Public Acts of Congress. disposal of the public lands not heretofore offered for sale in the States of Ohio and Indiana," approved March third, eighteen hundred and nineteen; and the act, entitled "An act making further provision for the sale of the public lands," approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and twenty-be and the same are hereby made applicable to the said district and office, so far as they are not changed by subsequent laws of the United States. Approved, May 8, 1822. An Act requiring Surveyors General to give bond and security for the faithful disbursement of public money, and to limit their term of office. pass Be it enacted, &c., That, from and after the ing of this act, every Surveyor General, commissioned by the authority of the United States, shall, before entering on the duties of his office, and every Surveyor General now in commission shall, on or before the thirtieth day of September next, execute and deliver to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States a bond, with good and sufficient security, for the penal sum of thirty thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful disbursement, according to law, of all the public money placed in his hands for disbursement, and for the faithful performance of the duties of his office. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commission of every Surveyor General now in office shall, unless sooner vacated by death, resignation, or removal from office, cease and expire on the first day of February next; and the commission of every Surveyor General, hereafter commissioned by the authority of the United States, shall cease and expire, unless sooner vacated by death, resignation, or removal from office, in four years from the date of the commission. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States shall, and he is hereby authorized, whenever he may deem it expedient, require any Surveyor General of the United States to give new bond and additional security, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, for the faithful disbursement, according to law, of all money placed in his hands for disbursement. Approved, May 7, 1822. An Act to establish certain Post Roads, and to discontinue others, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c., That the following mail routes be discontinued, that is to say: In Vermont. From Lynden to Wheelock, in the county of Caledonia. In New York. From Utica, by Clinton, Chandler's Store, Augusta, and Madison, to Hamilton Village. From Chitteningo, alias Sullivan, to Madison, and that part of the route from Leicester to Olean, which is situated between Oil Creek and Olean. In New Jersey. From Liberty Corner to Somerville. In Maryland.-From Annapolis to Kent Island, and from thence through Queenstown to Centreville. In Pennsylvania. From Uniontown by Middletown to Perryopolis. From Loudontown to Messenburg. In Virginia. From Brown's Store to Dickinson's Store, in Franklin county. In North Carolina. From Haysville to Williamsborough. From Winton to Gates Courthouse, to Sunbury. From Waynesville, in North Carolina, to Houstonville, in South Carolina. In Kentucky.-From Ross's Post Office, Whitby county, to Monticello, in Wayne county. From Manchester to the Hazelpatch, and from thence to Columbia. In Ohio.-From the mouth of Little Scioto to Piketon. In Arkansas. From Clark Courthouse to Hempstead Courthouse, and to the post of Washita. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following post roads be established, to wit: In Maine.-From Hallowell, by Silas Piper's, in Harlem, Jonathan Greely's, at the Four Corners in Palermo, to Montville. In Vermont. From Poultney, through Middletown, Tinmouth, and Willingford, to Mount Holly, in the county of Rutland. From Montpelier, through Barre, Orange, and Topsham, to Newbury. From Lynden, through Sutton, to Barton, in the county of Orleans. In Massachusetts.