office, and the lots shall be offered, to the highest bidder, at public sale, on such day or days as the President shall, by his proclamation, designate for that purpose, and shall be sold on the same terms and conditions, in every respect (except as to the quantity of land) as have or may be provided for the sale of the other public lands in the said district; Provided, That no lot shall be sold for a less price than at the rate of six dollars per acre; nor shall there be reserved for the purpose aforesaid, more than one section in any one township. APPROVED, March 3, 1817. CHAP. LXIII.—An Act to provide for reports of the decisions of the Supreme Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the reporter who shall, from time to time, be appointed by the Supreme Court of the United States, to report its decisions, shall be entitled to receive, from the treasury of the United States, as an annual compensation for his services, the sum of one thousand dollars: Provided, nevertheless, The said compensation shall not be paid unless the said reporter shall print and publish, or cause to be printed and published, the decisions of said court, made during the time he shall act as such reporter, within six months after such decisions shall be made, and shall deliver eighty copies of the decisions, so printed and published, to the Secretary of State, without any expense to the United States, and which copies shall be distributed as follows, to wit: to the President of the United States, the judges of the Supreme Court, and the judges of the district courts, the attorney general of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the comp troller of the treasury, the Postmaster General, the commissioner of the revenue, the commissioner of the general land office, the judges of the several territories of the United States, the secretary of the Senate, the clerk of the House of Representatives, the auditor of the treasury, the register of the treasury, the treasurer of the United States, the paymaster general, the accountants of the War and Navy Departments, and to the commissioners of the navy, one copy each: and the residue of said copies shall be deposited in, and become part of, the library of Congress. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in case of the death, resignation, or dismission from office, of either of the officers before mentioned, the said copies of the decisions, delivered to them as aforesaid, shall belong to, and be delivered up to, their respective successors, in the said offices. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be, and continue in force for three years, and no longer. APPROVED, March 3, 1817. CHAP. LXV.—An Act to fix the peace establishment of the marine corps. (a) The acts in relation to the reporter, and reports of decisions of the Supreme Court, have been— An act to provide for reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court, expired, March 3, 1817, ch. 63. An act to continue in force " An act to provide for reports of decisions of the Supreme Court," May 15, 1820, expired, ch. 131. An act to continue in force the act entitled "An act to provide for reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court," passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, March 3, 1823, expired, ch. 34. An act to provide for reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court, expired, Feb. 22, 1827, ch. 18. An act to provide for the reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, Aug. 29, 1842, ch. 264. sioned 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 quartermaster, 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. 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 authorized by this act, which appointments shall be submitted to the Senate at their next session, for their advice and consent. APPROVED, March 3, 1817. Act of April 16, 1814, ch. 58. Supernume rary officers to be discharged, &c. The President may appoint any of the officers in the recess. STATUTE II. CHAP. LXVII.—An Act making an appropriation for opening and cutting out a March 3, 1817. road therein described. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, 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. [Obsolete. 4,000 dolls. appropriated for cutting out a road agreeably to the survey, &c. of Johnson and Dickson. Under direc tion of the Secretary of War STATUTE II. CHAP. LXIX.—An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to cause repay- March 3, 1817. ments to be made of certain alien duties. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, 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 have been entered in ports of the United States at any time between the seventeenth of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and the twenty-second of December in the same year, 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. [Obsolete.] Discrimina ting duties paid on British ves sels, from the 17th Aug. to 22d Dec. 1815, to be repaid, &c. Exception. STATUTE II. CHAP. LXXXV.-An Act to repeal so much of any acts now in force as author- March 3, 1817. ize a loan of money, or an issue of Treasury notes. [Obsolete.] Acts authorizing loans, &c. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 212 acts of Congress as authorizes the President of the United States to borrow money on the credit of the United States, and to cause certificates 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 acts. 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, always, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to affect the rights of any persons who may be the holders of treasury notes already issued. 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 Jawful for the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the treasury notes, [in] cases therein mentioned, to be re-issued 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. STATUTE II. March 3, 1917. [Obsolete.] Additional appropriation for defraying the expenses of the military es tablishment, and those incurred by calling out the militia. 15,000 dolls. for ascertaining Indian boundary line, &c. CHAP. LXXXVI.-An Act making additional appropriations to defray the erpenses of the army and militia during the late war with Great Britain. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, 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 pay of the army and militia, including the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of interest, advanced by the state of Pennsyl vania 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 quarter [master'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. For paying the expenses incurred in ascertaining and surveying the boundary lines established by the treaty lately made with the Creek Indians, fifteen thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums, hereby appropriated, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 3, 1817. CHAP. LXXXVII.-An Act to provide for the redemption of the public debt. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of any act or acts of Congress, as makes appropriations for the purchase or reimburse ment 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. STATUTE II. March 3, 1817. [Obsolete.] Acts making appropriation for the purchase, &c. of the funded debt, &c. repealed. An annual sum of 10,000, 000 dolls.appropriated to the sinking fund. Application of the money. The Secretary of the Treasury to pay the 10,000,000 dolls. to the commissioners of the sinking fund. Proviso; as to the time of Proviso; as to to the commis fore. 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 hereafter 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 [and] may be made at such times in each year as will enable the said commissioners payment. faithfully and punctually to comply with such engagement: Provided also, That any money which may have been paid, before the passage of payments made this act, to the commissioners of the sinking fund for the year one thou- sioners heretosand 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 he year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, on account of the appropriation of ten millions herein before directed. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in addition to the sum of ten millions of dollars, hereinbefore annually appropriated to the sinking fund, there shall be appropriated for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, to the sinking fund, the further sum of nine millions of dollars, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, at such time within the year as the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem most conducive to the public interest, to be applied by the commissioners of the sinking fund to the purchase or redemption 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 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 debt holden 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 1830, ch. 78 § 3. 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 dol 9,000,000 dolls. ap additional propriated to the sinking fund for the year 1817, &c. A further sum of 4,000,000 dolls. during 1817, in advance, if, &c. Purchase of by the bank, &c. Any surplus in the treasury, above appropri ations, and leaving two millars, then such surplus shall be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to lions there, ap- the sinking fund, to be paid at such times as the situation of the treasury propriated to the sinking will best permit; and shall be applied, by the commissioners thereof, to fund. the purchase or redemption of the public debt. When there is a surplus in the sinking fund,the commissioners may purchase the debt at the market price. 1830, ch. 786 3. The price not to exceed the rates specified. Certificates of the public debt which become the property of the United States, to be cancelled. No interest to accrue on certificates cancel led, &c. Nothing in this act to prevent Congress from applying surplus to other objects in case of war, &c. Nor to affect pledges of for mer acts, &c. Exception. 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 to 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 per annum, 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 reimbursable at the pleasure of government, estimating, in such computation, the interest of money at six per centum per annum. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all certificates of public debt which, by payment or purchase, have become, or hereafter shall become, the property of the United States, 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. And no interest shall be considered as accruing, and no further 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 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 any thing 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, that no payments shall be made on certificates which have become the property of the United States. APPROVED, March 3, 1817. STATUTE II. March 3, 1817. CHAP. LXXXVIII.-An Act making provision for the location of the lands reserved by the first article of the treaty of the ninth of August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, between the United States and the Creek nation, to certain chiefs and warriors of that nation, and for other purposes. Act of Feb. 20, 1819, ch. 28. Chiefs and warriors of the Creek nation authorized to locate their reservations of land. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the chiefs and warriors 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 |