Persons committing the crime of piracy on the high seas, to be punished with death.by the law of nations, and such offender or offenders, shall afterwards be brought into or found in the United States, every such offender or offenders shall, upon conviction thereof, before the circuit court of the United States for the district into which he or they may be brought, or in which he or they shall be found, be punished with death.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force until the end of the next session of Congress.
Approved, March 3, 1819.
Statute II.
Chap. LXXX.—An Act to continue in force, for a further term, the act entitled “An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes,” and for other purposes.
Act of March 2, 1811, ch. 30.
The act continued until 1st March, 1820.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled “An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes,” passed on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and which was, by subsequent acts, continued in force until the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, shall be, and the same is hereby, further continued in force until the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and no longer.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 104.
The President may transfer Indian agents.
Indian agent for Upper Missouri with a salary of $1800.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States shall have power, and he is hereby authorized, in every case where he shall judge it expedient, to transfer any of the Indian agents, whose compensation was fixed by the act, entitled “An act fixing the compensation of Indian agents and factors,” from the places designated by the said act for the discharge of their duties, respectively, to such other places as the public service may require; and shall also have power to appoint, by and with the consent and advice of the Senate, an Indian agent for the Upper Missouri, whose annual compensation shall be one thousand eight hundred dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1819.
Statute II.
Chap. LXXXI.—An Act regulating the payments to invalid pensioners.
Proviso; affidavit not necessary in case of total disability. the affidavit of two surgeons or physicians, whose credibility, as such, shall be certified by the magistrate before whom the affidavit is made, stating the continuance of the disability for which the pension was originally granted, (describing it,) and the rate of such disability at the time of making the affidavit, shall accompany the application of the first payment which shall fall due after the fourth day of March next, and at the end of every two years thereafter; and if, in case of a continued disability, it shall be stated at a rate below that for which the pension was originally granted, the applicant shall only be paid at the rate states in the affidavit: Provided, That where the pension shall have been originally granted for a total disability, on consequence of the loss of a limb, or other cause which cannot, either in whole or in part, be removed, the above affidavit shall not be necessary to entitle the applicant to payment: And provided, also, That this act shall not extend to the invalids of the revolution, who have been, or shall be, placed on the pension list, pursuant to an act of Congress, entitledAct of March 18, 1818, ch. 19. “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,” approved the