-From Plymouth to Carver and Rochester. From Holmes's Hole, in Tisbury, to Chilmark, in the island called Martha's Vineyard. From Mendon, through Milford, Holliston, Sherburne, Natick, Needham, Newton, and Brighton, over the milldam, to Boston. From Millbury, in Worcester county, to the town of Providence, in Rhode Island, to pass through the towns of Sutton and Douglass, in Massachusetts, and the town of Burrellville and Village of Chepackett, in Rhode Island. From Belchertown, by Enfield, to Greenwich. From Worcester to Providence, in Rhode Island, passing through Grafton, Upton, Mendon, Bellingham, Cumberland, and Pawtucket. From Amesbury to Southampton, in New Hampshire, and thence to Kingston. In Connecticut. That the post road from Hartford to New London shall be by the Presbyterian meeting-house, in the first society in the town of Hebron. From New London, along the turnpike road, to the town of Providence, in Rhode Island. In New Hampshire. The post road from Walpole to Newport shall be through the town of Langdon. In New York-From Deposit to Stockport, in Pennsylvania. From Jay to Danville, thence down the Ausable river, by Bullen's Mills, to Keeseville, in the town of Chesterfield. From Schenectady, by Charlton, Galway, Prov Public Acts of Congress. idence, and Northampton, to Edinburgh, and from Edinburgh back by Northampton, West Galway Church, and Glenville, to Schenectady. From the post office in Luzerne, on the west side of the Hudson river, to the post office in Chester. From Green, in the county of Chenango, to Ithaca, in Tompkins county. From Cherry Valley, in the county of Otsego, to the village of Canajoharie, in the county of Montgomery. From Champion, in the county of Jefferson, to Alexandria, by Felt's Mills, Le Raysville, Evan's Mills, Theresa, and Plessis. From the village of Canandaigua to the village of Penn Yan, in the county of Ontario. From Batavia, by the village of Lockport, to intersect the ridge road at William Molyneux's, in the town of Cambia. From Howard, in the county of Steuben, by Rathbun's settlement and Loon Lake settlement, to Conhocton. From Bath to Catherine's, by Mount Washington and Bartle's Mills, and returning by Mead's creek to the mouth of Mud creek. From South Dansville to Goff's Mills. From Champlain to the town of Mooers, thence by Lawrence's Mills and Beekmantown, to Plattsburg. In Pennsylvania.-From Philadelphia, by the falls of Schuylkill, to Norristown. From Swamp Churches, in Montgomery county, by Boyerstown, to Reading. From Doylestown, by Sorrel Horse, Bustleton, and Byberry, to Andalusia, and return by the Black tavern and Hartville to Doylestown. From Easton, Northampton county, to Hellerstown, Quakertown, and Bursonsville, in Bucks county. From Emaus, by Millerstown, to Trexlerstown, in Lehigh county. From Chambersburg to Waynesburg, by Sam uel Fisher's store, in Franklin county. From McCall's ferry, in Lancaster, to the borough of Westchester, in Chester county. From Meadville to Salem, at the month of Big Conneatt, Ohio, From the village of Blearsville, by Youngstown, to Mount Pleasant. From Newville, in Cumberland county, to Roxbury and Strasburg, in Franklin county. From Landisburg, in Perry county, to Waterford, in Mifflin county. From Selinsgrove to New Berlin. From Ebensburgh to Indiana. From Uniontown, by Connellsville, to Perryopolis. From the city of Lancaster, through Millers From Ithaca to Burdett, near the head of Sen-town, Washington, and Charlestown, to the boeca lake. From Poughkeepsie, by Pleasant Valley, Salt Point, James Thorn's, in Clinton, Friends' meeting-house in Stanford, the Federal store, and from thence to the Pine Plains post office, in the town of Northeast. From Moscow, in Livingston county, to the village of Fredonia, in Chautauque county. From Cincinnatus, through Willet and Freetown, to Harrison. From Canastota, at Perkins's basin, on the great Erie canal, through Lenox, Clarkville, Perryville, Peterborough, and Morrisville, to Eaton. The mail route from Bath, by Angelica, Hamilton, Cerestown, Pennsylvania, Coudersport, and Jersey shore, to Williamsport, shall pass by Smithport, in McKean county, Pennsylvania, either in going or returning. From Esperance to Middleburg, by the way of Schoharie, in Schoharie county. In New Jersey. From Liberty Corner, by Pluckemin, to Somerville. From Somerville, by New Germantown, through Paipack valley, to Mandham and Morristown. From Hackensack, in the county of Bergen, by Patterson's landing and Belleville, to Newark, in Essex county. From Beasley's, at the mouth of Great Egg Harbor river, by Etna Furnace, on Tuckahoe river, Cumberland Furnace, Malligo, Glasborough, and Woodbury, to Philadelphia. From Princeton, by Harlingen, to Flagtown. In Maryland.