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(BV ADTnORIXI.) LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES PASSED AT THE 'FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTYSECOND CONGRESS. Public No. 29. AN ACT to alter the time of holding the District Court of the United States for the western district of Louisiana. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the District Court of the United States for the western district of Louisiana, shall be here after holden on the second Monday of June, in each year, instead of the third Monday of August, as is now required by law. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all proceedings of a civil or criminal nature now pending in, or returnable to, said Court, shall be proceeded in by the said Court, in the same manner as if no alteration of the time for holding said Court had taken place. A. STEVENSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. J. C. CALHOUN, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Appcoved, May 22, 1832. ANDREW JACKSON. Public No. 30. AN ACT to authorize the removal of the Land Office from Mount Salus, in the State of Mississippi, to remove the Land Office from Franklin to Fayette, in the State of Missouri. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 1 hat the Land Office at Mount Salus, in the Choctaw District, in the State of Mississippi, shall bo removed to, and located at, such place in the said Land District as the President of the United States may direct, if in his opinion any removal be necessary: and that the Land Office at Franklin, in the county of Howard, State bf Missouri shall be removed to, and located in, the town of Fayette, in said county; and it shall be the duty of the Registers, and the Receivers of public money for said Land Offices, within sixty days, from and after the passage of this act, to remove the books, records, and whatever else belongs to said offices, to their respective places of location as herein provided for. AlTpeoved, May 22, 1832. Public No. 31. AN ACT to exempt the vessels of Portugal from the payment of duties on tonnage. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no duties upon tonnage shall be hereafter levied or collected of the vessels of the kingdom of Portugal : Provided always, That whenever the President of the United States, shall be satisfied that the vessels of tho United States are subjected, in the ports of the kingdom of Portugal, to payment of any duties of tonnage, he shall, by proclamation declare the fact, and the duties now payable by the vessels of that kingdom, shall be levied and paid, as if this act had not been passed. ArrtiovED, May 25, 1S32. Public No. 32. AN ACT to extend the limits of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That the limits of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, be, and they are hereby, extended, so as to include the part of a tract of land called "Pretty Prospect," recently purchased by the Corporation of the said town, as a site for their Poor's-house ; beginning, for the said piece of ground, at a stone marked number four, extending at the end of four hundred and seventy-six poles on the first line of a tract of land, called the "Rock of Dumbarton;" said stone also standing on the western boundary line of lot numbered two hundred and sixty, of Beatty and Hawkin's additionfto said town; and running thence, north, seventy-eight degrees; east, thirtyeight poles ; south, eighty degrees ; east, three poles; south, eighteen poles; south, twelve degrees; cast, nine poles; south, eleven degrees ; west, twelve poles ; south, seventy-two Segrecs; west, twenty-three poles; to the said first line of the "Rock of Dunbarton," thence, with said line, to the beginning. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, rhat all the rights, powers, and privileges, heretofore granted by law to the said Corpora tion, and which are at this time claimed and exercised by them, may and shall be exercised and enjoyed by them, within the bounds and limits set forth and described in the first section of this act. Approved, May 25, 1832. Puplic No. 30. AN ACT for improving Pennsylvania Avenue, supplying the Public Buildings with water, and for paving the walk from the western gate to the Capitol with flagging. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives cf the United States of America in Congress at?embled, That the Commissioner of the Public Buildings be,

and ho is hereby, authorized and directed to contract, after giving due notice by public advertisement, for improving the avenue, in the city of Washington, leading, from the Capitol to the Executive offices, by paving the centre way thereof forty-five feet in width, with cobble or pebble stones, or with pounded stone upon the McAdam plan, or in any other permanent manner, as the President of the United States may direct; and also, for the graduation, and covering with the best gravel to be obtained, the sideways of said avenue, and for proper gutters and drains to carry off the water, for which purpose, the sum of sixty-two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That under the same direction as prescribed in the first section, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes, that is to say: For conducting water in pipes from the fountain, on square number two hundred and forty-nine, to the President'shouse and public offices, and the construction of reservoirs and hydrants, five thousand seven hundred dollars. For bringing water in pipes to the Capitol, and the construction of reservoirs and hydrants, and the purchase of the rights of individuals to tho water, forty thousand dollars. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner of the Public Buildings is hereby authorized and directed to contract for thefpurchase, delivery, and laying of Seneca flagging on the walk from the western gate to the Capitol; and fortius purpose, the sum of seven thousand one hundred and two dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Appboved, May 25, 1S32. Public No. 34. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to enlarge the powers of the several corporations of the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of

Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Corporation of VVashington be, and it is hereby, empowered to collect, annually, the tax at the rate of one per centum and thirtetm hundredths of one per centum, on the assessed value of the real and personal estates within the city of Washington, assessed and laid by the fifth section of said act, or any part thereof, for the purposes and objects designated in said act, by the same officers, process, and means by which said Corporation is now, or may hereafter be, empowered to collect any other taxes; and to pay over said money, when so collected as aforesaid, to the Treasury of the United States, in the manner, and within the times, prescribed by the acts to which this act is a supplement ; and that, in default made by the said Corporation, either in collecting or paying over as aforesaid, that then, and in such case, the President of the United States may proceed to exercise the powers reposed in, and conferred on him, in and by the said fifth section. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Common Council of Alexandria shall have the power to appoint one or more inspectors of Tobacco for the town of Alexandria ; and the said inspectors shall take an Oath before a Justice of the Peace of the county of Alexandria, or the Mayor of the Corporation, for the faithful discharge of the duties of office of inspector, a certificate of which he shall return to the Clerk of the Common Council: And the said Common Council shall have power to pass all needful laws for the due and proper inspection of Tobacco, and for regulating the conduct of the said inspectors; And the said Common Council shall have power to remove, for just cause, any inspector, and appoint another in his place. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall commence and be in force from the passage thereof. Approved, May 25, 1832. Public No. 35. AN ACT making appropriations for the Indian Department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. Be it enactedby the Senate and House of Representatives oj tie United States of jiillti iisU, in iyicoo u-ast,muivu, llluline following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated for the Indian Department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo, viz: For the pay of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis, and the snvfir.il Indian Agents, as established by law, including an Agent for the Kansas, agreeably to a treaty with that tribe of June third, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, thirty-two thousand dollar?. For the pay of Sub-agents, as established by law, nineteen thousand dollars. For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act one thousand eight hundred and two, fifteen thousand dollars. For the pay of Indian interp: tcrs and translators, employed in the several superintendencies and agencies, twenty-;.ie thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars. For the pay of gunsmiths and black

smiths, and their assistants, employed within the several superintendencies and agencies, under treaty provisions and the orders of the War Department, eighteen thousand three hundred and forty dollars. For iron, steel, coal, and other expenses attending the gunsmiths and blacksmiths shops, five thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars; For expense of transportation and distribution of Indian annuities, nine thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars. For expense of provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuities, while on visits of business with the different superintendents and agents, and when assembled on public business, eleven thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars. For expense of building houses for Indian agents, blacksmiths shops, and for repairs of the same, when required, in the several agencies, seven thousand dollars. For contingencies of the Indian Department, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, in no case shall any money hereby appropriated be used for the purpose of reward

ing Indians for settling disputes among themselves. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury, not otheiwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, for defraying the expenses of conducting a deputation of Indians from tho head waters of the Missouri to Washington City, and from thence to their own country : Provided, That no compensation beyond their actual expenses for extra services shall be allowed any Indian Agent or Subagent for services when doing duty under the order of their government, detached from their agency and boundary of the tribe to which they are Agents. Sec. 3. And b& it further enacted, That there shall be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the lreasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the purchase, and delivery of corn, or other provisions, for the use of the Seminole Indians, who are likely to suffer on account of the failure of their crops from a severe drought the last year. Approved, May 31, 1S32. Public No. 3C AN ACT to aid the vestry of Washington parish in the erection of a keeper's house, and the improvement and security of the ground allotted for the interment of members of Congress, and other public officers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, 1 hat the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended Under the direction of the Commissioner of the Public Buildings, for the purpose of aiding the vestry of Washington parish, in the erection of a keepers house, for planting trees, boundary stones, and otherwise improving the burial ground, allotted to the interment of members of Congress and other officers of the General Government Approved, May 31, 1832. Public No. 37. AN ACT in relation to the Penitentiary for the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That the sum of thirty eight thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of completing the Penitentiary and buildings connected with it, for the erection of railing on the exterior walls, and for the support of the convicts, and pay of the officers for the present year, to be expended under the superintendence and di rection of the Inspectors ot the Penitentiary. Approved, May 31, 1832. Public No. 3S. AN ACT for quieting possessions, enrolling conveyances and securing the estates of purchasers within the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if any person or persons, seized or possessed of, or holding any estate or interest in any lands, tenements or hereditaments, lying and being within the District of Columbia, shall execute and acknowledge a deed for the conveyance of such estate or interest, or for declaring or limiting any use or trust in and of the same before any judge of a court of record and of law of the State and county in which such person or persons may be, or before any chancellor or any such State or before any Judge of the Supreme, Circuit, District or Territorial Courts of the United States, or before any two Justices of the Peace of the State, District or Territory and county in which such person or persons may be; and such Judge, Chancellor or Justices shall annex to such a deed a certificate, under his or their hands of the execution and acknowledgment thereof, and that the grantor or grantors was or were known to him or them, or that his, her or their identitv had been satisfactorily Droved and the Register, Clerk or Prathonotary of

