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passed the eighteenth day of February,one thousand seven hunProviso; vessel to dred and ninety three: Provided, That all the provisions of be deemed, &c. said act, respecting the licensing of ships or vessels for the coasting trade and fisheries, shall be deemed and taken to be applicable to licenses and to vessels licensed for carrying on the mackerel fishery.

[Approved, 24 May, 1828.]

Sums appropria. ted.

Pay, &c. &c.

For medicines.

For outfits.

For repairs, &c.

CHAP. 110. An ACT in addition to "An act making an appropriation for the support of the Navy of the United States for the year 1828.”

[SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, viz :

For pay, subsistence, and provisions, thirty-five thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.

For medicines and hospital stores, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For outfits, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For repairs, and for wear and tear, ten thousand dollars.
Approved, 24 May, 1828.]

After the passing

son to receive the

assistant surgeon.

&c. by a board of

CHAP. 111. An ACT for the better organization of the Medical Department of the Navy of the United States.

[SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the passing of this act, no person shall reof this act, no perceive the appointment of assistant Surgeon in the Navy of the appointment of United States, unless he shall have been examined and approv. unless examined, ed by a Board of Naval Surgeons, who shall be designated for Naval Surgeons that purpose, by the Secretary of the Navy Department; and no person shall receive the appointment of Surgeon in the Navy of the United States until he shall have served as an Assistant Surgeon at least two years, on board a public vessel of the United States, at sea, and unless, also, he shall have been examined and approved by a board of Surgeons constituted as aforesaid.

nate, &c. to every

an intelligent sur

naval service of

President of the SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of U. s. may desig: the United States may designate and appoint to every fleet or ficet or squadron squadron an experienced and intelligent Surgeon, then in the geon, then in the naval service of the United States, to be denominated "Surthe U. S. to be de- geon of the Fleet," who shall be Surgeon of the flag ship, and who, in addition to his duties as such, shall examine and арprove all requisitions for medical and hospital stores for the fleet, and inspect their quality; and who shall, in difficult cases, con

nominated, &c.

sult with the Surgeons of the several ships, and make records of the character and treatment of diseases, to be transmitted to the Navy Department; and who, in addition to the compensation allowed to Surgeons at sea, shall be allowed double rations while acting as Surgeon of the fleet as aforesaid.

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receive each g30

tions a day, &c.

SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That Assistant Surgeons Assistant surgeons who shall have been commissioned less than five years, shall commissioned less each receive thirty dollars a month, and two rations a day; af than five years to ter five years service, they shall be entitled to an examination a month and 2 raby a Board of Naval Surgeons, constituted as aforesaid, and having been approved and passed by such board, they shall each receive an addition of fire dollars a month, and one ration a day; and, after ten years service, a further addition of five dollars a month, and one ration a day.

ceived his ap

in provided for, to

month and 2 ra

SECT. 4. And be it further enacted, That every Surgeon who Every surgeon shall have received his appointment, as is hereinbefore provi- who shall have res ded for, shall receive fifty dollars a month, and two rations a pointment as here day; after five years service, he shall be entitled to receive receive, 850 per fifty five dollars a month and an additional ration a day; and, tions a day, &e. after ten years service, he shall receive sixty dollars a month and an additional ration a day; and, after twenty years service, he shall receive seventy dollars a month and the rations as last aforesaid.

Every assistant

having faithfully

SECT. 5. And be it further enacted, That every Assistant, Surgeon (after having faithfully served two years) shall, while surgeon, after in actual service at sea, in addition to the usual compensation served for two allowed him by law, receive double rations, and five dollars a tual service at sea. month; and every Surgeon in the Navy, while in actual ser- month in addition vice at sea, shall also, in addition to his usual compensation, receive double rations, and ten dollars a month.

[Approved, 24 May, 1828.]

years, while in acto receive 85 per to the usual com

pensation.

CHAP. 112. An ACT authorizing the Legislative Council of the Territory of
Michigan to take charge of School Lands in said Territory.

&c. as they may

to protect from

[SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Governor and Legislative Council of the Territory Governor, &c. to of Michigan be, and they are hereby, authorized to make make such laws, such laws and needful regulations, as they shall deem most deem expedient, expedient, to protect from injury and waste section numbered injury, &c. secsixteen, in said Territory, reserved in each township, for the tion 16 reserved in support of schools therein; and to provide, by law, for leasing schools, &e. the same, for any term not exceeding four years, in such manner as to render them productive, and most conducive to the objects for which they were designed.

[Approved, 24 May, 1828.}

cach township, for the support of

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CHAP. 113. An ACT making appropriations for the Military Service of the United States, for the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

[SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, approted for the Milita priated for the Military Service of the United States, for the 1st quarter of 1829, first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, to wit:

Sums appropria

ry service for the

For the pay of the army, &c.

For forage for offi.

cers.

For clothing of

For pay of the army, and pay and subsistence of the officers, two hundred and sixty four thousand and seventy-six dollars. For forage for officers, ten thousand and thirty two dollars. For clothing of officers' servants, four thousand nine hun

officers' servants dred and forty-two dollars.

For the recruiting

service

For the contin

For the recruiting service, nine thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, four gent expenses of thousand dollars.

the same.

For the Subsis

For the Subsistence Department, fifty four thousand two tence Depart hundred dollars.

For the Purchas

For the Purchasing Department, forty-four thousand five ing Departments hundred and ninety four dollars and thirty seven cents. For the Medical Department, six thousand dollars. For the Quarter Master General's Department, eighty-five Master General's thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.