-From Hagerstown, by Mercersburg, to McConnelsburg, in Pennsylvania. From Annapolis, by Baltimore, to Queenstown, and from thence to Centreville and Kent Island. rough of Columbia. In Virginia. From Winchester to the Berkeley Springs, in Morgan county. From Lewisburg, by Huttonsville, Beverly, Leadesville, Meigsville, Swamp, and Kingwood, to Morgantown. From Salem, in Botetourt, through the Bent mountain, by Simpson's and Thomas Goodson's, to Boon's, on the west fork of Little river, in Montgomery county. From the city of Richmond, by Piping Tree, in King William county, to King and Queen Courthouse, Gloucester, Middlesex, and Matthews. From Halifax Courthouse to Person Courthouse, North Carolina. From Franklin Courthouse to Henry Courthouse, to go by Dickerson's store, in Franklin county. From Lynchburg, by Pittsylvania Courthouse, to Danville, and from Danville to Halifax Courthouse. From Parkersburg to Kanawha Courthouse. From Richmond to Chesterfield Courthouse, to go by Mechanick's inn, instead of the route now established. That the route from Stanton, by Greenbrier Courthouse and Charleston, to Catletsburg, in Kentucky, be changed so as to go by the Sulphur springs, on Muddy creek, in Greenbrier. From Bath Courthouse to Alleghany Courthouse. In North Carolina. From Haysville, in Franklin county, by Glasgow's store and Health seat, to Oxford, in Granville. From Ashe Courthouse to Jordan Councils, in same county. Public Acts of Congress. From Stokesville, by Gates' Courthouse, to Sunsbury. That the route from Fayetteville to Salisbury be changed, so as to go by Carthage, McNeill's, Hill's and Skean's ferry, and to return by Forrest's, Blakely, Lawrenceville, Allentown, and McAuley's store. From Fayetteville, by Graham's bridge, Rockingham, to Wadesborough. From Tyson's store to Waddle's ferry, Brower's mill, Hugh Moffitt's mill, thence to Richard Kennon's, and to Haywood. From Waynesville, Hayward Courthouse, by Lovesville, on Scott's creek, to Franklin, in the Cherokee purchase, and from thence to Rabun Courthouse, in Georgia. In South Carolina. From Rocky Mount to Pine Hill post office, to pass by Ebenezer academy. From Fayetteville, in North Carolina, leaving the road to Camden at or near Laurel Hill, by Cheraw, to Camden. From Cheraw, by Society hill and Darlington. Courthouse, to intersect the great southern route at Godfrey's ferry, on the Pedee river. From Cheraw, by Chesterfield Courthouse, to Lancaster Courthouse. In Georgia. From Lawrenceville, in Gwinett County, to the standing Peach tree, (Fayette Courthouse.) From Jefferson, by Colerain, by Crawford, in Florida, and to St. Augustine, and the route at present used discontinued. From Elberton to Ruckersville, in Elbert county. In Alabama. From Huntsville, by Triana, Mooresville, Athens, Eastport, and Bainbridge, to the Big Spring. From Cahawba, by Portland, Prairie Bluff, the standing Peach tree, through the populous settlement on Bassett's creek, and by Clarke Courthouse, to St. Stephen's, so as to reinstate the old route from Cahawba to St. Stephen's, and the present route from Cahawba to St. Stephen's to be discontinued. From Ashville to Huntsville, by the way of Robertsville and Bennett's store. From Greenville to the Warm Springs, in North Carolina. In Kentucky. From Manchester, by Perry Courthouse, to Patrick salt works. From Morganfield, crossing the Ohio at Francisburg, to Harmony, in Indiana. From Monticello, by Beatty's salt works, and Ross's post office, to Jacksborough, in Tennessee. From Williamsburg, in Witby county, by Ross's post office, to Somerset, in Pulaski county. From Richmond to the Hazel patch, hereafter to go by Manchester to Barbourville. In Ohio.