his lifetime.

Approved, February 12, 1831.

AN ACT to provide hereafter for the payment of six thousand dollars annually to the Seneca Indians, and for other purposes.

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superintend the sales of public lands within said district, who shall give security in the same manner, in the same sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, duties, and authorities, shall, in every respect, be the same, in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their office, as are or may be by law provided, in relation to the Registers and Receivers of Public Moneys in the several offices established for the sale of public lands.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the public lands lying east of the Meridian line in the Territory aforesaid, which are not now embraced in the district of Detroit, be, and they are hereby, attached thereto; and it shall be the duty of the Register and Receiver of the Land Office in said district to deposit in the Land Office at Detroit all the records, books and papers, surveys, &c. which pertain to said Land Office at Monroe, which shall be kept by the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at Detroit, as a part of the records of said office. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all such public lands as shall have been offered for sale to the highest bidder at Monroe or Detroit, pursuant to any proclamation of the President of the United States, and which are embraced within the provisions of this act, and which lands remain unsold at the taking effect of this act, shall be subject to be entered and sold at private sale, by the Registers of the Land Offices to which they are hereby attached; and all provisions of law applicable to the public lands, to which this act applies, shall continue in full force and effect.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That so much of the State of Illinois as lies between the Illinois and Mississip pi rivers, bounded on the south by the base line, on the north by the northern boundary of that State, and on the extreme east by the third principal Meridian, be formed into a separate land district, the offices for which to be located where it will best accommodate purchasers and others, by the President; and a Register and Receiver shall be appointed at such time as the President of the United States shall deem proper.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That another dis

dividing line between townships sixteen and seventeen north of the base line, and east of the third principal Meridian, including all that part of the State to its northern boundary, the offices for which to be located by the President, where the public interest and the convenience of purchasers may require; and a Register and Receiver shall be appointed at such time as the President of the United States shall decm proper.

Be it enacted, &c. That the proceeds of the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, being the amount placed in the hands of the President of the United States, in trust, for the Seneca tribe of Indians, situated in the State of Newtrict be also formed in that State, on the north of the York, be hereafter passed to the credit of the Indian ap- | propriation fund and that the Secretary of War be authorized to receive and pay over to the Seneca tribe of Indians, the sum of six thousand dollars, annually, in the way and manner, as heretofore practised, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorized to receive and pay over to the Seneca tribe of Indians, the sum of two thousand six hundred and fourteen dollars and forty cents, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, on account of the deficiency, by that amount, in the sum paid over to said Indians the last year. Approved, February 19, 1831.

AN ACT to establish a Land Office in the Territory of
Michigan, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted, &c. That all the public lands.to which the Indian title has been extinguished, lying west of the meridian line, in the Territory of Michigan, shall constitute a new land district; and, for the sale of the public lands within the said district, there shall be a Land Of fice established at such place within the district, as the President of the United States may designate, who is hereby authorized to change the location of such office, whenever, in his opinion, the public interest may require it.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Land Office now established at Monroe, shall be removed to the place designated for the location of this office, and the Register and Receiver of the Monroe Land Office, shall

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Registers and Receivers shall reside, respectively, at the places where the Land Offices are located, give security in the same manner, in the same sums, and whose compensa. tion, emoluments, and duties, and authority, in every respect, be the same, in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as may be by law provided in relation to the Registers and Receivers of public mo. neys in the several offices established for the disposal of the lands of the United States north-west of the river Ohio.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the said lands shall be disposed of in the same manner, and on the same terms and conditions, as are or may be provided by law for the sale of other lands of the United States: Provided, that no tracts of land excepted from sales by virtue of any former acts, shall be sold by virtue of this act.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That all the lands to which the Indian title is extinguished, lying in that part of the State of Indiana which is east of the Lake Michigan, bordering upon the northern line of said State, and not attached to any land district, shall be, and the same are hereby, attached to the Fort Wayne District. Approved, February 19, 1831.