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the amount thereof, which shall be deemed equitable, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Librarian’s salary fixed.
Repealed by act of April 18, 1818, ch. 69.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the librarian for attending said library, an annual salary of one thousand dollars, payable quarterly at the treasury of the United States, to commence and take effect from and after the twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.

Attorney general to have the use of the books in the library.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the privilege of using the books in the library shall be extended to the attorney general of the United states and the members of the diplomatic corps on the same terms and conditions, as it is enjoyed by the judges of the supreme court.

Approved, April 16, 1816.


Statute I.


April 16, 1816.

Chap. XLVII.An Act supplementary to an act, entitled “An act to incorporate a company for making certain turnpike roads within the district of Columbia.”

The company incorporated by the act of April 20, 1810, ch. 26, may extend the road.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the company for making certain turnpike roads in the district of Columbia, established by an act of Congress, passed on the twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten, be authorized and empowered to open and make a turnpike road, at their own risk and expense, from the eastern branch bridge, to meet a road to be opened and made under the authority of the state of Maryland, from Edward H. Calvert’s mill, in Prince George’s county, to the line of the district of Columbia.

Tolls.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said company may demand and receive the same tolls as are allowed for a like distance by the act to which this is a supplement, and shall possess and enjoy the same rights and privileges, and be subject to the same limitations, pains and penalties, as are prescribed, enjoined and directed by the aforesaid act, and an act in addition thereto,1810, ch. 27. passed on the twenty-fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten.

Approved, April 16, 1816.


Statute I.


April 16, 1816.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. XLIX.An Act further extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants, and for other purposes.

Certain military land warrants to be issued by the Secretary of War.
Act of March 9, 1818, ch. 15.
Act of Feb. 24, 1819, ch. 41.
Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 15.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 38.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 111.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 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 eighteen, produced 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 name of the holders or proprietors thereof, prior to the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, on any unlocated parts of the fifty quarter townships, and the fractional quarter townships, reserved by law for original holders of military land warrants. And patents shall be granted, for the land located under this act, in the same manner as is directed by former acts granting military lands.

At the expiration of the term limited by this act, the surveyor general to be furnished by commissioner of general land office with a list of lots there unlocated.
Unlocated lots to be sold.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That at the expiration of the term limited by this act, for the location of the military land warrants aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the commissioner of the general land office, to transmit to the surveyor general a list of all the lots of land within the fifty quarter townships and fractional quarter townships, which shall at the time remain unlocated; and the surveyor general shall prepare and