such Court or county, shall also certify undcrhis hand and the seal of his office, that the Judge, Chancellor, or Justices, is or are, was or were such at the time of the execution and acknowledgment thereof; or if any such person or persons, seized or possessed as aforesaid, shall be in some foreign country, and shall execute and acknowledge any such deed before any Judge or Chancellor of any Court master or master extraordinary, in chancery or notary public, in such foreign country; and such execution and ac knowledgment, and also the identity of the grantor or grantors shall be certified upon, or annexed to, such deed, under the hand and seal of any such judge, chancellor, master or master extraordinary, or notary public, and such deed so executed, acknowledged and certified in the several and respective modes aforesaid shall be recorded amongst the land records of the county of Washington, or the county of Alexandria in the District of Columbia, within six calendar months from the day of its date, if executed and acknowledged with the United States or the Territories thereof, or within twelve calendar months from the day of its date, if executed and acknowledged in some foreign country; such deed shall be good and effectual for the purpose or purposes therein mentioned. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any feme covert in whom such estate or interest may be, shall be a party with her husband, executing such deed, or shall only be relinquishing her right or dower, in or to such estate or interest, and the judge, chancellor, justices, master or master extraordinary in chancery or notary public, aforesaid, before whom the same may be executed and acknowledged, shall make the contents thereof known to her, and shall examine her, out of the presence and hearing of her husband, whether she doth make her acknowl

edgment of the same voluntarily, and without being induced to do so by fear or threats of, or ill usage, by her husband, or fear of his displeasure; and such examination and acknowledgment, and also the identity of the party shall be certified in tho mode prescribed in the first section of this act, according to the place or country where such feme covert shall be at the time of such examination and acknowledgment, and such deed shall be recorded within tho several and respective periods herein before mentioned; the same shall be good and available for the purposes therein mentioned, and thereby intended. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted. That the clerks of the circuit court of tho District of Columbia for the counties of Washington and Alexandria, respectively, are hereby, authorized to record any deed or conveyance, executed and authenticated agreeably to the provisions of this act. Approved, May 31, 1S32. From the Vermont Xorth Star. Smuggling and murder. An attempt was made, on Monday the 21st instant, to arrest the notorious smuggler, John Stearns, at the house of the two Mr. Beaches, in Canaan, Vermont, who harbored him and aided his escape. The house was surrounded bv several citizens, authorized by proper au thority to assist, among whom were two Mr. Grouts, sons of the Custom House Officer. Stearns threatened to take the life of any ono who should attempt to enter the house the two Beaches at length went out of tho house and commenced a quarrel with those who surrounded it, to give Stearns an odportunity of making his escape, which he improved. The two Grouts pursued him; when Stearns, rinding he must be overtaken, turned round and fired a nistol at Daniel Grout, who was only a few steps from him, which took eliect in his thigh and hip, and proved fatal. He survived onl v a few hours. The other Grout was prevented from pursu ing btearns tar, by his threats to shoot him also; and he made his escape into tho woods. btearns is an old aggressor. The Bank Bill. In the Senate, at our last dates from Washington, the Bank Bill was undergoing the process ot amendment; or, we should have said, the Senate seeme d disposed to make it unacceptable to the people and as obnoxious as possible to the President. Tho clause limiting the number of branches had been stricken out, and an amendment had been adopted to increase the government stock, from seven to ten millions. Difference of opinion, with respect to modifying the charter, was to have been expected but we cannot bo convinced that the public will ever sanction or approve the principles involved in the amendments we have just named. That a renewal of the charter, on correct principles is desirable, is freely acknowledged; but members of Congress will only deceive themselves, if they undertake to perpetuate the institution with its present powers much less with an enlargement of them. The Bank has not called for an increase of her capital stock, nor does she expect her charter to be renewed without modification. All she desires is tho perpetuation of her banldng privilege during another torm ol twenty years; and she can only ask, under a new charter, to be clothed with such powers as may be absolutely necessary to enable her to transact the business for which she was established. Tho nnwpr tr oafnblih lirJncJir5- nt .inv and every, point, is not necessary to thJ