For the Medical
Department.

For the Quarter

Department.

For the Military

For the Military Academy at West Point, three thousand

Academy at West dollars.

Point.

For the contin

For the contingencies of the Army, two thousand five hungencies of the ar- dred dollars.

For the National Armories, ninety thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the Ordnance Service, sixteen expenses of the thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For the current

Ordnance Depart

ment.

For armament of new fortifications, twenty-five thousand For armament of dollars.

new Fortifications.

ted, to

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sums herein apSums appropriaPpropria propriated shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not from the Treasu- otherwise appropriated; but that no part of the same shall be drawn from the Treasury before the first January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

ry; but, &c.

[Approved, 24 May, 1828.]

815,000 appropri

CHAP. 114. An ACT making appropriations to enable the President of the
United States to defray the expenses of delegations of the Choctaw, Creek,
Cherokee, and Chickasaw, and other tribes of Indians, to explore the coun-
try West of the Mississippi.

[SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is

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delegations of the

&e. Indians West

hereby, appropriated, to enable the President of the United
States to employ suitable persons to conduct delegations of the ated to enable the
Choctaw, Creeks, Cherokees, and Chickasaw, and such other President to em-
ploy suitable per-
tribes of Indians as may be disposed to send delegations West sons to conduct
of the Mississippi, for the purpose of exploring the unoccupied Choctaw, Creek,
lands of the United States without the limits of the States and of the Mississippi,
Territories, preparatory to the final emigration of said Indians. occupied lands of
SECT, 2 And be it further enacted, That the President of the U.S.
the United States is hereby authorized to defray the expenses ses not to exceed
of the delegations aforesaid, not exceeding the amount of the the above sum.
above appropriation; to be paid out of any money in the Trea-
sury not otherwise appropriated.

[Approved, 24 May, 1828.]

to explore the un

Amount of expen

CHAP. 115. An ACT to establish sundry Post Roads and to discontinue

others.

[SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following be established as Post Roads :

IN MAINE.

From Damariscotta Mills, by West Jefferson and Windsor, In Maine. to Palermo.

From Waterville, by Clinton, Albion and Freedom, to Belfast;

From Rumford Point, by Dixfield, Canton, North Livermore East Livermore, Wayne, and Winthrop, to Augusta; and that so much of the route from Readfield to Rumford Point, as interferes with this route, be discontinued ;

From Augusta, through South Vassalborough, South China, Palermo, North Palermo, Montville, North Searsmont, and Belmont, to Belfast;

From Green to Farmington;

From Standish, through East Baldwin, Sebago, Bridgetown and Denmark, to Fryeburg;

From Parsonfield, through Porter, and the westerly part of Brownfield, to Fryeburg;

From Augusta, through Belgrade, Rome, New Sharon, Industry, and New Vineyard, to New Portland;

From New Sharon, through Industry, New Vineyard, and New Portland, to Kingfield;

From the Great Falls, in the State of New Hampshire, to the Little Falls, in Lebanon, Maine.

IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.

From Milford, through Dunstable, to Derry;
From Farmington to Dover;

In New Hamp-
shire.

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In Massachusetts.

In Connecticut.

In Vermont.

From Concord, by Chichester, Pittsfield, Barnstead, Strafford, Barrington, and Madbury, to Dover;

From Walpole, by Drewsville, Langdon, and Alstead to Marlow;

From Lower Bartlett, through Adam's and Pinkham's Grant, to Randolph ;

From Haverhill, through Bath and Lyman, to Lyman Bridge, thence to the Lower Village, in Barnet, Vermont;

From Glenville, by Bethlehem and Whitefield, to Lancas

From Taunton, to Providence, by Rehoboth Village;
From Newburyport, by Salisbury, Amesbury, Haverhill,
Methuen, aud Dracut, to Lowell;

From Canton, by Sharon, and Foxborough Meeting-houses, to East Attleborough ;

From Greenfield, through Shelburne, Buckland, and Hawley, to Savoy;

From Ware, through Hardwick, Petersham, Athol, and Royalston, in Massachusetts, and Richmond, and Swanzey, in New Hampshire, to Keene.

IN CONNECTICUT.

From Springfield, Massachusetts, by Somers, Connecticut, on the Burbank Road, Tolland, Mansfield, Beardley's Store, and Windham, to Norwich;

From Sharon, through Salisbury, Great Hallow, the valley of Housatonic, and Fall's village, to North Canaan;

From Lyme, through the Village of Hamburg, Comstock's Ferry, East Haddam Landing, Leesville, Middle Haddam, Glastenbury, and East Hartford, to the city of Hartford;

From Farmington, by Sunbury Meeting house, to Granby; From Robin's Inn, in Voluntown, by Griswold's Meeting house, to Jewett City;

From Windham, Old Court House, through Mansfield, and Wellington, to Stafford Springs;

IN VERMONT.

From Bellow's Falls, through Saxon's River Village and Athens to Townshend;

From Arlington, through Sandgate, to Salem, New York; From Chelsea, through Vershire, by Portsmills, to Thetford Meeting house;

From Guildhall, through Burke, Sutton, Barton, and Irasburg, by the Episcopal Church, in Berkshire, to St. Albans ; From Richford, by Berkshire, Franklin, and Powell's Falls, in Highgate, to the Village of St. Albans ;

From Bakersfield, through Fairfield, to St. Albans ;

From Hardwick, through Greensborough, Barton, and Brownington, to Derby.