-From Bellefontaine, in Logan county, by Forts McArthur and Findlay, to the foot of the rapids of the Miami of the Lake. From Columbus, by Maysville, the seat of justice of Union county, thence through Zanesfield to Bellefontaine, in the county of Logan. From Norton, in the county of Delaware, by Claredon, Buayners, to the city of Sandusky. From the mouth of Little Scioto to Portsmouth. From Cleveland, through Newburg, Hudson, Ravenna, Palmyra, Ellsworth, Canfield, Boardman, Poland, Petersburg, and Greensburg, to Beavertown, in Pennsylvania. From Columbus to Sunbury, through Harrison and Ravenna townships. From Columbus, by Springfield, Dayton, and Eaton, thence to Indianapolis, in the State of Indiana, thence by Vandalia, in Illinois, thence to St. Louis, in Missouri. From West Union to Cincinnati, to pass through Georgetown, the seat of justice of Brown county, instead of the present route. Chilo, Neville, Pointopolis, New Richmond, and From Augusta, Kentucky, by Lewis, Felicity, Newtown, to Cincinnati, in Ohio. In Indiana. From Terre Haute, by Clinton, the seat of justice for Parke county, and Crawfordsville, to Indianapolis. From Washington, by Burlington and Blooming, to Indianapolis. From Lawrenceburg, by Napoleon, to Indianapolis. In Illinois. From Vincennes, in Indiana, by Ellison's, Prairie, Palestine, York, Aurora, Grand Prairie, in Clark county, to Clinton. From Peoria, on Illinois river, to Sangama From Augusta, on the Talapoosa, by Coosawda, passing through the settlement in the upper end of Autago county, and the settlement on Mulberry creek, in Bibb county, by the falls of Cahaw-county. ba, to the town of Tuscaloosa. In Mississippi.-From Winchester, by Perry Courthouse and Columbia, to Holmesville. From Picken's Courthouse, in Alabama, by Monroe Courthouse, the Cotton Gin port, and the Chickasaw agency, in the State of Mississippi, to the Chickasaw bluffs, in the State of Tennessee. From the Choctaw agency, by Jackson, to Monticello. In Tennessee. From Campbell's station, by Blair's ferry, to Pumpkintown. From Sparta, in White county, to Pikeville, in Bledsoe county. The post road from Morgantown to Mount Pleasant, alias Pumpkintown, to go by Monroe Courthouse. From Edwardsville to Sangama Courthouse. In Missouri.-From St. Genevieve by Herculaneum to St. Louis. From Herculaneum to Potosi. From St. Charles to Cote Sans Dessein, shall hereafter go by the seat of justice for Calloway county. From Fishing river to Fort Osage, shall hereafter pass by the seat of justice in Clay county. In Arkansas. From the post of Arkansas by Little Rock, Crystal Hill, Cadron and Ellis's, to Crawford Courthouse. From Little Rock, by Clark Courthouse, to Natchitoches. Public Acts of Congress. From Clark Courthouse by Hempstead Court-dent of the United States, the Executive of each house to Miller Courthouse. In Louisiana. From Natchez to Baton Rouge, by Woodville and Jackson. From New Orleans to Pensacola. State and Territory, the Attorney General, and Judges of the courts of the United States, and the Colleges and Universities in the United States, From Pinkneyville, Mississippi, by Avoyelles, each one copy; for the use of each of the Departto Alexandria, in Louisiana. ments, viz: State, Treasury, War, and Navy, From Baton Rouge by Plaquemine and Du-two copies each; for the use of the Senate, five plesses's landing in the Attacapas, to Opelousa copies; for the use of the House of Representatives, Courthouse. ten copies; and for the Library of Congress, ten copies, of the Secret Journals, and of the Foreign Correspondence, ordered to be printed by the several resolutions of Congress, passed on the twentyseventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of April twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and twenty: Also, to each member of the present Congress, who has not received the same, one copy of the Journal of the Convention which formed the Constitution of the United States. And that the remaining copies be preserved in the Library, subject to the future disposition of Congress. In Florida. From Pensacola to St. Marks, thence to Vollusia, at Dexter's, on St. John's river, thence down the river to Picolatta, and thence to St. Augustine. From Pensacola to Fort Hawkins, in Alabama. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster General may allow to the Postmaster at Salem, Massachusetts, at the rate of two hundred dollars a year in addition to his ordinary commissions. 