Agents at Paris and London.For the salaries of the agents for claims on account of spoliations, and for seamen, at London and Paris, four thousand dollars.
Agent at Copenhagen.For nine months’ salary of the agent at Copenhagen, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Relief of American seamen.For the relief of distressed American seamen for the present year, and to make good a deficiency in the preceding year, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For payment of sums under the act mentioned.
1816, ch. 149.To provide for the payment of the sums directed to be paid by an act of the twenty-ninth April, eighteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An act for settling the compensation of the commissioner, clerk, and translator of the board for land claims in the eastern and western district for the territory of Orleans, now state of Louisiana,” six thousand four hundred and eighty-one dollars.
For discharging claims not otherwise provided for, admitted at the Treasury.
For custom-houses and warehouses.For the discharge of such claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, six thousand dollars.
For the purchase or erection of custom-houses and public warehouses, two hundred thousand dollars.
For discharging the judgment obtained by Gould Hoyt against D. Gelston and P. Schenk, &c.For discharging the judgment obtained by Gould Hoyt against David Gelston and Peter Schenk, in an action of trespass for seizing the ship American Eagle under instructions from the Treasury Department, a sum not exceeding one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For indemnifying the owners of the British ship Venus, &c.To indemnify the owners of the British ship Venus, taken by the Peacock after the conclusion of the peace with Great Britain, a sum not exceeding seven thousand six hundred and seventy-eight dollars.
Approved, April 4, 1818.
Statute I.
Chap. XLVII.—An Act to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office; and for designating the western boundary line of the Virginia military tract.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 31.
Act of Feb. 9, 1821, ch. 11.
Act of March 1, 1823, ch. 39.
Officers and soldiers of the Virginia line entitled to bounty lands, allowed two years from the ratification of any treaty extinguishing Indian titles, &c. to obtain warrants, &c.
And three years to return their surveys, &c.
The act authorizing patents to issue for lands surveyed in virtue of Virginia resolution warrants, revived, &c. except, &c.
Proviso: no location on tracts for which patents had previously issued or which had been surveyed, &c.
Proviso: no locations or surveys within that part of the military tract, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on continental establishment, their heirs, and assigns, entitled to bounty lands, within the Virginia military tract, between the Little Miami and the Sciota rivers, shall be allowed a further term of two years, from the ratification of any treaty extinguishing the Indian title to lands within the said boundaries not heretofore extinguished, to obtain warrants and complete their locations; and a further term of three years, from the ratification of any treaty extinguishing the Indian title to lands within the said boundaries not heretofore extinguished, as aforesaid, to return their surveys and warrants, or certified copies of warrants, to the general land office; any thing in any former act to the contrary notwithstanding.
- ↑ An act authorizing patents to issue for lands located and surveyed under Virginia resolution warrants, Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 31.