healthful operation of the Bank, nor can it

be conceded to it with safety to the public The condition of the country reauires that the institution shall not be left at liberty to occupy every nourishing town with a branch, and thus monopolize the banking business of the country and wield its destinies. By limiting the number of branches to two to each state, Congress would leave room for sound local banks to spring into existence, to enter into competition with the national bank, and, in time, to operate as a cheeky politically as well as commercially, upon her. Such a check may be not only desirable, but absolutely necessary, if there be any truth in the declaration made by Mr Clay: "money is power." The amendment providing for an increase of the stock of tho government in the institution from seven to ten millions -following, as it does, tho recommendation of the Secretary of tho Treasury, that the stock now owned by the government should be sold to the Bank, may be regarded as an effort to control tho action of tho Executive on the subject to constrain him to veto the bill, or abandon the principles avowed in the Message in which he assigned his reasons for withholding his signature from the Maysville Road Bill. If the gentlemen who aro playing this game are subserving the interests of the Bank, wo ara very grossly deceived. Louisville Adv. From the Xcic York Enquirer, of June 4. LATE FROM FRANCE. We are indebted to the politeness of Capt. Pierce for Havre papers to the 5th May, with Paris dates of the 4th. The departure of the mail allows us but to make the following translations. M. Montalivet is performing tho duties ot Minister ot the interior in J? ranee, in consequence of the illness of M. Perier Serious disturbances have broken out in the south of France. The ratification by Russia of the Belgian treaty, has arrived at London. It would seem too, that an amicable arrangement has been made with France in relation to the occupation of Ancona, and that both the troops of Austria and Franco are to evacuate that port of the Papal territory simultaneously. Paris, 3d May The Moniteur says For three months past, government has been aware of the existence of intrigues with a view of causing a Cailist insurrection at Marseilles and on tho coast. It wa3 known that with this view an active correspondence was going on between that place, Paris and Italy, and that travellers of more or les9 distinction, but all equally devoted to tho legitimate party, arrived one after the other, but particularly, of late carrying orders, counter orders and intelligence. At one time it wes on tho 15th or 20th March, at another time on the 21st April, afterwards definitively on the 28th, that all was to be ready for an open insurrection. A debarkation of troops was spoken of, the name of Madame, the Dutches of Berry, waa mentioned. A plan of the coast near Martiqucs, had been taken; funds had been received by those individuals most deeply concerned in this intrigue. In the neighboring departments, those men who are continually dreaming of disorder and civil war, were told to hold themselves in readiness. Their language and manners would, had other indications been .wanting, have sufficiently demonstrated tho object of their hopes, and the blow which it was thought would be strurk. At periods assigned, tho project was to cause insurrections to take place at different points in the south. At Lyons, distributions of money were made; and somo indigent workmen, animated by patriotic indignation, on learning the source and the object of these distributions, paid over to tho authorities tho money that had been placed in their hands. Itwa3aIso known through different channels, that Madame, the Dutches dc Berry, had endeavored to purchase the steamboat St. Columboy and that the Charles Albert waited her orders. Xcirspapcr Postage. Much time "has been occupied by the Senate upon the subject of a proposition to introduce into the Post Office bill a provision to abolish tho postage upon newspapers. It was rejected by a majority of one vote only; and a separate bill has now been introduced for tho same purpose. From the course which som-e of tho country editors are pursuing in relation to it, they cannot 'perceive in iu operation the same effect which it strikes us must be inevitable. If we are not very much deceived in our view of the matter, the effect would be to break up elltfre country newspaper establishments; because most person: who take papers would preier those published in the large cities, to those which have to receive their information from them, and nothing but the expense of the postage, in most instances, induces them now to give the preference to the local papers. Baltimore Rep. The steamboat Niagara, soon after leaving Butfalo, last Sunday morning 3d Inst., burst her boiler, which carried away a great part of her decks. Of 300 passengers, about fifty were more or lca injured and 25 either LilW or blown overheard and drowned. Xat. Republican