'Approved, May 8, 1821. RESOLUTIONS. Approved, January 11, 1822. Resolution providing for the distribution of the Mar- Resolution, directing the classification and printing of shal's returns of the Fourth Census. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be instructed to furnish to each member of the present Congress, and the Delegates from Territories, the President and Vice President of the United States, the Executive of each State and Territory, the Attorney General, and Judges of the Courts of the United States, and the Colleges and Universities in the United States, each one copy; for the use of the Departments, viz: State, Treasury, War, and Navy, five copies each; for the use of the Senate, five copies; and for the use of the House of Representatives, ten copies, of the Marshal's returns of the Fourth Census; and that the residue of the copies of the said returns be deposited in the Library of Congress. Approved, February 4, 1822. Resolution providing for the distribution of the Secret Journal and Foreign Correspondence of the old Congress, and of the Journal of the Convention which formed the Constitution of the United States. Resolved, &c., That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be furnished to each member of the present Congress, and the Delegates from Territories, who may not be entitled to the same under the resolution of Congress of the twenty-seventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; the President and Vice Presi the accounts of the several manufacturing establishments and their manufactures, collected in obedience to the tenth section of the act to provide for taking the fourth census. Resolved, &c., That the Secretary of State be directed to cause to be classified and reduced to such form as he may deem most conductive to the diffusion of information, the accounts of the several manufacturing establishments and their manufac tures, taken in pursuance of the tenth section of the act, entitled "An act to provide for taking the fourth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, and for other purposes," approved the fourteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and that he cause fifteen hundred copies of the digest, so to be made, to be printed, subject to the disposition of Congress. Approved, March 30, 1822. Resolution providing for the security in the transmission of letters, &c., in the public mails. Resolved, &c., That it shall be the duty of the Postmaster General to introduce, as soon as conve niently may be, on one or more of the most exposed routes, Richard Imlay's plan of copper cases, secured in iron chests, with inside locks and sliding bars, in such a way as to test its efficacy in preventing robberies of the mail: Provided, The extra expense for each mail carriage shall not exceed one hundred and fifty dollars. Approved, April 26, 1822. INDEX TO THE PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE FIRST SESSION OF 200 274 Anderson, John, a bill from the House of Rep- ordered to a third reading read the third time, and passed 316 359 Apportionment of Representatives, a bill from A. Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Mr. Accommodation of Congress, a Message from Actual Settlers in Illinois, a bill granting the read a second time the Senate agreed to their amendment adoption of the usual resolutions prepara- Admiralty Jurisdiction, Mr. Johnson, of Ken- agreed to and referred to the judiciary com- a bill concerning, read read a second time, and referred reported without amendment ordered to a third reading - read the third time, and passed 464 reported with an amendment considered, and committed 185 read the third time, and passed as amended 225 48 Architect of the Public Buildings, Mr. King, of 197 200 239 289 292 Babbitt, Jacob, Mr. Knight presented the petition a letter from the First Comptroller, in rela- 187 196 222 225 150 Bacot, Thomas W., a bill for the relief of, read 287 Alabama, Mr. King presented the memorial of Mr. Walker presented a memorial of the a bill to alter the terms of the district court read a second time ordered to a third reading - read the third time and passed a bill to provide for paying three per cent. reported without amendment |