ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS 1831 OF THE UNITED STATES: PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION, WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD AT THE Andrew Jackson, President. J. C. Calhoun, Vice-President, and President of the Senate. Andrew Stevenson, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. 1. An ACT to change the time of holding the rule term of the . [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the District Judge of Tennessee, to hold a term of the Circuit Court at Nashville, for the District of West Tennessee, on the first Monday in March, in each year, who shall have power to make all necessary rules and orders touching any suit, action, appeal, writ of error, process, pleadings, or proceedings, that may be pending in said Circuit Court, or that may have issued returnable to the Circuit Court to be holden on the first Monday in September next, preparatory to the hearing, trial or decision of such action, suit, appeal, writ of error, process, pleadings or proceedings; and all writs and process may hereafter be returnable to the said Courts to be holden on the first Monday in March, in the same manner as to the sessions of the Circuit Courts directed by law to be held at Nashville on the first Monday in September of each year; and the writs and other process returnable to the said Circuit Court on the first Monday in September, may bear teste on the first Monday in March. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said District Judge shall have power to adjourn from day to day, or to any other period of time, more than three months before the September term of said Court: Provided, That no final judgment except judgment be rendered at said term to be held by the District by consent. Judge, except by the consent of both parties. [Approved, January 13, 1831.] Proviso: No final 1831 exonerated from obligation to ren der an annualec't CHAP. 2. An ACT to amend an act, entitled “An act to provide for paying to the State of Illinois three per centum of the nett proceeds arising from the sale of the public lands within the same. [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, State of Illinois That so much of the act, entitled, "An act to provide for paying to the State of Illinois three per centum of the nett proof the applension coeds arising from the sale of the public lands within the same," approved the twelfth of December, eighteen hundred and twenty, as requires an annual account of the application, by the said State, of the said three per centum to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, be, and the same is hereby repealed. [Approved, January 13, 1831.] of the 3 per cent. Chippewa School 1000 dolls. Putawattamie annuity and edu CHAP. 3. An ACT making appropriations for carrying into effect certain [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 the same are hereby appropriated, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty: For the annual support of a school for the education of Indian youth, as stipulated for by the sixth article of the treaty of the fifth of August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, with the Chippewa tribe of Indians, one thousand dollars: For the payment of the annuity of two thousand dollars, cation, 4000 dolls. and also the sum of two thousand dollars for education, as stipulated for by the third article of the treaty of the sixteenth October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, with the Potawattamies, the annual sum of four thousand dollars; Blacksmith, &e. 1520 dolls. Potawattamie Tobacco, &c. 1900 dolls. Miamie annuity, 25000 dolls. For the annual support of a blacksmith and miller, and for furnishing annually one hundred and sixty bushels of salt, under the same treaty, one thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; For the payment of the permanent and limited annuities provided for by the second article of the treaty with the Potawattamies, of the twentieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, annually the sum of three thousand dollars; For tobacco, iron, steel, education, annuity to the principal chief, and employment of laborers, by same article, one thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars; For payment of permanent annuity under the fourth article of the treaty with the Miamies, of the twenty-third of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, twenty-five thousand dollars; 1831 For iron, steel, tobacco, and laborers, by same article, one Iron, &c. 1100. thousand one hundred dollars. &e. 2000 dolls. For support of the poor and infirm, and for education, un- Support of poor, der the sixth article of said treaty, two thousand dollars. [Approved, January 13, 1831.] CHAP. 4. An ACT for the benefit of schools in Lawrence county, Missis sippi. be located. [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That one section of the public lands subject to private entry Section of land to and sale in the State of Mississippi, be located for the use and benefit of schools in Lawrence county, in said State, in lieu of the sixteenth section sold and patented to Will Whitehead. cate. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any person ap- Authority tolopointed by order of the Probate Court, in and for the county of Lawrence, be, and he is hereby, authorized to locate the quantity of land named in this act, for the purposes above named. [Approved, January 13, 1831.] CHAP. 5. An ACT for the relief of Aaron Fitzgerald. [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, per month to That the Secretary of War be directed to place Aaron Fitz- Pension of 12 dila. gerald on the pension list during life, at twelve dollars per me month, instead of the pension which he now receives. paid him. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be paid to 361 dlls. 66c. to be the said Aaron Fitzgerald the sum of three hundred and sixty-one dollars and sixty-six cents, being the difference between six dollars per month actually allowed him as a pension, and eight dollars per month which ought to have been allowed him from the twenty-first of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, to the eleventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty; and that the said sum be paid to him out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. [Approved, January 13, 1831. 1831 Mississip & Ala. obligation to render annual account of &c. CHAP. 6. An ACT to amend an act, entitled " An act to provide for paying to the States of Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama, three per centum of the nett proceeds arising from the sale of the public Lands within the [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, States of Missou. That so much of an act, entitled "An act to provide for payexonerated from ing to the States of Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama, three per centum of the nett proceeds arising from the sale of the public lands within the same," approved the third of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, as requires an annual account of the application of the said three per centum, to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, be, and the same is hereby repealed. [Approved, January 19, 1831.} $284 22. CHAP. 7. An ACT for the relief of Thomas Fitzgerald. [SECT. 1.] 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, and he hereby is, directed to cause to be paid to Thomas Fitzgerald, an invalid pensioner of the United States, the sum of two hundred and eighty-four dollars and twenty-two cents, being arrearages of pension to which he is entitled on account of a total disability received while in the service of the United States, and which has heretofore been withheld in consequence of a mistake in first placing his name on the pension roll. [Approved, January 19, 1831.1 arrearages. CHAP. 8. An ACT for closing certain accounts, and making appropriations for arrearages in the Indian Department. [SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 61,000 dolls. for That the sum of sixty-one thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for arrearages in the Indian Department, the same to be applied to the payment of balances on accounts presented and settled by the proper ac counting officer, and now actually due, which accrued previous to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and to no other purpose. Transfers of balances. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of settling and closing the accounts in the office of the Second 1831 Auditor, relating to Indian affairs, prior to the date of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, the President of the United States is hereby authorized to direct transfers to be made from such balances of moneys heretofore appropriated to carry into effect certain Indian treaties as are no longer required for their several objects, to the credit of certain other heads of Indian expenditure, under which balances accruing previously to the above date, remain due to certain individuals, and appear upon the books of the Second Auditor; also, to direct similar transfers to be made to and from Other transfers. the several specific heads of contingencies of the Indian Department, pay of agents, sub-agents, and presents to Indians; and, also, of th sum of five thousand and fourteen dollars and Also. $5014 15. fifteen cents from the head of subsistence of the army, to the head of Indian expenditure, under which that amount was actually applied and expended: Provided, always, That no such Proviso : transfer shall be made unless it satisfactorily appear that the specific expenditure was actually made for the service of Indian affairs, in good faith, by an authorized agent of the Government, and before the date aforesaid, and that the balances from which such transfers are authorized to be made are not necessary for the specific purpose of their original appropriation. Bean, SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of To M. & R. M. the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized to pay to Mark and R. H. Bean, of Arkansas, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, eight thousand seven 8748 dolls 25c. hundred and forty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents, for supplies furnished to the emigrant Creek Indians by direction of former Indian agents: Provided, That the said Beans shall Proviso e [Approved, January 27, 1831.] CHAP. 9. An ACT making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and invalid pensioners. [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, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for paying revolutionary and invalid pensioners, viz: |